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  <row Id="1" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-10T20:22:23.683" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the intent of this site to stick to a core Unix functionality and not go into topics like firewalls? It seems like there is some cross-over with serverfault.com when you start getting into some topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T04:28:14.783" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T04:28:14.783" Title="Are questions about firewalls on or off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="2" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-10T20:42:41.513" Score="11" ViewCount="588" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline&quot;&gt;Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Note:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; wrong question. See this blog post for details: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/domain-names-the-wrong-question/&quot;&gt;Domain Names: Wrong Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're going to keep the name unix.stackexchange.com. But we WILL be setting up redirects from the more &amp;quot;popular&amp;quot; domains names. (e.g. seasonedadvice.com to cooking.stackexchange.com, basicallymoney.com to money.stackexchange.com, and others as we go through the list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New question: &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Write and Elevator Pitch / Tagline!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here to contribute ideas and vote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[original message text below]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point if this turns into the success we all want it to be, we need to select a domain name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let the suggestions begin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please indicate if the &lt;em&gt;domain&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;available&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;used&lt;/strong&gt;, or just &lt;strong&gt;parked&lt;/strong&gt;. Also please don't post more than &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; domain per answer so we can vote on them individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T12:14:07.770" Title="What should our domain name be?" Tags="|discussion|site-name|domain|" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2010-10-09T00:46:04.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-12T17:56:18.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="3" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-10T20:46:06.793" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kernelpanic.com&lt;/strong&gt; If they're willing to pay it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The domain is for sale... so... &lt;em&gt;parked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2010-08-16T04:57:53.150" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T04:57:53.150" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-12T17:56:18.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="4" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-10T20:50:09.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site technically has 100% crossover with &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt; (it's a subset of the questions allowed there), so I wouldn't worry about potential SF crossover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly do you mean by &quot;topics like firewalls&quot;? A question like this I would definitely consider on-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I write an iptables rule to do X&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T20:50:09.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="5" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-10T20:52:57.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um... depends obviously it should be related to a firewall on a unix/linux system (PF and iptables comes to mind. no cisco questions) I'd think it should be more syntax than anything. Though personally I think the Network guys deserve there own Q&amp;amp;A site like &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7833/network-security?referrer=LemKZjYi1nRpdZnri3IIJQ2&quot;&gt;this area51 proposal&lt;/a&gt;. Because networking isn't really Servers. IMO SF and SU are TOO general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T20:52:57.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="6" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9" CreationDate="2010-08-10T21:35:48.883" Score="4" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean like if I wanted to ask 'how do I install a module with cpanp' would that be ok? obviously questions about how do I write a cpan module are offtopic and better relegated to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T04:28:01.220" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T04:28:01.220" Title="Are questions about CPAN ok?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="7" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2010-08-10T22:18:26.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this might be something for (say) stackoverflow. CPAN and Perl are not *nix specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T22:18:26.727" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="8" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-10T22:29:11.273" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;beardedguru.com&lt;/strong&gt;? :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit:&lt;/em&gt; domain is available&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60" LastEditorUserId="60" LastEditDate="2010-08-14T21:11:28.560" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T21:11:28.560" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-12T17:56:18.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="9" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2010-08-10T23:05:07.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is bound to be overlap here, but the implications of using CPAN on your nix system seem like something worth discussing here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T23:05:07.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="11" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18" CreationDate="2010-08-11T08:00:24.687" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cant find any RSS feed for new/updated questions (same as SO).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is it not available in Beta ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T13:36:35.187" Title="cant find any RSS feed for new/updated questions" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="13" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-11T12:21:05.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My feeling would be that questions specifically relating to Linux and Unix systems would be on topic, so I'd be comfortable with questions on configuring Unix/Linux systems.  Once the questions leave the box, I'd consider them off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="289" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T12:21:05.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="14" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-11T12:22:27.503" Score="5" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linux in particular is used in a whole lot of embedded applications.  What parts of those would be on topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="289" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T02:36:17.640" Title="Is Embedded Unix/Linux on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="15" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-11T12:24:58.060" Score="17" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mac OS X is one of the few systems officially certified as being UNIX.  On the other hand, it has a great deal of its own software, including its GUI and some admin tools, that really don't behave like anything an old-fashioned Unix guy is used to, and which don't work other than on Mac OS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about Mac OS X is on and off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="289" LastEditorUserId="5842" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T12:01:11.287" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T12:01:11.287" Title="Mac OS X: What's on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15" CreationDate="2010-08-11T12:47:42.680" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that anything that deals with the Unix part of the system is fair game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything that can be done from the terminal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything that has direct analogues to other Unixes (Unicies?), such as managing users and  groups&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions about ports of Unix utilities, such as macports&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;installing software that is generally available on multiple Unix systems (e.g., TeX, emacs)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stuff that wouldn't fit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any Apple applications (iTunes, keynote, etc) unless the question is about how to interoperate with them in a Unix environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any of the GUI aspects (e.g., how to move the dock) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="31" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T17:02:16.393" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T17:02:16.393" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="18" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2010-08-11T13:36:35.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be on the bottom of the homepage, it links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/feeds&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T13:36:35.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="19" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-11T13:59:58.017" Score="8" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously I asked unix questions on superuser, can I copy them here together with the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T18:20:56.643" Title="copy questions from superuser?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="20" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19" CreationDate="2010-08-11T14:09:18.323" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, those question shouldn't be copied to unix.stackexchange purposely, so redundancy can be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTH, if someone, duplicates questions from superuser, they shouldn't be downvoted but the answer should include a link to superuser post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T14:09:18.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="21" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19" CreationDate="2010-08-11T14:28:14.033" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We (well, Andrew Stacey) came up with these guidelines on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/importing-questions-from-so/47#47&quot;&gt;tex SE&lt;/a&gt; that I think make sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only ask the question if when reading it you think, &quot;Hmm, I'd like to know the answer to that one too.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only ask the question if it hasn't been satisfactorily answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-ask the question rather than just cut-and-pasting it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link back to the original question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:39.830" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T14:28:14.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="22" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15" CreationDate="2010-08-11T15:09:09.130" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that unless this is an application-level question like &quot;How do I blur this image in PhotoShop&quot;, all questions about MacOS are fair game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not limit ourselves to the &quot;Unix core&quot;, because depending on your brand and style of Unix, that can be a pretty lonely subset. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stripped down Unixes (Busy box for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Full server environments like Red Hat Linux Enterprise, MacOSX Server, SUSE Linux&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X11-powered desktop environments, the most common (Ubuntu, RH, Fedora, OpenSUSE)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Android-powered desktop environments, like aPad, ePad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Android-powered mobile environments, like the NexusOne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MeeGo-powered phones using the Qt stack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MeeGo-powered netbooks using the Clutter stack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MacOS X, with a UI powered by the Cocoa/Quartz stack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iOS/iPhoneOS, with a UI powered by UIKit/Quartz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consumer electronics, powered by DirectFB, barebones X or other lightweight windowing system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe we need a StackExchange for each of those, instead we should introduce tags for the specific domain of the question, like &quot;x11&quot;, &quot;quartz&quot;, &quot;ios&quot;, &quot;meego&quot;, &quot;desktop&quot;, &quot;server&quot;, &quot;macos&quot;, &quot;busybox&quot;, &quot;bsd&quot; and even have distribution or brand specific tags like &quot;freebsd&quot;, &quot;openbsd&quot;, &quot;redhat&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T15:09:09.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="23" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-08-11T16:17:48.553" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say yes, because the topic isn't really changing.  You're still talking about Unix/Linux, but just running them on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_computer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;embedded system&lt;/a&gt;.  As long as it doesn't steer towards programming the topic should be safe.  Just tag it embedded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T16:17:48.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="24" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19" CreationDate="2010-08-11T17:30:19.923" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine to copy content. Instead of copying, perhaps we should migrate questions frmo there to here. However, I don't know how to move questions, comments &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answers from there to here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I copied a question from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/148/colorizing-your-terminal-and-shell-environment&quot;&gt;superuser&lt;/a&gt; to here. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I only got a single response (besides myself) at SU, after several weeks, even after setting a bounty. On Un*x.stackexchange, I got 4 responses in one day. I can come up with several theories for why the response rate is better here, but overall I believe that SU might be inadequate for Unix questions, or it's mission is too broad, or something else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These sites are an experiment. Perhaps this site will provide better content then SU. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Un*x.stackexchange needs to be populated with content and good questions. When someone Googles for a question, they should end up here. We make good content, and the SE sites are ranked highly by Google and Bing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't care much about redundancy, but again perhaps we should migrate questions from SU to here to avoid redundancy. This site doesn't overlap with SU or SF. It's more like SF and SU overlap with this site ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T18:20:56.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="25" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-11T19:56:40.880" Score="4" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Chromium, pressing the blockquote button in the edit panel toolbar gives the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Blockquote&#xA;&#xA;Blockquote&gt; BlockquoteBlockquote&#xA;&#xA;Blockquote&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar results if some text is highlighted beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T19:56:40.880" Title="Blockquote button in edit panel creates strange output" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2010-09-04T07:24:52.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="26" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-13T16:11:23.727" Score="11" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not necessarily a &quot;specific question&quot; discussion. It's just an example to raise the issue. I'm looking at this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/422/good-introduction-to-subversion-for-unexperienced-users&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good introduction to SubVersion for unexperienced users?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a tough one; &lt;strong&gt;deciding the &lt;em&gt;scope&lt;/em&gt; of your site.&lt;/strong&gt; This question is about SubVersion... which is running on Unix. The involvement regarding Unix/Linux seems somewhat accidental, but I'm not an expert on the subject. That's why I am asking you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question becomes... is this a &quot;site &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Unix and Linux&quot; or does the scope extend to &quot;Support for Unix/Linux and applications that run on it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no hesitation about applications where Unix is a large component of the question: i.e. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Is there a Linux Application to burn Blu-ray Discs?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;How do I back up my bookmarks in Firefox?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (from a user who just happens to be running Linux)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it and decide what's on topic and what's off topic regarding application questions. I'll leave it up to you guys. And keep an eye out for similar border-lining questions and &lt;strong&gt;bring up these discussions in meta early in your beta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T01:10:01.217" Title="Is it On or Off Topic When Unix/Linux is Only Ancillary to the Question?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="27" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2010-08-13T16:53:16.057" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO has a similar concern; Subversion and other VCS questions are accepted there because they tend to be used by programmers, even though there's nothing programming-specific about the question; the procedure for updating an SVN repo doesn't change if the repo contains code versus if it contains some other non-programming-related data. Vim/Emacs questions tend to be allowed for the same reason, even if the question has nothing to do with the programming aspects of those editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a decent way to decide is to ask if the question has the same answers if you take Unix/Linux out of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good introduction to SubVersion for unexperienced users?&lt;/strong&gt; There are minor platform-dependent things one might care about when using Subversion, but a general &quot;I have no idea how to use it, what are the commands to checkout a repo&quot; question is exactly the same under another OS, so this probably belongs on SO or SU&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a Linux Application to burn Blu-ray Discs?&lt;/strong&gt; Definitely, the answers are totally different if the question becomes &quot;Is there a Windows application to burn Blu-ray discs?&quot;. Whether that counts as an &quot;advanced user&quot; question as per the FAQ (&quot;Unix and Linux - Stack Exchange is for advanced users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&quot;) is another discussion, but it passes this test&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I back up my bookmarks in Firefox?&lt;/strong&gt; Apart from finding the &lt;code&gt;.mozilla&lt;/code&gt; folder, this is exactly the same procedure on other OSes, so it probably belongs on SU&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T16:53:16.057" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="28" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-13T20:18:30.720" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;manunix.com (man unix). There is actually a manual page for &quot;man unix&quot; which isn't about the system itself so that might cause confusion. However, sticking my neck out... eeek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Domain is currently unregistered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user119" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T20:18:30.720" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-13T20:18:30.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="29" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33" CreationDate="2010-08-14T02:21:10.827" Score="27" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why have we burdened ourselves with the phrase &quot;for advanced users&quot;?  I see many problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we have a definition for &quot;advanced&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why would we want to keep &quot;beginner&quot; users out of this site?  Are we really two different communities?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This distinction is being used to justify distro-specific SE sites, which is a dangerous precedent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because we don't have a clear definition of &quot;advanced&quot;, and don't actively kick out &quot;beginner&quot; questions, the &quot;for advanced users&quot; phrase is totally inaccurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discouraging any level of user from participating in this SE hurts the entire site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After spending a lot of time on this SE, I would expect many &quot;beginners&quot; would become &quot;advanced&quot; and help out other n00bs.  This natural growth will be a lot harder if we actively segregate our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am worried that the &quot;for beginner users&quot; argument will result in a SE for each distro (that's the argument that worked for the Ubuntu SE), when so little of what we discuss here is distro-specific, and what is distro-specific can easily be tagged as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditDate="2010-08-14T04:20:11.993" LastActivityDate="2012-03-09T15:23:42.187" Title="Can we get rid of the &quot;for advanced users&quot; part of our description?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="30" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2010-08-14T02:35:08.547" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed, I do not think that we need the word advanced, I feel that the tags work well to identify the issue at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In StackOverflow there are questions that are both from beginners and advanced hackers on every possible realm of the software programming world.   I do not believe we need this one to be flagged as &quot;Advanced&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T02:35:08.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="31" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2010-08-14T02:36:17.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will say yes;   I contributed to a similar question with my take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15/macosx-whats-on-topic&quot;&gt;Mac OS X: What&amp;#39;s on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T02:36:17.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="32" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2010-08-14T02:48:11.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 on removing the advanced. The problem with that word is everyone has their own idea of what &quot;advanced&quot; is, so people might refrain from participating because they feel they're not &quot;advanced&quot; enough, and other people might flame due to the question not being &quot;advanced&quot; enough. All in all, it can limit participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T02:48:11.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="33" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2010-08-14T04:22:50.387" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;advanced&quot; has been removed from the site description.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T04:22:50.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="34" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-14T04:38:28.373" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/482/how-do-i-add-mp3-etc-support-to-my-nix-desktop&quot;&gt;How do I add MP3/etc support to my *nix desktop?&lt;/a&gt; as an experiment to see how this sort of question would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it make more sense to have one question with a bunch of answers, where hopefully one good answer per-distro/os floats to the top?  Example: &quot;How do I add MP3 support?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it better to have the question asked multiple times, once for each distro/os, so that the asker can confidently pick &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; answer is the best? Example: &quot;How do I add MP3 support in openSUSE?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T04:15:43.653" Title="Should a general question with very distro/os-specific answers be split into distro/os-specific questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="35" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2010-08-14T04:42:48.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 for this. Remove the word &quot;advanced&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me offer a quick explanation why it's there in the first place. I proposed this site on area51 and created the definition. I used the word &quot;advanced&quot; as an afterthought because &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/create&quot;&gt;the form&lt;/a&gt; suggests that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We're creating sites for experts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your site should focus on pilots, not passengers; lawyers, not lawbreakers; professional photographers, not Uncle Marv with his digital point-n-shoot.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If the site can attract the experts, the amateur enthusiasts will follow!&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I threw out the word &quot;advanced&quot; to see if it would stick. I was hoping the community would suggest better phrasing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T04:42:48.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="36" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-14T07:22:29.923" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;younicks.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rtfman.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T07:22:29.923" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-14T07:22:29.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="37" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34" CreationDate="2010-08-16T04:02:36.123" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer is yes, it should be per distro and per codec. Real question about a real problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly? I don't like it... it's baiting, and asking for too much, imagine if we had 3 questions that could be answered for multiple distro's, you'll basically end up with the same answers which are basically how to use a distro's package manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this is a bit like asking on stackoverflow 'programming requires a variety of tools how do I go about installing these tools'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least in this case you should be asking about upstream codecs, e.g. what codecs do I need? for general, or perhaps what media play should I use for ... and perhaps a follow up question, how do I install faad2 on Arch Linux. I'd also allow a question like 'How do I add support for mp3, aac, and wmv in Fedora?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands you'll get answers about numerous codecs, media players, and package managers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2010-08-16T04:15:43.653" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T04:15:43.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="38" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2010-08-16T04:31:43.263" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly felt when I saw this question that it would be better served on SO (and probably already has been). However, I can think of many VCS questions which would belong here, and I don't mind questions asking for how to links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question that would belong here is, &quot;How do I track [Directory, /home, /etc] with [VCS, git, svn]. Which definitely doesn't belong on SO, and is very *nix dependant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T04:31:43.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="39" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-16T04:41:01.987" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shellhackers.com&lt;/strong&gt; feels too much like SO overlap, and possibly other upcoming area51 sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T04:41:01.987" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-16T04:41:01.987" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="40" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45" CreationDate="2010-08-16T04:49:52.023" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/519/where-to-start-to-learn-opengl&quot;&gt;This question on where to start learning opengl&lt;/a&gt; was asked. I don't feel that there's any way that this could possibly be ontopic here. I realize that *nix systems use OpenGL instead of DirectX, but this isn't anything about a unix implementation this is asking for a howto on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really do feel that it should be closed and moved to SO, or Game Development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your take, should we allow stuff like this? At what point do we draw the line in the sand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T22:39:33.873" Title="OpenGL question - offtopic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="41" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-16T04:58:32.853" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;procversion.com&lt;/strong&gt; Thought of this from &lt;code&gt;cat /proc/version&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T04:58:32.853" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-16T04:58:32.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="42" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-16T05:00:16.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;varquestions.com&lt;/strong&gt; I'm thinking like if we stored questions in unix it'd be &lt;code&gt;/var/questions&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T05:00:16.937" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-16T05:00:16.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="43" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-16T05:37:36.950" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;manerrno.com&lt;/strong&gt; of course this is unix for manual error number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T05:37:36.950" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-16T05:37:36.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="45" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40" CreationDate="2010-08-16T22:39:33.873" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;OpenGL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is cross-platform. You can use it on Windows and other non-UNIX/Linux platforms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is used primary in Game Development. Even if you use it for other things (like displaying Gnome-Shell ;) ) you will probably do it via toolkits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say game development. (On the other hand how to install OpenGL ;) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T22:39:33.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="46" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-18T07:48:36.240" Score="-2" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;forkbomb.co (AVAILABLE)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;forkbomb.com (TAKEN)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T07:48:36.240" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-18T07:48:36.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="47" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-18T07:50:24.223" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;rmrfroot.com (AVAILABLE) (&lt;code&gt;rm -rf /&lt;/code&gt; if someone didn't get it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="1170" LastEditDate="2010-08-24T16:07:31.857" LastActivityDate="2010-08-24T16:07:31.857" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-18T07:50:24.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="48" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-18T13:06:49.793" Score="6" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Title&#xA;&quot;colinux related queries are off the topic?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T04:27:48.350" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T07:02:26.283" Title="colinux related queries are off the topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="49" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2010-08-18T13:33:53.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say it is related as whole *nix system is running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd vote for inclusion of cygwin (but not mingw) and Windows Services for UNIX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T13:33:53.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="50" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2010-08-18T13:58:59.047" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that it largly depend on how tied the application is connected with Unix. I.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Part of *nix (i.e. POSIX, SUS, LSB...) or*nix specific: ls/sh/ps/hal/burning apps/... (Definitly yes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not unix specific tools but noone is practically using it outside (and those using it outside are *nix geeks anyway): vim/emacs/... (IMHO yes but overlaps with SU)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not unix specific servers even if they are connected with *nix: Apache/ngnix/... (IMHO no - SF is correct place)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not unix specific tools/servers and used widely outside: Definitly no&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-03-23T01:10:01.217" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T01:10:01.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="51" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-18T18:42:25.590" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;rm-rf.com (AVAILABLE for purchase)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="195" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T18:42:25.590" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-18T18:42:25.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="52" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="86" CreationDate="2010-08-20T04:29:54.717" Score="2" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;seven beta questions&lt;/a&gt; is deciding who the moderators should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some SE sites seem to start the moderator nominations &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/211/moderator-nominations&quot;&gt;too early&lt;/a&gt;, while others &lt;a href=&quot;https://webmasters.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/153/moderator-nominations&quot;&gt;forget about it completely&lt;/a&gt;. Robert Cartaino's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; about this says he chooses provisional moderators&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;starting about seven days into the public Beta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure a couple days into public beta is about the right time for us to start discussing it, so I'll post the standard nomination question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plagiarized this almost verbatim from &lt;a href=&quot;https://webmasters.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/153/moderator-nominations&quot;&gt;Robert's post&lt;/a&gt; on another SE meta, since it seems to be the most complete of all the ones I looked at and I don't think he'll mind. I did change references to &quot;we&quot; to &quot;the SE team&quot; to try and avoid confusion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here are some basic guidelines:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use this thread. Each nomination should be a separate answer. Link the name to the user's profile so we can see their activity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The nominee should indicate their acceptance by commenting on (or indeed editing) the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self nominations are okay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote on users you feel will make &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;good Moderator candidates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Please be civil and respectful.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are looking for members who are deeply engaged in the community development; members who:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are currently a registered user in good standing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exhibit patience and fairness at all times in their questions, answers, and comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lead by example, showing respect for their fellow community members in everything they write.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Want the responsibility. Moderators volunteer a lot of time and work. Its can be hugely rewarding experience but it isn't always a popularity contest.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus points for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being the site proposer or heavily involved in the proposal process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Members who referred a lot of followers/committers on Area 51.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Members with participation in &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; meta and the parent site (i.e. interest in both community building and expertise in the field).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These users will be contacted and three of them will be selected to act as Moderators until the formal elections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have access to the tools to perform the duties of Moderation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have access to a special chat room where they will collectively work through the challenges of moderation and community self-policing with the Stack Exchange team&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drive the process of selecting the site's attributes (domain names, design issues, the FAQ, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help get publicity for their sites and organize their communities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, &lt;strong&gt;they will have the ear of the Stack Exchange team for anything they can do to help this site succeed.&lt;/strong&gt; They will act as a liaison&amp;thinsp;&amp;mdash;&amp;thinsp;a job that &quot;links&quot; Stack Overflow with this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators solve a basic scalability problem. The SE team can't be in each site, identifying the issues and helping each community grow. That's where Moderators come in; they make sure communities are enabled to solve these problems where they can and elicit help when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:43:48.893" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T16:06:37.563" Title="Moderator nominations" Tags="|discussion|moderators|top-7|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-20T04:29:54.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="53" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2010-08-20T06:13:12.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're installing onto a Unix system I think it's on topic just like a question about &quot;ls&quot; is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Kinopiko" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T06:13:12.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="54" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55" CreationDate="2010-08-20T09:28:57.373" Score="4" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it on topic to ask questions of the form &quot;What program does allow me to do X&quot;? Or more generally, is it on topic to ask questions about &lt;em&gt;recommendations&lt;/em&gt; for certain programs? I fear that these questions may be suited better for superuser.com...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="690" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T07:50:03.993" Title="Are questions about software packages on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="55" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="54" CreationDate="2010-08-20T17:41:29.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is on-topic.  We already have many questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is some overlap with SuperUser, which is unfortunate.  But in general here you are asking *nix experts for advice on apps for your *nix system, which seems appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T17:41:29.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="56" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-08-20T17:45:19.733" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/228/miguel-de-icaza&quot;&gt;Miguel de Icaza&lt;/a&gt;, but I have no idea if wants the responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has been heavily involved in promoting unix.stackexchange, and probably had the biggest impact on its success in Area 51.  Since then he has continued his commitment to *nix by asking a bunch of questions during the private beta, and providing a ton of awesome answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T17:45:19.733" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-20T17:45:19.733" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="57" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-08-20T22:56:53.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As nominations are rather lacking and we're supposed to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;&quot;about three&quot;&lt;/a&gt; moderators, I'll nominate myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been fairly active here since the beta began, both on the parent site and meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/73/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Unix flair http://mrozekma.com/so-flair.php?site=unix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited questions to cleanup formatting where I see it, but this site has had unusually high-quality posts, so there hasn't been much need of editing, closing, flagging, or actual moderator involvement yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO, on the other hand, does regularly need that sort of thing. I'm very active there as well, and spend a majority of my time there these days on pseudo-mod activities: fixing posts by new users, retagging, going through spam/offensive flags, and checking active [un]close/[un]delete votes. I'm also fairly active on the main SO meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/309308/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;SO flair http://mrozekma.com/so-flair.php?site=so&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/145982/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;MSO flair http://mrozekma.com/so-flair.php?site=mso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally enjoy cleaning up existing posts as much as writing new answers, so moderator tools seem a decent extension of that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T22:56:53.477" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-20T22:56:53.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="58" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2010-08-21T00:14:14.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;colinux questions seem fine. Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. running on colinux are very similar to Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. running on a 'regular' system. Most of the questions will be the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't totally understand how coLinux works (I ran it for a few months) and I guess some of the more technical questions (Regarding the Cooperative Virtual Machine layer between the Linux kernel and the hardware) might not be a perfect fit, but this site should be good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T00:14:14.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="59" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="54" CreationDate="2010-08-21T07:50:03.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you don't ask something like &quot;what is the best web browser to use on linux and windows?&quot; you're probably fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T07:50:03.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="60" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-08-21T16:35:57.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for nominating me!    I have had a great time on the launch of Unix.StackExchange and would like to remain involved.   I would like to also nominate all the other great posters that have been answering questions and have fostered both a friendly environment in this stack exchange as driven the discussion forward.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have seen their comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/moderator-nominations/61#61&quot;&gt;Warren Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/moderator-nominations/57#57&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/moderator-nominations/62#62&quot;&gt;jacksonh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/moderator-nominations/63#63&quot;&gt;Sandy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(links go to individual posts for each nomination)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many others of course, but these fellow StackExchangers have done a great job keeping the ball rolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T04:31:53.093" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-21T16:35:57.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="61" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-08-22T04:30:45.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Split from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/moderator-nominations/60#60&quot;&gt;this multi-suggestion post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miguel de Icaza nominated &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/138/warren-young&quot;&gt;Warren Young&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/svooG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unix Flair&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hqhZk.png&quot; alt=&quot;SO Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T04:30:45.933" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-22T04:30:45.933" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="62" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-08-22T04:30:55.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Split from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/moderator-nominations/60#60&quot;&gt;this multi-suggestion post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miguel de Icaza nominated &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/45/jacksonh&quot;&gt;jacksonh&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w5BRD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unix Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T04:30:55.357" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-22T04:30:55.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="63" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-08-22T04:31:04.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Split from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52/moderator-nominations/60#60&quot;&gt;this multi-suggestion post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miguel de Icaza nominated &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/85/sandy&quot;&gt;Sandy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/86jsr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unix Flair&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nFgcs.png&quot; alt=&quot;SU Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T04:31:04.480" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-22T04:31:04.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="64" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="65" CreationDate="2010-08-22T07:43:32.900" Score="6" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where do we draw the line on server questions? I personally think that questions about Apache, Postfix, Postgres, OpenLDAP, etc ought to be offtopic and sent to SF. I even think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/990/books-guides-for-securing-a-server&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; should be sent to SF and not here. I know people are going to ask some questions in relation to servers here, but I feel it should have a significant tie in to Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2019-08-22T12:18:51.707" Title="Where to draw the Line on servers" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="65" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="64" CreationDate="2010-08-22T15:59:37.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the key understanding here is whether or not the question is about software or a concept with a platform-independent purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some tests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a Windows version?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there an alternative that provides similar functionality available for Windows?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you do the same thing on Windows?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Apache and Postgres have Windows versions and mail and LDAP servers are available for Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question to which you refer, however, fits in a grey area.  I agree with you that as posed it should be on SF (and also CW) but I think it is valid with a title change to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What guides are available for securing Ubuntu Lucid Server?&lt;/em&gt;  (as CW) OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How can I harden Ubuntu Lucid Server to run Y using Z?&lt;/em&gt;   (not CW)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and refocusing the question to mention the specific applications that will be used, what has been done so far and any specific concerns they have--especially if they are *nix specific (e.g., sockets, remote administration permissions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T15:59:37.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="66" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67" CreationDate="2010-08-23T13:32:29.680" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible? If not, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T22:37:55.257" Title="Retract (change) poll vote" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="67" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="66" CreationDate="2010-08-23T14:06:22.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not, you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mrozekma.com/so-poll-one-time.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;You are only allowed to vote 1 time in this poll http://mrozekma.com/so-poll-one-time.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post a feature request on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; and it might be changed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2010-08-23T14:06:22.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="68" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-24T18:30:16.957" Score="7" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the unix SE goes out of beta, will the rep be visible in the careers CV view? I think it makes sense for people looking for UNIX-related jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="659" LastActivityDate="2010-08-24T18:30:16.957" Title="unix.se reputation visible in careers.so CV?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="69" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-25T00:17:59.903" Score="4" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should we do about time specific questions?  I voted to close this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1203/which-2010-laptop-is-most-compatible-with-linux&quot;&gt;Which laptop is most compatible with Linux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers were fairly generic, but I don't think we should encourage questions like this.  Maybe suggest that the question be re-asked in a more generic way: What to look for in a linux compatible laptop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T07:54:15.667" Title="Date specific questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="70" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2010-08-25T01:45:14.203" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shopping and product recommendations should generally be considered off-topic and closed as &quot;too localized.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T01:45:14.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="71" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2010-08-25T02:17:24.103" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with it, personally.  It's a common enough question in the Linux community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T02:17:24.103" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="72" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-25T05:16:14.317" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;eliza.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(currently parked)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1163" LastEditorUserId="85" LastEditDate="2010-08-28T13:36:58.477" LastActivityDate="2010-08-28T13:36:58.477" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-25T05:16:14.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="73" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-08-25T14:11:55.030" Score="13" ViewCount="533" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix has quite a bit of history, and a lot of things with historical roots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should questions primarily about the history of Unix be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="289" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T09:52:42.050" Title="Are history questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="74" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2010-08-25T16:44:53.813" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The history of any software can be used to understand why some part of it is the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="595" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T16:44:53.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="75" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2010-08-25T18:53:49.673" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they're fine as well, and this question made me think of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-its-name&quot;&gt;history question&lt;/a&gt; to ask, so hopefully we decide they're on-topic :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T18:53:49.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="76" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2010-08-25T22:08:35.670" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no problem per-se so long as they're answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T22:08:35.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="77" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2010-08-25T22:11:11.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with it considering finding hardware that will run a Linux desktop (with compositing / wireless / and working media keys) is hard. laptop hardware is still quite proprietary. And because of the fact that there are so few answers I don't think this is a bad question to ask, though it could have asked vendors or product lines, which is the answers it got anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T22:11:11.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="78" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2010-08-26T13:14:39.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it is sligthly off-topic as reformulating the question into &quot;how to check if laptop is linux compatible&quot; (which is practically the same question) would be in-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-08-26T13:14:39.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="79" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-08-28T04:54:31.430" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;fsckit.com - It appears parked, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afsckit.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;not really used&lt;/a&gt;. One (broken) link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-08-28T04:54:31.430" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-28T04:54:31.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="80" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="81" CreationDate="2010-08-30T12:55:07.380" Score="6" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt; has long been a unix tool, but me thinks it's too close to programming (at least anything beyond how do I build software X). &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1390/makefile-examples-and-or-templates&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; prompted this, I think it should be closed... opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T16:46:42.087" Title="make - ontopic or SO" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="81" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="80" CreationDate="2010-08-30T16:46:42.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say - depends:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How to create Makefile for program&quot; and similar goes to stackoverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How to build in parallel with &lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt;&quot; (answer &lt;code&gt;make -j2&lt;/code&gt;) and similar is on topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T16:46:42.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="82" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-09-02T21:15:42.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nomination for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/29/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose I might as well put my name in the hat, seeing as how Robert Cartaino sent me an email asking if I was willing to be a temporary moderator, I said yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2010-09-02T21:41:26.083" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-02T21:15:42.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="83" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-09-03T09:06:29.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nomination for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/29/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T09:06:29.590" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-03T09:06:29.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="84" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-03T14:47:26.233" Score="7" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a question raised about whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1343/how-does-top-command-show-live-results&quot;&gt;How does “top” command show live results?&lt;/a&gt; belongs here, or if questions about shell scripting should fall under the domain of programming and stay on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;. I'm on the fence, since shell scripting is a strictly *nix concern (my personal &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/is-it-on-or-off-topic-when-unix-linux-is-only-ancillary-to-the-question/27#27&quot;&gt;on-topic test&lt;/a&gt;), but it's also firmly in the domain of programming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T17:54:36.700" Title="Shell scripting on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="85" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-03T15:22:40.923" Score="5" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators Pro Tempore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pleased to announce that these members have stepped up and generously volunteered their time to help us assure that each community’s issues are properly addressed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NwGlo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aoscq.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8KFKo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wecFJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want to make this site a huge success, and these members are great examples of exactly the type of people we need to make this site succeed. Please welcome them for the hard work and time they contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Did I overlook anyone?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost certainly. There are members who are actively involved and very deserving of recognition. My failure to account for everyone this early on is in &lt;em&gt;no way&lt;/em&gt; a slight against them. Ideally, Moderators are elected by the community and that's why &lt;strong&gt;you'll have your elections in several weeks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of all, be respectful and understanding of the Moderators Pro Tem. Members of your community are volunteering their time and learning on the job. It’s a learning experience for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T23:22:42.670" Title="Moderator Pro Tem Announcement" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="86" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="52" CreationDate="2010-09-03T16:06:37.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pro tem moderator announcement is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85/moderator-pro-tem-announcement&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. We'll have a new thread when the elections for more permanent moderators start&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T16:06:37.563" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-03T16:06:37.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="88" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="104" CreationDate="2010-09-03T18:16:39.097" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/is-it-on-or-off-topic-when-unix-linux-is-only-ancillary-to-the-question&quot;&gt;An earlier related question on meta&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1454/how-do-i-make-the-1-9-2-ruby-string-point-to-the-final-release-with-rvm&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was asked and ultimately answered on SO. This tool is is probably mostly used by Ruby programmers to test on multiple versions, and maybe slightly used by Sys Admin's to run different apps on different versions. I felt it belonged more on SO (and got a faster answer there) my question is should this type of question be closed as offtopic ( &lt;em&gt;or migrated&lt;/em&gt; )?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T14:53:26.677" Title="Non Standard CLI tools - A ruby tool question" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="91" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-09-03T19:48:26.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also can't think of any solid guideline that could be generally followed as this is 'offtopic'. Technically the title of the question is fine, it's the 'how to do it' that's the problem. But then again... that's because I know the &quot;how to is 'curses'&quot; if I didn't know that... I might not have a problem with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My ultimate decision is that the question itself is not offtopic, however the answer is better served by SO. Sometimes you ask a question and don't know that until you get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like here: Q: How do I make a program like Top A: Curses this requires a follow up question that's offtopic. Q: How do I use Curses with $language? A: Offtopic ask on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know that this involves more advanced programming to start then you might not realize the end result is not appropriate on unix SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder though... should we modify the question, or something to pose that a follow up should be on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Shell Programming in general I think it depends... I have no problems with simple scripting... much like the questions I've been asking. But when you get into writing a lot of functions, complexity or external library use, then I'd say it goes to SO. Truthfully the problem here is that the shell is a fundamental part of Unix. The fact that you can do everything to the system via CLI that you could via GUI is a part of what makes Unix great. I'm certainly ok with  'scripting' but it's hard to tell where shell scripting ends and shell programming begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the real answer here is to play it on a case by case scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;update&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97/offtopic-a-temporary-moderator-stance-programming-servers-cross-platform&quot;&gt;When in doubt it's unix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T19:23:34.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="92" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-09-04T06:53:22.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is my first post on meta, not sure about the etiquette).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with xenoterracide's conclusion that &quot;the real answer here is to play it on a case by case scenario&quot; but I do think that is is possible to have some general guidelines.  Here is my thinking so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shell scripting can't be strictly off topic.  The heavy use of shell scripts in the standard SysV init setup alone (not to mention cron and countless other .d's) make shell scripts an essential part of *nix systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question can be reduced to a question that is essentially about 'filters' it is on topic.  i.e. &quot;How can I write a script to create a unique list of logged in users&quot;; possible answer(shamelessly stolen from &lt;code&gt;info coreutils toolbox&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;who | cut -c1-8 | sort | uniq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this type of filtering is essential to using a unix system&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is not shell specific but could be about any programming language, then it is off topic and likely better for SO.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is only incidentally about shell scripting.  Often a persons shell script will be failing because some specific command they are trying to run isn't working.  In this case, the question reduces to a question about the command and is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; about shell scripting, I think it should be off topic.  By this I mean, I don't think questions about shell scripts that aren't really interacting with the system should be on topic.  For instance, I personally think that this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1527/bash-eval-array-variable-name&quot;&gt;bash-eval-array-variable-name&lt;/a&gt;, is probably better suited for SO, because anyone reading the question and answer didn't really learn anything about unix.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to go too far off topic, but I think that whatever decision we make here could easily also influence discussions of whether other common scripting language (namely, perl) are on topic--unless that discussion already occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T07:25:58.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="93" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-04T07:27:26.447" Score="13" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;If both this SE and the Ubuntu SE make it out of beta, it might be a good idea to have some guidelines for when questions should be directed to the Ubuntu SE.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I can't think of an &quot;Ubuntu&quot; question that wouldn't also be a &quot;Unix and Linux&quot; question, but at the same time (out of selfishness) I enjoy reading and answering questions that are distribution agnostic and think that this site would lose a lot of value (at least for me) if a good portion of the questions on the front page could all be answered with a &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get install $foo&lt;/code&gt; type answer.  So far I haven't seen too many ubuntu-specific questions land here, but I think it is a good idea to talk about what the relationship between the two sites should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T00:04:56.570" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T00:04:56.570" Title="What is the relationship between Linux/Unix SE and Ubuntu SE" Tags="|discussion|scope|ubuntu|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="94" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="93" CreationDate="2010-09-04T07:39:08.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not planning on thinking about a relationship... I don't really care what they are doing, them choosing not to be a member of the Linux/Unix community was their choice. All Ubuntu questions are welcome here, there will be no migration path either way because they are a subset of the topic here, but questions that are asked there although they may be truly general will likely not be migrated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xenoterracide.com/2010/09/ubuntu-isnt-linux-whats-beginner.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's my full thoughts on the vote.&lt;/a&gt; Ultimately I think it is a lose lose situation, but I'm not going to stop helping people who come here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T07:39:08.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="95" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="93" CreationDate="2010-09-04T15:08:41.300" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in no way surprised by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/fork-it/&quot;&gt;results of the poll&lt;/a&gt;; I wasn't sure which way we would vote (although voting to merge seemed likely), but I was quite certain they would vote not to merge, and I was actually shocked they had as many Yes votes as they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, if you ask Gentoo/Arch/Fedora/etc. users what OS they use they'll say &quot;Linux&quot;, and if you ask Ubuntu users they'll say &quot;Ubuntu&quot;. Unfortunately, the same is true when it comes to searching for problems. If I'm trying to figure out how to do foo, I'll google &quot;linux foo&quot; -- Ubuntu users will google &quot;ubuntu foo&quot;, even if foo is completely distro agnostic. The reason (and I'm not trying to insult Ubuntu users, I suspect they would say the same thing) is Ubuntu users tend to be new to Linux and simply don't know which parts are Ubuntu-specific and which aren't. This means they end up on the Ubuntu SE and ask their question there, and so far (not unexpectedly, since we're both in beta) it looks like they don't direct distro-agnostic questions to us -- the newest question on the Ubuntu side is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/3601/how-to-use-rhythmbox-python-console&quot;&gt;Rhythmbox's python interface&lt;/a&gt;; the one before that is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/3596/what-is-lvm-and-what-is-it-used-for&quot;&gt;LVM&lt;/a&gt;, and before that is a generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/3592/how-to-configure-partitions-across-two-physical-drives&quot;&gt;partitioning&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather unfortunately, the impression I got from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/should-unix-linux-and-ubuntu-be-merged-vote/&quot;&gt;initial poll announcement comments&lt;/a&gt; was that the Ubuntu side was worried our side was too advanced and would be throwing command-line solutions at people when they would prefer a GUI solution. So far that doesn't seem to have been the case, and (as xenoterracide mentioned on that thread) we even &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29/can-we-get-rid-of-the-for-advanced-users-part-of-our-description&quot;&gt;dropped &quot;advanced&quot; from our description&lt;/a&gt;, but it's definitely a valid concern. More unfortunately, there wasn't much of an opportunity to actually discuss the merge and address concerns; I imagine most people found out about the poll from the notification on the sites, and voted without seeing any of the arguments at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started out thinking the communities should stay separate but changed my mind pretty fast after reading the arguments; it's like saying C# and C++ should be separate and SO is foolish for merging them together. C# is the language most asked about on SO, and I know nothing about it, but the &quot;Ignored Tags&quot; feature is sufficient to let me completely ignore those questions. I think similarly tagging Ubuntu questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/ubuntu&quot;&gt;[ubuntu]&lt;/a&gt; here would work well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize until I made the link just now, but we actually have an [ubuntu] tag with 14 questions on it. Normally we've been told migration options won't be available until after a beta is finished, but if we're going to stay separate communities I think it would be highly useful for us to each have a migration option to the other's site now. There's no point in keeping the communities separate if we're not going to move questions that belong on each other's sites; we might as well just merge then. I'll talk to the SE team and see what they think&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T15:08:41.300" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="96" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-09-04T16:32:17.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general attitude on Meta Stack Overflow (which is serving as the meta for all general Stack Exchange stuff) is that overlap is fine.  We don't have to avoid stepping on Stack Overflow toes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd suggest that Unix-specific programming questions are on topic here and SO.  I don't even know which would be the better place to ask.  SO is great for programming advice, but it does tend to be Windows/.NET dominated, and lots of Unix/Linux users are very familiar with shell scripting and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions that could be programming or non-programming questions, and I wouldn't like to see those closed for being programming questions.  Similarly, I wouldn't want to see follow-up questions turned away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I'd like to avoid the Super User problem.  It was originally defined as what didn't belong on SO or SF, and now has evolved additional restrictions.  I can give you a quick guide to what belongs on Stack Overflow or Server Fault in a sentence, but I can't do that with Super User (unless it's a seriously run-on sentence). I think this has hurt its development.  I'd like this site to cover everything specifically Unix/Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="289" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T16:32:17.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="97" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98" CreationDate="2010-09-04T18:51:58.433" Score="18" ViewCount="1151" Body="&lt;p&gt;This encompasses all previous questions. I decided I didn't want to say this more than once, and I've changed my stance a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part it's unix vs windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC Windows uses threads where unix forks. This means that Settings for servers like Apache may vary in some settings, and even in the way it should be compiled. This also means that Languages like Perl have to work differently on Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bash and Zsh which would probably be considered undeniably unix can be run on Windows (even if it means the presence of a cygwin.dll )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox has its preferences menu in a different place on Unix, so who's to say that Something as generic as a browser isn't a valid *nix question. Firefox was *nix first really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can install a great number of apps that are primarily *nix on windows now, does this mean we shouldn't allow questions about them here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the separatism needs to die, this site isn't about what should be on SO,SF,SU vs what should be on Unix SE. This site, like those, is about helping each other with our problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure this may not be the best place to ask about Apache, but I think I'd rather tell the person &quot;you'd get faster answers on SF&quot; than I would saying it's off-topic. Apache works fine on Unix, just don't ask about IIS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically it might even be ok to ask about windows apps, we have Wine (and derivatives) right? So long as your question is about running them in wine (or some other way related to *nix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have to limit Unix to SUS (Single Unix Standard) I've asked plenty of KDE questions on here, and for those who don't know some of KDE works on windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately the point I'm trying to make is that the lines are blurry, let's focus on users getting help as best and quickly as they can, which may mean recommending another site (or migrating questions once we can ), instead of arguing about whether something is or isn't Unix enough. When in doubt, it's Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;stepping off soap box&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as a non argumentative response to Michael, this following diagrams are a visual representation of what shapes my opinion. Although I at first generally agreed with his opinion I realized that there's a certain problem with it on scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following Image is a figure representing Non-Unix and Unix circa 2000 Maybe, as you can see, lot's of Non-Unix (windows) and not a whole lot of overlap. This is not based on any real statistics and was POOMA.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IKPFD.png&quot; alt=&quot;large non unix circle, small unix circle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This next picture is representative of where we are today ( Including OS X and Android )&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aHZcv.png&quot; alt=&quot;large non unix circle, small unix circle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that what is pure unix hasn't grown much, but now there's a lot more overlap and a lot of growth. This comes from many apps not being cross-platform. Back then QT was Unix only (I think) now it works on every platform under the sun, Perl's windows implementation was quite different from the unix version, now we have Strawberry. Zsh runs on windows, MSysGit is coming along nicely, VLC and MPlayer (+ gstreamer) are everywhere, Firefox is the #2 browser and runs on all platforms, I've even used Konversation as an IRC client on windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see our circle continue to grow, and in many ways I think the less differences is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that the fact that we've been having this opinion that we won't help with resources that also work on windows could be some of why Ubuntu SE wanted its own community, although I haven't done any research to back this up, I'd be they have no problems with helping a Ubuntu user back up his firefox bookmarks, though they might say take the details of using XMarks to (webapps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for our circle to grow we must be willing to come out of our Ivory Towers to help the unwashed masses on the path to enlightenment. This is not to say we will not migrate questions elsewhere once that becomes possible, it's about helping users after all. If their question is better answered on SO (etc) then we should migrate it there, but I'm not going to try to figure out if questions are 'unix enough' anymore, best simply to suggest that something is better asked elsewhere ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1454/how-do-i-make-the-1-9-2-ruby-string-point-to-the-final-release-with-rvm&quot;&gt;like this ruby question&lt;/a&gt; ) than to get in a debate about whether that tool is unix or not. I'm more interested in seeing that user get help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Ubuntu though... Many of those users wanted a separate community, I would see any effort to migrate questions to ubuntu SE or from ubuntu SE as an abuse of users that chose specifically to post in one community or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T14:03:19.837" Title="Offtopic - A Stance - Programming / Servers / Cross Platform Applications" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="98" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2010-09-04T20:38:34.850" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like how xenoterracide presented this, particularly putting the focus on who is the user of Unix Stack Exchange. After all, the identity of this site's target users is the question that the first statement of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;site faq&lt;/a&gt; is answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question asked of new site proposals on Area 51 is &quot;who is this site for&quot; but I think it is the most important. The only way these sites work is if you have people willing to participate on them, in particular the people who are willing and able to write answers. From my point of view, a Q&amp;amp;A site like this sets a boundary around its topic because it helps to make the people who answer questions happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is something most of the Unix experts frequenting the site wouldn't mind writing an answer to, it's probably on topic. And, from the question side, the site definition needs to make it relatively simple to determine if the question is on topic. I think that xenoterracide statement to &quot;focus on users getting help as best and as quickly as they can&quot; accomplishes that very well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use a computer that runs on Linux, I'd like to think that when there is something I don't understand about it this is a place I'm able to bring my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1299" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T20:38:34.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2010-09-05T02:30:02.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is interesting because it doesn't line up with my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/is-it-on-or-off-topic-when-unix-linux-is-only-ancillary-to-the-question/27#27&quot;&gt;original opinion&lt;/a&gt;. Your on-topic domain is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mrozekma.com/so-unix-venn2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Venn diagram of Unix and the center http://mrozekma.com/so-unix-venn2.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My on-topic domain is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mrozekma.com/so-unix-venn1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Venn diagram of just Unix http://mrozekma.com/so-unix-venn1.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Original images stolen from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/a-visual-explanation-of-sql-joins.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Coding Horror&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with the middle section is it allows endless amounts of questions that have almost nothing to do with *nix. Robert's example question is a good one here: &quot;How do I back up my bookmarks in Firefox?&quot; I would think that doesn't belong here, because backing up bookmarks in Firefox has nothing to do with Linux, even if you happen to be running Firefox on a Linux system. If I were looking for the answer to such a question, I would check SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a somewhat related tangent, I personally think we probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/93/what-is-the-relationship-between-linux-unix-se-and-ubuntu-se/95#95&quot;&gt;should merge&lt;/a&gt; with Ubuntu, but if we are going to stay separate it's not good for there to be a huge set of questions that can exist on either site -- it means we have duplication of effort (answering the same questions on both sites), and people looking for answers need to check both sites to see if the answer already exists. Expanding our scope to &quot;anything possible on *nix&quot; leads to a lot of gray-area questions -- it's better for it to be obvious which questions belong here and which don't. At the moment I see our scope as &quot;anything *nix-specific, except for Ubuntu-specific stuff since they have their own site&quot;, although I'm certainly not going to turn away Ubuntu questions until we've figured out what's going on there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T02:30:02.090" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-05T05:04:40.033" Score="10" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're getting to the point in the beta where we should start trying to actively promote ourselves. Most of this is not so much a question as an informational post to let people know what methods other sites have found effective, but the last couple bullets are much more open-ended and feedback/ideas would be great. If you're uninterested in the general SE beta background stuff, skip down to that list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each SE site is evaluated at the end of the beta -- for us, that's in 65 days. So far no sites have gotten to the end of the beta yet, so we're not sure exactly what that will entail, but it's important for us to get as many active users as we can, posting as many high quality questions/answers as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the current question/answer stats for all the SE sites in public beta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|gad|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|role|bike&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,6200|1,0,95&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930&amp;amp;chds=0,6200,0,6195&amp;amp;chd=t:1787,2020,653,1424,667,577,641,566,1019,448,417,717,947,922,590,211,382,375,251,310,375,169|2599,2547,1401,3657,2129,496,1737,1165,1769,709,861,1251,1632,1359,1278,845,798,581,433,520,1477,362&amp;amp;chdl=Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chart from Google Charts http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|gad|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|role|bike&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,6200|1,0,95&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930&amp;amp;chds=0,6200,0,6195&amp;amp;chd=t:1787,2020,653,1424,667,577,641,566,1019,448,417,717,947,922,590,211,382,375,251,310,375,169|2599,2547,1401,3657,2129,496,1737,1165,1769,709,861,1251,1632,1359,1278,845,798,581,433,520,1477,362&amp;amp;chdl=Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally the older sites have a bit of an advantage; accounting for number of days in beta it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|gad|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|role|bike&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,120|1,0,95&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930&amp;amp;chds=0,120,0,120&amp;amp;chd=t:27,34,11,24,12,11,12,12,22,9,9,17,24,29,19,8,15,15,13,17,23,16|39,43,24,64,40,9,34,24,38,15,19,31,42,43,42,32,31,24,22,28,92,36&amp;amp;chdl=Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site+(normalized)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chart from Google Charts http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|gad|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|role|bike&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,120|1,0,95&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930&amp;amp;chds=0,120,0,120&amp;amp;chd=t:27,34,11,24,12,11,12,12,22,9,9,17,24,29,19,8,15,15,13,17,23,16|39,43,24,64,40,9,34,24,38,15,19,31,42,43,42,32,31,24,22,28,92,36&amp;amp;chdl=Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site+(normalized)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average is 17 questions and 53 answers per day; we're just under that at 15 questions and 47 answers per day, which isn't bad at all. We're also doing well on users (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|gad|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|role|bike&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,4500&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chs=600x400&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930&amp;amp;chds=0,4500&amp;amp;chd=t:4325,3328,1847,2351,2032,1081,1316,1189,1720,712,760,1105,2003,1222,1026,1370,1485,767,878,686,527,305&amp;amp;chdl=Users&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Users+by+Site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;total&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|gad|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|role|bike&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,100&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chs=600x400&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930&amp;amp;chds=0,100&amp;amp;chd=t:65,56,31,41,39,20,25,25,37,15,17,27,52,39,34,52,59,31,46,38,32,30&amp;amp;chdl=Users&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Users+by+Site+(normalized)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;normalized&lt;/a&gt;), all without having put much effort into promotion yet, so that's fairly encouraging&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post on the SO blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/a-recipe-to-promote-your-site/&quot;&gt;A Recipe to Promote your Site&lt;/a&gt;, has a couple good ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let people know the site exists&lt;/strong&gt;. There's a handy social networking box on the right side of the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L1Wbb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the social networking box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post great questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt;. We don't need to bribe people to stay on the site; if it's a great site they'll want to stay automatically. Great posts are also automatically featured on the trilogy sites (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt;), in ads like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bvGKi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of a web apps ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take the great questions and especially answers you find and share them&lt;/strong&gt;. Telling people &quot;There's a Unix/Linux Q&amp;amp;A site&quot; isn't nearly as effective as &quot;There's a Unix/Linux Q&amp;amp;A site, and here are some of the awesome posts on it&quot;. There are buttons next to each question to share them on Facebook and Twitter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SCHA0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the buttons&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget to share great answers as well; they're probably more useful than questions when it comes to getting people interested in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Think about events we can sponsor&lt;/strong&gt;, conferences we can promote at, well-known names in the *nix community that are likely to be interested in the site and share it, etc. This one is much more open-ended and site-specific than the others, so feel free to post answers if you have specific ideas&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show your flair&lt;/strong&gt;. There's a link on your profile to your &quot;flair&quot;, which shows your current reputation on the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;My flair http://mrozekma.com/so-flair.php?site=unix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think tech-people are more susceptible than anyone when it comes to the need to amass large quantities of points, experience, reputation, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;???&lt;/strong&gt;. Are there any methods specific to a Unix/Linux site that would work well? Post them as answers here so we can discuss them&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T19:12:15.237" Title="How should we promote the site?" Tags="|discussion|top-7|promotion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2010-09-05T17:14:54.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I have just started doing is periodically mentioning SE on identi.ca.  For those that don't know, identi.ca is a Free Software alternative to twitter.  It supports &quot;groups&quot; and &quot;tags.&quot;  When I mentioned SE in the past, I've been sending the posts to the !linux (! is the group symbol on identica) group; however, we might also consider the !gnu group and the !unix group.  Most of the people using identi.ca are free software enthusiasts so there are many people there that could make really great contributions here.  However, people get easily upset over &quot;group spam&quot; so make sure what you post is really interesting and that you don't post too often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="1207" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T02:21:37.770" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T02:21:37.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="106" CreationDate="2010-09-06T14:36:47.783" Score="13" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Android wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; all I found is that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kernel.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Linux kernel&lt;/a&gt;(who would suspect ;) )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;nor does it support the full set of standard GNU libraries&quot; without mentioning if it is POSIX compatible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say they are on topic (Linux &amp;amp; possibly Linux) but what is your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2014-01-13T19:14:10.367" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T12:40:32.197" Title="Are android questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2010-09-06T14:53:26.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that it is off-topic and should be closed/migrated to SO. While possibly 'got faster response' is not necessary rule of thumb (SO is larger) I'd say it would be faster resplied there even if the sizes of sites were equal - because it is more connected with programming then Unix&amp;amp;Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T14:53:26.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="107" CreationDate="2010-09-06T17:40:30.577" Score="12" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that we should encourage questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1658/is-gnu-linux-still-relevant&quot;&gt;Is GNU/Linux still relevant?&lt;/a&gt;.  These types of questions bring out strong emotions or exhaustion for people who have been involved in the debate for a while and are boring for those just entering the Unix and Linux world.  To some extent this applies to other classics such as &quot;Vi vs Emacs&quot; but while discussions such as &quot;Vi vs Emacs&quot; can be rich with technical comparisons and hacker humor (Emacs May Allow Customized Screwups?), discussions that get into issues of software freedom (GPL v BSD, GNU/Linux v Linux, etc) just go in circles, rehashing old arguments, boring those who don't care and angering those who do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is just a gut reaction to opening up SE to see if there was anything interesting before I dig into work and then seeing &quot;Is GNU/Linux still revevant?&quot; and thinking &quot;oh God, not this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong.  I care about free software a lot.  I have strong opinions about these holy wars.  But I don't think these types of debates really have a place here.  Namely, I don't want people with questions about proprietary unices to be discouraged because they see this as a &quot;Free Software&quot;-only forum and I would hate for &quot;Free software&quot; people to think this is an FSF or GNU unfriendly place (not that those two orgs represent all of free software, they are just examples).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether closing these types of topics is the right course, but at the same time, I think that if those types of questions are on the front page, a good number of people are just going to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T20:25:56.527" Title="'Holy Wars' Questions" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="103" CreationDate="2010-09-06T18:19:21.900" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know much about Android devices, but I would say questions about the underlying *nix operating system belong here. Questions about programming for it probably belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, and questions about the devices themselves probably belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Android Enthusiasts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T12:40:32.197" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="105" CreationDate="2010-09-06T18:31:58.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the question should be closed as subjective/argumentative, but I don't feel that way strongly enough to close it myself; I'd much rather let the community decide, and if 5 people vote that way then so be it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that leaving them on the front page is probably bad. You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; downvote it; a question with 4+ downvotes won't appear on the front page anymore. I'm going to watch this question and see if it becomes a problem, but for the moment I'll let it go because it was phrased pretty well. A question like &quot;Why do idiots insist on calling it GNU/Linux?&quot; I would edit or close&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T18:31:58.620" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="105" CreationDate="2010-09-06T20:25:56.527" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, it seems obviously difficult for any question that deals with a &quot;holy war&quot; topic to avoid becoming argumentative even if there is some non-subjective aspect to the question. I don't see very much value in having questions like that on the Unix and Linux Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to the specific question referred to by Steven D, two of the top answers at the moment begin with &quot;from my point of view.&quot; I interpret those as statements that the answer writers considered the question to be subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1299" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T20:25:56.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="110" CreationDate="2010-09-06T21:21:48.227" Score="7" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory, all questions on the &lt;strong&gt;unix&lt;/strong&gt;-stackexchange could be tagged &lt;strong&gt;linux&lt;/strong&gt;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it then a bit redundant to have a &lt;strong&gt;linux&lt;/strong&gt; tag? &lt;em&gt;OR&lt;/em&gt; is it there to discriminate between linux or unix specific questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T00:16:42.007" Title="Why is there a linux tag?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="109" CreationDate="2010-09-06T22:35:12.237" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is good to have the &lt;strong&gt;linux&lt;/strong&gt; tag for posts that are linux-specific.  That is, the linux tag should be used when the answer applies to linux but not other unices such as Solaris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T22:35:12.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="109" CreationDate="2010-09-07T00:16:42.007" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does make sense for the reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109/why-is-there-a-linux-tag/110#110&quot;&gt;Steven said&lt;/a&gt; -- to mark questions that are Linux-specific. Unfortunately, I think it's likely to get put on lots of questions that aren't actually Linux-specific, just like distro tags will get put on questions that aren't distro-specific. There are even 18 questions right now &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux+unix&quot;&gt;tagged with both [linux] and [unix]&lt;/a&gt;, which is fairly ridiculous, but I think we'll just have to handle those cases manually (xeno has been pretty active at removing tags that shouldn't be on questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T00:16:42.007" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-07T02:44:57.090" Score="3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am getting a captcha each time I edit or do anything here - it is pretty annoying. Is the captcha set up differently here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Kinopiko" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T05:42:58.027" Title="Captcha seems to pop up at every edit" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="112" CreationDate="2010-09-07T03:42:08.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you on a mobile device? There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63556/get-captcha-every-time-when-im-on-mobile&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; about this happening on mobile devices; supposedly a fix was pushed out yesterday but we're a couple of point releases behind, so we might not have it yet, or the fix might be bad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T03:42:08.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="115" CreationDate="2010-09-07T06:44:32.133" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking to customize my DE, and I would like to ask the community for screenshots + config file examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a question like that be on or off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-09-07T15:00:37.773" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T05:38:38.283" Title="Are &quot;show off your DE&quot; questions off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2010-09-08T05:38:38.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Umm... I'm debating that I might close this not as 'off topic', as it is &lt;em&gt;unix&lt;/em&gt;,  but as 'not a real question'. Can you show me any examples from any other SE sites ( SO, SF preferred ) where this kind of question wasn't closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T05:38:38.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="112" CreationDate="2010-09-08T05:42:58.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to happen to me when I do edits in quick succession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T05:42:58.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="103" CreationDate="2010-09-08T06:02:13.457" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97/offtopic-a-stance-programming-servers-cross-platform-applications&quot;&gt;It's a unix&lt;/a&gt; so why not? but as Michael says there may be better places to ask depending on your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T06:02:13.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-08T22:02:15.040" Score="4" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top 7&lt;/a&gt;, we need to select a CAPTCHA image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please submit your proposals as answers to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastEditorUserId="32138" LastEditDate="2014-02-10T14:47:44.517" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T14:47:44.517" Title="Captcha Image Nominations" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2010-09-08T22:03:51.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I originally posted this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Ubuntu S.E.&lt;/a&gt;, but it seemed like it was too 'geeky' for them because Ubuntu targets people just getting started with Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a little something I started with the model I got &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.katorlegaz.com/3d_models/miscellaneous/0167/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I used Blender on Linux to create this, so it fits quite well :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/tux-sign.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we can put a funny phrase on the sign like &quot;Penguins Only&quot; or something... ideas are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T22:03:51.200" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-08T22:09:09.610" Score="8" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;Top 7&lt;/a&gt;, we need to select a 404 image -  an image that will be displayed when users try to bring up a page that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/404&quot;&gt;does not exist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please quote the source so the team can negotiate rights if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T01:59:34.600" Title="404 Image Nominations" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="120" CreationDate="2010-09-08T22:12:30.477" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We couldn't find the page you were looking for...&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like Tux tried the &lt;kbd&gt;rm -rf /&lt;/kbd&gt; command again. We really need to take that computer away from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6Njs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tux gets carried away.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;linux.org.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T22:12:30.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-09T01:28:59.590" Score="3" ViewCount="1354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dunno what we should use this for or if it should be &lt;em&gt;remixed&lt;/em&gt;. But I found this and I think it'd be good for us. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfBgZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;from left: BSD Daemon Beastie, Java&amp;#39;s Duke, OpenBSD&amp;#39;s Puffy, Darwin&amp;#39;s Hexley, Linux&amp;#39;s Tux, GNU&amp;#39;s Gnu&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the second one from the left is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question is:&lt;/strong&gt; what should we use it for? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For ease of reference, the depicted mascots are: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beastie&lt;/a&gt; (BSD), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_(mascot)#Mascot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Duke&lt;/a&gt; (Java), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexley#Mascot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hexley&lt;/a&gt; (Darwin), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Puffy&lt;/a&gt; (OpenBSD), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tux&lt;/a&gt; (Linux), and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU#GNU_logo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gnu&lt;/a&gt; (GNU)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2010-09-09T05:13:13.630" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T21:45:26.270" Title="image we should use for something..." Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="122" CreationDate="2010-09-09T07:02:22.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone wanted to create a similar graphic here are some sources for the images &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Golden Gnu meditating&lt;/a&gt; (also the Golden Gnu &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/graphics/listen.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;listening to a CD&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tux the Linux Penguin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beastie the BSD Daemon&lt;/a&gt; (also this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaldaemon.com/Image/Large/standing_daemon.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reasonably good version&lt;/a&gt; of Beastie)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hexley.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hexley the Darwin Platypus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://openbsd.org/art4.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Puffy the OpenBSD Fish&lt;/a&gt; (the version above is &quot;Cartoon Puffy&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another similar sort of character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.novell.com/company/logo/img/viral_samurai.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SUSE Samurai&lt;/a&gt; (other versions available on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.novell.com/company/logo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Novell Logo page&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1299" LastEditorUserId="1299" LastEditDate="2010-10-11T21:10:48.337" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T21:10:48.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-12T11:20:16.660" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/553/easy-incremental-backups-to-an-external-hard-drive&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1891/straightforward-system-and-file-backup-restore-for-linux&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question on backups. I felt what the users were asking for was different enough (e.g. time machine clone vs external hard drives) to not initially merge them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, givent he overlap of answers I'm debating on merging them, and making it community wiki, or I could just leave them alone and ask a 3rd question and make that CW. I think that if &lt;em&gt;&quot;how do I do backups&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is going tot be a frequently asked question, then we should have a CW for it. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T20:45:46.410" Title="merge? or create a 3rd CW backup thread?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|merging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="133" CreationDate="2010-09-12T11:39:34.767" Score="5" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I use Linux Mint, and I have a question that is not specific to mint, but is specific to Debian. should I tag it &lt;code&gt;linux-mint&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ubuntu&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;debian&lt;/code&gt;? or maybe &lt;code&gt;debian-base&lt;/code&gt;? I'm thinking maybe we should have a tag for noting that it comes from a &lt;em&gt;base&lt;/em&gt; distro or upstream distro even though we may not be using that distro. Any thoughts on the matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Gldt1009.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this diagram&lt;/a&gt; allows us to determine base distro's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is, for the most part any Sabayon user asking a &lt;code&gt;portage&lt;/code&gt; question would also apply to Gentoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T16:17:30.633" Title="distro-base tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="128" CreationDate="2010-09-12T11:43:46.803" Score="6" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we create separate tags if a tag is ambiguous? I'm thinking of the &lt;code&gt;file&lt;/code&gt; tag for starters... I think I've seen it mean file the data structure, and &lt;code&gt;file&lt;/code&gt; the command. Are these even different enough? Should there be a separate tag? (I was thinking &lt;code&gt;file-command&lt;/code&gt; ) thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;update&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;There is one other option... we could delete all instances that refer to the &quot;data structure&quot; I just don't see that as being important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T17:46:19.593" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T08:03:06.670" Title="Ambiguous tags - file" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2010-09-12T11:50:20.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of us?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GAGb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="1327" LastEditDate="2010-09-13T19:50:10.973" LastActivityDate="2010-09-13T19:50:10.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="126" CreationDate="2010-09-12T11:58:27.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't have amibiguous tags; that just seems wrong. I'm for &lt;code&gt;file-command&lt;/code&gt; as an extra tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's going to be more work for you guys (moderators)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;comments on update:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how that is an alternative? There is still going to be questions that will need to be retagged &lt;code&gt;file&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;file-command&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should just create the &lt;code&gt;file-command&lt;/code&gt; tag, retag the obvious questions and let social nature take its course... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0811/ambiguity-demotivational-poster-1226774386.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T08:03:06.670" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T08:03:06.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="129" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-12T12:58:42.920" Score="-1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether to tag this as a bug or support, but my pc seems to lag excessively when I try to comment on questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I type it takes ages for my text to appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted that I am using a stone age computer, but this hasn't been a problem before. I'm also not picking this up on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My pc specs are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browser:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100908 Firefox/3.6.9&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;System:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Openbox on Archlinux (up-to-date)&#xA;1.25 GB RAM&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CPU:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ cat /proc/cpuinfo&#xA;vendor_id       : GenuineIntel&#xA;model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz&#xA;stepping        : 4&#xA;cpu MHz         : 1800.308&#xA;cache size      : 512 KB&#xA;bogomips        : 3602.64&#xA;clflush size    : 64&#xA;cache_alignment : 128&#xA;address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GPU:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; $ lspci | grep VGA&#xA; 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000] (rev c1)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="331" LastEditDate="2011-06-26T10:59:57.440" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T10:59:57.440" Title="Comments are really slow?" Tags="|support|status-completed|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="126" CreationDate="2010-09-12T16:03:08.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should, and &lt;code&gt;[file-command]&lt;/code&gt; is probably good since people who type &lt;code&gt;[file]&lt;/code&gt; should see it in the suggestion box and choose it, which limits the amount of work retaggers have to do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T16:03:08.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2010-09-12T16:08:50.497" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see merging &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1891/straightforward-system-and-file-backup-restore-for-linux&quot;&gt;1891&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/553/easy-incremental-backups-to-an-external-hard-drive&quot;&gt;553&lt;/a&gt;. I'm less convinced about forcing it CW; there's a different between questions that have many right answers and questions that are completely subjective and have no wrong answers; see the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55888&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T16:08:50.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="120" CreationDate="2010-09-12T16:12:25.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Xeno &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/122/image-we-should-use-for-something&quot;&gt;found an image&lt;/a&gt; that I think could be a decent 404 picture, although we probably need to add text somewhere:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfBgZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Proposed 404 image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've got a couple other versions &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3qqOn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uVOQS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T16:12:25.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2010-09-12T16:17:30.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a difference between a Sabayon user asking a Portage question and a Gentoo user asking a Portage question? If not I would just tag it &lt;code&gt;[portage] [gentoo]&lt;/code&gt;. There doesn't seem to need to be a separate &lt;code&gt;[gentoo-base]&lt;/code&gt; if the answers are going to be the same, it just fragments the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; important that the community retag questions that are tagged incorrectly, like &lt;code&gt;[sabayon] [portage]&lt;/code&gt; if the question has nothing to do with &lt;code&gt;[sabayon]&lt;/code&gt; specifically (I can see leaving &lt;code&gt;[sabayon]&lt;/code&gt;, but it should almost certainly have &lt;code&gt;[gentoo]&lt;/code&gt; as well), which is why the rep limit for retagging is so massively low&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T16:17:30.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2010-09-12T20:55:18.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Sorry but bots aren't on the guest list&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uVOQS.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Unix Gang&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T20:55:18.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2010-09-13T23:08:53.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated my Gentoo Forums profile signature to include a link to &lt;em&gt;Unix SE&lt;/em&gt;. I stopped using it a while ago, but my name probably still comes up in a lot of threads, considering I had veteran status there. I also added a link to my blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-09-13T23:08:53.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="137" CreationDate="2010-09-14T15:16:06.177" Score="8" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for users with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;3000 reputation&lt;/a&gt; to vote to migrate a question to another SE site? If not, is it possible for ♦ moderators to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T14:40:46.597" Title="Migrating to other SE sites?" Tags="|support|migration|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="136" CreationDate="2010-09-14T15:16:24.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For 3k users: &lt;strong&gt;Partially&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are only allowed to vote to migrate to sites that have shown a need for it. In our case, the only site users can vote to migrate to (besides our own meta) is Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mrozekma.com/so-unix-migration-dialog.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of our close dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We haven't migrated enough posts anywhere else to warrant adding migration paths for them, but that can always be reconsidered in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For ♦ mods: &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the rare occasion where you do see an off-topic post that belongs on another site, vote to close as off-topic and &lt;strong&gt;flag for mod attention&lt;/strong&gt;. Mods can migrate the post to any SE site (including betas). If we start to see a pattern of migrating to the same site frequently, we'll try to get a migration path there so 3k users can handle it directly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T14:40:46.597" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T14:40:46.597" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-09-16T10:36:40.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kernelstall.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is &lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1794" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T10:36:40.050" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-16T10:36:40.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="120" CreationDate="2010-09-16T16:15:11.477" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;we could create a black image showing the error message in kernelpanic-flavor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;like &lt;a href=&quot;http://orionida.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/kernel-panic.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://orionida.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/kernel-panic.jpg&lt;/a&gt; but with some other data and errors (404 should be shown somewhere)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1794" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T16:15:11.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-17T05:19:27.410" Score="9" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself asking more and more questions that might overlap with SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where should I ask &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; questions that focus more on the bash language than they do on unix? Here or on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-09-17T14:14:06.590" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T19:28:07.437" Title="Is it ok to ask bash language questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2010-09-17T14:59:39.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's anything you would type into a terminal it definitely belongs here. Questions about entire shell scripts are fuzzy; they are technically programming and I would personally ask them on SO, but I'm not sure we need to close them if people choose to ask them here. When we're out of beta we can talk about potentially migrating them to SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-09-17T14:59:39.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2010-09-17T14:59:58.297" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; is not a programmer language like &lt;code&gt;C&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Java&lt;/code&gt;. It is more an administrator language and more administrators are the experts of &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you can write complex applications with &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, but most of the time, you use it to manage the execution and behavior of other programs. You are also not calling functions with &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, you are executing programs/builtins which you are calling the same way while browsing your shell ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many answers of questions posted here will be a &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; script. If we move all &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; questions to SO and every second answer is a bash script, everybody will confuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion: Allow &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; questions, but cut off other scripting languages&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1794" LastEditorUserId="1794" LastEditDate="2010-09-17T20:56:46.150" LastActivityDate="2010-09-17T20:56:46.150" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2010-09-18T19:28:07.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97/offtopic-a-stance-programming-servers-cross-platform-applications&quot;&gt;I think it's Unix&lt;/a&gt;. In certain cases you might get better/faster answers on StackOverflow but no reason you can't ask here, the shell is one of the most important features of Unix systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T19:28:07.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="402" CreationDate="2010-09-19T13:18:05.680" Score="7" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should we deal with questions that are posted simultaneously at Unix.SE and another Stack Exchange site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found some discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, but no official policy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/65931/cross-posting-on-stackexchange-sites&quot;&gt;Cross-posting on StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt; has answers recommending to multi-post only if the question hasn't had good answers on the first site, and to create links between questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11600/allow-cross-posting-between-serverfault-com-and-superuser-com&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32234/is-it-ok-to-ask-something-on-so-which-has-been-already-asked-unsuccessfully-on-su&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; each had one answer discouraging multiposting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is especially a concern here since most questions would also be on-topic at one or more of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Ubuntu.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently echoed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11600/allow-cross-posting-between-serverfault-com-and-superuser-com/11633#11633&quot;&gt;Robert Cartaino's answer&lt;/a&gt; in a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1677&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but it's nothing like an official policy or at least an FAQ entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T04:26:11.830" Title="Policy on multiposting" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|proposed-faq|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="146" CreationDate="2010-09-19T18:17:44.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment we don't deal with it at all. We can't migrate then merge... or anything like that. Basically our hands are tied. Plus I've no interest in watching for cross posting. Actually I've been encouraging cross posting due to lack of migration capabilities in a way. Since I tell people &quot;you'd be better off asking on X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future &quot;Migrate and Merge&quot; might be the most appropriate solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T18:17:44.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="149" CreationDate="2010-09-22T20:04:43.573" Score="4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm just too blind to find the relevant button, but I just am not able to comment on a question, while I can perfectly well answer questions. Do I need more reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1941" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-09-22T20:19:38.827" LastActivityDate="2010-09-22T20:33:14.680" Title="How to comment on a question" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="148" CreationDate="2010-09-22T20:17:30.523" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you need 50 reputation. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;What is reputation?&lt;/a&gt; section in the faq, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/how-does-the-comment-system-and-comments-work/19757#19757&quot;&gt;How does the comment system and comments work?&lt;/a&gt; entry on the main meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always comment on your own questions and answers, however, so you should see the link on this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mrozekma.com/so-unix-add-comment.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the add comment link http://mrozekma.com/so-unix-add-comment.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can comment on any answers to your questions, so you should see it just below this answer as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;|&#xA;|&#xA;v&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2010-09-22T20:33:14.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="150" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="151" CreationDate="2010-09-25T15:16:29.040" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a question, just an appreciation: I absolutely &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; the graphic design of the unix.stackexchange.com site. Love it. Spot-on for what the site's about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1982" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T15:42:10.550" Title="Love the design" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-25T15:16:29.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="150" CreationDate="2010-09-25T15:42:10.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually the standard SE beta design; we don't have a site-specific design yet. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#sketchy&quot;&gt;Why does this site look so &quot;sketchy&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in the FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T15:42:10.550" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-25T15:42:10.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-09-29T18:01:48.590" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;allaboutunix.com&lt;/strong&gt; which is free&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1941" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T18:01:48.590" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-29T18:01:48.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-29T18:49:33.317" Score="7" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101/how-should-we-promote-the-site&quot;&gt;How should we promote the site?&lt;/a&gt; a couple weeks ago I included some charts comparing all the different SE betas. There was a request for updated information, so I figured I would just post it separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chds=0,7000,0,7000&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,7000|1,0,95&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930,22411B&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site&amp;amp;chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|rpg|bike|prg|droid&amp;amp;chdl=Unanswered|Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chd=t:214,86,33,2,13,11,36,100,21,45,13,56,16,12,2,35,74,41,93,5,5,12,120|1808,2291,773,1638,776,736,690,1355,518,512,954,1216,1001,791,278,573,612,399,698,511,254,807,402|2722,2862,1602,4055,2387,1983,1518,2261,844,1027,1476,2092,1536,1676,1074,1137,802,737,971,1893,685,5673,522&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SE Posts by Site http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chds=0,7000,0,7000&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,7000|1,0,95&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930,22411B&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site&amp;amp;chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|rpg|bike|prg|droid&amp;amp;chdl=Unanswered|Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chd=t:214,86,33,2,13,11,36,100,21,45,13,56,16,12,2,35,74,41,93,5,5,12,120|1808,2291,773,1638,776,736,690,1355,518,512,954,1216,1001,791,278,573,612,399,698,511,254,807,402|2722,2862,1602,4055,2387,1983,1518,2261,844,1027,1476,2092,1536,1676,1074,1137,802,737,971,1893,685,5673,522&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chds=0,300,0,300&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,300|1,0,95&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930,22411B&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site+%28normalized%29&amp;amp;chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|rpg|bike|prg|droid&amp;amp;chdl=Unanswered|Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chd=t:2,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,2,0,0,0,9|19,28,10,20,10,10,10,20,8,8,15,21,19,15,5,12,13,9,17,13,8,32,31|28,35,20,52,32,27,22,33,12,16,24,35,29,32,23,25,18,18,25,50,21,227,40&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SE Posts by Site (normalized) http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chds=0,300,0,300&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,300|1,0,95&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930,22411B&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site+%28normalized%29&amp;amp;chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|rpg|bike|prg|droid&amp;amp;chdl=Unanswered|Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chd=t:2,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,2,0,0,0,9|19,28,10,20,10,10,10,20,8,8,15,21,19,15,5,12,13,9,17,13,8,32,31|28,35,20,52,32,27,22,33,12,16,24,35,29,32,23,25,18,18,25,50,21,227,40&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programmers SE&lt;/a&gt; rather destroys the curve with their 7 answers/question average, so here's the normalized chart without them (I left them out of the remaining normalized charts for the same reason):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chds=0,90,0,90&amp;amp;chxs=1,676767,8,0,l,676767&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,90|1,0,95&amp;amp;chco=A2C180,3D7930,22411B&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chtt=SE+Posts+by+Site+%28normalized%29&amp;amp;chxl=1:|web|game|pro|food|dev|photo|stat|math|home|geo|tex|ubu|money|eng|ui|unix|word|cs|apple|rpg|bike|droid&amp;amp;chdl=Unanswered|Questions|Answers&amp;amp;chd=t:2,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,2,0,0,9|19,28,10,20,10,10,10,20,8,8,15,21,19,15,5,12,13,9,17,13,8,31|28,35,20,52,32,27,22,33,12,16,24,35,29,32,23,25,18,18,25,50,21,40&amp;amp;chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&quot; 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  <row Id="155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-09-29T20:07:09.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;coredump.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;seems parked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T20:07:09.167" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-29T20:07:09.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2010-09-30T14:39:47.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Unix land, usenet is still pretty strong as well as its use is declining. However I fear directly promoting the site in appropriate newsgroups would be considered rude there. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1941" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T14:39:47.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-09-30T15:52:43.857" Score="-6" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts is that posts should either expire or go into an archive site after some period of time, because the structure of Unix changes over a period of time by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the person starting the thread should be able to specify when the thread expires or if it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this will be the case because most questions will become stale after a period of time ( for example from SO &quot;What's the best mouse for programming&quot; changes over time bvecause available mice change. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T20:07:35.523" Title="Should posts expire?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="157" CreationDate="2010-10-01T01:39:56.740" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, your example question (“What’s the best mouse for programming?”) seems particularly bad since it is quite subjective and thus already &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#ask&quot;&gt;discouraged here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/faq#ask&quot;&gt;on SO&lt;/a&gt; and on many other SE sites (with exceptions like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;programmers SE&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I am having trouble understanding exactly what you mean by “the structure of Unix changes over a period of time by default”. Of course individual Unix systems and their individual components (programs, tools, languages) evolve and change. Usually things do not change so much that “old” answers are completely inapplicable; there may be new options or tools but usually old solutions are still usable (though they may require small modifications).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any specific examples of “stale” questions/answers that are not already explicitly discouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the difference between expired/archived questions and normal questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would this new state just be another version of “closed”?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are you suggesting (an optional) mechanism for de-emphasizing old questions in search results?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I am not sure I think such a mechanism is necessary. I have occasionally run into “stale” answers on SO; usually I add a comment or a new answer if there is a better way to accomplish what the asker needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the situation is different for someone that is more focused on finding answers instead of giving them. An alternative might the ability to bump a question that has no “fresh” answers so that it might get some new attention; the system already does this for questions without an accepted answer, this alternative could be a way for users to manually bump questions that do not have “fresh” answers even if there is a (presumably old and stale) accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1107" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T01:39:56.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-10-01T19:54:07.560" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dashdashhelp.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt; (and so is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2212/why-do-unix-heads-say-minus&quot;&gt;minusminushelp.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dashh.com&lt;/strong&gt; is taken, but the owners don't seem to do much with it so it might be grabbable. Ditto for minush.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T19:54:07.560" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-01T19:54:07.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="157" CreationDate="2010-10-01T20:07:35.523" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am very strongly against posts expiring. I would not participate on this site if they did. As far as I'm concerned, the feature that most differentiates SE from other webforums is that answers aren't just for the original asker, they're also for anyone else who has a similar question in the future. (Thus tagging, searchability, one question per thread, editable posts, answers can be added to old threads, ...) If you want newsgroups, you know where to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, there's very little information that goes stale. Just because there's a new version of a program doesn't mean answers about old versions aren't relevant. Those few questions that are localized in time, such as shopping recommendations, are in fact actively discouraged on SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T20:07:35.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-10-03T00:36:43.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1299" LastActivityDate="2010-10-03T00:36:43.860" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-03T00:36:43.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-10-03T08:59:26.363" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;v6andup.com&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;not registered&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1107" LastActivityDate="2010-10-03T08:59:26.363" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-03T08:59:26.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2010-10-05T15:07:28.387" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hashbang.com&lt;/strong&gt; AVAILABLE, &lt;strong&gt;Shebang.com&lt;/strong&gt; used, or &lt;strong&gt;shbang.com&lt;/strong&gt; appears parked but in chinese I don't really know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2049" LastEditorUserId="2049" LastEditDate="2010-10-05T15:14:22.497" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T15:14:22.497" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-05T15:07:28.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-05T14:25:40.540" Score="2" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is an attempt to preempt other questions asking for recommendations of software packages that meet some vague or general requirement X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like (please add more, so this can be found):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a good linux application for X?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think such questions should be asked here for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Such lists are essentially moving targets. Software may be abandoned or replaced by the Next Hot Thing™, but SE-Questions, once answered, stay answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE offers voting but not much more in terms of structured meta info about software projects (Licenses, status, popularity, programming language, OS compatibility, …)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While I find it commendable that SE sites want to be &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; definitive source on subject FOO, there are other, well established sites that do a better job with this particular problem and duplicating that effort poorly would help nobody.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider closing questions that ask for &quot;a good linux application that does X&quot; as duplicates of this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user601" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T23:40:53.980" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T07:51:54.943" Title="Where can I find Software for Unix/Linux that does X?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-05T14:26:18.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="164" CreationDate="2010-10-05T14:30:44.360" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good place to find software, especially for Unix and Linux, is &lt;a href=&quot;http://freshmeat.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;freshmeat&lt;/a&gt;. It is a well established site that lists software projects together with a short description, license information, popularity and vitality stats, information about which programming language is used and much more, searchable by subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user601" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T18:51:57.780" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-05T14:30:44.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="164" CreationDate="2010-10-05T18:54:29.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything in technology changes. Nothing stays the same. I see no point in closing questions about apps that do X. I've re-answered questions where the answer changed on SO before. What's a good Web Browser? Mozilla was once the answer, and it's still valid (though the name changed) now Firefox, and Chrome are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T18:54:29.130" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-05T18:54:29.130" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="164" CreationDate="2010-10-05T19:48:56.573" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with your position: I think questions of the form “where can I find software that does X” are as legitimate as any, &lt;strong&gt;provided that X is a specific task&lt;/strong&gt; (not “software related to Y” or “software like Z”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Such lists are essentially moving targets. Software may be abandoned or replaced by the Next Hot Thing™, but SE-Questions, once answered, stay answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This applies equally to your generic question. In the 1990s, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Archie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sunsite&lt;/a&gt; would have featured prominently, yet today they are irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SE offers voting but not much more in terms of structured meta info about software projects (Licenses, status, popularity, programming language, OS compatibility, …)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But SE is a questions and answer site, which helps when you don't know the usual name for the program you're looking for but can describe it in sentences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While I find it commendable that SE sites want to be the definitive source on subject FOO, there are other, well established sites that do a better job with this particular problem and duplicating that effort poorly would help nobody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.freebsd.org/&lt;/a&gt; is surely the best source of information on FreeBSD, so let's ban FreeBSD questions on Stack Exchange. No?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T23:53:14.850" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T23:53:14.850" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-05T19:48:56.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="169" CreationDate="2010-10-05T20:01:38.390" Score="6" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently a number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot;&gt;questions tagged &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I think this tag is meaningless since every question could have it. (Then again, so could the &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/computer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;computer&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt; on SU!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could ban the &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; tag (I think the SE software permits this), or give it a useful meaning (such as questions requesting portability accross variants). I lean towards the former because of the potential for confusion. Then what is a good tag for questions expecting a portable answer? &lt;code&gt;portable&lt;/code&gt; (ambiguous)? &lt;code&gt;variant-agnostic&lt;/code&gt; (hard to guess)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've retagged a few &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; questions — mostly the ones where there was or should have been a variant tag as well (&lt;code&gt;solaris&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt;). I think some of the remaining &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; tags are superfluous (the ones about unix history make sense) but won't go further there's a consensus (which there clearly isn't now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distribution-choice&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;distribution-choice&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the process (there are probably more questions where it would apply) — it seemed appropriate, but feel free to argue. I've also created &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/architecture&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;architecture&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; maybe &lt;code&gt;design&lt;/code&gt; would be better, or something else? Ditto for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bibliography&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;bibliography&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't come up with good tags for a few questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2361/quantify-unix-responsiveness&quot;&gt;Quantify unix responsiveness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2007/users-login-date-and-login-time&quot;&gt;User&amp;#39;s Login date and login time&lt;/a&gt; (something about user accounting?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1394/x-based-email-for-reading-mail-from-cron-jobs&quot;&gt;X-based email for reading mail from cron jobs&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;mail-user-agent&lt;/code&gt; = &lt;code&gt;mua&lt;/code&gt;, but askers might not know the term)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/561/the-linux-tag-is-not-allowed/565#565&quot;&gt;The &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; tag is now banned.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-11-19T01:23:40.160" Title="Tags for variant-agnostic questions" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2010-10-05T23:27:31.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109/why-is-there-a-linux-tag&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; we discussed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/linux&quot;&gt;[linux]&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/unix&quot;&gt;[unix]&lt;/a&gt; tags being used to mark things that are specific to those OSes; [linux] posts &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; apply to linux, and [unix] posts &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; apply to unix. In practice that hasn't been happening; we even had a bunch of posts tagged with both, which makes little sense, but xeno went through and retagged them all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to blacklist tags as a last resort, but I'm still hoping enough of the community will handle retagging that it won't be an issue. It might be worth adding something in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/linux/info&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/info&quot;&gt;wikis&lt;/a&gt; for those tags, but I don't think it would help much&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should overload those tags to mean portability though; if a question is distro-specific I would expect it to be tagged with that distro's tag &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; with [linux]. Ideally I think tagging with the distro tag would automatically tag with [linux], since I can't see a way the former would be useful but not the latter, but there's currently no way to have automated tag dependencies (although it's been discussed in the past). I think your first example, [portable], might be a decent tag to represent portability&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T23:27:31.793" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="164" CreationDate="2010-10-06T03:34:33.807" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Such questions are pretty practical and there must be a place where one can ask real people for recommendations. And a Q/A site for Unix/Linux users like this seems pretty reasonable place for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastActivityDate="2010-10-06T03:34:33.807" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-06T03:34:33.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2010-10-06T09:37:25.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to The Micheal's Answer,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of banning the &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; tag, as it can still serve some purpose, can't we introduce a feature where the &lt;strong&gt;poster&lt;/strong&gt; would be prevented from specifying &lt;strong&gt;both tags&lt;/strong&gt; at the same time? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="1327" LastEditDate="2010-10-07T06:20:46.367" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T06:20:46.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-06T09:49:38.343" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you guys have granted me enough rep to edit. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt; before I dig into people's questions/answers, what &lt;strong&gt;conventions/rules/guidelines&lt;/strong&gt; should be followed when editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-10-07T04:46:29.593" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T05:45:26.377" Title="editing guidelines for Unix SE" Tags="|discussion|editing|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2010-10-06T17:18:44.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up to this point I have only considered doing the following, all of which I feel are within the etiquette of this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Poor Formatting (ie, properly formatting code)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to commands that are either obviously wrong or corrected in the comments. (for example, &lt;code&gt;find -type -f&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;find -type f&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding/fixing links (especially since new users have a limit on the links they can post).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the following &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be appropriate, but would like to see what others think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixing the grammar of posts written by users who are not very fluent in English. I don't mean fixing every grammar/spelling mistake (I have certainly made many), but simply making questions readable if they are good questions simply written by someone who doesn't speak English well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Putting Warnings on code that could be especially harmful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding a small amount of information to an otherwise excellent post.  Often someone has 90% of the answer and I only see the need to point one small thing out.  I often post this as a comment, but sometimes it would be nice to have it as part of the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2010-10-06T17:18:44.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-06T18:51:24.363" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are questions, where there doesn't seem to exist a sensible answer. E.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2737/is-linux-built-to-be-used-only-from-terminal-is-there-any-better-scheduling-pack&quot;&gt;Fedora GUI package installer takes very long (&amp;gt;15min) to start&lt;/a&gt; where the question is how to use improved scheduling in order to solve a problem which isn't related to scheduling at all. Here I personally think this question should be closed with reason &quot;this question doesn't make any sense&quot; but this reason is not offered on the &quot;vote for close&quot;-dialog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think how to handle such questions in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T20:12:50.910" Title="How to handle questions which can not be answered?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="174" CreationDate="2010-10-06T20:37:33.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &quot;not a real question&quot; option on the &quot;vote for close&quot; dialog. To me that pretty much covers a senseless question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2010-10-06T20:37:33.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2010-10-07T03:52:05.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously we can come up with our own policies, but this has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=editing+%5betiquette%5d&quot;&gt;discussed on the main meta&lt;/a&gt; quite a bit, so that's probably a good place to start; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11474/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts&quot;&gt;What is the etiquette for modifying posts?&lt;/a&gt; is particularly helpful. There's also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/&quot;&gt;blog entry&lt;/a&gt; on it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T03:59:46.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="178" CreationDate="2010-10-07T11:40:42.153" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are often postings by new users in the style of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hey, my $foo dosen't work. I tried to fix it, but it's still broken.&#xA;  Any ideas how to fix it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would often be really helpful to have some log output. Sometimes the user is not experienced enough to find the correct files, messages, but what every user can include are the steps he tried before posting to solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense, and would it be possible, to display a short reminder before the first posting is done, to include such information? It shouldn't be really big or annoying, just 2-3 lines like &quot;Did you include $foo?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know its already written in the FAQ but we know how often new users read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T14:39:02.327" Title="Show a short &quot;reminder&quot; before first posting" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="177" CreationDate="2010-10-07T14:17:25.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/asking-better-questions/&quot;&gt;three days ago&lt;/a&gt; there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;how to ask&quot;&lt;/a&gt; page that's (supposed to be) displayed to users with &amp;lt;= 10 reputation, with question-asking tips on it. One of the sections is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Be specific&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you ask a vague question, you'll get a vague answer. But if you give us details and context, we can provide a &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page works on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, but for some reason I can't get it to show up here; I assume it's disabled during the beta, but I'm not sure. Once it is enabled we can probably add things to it, I'll look into it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I should read that blog post more carefully:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For now, these measures are (mostly) only enabled on Stack Overflow, as it’s the only site large enough to have these big city problems at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked some people about ways to deal with missing information, and for a smaller site like ours it's probably best to just leave a comment about it. If it's a recurring problem we can come back to it, but (I think) it's not a big issue yet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T14:39:02.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-08T08:40:49.417" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this not a forum. And you can tell me to mind my own bussiness on this one. But I really like the ability to know who else is active at the moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps me decide if I should stick around for an answer, or if I should come back later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you guys think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T09:26:28.270" Title="I'd like to know who is online right now" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="179" CreationDate="2010-10-08T09:26:28.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm online! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a quite old &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2770/recently-active-users-list&quot;&gt;feature request on the main meta&lt;/a&gt; about it, but you can post again there if you have a new argument to make about why it should be implemented. I generally think you should just post a question when you have it; I don't think you really need to target certain times to maximize exposure. During &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;'s peak usage times questions can be off the front page in 10 minutes, but here they can last for days. If we're lucky one day we'll have the same problem, but you probably don't need to worry about it now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T09:26:28.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-08T09:58:46.527" Score="9" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not pushing for chat rooms, just inquisitive why Ubuntu SE gets to chat and we don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a way, this will solve my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/179/id-like-to-know-who-is-online-right-now&quot;&gt;previous question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T21:00:32.960" Title="So why don't we get chat rooms?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="181" CreationDate="2010-10-08T14:20:24.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(For the unaware, there is a &quot;main&quot; chat at &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;, although you need at least 20 reputation on the main meta to talk there.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will get our own chat eventually, but the individual site chats are being rolled out in order of most active sites on the main chat, so as we have (as far as I know) no presence there at all, we're probably around the bottom of the list. If enough people are waiting for chat here I can look into getting us bumped up the list, but that's why Ubuntu got theirs before us: they use the main meta chat regularly. I haven't worried about it since the site-specific chats that do exist have been ghost towns so far&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;s&gt;I made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/info/283/unix-and-linux?tab=general&quot;&gt;room on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;, so people can join that, but again being able to talk is unfortunately dependent on meta.SO reputation, not unix.SE. If you have at least 200 reputation here then associating an account there will get you 100, which is more than enough&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: The centralized Stack Exchange chat is live now, so we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.unix.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;a room there&lt;/a&gt;. It's tied to your Unix profile (or whichever SE profile you want, you get to choose). I believe that will be our permanent place, the concept of per-site chats was abandoned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-10-28T15:48:13.323" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T15:48:13.323" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-09T00:44:41.183" Score="9" ViewCount="392" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We closed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2/what-should-our-domain-name-be&quot;&gt;domain naming thread (click for details)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, &lt;strong&gt;let's start with a killer &amp;quot;elevator pitch!&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Joel will be blogging about the elevator pitch approach to naming, but to get you started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Elevator Pitch&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't as easy as it sounds. Imagine the user who will never read your FAQ and you have two seconds to grab their attention. It should be catchy but descriptive. It should be thoroughly clear but painfully concise. &lt;strong&gt;Make every... word... count.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some creative examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gawker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gawker&lt;/a&gt;: Daily Manhattan media news and gossip. Reporting live from the center of the universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;: The gadget guide. So much in love with shiny new toys, it’s unnatural.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.autoblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Autoblog&lt;/a&gt;: We obsessively cover the auto industry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dumblittleman.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DumbLittleMan&lt;/a&gt;: So what do we do here? Well, it’s simple. 15 to 20 times per week we provide tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.needcoffee.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Needcoffee.com&lt;/a&gt;: We are the Internet equivalent of a triple espresso with whipped cream. Mmmm…whipped cream.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Use it as a Tagline&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A shorter elevator pitch &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be used as a tagline — something you can display in the header at the top of the page. If it doesn't fit, consider shortening it or creating a separate tagline. Here are some great examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt;: News for nerds. Stuff that matters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lifehacker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/a&gt;: Don’t live to geek, geek to live!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesimpledollar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Simple Dollar&lt;/a&gt;: Financial talk for the rest of us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Motto (don't forget your logo)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A logo begs for it own little, short tagline — like a motto. Maybe the tagline inspires the logo; Maybe it's the other way around. Mottos make good t-shirt, bumper stickers, and other marketing material. Either way, you'll recognize a good motto when you see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just do it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Think Different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Uncola.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intel inside.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Like a rock.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The king of beers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…and perhaps all this leads to a proper name and domain for your site… &lt;em&gt;eventually&lt;/em&gt;. So let's start from the basics. &lt;strong&gt;Come up with a killer elevator pitch, tagline, and/or motto!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T23:46:36.970" Title="Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-10-10T08:14:19.310" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;unix.stackexchange.com The least social-behaviourly challenged experts on Unix you'll find in the net. No matter if your home is the terminal or the GUI, here you'll find the answers you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1941" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T08:14:19.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="174" CreationDate="2010-10-10T08:43:49.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question simply doesn't make sense, “not a real question” applies, with two caveats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes the question doesn't make sense to you because you lack the necessary background; then leave it for other people to decide. (Not the case here, and unlikely to happen on a focused site like unix.se, but I've seen it happen occasionally on SO, where a question makes perfect sense to a community but no sense to another.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes the question is unclear because it lacks a crucial piece of information, or because the quality of the English is extremely bad. Then you should leave a comment asking for improvements (try to be specific: say what is missing, what words or sentences you don't understand, etc.). If the asker doesn't clarify, you can vote to close; the question can be reopened, or the asker can ask another question (perhaps better, so that the improved question doesn't start off with negative votes). In fact, it's perhaps better to close the question if it's already gotten several negative votes. In any case, &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt; when voting to close (or vote someone's comment up) (except for obvious cases like spam or egregiously off-topic questions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the specific question you cite, I agree with the initial closing — although the initial version of the question suggested that the asker had a genuine problem, it was so badly asked as to be useless. Nonetheless, this is a good example of a case where the asker came back and edited the question to make sense (it would be a perfectly good question now except for the unnecessary assumptions and lead-off disparaging comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T08:43:49.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="174" CreationDate="2010-10-10T20:12:50.910" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people have a problem they don't really understand and thus word it poorly. In the case of schedulers... they have a problem... have read a little about schedulers and think that must be the solution. Help them understand the problem, the confusion, and help them find a solution to the real problem if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T20:12:50.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-10-11T03:08:01.313" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;unix.stackexchange.com : It's like Unix, but friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T03:08:01.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-11T10:52:12.557" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close a &quot;duplicate&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2973/finding-the-offset-for-ext4-partition&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After posting a answer, and getting a comment from the OP, I realised that it was not a duplicate.... Now I cannot remove my close-vote... is there a way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T14:04:15.053" Title="Can we undo &quot;close&quot; votes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="189" CreationDate="2010-10-11T14:04:15.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there's currently no way to do so. There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;feature request for it&lt;/a&gt;, but it got declined; for now hopefully others will see the OP's comment and not also vote to close, and after two days your vote will disappear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T14:04:15.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2010-10-11T19:54:53.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about tagging variant agnostic questions (meaning: anything that is not specific to Linux or any other UNIX-like OS) with &lt;code&gt;all&lt;/code&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;code&gt;all-unices&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;all-variants&lt;/code&gt; could also be considered, but I personally prefer the shortest form.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="274" LastActivityDate="2010-10-11T19:54:53.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="196" CreationDate="2010-10-12T22:49:35.127" Score="12" ViewCount="1213" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often a question can only be answered with a command that must be run as root.  Depending on your distribution of choice you might be used to doing this with &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;.  However, it is probably undesirable to post the command with &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; attached since someone who is looking for a quick fix might just run the command (which might not be what they need to run) without actually looking at the command and what it does.  Additionally, sudo isn't necessarily used on the user's system.  Should we have a conventional way for denoting when something needs to be run as root?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some possible conventions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Place a &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; before the command, denoting the common character used at the root prompt.  The problem with this is that many who are new to unix might not recognize this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Placeing something like &quot;(as root):&quot; before the command.  The problem with this (and the above option) is that the user may not know how to run something as root.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-11-19T23:52:21.143" LastActivityDate="2010-11-19T23:52:21.143" Title="Should we have a convention for commands requiring root?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-10-13T03:43:50.073" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;KernelPanic: We'll fix your broken pipes, tighten your sockets, and give you a shiny, reliable operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline/239#239&quot;&gt;similar alternative if you like this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T12:55:07.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-10-13T04:46:38.217" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is bad form, but I'll borrow the tagline I proposed over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/405/write-an-elevator-pitch-tagline/407#407&quot;&gt;askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt;, partially because they've gone off down &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/372/our-community-in-one-brief-sentence&quot;&gt;another thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Learn by asking. Learn by example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T04:46:38.217" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="192" CreationDate="2010-10-13T14:49:26.630" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if there really is a need for a convention like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If root privileges are required, in most of the cases you will get an appropriate error message. Its often also clear from the context of the command/question. Even if you stuck sometime with a &lt;em&gt;&quot;command not found&quot;&lt;/em&gt; error because &lt;code&gt;/sbin&lt;/code&gt; isn't in your path, its likely that you won't repeat that fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, it is probably undesirable to&#xA;  post the command with sudo attached&#xA;  since someone who is looking for a&#xA;  quick fix might just run the command&#xA;  (which might not be what they need to&#xA;  run) without actually looking at the&#xA;  command and what it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody should never ever run any commands without having a clue what they are doing, especially if they are prefixed with sudo. If this happens and somebody breaks his system he learned a important lesson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; and root are the essential basic concept of linux/unix and I don't see the point to support someone who didn't do his homework about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we decide we need a convention, I really like the first one (append a # to the shell).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastEditorUserId="1327" LastEditDate="2010-10-13T16:50:09.803" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T16:50:09.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="192" CreationDate="2010-10-13T14:53:01.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should have a convention for this and that we should try to implement both of your suggestions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one being there for purely conventional reasons and for the regulars... &lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, using '#' might not be most suitable because it could also indicate a commented line in a &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; piece of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one for new people, accompanied with a link (run this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.za/#hl=en&amp;amp;biw=1280&amp;amp;bih=824&amp;amp;q=how+do+I+run+a+command+as+root&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=g10&amp;amp;aql=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;gs_rfai=&amp;amp;fp=9b26595c636d5ac0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as root&lt;/a&gt;) to a google search or another question that addresses running stuff as root.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; I created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/how-do-i-run-a-command-as-root&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that you can link to for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T16:01:25.857" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="192" CreationDate="2010-10-13T15:08:05.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm definitely not a fan of including &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;, I think it gets people in the habit of using it without knowing what it is, and it's not part of the command -- if you need to run &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; as root, the command is &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt;; &lt;code&gt;sudo X&lt;/code&gt; is just one way to run it as root. I would prefer using &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; to explicitly saying &lt;code&gt;as root&lt;/code&gt; (I probably should've used &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3033/how-can-i-install-perldoc-on-ubuntu&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;), but you're right that some people might not realize what it means, so I suppose something like this will work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To solve your problem, run the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/how-do-i-run-a-command-as-root&quot;&gt;as root&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# ./do-stuff-as-root&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T15:13:12.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2010-10-13T17:54:36.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Shell Programming questions are perfectly appropriate here. I would actually prefer that this site be the main repository for Shell Scripting questions, because I have trouble navigating the noise at SO. Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/shell&lt;/a&gt; is sometimes filled with distracting questions which are only tangentially shell-related. But I know that SO will dominate the Shell Scripting arena for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line between the Unix OS and Shell Scripting is blurry. Shell scripting is essentially a bunch of Operating System commands which are strung together. Maybe this is in a script or maybe this is a one-liner at your prompt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is different then C programming, where gethostbyname(3) can only be used within the program, after compilation, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, advanced shell scripting questions will receive more responses at SO. But sometimes the questions are asked in a System Administration context, whereas the answers at SO are largely from a programming context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T17:54:36.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="181" CreationDate="2010-10-13T19:38:32.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com/&lt;/a&gt; (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;) has &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu&quot;&gt;launched&lt;/a&gt; , we are still in beta. Ubuntu surpassed us in terms of popularity, so they got the chatroom first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T19:38:32.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="192" CreationDate="2010-10-13T23:51:56.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer exists to list suggested improvements to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/how-do-i-run-a-command-as-root/3064#3064&quot;&gt;canonical answer to “How do I run a command as root”&lt;/a&gt;. Please add todo items here and remove them when done. Discuss the current contents and planned changes in the comments here or on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/info/283/unix-and-linux?tab=general&quot;&gt;unix.se chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;sudo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Older versions of sudo didn't have &lt;code&gt;-e&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;-i&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;su&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there OS-dependent &lt;code&gt;su&lt;/code&gt; options worth mentioning?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What variants use the &lt;code&gt;wheel&lt;/code&gt; group?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;other programs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;calife: give a usage example; website link; where is it found?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;op: give a usage example; website link; where is it found?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;super: give a usage example; website link; where is it found?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;kstuss: give a usage example; is it in fact a wrapper around su?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;beesu: give a usage example; website link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Running X programs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are frontends like gksu and gksudo that do everything automatically, but they're not available everywhere. Discuss the general case (there might already be something on unix.se or superuser).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Editing files&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;briefly discuss vipw and friends on various OSes (e.g. mention OSes where the password database is generated by &lt;code&gt;vipw&lt;/code&gt; and won't be updated if you just edit &lt;code&gt;/etc/passwd&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;single user mode&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we include a section on single user mode? How detailed should it be with regards to how to edit your kernel parameters via grub?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T06:11:30.800" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-13T23:51:56.337" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-14T00:25:22.940" Score="2" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3004/what-is-the-linux-equivalent-of-the-windows-registry&quot;&gt;What is the Linux equivalent of the Windows registry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already 16 votes on one answer so far. It seems like an answered Q from my perspective. I'm planning to post the information about windows registry locations. But I would be interested to know where people think I should do so for Best Question Quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1389" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-10-19T20:24:34.140" Title="What should I do with this Q...? Edit or repost with new details?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-10-14T02:10:23.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think Gilles answer actually covers your whole question; it covers how there's no &quot;Linux registry&quot;, and what you'll probably have to do to try and fix the problem on Linux. Adding the Windows registry instructions likely won't help, since (as Gilles says) they don't really translate to Linux at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do want to add them, you probably want them in a separate question. I would edit the old question to just ask about the registry (pull the DVD part out), and post a new question that asks about the DVD problem and doesn't mention a &quot;Linux registry&quot; at all. This will make the second part of Gilles' answer a bit inapplicable though, so you probably just want to leave it alone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Old question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What is the Linux equivalent of the Windows registry?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many configuration settings on Windows are stored in a centralized location, the Windows registry. Is there an equivalent centralized store on Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;New question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What is the Linux equivalent of drive upper/lower filters in Windows?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a DVD+-RW drive that has quit working. Apparently many users of this laptop model experience the same problem under Windows and are required to edit the registry to correct the problem, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find SYSTEM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expand CurrentControlSet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expand Control&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expand Class&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete UpperFilters &amp;amp; LowerFilters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping to adapt that fix to a Linux machine. Where should I look to make a similar edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T02:10:23.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="207" CreationDate="2010-10-14T06:01:14.780" Score="13" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we reject questions for which the asking people obviously didn't do their homework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3077/what-does-d-mean-in-ls-l-grep-d&quot;&gt;What does ^d mean in ls -l | grep ^d?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I'm really annoyed, but I think it would be better for them to use &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; before asking things like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1946" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-09-28T20:35:11.290" Title="Rejecting obvious questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|close-reasons|general-reference|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2010-10-14T06:47:43.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if they had tried to figure it out, but who is to say that they didn't? I know its unreasonable to expect anyone new to Linux to know what &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; is ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I feel that we should be open to basic questions as well as advanced ones. If they ask, we will answer :P &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-04-19T21:23:13.230" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T21:23:13.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-10-14T06:50:59.060" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask about Linux, because &lt;strong&gt;Linux is sexy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or instead of 'ask about', just &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use Linux, because it's sexy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="1327" LastEditDate="2010-10-14T08:44:31.267" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T08:44:31.267" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2010-10-14T07:12:45.053" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good number of fairly popular questions were solved by someone who had simply read the man page of the program in question and made it easier to understand.  For this particular example, it may be the case that the person didn't read at all, but I think even advanced users can sometimes miss or mis-read parts of manual pages.  For instance, the &lt;code&gt;screen&lt;/code&gt; man page is 2400+ lines long--I'm still not clear on the difference between &lt;code&gt;-D -RR&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;-D -R&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, if an answer can't be found online, then the only people answering the question would be those who somehow had the obscure printed manual related to the question.  Thus, for the large majority of the questions asked, it will likely be the case that the asker could have found the information with a well-formed google serach.  However, knowing how to formulate that search is the hard part.  For the example you mentioned, for the user to figure out what the carat meant, he would have to know that he was asking about regular expressions.  Say that he knew how to get help on grep by running &lt;code&gt;man grep&lt;/code&gt;.  If he has the same man page I do, &quot;regular expression&quot; isn't mentioned in the &quot;Description&quot; section.  In fact, the meaning of caret in the context of his question isn't found until line 328 of the manual page.  (Then again he could have searched &quot;grep pattern&quot;, based on the first 20 or so lines of the man page.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, part of me feels that the RTFM spirit of many of the people who would identify with a &quot;Unix and Linux&quot; stack exchange is the main reason our question volume is so low.  When I run into a problem I'm far more likely to read manual pages and search the web until I find the answer rather than ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that when you see questions like the example you mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't upvote them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps add a pointer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1841/tricks-and-tips-for-finding-information-in-man-pages&quot;&gt;this awesome question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it makes sense to (in your particular example, I don't think this applies), answer a more general version of the question and perhaps even edit the original question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downside I see to questions like these, is they don't seem to reflect &quot;the community of experts&quot; spirit that seems to be the goal of stack exchange.  Then again, I'm not a expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T07:12:45.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2010-10-14T07:27:38.623" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The theory on SO that I think should probably apply here is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8724/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;be the top result in Google&lt;/a&gt; someday. That means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All questions are welcome, even if they're easily googled, since future searchers will find us instead of whatever's on Google now, and hopefully our answer is more helpful&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't post answers like &quot;you should google it&quot;, since that does nothing to further #1, and will frustrate people if that post &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; become the top Google result&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T07:27:38.623" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-10-14T07:33:52.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, I think you should post a new question at &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. You've asked a very general question, and got a very general answer.&#xA;Your actual underlying question is very different, a specific question about a specific piece of hardware. I recommend SU because understanding what that registry setting means requires some knowledge of Windows. You should also give the model of your drive, in case someone knows a Linux solution without knowing the Windows one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a more general matter, in my experience, this kind of solved-looking question is unlikely to get much further attention, so don't hesitate to post a new question if you realise your first question was interpreted in a different direction from what you intended. If your new question looks very similar to your old one (which is not the case here), you might add a note to your new question linking to the old one and summarizing in one line or so how the new question asks something different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T07:33:52.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-10-14T21:27:12.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;date; cd; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sex is better than unix... but we're here for your upright moments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T21:27:12.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="211" CreationDate="2010-10-14T21:28:15.340" Score="3" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ubuntu SE&lt;/a&gt; site has an interesting debate happening. See &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/489/how-would-1-bug-would-be-fixed-if-askubuntu-uses-a-windows-platfrom&quot;&gt;How would #1 Bug would be fixed if AskUbuntu uses a Windows Platfrom?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/429/reception-of-askubuntu-com&quot;&gt;Reception of askubuntu.com &lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which links to outside discussions about the debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like there are some objections to using a closed-source Windows-based application to host an Ubuntu Q&amp;amp;A site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is our attitude towards this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first reaction is that using proprietary software is not a problem. This site is for &quot;Unix&quot;, and there are plenty of commercial variations of Unix (Solaris, MacOSX, RedHat, etc.) as well as Free versions (CentOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Cygwin, etc.). The SE platform is a good tool, the content is covered under an open license, and I don't object to using closed-source products underneath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T03:36:24.140" Title="Are there objections to hosting the UNIX SE on a Windows platform?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="210" CreationDate="2010-10-15T00:11:49.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't surprised that the Ubuntu forums objected to it, but their main concern stems from the fact that Canonical seems to be semi-officially supporting AU. We don't have any official support in the Unix/Linux world, so I don't think most users will care; if the Linux world were abandoning &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; pages and switching to links to us there would probably be more concern about the platform. There are lots of people who don't like to use closed software, but it's only the absolute diehards that object to the &lt;em&gt;existence&lt;/em&gt; of closed software. The only concern I would possibly have is that it might cost us users, but I expect that number to be exceedingly small, and there isn't much we can do about it either way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T00:11:49.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="210" CreationDate="2010-10-16T03:36:24.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;this opinion is my own and does not reflect any official position, or my stance as a moderator&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the web has become the new harborer of closed source, even if much of it runs on open source. However, as of yet open source has not given me the environment that SE has. Over the past 7 years I've grown tired of all the trolling, all the elitism, all the poison that comes from the some of the various open source communities. It seems that somehow the SE methodology eliminates that and helps people get problems solved. This is of greater benefit than &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; open source software. The source may not be open, but the Q&amp;amp;A is, and without the venom of a mailing list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I have considered developing a StackExchange like system in Perl that runs on *nix, and is Open Source. Potentially one that could be used as more than just a Q&amp;amp;A system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T03:36:24.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="201" CreationDate="2010-10-19T20:24:34.140" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It feels like 2 questions... take the answer about the registry and ask another about your drive, since you've now learned there is no registry, also bonus points if you remove the questions about the drive from the original question entirely. In that question be sure to post exactly what the problem is with the dvd-rw and details about the drive. I don't think there's any reason to ask on SU personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-10-19T20:24:34.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-20T06:55:03.467" Score="6" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked out &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Askubuntu&lt;/a&gt; recently, and they really have a nice design. This invokes jealousy :) and a primal need to have something better ( on epic proportions ) for &lt;strong&gt;Unix SE&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have a nice multi-part question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where and how will the site design fit into the &quot;beta to public proccess&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once we have a design, is it fixed, or can we make changes to it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any ideas to share? Seeing some mockups will really be cool :D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T21:00:27.930" Title="Do we have any design proposals?" Tags="|discussion|top-7|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="215" CreationDate="2010-10-20T15:55:06.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some sites have had a meta question looking for design ideas, some haven't. It looks like at some point &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt; posts his draft design on meta (&lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/559/design-ideas-for-web-applications-site-updated-with-screenshots&quot;&gt;Web Applications&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/982/design-ideas-for-gaming-site-updated-with-screenshots-v2&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://webmasters.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/280/design-for-webmasters-site&quot;&gt;Webmasters&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/783/design-ideas-for-cooking-site&quot;&gt;Cooking&lt;/a&gt;) asking for feedback, and goes through a few revisions. I imagine it will be harder to get the design changed once it's actually in place, but pretty easy when it's still being figured out&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T15:55:06.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="215" CreationDate="2010-10-22T18:31:57.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind, though, that public launches only happen when the site has sufficient traction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3924/unix-linux&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3924/unix-linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;unix/linux has a ways to grow still. As always, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/a-recipe-to-promote-your-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;please continue to share great questions and answers!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T18:31:57.263" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-22T19:58:52.757" Score="0" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3289/free-as-in-speech-v-s-free-as-in-beer&quot;&gt;“free-as-in-speech” vs. &amp;quot;free-as-in-beer”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally posted this on unix.stackexchange but it was closed and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3398/reply-from-richard-stallman-free-as-in-speech-and-free-as-in-beer&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3398/reply-from-richard-stallman-free-as-in-speech-and-free-as-in-beer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why that is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any feedbacks on this topic from anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From: Richard Stallman&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Date: Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:12 AM&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Subject: Re: “free-as-in-speech” vs. &quot;free-as-in-beer”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To: RENJITH G  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;QN: I would like to know the exact meaning of &quot;free-as-in-speech&quot; and &quot;free-as-in-beer&quot;&#xA;  It is hard to give &quot;exact&quot; meanings for philosophical concepts, so I am a bit lost.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The English word &quot;free&quot; has two different meanings. Many other languages have different words for them. For instance, I think Hindi has &quot;mukt&quot; for &quot;free as in freedom&quot; and &quot;muft&quot; for &quot;gratis, zero price'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;QN: Also why this example words (the words free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer) are being used to descibe the concept?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those are not the words I use. I use &quot;free as in 'free speech'&quot; and &quot;free as in 'free beer'&quot;. Is that clearer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems you heard someone else shorten the two phrases a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;--&#xA;  Richard Stallman&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  President, Free Software Foundation&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  51 Franklin St&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Boston MA 02110&#xA;  USA&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2269" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T22:00:14.960" Title="Reply from Richard stallman on &quot;free-as-in-speech/beer&quot;" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="218" CreationDate="2010-10-22T20:09:37.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You got 2 answers to your question which explained all details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that you got answers to the comments you made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you got a 3rd (!) answer from Richard Stallman (!) himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of material about this &quot;outside&quot; easy to find with google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to &quot;discuss&quot; this topic, go ahead but maybe a Q/A Board is not really the right place for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHAT DO YOU WANT? (SORRY, BUT ITS CAPSLOCK DAY AT THE MOMENT (22nd Oct))&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;//edit: didn't saw your edit. Your &quot;question&quot; is closed because it isn't a real question, see the FAQ. After that you posted the answer to your orginial question. Thanks for that. You also got upvotes for the question and your answer. What more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T20:09:37.940" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="218" CreationDate="2010-10-22T22:00:14.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I left a comment on your question before I deleted it; I thought comments went through even if the question was deleted, but I guess not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm going to delete this since it was posted as an answer now – Michael Mrozek♦ 7 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assumed since you posted it as an answer on your question that meant it was a good explanation; the second question you posted didn't contain any questions, you just pasted rms' reply. echox is right; the accepted answer and the self-answer both made it seem like the question was solved, and now that you unaccepted hopefully you can get some clarification on your original question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T22:00:14.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="222" CreationDate="2010-10-23T09:40:17.500" Score="7" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/331/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; said something about Unix SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/215/do-we-have-any-design-proposals/217#217&quot;&gt;not having enough traction yet&lt;/a&gt;... which prompted me to go look at the stats displayed at &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3924/unix-linux&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What caught my eyes was the visits/day stat. According to Area51 we have &lt;strong&gt;432&lt;/strong&gt; visits per day, but on our front page it is reported that we have &lt;strong&gt;1308&lt;/strong&gt; visits per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area51&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7l3Te.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visits per Day&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unix SE front page&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V5Rnh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visits per Day&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So which one of the two stats are wrong? OR Why are they different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked other SE sites ( Maths and Photography ), appears that their stats are out of sync too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T21:51:25.170" Title="Area51 visits/day count is wrong, right?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="221" CreationDate="2010-10-23T11:03:51.073" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the homepage is misleading. There's a difference between visitors/day and views/day (if I understand it correctly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;visitors/day&lt;/strong&gt; is the number of different users that come to the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;views/day&lt;/strong&gt; is the total number of different pages the visitors view&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If 10 users come to the site and each view 5 questions, we'll have 10 visitors and 50 views. Area 51 is measuring visits/day, which looks right; we generally range between 300 and 600 unique hits per day. The homepage is measuring views/day (which is why labeling it &quot;visitors/day&quot; seems wrong), and reports the same value that the &quot;views_per_day&quot; key in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.unix.stackexchange.com/1.0/stats&quot;&gt;api&lt;/a&gt; does, 1308.49. The Google Analytics info seems to put our views significantly higher (they average more like 2200), but I believe the engine does some work to filter out duplicate views that the analytics info probably doesn't include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T11:03:51.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="224" CreationDate="2010-10-23T13:40:58.093" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do I see the 'start a bounty' button on questions which have an accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the screenshot below from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2640/is-it-bad-practice-to-set-roots-shell-to-something-other-than-sh&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ubxsz.png&quot; alt=&quot;bounty screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="451" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-10-24T23:56:52.863" Title="Bounty button showing on answered questions" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="223" CreationDate="2010-10-23T13:49:02.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are no longer tied to accepted answers. Just because the OP liked an answer and accepted it, doesn't mean that the answer is sufficient for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might still want an answer that goes into more detail or a cleaner way to solve the problem. So you still have the option to offer a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="481" LastEditorUserId="481" LastEditDate="2010-10-24T23:56:52.863" LastActivityDate="2010-10-24T23:56:52.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-24T00:42:12.200" Score="12" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comes from the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3438/what-jobs-are-out-there-for-nix-nerds&quot;&gt;what jobs are out there for NIX nerds?&lt;/a&gt;. I personally think this is probably off-topic, and it has two close votes already, but it also has three upvotes so I wanted to ask here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this falls under &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/is-it-on-or-off-topic-when-unix-linux-is-only-ancillary-to-the-question&quot;&gt;Is it On or Off Topic When Unix/Linux is Only Ancillary to the Question?&lt;/a&gt;; the base question is &quot;What jobs are out there&quot;, and then &quot;*nix&quot; is inserted into the question to make it on-topic. SO handles this by having a bullet in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;their FAQ&lt;/a&gt; that says questions are on-topic if they discuss &quot;matters that are &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; to the programming profession&quot;. We don't currently cover this sort of thing in the FAQ, but it can be added after we decide&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T18:52:25.380" Title="&quot;What jobs are out there?&quot; -- are career questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|top-7|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="225" CreationDate="2010-10-24T08:36:10.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question wouldn't have any answer at all &quot;if you take Unix/Linux out of it&quot;. Personally I still want to know the answer, and it may be good in case somebody comes to our site wondering &quot;Should I learn Linux?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not stated in the FAQ whether unix.stackexchange.com is technical, but I think it can be taken for granted that most questions will be. A few non-technical questions won't have much impact on the site, while they can bring viewers who may become new users. They are not entirely off-topic (you can even say they are on-topic), and there won't be many of them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'd like to keep this question open :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2010-10-24T08:36:10.303" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-28T09:06:07.623" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find that there's good points in different answers (and comments), so I wonder if it's okay to create my own answer (if I'm the one who originally asked the question) based on those, and accept it. Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3568/how-to-switch-between-users-on-one-terminal&quot;&gt;an example&lt;/a&gt; where I'm tempted to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T16:06:31.287" Title="Merging different answers into one 'better' one" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="227" CreationDate="2010-10-28T15:55:10.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's generally fine depending on the circumstances, although it's probably not necessary on that question, since there's only two answers. I'd upvote both (disclamer: one of them is mine :) ), and accept whichever one you actually ended up using (looks like you already did that part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7008/why-isnt-there-a-way-to-consolidate-answers&quot;&gt;main meta post&lt;/a&gt; about consolidating answers; it looks like the opinion there was to take the best answer and merge in parts of other answers if you like, rather than creating a whole new answer; you're welcome to merge my answer into the accepted answer if you like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T16:06:31.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-28T19:32:22.593" Score="6" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started filling in distro information for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/arch-linux/info&quot;&gt;[arch-linux] tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a wiki entry for each distribution, and I'm keen to do some work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what details should we specify? My suggestion: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;logo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;forums / wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a section devoted to technical details&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a link to wikipedia page on distro&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other suggestions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(as a sidenote, it would be cool if you guys fill out the other wiki tags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T22:46:07.207" Title="Contributions to the Wiki: Distribution tags" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-10-29T07:51:54.287" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if a question has 4 downvotes it won't show on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this not be the same for &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; questions like this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3579&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T16:54:47.553" Title="closed questions on front page?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="230" CreationDate="2010-10-29T12:55:45.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's not currently that way; I'm not sure if that's ever been brought up before. You can post this on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; as a feature request and see what they say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2010-10-29T12:55:45.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="234" CreationDate="2010-10-30T10:58:32.670" Score="10" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linux is about 1-2% market share (hopefully more), which is still a lot of people.&#xA;Wondered why this site doesn't seem very popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other Q&amp;amp;A sites on Linux out there?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If I use Gentoo, should I go straight to forums.gentoo.org, or are there other good places for general Linux questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2489" OwnerDisplayName="kolobos" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T22:56:51.233" Title="Where's everybody?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="232" CreationDate="2010-10-30T11:18:50.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site does have relatively little daily visits, but actually 95% of questions asked are answered, so that's not really a problem. (Compare with, say, ask.debian.net, which is an &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; Q&amp;amp;A site. It sports a whopping &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.debian.net/badges/troubleshooter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;21 people who ever gave any answer...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to boost a site is to use it. Answer, ask if there's nothing to answer and spread the word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2179" OwnerDisplayName="badp" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T12:17:08.160" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="232" CreationDate="2010-10-30T12:24:26.440" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;4 reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ubuntu SE&lt;/strong&gt; - I seriously believe a lot of our people are there, and I blame management for trying to be democratic instead of putting their foot down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ServerFault&lt;/strong&gt; - I see questions on there that should be here. I wonder if we can talk someone into advertising us there. I see quite a few questions on there that are small home network, permissions, things that aren't serious server admin questions, that would be, imo, better fielded here&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Tech&lt;/strong&gt; - most unix people are hardcore oldschool, meaning mailing lists and irc, also forums.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unknown&lt;/strong&gt; - just in general I don't think all the unix geeks know about it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101/how-should-we-promote-the-site&quot;&gt;Spread the word&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T22:56:51.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="236" CreationDate="2010-10-30T21:02:54.863" Score="7" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just decided to install some snmp daemon on my ubuntu servers. I tried to start with &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and searched for snmp. No hits. I'm exclusively an Ubuntu Linux admin at this point so I figured I'd start at the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So then I try this site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. One hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;: 114 hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this site is newer; or its more about UNIX as an OS, not as a networking tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of what I will need to know about Ubuntu is things like the network stack. How to get Nagios, Cacti, SNPMD, SMTP and other daemony things working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just hang out at ServerFault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T11:42:14.540" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T11:42:14.540" Title="Is this site for me?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="235" CreationDate="2010-10-30T21:17:09.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site and AskUbuntu are both quite new (we've been around about two months and are still in beta; AU has been around about three &#xA; months). Server Fault is at exactly &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/server-fault-private-beta-begins/&quot;&gt;18 months today&lt;/a&gt;, and was one of the original sites launched before the more individual sites came about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're fairly inclusionist here; the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; bullet about on-topic questions lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're hoping now that there's an SE site dedicated to Unix and Linux, most of the Server Fault and Super User questions about those topics will start getting asked here. At the moment that includes any Ubuntu-specific questions, we haven't really figured out the line that separates us from Ask Ubuntu yet, and won't (can't, in fact) migrate questions between them until we're out of beta too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, &lt;strong&gt;your questions sound on-topic here&lt;/strong&gt;. They're also probably on-topic on AU and SF as well, which is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of clear division of topics between the sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T21:17:09.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="235" CreationDate="2010-10-31T07:41:35.217" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm kinda split. I've had maybe one successful answer on SF. Personally I think asking questions about server daemons are better off on SF. However, there are generic unix questions on SF that are better off here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SNMP is clearly networking, imo, and I'm in favor of giving Network and Database guys there own place. Right now SF is the place for them though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big split on Ubuntu SE seemed to be around them being more &quot;user friendly&quot; and thus they probably have neglected their own server line. Also as a largely desktop crowd I doubt they know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hang out in both honestly. Now that I'm working as an admin again, I'm trying to be more active on SF. With the rule of thumb (for yourself, as michael said they aren't offtopic here), being, is this more about unix, or more about the daemon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-10-31T07:41:35.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="229" CreationDate="2010-11-01T17:06:53.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I think most of the information is available on Wikipedia. However, I'd love to have the answer to &quot;Why should I choose / not choose this distribution?&quot;, as this information is kind of hard to gather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2010-11-01T17:06:53.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-11-02T12:42:29.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;KernelPanic (kernelpanic.com): We'll seal your broken pipes, tighten your sockets, repair your devices, and even wipe your windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T12:42:29.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-11-02T12:46:45.753" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;KernelPanic: Panicking since 1969 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T12:46:45.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-11-02T12:49:06.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;KernelPanic: We're in our 40s and have lots of kids, man are we proud!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T12:49:06.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="242" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-02T16:46:59.467" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/3708/250&quot;&gt;How to uninstall RHEL from a dual-boot system?&lt;/a&gt;. The title makes it look like a Linux question, but reading into the question at hand, and the (accepted) answer, I can't keep telling myself that the question should have been titled &quot;How to reinstall Windows?&quot;. Am I feeling right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T07:06:38.900" Title="&quot;How to reinstall Windows?&quot; - on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2010-11-02T21:01:37.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a 'How to recover windows when linux gets in the way' could also be a suitable title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that this is on-topic as it is &lt;strong&gt;NIX&lt;/strong&gt; that got in the way, and &lt;strong&gt;NIX&lt;/strong&gt; that was used to solve the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T21:01:37.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2010-11-02T23:02:50.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A better title could have been &quot;How to remove GRUB&quot; either way it's A grey area but I think would be OK here &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2175" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T23:02:50.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-05T11:51:33.600" Score="6" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3788/why-does-the-linux-kernel-use-linux-libre-code-to-get-rid-of-binary-blobs&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is not the first question, that basically comes down to the answer having something to do with free software idealism. I'm simply wondering if such questions should really be on topic? they technically don't have anything to do with unix. Free Software may have a really strong presence in the Unix community, but it's getting stronger in the windows one too. Should it be ontopic? if so do you think we should have tags like 'gnu' 'floss' 'idealism' 'politics'? Also if it shouldn't should we moderators attempt to retroactively enforce the decision on older posts that were of this nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-11-05T19:22:43.737" Title="Should Politics and Idealisms be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2010-11-05T12:02:31.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I expect that if these questions are allowed we will most certainly have religious wars, I believe we should first experiment and collect data before we disallow these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastActivityDate="2010-11-05T12:02:31.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2010-11-05T19:22:43.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3788/why-does-the-linux-kernel-use-linux-libre-code-to-get-rid-of-binary-blobs&quot;&gt;this particular question&lt;/a&gt; more as a question about Linux, which is on-topic. It's not a technical question, but we seem to have a consensus that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/are-history-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;history questions are on-topic&lt;/a&gt;, and floss¹-related concepts come up often in historical discussions about unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would definitely consider a similar question about a non-unix-related piece of software as off-topic. It's the unix aspect that makes the question on-topic, not the floss aspect (this isn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://dentistry.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://dentistry.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Politics and idealism, however, would likely be closed as “subjective and argumentative”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-11-05T19:22:43.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="249" CreationDate="2010-11-07T15:47:04.817" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is shell scripting in perl in range of this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or is perl hacking for SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="user26112" LastEditDate="2013-07-07T22:05:58.327" LastActivityDate="2013-07-07T22:05:58.327" Title="Is shell scripting in perl in range of this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="248" CreationDate="2010-11-07T19:50:38.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you shell script in Perl? Perl is not a shell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any sense I think it depends on the nature of your Perl. Perl is required by one of the Unix or Linux standards. It is Unix, in a sense, where, for example, Ruby is not, because of this requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3675/how-can-i-get-a-base64-encoded-shax-on-the-cli/3691#3691&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to illustrate what kind of Perl I think is acceptable here. Essentially these are 1 liners. I'd definitely avoid anything over 10 lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think it'd be best if you didn't ask Perl Questions here, SO is much more suited for these questions that here. I don't think we'd allow shell scripting if it wasn't so integral to Unix. On the flip side, if you ask a generic question that you know is likely to result in a Perl answer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/3675/29&quot;&gt;like I did&lt;/a&gt; (and yes I already knew about the Perl solution), I'm ok with that. If you ask How do I take X Perl and convert it to Shell, or vice versa, I'm ok with that. I may also be ok with &quot;what does X Perl do&quot; if it seems fairly admin-ish. If it seems too programming-ish it probably doesn't belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I making any sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-11-07T19:50:38.980" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-07T20:30:41.130" Score="-5" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix.SE doesn't seem very popular, and there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/232/wheres-everybody&quot;&gt;many reasons for it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But there is another thing that can be improved, and that's the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that for many (especially young) people, &quot;Unix&quot; is something that is old and not used anymore. If you look at Ubuntu, they position it as an alternative to Windows, not as &quot;better Unix&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And &quot;Linux&quot; is not general enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why not rename it to opensource.stackexchange.com, isn't Open Source what it's all about these days?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That way, having separate site for Ubuntu will make &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/fork-it/&quot;&gt;even less sense&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T15:53:13.870" Title="Rename unix.SE to opensource.SE" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-07T22:14:53.763" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225/what-jobs-are-out-there-are-career-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;What jobs are out there?&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash; are career questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want career-related questions here? They're not liked on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; (but there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programmers.SE&lt;/a&gt;); I don't know if &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; has a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt;: We currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/3438/688&quot;&gt;have&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/9050/688&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T21:32:30.627" Title="Are career questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-03-11T21:39:42.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="254" CreationDate="2010-11-07T22:17:53.540" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following pairs of tags have the same meaning, and there isn't one that's clearly preferable to the other (if we delete one, it'll pop up again), so they should be made synonyms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[symbolic-link] and [symlink]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[mail] and [email]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[version-control] and [vcs]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-11-07T23:35:27.510" LastActivityDate="2010-11-07T23:42:32.937" Title="Please merge some tags" Tags="|support|status-completed|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="252" CreationDate="2010-11-07T23:34:36.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;Users with more than 2500 reputation and a total answer score of 10 or more on the tag, can suggest and vote on tag synonyms. Suggestions will be automatically approved when they reach a score of 4, and automatically deleted when they reach a score of -2.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we moderators can't even force them I don't think... if we can would someone tell me how? Basically you'll have to vote on them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vote: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/symbolic-link/synonyms&quot;&gt;symbolic-link&lt;/a&gt;, I wonder if we can make symbolic-link the synonym of symlink...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-11-07T23:42:32.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="252" CreationDate="2010-11-07T23:35:17.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done, thanks. I made the less common a synonym of the more common in each case (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbolic-link&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbolic-link&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbolic-link&lt;/a&gt; ← &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symlink&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symlink&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symlink&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail&lt;/a&gt; ← &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/email&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;email&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/version-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;version-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;version-control&lt;/a&gt; ← &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vcs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vcs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vcs&lt;/a&gt;); the first was actually proposed ages ago by xeno before he was a mod, but it had no votes, so I just approved it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also merged them all, so the synonym tags shouldn't exist anymore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;updating post history, 2 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 2 rows affected&#xA;updating PostTags associations, 2 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;merge of [symbolic-link] and [symlink] complete!&#xA;&#xA;updating post history, 8 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 4 rows affected&#xA;updating PostTags associations, 4 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;merge of [mail] and [email] complete!&#xA;&#xA;updating post history, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating PostTags associations, 1 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;merge of [version-control] and [vcs] complete!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-07T23:35:17.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="225" CreationDate="2010-11-08T01:40:26.050" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that they are off-topic/not precise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The full answer is too specific (what relevant education have the person, what experience)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The generic answer is useless as much depends on time, location, education or experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A 16-year-old with no formal experience and 30-year-old from a good university with relevant diploma + brilliant resume of 7 years of continuous experience both may be &quot;nix geeks&quot; but the career options are somehow different. The 7 years can be done hacking kernel, writing servers, administrating them etc. - each having different career choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides - there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Careers site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2013-11-09T08:36:32.890" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T08:36:32.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="250" CreationDate="2010-11-08T02:24:13.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not clear on whether you're proposing to also change the scope of this site or just the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do want to change the scope so that questions like &quot;How can I install Media Player Classic on Windows XP&quot; become on topic (MPC being open source software), I'm strongly opposed to this. This would change the nature of this site dramatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't propose this, I'm still opposed to the name change because the name would not be representative of what the site is about and would likely confuse many people. I mean who wouldn't expect that asking about any open source software would be on-topic on a Q&amp;amp;A site named &quot;opensource&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="481" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T02:24:13.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="120" CreationDate="2010-11-08T19:01:01.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cat: /foo/bar: No such file or directory&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe not cat, but how about GET:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;HTTP GET: http://unix.stackexchange.com/foo/bar: No such file or directory&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Does it really have to be an image?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="258" LastEditorUserId="258" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T19:07:17.483" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T19:07:17.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-08T22:49:46.967" Score="3" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a user will ask one question in the title, then a completely different question in the body. Sometimes there are good answers to both of the questions, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3004/what-is-the-linux-equivalent-of-the-windows-registry/3006#3006&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This can be a problem because a passing user who found the question through a general web search may move on to the next search result after reading the body and finding the question doesn't actually match what he was searching for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T00:45:05.147" Title="What should be done when a question's title and body differ?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="258" CreationDate="2010-11-09T00:45:05.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the asker should be prompted to clarify and make them match. If (s)he doesn't react, and you have enough reputation to edit the post, I think it's a good idea to edit the title to match the question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are two completely different questions, it is best if they are posted separately. Again, you can prompt the asker to do so. But if both questions have been answered, it's a bit late for splitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the thread has quietened down, I might even edit the title and tags to reflect the topics that the answers cover. This is more debatable; it's a matter of finding the right balance between respecting the original poster's question and making the answers easier to find for the people who would find them useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T00:45:05.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-10T15:24:29.260" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to make my wireless work in Gentoo and because with Ubuntu it works just fine I guess this is a driver / kernel module misconfiguration. Previously I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/1079/my-admin-pages-do-not-show-is-this-a-pathing-problem&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on Wordpress.SE and it was &quot;closed as too localized&quot;. Would a question like this be &quot;too localized&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:59.943" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T15:49:15.353" Title="Are driver / kernel configuration support questions allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="260" CreationDate="2010-11-10T15:49:15.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really surprised they closed that; too localized is almost always used to refer to time-sensitive questions, but even the part about &quot;extraordinarily narrow circumstances&quot; is debatable, it's completely possible somebody else would run into that problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, kernel configuration stuff is fine, in my opinion. Don't worry about questions getting closed; if you think something makes sense here just ask, and we can discuss it if it gets closed and you disagree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T15:49:15.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2010-11-11T20:39:27.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/553&quot;&gt;Easy incremental backups to an external hard drive.&lt;/a&gt; should be CW. It asks for backup software with fairly specific constraints. For the same reason I'm against merging it with the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1891&quot;&gt;Straightforward system and file backup/restore for Linux?&lt;/a&gt; is a different matter: it doesn't have any requirement apart from the obvious must-run-on-my-system and perhaps an implied easy-to-use. I could see it be made CW after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you'd like to have a CW list of backup software, I think it's best to ask a new, CW, one-software-per-answer question. &lt;em&gt;Then&lt;/em&gt;, close any new question that's satisfactorily answered by the CW question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T20:39:27.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="264" CreationDate="2010-11-12T11:29:56.953" Score="17" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Area 51 beta progress bar ends at 90 days. We're at 93 days, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3924/unix-linux&quot;&gt;our page&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site has finished its beta and will be launching very soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why haven't we launched yet? What impact do the Area 51 metrics have on our launch? What do we need to do before we're ready to launch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-01-05T21:00:26.090" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T21:00:26.090" Title="Beta progress, importance of reputation, and voting" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="263" CreationDate="2010-11-12T11:30:19.543" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This somehow turned into a giant entry, so I split it into a few sections; it starts discussing the launch procedure and ends with me rambling about how voting is good and why we should vote more :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Area 51 metrics and launch process&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The beta launch process was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&quot;&gt;changed somewhat&lt;/a&gt; after the first few sites launched. Originally it boiled down to &quot;at 90 days, either the site launches or it folds&quot;, and the first few sites all made the cut. However, they immediately ran into problems, so the process was changed. There are a bunch of useful metrics listed on our Area 51 page now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of questions answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of users, including users with 200+ rep, 2000+ rep, and 3000+ rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of answers per question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of visits per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of those is marked Worrying, Okay, or Excellent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Importance of reputation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/337/robert-cartaino&quot;&gt;Robert&lt;/a&gt; (the community coordinator) said in the blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the graduation date of a site will depend heavily on having enough users with sufficient reputation to properly lead and govern the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users who haven't been on a launched SE site before may not realize that we're currently operating with greatly lowered &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;reputation requirements&lt;/a&gt;. Most relevant to this post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing posts requires &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;1000 reputation&lt;/a&gt;; on a launched site it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;2000 reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing questions requires &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;500 reputation&lt;/a&gt;; on a launched site it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;3000 reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderation tools (commonly called &quot;10k tools&quot; on launched sites, for reasons that will be obvious in a moment) like deleting questions and viewing spam/offensive flags requires only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;2000 reputation&lt;/a&gt;; on a launched site it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for Area 51 emphasizing the number of users with 2k and 3k rep should be clear now -- those translate to the number of users who can edit and close posts, the two most important maintenance tasks. It takes 5 votes to close a post, so even if all our 3k users vote it won't be enough; a moderator needs to do it. Sites need to be able to self-police (edit and close posts without mods getting involved), so they won't launch until that happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Launch schedule&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We discussed beta launches at the network meeting this week. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/3/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt; (the SE designer) can design about 1-1.5 sites per week, so they can't really launch faster than that. We're told this is the current way site launches are ordered, in order of decreasing importance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;90+ days -- sites &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to be at 90 days before they can launch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sufficient 2k and 3k users to maintain the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of Excellent, Okay, and Worrying stats on Area 51 (in that order, naturally)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 10 Nov, the sites ready to launch were &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TeX&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language and Usage&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://money.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Personal Finance and Money&lt;/a&gt;, and TeX actually did launch about six hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We're second of the other five 90+ day betas (first is &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Home Improvement&lt;/a&gt;) that aren't ready to launch yet -- we're missing sufficient high reputation users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads nicely into the last point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Importance of Voting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People gain reputation through high quality posts, but they only do so if the posts are voted on. From what I've heard talking to mods on other sites, the sites that have gone on to launch averaged about 200 upvotes/day during the beta period. Last month we were averaging just over 100/day, and so far this month (through 10 Nov when I pulled the data) we've averaged about 55/day, despite having about the same question volume and an increased number of visits (the last four days have had more visits than any days since just after public beta started).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes do more than just affect reputation, they're used in lots of places. Off the top of my head, for questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They affect the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=hot&quot;&gt;hot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=hot&quot;&gt;week&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=hot&quot;&gt;month&lt;/a&gt; tabs on the homepage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They affect the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=hot&quot;&gt;hot&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;votes&lt;/a&gt; tabs on the questions page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They affect the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot;&gt;votes&lt;/a&gt; tab for an individual tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highly upvoted questions are featured in house ads on other SE sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posts with -2 or less score are hidden from the homepage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The top (and bottom) 15 show up in the 10k tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They affect the ordering of answers on a question (by default it's accepted answer followed by descending answer score)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They affect the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered&lt;/a&gt; page -- questions are considered &quot;answered&quot; when they have at least one upvoted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/710/what-does-voting-mean-and-why-is-it-important&quot;&gt;good post on the Web Applications meta&lt;/a&gt; about when you should up/downvote. We each get 30 votes/day, which is almost exactly the number of posts/day we average, so running out isn't a big concern. As an added bonus, there are quite a few &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; associated both with voting and receiving votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T11:30:19.543" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="266" CreationDate="2010-11-13T17:01:17.317" Score="5" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally when I join a stackExchange site in beta it gives me a bonus 100 reputation to get started.  Right now I am starting at 1 reputation.  Is there a reason for this?  Is this intended behavior? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2650" OwnerDisplayName="sixtyfootersdude" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-11-13T21:23:02.957" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T22:54:09.493" Title="Not getting +100 rep for account association" Tags="|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="265" CreationDate="2010-11-13T18:27:14.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not intended behavior, you should be getting +100. I tried reassociating your accounts and recalculating your rep, but it's not working; your log doesn't even show the account association happening. I tried creating a new account on an SE I haven't been on and got the same problem, so I &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70147/account-association-not-giving-100&quot;&gt;filed a bug about it&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do in the meantime (I can't give you +100 rep); hopefully it doesn't affect you too much and it'll be fixed soon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/6/kevin-montrose&quot;&gt;One of the SO devs&lt;/a&gt; posted this on the bug report:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a bug in some new associations code (that went out last night) that prevents the current account from gaining the association bonus. This has been fixed on dev, and should go out tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The work around for now is to establish the association from one of your other accounts (may require clearing before hand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want the bonus now you can do the workaround (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/2650?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;clear your associations&lt;/a&gt; here, go to another site, and associate with Unix that way), or just wait until the fix goes out and you can reassociate from here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T19:40:09.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="265" CreationDate="2010-11-14T20:29:36.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't comment on your answer or the question so I add an answer to say this : The same happened to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT : I just received my +100 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2651" LastEditorUserId="2651" LastEditDate="2010-11-15T22:54:09.493" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T22:54:09.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="269" CreationDate="2010-11-16T00:14:16.630" Score="6" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; has been merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-history&lt;/a&gt;. Err, no, that doesn't work. It's used for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; questions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-11-16T08:20:17.103" LastActivityDate="2010-11-16T08:20:17.103" Title="Please unmerge history and command-history" Tags="|support|status-completed|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="268" CreationDate="2010-11-16T08:20:05.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's unfortunate; hopefully &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; doesn't get used too often where people meant &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-history&lt;/a&gt;. I revoked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-history&lt;/a&gt; ← &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; synonym, and retagged the ones that were converted incorrectly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4091/is-linux-a-unix&quot;&gt;Is Linux a Unix?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3467/what-does-rc-in-bashrc-stand-for&quot;&gt;What does “rc” in .bashrc stand for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2342/why-is-there-a-when-there-is-mention-of-unix-throughout-the-internet&quot;&gt;Why is there a * When There is Mention of Unix Throughout the Internet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1740/anyone-know-the-meaing-of-yy&quot;&gt;Anyone know the meaing of yy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-its-name&quot;&gt;Where did the “wheel” group get its name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/190/how-was-the-shift-to-64-bits-handled-on-linux&quot;&gt;How was the shift to 64 bits handled on Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good catch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-11-16T08:20:05.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="271" CreationDate="2010-11-16T15:07:50.670" Score="5" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not advocating a rename here, really, just curious. It seems like out of the &quot;unix and linux&quot; scope advertised, the vast majority of the questions are either Linux or generic *nix. What was the rationale for picking unix for the subdomain over linux, or perhaps nix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2376" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-11-16T16:27:48.333" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T22:23:48.977" Title="Why is the site's domain unix.SE?" Tags="|discussion|domain|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2010-11-16T16:29:25.197" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We didn't have any say in that, the domain was assigned, and I imagine whoever handled it didn't put a lot of thought into it (that was back before we realized the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/domain-names-the-wrong-question/&quot;&gt;domain would be permanent&lt;/a&gt; -- when our beta started it was still the plan to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/domain-names/&quot;&gt;buy top-level domains&lt;/a&gt; when sites launched). Some sites have multiple subdomains in case of confusion, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://linux.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://linux.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; will work as well; they probably just made the primary one &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; because Unix appears first in the name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="28235" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T22:23:48.977" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T22:23:48.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-11-16T18:17:33.987" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;KernelPanic: Jump out of a window! Inquire or inform about Unix and Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Jump out of Windows!&quot; (if you prefer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="328" LastEditorUserId="328" LastEditDate="2010-11-16T18:23:44.027" LastActivityDate="2010-11-16T18:23:44.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="275" CreationDate="2010-11-16T22:53:05.723" Score="0" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the site should be renamed to &lt;strong&gt;Unix family&lt;/strong&gt;, instead of the rather dull and arrogant &lt;strong&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/strong&gt;. It's like saying &lt;strong&gt;Linux and Ubuntu&lt;/strong&gt; instead of &lt;strong&gt;Linux family&lt;/strong&gt; (if the site was just for Linux systems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T12:12:48.047" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T22:45:15.103" Title="How about a rename?" Tags="|discussion|site-name|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2010-11-16T22:53:18.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find unix-SE excellent, in a sense that the site is about the Unix family of OSes. Linux is more a subset of Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-03-22T11:02:21.420" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T11:02:21.420" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="273" CreationDate="2010-11-17T00:22:52.077" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The advantage of “Unix and Linux” is that a lot of the potential audience has heard of Linux but not of Unix. And it's short and flows well, unlike the more correct “Unix including Linux” or “Unix, Unix-like, Unix-derived, Unix-emulating, Unix-simulating, Unix-inspired, Unix-resembling, Unix-flavored, Unix-shaped, Unix-tasting, and/or otherwise and without limitation Unix-y systems, including, but not limited to, Linux, GNU/Linux, Lignux, GNU/X11/Linux, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#many&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GNU/X11/Apache/Linux/TeX/Perl/Python/FreeCiv&lt;/a&gt;, and other systems that may contain Linuts”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this argument could be stretched to mean the site should be called “Unix and Linux and Mac OS X's non-GUI bits”, but that would be a bit long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Unix and Linux” might be taken to imply that non-Unix-like Linux platforms (e.g. Android) are on-topic. This hasn't been decided yet, although the lack of questions can be interpreted as saying they're off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2010-11-17T19:30:29.680" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T19:30:29.680" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="278" CreationDate="2010-11-17T07:20:16.927" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people write &lt;code&gt;my-fav-editor file.txt&lt;/code&gt; on their answers, and I prefer they write &lt;code&gt;editor file.txt&lt;/code&gt; instead, unless the question was specifically related to &lt;code&gt;my-fav-editor&lt;/code&gt;. I say they should use &lt;code&gt;editor&lt;/code&gt;because I suppose it's a system alias to whatever is user's default text editor. This also avoids unneeded marketing of their particular favourite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T18:41:24.750" Title="Which text editor to use?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="276" CreationDate="2010-11-17T09:49:47.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd personally write &quot;and then edit &lt;code&gt;file.txt&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, but that's just me. I've never used a system where &lt;code&gt;editor&lt;/code&gt; was aliased to anything; possibly you're talking about &lt;code&gt;$EDITOR&lt;/code&gt;, which usually is. This seems like the kind of thing that can't be enforced and isn't a big deal though; I really doubt somebody is going to switch editors because they saw one mentioned in an answer here, and I further doubt that people are going to include their editor name in an answer in a covert attempt to get people to switch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T09:49:47.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="276" CreationDate="2010-11-17T18:41:24.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're writing a sequence of commands, with editing a file in the middle, I'd say the easiest way to deal with it is a comment, like Michael suggests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;git checkout master&#xA;git merge topic&#xA;# edit the conflicted file foo, keeping the second version&#xA;git add foo&#xA;git commit&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That avoids the issue altogether - and more to the point, it's &lt;em&gt;clearer&lt;/em&gt; than writing an explicit command, when there is something specific that should be done in the editing. I'd say if you're going to recommend something, recommend that. This is probably too small an issue to really bother with in FAQ, though, and not worth commenting on others' answers or performing drive-by editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't really think of many situations in which you'd need to explicitly write an editor command. But if someone does, the only problem I could see happening would be choosing an obscure editor, making it hard to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to get too worked up about someone naming an editor, even if they make the &quot;wrong&quot; choice between vim and emacs. Sure, it's a way of saying &quot;I prefer this editor.&quot; So? It's not inflammatory; we all have preferences. The problem is when someone writes &quot;why are you asking how to do this with vim/emacs, just use emacs/vim&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2376" LastActivityDate="2010-11-17T18:41:24.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="146" CreationDate="2010-11-23T00:53:12.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if someone posts an Ubuntu-specific question both here and on Ask Ubuntu, it should be closed here. I say this because I really care about quality, and Ubuntu folk are surely going to give a superior Answer (and it's a larger community too, so will have a quicker response).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Super User, I think both Ask Ubuntu and Unix &amp;amp; Linux supercede it, and it should be restricted to Questions about Windows, Hardware, cross-platform apps..., but that's another topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2010-11-24T23:35:07.277" LastActivityDate="2010-11-24T23:35:07.277" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-11-23T01:42:51.863" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the Ubuntu community, and some of its leaders, have embraced ubuntu.SE so well that it's now an impressive success. Is there a distro (or some other Unix/Linux community) that (semi)officially recognizes and promotes unix.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2010-12-19T08:36:33.860" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T08:36:33.860" Title="Which groups embrace unix.SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="282" CreationDate="2010-11-24T02:32:32.800" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking from a &quot;Stack Overflow Inc&quot; point-of-view, we have not been approached nor heard of any other distro embracing or asking for any sort of official support through unix.stackexchange.com as Canonical/Ubuntu initiated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastActivityDate="2010-11-24T02:32:32.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="282" CreationDate="2010-11-24T02:42:20.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly, no distros or major *nix communities promote us. &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;AU&lt;/a&gt; is a special case; as far as I know no other SE site has &quot;official&quot; support like they do, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. I'm fairly confident that's also the reason we didn't end up getting force-merged with them back at the beginning; their semi-official recognition from Canonical is a big deal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2010-11-24T02:42:20.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="282" CreationDate="2010-11-24T12:32:47.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a proposal to create an &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7470/arch-linux&quot;&gt;archlinux-focused SE site&lt;/a&gt; that has been closed. Developers, moderators and users of archlinux &lt;a href=&quot;https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102759&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;were not fond of this proposal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe unix.SE needs an official sponsor. Actually, this may be a bad thing if only one or two distros officially moved their support on unix.SE: imagine if 50% of the questions were about gentoo, or opensuse, or XYZ... I would feel less confident to ask a generic unix/linux question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1416" LastActivityDate="2010-11-24T12:32:47.890" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="287" CreationDate="2010-11-29T18:29:28.530" Score="6" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am not sure if I should ask here or on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-11-29T22:47:18.667" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T22:47:18.667" Title="Is it on-topic to ask build failure Questions here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="286" CreationDate="2010-11-29T21:42:28.483" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're a user who's having trouble installing a program, go ahead and ask here, even if installing the program happens to involve compiling from source. (Assuming you're trying to install the program on a unix system, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're a programmer having trouble with development tools, ask on Stack Overflow. There are plenty of questions about gcc, make, autoconf, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the intermediate case where you're making a small patch to an existing program and have trouble with that patch... I'd say it depends. If you are a programmer (i.e. you could have written that program given enough time and reference books), I think you should ask on Stack Overflow. If you're just trying to port a program to some strange unix variant that it doesn't support out of the box, and you don't have the baggage to follow the kind of programming answer you'd get on SO, you can try asking here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T21:42:28.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="289" CreationDate="2010-12-03T08:56:13.157" Score="7" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unix and Linux&quot; covers UNIXoidal systems as well (or so I assume).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since there are sites like askubuntu.com, does it make sense to open up a page for *BSD and its derivates, or should those users stick to unix.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1290" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T19:07:02.463" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T01:43:27.087" Title="Does it make sense to suggest a &quot;*BSD&quot; Q&amp;A site on Area 51?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="288" CreationDate="2010-12-03T18:27:16.153" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask Ubuntu is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/ubuntu-stack-exchange-is-askubuntu-com/&quot;&gt;special case&lt;/a&gt; for the Stack Exchange network. An Area 51 proposal specifically for BSD related questions would &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/merging-season/&quot;&gt;likely not be supported&lt;/a&gt; by Stack Overflow Internet Services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, as far as I know, questions about BSD and BSD derivatives are on topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bsd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bsd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bsd&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freebsd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freebsd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;freebsd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openbsd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;openbsd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;openbsd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/netbsd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;netbsd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;netbsd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;site FAQ&lt;/a&gt; specifically mentions FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1299" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T01:43:27.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="273" CreationDate="2010-12-05T09:34:34.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with you. This is nitpicking and is not actually a good brand (&lt;em&gt;personal opinion&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should be renamed to &quot;Kernel Panic&quot;. I'd say that's just me... but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/184/29&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2/what-should-our-domain-name-be&quot;&gt;threads&lt;/a&gt; disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any sense... you should probably post your suggestions on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/184/29&quot;&gt;elevator pitch thread&lt;/a&gt; which is exactly about our branding... If you'd like to pitch it, that's the correct place, as opposed to starting a new thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T22:45:15.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-08T01:12:48.633" Score="28" ViewCount="449" Body="&lt;p&gt;I visit Super User now and again, and I get amazed by the amount of Unix &amp;amp; Linux Questions asked there. Seems like many don't know of the existence of this site (or they simply resist?). This worries me because we may be missing some juicy Q&amp;amp;A, and that leaves one to decide which of the sites to focus on. This is sub-optimal, so I'd like to hear other's thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T19:08:22.037" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T19:08:22.037" Title="Do I ask here or on Super User?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="293" CreationDate="2010-12-08T06:25:47.563" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see Gilles created the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/image-manipulation&quot;&gt;image-manipulation&lt;/a&gt;, and it happens to be used &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4046/remove-extra-tilespace-from-a-montage-imagemagick-composite-image&quot;&gt;exactly once&lt;/a&gt;. I'm wondering if that was an oversight, or if it's supposed to be distinct from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/image-editor&quot;&gt;image-editor tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-12-08T07:20:07.863" Title="Difference between 'image-editor' and 'image-manipulation'?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="292" CreationDate="2010-12-08T07:20:07.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;code&gt;image-manipulation&lt;/code&gt; tag could be applied to &lt;strong&gt;command line tools&lt;/strong&gt; such as &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;imagemagick&lt;/code&gt;, whereas &lt;code&gt;image-editor&lt;/code&gt; would be more relevant to &lt;strong&gt;Image Editing GUI&lt;/strong&gt; applications, such as &lt;strong&gt;GIMP&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for me these two tags are a bit different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2010-12-08T07:20:07.863" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="291" CreationDate="2010-12-08T20:10:37.033" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix questions are on-topic on Super User. This site is in beta, which will put some people off. This site is a lot younger so has a lot less visibility — many people will find SU from word of mouth or Google searches, and won't have heard of Unix.SE. So why &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; people ask unix questions on SU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question is why Unix.SE is a separate site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2010-12-08T20:10:37.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="291" CreationDate="2010-12-09T15:44:51.963" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb recently has been, ask here &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;. If I don't get a good response then cross post to SuperUser or ServerFault. I understand that by doing this it might take me a longer time to get an answer, but doing so helps Unix.SE grow and keeps it full of fresh content. I feel that's worth taking a possible hit on visibility so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to the question &quot;The real question is why Unix.SE is a separate site!&quot; which Gilles posed, I counter that far too many people avoid SuperUser because they feel it is a &quot;dumping ground&quot; for questions from StackOverflow or ServerFault which are not programming / sysadmin related. Many people I respect have told me that they flat-out ignore SuperUser. As Unix.SE has grown it has avoided such preconceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastEditorUserId="1974" LastEditDate="2012-10-11T17:02:13.527" LastActivityDate="2012-10-11T17:02:13.527" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-12-10T00:33:36.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;afterthemanpage.com is available, and it suggests what people should do before posting a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Read the man page and you're still stuck? afterthemanpage.com&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T00:33:36.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-10T13:45:41.853" Score="8" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the number of questions and my reputation in this scrot.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFInl.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2010-12-16T16:17:11.990" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T16:17:11.990" Title="I had to share this with you guys." Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="297" CreationDate="2010-12-10T15:25:37.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice :). I also approve the use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://awesome.naquadah.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;awesome&lt;/a&gt;; I had a small widget addiction when I used to use it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mrozekma.com/awesomebar.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mrozekma.com/awesomebar.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of my awesome bar&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T15:25:37.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-12-10T19:54:30.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagline: sudo make me understand&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The construction is an allusion to &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/149/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;. I think the surface meaning (“make me understand” with some unix-related thingy) is still comprehensible if you don't get the allusion (can people who haven't seen that cartoon confirm or infirm?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T19:54:30.580" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-11T10:38:00.380" Score="7" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice there have been a couple of questions now about why project this and that failed (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4512/what-killed-beagle&quot;&gt;Beagle&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4750/what-killed-hotwire-shell&quot;&gt;Hotwire&lt;/a&gt;). I understand historical questions, but in general I don't see these being as much of history... nore are they likely to get real answers. Truth is the community, or developers lost interest or moved on. Unless we asked an actual project dev we might not actually get a real answer. I don't find that they are particularly useful questions. And to that end I think they should be &quot;offtopic&quot;, but I'd like to know what others think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T15:08:08.887" Title="Should &quot;why did project X 'die' &quot; be ontopic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="305" CreationDate="2010-12-11T16:42:39.683" Score="10" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got an impression about several SE sites and their overlapping scopes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow is for programming questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFault is for server administration (unix, windows or other)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AskUbuntu is for Ubuntu questions (and judging from the questions, other desktop *nixes as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SuperUser is for power users asking questions about software and hardware (and seems to have windows users as a majority, but has unix users within scope, too)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, where would be the scope of this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It clearly overlaps to some extent with all four of these since the questions about bash programming could also go to SO, questions about using these scripts to administer systems could go to SF, and if we do use Ubuntu it could go there, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of a question would it be to fit perfectly here, and less-than-perfectly on the other sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2979" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T22:41:45.937" Title="The Scope of This Site?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2010-12-11T18:29:30.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A link to a declaration of death by a lead developer or a close watcher (EG: a blog post that explains the cause) is enough of an Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The death of projects are caused by other factors other than just loss of interest. XFree86 died because of change of license for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other reasons why projects die:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lack of adoption (maybe due to bad marketing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lack of much money (EG: if they happened to be driven by paid developers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;being superceded by &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; alternatives&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T20:09:57.667" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T20:09:57.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2010-12-11T19:41:29.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I share your hesitation, I did hesitate about closing both these questions. I would consider “What killed XFree86” to be a valid historical question, because it was a key component of many unix systems as opposed to an application. Beagle was an application, but it was one of the major players in its domain. Hotwire was virtually unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of Hotwire, which seems to have had only two developers, at least one of which has an easy-to-find email address, the best way to get an answer is surely to email the developers. In the case of Beagle, the answer turned out to be on a project mailing list. However, on reflection, I'm not sure that this consideration is relevant: Stack Exchange aims to be a repository for all kinds of information, so having the answer here is part of this site's purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/13558/free-open-source-software-projects&quot;&gt;Free open source software projects&lt;/a&gt; site proposal that might accept these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like this question much, I think mainly because the “why” aspect can probably only be answered authoritatively by two people. On the other hand I would have no problem with “What is the status of hotwire-shell, is the original project dead, is anyone maintaining it or a fork?” — but it's not such a different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL,DR: I dunno.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T23:15:26.813" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T23:15:26.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="301" CreationDate="2010-12-11T19:55:05.250" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Noooo! You pointed to the elephant in the room!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix is basically a subset of SU and SF. Programming questions are typically closed as belonging on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu questions can be asked here or on AU, but with different expectations on the answers: AU answers tend to focus on the software and UI that's installed by default, and don't make any effort to apply to non-Ubuntu systems. Unix.SE answers tend to be more generic, as the answerer might know nothing about Ubuntu but suggest a generic method that works on all Linux distributions, say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Unix-related questions, Unix.SE bridges the SU-SF split. It's also a way to make unix questions easy to find by people who don't want to sort through the myriad unrelated questions on SU and SF (this is mostly an issue with SU's abudance of poorly-tagged questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there is a place in the Stack Exchange ecosystem for a dumping ground for computer questions. SU would be it. Between Unix.SE, a yet-to-be created site for Windows, and a yet-to-be created site for computer hardware (IIRC there's a SE 1.0 site that never took on), almost all the topics of SU would be covered. It would be sad not to have a good place for “alternative” OSes, but SU doesn't attract experts on these topics anyway, because they represent a tiny proportion of questions and they're not easy to find. More problematic is the lack of a good place to discuss interactions between OSes (virtual machines, networking, emulation, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where to ask shell questions has been inconclusively debated before, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16394/where-questions-about-linux-shell-commands-go&quot;&gt;Where questions about linux shell commands go?&lt;/a&gt; and I'm sure I've seen other questions. In practice people continue to ask on all three sites, four now with Unix.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T22:41:45.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="184" CreationDate="2010-12-12T23:46:36.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have burning questions about the intimate details of Linux and Unix? This is the place to ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to spread some Linux and Unix love to others and learn more yourself? Start here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T23:46:36.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2010-12-13T15:08:08.887" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started to write the comment &quot;I hope this doesn't become a trend -- projects just die out sometimes&quot; on the second answer, but decided to hold off unless it happened a third time. I'm on the fence too, since they are legitimate questions, but almost impossible to answer in most situations. The questions didn't get any close votes, so I guess the rest of the community is ok with them. As long as somebody doesn't post &quot;Why did X die out?&quot; for every project X they've ever followed I guess it'll be ok&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T15:08:08.887" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-14T03:39:05.473" Score="12" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$a = trueOrFalse(&quot;are they on-topic?&quot;)&#xA;$b = trueOrFalse(&quot;is this the best site for these questions?&quot;)&#xA;if (!$a || !$b)&#xA;{&#xA;    pleasePrintBestSiteFor(&quot;questions about vi and clones&quot;)&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*it just made more sense to me this way, and no, i have no idea what language that is.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="479" LastEditorUserId="479" LastEditDate="2011-01-05T22:07:09.587" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T20:55:58.547" Title="Are questions about vi, vim, and other clones on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="309" CreationDate="2010-12-14T08:39:04.957" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that these tools are cross-platform, I think questions about &lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;vim&lt;/code&gt; are on topic and interesting. I also think that questions about other popular text editors on *nix systems should be on topic.  A few things to consider,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have already have had a number of questions on these topics that have produced very interesting answers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt; is part of POSIX and its use tends to be pretty central in system administration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since text is the fundamental interface of UNIX, the most popular text editors on unix are probably important.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many unix programs adopt either a &lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;emacs&lt;/code&gt; style of line/text manipulation (see less for an example of the former and Bash (by default) for an example of the latter), meaning that knowledge of vi/vim and emacs helps throughout your use of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I would love to see more questions related to text editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T08:39:04.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="309" CreationDate="2010-12-14T12:20:21.107" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be most glad if the central place for vim questions, were right here because many vim question are tightly coupled with questions about sed, awk, external shell commands, and after all vim itself is a text editor originating in Unix (I know, it can be run on Windows, too, But it's still a Unix tool).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions would probably be just vim-specific. And most people that know Vim well, are probably using Unix, and their collective knowledge would be most available/concentrated on unix.se (hopefully)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if there are Windows specific questions, some of them would &lt;em&gt;arguably&lt;/em&gt; still be on-topic on Unix.SE because it is a Unix tool, albeit ported on Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2979" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T12:20:21.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="309" CreationDate="2010-12-14T22:09:00.647" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm strongly in favor of allowing platform-agnostic questions about applications that are primarily from the unix world, such as ksh and vi. I'm also weakly in favor of allowing platform-agnostic questions about cross-platform applications such as Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I think it's a bad idea to allow questions related to the integration of Vim, Emacs and so on in Windows (e.g. “Where do I put my &lt;code&gt;.vimrc&lt;/code&gt; on Windows?”). That's not because I don't want to see such questions (I actually do, but if I didn't, that's what ignored tags are for), but because I don't expect there to be much Windows expertise on this site. So Windows-specific issues should be on an as yet hypothetical &lt;a href=&quot;http://windows.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Windows Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/10161/microsoft&quot;&gt;Microsoft Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt;), or failing that on &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T22:09:00.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="315" CreationDate="2010-12-15T14:53:16.440" Score="27" ViewCount="1568" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a question in mind, but I'm thinking of the kind of things that are covered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apuebook.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;APUE(2e)&lt;/a&gt; which is POSIX, SUS, etc. C API mostly. Obviously generalized C programming is not ontopic, but what about the Unix C API? It's obviously Unix, but is it too programming for here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="28496" LastEditDate="2013-04-08T00:59:56.410" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T09:17:21.677" Title="Unix C API calls ontopic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="314" CreationDate="2010-12-15T20:04:23.613" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix's shell interfaces tend to be pretty close to the syscall interfaces. In particular shell utility errors are often straight lifts of system call errors. So people who understand the one often can help with the other. Therefore I think questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/xsh.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;system interfaces&lt;/a&gt; (i.e. the C API) should be on-topic here, as long as they're about common unix interfaces (not necessarily POSIX, but excluding very different systems like Cocoa) and essentially language-agnostic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this answer only applies to questions about issues like signal delivery, terminal modes, sockets, … which are exposed in similar ways in most languages. It can apply to other low-level APIs associated with unix, e.g. X library calls (that map closely to the X11 protocol) or D-Bus communication. If the question is about an API that only programmers would encounter (e.g. the C string library functions, the Gtk object model, the Linux kernel driver APIs, …), it's off-topic here and should be asked on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; instead (or migrated there if it's already been asked here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guideline is: will the question interest only programmers, or also users and administrators? A sysadmin debugging why a server won't start with &lt;code&gt;truss&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;strace&lt;/code&gt; output is on-topic here. A programmer debugging why his kernel module is causing an OOPS is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T09:17:21.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-16T15:55:36.663" Score="6" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did work stop on project X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was project X coded this way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was project X packaged this way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel these can only be answered by the original developers 99% of the time, with a few exceptions of celebrity and famous projects. Do you think they should be ontopic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2010-12-16T15:57:14.887" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T14:05:55.963" Title="Should question that could basically only be accurately answered by &quot;the developers&quot; be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2010-12-16T15:58:43.057" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they should be on-topic this place is for people who need help. These kinds of questions very rarely contribute anything to the greater whole of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T15:58:43.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2010-12-16T16:01:07.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they should be on-topic. They are sometimes interesting, but unless the site gets much more popular (such that there are devs from most projects here), anyone who answers the question is basically doing homework for the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T16:01:07.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2010-12-16T16:03:30.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel these can only be answered by the original developers 99% of the time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the part I keep coming back to; besides not being very useful in the first place, these are largely unanswerable questions for the entire userbase. They belong on a project mailing list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T16:03:30.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2010-12-16T17:13:17.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why did work stop on project X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why was project X coded this way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why was project X packaged this way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are only useful in the sense that they &lt;strong&gt;teach people how to figure out the state of a project themselves.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which also implies they could be closed as duplicates of a master &quot;here's how to figure out details about random project..&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T17:13:17.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="322" CreationDate="2010-12-16T21:24:01.337" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are now questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt;. All &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; questions look like they're software recommendations and should be tagged &lt;code&gt;software-rec&lt;/code&gt; for compatibility with &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; should be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt; or if it has some independent legitimate use here (in which case the questions should be retagged).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2011-01-16T19:48:41.773" Title="Merge tags software and software-rec?" Tags="|support|status-completed|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2010-12-16T21:34:09.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; posts do seem to be recommendations, except for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2934/list-installed-packages-in-fedora&quot;&gt;List installed packages in Fedora&lt;/a&gt;. I dropped the tag from that one and merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;updating post history, 8 rows affected&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  updating posts, 7 rows affected&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  updating PostTags associations, 7 rows affected&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  merge of [software-rec] and [software] complete!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it should be a synonym or not, so I didn't make one for now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T21:34:09.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="321" CreationDate="2010-12-16T21:48:34.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine a question that should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; and not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt;. It makes sense for E&amp;amp;R, but not here. Since this is a Unix &amp;amp; Linux site, all questions relate somewhat to software - it's a given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastEditorUserId="2180" LastEditDate="2010-12-17T14:55:02.740" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T14:55:02.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2010-12-17T16:19:19.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I can just go email the developers themselves, but then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone else might be interested in that info, other than me (objection to &lt;em&gt;ask the developers yourself&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In many cases, death is declared in public (objection &lt;em&gt;only the developer knows&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a better place to ask questions, and the responses are faster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A project might not be celebrity-like to you, but some community somewhere would consider it important (objection to &lt;em&gt;random project&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/13558/free-open-source-software-projects&quot;&gt;a proposed site&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;: failed proposal) for these kinds of questions, so these can get migrated once that site launches &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's been only ~3 (out of a thousand!) Questions of this sort so far; it's not like someone went and asked 100 questions, on 100 &lt;em&gt;random&lt;/em&gt; projects, soiling this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-03-20T14:05:55.963" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T14:05:55.963" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="328" CreationDate="2010-12-18T01:30:26.413" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;What to do when having a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4719/libcanberra-is-failing-to-build&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt;, where I have no idea what fixed the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T03:19:41.533" Title="How to deal with cases where problems 'fix themselves'?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="327" CreationDate="2010-12-18T03:19:41.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it can be determined that the question &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; actually contained a problem, it should be deleted (or flagged for moderator attention to delete). That is not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; the case. I just wrote about this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72614/what-should-be-done-if-somebody-asks-a-question-but-later-says-nevermind-my-mis/72626#72626&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The user resolved the problem themselves before receiving an answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(i.e. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, nevermind. I figured it out myself.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Solution: The author's need for the answer is irrelevant. If it's a &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt; question, it should be left and answered for others who come after. Hopefully the author will offer their solution, but the author is only one person. The future audience who may benefit from the question is much larger.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question was rendered invalid or irrelevant.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(i.e. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Oops, silly me. I had the wrong setting. Nevermind!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Solution: If the question was rendered invalid or no longer applies to the situation, it should be flagged for moderator attention. Comment that the user should have deleted this themselves. But, either way, there is no further purpose for it being on the system, it should be deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your situation seems more applicable to scenario (2). There's a comment that specifically references the occasional &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Hmm... I rebooted my computer and now my code works.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T03:19:41.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="474" CreationDate="2010-12-19T06:56:39.613" Score="24" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is plan9 sufficiently unix to be on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I suppose it might not not really be a question of sufficiency; perhaps plan9 is &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; unix for this site?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1820" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T20:52:31.560" Title="Are plan9 questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2010-12-19T07:02:26.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to venture that questions about how coLinux integrates with the NT kernel would be best asked elsewhere (I'm not exactly sure &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt;), as would many other Windows-side questions about coLinux, but of course the entire Linux userspace used would be on-topic, as would some aspects of using the kernel, and the line probably gets fuzzy in the middle there somewhere (though I expect only those at least somewhat conversant with both NT-driver- and Linux-kernel- hacking would have much to say about that part)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1820" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T07:02:26.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2010-12-19T07:06:38.900" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this is one of those rare topics that would fit both here and &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247804&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in MS's Knowledge Base&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1820" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T07:06:38.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="332" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-19T09:59:22.883" Score="4" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;They use a Unix system in Tron Legacy. I don't know which one. but I remember  &lt;code&gt;bin/history&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;whoami&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ps | grep&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;login&lt;/code&gt; commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2010-12-19T16:32:18.820" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T16:32:18.820" Title="Unix in Tron Legacy" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-04-10T22:22:54.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="329" CreationDate="2010-12-19T16:52:47.720" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Plan9 and Unix are connected both history-wise and technology-wise, I don't think it really rates as a unix system. Then again modern unices have acquired features inspired from Plan9 (UTF-8, &lt;code&gt;/proc&lt;/code&gt;, FUSE, maybe even dbus, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm sympathetic to the wish to have a good place to discuss “alternative” operating systems, I don't want Unix.SE to be about all-but-Windows. This is primarily a political concern: I don't want to spread the idea that Windows is the normal operating system, and everything else is lumped together under as “alternative”, only-for-nerds, not-serious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if Plan9 is to be considered on topic (count me as mildly against), we need to draw a line somewhere (of course getting into the what's-a-unix debate). What about Hurd? Multics? ITS? QNX? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openvms&quot;&gt;VMS&lt;/a&gt;? CP/M? OS/2? Windows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T16:52:47.720" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="314" CreationDate="2010-12-19T23:00:34.760" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the Unix APIs are definitely on-topic, as you need to understand the works to get anywhere: file descriptors, pipes, paths, permissions, sockets, processes... the list goes on and on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1820" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T23:00:34.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2010-12-19T23:02:56.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real reason is that a lot of software disliked the original domain name, &lt;code&gt;*nix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. Honest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1820" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T23:02:56.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="120" CreationDate="2010-12-20T06:35:43.507" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not complete(as in, 25 rows of text) but maybe this is a start? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [&amp;lt;c0292932&amp;gt;] __get_page+0xe2/0x1d2&#xA; [&amp;lt;c0120423&amp;gt;] search_disk+0xe9/0x19d&#xA; [&amp;lt;c09283d2&amp;gt;] search_backup_disk+0xf1/0x21&#xA; [&amp;lt;c0e29fa1&amp;gt;] search_frantically+0x12/0xe12&#xA; [&amp;lt;c0021df0&amp;gt;] __wait_on_server_magic+0x48/0x9&#xA;Warning: server_magic timeout reached!&#xA; [&amp;lt;c0f2359d&amp;gt;] get_error_page+0x2/0xd34&#xA; [&amp;lt;c0d34a9d&amp;gt;] __alert_code_monkeys+0x03/0xe9d&#xA;Warning: code_monkeys not responding to messages&#xA; [&amp;lt;c0a92d92&amp;gt;] __render_error_page+0x0/0x404&#xA; [&amp;lt;c02a94da&amp;gt;] render_404_error_page+0x0/0x0&#xA;Server panic - Aiee, your file was not found!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made it community wiki, so edit this to be more complete, then just put it on your favorite terminal and screen shot it (or if you want to be really awesome, recompile linux and put in these functions and make the linux kernel actually say this, and then screen shot it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3229" LastActivityDate="2010-12-20T06:35:43.507" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-20T06:35:43.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-24T21:25:49.833" Score="10" ViewCount="1159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all. I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/our-designer-in-residence-jin-yang/&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt;, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit of common elements so they feel like they're part of the Stack Exchange family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, have a great holiday season, and early congratulations on your upcoming launch out of beta!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been working on the design for the Unix and Linux site. I've looked at many Unix/Linux/*nix related sites for visual inspirations. I think a clean and classy design that focuses on readability and clarity would work very well for this site. Of course, this doesn't mean it needs to be boring. I've always loved the designs of computer book covers over the years. I feel a design that resembles some of those well respected books would give the site more liveliness and an authoritative look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the designs I came up with: (click to see full res versions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GQ2QD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;homepage&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DS1DZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;question view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the header, I picked a drawing of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Penguin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Little Penguin&lt;/a&gt; (Eudyptula minor), the species Tux was based on. I think a combination of hand-drawn illustration and serif logo type works well for the classy and clean theme of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;UPDATE&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I have tweaked the design based on your constructive feedback. The header section has been reworked. I have included most of the mascots in the header, thanks to @moberley for providing the links to them. I have read the copyright info on these images, I think we're OK to use them with attribution. All, except for the BSD &quot;Beastie&quot; Demon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;I prefer that the BSD Daemon be used in the context of BSD software. That is the reason that I carefully control my copyright of the BSD Daemon image to ensure that the image is not used inappropriately. I have agreed to allow the small image to appear on Wikipedia but not the larger ones. It is also why I am not going to put a creative commons copyright on it.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For GNU and Tux, I have picked a more cutesy version of them, found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/graphics/3dbabygnutux.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hexley image is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hexley.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Interesting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hexley.com/history.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trivia&lt;/a&gt; about Hexley:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Once my platypus was chosen someone suggested that we use &quot;Hexley&quot; as the name of the new mascot since Darwin's assistant was named Hexley. It turns out we were wrong and the person we were referring to was actually Thomas Henry Huxley. Huxley was not Darwin's assistant but was a prominent English biologist in his own right.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Puffy the OpenBSD fish found &lt;a href=&quot;http://openbsd.org/art4.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the designs: (click to see the full res versions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JCfOw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JCfOw.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zTujq.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still going with the original design goal, which is to have the site clean and clear. The new header gives the site more liveliness and is more inclusive to other OSes, as opposed to just Linux. For navigation, tags, badges and section header font, I used Dejavu Sans Mono, which is more representative of Unix and Linux OSes. I prefer not to use a monospace type for the actual question headers(and definitely not body text) because it would make the site harder to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to the header, I tried several different sizes of the mascot images, and I've come to the conclusion that a small size works better. It's visible enough to give the site a whimsical feel, while not being distracting. I think it's a good balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kept the darker bar background for the top nav, because with the new site header treatment, I feel a more prominent topnav bar gives a clear separation of the header from the body content. I gave the top bar a faint &quot;scanline&quot; effect, and added &quot;/&quot; before the link text to make it a bit &quot;computery.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know what you think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-01-02T21:16:23.310" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T17:44:14.573" Title="Design Ideas for Unix and Linux site Updated" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="11" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-02T21:16:23.310" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-26T10:40:11.740" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;first draft (outdated)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jin, the design is awesome. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think a real Tux should be considered here. And I know there might be factions within our community  who would feed that Tux should not be our only mascot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/122/image-we-should-use-for-something&quot;&gt;Image We Should Use for Something&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T17:41:55.107" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-27T06:06:37.500" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;first draft (outdated)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'll get used to it, and it's far better that the sketchy Beta look, but maybe it can be a little more alive/brighter (I never liked those book cover designs; too dull).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T02:41:55.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-27T06:19:59.563" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;first draft (outdated)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Sorry it took so long for me to leave feedback; I got wrapped up a bit in Christmas-related activities)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I like the design:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Likes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main page question list, particularly the way accepted answers are indicated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format for tags (I also like tags that are prominent, like in the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/beta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beta&lt;/a&gt; design, but those would probably look strange with the new design)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format for badges; I like the ~ circle a lot. However, the badge counts next to poster names in the question mockup use the old-style circles; is that intentional?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole question view in the second picture, particularly the voting box&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Dislikes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The penguin logo. Possibly Tux would be better like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/design-ideas-for-unix-and-linux-site/338#338&quot;&gt;Stefan suggested&lt;/a&gt;, or some other choice, but that particular logo doesn't seem at all attractive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The solid blue navigation bar. I don't care for that particular shade in the first place, but I'm not sure any color will work well there; the bar is too tall compared to the text inside it, and it makes the links look strange. Combined with the animal logo, the large solid color makes me think of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_scat_156153011_ln?rh=n:156153011,k:o%27reilly+books&amp;amp;keywords=o%27reilly+books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1293430661&amp;amp;scn=156153011&amp;amp;h=04db4eae90414165e48d659efd7fb3aa880b0568&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;O'Reilly books&lt;/a&gt; (which, in my opinion, have fairly unattractive covers). Most of the SE designs I like lack backgrounds on the navigation bar (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Cooking&lt;/a&gt; is a rare exception)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T17:44:14.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-27T12:08:53.230" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer updated for 2011-01-02 21:16 design&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All right, now that's a nice &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; original design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another mascot that might fit is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Minix 3&lt;/a&gt;. I don't know if it can be licensed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the &lt;code&gt;/Questions&lt;/code&gt;. Though it's a little jarring as the URL it leads to is &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; (unix is somewhat famous for having case sensitive file names). And I think there should be more space between &lt;code&gt;/Ask Question&lt;/code&gt; and the others, like on most other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two minor regressions in my opinion. I preferred the original voting arrows. And I find the color scheme on the front page too contrasted now, with the dark blue titles and the light beige(?) subtitle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I didn't mention the first time round is that I don't like the code font. For a site where code is often relevant, I'd prefer a straighter font (both in the sense of less curvy and in the sense of more serious-looking), like the one used on the trilogy. (Well, whatever my browser is using on the Trilogy and betas.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On reflection I think I agree the mascots don't belong on the title. I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/design-ideas-for-unix-and-linux-site-updated/386#386&quot;&gt;Lazer's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; of having them near the title, à la Area 51.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2011-01-08T19:01:54.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-27T15:05:20.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;first draft (outdated)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not so much of a design person but here I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The penguin is kinda ugly if you ask me. I would love cartoon style... but that's not too important.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should not take it for granted that everybody is here because of Linux. Linux is very popular and I love it, but the point is to stay open and let's not leave anyone behind (that's what being free is all about, isn't it?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tags are not eye-catching enough, maybe a little background will help. I would also love it to be in monospaced font &lt;code&gt;[like-this]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree with Tshebang that the colors look a bit dull. I also don't want reader to have an impression that Unix geeks are boring. If possible please consider the blueish in the lower left corner of &lt;a href=&quot;http://r3dux.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/AsSeenBy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this photo&lt;/a&gt;. Also, the pinkish for the &amp;quot;Top Questions&amp;quot; part doesn't really fit with other parts...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you are not getting mad at me :) Maybe we can somehow get the mascots of different Unix derivatives (Linux, BSD and maybe OSX?) to gather around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T17:43:42.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-28T15:24:47.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;First Draft&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's great! I love the look &amp;amp; feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two nitpicks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The pink is a little off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The shape of the voting arrows doesn't look very good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Second Draft&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That font is revolting (as a title font).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The orange buttons are a bit strange, but that may just be your native widget set on whatever made the screenshot, in that case, it's fine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like the arrows like this: a wider angle would be even better (possibly about the same angle as on the beta triangles).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I preferred the more professional / less whimsical look, but it seems others disagree - I can deal with that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastEditorUserId="2180" LastEditDate="2011-01-03T23:15:40.687" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T23:15:40.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="345" CreationDate="2010-12-29T20:03:23.733" Score="13" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose to adapt the same &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10811/how-to-ask-and-answer-homework-questions&quot;&gt;community policy on homework&lt;/a&gt; as on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlights:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Askers: Asking a homework question is fine. But admit that it's homework, and make a good faith attempt to solve the problem first. Don't just dump the problem statement: ask about a specific part you're stuck on, or ask for a hint if you can't get started at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerers: Use your best judgement as to how complete your answer should be. Don't downvote questions or answers made in good faith.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not use a &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Background: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot;&gt;homework tag on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10811&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow community policy on homework&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/60422/is-homework-an-exception&quot;&gt;debate about the &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41393/&quot;&gt;Etiquette on retagging questions as homework&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T17:35:04.797" Title="Homework: policy proposal" Tags="|discussion|proposed-faq|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="344" CreationDate="2010-12-29T21:04:18.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the first two bullets; I'm less sure about the last. There isn't a consensus about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;homework&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt; on SO; Jeff is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/60422/is-homework-an-exception/60495#60495&quot;&gt;for it&lt;/a&gt;, while the community &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/60422/is-homework-an-exception&quot;&gt;seems split&lt;/a&gt;. There are 9 questions asked today &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/homework?sort=newest&quot;&gt;tagged &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; on SO&lt;/a&gt;, so the practice certainly hasn't died out. It comes down to if having the tag is actually useful here -- will people change their answers depending on whether or not the question is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;homework&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2010-12-29T21:21:09.687" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-30T18:33:43.173" Score="8" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions using the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt;. A cursory look suggests that most &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; questions are about terminal emulators and their configuration, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; questions are can be about shell programming, about finding the right utility to accomplish a task, or occasionally about the terminal. Shell questions are currently spread over &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; (sometimes with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; (plus specific shells, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be better to stick shell programming and shell configuration questions under one tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; unless they're specific to a particular shell), and I suggest the following distinction, but don't feel strongly about it. Counter-proposals (including “it's just fine as it is because …”) are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;: shell interaction (line edition, prompt, history, etc.), and one-liners.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;, or maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-scripting&lt;/a&gt;: shell scripting (anything complex enough that you'd put it in a file, whether it's your &lt;code&gt;.bashrc&lt;/code&gt; or a standalone script).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; (synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt;): automating a task, not necessarily in a shell language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;: “How do I do X on the command line?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt;: about the terminal (emulator).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be consistent with other Stack Exchange sites (but that's not a requirement, and they're not consistent anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/shell-scripting&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell-scripting&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are synonyms; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;command-line&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; isn't, though maybe should be (only programming questions are on-topic there).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;: no clear distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/tags/shell&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/tags/command-line&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;command-line&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/tags/shell-scripting&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell-scripting&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is practically unused.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;: no clear distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags/shell&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags/command-line&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;command-line&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags/shell&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell-script&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is not used much.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/815/terminal-vs-command-line&quot;&gt;Terminal vs. Command-Line&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1049/merging-scripting-related-tags&quot;&gt;Merging scripting related tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: A few months later, I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; are used mostly as above, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; is mostly used for shell programming (with or without &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; or [shell-scripting]). Why not, but surely one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-scripting&lt;/a&gt; should go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2024-02-08T17:33:05.217" Title="On the shell, shell-script, command-line and terminal tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="347" CreationDate="2010-12-30T20:14:59.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general I agree with the meanings that you have outlined and would be happy to help in a retagging effort if we decide to go that way.  Here are a few comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whatever we decide to do, it is important that new users not get badgered just because they tagged a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; question as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt;.  I doubt we would have a problem with that, but I could easily see it alienating new users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've always struggled with the conflict between my personal desire to give every tag within a tagging system a clear meaning and the knowledge that sometimes fuzzy tags (that is, tagging &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; even if it doesn't &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; makes sense), can add value to a tagging system since it allows questions/items to be found even by those who use the words differently.  We should at least recognize that there is a trade-off that occurs when we remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; tag from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; questions.  Many new users view anything you type into the black box with blinking cursor as relating to a &quot;terminal&quot; since that is what they clicked on to get there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I don't think being consistent with SO or SU is that important, it would be nice to be consistent with AU, that way it would be easy to find similar questions across the two sites.  I don't visit AU very much, but I imagine that many of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; questions would be of interest to both user groups and we could cut down on unnecessary work by easily being able to reference articles from each other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-scripting&lt;/a&gt;.  I have no reason other than immediate emotional response to seeing it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should allow &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; to be fairly broad and I think your definition does that well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T20:14:59.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-31T16:53:40.590" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that an penguin is too Linux biased but I like the general look and idea. How about a random OS mascot in the same kind of style every time someone visits the site? This avoids both the clutter of having them all there and picking a favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A minor note is that most of the O'Reilly books rarely use sans-serif fonts. The two places I see them is in the name O'Reilly and the titles of sections. This is not to say that you need to change anything but you may wait to play with that a bit if you are going for the O'Reilly look and feel. Personally I 'felt' the difference as soon as I saw your design but it took me a second to see what was actually different. Here is a link to compare with &lt;a href=&quot;http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158118/preview#preview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158118/preview#preview&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are going for a slightly different but kind of similar look and feel you may want to consider @phunehehe 's idea of a mono-space font. Nothing reminds me of *nix more then the command line and nothing reminds me of the command line more then a monospace font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3391" LastEditorUserId="3391" LastEditDate="2010-12-31T19:54:19.550" LastActivityDate="2010-12-31T19:54:19.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2010-12-31T18:51:21.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;First Draft Comments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I like the design.  I really like the san-serif question text font.  In fact, I like just about everything for the the design of the questions themselves.  I'm a bit worried about the font used for the &lt;code&gt;code tag&lt;/code&gt;--I'm not sure will be be very readable when people post longish code segments or error messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the others I have some reservations about the blue and pink bars and using the penguin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not a huge fan of the serif font used in the title, but I'm not sure why I don't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't wait to see this up on the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Second Draft Comments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I think I liked the first draft better.  Here are some comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like the look of the &quot;/&quot;s used in the navigation bar, but do not like the scanline effect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think that the distro logos interfere too much with the actual title of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the monospaced font should only be used for the [tags] under the titles of the questions.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all the hard work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="1207" LastEditDate="2011-01-03T22:04:58.680" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T22:04:58.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-12-31T21:39:15.147" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5268/how-do-i-merge-two-avi-files-into-one&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; regarding joining 2 avi files using a GUI, and someone else earlier asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2273/how-do-i-merge-two-avi-files-into-one&quot;&gt;how to do that&lt;/a&gt;, but using the CLI. Another not-so-careful user decided to vote to close, and I suspect that this person didn't actually read each question well enough, so she thought that it was an exact duplicate. If such a person would have left a Comment, I could have pointed that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sidenote&lt;/strong&gt;: I would have preferred it if the original Question didn't restrict the Answer to CLI to avoid this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T15:03:18.953" Title="Can we leave a Comment before casting a close vote?" Tags="|discussion|comments|vote-to-close|duplicate|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="351" CreationDate="2011-01-01T01:00:15.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just ignore the close vote. The question will stay open as long as it does not collect four more close votes (or one close vote from a moderator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as four more voters (or one moderator) do not make the same misinterpretation of your intent, the existing close vote(s) will eventually expire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1107" LastActivityDate="2011-01-01T01:00:15.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="229" CreationDate="2011-01-01T13:04:42.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Compared with you've done, I don't think there needs to be that much vertical space devoted to the large logo, a large quote about philosophy (I'd prefer a short paragraph), and a large quote about history (again, a short paragraph seems right, beyond this there's Wikipedia). Instead I'd like to see more technical information or pointers for the non-expert, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Direct access to documentation for people who write portable programs/scripts/documents, for instance:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List of software (packages, versions, …) (and popular third-party repositories if applicable)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Man pages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Common tasks with a one-line answer, for instance:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want to install a program on a machine where I have root access, what command do I use? (&lt;code&gt;pacman -S&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;apt-get install&lt;/code&gt;, …)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main admin is on holiday and there's an Apache hole, how do I make sure the security updates are applied? (&lt;code&gt;pacman -Syu&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;apt-get update; apt-get upgrade&lt;/code&gt;, …)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've written a first draft of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe after things settle down we can try to reach a consensus on a template.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2011-01-01T20:35:03.877" LastActivityDate="2011-01-01T20:35:03.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="351" CreationDate="2011-01-01T18:30:55.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/351/can-we-leave-a-comment-before-casting-a-close-vote/352#352&quot;&gt;Chris is right&lt;/a&gt;, you should just ignore it, but for future reference you don't have to guess; you can click the &quot;close&quot; link to see exactly what people have voted for. If they voted for &quot;exact duplicate&quot;, you can click that to see which posts have been voted as duplicates. You were right; somebody voted to close as a duplicate of the CLI question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d4Ltj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the close dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-08-06T15:03:18.953" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T15:03:18.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="357" CreationDate="2011-01-02T09:17:09.783" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5290/project-management-software-recommendation&quot;&gt;Project management software&lt;/a&gt;, and someone changed it? Why is the edit better than the original Question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;: I've changed the Question to be more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T11:37:18.410" Title="Why was my Question edited?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="355" CreationDate="2011-01-02T16:22:53.910" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the editor was trying to ensure that the body of the question was a complete question, without the title.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would have edited it a little differently, since I don't like questions that can be answered with a &quot;yes&quot; or a &quot;no&quot; when in fact the asker (I assume) wants a specific recommendation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastEditorUserId="1207" LastEditDate="2011-01-02T16:43:42.073" LastActivityDate="2011-01-02T16:43:42.073" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="355" CreationDate="2011-01-02T18:28:23.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to incorporate the actual question into the body (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/355/why-was-my-question-edited/356#356&quot;&gt;Steven D said&lt;/a&gt;), and trying to make it less subjective; &quot;What is the most advanced project management FLOSS?&quot; is entirely opinion-based&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-01-02T18:28:23.427" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="347" CreationDate="2011-01-02T18:37:52.510" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users almost certainly won't use those tags correctly, since most people don't understand the distinction in the first place, but we should be able to retag posts that are wrong. I prefer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-scripting&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;, although it's probably a little confusing to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt; for things that aren't actually scripts. Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/automation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;automation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;automation&lt;/a&gt; sane?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-01-02T18:37:52.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-02T22:41:59.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new font is excellent! The header/navbar looks great now. I don't think the GNU or Tux are recognizable by themselves, but they look good in the header with the other mascots&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-01-02T22:41:59.713" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-02T22:41:59.713" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-03T01:45:27.993" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall it looks really nice, but the multi-mascot logo/title is a bit on the cutesy side for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to stumble onto this without knowing about the awesomeness of stackexchange, I would assume the site to be yet another n00b hangout -- it reminds of some of the places my son is browsing...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Trying to get all the mascots together will mean giving up any idea of a color scheme, and you will never be inclusive enough: I use OS X, Debian and cygwin, and I can think of questions in regard to all those that would fit here. Maybe the unifying concept is really &lt;code&gt;$ _&lt;/code&gt;:) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2881" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T01:45:27.993" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-03T01:45:27.993" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-03T11:44:59.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re the update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As said in the chat, I did like the penguin from the initial sketch, but I can understand the reasons for not using it after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title is bound to draw some flak (Along the lines of &quot;Not serious enough&quot; etc.) but I find it absolutely worth defending. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I think might need some tweaking is the relationship between the mascots and the title. The choice of elements is 100% perfect but the composition feels a bit noisy if watched from a distance. The mascots are interfering with the title's legibility a bit too much IMO. Maybe - I'm not sure - the mascots need to be a bit larger; otherwise, maybe move the three mascots on the right-hand side just a tiny bit away from their respective letters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm 100% happy with everything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3300" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-01-09T02:49:20.360" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T02:49:20.360" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-03T11:44:59.803" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-03T11:57:27.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/code&gt; site title font looks amateurish. I prefer the one from the first iteration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T11:57:27.807" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-03T11:57:27.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="364" CreationDate="2011-01-03T14:02:13.690" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to appear question about operating systems/architecture in general (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5214/what-is-the-difference-between-spin-locks-and-semaphores/5222#5222&quot;&gt;spin locks&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5336/how-is-paging-managed-in-the-absence-of-swapping&quot;&gt;memory handling&lt;/a&gt;). Are those on-topic (and therefore in possible clash with &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/5425/operating-systems-development&quot;&gt;operating system development&lt;/a&gt;) or off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T21:42:48.470" Title="Are Operating System questions are on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2011-01-03T14:33:33.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a good question. I found them both interesting, but I'm interested in programming; they don't really seem on-topic for a site that helps people with *nix. I guess if it was a question about how the Linux kernel specifically does something that makes sense, but general questions about what a spin lock is probably aren't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T14:33:33.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-03T15:01:00.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks good. It needs more color to bring out some visual elements, perhaps something from a familiar terminal: &lt;code&gt;ls -C&lt;/code&gt; lists items in color, maybe one of those for tag backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page background is also quite pale, &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; does a nice job of using colors and backgrounds, just as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone will like this, but I'm just putting it out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="261" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T15:01:00.543" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-03T15:01:00.543" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-03T16:48:26.550" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I turn to like the new design, a lot. There are opinions stating that the title looks amateurish, but I don't have any problem with a child-like design. For me, a small improvement would be to make that title completely child-like (the cute mascots do not really fit with the straight font for &quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except for that I'm happy now :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T16:48:26.550" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-03T16:48:26.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2011-01-03T21:42:48.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand these questions as having an implicit “on a typical unix system” (just like when someone asks for software do do X, I assume that running on unix is a requirement even if that's not explicitly stated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do consider questions about the design of unix systems to be on-topic (they have even more legitimacy than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/are-history-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; questions, which I also support). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a big fan of Sen and Renjith's questions, but my problem with them is not topicality, it's that they tend to ask overly broad questions. I think they would benefit more from reading a book or Wikipedia, and asking more specific questions about point they don't understand here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T21:42:48.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="309" CreationDate="2011-01-05T22:05:58.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I'll want to remind you this thread (which was in a better forum IMO): &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25925/vim-questions-so-or-su&quot;&gt;Vim questions: do they belong to Stack Overflow or Super User?&lt;/a&gt; were a &lt;em&gt;bigger&lt;/em&gt; majority than the number of people in favour of using SE/unix have already expressed themselves in favour of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my opinion. I'm quite tired of this scattering of the vim community -- which I fail to see the point in this tag based world. One wants quality responses, it means the people knowing the tool have to follow 3 different sites (of course it would have been too simple to post directly were vim gurus live (its official mailing-list)).&#xA;As of today, we have 38 vim questions on SE/unix, 491 on SU, and 2799 on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Must we abandon the other sites to use this seldom used site (regarding vim questions) ? Or must we continue where the knowledge has already proven to be ? If we must abandon a site, it would be best to migrate all questions from the site abandoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, of all the sites, this one is as appropriate as SO. Indeed the majority of vim questions (and answers) transcend OSes issues (they are platform agnostic, as programming questions are). So far, I have seen a little bit more vim questions in the context of vim being used for programming tasks than questions about vim being used on some very specific platform.  Moreover, it's not rare that some seemingly innocent questions that could have fit on SU require vim scripting, (dare I say &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;?) skills (I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4603745/how-do-i-jump-to-markers-within-different-tabs-in-vim&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a conclusion, I'd vote: &lt;em&gt;stay were most questions already are -&gt; SO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T20:55:58.547" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="370" CreationDate="2011-01-05T23:22:49.063" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/&quot;&gt;this SO blog post&lt;/a&gt; in mind, I tend to see a lot of questions which either specify a GUI or a CLI solution. I'm not sure if that's a good idea. I think both GUI and CLI answers should be given without the answerer having to apologise first (&quot;&lt;em&gt;I know you didn't ask for CLI, but this can help&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), and the asker can accept whichever apporach (GUI/CLI) she prefers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5268/how-do-i-merge-two-avi-files-into-one&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2273/how-do-i-merge-two-avi-files-into-one&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt; question, which should really be merged I think, and the question edited accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T01:17:23.940" Title="Making questions more generic" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2011-01-05T23:47:55.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea! I merged those. I agree completely, and in the future I think it's sufficient to flag these for mod attention with a brief explanation and URL of the target..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T23:47:55.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="376" CreationDate="2011-01-06T00:05:04.843" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/369/making-questions-more-generic/370#370&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt;, does it make sense to continue using the gui and command-line tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T19:35:44.270" Title="Regarding 'gui' and 'command-line' tag" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2011-01-06T00:09:08.770" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, that's why that merge happened. This seems like a really bad idea to me. If you post a question that says &quot;I need to know how to do this through a CLI&quot;, and then another user edited your post to say &quot;CLI or GUI&quot; and you got a bunch of GUI answers, wouldn't that annoy you? Answerers shouldn't be starting their answer with &quot;I know you didn't ask for CLI&quot;, they shouldn't be posting that answer at all. These questions aren't duplicates, they have different answers -- the sets of answers don't even overlap, they're disjoint&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T00:20:52.280" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T00:20:52.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2011-01-06T01:17:23.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am all for more generic questions (despite the fact that the questions I have asked are usually very specific) and found that recent blog post interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think it is important to figure out when two questions on what seem to be the same topic are really about a more general issue.  Perhaps those of you with more experience on other SE sites can bring in some insight on how it works across platforms on SU or across programming languages on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I feel that we should make an aggressive push to generalize distro-specific questions and simply mention portability issues within answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that command-line questions versus gui questions on the same topic are really different questions that attract different types of users and clearly different solutions. Combining them may make it hard for a clearly &quot;best&quot; answer to emerge and could slow the natural collaborate process that happens between answerers on many of the command line questions.  Personally, this isn't a hill I think this worth fighting for, so if we decide to merge all of the GUI and command-line variants of similar questions, so be it.  I'd much rather see all the &quot;on Debian&quot; or &quot;on Ubuntu&quot; questions generalized first though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T01:17:23.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="371" CreationDate="2011-01-06T01:21:05.920" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we really are going to merge GUI and command-line answers to &quot;how do I do X  with a [gui|command-line]&quot; then it &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; makes sense to abandon the command-line tag since we already have various tags such as &lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;terminal&lt;/code&gt; for other types of &lt;code&gt;command-line&lt;/code&gt; questions.  The &lt;code&gt;gui&lt;/code&gt; tag could still be really relevant to questions that are about various graphical user interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T01:21:05.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="371" CreationDate="2011-01-06T20:00:02.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Sometimes a program being GUI or command line is an important part of the requirements. If you take Jeff's reasoning to an extreme, we could merge every question into “How do I do something?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For what it's worth, I don't think this particular merge should have been done.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T20:00:02.210" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="371" CreationDate="2011-01-07T19:35:44.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff was merging two questions which shared a common theme. However, I think Jeff was merely trying to merge two duplicate questions, because the content was nearly identical. It appears that you purposely asked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5268/how-do-i-merge-two-avi-files-into-one&quot;&gt;second question&lt;/a&gt; and duplicated the content to demonstrate a point, which is fine. He was not attempting to merge tags, which is a far different topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to view this question is &quot;Should we merge the GUI and Command-line tags?&quot; My answer there is a firm No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user interface is an important way to access the operating system. There are major differences between any GUI and a command-line interface, and interfacing with X/Gnome/KDE is completely different the using a shell. I would also argue that there is often very little in common between a GUI and a CLI solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need a way to distinguish between these two different methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very common for an organization to manage hundreds of Un*x machines, and not a single GUI among them. Given this environment, it would be wrong to provide a bunch of GUI solutions when they clearly need a CLI solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T19:35:44.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="380" CreationDate="2011-01-07T19:39:28.043" Score="8" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5518/what-is-the-difference-between-the-following-kernel-makefile-terms-vmlinux-vml&quot;&gt;What is the difference between the following kernel Makefile terms: vmlinux, vmlinuz, vmlinux.bin, zimage &amp;amp; bzimage?&lt;/a&gt;, the user asked a question, and a couple comments suggest that he should look for the answer in Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to ask a question when the answer can be easily found in Wikipedia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T21:33:56.813" Title="Is it okay to ask questions here when Wikipedia already has the answer?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|general-reference|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="377" CreationDate="2011-01-07T19:44:27.773" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is a fine practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia isn't always the best resource. Some of their pages are poor quality. Other pages have incorrect or biased information due to politics. Yet other information is deleted because someone thought it was not notable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The SE sites are a good resource to provide good answers to common questions. When someone  searches for a question on Google, they need to end up at a reputable site which provides a good, current and friendly answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T19:44:27.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="377" CreationDate="2011-01-07T19:58:35.583" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition, if the answer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on Wikipedia and you want to link there, it's helpful to provide a summary of the relevant part of the article here, so the user gets an idea without needing to click the link. In general, when you post a link somewhere, try to write the answer such that it's still useful even if that link stops working in the future&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T19:58:35.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="377" CreationDate="2011-01-07T20:59:06.837" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is “what is X”, you should look on Wikipedia &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;. Then, it's fine to ask something like “what is X? Wikipedia says it's a green wobbly widget, but I don't understand what it means for a widget to be wobbly or why it would matter that it's green”. Or “How does X apply to &amp;lt;specific context&amp;gt;”. Or “what is X” when there's a stub-quality Wikipedia article or none at all. Basically anything where the answer would add value to the Wikipedia article, by providing more explanations, or clarifying some points, or applying it to a particular situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another situation where a simple “look at this Wikipedia article” could be a fine answer is when the asker didn't know the name of some concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that “wikipede it first” is not the same thing as “google it first”. Google answers are fluctuating and unreviewed. Wikipedia articles can change profoundly but rarely do, and are (if of sufficient quality, but this is usually easy to determine even if you don't know much about the subject) cited and somewhat reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T20:59:06.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-07T21:38:18.243" Score="6" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was saddened by seeing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5506/for-deploying-a-public-facing-webapp-debian-lenny-or-debian-squeeze-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; get closed. Sure it will be outdated in a few years, but so are many questions here. But the fact that there's a date on the question, and the names of the releases (Lenny and Squeeze), means only a careless person will think the info is wholly applicable in 10 years. Also, the question can always be edited with something like &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Outdated! Squeeze is no longer supported&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you insist on keeping it closed, where else do you suggest this person should have asked his question instead? Isn't this THE place to ask Unix &amp;amp; Linux questions, far better than mailing lists for simple Q&amp;amp;A?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: I've updated the question to be more generic, and it has been re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T15:43:08.140" Title="Are we getting too restrictive here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="381" CreationDate="2011-01-07T21:47:00.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think questions about &quot;Should I use version X or version X+1&quot; are too localized; even &quot;Which version should I use?&quot; is probably useless in the long run. Information that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be outdated in a few years is fine; information that will &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; be outdated in a few years should probably be closed unless there's some extraordinary reason for keeping it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T21:47:00.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="381" CreationDate="2011-01-07T22:12:38.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this question (For deploying a public facing webapp, Debian Lenny, or Debian Squeeze?) is too localized if you interpret it as “Debian stable or testing”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you read it as “lenny or squeeze”, it might be useful if it was asking whether both versions were &lt;em&gt;capable&lt;/em&gt; of powering a public-facing webapp. But the answer to that is obviously that both are capable, and the question body requests a &lt;em&gt;recommendation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen bitter arguments about this particular question — people agree on the pros and cons but fight about their respective importance. So I would be tempted to close it as “subjective and argumentative” anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T22:12:38.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="381" CreationDate="2011-01-08T00:11:05.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider: can you ask a more generalized version of this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's awfully similar to the problems with the shopping questions:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;em&gt;teach me how to determine the answer myself&lt;/em&gt; -- that is what has lasting value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-01-08T00:11:05.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="377" CreationDate="2011-01-08T00:22:12.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel our page can be better than Wikipedia because it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more focused (no wall o' text, just &quot;the question and answer&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;better written, better examples, clearer, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;targetted to a specific audience of experts rather than the whole world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... then sure. If not, then no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-01-08T00:22:12.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-08T17:16:52.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not like the UNIX AND LINUX logo at the top at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please do not put all those mascots there. They interfere way too much with the logo. If we must have the mascots, let it be like Area51 logo - we have satellites, they just do not interfere with the Area51 logo text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I just compare the logos of the two designs for this site, I like the first one way better. Way neat. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="912" LastActivityDate="2011-01-08T17:16:52.820" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-08T17:16:52.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-01-09T05:54:27.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;strong&gt;UNIX &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/strong&gt; should be in a monospace font, like you would find in a terminal. In fact I think the design should be terminalesque. I don't like the serif font at all. But then I never like the Serif font anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also the word &lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt; should be replaced with &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2011-01-09T15:43:14.133" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T15:43:14.133" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-09T05:54:27.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="396" CreationDate="2011-01-09T06:24:07.253" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would seem the bash code in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/5573/29&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question could be syntax highlighted. Why isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T23:42:12.680" Title="Why doesn't the code get syntax Highlighting?" Tags="|support|status-completed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="391" CreationDate="2011-01-09T21:21:23.523" Score="25" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a comment and a mod flag on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5429/tutorial-or-livedisk-for-multiseat-setup-with-dual-head-display-supporting-open&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; about possibly asking the question on AU instead. I don't think our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/93/what-is-the-relationship-between-linux-unix-se-and-ubuntu-se&quot;&gt;previous&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301/the-scope-of-this-site&quot;&gt;discussions&lt;/a&gt; on this have been particularly clear-cut, so I'm just going to ask directly: should we migrate questions that only apply to Ubuntu to &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;AskUbuntu&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to quote from one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301/the-scope-of-this-site/305#305&quot;&gt;Gilles' answer&lt;/a&gt;s:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ubuntu questions can be asked here or on AU, but with different expectations on the answers: AU answers tend to focus on the software and UI that's installed by default, and don't make any effort to apply to non-Ubuntu systems. Unix.SE answers tend to be more generic, as the answerer might know nothing about Ubuntu but suggest a generic method that works on all Linux distributions, say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This assumes that the question &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; a generic method that works on all distros; should we keep questions about things that don't exist outside of Ubuntu, or migrate them? We're going to be launching very soon, so we'll finally have migration paths 3k users can use, and I imagine AU will be one of the targets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Don't get too hung up on the particular post I linked to, it was just what reminded me I should ask this before the launch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: The migration policy is now explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq/&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;Ubuntu posts are a special case&lt;/strong&gt;. If your question applies to Ubuntu only, or you're looking for answers that are Ubuntu-specific, you should post it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; Stack Exchange site. If your question applies to other distros or you welcome more generic solutions, you're in the right place here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T00:03:25.690" Title="Migrate Ubuntu-specific questions to AskUbuntu?" Tags="|discussion|scope|ubuntu|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2011-01-09T21:46:55.067" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, it doesn't make much sense to have someone ask something specific &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; to Ubuntu here. Anything else asked by an Ubuntu user, and can be generalised, should be generalised, and should remain here. Ask Ubuntu has a larger community than this Unix &amp;amp; Linux, and although that doesn't necessarily translate to quality, it will at least translate to quick answers. &lt;em&gt;[Oh, and I've used the Ubuntu site, and one does get really fast answers, and of decent quality too.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I strongly support migrating &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/very-ubuntu-specific&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;very-ubuntu-specific&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;very-ubuntu-specific&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T21:46:55.067" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2011-01-09T21:53:01.627" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like Gilles advice a lot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unix.SE answers tend to be more generic, as the answerer might know nothing about Ubuntu but suggest a generic method that works on all Linux distributions, say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd only migrate questions where the question is extremely and unavoidably Ubuntu-centric, and &lt;strong&gt;cannot be generalized to other *nixes in any meaningful way&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T21:53:01.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="393" CreationDate="2011-01-09T21:56:02.433" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Area51 visits/day count is different from main site. In fact, it changed from the last time &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/221/area51-visits-day-count-is-wrong-right&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was raised, but then the number on Area51 was lower, and now it's been higher for some days now (1478/day &lt;strong&gt;vs&lt;/strong&gt; 1540/day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T22:39:49.263" Title="Area51 visits/day count doesn't match that from main site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2011-01-09T22:00:49.870" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Main site uses a gross average. Area 51 pulls directly from Google Analytics so it is more correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66862/reporting-site-traffic/66896#66896&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; on meta.SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T22:39:49.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2011-01-10T02:03:50.860" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I assume that the user knows about AU, and if they'd wanted to use AU, they would have asked on AU. The same goes the other way, that AU should not migrate their questions here. They wanted to be a separate community, lets keep it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes I'm still bitter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T02:03:50.860" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="388" CreationDate="2011-01-10T02:19:37.627" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess that the code block is different on every SE site. For example, on SO the majority of them are for programming code snippets, so it makes sense to highlight certain keywords and patterns. Here, however, I think the majority of code blocks are for sections in log file or configuration directives, so it may not be appropriate to highlight all code blocks. In fact, I haven't seen any question on Unix SE with code highlighting, so I think here they are all like the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility: we are still in beta, and maybe beta sites do not have code highlighting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T02:19:37.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="388" CreationDate="2011-01-10T04:26:25.667" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be; this is largely done per-tag now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T04:26:25.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2011-01-10T20:06:12.393" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has already been addressed. Unix.SE and Ask Ubuntu are &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; and a fair amount of questions can be broken down into a generic fashion. I'm not here to discuss the merits of keeping both open. Rather I agree with Jeff Atwood, and xenoterracide (to an extent). Here is my &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/848/talk-of-migrating-some-questions-to-unix-se&quot;&gt;partially taken response to the same question on our Meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user has come to this site to ask a question. If it's about Ubuntu then that's fine - it still fits within the criteria of Unix and Linux. Though I think some questions will be out of scope that would belong on Ubuntu. Things that relate to Ubuntu and Canonical specific services and tools (Ubuntu One, for an example) Should be closed as off-topic and migrated. I believe a similar stance has been taken on the Trilogy sites for questions that could be on an SE site. They stay there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrating questions because the context is &quot;this is on an Ubuntu machine&quot; or vice versa (Generic linux questions) will only confuse users, ultimately deterring them from asking questions because of the lack of positive user experience, so in that respect I fully support not migrating. Leaving a comment on either with a sign post that &quot;Hey Y site exists, you could try there&quot; is what we have been doing with programming questions or server questions on AU. However, if questions on Ask Ubuntu about other flavors of distributions appear I will make sure they are migrated here (so long as they are on-topic) as they are no longer in scope for Ask Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T20:19:29.690" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="388" CreationDate="2011-01-11T23:42:12.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have activated highlighting and used the following rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[bash] = lang-bsh&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [shell] = lang-sh &#xA;  [sh] = lang-sh&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [csh] = lang-csh&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [awk] = default&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details on how this works, see:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72082/changes-to-syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;Changes to syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T23:42:12.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T22:02:01.707" Score="29" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi All,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix and Linux site has been officially launched!. Thank you for your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/design-ideas-for-unix-and-linux-site-updated&quot;&gt;design feedback&lt;/a&gt; and congrats!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up taking the mascots off the header. I agree with you that they made the site a bit childish, also it's hard to cover all the different OSes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have see any css/styling issues, please start a new question tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; I'll try to fix them asap!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, congrats and thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T00:11:36.883" Title="New Design Launched" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-13T01:45:11.420" Score="7" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vote-up arrow appears cropped. I looked at the sprite image, and it's fine there, so some css trick is chopping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dclXi.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T20:09:40.577" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T20:09:40.577" Title="Vote-up arrow cut off." Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-13T01:56:21.447" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the buttons have a strange color that doesn't match anything else on the site.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7gtJT.png&quot; alt=&quot;button-color-demonstration&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T16:06:43.417" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T16:06:43.417" Title="Strange color on buttons?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="146" CreationDate="2011-01-13T04:26:11.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're in line with the SE policy on this now; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; explicitly discourages cross-posting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cross-posting is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71938/can-i-cross-post-my-question-from-one-site-to-another/71949#71949&quot;&gt;strongly discouraged&lt;/a&gt; -- if you post on one site and then change your mind it can always be migrated to another. If you're not sure if your question is on-topic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask on meta&lt;/a&gt; or just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;give it a try&lt;/a&gt; and the community will decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T04:26:11.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="400" CreationDate="2011-01-13T09:24:00.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have put in a fix for this, will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T09:24:00.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="405" CreationDate="2011-01-13T09:24:17.563" Score="3" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be extra nice to lower-case the &lt;strong&gt;/Questions&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;/Tags&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;/Users&lt;/strong&gt;, ... text, just to fit in with the Unix philosophy (&lt;strong&gt;/etc&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;/usr&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;/home&lt;/strong&gt;, ...). I'm even thinking that &lt;strong&gt;/Ask Question&lt;/strong&gt; should be something like &lt;strong&gt;/ask_question&lt;/strong&gt;, so that the shell won't complain :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T08:00:49.047" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T08:00:49.047" Title="Lower-case the main navigation buttons" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="404" CreationDate="2011-01-13T09:50:40.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;this will be in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T09:50:40.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="422" CreationDate="2011-01-13T10:54:09.433" Score="7" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to spot a &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; inside &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; elements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt; is a link, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(There are three links in this question, can you find them? :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3069" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T10:05:38.003" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T10:05:38.003" Title="Link color inside Code" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="423" CreationDate="2011-01-13T11:27:49.377" Score="6" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be extra nice if &lt;code&gt;UNIX &amp;amp; LINUX&lt;/code&gt; on the title would be &lt;code&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/code&gt;. Would be even nicer if the &lt;code&gt;nix&lt;/code&gt; part of &lt;code&gt;Unix&lt;/code&gt; was done in small caps (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with small caps...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T10:05:20.017" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T10:05:20.017" Title="Small or large caps on title?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="420" CreationDate="2011-01-13T12:08:59.137" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that clicking on some tags takes me to a page that claims that &lt;em&gt;0 questions tagged exists&lt;/em&gt;. One example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fYF5i.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;notes&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this bug occurs only when I'm logged in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;related&lt;/strong&gt;: not all questions show when I click on their tags (EG: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; says it got 318 questions, but when I click on it, it shows 27.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="353" LastEditDate="2011-01-14T16:34:25.900" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T16:34:25.900" Title="'0 questions tagged' bug" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2011-01-13T19:08:30.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone asks a question on the mailing lists/forums/irc channels you frequent, give them a link saying &quot;&lt;strong&gt;this might help&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T19:08:30.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2011-01-13T19:12:15.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there is an unanswered question on SE, don't hesitate to poke someone on your irc channel to come help out saying &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Here's an interesting question in your area of expertise, that you might be able to answer; Wanna give it a go?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T19:12:15.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="401" CreationDate="2011-01-13T20:53:14.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like them. It's a nice color (whatever it's name is). It adds a bit of life to the (kinda) dull theme. Also, note that the same color is used for the bronze badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T22:14:28.130" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T22:14:28.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="416" CreationDate="2011-01-13T21:22:21.683" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the question title font too thin, on question pages and to some extent on the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; as well. The titles don't stand out enough to my tastes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same font is used on &lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;CSTheory&lt;/a&gt;. I find it less objectionable there thanks to the monochrome background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If the font choice depends on my browser settings, please tell me what to report, on Firefox or Chrome.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:32:27.403" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T22:40:58.377" Title="Bolder question title font" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3434" CreationDate="2011-01-13T21:25:41.730" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Meta, the “How to Ask” and other rectangular widgets on the right of the screen that appear when you ask a question are very dark islands in an almost-white page. I don't like it, but it may just be a matter of personal preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main site, I would really like better contrast between the text and the background of these widgets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T13:16:03.033" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T13:16:03.033" Title="Poor contrast on the “How to Ask” widgets" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="421" CreationDate="2011-01-13T21:27:57.170" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a few minutes, I've come to strongly dislike the dots on the background. Why not just a pure white?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If it's just me, I suppose it's easily fixed in my user CSS.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T19:14:14.490" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T19:14:14.490" Title="Why the non-monochrome background?" Tags="|discussion|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="412" CreationDate="2011-01-13T21:34:10.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the font looks better on questions you haven't clicked yet. Your problem appears only after I've clicked them. Can you check? Maybe the color for 'clicked' links is one that should change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T21:34:10.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="401" CreationDate="2011-01-14T02:44:41.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design. The buttons need to stand out a bit more. Also the orange tone is complimentary to the blues used elsewhere on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T19:15:08.187" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T19:15:08.187" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-14T08:57:00.397" Score="7" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just now I have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; page and see that they all have a slash just like the things on title bar. That looks somewhat weird to me regarding that they are not at the root directory. For example &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; has a slash because it's at the top level directory, but &lt;code&gt;/bash&lt;/code&gt; is not OK because it should have been &lt;code&gt;/tags/bash&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;/bash&lt;/code&gt; would yield &quot;No such file or directory&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of the second &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/250&quot;&gt;design draft&lt;/a&gt; where the tag is surrounded by square brackets &lt;code&gt;[bash]&lt;/code&gt; and has a monospace font. It was my suggestion and I liked that, but anything else can be better than a slash :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T13:41:09.057" Title="What happened to the appearance of tags?" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-bydesign|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2011-01-14T11:33:59.603" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think not having &lt;code&gt;/tag&lt;/code&gt; in front of each tag makes sense from a &lt;em&gt;design&lt;/em&gt; point of view because it wouldn't add any useful information considering you already know it's a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree you would be right from a computing point of view, but I'm better off with the first option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, having such &lt;code&gt;/tags&lt;/code&gt; may be a little confusing with code or command-line examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3547" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T11:33:59.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="408" CreationDate="2011-01-14T16:33:29.963" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're on the &quot;faq&quot; tab of the &quot;Tagged questions&quot; page. There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux?sort=faq&quot;&gt;27 frequently asked questions tagged [linux]&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux?sort=newest&quot;&gt;322 (as of this writing) &lt;em&gt;total&lt;/em&gt; questions tagged [linux]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same logic holds for the [memory] thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only happens when you're logged in because the site remembers what tab you visited last, so in that case it shows you the faq, since that must be the last tab you clicked on; when you're offline, you just get the default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T16:33:29.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="414" CreationDate="2011-01-15T07:09:22.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design. It should be barely visible. Judging by your other design related reports, it seems your monitor's gamma is a bit off. Are you having the same problem when visiting the site from other computers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T07:09:22.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2011-01-15T07:20:27.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have put in a fix, should be in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T07:20:27.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="407" CreationDate="2011-01-15T07:59:21.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good suggestion. Expect the header update in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T07:59:21.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2011-01-17T20:46:19.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the current tag design more than either of the draft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that combined with the headings such as /question they bring in the right amount of unix-ness into the design even if they aren't 100% correct under some particular mapping of UI elements to a real file system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2011-01-17T20:46:19.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2011-01-18T06:29:04.623" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the leading slash works for the banner as a cute play on convention, it fails for tags.  I understood it was a bit of design, but, even with some experience on Stack Overflow, it was confusing at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I foresee more confusion when people start talking about &quot;/tag&quot;; that is, including the slash as part of the tag name.  The way it's presented, it also seems that's how you should be searching for tags by name, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something else would be much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3274" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T06:29:04.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-18T18:29:04.110" Score="7" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't distinguish favourite questions, which are highlighted, on the front page from others, even if I squint. The only way to notify them is to change my viewing angle to something other than 90°.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have Samsung SyncMaster 940N LCD which is probably not best at color rendering, even fine tuning doesn't help much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3226" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-01-19T20:26:00.757" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T09:57:49.743" Title="Favourite tagged questions: highlight colors, too bright?.." Tags="|support|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2011-01-21T13:41:09.057" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do agree that the &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; is too confusing. If square-brackets use one too many characters, then I suggest using either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#my-tag&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;~my-tag&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;$my-tag&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know using the hash is what twitter does, but for this SE, I think it fits and looks a little bit terminal-esque.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I prefer the &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt; method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1390" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T13:41:09.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="431" CreationDate="2011-01-26T19:36:04.360" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site icon on the off-topic close dialog doesn't line up with the text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-migrate-new-off-topic.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the UL close dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other sites I can close on are SO and BCG (which is still in beta); the icons look right on those:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/migrate-new-off-topic.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the SO close dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/bcg-migrate-new-off-topic.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the BCG close dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="343" LastEditDate="2011-01-27T09:29:54.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T09:29:54.797" Title="Site icon in migration dialog is mispositioned" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-26T22:41:48.703" Score="10" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/404&quot;&gt;404 page&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/error&quot;&gt;error page&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/captcha&quot;&gt;captcha page&lt;/a&gt; have very generic images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been proposals for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120/404-image-nominations&quot;&gt;404 images&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118/captcha-image-nominations&quot;&gt;captcha images&lt;/a&gt; before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a call for &lt;strong&gt;error image nominations&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the text on these pages should include &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gcc/gcc-5646/libiberty/strerror.c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;standard unix error messages&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;404: &lt;code&gt;No such file or directory&lt;/code&gt;, of course&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;captcha: &lt;code&gt;Permission denied&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;error: &lt;code&gt;I/O error&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T16:12:07.153" Title="Error image nominations" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="429" CreationDate="2011-01-27T09:29:44.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was some poor &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/3718294&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CSS-S-S-S'ing&lt;/a&gt; on my part - fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Most of my css is poor, though!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="343" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T09:29:44.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="433" CreationDate="2011-01-27T10:23:34.060" Score="3" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to ask a question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;, should I also add the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;? Similarly, if I were to ask a question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome&lt;/a&gt;, should I also add the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/desktop-environment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;desktop-environment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;desktop-environment&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="331" LastEditDate="2011-01-27T10:43:48.403" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T21:49:40.697" Title="Thoughts regarding possibly dependent tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2011-01-27T21:49:40.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That depends on whether you think the answers are going to be specific to the most restrictive tag or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an asker, you're often not expected to know, because it would take broad expertise of the subject. If you hover the mouse over a tag or click on it, you'll see a link to the tag wiki, which might contain helpful information. If in doubt, go with the specific tag (e.g., &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;gnome&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ubuntu&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answerer, if you see a question that has a specific tag, and you know your answer &lt;em&gt;and most other likely answers&lt;/em&gt; make sense in a more general setting, add the more general tag to your answer (e.g., &lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;window-manager&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt;). (Or, in the same vein, remove a &lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt; tag if you know the question has inherently portable answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T21:49:40.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2011-01-28T01:04:51.653" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm confused, why would &quot;standard unix error messages&quot; link to something inside gcc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Captcha should not be &quot;Permission denied&quot;, because it's not denied yet. From that page you linked to I think &quot;Connection reset by peer&quot; is more suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of other (not better) error messages can also be used for the error page: &quot;Host is down&quot;, &quot;Network is down&quot;, &quot;Network is unreachable&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T01:04:51.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="344" CreationDate="2011-01-30T12:33:35.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is possibly partially due to the part of Internet I grow up in but I'm generally against the homework questions (i.e. visibly beginners homework questions when person didn't even bother to google answer and possibly just posted the question night before deadline) as for me it is form of cheating. However for good or bad it seems to be accepted on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I would answer differently probably putting more emphasis into pushing person in right direction then  giving straight answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T12:33:35.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="437" CreationDate="2011-01-31T20:53:49.393" Score="18" ViewCount="515" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cygwin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cygwin&lt;/a&gt; on-topic here? It's similar to a Linux command-line and has many of the same tools, so lots of answers will probably just be the same as if the user was on Linux. However, it also has quirks and oddities that are cygwin-specific; there was an &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4855125/problem-using-sudo-on-cygwin&quot;&gt;SO post&lt;/a&gt; recently that wouldn't have happened on a normal Linux install&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T22:20:41.550" Title="Cygwin on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="436" CreationDate="2011-01-31T21:30:20.207" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly just because you're using the Cygwin version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309/are-questions-about-vi-vim-and-other-clones-on-topic-here&quot;&gt;vi&lt;/a&gt; or bash doesn't make a question about regexp replacement or brace expansion off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to questions that are more directly tied to a particular implementation, it seems to me that since we allow questions about interactions between Unix implementations and hardware, we should also allow questions about interactions between Unix implementations such as Cygwin, GNUWin32, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Windows Subsystem for Linux&lt;/a&gt; (Ubuntu on Windows, Bash on Windows), &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48/colinux-related-queries-are-off-the-topic&quot;&gt;coLinux&lt;/a&gt;, etc. and the underlying platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if a question is essentially on the Windows side and the fact that Cygwin is a Unix implementation is completely incidental (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/194529/cygwin-fatal-error-unable-to-remap-what-does-it-mean&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;cygwin1.dll&lt;/code&gt; woes&lt;/a&gt;), I think it should be asked on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Windows site&lt;/a&gt;, because I don't expect that there is much expertise about Windows on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4855125/problem-using-sudo-on-cygwin&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the asker doesn't even know what Linux is. I think it would fare better on &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure that the asker even should have been using Cygwin in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T22:20:41.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="436" CreationDate="2011-01-31T22:57:51.920" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say in the general case no, but the Pee-Wee Herman rule applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/the-pee-wee-herman-rule/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/the-pee-wee-herman-rule/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the asker appears smart and groks UNIX conventions and asks &quot;the right way&quot; it &lt;em&gt;can be OK in some circumstances&lt;/em&gt;, as they would be an asset to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T22:57:51.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="440" CreationDate="2011-02-01T14:27:11.207" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;For quite some time we have this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/5123/250&quot;&gt;How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday in quite a panic I asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/6686/250&quot;&gt;Clean up / after accidentally extracting archive into it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main difference is, I run the &quot;de-unzip&quot; as root, which is more stupid and need some special considerations. Apart from that the two questions are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now is that enough to keep them as two questions? Or should I delete mine? Or should we merge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T17:23:59.687" Title="&quot;How to de-unzip&quot; vs &quot;How to cleanup root&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="439" CreationDate="2011-02-01T15:26:05.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we delete my answer and edit yours a bit to avoid specifically using &lt;code&gt;cpio&lt;/code&gt; (since the other question is more generic) we can probably merge them. Merging is pretty difficult since there's usually minor differences that make answers from one question confusing when attached to another, but yours has so few answers that it's not a problem. I'll merge it a little later unless somebody raises a strong objection (seems unlikely)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T15:26:05.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="447" CreationDate="2011-02-01T19:14:36.473" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looked right initially, but now the suggested edits indicator looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-suggested-edits-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the suggested edits icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(there's a &quot;1&quot; in there if you squint hard)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T15:36:46.957" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T15:36:46.957" Title="Suggested edits icon is difficult to read" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-03T23:47:27.653" Score="5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's sometimes not clear whether to ask here or on main meta (an example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/443/what-about-questions-already-answered-elsewhere&quot;&gt;Q: What about questions already answered elsewhere?&lt;/a&gt;). Advantage here is that the answer would be more specific to our site, and the advantage on main meta is that there's more eyes on the question. What criteria do you use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T21:53:14.153" Title="Should I ask generic questions here or on main meta?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="444" CreationDate="2011-02-04T00:35:34.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask here if it only applies to this site; ask on the main meta if it applies to all the sites (or at least multiple sites). The question you linked to probably belongs on the main meta; I'll move it there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T00:35:34.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="441" CreationDate="2011-02-07T17:01:27.607" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T17:01:27.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-07T19:36:53.393" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's better to rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mount&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mount&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mount&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mounting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mounting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mounting&lt;/a&gt;. It seems like better english usage to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T01:42:42.343" Title="Regarding the [mount] tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="448" CreationDate="2011-02-08T01:42:42.343" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree, since the actual unix command for this is &quot;mount&quot;, and it seems useful to have the tag match the command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T01:42:42.343" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="344" CreationDate="2011-02-08T12:56:55.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Michael that the first two bullets are fine, but disagree with the third. If I was asking a question for homework I would rather be provided with links to sources that could help me find the answer on my own (and have a better understanding of the material) or hints as to how resolve a problem. Catch a man to fish vs teach a man to fish...   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Machiej said, I don't think we should just downright give them the answer. If it was some really strange and obscure issue/bug that you would only know about if you've come across before or have a strong understanding of the environment, just flat putting that out would be fine, &lt;em&gt;so long as that bug itself is not the question&lt;/em&gt;. In a similar note, syntax problems would also be fine (using &quot;copy&quot; instead of &quot;cp&quot;), so long as &quot;what is the syntax?&quot; is not the question. Although in cases like that I also think we should post a link to a good resource for syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pointing out why a solution does not work would also be a good idea (or hints as to why) but not posting the actual solution to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'm only new to SO, so not sure if you guys have some form of spoiler or hide tags, but if you do, I think it would be a good idea the askers to post a solution in said tags after they've solved it. That way if someone has a similar question they have a solution, but if they only want hints (so they can solve it on their own) they don't have the answer sitting right in front of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T12:56:55.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="452" CreationDate="2011-02-09T04:10:13.583" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text box with &quot;Something is not quite right?&quot; is too big it sticks out. I'm sure this is easy to fix :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zdkCD.png&quot; alt=&quot;The text box with &amp;quot;Something is not quite right?&amp;quot; is too big it sticks out.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-02-10T17:16:14.337" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T17:16:14.337" Title="Text box on flagging dialog is too big" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="451" CreationDate="2011-02-09T15:40:18.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T15:40:18.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="436" CreationDate="2011-02-10T05:58:42.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume Cygwin is not Linux, but I assume it's Unix (or at least Not Unix (tm)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3946" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T05:58:42.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="455" CreationDate="2011-02-17T02:48:43.240" Score="4" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when we were still in beta, if I visit the site's home page I can see the statistics (number of questions, number of users, like the table on &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3924/unix-linux&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UL is out of beta now, and it looks like Area 51 has stopped updating statistics for UL. If I want to see the current statistics, is there a URL, or anything accessible online that let me view it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T03:01:03.450" Title="Where can I see the site's statistics?" Tags="|support|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="454" CreationDate="2011-02-17T03:01:03.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an API route called &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.unix.stackexchange.com/1.1/stats&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/stats&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that shows &lt;code&gt;total_questions&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;total_users&lt;/code&gt;. I don't remember what the other Area 51 stats were on the homepage, but they're probably on &lt;code&gt;/stats&lt;/code&gt; somewhere&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T03:01:03.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-21T13:11:04.490" Score="6" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt-get&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt-get&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt-get&lt;/a&gt;, we might as well have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt-cache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt-cache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt-cache&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt-cdrom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt-cdrom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt-cdrom&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe we can make these symlinks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T21:46:04.253" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T21:46:04.253" Title="Does it make sense to have both 'apt' and 'apt-get' tags?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="456" CreationDate="2011-02-21T14:47:39.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt; ← &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt-get&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt-get&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt-get&lt;/a&gt; synonym; I'll wait to merge them in case somebody raises an issue here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T14:47:39.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="456" CreationDate="2011-02-21T19:14:05.843" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/787/bad-synonym-for-apt&quot;&gt;discussed briefly on Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to err towards ultra-specific tags. Given the low volume, I'm ok with making &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt-get&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt-get&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt-get&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt; (as well as &lt;code&gt;apt-cache&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;apt-cdrom&lt;/code&gt; if they pop up). On the other hand, I favor keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aptitude&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aptitude&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aptitude&lt;/a&gt; separate, as well as other tools that are built around apt (&lt;code&gt;apt-file&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;synaptic&lt;/code&gt;, etc) if they pop up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:00.273" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T19:14:05.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-21T20:11:32.203" Score="7" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T02:10:35.350" Title="2011 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|moderator-candidates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-21T20:11:32.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2011-02-22T15:34:24.733" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we nominate other members? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T15:34:24.733" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-22T15:34:24.733" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3614" CreationDate="2011-02-22T20:53:53.463" Score="8" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is/does using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nix%22+site%3aunix.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;*nix&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22un%2ax%22+site%3aunix.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;un*x&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, etc, as a euphemism for &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;purely a matter of personal taste, let'em call it “John” if they like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;purely a matter of personal taste, it's perfectly comprehensible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a quaint historical tradition, why not preserve it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hurts legibility (and newbies might not get it) and should be discouraged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;politically reprehensible (everyone should be free to use the word &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt;) and should be discouraged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hurts post searchability and should be discouraged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm the Open Group's lawyer and you must remove and kill all usage of the word UNIX™ on this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;look, ponies!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T23:35:54.743" Title="Euphemisms for unix" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="461" CreationDate="2011-02-22T21:05:27.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like it for the reasons you point at &lt;strong&gt;4-6&lt;/strong&gt;. And since we are not selling any competing system that isn't official Unix here, I doubt the guys at &lt;strong&gt;7&lt;/strong&gt; would come bother (and sue) us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T21:05:27.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="461" CreationDate="2011-02-22T22:16:31.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it is 3: geek folklore, just a way to refer to the many variants out there, not all of which match the patterns, but hey, they're still family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to searchability, this is Unix &amp;amp; Linux Q&amp;amp;A, so this word figures on every page, it should not hurt or matter one bit if a poster uses any euphemism they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3519" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T22:16:31.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="436" CreationDate="2011-02-22T22:23:29.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cygwin is a POSIX compatibility layer (and a little more, and a little less) on Windows. So it is *nix sort-of friendly. Therefore I would consider it on topic, with the provisions that Gilles makes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3519" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T22:23:29.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="466" CreationDate="2011-02-24T06:13:36.397" Score="6" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just today I decide to place a bounty on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/3075/250&quot;&gt;an old question&lt;/a&gt;, and notice that the count doesn't get incremented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this some form of caching, i.e by design? Or is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rvwvr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T06:41:58.473" Title="Incorrect count of &quot;featured&quot; questions" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="465" CreationDate="2011-02-24T06:22:01.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know for sure, but the tab looks right now, so I'd guess it's caching:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-featured-4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the featured tab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T06:22:01.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="468" CreationDate="2011-02-24T21:58:48.727" Score="2" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should symlink &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-manager&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; tags. They are too similar to be separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T22:13:49.283" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T22:13:49.283" Title="Regarding package management tags" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2011-02-24T22:13:38.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Added the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; ← &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-manager&lt;/a&gt; synonym (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-manager&lt;/a&gt; is more common, but the synonym going that way doesn't really make sense to me). Will merge later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T22:13:38.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="471" CreationDate="2011-02-26T00:10:09.333" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see, there seems to be some problem with the capital letter 'S' on Chrome 10.0.648.82 beta. (It seems to have a problem with the number '0' as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6m6eo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastEditorUserId="331" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T07:21:15.183" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T07:21:15.183" Title="Problem with capital 'S' on Chrome." Tags="|bug|status-norepro|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="461" CreationDate="2011-02-26T02:37:21.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for another option: it's both a way to be coy with the trademark issue (#3 I guess), and a way to be inclusive — it implies that one is talking about Unix, Linux, and, even though they don't end in &quot;nix&quot;, probably the BSDs as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T02:37:21.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="469" CreationDate="2011-02-26T07:21:03.873" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't reproduce this in Chrome / Windows 7. As Gilles noted, this is probably an OS or browser specific problem of some kind with fonts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T07:21:03.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-27T18:56:47.320" Score="7" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.  I am working with the candidates to find a time that allows the most participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Town Hall Chat will take place Friday the 4th at 1pm UTC, or 8am EST.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&amp;amp;day=4&amp;amp;year=2011&amp;amp;hour=13&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(view in other timezones)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/323/unix-linux-town-hall-chat&quot;&gt;click here to join&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the details so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have coordinated with the candidates and done the best I could with a best fit match.&lt;s&gt;I would like to schedule this towards the beginning of the election phase, so I am looking at the 1st-4th.  As soon as I coordinate with the existing moderators and candidates, I will edit this post with details on the &quot;when&quot;.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Town Hall Chat will be a one-hour event using our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat platform&lt;/a&gt;.  You can register for the event &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/323/unix-linux-town-hall-chat?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format will be an open discussion.  Users are encouraged to pose questions to the candidate regarding their thoughts on moderation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the chat session, the transcript and a summary will be available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2609" LastEditorUserId="1974" LastEditDate="2011-03-04T19:53:40.610" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T19:53:40.610" Title="2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat:  1pm UTC / 8am EST on the 4th - now!" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2011-05-14T10:09:33.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-27T19:48:26.127" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of looking at SE sites that are black on white - Us terminal users like dark themes, so I've gone all out to make a great userstyle, try it! - If you like it, improve it then tell us about it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;unix.stackexchange.com&quot;) {&#xA;.question-summary + .tagged-ignored {&#xA;    display: none !important;&#xA;}&#xA;body {&#xA;color: white !important;&#xA;background: black !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#h-unanswered-questions, .youarehere, .user-details a, .bottom-notice a, a#h-meta, a#h-chat-link {&#xA;color: SpringGreen !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#tabs a, #hlinks-custom a, .comment-user, .relativetime {&#xA;color: LightGreen !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#wmd-button-bar {&#xA;background-color: SlateGrey !important;&#xA;}&#xA;a.question-hyperlink {&#xA;color: #0087FF !important;&#xA;}&#xA;.vote-count-post {&#xA;color: white !important;&#xA;text-shadow: 2px 2px 0 SlateGrey !important;&#xA;}&#xA;pre, code, input, textarea#wmd-input.processed, .tagged-interesting {&#xA;background-color: #2F2F2F !important;&#xA;color: white !important;&#xA;}&#xA;.status strong {&#xA;color: LightGreen !important;&#xA;}&#xA;.unanswered {&#xA;color: LightGreen !important;&#xA;}&#xA;a.post-tag {&#xA;background-color: #2F2F2F !important;&#xA;color: SlateGrey !important;&#xA;}&#xA;.answered {&#xA;color: LightGrey !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#system-message a {&#xA;color: orange !important;&#xA;}&#xA;.answered strong {&#xA;color: LightGrey !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#footer-menu a, #copyright, #additional-notices, #questions-count p, #hlinks-user a, .module h4, .item-multiplier, .comment-date, .comment-copy, .bottom-notice, .label-key {&#xA;color: white !important;&#xA;}&#xA;.comment-hover {&#xA;background-color: #2F2F2F !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;#copyright a {&#xA;color: orange !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#copyright a:hover, .label-value {&#xA;color: LightGoldenRodYellow !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#svnrev, .reputation-score, .badgecount  {&#xA;color: white !important;&#xA;}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4049" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-02-27T19:58:41.680" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T04:43:10.983" Title="My userstyle - How do you think I should improve it ?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="329" CreationDate="2011-02-28T00:38:30.227" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;plan9's design is hard-core UNIX philosophy, and I'd be happy to see a few questions here. I can't imagine we'll be overwhelmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2729" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T00:38:30.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="473" CreationDate="2011-02-28T04:43:10.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is nice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be generalized to work on any Stack Exchange site, and put on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/?tab=scripts&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/?tab=scripts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:38.983" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T04:43:10.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2011-02-28T09:58:23.063" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.se/Interview_with_Dennis_Ritchie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unix.se&lt;/a&gt; exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5197" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T09:58:23.063" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="480" CreationDate="2011-02-28T19:33:55.023" Score="15" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/7227/&quot;&gt;Here's an example&lt;/a&gt; question, which passes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/a&gt; test. For me, it was really a matter of curiosity, because I don't intend to ever use GTK+ 1.x. But that there's been at least 6 votes on the thread and dozens of views indicates there was actually was some interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T11:57:15.860" Title="Is it ok to ask curiosity questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2011-02-28T21:08:59.663" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, if it's a real, answerable question. It may be only curiosity to you, but turn out to be practical for someone else. In fact, it may turn out that the reason you were curious comes around at you later some time, and you're glad you learned the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the curiosity-drive is a major reason people end up hanging out on these sites. Sure, practical answers are nice, but that doesn't explain the really invested Stack Exchange experts. Since that's good for the site, it should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T21:08:59.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-28T21:44:04.577" Score="7" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going through the answers of some of the moderator candidates and found this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's an entire section on quoting.&#xA;  Because this licensed under the GFDL,&#xA;  which is not compatible with the&#xA;  CC-BY-SA license used here, I won't&#xA;  quote the whole thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much can we quote from man/info pages under the GFDL (which is a whole bunch of the documentation on most systems) without running into problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1207" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T05:29:03.153" Title="Quoting Man Pages" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2011-02-28T23:09:33.353" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether you have a practical interest in the answer or only idle curiosity shouldn't matter: after all, if you didn't say, we wouldn't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a high number of votes doesn't indicate a good question. (Search for things like “favorite cartoon” on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T23:09:33.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="103" CreationDate="2011-02-28T23:15:48.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the Android kernel, which is a Linux kernel (not the mainline tree, but still ~99.9% Linux), are definitely on-topic here. Questions about using unix tools such as Busybox, or about compiling unix programs, might be considered on topic, for the same reason that shell scripting is on-topic even if you're running the script on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/436/cygwin-on-topic&quot;&gt;Cygwin&lt;/a&gt;. But general Android usage questions are very far from anything unix-like. Ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:18:19.203" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T23:15:48.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="472" CreationDate="2011-03-01T00:07:51.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you won't be able to attend the chat, add your question here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is your policy on migrating questions to Ask Ubuntu? (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A majority of the questions here would also be on-topic on Super User. What makes Unix SE different? (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can Unix SE get more experts onboard? (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T00:07:51.420" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-01T00:07:51.420" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="479" CreationDate="2011-03-01T00:54:35.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh hi. That was me. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's really complicated. Where the documentation's license terms are incompatible with CC BY-SA 2.5 (this includes Wikipedia, by the way), we're limited to reasonable fair-use. In general, consider that the author of the original document chose a certain license, and that that should be respected. (Just as I would hope my answers here wouldn't be copied verbatim into a non CC BY-SA book.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, this means small quotes rather than whole copies. Where the text is wholly functional, like a list of command-line arguments, there's probably more latitude. If it's necessary to explain the point, probably a paragraph or two isn't out of line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it shouldn't be the bulk of the answer. In fact, I think that's a decent rule of thumb: if you're quoting more than you're writing, give it a second thought. That's not just for copyright / license compatibility, though — it's better for the site to have actual original answers, not just copies of existing documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-03-01T05:29:03.153" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T05:29:03.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2011-03-01T08:24:07.853" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as your question isn't hypothetical in a meaningless &quot;I'm bored, entertain me&quot; way -- that is, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it is interesting to other experienced users&lt;/a&gt;, that's probably fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T08:24:07.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2011-03-01T09:57:47.303" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as it would otherwise be ontopic, not &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; subjective, or &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; localized. I don't even care if you already know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T09:57:47.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-02T10:08:29.333" Score="7" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rename the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt; tag, to something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installation&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If applicable, get rid of it in favor of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; or something more specific (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yum&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, limit it to OS installation and installations not involving a package manager?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T00:15:49.783" Title="What to do about [install] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="486" CreationDate="2011-03-02T13:51:02.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about replacing it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/system-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;system-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;system-installation&lt;/a&gt;, to distinguish it from already-existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-installation&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T13:51:02.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="490" CreationDate="2011-03-02T15:13:16.570" Score="6" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/598846#598846&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; the merit of keeping &lt;em&gt;no-longer-relevant&lt;/em&gt; Comments around with Michael Mrozek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP follows a suggestion by a commenter, something like &lt;em&gt;include exact error message&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A commenter mentions some info that is outdated, like &lt;em&gt;Squeeze is still in freeze...&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases (and maybe more I'm not thinking of), is it okay to ask OP to delete the Comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear what others think, so we can have a guideline that we can follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2012-04-24T09:16:35.483" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T19:53:06.630" Title="Regarding 'no-longer-relevant' Comments" Tags="|discussion|comments|obsolete-information|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2011-03-02T22:54:45.273" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggestions on how to troubleshoot a problem, such as “what's the content of &amp;lt;file name&amp;gt;”, should always be kept. They're very important for people who'll find the question later and have similar symptoms but possibly not the same underlying cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's often worth keeping suggestions on how to write a better question, such as “exact error message”. This conveys a message to other users who might be about to ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outdated information can have some value in making the context of a question or some of its answers more comprehensible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions of corrections in answers are less important if they've been followed, especially if they're of the “I don't understand why you said foo, did you mean bar?” / “yes” variety. But you should be really sure before deleting a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T22:54:45.273" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2011-03-03T01:24:37.163" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think a comment is irrelevant (or obsolete) and should be deleted, flag it as such. I'm always happy to clean up comments that have become noisy for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T01:24:37.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="493" CreationDate="2011-03-03T04:14:10.510" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only migration destination I found is UL meta (here). I say this because I saw that SO has five. Destinations I can think for are SO, SU, AU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T05:48:14.437" Title="Why do we have only one migration destination?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="491" CreationDate="2011-03-03T04:40:47.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can have other migration destinations, but they must be based on data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at your closed off-topic questions and see if there is a pattern of where those questions would belong elsewhere in the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is strong evidence that a lot of closed off-topic questions belong on a particular site we will unlock that migration route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T04:40:47.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="491" CreationDate="2011-03-03T05:48:14.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem is people here don't vote to close. Most posts are closed by a mod and nobody else; in the last 4 months the only votes to close besides mods are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/2180/shawn-j-goff&quot;&gt;Shawn&lt;/a&gt; once, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/4/stefan-lasiewski&quot;&gt;Stefan&lt;/a&gt; twice, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; a handful of times. Either that means few posts need to be closed on UL, or it means posts only get closed if a mod notices them. If it's the former than that's good, but we're unlikely to warrant migration paths; if it's the latter than we don't know where we need to migrate to, because we can't check the closed posts to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mods can migrate now, but it doesn't happen as much as you might think. So far this year:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migrations to us from X&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO - 38&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SU - 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AU - 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migrations from us to X&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO - 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SU - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AU - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only one that would really be useful is a target to us from SO, but they don't have room on their close dialog (the max is 5). I looked into replacing &lt;a href=&quot;https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Webmasters&lt;/a&gt;, since I figured they have the lowest migration volume from SO, but SO pushes around 30 questions to webmasters every &lt;strong&gt;week&lt;/strong&gt;, so having pushed 40 to us in two months is probably not enough to warrant replacing them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T05:48:14.437" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="472" CreationDate="2011-03-04T12:42:07.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with the other town hall chats, I will be creating a &quot;digest&quot; version for the Unix &amp;amp; Linux Town Hall Chat. This will be posted as one large Meta question. The digest will contain all the questions and their answers, with none of the other conversation from the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;the meta post about Town Hall Digests&lt;/a&gt;. Or for an example, look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/948/2011-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-digest&quot;&gt;AskUbuntu Town Hall Digest&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1759/2252&quot;&gt;Gaming Town Hall Digest&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also discuss these digests with me in chat, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/352/town-hall-discussion&quot;&gt;the Town Hall Discussion room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/495/1974&quot;&gt;Here is the Digest version of the Town Hall Chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T16:23:48.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="495" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:43:43.433" Score="7" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is a &quot;digest&quot; version of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/472/1974&quot;&gt;2011 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat&lt;/a&gt;. The format, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/77831/131541&quot;&gt;as described on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, is one &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to this question &lt;em&gt;for every question&lt;/em&gt; asked in the Town Hall, containing all the candidate's answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To view the digest chronologically, please sort the answers by &quot;oldest&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have questions or comments about this, &lt;strong&gt;please do not answer this question&lt;/strong&gt; as the answers are designed to be used for the questions from the Town hall itself. Instead, please ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/77831/131541&quot;&gt;the parent question&lt;/a&gt; or in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/352/town-hall-discussion&quot;&gt;the Town Hall Discussion Room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A big &lt;strong&gt;THANK YOU TO REBECCA CHERNOFF for organizing these town halls&lt;/strong&gt; and helping our communities grow!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;If you see any corrections which need to be made to this digest, or if you were a candidate who was unable to attend the town hall and would like your answers included, please @Josh me and let me know!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T16:49:01.693" Title="2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:44:46.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/97ca2e94ba373515aa387feee67d613e?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Josh http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/97ca2e94ba373515aa387feee67d613e?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/637/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610750#610750&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;  on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/472/2011-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-1pm-utc-8am-est-on-the-4th-now/482#482&quot;&gt;behalf of Gilles&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What is your policy on migrating questions to Ask Ubuntu? (Gilles)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tshepang http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610763#610763&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh migrate only those which are very-ubuntu-specific, like questions about ubuntu policy, or Unity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610764#610764&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh This came up on meta a few times; we have something of an agreement with AU now that appears in the FAQ, so I intend to keep following that unless somebody revisits it: they migrate stuff that doesn't apply to Ubuntu here, we migrate stuff that only applies to Ubuntu there, and stuff that applies to both stays where it was posted unless the asker mod-flags it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;xenoterracide http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610765#610765&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh my personal policy for AU is to only migrate by request; or in the very rare event that the question really does apply only to Ubuntu. But I haven't really seen any  questions like that yet. I'm not sure I'd know anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mattdm http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610767#610767&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh I think the Ubuntu segregation is unfortunate, and although I know there were earlier votes that came down against it, I'd like to work towards ultimately merging the sites again. I think questions where Ubuntu just happens to be the distro are perfectly on-topic here. Questions which are specifically about community issues or development under Canonical's toolset would be candidates for migration. And I'd like to see more general-Linux questions from Ask Ubuntu migrated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;phunehehe http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610784#610784&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh I don't feel good if there are question that won't be looked at by certain people who have the knowledge. I'm greedy for U&amp;amp;L and will only migrate (1) questions that are really specific to Ubuntu or (2) by request of the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tshepang http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/323?m=610776#610776&quot;&gt;responded&lt;/a&gt; to @mattdm:&lt;/strong&gt;  This is going to be hard because many questions that are off-topic here are accepted there... things like distro development policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mattdm http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/323?m=610782#610782&quot;&gt;clarified&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang That's what I mean by &quot;community issues&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T16:49:01.693" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:45:37.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/97ca2e94ba373515aa387feee67d613e?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Josh&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/637/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610773#610773&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Candidates, what is your view on the new &quot;Everyone Can Edit&quot; functionality that has been added to the site? Does it make the job of a moderator easier? DO you like the system, or do you have concerns?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610781#610781&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh It's perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610783#610783&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh I'm iffy about it on some sites, people tend to post poor edits. It's worked great for us though; we've had 177 suggested edits, and only 10 were rejected; one user in particular went to town with them and wrote a ton of tag wikis that nobody else cared about creating&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610788#610788&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh I like it. I'm not sure it particularly affects my job, easier or harder. But it does allow more people to help clean things up, and make things better. Things I wouldn't have noticed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610796#610796&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh I haven't seen what it looks like from the moderator side yet, but on the photo-SE site it's really helped some great new contributors make changes. Right now, accepted edits give reputation; if the system becomes problematic someday, it'd be easy enough to make rejected edits have a penalty. Or there could be a separate system like the new &quot;flag score&quot;. But right now, I've only seen positives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610802#610802&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh This is actually good, because once a site grows, there are many &quot;little&quot; improvements that new users can make. Having to wait until you earn enough reputation can be discouraging, and when you finally have enough reputation you would have missed a lot of things to edit already. It puts more tasks on moderators actually, but I think it is good. If a moderator is too busy he/she won't have enough time for small mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:45:37.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:47:06.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610812#610812&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; A majority of the questions here would also be on-topic on Super User. What makes Unix SE different?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610835#610835&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang I think the expert community is different. A lot of Linux users wouldn't describe themselves as &quot;power users&quot; at all — or even &quot;computer enthusiasts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610866#610866&quot;&gt;expanded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang Also, a little off the direct question, but in coming here from Server Fault, I've often noticed non-professional-admin Linux questions getting sent off to Super User basically to die. I think that's unfortunate, and I think we can be a better destination for those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610845#610845&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; SU was an old site, newer stack 2.0 sites have much more focus, in fact it could be accurately said that Unix SE was entirely covered by either SO, SF, or SU. However, as a site with sharper focus, we take precedence over those sites for Unix/Linux questions. (or at least we should, I've no idea on the SF policy)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610847#610847&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It's a tough one. I personally felt alienated when I was on Super User. It was strange that my questions would be adequately answered on a site that also had a lotta Windows experts. I haven't used it much to really judge well, but many mentioned the poorer quality of the responses there (SU).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610859#610859&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang I continue to think (and Ivo would stab me for this) that SU is too all-encompassing; it was creating before SE sites exist to cover pretty much all computer stuff that didn't fit on SO/SF. Now the SE sites have a lot of overlap, and we've been dealing with it pretty well; AU is a subset of UL, which is a subset of SU along with Apple and probably a couple others&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610877#610877&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang I don't want to keep saying bad things about other sites and praise ours. I have been a frequent visitor on SU and I feel that things are so far apart. That is the key difference to me. In breaking the SE sites we have the advantage of fine-grained interest. So, when a *nix user visit UL he/she will always see familiar topics that are interesting to him/her. There can be quite some overlap between SU and UL, but in such cases I'd always prefer the post to be on UL if it is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:47:06.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:47:42.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610863#610863&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; How much time do you anticipate spending on the site? How much of that would be &quot;moderating&quot;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610874#610874&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek Not being experienced at being a real SE mod, I have no idea, although you could say I've been moderating (in  a sense) since I've done lots of commenting and editing. It's probably a &amp;gt;hour per day on average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610878#610878&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I try to look at the site every day, at least for moderation. I have all the site's questions in rss and review them, to see if I have interest in answering or moderating the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610879#610879&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I'm on the site daily. It's a bit hard to count the wall-clock time, but I generally have it up in an extra tab all of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610914#610914&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek Right now I'm visiting the site everyday, spending around 3 hours in total. I guess being a mod will be very different, but I'm not sure if I can split the hours and say &quot;This much time is mod time. This much time is answer time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610939#610939&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh No, I kind of forgot :). I'm on the site pretty consistently; I'm up to 207 consecutive days, and it's mostly editing and other such things. I see most mod flags I think&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:47:42.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:48:08.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d8c43bb4c449d8054aebdd4ad98c6f6c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Rebecca Chernoff&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/23/rebecca-chernoff&quot;&gt;Rebecca Chernoff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610899#610899&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What can be done to bring more people to the community? Do you feel that's part of your responsibility as a moderator?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610907#610907&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff I don't think that's a moderator-specific thing. It's part of being an active member of the community in general. I think moderators should be involved, but outreach is a different aspect which doesn't necessarily overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610919#610919&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @mattdm But one thing that attracts users is simply having a well-moderated site. If questions are well organized and easy to search, and if the content is high quality, that means people who are directed here (or stumble upon the site) will have a good experience and will stay around. So, that's a key area in which moderators can have influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610910#610910&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Not really part of mod job, but I whenever relevant, I try to promo the site. I continuously mention it in my blog (i.e. link to great posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610926#610926&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff I think it's important that moderator's do personal promotion, for example I link on my blog and I did mention at one point that I might end up being a moderator. But I believe it's more important for us to try to keep people from leaving. People leave when they have negative experiences, and it's our job to keep those at a minimum&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610927#610927&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff I posted oh so long ago about miscellaneous ideas for promoting the site, but I don't really view it as a mod task; there's virtually nothing mods can do promotionally that can't be done by anyone. Linking awesome questions/answers seems the best way to me; hopefully someday announcer/booster/publicist will help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610970#610970&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff &quot;Bring more people to the community&quot; sounds like marketing, while I feel the role of a moderator is more like house keeping. Everyone can share links, talk to their friends, ask their friends' questions, not just moderators. What we can call responsibility is, how much do we want the site to grow. Being a moderator can add to my pride -&amp;gt; I love UL more -&amp;gt; I tell more people about it. That won't change my attitude towards advertising the site, though, I'm doing my best at that already :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:48:08.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:48:30.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610943#610943&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What do you intend to do to prevent users from leaving?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610945#610945&quot;&gt;joked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang handcuffs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610953#610953&quot;&gt;then answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang Keeping the site focused and organized will keep users interested. I don't think it's so much about preventing people from leaving as it is making them want to come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610954#610954&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; my answer: instead of downvoting a rep1 user question (which tend to be problematic), I'd rather just comment to mention the problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610956#610956&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang Depends why they're leaving I suppose; there isn't a great way to track that. I would assume the main reason is people being rude in comments/posts, and we delete those pretty fast. As long as people read a question and the top answer is good they're going to keep reading questions here; letting bad/rude/unhelpful posts stick around is a great way to start looking like any other forum out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610957#610957&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang Spam/offensive/mod flags take care of that pretty well; we just started to have a spam problem yesterday, and users have been downvoting/spam flagging, which was encouraging&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611005#611005&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang There are 2 answer. First I don't want to interfere anyone who is leaving just because they don't see things they are interested in. Second, I really hate it when users choose to leave because they see things that should not be there. I particularly hate it when one of my friends tell me &quot;I went there once, and they tell me to go look at the 1000 line manual&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:48:30.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:49:00.060" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610969#610969&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What's your thoughts on outdated comments and what would you do when such comments are flagged for deletion?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610977#610977&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang Outdated comments are generally noise, and if they don't apply anymore (including not applying to new users asking a similar question) they should simply be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610978#610978&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; my answer: I don't like keeping outdated comments around, but I'd like to avoid the commotion caused by people who think they are still useful. So I'm split on this one. I'd like to hear what others say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610980#610980&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang I generally don't worry about comments unless they are offensive, or harmful. I see no reason to take them down. If they are oudated because a url is wrong, it's better to update them than delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/610987#610987&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang I agree with Gilles' answer here; I prefer seeing the complete conversation. Even if the post makes sense on its own, I rarely delete comments. On other sites, even the trilogy, comments are usually only deleted if a whole comment thread has devolved into a flame war&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:49:00.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:50:05.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d8c43bb4c449d8054aebdd4ad98c6f6c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Rebecca Chernoff&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/23/rebecca-chernoff&quot;&gt;Rebecca Chernoff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611012#611012&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Moderation requires decisive action. You may find yourself in a position where you're unsure of what action to take, but can't immediately discuss the situation with a fellow moderator. Are you more inclined to act swiftly or wait for additional input, and how would you decide where to draw the line?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611022#611022&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Chat kind of eliminated &quot;can't immediately discuss the situation with a fellow moderator&quot; -- someone is always active in the general mod room. But in any case I don't think that problem actually comes up; if I'm undecided on something, it's something that can wait, and I just leave the flag in the queue. If it's something that has to happen now, it's pretty clear cut&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611024#611024&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Spam is out. But other than that, we're not yet so active that for lesser problems we can't wait a little bit to get a consensus (not just from other moderators but from other community members). This is particularly true for actions which can't easily be undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611028#611028&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff I respect the validity of the question, but that's rare to happen on a Q&amp;amp;A site :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611029#611029&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff Not wanting to abuse power, I'd rather try be patient and wait. This is except in obvious cases of deliberate cases of abuse (e.g. there's one user who made fun of FLOSS users, ranting about how silly they are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611030#611030&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff if I am unsure of the action to take it is generally because it's a very borderline topic. In which case it can wait until I can discuss it. If I have an idea of where I want to go with the problem I may comment on it @user so that they can know what direction we're thinking about going. If I am very on the line, I'm likely to make a meta post of it, to see what the community thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611047#611047&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @RebeccaChernoff I'll wait, until something meaningful happens. If there is something wrong, there will be users flagging or commenting on it. There is a community, and it's best if the community can decide on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:50:05.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:50:44.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611037#611037&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611065#611065&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek I try to conduct myself in a professional, grown-up manner on the internet regardless of whether there's a special symbol by my name. I don't think the moderator status changes that for me personally, although I appreciate the extra need to watch oneself as an official representative of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611066#611066&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek It's like &quot;I'm the mighty one&quot; :) I like @xenoterracide's approach: put a disclaimer where you feel the need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611074#611074&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @MichaelMrozek No pressure I guess. Maybe a more relevant question is &quot;how will you change when u r mod?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611078#611078&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't like it, but I'm used to it. I'd like a way to be a normal user most of the time (similar to how reddit handles things), since plenty of activity has nothing to do with being a mod, but lacking that it's not a big deal. I at least like the indication that people can ask me for help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:50:44.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:51:15.597" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611096#611096&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; How do you decide what is offtopic?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611110#611110&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @xenoterracide By following the FAQ and precedent. If there's a question, a discussion in Meta is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611117#611117&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @xenoterracide The site name and the FAQ. Other than that base on Meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611122#611122&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @xenoterracide Anything that's hardware or code (bar shells), except the obvious (non Unix or Linux).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611127#611127&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @xenoterracide We've been pretty active on meta with discussing &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/on-topic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'on-topic'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; things; I think that works pretty well. When it comes to obvious overlap with other sites we usually talk with the other mods (cough AU). For things that tend to come up more often we've been adding them to the FAQ as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611137#611137&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @me Obviously the FAQ, but in some cases we do have to make decisions, in which case I go with gut instinct, discuss with the other moderators of the site, and post to meta if necessary. It was actually one of the goals of mine to make sure that the site was ontopic in the right ways. So I try to voice my own opinion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:51:15.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:53:15.453" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/97ca2e94ba373515aa387feee67d613e?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Josh&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/637/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611104#611104&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Candidates, what was the first site in the network you used? Is Unix.SE your first site and you branched off from there? Or have you been with us since the earlier days? (pre-superuser, etc)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611114#611114&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh Server Fault, and then Photo-SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611128#611128&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh I used Stack Overflow first, and drifted around before finally settling on unix-SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611131#611131&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh The first site I joined was SO, when it was quite big already. After that I branched off to SU and finally found my place on UL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611147#611147&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh I started on SO, but not since the beginning (a little under a year ago now). I got on MSO a few months after that; I don't post much on SO anymore, it's mostly editing/voting, but I still post a lot on MSO. UL is the only other site I'm particularly active on besides those two, although I poke around the others and have way too many accounts in my profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611150#611150&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Josh probably stackoverflow though I don't think it was pre superuser. I think I started with it around the time SF and SU were created, in fact I think it was their announcement that got me on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:53:15.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T15:55:21.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611138#611138&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What's your thoughts on too-localised? Do you think we are too strict here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611145#611145&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang I haven't noticed anything I've thought &quot;wow, too strict&quot;. Can you give an example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611157#611157&quot;&gt;clarified&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @mattdm I once asked a specific question regarding some Debian decision, regarding this or that version of a package, and it was closed as too localised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/88e60659e997d36af3ff348b3251e1a6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tshepang&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/1589/tshepang&quot;&gt;Tshepang&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611163#611163&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @mattdm I also asked some history-related question about some tool that wasn't famous enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/33b78ea4302ec5b803947c941a32a3c9?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;phunehehe&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137/phunehehe&quot;&gt;phunehehe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611164#611164&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang That happened to me (on another site) and I'm still feel bad about it. I don't think I have seen any such question here though. Generally if the question is on topic and the OP keeps updating information about the question (i.e when asked) then it should be kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e990c7cdac81e570939c4d5b17303b42?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/246/xenoterracide&quot;&gt;xenoterracide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611165#611165&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang no, but then again I'm usually the one who has been making those kinds of rough decisions. Sometimes it's a hard call to say this is too localized or this is too broad, or this is offtopic. It's the responsibility of the moderator to do that to keep the site from getting offtopic or uninteresting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10a08c650da6d880f519b6d9b7f89980?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/4749/mattdm&quot;&gt;mattdm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611175#611175&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang I think I'd be slow on the too-localized call. I think &quot;would this possibly be interesting to someone else any other time ever&quot; is a good metric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611179#611179&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; @Tshepang We currently have 0 posts closed as too localized, so I'd say no, we're not too strict here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was more discussion on this topic; follow the “answered” links above to dive in and read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T15:55:21.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="495" CreationDate="2011-03-04T16:20:43.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d8c43bb4c449d8054aebdd4ad98c6f6c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Rebecca Chernoff&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/23/rebecca-chernoff&quot;&gt;Rebecca Chernoff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611135#611135&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Final thoughts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but there was no unified response... If candidates would like to post final thoughts, please do so in chat and &lt;code&gt;@Josh&lt;/code&gt; me so I know to include them in this answer. Otherwise, I will conclude with a thought of my own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/97ca2e94ba373515aa387feee67d613e?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Josh&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/637/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/611211#611211&quot;&gt;concluded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would like to thank all the candidates for taking time to answer our questions and for volunteering their time! And even though she'll tell me not to &lt;strong&gt;I want to extend a huge thanks to @RebeccaChernoff for organizing these Town Halls&lt;/strong&gt; and helping to build great communities! (And for being up so early ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1974" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T16:20:43.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-05T09:15:25.143" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious. Since last week I have seen the message &quot;Please participate in the Unix and Linux 2011 community moderator election&quot; on both our main site and meta. Today the banner disappears on the main site. Is this by design? What's the logic behind that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T09:33:45.023" Title="The &quot;election&quot; banner is now on meta only. Is that the correct behavior?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="510" CreationDate="2011-03-05T09:33:45.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The banner is a little obnoxious so we don't like to leave it up for too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who is eligible to vote in the election gets an &lt;em&gt;unavoidable&lt;/em&gt; notification message in their queue, so if they &lt;em&gt;visited the site at all in the election period&lt;/em&gt;, believe me, they know about the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The banner is mostly for average users who wander by, and most of them will not terribly care that we're having an election -- and for power users, the banner gets very old, very rapidly. Worse, if there are too many banners, you have &quot;boy who cried wolf&quot; and everyone ignores it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, we try very hard to use site level banners as infrequently as possible. There are several during any election, and we think that's sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T09:33:45.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="594" CreationDate="2011-03-06T22:42:37.637" Score="11" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just gone and removed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; tag from many questions. It's mostly used on questions migrated from other Stack Exchange sites, on poorly tagged questions, and on questions about the original AT&amp;amp;T Unix product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/att-unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;att-unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;att-unix&lt;/a&gt; instead and banning &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also previous discussion on this tag:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/168/tags-for-variant-agnostic-questions&quot;&gt;Tags for variant-agnostic questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T00:54:31.513" Title="Kill the unix tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="512" CreationDate="2011-03-07T01:06:54.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a big fan of using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/att-unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;att-unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;att-unix&lt;/a&gt;; people trying to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; legitimately have no way of knowing we've named the tag something else. I'd rather retaggers just monitor &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; and remove it from posts that should've have it (the same thing we do with lots of tags already). If it's a problem of incoming posts, there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tools/recently-imported&quot;&gt;list of recently migrated posts&lt;/a&gt; that can help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T01:06:54.553" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="512" CreationDate="2011-03-07T02:51:49.247" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a concept now of intrinsic / ambient tags per site, that is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the [apple] tag on apple.se&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the [wordpress] tag on wordpress.se&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the [programming] tag on stackoverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags are disallowed and also removed from any migrated questions -- but they are tested prior to migration to make sure the migrated question has at least 1 tag in common with the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added &lt;code&gt;^(unix|linux)$&lt;/code&gt; to the intrinsic tags for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T02:51:49.247" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-08T13:55:23.960" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8783/resources-to-learn-linux&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8783/resources-to-learn-linux&lt;/a&gt; was merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3294/good-introductory-resources-for-linux/8785&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3294/good-introductory-resources-for-linux/8785&lt;/a&gt;, which seems quite reasonable given the headlines. But the older question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Basically what should I know for daily&#xA;  interaction with a linux webserver and&#xA;  what are good resources to learn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;( I'd like this to be kind of a faq&#xA;  for good introductory resources to&#xA;  Linux as an OS, so server tips are&#xA;  good, but it shouldn't have to be&#xA;  server only )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;whereas the new one was &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you professionals recommend&#xA;  a beginner &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to learn how to use this&#xA;  OS to its full potential?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Emphasis added.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not complaining about the merge, but I liked the distinction between &quot;give me a list of resources&quot; and &quot;what should I actively do to learn&quot;. Anyone have suggestions for how to put that back into the merged question without being too disruptive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T13:55:23.960" Title="Nuances lost in merge..." Tags="|discussion|merging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-09T13:38:47.200" Score="6" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone have any opinions on this tag? good or bad? seems a little odd to me, and seems like it might be starting to get abused by a couple of people. Here's a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/not-root-user&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;not-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;not-root-user&lt;/a&gt; tag. (note: there are like 6 questions edited pending approval to add it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-03-09T20:04:31.187" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T20:20:31.253" Title="Not Root User tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="516" CreationDate="2011-03-09T15:38:30.250" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;code&gt;non-root&lt;/code&gt; could have been a better name for this tag. That said, the tag is helpful, in that it shows an important aspect of the problem. It also helps categorize questions, for example, &quot;Installing Chrome&quot; is one, but &quot;Installing Chrome without root access&quot; is another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed that a bunch of questions have just been retagged with &lt;code&gt;not-root-user&lt;/code&gt;, some incorrectly. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/6689/250&quot;&gt;Prevent non-root user from formatting a partition&lt;/a&gt; is an example of a question that should not have been tagged with &lt;code&gt;not-root-user&lt;/code&gt;, because the problem doesn't involve the user not being able or not wanting to become root. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/5535/250&quot;&gt;Non-Root Package Managers&lt;/a&gt;, on the contrary, should have the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T15:38:30.250" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="516" CreationDate="2011-03-09T20:20:31.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way to determine if a tag is actually useful is to imagine if anyone would subscribe to it (RSS/email). Why would anyone subscribe to this tag is a bit beyond me. Most of the questions here would be on-topic for such a tag anyways (root access is a small part of system usage), so in that case I agree with phunehehe that the tag could have a better name (maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nonroot-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nonroot-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nonroot-installation&lt;/a&gt;). But even then, is the tag that interesting? Why not just use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's talk about me. I've used Debian more than any other OS, so I'm more likely to answer a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt; question than a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yum&lt;/a&gt; one. Why would one be more interested in answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nonroot-install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nonroot-install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nonroot-install&lt;/a&gt; questions than other &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt; questions? Is it really likely that someone would be good in one and not the other, as opposed to the case for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yum&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T20:20:31.253" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="520" CreationDate="2011-03-10T19:49:01.967" Score="6" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have at least three questions (I wouldn't be surprised to find more if I went actively looking) where someone compiled their kernel and forgot a driver and so couldn't boot. These are candidates for merging. Alternatively, as none has a really good answer, create a master question, write a good answer and close the others as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7631/error-booting-the-custom-compiled-kernel-2-6-37-on-ubuntu-10-04-gave-up-waiting&quot;&gt;error booting the custom compiled kernel 2.6.37 on ubuntu 10.04 : gave up waiting on root device&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4599/kernel-compilation-error&quot;&gt;kernel compilation error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8405/kernel-cant-find-dev-sda-file-when-boot&quot;&gt;Kernel can&amp;#39;t find /dev/sda file during boot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T21:23:25.343" Title="Merge I-compiled-my-kernel-and-forgot-a-device questions" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="519" CreationDate="2011-03-10T19:56:52.050" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's not much point in making a fourth question. I merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8405/kernel-cant-find-dev-sda-file-during-boot&quot;&gt;Kernel can&amp;#39;t find /dev/sda file during boot&lt;/a&gt;; all 6 answers make sense there. Good find&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T21:23:14.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="522" CreationDate="2011-03-11T13:57:11.310" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask a question, asking for recommendation and pro/con about which MTA (e.g., exim &amp;amp; postfix) on what OS (Linux/FreeBSD). Will that be acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T21:28:05.183" Title="Meta-Question: Is it acceptable to ask for recommendation re: MTA &amp; OS combination?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="521" CreationDate="2011-03-11T14:09:15.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comparison questions luckily haven't been controversial here before (AFAIR), so go ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T14:09:15.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2011-03-11T15:07:06.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figured I should post some sort of answer. The election is over; the winners were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/73.png&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/29.png&quot; alt=&quot;xenoterracide&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2511.png&quot; alt=&quot;mattdm&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the complete OpenSTV output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unix and Linux Moderator Election 2011&#xA;&#xA;OpenSTV version 1.6.1 (http://www.OpenSTV.org/)&#xA;&#xA;Suggested donation for using OpenSTV for an election is $50. Please go to&#xA;http://www.OpenSTV.org/donate to donate via PayPal, Google Checkout, or&#xA;Amazon Payments.&#xA;&#xA;Certified election reports are also available. Please go to&#xA;http://www.openstv.org/certified-reports for more information.&#xA;&#xA;Loading ballots from file election-results.blt.&#xA;Ballot file contains 6 candidates and 54 ballots.&#xA;Ballot file contains 54 non-empty ballots.&#xA;&#xA;Counting votes for Unix and Linux Moderator Election 2011 using Meek STV.&#xA;6 candidates running for 3 seats.&#xA;&#xA;Round    Michael Mrozek    xenoterracide    phunehehe    mattdm       Tshepang    maxschlepzig    Exhausted    Surplus    Threshold&#xA;1        37.000000         8.000000         1.000000     4.000000     3.000000    1.000000        0.000000     23.499999  13.500001&#xA;Count of first choices. Candidate Michael Mrozek has reached the threshold and is elected.&#xA;2        13.500005         20.067565        2.905405     7.175675     6.810810    2.270270        1.270270     7.202704   13.182433&#xA;Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the threshold: Michael Mrozek, 0.364865. Candidate xenoterracide has reached the threshold and is elected.&#xA;3        13.793630         13.289569        4.820250     9.107686     8.408307    3.072247        1.508311     0.837353   13.122923&#xA;Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the threshold: Michael Mrozek, 0.356282 and xenoterracide, 0.656903.&#xA;4        14.038108         14.369332        4.820250     9.107686     8.408307                    3.256317     3.035598     12.685921&#xA;Count after eliminating maxschlepzig and transferring votes. All losing candidates are eliminated.&#xA;5        14.160348         15.871956                     9.751404     8.751404                    5.464888     5.764746     12.133779&#xA;Count after eliminating phunehehe and transferring votes. All losing candidates are eliminated.&#xA;6        12.511666        12.697122                      11.086877    10.086877                   7.617458     2.017516     11.595636&#xA;Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the threshold: Michael Mrozek, 0.305293 and xenoterracide, 0.502189.&#xA;7        11.694278        11.821160                      11.561103    10.561103                   8.362356     0.848305     11.409412&#xA;Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have exceeded the threshold: Michael Mrozek, 0.282942 and xenoterracide, 0.458624. Candidate mattdm has reached the threshold and is elected.&#xA;Winners are Michael Mrozek, xenoterracide, and mattdm.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T15:07:06.657" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-11T15:07:06.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="521" CreationDate="2011-03-11T21:28:05.183" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can ask for software recommendations here (whether amongst a fixed set or not). Just make sure your question states your requirements precisely. “What's the best MTA?” is not a good question (best for what?). “What's a good MTA and OS combination for a server dedicated to relaying and archiving 10k mailing list messages per day?” is a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T21:28:05.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="225" CreationDate="2011-03-11T22:19:44.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ask questions about a unix &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career-development&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; career&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programmers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. (As you can tell from the name, this site doesn't discuss sysadmin careers.) Be sure to first read their &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, in particular the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq#link-can-i-ask-career-advice-questions&quot;&gt;section on career advice&lt;/a&gt;. In particular, make sure you have the right balance between a too-general question (“How can I get a unix-related job?”) and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/588/are-career-advice-questions-useful-to-anyone-except-the-poster/590#590&quot;&gt;too-personal question&lt;/a&gt; (“What should I do with my career now?”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:56.630" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T18:52:25.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="547" CreationDate="2011-03-16T21:23:16.593" Score="3" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;The input box for tag wiki excerpts is too wide and disappears under the “What are Tag Wikis” box. Please make it the same width as the full tag wiki input box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Observed under Firefox 3.0.6 and Chrome 10.0.648.133.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sDJXf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" OwnerDisplayName="Gilles" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-03-25T03:44:12.250" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T03:44:12.250" Title="Tag wiki presentation box hides excerpt input box" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="546" CreationDate="2011-03-17T11:07:24.180" Score="6" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to use a grey background for Firefox to ease eye strain while reading plain text. Many sites (including unix.stackexchange.com) assume the browser uses a white background.  This &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you intend the site to have a white background with subtle dots, please adjust the background image accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GYK7F.png&quot; alt=&quot;how unix.se.com looks to me&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4667" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2011-03-24T02:26:38.657" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T02:26:38.657" Title="Background image should not assume I use a white background" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="531" CreationDate="2011-03-17T22:25:09.423" Score="13" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like I'm stuck below 1000 and can't seem to break the glass ceiling!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Voting, Answering, Asking?  What's the best bet for slowly but surely raising my points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-08-25T15:18:24.817" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T18:08:33.097" Title="What's the best way to get more points?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-03-17T22:31:54.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way is to keep the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; tab open. It's subscribed to all new questions on the site. There'll be a whole bunch of easy (for you) ones that you can quickly climb on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T22:31:54.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-03-17T22:40:01.300" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are like me (i.e. not an expert in anything), ask lots of questions, even if it's just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/477/688&quot;&gt;for the sake of curiosity&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T06:07:16.887" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-03-17T23:17:24.233" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order of decreasing rep benefit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=featured&quot;&gt;questions with &lt;strong&gt;bounties&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -- the minimum bounty is 50 rep, and they don't count towards the rep cap&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post awesome answers that get &lt;strong&gt;accepted&lt;/strong&gt; -- you get 15 rep for an accept, and it doesn't count towards the rep cap&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post awesome &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; that get oodles of upvotes -- you get 10 rep per upvote, but your total rep gain is capped at 200 per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post awesome &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; that also get upvotes -- 5 rep per upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept answers&lt;/strong&gt; on your questions -- 2 rep per accept&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggest edits&lt;/strong&gt; to posts and tag wikis -- 2 rep per accepted suggestion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting doesn't get you rep (in fact, downvotes &lt;em&gt;cost&lt;/em&gt; you 1 rep each on answers only), but it does give other people rep, encouraging them to contribute, as well as sorting posts by quality -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263/beta-progress-importance-of-reputation-and-voting&quot;&gt;yay voting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="72456" LastEditDate="2017-11-08T18:08:33.097" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T18:08:33.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-03-17T23:28:19.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way is to contribute good answers. Good questions will grant you points too. Quantity is paramount, but there's a minimum quality requirement. It is more efficient, but less neighborly, to contribute popular content than interesting content. In addition to the new questions that come in, try to answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;“unanswered” questions&lt;/a&gt;, especially &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A0&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topic has been discussed to death on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;the main Meta&lt;/a&gt;. For example, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17204/6-simple-tips-to-get-stack-overflow-reputation-fast&quot;&gt;pretty good tips to gain reputation fast on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, though these tips mostly apply to the high-activity tags on Stack Overflow. Here, being antisocial won't help you get more points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've just discovered, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76251/how-does-peer-review-for-edits-work&quot;&gt;edits&lt;/a&gt; get you a few points too, if you don't have many yet. &lt;strong&gt;We still have many &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag wikis&lt;/a&gt; that need writing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T23:36:06.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-18T06:08:08.760" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9501/how-to-test-what-shell-i-am-using-in-a-terminal/9503#9503&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; that was helpful enough for the OP to accept, but I think the other answer is better (it includes mine too), so I want to delete mine. Is that OK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To those who wonder why I asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yBwWI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T13:23:20.870" Title="I want to delete my accepted answer" Tags="|discussion|support|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="536" CreationDate="2011-03-18T06:51:35.633" Score="14" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find many questions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; which, I feel, should be searched for on &lt;strong&gt;Google&lt;/strong&gt; before asking here. I am sure that there are many others who feel the same. Does SE have some provision for preventing such stuffs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I feel is that people who ask such questions here are either too lazy to Google or they're too conscious of reputation score on SE. Recently I came across few such questions and that's what made me write this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can such users be requested via email to try to do some homework before posting here? Or, in extreme case, can they be suspended/banned? In this case homework just involves querying the question on Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4335" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T23:03:36.817" Title="People who don't use Google" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2011-03-18T07:17:26.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Official Stack Exchange goal is to have Google queries reach its sites, unless the questions fulfill &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this criteria&lt;/a&gt;. Note however that the founders of these sites are split on this one (as mentioned on that link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-03-18T10:31:21.507" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T10:31:21.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2011-03-18T09:46:58.520" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Tshepang pointed out, the current thinking is in the blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple&quot;&gt;Are Some Questions Too Simple?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TL;DR version of it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can we &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; on the resources that are currently on the Internet for this question? Yes or no, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As expressed in handy chart form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNHnw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNHnw.png&quot; alt=&quot;interesting question decision tree flowchart&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="23408" LastEditDate="2016-08-20T06:57:21.453" LastActivityDate="2016-08-20T06:57:21.453" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="533" CreationDate="2011-03-18T09:49:03.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are free to delete your answers any time, and it is always acceptable (encouraged, even) to delete your answer if you feel other answers cover the same ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The only time this is a problem, is when people decide to self-immolate and delete all their content ... aka &lt;a href=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rage-quit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ragequit&lt;/a&gt;. We have some protection in place for this now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T09:49:03.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-18T15:36:52.313" Score="9" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9506/what-graphics-card-is-best-in-3d-on-linux&quot;&gt;What graphics card is &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; in 3D on Linux?&lt;/a&gt; got closed. I understand the &quot;we can't do shopping recommendations&quot; rule, but I think there's a case to be made that graphics hardware in Linux is a special situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it's not like the &quot;should I get Canon or Nikon&quot; thing we see over on Photo-SE, because, it turns out that the field is so narrow that there probably &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a right answer at any given time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, Linux graphics have always been a particular pain point. Having an exception here is not necessarily going to send us barreling down a slippery slope of hardware recommendations. Most other things I can think of can be made general in a way that'll be both good forever and lead pretty directly to the question-asker finding what they need at Newegg or wherever. (&quot;What should I look for in a SATA SSD?&quot;, and even &quot;How can I find if a wifi card is going to work?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to ask the question in a very general way at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9553/how-do-i-choose-a-graphics-card-for-linux&quot;&gt;How do I choose a graphics card for Linux?&lt;/a&gt;, and I hope that's valuable, but I'm not quite satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might we have room for &quot;What's the best graphics card for 3D in Linux in 2011?&quot; type questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T19:36:58.857" Title="Can we allow somewhat time-sensitive 3D graphics hardware questions?" Tags="|discussion|shopping-recommendations|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="538" CreationDate="2011-03-18T17:56:32.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a super-relevant type of question overall, since there are many factors involved that don't change (often):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does the hardware vendor provide specs for their hardware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are their open drivers for a certain cards chipset&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does the vendor provide a binary blob for their hardware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Best&lt;/em&gt; is subjective for sure, but I'm sure there's a good way to word this hardware-specific type of question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T17:56:32.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="538" CreationDate="2011-03-18T19:36:58.857" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've tried to ask the question in a very general way at How do I choose a graphics card for Linux?, and I hope that's valuable, but I'm not quite satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like the right way to approach it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual question you want to answer is something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I determine which graphics cards will have good support for my preferred flavor of Unix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, to be clear, what you want to &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which video card should I buy for Foo Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer(s) should &lt;strong&gt;teach someone the general principles of how to evaluate suitability for this task in technical terms&lt;/strong&gt;, so they can use that same advice in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 ... etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T19:36:58.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-18T22:22:03.767" Score="18" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/814/community-promotion-ads-1h-2012&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they will appear on the main site as community promotion ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But whyyyyyyy?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. And to click on it for great justice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/541&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-10-05T05:04:39.907" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011" Tags="|discussion|top-7|promotion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-12-02T11:57:18.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-18T22:22:20.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-03-18T22:25:23.453" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HxSxU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2011-03-24T17:30:15.650" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T17:30:15.650" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-18T22:25:23.453" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-03-19T02:45:09.087" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://distrowatch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cz5Pd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-06-21T15:29:27.507" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T15:29:27.507" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-19T02:45:09.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-20T11:43:09.493" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a tag named &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utilities&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utilities&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utilities&lt;/a&gt; (a symlink to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tools&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tools&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tools&lt;/a&gt;). It seems redundant to me. Is there a real need for it? Could someome who cares for it actually write a tag wiki for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-05-25T23:54:20.200" Title="Do we need [utilities] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="544" CreationDate="2011-03-20T20:10:10.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does seem rather vague; could a question be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utilities&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utilities&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utilities&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not then this meets the definition of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;a meta tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T20:10:10.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="527" CreationDate="2011-03-21T03:58:32.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Glenn, I have re-created the background pattern image. Instead of using a solid color for the dot(which doesn't play well with darker bgcolor), I have made it  translucent. It should look fine on the gray #ccc you use. This change will be in the next deployment. Be sure to do a hard refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T03:58:32.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="526" CreationDate="2011-03-21T04:04:49.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T04:04:49.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2011-03-22T10:04:05.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember people suggesting things like &lt;em&gt;kernelpanic.com&lt;/em&gt; or other unix-error related name. Personally, I'd like to see that it'd get its own domain name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't know if that's still possible, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1290" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T10:04:05.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2011-03-26T00:48:52.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;unix&quot; is a widely recognized name, and even most of the users here know that 'UNIX(tm)-like' topics will apply to their situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not simply a SE problem, but the entire community has a problem coming up for the magic name that describes this the vast ecosystem of questions posed by &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current and potential users of this site use Linux-based-operating systems, MacOSX, FreeBSD, Solaris, NanoBSD, OpenWRT and more. These operating systems, as well as concepts like '&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/posix&quot;&gt;Posix&lt;/a&gt;', share a lot in common. Users will have many of the same questions, and most of the answers here will often apply to many different operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a name like &quot;linux.stackexchange.com&quot; be better? Wouldn't that exclude FreeBSD, Solaris &amp;amp; MacOSX users? Just to make a point: 'Linux' is a kernel (or maybe it's a project?), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;not an operating system&lt;/a&gt;. Would questions regarding bash-shell or be appropriate on &quot;linux.stackexchange.com&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;unix.stackexchange.com is better then a name like &quot;gnu-linux_FreeBSD_Solaris_MacOSX_Posix_and_other_related_operating_systems.stackexchange.com&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'nix.stackexchange.com' sounds cool to me, but I'm sure it would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=nix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;confusing to many  people&lt;/a&gt;. A Lice Shampoo? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the answer, it needs to fit into the limitations of the DNS system. I would love a name like 'un*x.stackexchange.com', but that just won't work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2011-03-26T00:48:52.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="551" CreationDate="2011-03-31T12:44:34.370" Score="5" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I down-voted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6065/gnu-screen-new-window-name-change&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; in unix.SE by mistake (mouse moved when I went to click up-vote).  I already corrected my vote.  But I was awarded a badge unfairly.  How do I request to have the critic badge removed from my account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4194" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T15:46:41.540" Title="mistakenly awarded a badge" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|voting|reputation|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="550" CreationDate="2011-03-31T15:46:30.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately this is marked &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2137/is-the-critic-badge-badge-awarded-prematurely&quot;&gt;Is the Critic badge badge awarded prematurely&lt;/a&gt;. I wouldn't worry about it, you'll &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts?pagesize=15&amp;amp;filter=day&quot;&gt;find something to actually downvote&lt;/a&gt; soon enough&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T15:46:30.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-03T20:31:35.037" Score="10" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just killed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/best-practises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;best-practises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;best-practises&lt;/a&gt; (a misspelling of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta-tag&lt;/a&gt;). I'm not fond of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tips-and-tricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tips-and-tricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tips-and-tricks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/troubleshooting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;troubleshooting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;troubleshooting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;homework&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/344/homework-policy-proposal&quot;&gt;homework discussion&lt;/a&gt;) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/512/kill-the-unix-tag&quot;&gt;unix tag discussion&lt;/a&gt;) either. Will anyone speak up for these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside: I encourage y'all to go over the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag list&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write &lt;strong&gt;tag wikis&lt;/strong&gt; for the tags that lack one (or improve existing ones).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There's no consensus on what a good tag wiki looks like, but here are a few tips:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy-paste from Wikipedia is not a good idea. Describe what the tag is about, link to Wikipedia, but concentrate on what people come to SE for: troubleshooting and howtos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to the most interesting questions (not necessarily the most viewed ones, which is what &lt;code&gt;/questions/tagged/$tag?sort=faq&lt;/code&gt; shows).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to related tags, explaining how they are related. This is especially important if there's a risk of confusion: direct readers to the appropriate tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggest synonyms where two tags are used for essentially the same purpose. (If you have ≥2500 rep, go to the &lt;code&gt;synonyms&lt;/code&gt; page for the tags with the most uses. Otherwise, post on Meta or in chat.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a tag is used on very few questions and is very close to an existing tag, it may be best to just remove it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-04-03T20:31:35.037" Title="Killing a few meta-tags (and please write tag wikis)" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-08T23:40:57.073" Score="8" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;U&amp;amp;L has recently acquired &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10893/what-did-ken-thompson-mean-when-he-said-id-spell-create-with-an-e&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10646/repeat-a-unix-command-every-x-seconds-forever&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; from Stack Overflow that have highly upvoted answers (one has our 6th &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=isaccepted%3a0&quot;&gt;most&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=isaccepted%3a1&quot;&gt;upvoted&lt;/a&gt; answer). We simply don't have the voting power to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/the-pee-wee-herman-rule/&quot;&gt;take such voting into our own hands&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the only two examples I know of; most migrated posts are recent enough that we can fix them. But I fear there are more to come. While it's generally accepted that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84395/should-i-flag-ancient-questions-that-need-closing-migrating&quot;&gt;old posts should normally not be migrated&lt;/a&gt;, and migration to U&amp;amp;L requires moderator intervention, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83075/easy-ways-to-find-answers-that-should-be-comments-for-flagging-purposes&quot;&gt;flagging campaign&lt;/a&gt; going on at SO means that moderators have a lot of work and will make mistakes now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept that life is life, there will be duds, downvote 40 into 35 and move on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close the problematic questions? (On the one hand, it shouldn't have been migrated here. On the other hand, it could have been asked here.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87031/reset-votes-on-migrated-questions&quot;&gt;Lobby really hard for vote counts to be reset to 0 on migration&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6615/reset-negative-vote-counts-on-migrated-questions&quot;&gt;already happens for negatively voted questions&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T23:36:16.307" Title="What to do about old imported posts that have poor answers?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2011-04-09T00:30:39.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Warning: this answer may not be correct&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With your edit powers, leave a big note on top of the post. That should attract enough attention and render the vote almost moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="2511" LastEditDate="2013-06-16T23:36:16.307" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T23:36:16.307" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="867" CreationDate="2011-04-10T15:22:46.007" Score="6" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a horizontal scrollbar on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/423/felix&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt; (and any other profile, for that matter). Using Chrome on Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yngtR.png&quot; alt=&quot;unicorn on my profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T21:50:14.163" Title="Horizontal scrollbar on profile" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-10-05T14:55:49.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="661" CreationDate="2011-04-11T00:03:00.217" Score="7" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd&lt;/a&gt; serves dual use for the &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; (change directory) command and CD as in CD-ROM/R/RW/audio. The tag isn't huge, but I'd still prefer to distinguish between them before it grows. I don't know how to name the two tags &lt;em&gt;in such a way that people who feel tempted to use &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; and don't realize there's an ambiguity have a clear path to the right tag&lt;/em&gt;. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T20:47:11.053" Title="Disambiguating the cd tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="558" CreationDate="2011-04-11T00:38:56.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the tag should be killed for this ambiguity thing. Someone who is asking for the &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; command should just use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; tag for example. As for CDs, maybe we should just use something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/optical-disc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;optical-disc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;optical-disc&lt;/a&gt;, and make it a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvd&lt;/a&gt; and (the not-yet-existent) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blueray&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blueray&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blueray&lt;/a&gt;. To me the important distinguishing points should be the question content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-06-27T20:14:37.670" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T20:14:37.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="558" CreationDate="2011-04-11T20:04:18.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; is a bash builtin. There is already a &lt;code&gt;/bash&lt;/code&gt; tag, but maybe consider having a &lt;code&gt;/bash-builtin&lt;/code&gt; tag, if something more specific is required. I'm not completely sure of the criteria for more specialist tags, if one does exist. I think a &lt;code&gt;/cd&lt;/code&gt; is a bit too specific though. It is not practical to have a tag for every command out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2011-04-11T20:04:18.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="565" CreationDate="2011-04-12T18:42:38.730" Score="12" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;When retagging a question (either with the tag editor or with the question editor), I can't add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag. This happens both with Chrome and Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Couldn't save tags because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;sorry, the 'linux' tag is not allowed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XzUGX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sorry, the &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39; tag is not allowed.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other tag edits seem to work normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; has been added to the blacklist: no! That would be like blacklisting &lt;code&gt;windows&lt;/code&gt; on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-04-14T20:49:05.033" LastActivityDate="2019-12-27T09:42:17.627" Title="The linux tag is not allowed" Tags="|bug|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="561" CreationDate="2011-04-12T19:34:04.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; were both blacklisted; I'm not sure why (I guess they're probably misused quite a bit, or at least perceived to be). We'll have to wait for a dev to read this I guess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-04-12T20:31:18.517" LastActivityDate="2011-04-12T20:31:18.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="564" CreationDate="2011-04-12T21:27:46.343" Score="4" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's too much work to refer to our site each time with the formal name of &lt;strong&gt;Unix and Linux Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt;, so we tend to shorten it. I have so far seen 4 ways of doing so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unix.SE&lt;/strong&gt; - This seems to me more commonly-known but there is an existing site with that exact url; even if there wasn't, &lt;code&gt;.se&lt;/code&gt; is a top-level domain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unix.SX&lt;/strong&gt; - Gets rid of the existing site problem, but &lt;em&gt;.sx&lt;/em&gt; still looks a top-level doman (we don't have them all memorised)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UL&lt;/strong&gt; - Ummm... too much little info (who would guess?), but at least it covers the &lt;strong&gt;L&lt;/strong&gt; part of the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unix-SE&lt;/strong&gt; - Gets rid of the &lt;em&gt;is this a url&lt;/em&gt; question, and we get to keep the more common &lt;code&gt;se&lt;/code&gt; thing, instead of now having to get used to the &lt;code&gt;sx&lt;/code&gt; thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can easily guess which one I'd go with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-04-12T22:16:07.677" Title="How to be lazy effectively?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="563" CreationDate="2011-04-12T22:16:07.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE is the usual abbreviation for Stack Exchange as a whole. “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=SEI+site%3Ameta.stackoverflow.com+OR+site%3Achat.stackoverflow.com+OR+site%3Achat.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SEI&lt;/a&gt;” is the common abbreviation for Stack Exchange, Inc. (the company); nobody uses “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=SXI+site%3Ameta.stackoverflow.com+OR+site%3Achat.stackoverflow.com+OR+site%3Achat.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SXI&lt;/a&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;.sx&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is likely to become a TLD soon, so it's not really better than &lt;code&gt;.se&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes use U&amp;amp;L when the context makes an SE site name reasonably expected and I expect readers to be familiar with the existing sites (otherwise Unix needs to be spelled out, and sometimes even Linux).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although domain names are case-insensitive, they are almost always written in lowercase, so I think “Unix.SE” or “unix.SE” are sufficiently unambiguous. Not that there's much of a risk of confusion with “unix.se” anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-04-12T22:16:07.677" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="561" CreationDate="2011-04-13T10:29:48.667" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We changed the rules so intrinsic tags are inherently blacklisted across all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(an intrinsic tag is &quot;apple&quot; on apple.se, &quot;wordpress&quot; on wordpress.se, etc etc etc etc.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/514/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/514/5132&lt;/a&gt; for some more details.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can remove &quot;linux&quot; as an intrinsic tag -- &quot;unix&quot; is also intrinsic here -- but this means you will get questions tagged &quot;linux&quot; migrated here without the tag removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="5132" LastEditDate="2019-12-27T09:42:17.627" LastActivityDate="2019-12-27T09:42:17.627" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-15T03:35:09.350" Score="6" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're evaluating the feasibility of &lt;strong&gt;sponsoring a member of the Unix &amp;amp; Linux community to speak at a conference in 2011&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking is a relatively big &quot;ask&quot;, so this needs to be planned many months in advance. Let's get started! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd like the community to establish &lt;strong&gt;where&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What relevant Unix &amp;amp; Linux conferences are coming up in 2011 that have open speaker slots or calls for papers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and then &lt;strong&gt;who&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which members of the community are strongly interested in being sponsored by Stack Exchange, Inc to speak at one of the above conferences in 2011?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, the speaker is free talk about anything he or she wants so long as it would be roughly on topic for this site -- with a quick acknowledgement of support from Stack Exchange and a mention of the community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="331" LastEditDate="2011-04-17T03:27:16.913" LastActivityDate="2011-04-17T03:27:16.913" Title="Possible Conference Speaking Sponsorships -- 2011" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="569" CreationDate="2011-04-19T22:42:58.747" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/console&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;console&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;console&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt;. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-cons&quot;&gt;console is a subset of terminal&lt;/a&gt;, and it's a useful one. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/console&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;console&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;console&lt;/a&gt; the right tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11652/how-to-change-usb-keyboard-encoding-in-console&quot;&gt;this OpenBSD question&lt;/a&gt;, and for several prior Linux questions — they shouldn't be lost amongst the more generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen “console” used to mean the more general terminal concept much, so I don't think the synonym is warranted due to popular confusion. (There are certainly many more questions confusing “terminal” and “shell”, and these are very different topics.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/console&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;console&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;console&lt;/a&gt; synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T02:49:46.883" Title="The console tag should not be a synonym of terminal" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="568" CreationDate="2011-04-19T22:55:19.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's had 26 renames; is the distinction between the two really important? Are there people that care about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/console&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;console&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;console&lt;/a&gt; questions but not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Ok, I pulled it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-04-20T02:49:38.477" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T02:49:38.477" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="568" CreationDate="2011-04-19T22:57:14.670" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;console&lt;/code&gt; is the physically attached keyboard and screen, &lt;code&gt;terminal&lt;/code&gt; is a remote terminal or a terminal emulator such as &lt;code&gt;xterm&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;console is likely to be &lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt;, terminal is likely to be &lt;code&gt;putty&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;xterm&lt;/code&gt;.  Configuring them is quite different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3169" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T22:57:14.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-04-20T04:43:27.157" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/18/stackapplet-monitor-your-reputation-and-get-notified-of-comments-v1-4-release&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p3XvB.png&quot; alt=&quot;StackApplet Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T05:03:15.057" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-20T04:43:27.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-22T15:05:34.363" Score="13" ViewCount="617" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell from the FAQs, questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unix desktop systems can be asked on SuperUser,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unix servers can be asked on ServerFault,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Android can be asked on android.stackexchange.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why the need for another Stack Exchange site covering these areas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or to put it another way, &lt;em&gt;what is the problem to which this is the solution?&lt;/em&gt; I'm asking this in earnest, since I'm becoming increasingly confused about how to infer, before posting, which Stack Exchange site will be accepting of, or hostile to, any given question. I don't want to step on people's toes, but nor do I want my questions slapped down for reasons that seem to me to be based on extremely narrow interpretations of broad guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else feel that the increasing ghettoisation of Stack Exchange is making it less user friendly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6860" LastEditorDisplayName="user6860" LastEditDate="2011-04-23T02:01:43.753" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T18:06:26.020" Title="Unix.SE vs ServerFault vs SuperUser vs Android.SE" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-04-22T15:55:37.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;, so you might want to poke around there. Technically we're a subset of SU, since they're a wildly generic site that allows any hardware/software questions. So is AU, and Android, and probably some other computer-related SEs. Just because a question is on-topic on one site it doesn't mean it will be rejected from all the others -- you can ask Linux questions here, or SU, or AU as long as the question applies to Ubuntu. The first two sections of each site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; are &quot;What kind of questions can I ask here?&quot; and &quot;What kind of questions should I &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ask here?&quot;; those should help with determining if a question is on-topic for that site. If you're not sure, you can just post it (maybe it gets closed, but then you know), or ask on that site's meta. If you can't even decide which site to try, ask on the main meta which site would be best for your particular question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T15:55:37.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-04-22T23:28:25.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and at &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/ontopic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ontopic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ontopic&lt;/a&gt; Meta posts for more details, but the following rule of thumb works pretty well for this site's topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If it's about unix (any variant), and it's not exclusively of interest to programmers, then it's on-topic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Programming questions belong on Stack Overflow.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, what device you're running unix on is irrelevant. The more borderline cases are systems that have unix bits and non-unix bits, such as Android, Cygwin and OSX. There, the guideline is that the unix bits are on-topic (e.g. using busybox on Android, running X applications in Cygwin, configuring a firewall on OSX), and the other bits aren't (e.g. using Android apps, Windows DLL woes, using Finder on OSX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to understand the limits of SU and SF's topic, you'll have to ask on their respective Metas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T23:28:25.790" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-04-23T06:26:34.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;These posts discuss the issue regarding splitting Ask Ubuntu from Unix &amp;amp; Linux:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/unix-and-ubuntu-why-both/&quot;&gt;Unix and Ubuntu: Why Both?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/fork-it/&quot;&gt;Fork it!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72734/how-did-unix-linux-survive-area51/72753#72753&quot;&gt;(some more links)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as nice as it would be to have just one place to ask these questions, there is another thing you may be forgetting that is called &lt;em&gt;do I feel at home&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. SF is for pro server admins, AU is for Linux newbies, Android is for... Android questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider also, for example, that Super User is known for not giving quality answers to Unix/Linux questions. I guess people felt that, for example, Windows is simply too different from Unix/Linux to have the users of both be one community. If opening another site, even if it fragments the computer-using community, helps that situation, so be it (don't you think?). That is, we want answers now, instead of waiting for some magical solution that will all-of-a-sudden increase the quality of Unix/Linux SU answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's interesting is how come Stack Overflow succeeded, and other sites failed, at pooling all kinds of &lt;code&gt;TOPIC&lt;/code&gt; to one site. Is it that there's less factionalism in programming? Was the S/N ratio so high that the users reduced their religiosity to &lt;em&gt;let's cooperate&lt;/em&gt; levels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T06:26:34.570" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="580" CreationDate="2011-04-24T15:32:08.557" Score="6" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we have a consensus that programming questions are generally off-topic and belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. (I thought this was explicitly mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; — is my memory failing or did it change?) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;Borderline questions about the API are ok, but not questions about programming in C.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do we do about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11894/pci-device-driver-exporting-information-to-proc-file-system&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which was migrated &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; Stack Overflow (by one Jeff Atwood)? I see a question about programming a Linux driver, firmly from the programmer's perspective, so I find it on-topic on Stack Overflow and off-topic on Unix Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, could you explain this migration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T18:13:19.443" Title="What to do about programming questions" Tags="|support|scope|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-04-24T18:06:26.020" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what is the problem to which this is the solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A deeply rooted &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/65506/could-an-opt-in-stackexchange-globally-merged-site-save-us-from-all-the-merge-p/65510#65510&quot;&gt;resentment&lt;/a&gt; against anything just remotely resembling yahoo answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I do not agree with that view. I myself have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70131/stop-the-segregation-madness-merge-all-stack-exchange-sites-and-differentiate-th&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; to merge all sites together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1170" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T18:06:26.020" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="595" CreationDate="2011-04-25T15:47:39.620" Score="20" ViewCount="847" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently been hanging around this site because I enjoy problem solving on linux and learn heaps from seeing how other peoples solutions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/1925/caleb#qpage_1-anpage_1-qsort_votes-ansort_recent&quot;&gt;I'm happy to pitch in&lt;/a&gt; to solve others problems, however -here more than other SE sites- I see questions that make me want to close my browser and walk away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are some things which are productive for neither the asking party nor the answering. A case in point would be today's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11970/manipulating-a-file-with-awk&quot;&gt;Can you write an awk script for me?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Note: editor changed title to something less provocative).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no objection to writing scripts for people as proofs of concept or editing real code to help people get on track. What irked me about this question was that it was clearly a homework problem aimed at getting the student to read up on the documentation and understand the available options. It didn't help that the user has a history of asking homework questions, by which I've been bothered before. It presented nothing that would not be covered in any basic &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; guide. There was no real-world application to engage or cause to further. I felt like somebody was trying to cheat me out of my time and wasn't even going to walk away having learned anything. If they wanted to learn they could read a man page first and then ask a specific question. There wasn't even room for people to present creative solutions with other software because the problem had a requirement of using awk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say that makes for boring clutter on a QnA site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I suck it up and move on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I tag them myself as &lt;em&gt;homework&lt;/em&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;doitforme&lt;/em&gt; :P) so I can ignore the whole lot of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be a little tighter in our on-topic criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T06:40:09.500" Title="At what level does &quot;do X for me&quot; become off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="544" CreationDate="2011-04-25T18:10:23.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we can do without it. The utilities tag has almost full overlap with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;. The few cases that do not overlap would specifically be better tagged with some other combination of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T18:10:23.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="576" CreationDate="2011-04-25T18:13:19.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree and think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11894/pci-device-driver-exporting-information-to-proc-file-system&quot;&gt;that example&lt;/a&gt; should be migrated back after a discussion on the MSO site so those guys understand why :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T18:13:19.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="544" CreationDate="2011-04-25T22:57:11.487" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utilities&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utilities&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utilities&lt;/a&gt; is a fine tag. It's for shell commands that aren't important enough to have their own tag. It's a way to have more specific tags than the very general &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that it's sometimes used in a meta-ish way: on some questions, it doesn't seem to provide any information. On a couple, it means “I want to do this on the command line”, and we use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; for that. But this means that these questions should be retagged, and I've just done just that. Since I feel the tag does convey useful information, I'll leave it on the other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's now a tag wiki, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T22:57:11.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="578" CreationDate="2011-04-25T23:04:39.440" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding homework, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/344/homework-policy-proposal&quot;&gt;this previous meta question&lt;/a&gt;. I recommend answering obvious homework questions with hints rather than full answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a homework assignment which is missing some bits or badly translated, don't hesitate to close it as “not a real question”. (Technically the fact that it's homework doesn't change whether it's NaRQ, but I'm less likely to be lenient on a badly-asked homework question than on someone's practical problem where it might not be obvious to the asker which error messages or configuration file contents are important.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11970/manipulating-a-file-with-awk&quot;&gt;the specific question you link to&lt;/a&gt;, this isn't this guy's first post. He's been using multiple accounts, but he doesn't bother to disguise his assignments (I think they all have &lt;code&gt;MSc stream&lt;/code&gt; somewhere). He's mostly NaRQ material, but this question looks ok and deserves a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11970/manipulating-a-file-with-awk/11972#11972&quot;&gt;hint&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find that answering a question would be too much effort for an answer (that's not specific to homework questions), don't hesitate to say so. Just write an answer explaining general methodology (e.g. “This is a job for awk, here's a small script that meets requirement 1, and use &lt;code&gt;for (i in arr) {…}&lt;/code&gt; for requirement 2”). If the asker insists on getting a full solution (“plzsendmetehcodez”, ignore them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding basic questions, don't forget that what's obvious to you may not be obvious to the asker. If the asker is an obvious beginner, a pointer to the specific place in the documentation as well as a short, commented example can be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T23:04:39.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="593" CreationDate="2011-04-25T23:53:01.540" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, there's a consensus that programming questions belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. This should be indicated the first section of the FAQ. Here's a wording proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous Meta discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;Unix C API calls ontopic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/576/what-to-do-about-programming-questions&quot;&gt;What to do about programming questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/248/is-shell-scripting-in-perl-in-range-of-this-site&quot;&gt;Is shell scripting in perl in range of this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88/non-standard-cli-tools-a-ruby-tool-question&quot;&gt;Non Standard CLI tools - A ruby tool question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80/make-ontopic-or-so&quot;&gt;make - ontopic or SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T20:34:35.870" Title="Please add a reference to Stack Overflow in the site FAQ" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="592" CreationDate="2011-04-26T20:34:35.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/3258/revisions#rev-arrow-ec3a0232-ee56-4b7a-a3e2-15e592b52bfa&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T20:34:35.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="512" CreationDate="2011-04-28T00:54:31.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/561/the-linux-tag-is-not-allowed/565#565&quot;&gt;The &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; tag is now banned.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It hasn't been eradicated from the questions that have is, but it can no longer be added to a question, and any edit to a question that still has it must remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T00:54:31.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="578" CreationDate="2011-04-28T06:40:09.500" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly defer to the others here who are active participants -- but our general philosophy is to &lt;em&gt;heavily favor answerers&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We feel that the world is awash in questions, but not answers. Answers are the real unit of work in any Q&amp;amp;A system. Therefore, the only logical thing to do is to &lt;strong&gt;maximize the happiness and enjoyment of answerers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this means aggressively closing unworthy or uninteresting questions, so be it. Without a community of people willing to answer questions, it really doesn't matter if there are questions at all, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T06:40:09.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-28T23:40:55.233" Score="-3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12219/searching-strings-on-files/12237#12237&quot;&gt;answer here&lt;/a&gt; was deleted as 'duplicate', with a link to the faq where is stated, that &lt;code&gt;exact duplicates&lt;/code&gt; are removed, while the first part used a different syntax - compare yourself: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep -E -H 'string1|string2|stringn' &#xA;egrep &quot;(string1|string2|string3)&quot; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is a different syntax, and imho reason enough to be allowed. Let the user up- and downvote, and not moderators decide, which syntax to use. But ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but the second part of my answer is completely different from all other solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep pattern file{1..3}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;compared to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep pattern file1.txt file2.txt filen.txt&#xA;grep pattern file*.txt&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-10-23T20:50:04.893" Title="Answer deleted as duplicate, which isn't a duplicate" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="597" CreationDate="2011-04-28T23:52:50.247" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're different, just not in a way that particularly matters. &lt;code&gt;egrep&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;grep -E&lt;/code&gt; are identical. You added a matching group around the strings, which doesn't do anything. And &lt;code&gt;file{1..3}&lt;/code&gt; versus &lt;code&gt;file1.txt file2.txt filen.txt&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;file*.txt&lt;/code&gt; really doesn't have anything to do with the question, it's just different ways of filename globbing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted a bunch of answers on that post because it came from SO and had a bunch of duplicates (a user flagged the question and pointed out all the overlap). If you want it undeleted I will, but I don't think it contributes anything the other answers don't already have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T23:52:50.247" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="597" CreationDate="2011-04-28T23:55:24.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, the first answer is a slight variation of another answer and not an exact duplicate. But you could have suggested this slight variation in a comment. Your answer was adding very little value on that count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second part, &lt;code&gt;file{1..3}&lt;/code&gt;, is a variation that's irrelevant in this context, and even wrong (&lt;code&gt;file{1..3}.txt&lt;/code&gt; would have been better, but &lt;code&gt;file*.txt&lt;/code&gt; is more likely to be useful).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That simple question already has 5 answers (plus 3 deleted), most of which closely resemble the others. That's more than enough!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T23:55:24.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-30T15:12:40.353" Score="5" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fairly common problem when running an OS other than Windows is finding well-supported hardware. I'm actually surprised we're not getting more questions about this. Well, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12275&quot;&gt;we've just had one&lt;/a&gt;, and I wonder how we should respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to have a question about touchpads with certain specific requirements? A general question about pointing devices? A general question about finding hardware support lists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related prior discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/69/date-specific-questions&quot;&gt;Date specific questions&lt;/a&gt; Doesn't go beyond “product recommendations bad”. I want to distinguish between &lt;em&gt;recommendations&lt;/em&gt; (what's a good X) and &lt;em&gt;information&lt;/em&gt; (what X works under Linux).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/538/can-we-allow-somewhat-time-sensitive-3d-graphics-hardware-questions&quot;&gt;Can we allow somewhat time-sensitive 3D graphics hardware questions?&lt;/a&gt; The responses were specifically about a certain subcategory of questions (general questions about foo devices).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1186/are-hardware-recommendations-considered-off-topic&quot;&gt;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1186/are-hardware-recommendations-considered-off-topic&lt;/a&gt; It's easier for Ubuntu which has a few &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/131/which-computers-are-guaranteed-to-work&quot;&gt;official sources&lt;/a&gt;; and even that is incomplete (there's a good chance none of the hardware on these lists is available in your part of the world).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/search?q=shopping&quot;&gt;hardware recommendations are shopping questions and those are evil&lt;/a&gt;. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/2324/in-defense-of-obscure-niche-hardware-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;niche cases can be ok, perhaps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T19:31:13.307" Title="Hardware recommendations: what's the limit?" Tags="|discussion|scope|shopping-recommendations|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="600" CreationDate="2011-04-30T15:19:57.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my view on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should have a general question on “how do I find hardware compatibility information before buying”, with pointers to various compatibility databases. Probably CW with a single answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some hardware categories deserve more specific questions, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9553/how-do-i-choose-a-graphics-card-for-linux&quot;&gt;graphics cards&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hardware recommendation questions that have very specific requirements that aren't easily solved by checking the vendor-listed information or official hardware compatibility lists should be allowed. More general questions should be closed (with a reference to the generic questions).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking where to buy are right out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T15:19:57.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="602" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-01T12:15:37.770" Score="3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freeze&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freeze&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;freeze&lt;/a&gt; tag, which I think I created, meaning cases when something is not responding. I think that's a useful tag because people use lots of different words to express this situation, so it's otherwise hard to search for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: I think it's not a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta-tag&lt;/a&gt;, because it has a valid, objective meaning. However, I can't see it be used alone — there should be an application or OS tag alongside.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no similar general tag for crashes; do we not need one, or have we not recognized the need for one? Maybe it's enough to just have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel-panic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel-panic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel-panic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/segmentation-fault&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;segmentation-fault&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;segmentation-fault&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;(Side note: please make a synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/segfault&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;segfault&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;segfault&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/segmentation-fault&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;segmentation-fault&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;segmentation-fault&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt;, with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9194/grub-error-15-no-boot-menu-nor-boot&quot;&gt;single question&lt;/a&gt;. That one seems too vague to me. Ban?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-05-08T13:17:31.853" Title="Tags for crashes and freezes" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="602" CreationDate="2011-05-01T12:51:33.453" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;crash&quot; is vague enough that it doesn't add much as a tag. Freeze is a little more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly keen on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt;, without qualifications. It's too early in the morning for me to be having &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; ideas, but what occurs to me is &lt;code&gt;grub-error&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;boot-error&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-05-01T12:51:33.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="609" CreationDate="2011-05-01T21:54:56.207" Score="8" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt; isn't very big yet, but it's used for very different things. I propose to ban it (because it's too tempting for several different communities) and force the use of more specific tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BSD ports (packages) → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bsd-ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bsd-ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bsd-ports&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Communication ports such as serial ports → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/serial-port&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;serial-port&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;serial-port&lt;/a&gt; or the like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TCP (and UDP) ports → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcp&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcp-port&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcp-port&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcp-port&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcpip-port&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcpip-port&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcpip-port&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-05-08T13:30:49.777" Title="Splitting the ports tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="611" CreationDate="2011-05-04T21:00:32.293" Score="13" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redhat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redhat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redhat&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt;. It looks to me like people have been using them indiscriminately. Calling the Red Hat experts: are these tags synonyms? If there's a difference, please make it clear from the tag wikis, and retag mistagged questions. (The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redhat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redhat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redhat&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki says it's about the company, but the questions are about the distribution.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a similar split amongst &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suse&lt;/a&gt;: there's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opensuse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;opensuse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;opensuse&lt;/a&gt;. Is there enough difference between the two to warrant two different tags? (Possibly, after all we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos&lt;/a&gt; alongside &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt;.) If the two tags should be kept, would the SuSE experts in the audience please check that they are used consistently, and write a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suse&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki that (tries to) direct askers to the correct tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the response: please synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redhat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redhat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redhat&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; When writing tag wikis for distributions, I suggest using a similar presentation as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T22:49:05.607" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T22:49:05.607" Title="Does the split in Red Hat and SuSE tags make sense?" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="610" CreationDate="2011-05-07T14:25:11.450" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;To designate Macintosh hardware, we now have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbook&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbook&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbook&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbookpro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbookpro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbookpro&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think &lt;code&gt;macbookpro&lt;/code&gt; should be a separate tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12794/perfect-distro-for-an-old-mac-desktop-ppc-g3-320mb-ram&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt; which is about a non-macbook Mac. Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macintosh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macintosh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macintosh&lt;/a&gt; the right tag? Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/powerpc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;powerpc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;powerpc&lt;/a&gt;? or both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbook&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbook&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbook&lt;/a&gt; be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macintosh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macintosh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macintosh&lt;/a&gt;, or is there really a need for different tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the response, please synonym:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ppc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ppc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ppc&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/powerpc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;powerpc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;powerpc&lt;/a&gt; (already done)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbook&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbook&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbook&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macintosh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macintosh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macintosh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;just kill &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbookpro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbookpro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbookpro&lt;/a&gt; (its questions already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbook&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbook&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbook&lt;/a&gt; as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T22:48:58.853" Title="Macintosh and powerpc tags" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="606" CreationDate="2011-05-07T14:54:51.763" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm kind of inclinded towards something like &quot;apple-hardware&quot;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T14:54:51.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="606" CreationDate="2011-05-07T16:23:58.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;PowerPC is an architecture like x86 or x86_64. Modern Mac's run on Intel and are not PowerPC. Also PowerPC was an IBM architecture, and I don't think apple was the only hardware that had it (I might be wrong). So &lt;code&gt;/macbook&lt;/code&gt; should not be a synonym of &lt;code&gt;/macintosh&lt;/code&gt; and neither should &lt;code&gt;/powerpc&lt;/code&gt;. As far as &lt;code&gt;/macbook&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;/macbookpro&lt;/code&gt; they are probably completely unnecessary, I would think the underlying architecture to be more interesting, this is like tagging &lt;code&gt;/dell&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;/latitude&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;/dell&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;/inspiron&lt;/code&gt; I really doubt those last 2 tags are remotely relevant &lt;code&gt;/dell&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;/laptop&lt;/code&gt; maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T16:23:58.990" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2011-05-08T13:30:49.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Retagged: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3078/vnc-over-ssh-port-assignment&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tcp&lt;/code&gt;+&lt;code&gt;port-forwarding&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9252/determining-what-process-is-bound-to-a-port&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tcp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10735/linux-allowing-an-user-to-listen-to-a-port-below-1024&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tcp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10428/simple-way-to-create-a-tunnel-from-one-local-port-to-another&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tcp&lt;/code&gt;+&lt;code&gt;port-forwarding&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12359/linux-serial-port-problem&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;serial-port&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6007/linux-interface-control-3-5-mm-headphone-or-microphone-port&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is just off-topic (it's purely about hardware), possibly material for &lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Electronics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remaining 9 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt; questions are about BSD ports. In the absence of a tag renaming feature, I suppose we can leave it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-05-08T13:30:49.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="606" CreationDate="2011-05-09T02:57:16.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to have one single tag, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macintosh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macintosh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macintosh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to split the questions into two groups, there are several ways Macs can be divided. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Portability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac-desktop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac-desktop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac-desktop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Mac Pro, iMac, mini, Xserve, PowerMac, Cube&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac-laptop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac-laptop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac-laptop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;MacBook, MacBook Pro, iBook, PowerBook&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Era&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac-ppc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac-ppc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac-ppc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;PowerMac, PowerBook, iBook, Cube, iMac (some)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac-intel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac-intel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac-intel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Mac Pro, mini, Xserve, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac (some)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac-obsolete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac-obsolete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac-obsolete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;PowerMac, PowerBook, iBook, Cube, PPC-based iMac, 68020, 68030, 68040&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac-current&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac-current&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac-current&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Mac Pro, mini, Xserve, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Intel-based iMac&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, there are bound to be questions about Linux on devices that ship with iOS (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV), so you might want to keep those in mind, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1958" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T02:57:16.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="605" CreationDate="2011-05-12T07:43:48.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the prospective of someone who used to work at Red Hat (and familiar with how they like their branding portrayed) my answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redhat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redhat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redhat&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt; question is that, the former is and really always was, just a reference to the company name, Red Hat Linux, was always Red Hat Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has always being Red Hat Enterprise Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While technically &quot;RHEL&quot; isn't a good reference to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (as I recall, RHEL isn't actually trademarked by Red Hat, which is why it is never used formally - this may have changed though), red-hat-enterprise-linux is too long of a tag, so I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt; is fine to use on Unix &amp;amp; Linux as a reference to Versions 2.1, 3, 4, 5 &amp;amp; 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see much point for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redhat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redhat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redhat&lt;/a&gt; as a result, I don't even think it should be a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt; really, it'd be better (and I'm not sure if this solution exists on Stack Exchange) if the use of the tag would prompt something to the effect of: &quot;This tag is vague, please choose out of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redhat-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redhat-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redhat-linux&lt;/a&gt; (for pre-RHEL releases) or ...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos&lt;/a&gt; should remain as is, there is enough real separation from the two projects that the tags should be different.  &lt;code&gt;yum update&lt;/code&gt; issues etc, will have completely different causes due to different update mechanisms (RHN, yum repository etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suse&lt;/a&gt; while I'm not an expert on the SuSE Linux/OpenSuSE/Novell branding side of things, my understanding is Novell's enterprise, flagship product, is &quot;SuSE Linux Enterprise&quot; I think it's fair to either continue using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suse&lt;/a&gt;, and keep the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opensuse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;opensuse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;opensuse&lt;/a&gt; tag as is, as well.  It would just be a case of checking to make sure people don't use the SuSE tag where the OpenSuSE tag is more appropriate/correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2629" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T07:43:48.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="613" CreationDate="2011-05-12T21:32:40.980" Score="7" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense to merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;openoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;openoffice&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libreoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libreoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libreoffice&lt;/a&gt; (I'm talking about the tags on this site, of course)? They're technically different software, but very similar, and unlikely to diverge much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T22:43:17.567" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T19:06:45.683" Title="Does merging libreoffice and openoffice make sense?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="612" CreationDate="2011-05-12T22:42:58.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah; I can't imagine actually needing distinct tags. I kept &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;openoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;openoffice&lt;/a&gt;; there's a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libreoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libreoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libreoffice&lt;/a&gt; now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T22:42:58.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="612" CreationDate="2011-05-18T22:21:06.047" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;These packages have actually already started to diverge and are likely to do so more. In particular the LibreOffice suite is integrating patches and making radical changes to different platforms including a a revamped rendering engine and changing the background technology on some platforms. Some plugins are already poking up as incompatible with one or the other suite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be prepared to un-alias this when issues start showing up with &quot;works for me&quot; answers and it turns out they aren't comparing apples and apples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-06-18T19:06:45.683" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T19:06:45.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-22T04:41:16.577" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like most sites of this nature, we keep getting &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=book+recommendation&quot;&gt;book recommendation&lt;/a&gt; questions. Personally, I massively dislike these questions -- they're completely subjective and have almost nothing to do with our actual topic. &quot;How do I do X in Unix&quot; is a question best answered by Unix people; &quot;what book teaches me about X&quot; is a question best answered by a librarian. They also tend to end with my #1 indicator of a subjective question, &quot;1 recommendation per answer please&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost closed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13577/which-book-would-you-recommend-to-gain-enough-foundation-to-learn-linux-well-enou&quot;&gt;latest example&lt;/a&gt;, but we've clearly let people get away with them in the past, so I wanted to at least ask for opinions. Should these kinds of questions be on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T10:58:45.980" Title="Book recommendation questions" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2011-05-22T05:33:06.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct that they are subjective. However, I believe they are the &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; subjective. It can often be difficult to find the right book for your purpose. With such a large variety of books, on various topics, it can be difficult as a novice to avoid the &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; books. It is not until you've already learned the knowledge of a book, and gone beyond it, to know whether a book is truly a good book or a bad one. So I vote to keep book recommendations, they help novices, and in some cases even advanced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I disagree on &lt;em&gt;&quot;best answered by a librarian&quot;&lt;/em&gt; because librarian's often know Jack &lt;em&gt;bleep&lt;/em&gt; about specialized subject matter. They simply look at what they have in their catalog, and maybe in surrounding library catalogs. Often they have no idea whether a book is good. The only thing I've found recently that librarians are good for is asking, &quot;do you have book X&quot; or &quot;Where in your library can I find book X&quot; or &quot;I can't find it on your shelf, can you help me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-05-22T08:59:33.177" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T08:59:33.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2011-05-22T16:10:16.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have nothing against subjective questions, and neither does Stack Exchange in general. However, I don't like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13577/which-book-would-you-recommend-to-gain-enough-foundation-to-learn-linux-well-enou&quot;&gt;that particular question&lt;/a&gt; either. Usually, the problem with this kind of questions is that they're too vague, but this one falls into the other excess: the book must not be too advanced, and it must be advanced enough, and it must be for “lead web developers” (wtf is that?), and it must not be too yellow… I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/1952/kim&quot;&gt;Kim&lt;/a&gt; says it best: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13577/which-book-would-you-recommend-to-gain-enough-foundation-to-learn-linux-well-enou#comment-18179&quot;&gt;“This is like asking for a book that teaches you how to ride a bicycle.”&lt;/a&gt; — JW01 is asking the wrong question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“1 recommendation per answer please” isn't an indicator of a bad question, it's an indicator of bad answers. Fortunately it's easily removed (/status-completed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T18:20:46.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="619" CreationDate="2011-05-23T06:17:14.030" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Choosing a tag can be a problem for me, because it is hard to find suitable existing ones.. &#xA;Is there some way to list all tags, without having to page through 30 pages... &#xA;I would like a nice simple list which I can copy-paste into my text editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T21:29:37.350" Title="Is it possible to list all tags?" Tags="|support|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="618" CreationDate="2011-05-23T07:20:17.170" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why you want this, but... &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/query/81002/all-tags-by-frequency?opt.textResults=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; - they're ordered with the most-used ones on top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2012-09-26T21:29:37.350" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T21:29:37.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2011-05-23T10:58:45.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it is both understandable and beneficial to the site in the longer term that people would come here to ask other members for recommendations about other &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; resources to further their learning about Unix/Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, if people can't turn to a self-selecting community of experts and enthusiasts for reliable information about the topic, where would you expect them to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be some merit in merging threads/questions over time, but ultimately if this site is to be considered an authoritative reference, then a bibliography (or the Internet equivalent) makes a lot of sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T10:58:45.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="558" CreationDate="2011-05-23T17:18:01.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd-command&lt;/a&gt; work? The suffix is kind of annoying, but the tag really needs to start with &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; or people won't see it; we can't make it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/change-directory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;change-directory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;change-directory&lt;/a&gt; or something. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd-rom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd-rom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd-rom&lt;/a&gt; for the other one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T17:18:01.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="625" CreationDate="2011-05-24T12:07:33.243" Score="6" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much Windows is ontopic? we decided a while ago that cygwin is ontopic because there isn't usually much difference. But is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/13693/29&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about reading Linux filesystems from a windows system ontopic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T13:58:48.703" Title="Is accessing unix filesystems from windows ontopic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2011-05-24T12:09:12.103" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm personally torn on this I can actually see this being interesting to Unix and Linux people, but the fact remains outside of these being Linux filesystems I don't see that this has anything to do with Linux or Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if I could vote on the question without it it immediately closing it, I'd vote to close it as offtopic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T12:09:12.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2011-05-24T12:17:16.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to be inclusive; it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about Linux-standard filesystems, after all. It's likely that Linux/Unix experts who have worked in a heterogeneous environment are the best-suited to give a good answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T12:17:16.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2011-05-24T13:58:48.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I was surprised to see indecision; in my mind this is clearly off-topic. It's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt; for a Windows program; the fact that the Windows program will be interacting with Linux data doesn't really matter to me. I won't close it since mattdm was of the opposite opinion, but call it a vote to close for me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T13:58:48.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="629" CreationDate="2011-05-28T11:15:59.737" Score="10" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes questions get asked, then the need for them to be answered goes away before the question is answered. Answering the question would be a matter of a some kind of post-mortem examination, but the problem is gone and the original asker has no interest in solving it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've meant to ask this before, but a new example just cropped up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/13908/1925&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Since nobody can replicate the problem and the original asker no longer has the problem, requests for more information to provide a definitive answer are useless. It's likely the problem isn't accurately described, but difficult to correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a &quot;cop out&quot; answer such as &quot;update your system&quot; be provided so that the question can be marked as answered? Should the question be closed? Should it just be ignored and left for time to bury unless somebody else with the same problem comes along and resurrects it with more info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T19:47:28.707" Title="What to do with questions that don't need answers" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2011-05-28T11:32:40.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that somewhere on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO Blog&lt;/a&gt; there is a post about questions that a person resolved themselves. In most cases the correct thing to do is post the answer of how you solved it. However if it turns out to be a fluke with no known solution or whatever, then the correct thing to do is for the poster do delete his question. In this case we'll never have a solid solution, as we won't really know what package it was. Therefore I'm highly tempted to close this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2011-05-28T11:32:40.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2011-05-28T11:58:15.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a bug-tracking system, there's usually a &quot;can't reproduce&quot; resolution option — or, not &quot;not a real bug&quot;. Here, we've got &quot;not a real question&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-05-28T11:58:15.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2011-05-28T13:14:00.120" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close reasons include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“not a real question”: “the question is (…) incomplete (…) and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“too localized”: “the question is unlikely to ever help any future visitor; it is only relevant to (…) an extraordinarily narrow situation”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For troubleshooting questions, it's fairly common that the initial question doesn't have enough information, and people will comment to say “what's in file X, try running command Y”. If the asker never answers, I tend to close as “not a real question”: there was a genuine problem but the asker did not care to post all the requested information. If the asker reports that the problem “solved itself”, I tend to close as “too localized”: we'll never identify a repeatable problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question closed as “not a real question” now carries an automatic downvote. This seems to validate my distinction above: NaRQ carries a penalty (bad asker), TL doesn't (hapless asker). However, don't sweat it: apart from “exact duplicate”, the close reason doesn't really matter. What matters is that questions we can't or don't want to answer get closed (and usually deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-05-28T13:14:00.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2011-05-29T04:12:20.360" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is no evidence that any future visitors could ever be helped by such a &quot;no answer needed&quot; question, then it should simply be deleted -- flag it for moderator attention as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pages that can't help anyone don't make the internet better and should be removed, always!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-05-29T04:12:20.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-02T19:54:15.730" Score="12" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to change my mind about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag. It was originally blacklisted with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt;, but we had it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/561/the-linux-tag-is-not-allowed&quot;&gt;reversed&lt;/a&gt; because there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109/why-is-there-a-linux-tag&quot;&gt;legitimate uses&lt;/a&gt;. But over and over again I see it misused -- two posts today used it as the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; tag, so it's just letting them circumvent the tagging system entirely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know people find it useful, so I don't want it eliminated, but is it possible to prevent users from tagging posts &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;? I don't think such a feature currently exists in the engine, but it would be useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T00:38:07.813" Title="Don't allow posts with only the linux tag" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="631" CreationDate="2011-06-02T23:54:21.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of the last data dump, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/q/101858/number-of-tags-in-the-first-revision-of-a-post&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;935 questions started off with a single tag&lt;/a&gt; (out of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/s/1431/number-of-posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;3830 questions&lt;/a&gt;, so that's almost 25%). Out of these, 88 (9.4%) started off with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;, 55 (5.9%) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;, 32 (3.4%) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested to know how many of these had other tags added subsequently, but that's well beyond my SQL skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the numbers justify a new technical measure. During that period, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/s/1434/number-of-edits-by-a-given-user&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;made 1059 tag edits&lt;/a&gt;. Blocking questions from having only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; would hardly make a dent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-06-02T23:54:21.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-06-03T09:49:25.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am seeing the &lt;em&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/em&gt; SE as a very open site for Unix/Linux related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you talk about Linux you mean sometimes only the Kernel or other times all the stuff a Linux distribution provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or some guy has as definition of some Unix as 'the Unix' kernel plus all the applications which are standardized in POSIX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a Linux/Unix user probably doesn't really care, if subversion works pretty much the same on Windows. It is still ontopic here, and nobody get's confused here with some windows-cargo-cult answer to an application specific question or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even regarding the Firefox bookmarking example - perhaps there are only ways to backup ff bookmarks  which are cross-plattform - but perhaps not, perhaps there is some very clever/special way how to do it on Unix - but the author of the question can't know this a priori.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that a relevance discussion towards Exclusionism has the potential to scare off people, e.g. like in the German Wikipedia, where new authors fear evil deletion-request-fanatics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1131" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T09:49:25.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="635" CreationDate="2011-06-03T17:22:53.207" Score="9" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are going to ask a question specific to Debian, you have to give it a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; tag. Fair enough. But I see many also mention the word Debian in the title as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;How to remove dpkg in Debian?&#xA;# vs.&#xA;How to remove dpkg?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T11:56:59.340" Title="Should I include tag information in the title too?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="634" CreationDate="2011-06-03T17:53:27.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the Stack Exchange search engine is a little limited, it really helps to have good information in the tags. But tags should be labels describing the content, not sources of additional information. Additionally, the titles are what you see if you're skimming the list of questions. It's important for them to be succinct statements of the key part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if a particular distribution is important to the question, yes, please put it in both places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T17:53:27.780" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="634" CreationDate="2011-06-05T04:21:19.133" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;How do I write a good title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To be clear, I think it is fine to duplicate the tags in the title, but only when they can be worked into the titles &lt;em&gt;organically and conversationally&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T04:21:19.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2011-06-05T07:51:58.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another (probably controversial) approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add your own (correct) answer - and if it garners more than say 20 upvotes &lt;em&gt;from U&amp;amp;L members&lt;/em&gt; then you delete the incorrect/misleading answer(s) and &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; communities votes prevail.[1]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would probably need to include some sort of explanation in your answer to the effect that the migrated question is under assessment by the U&amp;amp;L community and the migrated answers may be deleted if they are considered incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] The reverse could equally apply and you establish a threshold of downvotes on migrated answers to delete them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T07:51:58.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="639" CreationDate="2011-06-06T21:30:09.213" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14489/why-someone-would-choose-freebsd&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13554/how-does-the-unix-file-privilege-system-differ-from-that-of-windows&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comparison&lt;/a&gt;. When I saw the tag name, I expected them to be about tools like &lt;code&gt;cmp&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;diff&lt;/code&gt; (i.e. should be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diff&lt;/a&gt;). The tag actually means “comparison between a unix system and some other system”, which feels like &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta-tags&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not dead set against it, but I find the name counterintuitive, and I don't really find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burninate, rename, keep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-06-06T22:25:07.443" Title="Do we want the comparison tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="638" CreationDate="2011-06-06T22:25:07.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say zap it. Too many possible things to compare, and nothing really tying them together. How is that ever useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-06-06T22:25:07.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="854" CreationDate="2011-06-07T23:07:30.140" Score="6" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need to make the fine distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shared-objects&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shared-objects&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shared-objects&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dynamic-linking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dynamic-linking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dynamic-linking&lt;/a&gt;. My preference is for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dynamic-linking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dynamic-linking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dynamic-linking&lt;/a&gt; to be the main tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shared-objects&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shared-objects&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shared-objects&lt;/a&gt; to be the synonym. I haven't gone to see if there are other similar tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="928" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T01:33:31.517" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T01:33:31.517" Title="Tag synonyms: shared-objects and dynamic-linking" Tags="|support|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-08T19:17:26.870" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fish&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fish&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fish&lt;/a&gt; tag belongs to a new shell. This means we need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fish-kio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fish-kio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fish-kio&lt;/a&gt; tag. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kio&lt;/a&gt; tag is missing too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8194" OwnerDisplayName="Syborgia Alphas" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-06-08T20:21:50.210" LastActivityDate="2011-06-08T20:28:01.583" Title="Will someone with a reputation &gt;= 300 create a proper fish tag?" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2011-06-08T20:12:03.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fish-protocol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fish-protocol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fish-protocol&lt;/a&gt; (and added &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kio-slave&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kio-slave&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kio-slave&lt;/a&gt; as well), and retagged instances of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fish&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fish&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fish&lt;/a&gt; that were wrong. If there's continued confusion we might change &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fish&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fish&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fish&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fish-shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fish-shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fish-shell&lt;/a&gt;, but I left it alone for now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-06-08T20:12:03.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2011-06-08T20:28:01.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to Stack Exchange. Note that this question has been moved to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux Meta&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; is for questions about unix and Linux; questions about the site itself belong here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To request the creation of a tag, it's ok to just leave a comment under your question asking for it. Or simply use a more general tag; usually someone will come along and retag if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-06-08T20:28:01.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="645" CreationDate="2011-06-09T09:55:17.327" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/8038/alain-pannetier?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;my accounts page&lt;/a&gt; in my Unix &amp;amp; Linux profile, I cannot see my Unix &amp;amp; Linux account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's an openId problem because it also shows up in the profile and the list of accounts clearly shows that SE &quot;knows&quot; I have all these accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot of my profile page.  It says &quot;Registered User&quot; and the openId is recognised as identical as in my other SE accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8PA78.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8038" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-06-09T11:47:14.953" Title="Any good reason why my Unix &amp; Linux &quot;accounts page shows all my Stackexchange accounts except my very Unix &amp; Linux one?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="644" CreationDate="2011-06-09T11:47:00.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No particular reason; our identity system is denormalized and sometimes account associations can be overlooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the accounts tab of your user page, I clicked &quot;clear all associations&quot;, then &quot;associate&quot; and this seemed to clear it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(for anyone else reading this, you must have at least one credential in common on all Stack Exchange sites for us to be able to link them up, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-06-09T11:47:00.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-10T14:22:59.727" Score="14" ViewCount="824" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a sandbox post for experimenting with SE features, similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&quot;&gt;Formatting Sandbox&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-12-05T17:26:06.280" LastActivityDate="2023-07-18T13:58:39.180" Title="Experimentation Sandbox" Tags="|discussion|support|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-10T14:24:54.733" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-06-11T11:51:52.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was a kid, sand never stayed in the sandbox &lt;strike&gt;for very long&lt;/strike&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2016-06-25T13:28:53.450" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T13:28:53.450" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-11T11:51:52.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="634" CreationDate="2011-06-11T11:56:59.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be worth noting that your example question is not entirely specific to Debian, the same answers might apply to any dpkg based distro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep alternate scenarios in mind when entering tags and titles. Sometimes being too specific might hurt your cause more than help it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T11:56:59.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-06-13T04:39:39.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user/16600082639541088206/state/com.google/reading-list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;100&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.quickmediasolutions.com/stackapplet/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;200&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.quickmediasolutions.com/stackapplet/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;300&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[main] rocks like a...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T12:19:44.270" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T12:19:44.270" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-13T04:39:39.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="652" CreationDate="2011-06-18T11:31:23.700" Score="5" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macintosh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macintosh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macintosh&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/606/1925&quot;&gt;here about mac related tags&lt;/a&gt;, but it doesn't deal with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt;, only with variant issues like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/powerpc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;powerpc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;powerpc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macbook&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macbook&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbook&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2011-06-19T01:44:41.080" Title="Merge tags mac and macintosh" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="651" CreationDate="2011-06-18T14:35:17.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;updating post history, 3 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating PostTags associations, 1 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;tag remapping of [macintosh] and [mac] complete!&#xA;Tag Synonym mac -&amp;gt; macintosh was approved!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T14:35:17.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-24T23:32:49.627" Score="6" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chrome and chromium can mean many things on this site, but particularly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Chrome&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chromium&lt;/a&gt; web browsers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Chrome OS&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_OS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chromium OS&lt;/a&gt; operating systems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have two questions about Chrome OS (if I haven't missed one), tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome-os&lt;/a&gt;. I suspect we'll have more in a few months. At the moment, there's no call for differentiating between Google Chrome OS (the OS from Google with non-free components) and Chromium OS (the open source parts of Chrome OS). I propose to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome-os&lt;/a&gt; for the OS and only distinguish between the two editions if and when it turns out to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 17 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt; plus one tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;google-chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;google-chrome&lt;/a&gt;, all about the Chrome/Chromium browser family; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chromium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chromium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chromium&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;google-chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;google-chrome&lt;/a&gt; should be merged, presumably into the most common &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm not sure &lt;code&gt;chrome&lt;/code&gt; is the right name. Right now, the browser is a lot more popular than the OS, but the OS is more directly in our focus, so the ratio could change. Should the displayed version of the tag have a longer name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T09:19:52.643" Title="Chrome-related tags" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2011-06-25T09:19:52.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered having the primary tags for each of these be the open-source project names and use the google short names and google prefix tags as aliases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the browser, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chromium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chromium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chromium&lt;/a&gt; would have aliases of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;google-chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;google-chrome&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the OS, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chromium-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chromium-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chromium-os&lt;/a&gt; would have aliases of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome-os&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;google-chrome-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;google-chrome-os&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that prioritizing the tag as the open source root project hold some water. The majority of questions are likely related to the google specific package, but in a sense they are downstream bottlers even if they are also the upstream headwaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T09:19:52.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-06-25T13:28:57.410" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dC4S3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tagline to show on mouseover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4519" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T13:28:57.410" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-25T13:28:57.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2011-06-26T10:59:49.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was an issue with css styles changing per keystroke as I recall, and is long since fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T10:59:49.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="426" CreationDate="2011-06-26T11:15:15.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot of the favorite question highlight color:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0bhwz.png&quot; alt=&quot;favorite questions highlight&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how others feel about this, but it is visible on my typical TN (aka crappy) panels I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T11:15:15.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-27T09:11:34.690" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/15655/1925&quot;&gt;couple of questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/architecture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;architecture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;architecture&lt;/a&gt; that don't make any sense to me. I clicked through to make sure I knew what the architecture tag was supposed to be and discovered a hodge-podge of stuff. It looks like it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/168/1925&quot;&gt;originally created&lt;/a&gt; with the processor architecture in mind, but that's not fully clear any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the tag perhaps be renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cpu-architecture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cpu-architecture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cpu-architecture&lt;/a&gt; so that people don't randomly tag stuff with it without realizing what it's supposed to be about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T16:54:42.987" Title="Architecture tag name confusing" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="659" CreationDate="2011-06-27T16:54:42.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I authoritatively declare that the creator of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/architecture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;architecture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;architecture&lt;/a&gt; meant it for questions about the design or architecture of unix systems, i.e. how the core stuff works. That's what it currently means on 8 of the 10 questions that now have it. On the other 2, it means CPU architecture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not opposed to renaming it; I proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; as an alternative earlier, but I'm open to other suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cpu-architecture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cpu-architecture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cpu-architecture&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever we decide, let's document it in the tag wikis. (Back then the tag wiki edit rules were different, I suspect I didn't have the right to write one.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T16:54:42.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="558" CreationDate="2011-06-27T20:41:42.993" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the chat &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1224200#1224200&quot;&gt;starting here&lt;/a&gt; for what we've settled on. To summarize, the plan is to leave the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd&lt;/a&gt; for the change-directory command/bultin, but add &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/data-cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data-cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;data-cd&lt;/a&gt; with an alias of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cdrom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cdrom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cdrom&lt;/a&gt; so that people starting to type 'cd' will see the other option and hopefully make an more informed choice. If the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd&lt;/a&gt; tag continues to be abused, we will rename and ban it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dvd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dvd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dvd&lt;/a&gt; exists for issues more specific to DVD media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-06-27T20:47:11.053" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T20:47:11.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-28T09:05:43.960" Score="16" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of starting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;community blog&lt;/a&gt; related to this site has been bounced around before with &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1006497#1006497&quot;&gt;limited&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1004893#1004893&quot;&gt;enthusiasm&lt;/a&gt;. It recently came up &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1226852#1226852&quot;&gt;in chat again here&lt;/a&gt;. Since the first step listed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/getting-started/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;getting started guide&lt;/a&gt; is to raise the idea on meta, here we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel this is a good idea and have input, please vote on the ideas below and consider suggesting your own. One idea per answer please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The general procedure for community blogs is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/blog-overflow/&quot;&gt;described here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As examples, there are active blogs for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gaming.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and pending content, &lt;a href=&quot;http://security.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Security.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; There is now a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/743/starting-a-blog-part-2&quot;&gt;second thread&lt;/a&gt; on this idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T09:50:44.513" Title="Starting a Unix &amp; Linux Community blog" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-28T13:36:44.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="662" CreationDate="2011-06-28T09:08:06.643" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Reviews of distributions and major software releases&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be extra nice to have these blog entries review newly released sotftware that is likely to be a popular current topic, e.g. &lt;em&gt;First impressions of Debian 6&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;What to expect from Linux 3.0&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T14:23:45.803" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T14:23:45.803" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-28T13:36:44.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="662" CreationDate="2011-06-28T09:12:32.460" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Which distro should I use for X?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sorts of questions come up pretty often and are filed away under &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distribution-choice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;distribution-choice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;distribution-choice&lt;/a&gt;, but answering them is always somewhat subjective. There is always more than one factor to consider, and the question never has enough information to evaluate and give a &quot;right answer&quot;. Rather than starting with a distro and reviewing it generally, we could take some specific tasks and review how well different distros would be suitable to that task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-08-02T11:52:35.703" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T11:52:35.703" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-28T13:36:44.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="662" CreationDate="2011-06-28T09:52:01.053" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tutorials on &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to 'RTFM'&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's face it. It's not just that people are too lazy to read the documentation, quite often they don't know how. We are constantly quoting man pages and specifications, but not everybody understands how to find their own answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Navigating documentation in the *nix world is kind of like living in the wild west: quite survivable and even inspiring, but you have to have some survival skills -- when to expect the anser in a man page and how to find that page, how to navigate in a pager or doc viewer, when to look online instead, how to search on google and actually get relevant results as opposed to cruft, when to ask on forums or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;U&amp;amp;L&lt;/a&gt;, when an issue goes in a bug-tracker and when you ask for community help, how to find the appropriate issue tracker, etc. This could be a whole series covering several angles, distro and project philosophies, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T14:29:10.903" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-28T13:36:44.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="662" CreationDate="2011-06-28T09:56:00.023" Score="13" Body="&lt;h3&gt;But &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; is it like that?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;History and &quot;why&quot; questions are actually on topic questions, but sometimes they border on &quot;too broad&quot; because the rich and diverse history behind *nix doesn't fit very well in a QnA format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some real gems already in answers explaining the *nix way and how things got to be the way they are, but these often get buried in answers to otherwise not-very-useful looking questions. A collaborative blog might be a good place to consolidate and collect some of these perspectives under more topical headings rather than focusing on answering a specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T14:36:11.557" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T14:36:11.557" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-28T13:36:44.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="662" CreationDate="2011-06-28T14:49:08.313" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Interviews with knowledgeable folks, or &quot;The people behind the magic&quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who wouldn't be interested to learn what takes up why &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1225616#1225616&quot;&gt;2999 lines&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles's&lt;/a&gt; sawfish config file or how much he has to eat for breakfast to keep the nogin plump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody likes to read about someone else's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/6/1925&quot;&gt;favorite command line trick&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/502/1925&quot;&gt;most epic mistake&lt;/a&gt;, but those don't usually fit very well in a QnA format. Some good old-fashioned story telling from names that the community recognizes would be well received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-08-23T03:15:52.730" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-28T14:49:08.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="662" CreationDate="2011-06-30T13:20:05.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The state of games *nix&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Review the state of gaming, new releases, or other things in the *nix/open-source gaming world. Also there are always the occasional indie with a Linux release which deserve all the publicity they can get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be done in collaboration with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gaming blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8377" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-07-02T10:53:57.587" LastActivityDate="2011-07-02T10:53:57.587" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-30T13:20:05.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-07-01T20:32:48.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;date; cd; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;date; cd; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;date; cd; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;date; cd; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dodge this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;code&gt;date; cd; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; date; cd; touch; strip; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=foo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=foo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2018-09-02T02:51:56.447" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T02:51:56.447" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-01T20:32:48.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-04T10:17:31.273" Score="-2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&#xA;The 40k-rep-heavy user Gilles commented on this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16022/why-do-you-need-the-when-executing-programs-in-the-current-directory&quot;&gt;Why do you need the &amp;quot;./&amp;quot; when executing programs in the current directory?&lt;/a&gt; (ups - why is no link-button here?) that it is a possible duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like a plain-old-real-exact duplicate to me. I flagged it, but there is no explicit flag-option, like on other SE-sites. Intentionally? Do we encourage duplicates? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'exact duplicate' should be a radio-button-option in the flag-dialog! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the question should be closed, shouldn't it? It should!&#xA;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Rewriting the whole question, because, from the answers, I see, that the problem is somewhere else.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag option 'exact duplicate' is hidden behind the entry &lt;code&gt;does not belong here&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original belongs here, the problem isn't, that it does not belong here, but that it is already here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't find the option, while I wanted to flag above mentioned post, because, well, it belongs here - it is just a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T17:14:17.583" Title="`exact duplicate` as a flag option not well categorized" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|close-reasons|duplicate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="670" CreationDate="2011-07-04T10:44:37.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that option is already in the flag dialog. If you go to &quot;It doesn't belong here&quot; there is an option &quot;Exact duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And BTW that comment is auto-generated when you cast a close vote and there is no comment linking to the duplicate yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2703" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T10:44:37.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="670" CreationDate="2011-07-04T11:08:39.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gilles didn't just comment, he added his vote to close the question as a duplicate. I have backed it up and somebody else just voted, but we need 2 more votes or a moderator to weigh in. The &quot;comment&quot; is auto-generated when the vote is placed as Fabian mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also as he explained there IS a flag for duplicates, and that's the right thing to do, but then you have to wait for the moderators to take care of it, it won't be an instant fix. Our moderators are very good, but there are only a couple of them so it might take a few hours!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-07-04T15:31:22.143" LastActivityDate="2011-07-04T15:31:22.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-05T09:32:51.850" Score="7" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;em&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/em&gt; has gotten rid of the 'for advanced users' part of its description, it still comes across to me as a site for advanced Unix users - perhaps just server admins, even.  This recently caused me to create the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/33498/debian&quot;&gt;Debian Area51 proposal&lt;/a&gt;, which I now accept is a dupe of this site (well, a subset anyway).  But it led me to thinking: is there a way that U&amp;amp;L can better brand itself to indicate that it's open not only to advanced users and server admins, but also new-to-intermediate users of all Linux distributions (except Ubuntu, of course!)  I'm not sure exactly how to do it, but if you Google for &quot;Debian Q&amp;amp;A&quot;, it would be nice if this site came up at least in the top 10.  I don't think it's very 'discoverable'.  If you're going to welcome beginner questions about all distros, the look-and-feel of this site right now doesn't feel appropriate; it feels very &quot;command-liney&quot;.  ;-)  These days, new users of Linux will almost certainly be using a GUI, alongside a commandline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8831" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T10:27:20.713" Title="Branding better for new-to-intermediate users?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="673" CreationDate="2011-07-05T10:27:20.713" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the look-and-feel, or arbitrarily matching &quot;Debian Q&amp;amp;A&quot;, is the correct way to think of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to attract (quality) beginners, &lt;strong&gt;make sure there are a lot of quality beginner Unix questions on the site!&lt;/strong&gt; That is what will lead beginners here in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if you want to make this site more hospitable to beginners:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;potentially even self-answer&lt;/a&gt;) lots of great beginner questions. This has to happen first; we can't expect beginners to magically materialize without a corpus of good beginner Q&amp;amp;A pairs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Generously share links to great questions and answers wherever new Unix users tend to congregate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/announcer-booster-and-publicist-badges/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/announcer-booster-and-publicist-badges/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Love and reward your newest users for being awesome!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=newusers&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=newusers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T10:27:20.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-08T21:51:31.330" Score="7" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a difference between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficiency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efficiency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efficiency&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;? “Performance” feels like it's specifically about execution speed; “efficiency” could be about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/487/ubuntu-how-do-you-free-up-resources&quot;&gt;memory&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2027/how-do-i-minimize-disk-space-usage&quot;&gt;disk space&lt;/a&gt; or other resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the four questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efficency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efficency&lt;/a&gt; must be retagged, to fix the spelling. Should they be retagged to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficiency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efficiency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efficiency&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;? Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficiency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efficiency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efficiency&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt; be synonyms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T04:15:11.223" Title="Is efficiency the same as performance?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2011-07-09T05:50:12.720" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm not too concerned either way, but I'll vote for making &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficiency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efficiency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efficiency&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-07-09T05:50:12.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="678" CreationDate="2011-07-11T12:46:54.520" Score="6" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strangely, the edit link is missing from this post when I tried to reformat the wall of unformatted text in his post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16461/how-do-i-access-a-digital-camera-drive-via-usb-after-safely-removing-it&quot;&gt;How do I access a digital camera drive via usb after safely removing it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6766" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-07-11T13:45:53.377" Title="Why can't I edit this post?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="677" CreationDate="2011-07-11T13:45:53.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple circumstances under which you won't be able to suggest an edit; in this case, it's because there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/539&quot;&gt;another suggested edit on that post&lt;/a&gt; waiting to be approved. It's accepted now, so the edit link should be back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-07-11T13:45:53.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-14T21:05:47.143" Score="6" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just visited the question-section, and opened some of them in - da-da-da-dam - 4 or 5 tabs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there was a server side error, and I got 4 or 5 tabs with the message: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/questions/16652/prefix-every-argument-with-o-in-bash&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/questions/16652/prefix-every-argument-with-o-in-bash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I waited some minutes, for the error to vanish, and it vanished, but using 'reload' reloaded the errorpage, and since I opened them in tabs, I couldn't use the 'page back' button of the browser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I didn't remember which question I had decided to visit, which I already visited (sometimes, they aren't what you expect from the headline, so the headline isn't always a help in remembering), and where to find them in the list, -- well, it's possible with hovering and the numbers, 16652 for example, but it's not comfortable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comfortable solution would be a link on the errorpage 'try again here in a few minutes' which reloads the requested page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion, feature-request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T21:05:47.143" Title="recovering from error" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="681" CreationDate="2011-07-17T15:18:15.480" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed I got an upvote for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16807/append-string-where-it-belongs-in-sorted-file/16808#comment-22627&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16807/append-string-where-it-belongs-in-sorted-file/16808#16808&quot;&gt;append string where it belongs in sorted file&lt;/a&gt;. However, I don't see any change in my reputation. Is there some problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T02:03:20.710" Title="Didn't get any reputation for comment upvotes" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="680" CreationDate="2011-07-17T15:21:02.197" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a bug, although I can see how it might be unexpected. Comment upvotes do not add to reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is by design. Comments are intentionally second-class, because ongoing discussion is discouraged. The upvotes just help the good ones rise above the noise. You can, however, earn a couple of badges based on commenting — particularly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/badges/24/pundit&quot;&gt;Pundit&lt;/a&gt;, for 10 comments with score of 5 or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also see an analysis of your reputation history at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;, and you can trigger a recalc if you think there's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T02:03:20.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="860" CreationDate="2011-07-18T15:14:55.543" Score="7" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Unix.SE and Meta.Unix.SE only, I see &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks in a larger font than &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or backquoted blocks. Observed in both Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps not a bug, but it is weird. On the other SE sites, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and backquotes and four-space indentation all result in the same font size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k4ZmZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;edit screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2012-01-26T17:35:11.547" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T17:35:11.547" Title="The pre tag is shown in a larger font than other code snippets" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-07-18T18:06:17.850" Score="7" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;make unix | more &amp;gt; /usr/friendly&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should give this friendly message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;make: *** No rule to make target 'unix'.  Stop.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8997" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T18:06:17.850" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-18T18:06:17.850" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-21T17:02:53.853" Score="9" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17115/disable-keyboard-mouse-temporarily/17140#17140&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; I posted an answer on how to disable mouse and keyboard input using &lt;code&gt;xinput&lt;/code&gt;, with the presumption that if the question is about UNIX, X specific answers are good.  However, turns out, the OP was interested in doing that on OS X, whose GUI has nothing to do with X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;if a question is OS X GUI based, does it belong here?&lt;/strong&gt; When can we say &quot;ask that on &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15/macosx-whats-on-topic&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a closely related question, but the above point wasn't clearly resolved, so I'm following Gilles' suggestion to raise it here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8997" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:07.927" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T16:48:21.803" Title="Where exactly is the border between apple and UNIX?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="685" CreationDate="2011-07-21T17:06:00.387" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory, as long as the answers are likely to work on Unix as well as OS X, it's on-topic here. That's probably not true for questions involving the GUI since it doesn't use X, so I'm all for migrating that to Ask Different (I'll wait till there's more feedback here though)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T17:06:00.387" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="685" CreationDate="2011-07-21T20:08:56.450" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the level that we should send users to Apple SE is the level at which Apple expects most users to be using their system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, most users aren't going to attempt to disable their keyboard and mouse. I suspect there is no gui interface for this. I would consider anything at the Terminal level to be beneath what Apple really thinks users should be doing with their systems. If the question is &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; (Apple) gui based it should go to Apple SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular question however seems to be asking a way to script this, and the answer could be at the Windowing level, the Kernel level, or some in between level, I really don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm ok with questions that are Apple implementation Specific, so long as we don't get caught up dealing with their intended user experience, which has nothing to do with Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T20:23:16.083" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T20:23:16.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-22T11:45:42.710" Score="6" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; seems to be an ambiguous mashup of things related to movie-media files and issues with output hardware. There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/media&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;media&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;media&lt;/a&gt; which is sometimes (but not always) combined with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; but it doesn't seem to add a lot of clarity being a rather mixed bag itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have tags for lots of common video formats (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quicktime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quicktime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quicktime&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mov&lt;/a&gt;) as well as video related actions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-encoding&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-encoding&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-encoding&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-editing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-editing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-editing&lt;/a&gt;). Most movie related programs have their own (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mplayer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mplayer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mplayer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vlc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vlc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vlc&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the video hardware side of things &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nvidia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nvidia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nvidia&lt;/a&gt; already has a place and a generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hardware&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hardware&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hardware&lt;/a&gt; sometimes gets tacked on to clarify that which half of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; is meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would it make sense to split &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; into two tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, can anybody suggest a good set of tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-07-22T11:52:17.620" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T01:25:57.430" Title="What is the [video] tag supposed to be?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-22T12:51:26.887" Score="14" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;A frequently asked question is: &lt;code&gt;which foo&lt;/code&gt; tells me something, but it doesn't correspond to what happens when I actually run &lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt;, what's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17183/how-to-determine-which-executable-on-my-path-will-be-run&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is a recent example, but we've had many more — basically anything in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/which&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;which&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;which&lt;/a&gt; tag, and more that should all be in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/path&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;path&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;path&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there one that we can consider to be canonical, so we can close the others as duplicates? Here, canonical means an answer that explains that &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt; doesn't use the running shell's &lt;code&gt;PATH&lt;/code&gt; and the asker should use &lt;code&gt;type&lt;/code&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't have one already, let's make one, possibly by editing an existing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T20:35:57.243" Title="Which is our canonical 'which' question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="690" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-26T18:49:54.583" Score="5" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I click &quot;log in&quot; while on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; (for example), I'm redirected to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=%2fquestions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=%2fquestions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have this issue on Firefox (5.0), Chromium (12.0.742.124) but not on Midori (0.3.6).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7576" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T19:49:30.970" Title="Return url while login is encoded" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="690" CreationDate="2011-07-26T19:49:15.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fix for this has been committed and will be live with our next deploy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2609" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T19:49:15.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-26T21:34:19.733" Score="9" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a continuation of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/rejecting-obvious-questions&quot;&gt;Rejecting obvious questions?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/377/is-it-okay-to-ask-questions-here-when-wikipedia-already-has-the-answer&quot;&gt;Is it okay to ask questions here when Wikipedia already has the answer?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get the occasional question where the best answer is to refer the asker to Wikipedia or to a program's reference manual — RTFM questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason&quot;&gt;general reference close reason&lt;/a&gt; is currently under evaluation on two Stack Exchange sites, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; usage&lt;/a&gt;. Being a regular on SF&amp;amp;F, I can report that we don't use it often, but it feels like a reasonable filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want this close reason on Unix &amp;amp; Linux as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, should we close questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17410/whats-the-meaning-of-zombie-in-relation-to-the-os&quot;&gt;What is a zombie process?&lt;/a&gt; as “too localized”, since the “this question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:11.777" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T22:00:51.780" Title="Should we close general reference questions?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|general-reference|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="444" CreationDate="2011-07-26T21:53:14.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If in doubt, ask here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/about/team&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange staff&lt;/a&gt; monitors all the Meta sites. Even if your question is intended for the developers, they should see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are specific to this site, such as discussing tags (&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;) or rendering bugs (&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt;), must be on this meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is applicable to the whole network, it would be a good idea to search the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main Meta&lt;/a&gt; first; many ideas have been discussed there before. But this is not compulsory; it's fine if you want to be a member of this site and don't care that it's part of a wider network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask here and the question turns out to be applicable site-wide, a moderator may migrate it to the main Meta. This will be handled transparently: a link is kept here and will redirect you automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T21:53:14.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="692" CreationDate="2011-07-26T22:01:41.403" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes having a &lt;em&gt;general reference&lt;/em&gt; close reason would help. I expect it to be used fairly rarely, but the problem cases tend to be from repeat users so having the explicit close reason would help set a precedent for what they should and should not do. Closing with reasons that don't fully match the scenario make it harder for them to learn proper etiquette and sometimes they even feel discriminated against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T22:01:41.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="692" CreationDate="2011-07-27T14:10:26.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll look into how &quot;general reference&quot; has been going on SFF and ELU. That particular close reason makes me nervous; I think people are going to interpret it as &quot;come on, everyone knows that&quot;, when this site has shown me how easy it is to not know things about *nix that other people would find trivial. It begs for the same abuse that NaRQ gets, where people close perfectly valid questions because they're &quot;too simple&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T14:10:26.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="688" CreationDate="2011-07-27T17:45:14.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe common words such as video, graphic, software are not suitable to be a tag as in the word &lt;code&gt;thing&lt;/code&gt;. This kind of tags are always tend to be abused and make search result quality worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned, there are already many specific tags for formats, softwares, hardwares and techics; so in my opinion there is no need to use video tag and it may be splitted into two or more tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2427" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T17:45:14.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="698" CreationDate="2011-07-27T21:42:56.190" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;my former open ID provider, openidfrance.fr , is down, so I can't login into my account. The account from which I'm posting right now was automatically created when usind SO's openid I guess.&#xA;Can someone merge the two accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="653" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-07-27T21:53:01.603" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T21:53:01.603" Title="merge the two accounts that have my nickname" Tags="|support|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="697" CreationDate="2011-07-27T21:52:53.257" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done. Both OpenIDs are associated with your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/653/greg0ire&quot;&gt;main account&lt;/a&gt; now, so either one will let you login. If &lt;code&gt;openidfrance.fr&lt;/code&gt; is down permanently, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22223/how-do-i-remove-my-primary-openid&quot;&gt;remove it from your profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T21:52:53.257" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2011-07-31T00:47:52.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Efficiency can be about memory usage, or power consumption, but performance can be used for that purpose too, while most questions are about speed of execution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T00:47:52.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="688" CreationDate="2011-08-01T01:08:25.667" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very simple naming suggestion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; can be split into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-formats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-formats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-formats&lt;/a&gt; sub-category of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/media&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;media&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;media&lt;/a&gt; with famous formats as sub-tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-hardware&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-hardware&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-hardware&lt;/a&gt; sub-category of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hardware&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hardware&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hardware&lt;/a&gt;, with famous brands as sub-tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would complete the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-encoding&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-encoding&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-encoding&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-editing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-editing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-editing&lt;/a&gt;,… list, thus allowing a general selection of &quot;video-*&quot; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9426" LastEditorUserId="9426" LastEditDate="2011-08-01T01:25:57.430" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T01:25:57.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="709" CreationDate="2011-08-02T11:14:50.237" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to edit the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; tag, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/tags/info&quot;&gt;the page&lt;/a&gt; said I should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Click the button below to get started. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any button to click, even when I scroll down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yU7xX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the tags tag info page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T20:31:09.857" Title="No &quot;create tag wiki&quot; button on meta" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="705" CreationDate="2011-08-02T11:44:35.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the SE meta sites ar a special case where only moderators can modify tag wikis. Try improving the tag wikis on the main site instead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T11:44:35.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="662" CreationDate="2011-08-02T12:01:30.737" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;Shesh&lt;/code&gt;, I just want a shell&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;sh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;ksh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;pdksh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;mksh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;dtksh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;ash&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;cash&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;dash&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;sash&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;scsh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;csh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;tcsh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;psh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;pash&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;pish&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;posh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;pysh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;mush&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;lush&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;rush&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;gosh&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;code&gt;fish&lt;/code&gt; ... Ok, I exaggerate (ONE of these is actually not a shell). But seriously how is a fellow to know when to use one over the other?*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A series of articles targeted at relative newcomers to the shell scene reviewing what shell to use when and general portability issues would be great to point people to when shell differences come up in questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T09:50:44.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T09:50:44.513" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-02T12:01:30.737" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="705" CreationDate="2011-08-02T13:23:13.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag wikis can't be edited on per-site metas, AFAIK. The idea is to import them from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;the main Meta&lt;/a&gt;, but this isn't happening yet (and it wouldn't be so easy, since tag usage on metas has diverged apart from the mandatory and moderator-only tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the tag wiki creation button, but clicking it has no effect. You don't even see it because tag wikis require 20k rep to edit unsupervised and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87890/why-cant-i-suggest-edits-on-se-meta-sites&quot;&gt;tag edit suggestions don't exist on per-site metas&lt;/a&gt;. We're seeing two manifestations of the same UI bug (the UI should clearly say that the tag wiki can't be edited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T13:23:13.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="705" CreationDate="2011-08-02T14:15:34.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers are right; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92219/proposing-tag-wiki-creation-does-not-work-on-meta-sites&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta explains that tag wikis are copied from the main meta and can't be edited by anyone (even mods). However, the tagging tag on main meta has a description, and has for some time, so I'm not sure that's actually working (was &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt; just created here?). In any case, the UI bug should definitely be fixed; I'll ask someone about the wiki copying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T14:15:34.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-02T19:08:16.017" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17917/&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, what's the deal with removing &quot;Thanks!&quot; and the meaning of the question in the topic? (I think version 1 was perfectly fine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9426" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T11:18:30.127" Title="Editing best practices" Tags="|discussion|editing|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="710" CreationDate="2011-08-02T19:31:10.910" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Including &quot;Hi&quot;, &quot;Thanks in advance&quot;, &quot;This post by Michael Mrozek&quot;, etc. is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2950/145982&quot;&gt;highly discouraged&lt;/a&gt; -- these are supposed to be references, not conversations. There's a recent change that will automatically try to strip out salutations at the beginning of posts, but it doesn't check for things like &quot;thanks&quot; at the end yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to editing it out of existing posts, the accepted practice is &quot;go for it if there's other stuff you want to edit, but don't bother if you're editing just to remove that one thing, it's not important enough&quot;. Personally I don't care if people want to edit just for that though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for editing the title, the original poster did that separately and I'm not exactly sure why. There's a push throughout the network recently to have complete sentences in titles, so I edited it again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T19:31:10.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-02T20:19:12.663" Score="11" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it fine to change the meaning of a title because the OP didn't know what he/she was looking for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9426" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T10:15:53.303" LastActivityDate="2011-10-09T21:11:45.013" Title="Is it ok to change the meaning of question titles?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="712" CreationDate="2011-08-02T21:12:54.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's okay to edit the title for clarity, but you should aim to phrase it in a way that &lt;em&gt;someone else in the future who doesn't know what they are looking for&lt;/em&gt; will find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, for example, I ask &quot;Montir blue wahts wrong&quot;, and you make that &quot;How do I set the white point of my display?&quot; that's not so helpful, because if I didn't know what a white point was, I'd probably never &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; that question in the first place. Better to go with something like &quot;Why does everything on my monitor have a bluish tint, and how can I fix it?&quot; or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T21:12:54.517" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="712" CreationDate="2011-08-02T21:17:06.790" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is debated (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; is where you'll find all these debates for the Stack Exchange network in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take on the matter is that questions should be optimized to be found by people who have a similar question and are coming from a similar background. So the title should&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be clear and to the point;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reflect the main issue, even if it wasn't apparent to the asker at first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify point 1: there's an endless debate on whether titles should be grammatical questions. (Joel is adamantly for, Jeff is rather against making it systematic.) My take on this issue is that titles are titles for the whole page, and every word counts in a title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify point 2: the title should reflect what users might search for when they are confronted with a similar problem. The connection with the question must be obvious even to someone who doesn't know the answer. However, it's better to remove information from the title if it turns out to be irrelevant to the answer (e.g. removing the Linux distribution if it's clear to an experienced user that the answers would be basically identical for any distribution). Conversely, it's better to add information that's absolutely critical, even if the asker didn't identify it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few of my recent title edits and the reason why I made them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/17164/revisions&quot;&gt;how to make a process invisible to &lt;strike&gt;TOP Linux&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;other users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Hiding from top is the same as hiding from ps and any other tool. Linux is definitely relevant here, but it's the default option on this site, so I don't consider it critical to mention it in the title. “other users” clarifies the question in a way that may or may not have been intended by the asker; he might have been intending to hide the process from its user or root. I deliberately steered the question away from rootkits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/17314/revisions&quot;&gt;What is signal 0 &lt;strong&gt;in a trap command&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In a trap command in the shell, as opposed to &lt;code&gt;kill(pid, 0)&lt;/code&gt; (which would be another possible interpretation of the original title).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/17351/revisions&quot;&gt;Can &lt;strike&gt;I make&lt;/strike&gt; kwallet manage my ssh passwords &lt;strike&gt;on the command line&lt;/strike&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Here I just removed some words that weren't a critical part of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T21:17:06.790" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="710" CreationDate="2011-08-03T10:37:35.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the most prolific Remover-Of-Thanks on U&amp;amp;L, perhaps I should weigh in here. I feel fairly strongly that the assortment of &quot;TIA&quot; type sign-offs are a distraction to the purpose of the site. I remove them with vim and vigor (quite literally on the &lt;code&gt;vim&lt;/code&gt; part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally don't edit if a &quot;thank you&quot; removal is the only change pending. If there is a signature or salutation as well, then I go for it. However it is a very rare post that I don't see something else to improve. There are always punctuation and formatting issues to smooth out, tags to be added, etc. I have taken to always opening the question editor right away on brand new questions, particularly from lower rep users. Rather than reading all the way through, then going back to edit, I just fix up the little details as I read through the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the post in question, I thought I was going to be able to format it better, but when I got done I realized I wasn't sure I could make any improvement. There was no real point in canceling the edit just because it was minor, so I saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most significant drawbacks to editing questions is that they get bumped to the home page. Most of the posts I edit are only a few minutes old, so they are on the homepage already and I don't consider this a drawback. It also means the OP is likely hanging around and will see the change and learn for next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly troublesome are the &quot;I would be eternally grateful if you could just give me any idea how to fix my problem.&quot; type epic sign-offs. Removing these helps users understand that rewarding the community is done by upvoting, posting answers, awarding bounties, etc. It's not a social site and works as well as it does partially because it tries to eliminate as many of the social aspects as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, you mentioned in a comment that the &quot;Thanks&quot; can serve as a kind of closure to the question so it doesn't leave you hanging.  My idea on that is that if the question feels like that without a thanks, then it could be re-worded to be clearer. Sometimes there is extraneous information tacked on to the end that should be worked into the post so that the question comes through full force at the end. Sometimes that data just needs to be formatted so it's clear where where the question ends and the random details begin. Having to have a &quot;thanks&quot; in every post for closure seems like a prop for an otherwise poorly worded or formatted post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T10:37:35.920" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="717" CreationDate="2011-08-04T07:02:53.267" Score="29" ViewCount="980" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the font specification calls &lt;code&gt;Georgia&lt;/code&gt; as the primary serif font for question titles. While undeniably an attractive font, its zero renders almost exactly the same as a lower case letter 'o'. This introduces a significant level of ambiguity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/825Vg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Georgia rendering a zero&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think it extremely unlikely that there is a serif font that is readily available on most Unix user's machines that would have a slashed or dotted zero (the ideal), with only a small tweak to the CSS, it would be possible to improve the rendering of zeros &lt;em&gt;for most users&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BXhW6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Times as the default&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm reluctant to suggest a significant change as I think the overall look of the site is extremely professional - however, for a site for coders and geeks,  having ambiguous zeros is rather unfortunate&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/825Vg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With only a small change to the stylesheet, this can be improved. From:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#question-header .question-hyperlink {&#xA;     color: #155078;&#xA;     font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;&#xA;     font-size: 24px;&#xA;     ...&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#question-header .question-hyperlink {&#xA;     color: #155078;&#xA;     font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,Times,serif;&#xA;     font-size: 28px;&#xA;     ...&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that others are similarly exercised about? Could it be considered for a change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other example questions where this has an impact (mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1519466#1519466&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17314/what-is-signal-0-in-a-trap-command&quot;&gt;What is signal 0 in a trap command?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1446/what-is-commit-0-for-ext4-does-mdadm-not-support-it&quot;&gt;what is commit=0 for ext4? does mdadm not support it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10287/message-while-booting-pci-00000000-0-bar-0-cant-allocate-mem-resource-0x&quot;&gt;Message while booting : “can&amp;#39;t allocate mem resource [0xc0000000-0xbfffffff]”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16804/ext4-overrides-my-commit-100-mount-option-with-commit-0&quot;&gt;ext4 overrides my commit=100 mount option with commit=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;UPDATE&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updated to highlight a couple of particularly egregious examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rcmi7.png&quot; alt=&quot;A shocker...&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YjBHo.png&quot; alt=&quot;another more recent example of fail&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2018-11-04T21:54:46.460" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T23:41:07.920" Title="Question title font renders 0 (number zero) much like o (lower-case letter)" Tags="|feature-request|design|fonts|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2011-08-04T11:30:28.293" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too think this design could use addressing. As I &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1519348#1519348&quot;&gt;mentioned in chat&lt;/a&gt; I have been bothered by this before and was going to bring it up on Meta and kept forgetting. Thanks for bringing it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not attached to any particular choice so long as it's glyphs for key characters that matter to Unix related questions (like the number zero and letter o) are sufficiently distinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T11:30:28.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="721" CreationDate="2011-08-05T14:54:56.660" Score="9" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18061/why-does-sh-say-not-found-when-its-definitely-there&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that could be considered a duplicate. However, the wording of the question is very different and I think it can definitely aid people who are searching for such a problem. I believe this falls into the category of a good duplicate question; of the kind that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood has mentioned before&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, two people have voted to close it. Should this question be closed or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T01:16:44.303" Title="Duplicate policy - are we wanting &quot;good&quot; duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="718" CreationDate="2011-08-05T15:33:42.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember the close vote will result in the original question be linked to, so those who find the dupe won't be facing a dead-end. So yes, it should be closed if it is indeed a dupe, unless you believe the question (how it was asked) will lead to different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T16:03:03.883" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T16:03:03.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="718" CreationDate="2011-08-05T15:35:00.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your question is a &quot;good&quot; duplicate in that it comes at the problem from a different angle. However it is still a duplicate. &lt;em&gt;The answers are the same as for the other question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a question closed as a duplicate is not a bad thing. If your copy had identical wording or was otherwise a &quot;bad&quot; duplicate it might eventually get deleted. That's not the same thing as being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing duplicates just helps ensure that all the possible relevant answers to a given problem are in one place. Duplicate questions can be good but there is litte sense in duplicate answers.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception would be if the answers to your question were going to contain content uniquely tailored to your significantly different issue. In this case I think knowing the other answer is going to lean you and anybody else that lands on your question to be able to solve their problem. If for some reason you need help inside your unique context that the other question doesn't cover, feel free to request that it stay open. You might want to edit it with specific enough wording that it is clear how you are looking for a different answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Note this is a point on which I don't 100% agree with Jeff.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T15:44:56.040" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T15:44:56.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="718" CreationDate="2011-08-06T00:52:35.420" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike questions closed for other reasons, duplicates are not intended to be eventually deleted (except for egregious cases where they are &lt;em&gt;word for word identical&lt;/em&gt;). The closed duplicate remains as search fodder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question should be closed as a duplicate as another if its answers are the same as the other question. In this case, the basic explanation is the same: your binary is compiled for a different loader. There is a difference in the details: the earlier question had an executable compiled for the wrong CPU architecture, while yours has an executable compiled for the wrong system library architecture. So there is perhaps some value in keeping different answers; it's a borderline case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T01:16:44.303" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T01:16:44.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="723" CreationDate="2011-08-12T20:59:02.540" Score="6" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that it bothers me too much, but I always thought U&amp;amp;L was still in beta because of the favicon. It has the same design as all beta SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a coincidence? Or on purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T10:05:29.277" Title="Why does our favicon look similar to &quot;beta&quot; SE sites'?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="722" CreationDate="2011-08-12T21:16:43.213" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the same concept, although it does look different -- the beta icons are &quot;sketchy&quot;, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/bcg-sketchy-icon.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BCG sketchy icon http://so.mrozekma.com/bcg-sketchy-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ours is the same layout, without the sketchy theme; &lt;a href=&quot;https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Wordpress&lt;/a&gt; is another site with a letter-based icon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/unix/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Our icon http://sstatic.net/unix/img/apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/wordpress/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wordpress&amp;#39; icon http://sstatic.net/wordpress/img/apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never really cared for it, but I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt; just had trouble coming up with a graphic that would represent the site well and look good in a small format. If anyone has any ideas I suspect we can get a new one made (trying to find out)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:59.943" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T21:16:43.213" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="722" CreationDate="2011-08-12T21:47:06.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://store.opengroup.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;license plate&lt;/a&gt;, if we can have the rights. It's not square, which may be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2011-08-12T21:59:00.927" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T21:59:00.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2011-08-12T22:09:43.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really like this on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/unix/app_offline.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;offline page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/apswartz/5307371945/in/pool-1118864@N24/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5087/5307371945_a2c60576dd_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;/dev/nul&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(By &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/apswartz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;apswartz&lt;/a&gt;, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/groups/unix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unix gallery on flickr&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why I like it: the slightly fuzzy look (as if there was maintenance going on); the unix theme (&lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt;); the capitalization and lack of a second &lt;code&gt;L&lt;/code&gt; (that's what the maintenance should be fixing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T22:09:43.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-08-12T22:25:46.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering why [question:646] or [answer:646#683] are not hyperlinkified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An other test: link to this anwser (failed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/646/experimentation-sandbox&quot;&gt;Experimentation Sandbox&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/q/646&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. Ok, these ones work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9426" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T23:30:37.043" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-12T22:25:46.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-08-12T23:16:06.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18659/running-proprietary-software-on-linux-safely&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18659/running-proprietary-software-on-linux-safely&quot;&gt;Running proprietary software on Linux safely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:08:08.290" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-12T23:16:06.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-13T23:48:29.513" Score="7" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we want code or design reviews on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code reviews expect considerable effort on the part of readers, more than a typical question. Furthermore, they are very open-ended — “I can't see anything wrong with this code” is a valid, but not that interesting answer (and what about “I can't see anything wrong either”, which is a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; answer for every “I”?). Design reviews require less reading effort, but suffer from the same problem with answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed about &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; before. The discussions I could find are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28540/is-stack-overflow-an-appropriate-place-for-simple-code-reviews&quot;&gt;Is Stack Overflow an appropriate place for simple code reviews?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1957/should-so-allow-give-me-some-feedback-questions&quot;&gt;Should SO allow &quot;give me some feedback&quot; questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90362/where-can-i-post-code-for-others-to-review&quot;&gt;Where can I post code for others to review?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is now a &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Code Review Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;, but this should not influence our stance of what's acceptable on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meta question was triggered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18683/what-else-could-i-lock-down-for-buildbot-runs&quot;&gt;What else could I lock down for buildbot runs?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T00:21:34.757" Title="Are code or design reviews acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="728" CreationDate="2011-08-14T00:21:34.757" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think they're too localized -- they can't possibly help anyone except the original asker. They're allowed on Code Review because that's the entire purpose of the site, but I wouldn't expect them to be allowed on any other SE site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T00:21:34.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-08-14T10:53:42.030" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;b&lt;/code&gt; separated by 5 spaces gives &lt;code&gt;a     b&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gee, bug? (Same with any number of spaces) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9426" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2016-06-23T14:07:48.163" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:07:48.163" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-14T10:53:42.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="732" CreationDate="2011-08-14T16:32:07.360" Score="4" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find some truly relevant correlation between questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory-structure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory-structure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory-structure&lt;/a&gt;, except maybe one.&#xA;Is this tag just a (poor) synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fhs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fhs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fhs&lt;/a&gt;? Or, is this some of kind of generalization to other usual layouts ? Would &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory-layouts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory-layouts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory-layouts&lt;/a&gt; be a better naming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this tag deserves at least some short wiki-description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9426" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T18:44:31.110" Title="What does the `directory-structure` tag refer to?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2011-08-14T18:44:31.110" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The intended use of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory-structure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory-structure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory-structure&lt;/a&gt; tag is for questions about the filesystem layout of unix systems — questions like “where does this file belong?” or “what is this directory for?”. At least, that's the use I intend, and seems to be mostly followed; I've just retagged a two of questions that used it in the sense of copying directories while retaining the structure, which we use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recursive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recursive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recursive&lt;/a&gt; for. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory-layout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory-layout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory-layout&lt;/a&gt; would be a reasonable synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've written a tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory-structure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory-structure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory-structure&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recursive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recursive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recursive&lt;/a&gt;, feel free to improve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T18:44:31.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-15T11:01:41.207" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anyone actually interested in the (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/convert&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;convert&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;convert&lt;/a&gt;) tag? I saw 0 followers, and there are too many data formats to convert from/to for it to make sense to me. For one, why would one assume that a person who is interesting in conversion between video formats would also be interested in conversion between packaging file formats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2011-08-15T11:26:38.657" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T08:20:29.927" Title="Should we get rid of the tag 'convert'" Tags="|discussion|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="733" CreationDate="2011-08-15T23:58:12.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 17 questions with either &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/convert&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;convert&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;convert&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conversion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conversion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conversion&lt;/a&gt;. These two tags should be synonyms, by the way. All signs point at making &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conversion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conversion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conversion&lt;/a&gt; the displayed name: &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; has the synonym in this direction; on both U&amp;amp;L and &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;AU&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;conversion&lt;/code&gt; has more uses; &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt; could connote ImageMagick's &lt;code&gt;convert&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this tag as useful to subscribe to. I can sort of see a use case for it being the sole tag on a question: a question about conversion between two really exotic kinds of files, especially by a new user who doesn't have enough reputation to create a new tag. This tag is definitely useful for searches: if you're looking for a way to convert from a to a particular file format, &lt;code&gt;[format]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conversion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conversion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conversion&lt;/a&gt; narrows the search a lot more than just &lt;code&gt;[format]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T08:20:29.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-08-19T18:04:47.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Find old questions without good answers.  Decide if the question is a good question (or could be, with edit); provide a well constructed awesome answer with plenty of links and great information.  Then offer a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty gets people's attention.  That draws some more upvotes.  Hopefully a great answer provides more rep than the cost of the bounty.  It also provides more answers if you missed some information, which is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if OP is around and accepts that's more rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forget where I read this; or who wrote it.  It's not my idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Here's the link &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64824/clever-bounty-reputation-hack&quot;&gt;Clever bounty reputation hack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9733" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T15:16:01.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="738" CreationDate="2011-08-19T23:50:00.633" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking to compile a list of most useful one-liner commands recently. Personally, I think it would be helpful for a lot of people if they could simply browse through the answers and discover other clever one-liners from other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers would have to be strictly one line commands (piping is of course permitted) and nothing too lengthy (simply putting a small script into one line would not be an answer). Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding information about a running process:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ps -ef | grep &amp;lt;process-name&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List mounted filesystems in a nice way:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;mount | column -t&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are more but I'll save the good ones for the question if it isn't off topic :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T01:24:36.350" Title="Would a question about most useful one-liners be off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="737" CreationDate="2011-08-20T00:39:33.173" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Longer answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rarely&lt;/em&gt;, and only under exceptional conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We spend a lot of time railing against exactly these sorts of &quot;infinite list of X&quot; non-questions. However, flavors of them are tolerated on the network, in very limited amounts, provided they prove their worth. One example of that is the &quot;hidden features&quot; series on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/hidden-features&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/hidden-features&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There are other flavors of this type of question in the SE network, if you know where to dig.. it's like hunting for truffles.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, note that in the Stack Overflow example, those questions at least scope to a specific &lt;em&gt;tool&lt;/em&gt; whereas your request for &quot;one-liners&quot; could mean ... anything and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if in your question, you &lt;strong&gt;DEMAND&lt;/strong&gt; that answers provide a full explanation of the one-liner they are posting -- and I mean really full, like super detailed wikipedia type full, with a comprehensive list of pros and cons and why you would ever want to use this command and every single little character in it is explained and examined -- then, &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this would need to be strictly enforced not just in the question body, but for all subsequent answers, even weeks later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So. Like I said -- probably no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T00:39:33.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="737" CreationDate="2011-08-20T13:18:36.993" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/737/would-a-question-about-most-useful-one-liners-be-off-topic/738#738&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt; covers the general theory really well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case I think the SE QnA format is ill-suited to that question even if it was an 'on-topic' topic. There are other resources out there that are specifically tailored to the kind of thing you are looking for. In fact there is one awesome site devoted entirely to that one question. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commandlinefu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Command Line Fu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T13:18:36.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="737" CreationDate="2011-08-21T01:24:36.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6/what-are-your-favorite-command-line-features-or-tricks&quot;&gt;There is already a question like that on the site.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now have a look at that question and consider how useful the answers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use the default sort order (by votes), the first answer begins with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This expands somewhat on the &lt;code&gt;!!&lt;/code&gt; trick mentioned in [this answer](link)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's hardly a well-presented set of answers. (Plus this is by far not the most useful answer in the lot.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T01:24:36.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="742" CreationDate="2011-08-21T18:52:41.080" Score="5" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this should be allowed. I've just edited a couple of question from two different users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10044/rsync-permissions-problem-ubuntu-10-10-sme-server-7-4&quot;&gt;Why do I get an &amp;quot;rsync: failed to set times on ... : Operation not permitted (1)&amp;quot; error on Ubuntu 10.10 with SME Server 7.4?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19133/ld-2-14-segfaulting-on-kde-launch-in-archlinux&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19133/ld-2-14-segfaulting-on-kde-launch-in-archlinux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited them because usually square brackets are reserved for [Closed] or [Migrated] tags. Does this bother anyone else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kind of a stickler for standard formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T22:13:56.793" Title="Questions titles with square brackets in them" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="741" CreationDate="2011-08-21T19:25:17.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are different schools of writing titles. Some people prefer titles that are grammatical questions. Others (including me) prefer newspaper headlines. Adding tag words separated by punctuation (brackets or otherwise) is pretty universally frowned upon. I agree with your edits, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the discussions on the topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;HOWTO: Writing Good Titles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19999/should-question-titles-be-phrased-as-questions-a-straw-poll&quot;&gt;Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84802/warn-users-before-posting-if-they-have-a-tag-at-the-start-of-their-title&quot;&gt;Warn users before posting if they have a tag at the start of their title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99185/would-the-stack-exchange-network-be-better-if-titles-contained-complete-grammati&quot;&gt;Would the Stack Exchange network be better if titles contained complete, grammatical questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for disallowing this… How are you going to do that? What about titles that legitimately contain punctuation, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7137591/triggering-a-method-after-a-delay-without-abusing-uiview-animatewithduration&quot;&gt;Triggering a method after a delay without abusing [UIView animateWithDuration]?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7139420/what-is-difference-between-pool-release-and-pool-drain&quot;&gt;What is difference between [pool release] and [pool drain]?&lt;/a&gt; (ok, this one's closed, but as a duplicate; it is missing a word but the brackets are legitimate)? Conversely, why not ban titles like &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7140517/django-using-extra-clause-to-retrieve-additional-data&quot;&gt;Django - Using extra clause to retrieve additional data&lt;/a&gt; — but how do you do that automatically? There's no way to prevent all the bad ways in which people can ask questions. That's why anyone can edit posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T22:13:18.853" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-23T02:16:59.237" Score="20" ViewCount="565" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a meta post &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/662/starting-a-unix-linux-community-blog&quot;&gt;a while ago&lt;/a&gt; with some good ideas for possible blog entries. Another user &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1714663#1714663&quot;&gt;expressed interest&lt;/a&gt; in starting a blog, so as we've covered the first two bullets on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/getting-started/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;checklist&lt;/a&gt;, I'm posting this to cover the last two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Recruit contributors. Who will write entries for the blog? Starting a blog is a bit like going through the buffet line. Be realistic – don’t let your eyes be bigger than your stomach. Think seriously about if and how often you will be able to contribute a blog post, including research/prep time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plan a schedule. Given the results of steps #2 and #3, think about a rough idea of a schedule for the blog. Will there be one post a week, posted Mondays? Will there be  posts on Tuesdays and  posts on Fridays? You don’t need to be pushing out posts daily, but I would say at least one post a week.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post an answer if you'd like to contribute; mention what sorts of posts you'd like to write and how often you think you'll be posting. You can see the existing SE blogs on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blog Overflow homepage&lt;/a&gt;; there's a good number more than there were back in June&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T20:53:17.057" Title="Starting a blog, part 2" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-24T13:43:41.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2011-08-23T02:58:22.243" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a blog for as long as I can remember. I also enjoy teaching people who are new to a subject how &quot;it&quot; works. I will have a busy schedule come school time but I can definitely find time for regular posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer writing broad articles on &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; things work. When writing an article (anywhere) I try to think to myself: &quot;Will a Windows user be able to pick this up, read it, understand most of it, and think &lt;em&gt;damn that makes sense&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;. If I can achieve this I'm happy with my post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for when posts should happen, I think we should look at when the site gets most of it's activity and plan to post a day before. This allows user to possibly post a question or two about the material (if they have any) along with some links to the blog post. When we get the increase in traffic, we will theoretically get more views seeing as there are more ways of getting to the blog post. Just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that posting on a weekly schedule at this point is fine. If we find it's too much, we can tone it down and vice-versa. However I do think it's important for people to write a post because they want to, and not because they are forced to. On SU, they have a post in meta every week where people debate on a question to use for the week's blog post. We could have a similar thread with topics that would be good candidates (ie &lt;strong&gt;U&amp;amp;L Weekly Blog Post Brainstorm&lt;/strong&gt;). Then users can post if they want to write about it or not and some important things to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; I'll be able to help proofread all articles weekly and provide minor editing. I can also help with the design of the blog (if we're allowed to have our own). As for writing articles, I think the idea expressed above is a good place to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastEditorUserId="6266" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T11:47:33.593" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T11:47:33.593" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-08-24T13:43:41.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="746" CreationDate="2011-08-24T20:03:21.863" Score="7" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ states,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the&#xA;  usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an&#xA;  entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to&#xA;  participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be&#xA;  asking here. However, if your motivation is “I would like others to&#xA;  explain ______ to me”, then you are probably OK. (Discussions are of&#xA;  course welcome in our real time web chat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question arose,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19284/how-could-i-benefit-for-home-virtualization-bare-metal-hypervisor&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19284/how-could-i-benefit-for-home-virtualization-bare-metal-hypervisor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selected quotes,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, right now I don't have an actual USE for this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Basically, what are some uses (for the everyday linux/unix user) for turning old desktops into virtualized and networked machines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely that's an open ended chatty question without a real problem at the core?  I flagged the question as not-constructive, but that was deemed invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In which case I'm confused.  Are chatty open ended questions allowed, or is that question actually specific enough to be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T21:57:22.967" Title="Confused about 'chatty' questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="745" CreationDate="2011-08-24T20:22:30.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's &quot;not constructive&quot; — it's not really likely to inspire debate or argument. It's more like &quot;not a real question&quot; — it's overly broad with no specific goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's semantics. I dismissed your flag, but probably should have said &quot;valid but no action needed&quot; rather than rejecting it as invalid. I think it's more the sort of thing to vote down rather than outright close. If the community closed it, I wouldn't reopen, but I didn't want to use the big moderator insta-close stick. I'd really prefer questions be edited, improved, and focused rather than shut out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T20:22:30.270" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="745" CreationDate="2011-08-24T21:57:22.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, this looks like a textbook chatty question to me. It's basically asking “what's your favorite use for virtualisation at home”. Its score is medium &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;six guidelines for subjective questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain why and how: sort of.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;long, not short answers: not particularly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fair and impartial tone: ok.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;experiences over opinions: ok.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;facts and references: not particularly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not just mindless social fun: no.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the kind of post that can degenerate into a long list of answers (not useful due to the lack of organization), or can be largely ignored (not useful due to the lack of answers). It feels very much like something that would be best discussed in a chat room. I voted to close as “not constructive”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T21:57:22.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-25T06:18:15.300" Score="-1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I use this site I notice a real lack of tags. And there are less users than some of the other sites, so maybe lowering the threshold for tag creation or having some admins make a few would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9110" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-08-25T07:09:40.437" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T09:53:46.313" Title="Lack of useful tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="748" CreationDate="2011-08-25T07:15:29.927" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The requirement for creating tags is already low -- it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;300 reputation&lt;/a&gt; instead of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;1500&lt;/a&gt; required on Stack Overflow. If you mention in a question or comment that you want a particular tag but it's unavailable, an editor will generally add it for you (it's nothing to do with mods or devs; you only need 300 to create a tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/retag-questions&quot;&gt;500&lt;/a&gt; to retag someone else's post). We can't just create tags arbitrarily, they have to be attached to a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T07:15:29.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2011-08-26T00:08:39.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Efficiency is about appropriateness of resource consumption. Performance is about speed of execution. They are similar, but slightly different, concepts. Using the minimum CPU and memory to get a particular job done within the time constraints may be the most efficient way to do the job, but it won't provide the highest performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely, people are tagging questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efficiency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efficiency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efficiency&lt;/a&gt; when they mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;performance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt;. There aren't that many real questions about efficiency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9851" LastEditorUserId="9851" LastEditDate="2011-10-03T04:15:11.223" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T04:15:11.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="748" CreationDate="2011-08-26T09:53:46.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Michael said, the barrier for creating tags is already very low. Additionally there are a number of people who regularly read all incoming questions and help with tags as necessary. If you leave a comment on any of your questions that you feel needs a new tag, we will consider adding it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said I looked at the questions you have asked, and couldn't think of any tags that would be needed. There was at least one relevant tag that you hadn't used, but it already existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember that tags don't do your question much good if they are the only question on the site with that tag. They are only useful for searching, sorting and focusing attention in-so-far as they categorize multiple questions. We will probably not add tags if there is only ever going to be one question that uses it, but if we think there is any chance of more questions showing up with that tag and it being a useful delimiter we won't hesitate to add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T09:53:46.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="426" CreationDate="2011-08-26T09:57:49.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think the highlight is too subtle. The main problem is that LCD color rendering is inconsistent enough that some shades simply disappear. I have two panels on the machine I'm typing from and the cheap LG one shows just a hint of shading but I have to look carefully. The much more expensive high end ViewSonic monitor shows absolutely nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T09:57:49.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-27T21:26:58.247" Score="11" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;People sometimes ask questions that need clarification. That's quite understandable. But I can see that occasionally, some people just leave such questions and don't come back to improve them in response to the comments. Some examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18957/rpm-content-compress&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17419/using-curses-with-virtual-terminals&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some policy on how such questions should be treated? I imagine that there could be some period after which such unfinished questions should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a need of clarification. The case of questions that can be given a useful answer is rather easy, as covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/753/is-there-a-policy-for-dealing-with-orphaned-questions/755#755&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt;. The problem is when an orphaned question presents a rather clear problem, but can have many solutions depending on the details not covered by the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T21:20:48.407" Title="Is there a policy for dealing with orphaned questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="692" CreationDate="2011-08-27T22:00:51.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like a very good idea to adopt. Especially on the site devoted to unix &amp;amp; linux, for which there is a solid general source of basic knowledge in the form of &lt;code&gt;man program&lt;/code&gt;. I think that a general advice to look at the manpage before posting should appear in FAQ or even better, the &quot;How to Ask&quot; box. That might prevent some obvious questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19480/how-to-display-line-number-while-doing-grep-on-a-file&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T22:00:51.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="753" CreationDate="2011-08-28T03:14:51.123" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends how unanswerable or speculative it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question, even without clarification, could be useful to other visitors, leave it and answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's totally unclear, to the point that you'd be outright &lt;em&gt;guessing&lt;/em&gt; what the question was, it should be closed as Not a Real Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T03:14:51.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="757" CreationDate="2011-09-01T06:28:26.587" Score="8" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why edits must be 6 characters long?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. a parameter in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19841/recursively-copy-only-images-and-preserve-path/19847#19847&quot;&gt;recursively copy only images and preserve path&lt;/a&gt; is missing 1 character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="252" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T16:06:29.500" Title="Edits must be at least 6 characters" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2011-09-01T11:36:29.890" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81520/how-to-overcome-edits-must-be-at-least-6-characters/81522#81522&quot;&gt;an answer on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, when you suggest an edit, it requires multiple other people to look at it and approve it. The character limit is to prevent people from wasting time by looking at exceptionally minor edits. So, don't limit yourself to just a tiny edit: &lt;em&gt;try to see if you can improve the post to a possible state of perfection&lt;/em&gt;. If you hit &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; errors on a post, then no one else will even need to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you hit 2k reputation, and thus your edits don't need to go through the approval process, you can make those tiny changes without the limit in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part about multiple people doesn't apply here (it only takes one user to approve; on SO it's two), but the character limit exists for the same reason -- they don't want people flooding the queue with trivial edits. In this case the best option was probably to leave a comment telling the answerer about the mistake, although it looks like it's already been fixed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T11:36:29.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2011-09-01T14:52:59.150" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quality of an improvement can't be measured in characters. Especially a code snipple can be turned from wrong to right by changing a single character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forcing the user to improve parts of a question, which doesn't need improvements, will not improve the text. It will just annoy and cost some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastEditorUserId="4485" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T16:06:29.500" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T16:06:29.500" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="760" CreationDate="2011-09-02T01:38:54.873" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that a small number of user's avatars are now rendered with a drop shadow that tends to&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; indicate that if they are moused over the user's profile will pop-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UiYzc.png&quot; alt=&quot;screengrab of the &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a new feature that is being trialled before wider roll-out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UiYzc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; I say &quot;tend to&quot; because it doesn't appear to work for all of them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T02:03:29.347" Title="New avatar feature?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="759" CreationDate="2011-09-02T02:03:29.347" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is what it indicates, or should. They've been enabled on the main meta for a few days now, and just went live network-wide a couple hours ago. You can read more about them and the specific requirements in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104810/how-does-the-user-card-work&quot;&gt;How does the User card work?&lt;/a&gt;, but in short if you have enough reputation and your &quot;about me&quot; is long enough, you'll get a user card popup&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just realized you have a drop shadow, but no card (I don't think your &quot;about me&quot; is long enough). That seems like a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;, but I'll ask around to find out for sure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T02:03:29.347" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-03T19:19:42.133" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to this SE site, and looking at the badges section, the font is hard to read. Is it possible to either change this font, or make it bigger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10124" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-09-03T19:33:26.620" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T02:03:53.553" Title="Can the font in the badges section be changed?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="761" CreationDate="2011-09-03T22:04:16.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this doesn't address your feature request, it is a workaround: in all (modern) web browsers you can increase the size of the fonts on a page with the &lt;code&gt;zoom&lt;/code&gt; command. In Firefox, for example, this is &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;+&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you could also use an extension like &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; and write your own CSS snippet to override the default style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T22:04:16.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-04T21:07:15.020" Score="5" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Linux on all the computers in my home. Is this a good place to ask questions about Linux on a desktop, or should I ask on a different site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10480" OwnerDisplayName="saras" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-09-04T21:17:43.020" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T21:19:44.360" Title="Is desktop linux allowed/prevalent here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="763" CreationDate="2011-09-04T21:19:44.360" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the right place. If you check the first section of the FAQ, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;What can I ask here?&lt;/a&gt;, it lists a number of categories of questions that are on-topic. The first is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't know how &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; people here use Linux on a desktop, but it's probably a majority; server-oriented people tend to hang out on &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T21:19:44.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-08T18:11:21.257" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made an edit to the tags of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20335/whats-the-cleanest-way-to-schedule-autoexec-bat-like-command-in-linux&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I received a double note, one at the top, that my edit will pass a review process, and a second one at the bottom, which I'd like to discuss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have the privilege to retag questions; to suggest an edit please include a change to the title and/or the body as well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess there is a &amp;quot;don't&amp;quot; missing - &lt;code&gt;You don't have the privilege ...&lt;/code&gt; - else it doesn't make much sense. Or am I wrong? Meanwhile, I find it annoying that I shall invent some edit reason in the body of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know similar discussions about only editing the title of a message and the 5 or 7 character rule from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/83441/156431&quot;&gt;general meta&lt;/a&gt; and I'm tired of it; this topic should be discussed over there, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after Michaels hint to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80345/retag-privilege-taken-into-account-when-proposing-an-edit/105594#105594&quot;&gt;this other thread&lt;/a&gt;, I think a rephrasing of the error message would be right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T19:50:33.643" Title="Misguiding error message on tag edit" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="765" CreationDate="2011-09-08T18:17:47.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80345/retag-privilege-taken-into-account-when-proposing-an-edit/97717#97717&quot;&gt;intentional&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just changed it so you &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; suggest more than a tag edit, if you have retag rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/retag-questions&quot;&gt;retag rights&lt;/a&gt; then you should &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77406/people-between-500-and-2000-reputation-lost-the-ability-to-retag-questions/77409#77409&quot;&gt;have a separate link&lt;/a&gt; under the post specifically for editing tags -- you only use the &quot;edit&quot; link if you want to suggest an edit to the title/body. I think there's a post on meta pointing out how annoying that workflow is, but I'm having trouble finding it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;In any case, there does at least appear to be a typo in the error message&lt;/s&gt; I just reread the error message and realized it is accurate, I just misread it. It's just telling you to use the retag link if you want to retag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-09-08T18:37:21.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="768" CreationDate="2011-09-08T21:54:21.097" Score="8" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may be being a bit harsh, but I've seen a lot of &quot;stupid&quot; answers across StackExchange where the user simply hasn't read the question carefully enough and answers willy-nilly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I had this as an answer on one of my questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19143/why-is-vlc-not-syncing-audio-and-video-correctly/20134#20134&quot;&gt;Why is vlc not syncing audio and video correctly?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said in my comment, the answer simply isn't relevant to the question. Is it OK to flag answers like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-09-11T03:06:44.863" Title="Is it OK to flag stupid answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="767" CreationDate="2011-09-08T22:49:55.780" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question is practically a case study in answer flagging; I killed all three answers on it. There was one that offered a solution if you're using Pulseaudio; I would've left it except you commented that you weren't. I edited that into the question, which made the answer inapplicable, so I converted it to a comment (I probably could've just deleted it, but it at least led to an edit). Another asked a couple clarifying questions without any &quot;and here's how you fix it&quot;, so I converted it to a comment as well. The third (which you linked to) offered a workaround you already mentioned in the question, so I just deleted it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, yes, you can flag answers that don't actually address the question, or don't offer any solutions. However -- and people get this wrong on other SE sites constantly -- you &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; flag answers for just being wrong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example question&lt;/strong&gt;: How do I list the files in a directory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer 1&lt;/strong&gt;: You can list files with the &lt;code&gt;rm&lt;/code&gt; command&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer 2&lt;/strong&gt;: You can remove files with the &lt;code&gt;rm&lt;/code&gt; command&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer 3&lt;/strong&gt;: Which distro are you using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer 1 is wrong, but tries to answer the question, so you should downvote (and maybe toss in an &quot;uh, no, that deletes stuff&quot; comment). Answer 2 is answering completely the wrong question, so you should flag it as a non-answer. Answer 3 isn't an answer at all, so you should flag it as a non-answer and we'll convert it to a comment on the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-09-08T22:49:55.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="767" CreationDate="2011-09-08T23:22:22.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question hasn't had much attention (66 total views as I write, a single upvote on the question and a single vote (up) amongst all the answers). You could have flagged at least one of its answers as a non-answer, perhaps two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19143/why-is-vlc-not-syncing-audio-and-video-correctly/20134#20134&quot;&gt;That answer you link to&lt;/a&gt; (“You can resolve this on a case-by-case basis by using the j and k keys”) is squarely a non-answer (it's clear from your question that this is a general problem and you want a once-and-for-all solution).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19143/why-is-vlc-not-syncing-audio-and-video-correctly/20128#20128&quot;&gt;Another answer&lt;/a&gt; (“When you have high cpu use the video will get behind the audio.”) is borderline between non-answer (→ delete) and unhelpful (→ downvote). It would be a worthwhile suggestion if you'd said that &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; videos had this issue, but since it's all videos, that shouldn't be the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more general note, a guideline between downvoting and flagging as “not an answer”:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post is irrelevant clutter, delete (which in practice means flag to have a moderator do it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post is indirectly useful a warning as to what not to do, downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post is technically (mostly) correct but seriously misleading or nigh-incomprehensible, downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-09-08T23:30:21.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="767" CreationDate="2011-09-11T03:06:44.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No -- a stupid answer should be &lt;em&gt;downvoted&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;commented on&lt;/em&gt; but not necessarily flagged. (And if editing the answer is possible to make it less stupid, do that too!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would only flag if the answer is &lt;em&gt;actively dangerous or materially harmful&lt;/em&gt; in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="331" LastActivityDate="2011-09-11T03:06:44.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-16T19:36:13.097" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of my reputation from Unix SE just appeared as 'new' to me on my meta profile. I have visited meta before (and it didn't display it all as new before). Is this a bug, or is it intended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/images/reputationbug.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="400" LastEditDate="2011-09-17T11:42:19.697" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T11:42:19.697" Title="All reputation from main site represented as 'new' on meta" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="771" CreationDate="2011-09-16T22:58:30.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC there's some kind of obscure bug where the computation leading to that number mixes meta rep and main site rep. Something like computing the main site rep gained since the last time you viewed your rep through the rep tab on the meta site. This may in fact be a feature, because meta rep is not supposed to be added up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-09-16T22:58:30.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="771" CreationDate="2011-09-17T11:42:04.063" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation tab really isn't intended for child metas...as your reputation is from the parent site, but the &lt;em&gt;history&lt;/em&gt; of that reputation isn't synced at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this makes no sense to show, starting with the next build the reputation tab will disappear from child metas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="400" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T11:42:04.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-17T16:37:57.130" Score="7" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 12 questions tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A loop device allows any file to be mounted as a filesystem image. Not&#xA;  to be confused with a loopback interface in networking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From those&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 are about loop devices,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 are about control flows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bring this in attention of moderators as I find the current situation confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As my personal point of view, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop&lt;/a&gt; tag should remain as is for the 4 loop device questions and the 8 control flow questions should loose their &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop&lt;/a&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10412" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T21:21:56.923" Title="loop tag misused" Tags="|discussion|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2011-09-17T17:08:49.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you pointed out, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop&lt;/a&gt;'s tag wiki is about loopback devices, so I left those 4 and retagged the other 8 to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-flow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;control-flow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;control-flow&lt;/a&gt;. It might be a good idea to change the remaining &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop&lt;/a&gt; questions to something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop-devices&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop-devices&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop-devices&lt;/a&gt; to avoid future confusion, but I left it for the moment (anyone with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/retag-questions&quot;&gt;500 rep&lt;/a&gt; is welcome to retag them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T17:08:49.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2011-09-17T21:21:56.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember for sure, but I suspect the choice to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop&lt;/a&gt; mean loop devices rather than control flow is due to programming being mostly off-topic on this site. Loop constructs in shells do come up from time to time, and it's natural to use the &lt;code&gt;loop&lt;/code&gt; tag in this sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the wide mismatch between documented meaning and actual use, I've retagged the loop device questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop-device&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop-device&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop-device&lt;/a&gt; and copied over the tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It remains to be seen what to do with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loop&lt;/a&gt;: should it be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-flow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;control-flow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;control-flow&lt;/a&gt;? Or should it be blacklisted? Note that in addition to being a natural choice for the (rare) questions about loop constructs, it is likely to come up in migrations from Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T21:21:56.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-19T14:06:42.963" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did some voting on some new questions, and this appeared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/images/dvlr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Daily vote limit reached, but only 36 votes made&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often reach my vote limit, so I was not surprised, however, note that I have only issued 36 votes today. Is there some specific restriction that I have triggered, or is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="331" LastEditDate="2011-09-20T04:08:53.297" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T04:08:53.297" Title="Why am I told that I have reached my daily vote limit when I have only made 36 votes today?" Tags="|support|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="777" CreationDate="2011-09-19T14:16:36.097" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vote limit used to just be 30 votes in a day, but it got a little more confusing when they added &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89534/separate-vote-pools-for-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;10 extra votes for questions&lt;/a&gt; (and then &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90202/please-dont-require-answer-votes-to-be-cast-before-question-votes/90256#90256&quot;&gt;changed it&lt;/a&gt;) to try and encourage question voting. Now you can get up to 40 votes in a day (30 regular votes + 10 extra question votes), but once you're low enough on regular votes to start getting the &quot;you're nearing the vote cap&quot; warning, that's it -- you have that many remaining. So you can end up not getting the full 40 depending on the order you vote on things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T14:16:36.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-09-19T15:25:25.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gVudT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;FreeBSD: the power to serve&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2655" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T15:25:25.920" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-09-19T15:25:25.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-21T14:28:14.700" Score="7" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/40/great-answer&quot;&gt;Great Answer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/42/great-question&quot;&gt;Great Question&lt;/a&gt; badge pages, there appears to be a significant discrepancy between the font and point used to display the question, despite it being the same question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/images/fontdiscrepancy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/images/fontdiscrepancy.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to occur over multiple badge pages -- some use one style, and some use the other. Is this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2021-05-10T05:07:06.253" Title="Font discrepancy between badge pages" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|design|badges|fonts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="780" CreationDate="2011-09-21T14:51:25.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is intentional. These aren't the same link -- the &quot;Great Question&quot; link links to the question, but the &quot;Great Answer&quot; link links to the answer; it just has the title of the question in the link because answers don't have titles. Question links and answer links are styled differently; see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/73/michael-mrozek#qpage_1-qsort_recent&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/73/michael-mrozek#anpage_1-ansort_recent&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; sections of a profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-09-21T14:51:25.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2011-09-28T20:35:11.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;LOL. To me this is an obvious question (no offense :-) ). Of course we shouldn't reject question that we deem 'obvious'. I've been stymied, as well as ridiculed, so many times for asking 'obvious' questions in so many forums that I've lost count. Sometimes it turns out the questions are simple, sometimes not. Since I typically learn things on my own, not in classes, I have no idea what's in Blah 101 and what everyone knows but me. One of the things that annoys me no end in dedicated fora is the almost ubiquitous requirement that &quot;Before you ask a question on this forum make sure that you read our 25 page FAQ, the man pages relating to your question, the 'help' pages at our website, all of O'Reilly's books on this subject, and every book in the 'Computer Section' of the Library of Congress in Washington DC and the Royal Library in London. Twice.&quot; This has always seemed like arrogant spitwash to me. Why should finding the answer to a simple question take days, or even weeks, of effort? Any site that wants to be a resource on a topic must have questions on all levels. It takes up no extra space or time to have them, and the only reason not to have them seems to be that they seem to annoy the priesthood. Blunk!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3127" LastActivityDate="2011-09-28T20:35:11.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="761" CreationDate="2011-10-04T06:44:18.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fonts enumerated for the &lt;code&gt;.badge&lt;/code&gt; CSS class:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+--------------------------+----------+---------------+&#xA;| Font name                | Tested ? | Looks good ?  |&#xA;+--------------------------+----------+---------------+&#xA;| DejaVu Sans Mono         | yes      | yes           |&#xA;| Bitstream Vera Sans Mono | yes      | yes           |&#xA;| Courier New              | yes      | no, too small |&#xA;| Courier                  | yes      | no, too wide  |&#xA;| Consolas                 | yes      | yes           |&#xA;| Andale Mono WT           |          |               |&#xA;| Andale Mono              |          |               |&#xA;| Lucida Console           | yes      | yes           |&#xA;| Lucida Sans Typewriter   | yes      | yes           |&#xA;+--------------------------+----------+---------------+&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Tested on Linux with Firefox. If you have the other fonts installed, please edit this answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, seems that Courier New is the one to blame. I suggest to remove Courier New and to move Courier as last font specified for &lt;code&gt;.badge&lt;/code&gt; in all.css:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;font-family:&quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&quot;,Consolas,&quot;Andale Mono WT&quot;,&quot;Andale Mono&quot;,&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,&quot;Lucida Sans Typewriter&quot;,Courier,monospace;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10412" LastEditorUserId="14059" LastEditDate="2012-01-07T21:50:24.967" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T21:50:24.967" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-04T06:44:18.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-10-05T05:04:39.907" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KAyo5.png&quot; alt=&quot;FreeBSD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6250" LastActivityDate="2011-10-05T05:04:39.907" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-10-05T05:04:39.907" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="753" CreationDate="2011-10-09T21:02:25.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem might even be that people forget about their questions and/or don't know how to check their inbox. It would be quite handy to have an automated feature that mails a user if there have been comments and no resulting question-edits - let`s say for two weeks. If after an additional two weeks there has been no edit to the question it should be closed/deleted automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2011-10-09T21:02:25.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="712" CreationDate="2011-10-09T21:11:45.013" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say - yes - in cases where the title does not match the question content. I did not find any example of this for the time being, though. I just did a major change of a title once - but that change did just clarify the question, without changing the meaning of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2011-10-09T21:11:45.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="788" CreationDate="2011-10-21T23:24:02.020" Score="7" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure the accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15107/changing-unix-group-for-files&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is correct, and I have left a comment on it seeking further clarification from the author of the accepted answer (or voters). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the authors of the original question and accepted answer have not been online for a long time, and the question has been  &quot;dead&quot; for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Can I ask a question that seeks to clarify the answer to another question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4531" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T23:54:56.240" Title="Asking a question about an answer to another question" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="787" CreationDate="2011-10-21T23:54:56.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go for it. It helps if you link to the original question and specifically mention how it's different, so yours doesn't get closed as a duplicate. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15107/changing-unix-group-for-files/15109#15109&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; that moonshadow recommended setting the sticky bit on a directory to force files to keep the directory's group ID. Is that accurate? Wikipedia seems to indicate that he's actually referring to the setgid bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting the setgid permission on a directory (chmod g+s) causes new files and subdirectories created within it to inherit its group ID, rather than the primary group ID of the user who created the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, activating the sticky bit on the directory will only make sure that only the directories' files' owner, the directory's owner or root can modify the directories' files. Do I understand the distinction correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-10-21T23:54:56.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="793" CreationDate="2011-10-29T21:18:56.567" Score="0" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen more than once some downvotes of (easy) questions with no comment. I think it would be fair to force a comment to be filled out for someone who downvotes. That comment should consist of at least four words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="11083" LastEditDate="2011-11-06T21:57:44.580" LastActivityDate="2011-11-06T21:57:44.580" Title="Downvoters of questions should be required to explain their reasoning" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-declined|comments|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="791" CreationDate="2011-10-29T21:20:54.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. A downvote on a question has a built-in reason: &quot;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to provide greater reasoning and assistance to the questioner, great. But a downvote alone is fine. Voting is important to the functioning of the site, and encouraging that is more important than making hoops to ensure that each vote is justified or explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T21:20:54.333" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="791" CreationDate="2011-10-29T21:38:44.437" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed endlessly on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31302/proposal-require-anonymous-comment-with-downvotes&quot;&gt;Proposal: Require anonymous comment with downvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/30255/down-voting-on-questions-require-a-comment-below-a-certain-rep&quot;&gt;Down-voting on questions - Require a comment below a certain rep?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32226/why-not-allow-downvote-only-with-at-least-an-anonymous-comment&quot;&gt;Why not allow downvote only with at least an anonymous comment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66020/different-implementation-of-downvoting-require-comments&quot;&gt;Different implementation of downvoting: require comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59736/penalise-downvotes-without-comment-reward-downvotes-with-comments&quot;&gt;Penalise Downvotes without Comment / Reward Downvotes with Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55380/change-down-voting-to-require-comment-for-why-change-flag-to-report&quot;&gt;Change Down Voting to Require Comment for Why &amp;amp; Change Flag to Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/110518/is-there-a-way-to-require-an-explanation-for-a-downvote&quot;&gt;Is there a way to require an explanation for a downvote?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75966/proposal-to-solve-the-uncommented-downvote-problem&quot;&gt;Proposal to solve the Uncommented Downvote problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read those for information on why this has been declined in the past, but it comes down to the fact that downvotes are supposed to be anonymous; the proposal for anonymous comments went poorly because if you want to leave a comment you should just do it, and on the rare case that somebody goes on a downvoting spree of their own the system will catch it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2011-10-29T21:38:44.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="795" CreationDate="2011-11-10T00:13:55.193" Score="7" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely a typo, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/permisions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;permisions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;permisions&lt;/a&gt; should be merged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/permissions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;permissions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;permissions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10922" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-11-10T00:20:29.350" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T00:20:29.350" Title="Tag merge request: [permissions] and [permisions]" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|retag-request|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="794" CreationDate="2011-11-10T00:17:26.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds reasonable to me. Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T00:17:26.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="799" CreationDate="2011-11-11T18:03:02.300" Score="5" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to vote to close a question&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; as a duplicate and, after I entered the URL of the duplicate question and clicked 'Vote to Close', nothing happened (ie., there was no response &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;)&amp;mdash;despite the fact that I still have 24 votes remaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried several more times, eventually&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; getting an error in the yellow pop-up box: &lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Question #0 does not exist&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried this two more times to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging the post worked fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24410/how-do-i-connect-to-a-new-wifi-on-the-command-line&quot;&gt;How do I connect to a new wifi on the command line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only way I can reproduce the error box is to step through selecting all of the other reasons to close the question before reselecting &quot;exact duplicate&quot; and resubmitting the form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2011-11-14T08:20:18.403" Title="&quot;Vote to close&quot; bug" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="798" CreationDate="2011-11-12T19:53:28.913" Score="8" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/email&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;email&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail&lt;/a&gt;. This makes &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail&lt;/a&gt; the to-go tag for both email in general, and the &lt;code&gt;mail(1)&lt;/code&gt; command. I propose to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail-command&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;code&gt;mail&lt;/code&gt; command (it's useful to have a tag because a free-form search will have relevant hits drowned in the mass of posts that deal with email). It's not very discoverable, unfortunately, so it would help if there wasn't a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail&lt;/a&gt; tag. At least, the main tag should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/email&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;email&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UBsKT.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; alt=&quot;topical picture of a pony in lieu of payment for a quick reaction&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2011-11-12T21:59:29.223" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T21:59:29.223" Title="Please invert the email → mail synonym" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="797" CreationDate="2011-11-12T20:16:20.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I revoked the synonym and changed all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail&lt;/a&gt; instances to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/email&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;email&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; instead, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail&lt;/a&gt; should die out automatically. At some point somebody should probably go through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/email&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;email&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; to find any that should actually be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mail-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mail-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mail-command&lt;/a&gt;; I imagine it's not very many&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T20:16:20.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="796" CreationDate="2011-11-14T08:20:12.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the original issue was (my best guess is a flaky internet connection at that moment), but either way your repro steps in point 2 indeed were a bug. When you've chosen &quot;exact duplicate&quot; as the close reason, the &quot;Vote to close&quot; button should be disabled until a duplicate question is chosen and confirmed. This wasn't always happening so far, but will be the case after the next build. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353" LastActivityDate="2011-11-14T08:20:12.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-15T01:45:57.537" Score="10" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I happened to notice a new font for question titles at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;MSO&lt;/a&gt;. I rather like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YFSf9.png&quot; alt=&quot;MSO title font&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It reminds me that I'm &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/bolder-question-title-font&quot;&gt;not too fond of Unix &amp;amp; Linux's title font&lt;/a&gt;. That's a main text font, but I don't think it's well suited to things like command names which we're normally used to seeing in a monospace font, like &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; below (an especially jarring case due to the ligature).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/741o8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unix title font&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I wouldn't want MSO's font here, because a sans serif font where I is the same as l is not good either. The font used on the Trilogy, sans serif but with a hint on the &lt;code&gt;l&lt;/code&gt;, isn't too bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qndib.png&quot; alt=&quot;SU title font&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have Computer Modern (I like Computer Modern, especially the tt font)? Failing that, can we have the trilogy title font? Or, really, any better font for titles on a site where title often contain command names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arthus.nl/content/eenhoorn.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1Uq7.png&quot; alt=&quot;please&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T02:00:44.757" Title="Better question title font" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2011-11-19T01:23:40.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/portability&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;portability&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;portability&lt;/a&gt; tag, for those questions where portability is a key concern. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recursive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recursive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recursive&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep+recursive&quot;&gt;→&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14971/searching-for-string-in-files&quot;&gt;Searching for string in files&lt;/a&gt; recommending &lt;code&gt;grep -R&lt;/code&gt;, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recursive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recursive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recursive&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/portability&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;portability&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;portability&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep+recursive&quot;&gt;→&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24874/search-string-in-many-files-on-hp-ux&quot;&gt;Search string in many files on HP-UX&lt;/a&gt; recommending &lt;code&gt;find -exec grep&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;find | xargs grep&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-11-19T01:23:40.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="805" CreationDate="2011-11-23T15:19:35.257" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112151/new-user-page-live-on-meta&quot;&gt;new user page&lt;/a&gt; is live. Rejoice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the headers look odd here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-new-profile.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of my profile http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-new-profile.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones with links within them are too big, so they run into the text below them, except for Reputation, which is too small and ends up with a scrollbar. The ones without links appear to be fine. I'm using Chromium on Linux; someone with Firefox confirmed the header size mismatch (although he doesn't see the reputation scrollbar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T23:44:07.060" Title="Header size on new user pages" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|profile-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="806" CreationDate="2011-11-23T21:34:24.227" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pager&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paging&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paging&lt;/a&gt; is going to get used for virtual memory whether we want it or not, so I suggest making &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paging&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtual-memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtual-memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtual-memory&lt;/a&gt; (and leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pager&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;code&gt;less&lt;/code&gt; and friends). I figure seeing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paging&lt;/a&gt; redirect to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtual-memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtual-memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtual-memory&lt;/a&gt; should be enough of a hint to try another tag when you're after a pager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-11-24T01:53:23.030" LastActivityDate="2011-11-24T01:53:23.030" Title="Synonym paging → virtual-memory?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="802" CreationDate="2011-11-23T21:38:13.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-norepro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3jGl.png&quot; alt=&quot;perfect alignment&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Chrome 16.0.912.41 under Debian squeeze)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-11-23T21:38:13.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="804" CreationDate="2011-11-24T01:53:16.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;mattdm suggested the synonym already, so I approved it and merged&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-11-24T01:53:16.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-25T20:44:51.647" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I post to other stack exchange forums, the post shows my user name.  In Unix &amp;amp; Linux, it shows my user number.  What am I doing wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my comment to the top answer in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25001/how-to-redirect-whatever-i-enter-in-terminal-to-file?newsletter=1&amp;amp;nlcode=17737|321c&quot;&gt;How to log whatever I enter in terminal to file&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10292" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T02:03:55.090" Title="user number shows instead of user name in posts" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="807" CreationDate="2011-11-26T02:03:55.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It actually is showing your display name -- here your display name is &quot;user23861&quot;. You can edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/10292/user23861&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt; to change it -- the link is at the top-right of your profile page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-profile-edit.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the edit link http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-profile-edit.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also go to the &quot;accounts&quot; tab on your profile on another site (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/users/37007/joe?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;), and click the &quot;Copy profile to all Stack Exchange accounts&quot; button at the bottom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/su-copy-profile.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the button http://so.mrozekma.com/su-copy-profile.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it copies your SU profile here it will also change your display name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T02:03:55.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="810" CreationDate="2011-11-27T20:02:33.590" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25228/avoid-pause-during-dm-raid-initialization&quot;&gt;This question contains the (possible) solution as edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of you had the opinion that I should have answered my own question instead of doing an edit of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pro (putting the solution as edit):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I wanted to document my findings as well as a solution just below the original question (like I put important facts on top of any wiki article).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was an accepted answer that lead to the described solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering my own question is like talking to myself (which is the first sign of mental problems)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear/discuss your arguments here why I should have answered my own question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T20:36:57.350" Title="How to handle solved problems (answer the own question?)" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="809" CreationDate="2011-11-27T20:27:05.573" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to document my findings as well as a solution just below the original question (like I put important facts on top of any wiki article).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the answer right under the question is great; that's why the site already supports it. It sorts (by default) the answers so the accepted answer is first, followed by the top voted answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was an accepted answer that lead to the decribed solution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awesome -- upvote it. However, either it solved your problem or it didn't; if it wasn't the complete solution then just post your own&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answering my own question is like taling to myselv (which is the first sign of mental problems)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually like talking to other people that have the same problem and stumble across your question. There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17463/can-i-answer-my-own-questions-even-those-where-i-knew-the-answer-before-asking&quot;&gt;quite a few&lt;/a&gt; posts on the main meta site about answering your own questions. I think it's universally accepted; there's even &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/13/self-learner&quot;&gt;a badge for it&lt;/a&gt;. The whole site is structured around questions and answers -- posting answers in the question field when there's already an answer field is nonsensical&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-11-27T20:27:05.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="813" CreationDate="2011-11-30T15:32:20.663" Score="6" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25777/mysql-server-busy-with-something/25780#25780&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that the asker entirely changed the content of (after I answered; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/25777/revisions&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt;), should that have been posted as a separate question?  Should (can?) we do anything about it (I suppose mods can merge but not ... anti-merge? split?)? Explain that he should post it as a separate question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11750" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T16:01:45.620" Title="Changing question entirely?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="812" CreationDate="2011-11-30T15:39:01.250" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory the asker &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7675/what-is-a-good-thing-to-do-when-the-implicit-meaning-of-a-question-that-i-asked&quot;&gt;really shouldn't do that&lt;/a&gt;. Some argue that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11108/do-you-down-vote-answers-that-become-wrong-after-a-question-is-changed&quot;&gt;the answerer is responsible for updating&lt;/a&gt;, but I think that's in the case of less severe question edits; completely rewriting the question isn't a good idea. I left a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25777/mysql-server-busy-with-something#comment-34747&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; in this case asking him to post separately; you're right that mods can't split questions. When/if he does the original question can be rolled back so the answer makes sense again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: It looks like he &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25783/cant-drop-database&quot;&gt;did post a separate question&lt;/a&gt; (albeit with less detail, for some reason), so I rolled back his original question and deleted the obsolete comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T16:01:45.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-02T11:56:55.340" Score="11" ViewCount="475" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1105/community-promotion-ads-2013&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2013&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well... we apparently missed 2H 2011. Whoops. Well, time waits for no one, so we start 2012 of Community Promotion Ads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they will appear on the main site as community promotion ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But whyyyyyyy?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scripts packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. And to click on it for great justice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/814&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:54:04.367" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2012" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-12-10T14:56:43.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-02T11:56:55.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="814" CreationDate="2011-12-05T16:45:46.423" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HxSxU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T16:45:46.423" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-12-05T16:45:46.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-06T15:07:16.423" Score="-2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find some users' posts relevant and think they are experts and would love to read their answers to different questions posted on the site. Is it possible that I can keep a tab of the users that I would like to follow (much like twitter?). Right now questions posted can have star option for future reference in favorites tab, but it would be better to have a &lt;code&gt;mygurus&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;myteachers&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;myfriends&lt;/code&gt; tab as well where I can see the activity of my fellow peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12856" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T15:20:13.717" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T19:27:38.683" Title="How can I have user profiles as friends in my network?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="816" CreationDate="2011-12-06T15:15:31.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This kind of feature specifically does not exist on SE site because they are to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; make this a social network. The emphasis is on the answer content, not the user who posted it. They specifically make it difficult to use any other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it is sometimes useful to look through some really knowledgeable users answers and analyze how they solve problems other than the ones you specifically have. While the site will probably never prompt this kind of usage, the data is open enough that you can browse through it pretty easily using any criteria you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simplest way would be to bookmark a few users answer pages. For example, here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles?tab=answers&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another would be to use the API to create a feed for yourself of a few peoples answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way would be to just keep an eye on the home page for problems that interest you and read the top voted solutions to each no matter who they came from. You're bound to learn something from people you might not expect to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T15:15:31.013" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="819" CreationDate="2011-12-07T07:51:40.687" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two tags exist for questions dealing with &quot;synchronizing&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synchronization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synchronization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synchronization&lt;/a&gt; (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sync&lt;/a&gt; (17)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the current questions asked, there are three uses for them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;File synchronization between machines (&lt;code&gt;rsync&lt;/code&gt; and others)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time synchronization (&lt;code&gt;ntp&lt;/code&gt; and related)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Device synchronization (for PDAs or other devices)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the two existing tags be made synonyms, or should more specific tags be created instead - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-sync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-sync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-sync&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-sync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-sync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-sync&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/device-sync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;device-sync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;device-sync&lt;/a&gt; maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If synonymized, not sure which one should be the parent. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synchronization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synchronization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synchronization&lt;/a&gt; seems more &quot;proper&quot;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sync&lt;/a&gt; is short and sweet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-06-18T18:48:22.750" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T18:48:22.750" Title="Synonym for /synchronization and /sync?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="818" CreationDate="2011-12-07T22:49:26.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Device synchronization is file synchronization under the hood, and sometimes uses the same tools and sometimes not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it hurts to have a slightly ambiguous &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synchronization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synchronization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synchronization&lt;/a&gt; tag. You're still synchronizing information in any case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sync&lt;/a&gt; should be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/synchronization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;synchronization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;synchronization&lt;/a&gt;. Lazy typists can still type the four-letter form, and the display name will be clearer. Also, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sync&lt;/a&gt; close enough to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rsync&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rsync&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rsync&lt;/a&gt; that it's confused occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T22:49:26.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="816" CreationDate="2011-12-09T19:27:38.683" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could follow users by the Atom feeds. For example, you can see this in the source for Gilles's user page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; type=&quot;application/atom+xml&quot; title=&quot;Feed for user Gilles&quot; href=&quot;/feeds/user/885&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also just give the user page URL to a feed reader (such as Google Reader) and it'll find that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T19:27:38.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-14T02:05:37.143" Score="10" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have an opinion on this?  I feel like it makes an answer less readable to explicitly state: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR and then provide a summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially since this shorthand is not necessarily known to the greater world...  personally, I'd prefer we attempt to discourage it's use, but I figured it could be a topic of discussion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR -- Yes or no (TL;DR) ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T03:13:31.017" Title="The use of &quot;TL;DR&quot; in answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="821" CreationDate="2011-12-14T08:17:26.613" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; no.  The best answers lead with a natural &quot;TL;DR-ish&quot; introduction -- such that no actual TL;DR is required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12947" LastEditorUserId="12947" LastEditDate="2012-01-08T03:13:31.017" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T03:13:31.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="826" CreationDate="2011-12-15T07:28:59.377" Score="1" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/calendaring&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/calendaring&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite certain of the relevance of this tag. Does it mean &quot;calendaring software&quot; (in which case &lt;code&gt;/calendaring-software&lt;/code&gt; should exist)? Or does it refer to the process of calendaring and adding appointments to an agenda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just have &lt;code&gt;/calendar&lt;/code&gt;? I can see a lot more questions being of relevance to a &lt;code&gt;/calendar&lt;/code&gt; tag than a &lt;code&gt;/calendaring&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T14:52:16.090" Title="Confusing /calendaring tag?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="825" CreationDate="2011-12-15T13:20:03.857" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oops&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/oops&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems ambiguous to me. It has only been used for one question referring to tainted kernels. &lt;code&gt;/oops&lt;/code&gt; could also be construed to mean object-oriented programming languages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case, &lt;code&gt;/oops&lt;/code&gt; is simply a &lt;code&gt;/kernel-panic&lt;/code&gt; and in the second, &lt;code&gt;/oops&lt;/code&gt; would be less ambiguous as &lt;code&gt;/oo-programming&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;/object-oriented-language&lt;/code&gt; (not pretty, I know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T13:25:17.163" Title="Can we please change/remove the /oops tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="824" CreationDate="2011-12-15T13:25:17.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A kernel oops is not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; a kernel panic. Seems like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel-oops&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel-oops&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel-oops&lt;/a&gt; would resolve the ambiguity you're concerned about — although I'm skeptical that people would jump to &quot;object-oriented programming languages&quot; (Because: what's &lt;b&gt;O&lt;/b&gt;bject &lt;b&gt;O&lt;/b&gt;riented &lt;b&gt;P&lt;/b&gt;rogramming&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt; supposed to mean?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone might use it for &lt;code&gt;rm -rf /&lt;/code&gt;.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T13:25:17.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="823" CreationDate="2011-12-15T14:52:16.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go for it. This is the same case as the oops tag you &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/824/can-we-please-change-remove-the-oops-tag&quot;&gt;mentioned earlier&lt;/a&gt; -- a single user created it without putting much thought into it; it only takes &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;300 rep to create tags&lt;/a&gt;, and they probably only bothered because the system requires at least one tag on a question. When there's only a couple posts with a tag it's easy for anyone (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/retag-questions&quot;&gt;mostly&lt;/a&gt;) to come up with a better tag and retag them more appropriately. If you retag that question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/calendar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;calendar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;calendar&lt;/a&gt; instead the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/calendaring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;calendaring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;calendaring&lt;/a&gt; tag will get automatically deleted within 24 hours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T14:52:16.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="802" CreationDate="2011-12-17T06:10:16.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scrollbar on the &quot;Reputation&quot; heading is still there, and on Chrome for Mac as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue seems to be the &lt;code&gt;padding-top: 15px&lt;/code&gt; on &lt;code&gt;.user-show-new .user-panel #leagueRank a&lt;/code&gt;. That's the same amount of padding used on Stack Overflow. SO has 34-pixel-tall headings, while the unix.se ones are only 27 pixels, so the amount of padding that's good there is too much here (&lt;code&gt;8px&lt;/code&gt; or a little less would probably be about right).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T06:10:16.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="829" CreationDate="2011-12-17T06:21:03.187" Score="9" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was on the review tab and forgot I had selected &quot;View All&quot;. So I went around editing badly formatted questions and inadvertently bumping them to the top of the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this frowned upon by the community? Past questions are still very well indexed on search engines and people will be visiting them, so the content should still be presentable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T06:29:26.963" Title="Editing older questions frowned upon?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="828" CreationDate="2011-12-17T06:29:26.963" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You edited 5 posts today, and 10 yesterday; I think we'll be fine :). Some sites get seriously bent out of shape if someone floods the homepage, but that's when a user randomly decides that 200 questions with property X need to instead have property Y, and goes and edits all of them in 10 minutes. Reviewing and editing questions are very good things (and you can finally &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit directly&lt;/a&gt;, which is awesome); I'm far less concerned with the home page than I am with having low quality posts. As long as you don't post an edit every 30 seconds for 15 straight minutes I don't think anybody will mind&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T06:29:26.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="821" CreationDate="2011-12-19T09:41:02.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10659/what-does-tldr-mean#10664&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is justified if it arises as a postscript in a subsequent edit.  It is not ideally readable style, but if many people might be rereading the answer, they might find it easier to follow the changes to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making the shortahd a clickable link, as I did above, deals with the unfamiliarity concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not recommend editing answers to eliminate this construct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5197" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.197" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T09:41:02.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="846" CreationDate="2011-12-20T18:40:50.353" Score="15" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;January 12&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; marks one year since we came out of beta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R6uO1.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I3xt5.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WOOOOOOO...ok, that's enough&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;Other sites&lt;/a&gt; have done miscellaneous contests to encourage participation, and our anniversary seems as good a time as any to try one, assuming we have any clever ideas. There are two things to come up with -- the contest itself, and the prizes for the winners&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Contest ideas&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since other sites have held contests in the past, we might be able to steal one of their ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Super User has done this several times. At 1 year they had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/super-user-1-year-anniversary-super-contest/&quot;&gt;four week contest&lt;/a&gt;, where they rewarded users each week based on performance that week:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest rep gain from a new user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest rep gain in general&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best post that week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most useful post that week (this is different from #3? Apparently)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They did a similar thing &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.superuser.com/2011/08/19/super-users-2nd-birthday-super-contest/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this year&lt;/a&gt;, but changed the categories a bit to cover things other than just Q&amp;amp;A (editing, tagging, blogging, cleanup, etc.). Jeff warns that it's important to &lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.meta.stackexchange.com/a/824&quot;&gt;incentivize the right thing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gaming has had much success with &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2034/basic-user-poll-of-upcoming-game-interests-iteration-the-first&quot;&gt;giving top users free copies of a new game&lt;/a&gt;, on the assumption that they'll ask questions about it and other people playing that game for the first time will search for the question and find the site. Science Fiction &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/773/promotional-grant-star-wars-the-complete-saga-on-blu-ray&quot;&gt;did the same thing&lt;/a&gt; with Star Wars. Most of our software is already free, but we might be able to adapt the idea to Unix and Linux anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gaming also had a contest centered around &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skyrimvsmw3.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;two popular games that came out around the same time&lt;/a&gt;, tracking which game was getting more posts on the site, and rewarding the top question and answer for each&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Android picked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/740/kindle-fire-contest-winners-announced&quot;&gt;number of good questions that had gone unanswered&lt;/a&gt; for a long time, tagged them all, and entered all the accepted/top voted answers on those questions in a drawing to win Kindles. They also had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/667/samsung-galaxy-sii-twitter-se-giveaway-update-we-have-a-winner&quot;&gt;twitter-related promotion&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't think I would call it a contest. They've talked about doing an &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/585/a-contest-a-contest-but-what-prizes&quot;&gt;SU-style contest&lt;/a&gt; as well, but I don't know that it's happened yet&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Philosophy is in the second week of picking a philosopher and rewarding users who &lt;a href=&quot;https://philosophy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291/its-descartes-week&quot;&gt;ask questions about that philosopher&lt;/a&gt;. Android is &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/772/would-you-be-interested-in-ice-cream-sandwich-week&quot;&gt;discussing the same idea&lt;/a&gt; with Android versions, apps, hardware, etc., and History is doing it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/140/would-you-be-interested-in-a-war-week-contest&quot;&gt;wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously we're not limited to these -- if somebody comes up with something Unix-y that would be even better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Prizes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't any Unix and Linux-specific stuff yet, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/collections/show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange store&lt;/a&gt; has the usual fare, and is common for lower-level prizes (although WA happily used it for &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/969/celebrating-our-birthday&quot;&gt;everything&lt;/a&gt;). It'd be nice if we could come up with some *nix-specific prizes. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/individual&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;membership in the Linux Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, an &lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/subscribe/Info&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LWN subscription&lt;/a&gt;, things of that nature. Maybe Linux-y hardware, if anyone has ideas. I can't make any promises, but if we come up with clever prize ideas I'll see if Stack Exchange is willing to pay for them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I like SU's second contest (rewarding specific activities on a weekly basis), Android's Kindle contest (picking good unanswered questions and rewarding people who answer them), and Philosophy's weekly themes. What are everyone else's preferences? Any other ideas for contests/prizes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:41.627" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T21:43:10.620" Title="Anniversary contest?" Tags="|discussion|promotion|contest|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="831" CreationDate="2011-12-21T01:58:48.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as we don't have a lot of time, I'll kick one in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a prize awarded (monthly?), for the question that elicits the most Gilles-ian answer (obviously, &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; is eligible to answer the question); ie., an answer that is both encyclopaedic in it's breadth and depth, but also quite approachable for the novice or intermediate user and laced with a goodly amount of links to encourage further reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilles' answers already elicit plenty of upvotes (deservedly), so it would be nice to recognize those community members who work hard to frame up the sort of questions that provoke these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also focus the community's attention on more investment in asking good questions and in providing more detailed and referenced answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to prizes: I imagine that, for many some additional rep would be enough incentive, but if you are able to scrounge up some resources or sponsorship, then some kit to run *nix on would be nice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus suggestion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;One other thought I had was that a unique aspect of our community that is worth celebrating is the people that spend their time writing and supporting the software we use. You could run a question that seeks nominations for the best new&amp;mdash;as in the last 12 months&amp;mdash;free and open source software that people have discovered, and their rationale for the nomination. This serves to both promote the efforts of those developers, and allows the community to share new and interesting software that they have come across this past year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 &lt;em&gt;I know that under the normal terms of the site, this sort of question would be closed, but it is more of a special event-type deal...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T01:58:48.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2011-12-21T23:31:38.613" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When writing by hand I always slash my zeroes and sevens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't know which font does that (zeroes, 7 is already non-ambiguous) but I'd like to see it used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12924" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T23:31:38.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="836" CreationDate="2011-12-23T02:38:08.023" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've come against a newbie that insists that he edit his question with the solution.  When someone reverted the question to the original, he objected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is a followup to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/809/how-to-handle-solved-problems-answer-the-own-question&quot;&gt;How to handle solved problems (answer the own question?)&lt;/a&gt;  I read the FAQ and noticed that it does not mention the convention that the question is not edited with the solution, but that you mark the answer which best answers the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the FAQ be updated to note this convention?  Newbies won't immediately know to look in meta for this convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4194" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2011-12-26T22:17:23.560" Title="Should faq include not including solution in question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="834" CreationDate="2011-12-23T02:49:53.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It kind of does, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#howtoask&quot;&gt;How do I ask questions here?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have decided which answer is the most helpful to you, mark it as the accepted answer by clicking on the check box outline to the left of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/img/faq/faq-accept-answer.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://cdn.sstatic.net/img/faq/faq-accept-answer.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lets other people know that you have received a good answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't specifically say &amp;quot;don't edit the answer into your question&amp;quot;, but I would think it's assumed based on how answers work. We can look into adding it if it happens a lot, but I think it's fairly rare&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T02:49:53.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="834" CreationDate="2011-12-23T02:53:03.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the comments in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1601/should-edits-which-add-the-accepted-answer-to-the-question-be-reverted&quot;&gt;Photo-SE question on the same topic&lt;/a&gt; are appropriate. Editing the &quot;top post&quot; to have the answer is common courtesy on bb-style forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That is because BB-style forums suck.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a BB forum. This is a QA site with custom-designed software designed specifically to fix the problem that editing questions in a BB site with &quot;[SOLVED!]&quot; is a horrible kludge for. So, by editing answers into the question, one is a) not taking advantage of that, and b) making a cluttered mess that makes things worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yeah, I'm in favor of putting it in the FAQ more strongly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:03.093" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T02:53:03.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="834" CreationDate="2011-12-26T22:17:23.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I am the &quot;newbie&quot;  who discussed this on meta - yes the FAQ seems to be the right place for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2011-12-26T22:17:23.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-27T10:52:21.897" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;My feature request (idea), is simple, sometimes we get here at U&amp;amp;L questions that can get better answers at ServerFault (for example), they have a relation to here, since these questions have a touch with U&amp;amp;L, but the whole scope is ServerFault related. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea is to create the ability to put a link to this question at ServerFault, hence the question owner can get a better answer, and everybody would be happier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/27509/webgui-for-virtualization&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question for example, it has a U&amp;amp;L touch but in ServerFault or WebApps, this guy can get a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12704" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T20:40:26.540" Title="any way to cross-connect questions?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="430" CreationDate="2011-12-31T20:10:43.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6509400855_aaaf915871_z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;useless use of cat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GirlieMac&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/72157628409467125/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTTP Status Cats&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T20:10:43.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="120" CreationDate="2011-12-31T20:10:56.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6508022985_b22200ced0_z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;useless use of cat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GirlieMac&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/72157628409467125/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTTP Status Cats&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T20:10:56.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2011-12-31T20:11:01.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6508023065_8dae48a30b_z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;useless use of cat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GirlieMac&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/72157628409467125/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTTP Status Cats&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T20:11:01.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="843" CreationDate="2012-01-04T10:19:55.973" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28275/manually-assign-a-value-when-inet-ntoa-does-return-an-ip-address&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; didn't get automatic syntax highlighting for the Perl code, although it is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;perl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;perl&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Manually adding &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;-- language: lang-perl --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to my answer worked (and I could have done that to the question - left as is for illustration purposes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the tag be updated so that automatic language syntax highlighting kicks in? (Or am I missing something in how that post was formatted that prevented this?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T14:40:31.420" Title="Syntax highlighting for perl not inferred from tag" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="842" CreationDate="2012-01-04T14:40:31.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done; all &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;perl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;perl&lt;/a&gt; questions will syntax-highlight as perl now. Prettify is supposed to detect the language by default, but maybe that code block was too short for it to figure it out&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T14:40:31.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="814" CreationDate="2012-01-04T19:55:07.693" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KAyo5.png&quot; alt=&quot;FreeBSD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6250" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T19:55:07.693" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-04T19:55:07.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="849" CreationDate="2012-01-07T15:50:25.737" Score="6" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;The suggested edit rejection dialog looks a bit strange right now - the custom rejection reason text box is a bit too wide compared to the dialog box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrome 16:&#xA;can't resize the custom text box horizontally, looks like there are two of them stacked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nzvFT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 9: can resize in all directions, but also looks like there are two of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z9RA9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: doesn't happen on Stack Overflow right now with the same browsers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="353" LastEditDate="2012-01-11T10:05:05.297" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T10:05:05.297" Title="Suggested edit custom reject reason box UI issue" Tags="|bug|status-completed|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="831" CreationDate="2012-01-09T02:24:22.280" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need as much cleanup as SU does, but we have a good number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;. I estimate that 10% of them are troubleshooting questions with not enough information (→ close as not a real question) and the rest deserve an answer. There are badges for that (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;revival&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/44/necromancer&quot;&gt;necromancer&lt;/a&gt;); however such late answers can slip through the cracks (I've only been using &lt;code&gt;/questions?sort=newest&lt;/code&gt; for quite a while now, I just don't have the time to go through all new answers). Can we organize some sort of drive to answer old stuff? Perhaps a real-life prize for Revival and Necromancer badges obtained in January, together with some form of publicization of the candidate answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have better promotion of good, late answers as a more general matter, but I don't know what form it could take. In the meantime, our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; doesn't see much action; it can be a place to pimp late answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T02:24:22.280" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="831" CreationDate="2012-01-09T02:32:43.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the site is getting bigger, some recurring questions are beginning to emerge, and we don't always have a good canonical answer for those. We tried to write a canonical answer once — &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/how-do-i-run-a-command-as-the-system-administrator-root&quot;&gt;How do I run a command as the system administrator (root)&lt;/a&gt; — and the result is not very good. I think that's because we tried to cram too much in one question. We should carefully review the kinds of questions that are asked and give enough information, but not too much, in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few topics that come up often:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rename a bunch of files&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understanding disk usage (aka why do &lt;code&gt;du&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;df&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;fdisk -l&lt;/code&gt; give different sizes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I install software that's not in my distribution?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I change my &lt;code&gt;PATH&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I execute a command when I log in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I choose a Linux distribution? (&lt;em&gt;shudder&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some canonical question where the answer is “use &lt;code&gt;type&lt;/code&gt; (and not &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt;)”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some canonical question where the answer is “put double quotes around variable expansions”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how can I attach a running process to another terminal?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose prizes for asking and for answering such questions. Again, choosing how much to cover is an important part of obtaining an awesome canonical Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T21:43:10.620" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-09T02:32:43.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="838" CreationDate="2012-01-10T09:40:41.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What many people do is comment on the post with a link to the related question from the foreign site. It's all the better if such commentary is done on both posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T09:40:41.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="845" CreationDate="2012-01-11T10:04:57.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the next build on, resizing is disabled for text areas even in browsers that (wrongly) enable it by default, making this essentially &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; (even if it's not exactly what you wanted). See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96143/prevent-the-post-text-area-from-being-obscured-by-the-sidebar-when-resized/118644#118644&quot;&gt;my rant on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; for some more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T10:04:57.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-13T01:49:36.123" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When creating tag wikis, there is a lot of already established documentation that can be adapted to and used directly in the wiki for this purpose. I made an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/1199&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt;, using Arch Linux's excellent documentation, but the edit was rejected because it lacked attributing the external source. This is fine and all, but this leads to the questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is an appropriate way to do exactly this? Should there be included a link at the header of the article or at the bottom, attributing the external source? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there any reason to not use already established wikis and documentation?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13742" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T05:59:17.847" Title="Wiki contributions: using and attributing external sources?" Tags="|discussion|tags|editing|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="850" CreationDate="2012-01-13T02:28:08.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Citing it at the end is probably best. You have to make sure it's actually ok to copy that content though -- some places might let you with proper attribution, and others might not let you at all. The Arch Wiki is licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU FDL&lt;/a&gt;, which is probably problematic since it requires that all copies also be FDL, and our content is &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you want to make sure the content is actually relevant. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/79002/145982&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; from the main meta covers it well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only problem I see is having too much irrelevant information posted from a copy-paste. The entire Wikipedia article should not be included; the main facts should be summarized briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need the complete history of Arch Linux here; their wiki already covers it. The purpose of tag wikis is to give a general explanation of the topic, to help users know what that tag covers and whether or not to use it on their post. Stuff like this isn't particularly helpful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arch Linux is a versatile, and simple distribution designed to fit the needs of the competent Linux user. It is both powerful and easy to manage, making it an ideal distro for servers and workstations. Take it in any direction you like. If you share this vision of what a GNU/Linux distribution should be, then you are welcomed and encouraged to use it freely, get involved, and contribute to the community. Welcome to Arch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very &quot;Go team!&quot;, but not particularly useful for someone trying to tag their post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T02:28:08.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="850" CreationDate="2012-01-13T22:46:47.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copying external content can be done, if the license of the external content allows it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/850/wiki-contributions-using-and-attributing-external-sources/851#851&quot;&gt;Michael's answer&lt;/a&gt; explains the issue; here you've copied content under GNU FDL, but the tag wikis (like all other user-contributed content) are under a more liberal license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, copying external content is almost never right for a tag wiki. Wikipedia and software documentation rarely have the right amount of information for a tag wiki. Taking the edit you link to as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of the text reads like a fluff piece. This is a common problem when using text produced by a community about itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a lot of irrelevant information. We don't need so much detail. People typically come to this site with a practical question. Tag wikis should contain a short general presentation of the subject (one or two paragraph), and beyond that, concentrate on practical issues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You removed some existing useful content, I wonder why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/229/contributions-to-the-wiki-distribution-tags&quot;&gt;discussion on distribution tag wikis&lt;/a&gt;, by the way. It would be nice to have all distribution tag wikis follow a common format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T22:46:47.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="814" CreationDate="2012-01-14T00:20:18.873" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tbdbt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;GNU's Not Unix!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13742" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T20:54:04.367" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:54:04.367" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-14T00:20:18.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="640" CreationDate="2012-01-22T01:33:22.577" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Synonym approved. Do these need to be merged as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="928" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T01:33:22.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="722" CreationDate="2012-01-23T18:45:31.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The penguin is by far the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&amp;amp;client=ubuntu&amp;amp;channel=cs&amp;amp;q=linux+favicon&amp;amp;qscrl=1&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;source=og&amp;amp;sa=N&amp;amp;tab=wi&amp;amp;authuser=0&amp;amp;ei=LqodT7vVDoq3rAfAx7jWDQ&amp;amp;biw=1116&amp;amp;bih=868&amp;amp;sei=MKodT8T_C8PqrQeKluybDA#q=linux+favicon&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;client=ubuntu&amp;amp;channel=cs&amp;amp;qscrl=1&amp;amp;authuser=0&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;source=lnt&amp;amp;tbs=isz:i&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=MKodT_PFHIuyrAfWoIHTDQ&amp;amp;ved=0CA4QpwUoAw&amp;amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&amp;amp;fp=bea2cd499ca842d7&amp;amp;biw=1116&amp;amp;bih=868&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most popular&lt;/a&gt; (and recognizable) representation of Linux. Although it doesn't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; capture the UNIX idea, linux is the currently most widely-used unix (needs citation :P).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a penguin on top of the (color-shifted) stack-exchange bubble?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/90bdq.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/favicon.ico&quot;&gt;&#xA;+ &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OSrzE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; = ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3256" LastEditorUserId="3256" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T18:58:05.357" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T18:58:05.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-24T01:02:59.063" Score="2" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;Across Stack Exchange, we usually go for plural tags for countable nouns, and for unabbreviated tags. Please rename the following tags for consistency (keeping synonyms as suitable, of course):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/directories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;directories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symlink&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symlink&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symlink&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/symbolic-links&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;symbolic-links&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;symbolic-links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;process&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/processes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;processes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;processes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/partition&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;partition&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;partition&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/partitions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;partitions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;partitions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/executable&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;executable&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;executable&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/executables&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;executables&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;executables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;distros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;distros&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distributions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;distributions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;distributions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pity we can't do that for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/window&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;window&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;window&lt;/a&gt;. This tag shouldn't exist anyway; what's a good replacement (or set of replacements)? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/window-manipulation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;window-manipulation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;window-manipulation&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T14:46:23.463" Title="Please rename some tags for consistency" Tags="|feature-request|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="722" CreationDate="2012-01-25T10:05:29.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no designer, but I thing the logo would gain if it had an X in it. U-L-X looks more &quot;unixy&quot; than U-L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4873" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T10:05:29.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="859" CreationDate="2012-01-25T17:00:35.813" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would a question to list all UTF8-signs that could be mistaken for or are curly forms of quotation marks and apostrophes be considered off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. &lt;code&gt;`´’&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;“”„“&lt;/code&gt; instead for &lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd need it for a search-and-replace-regex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12471" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T17:09:31.477" Title="Offtopic? List of all (pseudo) apostrophic and question marky signs" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="858" CreationDate="2012-01-25T17:09:31.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that has no connection to Unix and Linux (despite what you plan to use it for). It might be on-topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;, they allow &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;punctuation&lt;/a&gt; questions, but &quot;list all X&quot; questions tend not to go well anywhere on Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.197" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T17:09:31.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="682" CreationDate="2012-01-26T17:35:03.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T17:35:03.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="862" CreationDate="2012-01-27T13:53:46.820" Score="5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of VIm, but every day I'm learning new possibilities. I am aware of the fact that plugins in VIm can be powerful, but I don't know a lot of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to start a question to let people share some of their favorite plugins. Is this question allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be a community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T14:03:15.267" Title="General VI plugin question, is it allowed?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="861" CreationDate="2012-01-27T14:03:15.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's your favorite X?&quot; questions don't work well on Stack Exchange, even with community wiki. In order to be really useful, they need constant maintenance, and somewhat ironically, community wiki removes individual ownership, so no one is has incentive to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my strong preference is not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T14:03:15.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="864" CreationDate="2012-01-28T08:47:05.937" Score="4" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I voted 30 times in a day and forgot to which questions/answers I have voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I find my recent votes cast?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14671" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T15:07:54.613" Title="How can I find my recent votes cast?" Tags="|discussion|support|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="863" CreationDate="2012-01-28T09:16:58.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Unfortunately, you can't. There is nothing in the interface that lists the posts you voted on, just the total vote counts per week, month and all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41932/can-i-see-my-vote-history&quot;&gt;Can I see my vote history&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above now obsolete information: &#xA;As of 2012-04-26, there is now a &lt;em&gt;Votes&lt;/em&gt; tab in your user profile (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14610/where-did-the-votes-tab-go/130380#130380&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find your voting activity there, along with close/reopen and delete/undelete vote history. This is only visible to yourself, others don't see that information in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T15:07:54.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="865" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-02-02T15:55:22.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every question asked on Stack Exchange can have up to five tags that categorize the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta sites have tags that need to be present in the question, which are &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;; there are also tags that can be added only from moderators, such as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;featured&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;, which are shown with a red background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information see the section on tagging in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:03:23.357" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T15:55:22.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="866" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-02-02T15:55:22.257" Score="0" Body="Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions. " OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T15:55:22.257" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T15:55:22.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="557" CreationDate="2012-02-03T21:50:14.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like this was fixed with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119841/new-user-profile-add-new-first-tab-with-simpler-design&quot;&gt;new profile design&lt;/a&gt;; I no longer see the scroll bar in Chrome or Firefox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T21:50:14.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="869" CreationDate="2012-02-06T12:13:36.873" Score="14" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where to ask questions about &quot;Linux/Unix programming libraries&quot; ?&#xA;Is it better to ask such on Unix.SE or StackOverflow ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @Mat pointed out FAQ says &lt;em&gt;&quot;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on Stack Overflow.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think about questions of &lt;em&gt;library existence&lt;/em&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could you suggest programming library (C/C++) doing &lt;em&gt;this and that&lt;/em&gt; with Unix ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which programming library (in terms of popularity) is more common, better?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... other related with existence of library, not programming with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean &lt;em&gt;this and that&lt;/em&gt; I mean very Unixy/Linuxy things, like ncurses, X-window system... etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is that answering questions about &lt;em&gt;existence&lt;/em&gt;, does not require knowledge about programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I could answer question &lt;em&gt;&quot;What are cryptographic programming libraries installed on your system?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; by using my package manager or just listing &lt;code&gt;/lib&lt;/code&gt; to find out : &quot;On my system there is &lt;code&gt;/lib/libcrypto.so&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Motivation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more. I believe, experienced Unix,Linux SysAdmin have seen so many &quot;.so&quot; files and packages that are related to, that have better &lt;em&gt;intuition&lt;/em&gt;, which solutions are used around that programmer, who might know about programming libraries which are very rare, and be surprised about dependences his program has. I try to write program that has as less rare dependencies as possible, to make installation of package clear and lightweight. (Imagine installing small 200k program with 200MB dependencies. I try to avoid it, but using popular and lightweight programming libraries. Sometimes a few lines of code can decrease dependencies size from hundreds of MB to just a few of commonly used).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9689" LastEditorUserId="9689" LastEditDate="2012-02-07T10:45:01.947" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T16:00:05.037" Title="What's better place for questions about &quot;Linux/Unix programming libraries&quot; - Unix.SE or SO?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="868" CreationDate="2012-02-07T11:51:28.367" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; says, as you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about writing code using Unix or Linux libraries, it should go to Stack Overflow (provided it follows that site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt; too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about how common APIs work (say POSIX interfaces) can be on topic on U&amp;amp;L though. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for another meta post, linked from the FAQ.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about finding a library to do XYZ &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be OK on U&amp;amp;L provided that XYZ is properly specified and detailed, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; XYZ is something that you'd only do on Unix/Linux systems.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If the asker has already found/experimented with &lt;code&gt;libfoo&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;libbar&lt;/code&gt; but finds specific limitations or inconveniences using those (and explains them), asking for alternatives that meet the additional requirements makes for good, specific answers that can provide long-term value.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If the library being sought is not directly tied with Unix, this type of question can be asked on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is just:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What library can I use to build a GUI on &amp;lt;whatever&amp;gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the answers could very well degenerate into long lists of stuff, grow out of date without maintenance from the posters, and don't really provide more value than a good set of search terms and a good search engine. Wikipedia or similar formats are, in my opinion, better for these types of general &quot;catalog&quot; questions. (Hence, neither U&amp;amp;L nor SO.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for the &quot;best&quot; library for anything, except for very specific requirements and after having shown research effort, either falls into the previous point, or more often falls into the &quot;Not Constructive&quot; close reason available on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange sites, and the &quot;What kind of question should I &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ask here?&quot; section of the FAQ.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For library questions, &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; can't possibly be answered without actual code requirements, data-structure considerations and such, in my opinion; a list of features isn't enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are cryptographic programming libraries installed on your system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a &quot;poll&quot; question. It provides no long-term value, and the list of answers is essentially useless - why would you care if I have &lt;code&gt;libSuperCrypt-42.7.so&lt;/code&gt; on my own system?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Fits neither U&amp;amp;L nor SO.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Much better to look at the environments you're looking at deploying for and checking which crypto providers they ship by default, and which ones can be installed easily.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T14:40:17.703" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="868" CreationDate="2012-02-07T21:23:42.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going a bit further than the FAQ, a few things come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serious answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Linux (and as far as I can remember, on both Solaris and FreeBSD) section 3 of the man page document library calls. Let me rephrase that, the Linux &lt;em&gt;manual&lt;/em&gt; describes the &lt;em&gt;libraries for the user to use&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more, Joel Spolsky &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wrote the following about Unix&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to non-programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think of &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; Unix and &lt;em&gt;programming for&lt;/em&gt; Unix as two tightly linked activities. Making users ask these questions on SO only hardens the (IMHO false, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/good_programmers_are_good_sysadmins_are_good_programmers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;especially on Unix&lt;/a&gt;) idea that &lt;em&gt;system administration&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; are two distinct categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Half serious answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One word: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, basing rules on one particular user is not credible, even less viable. But he's no ordinary user either. I mean who can give you the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/19119/4098&quot;&gt;different error codes returned by 6 different shells&lt;/a&gt; (revealing a bug in &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; by doing so) when the system runs out of resources for a new &lt;code&gt;fork()&lt;/code&gt; call? In 20 minutes, no less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt I'm going to get such a good answer on SO, and despite what the rules (or common sense) will say, I will naturally try to target this user in order to get the best possible answer for my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, Gilles may be outstanding, but he's not the only one here to be well versed in &amp;quot;Unix C programming&amp;quot;. Members here are generally well versed in the field and will provide great answers as well. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4377/after-fork-where-does-the-child-begin-its-execution&quot;&gt;First example I ran across&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't we adopt a pragmatic approach and taking advantage of our existing user base instead of limiting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, doesn't the fact that so many members here are very knowledgeable about the topic, help prove my first point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About StackExchange&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know that Unix is one thing, and running a good Q&amp;amp;A website (let alone a family of websites) is a completely different thing. I understand the need for separating content and defining scopes. This is why I would suggest drawing the line at the man page. In short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I suggest we tolerate library/programming questions as long as they have a corresponding &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; page&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(But man pages vary across Unix distributions. I know ...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4098" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-12-15T16:00:05.037" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T16:00:05.037" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-09T15:24:42.767" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/685/where-exactly-is-the-border-between-apple-and-unix&quot;&gt;Where exactly is the border between apple and UNIX&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being that Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, do questions about it fall into the scope of this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15350" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T15:24:42.767" Title="Are Mac OS specific questions allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-02-09T16:21:17.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2012-02-09T16:43:11.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mosheberman.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;been blogging for about two plus years&lt;/a&gt;, and I just made my &lt;a href=&quot;http://apple.blogoverflow.com/2012/02/how-to-use-ssh-on-mac-os-x/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first blogoverflow contribution&lt;/a&gt; this week. I'm taking a Computer Science course this semester that's focusing on VI and Unix (we're coding remotely over SSH) and I've done some blogging on that. I'd be glad to have some of my posts cross posted as guest posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15350" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T16:43:11.763" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-09T16:43:11.763" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="880" CreationDate="2012-02-12T01:52:11.340" Score="31" ViewCount="1122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost two months ago I posted here about a possible &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/831/anniversary-contest&quot;&gt;contest to celebrate our anniversary&lt;/a&gt;. The anniversary was last month, but we're going to do a contest anyway, like the husband that comes home with flowers three weeks too late. Call it our &quot;we're about to hit 10k questions!&quot; celebratory contest instead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were several good ideas posted in the original thread, but the one that got the most upvotes was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/846/73&quot;&gt;by Gilles&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think we need as much cleanup as SU does, but we have a good number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;. I estimate that 10% of them are troubleshooting questions with not enough information (close as not a real question) and the rest deserve an answer. There are badges for that (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;revival&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/44/necromancer&quot;&gt;necromancer&lt;/a&gt;); however such late answers can slip through the cracks (I've only been using &lt;code&gt;/questions?sort=newest&lt;/code&gt; for quite a while now, I just don't have the time to go through all new answers). Can we organize some sort of drive to answer old stuff? Perhaps a real-life prize for Revival and Necromancer badges obtained in January, together with some form of publicization of the candidate answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't really noticed until he pointed it out, but we have a 91% answer rate. That sounds decent, but it's on the low end for Stack Exchange (56&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; out of 81 sites). A contest to help with that seems ideal. Thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A contest to cleanup old, abandoned questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each week (ending 18 Feb, 25 Feb, 3 Mar, 10 Mar), we'll randomly choose qualifying users and give them prizes. Everyone loves prizes. First, to qualify at all, you must have a registered account, which means you can login using an OpenID. Check your profile page to see if it says &quot;unregistered&quot; at the top:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cH92u.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also need a valid e-mail address, since that's how we'll be contacting you (and shame on you if you used a fake e-mail anyway). Next, you need to do one or more of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer an old question well. Gilles pointed out above that the site already has a way of measuring and rewarding this, so we'll piggyback on that and count answers that lead to a Revival or Necromancer badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4KPy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Revival - Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5nSOx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Necromancer - Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get credit if the answer is both posted and gets a badge during the contest (not necessarily in the same week; you'll be in the drawing for the week you get the badge), as long as the answer stays undeleted. It's unlikely that an answer that is good enough to get upvoted would also end up deleted, but it happens. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered tab&lt;/a&gt; is a good starting point for finding questions to answer. There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2471/unix-and-linux-contest-posts&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; where you can link your answer to help it get more attention&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vote to close a question that was asked before 2012. You have a limited number of close votes, but still -- don't just vote to close haphazardly; the intent is to close old questions that went unanswered because they're not very good. You can read the list of close reasons to better understand the reason questions should be closed. If you don't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;enough reputation to close&lt;/a&gt;, you can flag instead; you'll get the same options&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qT23s.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get credit if the question actually closes. Mods will go through the close vote list at the end of each week to help close questions that should be closed but couldn't get enough votes. Since there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/874/73&quot;&gt;loophole for 10k users&lt;/a&gt;, starting week 2 we're only going to count close votes from 10k users if they're the first vote on the post&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll break it down as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 points for each Revival badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 points for each Necromancer badge (note that you'll possibly already have Revival as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 point for each closed question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each point is one chance to win for that week (so if you get Revival you've got 4 chances to win out of however many points everyone on the site got for that week)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Prizes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll draw two winners randomly each week, who will each get $50 to spend in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange shop&lt;/a&gt;. There should be Unix and Linux-themed swag there soon; if it's not up yet when we start contacting winners, you can opt to wait for that instead of taking the generic Stack Exchange stuff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the contest, we'll pool the points of everyone who hasn't won yet and draw three more winners. Those people have their choice of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A one year &lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/subscribe/Info&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;individual subscription to LWN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/individual&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;individual Linux Foundation membership&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(We reserve the right to change these rules as necessary, or invalidate entries by users who appear to be gaming the system or exploiting some loophole in the rules. I don't foresee this being a problem, but just in case. Stack Exchange employees and Unix and Linux moderators are naturally not eligible to win)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T05:04:34.157" Title="A contest to cleanup old, abandoned questions" Tags="|discussion|contest|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2012-02-12T11:30:20.103" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On answering&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize it was my mistake originally, but Revival and Necromancer badges earned during the week aren't exactly the right measure: if you go and answer an old question during the contest period, it might earn these badges later; and conversely you may now get the badges for old answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nitpick: it's possible to earn Necromancer without Revival, but not on an “unanswerered” question (or at least not except under very unusual circumstances involving downvotes where I'm not sure whether you'd get Revival or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to suggest that if you write or see an answer to an old question, you post a link in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;U&amp;amp;L chat&lt;/a&gt;. Or should we create a dedicated room? I don't have the time to check &lt;code&gt;/questions?sort=activity&lt;/code&gt; — I can barely keep up with &lt;code&gt;/questions?sort=newest&lt;/code&gt; — and I'm the biggest voter around here, so getting me to read your answers would be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear from your wording whether an answer posted before the contest began, but that only earns one of the badges during the contest, is eligible. This definitely needs clarifying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If old answers don't count, what if someone makes a significant edit to an old answer that triggers more upvotes? I guess in that case, if you want to enter the contest, you'd post an old answer. I'm concerned that this would cause people to delete and repost old unloved answers in the hope of a better reception this time; is this a real problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On closing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that close votes can expire in as little as 4 days; moderators should check the list more often than once per week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10k users have an advantage: we have access with the list of pending close votes and unresolved flags to close. I'm personally fine with being out of the running for close vote points, or only if I cast the vote without prompting, but I think the rules need amending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Swag!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just repeating the most important part of your post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There should be Unix and Linux-themed swag there soon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-02-12T11:35:39.037" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T11:35:39.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2012-02-13T00:20:09.790" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there was a U&amp;amp;L blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would write an article now and then (see below).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I will not promise any particular schedule.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am willing to be an editor, i.e. review people's posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am not willing to nag people for content or manage publication schedules.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a series of posts in mind inspired by questions that are asked on this site, but presenting a topic viewed through my own biases or giving a broad introduction rather than being driven by a specific question. Things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;packages that I install on every Linux machine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an introduction to bulk file renaming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a grab-bag of simple zsh functions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what's a command line and why should I care&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T00:20:09.790" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-13T00:20:09.790" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-13T02:15:27.497" Score="-2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/359255/effects-of-ddos-attacks-on-memory-use-under-linux/&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com/questions/359255/effects-of-ddos-attacks-on-memory-use-under-linux/&lt;/a&gt; migrated to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15474" OwnerDisplayName="nlovric" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:51.103" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T22:17:40.437" Title="Migrating a question from Serverfault to Unix &amp; Linux" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2012-02-13T04:37:08.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What if the answer (kinda) is already there?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've run across several questions where the user hasn't given any additional information and another user has answered to the best of their ability in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be appropriate to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the information in the comment, elaborate a little and re-post it as an answer. The downfall to this is that the answer might not be the correct one (because the missing information or follow up was never supplied).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag/Close the question for lacking information and being too localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6266" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T04:37:08.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2012-02-14T08:10:59.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What if there's already some answers ?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last pages of unanswered questions, there's quite &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?page=30&amp;amp;sort=unanswered&quot;&gt;a lot&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; answers which were not accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What if it's not possible to be accepted ?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, the asker has never created its account. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12599/how-do-i-edit-an-audio-cds-artist-and-title-in-dolphin&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14409" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T18:31:32.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="876" CreationDate="2012-02-15T22:17:40.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you've now &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/11632/effects-of-ddos-attacks-on-memory-use-under-linux&quot;&gt;reposted the question on IT Security Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, this instance is moot, but for future reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The proper procedure to request migrating a question is to flag it on the site where it's posted (use the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; button under the question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the topic of this question could work on either &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;IT Security&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, emphasizing different aspects on each site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opening with “Can someone … give me exact data [from their system]” is likely to provoke negative reactions on Stack Exchange, where we tend to eschew personal involvement (at least on the more technical computer-related sites, especially Server Fault). Your later impersonal request “I'd like to know how various DDoS tools effect memory …” is better (btw, it's &lt;em&gt;affect&lt;/em&gt;) is likely to get a better reception.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T22:17:40.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2012-02-19T23:00:12.370" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We won't actually be contacting the winners about the prizes until the end of the contest in March, but we'll do the drawings at the end of each week and I'll keep this answer up to date&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;12-18 Feb&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were at least 47 new answers on old questions this week (based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2471/unix-and-linux-contest-posts&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;). Of those, there were 12 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;Revival badges&lt;/a&gt; -- over 10% of all the Revival badges we've had, which is pretty impressive. No &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/44/necromancer&quot;&gt;Necromancer badges&lt;/a&gt; yet, but they're more difficult; some will probably come in over the next few weeks. 13 users also managed to close 30 old posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately there were 95 entries to draw from. This week's winners of shiny &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange swag&lt;/a&gt; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/5842/mat&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/5842.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mat&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/6266/maxmackie&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/6266.png&quot; alt=&quot;MaxMackie&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;19-25 Feb&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;32 new answers were posted on old questions; 7 of them picked up &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;Revival badges&lt;/a&gt;. 8 old questions were also closed, all from a single user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were 36 entries to choose from (and neither of the two people tied for most entries won). This week's winners:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/14409/coren&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/14409.png&quot; alt=&quot;Coren&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/15426/lars-rohrbach&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/15426.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lars Rohrbach&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;26 Feb-3 Mar&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;33 new answers on old questions this week. 9 answers were awarded &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;Revival badges&lt;/a&gt;, and 2 old questions were closed (I'm pleasantly surprised that we're ending up with more answers than closures as time goes on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were 36 entries to choose from. This week's winners:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/8131/greg-cain&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/8131.png&quot; alt=&quot;Greg Cain&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/14831/njsg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/14831.png&quot; alt=&quot;njsg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;4 Mar-10 Mar&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We closed 1 more question, and I choose to believe the decline in closed posts from week to week means we've closed every bad question there ever was. 40 new answers, with 7 Revivals and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/33769/73&quot;&gt;1 Necromancer&lt;/a&gt;! (I never lost hope).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;34 entries to choose from this week; the winners were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/2661/pbm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2661.png&quot; alt=&quot;pbm&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/11750/kevin&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/11750.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Final winners&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we pooled the points of everyone who hadn't won yet and picked three people. These people win either a year's subscription to LWN or a Linux Foundation membership:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/4750/user112553&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/4750.png&quot; alt=&quot;user112553&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/3645/l0b0&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/3645.png&quot; alt=&quot;l0b0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/9426/stephane-gimenez&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/9426.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stéphane Gimenez&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who participated, this went somewhat better than I expected, and congratulations to all the winners!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T05:04:34.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="856" CreationDate="2012-02-20T08:29:49.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/window&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;window&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;window&lt;/a&gt; was used &lt;strong&gt;13&lt;/strong&gt; times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/window-manipulation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;window-manipulation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;window-manipulation&lt;/a&gt; was never used&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should delete &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/window-manipulation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;window-manipulation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;window-manipulation&lt;/a&gt;. And since we use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-server&lt;/a&gt;, maybe we should replace &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/window&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;window&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;window&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-client&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-client&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-client&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14409" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T08:29:49.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="884" CreationDate="2012-02-26T16:12:00.707" Score="21" ViewCount="1250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, on StackOverflow site, I encounter a question that I think should be on Unix &amp;amp; Linux site. My problem is that I am not able to signal it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that I can, on StackOverflow, flag a question as &lt;em&gt;offtopic&lt;/em&gt; and then choose between 5 sites, but I haven't found any way to move it to this one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FqO7k.png&quot; alt=&quot;move to&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if and how this is possible ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14409" LastActivityDate="2012-02-26T23:24:17.927" Title="How to migrate questions from StackOverflow" Tags="|support|migration|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="882" CreationDate="2012-02-26T16:44:35.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there were such a migration path. But in the meantime, you can use the &quot;other&quot; flag option and leave a comment for the moderators explaining why you think it should be moved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-02-26T16:44:35.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="882" CreationDate="2012-02-26T19:48:35.957" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/882/how-to-migrate-questions-from-stackoverflow#comment1312_882&quot;&gt;Mat commented&lt;/a&gt;, sites are only allowed to have 5 migration paths. Moderators can migrate anywhere, and we do get a decent number of migrations from SO (about one per day), so at one point we looked into replacing one of the migration paths SO already has, but were told it's extremely unlikely. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81338/migrate-to-super-user-or-unix-linux&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/883/73&quot;&gt;mattdm said&lt;/a&gt;, you can flag the post for moderator attention and say which site it should be on, and they'll move it for you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-02-26T23:24:17.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="886" CreationDate="2012-02-28T03:03:08.967" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I sesarch for dd on the /tags page, it indicates there are 26 questions. However, when I click on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dd&quot;&gt;&quot;dd&quot; tag&lt;/a&gt; , I only see two questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume it's just showing me the unanswered questions, but how do I see the answered ones with the dd tag as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="663" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T03:07:47.340" Title="How do I see unanswered questions with a certain tag?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="885" CreationDate="2012-02-28T03:07:47.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have the &quot;unanswered&quot; tab selected. Choose another tab, e.g. &quot;newest&quot;, and it will show you all 26 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dd&lt;/a&gt; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-dd-unanswered.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the dd tag page, unanswered tab http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-dd-unanswered.png&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-dd-newest.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the dd tag page, newest tab http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-dd-newest.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site remembers the last tab you had selected, so once you choose &quot;newest&quot; it will stay selected in the future&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T03:07:47.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-02T17:41:24.013" Score="19" ViewCount="527" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a thank you for &lt;em&gt;being awesome&lt;/em&gt;, if you have at least 1750 reputation (as of Mar 2) and are on page 1 or page 2 of &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; we'll be sending you a little care package shortly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange t-shirt in your size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange die-cut, vinyl stickers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/collections/show/products/stack-exchange-sharpie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange sharpie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-pens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange pen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-network-stickers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange stickers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can expect to get an email soon with details on how to confirm and provide your mailing address and size preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The t-shirt&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D9l0W.png&quot; alt=&quot;unix.stackexchange.com Tshirt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The sticker&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3j5ss.png&quot; alt=&quot;unix.stackexchange.com sticker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the items you can view in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange store&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; direct links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/collections/show/products/stack-exchange-sharpie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sharpie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-pens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-network-stickers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stickers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(for anyone else who wants this swag, but isn't on page 1 or page 2 of the all time top users -- the limited edition t-shirts and stickers will be available for purchase from the store as soon as we're able)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2609" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T20:18:03.293" Title="U&amp;L swag for top users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-05T20:49:43.557" Score="13" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do we do about abandoned questions, with a correct answer that was never accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we suspect the original poster forgot about it completely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if we have any sort of process, or if we just let them say that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10987" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T20:09:55.953" Title="What do we do about abandoned questions, with a correct answer never accepted?" Tags="|discussion|questions|close-reasons|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="888" CreationDate="2012-03-05T20:54:49.487" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave them. It's nice if the asker marks the answer as accepted, but not really required; without an accepted answer the answers are just sorted purely by votes, so the community can upvote the right answer to make it show up first in the list. The system generally considers a question &quot;unanswered&quot; if it has no upvoted answers, not if it has no accepted answer; for example, this is how the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered list&lt;/a&gt; works&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T20:54:49.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-06T16:47:31.143" Score="8" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inline code inside spoiler markup is never hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Text is hidden but &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! Text is hidden but `code` is not.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Used in the wild &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33570/how-do-i-output-a-count-of-all-files-with-tty-in-the-filename-in-the-linux-dir/33588#33588&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T06:05:25.193" Title="Code inside spoiler markup is not hidden" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-08T20:16:32.550" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the time I have been visitng the site, I have opened it up first thing in the morning in my browser (Vimprobable) and then, periodically throughout the day, reloaded the page to see new questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some time over the last 24 or&amp;mdash;so hours, I have noticed that if I reload the site once, it sends my CPU to 100% where it remains until I close the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only change that I have noticed is the new javascript &quot;thing&quot;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; that announces new activity on the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug? Nothing else in my setup has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;System details&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;Arch Linux. Vimprobable2 0.9.12.0 libwebkit 1.6.3 libsoup 2.36.1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit:&lt;/b&gt; This behaviour doesn't happen on Stackoverflow...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/b&gt; I have (I think) narrowed it down to the ads that appears in the sidebar (Love Your Community etc); on some page reloads, the ad is blocked and that is when the CPU spikes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been using privoxy, but this domain is listed under both 'fragile' and 'allow ads' - so the ads should be displayed at all times AFAIK.&lt;/strike&gt;&#xA;[Hypothesis discounted...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. Technical term...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T00:24:41.957" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T00:24:41.957" Title="Is anyone else experiencing very high CPU usage on the site?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="892" CreationDate="2012-03-08T23:11:26.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't officially support this browser however I will do my best to see if I can reproduce this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T23:11:26.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2012-03-09T15:23:42.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presumably, a beginning user will grab a reference manual and read it, look at the man pages and read them, and finally use a search engine with a well structured query to answer any other questions they're unable to answer on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the more advanced user, having exhausted all obvious resources is left asking other &quot;advanced&quot; users for help.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12924" LastActivityDate="2012-03-09T15:23:42.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-11T13:39:11.570" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question of mine got closed as a duplicate of another, with several fast votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there is &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; overlap, in my opinion it wasn't 100% the same, where can I comment specifically about the decision, except on the older question?  It's only a mild disagreement/fair warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had already read through the previous question; none of its answers were completely satisfactory.  However one answer to my question(before it got closed) hit the nail right on its head.  So I'm happy; I just felt others searching in the future should be warned about the more ideal(but closed) solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13496" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T00:11:57.457" Title="comment about closed-as-duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="895" CreationDate="2012-03-11T18:30:39.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't merge it because I thought that answer was already on the older question, but it said &lt;code&gt;retty&lt;/code&gt;, not &lt;code&gt;reptyr&lt;/code&gt;. It's merged now (and I deleted your &quot;it should be merged&quot; answer). As to your question here, posting on meta or flagging for mod attention are good ways to point out a bad close, although in this case I think it makes sense to call them duplicates; answers to one are going to be answers to the other&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-03-11T18:30:39.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="897" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-11T23:27:36.450" Score="8" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little concerned that we're branching into an area that should be out of remit for this venue (specifically, regarding the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33973/cdrdao-verify-cd#comment46037_33973&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33973/cdrdao-verify-cd#comment46037_33973&lt;/a&gt; and others like it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can appreciate that asking for help with Unix utilities on other operating systems could be seen as on-topic (for example, accessing Unix filesystems from other operating systems). What I can't understand is how asking a question about a program that has been specifically packaged for another operating system is on-topic simply because the program is also frequently packaged by some Unix/Linux distributions. I can't imagine that we would accept questions about using Firefox on Windows, despite the fact that it is also true that Firefox is frequently packaged by Linux distributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't think it's productive to extend our remit this far. Where are we drawing the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T16:20:23.237" Title="Are questions about applications not specific to Unix being used on another platform on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="895" CreationDate="2012-03-12T00:08:05.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't think your question was different from that duplicate. This is a commonly asked question, with many variants that don't significantly influence the nature of the answers; the duplicate I suggested is the one we tend to use as a canonical set of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that canonical set of answers isn't that great; any effort to improve it by discussing the pros and cons of the various tools is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if you object to a closure, Meta is the right place; you can reply to the comment, as well (which might trigger a response from the first closer who left a comment, and might dissuade other people from closing — it takes five votes or a moderator to close a question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've read a previous question and found the answers unsatisfactory, it's highly recommended that you cite that previous question in your own question, and explain how your question is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T00:08:05.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="897" CreationDate="2012-03-12T00:12:53.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, cross-platform applications are on-topic only if you are running them on a unix system. We might quibble over the definition of unix system sometimes (e.g. is OSX always on-topic, even if you're running a Coca application?) but Windows absolutely doesn't fit the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about Cygwin are fine inasmuch as you're treating it as a unix system that happens to run above Windows rather than above hardware or a virtual machine. If you're running some random program that happens to have a unix version, that doesn't make it automatically on-topic. This particular question is about a program that interacts with hardware, which is likely to be very dependent on the underlying platform, so it's firmly outside the expertise of the audience of this site. This question does not belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T00:12:53.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="897" CreationDate="2012-03-12T16:20:23.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My argument on that question was it's likely that the answer applies to Unix as well. If that's the case, it seems fine to keep the question; even though this specific asker might be using Windows, someone with this problem in the future might be on Unix. The only problem is it might be unclear if the problem is Windows-specific. In any case, the OP asked for migration this time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T16:20:23.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-13T12:50:06.423" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember for the other sites I didn't have to enter my name, email address and other data. They were picked up from my stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16562" OwnerDisplayName="user16562" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T14:00:06.590" Title="I've created a user but it hasn't been connected to my other stackexchange profiles" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="901" CreationDate="2012-03-13T15:21:01.817" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your account is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/16562/user16562?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;associated fine&lt;/a&gt;. There's an issue with creating new accounts that prevented your information from getting copied though; it's been reported on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/125417/when-i-logged-in-to-the-graphic-design-beta-site-with-my-openid-why-didnt-any&quot;&gt;the main meta&lt;/a&gt;. For now, you should be able to go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/32090/boris-pavlovic?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;your accounts tab on SO&lt;/a&gt; and click the &quot;copy profile&quot; button at the bottom to copy your SO profile to all sites, including UL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/copy-profile.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the button http://so.mrozekma.com/copy-profile.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/125477/145982&quot;&gt;fixed now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T14:00:06.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="838" CreationDate="2012-03-18T20:40:26.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this not what migration does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question will still be visible on the original site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T20:40:26.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3589" CreationDate="2012-03-23T19:26:53.830" Score="4" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mobile app &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tapatalk.com/faq.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tapatalk&lt;/a&gt; is very convenient for mobile access to forums. I couldn't find this site on Tapatalk, but perhaps I'm using the wrong search criterion. Has anyone successfully accessed Stack Exchange sites via Tapatalk? How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16892" OwnerDisplayName="teancum144" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-03-24T23:54:50.640" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T22:52:35.053" Title="Forum Available on Tapatalk Android App" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="904" CreationDate="2012-03-23T20:13:37.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was asked on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72258/stack-overflow-on-tapatalk&quot;&gt;main meta site&lt;/a&gt; a while ago. As the answers there mention, Tapatalk lists on their homepage that they support:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Currently phpBB3 3.x, vBulletin 3.6 to 4.x, xenForo, IPBoard 3.x, SMF 1.1.11+/2.x, MyBB 1.4/1.6, bbPress 1.1/2.0 and Kunena 1.6+ are supported. Other forum system might also support Tapatalk with plugins developed by third party developers using Tapatalk API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange isn't any of the things listed, and hasn't manually added support with the API they mention, so we're not going to show up in that list. However, there are several Android apps &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/tagged/android&quot;&gt;specifically for Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/585/droidstack-for-android-now-with-chat-support&quot;&gt;Droidstack&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2370/stackanywhere-a-stack-exchange-client-for-android&quot;&gt;StackAnywhere&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2365/stacks-for-android&quot;&gt;Stacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:38.983" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T20:13:37.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-24T21:48:09.210" Score="5" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am unable to use markdown in comments.  For example, I'm just trying to block out a snippet of code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 Spaces at the begging of each line.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one tab at the beginning of each line.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pre and code tagging &amp;lt;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copying and pasting with tabs/space from gedit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None work.  How can I improve the quality of my comments by using markdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15632" OwnerDisplayName="bambuntu" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-03-24T23:55:02.417" LastActivityDate="2012-03-24T23:55:02.417" Title="Using Markdown In Comments" Tags="|support|comments|markdown|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="906" CreationDate="2012-03-24T22:34:58.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use backticks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`but only in comments, of course` &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use backticks in normal &lt;code&gt;text flow&lt;/code&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You can use backticks in normal `text flow` as well.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastActivityDate="2012-03-24T22:34:58.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="906" CreationDate="2012-03-24T23:27:48.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &quot;help&quot; link under the &quot;Add Comment&quot; button that explains more about comment markdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments use mini-Markdown formatting: &lt;code&gt;[link](http://example.com) _italic_ **bold** code&lt;/code&gt;. The post author will always be notified of your comment. To also notify a previous commenter, mention their user name: &lt;code&gt;@peter&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;@PeterSmith&lt;/code&gt; will both work. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;Learn more&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2012-03-24T23:27:48.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:12:08.783" Score="7" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most important aspects of being a Stack Exchange site is quality. Yes, there are lots of metrics that one can use to &quot;measure&quot; a site, but we don't really care about those as much as we care about a site providing expert answers to good questions. To that end, we're encouraging self-evaluations on our sites!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta sites often see people discussing specific questions that have been closed to determine whether or not they can (or should) be reopened, but it's rare that anyone looks at questions that are open and answered. Are they better than what the Internet has to offer? Are we making the Internet better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a rough guide:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Below, you'll find ten questions randomly selected from your site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For each question, search the internet for the question as if you were the asker!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If our answer is good (complete, well-written, answers the question, found in search results, etc) then &lt;strong&gt;vote it up&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If our answer is bad (incomplete, poorly-written, off-topic, unfindable, etc) then &lt;strong&gt;vote it down&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment with anything you feel is worth noting, or to explain your voting choice. We have a rough guide to better/par/worse &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EQxi7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;right here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;If your result is par, make a choice to vote up or down.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that our goal is to make the internet a better place. If you find yourself unable to decide how to vote, ask yourself: does this question and/or answer make the internet better? How you answer that question should determine your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk to your fellow community members about how your site is doing and what you all can improve. Above all else, remember: this is a &lt;em&gt;team effort!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please note: this evaluation will close on 4 April 2012! Get your answers in by then!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="12872" LastEditDate="2012-03-30T19:08:11.703" LastActivityDate="2012-03-30T19:08:11.703" Title="Evaluate Your Site -- A Check for Quality" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-04-06T02:39:05.137" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:12:36.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32210/using-single-or-double-bracket-bash&quot;&gt;using single or double bracket - bash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:12:36.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:12:59.577" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32353/ubuntu-server-access-webserver-from-other-lan-computer-setting-up-ssh-or-ftp&quot;&gt;Ubuntu Server - Access webserver from other LAN computer, setting up SSH or FTP, closing ports?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:12:59.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:13:23.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31821/how-do-i-use-curl-to-download-content-from-sourceforge&quot;&gt;How do I use curl to download content from sourceforge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:13:23.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:13:43.367" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31997/does-centos-fall-into-system-v-family-how-is-it-considered-to-be-while-comparin&quot;&gt;Does CentOS fall into System V family? How is it considered to be while comparing with Unix System V family?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:13:43.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:13:58.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32536/where-to-find-the-source-file-of-function-pausevoid-and-sigsuspendset&quot;&gt;Where to find the source file of function pause(void) and sigsuspend(set)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:13:58.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:14:12.197" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32552/how-to-bypass-gnome-terminal-when-sending-keyboard-input&quot;&gt;How to bypass GNOME Terminal when sending keyboard input?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:14:12.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:14:35.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32027/whats-the-meaning-of-the-slash-in-crontab&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the meaning of the slash in crontab?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:14:35.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:14:49.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31837/where-does-firefox-10-look-for-plugins&quot;&gt;Where does Firefox 10 look for plugins?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:14:49.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:15:13.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31963/which-arch-linux-should-i-download&quot;&gt;Which arch linux should I download?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:15:13.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-03-26T19:15:30.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32609/can-i-set-how-long-ssh-agent-keeps-keys-in-memory&quot;&gt;Can I set how long ssh-agent keeps keys in memory? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote and (optionally) please leave a comment according to the guide above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T19:15:30.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-05T16:12:23.137" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, so this year we're explicitly expanding the Meetup Everywhere to include the whole Stack Exchange tech family. As a Unix &amp;amp; Linux participant, you're invited, too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/stack-overflow-meetup-everywhere-april-28-2012/&quot;&gt;recently announced&lt;/a&gt; the Second Annual Stack Overflow Meetup Everywhere day. This year, it will be on Saturday, April 28 (though local groups are welcome to pick any other day that week if a Saturday doesn't work for most of your members). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What:&lt;/strong&gt; Stack Overflow worldwide meetups&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When:&lt;/strong&gt; Saturday, April 28, 2012&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where:&lt;/strong&gt; your city!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who:&lt;/strong&gt; All users on Stack Exchange technology sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meetup.com/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official Meetup.com page&lt;/a&gt; to find existing groups near you (or start a new one). Keep an eye on the Stack Exchange blog for more information as we move closer to the event - I'll post tips on what we learned from last year's event and some things to keep in mind when organizing your local meetup. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/stack-overflow-meetup-everywhere-april-28-2012/&quot;&gt;blog announcement&lt;/a&gt; for some ideas about what your meetup can look like, why we're doing this, and some help navigating the meetup.com interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd love to see as many of you as possible participate in our Meetup Everywhere. We had over 2,000 people meet up around the world last year, and we've grown a lot since then. Help us spread the word by sharing info about this event through your blogs, social media accounts, lunches with coworkers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, if you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to get in touch, and I hope to see you there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17390" LastEditorUserId="17390" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T21:13:33.267" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T21:13:33.267" Title="Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="922" CreationDate="2012-04-05T20:44:28.700" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just about to edit a post full of errors when I saw that there was already an edit waiting for approval that covered about 95% of what I was going to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any shortcut where I can review these edits? It would make sense to put it into the &quot;review&quot; bar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-04-05T20:56:01.983" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T20:56:01.983" Title="Is there a shortcut for reviewing suggested edits?" Tags="|support|editing|suggested-edits|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="921" CreationDate="2012-04-05T20:46:37.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;review tab&lt;/a&gt; for suggested edits, but unfortunately you don't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;enough rep&lt;/a&gt; to use it yet, which is why the tab doesn't show up for you. 5k users can go there to approve edits, and 10k users get a notification in the top bar, so they're usually handled pretty quickly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-suggested-edits-indicator.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the top bar notification http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-suggested-edits-indicator.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T20:46:37.580" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="931" CreationDate="2012-04-12T12:09:43.053" Score="7" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;After working a lot with shell scripts, it turns out that one of the single most important concepts when handling arbitrary user input is the null character, aka. &lt;code&gt;NUL&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\0&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;^@&lt;/code&gt;, and others. I added it to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36233/how-to-skip-file-in-sed-if-it-contains-regex&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; which included the line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to detect NUL (&lt;code&gt;\0&lt;/code&gt;) characters in &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it was removed by a very high-rated user. Considering how important and difficult NUL handling is in for example Bash, shouldn't it be OK to add this tag (or &lt;code&gt;null-separator&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;null-character&lt;/code&gt;) to such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T00:21:34.463" Title="Can I add the &quot;nul&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-16T00:02:21.700" Score="-1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to have a collective page where people can record their CLI one liners that have been popping up all over *nix SE. Similar to commandlinefu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7819" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T07:22:08.150" Title="Command-line repository" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2012-04-16T01:33:14.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. Or rather, I think that's useful for sites like the one you mention (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commandlinefu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;commandlinefu&lt;/a&gt;), but I don't think Stack Exchange is the right engine for a collective page of one-liners. How would you find one that solves a &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one-liners are the real solution to a particular Unix/Linux problem, they're welcome in the particular question they belong to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T01:33:14.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2012-04-16T06:12:34.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pressing commands into one line makes them harder to read, and therefore not so useful in support. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often develop my solution as one liner, but break it up for publishing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T06:12:34.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2012-04-16T07:22:08.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like it would be identical to commandlinefu, and commandlinefu is already set up to do it. Stack Exchange isn't good at big compendiums of information on a subject -- it's designed for finding a specific answer to a specific question. A question like &quot;what cool one-liners do you know?&quot; is too broad, doesn't have a single answer, isn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;solving a particular problem&lt;/a&gt;, and is better off left on sites like commandlinefu that are designed for that sort of thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T07:22:08.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="942" CreationDate="2012-04-17T00:48:20.040" Score="10" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new &quot;community bulletin&quot; box has light orange text on a light blue background, which is fairly difficult to read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-community-bulletin.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="2609" LastEditDate="2012-04-26T00:44:36.643" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T00:44:36.643" Title="Community Bulletin box is hard to read" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="924" CreationDate="2012-04-18T01:02:55.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with it. Possibly he removed it because questions can only have five tags, and he thought the tags he was adding were more important than that one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T01:02:55.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2012-04-18T08:58:05.073" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment &#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&#xA;edit comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2018-09-02T02:51:33.063" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T02:51:33.063" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-18T08:58:05.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2012-04-18T09:35:24.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan to build an LFS system soon, but with some form of package management. This can either be a series or one looong post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can also write on some random topics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;simplifying Debian CLI package management - using wajig&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;multiple ways of running JHBuild (pros and cons)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what others can help me contribute on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;contributor-of-note&lt;/strong&gt;: this would be the equivalent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tshepang.net/tags.html#developer-of-note-ref&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my own series&lt;/a&gt;, only better; this would be a celebration of specific people who do significant work (coding, visual design, translations, infrastructure, release, ...) in the Unix &amp;amp; Linux field; someone can come with a better name&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;project-of-note&lt;/strong&gt;: this would be the equivalent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tshepang.net/tags.html#project-of-note-ref&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my own series&lt;/a&gt;, only better; this would be a celebration of specific projects (why they rock, sample usage, mention of competitors, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can probably contribute about one post a month (since I can take my existing posts, and polish them for inclusion), but later on I would expect that to slow down (say maybe once every 2-3 months). But of course I've pulled these figures out of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T20:30:30.987" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T20:30:30.987" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-18T09:35:24.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="935" CreationDate="2012-04-18T21:10:07.680" Score="0" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I first used SF and then discovered UL. The problem with UL is that most questions would need the answer RTFM and should be downvoted. I admire the people investing their time answering these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand the more complex, good/deep questions regarding UL can still be found at SF (if you are able to find them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be a good idea to ask the SF mods to change the FAQ there to encourage people to go to UL instead? Should we comment more questions in SF and ask to move these questions here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T21:17:12.513" Title="Quality problem with questions here" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="934" CreationDate="2012-04-18T21:17:12.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We generally don't try to steal scope from other sites; that is, if a question is on-topic for another site, we don't try to get them to redirect users here now that this site exists as well, since we wouldn't want to suddenly lose all questions on a given topic if a more specific Stack Exchange site opened up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RTFM is a fine line. For example, the &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; man page contains enough information to tell you how to write all possible &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; scripts -- any question on writing a &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; script could be solved if the user read the man page and worked their way through it, but often the thing they're trying to do is complicated enough that I think it's fine to ask here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, questions like &quot;how do I make &lt;code&gt;du&lt;/code&gt; use human-readable output?&quot; can probably be closed -- the man page literally says &quot;-h, --human-readable -- print sizes in human readable format&quot;, you just need to search it. I've seen those before, but I don't think we have many questions like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T21:17:12.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="924" CreationDate="2012-04-20T00:21:26.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I removed the tag because it didn't seem to address the main points of the question, which were to detect &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text&lt;/a&gt; files through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; commands, munge line endings (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/newlines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;newlines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;newlines&lt;/a&gt;) and do global file processing with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; — a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I'm not convinced of the usefulness of a specific tag for the null byte. Handling it is very closely related with handling &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/binary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;binary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;binary&lt;/a&gt; data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T00:21:26.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="938" CreationDate="2012-04-24T09:15:03.613" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bumped onto &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/5543/&quot;&gt;this one question&lt;/a&gt;, and I doubt it can be salvaged by being updated or having &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92611/&quot;&gt;a warning&lt;/a&gt; attached. I think it should simply be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Title of the question was: &lt;em&gt;How to install Iceweasel 4 in Debian 6 (Squeeze)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T21:20:40.073" Title="What to do with questions which are no longer relevant" Tags="|discussion|obsolete-information|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="937" CreationDate="2012-04-24T13:57:19.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You bumped into your own question? It's deleted now; in the future you can save yourself some time and just &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24560/flagging-a-post-for-moderator-review&quot;&gt;flag for mod attention&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T13:57:19.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2012-04-24T19:53:06.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking the OP for deletion adds another comment instead of deleting an old one. If the user silently deletes his comment one week later, you might have forgotten your comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In trivial, indisputable cases, just deleting seems much better, because it doesn't consume so much time. If I am reminded of an old answer, I sometimes need some time to remember the question, the context, the reason for the comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't waste too much time on old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T19:53:06.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="888" CreationDate="2012-04-24T20:09:55.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question didn't got accepted, it might have a reason. And it might take much time, to make a very good decision without the asking person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often receive bonuses for old questions which get accepted lately - I guess, because people ask again a question, and get told to work on their accepting rate, so they visit old questions and vote the best ones up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spending much time on old questions doesn't seem rational for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T20:09:55.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="887" CreationDate="2012-04-24T20:18:03.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;T-Shirt, stickers and pens arrived today (Germany). Thank you very much. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T20:18:03.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="930" CreationDate="2012-04-26T00:44:27.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fix for this was deployed a few days ago. (:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2609" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T00:44:27.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2012-04-29T20:03:58.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps small groups of 2 or 3 people (at least 2) for different distros and / or skills, such as the use of databases, or the proper use of the terminal. Educate showing what one can do well is very good. I'm still very new to this stack Exchange .. but some opensuse / debian and mysql, I can write of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I'm a noob in this stack exchange but if you want it.. I'm here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18251" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T20:03:58.020" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-29T20:03:58.020" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="945" CreationDate="2012-05-02T22:05:44.973" Score="20" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one just appeared: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37780/paid-help-for-recovering-deleted-files-after-server-reinstall&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37780/paid-help-for-recovering-deleted-files-after-server-reinstall&lt;/a&gt; , where the asker proposes to pay for help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been already discussed in the Meta Stack Overflow and seems that the consensus is that this is not allowed, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25615/offering-actual-money-as-a-bounty&quot;&gt;Offering actual money as a bounty?&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57850/pay-money-to-so-for-quick-support&quot;&gt;Pay money to SO for quick support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to behave in this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T22:34:41.847" Title="How to deal with 'paid help' questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="944" CreationDate="2012-05-02T22:11:11.790" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them for moderator attention. The Stack Overflow consensus is applicable here as well, and these should be closed promptly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T22:11:11.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="486" CreationDate="2012-05-04T00:15:49.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the lack of opposition, I've declared &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt; a tag to be removed in the tag wiki. We can wear it off a little at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to ban &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt;, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T00:15:49.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:48:13.067" Score="8" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we have a precedence on questions that are based more on servers than unix? P.S. I'm specifically thinking that I might want to migrate &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/37937/29&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;serverfault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T22:48:14.930" Title="Precedence on System Administration questions?" Tags="|discussion|migration|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="947" CreationDate="2012-05-04T22:47:49.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;All unix questions are on-topic here, except programming questions (which we redirect to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some unix questions are also on-topic elsewhere (&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Different&lt;/a&gt; are the usual suspects). When it comes to questions that are on-topic on multiple sites, the general policy is that &lt;strong&gt;they stay where they were asked&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question might be migrated: if it's a far better match for another site and only borderline where it was asked; or if it goes un(satisfactorily)-answered for a while. If the question works where it's posted, it should not be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37937/email-sent-from-web-server-using-php-does-not-arrive&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has an accepted answer. It's not a significantly better fit for SF than for U&amp;amp;L. Don't migrate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T22:47:49.377" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-23T22:58:39.137" Score="17" ViewCount="812" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is QNX a unix? For the purpose of this site, that is. Is QNX on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/329/are-plan9-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are plan9 questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39211/archive-of-qnxs-use-messages&quot;&gt;Archive of QNX&amp;#39;s use messages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T13:59:46.277" Title="Is QNX unix-like?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2012-05-24T00:36:33.953" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fair to lump QNX in as Unix-like. It's posix, and the company touts easy portability from Unix/Linux as a feature. I don't know how much common ground questions we'd typically get would share, but failing a more-suited SE bucket for them I think it's okay for them to fid a home here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T00:36:33.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-24T20:27:33.707" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reviewed a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/1975&quot;&gt;suggested edit to a tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; and decided to click &lt;code&gt;Improve&lt;/code&gt;. I wrote some text (at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/39283/edit?improve=true&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/39283/edit?improve=true&lt;/a&gt;), then submitted my edit. I was brought to the page &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/39283/edit-submit/4bdaca9d-92ce-46bf-a705-c4173a590824&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/39283/edit-submit/4bdaca9d-92ce-46bf-a705-c4173a590824&lt;/a&gt; with a content identical to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/404&quot;&gt;404 page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the suggested edit, which created the tag wiki, was approved between the time I clicked &lt;code&gt;Improve&lt;/code&gt; and the time I clicked &lt;code&gt;Save Edits&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T20:27:33.707" Title="Page Not Found when improving a suggested edit to a tag wiki body" Tags="|bug|tag-wiki|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="966" CreationDate="2012-05-26T09:33:24.620" Score="32" ViewCount="574" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow and most (all?) other sites got a pretty &lt;kbd&gt;kbd&lt;/kbd&gt; style &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126998/kbd-elements-are-still-intrusive&quot;&gt;not so long ago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will this eventually be propagated to Unix &amp;amp; Linux, or are we sticking with the old one on purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample hypothetical before/after renderings (Chromium 19):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FIHFm.png&quot; alt=&quot;old&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4T1U2.png&quot; alt=&quot;pretty&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a text block before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rbd2T.png&quot; alt=&quot;old2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qxu7W.png&quot; alt=&quot;pretty2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we get the fancy &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, pretty please?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, this doesn't really look good, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MyIe2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T00:10:20.417" Title="Pretty &lt;kbd&gt; tags for U&amp;L?" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-10T21:27:18.297" Score="6" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/40196/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has received a bunch of downvotes and close votes, and me wonders what's the issue, other than the fact that it's a cross-post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T23:02:08.233" Title="curious why 'How does the linux update manager work' question is disliked" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="953" CreationDate="2012-06-10T23:02:08.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close on the grounds that it was not a real question: vague, ambiguous etc. I downvoted because (a) it was a crosspost, and (b) the poster only referred to &quot;my distro&quot; rather than specifiying what package manager they were interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either (a) or (b) alone would not have been sufficient for a downvote, but together they tipped me over the line...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T23:02:08.233" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2012-06-12T13:05:52.897" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;QNX is a realtime micro-kernel OS. It is Unix/Linux &lt;strong&gt;like&lt;/strong&gt; and does support POSIX components, as stated here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The QNX® Neutrino® RTOS supports hundreds of POSIX commands, utilities, and programming interfaces that maximize code portability and reusability. This rich, standards-based environment includes familiar shells and command-line interfaces, and allows developers to quickly migrate Linux, Unix, and other open source programs to QNX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do have their own implementation of some shell utility functions, bare this in mind, as some functions might differ from std *nix system by their options or name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18455" LastEditorUserId="18455" LastEditDate="2012-06-12T13:59:46.277" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T13:59:46.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="958" CreationDate="2012-06-14T12:00:36.480" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate on U&amp;amp;L to ask questions on the form &quot;what is the current status of &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;em&gt;OS version&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2465" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T12:43:05.577" Title="Is asking &quot;what is the current status of _X_ on _Y_?&quot; appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="957" CreationDate="2012-06-14T12:43:05.577" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking what the current status of something is would be too localized, always, because the status changes with time. In fact I closed a btrfs question about it's stability for that very reason. However, asking about the status of a specific version of a thing on a specific os version, would not change based on time (e.g. ext4 was either in linux 2.6.28 or it wasn't ). Please be advised though that asking if something is stable enough to use is probably subjective (unless citations can be provided (e.g. ext4 on 2.6.28 was stable on disk format but perhaps not stable for production use) , and could be closed for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T12:43:05.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-15T02:05:40.973" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a benefit to aggregating all of the answers to a question into the top-voted answer as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40786/how-can-i-do-calculations-at-the-command-line&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand it concentrates the answers in one place, but on the other hand the vast majority of the up-votes go to a single answer and user, based on information provided by other users.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T02:25:36.440" Title="Is there a benefit to aggregating all of the answers to a question into the top-voted answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="959" CreationDate="2012-06-15T02:25:36.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think such answers really add much. Often that's a sign that the question isn't that great a fit for Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a collated answer seems appropriate, I think it's good form to mark  it community wiki (something I'm generally opposed to for questions, by the way), &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; the person doing the aggregation provides meaningful commentary relating the different answers to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T02:25:36.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="962" CreationDate="2012-06-19T19:46:54.553" Score="-7" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, because it is alphabetically correct.&#xA;Second, most of the questions are related to Linux, not Unix&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18276" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T22:45:45.980" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T22:45:45.980" Title="We should change the name of our community to 'Linux &amp; Unix'" Tags="|discussion|site-name|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="961" CreationDate="2012-06-20T19:11:42.290" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix and Linux - Linux and Unix - I think jasonwryan is right. We should stick to the historical order - it even sounds better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T19:11:42.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-26T08:17:10.177" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several days ago, I asked a question in serverfault. It is a question related to a problem I'm having in an Ubuntu proxy server. No one gave me an answer for two days, not even a comment or a clue. So I headed to the Serverfault chat room, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/127/the-comms-room&quot;&gt;The Comms Room&lt;/a&gt;, and asked the guys out there about that question. They told me that it is not a bad question, but it'll get more chance at the unix site. After transferring the question here, still no response, even it got a vote to close claiming it is too localized. The Unix chat room is almost always empty (never interacting). So I wanna know what's wrong? and how it can be too localized? I'm asking for any kind of guidance or pointing to what might be the problem, and it is not too localized (but that's my problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41250/sarg-report-error&quot;&gt;Sarg report error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9632" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T21:28:51.753" Title="What's wrong with this question?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="963" CreationDate="2012-06-26T09:42:27.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close. The reason was mainly because of the output of &lt;code&gt;sarg -n&lt;/code&gt; shows that the problem probably are your log files (it even says &lt;code&gt;SARG: Maybe you have a broken date in your /var/log/squid/access.log file&lt;/code&gt;). Maybe it was a little bit too stringent but for me it seemed that the problem is on your site (maybe some corrupt log file, memory problem…).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also think you provided all the necessary information to your question - maybe even too much as the part about cron seems to be unnecessary (but I am not using sarg). So yes, I voted to close but I was the only one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8979" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T09:42:27.587" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="963" CreationDate="2012-06-27T00:48:59.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is about a tool that few people use and is pretty long. This is an observation, not a criticism. I think it's well-written, you give a lot of facts, and they're (potentially) relevant. Unfortunately, such a question is not exciting: it isn't applicable to a wide audience, it isn't easy to understand. I expect most people saw the title, thought “Sarg, what's sarg, I don't care about this question”; and the few that viewed it went “too long, stopping reading”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that the question is too localized. Sure, it may end up being some peculiar line in your log files which nobody can reproduce. Even if that's the issue, how to diagnose the issue, how to locate the troublesome line are good questions that are applicable at least to the not-&lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;-narrow world of Sarg users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T00:48:59.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="952" CreationDate="2012-06-28T08:06:44.130" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The nicely styled &lt;kbd&gt;kbd&lt;/kbd&gt; tags are present in the mobile interface; surely it would not be difficult to migrate the CSS across to the main site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49809/console-text-editor-with-gui-like-keyboard-shortcuts-ctrl-z-x-c-v&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; presents a compelling argument for the change...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aEkNN.png&quot; alt=&quot;keyboard screenie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T20:46:40.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="969" CreationDate="2012-07-08T21:01:25.733" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some times, as I'm flagging non-answers (which I don't do aggressively, but when I see something that really isn't right, I do), I'm torn between using &quot;Not an answer&quot; and &quot;Other&quot; because &quot;not an answer&quot; doesn't leave me any explanation area to describe why the &quot;answer&quot; doesn't look like an answer, but the reasons for &quot;other&quot; are more vague, and less quantifiable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases, it boils down to &quot;should have been a comment&quot;, which I know brand new users may not be able to do, which is why some &quot;answer&quot; instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this isn't so much about being concerned that my flags will be disputed, as that's only really happened once, and that on SuperUser.  But it did, kind of get me thinking, it might be useful to be able to flag &quot;not an answer&quot; and explain (shortly, because I know Moderator time is precious) &quot;Question is asking about X, and Y.  Answer talks about Z, which isn't really related.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19689" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-07-08T21:46:53.243" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T21:46:53.243" Title="Should more of the reasons for flagging include a comment option?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="963" CreationDate="2012-07-08T21:28:51.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that may be keeping people from visiting your question is that the title isn't phrased as a question.  Often when I see a title that isn't a question that explains in brief what the problem is, leaving me an opening as to how I can help, I pass it by thinking &quot;Great, another problem about [pick something].  What am I supposed to do to help that?  Next!&quot; especially if there is NO detail in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially in a question/answer format, if I see 2 titles.  One is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;My windows is broken&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(which, arguably probably needs edits)  My knee-jerk reaction is &quot;Well! Good for you!  I wonder what someone else is doing...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Why is Windows not acquiring a DHCP lease?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reaction is:  &quot;Hmmm.  DHCP problems.  Maybe I can help.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the things that I try to rectify if I'm editing someone else's question, and the title isn't phrased as a question.  Questions beg for answers, and beg for help.  Statements don't beg for anything.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem a little cold, maybe a little callous, but that is how my brain is wired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[edit] in this case, Windows is just an example... I hang out on Superuser a lot too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19689" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T21:28:51.753" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="967" CreationDate="2012-07-08T21:46:46.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need more than the canned reasons, use the “other” field, that's what it's for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, where a lot of flags are handled by the community, but only canned flags are shown to non-moderators, this request would be useful. On other sites such as this one, only question closure flags have a chance of being handled by non-moderators, so don't have any qualms to use a custom flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T21:46:46.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="952" CreationDate="2012-07-09T13:31:45.533" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;With as &quot;nuts &amp;amp; bolts&quot; as Unix &amp;amp; Linux is, I don't think that the &lt;kbd&gt;kbd&lt;/kbd&gt; format being a little &quot;jarring&quot; is a &quot;bad thing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does kind of make the keyboard commands &quot;pop out&quot; at the user, which is a good thing if you're trying to walk through a guide for how to do something, and the keyboard commands help you keep your place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I like keeping the old format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19689" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T13:31:45.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="972" CreationDate="2012-07-11T21:25:20.387" Score="11" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current list &lt;strong&gt;belongs on...&lt;/strong&gt; only contains Meta UL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I request to expand this list to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server Fault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superuser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IT Security&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In descending priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T22:02:31.673" Title="Can the list of targets for &quot;does not belong here&quot; be expanded?" Tags="|feature-request|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="971" CreationDate="2012-07-11T22:02:31.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for it, but generally sites only get migration paths if they demonstrate a need for them. In the last 90 days we've sent 1 post to SF, 3 to SU, 20 to SO, and 2 to ITSec, which is probably way too low to add any of them to the list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T22:02:31.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="974" CreationDate="2012-07-11T23:51:37.813" Score="4" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was doing more search on my own question and I wasn't surprise that I found it in the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also found this one &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qandasystem.info/unix/how-to-install-subversion-1-6-x-on-sle11/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.qandasystem.info/unix/how-to-install-subversion-1-6-x-on-sle11/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qandasystem.info/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.qandasystem.info/&lt;/a&gt; about? Is that ok with SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is purpose for such website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7221" LastEditorUserId="7221" LastEditDate="2012-07-12T00:18:37.297" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T00:36:38.803" Title="What is http://www.qandasystem.info/ about?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="973" CreationDate="2012-07-12T00:36:38.803" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is scraping content from Stack Exchange sites illegally (it does not provide any attribution for the content). It hopes to draw visitors by having good content without spending any effort generating that content. Visitors view ads and thus the site owner makes money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/131846/report-sites-that-use-se-content-without-following-attribution-rules-here&quot;&gt;Report such sites on the main meta.&lt;/a&gt; (Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71820/report-high-google-ranking-se-content-copiers-here&quot;&gt;this thread instead&lt;/a&gt; for sites with a high Google rank that respect the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution requirements&lt;/a&gt;, and are therefore legal.) This one has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/131846/131884#131884&quot;&gt;already been reported&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T00:36:38.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="977" CreationDate="2012-07-20T07:39:53.017" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just received a notification saying that I can now set bounties. But I know I can't until I have at least 75 rep. I currently only have 74 rep on Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please help me figure out what is happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20752" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T14:04:35.260" Title="Able to set Bounties at 74 rep?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2012-07-20T14:04:35.260" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70875/notification-for-moderator-tools-went-off-too-early&quot;&gt;all&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111640/new-privilege-notification-shows-before-i-get-the-new-privilege&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/129389/receiving-new-privilege-notification-before-reaching-threshold&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta. In short, you hit 75 rep at some point and the notification script happened to see it there before you dropped back under again. Possibly you were at 76 and then got downvoted (-2), or were at 75 and then downvoted somebody else (-1), or somebody upvoted you and then took the vote back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T14:04:35.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="814" CreationDate="2012-07-26T19:35:29.510" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://netsniff-ng.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zjo7j.png&quot; alt=&quot;netsniff-ng - the packet sniffing beast&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21305" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T19:35:29.510" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-26T19:35:29.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="983" CreationDate="2012-07-30T09:48:48.067" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the fact hat C API questions are on-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;Unix C API calls ontopic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this is not purely administrators site like &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com/&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask questions accepting answers in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bash - it's obvious it's accepted here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C - for similar reasons as : &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;Unix C API calls ontopic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;python - as more and more scripts are in python, and it provides interface to many C API syscalls, let's look stat as example : &lt;code&gt;os.stat(...)&lt;/code&gt; and returns the same structure as original &lt;code&gt;stat&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;st_ino&lt;/code&gt; etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you ensure me if I am right ?&#xA;If I miss something, please kindly let me know, or advice how to formulate question to reach my goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9689" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:51.103" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T19:12:01.793" Title="What about questions accepting bash, python, C answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="982" CreationDate="2012-07-30T19:04:10.400" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this very strange edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/2278&quot;&gt;suggestion&lt;/a&gt; for one of my answers. To me it looks like some bot tried to put some infection links there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas what that was/is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T19:36:24.660" Title="Strange edit suggestions. Where did that crap come from?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2012-07-30T19:08:40.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like bot spam. That's all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T19:08:40.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="980" CreationDate="2012-07-30T19:12:01.793" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No and yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine bash-questions that are off-topic here (like: &quot;How do I programm tic-tac-toe in bash&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same will be true for C-questions that are not related to system-calls or system programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Python - again - if it belongs to system programming close to the operating-system level - yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same will be true for &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, ... and all the other little helpers out there (which can be used for programs that are not os-related at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T19:12:01.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="985" CreationDate="2012-08-02T17:20:11.883" Score="5" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/856/please-rename-some-tags-for-consistency&quot;&gt;We're inconsistent as to whether we use singular or plural countable nouns in tag names.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/monitor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;monitor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;monitor&lt;/a&gt; (as in a computer monitor, also called a screen or display), there's a risk of confusion with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/monitoring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;monitoring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;monitoring&lt;/a&gt; (as in detecting certain events and reacting to them). &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/monitors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;monitors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;monitors&lt;/a&gt; would be more clearly the noun and not the verb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/monitor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;monitor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;monitor&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/monitors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;monitors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;monitors&lt;/a&gt; (without leaving a synonym).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; And please copy the tag wiki. Also, the tag wiki on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; will need updating. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T17:24:18.277" Title="Rename [monitor] to [monitors]" Tags="|feature-request|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2012-08-02T17:24:18.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;updating post history, 53 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 32 rows affected&#xA;updating PostTags associations, 32 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 0 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;tag remapping of [monitors] and [monitor] complete!&#xA;remapping 0 synonyms&#xA;0 favorite and ignored tags remapped!&#xA;Broadcasting tag-engine reload&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wikis are updated as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T17:24:18.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1005" CreationDate="2012-08-03T08:01:07.717" Score="2" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should I find all questions that I vote for close ? I saw a &lt;code&gt;closure&lt;/code&gt; tag in vote tab, but doesn't seem to have the closed ones, only up/downs, also, is there a search command for that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="11318" LastEditDate="2012-09-12T15:15:20.490" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T15:15:20.490" Title="Find all questions that I flagged to close?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|profile-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="986" CreationDate="2012-08-03T13:55:06.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If by &quot;closure tag in vote tab&quot;, you mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/11318/warl0ck?tab=votes&amp;amp;sort=closure&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/votes-closure.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the closure subtab http://so.mrozekma.com/votes-closure.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's the right place. That lists all (undeleted) posts that you've voted to close. I would expect yours to be nearly empty, since you don't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;enough rep&lt;/a&gt; to close posts, but you might have a couple votes to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;close your own posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T13:55:06.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="989" CreationDate="2012-08-10T08:02:49.700" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my question, on the main U&amp;amp;L site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44921/check-if-ssh-is-enabled-or-disabled-in-solaris-11&quot;&gt;Check if SSH is Enabled or Disabled in Solaris 11&lt;/a&gt;, I have deleted my own answer, but it hasn't disappeared. &lt;strong&gt;Why has it not gone?&lt;/strong&gt; It has gone red though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20752" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-08-12T22:12:02.323" Title="Deleted Answers not Disappearing" Tags="|support|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="988" CreationDate="2012-08-10T10:03:46.130" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted items are only soft deleted. You can still see them, we moderators can still see them, but it is not visible to the general public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T10:03:46.130" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="991" CreationDate="2012-08-14T10:36:44.807" Score="17" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a matter of reference, I would like to know how to handle a question that has been cross-posted on Ask Ubuntu as well? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is flagging them for closure the right thing to do? Or should I just comment on the question with the cross posted link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps, I should do the above in Ask Ubuntu instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange's general guidance on cross-posting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/&quot;&gt;Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12160" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T15:39:25.530" Title="How should questions cross-posted on Ask Ubuntu be handled?" Tags="|discussion|questions|ubuntu|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="990" CreationDate="2012-08-14T13:48:40.890" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#cross-posting&quot;&gt;ask people not to cross-post&lt;/a&gt;, not that it helps much. If it's posted on both sites, flag it here with a link to the other site's version. If we think it's way better here we'll ask the other site to close their version, but usually we close ours and tell the asker they need to pick one site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T13:48:40.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="994" CreationDate="2012-08-16T23:55:04.733" Score="10" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a couple of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt; on this site. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tips-and-tricks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tips-and-tricks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tips-and-tricks&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;homework&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt; are both meaningless tags: they don't indicate anything about the topic or audience of a question. Even conservative &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; is phasing out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tips-and-tricks&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tips-and-tricks&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/123758/can-we-now-discourage-the-use-of-and-burninate-the-homework-tag&quot;&gt;is on the way to getting rid of &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/554/killing-a-few-meta-tags-and-please-write-tag-wikis&quot;&gt;pending request to get rid of these tags&lt;/a&gt; met no opposition in over a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please kill these meta-tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/121570/271976&quot; title=&quot;I made us some Trogdor graphics!&quot;&gt;Images of Trogdor the Burninator&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uF2GS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;in color and 3-D&quot;&gt;Here's another one.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2018-12-25T07:03:35.957" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T07:03:35.957" Title="Tip for Trogdor: please eat our homework" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="992" CreationDate="2012-08-17T00:32:28.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm good with it. Other community members, what do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T00:32:28.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="992" CreationDate="2012-08-17T02:06:15.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Burninated, but not blacklisted - they're few in number, and really shouldn't be a problem to keep under control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/untagged&quot;&gt;Take care of the widows and orphans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T02:06:15.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="996" CreationDate="2012-08-18T08:13:59.093" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone migrate this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44636/make-virtualbox-kernel-modules-builtin-rather-than-modules-half-done&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; to stackoverflow.com ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already flagged it, but no one's doing it yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T11:15:45.330" Title="Anyone mind moving this question to stackoverflow, I flagged but no moderator takes it yet" Tags="|support|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="995" CreationDate="2012-08-18T11:15:38.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's migrated now. For future reference, you can see the results of flags on your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/11318&quot;&gt;flag summary page&lt;/a&gt; -- there was a response to the flag you're talking about ages ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T11:15:38.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1363" CreationDate="2012-08-18T20:02:51.423" Score="12" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow-up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/604/splitting-the-ports-tag&quot;&gt;Splitting the ports tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I found that out of 24 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt;, there were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 about FreeBSD ports&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 about TCP or UDP ports&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one about GPIO ports&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one about a port of non-unix software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since moderators &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; rename tags, please rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bsd-ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bsd-ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bsd-ports&lt;/a&gt;, to avoid confusion. Please copy the tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I retagged the TCP/IP ports questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ip&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcp&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/udp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;udp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;udp&lt;/a&gt; as appropriate, but maybe we should have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt; tag. Perhaps a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcp&lt;/a&gt;, as UDP is a rare case? Or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcpip-ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcpip-ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcpip-ports&lt;/a&gt;? Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcp-ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcp-ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcp-ports&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/udp-ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;udp-ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;udp-ports&lt;/a&gt; as synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcp&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/udp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;udp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;udp&lt;/a&gt;? Should we ban &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revising a year later, I retagged 12 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt; questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcp&lt;/a&gt;. The TCP ports meaning seems to be gaining a little over the BSD meaning, which shows that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt; shouldn't be about BSD ports. I still haven't seen a real point to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tcpip-ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tcpip-ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tcpip-ports&lt;/a&gt; as a separate tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T01:40:02.693" Title="Please rename /ports to /bsd-ports, and what to do about /ports?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="999" CreationDate="2012-08-20T09:15:25.963" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked moderator to migrate &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12018081/make-virtualbox-kernel-modules-builtin-rather-than-modules-half-done&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, before that I started a bounty with 50 reputation, and now it seems gone ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T15:15:59.510" Title="If a question was migrated, what happened to the bounty?" Tags="|support|migration|bounty|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="998" CreationDate="2012-08-20T13:48:57.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/44636/revisions&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;, you started the bounty on August 5th, and it expired on August 13th with no winning answer chosen. It didn't get migrated until August 18th&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with bounties can't be migrated anyway, so if you put a bounty on a question it's usually stuck on the site it's on for a while&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T13:48:57.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-26T14:10:35.710" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136/migrating-to-other-se-sites&quot;&gt;Migrating to other SE sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while back, I posted this question, which did get a couple of answers that just weren't what I was looking for:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44764/what-windows-related-files-are-valueless-to-nix-users&quot;&gt;What Windows-related files are valueless to *nix users?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Even a bounty only drew a couple of looks but no additional answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this question be migrated to Superuser?  I think it would do better with the larger userbase there, and I don't want to cross-post it.   I considered flagging it, with a request for it to be migrated, but I wasn't sure that was the right thing, so I didn't.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the right way to go about asking for this migration? (or others in the future)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19689" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T14:10:35.710" Title="What is the correct way to request that a question be migrated to another stackexchange?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-08-26T16:11:51.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="291" CreationDate="2012-08-26T16:29:13.637" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had a question closed on SuperUser for posting it here. I talked to the mod responsible (slhck) and he pointed me to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu/64069#64069&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; on meta.SO that apparently states the official Stack Exchange position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make a long story short, cross posting is frowned upon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-10-11T16:57:45.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-31T10:24:45.720" Score="9" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to post a question and each time I try to submit it I get the error message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It does not meet our quality standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my question :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a Cent-Os 5.8 based VPS and its been like 4 months that i face&#xA;  system hangs repeatedly.Each two or three other days i encounter a&#xA;  server hang and i need to reset the VPS through my control panel where&#xA;  i bought it( i cant access my vps internal panel when it hangs). Can&#xA;  you please suggest me how i can start looking for the cause of these&#xA;  hangs and eliminate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I getting this message? What is wrong with my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21991" LastEditorUserId="15630" LastEditDate="2012-09-01T05:40:56.450" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T05:40:56.450" Title="Why do I keep getting 'It does not meet our quality standards'?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1003" CreationDate="2012-09-01T05:16:53.987" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try capitalizing your words and improving readability. I would do something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a CentOS 5.8-based VPS and for 4 months I have been facing random system hangs every 2 or 3 days; then I need to reset the VPS through its control panel. How and where can I start debugging those hangs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, it's much more readable and straight-to-the-point. If you still have the same problem after doing those improvements, then ask on Meta.SO, you might have found a bug or misbehaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T05:16:53.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="986" CreationDate="2012-09-03T23:20:35.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you don't have enough reputation to vote to close, you've probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flagged&lt;/a&gt; to close. You can see a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/11318&quot;&gt;history of your flags&lt;/a&gt; in your profile, linked next to your avatar below your email address, date of last visit and other personal details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T23:20:35.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1007" CreationDate="2012-09-05T01:08:33.357" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33149/opensuse-11-4-very-slow-on-8-gb-ram-i5-processor?rq=1&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, I had to copy the url of first two images and open it separately in a browser to view it, so maybe there could be something like lightbox use to open these image in original size ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T23:30:42.393" Title="Maybe image can be enlarged when you click on it?" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1006" CreationDate="2012-09-05T01:29:48.587" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible to make images links (instead of &lt;code&gt;![Top with &quot;M&quot;][1]&lt;/code&gt;, you use &lt;code&gt;[![Top with &quot;M&quot;][1]][1]&lt;/code&gt;), but can't you just open the image in a new tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-open-image-in-new-tab.png&quot; alt=&quot;Open Image in New Tab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one extra click, and doesn't block the rest of the page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T01:29:48.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1009" CreationDate="2012-09-05T10:22:17.720" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47211/feedbacks-of-using-preload-on-ubuntu&quot;&gt;referring to this question,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the possible duplicate of it was on another site, would it also be closed as duplicate ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T23:35:16.493" Title="Duplicates cross different sites can be reported?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1008" CreationDate="2012-09-05T11:37:02.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cross-site duplicates can be flagged for ♦ moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, however, that sometimes its OK to have a apparently-duplicate question, because different sites focus on different things. E.g., &quot;how do test the latest kernel&quot; at AskUbuntu may focus on the kernel PPA, but here may focus on downloading the sources from kernel.org and compiling. Should those be merged? Well, not as long as we're going to keep AskUbuntu and Unix &amp;amp; Linux separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T11:37:02.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1008" CreationDate="2012-09-09T23:35:16.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see a multi-post (the same person asking the same question on multiple sites), flag it and leave a comment. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#cross-posting&quot;&gt;The FAQ strongly discourages cross-posting&lt;/a&gt;. In these cases, what usually happens is that the question is closed on one site, preferably one where it hasn't been answered yet. Also leave a link on the other site. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/990/how-should-questions-cross-posted-on-ask-ubuntu-be-handled&quot;&gt;How should questions cross-posted on Ask Ubuntu be handled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a question that's similar to an existing question on another site, leave a comment, or if you feel like it write an answer that is inspired from that other question (and acknowledge your source if you do so). There is no concept of “cross-site duplicates”. That's assuming the question is on-topic on both sites (e.g. Ubuntu questions may have already been answered on Ubuntu, shell scripting questions may have already been answered on Stack Overflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T23:35:16.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1012" CreationDate="2012-09-11T15:20:09.720" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to do a custom search, e.g question I cast a closure, and contains a keyword, but I don't know any tags other than &lt;code&gt;user:id&lt;/code&gt;, where can I find them ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-09-15T19:54:56.723" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T19:54:56.723" Title="How to do customized search?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1011" CreationDate="2012-09-11T15:27:38.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;Search Options&lt;/a&gt; page, under &quot;Advanced Super Ninja Search Options&quot;. The easiest way to get there is to do an empty search (just hit &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt; in the search field)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, there is no field for &quot;question I cast a closure&quot;; the closest is &lt;code&gt;closed:1&lt;/code&gt; to match questions that are currently closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T15:27:38.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1014" CreationDate="2012-09-12T09:59:21.987" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems no one has asked this before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m5xT8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of a post signature&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The profile looks weird; it has no link in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-09-15T19:54:38.690" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T19:54:38.690" Title="Why do some users have a grey avatar?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1013" CreationDate="2012-09-12T12:44:25.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The account doesn't exist. It can happen if the question was migrated from another site and the user has no account here, or if the account has been deleted since the question was asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T12:44:25.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1015" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-12T16:46:58.710" Score="8" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47898/what-factors-contribute-to-the-expense-of-migrating-to-linux&quot;&gt;What factors contribute to the expense of migrating to Linux?&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed. Defending the closure, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47898/what-factors-contribute-to-the-expense-of-migrating-to-linux#comment66709_47898&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is also totally off-topic as far as I can tell; it's not about&#xA;  Linux, it's about business&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about Linux or Unix in the context of wider society on topic? Or do we only accept purely technical issues? I'm thinking about questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cost of adoption by business&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions about free software or open source philosophy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions related to the open source model (&quot;How does RedHat stay solvent?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;historical questions (&quot;Where did the idea of one tool for one purpose come from?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an extra note, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; needs to be updated to explain our expectation, since this is not described there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me be clear. I have no interest in importing or encouraging extended discussion questions. I agree with the take-home message in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good subjective, bad subjective&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;questions that are not answerable — discussions, debates, opinions — should be closed as subjective.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only argument I am making here is this: &lt;strong&gt;There is a subset of questions, which are not purely technical, which are about Unix or Linux, which have narrow focus and are answerable. They should be allowed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T20:14:58.407" Title="Are questions about Linux in the context of business or society on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1015" CreationDate="2012-09-12T16:51:59.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, all of these questions are on-topic. Unix and Linux don't live in isolation; they are part of a wider context. And *nix isn't just about sysadmin and user questions. Part of their heritage and culture, and the reason for many of their design decisions is their evolution and the way they fit into society and the wider computing world today. If our focus covers only technical issues, I think we are needlessly throwing away an interesting facet of what it means to run Unix or Linux today, and limit a certain kind of *nix enthusiast from participating in our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22651" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T16:51:59.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1015" CreationDate="2012-09-12T17:51:08.350" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's do a FAQ test:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unix and Linux - Stack Exchange is for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question isn't about either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Shell scripting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being cross-platform does not disqualify)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No application involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question doesn't belong to any of the broad categories defined in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cost of migrating to X (you can put anything in that X) is something that is very hard to estimate &lt;em&gt;even when you know the entire business context&lt;/em&gt;, staffing, existing apps &amp;amp; clients, existing contracts with software &amp;amp; hardware suppliers, etc., and the &lt;em&gt;reasons for estimating such a move in the first place&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I sincerely believe there is no good, universal answer to that sort of question (again, whether it's migrating to Linux or anything else), and thus the question doesn't meet the Stack Exchange-wide question criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your four question &quot;types&quot;, in my opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;cost of adoption by business&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off-topic (here and on other Stack Exchange sites, except &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; business/startup site if the question was very, very well written and specified)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;questions about free software or open source philosophy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mentality/Philosophy-type questions will often lead to debate (sometimes very heated). In general, I'd say no, but specific questions could be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;questions related to the open source model (&quot;How does RedHat stay solvent?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that they produce and sell Linux-related software &amp;amp; services doesn't make that type of question on-topic for this site. Same for &quot;How did SCO fail?&quot; or &quot;Why isn't Debian listed on the DAX?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;historical questions (&quot;Where did the idea of one tool for one purpose come from?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can be both interesting and on-topic &amp;ndash; if answerable, and if the answer would actually help people today some way or other (e.g. in explaining why XYZ works the way it does). Pitfall here is again falling into &quot;Not constructive&quot; territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="2511" LastEditDate="2012-09-12T18:55:54.507" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T18:55:54.507" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1019" CreationDate="2012-09-12T19:43:22.923" Score="-2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on the Main U&amp;amp;L site, and just seen now, that it is closed due to being off topic. To me this question belongs on U&amp;amp;L as I have been working on Ubuntu and found this on my Linux machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47944/difference-between-include-file-h-and-include-file-h&quot;&gt;Difference Between #include &amp;quot;file.h&amp;quot; and #include &amp;lt;file.h&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags I put on, were &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c++&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c++&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;code&gt;gcc&lt;/code&gt; is the compiler, and it compiles programs that are written in C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please can someone explain to me why this has happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20752" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T19:52:22.590" Title="Why was my C programming question closed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1018" CreationDate="2012-09-12T19:50:40.967" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#questions&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21593/what-is-the-difference-between-include-filename-and-include-filename&quot;&gt;already been asked there&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T19:50:40.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1015" CreationDate="2012-09-12T21:06:24.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe the questions are on topic (and I voted on both to that effect); but they do &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be superficially on topic as they are related to Unix and Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where they do comprehensively fail the criteria for inclusion on the site is that they were both going to lead to non-constructive discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is very little, if any&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, quantitative or qualitative data on the benefits (or total cost) of migrating to a GNU/Linux environment. We all know, intuitively and ideologically, that the benefits are manifest, but that is not going to translate to the format that a wiki requires; it will inevitably lead to anecdote, opinion and endless &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bikeshedding&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1. I have spent a great deal of my professional time looking at examples in governments for quality data about this&amp;mdash;and would be more than happy to be proved wrong...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T21:06:24.207" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-12T23:07:54.860" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I just overlooking something, but I don't see how to merge two questions in one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47865/can-be-profitable-to-migrate-from-windows-to-linux-in-a-small-business&quot;&gt;Can be profitable to migrate from Windows to Linux in a small business?&lt;/a&gt; which was by opinion of others confusing. In order to improve my question I re-ask it as was suggested in comments. Thus I created another question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47898/what-factors-contribute-to-the-expense-of-migrating-to-linux&quot;&gt;What factors contribute to the expense of migrating to Linux?&lt;/a&gt; and intended to delete the old one. Then the new one was marked as a duplicate (of course it is, because is improvement of the old poorly asked question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the commentary to duplicate closure is written &lt;em&gt;answers may be merged with another identical question&lt;/em&gt;. How do I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T23:12:54.633" Title="How do I merge two questions in one?" Tags="|discussion|merging|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1021" CreationDate="2012-09-12T23:09:59.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original has been closed and does not appear to have actual answers. nothing would be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T23:09:59.220" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1021" CreationDate="2012-09-12T23:12:54.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If both questions &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have useful answers, flag one and a mod can merge them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T23:12:54.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1025" CreationDate="2012-09-13T03:51:45.683" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47898/what-factors-contribute-to-the-expense-of-migrating-to-linux&quot;&gt;the cost of migrating to Linux&lt;/a&gt; was closed (twice) and now the questioner has left &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47898/what-factors-contribute-to-the-expense-of-migrating-to-linux#comment66862_47900&quot;&gt;a comment on his own answer&lt;/a&gt; soliciting further discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely, once a question has been closed there is no merit in allowing further posts in the form of answers or comments to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T19:55:15.973" Title="Why can users still comment on closed questions?" Tags="|discussion|comments|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2012-09-13T04:26:24.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21877/commenting-on-closed-questions&quot;&gt;previously asked&lt;/a&gt;. The reason is the same as why editing is still allowed; a question in a closed state is not dead. That fate is covered by deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question&quot;&gt;closed question&lt;/a&gt; usually stays closed, and may eventually be deleted. However, it may also be reopened. For example, this can happen if the question is edited to become a viable question, or if there is disagreement about the merits of the closure and users vote to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing enables a question to be improved, so it is allowed. Comments enable queries or challenges about the closure to be made, so they are enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not intended that comments on a closed question be used to follow up the question content itself. In that sense, the OP in your example is using the system incorrectly. In this case, he is clearly new, inexperienced, and also likely frustrated at his treatment here, which has been... brusque.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T04:26:24.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1015" CreationDate="2012-09-15T20:14:58.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;About this specific question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of questions asked on this site are technical questions from people who use or manage unix systems. Most of them are “how do I do this”, with a minority of “how does this work” (generally with fairly direct practicality, i.e. the answer leads to better understanding of how to do things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do accept a few non-technical questions, for example about the history of Unix and Unix-like systems. Such questions represent a tiny portion of the site. So questions relating Linux and business are not intrinsically off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now topic is not the only measure of the scope of a site, there is also audience. The audience of this site corresponds with the bulk of the topic: it's people who use and manage unix systems. The audience is people who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; things with unix systems (other than programming, which is the realm of Stack Overflow). While administrators may sometimes be involved in business decisions, the audience is by and large not involved in business aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The expertise for business decision would be in a community of people who make business decisions. For a question that's borderline to begin with, the bar is higher. A borderline question has to work hard to be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question at hand is not a good Stack Exchange to begin with: it's broad, meandering, unfocused. On a site about business, such a question might be salvaged into something answerable. On a technical site like ours, this question is widely off the mark. While there is a hint of topicality, this question does not and cannot meet our expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't completely agree to call this question “totally off-topic”, but off-topic it is. And it definitely is “non-constructive”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;On the more general issue&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;cost of adoption by business&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is fundamentally a business question, best asked to people interested in business (which the audience here generally isn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;questions about free software or open source philosophy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;questions related to the open source model (&quot;How does RedHat stay solvent?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are off-topic. The site is about unix, it isn't about free software. Besides, speaking by experience, most of these questions are thinly-disguised (if at all) rants for or against open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;historical questions (&quot;Where did the idea of one tool for one purpose come from?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have a few such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As an extra note, the FAQ needs to be updated to explain our expectation, since this is not described there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ does not exhaustively list all the types of questions that are accepted on the site, nor does it exhaustively list all the types of questions that are rejected on the site. The F in FAQ stands for “frequent”: the FAQ lists the common cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T20:14:58.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1028" CreationDate="2012-09-16T03:36:08.877" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got &lt;code&gt;Too many of your edits were rejected, try again in 7 days.&lt;/code&gt; when I try to add a new tag wiki today,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where can I find about the rejected ones ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T22:34:24.943" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T22:34:24.943" Title="Where to find rejected tag edits?" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1027" CreationDate="2012-09-16T04:12:53.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see them on your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/11318/warl0ck?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=suggestions&quot;&gt;activity page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3947&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3947&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3960&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3960&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3959&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3959&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3997&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3997&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3996&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/suggested-edits/3996&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the same thing that happened to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/140936/account-is-not-allowed-to-suggest-edits&quot;&gt;another user&lt;/a&gt;; you can't plagiarize Wikipedia articles, they have attribution requirements. I think it's technically legal to do it if you link to the Wikipedia page as well, but we'd rather people just write new tag wikis. The tag wiki should describe when the tag should be used, not just what the term means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T04:12:53.587" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1030" CreationDate="2012-09-26T01:23:34.533" Score="7" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a long time, the U&amp;amp;L &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/26/unix-and-linux?tab=feeds&quot;&gt;feeds&lt;/a&gt; of incoming questions from the main site and the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possible methods to let the feeds into the room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;message-style: a link to each post is posted as a message; “one-boxing” provides a question preview&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ticker-style: an overlay appears at the top of the chatroom window&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feeds were recently switched from message-style to ticker-style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the feeds go back to message style? remain in ticker style? go away altogether?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that nobody is defending the ticker feeds, can they be removed? Please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-10-24T00:54:33.600" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T21:02:14.223" Title="What kind of feeds should the chat have?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1029" CreationDate="2012-09-26T01:23:34.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate the ticker style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a box that you need to click to dismiss (or if you don't dismiss it, it keeps growing up to a point, and keeps moving).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's useless as a conversation started, because you can't “reply” to a post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's useless as a notification of new posts, now that you can get it faster through the live updates of the home page. (The same goes for the message style, but it at least has other uses.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes the room seem dead: whole days can go by without any activity. At about 40/day, the messages aren't so frequent as to interrupt conversation, but do keep the room a bit busy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't like message feeds, you can ignore the feeds user. If you don't like the ticker, tough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/115224/can-i-silence-ticker-feeds-in-a-chat-room/170667#170667&quot;&gt;you can turn off the ticker in Firefox and Chrome&lt;/a&gt;. It would be friendlier to new users not to have the damn thing at all, but at least we can turn it off on an individual basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T21:02:14.223" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1033" CreationDate="2012-10-01T00:37:16.753" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing that user created tags might get removed in a few months later on some condition, but I couldn't find the rule now, what's the policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-10-01T23:46:56.787" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T23:46:56.787" Title="Will tags be removed?" Tags="|support|tags|expiration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1032" CreationDate="2012-10-01T00:39:49.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags that are no longer in use (they've been removed from any questions that had them) are removed from the system daily. Tags that are only used by 1 question for 6 months are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;also removed&lt;/a&gt;, on the assumption that they're not very useful. Finally, moderators can merge tags together, which will replace all occurrences of one tag with another and remove the former&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T00:39:49.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1037" CreationDate="2012-10-03T10:10:58.680" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/query/81002/all-tags-by-frequency?opt.textResults=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQL query on another question&lt;/a&gt;, but I didn't know about the members in the table. How can I list all the tags created that have no excerpt yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-10-03T14:57:43.903" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T15:01:18.237" Title="List all tags that don't have an excerpt?" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-03T11:36:58.217" Score="4" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49122/script-to-read-videos-and-output-information&quot;&gt;Regarding this question&lt;/a&gt;, seems all stuff after the &lt;code&gt;/*&lt;/code&gt; was grey-ed, with or without finding the matching &lt;code&gt;*/&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T00:23:11.850" Title="The syntax highligher for this js script seems to have a bug for the code after the */" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-08-02T09:57:15.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1035" CreationDate="2012-10-03T14:11:05.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a weird case. The syntax highlighter determines what language is in use by checking the tags on the question, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; is set to use the &lt;code&gt;bsh&lt;/code&gt; syntax highlighting and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; uses the &lt;code&gt;sh&lt;/code&gt; highlighting. When there's a conflict it falls back on just detecting the language based on the code, and it's wrongly detecting it as C (we don't control this, it's part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;google-code-prettify&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the difference is between the &lt;code&gt;bsh&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sh&lt;/code&gt; syntax highlighting, so I don't want to change the tag assignments, but I fixed the question and answer to use &lt;code&gt;sh&lt;/code&gt; highlighting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T14:11:05.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1034" CreationDate="2012-10-03T15:01:18.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can just check &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/query/81635/all-tags-without-a-wiki-excerpt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;ExcerptPostId&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a sidenote, if you're looking for this so you can start adding lots of excerpts, can you be a little more careful? It's helpful that you suggest wiki edits, but your wikis are generally only a sentence or two and still manage to have typos at least half the time. For example, this question you just wrote is a single sentence and manages to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/1034/revisions&quot;&gt;multiple problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T15:01:18.237" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-05T07:37:47.730" Score="19" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current consensus is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109/why-is-there-a-linux-tag&quot;&gt;a useful tag&lt;/a&gt;. If that's the case, then what's the policy on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; (459 uses) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; (98 uses)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; is here to stay, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; appears to be redundant: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; = &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Linux tag is to remain, it makes sense to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt;. The current situation is the worst of all worlds: questions are split between combinations of all three tags, so they are not useful for searching purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'll point out I have problems with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it seems to match most of the questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if its purpose is to act as a narrowing filter, then it is constantly misused&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the constant misuse means there's a lot of overhead to keeping the tag correct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it changes the meaning of other tags on the same question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; iff &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's not clear when it should be applied. Whenever a question is asked on a Linux platform? Only when the question is Linux-specific? Only when the answer is Linux-specific? How does one determine that? Who does that? I certainly don't know enough about Unix to know that my Linux-specific answer isn't valid on AIX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2018-07-20T18:04:28.027" Title="Redundancy between sub-tags: linux, kernel, linux-kernel?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1043" CreationDate="2012-10-06T15:22:07.017" Score="6" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a vertical scroll bar that's not much use in the header for the review task screens (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review-beta/first-posts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). It lets you scroll down one line, but there's nothing to see below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yv7oC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Firefox 10&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chromium 22:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nvShr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this tiny buglet be squashed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;* Glitch possibly introduced with the &lt;strong&gt;super-awesome&lt;/strong&gt; badge progress indicator.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* Doesn't appear on any other site where I have access to review tasks.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T04:46:27.760" Title="Extraneous vertical scroll bar in review task header" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2012-10-07T08:05:06.467" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, Linux is the kernel so in my opinion, all non kernel related question should not have any of these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All Unix systems I know of have kernels, so I think a kernel tag is also misleading and turns to a low common denominator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, Linux is very large, and most people are not familiar with all it's features and parts, so it is difficult to filter &quot;questions I may know the answer to&quot; by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be tags like linux-internals, linux-device-drivers, selinux, linux-filesystems and the like instead of these three tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I have seen many things tagged with Linux that actually refer to GNU tools such as Bash, awk and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22642" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T08:05:06.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-07T17:09:25.450" Score="-1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I expected, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/limit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;limit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;limit&lt;/a&gt; has 0 subscribers, likely because it does not make a lot of sense... it is too general. Can we just ban it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T21:03:46.433" Title="ban the [limit] tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1040" CreationDate="2012-10-08T04:46:20.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will be fixed in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T04:46:20.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1042" CreationDate="2012-10-08T20:04:33.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What? The tag is perfectly cromulent. A &lt;em&gt;limit&lt;/em&gt; is traditional unix terminology for imposing that a program uses a maximum amount of a certain resource (memory, CPU time, open files, etc.), as in the Csh &lt;code&gt;limit&lt;/code&gt; command, the Bourne shell &lt;code&gt;ulimit&lt;/code&gt; command, the &lt;code&gt;setrlimit&lt;/code&gt; system call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the tag has no subscriber is irrelevant. This is not a subject in which there is much focused expertise — you don't see many people who are an expert in limits, like there are OpenBSD experts and Gnome experts and so on — so it is natural that the tag has no subscriber. However, the tag has an unambiguous meaning and is useful in searches. There's absolutely no reason to ban that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T20:04:33.020" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1046" CreationDate="2012-10-09T13:20:36.780" Score="5" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/24468/robortpeter&quot;&gt;robortpeter&lt;/a&gt; managed to spam our community with four questions within twenty minutes. Each question was heavily down-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To block spam like this, my feature request is to block any user who asks several questions in a row where each one gets heavily down-voted. As an example algorithm: If a user asked two questions within the last hour with a total vote count of less than -6 points, then apply a block for five hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12779" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T13:41:27.537" Title="Block for users asking several heavily down-voted questions in a row" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1045" CreationDate="2012-10-09T13:41:16.583" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called &quot;question banning&quot;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56817/can-we-prevent-some-of-the-low-quality-questions-from-entering-our-system/60294#60294&quot;&gt;already exists&lt;/a&gt;. The exact criteria for when somebody gets banned isn't public, but when they try to post they'll get the error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/C1Kwu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://goo.gl/C1Kwu&lt;/a&gt; to learn more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read all about it at that link; it goes to an FAQ post on the main meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T13:41:16.583" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="689" CreationDate="2012-10-09T21:23:08.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we not start a big &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1986/what-are-the-canonical-answers-weve-discovered-over-the-years&quot;&gt;canonical page&lt;/a&gt; like on server fault instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:00.273" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T20:35:57.243" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2012-10-10T01:11:34.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; have their pros and cons. On this site, there isn't much general kernel expertise (as in, OS designers), whereas there is Linux kernel expertise (understanding the configuration options, initramfs, etc.). So I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; makes more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this isn't clear-cut. BSD kernels are close enough that expertise with one can sometimes cross over to another. Loading a kernel with a bootloaders is not so much dependent on which kernel it is, but the expertise is primarily associated with the bootloader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I agree that there should not be a split: either all Linux kernel questions should be called &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt;, or all Linux kernel questions should be called &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only about half the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; questions are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt;. If &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; is to go away, then I think the best course of action is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel+-linux+-linux-kernel&quot;&gt;questions tagged [kernel] that aren't obviously about Linux&lt;/a&gt; and retag the ones that are not about Linux. Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freebsd-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freebsd-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;freebsd-kernel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/solaris-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;solaris-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;solaris-kernel&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once we are confident that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; is only about the Linux kernel, merge it into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt;, then remove the synonym (these are moderator actions). Finally blacklist the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; so that it doesn't come back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;, it is meaningful: it's (meant to be) used on questions which are exclusively or strongly about Linux, as opposed to questions which can apply to any unix variant, or questions that are about a specific distribution. It does get misapplied: a lot of askers use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; on non-specific questions or don't specify because they aren't aware that this site isn't only about Linux. If you see it misapplied, click that edit button and fix it (as well as anything else with the question that needs fixing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T13:40:13.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1050" CreationDate="2012-10-17T01:42:26.250" Score="9" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; multiple people simultaneously? I tried to use &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; for the second time, but auto completion doesn't show up for the second &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;, so not sure about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-10-17T22:56:48.903" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T22:56:48.903" Title="Notify multiple people simultaneously?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1049" CreationDate="2012-10-17T02:54:14.570" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not, and you'll get an error if you try to submit a comment with multiple targets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-meta-two-comment-reply-targets.png&quot; alt=&quot;Only one additional @ user can be notified; the post owner will always be notified&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error is reminding you that there's no need to @target the post owner; they get a notification no matter what. So if you @target a commenter, both the commenter and the post owner will get a notification, but you can't ping two commenters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T02:54:14.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-18T21:38:44.457" Score="6" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was originally going to ask a question about this, but found its been asked here a lot already (in numerous variation). Since I've now spent the time digging through meta, I'll document what I've found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question: &lt;strong&gt;Are programming questions on-topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T12:02:14.770" Title="What is the current consensus on programming questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|programming|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1051" CreationDate="2012-10-18T21:38:44.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When its been directly asked on meta before, there seems to be general agreement that programming questions are, with some exceptions, off topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/576/what-to-do-about-programming-questions&quot;&gt;What to do about programming questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;Unix C API calls ontopic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/980/what-about-questions-accepting-bash-python-c-answers&quot;&gt;What about questions accepting bash, python, C answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1018/why-was-my-c-programming-question-closed&quot;&gt;Why was my C programming question closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/248/is-shell-scripting-in-perl-in-range-of-this-site&quot;&gt;Is shell scripting in perl in range of this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/592/please-add-a-reference-to-stack-overflow-in-the-site-faq&quot;&gt;Please add a reference to Stack Overflow in the site FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/868/whats-better-place-for-questions-about-linux-unix-programming-libraries-uni&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s better place for questions about &amp;quot;Linux/Unix programming libraries&amp;quot; - Unix.SE or SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some views are more complex:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84/shell-scripting-on-topic&quot;&gt;Shell scripting on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some disagree:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/142/is-it-ok-to-ask-bash-language-questions&quot;&gt;Is it ok to ask bash language questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The common exception (also mentioned in the FAQ) is, to quote-mine one of the above, questions that are about &quot;common unix interfaces&quot; and are &quot;essentially language-agnostic.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2012-10-18T21:38:44.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2012-10-18T22:29:15.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the site dedicated to ‘UNIX &amp;amp; Linux’ shouldn’t have them both as tags since when I am writing on this site, it is already related to what the title of the site says and there is no need to double it in tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UNIX, as far as GNU/Linux OS has many different variations, so questions about some basic things (let we rely on POSIX compatibility now) will not be harmed if no &lt;code&gt;‘linux’&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;‘unix’&lt;/code&gt; tag will be added to it, they will not clarify the question. There must be a bunch of other details worthy enough to be specified for a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I paid heed to Stack* sites often use many types of notices making a future question more precise. Why not to use a notification that will be shown to a user, looking for a &lt;code&gt;‘linux’&lt;/code&gt; tag, and asking him to define &lt;em&gt;what exactly&lt;/em&gt; GNU/Linux OS his question is related to, and, if it isn’t, say that in that case it is a common question and there is no need in such tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, topics related to OS kernels should have their tags, and to avoid disambiguation I’d suggest tags like &lt;code&gt;‘linux-kernel’&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;‘bsd-kernel’&lt;/code&gt; for example. Pay attention to required &lt;code&gt;‘-kernel’&lt;/code&gt; suffix at the end of the tags. Yes, I already see that tautology in case of &lt;code&gt;‘linux-kernel’&lt;/code&gt;, but since the name of the GNU project is always forgotten, I found this as the most appropriate solution for a Stack* site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update starts here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you are on StackOverflow it is asking you ‘What is your &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; question?’ But there is no ‘programming’ tag. And never will be. Because every question there is about programming, which is category of the &lt;em&gt;common questions.&lt;/em&gt; And here we have something common between all the UNIXes and other UNIX-like operating systems, which gives us such category and questions shouldn’t be tagged as ‘unix&amp;amp;linux’ too. Finally the vast majority of packages are widely available not only for GNU/Linux, so &lt;em&gt;with the big share of probability may be related&lt;/em&gt; to other UNIX-like operating systems which are not a part of GNU/Linux family. Say I have problems with a gnome-system-monitor on my Fedora. But Gnome DE is available on FreeBSD too, how fair is it to FreeBSD users marking that question with only a &lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt; tag? I think, it’s not fair. But on the other hand, such problem may be related only for asker’s distro and will never appear in any other GNU/Linux or UNIX/UNIX-like OS because of that distro’s maintainers’ fault or, what is most likely, wrong end-user moves plus a specific distro architecture make the bug unreproducible on the other distro. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as far as you can’t say how wide is the range of affected UNIX-like operating systems, it’s convenient to rely upon the category of the common questions. Or if you stand for necessary and proper tag names, almost every topic about e.g. bash or sh should initially have tags like &lt;code&gt;UNIX™&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;GNU/Linux®&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;UNIX-like&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;BSD family&lt;/code&gt;, and a whole lot of all GNU/Linux distro names as &lt;em&gt;probably affected&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or let’s expand the previous example with bash. If a question is related to how to write programs in bash, it is not related to only GNU/Linux and shouldn’t have any ties to any OS (or OS family) by means of tags. But if the question is somehow related to the interaction with OS, that OS (but not the whole family!) should be specified first as a probably local distro bug. If the bug has affected other operating systems, the tag related to specific OS should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for my English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10075" LastEditorUserId="10075" LastEditDate="2012-10-19T14:20:03.340" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T14:20:03.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1051" CreationDate="2012-10-19T12:02:14.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guideline is and remains: what type of person might ask the question, be interested in the topic and know the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Topics for &lt;strong&gt;users and administrators: ask here&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Topics for &lt;strong&gt;programmers: ask on Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My judgements on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1051/what-is-the-current-consensus-on-programming-questions/1052#1052&quot;&gt;all the cases that have arisen&lt;/a&gt; is based on this guideline. Scripting and text processing with shells, awk, etc., are commonly performed by power users and administrators and therefore are on-topic here. (They are also programming tasks and therefore on-topic on SO as well.) Power users tend to have a working knowledge of some low-level interfaces (through strace, by reading source code that they half-understand to understand why a program is behaving, ...), so questions involving these are also ok here. Questions requiring serious knowledge of an “advanced” programming language (pointers in C, objects in Perl, etc.) are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T12:02:14.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1056" CreationDate="2012-10-20T21:29:14.287" Score="9" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike Stack Overflow meta, I've noticed that here all my reputation points have been transferred over from the main site. But not badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will my reputation be synced between the two? If so, why not the badges as well? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14775" LastEditorUserId="5842" LastEditDate="2012-11-03T07:21:10.840" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T07:21:10.840" Title="How do meta reputation and badges work?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|badges|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1055" CreationDate="2012-10-20T22:17:30.940" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;All metas work the same except Stack Overflow, which is treated like a normal site in the network because it predates Stack Exchange's expansion into &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/area-51-we-come-in-peace/&quot;&gt;many separate sites&lt;/a&gt;. MSO has a problem where people who post ideas can often lose rep because the idea gets voted down, even though the post itself was well written. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/new-per-site-metas/&quot;&gt;per-site metas&lt;/a&gt; avoid this problem by not having a notion of meta rep, or even meta accounts; it's just an extension of the parent site that keeps the meta posts separate from the actual Unix/Linux content. Since meta still has &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; just like the main site, we still need rep of some kind, so we use the rep of the parent account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, reputation is synced because you need reputation to use privileges here. Badges  aren't synced because there's no reason for them to be; you don't need them for anything&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2012-10-20T22:17:30.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1058" CreationDate="2012-10-25T22:19:40.760" Score="6" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtual-machine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtual-machine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtual-machine&lt;/a&gt; and a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtualization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtualization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtualization&lt;/a&gt;. I can't see any difference in usage between them, nor can I think of a reason why there should be, so I think they should be synonyms. Any objections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please synonymize &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtual-machine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtual-machine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtual-machine&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtualization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtualization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtualization&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-06-18T18:47:36.280" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T18:47:36.280" Title="Are /virtualization and /virtual-machine synonyms?" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1057" CreationDate="2012-10-26T05:31:19.150" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're not technically synonymous, but usage does appear to be identical for both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm OK with a synonym as long as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtualization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtualization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtualization&lt;/a&gt; is the &quot;master&quot; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtual-machine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtual-machine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtual-machine&lt;/a&gt; the synonym, virtualization being the more general term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T05:31:19.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-29T23:50:10.257" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53262/change-to-text-console-using-ssh&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was migrated after having received an accepted answer (not by the asker). Neither the asker nor the poster of the accepted answer have an account on the target site at this point. The accepted answer is not sorted before all other answers, as when an answer is self-accepted — which is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vDQV6.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T23:50:10.257" Title="Accepted answer by an absent user is not sorted first" Tags="|bug|migration|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1061" CreationDate="2012-10-31T01:46:03.617" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question the other day as an unregistered user. There were some good answers to it. I then tried to register my username. The registration worked, kind of. I got an account by the same name, but it didn't import the couple of cred points, and it didn't give me back control over my previous question. I can't give the guy who answered correctly the credit he deserves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 1) is there a way to connect my now registered account with the old unregistered one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and barring that 2) is there a way to log back into the unregistered account? There wasn't a password. There was just a cookie that was wiped out when I registered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26490" OwnerDisplayName="FooBar" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-10-31T20:57:04.567" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T20:57:04.567" Title="How do I recover an unregistered username?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1060" CreationDate="2012-10-31T03:21:15.510" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I merged your accounts together, so your registered account has &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53154/how-do-i-cycle-through-panes-inside-a-window-in-tmux-like-in-screen&quot;&gt;your previously asked question&lt;/a&gt; now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future reference if other people have this problem, it's possible to recover your cookie using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/account-recovery&quot;&gt;account recovery page&lt;/a&gt;, and once you're logged back in to the unregistered account you can add an OpenID to register it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T03:21:15.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-31T19:50:00.183" Score="-5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE.AO has a lot of questions with these two tags. They're not appropriate there imho because they have &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to do with Ubuntu specifically. Would anyone object to questions being moved here -- unless they have some relic of Ubuntu-specificness that is added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/5330/29097&quot;&gt;the discussion on AO.SE over here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T21:19:36.093" Title="Migration of questions from [fstab] and [kernel] on AO.SE to U.SE" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1062" CreationDate="2012-10-31T21:19:17.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that are of good quality but not about Ubuntu as defined in the Ask Ubuntu FAQ are generally welcome here, and we do get a trickle of migrated questions about Mint and other Ubuntu derivatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are on-topic on Ask Ubuntu are not and should not be migrated away from Ask Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T21:19:17.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-07T23:54:04.020" Score="14" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is cross-posted from another StackExchange site, such as Superuser, I assume that we do not want the question duplicated on Unix and Linux. It is bad etiquette for someone to do so, and questions can be moved between sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When flagging a post for moderator attention, there is an &quot;exact duplicate&quot; option. This option requires linking to a question on U&amp;amp;L, and does not allow linking to another SE site. Should there be a separate flag for cross-posting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13796" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T20:54:18.087" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T17:45:51.340" Title="Should there be a moderator flag for cross-posting?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|cross-posting|flags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-12T06:47:55.167" Score="-4" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to go into trouble again, so why are my questions being closed? Are they too simple?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24510" OwnerDisplayName="Xsi" LastEditorUserId="10412" LastEditDate="2012-11-22T15:39:31.273" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:11:12.997" Title="Why are my questions being closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1065" CreationDate="2012-11-12T13:48:17.700" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is well-covered in the site FAQ. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#close&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#close&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In more specific:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;many of your questions are short and confusing, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55647/opt-nvidia-smi-from-nvidia-drivers-pack-outputs-failed-to-load-nvidia-kernel-m&quot;&gt;/opt/nvidia-smi from nvidia-drivers pack outputs &amp;quot;failed to load nvidia kernel module&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; (When did you get that error? What did you expect to happen instead? What have you tried? What are the details of your OS and driver versions?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;others are &quot;list all the things&quot;, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55265/commands-with-regex-support&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55265/commands-with-regex-support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former can be improved, but the latter are out of scope for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:11:12.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-14T18:39:05.003" Score="7" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;The interface for marking a question as a &quot;favorite&quot; displays somewhat suprising behavior. Say I open a question in one tab in my browser, and also happen to have the same question open in a different tab. (It's easy to do this unknowingly if one's clicking on a bunch of &quot;related question&quot; or &quot;possible duplicate&quot; links.) Say that the question in question starts out &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; marked as a favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First oddity is that when I hover over the greyed-out favorites star, the pop-up message says &quot;This is a favorite question (click again to undo)&quot;. Isn't this a bug? The question has not yet been marked as a favorite in any tab.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second oddity: suppose I do now mark the question as a favorite in tab1. Then I go to tab2. (I think it doesn't matter whether tab1 is closed at this point, or later.) Tab2 will not show the question as a favorite, even if I wait a while. OK, that's fine. But now suppose I do click on the favorites star in tab2. That star will now light up. Looks like the question is now marked as a favorite. However if I then close all my tabs, then return to the question, it will be marked as not a favorite. Apparently the server is interpreting my click on the favorites button as a toggle, and when I click in the second tab, the +favorite status I had set in tab1 gets changed to -favorites. Even though tab2 displays the question as favorited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Firefox 8.0.1 on FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4801" LastEditorUserId="6" LastEditDate="2012-11-14T20:54:00.060" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T20:54:00.060" Title="Favorite questions: surprising behavior" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1067" CreationDate="2012-11-14T19:03:53.770" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;#1 is intentional, if a bit confusing; the tooltip is telling you what will happen when you click the star. The tooltips for the vote arrows work the same way. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/143350/this-is-a-favorite-question-tooltip-when-not-favorite&quot;&gt;this similar question on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#2 is probably wrong. It's not the server's fault, the UI sends the same request for favoriting and unfavoriting, and leaves it to the server to figure out which one you meant based on whether or not you currently have the post favorited. You'll have to wait for a developer to weigh in, but this is pretty minor, just don't do that :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T19:03:53.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1070" CreationDate="2012-11-19T00:57:10.877" Score="20" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of my disputed flag messages are&amp;mdash;putting it mildly&amp;mdash;a little difficult to interpret. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the rather surreally poetic quality of this message&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, is there any point to this? Should these messages be meaningful in any way or are they simply there for our entertainment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1. Actually, I feel a lot like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Velvet_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Beaumont&lt;/a&gt; reading this...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-11-19T21:40:55.490" LastActivityDate="2019-04-03T18:46:23.203" Title="Disputed flag messages" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1069" CreationDate="2012-11-19T02:27:57.053" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;...oops. So, last week &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; went a little insane and started &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155471/community-is-flagging-good-posts-with-low-answer-quality-score-1&quot;&gt;flagging perfectly fine posts&lt;/a&gt;, a lot. It's fixed now, but it took a few days. I got tired of just rejecting all the flags as invalid, so for a while I rejected with reasons like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c6U3c.png&quot; alt=&quot;DIE IN A FIRE, COMMUNITY. I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That got boring, so then I started rejecting with lines from The Big Lebowski, on the assumption that nobody would actually see them -- for flags visible to users I try to keep the insanity to a minimum. Unbeknownst to me, apparently people who have counterflagged the post also see the flag rejection reasons, and you had for two of them, so they show up in your history&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, that wasn't meant for you, it was meant to terrify Community so it would stop messing around. Which it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/155481&quot;&gt;has&lt;/a&gt;, so I'd call those flag rejections a success&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-04-03T18:46:23.203" LastActivityDate="2019-04-03T18:46:23.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1073" CreationDate="2012-11-19T21:13:00.767" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got two of my questions closed one after the other:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56101/unity-problems-searching-for-a-good-wm&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56101/unity-problems-searching-for-a-good-wm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56103/would-you-say-freebsd-is-more-stable-than-linux&quot;&gt;Would you say FreeBSD is more stable than Linux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of those was even voted and answered with interesting feedback. Sure, it wasn't a typical very specific question but rather a broad subject. But do all of them have to be that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25968" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T21:54:55.107" Title="Two questions closed. Why?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1071" CreationDate="2012-11-19T21:16:34.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not that your questions are poor in the absolute sense. They just don't fit the &lt;em&gt;specific mission of this Q&amp;amp;A site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of those questions have closed-message notices referring you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#close&quot;&gt;the site faq&lt;/a&gt;, which really should cover what you're asking here. Read that section and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. If it's still not clear, feel free to follow up here or in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to have a more open-ended discussion, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T21:16:34.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1071" CreationDate="2012-11-19T21:54:55.107" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both these questions are to some extent “&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;shopping questions&lt;/a&gt;”. Even though you're not buying anything for money, you're asking us which item you should pick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of question often degenerates into “what's your favorite …”. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56101/unity-problems-searching-for-a-good-wm&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56101/unity-problems-searching-for-a-good-wm&lt;/a&gt; is a clear case: you're asking us to tell you which window manager to use. There are hundreds of window managers out there, many of which are very unlikely to crash. With such broad requirements, you might as well head up to some window manager list on Wikipedia or in your distribution's package list or some other application list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56103/would-you-say-freebsd-is-more-stable-than-linux&quot;&gt;Would you say FreeBSD is more stable than Linux?&lt;/a&gt; is more focused as it pitches Linux against FreeBSD. It happens to be misguided — you're actually not opposing kernels but window managers. The question needs to be unasked, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56103/would-you-say-freebsd-is-more-stable-than-linux/56116#56116&quot;&gt;answer you've accepted&lt;/a&gt; does this adequately. I think this question is reasonable and I've voted to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both these questions have quite a bit of an underlying rant — Linux/Unity sucks. I recommend avoiding this. You are a lot less likely to get help about something if you disparage it in your question. This same tone tends to tip the balance towarsd a downvote or a close vote even among readers who don't particularly care about your target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T21:54:55.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1075" CreationDate="2012-11-20T15:33:02.000" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this belongs in meta, but I cannot anonymously post a question there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have clicked &quot;register&quot; and logged in with my Google account, Facebook account, and I have even created a stackexchange account and my user profile still shows &quot;unregistered.&quot; I cannot upvote, etc.  I have tried clearing cookies, using a different browser, and each time I am able to log in using any of the above to an unregistered user. Any troubleshooting tips? I would like to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20876" OwnerDisplayName="Brandon" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T23:30:24.833" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T23:30:24.833" Title="How can I register my username?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1074" CreationDate="2012-11-20T18:15:27.913" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently this is a known bug that they haven't figured out how to fix yet. A developer fixed it manually for your account; you should be able to login with either OpenID now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T18:15:27.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1065" CreationDate="2012-11-22T00:35:35.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some reasons I can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/55472/15630&quot;&gt;List of packages with regular expression support in flags&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/55265/15630&quot;&gt;Commands with regex support?&lt;/a&gt;: open-ended (there could be thousands of packages and commands with regex support) and too localized (packages and commands could change at any moment and render the answers obsolete). &#xA;List questions aren't well suited for the Stack Exchange model: they become rapidly obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/55290/15630&quot;&gt;Who can use cron? I can't help myself. Who is using cron?&lt;/a&gt;: does not show what you have attempted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/55169/15630&quot;&gt;All Unicode font coverage for Gentoo Linux?&lt;/a&gt;: not a real question, and your edits make the question quite confusing (you don't need to say 'done'; you could just summarize and add an answer like &quot;I found  in &quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2012-11-22T00:35:35.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-24T15:23:28.310" Score="7" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scheduling&lt;/a&gt; tag has two unrelated meanings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OS scheduler (task priorities, &lt;code&gt;sched_getscheduler&lt;/code&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scheduling a program to run at a certain time (cron, atc, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These should be split. What should be the names of the two tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T17:23:27.420" Title="Polysemy of the /scheduling tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1077" CreationDate="2012-11-25T01:22:38.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be inclined to leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scheduling&lt;/a&gt; for scheduler-related questions and use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cron&lt;/a&gt; for cron questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/at&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;at&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;at&lt;/a&gt; for at questions etc... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T01:22:38.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-25T21:50:37.333" Score="11" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an automatic job that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48417/should-we-zap-the-low-occurrence-tags/48418#48418&quot;&gt;deletes single-use tags after 6 months&lt;/a&gt;. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another tag and should be renamed or made synonyms. No attempt is made to retain tags that have proved their worth, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127700/do-not-expire-single-use-tags-that-have-a-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;with a tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;. There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79733/please-allow-low-occurence-tags-to-be-declared-persistent&quot;&gt;no way to explicitly declare a tag as good&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/153357/do-not-expire-single-use-tags-on-beta-sites&quot;&gt;Even beta sites&lt;/a&gt;, where it is expected that the tag system is still evolving, are not exempt.. This job is not subject to any review, not even after the fact: one day the tags are there, the next day they're gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been shown to cause harm on Unix &amp;amp; Linux. Both our current &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; are incoming migrations, but I remember finding untagged questions in the past, that had were about a relatively obscure application and had obviously been tagged with the name of that application, which was exactly right and had to be redone. Untagged questions are only the tip of the iceberg: there is no way to know that a question had a tag deleted if it still has a non-deleted tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;turn off the job that deletes single-use tag, and provide a log of past deleted tags so that we can add them back where appropriate; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provide evidence that the deletions were beneficial to the site (I don't know what form the evidence could take other than a log of past deleted tags so that we can ascertain that the tags were indeed useless in a vast majority of cases).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;badp has created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/query/85848/old-singleton-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data explorer query&lt;/a&gt; that shows at-risk tags: tags that are used on a single question and have been around for at least 3 months. I reviewed the first 25:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proper names that should be tags no matter how many or how few occurrences there are:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scrot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scrot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scrot&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/easypeasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;easypeasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;easypeasy&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mozilla-prism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mozilla-prism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mozilla-prism&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jhbuild&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jhbuild&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jhbuild&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxterminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxterminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxterminal&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;meego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;meego&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mon&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ufw&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ufw&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ufw&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cclive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cclive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cclive&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openid&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;openid&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cdm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cdm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cdm&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/netscape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;netscape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;netscape&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iperf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iperf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iperf&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moin&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stress&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stress&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stress&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vyatta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vyatta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vyatta&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distcc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;distcc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;distcc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag that was definitely useful but should have been written differently:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linuix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linuix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linuix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concept tags that are somewhat useful, but not really critical (it would be useful to have them put for review, there might be a better applicable tag, but they should not be deleted silently):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hardware-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hardware-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hardware-rec&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/videoconferencing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;videoconferencing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;videoconferencing&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cyrillic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cyrillic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cyrillic&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pixel-art&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pixel-art&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pixel-art&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meaningless or too vague tags that should just go away:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/repeat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;repeat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;repeat&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applet&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;applet&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;applet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's 18 strongly against, 6 weakly against and 2 in favor of the tag killer. Kill the tag killer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T00:21:24.097" Title="Do not automatically expire single-use tags" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|tags|expiration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1077" CreationDate="2012-11-25T23:50:10.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;scheduler&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;scheduling&lt;/code&gt; - the gerund for the latter makes sense with respect to the majority of the question types around &lt;code&gt;cron&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;at&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be further clarified with the sort of note in the tag wiki that &lt;code&gt;install&lt;/code&gt; has, for example, where the correct usage is spelled out for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2012-11-26T17:23:27.420" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T17:23:27.420" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-30T20:52:58.920" Score="-3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's consider a question is of extremely high quality and that the asker is already dead in real life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the question be reopened or undeleted yet kept closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24510" LastEditorUserId="15630" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T22:36:33.030" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T22:36:33.030" Title="Could a question be undeleted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1081" CreationDate="2012-11-30T21:30:17.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A moderator could do it, but I'm not sure that we would if the owner originally deleted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T21:30:17.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-01T00:36:07.467" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking the allowed tags. Why there is not a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lubuntu&lt;/a&gt; tag? I didn't find such tag. I don't know if the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxde&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxde&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxde&lt;/a&gt; has the same meaning. Regards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19195" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2012-12-01T00:52:16.400" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T00:58:29.810" Title="A tag for Lubuntu" Tags="|feature-request|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2012-12-01T00:58:29.810" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag list isn't fixed -- anyone with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;enough reputation&lt;/a&gt; can create new tags, but they need to be attached to a question. I added &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lubuntu&lt;/a&gt; to a couple that looked like they could use it. However, since Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu distribution, most questions about it are probably going to be on &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/tags/lubuntu&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, a related Stack Exchange site focused on Ubuntu-specific questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T00:58:29.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-01T17:05:36.893" Score="-18" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to organize a voting so that people decide if two sections of SE (Ubuntu and Linux) should be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please vote to reopen my question on AU&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5473/where-to-vote-about-merging-ubuntu-and-linux-again-2-years-passed&quot;&gt;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5473/where-to-vote-about-merging-ubuntu-and-linux-again-2-years-passed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess their admins don't like people to even see the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to note fro those who can't count: 72+89 &gt; 114+34&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28089" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T00:04:41.013" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T05:41:45.787" Title="Where to vote on merging Ubuntu and Linux?" Tags="|discussion|ubuntu|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1085" CreationDate="2012-12-01T17:29:23.793" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/should-unix-linux-and-ubuntu-be-merged-vote/&quot;&gt;We did&lt;/a&gt;, back when the sites first went into beta. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/fork-it/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu was opposed&lt;/a&gt;, so we stayed separate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/images/wordpress/ubuntu-vs-unix-graph.png&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/images/wordpress/ubuntu-vs-unix-graph.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/93/73&quot;&gt;What is the relationship between Linux/Unix SE and Ubuntu SE&lt;/a&gt; to see how it works since we stayed separate. Also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/990/how-should-questions-cross-posted-on-ask-ubuntu-be-handled&quot;&gt;How should questions cross-posted on Ask Ubuntu be handled?&lt;/a&gt;, which mentions cross-posting and why we prefer you not do it. At this point it's entirely too late to merge the sites, plus Ask Ubuntu is a special case because they're &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/ubuntu-stack-exchange-is-askubuntu-com/&quot;&gt;officially endorsed by Canonical&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm sure Canonical wants their official help site to be Ubuntu-only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T05:41:45.787" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1085" CreationDate="2012-12-01T19:19:00.330" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well as Michael explains it so well in his comments, we're separate now. This isn't just a partition between questions and reputation but community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that doesn't just mean different individuals — which, I'll add, we are to a very high degree (just look at the numbers of users on each site!) —  each site has grown in its own way over the past two years. We have come to do certain things in our own way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could warble on about what Ask Ubuntu is and why it deserves to be separate (and perhaps moreso, why Unix.SE shouldn't have to deal with our nonsense!) but I can't see that you've given any reason &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the two sites should merge in the first place. Why should there be a vote if nothing has changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; It's hard to tell if you've just rolled in to troll two sites at once but I'm starting to get fed up. I'd like to concentrate my replies and pre-empt you in some other places:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your posts on AU were closed (not deleted). You can still comment on them so no censorship. If the community finds value in them, they will be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your posts were closed because they were all outside the rules. Cross-posting and duplicates. Merging the two sites will not help you follow the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Michael said, you can't combine two votes into one and get a fair result. You have no idea how distinct those votes are and even if they were distinct, why would what the majority of Unix.SE want override what the majority of AU wanted?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To get a referendum on anything serious like this, you need to put forward an argument for your idea and the community needs to like it. Neither of these things has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your counter to that seems to be either the amount of time or the number of users, either way, so what? We don't have referendums on everything because that's a pig-inefficient way of doing things. Only well argued, well thought out ideas have the smallest chance of being considered by The Powers That Be (the mods can't action a vote, let alone a merge).  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not only that but you keep regurgitating the same nonsense to different people even after those arguments get slapped down. This is not a viable or sustainable debating technique because you're not listening.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And most of all, and this is something we've all been skirting around, &lt;strong&gt;AU and Unix.SE will never, &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; merge&lt;/strong&gt;. They are two websites that draw in more traffic and command more organic search engine power separately than they would combined. Stack Exchange, Inc. is a business and there is no commercial basis for merging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm an Ask Ubuntu mod, so when I say &quot;we&quot;, &quot;our&quot;, etc, I mean it from  AU's perspective.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="880" LastEditorUserId="880" LastEditDate="2012-12-01T23:35:34.273" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T23:35:34.273" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1085" CreationDate="2012-12-01T20:14:47.967" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; page, U&amp;amp;L currently has 24,000 users and AU has 86,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On U&amp;amp;L there are 18,000 quesions, 90% of which have been answered. On AU, 76% of the 78,000 questions have been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this snapshot shows is that both sites have thriving communities, and have developed their own wikis over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no compelling argument to be made to merge the two sites now; and as we regularly see questions migrated between the two sites, the separation of the two interest areas obviously works well for both communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T20:14:47.967" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1085" CreationDate="2012-12-02T04:24:35.913" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu is about more than just &quot;Linux&quot;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use AskUbuntu not only because I use Ubuntu (operating system), but also because of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28philosophy%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28philosophy%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the site focuses on Ubuntu the operating system it is the only version of linux I currently use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you also force a merge of AskDiffrent(the Mac site) only because it is Unix based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T04:24:35.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-03T12:32:11.503" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291/do-i-ask-here-or-on-super-user&quot;&gt;Do I ask here or on Super User?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was today stunned by the popularity of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt;, or rather the lack of it, compared to &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions&quot;&gt;AskUbuntu&lt;/a&gt;. I am not trying to raise ire or controversy but it is concerning regarding the health of the community and does raise the question of why to ask here rather than one of the more popular overlapping sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AskUbuntu is a special case in that it is very newbie and GUI oriented and if I am looking for a more technical or CLI answer I come here even if I am running Ubuntu. I have not explored ServerFault or SuperUser as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12997" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T12:32:11.503" Title="Popularity of Unix &amp; Linux?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-12-03T14:46:09.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1085" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:09:01.920" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is time consuming. It requires infrastructure to be set up (can't get votes from thousands of people by hand). It requires efforts to notify everyone that a vote is occurring (hardly fair if you don't). It requires efforts to actually get them to vote (what, you want a quorum?). It requires a lot of discussion. And of course, it takes time—for each and every voter—to read the arguments and actually vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total it all up, and you're requesting other people to spend at at least a week of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On something that was already decided once before. With no actual arguments as to why the status quo should be changed. But with plenty of vitriol, it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't particularly have any involvement in either community, with a total of one upvoted question and no answers in each community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think when you take that all into account, its pretty clear why there is no vote and shouldn't be one as a result of your request for one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sit on the board of my HOA. We have five directors. Even we require a second before we hold a vote. Out of a hundred thousand, you don't even have a second in your call for a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please stop trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T17:09:01.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-05T11:39:16.053" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/57505/colorizing-tail-output-with-sed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about colorizing output which has been migrated from ServerFault and included an answer from my humble self, got this very answer deleted by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you mind taking a second glance as the answer indeed &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; add another aspect which IMO has not been mentioned as of yet? Obviously, I would not have made the effort of writing it if I would not have attributed any value to the information provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28334" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T03:22:57.273" Title="Answer undelete request" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1092" CreationDate="2012-12-05T14:04:13.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've converted it to a comment; is that better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T14:04:13.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-05T20:38:35.800" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing, my question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/57634/recommendations-for-good-mta-groupware-solutions&quot;&gt;Recommendations for good MTA / groupware solutions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is at -2.  What is wrong with it?  I know some people don't think having a monolithic piece of software for an e-mail server is &quot;The Unix Way&quot;, but that's just their opinion.  The folks at Citadel or Zimbra would disagree, as would many other Unix admins like me who want more convenience that ideological perfection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand not voting it up, but voting it down seems very unfair; how is it objectively bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8831" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T10:05:53.503" Title="What is wrong with my question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1094" CreationDate="2012-12-05T22:37:00.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I have no greater ability to read the minds of downvoters than you (and I'm not your downvoter), but if you read the tooltip it talks about &quot;research effort&quot;. I don't know how much you've actually done, but not much shows in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., if you ran &lt;code&gt;apt-cache search groupware&lt;/code&gt; you'd find out about not only Citadel, but Courier, SOGo, and Kolab. Googling &quot;linux groupware&quot; would find you several more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you Googled for &quot;debian mailserver&quot;, you'd find that there are plenty of guides that make configuring discrete components—even exim—fairly easy. Some even include web front-ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you have done this, and none of those were useful. But you didn't let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And before wondering how hard it is to configure Citadel, did you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/documentation%3asystem_administration_manual#installation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;check their web site&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T22:37:00.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1098" CreationDate="2012-12-06T07:49:49.807" Score="13" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little surprised to find today that suggested edits I approve don't automatically go through. I used the suggested edits queue to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/57710/1925&quot;&gt;approve an edit to this post&lt;/a&gt;, only to find that it still doesn't show and the post as the &lt;code&gt;edit(1)&lt;/code&gt; thing showing a pending edit. Opening this shows a modal action box with this message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have already reviewed this item. It needs more reviews from other users to be completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a 20k+ user, I can edit posts and have them go through immediately. I used to be able to approve suggested edits as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this feature broken or did something change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T08:26:30.953" Title="Why can't I approve edits?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1094" CreationDate="2012-12-06T07:59:18.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] how is it objectively bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is never objective, it is always a subjective decision on the part of the voter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And subjectively, a lot of people do not share your opinion that software recommendation questions are good for U&amp;amp;L. I, for one, think they are generally pretty useless in the long run. The field changes too fast and each users situation is just different enough that solid concrete answers that can go down in an archive as encyclopedic reference questions are pretty rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, your question has some vague requirements such as &quot;easy to configure&quot; and is headed too many directions. You ask how easy one MTA is to configure (subjective) then switch gears to whether there are alternatives (listy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make matters worse, you don't appear to be looking for an answer from a truly Unix/Linux perspective, you have an idea in your head of an all in one solution  that fits your usage and knowledge making this also borderline on &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T07:59:18.643" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2012-12-06T08:26:30.953" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with most odd cases on Stack Exchange, this is SO's fault. SO has always required two people to approve edits; everywhere else required one. They continued to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/137784/what-can-we-do-to-stop-bad-edits-getting-accepted&quot;&gt;have problems&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/470439&quot;&gt;terrible&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/426490&quot;&gt;edits&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/278108&quot;&gt;getting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/202749&quot;&gt;accepted&lt;/a&gt;, so in October SO's requirements were increased so &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/151586/145982&quot;&gt;three votes&lt;/a&gt; are needed, and at the same time all the other sites on the network, including us, were bumped up to two votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory is that making your own edit is easier than reviewing somebody else's. People seem to have a habit of glancing at an edit and thinking &quot;that seems not horrifying&quot;, and clicking Approve, when that edit wasn't actually very good and they never would've made it themselves. Requiring multiple reviewers hopefully avoids that, although I don't really think we had that problem here to begin with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T08:26:30.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-07T22:05:30.480" Score="14" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a really good answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/43526/3358&quot;&gt;a question of mine&lt;/a&gt;.  Since the author was so knowledgeable (about vim in this case) and gave such a careful answer, I went to read other things he wrote.  There was only one other question on unix.stackexchange.com, so I read it, and up-voted it since it was an excellent answer that might be useful to me some day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wondered though: at what point would this be considered serial up-voting?  On the one hand, you could argue (I suppose) that I went to the questions &lt;em&gt;because of the author&lt;/em&gt;, and I up-voted every one, and therefore it would be considered serial up-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand (let's be realistic here):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did actually read the questions in their entirety,  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did honestly believe them to be high quality, and  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there was only one other question besides my own.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At what point would it be considered serial upvoting?  Since the system is limited to using measurable factors to mark some votes as fraud, &lt;em&gt;it can't &quot;know&quot; that I really thought the answers were high quality&lt;/em&gt;, so I'm assuming we're left with a practical rather than a principled way of distinguishing.  What is that?  What if I read all 1000 answers of a particular author, and thought that 950 of them were worthy of an up-vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3358" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T14:00:34.720" Title="What qualifies as &quot;serial *voting&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|up-votes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1101" CreationDate="2012-12-08T10:10:44.660" Score="4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are a community questions with the lists of some useful stuff: one-liners, shell functions etc - would be useful and allowed on the Unix.SE site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13451" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T00:24:06.460" Title="List questions - allowed or be closed for a great justice?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1100" CreationDate="2012-12-08T10:26:00.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here I will repeat the comment that I posted on your question, which I think you removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point with these list questions, is that in general they will not fit in the Q&amp;amp;A format that SO demands. Suppose you get 20 nice shell functions, when asking for them, then which answer should you accept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, a question evolves into a community wiki with a lot of useful information, see for example the history of this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40786/how-can-i-do-command-line-integer-float-calculations-in-bash-or-other-langua&quot;&gt;How to do integer &amp;amp; float calculations, in bash or other languages/frameworks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in general if you start a question in that way directly, nobody will really be interested in, because lists of useful stuff can be easily found online. In my opinion SO is meant in the first place to ask questions on problems that you actually face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T10:26:00.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1103" CreationDate="2012-12-10T00:00:28.053" Score="4" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question, where 2 people had really good answers.  Neither was a &quot;direct hit&quot; for what I was looking for, but both sparked good thinking.&#xA;Is there a way to split the 200 point bounty to them?&#xA;Or must I distribute the bounty to a single &quot;best&quot; answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19689" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T00:23:40.993" Title="Is there a way to split a bounty to multiple answers?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1102" CreationDate="2012-12-10T00:23:40.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't, you have to pick one answer. In theory there should be a single post that completely answers the question, and if there isn't somebody should write one; you shouldn't need to get pieces of the answer from multiple posts. See the feature request: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2786/accept-multiple-answers-or-split-bounty-among-several-users&quot;&gt;Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T00:23:40.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1100" CreationDate="2012-12-10T00:24:06.460" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what you mean by &quot;list&quot; questions. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1101/29&quot;&gt;Bernhard's answer&lt;/a&gt; I can speculate a few things. If you mean &quot;what are your 10 most useful 1 liners?&quot; this is a bad question because it's completely arbitrary and aimless, I would close it as not a real question because you don't have a a real problem. However if you mean a question that is one that is simply able to have multiple correct answers, like my question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/4936/29&quot;&gt;How can I move files up one directory&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, I knew there'd be multiple correct answers, but I had a very specific goal in mind, this kind of question is ok. If you mean something else entirely then you'll have to clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T00:24:06.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:55:48.200" Score="45" ViewCount="1866" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1105&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:54:25.423" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2013" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2013-12-06T11:39:41.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T14:55:48.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:56:58.090" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HxSxU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T14:56:58.090" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T14:56:58.090" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2012-12-10T18:48:48.197" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DpB75.png&quot; alt=&quot;More than secure - FreeBSD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5083" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2013-05-26T04:50:27.367" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T04:50:27.367" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T18:48:48.197" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1110" CreationDate="2012-12-10T18:56:41.590" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/47185/9537&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question asking for use cases of a particular command is practically guaranteed to generate a list of answers, many of which will themselves be lists, and most of which will be equally valid.  Should it be closed?  It's still semi-on-topic, being about a traditional Unix command, so maybe it could be a community wiki instead.  What's the policy on such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T00:32:00.387" Title="Flag to convert to a community wiki?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1108" CreationDate="2012-12-10T19:07:23.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because there's no incentive to update them, community wiki lists generally turn into an unmaintained wasteland of good intentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd rather see questions closed when they tend towards discussion or list making. Or better yet if possible, edited to focus the answers. (I'm going to take a stab at this one momentarily.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T19:07:23.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1108" CreationDate="2012-12-11T00:32:00.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community wiki is not an excuse to post a bad question. (It used to be back when Stack Overflow started, but this is no longer the case.) Either your question calls for answers, and it doesn't need CW, or it calls for items or is otherwise inappropriate, in which case the question should not be open at all. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;The Future of Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt; on the Stack Exchange blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/47185&quot;&gt;This particular question&lt;/a&gt; is not a very interesting one, but it does illustrate a bit of unix history. There's no reason why it should attract lists of items rather than answers. If there are multiple practical uses for &lt;code&gt;factor&lt;/code&gt;, it's no different from having multiple methods to rename a bunch of files or partition a disk: an ideal answer would mention all of them and compare them; a decent answer provides at least one and explains why it is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T00:32:00.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1079" CreationDate="2012-12-11T23:27:18.503" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly, none of those tags seem particularly critical to the questions they're attached to. If you only have &lt;em&gt;one question on the site&lt;/em&gt; about Netscape, it's pretty easy to find, with or without the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike sites such as Arqade, SciFi, or Movies &amp;amp; TV, the primary tags here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux tend to fall into classes that can be applied to &lt;em&gt;numerous&lt;/em&gt; questions. This is good - it's what the tagging system was designed for - and so it's considerably less likely that only one tag can possibly be applied to a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dirty truth is that sites like Gaming and Patents are... kinda abusing the tag system for something it wasn't really designed to do, at least not &lt;em&gt;well:&lt;/em&gt; structured categorization of questions. The nature of the topics - and their audiences - make this a necessity: there's simply not a lot of cross-domain knowledge available or desired. Thankfully, that's not really the case here, as demonstrated by both the multitude of tags on questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/badges/14/generalist&quot;&gt;the existence of people with Generalist badges&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: still declining this (and considerably more likely to decline it elsewhere as well), but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127700/do-not-expire-single-use-tags-that-have-a-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is now implemented. So if you want to make sure an obscure tag doesn't go away if it's only used by a single question, just write up a good excerpt for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T00:21:24.097" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1113" CreationDate="2012-12-12T10:29:25.317" Score="4" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I tried to ask a question with tag &lt;strong&gt;regex&lt;/strong&gt; and got rejected with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&#xA;&#xA;    Creating the new tag [regular-expressions] is not allowed since the tag [regular-expression] already exists. If you think this new tag should be allowed, raise it on meta.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't type &quot;regular-expressions&quot; so I assumed that &quot;regex&quot; was aliased to it, before it became outdated/superceded by &quot;regular-expression&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13496" LastEditorUserId="6869" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T17:05:41.123" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T17:05:41.123" Title="bug in tag alias?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1112" CreationDate="2012-12-12T14:35:16.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/regular-expressions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;regular-expressions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;regular-expressions&lt;/a&gt; tag actually does exist, but something's wrong; I can't get to its synonym list (but I see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/regex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;regex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;regex&lt;/a&gt; synonym in the master list), and your new question tried to create it, so apparently some parts of the system don't see it. I'm going to wait for a dev to look at this before I fix the synonym and merge them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T14:35:16.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2012-12-12T18:09:56.480" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://centos.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vtId0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Enterprise-class Linux&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5083" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T18:09:56.480" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-12T18:09:56.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2012-12-12T18:10:10.973" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nginx.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LiQYq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Prioritize. Save time. Stay focused.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5083" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T18:10:10.973" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-12T18:10:10.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2012-12-16T03:41:45.837" Score="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archlinux.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v4t2D.png&quot; alt=&quot;Arch Linux: A simple, lightweight Linux distribution.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T03:41:45.837" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T03:41:45.837" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-18T20:27:04.717" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have an advanced search option to limit the results to questions that I have marked as &quot;favorite&quot;.  At the moment I have too many pages of favorite questions to practically sort through them all to find anything.  Should I have fewer favorites or is this something others would find useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9537" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-04-16T01:23:59.637" LastActivityDate="2020-04-16T01:23:59.637" Title="Search in favorite questions" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|search|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1117" CreationDate="2012-12-18T20:45:25.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta, so it might happen someday: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3683/search-in-list-of-favorited-questions&quot;&gt;Search in list of favorited questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Circa Jan 6 '13, this feature was implemented. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-04-16T01:23:46.047" LastActivityDate="2020-04-16T01:23:46.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2012-12-24T11:00:00.057" Score="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tbdbt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;GNU's Not Unix!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T20:54:25.423" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:54:25.423" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-24T11:00:00.057" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1121" CreationDate="2012-12-28T06:36:00.073" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it is showing two accounts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Primary Account: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/29378/miraaj&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/29378/miraaj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other Account: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/29377/miraaj&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/29377/miraaj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can my other account, along with posted question, be merged with my primary account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My request is similar to this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/697/merge-the-two-accounts-that-have-my-nickname&quot;&gt;merge the two accounts that have my nickname&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29378" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T06:58:40.390" Title="Same user but two different accounts - Miraaj" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2012-12-28T06:58:40.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your primary account has a lot of reputation on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/217586/miraaj&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, so mods can't do the merge; a developer will handle it sometime soon and then &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/29378/miraaj&quot;&gt;this account&lt;/a&gt; will have the question you asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T06:58:40.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-31T22:10:30.387" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/scripts/sysinfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;, and if you pipe it through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14684/removing-control-chars-including-console-codes-colours-from-script-output/14707#14707&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (not written by me, obviously) you get output like &lt;a href=&quot;http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/sys.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the script is to tell as much as possible, yet in a concise way, what system and software I use. Also, it tells what commands were run to acquire that information. (I have some experience, but it's not huge; point is, I include the script so you'll instantly understand my suggestion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should have the veterans (with respect to Unix, Linux, and this site -- those three are probably coinciding anyway) - like I said, I think we should have those guys write such a script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, we should make it possible to upload the result (as a &lt;strong&gt;feature&lt;/strong&gt;, as some users will probably be too paranoid/vain to reveal what they use).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, we could get away with all the overhead like &quot;what distribution/DE/DM/WM/etc./etc. do you use?&quot; that accompany so many questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HNY!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13136" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T18:55:34.093" Title="Script to tell what people use" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-01T22:05:14.360" Score="12" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;The distinction between the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boot&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt; isn't very clear. The tag wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boot&lt;/a&gt; reads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag covers both bootloader issues (what happens before the operating system starts) and the starting up of the operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think since this excerpt was written almost two years ago we've mostly been using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boot&lt;/a&gt; for bootloader issues (up to loading the kernel) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt; for the OS startup (&lt;code&gt;init&lt;/code&gt;, rc scripts and so on). I think we should make this distinction official, and retag the few questions that will then be mistagged. Any opposition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, on which side of the fence do initrd issues fall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T16:48:05.010" Title="/boot vs /startup" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1122" CreationDate="2013-01-02T16:09:21.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This concept is brilliant, and it's actually quite common in the *nix support world. Creating a portable script might be a challenge, but the concept is still 100% viable.  I work as a GNU/Linux Systems Engineer, spending half my life writing POSIX shell scripts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll definitely toss this one around the `ol noggin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10987" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-01-02T18:55:34.093" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T18:55:34.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1130" CreationDate="2013-01-03T14:13:30.490" Score="7" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xfce4&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xfce4&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xfce4&lt;/a&gt; with 16 questions, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xfce&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xfce&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xfce&lt;/a&gt; with 109 questions. They mostly refer to the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have them merged or as synonyms (I don't have enough score in those tags)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T16:25:34.823" Title="Make /xfce4 a synonym of /xfce?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1126" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-03T14:17:41.603" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T14:17:41.603" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T14:17:41.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1127" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-03T14:17:41.603" Score="0" Body="Questions about the visual design of Unix &amp; Linux." OwnerUserId="15630" LastEditorUserId="15630" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T17:38:04.010" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T17:38:04.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1128" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-03T14:18:02.837" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T14:18:02.837" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T14:18:02.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1129" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-03T14:18:02.837" Score="0" Body="Questions about on-topicness of a specific subject." OwnerUserId="15630" LastEditorUserId="15630" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T17:38:10.607" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T17:38:10.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1125" CreationDate="2013-01-03T16:25:34.823" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay. Sounds good to me. Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T16:25:34.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1123" CreationDate="2013-01-03T16:48:05.010" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This proposal seems fine to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a huge problem with putting initrd issues in &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; categories when applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T16:48:05.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1133" CreationDate="2013-01-04T08:29:29.080" Score="4" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stumbled upon the following question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6035/when-do-you-use-brace-expansion&quot;&gt;When do you use brace expansion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second scoring answer got a bounty awarded by Community. How and why does such a thing happen? I did not see it before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T13:14:57.243" Title="Bounty awarded by Community, what happened?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1132" CreationDate="2013-01-04T13:14:57.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), &gt; the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount. If there's no answer meeting that criteria, the bounty is not awarded to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, then the bounty is awarded by Community, instead of by the user offering the bounty in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T13:14:57.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-07T11:43:35.483" Score="14" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;If two consecutive lines have a  tag, the CSS effect gets overlapped. Maybe the height of the rectangle for  can be reduced or the line height can be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J9frf.png&quot; alt=&quot;kbd overlap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17265" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2013-04-16T00:10:48.030" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T00:10:48.030" Title="Enhancements to CSS for &lt;kbd&gt; needed" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1134" CreationDate="2013-01-07T15:37:19.007" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to get them to fix this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/60980/overlap-of-kbd-elements&quot;&gt;years ago&lt;/a&gt;, but they're strangely opposed; the fix is &quot;don't do that&quot;. I wish they would just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/952/pretty-kbd-tags-for-ul&quot;&gt;give us nice-looking kbd tags&lt;/a&gt;. I'll poke somebody at Stack Exchange to see if there's any chance of that happening. Since this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta I'm going to mark it the same here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T15:37:19.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1137" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:50:30.153" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60723/how-do-i-know-if-a-partition-is-ext2-ext3-or-ext4/60725#60725&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; If the previous comments of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60723/how-do-i-know-if-a-partition-is-ext2-ext3-or-ext4/60756#60756&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how I can understand the comment below my answer. &#xA;I feel there should be a history of comments so that we can understand the contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem to be visible, but a lot of misunderstanding can occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T21:53:30.007" Title="Deleted Comments" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1136" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:54:27.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are constantly trying to add new comments features; they're meant to be lightweight, they don't need histories and timelines and suggested edits and downvoting and all the other things people have suggested. Mods can see deleted comments if something like this really does come up, but since Warren wrote both of those comments I'm pretty sure it's not going to be a problem in this case&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T17:54:27.987" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1136" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:54:40.893" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments aren't meant to be an important feature of the site. For discussion, there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comments become nonsensical because other comments have been deleted, delete them (if they're yours) or flag them as obsolete if they're someone else's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T17:54:40.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1140" CreationDate="2013-01-11T07:19:55.880" Score="12" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm studying for the LPIC-1 exam and would like to ask specific questions regarding some course material that doesn't make sense.  Is it appropriate to ask those questions here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1822" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T12:45:35.307" Title="Are specific questions on linux-based certification material appropriate here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1139" CreationDate="2013-01-11T12:45:35.307" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the course material is about Linux, and if you're not violating any copyright or confidentiality agreement you've signed, sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T12:45:35.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1142" CreationDate="2013-01-13T23:21:52.100" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I going crazy?  Searching for &quot;2038&quot; (without quotes) redirects me to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2038/commandline-gstreamer-player&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, whereas searching for &quot;2037&quot; or &quot;2039&quot; (again, without quotes) actually executes a search.  Searching for &quot;2038&quot; WITH quotes properly executes a search (or, if you are a C programmer, then that would be &quot;\&quot;2038\&quot;&quot; :-)).  I have not really tested to see if this problem happens with other numbers, but this particular number is troubling because of the Y2K38 problem.  I am pretty sure that this is a bug, could I get a confirmation from another user or a fix from an admin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20615" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T07:01:20.777" Title="Searching for &quot;2038&quot; (without quotes) redirects to a particular question instead of executing a search" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1141" CreationDate="2013-01-14T00:22:33.913" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question has ID 2038; searching for questions by ID has worked &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43931/145982&quot;&gt;for some time&lt;/a&gt;. Posts 2037 and 2039 are both answers, so it doesn't automatically redirect to the question page, but any question ID should work (for example, searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=1141&quot;&gt;1141 here on meta&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting it returns normal results because a few weeks ago we switched to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160100/a-new-search-engine-for-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;new search engine&lt;/a&gt;, and now quoted phrases are exact matches, so it prevents the search engine from interpreting the number as an ID&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T00:22:33.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-15T13:14:05.417" Score="16" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;/about page&lt;/a&gt; is nice overall. Great work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's something there that considerably mars the result, and is especially inappropriate on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Various illustrations slide into place. They look like a developer discovered how to do it and decided to show off their newfound trick regardless of whether it was a good idea or not. Très Geocities. Would you like &amp;lt;blink&amp;gt; with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The illustrations convey almost no information. The one illustration that does (the answer being marked as accepted) is partly hidden: it's only triggered when you've finished reading the part that it applies to. The illustrations are very sensitive to the window size and scroll rhythm: if your window is too short or too tall and you scroll through it with &lt;kbd&gt;PgDn&lt;/kbd&gt;, you may not see the animations at all (which is a blessing) or they may trigger while the illustration is only partly visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, this is a user interface element that gets into the way of functionality in order to look showy, and that is very brittle with respect to the tool used to access it (maximize your window, get a nonsensical display). This may be appropriate on &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt;, but it is the complete antithesis of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really must keep this animation, at least turn it off on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; — it is very off-putting to this site's core audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:07.927" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T03:07:11.607" Title="Inappropriate animations on /about" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-16T14:49:17.217" Score="5" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty new here, and I have been reading over many of the questions here, trying to answer the few I have a small bit of knowledge about.  While perusing the questions, answers, and comments, I have noticed that often a person is requested to perform a few commands and post the output.  While this usually helps get the question answered, it seems that some of the less experienced users may have problems cutting and pasting the output properly, or needing to pull the outputs of different commands into a single text file, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the tools that most of us should have on our system that can make this easier is the &lt;code&gt;script&lt;/code&gt; command.  I think that it might be advantageous when wanting to ask a user to perform a series of commands, in order to troubleshoot the problem by reading the output, to ask the user to type &lt;code&gt;script -c &quot;cmd1;cmd2;cmd3&quot; output-for-pastebin.txt&lt;/code&gt;, or something similar.  This allows the user to have full and complete output, in the order desired, and also in a single text file that would be much easier to edit for removing sensitive information before posting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30360" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T16:23:24.363" Title="Helping newer *nix users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1144" CreationDate="2013-01-16T15:11:07.940" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how outputting to a text file, opening the text file, and copying from it is easier for the user than just running the command and copying straight out of the terminal. They can edit the output right in the question textarea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T15:11:07.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1144" CreationDate="2013-01-16T16:23:24.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like writing a reference question &amp;amp; answer on easy ways to get the output from a command onto the web could help with this. I'd guess it'd need to cover, at minimum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;script&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy &amp;amp; paste from a X11 terminal emulator.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;basic shell command grouping, redirects, &amp;amp; piping (e.g., &lt;code&gt;{ a; b; } &amp;gt; outfile 2&amp;gt;&amp;amp;1&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cell phone (etc.) camera&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional nice topics would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;webboard&lt;/code&gt; / &lt;code&gt;pastebinit&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;xclip&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;shutter&lt;/code&gt;/etc (screenshot programs).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using &lt;code&gt;LC_*&lt;/code&gt; to force English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;serial console, net console (for kernel panics)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd write it up myself, but I don't have time at the moment. Maybe later this week...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T16:23:24.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1143" CreationDate="2013-01-18T03:07:11.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember, this is a guide aimed squarely at folks who've never used Stack Exchange before. For folks who've been around a bit, it's de-emphasized in favor of /faq. Therefore, the illustrations are limited to very basic UI elements; anyone who has used any Stack Exchange site for more than a short time should already be familiar with just about everything on that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The animations are intended to draw attention to specific areas of the UI. Having edited dozens of these pages now, on both a small and a very large screen, I can't say I've found them particularly distracting - that said, it's certainly a matter of taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, these pages offer only limited opportunity for per-site customization at this time. While it's possible such customization could be added, I'm not convinced the effort wouldn't better be spent on something more useful to the majority of &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T03:07:11.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-19T10:20:29.953" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you try to remove a vote on a deleted post, you will get the &quot;this post has been deleted&quot; popup and the vote count will be reset back to what it was before you tried to rescind your vote, but the orange marker indicating your vote will not be reinstated until you reload the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I assume this also happens with upvotes, I have only tested it on downvotes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T14:08:59.580" Title="Voting indicator state is not reinstated when trying to remove a vote on a deleted post" Tags="|bug|design|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2013-01-19T13:04:58.137" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since votes on deleted posts aren't counted in rep calc or for anything else, I don't think it matters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T13:04:58.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1152" CreationDate="2013-01-19T22:26:11.950" Score="10" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or, why are my approvals of other user's edits not actioned in the same way my own edits are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that, should I approve or improve an edit by another member of the community under the Review page, if I then (for an indeterminate period afterwards) try and edit that same question from the main Questions page, when I open the question I see an edit pending, ie., edit (1) and if I hit edit, I get a message saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;You have already reviewed this item. It needs more reviews from other users to be completed.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;jasonwryan reviewed this 6 mins ago: Approve&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems odd. If I had just opened the question and hit edit, I have sufficient rep that my edit would be accepted immediately; but if I approve another user's edit then it requires further community moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug? It sure feels like one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-01-20T01:01:13.743" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T01:01:13.743" Title="Why can't I edit a question I have reviewed" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1151" CreationDate="2013-01-20T00:58:13.827" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're under the impression you would've been able to edit the post directly if only you hadn't approved the edit first, which isn't the case; clicking the edit link of a post with a pending suggestion just pops up the suggestion and asks you to review it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1096/why-cant-i-approve-edits&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;#39;t I approve edits?&lt;/a&gt; explains why a suggestion needs multiple votes even though the user could make edits themselves. Improving the suggestion exists for just the case where an editor is blocked from editing until a suggestion gets out of the way, so if you improve the edit and submit that it should go through without the need for more votes, since you've presumably read the post more closely if you're improving it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case it looks like you approved instead of improving, so in that case your vote is locked in until more people vote. So if you do want to make more changes, make sure you pick &quot;Improve&quot; instead of &quot;Approve&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T00:58:13.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-01-22T05:37:28.560" Score="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kJwwT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Dennis Ritchie Home Page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23779" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T05:37:28.560" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-22T05:37:28.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15" CreationDate="2013-01-24T10:21:18.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just looked at the same discussion for &lt;em&gt;embedded&lt;/em&gt; Unix/Linux (it was decide they are on-topic), and those definitively are farther away from mainstream than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28496" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T10:21:18.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-26T23:39:34.740" Score="8" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a sad record. First question asked in this site and it's been voted and closed for off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62617/wrong-timezone-offset-how-do-i-correct-it&quot;&gt;Wrong timezone offset. How do I correct it? (help with zic timezone compiler)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user, @&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;, kindly enough pointed this thread out which suggests otherwise:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15/mac-os-x-whats-on-topic&quot;&gt;Mac OS X: What&amp;#39;s on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read the FAQ BEFORE posting and really thought, my question to be a good fit.&#xA;especially bullet list items 2 and 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to understand the reason for closing the question. In order to avoid off-topicness of future questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I would not challenge the votes to close, but I have genuinely no clue why the question is not Unix-related. It might well be my inexperience and failure to understand what Unix is. Either way I'd love to know and further educate myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31194" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T03:42:38.163" Title="question closed for off-topic, even though some answers here suggest it is not" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1157" CreationDate="2013-01-31T01:14:28.613" Score="7" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering what's up with the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;google-chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;google-chrome&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chromium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chromium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chromium&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt; is symlinked to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chromium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chromium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chromium&lt;/a&gt;, and not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;google-chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;google-chrome&lt;/a&gt;. However, &quot;chrome&quot; is more likely to refer to Google's Chrome than Chromium. I was just wondering why this is. Is it an accident? Intentional? Something else? (I don't know what other possibilities there are, but you never know...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26420" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-01-31T21:36:10.947" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T21:36:10.947" Title="Some mistakes regarding the /chrome, /google-chrome, and /chromium" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|retag-request|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1156" CreationDate="2013-01-31T03:16:51.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;google-chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;google-chrome&lt;/a&gt; was just an oversight; I merged it into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt; since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt; had considerably more instances, so now all three are grouped together. We normally only make synonyms if there's a history of people using both instances; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; aren't synonyms because neither exists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T03:16:51.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-31T06:37:15.880" Score="5" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, the meta tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'tag'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; should either be removed, because 0 questions use it, or be turned into a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'tags'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;, because that just makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26420" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T15:13:20.723" Title="&quot;tag&quot; and &quot;tags&quot; are not synonyms?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1158" CreationDate="2013-01-31T15:13:20.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags with no questions get deleted automatically at midnight. &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; did have a question until &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/850/revisions&quot;&gt;9 hours ago&lt;/a&gt;, so it's still around, but it'll be gone tonight&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T15:13:20.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1161" CreationDate="2013-02-01T19:55:41.823" Score="13" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Systematically going back through posts and making every link inline does not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; improve the wiki. There are a couple of instances where it has the opposite effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;where the link is in a block of text and replacing the full link, eg., &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/tmux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://wiki.archlinux.org/tmux&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/tmux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; means that the link can get &quot;buried&quot; and the target is obscured.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;where the link is standalone and points to an obvious location so there is no need to mouse over the link to determine the destination (see above example).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;b&gt;Editorial:&lt;/b&gt; Additionally, if your edits are being rejected, please pause and reflect before continuing on your relentless path of delinkification...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T23:35:34.517" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T17:04:48.717" Title="Edits making links inline" Tags="|discussion|editing|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1160" CreationDate="2013-02-01T20:03:39.027" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very much agree. This is a technical site, and we have a technical audience. Replacing the link text with something other than the URL should only happen if there's a significant improvement in readability/flow and if the text provides &lt;em&gt;more information&lt;/em&gt; than the bare link. For links to wikis, bug trackers, and top-level sites (say, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;), the bare URL often is more informative than a concise description would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T20:03:39.027" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1160" CreationDate="2013-02-01T20:19:15.903" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases I prefer that the links be converted to text too; I'd rather see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I followed the instructions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Arch Linux wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;than: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I followed the instructions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://wiki.archlinux.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't see a problem with it; if you really want the URL you can mouse-over it, but it's usually clear where it's leading. On the other hand, converting it to just &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&quot; isn't very helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T20:19:15.903" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-05T01:14:54.623" Score="6" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;This StackExchange site is the only one that consistently asks me to prove that I am human, giving me some hard to read CAPTCHA to fill out. Usually I need to cycle through a few until I can decipher what I am supposed to enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed that (in Opera) the tag auto-suggestions have been broken for some time now (perhaps related).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5462" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T01:14:54.623" Title="Why am I regularly asked to prove that I am human?" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-08T00:03:01.130" Score="12" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/route&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;route&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;route&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/router&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;router&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;router&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/routing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;routing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;routing&lt;/a&gt;. I haven't inspected them closely, but I doubt there are three different meanings here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any difference in meaning between these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that I'm asking if the tags tend to be used with different meanings on this site, not if the words have different meanings.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T18:05:55.483" Title="router, routing, route" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-08T12:16:46.487" Score="9" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions that are fit to ask here are not fit on askubuntu, but the other way around should always be ok. But is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32012" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T15:39:15.730" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T18:19:33.200" Title="Is it considered proper (normal) to post the same question on askubuntu and at the same time on Unix&amp;Linux?" Tags="|discussion|questions|ubuntu|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1166" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:59:14.627" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/router&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;router&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;router&lt;/a&gt; seems to get questions actually about routers—the &amp;lt;$100 Linksys, etc. boxes. Things like loading custom firmware on them, and getting WiFi connections to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/routing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;routing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;routing&lt;/a&gt; seems to actually get questions about IP routing. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/route&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;route&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;route&lt;/a&gt; seems to be the same thing. Suggest merging both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/routing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;routing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;routing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/router&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;router&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;router&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the Linux aspects of the small routers that Linksys/D.Link/Netgear/etc. sell: on some you can get to the command line, on many you can install custom Linux firmwares. I suggest it not include &quot;how do I connect my Unix box to my wireless network?&quot;. I suggest also not to include &quot;how do I configure the stock firmware on my Linksys?&quot; as off-topic, try Superuser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/routing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;routing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;routing&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the IP routing features in the kernel, as well as related daemons (e.g., quagga). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2013-02-08T18:05:55.483" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T18:05:55.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1167" CreationDate="2013-02-08T18:09:50.020" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general guideline across &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange sites, cross-posting is generally frowned upon, especially if its a copy &amp;amp; paste job. There are exceptions, e.g., both Ask Ubuntu and us probably have a question about how to add a static route—but Ask Ubuntu probably focuses exclusively on using Network Manager's GUI, whereas we might talk about files in &lt;code&gt;/etc&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know, &lt;em&gt;what's the Ubuntu way to do X?&lt;/em&gt;, ask on Ask Ubuntu. Otherwise, ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also want to consider the different communities when deciding where to ask. E.g., if you look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/252760/how-do-i-save-files-edited-with-vim&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu's &lt;em&gt;How do I save files edited with vim?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, there is a comment suggesting try gedit instead. That's probably a good suggestion, assuming some random Ubuntu user just ran across a howto somewhere which said to use vim. You'd not get that here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also the related questions in the right-hand sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T18:19:33.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-02-09T06:43:46.027" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KAyo5.png&quot; alt=&quot;FreeBSD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6250" LastActivityDate="2013-02-09T06:43:46.027" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-09T06:43:46.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1173" CreationDate="2013-02-09T12:05:24.907" Score="26" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often there are questions of the form &quot;How can I do this with &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; where &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; is some tool such as bash, sed, awk or perl. Are answers to such question based on another tool than &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; not welcome, e.g. are awk answers to sed questions not welcome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it is good to show alternatives to show that using &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; is not the only way of solving the problem. An alternative may even be a better approach. Also if the alternative is less fit it is good to know as e.g. a particular users setup might differ such that only particular tools are available or the alternative is clearer in communicating an algorithm solving the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reason for raising this question is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/59147/8677&quot;&gt;my answer to How do I write a sed one-liner to add a character after every third character?&lt;/a&gt; received a number of downvotes without comments. It uses an alternative tool to the same result as the sed answers. Should such answers be downvoted or deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8677" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T15:39:40.490" Title="Are answers using alternative tools not welcome?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1172" CreationDate="2013-02-09T20:07:00.337" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, yes, alternative ways of accomplishing the same task seem not only welcome, but often rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case you point to, there are a couple of mitigating issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question specifically, and repeatedly, asks for a &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; response. This means the questioner is clearly seeking to improve their &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; knowledge as much as they are trying to solve a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your answer involves not just a different approach, but one that requires a tool (&lt;code&gt;ruby&lt;/code&gt;) that is not part of &lt;code&gt;coreutils&lt;/code&gt; and indeed not installed on (any?) systems by default.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that if only one of those conditions was present, the answer would have either been recieved neutrally, or may have even garnered an upvote. But with both present, you have unwittingly invoked the wrath of the acolytes of UNIX the Wrathful, who is a harsh and unforgiving deity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-02-09T20:07:00.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-02-10T21:59:37.433" Score="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vim.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MIbbZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vim the editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5462" LastActivityDate="2013-02-10T21:59:37.433" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-10T21:59:37.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1172" CreationDate="2013-02-11T10:13:15.093" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not have down-voted your answer but I would never upvote &quot;that kind of thing&quot; either.  Here's why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having participated in a lot of different tech and programming related forums over the years, it seems to me that stack exchange has a degree of formality that makes it distinct, in keeping with the goal of &lt;strong&gt;producing canonical answers to canonical questions&lt;/strong&gt;.  I am not saying this is better or worse than other forums where more discussion is encouraged, etc.  It is just different, it is what people expect here -- and if your experience can be taken as evidence of such, it is what people &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of what makes this different from normative forums is that there is more of an explicit focus on reducing repetition.  The ideal question is one which is precise but free from irrelevant details; if you can phrase your question properly, you are more likely to find the same question if it has been asked before, or if it has not and you do post it, someone else is more likely to find it later, and since the answers move up and down according to how they been rated, the idea is that the best answer will rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is in contrast to &quot;normative forums&quot; where a thread is ordered in time and it is considered &lt;em&gt;bad usage&lt;/em&gt; to start posting answers to questions you find from two weeks ago.  Forums like that are more casual and a greater range of discussion is appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, looking at the question, your answer, and the answer that was upvoted and selected, I would say this is the *nix exchange and you should understand the difference between the standard &lt;em&gt;shell based&lt;/em&gt; *nix toolkit, which includes sed and fold, and the use of various turing complete (=hefty) language interpreters such as ruby.  When I see a lot of questions involving sed and awk, my first thought is always how &lt;em&gt;I would do this&lt;/em&gt; -- inevitably, perl -- but the fact that my knowledge of perl has made me disinterested in learning a lot of awk does not make it appropriate for me to say, essentially, &quot;You are wasting your time, just learn perl&quot;, because, and this is the major problem with your answer, &lt;strong&gt;then I might as well just do the same thing for almost every question&lt;/strong&gt; (also, see NOTE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess what would happen then?  We'd have 17 people suggesting &quot;how you can do this with python&quot;, 10 for ruby, 12 for perl, 15 for php, 3 for lisp -- it goes on and on.  Why not in java?  Erlang?  Fortran? This could make for some interesting discussion, no doubt...but &lt;strong&gt;it is not a discussion forum&lt;/strong&gt;.  So while I wouldn't personally downvote your answer (it is well written and informative -- but still &lt;strong&gt;off topic&lt;/strong&gt;), I do, I think, understand why people would: because they do not want to see the exchange turn into a cacophony of &quot;alternatives&quot;.  They want &lt;em&gt;canonical answers to canonical questions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when I find one in my hour of need, I am very very very glad for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: It also does not mean that my programmer hack solution to sys admin issues is a really &quot;quality&quot; solution even if it does &quot;work for me to do that&quot;.  It works for me because &lt;em&gt;I know perl, so I use perl&lt;/em&gt;.  But I know when I'm doing it that it's a hack, and partially about sparing myself having to learn the proper (ie, canonical) way, which would be more universal and more flexible in the context of a *nix shell.  The later is what people most want to find in their hour of need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T10:21:14.370" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T10:21:14.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1167" CreationDate="2013-02-11T10:34:27.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion on cross-posting is that you should be explicit about it and say, &quot;I also posted this question here&quot; and provide a link.  This way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A1: People will not end up wasting their time typing out an answer you already got somewhere else.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the community or admin do not appreciate cross-posting, they can be honest because you have been honest.  This will prevent abuse of the possibility; otherwise some people will post a question everywhere they possibly can.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't do that and someone notices -- which happens surprisingly often -- then your post should be pulled or publicly flagged as a cross-post.  Again, just a personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T10:34:27.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-02-11T18:17:51.597" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.writelatex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qNyrh.png&quot; alt=&quot;writeLaTeX.com - Free Online LaTeX Editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32187" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T18:17:51.597" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-11T18:17:51.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1181" CreationDate="2013-02-13T00:26:24.380" Score="18" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're getting the occasional programming question. Programming questions are off-topic, and we flag to have them migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past 90 days, we've had 26 migrations from U&amp;amp;L to SO, none of them rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to set up a migration path from U&amp;amp;L to SO, which would add an option “migrate to Stack Overflow” in the close dialog, usable by all users with the “vote to close” privilege. Should we do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T16:31:51.607" Title="Should we have a migration path to SO?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|migration|programming|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1167" CreationDate="2013-02-13T04:28:48.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; involvement with Usenet, cross-posting was very harshly discouraged. Cross-posting just leads to conflicting/wrong answers published several times, and discussions diffuse. Also, if OP isn't able to locate the right forum for the question, they don't understand their problem well enough. Or the forum's theme wasn't clearly defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28496" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T04:28:48.850" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1178" CreationDate="2013-02-13T17:29:46.020" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that is a good idea.  I'm presuming those questions are beginner questions by someone trying to learn a language in a *nix context, for which there are better places, and we should encourage people to go seek those out.  Not that SO is necessarily that place, but at least they can then A) learn about it, and B) get introduced to &quot;this question is a duplicate of&quot; somewhere where the duplicate probably lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd make a distinction though, between questions that are about general  programming methodology and ones that are in fact explicitly *nix oriented.  Eg, if someone wants to know &quot;If anyone knows of a good Erlang API for linux proc/sys stuff&quot;, that is totally appropriate, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other exception that might be important are shell programming questions, which are programming questions but seem very suitable here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2013-02-13T17:49:38.497" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T17:49:38.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1178" CreationDate="2013-02-15T16:31:39.593" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We set up a default migration path from U&amp;amp;L to Stack Overflow. Use it wisely. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="928" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T16:31:39.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-02-19T14:47:41.240" Score="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vawPK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Debian -- The Universal Operating System&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6775" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T14:47:41.240" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-19T14:47:41.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1184" CreationDate="2013-02-19T19:06:09.847" Score="9" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for signal processing software, that runs well under Ubuntu 10.04: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65366/how-do-i-convert-my-old-pc-in-a-data-logging-and-presentation-terminal&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. Does it belong here, or at &lt;a href=&quot;https://dsp.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Signal Processing SE&lt;/a&gt; or at &lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Electrical Engineering SE&lt;/a&gt;, or maybe somewhere else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20506" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:24.480" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T10:37:09.807" Title="Does my question about a Linux program that does signal processing belong here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1183" CreationDate="2013-02-20T01:43:06.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For suggestions of software that fit your purpose and how to install it, I think here would be adequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, implementation of algorithms would be better fit at Stack Overflow (for coding-related questions) or DSP.SE (for math-related questions; I don't know how well they take programming questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T01:43:06.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1185" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1186" CreationDate="2013-02-27T09:46:12.377" Score="-3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe there should an option to migrate question to the the &lt;a href=&quot;https://dba.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;dba site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/13782&quot;&gt;Related review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:42:42.083" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T13:23:05.087" Title="Adding the dba SE site as a migration option" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1185" CreationDate="2013-02-27T13:23:05.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past 90 days, we have migrated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25 questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 question to each of &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Computer Science&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://drupal.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Drupal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Security&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only SO has enough migrations to justify a migration path. There are none to DBA, so a migration path is not warranted. Flag if you think a question should be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question seems too low-quality or at least borderline-quality for migration anyway. I fear that there is too little information about the asker's setup to answer. There were no answers anyway, so the asker can just reask the question on another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T13:23:05.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1188" CreationDate="2013-03-01T21:36:20.977" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing a batch script that utilizes sed, but I'm having some problems with the sed part (even when I test it in a bash script with cygwin). Can I ask a question about it here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13479" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T21:38:54.153" Title="Can I ask about Batch and Sed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1187" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:06:12.873" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Traditional Unix command line utilities are on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:06:12.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1187" CreationDate="2013-03-02T21:38:54.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is a question about your professional work environment and involves unix AND windows it might be suited for &lt;strong&gt;Server Fault&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T21:38:54.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1136" CreationDate="2013-03-02T21:53:30.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I do delete a comment of mine, I flag the corresponding comments as &quot;outdated&quot;. Normally the comment-owners then delete their comments, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this if comments get lengthy and/or have been integrated as edit into the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I get your point. Mantis (an open-source-bug-tracking-system) has a - IMHO - nice way to handle edits and deleted comments: There is a history-button, where you can see who changed what and when (if you like to see that information).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T21:53:30.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1192" CreationDate="2013-03-05T02:15:11.147" Score="-3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started a bounty. How can I migrate it to a normal question? Does it have a deadline for migrating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21911" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-03-05T04:35:33.930" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T04:35:33.930" Title="How to migrate bounty to normal question?" Tags="|feature-request|migration|questions|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2013-03-05T02:59:14.467" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bounty lasts for a few days. If you look at the question, it'll tell you how much time is remaining. You can't take it back, but if an answer is good, you can assign the bounty. If not, just wait it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T02:59:14.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1197" CreationDate="2013-03-07T00:40:16.967" Score="10" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now, I've simply been using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-mint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-mint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-mint&lt;/a&gt; tags together, but since the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-mint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-mint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-mint&lt;/a&gt; description reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Linux Mint is a Linux distribution closely based on Ubuntu&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and LMDE doesn't meet this description (it's based on frozen snapshots of Debian Testing, I believe), what course of action should I take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Update the tag wiki (or suggest it be updated since I don't have the reputation)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Continue using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-mint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-mint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-mint&lt;/a&gt; together&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lmde&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lmde&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lmde&lt;/a&gt; tag or something similar&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20021" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T00:47:53.370" Title="What combination of tags should I use for Linux Mint Debian Edition?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1196" CreationDate="2013-03-07T14:22:57.517" Score="11" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to remove prompt strings which don't add anything to a question or answer, changing for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/8994/3645&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 7:07AM 49 % cat t1 &#xA;a&#xA;b&#xA;c&#xA;c&#xA;d&#xA;f&#xA;g&#xA; 7:07AM 50 % cat t2 &#xA;h&#xA;i&#xA;j&#xA;k&#xA;l&#xA;m&#xA;n&#xA; 7:07AM 51 % paste t1 t2 &#xA;a       h&#xA;b       i&#xA;c       j&#xA;c       k&#xA;d       l&#xA;f       m&#xA;g       n&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% cat t1 &#xA;a&#xA;b&#xA;c&#xA;c&#xA;d&#xA;f&#xA;g&#xA;% cat t2 &#xA;h&#xA;i&#xA;j&#xA;k&#xA;l&#xA;m&#xA;n&#xA;% paste t1 t2 &#xA;a       h&#xA;b       i&#xA;c       j&#xA;c       k&#xA;d       l&#xA;f       m&#xA;g       n&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T21:02:26.943" Title="Removing PS1 from code samples" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2013-03-07T14:38:26.103" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that makes it more readable. Go for it. (Maybe also put some whitespace between the commands?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T14:38:26.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2013-03-07T14:45:06.430" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, but don't do it &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt;, as it could have some subtle significance.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/67070/bash-no-longer-changes-directory&quot;&gt;For example&lt;/a&gt; -- perhaps not the best example, since it is slightly redundant information, but I would still leave the prompt in on that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, as long as you actually read the question to make sure it's definitely irrelevant (and leave it in if there is any doubt at all), then great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T15:24:12.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2013-03-07T16:57:22.520" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not extremely familiar with Mint, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if its fairly similar, regardless if  based on Ubuntu or Debian, then propose an edit to the tag wiki. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-mint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-mint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-mint&lt;/a&gt; can include both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if they're quite different, then we need two new tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mint-ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mint-ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mint-ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mint-debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mint-debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mint-debian&lt;/a&gt; (or similar). But I'm guessing they're not really that different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asking questions, if the question is something a Debian or Ubuntu expert is likely to be able to answer, add the relevant of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person looking for questions to answer follows (or highlights) the tags they are experts in, and ignores the tags they know nothing of. Tags are used to direct questions to the appropriate expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T16:57:22.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2013-03-07T17:07:06.173" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm, I've left it in on several of my answers, because I think it actually looks nicer with it in. And sometimes it is important (for example, when multiple machines are involved, or multiple users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;anthony@Zia:~$ ssh haruhi&#xA;⋮&#xA;anthony@Haruhi:~$ sudo -i&#xA;[sudo] password for anthony: &#xA;root@Haruhi:~# &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stripping out the &lt;code&gt;user@host&lt;/code&gt; in that would make it much less clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, really, I dislike editing the output in examples when not needed. I feel they should, as much as possible, reflect the output the person relying on the answer should actually expect to see. I agree some editing is needed (e.g., in my example above, I cut out the login message, and indicated it with ⋮, because its fairly long). But the user@host part of the prompt isn't that long, is easy to skip over, and doesn't make the post taller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also discourage people asking questions from removing output, except in the case of privacy, because the OP may not realize the line he/she is striking is actually important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T17:07:06.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-13T14:43:34.030" Score="13" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/63179/26420&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; a while back, but I didn't get any satisfactory answers. After poking around the Internets for a while, I found what I was looking for. I'm all happy now, and I went to go answer my own question, but found that the &quot;Answer your own question&quot; button way greyed out, &lt;em&gt;and the text box where you type the answer was missing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a new feature in SE, where you need to have a certain Rep to answer your own questions? I can answer other questions, including ones that already have answers, but not that specific one. I've reloaded the page several times, logged out and back in, cleared my cache, disabled my adblocker (which already had SE sites on a whitelist,) and all the other troubleshooting advice you'll get when you say you need help getting the Internet to work, but nothing seems to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T02:03:57.527" Title="Can't answer my own question!" Tags="|bug|self-answer|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1199" CreationDate="2013-03-16T02:03:46.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The textbox is supposed to be initially hidden when you're answering your own question (folks tend to mistake it as a way to follow up on other answers otherwise), but the button itself should be enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is both a rep restriction and a time-delay, but it's... 10 rep and 8 hours. Also, they only apply &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you try to post. So you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be good either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking this as a bug, although I'll confess: I can't reproduce it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T02:03:46.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1203" CreationDate="2013-03-30T22:05:12.953" Score="6" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/70600/exchange-two-words-using-sed&quot;&gt;exchange two words using sed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two people tried to fix the code directly in the question. Then question edit was blocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody explain me why the code was changed directly in the question and furtermore the question now is blocked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we help somebody and explain his mistakes or typos, when other people change the original code to make question completely unclear without any explanation for OP and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13003" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T23:18:57.600" Title="Fixing the code directly in the question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1202" CreationDate="2013-03-30T23:18:57.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're reading something wrong. The only code change was indenting the block so it shows up as code instead of text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-70600-diff.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-70600-diff.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code might've looked different, because slashes escape things in normal markdown, but not in code. For example, &lt;code&gt;\(&lt;/code&gt; shows up as just ( in normal text, but in code it's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\(&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;Then question edit was blocked&quot;, I'm not sure what you're talking about; the question is still unlocked and anybody can edit it. One of the revision comments was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/70600/4&quot;&gt;&quot;block&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but I think he meant &quot;making a code block&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T23:18:57.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1210" CreationDate="2013-04-01T08:39:41.490" Score="13" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be an idea to change how tags are displayed on a question?&#xA;Make them more visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a big issue, but seems like people, &lt;em&gt;(me included – though &#xA;I'm better now)&lt;/em&gt;, sometimes jump to fast and overlook the tags. Guess&#xA;they disappear a bit among the &quot;&lt;em&gt;share edit retag flag&lt;/em&gt;&quot; links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser&lt;/a&gt; tags to be much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rvvvr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z7gMY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the need for consistency – as in same layout for tags everywhere,&#xA;and as such I find the listing under e.g. &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;/questions&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; for Unix &amp;amp; Linux&#xA;to be better again, – but there should perhaps be a way to make them stand out&#xA;a bit more on the Q/A pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T00:24:16.887" Title="More visible tags" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1207" CreationDate="2013-04-03T02:29:44.197" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to get the difference between &quot;Access to moderator tools&quot; and being a moderator,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does moderator have more privileges than that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11318" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T03:39:23.127" Title="What's the difference between &quot;Access to moderator tools&quot; and being a moderator?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1206" CreationDate="2013-04-03T03:39:23.127" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The terminology is fairly ambiguous. Back in the day &quot;moderating&quot; frequently referred to using the 10k tools, and &quot;♦ moderator&quot; was for elected mods. Now &quot;moderators&quot; typically refers to ♦ mods. You'll occasionally see &quot;pseudo-mods&quot; used to refer to 10k users as well, but that's pretty much died out too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for privileges, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136890/whats-the-difference-between-a-moderator-and-someone-who-has-access-to-moderato&quot;&gt;What's the difference between a moderator and someone who has access to moderator tools?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta. In theory 10k users can do everything that doesn't require access to sensitive data. ♦ mods don't need to vote to perform user actions, and have a few extra things they can do that users can't do at all. They also have access to a bunch of random site data, which is the reason for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt;, but the hope is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;regular users can do almost anything&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T03:39:23.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-04T03:07:50.703" Score="6" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Years ago I was taught that it was best practice to use absolute paths when creating symbolic links, unless I had a specific reason to use a relative symbolic link.  I want to know if this is true or not, and why.  The problem is that &quot;best practice&quot; questions are subjective, and I don't want to be flamed for my first post on Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a serious *nix question that I'd like the answer to, and which I think would be helpful to other people.  Is this question welcome on Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24258" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T22:28:28.737" Title="How can I ask a best-practice question about symbolic links?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1208" CreationDate="2013-04-04T10:49:15.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question should be framed as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the preferred way of creating symbolic links?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have been taught that symbolic links should be created using&#xA;  absolute paths. However, I am inclined towards creating them using&#xA;  relative paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...Mention what you already know about them and some of your arguments...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, I would like to know what are the pros and cons of each and what&#xA;  is the preferred way to create them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would provide you answers from both the groups (Absolute vs Relative) and you would be able to judge for yourself what would be the &quot;best practice&quot; for your case! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31668" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T10:49:15.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1204" CreationDate="2013-04-04T21:12:04.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree - especially for those with &lt;em&gt;a)&lt;/em&gt; crappy monitors and/or &lt;em&gt;b)&lt;/em&gt; visual issues requiring high contrast. I regularly use five different SE sites, and all have more easily-identified tags than U&amp;amp;L. Right now, the tags here are set to &lt;code&gt;background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240)&lt;/code&gt;. Adjusting it down to 200 or so looks much better, at least to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X0JjV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I apologize, I only have MS Paint on my work computer...&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19512" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T21:12:04.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1208" CreationDate="2013-04-04T22:28:28.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Framing your question as advantages and disadvantages would be one way to make it more constructive and increase the likelihood of it being helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifying that responses should include examples or illustrations would also assist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T22:28:28.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-04-05T11:29:42.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:12.3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ozMWu.png&quot; alt=&quot;openSUSE 12.3 is out&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31513" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T11:29:42.870" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-05T11:29:42.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1214" CreationDate="2013-04-08T15:09:38.717" Score="4" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer was on this site or on &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu.SE&lt;/a&gt;. It explained use of su, sudo and what root account means. It had lots of pictures, one of which is this one: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y764L.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y764L.png&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I go about searching for the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20506" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T16:06:00.300" Title="I want to find a specific answer" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1213" CreationDate="2013-04-08T16:06:00.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fi.stack.imgur.com%2FY764L.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google it&lt;/a&gt;? You can use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fi.stack.imgur.com%2FY764L.png&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange network search&lt;/a&gt; as well, although that's just a frontend for Google. The per-site search doesn't support looking up an image by URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/245201/how-to-not-become-a-root-user-are-administrators-root&quot;&gt;How to NOT become a root user? Are administrators root?&lt;/a&gt;, on AU&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T16:06:00.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-11T10:00:09.480" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the one hand VIM is something very UNIXish, on the other it exists also in windows and it's very related to programming. So where is the appropriate place to ask such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28508" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T20:04:42.697" Title="Vim related questions should be asked @ Unix or @ stackoverflow?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-04-12T14:45:25.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1215" CreationDate="2013-04-11T20:04:42.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably depends on the nature of your question.  For example, if you want to know how to alter the configuration to enable or modify C++ syntax highlighting in vim, then SO is probably a good place for that.  But if you want to know how to find the Fedora RPMs for the packages your need for that, then unix.SE is probably best.  In other words: is the question a programming-related task, or a *nix sysadmin-related task?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34210" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T20:04:42.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1218" CreationDate="2013-04-15T07:09:33.227" Score="17" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question itself is provocative, but I am interested in understanding why the community's repeated requests for, often trivial to implement, changes to the sites design are routinely ignored or dismissed as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we wasting our time asking for these changes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The requests that have piled up over the last 12-24 months that seem to me completely legitimate requests that would enhance the usability of the site for the people that actually frequent it are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1134/enhancements-to-css-for-kbd-needed&quot;&gt;Enhancements for CSS for &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; needed&lt;/a&gt; and the related &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/952/pretty-kbd-tags-for-ul&quot;&gt;Pretty &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; tags for U&amp;amp;L&lt;/a&gt; (together both questions garnering 35 upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/716/question-title-font-renders-0-number-zero-much-like-o-lower-case-letter&quot;&gt;Question title font renders 0 (number zero) much like o (lower-case letter)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1204/more-visible-tags&quot;&gt;More visible tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/800/better-question-title-font&quot;&gt;Better question title font&lt;/a&gt; (related to the above as well...)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose my frustration is that the community reports design bugs, which are addressed with commendable alacrity, but on matters that are more about the interaction between usability and aesthetics we are ignored.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that many of the people here do contribute significant amounts of time to making this an impressive resource for U&amp;amp;L, is it unreasonable to expect that we have some say in how the site looks, &lt;em&gt;particularly when it does impact upon our experience using the site&lt;/em&gt; as these proposed changes surely would?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T02:32:16.710" Title="Are requests for changes to the site design ignored by default?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1217" CreationDate="2013-04-15T21:46:51.683" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short version:&lt;/strong&gt; design tweaks and fixes take a long time because the triage process for design requests is perhaps the most brutal in-house. We currently only have one designer, and he handles CSS fixes for all sites on the network as well as various and sundry responsibilities to the company at large. Help us help you by suggesting potential hires; the faster we hire, the sooner your bugfixes happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The long version is a little more complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll rather directly answer your questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, your requests aren't ignored by default. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, you aren't wasting your time asking for these changes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, it's not unreasonable to expect to have some say in the overall look-and-feel of &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5276/&quot;&gt;aren't the first person&lt;/a&gt; to be frustrated by Stack Exchange's long response time to design tweaks and bugs. And, frankly, you're not going to be the last. You might have noticed that major flaws in your site's design are usually fixed quickly. However, when it comes to smaller design tweaks, such as the examples you posted above, those can take weeks, months, or even up to a year before they get resolved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does changing 0 and o styling take so long? Why does it take a million years (or what feels like it) to update your &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; styling? Why does changing your tag styling seem to yield nothing but radio silence? There are good, intensive answers for each of those. And they tie into how Stack Exchange is structured right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, our core development team (that is, the development team that works directly on the sites' engine) numbers 10 people: 9 developers and a project manager. That group of people is responsible for maintaining the existing infrastructure, updating features and documentation, as well as coding and committing new features and products. Some of those people also help out with our sysadmin team as sys-ops, helping out when we have to fail over because of a hurricane or when we move our database and servers. Ten people make sure that 100+ sites and millions of users have access to the information they need every single day. It's kind of insane when put like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps more relevant to this conversation directly: our design team is one person. If you haven't yet, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3/jin&quot;&gt;meet Jin&lt;/a&gt;, our &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; in-house designer. Jin single-handedly handles all design work on the Stack Exchange network: from developing designs for graduated sites, to fixing bugs in the CSS of various layouts (especially when the newest browser launches), to assisting with mockups and spec and final artwork for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos&quot;&gt;super fun promos&lt;/a&gt;, to doing a huge amount of design work -- marketing, layouts, promo materials, feature mockups, the list goes on -- for &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Careers 2.0&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a very literal standpoint: designer time is an extremely precious commodity in-house. Jin can really only work so many hours a day, so many days a week. Any demand on Jin means time is taken away from something else: a potential feature getting prettyfied, a Careers 2.0 pamphlet not receiving photographs, a site having its graduation delayed. This means that every design bug/request you all give us is pretty heavily triaged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Listen: &lt;em&gt;it's not that you aren't being heard&lt;/em&gt;. Design and dev aren't the only teams at this company. (I for one am rather fond of my team, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/99338&quot;&gt;Community Team&lt;/a&gt;, who try to keep an eye on your sites and escalate issues accordingly.) We hear you, we understand your frustration, and we're asking you to be patient with us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sympathetic -- there's a number of design feature requests that I'd like to push for. There's sites that are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; in need of a graduation design (Christianity, Board Games, Money) months after their graduation announcements, and there's sites that have a large backlog of design flaws they need to have address (Server Fault comes to mind immediately, along with many others), not to mention sites missing top user swag and moderator business cards (e.g. Skeptics, Electrical Engineering, Travel, and many more). All decisions regarding design allocation are made with great care and after a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of deliberation. We don't push a lot of design requests at Jin because we &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; can't do that; he's just one guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issues you've pointed out above have been handled by a developer. I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; they should be fixed (and marked as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; as well) in the next build, but it might require another day just to be sure. For the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; elements, that one's a bit more tricky; fixing that requires altering a file that more than one site depends upon. There's some hesitation to messing with it, because the overall impact is uncertain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to help us do better at fixing these issues, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/about/hiring&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;we're hiring for web developers and designers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If you know someone who would be a great fit for us, encourage them to apply! The sooner we can bring on more designers, the faster we'll be able to fix all the problems you report to us. That said: your issues are set aside but not forgotten. I assure you that every design bug meta post ends up on The List&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt; and I'm confident they will be addressed. It's just going to take some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T21:46:51.683" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2013-04-16T00:18:12.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historical note: this was changed to use Liberation Serif between April 16th of 2013 and August 9th 2018; this effectively resolved the issue. Since the more recent switch back to Georgia for the title font, the issue has returned (at least on Windows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2018-11-04T23:41:07.920" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T23:41:07.920" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="800" CreationDate="2013-04-18T21:14:53.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's Liberation Serif now, since apparently y'all like serifs more than SO does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;– &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/800/better-question-title-font#comment1805_800&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T21:14:53.537" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-18T21:14:53.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-20T23:11:47.070" Score="4" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remote-desktop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remote-desktop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remote-desktop&lt;/a&gt; be about the Windows &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Remote Desktop Protocol&lt;/a&gt; and associated tools, or about remote GUI in general, or about desktop sharing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current usage seems like a blend of all three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remote-desktop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remote-desktop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remote-desktop&lt;/a&gt; be about, and what should questions that turn out to be incorrectly tagged be retagged to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T01:31:55.103" Title="The /remote-desktop tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1221" CreationDate="2013-04-21T01:31:55.103" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rdp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rdp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rdp&lt;/a&gt; for Remote Desktop Protocol, but when I hear people say &quot;remote desktop&quot; they're almost always talking about that, so we should probably leave it as that. Normally people say VNC or X when they're talking about remote Linux GUIs, so we could probably go with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vnc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vnc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vnc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remote-x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remote-x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remote-x&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remote-x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remote-x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remote-x11&lt;/a&gt; for those&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T01:31:55.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1224" CreationDate="2013-04-22T05:07:05.227" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73206/getc-convert-to-syscall-read&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73206/getc-convert-to-syscall-read&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a bit of editing, then cast the fifth close vote - I believe I selected &quot;migrate to Stack Overflow&quot; as the four other closers had (but maybe I borked that; or imagined it, it's a bit early here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close dialog took a while to process, and now the question is closed as off-topic, and locked by our dear &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be normal. If I misread the close box and there were other types of close votes, it should have been closed but not locked. If it was rejected over at SO (which I see no trace of), same thing, it's not supposed to be locked here after the rejection AFAIK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T14:25:23.930" Title="Strange question status after an off-topic closure" Tags="|support|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1223" CreationDate="2013-04-22T14:25:23.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post was migrated initially, and migrated posts are always locked by Community to prevent the two copies from diverging. However, the asker is question-banned on SO, so the migration was immediately rejected, and the close reason reverted to off-topic, so Community unlocked the post again. The only odd part is why it took three hours to unlock; normally that happens immediately. I'm not sure what would've caused that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T14:25:23.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-22T15:03:45.560" Score="10" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was making a question related to bash built-in's and realise the existence of those two tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-builtin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-builtin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-builtin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/built-in&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;built-in&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;built-in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/built-in&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;built-in&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;built-in&lt;/a&gt; tag has only 3 questions, no wiki and no followers, in my opinion all questions would also fit in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-builtin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-builtin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-builtin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-builtin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-builtin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-builtin&lt;/a&gt; has 15 questions, with various shells and 1 follower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are those duplicate tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better if those tags are directly related to the shell itself like bash-builtin, csh-builtin, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30320" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-04-22T16:10:19.477" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T10:57:19.857" Title="shell-builtin and built-in: duplicate tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1228" CreationDate="2013-04-24T16:43:22.653" Score="12" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often it turns out that the answer to a question is not in the area where the asker assumed it to be. For obvious reasons the tags used by the asker refer to the question only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether the tags should be adapted when the solution is known. My current example is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73536/how-can-i-mount-filesystems-with-4kb-block-sizes&quot;&gt;How can I mount filesystems with &gt; 4KB block sizes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution is FUSE and there war already a tag &quot;fuse&quot;. So I retagged the question. From the afterwards perspective this makes sense to me. On the other hand: Probably nobody else with this problem will search for &quot;fuse&quot; because he would have to know the answer already...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: Should the tags describe the problem only or refer to the solution, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T21:08:15.353" Title="Shall tags refer to the solution, too?" Tags="|discussion|tags|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2013-04-24T16:51:43.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a tag should be applied to a question when it applies to one possible answer (which I think is the case with the question you link). Just because fuse happens to be a solution (maybe even the only reasonable one) doesn't mean that the question is about fuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes people ask questions where they're unfamiliar with the basic concepts, and where the tag describes the question &lt;em&gt;even though the asker didn't know it&lt;/em&gt;. In that case, a tag related to the answer may be appropriate, because it will help people who do know a little bit more find the question and its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T16:51:43.547" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2013-04-24T16:51:50.810" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already a bunch of questions on this topic on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26913/should-i-retag-a-question-with-a-tag-that-is-based-on-the-answer-and-not-the-que&quot;&gt;Should I retag a question with a tag that is based on the answer and not the question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52466/retagging-questions-in-terms-of-possible-answer-technologies&quot;&gt;Retagging questions in terms of possible answer technologies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35842/retagging-questions-with-the-answer&quot;&gt;Retagging questions with the answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144121/should-question-include-tags-that-are-mentioned-only-in-answers&quot;&gt;Should question include tags that are mentioned only in answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, the thinking seems to be go for it, as long as there's an already accepted answer that fits the specified tag (in your case the answer was posted by the OP, so it's probably getting accepted at some point). You shouldn't if you think somebody will post an answer that fits the tag but there currently isn't one. As long as the tag is going to help people with the same problem find a solution, it's a good idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T16:51:50.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1230" CreationDate="2013-04-24T17:19:21.133" Score="8" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73435/what-process-is-running-before-i-even-get-a-prompt&quot;&gt;What process is running before I even get a prompt?&lt;/a&gt;, the OP describes a problem with their login shell, soliciting several answers containing troubleshooting suggestions, but no real solution.  Then the OP was updated to say: &quot;This issue has mysteriously resolved itself...I can't reproduce [the cause].&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I flagged the question as too localized, but my flag was declined.  Is such a question not too localized?  Did the mod miss the edit?  Should I have added a comment to the already-long comment thread explaining my flag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34210" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T21:07:55.633" Title="Why isn't an unrepoducable problem too localized?" Tags="|support|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1229" CreationDate="2013-04-24T18:06:03.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the specific problem isn't reproduced, it seemed to me like the basic question and answers given could easily be useful to a future visitor. The answers give an overview of what's probably going on, and basic diagnostic steps which will apply to anyone regardless of the actual mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't think it's necessarily too localized, and definitely didn't want to close it by moderator fiat. (If enough high rep users want to vote to close it despite my opinion, I'm happy to shrug and go along.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T18:06:03.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1236" CreationDate="2013-04-25T16:30:14.807" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those of you that have 5+ on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt; tag, do you think it would be appropriate to point it as a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xorg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xorg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xorg&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-04-28T21:08:59.637" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T21:15:27.533" Title="Synonym: x11, xorg" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-26T18:56:13.513" Score="16" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering a question correctly sometimes requires asking for the original asker to  try some new things or post some new information.  These requests are often asked as comments to the question.  Often times, the original asker replies with this information in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate to leave their reply in the comments or is it better to edit the question and add the new information?  My impression is that editing the question to include this information would be the most helpful option.  This way future helpers and readers do not miss any information by neglecting to check all of the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After editing the question, would it be right to delete the appropriate comments?  Again, I feel that in keeping things as clear and easy for other people to help and for future users, these redundant or obsolete comments should be cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34796" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-04-28T21:07:38.447" LastActivityDate="2022-06-04T16:25:34.253" Title="Should questions be updated with information gleaned from comments?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2013-04-26T19:04:24.630" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think it's both appropriate and helpful, and you can flag comments as obsolete after making the edit. This isn't a discussion forum, and we should aim for improved questions rather than a back-and-forth in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be careful,  though, when the question starts off general but still answerable in a useful way, and it gets answers, but then the comments take it off in a different direction and possibly down a rabbithole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T19:04:24.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1225" CreationDate="2013-04-27T10:57:19.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several upvotes but no answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider them duplicate. Apart from that IMHO tag names should be clear. Knowingly having these two for different purposes would most probably confuse a lot of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I would not consider it useful to create bash-builtin, csh-builtin and so on. What is the advantage of &lt;code&gt;bash-builtin&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;bash shell-builtin&lt;/code&gt;? We have &lt;code&gt;fsck&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ext4&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;btrfs&lt;/code&gt;. Shall &lt;code&gt;ext4-fsck&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;btrfs-fsck&lt;/code&gt; be added now? That would make sense to me only if serious problems were solved. Like avoiding problems with the 5-tags limit. But I don't think that is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T10:57:19.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2013-04-27T13:30:30.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding appropriate material from the comments to the end of the question to clarify seems fine to me, but I have mixed feelings about actually deleting comments.  It seems to me that this risks over zealousness, whereby information that may be relevant to someone reading the question might be removed because the person removing thought it redundant.  That is potentially subjective; I sometimes read an unsolved question in terms of where it has gone, and it is presumptuous in this case to assume that the &quot;destination&quot; &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; deduce from that == the journey. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put slightly differently: if no one has answered the question to the OP's satisfaction, then it is hard to see how someone doing editing could claim complete comprehension of the problem.  If such a person wants to paraphrase comments and &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; that to the question, great, but &lt;em&gt;removing the original source&lt;/em&gt; when you have not solved the problem described and elaborated in that source seems like a bad practice to me (a crime scene might be a good analogy here, lol).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reading comments sometimes provides subtle clues to the nature of a questioner's confusion.&lt;/strong&gt;  Those &quot;subtle clues&quot; may not be perceived as relevant information by someone doing an edit before the problem/confusion is resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, IMHO, deleting your own comments, or deleting comments and paraphrasing them &lt;em&gt;after an answer is ticked off&lt;/em&gt;, is fine.  But deleting anything before than implies you think you know what's relevant even though you don't know the answer.  Maybe that's true, but I think it is not a good premise to act on, deleting comments wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;General tidiness&quot; to me is not a significant enough counter concern; if you want to tidy up in this way, do it &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the problem is solved.  &lt;strong&gt;People who don't want to read the comments don't have to.&lt;/strong&gt;  They are very easy to ignore.  I realize it is not a discussion forum (clue: there actually is no discussion forum) but &lt;em&gt;there are comments&lt;/em&gt;, they do have a use value, and please don't throw out the baby with the bath water!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T13:30:30.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1231" CreationDate="2013-04-28T21:15:27.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;X11 and X.org are two different concepts. While an overwhelming majority of questions are about X11 as implemented by X.org, there are a few questions about other implementations. Furthermore X.org may one day no longer be the de facto standard X11 implementation (remember XFree86?), so I don't think we should lock ourselves to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that X.org's overwhelming domination makes this difficult, but we should strive to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt; on questions about X11 in general and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xorg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xorg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xorg&lt;/a&gt; on questions about the X.org implementation specifically. This is similar to the distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; (which is implicit on all questions on this site) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;, or between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I minimize a window from the command line? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I make my graphics card work? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xorg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xorg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xorg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keyboard remapping &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OpenGL acceleration &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xorg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xorg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xorg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are undoubtedly many gray areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are surely a lot of questions with the wrong tag right now, but we should try to get it right most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T21:15:27.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-29T17:05:32.357" Score="6" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was quite surprised when I was told after making an edit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73924/reading-encrypted-partition-with-broken-lvm2-inside&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;it is better to comment (and optionally ask OP to change question) then correcting misconceptions&quot;. Embarrassing enough that I mixed up &quot;encryption&quot; and &quot;decryption&quot; so that our master guru had to correct me once more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the intention of commenting as teaching the questioner but IMHO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this wastes time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this creates unnecessary comments (which I think should generally be avoided)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the correction should usually be better if done by the one who noticed the problem than if done by the one who made the mistake (at least with misconceptions); not just better but easier and faster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the teaching effect should be reached by looking at the edit and its comment, too. If not then the questioner may extend the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get reputation points for editing (but not for commenting), the questioner doesn't :-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are the &quot;rules&quot; / attitudes about this? Edit yourself for corrections that need not be explained, edit everything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T15:18:27.730" Title="edit vs. comment" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1237" CreationDate="2013-04-29T17:59:20.817" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1232/should-questions-be-updated-with-information-gleaned-from-comments&quot;&gt;another recent question&lt;/a&gt; seem intimately related, so I'll try to avoid repeating myself too literally and address your points WRT comments vs. edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1. this wastes time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that is subjective, but I would have said making a comment is often easier than an edit.  Put another way, if you are just correcting a typo, then sure, an edit is easier.  If it is something more complex, then an edit &lt;em&gt;should seem harder&lt;/em&gt; than a comment -- if not, I worry you are using too big a hammer (pounds nails in faster but tends to damage the surface too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, doing something one way because it is easier or faster does not always make it the best choice anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2. this creates unnecessary comments (which I think should generally be avoided)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No doubt almost everyone thinks &lt;em&gt;unnecessary&lt;/em&gt; comments should be avoided.  However, I don't think it is a good idea to encourage people to make edits instead of comments on the premise that all comments are ultimately unnecessary because the ideal Q&amp;amp;A has no comments; first because if the powers that be thought that was so, SE would not have comments, period, and second because that is begging for disasters of a much more serious sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather see a few &amp;quot;unnecessary&amp;quot; comments than watch a question mutate as 3 or 4 people decide it needs to be edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3. the correction should usually be better if done by the one who noticed the problem than if done by the one who made the mistake&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You raise a good point in so far as the questioner may decide to edit something based on a comment and misinterpret it.  IMO, though, in many or most cases it is better to give them the chance and correct their attempt if necessary rather than do it pre-emptively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4. the teaching effect should be reached by looking at the edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is value in that for some simple things but I would not rely on it or stretch it too far!  It is probably much easier to misinterpret an edit than a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&amp;quot;It's not a discussion forum&amp;quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly worth noting to newcomers, but I sometimes see it repeated with a bit too much zeal.  To me, the point is simply to make clear the difference between SE and traditional forums.  It is not to say there should be no dialogue of any kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As is, &lt;em&gt;extended discussion&lt;/em&gt; is (effectively) discouraged largely by the mechanics of comments: they have to be short, you can't use a lot of features, you can't edit them past 5 minutes, and if you go back and forth you are reminded of/invited to the opportunity to chat.  Currently, I don't see any serious problems with that system, or the behaviour it produces.  A question or answer with 20 comments on it should not &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt; be seen as something which needs &amp;quot;cleaning up&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;correcting&amp;quot;.  It may, but IMO it may just as easily not.  Notice despite all the other restrictions, there is AFAIK no limit to the number of comments that can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are certain kinds of information best left in a comment&lt;/strong&gt;, just as there are certain kinds of information best left in a footnote.  Cramming footnotes into the main body of a text &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; automatically make it clearer (or less cluttered) and can easily &lt;em&gt;do the opposite.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, the final point I'd make is that different people think differently and making more rules to discourage such differences is not good for any community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T15:18:27.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1237" CreationDate="2013-05-04T19:20:43.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a bit reluctant to post this as to my direct involvement, but to clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; feature at &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;SE&lt;/a&gt;. Coming across the OP (Original Poster) mentioned edit I asked myself whether to accept or decline. As of the comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;decrypting and mounting are completely different actions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my interpretation, also from reading question, was that IMHO I was not sure whether this was a misconception or ambiguous wording from OP's stand. As&#xA;one can't &lt;code&gt;skip&lt;/code&gt; + leave comment I left a comment where I found it most suitable: below the question. Not meant as a bashing &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; critique or imprecations – merely as a hint. Nor as a habit or &lt;em&gt;my new standard&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasoning:&lt;/strong&gt; My initial perception was that it was not clear if this was a &#xA;misconceptions revealed or a less then perfect use of words. As inclined to assume the former as much as the latter my response lead&#xA;to leave a hopefully constructive comment mere then a uncertain decline or approve trough the power of &lt;code&gt;review&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A broader argument for the &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; would be that if OP reveals something that can be construed as a misunderstanding it is better, for the sake of OP, to  give a chance to both respond, correct and consume positive critique in a way that increases knowledge for the initiator. After all this is for one a knowledge base, but also in its more crude sense a Q and A site where one should respect OP as much as possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am always, perhaps often to much, very cautious about changing OP's phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one it can severely affect already &lt;em&gt;in edit&lt;/em&gt; answers, already posted answers, and the like. I have witnessed this on occasion where question is being edited making answers seeming out of context – or straight out wrong. Also, and perhaps more important, (again), is to ensure the OP really gets what one mean. One also stand the chance of making edits, perhaps especially in answers, where one have misunderstood the meaning of OP, AKA the OP is ambiguous (a fate I suffer under quite so often).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To head (or perhaps post) line: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Iff&lt;/a&gt; OP has a misconception – address it trough answer or comment. At least as step 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with the thorough answer given by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/25985/goldilocks&quot;&gt;@goldilocks&lt;/a&gt; – and at the same time as yes &lt;strong&gt;It's not a discussion forum&lt;/strong&gt; – I clearly mean that one has to allow communication between fellow users and participants of the service of SO. In a limited form. I also have the habit of (often) deleting comments when I see issue resolved. (Don't know if this is good or bad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(English is not my first language and I apologize for any wrong wording. Some days I feel my English is a gray mess.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-05-04T19:20:43.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-08T22:44:35.820" Score="9" ViewCount="627" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tty&lt;/a&gt; mean? It seems to be used sometimes synonymously with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes synonymously with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/console&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;console&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;console&lt;/a&gt;, even sometimes to mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;. Does it have a meaning of its own? Should we retag it away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T11:25:56.903" Title="What does the tty tag mean?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-10T08:55:46.193" Score="13" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1096/how-should-we-deal-with-duplicate-answers&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; similar question on Meta Stack Overflow, but it mostly deals with duplicate answers that come about due to the race to answer, which is outside of the scope of my question (which deals with answers made a lengthy period afterwards).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have, in the past, flagged answers that are merely a subset of the same information contained within a previous answer, where the two answers were not both posted within a reasonable timeframe of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously this has not been a problem, and my flags under this context were approved, but yesterday I had a flag of this type declined as being &lt;em&gt;on principle&lt;/em&gt; not suitable for the flagging system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is appropriate to flag answers that are merely repeating the same information given a significant time previously, and, by which, add nothing new? If not, are answers that are merely repetitions of previously given information considered a non-issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T07:25:08.227" Title="Should answers adding no new information be flagged?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1241" CreationDate="2013-05-10T10:06:43.707" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those are, I find, hard to deal with because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; answers, so flagging as &lt;em&gt;not an answer&lt;/em&gt; isn't appropriate at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers aren't &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;, misleading or otherwise technically/factually incorrect, so a downvote doesn't necessarily seem appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Very low quality&lt;/em&gt; doesn't necessarily apply either, they're often &amp;quot;salvageable&amp;quot; with an edit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But they are, to me, &lt;em&gt;annoying&lt;/em&gt; because they bring nothing new.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no &amp;quot;doesn't add anything new&amp;quot; flag reason, and I guess that makes some sort of sense: unless the answer has some other flag- or downvote-worthy characteristics, does it actually do any harm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having several answers that explain essentially the same thing, but worded/presented differently isn't intrinsically bad. In fact, it can actually be good, just like keeping duplicate questions visible and indexed - makes the information more &amp;quot;findable&amp;quot;. Having something explained in a few different ways makes it more likely to be well understood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, poor/barely mediocre late answers that regurgitate things that have already been said shouldn't be encouraged. Here's a few thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is just a copy/paste of an existing one, flag it and explain that's the reason why you're flagging - a word-for-word duplicate doesn't add &lt;em&gt;anything at all&lt;/em&gt;. Those usually lack any attribution, so that's another reason for a flag (&amp;quot;plagiarism&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all cases where you're flagging a post that, when taken in isolation, doesn't really look like it's flag-worthy, make your flag message as clear as you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the quality of the answer is also very poor, i.e. formatted like a blob of goo held together with txtspk that requires several parses to even grep what it's about, there's a flag (and review queue) for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment&lt;/strong&gt;. Let the poster know that repeating information without anything new doesn't help and isn't the kind of contributions we're after. As always, be nice. Try and steer the user into making their post better, don't flame them for being a noob. Stack Exchange sites don't work like most of the other sites out there, some new users need a bit of &amp;quot;tutoring&amp;quot; to really understand how we work, and everyone can help with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote&lt;/strong&gt;. The tooltip does say: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;this answer is not useful&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. Matches the symptoms if it truly doesn't add anything of value. For the more extreme cases, remember that downvotes as well as deletions are taken into account for the automated post bans. So when you see something that's simply not useful at all, downvote. The problem will eventually fix itself it the user doesn't adjust to our site's guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The two last bullet points are not mutually exclusive.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T10:06:43.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1241" CreationDate="2013-05-10T13:16:21.433" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall, I don't think these answers are really a problem. Just leave them and they won't rise to the top. If the answer is really just plagiarizing the existing content in a literal way, then it might be appropriate for flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other cases, though, and I think the flagged post that brought this question qualifies, the new answers are a good-faith attempt to present the same information with a better structure or wording. Even if the actual underlying information is the same, this can still be positive. (One could of course edit the existing answers, but there's a degree of change in tone of voice, ordering of points, etc., where an edit isn't really right.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T13:16:21.433" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1241" CreationDate="2013-05-10T16:36:30.863" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally delete answers that are duplicates of existing answers, but only if the answer was way later (usually it's days or months later, but at least an hour at minimum). I don't really agree with mattdm's endorsement of multiple answers presenting the same information phrased differently; I'd rather each answer be a different point, so somebody scrolling through them doesn't have to keep thinking &quot;this is useless, I just read this five seconds ago on the last answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T16:36:30.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-11T00:44:45.073" Score="11" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can change your vote for a question (or answer) after it has been edited. Quite often at least questions improve soon (because the questioner is told that the question is bad and what information is missing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I caught myself thinking after downvoting a question or answer: Will I &lt;strong&gt;notice&lt;/strong&gt; a possible improvement of this post and thus revoke my downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I thought it would be nice to be informed of edits to a post which one has downvoted. I could understand that people who vote very often do not want to get many notifications (though that would contradict the idea of the vote change possibility after an edit) but you could be asked everytime you downvote: &quot;Do you want to be notified of edits to this post?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional thought: If a downvote is revoked then the author of the post should not get back both reputation points but just one. I think there should be a difference between those who ask good questions and those who just repair their bad questions after causing the trouble of having to tell them to. (There already is an implicit penalty, of course: You don't get upvoted while the post is bad and most readers will not come back to it later.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="32191" LastEditDate="2013-05-11T02:08:34.193" LastActivityDate="2018-03-10T14:25:38.430" Title="inform about edits after downvotes" Tags="|feature-request|editing|voting|down-votes|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-05-12T16:44:19.123" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3dPRw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Linux&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17008" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T16:44:19.123" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-12T16:44:19.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1248" CreationDate="2013-05-13T03:12:15.853" Score="3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;If no one answers my questions, why can't I have the points for a bounty returned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone offers a reward and no one cashes in, the person doesn't forfeit the amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the deal? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36241" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-09-24T03:34:56.820" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T03:34:56.820" Title="Why don't I get the bounty points back if there are no answers?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1247" CreationDate="2013-05-13T04:21:56.383" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;main FAQ entry about bounties&lt;/a&gt; covers this, and there are a few existing meta questions on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59931/return-bounty-to-questions-that-get-no-answers&quot;&gt;Return bounty to questions that get no answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21609/should-bounty-be-returned-if-there-is-no-answer-at-all/162049#162049&quot;&gt;Should bounty be returned if there is NO answer at all?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/56298/why-arent-bounties-refunded-if-they-are-not-awarded&quot;&gt;Why aren't bounties refunded if they are not awarded?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best explanation is probably from the FAQ entry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If after the end of the bounty period a question has no answers, no bounty will be awarded and the question will no longer be featured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are best understood as exchanging reputation for higher question visibility and increased answerer motivation. A bounty does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; guarantee a response and is not refunded if none are received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/56299/145982&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; on one of the other posts points out, if you got the rep back you'd be able to immediately start another bounty -- you could keep your question on the Featured list forever (until it gets an answer, anyway), and if a bunch of people start doing that it makes bounties less useful for everyone. You're paying for extra exposure, not the answer itself, although hopefully the former leads to the latter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T04:21:56.383" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-13T20:18:02.063" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to know if some questions of mine could be migrated here, if they are appropriate for this site and if by doing so I will get a chance to have them answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I write here after being advised to do so in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/6745/i-need-advice-on-where-to-move-some-questions-of-mine&quot;&gt;Superuser meta site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions were asked there, but they haven't received a lot of attention, and I'd like to try moving them somewhere else. The questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/585295/how-to-customize-logout-options-under-linux&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/questions/585295/how-to-customize-logout-options-under-linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/584446/how-to-properly-configure-grub-settings-from-kde-system-settings&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/questions/584446/how-to-properly-configure-grub-settings-from-kde-system-settings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/586031/quick-usb-pendrive-formatting-under-kde&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/questions/586031/quick-usb-pendrive-formatting-under-kde&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/584896/repository-to-upgrade-sigil-to-latest-version-on-kubuntu&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/questions/584896/repository-to-upgrade-sigil-to-latest-version-on-kubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think that they have a chance of being successfully answered here? I'm rather new of the StackExchange network and I don't know if they are more appropriate (or have a better chance to be solved) on &quot;Unix and Linux&quot; or on &quot;AskUbuntu&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37439" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T21:28:57.390" Title="Can I migrate some questions of mine from Superuser to here?" Tags="|support|migration|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1249" CreationDate="2013-05-13T21:28:57.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;General Linux questions are allowed on both sites. We usually point people to AskUbuntu if the question is Ubuntu-specific, and they point people to us if the question doesn't apply to Ubuntu at all. In your case, all of those questions would be fine here, although you might want to put &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/584896/repository-to-upgrade-sigil-to-latest-version-on-kubuntu&quot;&gt;Repository to upgrade Sigil to latest version on (K)ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; on AU since it's specific to Ubuntu&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T21:28:57.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1241" CreationDate="2013-05-15T07:11:37.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to flag answers that give no new information, shouldn't the time difference matter in this case? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In simple questions two or three exact same answers appear very fast. In stackoverflow for example almost in seconds. In unix/linux quite fast also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if there are two answers given on the same minute, which one is the obsolete one? They have probably been written at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long answers are a different case. You spend 10minutes writing a good answer, and then at the same time / in that time, somebody else gives the same information. Should you be rewarded with a flag then? In long answers, even tough the information might be the same, the format might differ and be more easily understandable to different readers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30921" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T07:25:08.227" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T07:25:08.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1240" CreationDate="2013-05-15T09:45:14.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A terminal is at the end of an electric wire, a shell is the home of a turtle, tty is a strange abbreviation and a console is [&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/4132/28489&quot;&gt;…&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/em&gt; :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Believe it, might, should keep on living, but with a decent wiki defining it. It could also perhaps be an idea to have a &lt;em&gt;&quot;see also: terminal, console, shell ...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and, in danger of perhaps breaking some wiki-convention, even a link to the above quoted answer/question or the like. (It is perhaps not possible in the excerpt / short-tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, at least for Linux etc. users, where one usually have tty1-7 trough &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;F#&lt;/kbd&gt;, and the familiar. (as in):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+-------------------------------------------------------------------- - -  -&#xA;|&#xA;| Welcome to Linux 3.10-rc1 (tty1)&#xA;|&#xA;| SERV login: _&#xA;|&#xA;. ...&#xA;| &#xA;| SERV login: john&#xA;| Password:&#xA;| Linux 3.10-rc1&#xA;| Last login: May 14 05:32:16 +0200 2013 on tty1.&#xA;| You have new mail.&#xA;|&#xA;| Blore's Razor:&#xA;|        Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.&#xA;|&#xA;| SERV@john: ~$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the light use of the word is for these access points to the system. Usually when explicitly referring to a non-X environment – as in: not terminal-emulator.&#xA;It kind of becomes a short-cut to express something in a way that hopefully is quickly recognized. I.e. &lt;em&gt;&quot;When on tty4 …&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;X went nuclear so I logged into another TTY …&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst &lt;em&gt;terminal&lt;/em&gt; often, but not always, is used to express virtual emulators in a GUI environment. And &lt;em&gt;console&lt;/em&gt; get a mixed use between them all. I seldom see anyone use the phrasing tty-window, but it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know how the tags affect the underlying logic of e.g. search beyond direct specification. But at least for those of us frequently using &lt;code&gt;&quot;[some_tag] search term&quot;&lt;/code&gt; the use of &lt;code&gt;tty&lt;/code&gt; would perhaps have it's purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Though, as a side point, I rarely use it here, but mostly on Stackoverflow for &lt;code&gt;[C]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[asm]&lt;/code&gt; etc. where it definitively is a saver.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point of i all being how to express the tag-wiki in a way best served. Giving the possibility to re-tag if far off, and also being a source of information thus learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A short undecided discussion with myself and you all.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So; &lt;em&gt;what does the tty tag mean&lt;/em&gt;? Quickly realizing that this did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; became an answer, I'll leave it in hope it might give some input on how and what to do. If not I can delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T09:45:14.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-16T21:10:26.377" Score="8" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/config&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;config&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;config&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/configuration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;configuration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;configuration&lt;/a&gt; maybe could be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37439" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-05-16T22:16:49.637" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T22:16:49.637" Title="I think that &quot;config&quot; and &quot;configuration&quot; tags could be merged" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1253" CreationDate="2013-05-16T22:16:37.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/config&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;config&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;config&lt;/a&gt; now points to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/configuration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;configuration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;configuration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T22:16:37.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-17T04:08:42.407" Score="12" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have been trying to edit/add tag wiki information. Most of my suggested edits are getting approved, but I do notice with the ones rejected (and some reject votes on the accepted ones), they have listed the reason as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning&#xA;  or intent of the post would be lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can look at my first few tag wiki edits to see this. These were all for tags that did not have any content prior to me suggesting the edits, so I am confused as to what the reasoning behind this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure this has been addressed somewhere, but did not find anything searching Meta on here or on a couple other sites. I was just wondering if someone could clear this up for me so I can be more productive in my editing, and not waste reviewers time if my edits are not right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34433" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T04:08:42.407" Title="Why are edits for new tag entries getting rejected for changing too much of the original content?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1257" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-21T12:05:40.443" Score="5" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76516/i-cant-get-cinnamon-to-stop-freezing-how-can-i-revert-it-back&quot;&gt;I can&amp;#39;t get Cinnamon to stop freezing, how can I revert it back?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up doing something wrong and Cinnamon is now in limbo, as in, it doesn't even recognize what version it is and it won't purge / remove. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I received can be useful to someone else, but at the same time, I'm worried that it might make things worse for someone else at the same time. (Long story short, Cinnamon didn't want to downgrade but it ended up removing files that 1.8 needed before realizing that 'hey, won't'; when I tried to reinstall 1.8, when I realized it wouldn't downgrade, it wouldn't reinstall. &lt;code&gt;cinnamon --version&lt;/code&gt; ended up giving me some garbled response pretty much saying can't do something with cinnamon. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there is an answer, I can't delete this question myself anymore, even if I wanted to. I don't know what should happen with this question, either should we leave it up or should it be deleted? (I'm okay with either one. I just know that it no longer helps me :-/ )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32081" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T00:15:39.263" Title="What should I do with my question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1257" CreationDate="2013-05-21T14:58:10.543" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the answer might be helpful to someone else you should leave the question. You've already got a comment saying it might be dangerous, so other people should be forewarned if they want to try&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T14:58:10.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-24T08:22:39.633" Score="9" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that votes are kept when editing existing community ad submissions. For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/1107/revisions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; case, I would vote for the first version, but not the later ones, and yet the votes are kept. Even if the actual meaning is the same, the formatting and presentation matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done about such situations? Should votes be reset if major changes are made to the ads that are presented? Should making major changes to them be disallowed altogether?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T05:10:39.413" Title="Should votes be reset when making substantial edits to community ads?" Tags="|discussion|community-ads-meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1259" CreationDate="2013-05-26T04:58:40.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the underlying issue that you have identified can be addressed more expediently by rolling back the subsequent edits to the version that the community actually upvoted above the necessary threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does seem a breach of faith, if not of the actual policy which doesn't explicitly prevent this behaviour, to substitute another image(s) once the ad has been accepted. These new images have not been explicitly endorsed by the community and therefore lack the legitimacy of the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if, as in the case you link to, the images are part of the same branding portfolio, allowing this undermines the concept of the vote and is not a practice that should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have taken the liberty of reverting to the original logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2013-05-26T05:10:39.413" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T05:10:39.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-26T19:42:35.793" Score="17" ViewCount="897" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I come across superfluous uses of &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt;, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ cat file | grep pattern&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ grep pattern file&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ cat file | somecommand options&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ somecommand options &amp;lt; file&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ &amp;lt;file somecommand options&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to directly edit those cases and remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20130625165431/http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;useless uses of cat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think, is that a best practice for the Unix &amp;amp; Linux stackexchange, or should other actions (e.g. adding a comment) be preferred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On what is useless&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above examples and link are about useless-uses-of-cat - why useless? Basically because an unnecessary call of &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; is made, i.e. a &lt;code&gt;fork()&lt;/code&gt; and a &lt;code&gt;/exec()&lt;/code&gt; system call are wasted. It is useless because concatenating just one thing results in that one thing (input = output, the indentity function).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the context still matters. For a class of useless-uses-of cat the concatenation of one file is a necessity but not sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Useful examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a command line where &lt;code&gt;cat foo | &lt;/code&gt; is used as an example to provide a non-seekable input is a useful use of cat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a command line where &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; is used to output a proprietary source (e.g. MVS datasets on ceratin IBM systems)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a command like &lt;code&gt;( cmd1; cat midpart; cmd2; cat bottom; ) &amp;gt; completeoutput&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, it should not be difficult to spot useless-uses-of-cat because of the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1131" LastEditorUserId="1131" LastEditDate="2023-03-26T11:41:31.680" LastActivityDate="2023-03-26T11:41:31.680" Title="Remove useless-uses-of-cat or not?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-05-27T08:26:22.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the site is a wiki and subsequent edits are transparent, rather than just commenting I think people should edit the offending answers (or questions) and save a feline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the benefit of ensuring that, as a learning resource, the site maintains unimpeachable standards and&amp;mdash;strictly as a by-product, continues to be a welcome habitat for the pedant and cognoscente.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to preserving our whiskered friends, edits are also called for in cases where other egregious offenses against Unix propriety are committed, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parsing &lt;code&gt;ls&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Underquoting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T08:26:22.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-05-27T08:35:27.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not edited that particular code pattern, but if I do change code, I tend to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only do so in questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make sure there are no comments or answers (yet)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;write a comment to the OP to verify if (s)he agrees to the change and invite to roll-back if not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With answers, I would only leave a comment. There is a much greater chance that the poster of the answer will improve the post. If they do not the answer probably will get less (or neg) votes anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are answers or comments, then there is good chance someone already took the errors into account in there, and an edit could invalidate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend to be careful with these kind of things and make the OP more explicitly aware of what you did per comments than just rely on the system.&#xA;I have e.g. seen a post on this site where such a minor thing as adding a tag caused misinterpretation of an (ambiguous) question. OP was not notified per comment of the inappropriate disambiguation by the edit, did not react to that edit (arguable OP's fault, but with 5-6 edits OP might have lost track even when notified by the system of the edits), resulting in a question closed  appropriately as duplicate if tags would have been correct, but not based on content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T08:35:27.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-27T21:32:59.547" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do understand the importance of limiting the time in which a bounty can be awarded (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I wonder if mods have the ability to award an expired bounty in exceptional circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76120/gdm-hangs-when-home-directory-is-inaccessible&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I have totally missed the deadline to award the bounty to the person who has rightfully deserved it. It was totally my fault, but don't see why that user should not be awarded the bounty for the great contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer already has 2 votes, the second came right after the bounty has expired.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had enough reputation, I would award the bounty again, but that is not possible at the moment, which makes me feel very bad about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also really think that there should be a few days more time to award a bounty. Or perhaps it should not be strictly time based, but log-in/session based. Like for example prompt the user for a last chance to award the bounty when the user returns after the expiration time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21097" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T10:42:23.137" Title="Award bounty after expiration" Tags="|support|feature-request|bounty|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1264" CreationDate="2013-05-28T01:40:17.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However I wonder if mods have the ability to award an expired bounty in exceptional circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, we can't; once the bounty is over it's over. The system already awards half the bounty if you forget, but in this case the answer didn't get enough upvotes to qualify for it. Changing bounties so they don't expire until the user logs in could result in them extending indefinitely, and bounties put the question on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=featured&quot;&gt;featured list&lt;/a&gt;, so we can't have them sitting there forever. I guess the grace period could be extended, but the site already nags you quite a lot about the impending end of a bounty via notifications and e-mails, plus the bonus 24 hours to make up your mind if you got a bunch of really good answers; that should really be more than enough time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T01:40:17.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1275" CreationDate="2013-05-28T04:51:10.653" Score="13" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;FAQ states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Shell scripting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions &lt;em&gt;(note: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/97/29&quot;&gt;being cross-platform does not disqualify&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces &lt;em&gt;( &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/314/29&quot;&gt;within reason&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;then you're in the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thought bullet point 5 covered &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/77256/28489&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about Skype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only to clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T02:50:22.783" Title="Are Skype questions off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1266" CreationDate="2013-05-28T06:33:36.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the close voters, and I looked at the FAQ before I did vote. I will try to recap the things I considered before voting and rationalise my, partly intuitive, handling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the 5th bullet item as that a package does not have to be &lt;strong&gt;exclusively&lt;/strong&gt; *nix. Of course Skype falls in that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I felt there was &lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; in the question that made a particular link to *nix apart from the irrelevant&amp;mdash;for the problem&amp;mdash;Ubuntu tag. I found the question more appropriate for SU (or for that matter on AU), unfortunately that is not (yet) an option to recommend when marking off topic on unix-SX, otherwise I would have done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that &lt;strong&gt;more appropriate&lt;/strong&gt; might not be a good motivation for closing a question as off topic. What probably influenced my decision is that it was a first question (rep 1) and I think the OP should be redirected to a (IMHO) a more appropriate site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a grey area, and because of that I am happy we need multiple votes to close a question, if it had not been closed, I would have taken notice and change my behaviour in the future (it would be nice to get a notice automatically on what happened to a question one voted upon, or at least when the outcome was different from ones own vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; should go with &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; non-*nix-specific questions for Firefox, Musicbrainz Picard, VirtualBox, Chromium, Calibre, LibreOffice and Acrobat Reader (to name a few applications I use on Ubuntu) to SU. If  questions about those applications show up here too much, without any relevance to *nix apart from the OP running *nix as her/his OS, this site will not be interesting to me. That of course would automatically solve the problem of one of the close voters for these kind of questions hanging around here :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/100/33055&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; answer by Michael graphically closely represents my opinion on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T06:40:44.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1266" CreationDate="2013-05-28T09:22:27.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;being cross-platform does not disqualify...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does not entail that cross-platform questions automatically qualify either. There is nothing in the question particular to U&amp;amp;L: it could equally be asked of a Skype install on a Windows machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T09:22:27.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-05-28T21:30:46.967" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't mind a dissenting opinion from a junior member here, I'd like to say: please don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it may be useless on its own, &lt;code&gt;cat somefile&lt;/code&gt; is a nice stand-in for &lt;code&gt;dosomething --write-to stdout&lt;/code&gt;.  So, to take a simple case, let's pretend someone asks the question, &quot;How do I only show the non-blank lines in myfile.conf?&quot;  The answer &lt;code&gt;grep -v ^$ &amp;lt; myfile.conf&lt;/code&gt; might be more pleasing to read than &lt;code&gt;cat myfile.conf | grep -v ^$&lt;/code&gt;, but it's not as helpful to the person with the similar question, &quot;How do I only show the non-blank lines in the output from my application?&quot;  The UUOC answer, though, let's them just copy the &lt;code&gt;| grep -v ^$&lt;/code&gt; part and paste it onto their command line after the command invocation, see that it works, give you an upvote, and close their browser and get back to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this becomes a lot more useful when you start doing something more complex, such as chaining commands together.  In a script, as I'm debugging it and trying to understand how each command affects the stream, I might start out with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo --bar &amp;gt; file1.txt&#xA;cat file1.txt | sort -r &amp;gt; file2.txt&#xA;cat file2.txt | uniq -c&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and now I can examine the intermediate files, and, once I'm convinced that the right thing is happening each time, put everything together easily with just copy-and-paste or removing the excess junk:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo --bar | sort -r | uniq -c&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hardly the most interesting example, of course.  But being able to just replace &lt;code&gt;cat somefile&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;something-interesting&lt;/code&gt; is a simple thing to do when you're still trying to understand how the stuff &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; your UUOC is going to behave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites are here to (among other things) help people learn, and being a little more verbose helps accomplish that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4443" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T21:30:46.967" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-05-29T17:20:22.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;superfluous&quot; uses should be left alone.  I frequently cat into pipelines and the reason is that I don't have to remember whether the target command is going to produce different output, as some do when you give them a file or multiple filenames on the command line.  &lt;code&gt;cat bar | grep foo&lt;/code&gt; is the same as &lt;code&gt;grep foo bar&lt;/code&gt;, but &lt;code&gt;cat bar blatz | grep foo&lt;/code&gt; isn't the same as &lt;code&gt;grep foo bar blatz&lt;/code&gt;.  If I consistently use cat, then that's one less thing to remember in a congeries of fiddly things to remember under Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14259" LastActivityDate="2013-05-29T17:20:22.883" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-05-29T22:04:14.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Promote proper programming. Stamp out silly code smell memes. Educate the masses. Edit away, I say!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7107" LastActivityDate="2013-05-29T22:04:14.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-05-30T14:32:41.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd better add a link to these explanation, perhaps add a variant without &quot;cat&quot; or give a hint about this possibility, but also leave the original code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, it was there for a reason, say, uniformity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving an explicit link to the explanation is more educating for all the readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4319" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T14:32:41.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1273" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-30T15:47:06.497" Score="6" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77582/moving-compiled-assembly-code-to-the-boot-sector-of-a-usb-device?noredirect=1#comment113732_77582&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and it got closed. I believe that the concerns cited were dealt with very clearly in the original question and that the people who closed it simply did not read past the title, but I have re-writen it completely to address this. Is the re-writen version acceptable, or do I still need to do something to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I still need to work on it, are there any suggestions? Does it need to moved to a different site as some comments have said about the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27092" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T00:16:16.873" Title="Reopen a closed question after a major edit?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1273" CreationDate="2013-05-30T15:54:56.347" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, edited closed questions get put into the review queue and active high-rep users are encouraged to look at them and consider voting to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I've reopened it based on the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T15:54:56.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1266" CreationDate="2013-05-31T00:12:41.783" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is on-topic. As you mention, the FAQ explicitly allows questions about cross-platform applications. There are several reasons for that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user shouldn't need to find out whether the application exists under other operating systems. If I'm a unix user and I don't care about other OSes, I wouldn't know which applications are cross-platform and which are unix-specific.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are several bash ports for Windows, would that make bash off-topic on U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some cross-platform applications behave differently in different operating systems. There may be answers that work under one OS but not under another.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer may involve third-party programs. For example, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77256/how-do-i-prevent-skype-notifications-during-a-call&quot;&gt;this Skype question&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77256/how-do-i-prevent-skype-notifications-during-a-call/77275#77275&quot;&gt;your solution&lt;/a&gt; is specific to Linux.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T00:12:41.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-05-31T00:21:02.737" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many more important peeves. Useless uses of cat are harmless and are often clearer. Reserve your wrath for things that actually matter, such as unquoted variable expansions in shell snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a suggested edit that solely removes useless uses of cats, I'll reject it as too minor. Perhaps even as invalid if I'm in a rejecting mood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're changing a multi-step pipeline, at least edit &lt;code&gt;cat somefile | command1 | command2&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;somefile command1 | command2&lt;/code&gt;, which keeps the source at the beginning, and not the mid-endian &lt;code&gt;command1 &amp;lt;somefile | command2&lt;/code&gt;. As many readers aren't aware that you can put the redirection before the command, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;somefile command1&lt;/code&gt; is surprising to some readers, which is an argument for writing &lt;code&gt;cat somefile | command1&lt;/code&gt; (though I do prefer to start with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;somefile1&lt;/code&gt; myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to edit out useless complications, edit out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12532/dd-vs-cat-is-dd-still-relevant-these-days&quot;&gt;useless uses of &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T00:21:02.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-06-03T06:59:58.417" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one issue that hasn’t been mentioned yet as far as I see, and that I personally learned the hard way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two lines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cat somefile | someprog&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;someprog &amp;lt;somefile&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; completely equivalent! In the second line, standard input to &lt;code&gt;someprog&lt;/code&gt; is seekable, whereas in the first case, it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if there is a question, say, “&lt;code&gt;cat xxx | foobar&lt;/code&gt; fails with &lt;em&gt;some-complex-error-message&lt;/em&gt;” and you change it into “&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;xxx foobar&lt;/code&gt; fails with &lt;em&gt;some-complex-error-message&lt;/em&gt;”, it may no longer fail at all, causing lots of confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38305" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T06:59:58.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-04T15:50:08.487" Score="3" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78194/getting-internet-to-linux-vm-without-being-detected-by-network&quot;&gt;Getting internet to Linux VM without being detected by Network&lt;/a&gt; made me have a look at the FAQ where I didn't find what I expected to find though. I found it in the Serverfault FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and it is not about… circumvention of security or policy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentionally not contained in the Unix&amp;amp;Linux FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T01:15:03.260" Title="circumvention of security or policy" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-04T17:29:54.413" Score="1" ViewCount="468" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to correct an answer and made it worse: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/78199/32191&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/78199/32191&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author used â instead of ' (in &quot;don't&quot;). As he was quoting a man page he used both &quot;&gt;&quot; for marking as a quote and &quot;        &quot; for making the text formatted as code. Like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   --skip-old-files&#xA;          don't replace existing files when extracting, silently skip over them&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is evil. The problem does not occur here. Have a look at the linked answer. In the answer the single quote causes unwanted highlighting effects. I cannot get rid of them by prepending a backslash because the backslash is shown then. It seems that the single quote is not considered a special markup character. Should I avoid this problem by using real (Unicode) apostrophe? &quot;don’t&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T17:50:57.223" Title="markdown problem with single quote (causing highlighting)" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2013-06-04T17:50:57.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;code&quot; is being syntax-highlighted as a bash script because the question has the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; tag. You can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/981/syntax-highlighting-language-hints&quot;&gt;override&lt;/a&gt; it by putting a comment before the code block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-none --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the real solution in this case is to not use code blocks for non-code, particularly within a block quote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T17:50:57.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1278" CreationDate="2013-06-05T01:14:38.057" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This business of forbidding “circumvention of security or policy” is a whim of Server Fault. There is no such rule here, nor should there be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a venue for technical questions. Questions should be judged on their technical merit, not on some perceived notion of whether the asker may be trying to violate some policy. Just because an administrator has made a technical configuration that prevents a particular way of accomplishing a goal doesn't make that goal a bad thing. Just because an administrator has issued a policy that a certain thing should not be done does not mean there isn't a good reason to do this thing (such as an order given by your boss in a corporate environment, which the administrator isn't carrying on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the purported purpose of a question offends you, you're free to refrain from answering. If you dislike DRM, skip questions that ask how to enforce DRM. If you venerate firewalls, skip questions about firewall piercing. But do not prevent others from answering these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that unless the asker goes somewhat out of his way to tell you, you will never be sure whether he's asking about circumventing a policy because he wants to do something that the policy prevents, or because he wants to have his policy reviewed to make sure there aren't any holes in it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/290/how-do-we-provide-value-to-white-and-grey-hats&quot;&gt;Black hat questions are valuable to white hats.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, this topic comes up regularly on &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-hat&quot;&gt;Security Meta&lt;/a&gt;, and the outcome of the discussion is invariably that Security.SE does not discriminate on hat color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78194/getting-internet-to-linux-vm-without-being-detected-by-network&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is perfectly on-topic here, and I've voted to reopen it. It might actually get better answers on &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Security&lt;/a&gt;, because a lot of the expertise is related to network security, but it is also well-suited to this site since the stealth techniques will be implemented on Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T01:14:38.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1283" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-05T08:16:39.463" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that the FAQ seems to have been transformed into 'help' there are a few problems with the &lt;code&gt;analytical&lt;/code&gt; badge description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That description both refers to 'FAQ' which should now be 'Help` or 'Help centre' &lt;del&gt;and the hyper link behind &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is no longer a valid link in the system and should be changed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/helpcenter&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/helpcenter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/del&gt;That hyper link now redirects to the new help centre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T14:51:23.410" Title="references to FAQ" Tags="|bug|status-declined|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1283" CreationDate="2013-06-05T13:57:27.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Analytical is actually impossible now, you can't earn it anymore. It's a known problem, but they haven't gotten around to fixing it; they're either going to come up with a new way to earn it or just replace it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T13:57:27.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-06-05T22:44:39.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;useless use of cat&quot; idea is just an excuse for pedants to harass other programmers making a perfectly reasonable technical and stylistic programming decision. Don't make the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22920" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T22:44:39.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1266" CreationDate="2013-06-06T02:16:37.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to answer by linking to my original post on the topic from when I first became a mod. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97/offtopic-a-stance-programming-servers-cross-platform-applications&quot;&gt;Offtopic - A Stance - Programming / Servers / Cross Platform Applications&lt;/a&gt;. Given I don't think we should try to be SO, SU, SF, AU, but we overlap a lot with them. I refuse to think we should turn users away simply becaus their question may also be able to be answered on one of those site's (with of course some mind to we are not wanting the majority of SO's market and thus limit programming questions.) I believe that this is even more true today than when I made my original post, and it is reinforced by the fact that I find windows far more comfortable than I did in my original post as more of the utilities I've come to rely on are available cross platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T02:50:22.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-06T07:14:07.137" Score="2" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had no idea about community promotion ads. I just clicked on one and was somewhat puzzled.  I went back and hovered over the ad, and discovered that it had &quot;comments&quot; and &quot;stats&quot; links.  I then clicked on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1105&quot;&gt;the &quot;stats&quot; link&lt;/a&gt; which gave me a vague idea about what I was looking at, but no real explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the &quot;stats&quot; page please link to something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1105/community-promotion-ads-2013&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2013&lt;/a&gt; or -- even better -- some sort of general explanation of the concept of community promotion ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And / or perhaps the hover links could include an &quot;about&quot; link which would take me directly to the (hereby postulated) FAQ for this topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19240" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T07:14:07.137" Title="Please link to an explanation from &quot;stats&quot; link for community ads" Tags="|discussion|community-ads-meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1289" CreationDate="2013-06-06T09:57:46.077" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed a (for me) unknown user 'robinloop' reviewing suggested edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/58LtR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What baffles me is that this is a new user, without reviews:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FDcLo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC you need some more reputation than &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; before you are allowed to review, unless you approve an edit on your own post. But there are questions nor answers by that user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked if 'robinloop' accepted a suggested edit on his/her own Question and if that question was then moved to some other SX site, but there are no (close) votes today that indicate that such a thing happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility would be that a post was edited and the changes accepted by 'robinloop', after which the post was flagged and removed. But I would the edit information in that case not get reset?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I miss something on how things work, or is there a loophole in the system of voting on suggested edits (including getting the Custodian badge)? Therefore not sure if a discussion item or a bug either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T13:57:23.177" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T13:57:23.177" Title="new user with no posts and one rep, but with one suggested edit review and the custodian badge" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1288" CreationDate="2013-06-06T13:52:51.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/19986&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; was on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78393/repositories-problem-linux-mint-14-whole-reconfig&quot;&gt;robinloop's own post&lt;/a&gt; like you guessed, but the post was subsequently deleted, so it doesn't show up in his profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T13:52:51.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1291" CreationDate="2013-06-06T15:43:57.450" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question recently, and the only answer only says &quot;yes, why not&quot;, questions why I wanted an answer to my question, and told me to do something else instead. It's not helpful at all, and worse, the answerer is now mad at me for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I was quite willing to accept a &quot;no solution currently exists&quot;, but this isn't about that. I am no longer interested in salvaging the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I or should I do about someone who isn't willing to answer a question because they think their own opinion is superior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29783" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T10:31:52.807" Title="What should I do when an answer is only telling me to do something else?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1290" CreationDate="2013-06-06T15:55:55.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't vote that answer up, don't mark it as accepted. If it's really really wrong and not just trying to help you solve your problem in a way you might not have anticipated, vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, people answer questions because they think that the answer they have is &quot;superior&quot;. If you don't agree, that's fine and there's no reason to escalate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the only answer you get, treat it as you would any question you ask where you didn't get a complete answer. Add a bounty if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer you don't like is getting really voted up, or there are multiple answers all in the same vein, it may be time to consider a little harder  if the question can be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T15:55:55.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-08T00:25:47.960" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed a big difference in the user structure of Serverfault and this site (the two I use). Having a look at the first page (36 people) of the most active users this year this turns out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Serverfault (Top 10)&#xA;USA : 22 (9)&#xA;abroad: 13 (1)&#xA;unknown : 1 (0)&#xA;&#xA;Linux &amp;amp; Unix (Top 10)&#xA;USA : 9 (3) &#xA;abroad: 18 (6)&#xA;unknown : 9 (1)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that's nothing you have to think about. But one may find that interesting. You could guess that the importance of Linux &amp;amp; Unix is much higher outside the US than within. Or that the foreigners have good (compared to SF) local forums for professional IT but rather bad local forums for Linux &amp;amp; Unix... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="32191" LastEditDate="2013-06-08T14:05:54.587" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T14:05:54.587" Title="user structure differences between SE sites" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-06-08T03:52:44.570" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/+tour/index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GioOg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Launchpad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40727" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T03:52:44.570" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-08T03:52:44.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1292" CreationDate="2013-06-08T06:01:54.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;With less *nix machines around, there is less incentive to provide courses and write books in local languages for these systems. Therefore the general server administrators population will have a larger proportion of people not fluent in a second language than the *nix administrators. This will reflect on more people who can be assumed to have English as their primary language on a general site like serverfault than on a specific site like *nix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is primarily based personal observations having lived in five  different countries (if you do not include Bavaria), visiting local bookshops' IT departments, reading local IT newspapers etc. Also, I would say *nix administrators are generally more resourceful (have to be), which I think reflects in being able to master a second language like English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T06:01:54.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-09T13:59:20.943" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;slm recently kind of out did himself answering one of my bounty questions. Since it had been up for a while, I wanted to leave it on the featured page so that those interested in the question could see that it had been answered. I'm interested in marking his answer as accepted so people know it's confirmed valid but I'm worried that would take it off the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: Before I accept his answer, &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; it take it off the page? Or Does merely withholding the bounty until tomorrow leave it on the list of featured questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-06-11T22:25:36.587" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T22:25:36.587" Title="Does accepting an answer remove it from the featured page?" Tags="|support|bounty|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2013-06-09T14:38:34.290" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The active bounty is what keeps the question on the Featured list, regardless of whether there is an accepted answer or not. Accepting an answer won't award the bounty immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't award the bounty manually though, and since you're both the person who asked the question and the one who posted the bounty, it will be automatically awarded to the answer you accepted during the bounty period though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty help page&lt;/a&gt; for the complete set of rules for automatic bounty awards.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-06-09T14:38:34.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2013-06-10T18:45:30.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think questions' score should be reset. Does not matter what happens to the points on the original site, when they enter a new site, that site's current preference should rule (I assume people with higher reps have access to that? or the site creators). Should be 0 whether they where positive or negative to begin with. I also think the poster should be sent a mail with the details : new url etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38042" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T18:45:30.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-06-13T17:20:53.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://puppetlabs.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3PnLx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Puppet&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26909" LastEditorUserId="26909" LastEditDate="2013-06-13T17:29:16.270" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T17:29:16.270" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-13T17:20:53.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-14T15:39:15.070" Score="12" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the main site, the links are slightly blueish: rgb(43, 109, 151), I find them difficult to distinguish from the body text color: rgb(51, 51, 51). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it's my monitor, or my eyes, but I don't feel that way with other SE sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest increasing the saturation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Here's an screenshot (Chrome on Win7). If find the links to &quot;zgv&quot; and &quot;mplayer&quot;, for example, difficult to detect. (They are unvisited - &quot;SDL&quot; is visited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xSghb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3647" LastEditorUserId="3647" LastEditDate="2013-06-16T16:53:40.740" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T22:31:58.850" Title="Links colours are not distinctive enough" Tags="|feature-request|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1302" CreationDate="2013-06-15T06:23:59.730" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I started answering a question about pdf conversion (to djvu). The problem was already resolved as the conversion had been done by two helpful SX-ers, as was clear from the comments. I still wanted to answer, as I was pretty sure the OP could have solved this himself with his original Ubuntu 12.04 setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the process of answering I realised that the original material (linked from some upload site), was copyrighted, and flagged the question for moderator attention. I proposed the moderator to remove the links to the offending material, without which the question still would have merit (especially with my upcoming answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before finishing my answer (to be sure, I tested the procedure on the actual problem file and a 300+ page document takes some time), the question was deleted. No slagging moderators on this site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in itself however could have helped others. Should I recreate this question (of course without unnecessary links to copyrighted materials?) and then provide the answer to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can answer my own question, but this is not really &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; question and it feels like stealing someone’s idea after causing it to be suppressed in the first place. On the other hand if I recreate it and answer it, at least some of the OPs intentions live on on *nix. If I recreate it, should I credit the OP ( a 2K+ rep user)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T06:36:40.777" Title="recreating a rightfully deleted question" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1301" CreationDate="2013-06-15T06:36:40.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question seemed too localized, since it dealt with errors encountered converting that specific file. Without the link to that file, people can't really debug the problem or test their solutions, and since the problem was already fixed in the comments, I didn't see what use other people would get out of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you apparently do have a generic way to solve these problems, I undeleted the question and rewrote it to not refer to that particular file. I put in a request to remove the copyrighted link from the history, and then the question should be good&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T06:36:40.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1300" CreationDate="2013-06-16T16:16:49.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had not visited U&amp;amp;L on Windows, but seeing your update with picture and also testing on XP and 7 I see the problem. As Windows fonts in general is much thinner the effect is unfortunate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haven't noticed a problem with it here. If for anything the difference between &lt;a href=&quot;http://asdf.nonexistent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;unvisited&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;visited&lt;/a&gt; could be better, but hasn't been a problem I've given much thought (as in I manage to distinguish between them without much conscious thought).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a test you could go trough &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this guide&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;-- That is a link ;-)&lt;/code&gt;. Go full-screen by (typically &lt;code&gt;F11&lt;/code&gt;) and click trough the images at top. Each test has text that describes what you should see, and in some cases how to view them as well as how to correct some of the cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doubtful this will show differently as picture, but here we go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unvisited:  &lt;code&gt;rgb(21, 86, 128)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Visited:&lt;code&gt;rgb(43, 109, 151)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Text: &lt;code&gt;rgb(51, 51, 51)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mesh:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#155680     #2b6d97     #333&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IfRft.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;colors for anchors and text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C2mNx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;colors for anchors and text mesh&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mozilla Firefox – Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE, LinuxMint):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gl2Ak.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Firefox Linux sample anchors&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28489" LastEditorUserId="28489" LastEditDate="2013-06-20T22:20:16.310" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T22:20:16.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1325" CreationDate="2013-06-16T20:31:38.797" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened already twice to me: I upvoted an answer, a blue popup appeared and before I could even start reading, it disappeared again. Now what's in that message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28180" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-07-14T17:18:28.293" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T17:18:28.293" Title="Upvote notice went away after some seconds" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-18T06:10:43.557" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if flags are being looked at these days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a number of flags that I have made that have had no action on them since 17 May 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1142" LastEditorUserId="1142" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T16:56:14.057" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T16:56:14.057" Title="Are flags being looked at?" Tags="|support|moderation|flags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2013-06-18T11:04:46.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently zero open moderator flags on this site. Flags are almost always dealt with in a matter of hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T11:04:46.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2013-06-18T14:37:28.797" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our current average flag handling time over the last month is about 3.5 hours, mostly because the mods all live in nearly the same time zone and tend to be asleep at the same time. During the day I get flags on my watch, so they're generally handled pretty fast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/pebble-flag.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Picture of a flag on my watch http://so.mrozekma.com/pebble-flag.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your specific case, I do see a bunch of unprocessed flags on your account if I go looking for them. We can't see flag weight anymore, but based on the large number of declined flags you've had in the past (they actually outnumber the helpful flags), your flag weight has probably reached 0, which means &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82445/what-happens-when-you-reach-zero-flag-weight&quot;&gt;your flags are no longer reported&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately at the moment this is permanent; we'll never see your flags, and we can't modify your flag weight directly, so it will be stuck at 0. They're looking into &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173878/allow-recovery-from-flag-hellban/175405#175405&quot;&gt;redesigning this&lt;/a&gt;, but for the moment I think the only thing you can do is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T14:37:28.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1316" CreationDate="2013-06-20T01:51:55.500" Score="10" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Unix-StackExchange, can I ask questions like &quot;When configuring the Linux kernel, what are the advantages and disadvantages of enabling UTS namespaces?&quot;? (This is a real question that I want to ask.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I were to ask the above question, can I ask similar, but yet different questions like &quot;What are the advantages and disadvantages of disabling IPC namespaces in the Linux kernel?&quot;? (Another real question that I have).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40770" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T08:45:25.710" Title="Asking Questions About Advantages and Disadvantages" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1310" CreationDate="2013-06-21T13:46:08.447" Score="7" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/80240/40417&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt;, for which I could not find an answer on the internet. But after it got answered in one of the comments, I think that my question was a bit low level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do with my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T05:20:06.193" Title="What to do, If I asked low level question?" Tags="|support|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1309" CreationDate="2013-06-21T14:39:59.757" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes things which are obvious in retrospect aren't obvious to everyone with a problem. Yours seems fine and it might help someone else. You mention that you couldn't easily find the info on the internet, and that may be the case for someone else in the future too -- except now the answer is here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest asking the person who provided the helpful comment which really answers the question to expand that into a full answer, and then mark that as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2013-06-21T14:39:59.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1308" CreationDate="2013-06-23T19:12:22.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is specific enough, I'd say go for it; those look like they probably have a short list of concrete reasons. It'd be nice if you didn't post 30 of them at once, and avoid things like &quot;What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Linux?&quot; where there are infinite possible answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T18:14:29.017" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T18:14:29.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-24T18:51:00.420" Score="7" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought I had an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37266/reload-xserver-xorg-input-mouse&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. My answer was accepted and got 2 up votes, but then I realized that it doesn't actually work. I updated the answer with a semi-retraction, but I don't know what else I should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to remove its accepted status?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to promote the question again, so it can be answered correctly? (I'd really like to know the answer!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41348" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T05:28:53.633" Title="What to do when you've posted an incorrect answer" Tags="|support|accepted-answer|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1312" CreationDate="2013-06-24T19:31:16.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, no, only the asker can unaccept an answer. In this case since the answer no longer answers the question, I converted it to a comment, so the question is considered to have no answer now and will show up on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered list&lt;/a&gt;. You can further promote a question by putting a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; on it, although you don't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;enough reputation&lt;/a&gt; to do that yet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T19:31:16.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1312" CreationDate="2013-06-25T05:12:47.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case you wondered (like I did), but did not try: you cannot delete your answer once it is accepted, but it can be deleted through moderator intervention or by being flagged, as described &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79578/what-happens-when-an-accepted-answer-is-deleted&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. (Some selections after flagging bring out moderator attention as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question here on meta is valid and had the result you wanted, but I don't think we want to  have a question here for each accepted answer which has similar problems. So the right thing to do in these cases is &lt;strong&gt;flag your own answer for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;, and select 'other' with an explanation. You can of course include a proposed course of action for the moderator there as well (complete remove, only unaccept, convert to comment, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T05:28:53.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-06-25T18:01:21.223" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jUXQS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28980" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T05:41:59.973" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T05:41:59.973" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-06-25T18:01:21.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1308" CreationDate="2013-06-26T08:45:25.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little reluctant to disagree with the answers already posted by highly rated users, but I'll toss in a word of caution:   Do your research first.   If you have a whole series of these questions, I think it seems like you should start by finding a good guide to kernel configs/options (there are quite a few).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, try and come up with a more focused question.   I don't know if this makes sense in this specific case, but maybe something like &quot;I'm trying to set up a system to do __.   Do IPC and UTS conflict?&quot;   Or something else fairly specific.   IOW, while one or two of these might be OK, SE isn't a primary source for research - if you're looking to learn about a topic and don't have a specific question, do some reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you're already thinking about this (or you wouldn't have asked), so just a vote for 'good concern, use some caution'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36049" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T08:45:25.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1290" CreationDate="2013-06-26T10:31:52.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, I've got some thoughts that won't answer the exact questions you've asked here, but, ah, might be relevant?   I'll try and keep it clean.   A couple asides 'first' *.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the backwards order I'm writing this, I've laid out some things that are fairly case specific.   Let me sum up some points that will hopefully be useful to a broader audience, and might be an answer you're looking for.   I'm basically in agreement with @mattdm, with a couple further details/emphases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;0) Don't 'do something about someone', deal with the answer.   Politely - you're the one asking for help.   Whether or not it's OK for SE folk to suggest that a questioner hasn't done his searching first, it's a bit worse to suggest that an answerer responding to your specific question is the one being lazy / 'not trying'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1) If it's really off-topic / telling you to do something you &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; want to downvote it.   If you go that way, you should definitely leave a comment (seperate from any other comments) explaining the vote.   You should probably leave a different comment &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; explaining the problem, and give the respondant the chance to improve it (or remove it).   I'd say this should be somewhat rare, unless the answer is really spamming/griefing, or factually incorrect (maybe even then - like, in case you mis-judged).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2) Ignore it / treat it as a non-answer.    Nothin wrong with that.  Probably the easiest, sometimes the best.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;3) Engage, politely.   Ask the person to improve their answer, specify what you see as the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;4) Introspection, perhaps most importantly, eg, the last part of mattdm's answer.   I feel (obviously, I think) this applies in your case.   OK, the answer wasn't upvoted, but there were several comments in the same vein, as the answer points out.   Furthermore, the answer tries to tell you what's wrong with your question, including offering some specific suggestions to improve it.   You chose to ignore those (not implement them anyway).   Your question still hasn't been answered.   Are you sure the problem was with the jerk who gave a useless answer?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;5) Consider if your question is in the right place - if it belongs on this SE, or on SE at all.   I'm not saying that your question doesn't belong here, to say that would not be an appropriate answer, and I believe SE takes an inclusionist view (eg, that it's fine to have specific/niche/difficult questions stay here, even if they go unanswered for a long time) ... buuut the question that I guess you were trying to ask seems to be something really specific.   So, I don't want to say the question shouldn't be here, but from your perspective it might be more practical to ask in the Mint fora.   If you're still working on this, once you figure it out you can post an answer to your own question, which might be useful for someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(semi-relevant?):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer didn't tell you to do something else (although it did present several alternative things you could do.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your statement re  &quot;think their own opinion is superior&quot; doesn't seem justified.   The answer provided a brief answer, some related thoughts, and told you that a more detailed question is needed for a better answer.   I actually don't see anything that's strictly opinion there (granted I'm biased).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Telling someone he 'didn't even try' might cause him to be 'mad at you for some reason'; obviously it wasn't a very satisfactory answer, but that was acknowledged in the answer itself (which asked you to provide more detail / a better (clearer, more precise) question).   Also, downvoting without an accompanying comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;*'first' (but down here because it won't be relevant to anyone else):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think we both raised each others' dander, more than necessary.   I wasn't trying to offend you, and I'll assume the same of you.   I probably, at least,  used a &lt;em&gt;tone&lt;/em&gt; that was unnecessary and unproductive - sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to say that my answer is a good one, much less that you should accept it.   As I'll detail above, I did have a reason for posting it, but I'm not claiming to be an 'expert at SE'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- If I could've, I probably would've posted as a comment instead of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm pretty sure that I posted another comment there, that got deleted.   I think it was after I got an explanation-less downvote which I assumed came from you.   I don't remember exactly what I said, but I remember thinking afterwards that it (my deleted coment) might've been unpleasant in tone (sorry), but did have a practical point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- (I saw &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; (meta) question a while ago, and thought about writing this answer, but decided to just let it go. ... But now I'm procrastinating from something else.   And hey, maybe it'll make us both better SE-users/communicators.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I saw the question after seeing quite a few others that were similarly (at least in my opinion) poorly constructed questions.   So maybe there was some annoyance-buildup that unfairly spilled over. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Y'know, since we're on Meta now, if you still have the comment you mention in your comment of Jun5, go ahead and put it here.   If you've read through my points here and considered them, and your points from that aborted comment still stand ... tell me, I can take constructive criticism. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, with that said ... (back to top)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36049" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T10:31:52.807" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1319" CreationDate="2013-06-29T00:50:23.850" Score="32" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least one person objects to making &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sunos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sunos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sunos&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/solaris/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonym&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/solaris&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;solaris&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;solaris&lt;/a&gt;. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Solaris&lt;/a&gt; in everyday speech means SunOS versions 5.0 and above. (Officially, it means 4.0 and above as the last BSD major release, SunOS 4, was retroactively branded Solaris 1.) The last release of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SunOS&lt;/a&gt; 4.x was 19 years ago, and support for it ended 10 years ago. Not a single question on the site is about such old versions (I think the oldest Solaris release mentioned in a question is 8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we don't need a tag to mean “SunOS when it was a BSD”, and the tags “Any of the two incarnations of SunOS” and “SVR4-based SunOS” cover exactly the same question. This is increasingly unlikely to change as time progresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is natural to use the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sunos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sunos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sunos&lt;/a&gt; for recent releases of Solaris, since that's the name &lt;code&gt;uname -s&lt;/code&gt; displays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why then should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sunos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sunos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sunos&lt;/a&gt; not be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/solaris&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;solaris&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;solaris&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the unusually wide support and lack of opposition to this meta question, I say make it a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-06-18T18:29:05.783" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T18:29:05.783" Title="Why shouldn't [sunos] be a synonym of [solaris]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1318" CreationDate="2013-07-02T02:06:22.830" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are correct @Gilles. Your logic is correct and easy to follow. If I had enough reputation points to make those two tags synonyms, I would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40770" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T02:06:22.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-02T02:11:50.567" Score="-2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;On questions without answers, I noticed that the text at the bottom looks like this &quot;Share a link to this question via email, Google+, , or .&quot;. There is a word missing before the comma to the left of the word &quot;or&quot;. Also, there is a word missing after the word &quot;or&quot;. Is a developer in the process of changing that text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40770" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T22:26:03.247" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T22:26:03.247" Title="Missing text on Unix Main site" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2013-07-06T23:22:59.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1320" CreationDate="2013-07-02T03:36:23.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks OK to me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pyweD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of social links&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T03:36:23.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1320" CreationDate="2013-07-02T18:35:55.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figured it out. I set Adsblock Plus to block anything related to Facebook and Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DZLrE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Missing text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40770" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T18:35:55.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-03T10:22:01.237" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62501/where-can-i-find-a-good-tutorial-for-installing-bcache&quot;&gt;Where can I find a good tutorial for installing bcache?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard that bcache is now part of the standard linux instalation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means I can order a server with 2HDD and 2SDD and uses the SDD to cache the HDD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a tutorial to do so&#xA;Should the question be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29357" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T17:18:42.687" Title="I updated this question" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2013-07-03T14:33:10.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We generally delete answers that just contain a link to another site with no other information. As explained on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92505/should-i-flag-answers-which-contain-only-a-link-as-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;the main meta&lt;/a&gt;, if the link breaks, the answer is now useless. Furthermore, most people's workflow is to Google for their problem, which means they've probably already seen that page in their search results; they really don't need to click another result and find our site, only to discover that it just links back to the pages they've already seen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, you're actually requesting answers of that form, which is why the question isn't a good fit for Stack Exchange. Finding pages on a given topic is what search engines are good at. There's no reason to try and manually compile a list, particularly since it will fall out of date over time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T14:33:10.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1304" CreationDate="2013-07-03T16:26:51.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may have been this notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You haven't voted on questions in a while;&#xA;questions need votes too!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNFfM.png&quot; alt=&quot;The notice.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I receive that notice whenever I vote up answers on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user26112" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T16:32:27.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1329" CreationDate="2013-07-05T20:53:03.823" Score="6" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389/migrate-ubuntu-specific-questions-to-askubuntu&quot;&gt;This has already been discussed&lt;/a&gt;, but I think it warrants reconsideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/391/6761&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt;, in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;So I'd only migrate questions where the question is extremely and unavoidably Ubuntu-centric, and cannot be generalized to other *nixes in any meaningful way.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/315453/a-question-about-bash-profile&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was migrated and looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81933/how-can-i-set-the-tty-font-size-manually-in-lubuntu&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, I realized that it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of where Ubuntu has deviated from other *nixes in general, and Debian specifically. And this trend seems likely to only accelerate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the cognitive overhead of trying to keep track of those changes be carried here, or should *buntu questions just be migrated across to where the real depth of expertise with that family of distros resides?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And could we please have a radio button for it on the close page, as per SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1. Which I got wrong.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; This question could also be a thinly veiled lament for my failing powers of memory&amp;mdash;or lack of diligence in keeping track of Ubuntu's innovation, either option definitely holds...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T00:56:30.383" Title="Ubuntu specific questions" Tags="|discussion|migration|ubuntu|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1328" CreationDate="2013-07-05T23:56:05.563" Score="4" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81860/mac-equivalent-application-shortcat&quot;&gt;Mac equivalent application &amp;quot;shortcat&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. While it technically relates to Unix &amp;amp; Linux, I think it would be a much better fit for Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I was only able to flag as belonging on Meta U&amp;amp;L, or Stack Overflow. Can we add Super User to that list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; as pointed out by jasonwryan, there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/971/can-the-list-of-targets-for-does-not-belong-here-be-expanded&quot;&gt;Can the list of targets for &amp;quot;does not belong here&amp;quot; be expanded?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, that was 2012, almost exactly a year ago. I'd be interested to take a look at the numbers again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T00:53:14.820" Title="Can we have Super User as a site for off-topic close reasons?" Tags="|feature-request|migration|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2013-07-06T00:53:14.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's incredibly rare that we get a question that's on-topic for SU and actually off-topic here; as you mentioned, even your example question is actually on-topic here, it's just possibly better on SU. In any case, the numbers haven't changed; we migrated 3 posts to SU in the last 90 days, which is pretty low for a migration path&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T00:53:14.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2013-07-06T00:56:30.383" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have trouble telling the difference too these days, but the burden of ensuring a question should be migrated is normally on the source site. I think you're suggesting we should migrate all posts that seem like they might be Ubuntu-specific, and let them deal with figuring out if that's actually true or not, which doesn't seem particularly fair to them and is bad for us if we're losing a bunch of questions that are actually on-topic here. As for adding a migration path, that site more than any other I think would be risky, because we get an awful lot of &quot;belongs on Ask Ubuntu&quot; flags because the asker happens to be using Ubuntu, even if the question has nothing to do with Ubuntu specifically; I think we'd end up migrating a lot of generic Linux posts over there. In the last 90 days we only sent them 5 posts (and received 6), so it doesn't seem like there's a high demand for a migration path between the sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T00:56:30.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-08T08:49:40.833" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/81591/11083&quot;&gt;Bounty question&lt;/a&gt; looks to me as if it were&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;off topic and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a crosspost&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this question - assume it were off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should these kind of questions be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close and Flag for moving do not work on bounty-questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this should be deleted/closed by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The detail question is - should the bounty be reawarded to the OP in this progress yes or no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T17:17:19.383" Title="What should we do with off-topic bounty questions?" Tags="|support|bounty|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1333" CreationDate="2013-07-08T16:05:01.303" Score="12" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &quot;cleaning&quot; some unanswered questions that has no answer, but I found that an surprising amount of them solved their problems in comments. Is correct to flag comments and upgrade them to answers or should a proper answer be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/44911/41104&quot;&gt;Configuring Xorg.conf for i915 intel driver&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that one comment resolved the particular OP case, although other methods are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T17:18:06.823" Title="Is OK to flag comments as answers?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1331" CreationDate="2013-07-08T17:01:44.010" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really, since we can't do anything about it. The best thing to do is probably to reply to the comment asking the user to post an answer, or (if they haven't been around for a while) just repost the comment as an answer yourself. Posting answers as comments is particularly common here versus other Stack Exchange sites; I'm not quite sure why&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T17:01:44.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1331" CreationDate="2013-07-08T17:01:50.430" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should flag those - moderators don't have a &quot;convert comment to answer&quot; feature, so they can't act on your flag directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you can do though is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask the person who answered in comments to make a proper answer &amp;ndash; this is more likely to work for recent comments from active users obviously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post the answer yourself if the above hasn't worked (or doesn't look like it could work). If you feel guilty about &quot;stealing&quot; the answer (and potential reputation points attached), mark your answer as a community wiki. (And mention that the solution was provided by @whoever too.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course moderators could do that too, but that's not really their job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you feel like summarizing a long comment thread into a proper answer, one thing you could flag is the comment thread itself since it has become obsolete (flag the first comment and explain what you did and that the whole thread could be cleaned up). That's double good: proper summarized answer and less comment noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T17:01:50.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1334" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-09T07:29:36.843" Score="-8" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;The look of this site has been designed with commandlines in mind. However, in most modern Linux distro's you don't even need to use them.&#xA;But on the other side, many people here use the commandline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Should the site get a new look that's not too much inspired by commandlines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By the way, I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/33094&quot;&gt;those mascots&lt;/a&gt;. I think they will look good.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33094" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T00:10:48.863" Title="Should this site get a new look?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1335" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-09T16:27:49.993" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;My old account was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/23640/yael&quot;&gt;23640&lt;/a&gt;, but suddenly I'm on a new account (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/42687/yael&quot;&gt;42687&lt;/a&gt;). I had a bunch of questions on my old account; how do I recover it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42687" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T17:31:10.703" Title="Recover access to unregistered account" Tags="|support|user-accounts|openid|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1335" CreationDate="2013-07-09T17:25:49.557" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1335/how-to-register-again-to-unix-linux-cookies-was-deleted-from-my-pc#comment1932_1335&quot;&gt;drewbenn's comment&lt;/a&gt; covers it; you need to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/account-recovery&quot;&gt;account recovery&lt;/a&gt; page to fix it. Once you do get into your old account, you should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/edit-credentials&quot;&gt;register it&lt;/a&gt; so you can login in the future&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T17:25:49.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2013-07-10T17:45:22.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be flagged for moderator attention, this question already was. The crosspost was removed of StackOverflow, and although this question originally really read like it was a PHP problem, a very close read instead made it seem more like a terminal problem or expectation problem. The accepted answer also confirms this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T17:45:22.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2013-07-11T20:28:09.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1277/42349&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt;less variant isn't always equivalent. Sometimes &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; is even more secure. If you're using &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; to examine a log, then you have three basic choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep 'pattern' /path/to/log&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep 'pattern' &amp;lt; /path/to/log&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;cat /path/to/log | grep &quot;pattern&quot;&lt;/code&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most things, you wouldn't notice a difference here, except in the number of key strokes you need. Now, what happens when &lt;code&gt;log&lt;/code&gt; has can only be read by root? I wanted to take a look at failed logins over the ssh so that I could show a few of my coworkers why that machine doesn't allow for password-based logins, and so I try to use variant #1 and get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep: /var/log/auth.log: Permission denied&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing surprising there. Now, I could &lt;code&gt;sudo chmod +r&lt;/code&gt;, but there's probably a good reason why that log has its permissions set that way by default and it's not the best practice to go changing permissions without thinking about it first. So my next option is to use &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; for examining the log. If I use &lt;code&gt;sudo grep 'pattern' /path/to/log&lt;/code&gt;, then &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; is now running as root. &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; is a fairly complicated piece of code, and there are so many ways to screw up the handling of regular expressions. Now if &lt;code&gt;sudo cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 'pattern'&lt;/code&gt;, then only &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt;, a much simpler program, is running as root. I suppose I could also do this with input redirection, but I can never remember how to do it with &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;. The &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; way has another advantage: when I get the permission error, it's pretty easy to press the up error, Ctrl+a and type &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;. Easy peasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine, we have a relative newbie, just getting the hang of using &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; and the rest of the family, but still not 100% on the finer details of good practice. He knows that &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; makes him a god for a single command and that he shouldn't use it too lightly, but he also knows that there are a lot of little tasks where he still has to &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; up, e.g. all the package managers on the most popular distros. So he's gotten into the habit of automatically &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;ing up whenever some vaguely system-administration related task gives him a permission error. So,one day he comes across the recommendation to check his  &lt;code&gt;/var/log/auth.log&lt;/code&gt; for brute force attacks. He tries &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; as a normal user, but gets the permission error and immediately tries it again with &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt;. If he's using variant #1, then he just ran &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; (or perhaps an even more complicated piece of code) as root. If he goes with the &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; variant, then only &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; gets promoted to root. And let's not even consider the idea of issuing blanket advice to just &lt;code&gt;sudo chmod +r&lt;/code&gt; in such cases! Next thing you know, he'll be adding &lt;code&gt;+w&lt;/code&gt; to system configuration files. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short: leaving the &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; in doesn't hurt; the performance penalty is trivial, especially on modern hardware; it occasionally makes things more secure; it potentially makes a line more readable (left to right in the direction of the pipe flow, fewer positional arguments, ability to change out intervening elements easily even when they take their arguments in a different order). Leave the &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; in and stop spawning useless mental processes thinking about it -- your mind is far worse at &lt;code&gt;fork()&lt;/code&gt;ing than your computer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42349" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T20:28:09.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1334" CreationDate="2013-07-15T01:19:03.100" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any direct correlation between the visual design of the site and the command line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the site designers have done a good job within the brand family of both keeping the interface clean and uncluttered, while differentiating it sufficiently from the other Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the implementation of recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1217/are-requests-for-changes-to-the-site-design-ignored-by-default&quot;&gt;community requested changes&lt;/a&gt;, I feel the overall design of the site is about right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that there is no room for improvement, incremental or otherwise. A site's design should evolve and your question is perfectly valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't be discouraged from participating here by the downvotes. It seems that your call for a complete redesign, however, meant that rather than answer, most of us just indicated a contra view with a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your point about not needing to use the command line in modern distros, that may be technically true; many people do manage to use *nix distros without opening a terminal. But that is like buying an ice cream and just eating the cone&amp;mdash;for *nix enthusiasts, the good stuff is on the inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T00:10:48.863" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T00:10:48.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1341" CreationDate="2013-07-24T07:02:01.917" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/84189/29146&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; a question that I came across while browsing the unanswered list. Basically I said that the tool that the user was using was now deprecated (even though it wasn't when he asked the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is useful, because it a. may be useful information for people coming from Google and b. gets the question off the unanswered list, but in the spirit of self-moderation I'd like to ask the community if my answer was too &quot;cheeky&quot;. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T23:55:01.270" Title="Will someone tell me if this answer (mine) is too &quot;cheeky&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1340" CreationDate="2013-07-24T07:57:33.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is fine. The date on your answer matches with the advice you provided, that for me is more important than giving an outdated answer to an old question about a rolling release distro...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T07:57:33.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1343" CreationDate="2013-07-24T21:07:27.440" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the &quot;on hold&quot; state on some questions that would have been closed in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this (new?) state, why was it introduced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I vote to close in that state?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T23:52:35.510" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T23:52:35.510" Title="What is that &quot;on-hold&quot; state?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1342" CreationDate="2013-07-24T21:17:58.140" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been some changes to the close process. It's explained &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/06/the-war-of-the-closes/&quot;&gt;in this blog post&lt;/a&gt; and this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons-bye-bye&quot;&gt;post on the main meta site&lt;/a&gt;. And specifically, the &quot;on hold&quot; state is discussed at  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/173497/every-close-has-its-thorn-replace-close-with-on-hold-for-the-first-five-d&quot;&gt;Every &amp;quot;close&amp;quot; has its thorn: replace &amp;quot;close&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;on hold&amp;quot; for the first five days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, on-hold is a temporary state for closed questions, meant to not feel as nasty and to encourage actual improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T03:01:35.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-25T16:44:07.720" Score="4" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two tags for NetworkManager: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/networkmanager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;networkmanager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;networkmanager&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/network-manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;network-manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;network-manager&lt;/a&gt;  The former is more popular but I personally like the latter.  Either way these should be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34796" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T20:04:46.443" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T20:04:46.443" Title="Merge network[-]manager tags" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1344" CreationDate="2013-07-25T16:47:22.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tool is called &quot;NetworkManager&quot; (as opposed to &quot;Network Manager&quot;), so I kept &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/networkmanager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;networkmanager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;networkmanager&lt;/a&gt;. There was only one &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/network-manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;network-manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;network-manager&lt;/a&gt; post, but I made a synonym anyway in case it happens again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T20:04:23.143" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T20:04:23.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1358" CreationDate="2013-07-26T01:44:48.953" Score="4" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the questions tagged with an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle&lt;/a&gt; tag and they seem to fall into two categories: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question related to Oracle Enterprise Linux&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question regarding an issue with Oracle database on another Linux distribution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the tag be applied only to questions pertaining to OEL rather than Oracle database? Perhaps some clarification in the tag description or wiki would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7248" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T06:29:39.883" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T23:21:37.743" Title="Use of the Oracle tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1349" CreationDate="2013-08-02T15:08:08.347" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate to ask a question about the release schedule of some Linux distributions?  Generally, that information is easy to find but in my case, not so much.  I am looking for CentOS/Scientific Linux 7 information.  So far, my Google fu has proved weak. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10526" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T00:12:15.193" Title="Release schedules" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1346" CreationDate="2013-08-02T19:17:35.947" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Won't you find a lot of the Oracle questions in the DBA group anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1142" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T19:17:35.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1347" CreationDate="2013-08-03T00:12:15.193" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Release schedules have been known to change over time, I would consider this a localized problem, also known as &quot;ask the developers&quot;. So no, please do not ask this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also CentOS/Scientific Linux are probably based on however long it takes them after Red Hat ships RHEL 7. It'll be done when it's done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T00:12:15.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1356" CreationDate="2013-08-04T18:10:47.557" Score="7" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally people will thank for an answer in the comments and write that the suggestion worked for them. Is it acceptable to ask them to accept the answer or upvote it instead, as seems preferable according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot; title=&quot;What should I do when someone answers my question?&quot;&gt;this help section entry&lt;/a&gt; , or is it considered bad form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43779" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T23:03:58.730" Title="Is it appropriate to ask askers to accept an answer" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|etiquette|answers|up-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-05T13:04:26.813" Score="5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/70683/2465&quot;&gt;ZFS on Linux gets corrupted on export&lt;/a&gt;. This is not a duplicate of meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/888/2465&quot;&gt;What do we do about abandoned questions, with a correct answer never accepted?&lt;/a&gt;, because this is about questions without a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A valid question is initially asked (this particular one has even been protected), possibly one or more answers are provided, but no answer that solves the OP's problem. Eventually, the OP says that for one reason or another, the issue is no longer relevant and possibly the opportunity for determining the correctness of an answer no longer exists. Also, the OP has not provided a self-answer (such as is the case in the cited example), or if there exists a self-answer, it does not actually answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the question will likely never receive an accepted answer, the incentive to answer at all is low, and the existing answers may provide little or no value to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At that point, how should we handle the question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2465" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T05:29:10.150" Title="How to handle questions that will never get an accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1351" CreationDate="2013-08-05T14:33:45.007" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For this specific question: it is not THAT old, so just leave it alone. This is IMHO also the general approach to this &quot;problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are questions with no valid answer up until now. Sometimes other people will adopt such a answer and start a bounty for it (I once earned one for one of these) and I already did this myself (start a bounty on a question I did not ask).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes Community♦ will bump the post to on front page (I stumbled across a question from 2011 on SF just a few minutes ago that way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes some users start going through the unanswered questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if the OP has no interest in such a question (any more) you can still earn points for good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="5842" LastEditDate="2013-08-06T05:29:10.150" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T05:29:10.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1350" CreationDate="2013-08-05T14:39:38.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this in a comment and delete the comment after the accept-vote has been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting answers leads to good answers. IMHO it can not hurt to say so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T14:39:38.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1346" CreationDate="2013-08-05T14:45:53.577" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say rather than that the oracle-tag has to be defined. I will give it a try...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T14:45:53.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1357" CreationDate="2013-08-06T22:53:59.530" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unicode isn't a synonym of UTF-8, but it is a superset. Since UTF-8 is the de facto standard representation of Unicode in the unix world, most questions about Unicode on this site involve UTF-8. While some questions are specifically about UTF-8 and others are about in Unicode in general, we don't seem to be following any rule as to which questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt; and which ones are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt; (beyond perhaps the rare question about other representations not being tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any point in having two separate tags. This only makes it harder to find Unicode-related questions since there are two tags to search. Therefore, I propose to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt; has to be the main tag since it's more general.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't propose the synonym through the tag interface because “Version specific synonyms can only be created by moderators”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T23:18:46.357" Title="Synonymize /unicode with /utf-8" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1350" CreationDate="2013-08-06T23:03:58.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's clear that the asker is satisfied with the answer, and it looks like they are new to Stack Exchange and don't know about this feature, then it's a good idea to explain in a comment that they should mark the answer as accepted. Basically, if the asker has left a comment under an answer saying something like “thanks, it worked”, then reply to this comment and explain about accepting answers. You may leave a comment such as this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;@bob Welcome to Stack Exchange. If this answer solved your problem, please indicate that by [marking it as accepted](http://unix.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers) by clicking the check mark next to it.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, you should do this only if the asker has explicitly indicated that the answer solved his problem, and it looks like they didn't know about accepting answers. Don't do this if you merely believe that your answer is correct: the asker may not have had time to test it yet, or there may be a flaw that you didn't see, or he may just be waiting a few days to see if better answers come in (which is perfectly ok).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T23:03:58.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1355" CreationDate="2013-08-06T23:18:46.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf-8&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/utf8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;utf8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;utf8&lt;/a&gt; both point to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicode&lt;/a&gt; now and are merged&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T23:18:46.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1346" CreationDate="2013-08-06T23:21:37.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;34 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle&lt;/a&gt;. Let's break them down by topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Oracle Linux [3]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72026/add-a-new-user-steps-for-oracle-linux-5&quot;&gt;Add a new user steps for Oracle Linux 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78783/bonding-configuration-on-a-blade-server-with-oracle-6-3&quot;&gt;Bonding configuration on a blade server with Oracle 6.3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85348/oracle-linux-6-download-files&quot;&gt;Oracle Linux 6 download files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Oracle database (any edition) [15]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14797/fedora-15-oracle-11-python3-cant-find-or-open-libclntsh-so-11-1&quot;&gt;fedora 15, oracle 11, python3: can&amp;#39;t find or open libclntsh.so.11.1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14814/fedora-15-oracle-11-cant-login-using-sqlplus&quot;&gt;fedora 15, oracle 11: can&amp;#39;t login using sqlplus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16691/oracle-11g-database-startup-automation-on-fedora-15&quot;&gt;Oracle 11g database startup automation on Fedora 15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21009/where-to-get-32-bit-oracle-xe-11g-binaries&quot;&gt;Where to get 32-bit Oracle-XE 11g binaries?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28660/how-to-backup-and-restore-oracle-10g-express-in-linux-vps&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28660/how-to-backup-and-restore-oracle-10g-express-in-linux-vps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29397/how-to-install-oracle-on-arch-linux&quot;&gt;How to install Oracle on Arch Linux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44524/aix-6-1-jfs2-oracle-files-system-not-using-much-files-system-cache&quot;&gt;AIX 6.1 JFS2 Oracle files system, not using much files system cache&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44976/installing-rpm-dependencies&quot;&gt;Installing rpm &amp;amp; dependencies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59224/why-is-connecting-to-oracle-express-11-is-very-slow-on-fedora-17&quot;&gt;Why is connecting to Oracle Express 11 is very slow on Fedora 17?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60518/how-to-check-how-many-oracle-user-sessions-are-running&quot;&gt;How to check how many Oracle user sessions are running&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75231/oracle-11gr2-grid-slient-installation-error-for-privateinterconnects&quot;&gt;Oracle 11gR2 grid silent installation: error for privateinterconnects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72855/how-to-remove-oracle-wallet-using-orapki&quot;&gt;How to remove Oracle Wallet using orapki?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75958/how-to-run-oracle10g-forms-in-browser-in-linux&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75958/how-to-run-oracle10g-forms-in-browser-in-linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79367/how-to-install-oracle-11gr2-on-ubuntu-server-13-04&quot;&gt;How to Install Oracle 11gR2 on Ubuntu Server 13.04&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79488/can-not-start-oracle-after-complete-the-installation&quot;&gt;Can not start Oracle after installation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Oracle VM Server [4]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1244/what-does-a-ovm-reboot-mean&quot;&gt;What does a &amp;quot;OVM reboot&amp;quot; mean?&lt;/a&gt; (?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38266/difference-between-oracle-vm-and-citrix-xen&quot;&gt;Difference between Oracle VM and Citrix XEN?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78576/where-can-i-find-updated-tar-rpm-for-oracle-vm-server&quot;&gt;Where can I find updated TAR.rpm for Oracle VM Server?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78919/how-to-do-incremental-backup-of-img-files-containing-windows-partition&quot;&gt;How to do incremental backup of .img files containing windows partition?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Removed Oracle tag&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions had the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle&lt;/a&gt; tag but it was irrelevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1381/the-future-of-opensolaris&quot;&gt;The future of OpenSolaris&lt;/a&gt; (Solaris)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2341/shell-script-certification&quot;&gt;Shell Script Certification&lt;/a&gt; (it's about professional certifications for programmers; vaguely associated with Oracle as a company, but via Solaris)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21725/find-out-global-zone-name-once-you-logged-into-a-non-global-zone&quot;&gt;Find out global zone Name once you logged into a NON global zone&lt;/a&gt; (Solaris)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38938/is-oracle-solaris-unix&quot;&gt;Is Oracle Solaris UNIX?&lt;/a&gt; (Solaris)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53444/all-memory-not-showing-up&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53444/all-memory-not-showing-up&lt;/a&gt; (Oracle Linux, but the distribution is irrelevant)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55319/are-limits-conf-values-applied-on-a-per-process-basis&quot;&gt;Are limits.conf values applied on a per-process basis?&lt;/a&gt; (database, but the application was irrelevant)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65428/how-do-i-safely-perform-the-below-changes-to-network-parameters-on-solaris-10&quot;&gt;How do I safely perform the below changes to network parameters on Solaris 10?&lt;/a&gt; (Hyperion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65937/whats-technical-difference-between-official-virtualbox-and-virtualbox-ose&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s technical difference between official virtualbox and VirtualBox-OSE?&lt;/a&gt; (VirtualBox)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81612/renaming-or-making-filenames-unique&quot;&gt;Renaming or making filenames unique&lt;/a&gt; (Oracle Linux, but the distribution is irrelevant)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The database wins hands down, a large majority of the questions where the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracale&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracale&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracale&lt;/a&gt; tag is useful use it to mean Oracle 10g or 11g or XE and associated tools. So if we keep that tag , it should mean the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, due to the inherent ambiguity, I favor getting rid of the tag and replacing it by more specific tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracle-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracle-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracle-database&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracle-database&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle-database&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracle-vm-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracle-vm-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle-vm-server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T23:21:37.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T10:11:59.577" Score="-7" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point is that this portal tries to answer all questions related to Unix as well as Linux. For that reason, the url of U&amp;amp;L should be &lt;code&gt;nix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. Can this be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The /status-declined and the comment and the answer only denote ignorance to me, by first treating Linux same as Unix, while they are not, and then just using Unix generically for Unix as well as Linux instead of separating both or merging them equally. I won't even start on the differences between the two over here. They are just 2 different pieces of software. The only reason they are usually mentioned together is because of the similarities between Unix and Linux based distros. But that does not make any one of them superior to the other. You cannot say &quot;Unix&quot; and mean &quot;Unix and Linux&quot;, no sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44761" LastEditorUserId="44761" LastEditDate="2013-08-13T19:16:24.807" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T19:16:24.807" Title="Change url to nix.stackexchange.com" Tags="|support|status-declined|site-name|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2013-08-08T12:12:02.590" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why change the URL to “nix”? It means the same thing as “unix”, only it's less clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reason is not obvious at all. I assume it's to avoid the name “unix”. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/461/euphemisms-for-unix/470#470&quot;&gt;We don't officially endorse or discourage the use of “'nix” or “un*x”&lt;/a&gt;. Changing the URL to “nix” might hurt our searchability though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Unix” already includes Linux. We &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/273/how-about-a-rename&quot;&gt;include “Linux” in the site name&lt;/a&gt; because a majority of visitors are after Linux and not Unix. Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; reach this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T12:12:02.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-13T09:55:07.513" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86494/what-version-of-linux-fedora-to-install-and-how-to-do-it&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86494/what-version-of-linux-fedora-to-install-and-how-to-do-it&lt;/a&gt;. I was going to edit it, but I think the answers/comments given are already sufficient for me to go ahead. I would mark it as answered, but there is no place to do that. Can someone do that for me? No need for a personal answer, seeing it closed will be a sufficient result for me. Thank you for a very well organised and incredibly useful facility, to me it is the best of all the forums etc. available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18182" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T09:23:16.763" Title="Can the question I asked, put on hold, be marked as answered?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1361" CreationDate="2013-08-14T09:23:16.763" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no answer to the question you refer to, so there is no answer to accept. Also, it is put on hold for a reason, namely, that it doesn't fit to this site for being an opinion-based question. I don't see an edit fixing this issue. You can, however, upvote the comment that help you out, these are the onse that are read most and you can reply with a comment that this was the solution you used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T09:23:16.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="997" CreationDate="2013-08-19T01:40:02.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know what to do about questions about ports in the networking sense, but I did the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ports&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bsd-ports&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bsd-ports&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bsd-ports&lt;/a&gt; rename&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T01:40:02.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-20T00:43:03.793" Score="5" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87355/why-cat-grep-and-other-commands-cant-understand-files-starting-with-minus-sign&quot;&gt;Why cat, grep and other commands can&amp;#39;t understand files starting with minus sign?&lt;/a&gt; was marked as duplicate of this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1519/how-do-i-delete-a-file-whose-name-begins-with-hyphen-a-k-a-dash-or-minus&quot;&gt;How do I delete a file whose name begins with &amp;quot;-&amp;quot; (hyphen a.k.a. dash or minus)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;disclaimer: I posted an elaborate answer for the why-question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the how-question is straight forward: how to solve the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the why-question reads more like a rant. One sentence in the text actually does ask how to solve the problem. The title is, IMO, dominating the question: why does the problem exists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it really is a duplicate then when the answers are merged the answers of one question should also answer the other question. In this case my answer for the why-question feels very out of place in the how-question. As well as the answers for the how-question feel very incomplete in the why-question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it policy that why-questions are generally considered duplicate of how-questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I edit the text of the why-question to remove that little reference to &quot;how&quot; and enfore the &quot;why&quot;, would it be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1170" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T01:56:22.930" Title="Is &quot;Why problem X exists&quot; duplicate of &quot;How to solve problem X&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1366" CreationDate="2013-08-20T23:26:52.710" Score="15" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder why there was no moderator election since 2011?&#xA;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, I don't think the current moderators do a bad job or so. It's just that in other communities like askubuntu or stackoverflow there was an election at least once a year. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/election/&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com/election/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/election&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25979" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T00:30:51.220" Title="Why was there no election since 2011?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1365" CreationDate="2013-08-21T00:30:51.220" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators do not have a fixed term. They remain moderators until they choose to step away. Therefore moderator elections are only held when moderators have left, or when a site has grown so that more moderators are needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 3 moderators elected in 2011 are still active, and while the site has grown, it is a remarkably drama-free site for Stack Exchange, so 3 moderators are still enough. There hasn't been any need to conduct a new election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T00:30:51.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-21T08:55:55.587" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/309/4098&quot;&gt;vi/vim questions are considered on-topic here&lt;/a&gt;, it would seem fair that Emacs questions would be as well. According to the &lt;code&gt;/emacs&lt;/code&gt; tag statistics, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emacs&quot;&gt;we already have a bunch of them&lt;/a&gt;, so there's no debate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what about questions on programming in Emacs Lisp? Not just asking for small code snippets, but about the understanding of the language. Some random topics, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Variable scopes or closures.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Data types and type coercion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;namespaces.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an OOP system on top of elisp.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Calling Common Lisp in elisp code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Argument against&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are pure programming questions. Elisp should be treated like any other language and should be dealt with on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Argument for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming emacs in Lisp is the correct way of using the editor (in my humble and highly debatable opinion). Allowing questions about emacs but not elisp seems weird and wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have an &lt;code&gt;/elisp&lt;/code&gt; tag, although &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elisp&quot;&gt;it's not very active&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4098" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T16:29:32.323" Title="Are questions about emacs lisp programming on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1367" CreationDate="2013-08-21T09:55:32.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What's on topic&lt;/a&gt;. The short answer is no, Programming is not on topic here. Asking about &lt;code&gt;emacs&lt;/code&gt; is fine, asking for simple emacs scripting is probably fine. I think the question goes as how much &lt;code&gt;vim&lt;/code&gt; scripting do we allow? If people started asking about how to write &lt;code&gt;vim&lt;/code&gt; plugins, I'd be bothered by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T09:55:32.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1367" CreationDate="2013-08-21T16:50:16.953" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the same thing as shell programming. If you're a power user scripting a common task, it's on-topic. If you're implementing a Turing machine, it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask about the points you list are off-topic. However, these points may arise during the debugging of a macro. Questions about problems with a macro that is a way to accomplish a user task are on-topic, and if that requires delving into Lisp intrinsics, so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T16:50:16.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1364" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:06:02.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is not really asking why &lt;code&gt;cat --1&lt;/code&gt; isn't working: the asker did understand that this was because &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; is interpreting &lt;code&gt;--1&lt;/code&gt; as an option. The real question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any universal workaround different from not using such file names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, the question is a duplicate. Unfortunately, the earlier question has pretty poor answers, inherited from the early days of the site, with a lot of upvotes but not much in the way of explanations. Your answer is a lot better (though still incomplete, as you don't explain the peculiarity of &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; or why quotes don't help).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no rule that the newer question has to be closed as a duplicate of the older one. It's the typical case, but in general the question with the worse answers should be closed as a duplicate of the question with the better answers. So we should invert the duplicate closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Unless there's already another better duplicate? I thought I remembered an answer by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22565/stephane-chazelas&quot;&gt;Stephane Chazelas&lt;/a&gt; that went through all of this, but I can't find it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T17:06:02.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1372" CreationDate="2013-08-22T20:19:46.447" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes multiple questions can relate to the same topic from different angles. I've considered linking the questions, but sometimes the angles are so different that the answer to one question can include irrelevant information in relation to the other, require additional information or other editing. In such cases, would it be appropriate to &quot;cross post&quot; parts of an answer multiple questions and edit the answer to fit the new angle, or is this considered inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87732/linux-reboot-out-of-memory/87769#87769&quot; title=&quot;Linux reboot out of memory&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87781/viewing-virtual-memory-usage/87825#87825&quot; title=&quot;Viewing virtual memory usage&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43779" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T11:00:00.053" Title="Is it appropriate to &quot;cross post&quot; (parts of) answers?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|answer-quality|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1371" CreationDate="2013-08-23T17:02:16.460" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post the exact same answer to multiple questions is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104227/is-it-acceptable-to-add-a-duplicate-answer-to-several-questions&quot;&gt;generally bad&lt;/a&gt;. If the answers have partial overlap and you're tailoring them to fit each particular question, go for it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T17:02:16.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1376" CreationDate="2013-08-26T07:38:14.473" Score="8" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like it's way too general and is probably misused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T05:24:14.947" Title="Can we get rid of the &quot;support&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1375" CreationDate="2013-08-27T21:00:07.140" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask a question on U&amp;amp;L where we could create several implementations of transpose using the various languages (awk, perl, bash, etc.) but this type of question seems as though it would be off topic, yet I and others have answered at least a 1/2 dozen or so of these questions just this week. So it seems like a canonical Q&amp;amp;A to this topic would be valuable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to proceed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: I can provide references to Q&amp;amp;A's if need be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T21:09:36.713" Title="Can we create a canonical answer on how to transpose row,col into col,row?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1374" CreationDate="2013-08-27T21:09:36.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we've already got a bunch of them, why do we need another? Post a good answer on one of them that includes methods for all the tools you want (although I don't really see why we need the same solution with a dozen different tools/languages either), and start closing new questions as a duplicate of that one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T21:09:36.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1373" CreationDate="2013-08-28T05:24:14.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's pretty much the definition of a meta-tag. With only five questions  attached a few minutes ago, it's a no-brainer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The attached questions have been edited, the tag will be purged within 24h.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T05:24:14.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1371" CreationDate="2013-08-29T10:30:50.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;WRT your example, I would have linked to the original with a brief explanation of why.  This makes things easier to maintain if you or someone else decides to edit something at some point.  Sometimes this might require you to flesh out and edit the original answer, which &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; produce a better overall result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, some people might consider an answer that just references another &quot;lazy&quot;, and I certainly don't see anything wrong with what you've done in that particular case (it is a great answer!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point that &quot;many causes can have the same effect&quot;, from the link in Mr. Mrozek's answer, perhaps applies better the other way around (many effects can have the same cause).  These aren't duplicate questions, but the answers do converge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T11:00:00.053" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T11:00:00.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-08-29T23:29:04.203" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mw3x8.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Ubuntu: Linux for human beings&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23373" LastEditorUserId="23373" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T23:53:05.527" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T23:53:05.527" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-08-29T23:29:04.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-08-29T23:49:51.980" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qZhMn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Linux Mint: from freedom freedom came elegance&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23373" LastEditorUserId="23373" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T23:57:19.903" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T23:57:19.903" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-08-29T23:49:51.980" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1367" CreationDate="2013-08-30T16:29:32.323" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow or Programmers would be much better suited to field questions about the understanding of Lisp - regardless of the IDE or text editor you use to write the scripts/programs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34072" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T16:29:32.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-04T21:12:17.350" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;My latest personal experience of this is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89440/send-all-local-mail-to-a-single-external-e-mail&quot;&gt;Send all local mail to a single external e-mail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I listened and took the time to try out the proposed solution carefully, but it did not work. The &quot;moderators&quot; didn't leave me any time to do this. When I was done and explained why the proposed solution did not work, and that it wasn't a duplicate, it was already closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see lots of thoughtful questions closed by people who haven't got the knowledge to help out. I guess the site rewards closing too much, and that is the bug I want to raise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Deleted" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T08:13:54.690" Title="Stack exchange has gone from useful site to a site where people try to close questions as fast as possible" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1381" CreationDate="2013-09-04T21:18:44.537" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was not closed by any moderators, it was simply closed by 5 users of the site with sufficient reputation who felt that your question should have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not permanent.  If 5 users (or 1 mod) determine that the question should be reopened, it can be.  As such, if a question of yours is closed as a duplicate and it doesn't help you then you should edit your question to include why the proposed duplicate isn't a question.  Differentiate yours from theirs.  Something like, &quot;I have seen this solution  and it's related, but they are dealing with the case of X, and I have Y, so the solution proposed there doesn't work in my case.&quot;  Make it clear that you looked at the answers, made an effort to apply it to your case, and that it didn't solve your problem.  Don't just say &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; it didn't work (as with any other problem you ever ask about) explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it doesn't work.  Does it error out in your case, is the output different, are your requirements different from the other question's (if so, again, why and how are they different).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34435" OwnerDisplayName="Servy" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T21:18:44.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1381" CreationDate="2013-09-04T21:45:14.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack exchange has gone from useful site to a site where people try to close questions as fast as possible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is definitely not true of the sites I frequent, including Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People try to close duplicates as fast as possible because a duplicate gives you an answer immediately. It's more efficient for everyone, including the asker, than waiting for someone to answer the new, identical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I listened and took the time to try out the proposed solution carefully, but it did not work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You didn't try out the solution proposed in the duplicate thread. It's understandable, because the proposed duplicate doesn't apply to your case. You tried out a solution proposed in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The constructive thing to do would be to point out how the proposed duplicate doesn't apply to your question. Namely, you're trying to redirect all local email, whereas person who asked the previous question was content to redirect one account and all the answers focused on that part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mistakes happen. When they happen, don't shout at people. Engage them constructively. Point out what the problem with. You did well to post exactly what you had done and the relevant logs. You seem to be good at dealing with machines. Try to also put a little effort in dealing with humans. Machines don't mind your tone, humans do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited the proposed duplicate and your question, and voted to reopen. As a relatively new used you might not want to take the responsibility of editing the older question, that's fine. What you should definitely have done is comment to the person who suggested that solution that it wasn't mentioned anywhere in the previous thread (which never mentioned wildcards). And of course to point out that your question is not a duplicate, you should make it clearer what the differences are, not write ITS NOT A DUPLICATE in the biggest font you could find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" OwnerDisplayName="Gilles" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T21:45:14.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1385" CreationDate="2013-09-06T09:38:59.043" Score="13" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that usernames on StackExchange sites aren't unique.  For example, there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;gilles&lt;/a&gt; and there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/46499/gilles&quot;&gt;gilles&lt;/a&gt;.  I assume that this behaviour is by design, but it seems to me that such a system would be open to shenanigans.  Is there any mechanism in place to prevent malicious impersonation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17535" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T13:19:17.673" Title="Usernames on StackExchange sites aren't unique!" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|fun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1384" CreationDate="2013-09-06T13:19:17.673" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/38466/145982&quot;&gt;How to handle people impersonating other people by choosing the same display name&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/174451/145982&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet impersonators running rampant?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's technically against the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service&quot;&gt;Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Under no circumstances will Subscriber use the Network or the Service to (a) send unsolicited e-mails, bulk mail, spam or other materials to users of the Network or any other individual, (b) harass, threaten, stalk or abuse any person or party, including other users of the Network, (c) &lt;strong&gt;create a false identity or to impersonate another person&lt;/strong&gt;, or (d) knowingly post any false, inaccurate or incomplete material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless somebody actually reports it, we're probably not going to notice/care, and it'd have to be an intentional attempt to confuse people: same name, gravatar, profile, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T13:19:17.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1387" CreationDate="2013-09-06T18:41:47.507" Score="5" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question about why I had to solve a particular sendmail -  /var/spool/mqueue problem the way I did. Is that an appropriate question for Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, CentOS 6 installed sendmail a particular way, and I wound up having to modify /var/spool/mqueue permissions as well as modifying mail's group entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41144" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T18:49:30.170" Title="Is sendmail configuration question appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1386" CreationDate="2013-09-06T18:49:30.170" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;; it clearly fits under &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being cross-platform does not disqualify)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also might be appropriate on the sysadmin-focused site &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;. But it's on-topic here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T18:49:30.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-10T13:17:10.100" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen several questions reopened within 24hrs that had absolutely no changes. I get the impression that there is a single person reopening some items&#xA;without much thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure what the minimum requirement is for a user to be able to reopen questions and/or if there is a limit to the number of questions a single user can reopen? It would be good if there is a maximum that one can reopen per day and that possible is related to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ones reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the number of actually reopened questions that the user has triggered for reopening in the last X days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something like that in place? (and if it is shouldn't the rules be tightened?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T13:23:57.163" Title="Same question reopened twice in 24 hrs" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1388" CreationDate="2013-09-10T13:23:57.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions need a number of reopen votes to be reopened -- only a moderator can do it with one vote. I think what you're seeing is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/196078/154627&quot;&gt;this network wide change&lt;/a&gt;, which caused many more questions to be added to the reopen queue. Apparently enough reviewers thought those deserved to be reopened. You can vote to close them again (I'm pretty sure), or if there is an egregious mistake in reopening, you can flag the question for a moderator to review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T13:23:57.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-10T20:18:44.510" Score="7" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/88622/selinux-allow-a-process-to-create-any-file-in-a-certain-directory/89221?noredirect=1#89221&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on the Unix site, didn't get an answer soon enough for my taste, and then asked my question again at the non-Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://ask.fedoraproject.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ask Fedora&lt;/a&gt;, and got an answer there.  So, should I answer my own question by copying the answer given over there, while giving credit to the person who answered my question, and then mark my answer as belonging to the community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41033" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T14:11:51.573" Title="What to do if your question was answered on another site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2013-09-10T20:33:53.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;same license we do&lt;/a&gt;, so as long as you attribute it it should be fine. It'd probably be best if you wrote your own answer now that you've gone through the steps of solving your issue, as opposed to just copy/pasting the answer from Ask Fedora&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T20:33:53.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-12T18:18:14.053" Score="1" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Unix Stackexchange logs me in whenever I come from another site for the first time, I see I have some new messages in Inbox under the StackExchange top left bar. When I try to check those out, I see a blank window instead of any messages. Here is a snapshot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K7erB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am seeing this on Chrome Version 29.0.1547.57 on my Mac OSX 10.8.4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This does not happen with any of the other tabs under that window like all sites or notifications. This behavior does not repeat when I see the site on a different tab. Thus this seems very specific to that 1st time when the user signs up as a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to Reproduce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create an account on Stackoverflow (Could work with other sites but I know of stackoverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visit the stackexchange site &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sign up via the Stackexchange signup option.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Site redirects to log you in and nothing is visible under Inbox.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if I can provide more information or if I should paste this somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47020" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T18:18:14.053" Title="Cannot see notifications-inbox after logging in" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1397" CreationDate="2013-09-14T02:13:22.180" Score="23" ViewCount="1092" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/138/warren-young&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90572/how-can-i-set-mouse-sensitivity-not-just-mouse-acceleration?noredirect=1#comment136154_90572&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/90572/22222&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; pointing out that the question had been asked (not cross-posted, different user) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/a/262891/85695&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; on Ask Ubuntu. Since I had found the question intriguing and the answer over on AU was quite good, I took the liberty of copying the entire answer verbatim and posting it as an answer to the question here on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I marked it as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt; (I have neither the right nor the desire to gain rep from someone else's work) and I also linked back to both the original answer on AU and to the original poster's profile on U&amp;amp;L. If this were a more active user, I would have pinged him to suggest he do so himself but since this is a 101 rep user last seen about two months ago, I did it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I felt that it is a good thing to have that information on both sites and that rephrasing a perfectly adequate answer just to make it look different would be silly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we feel about that? Does everyone agree with what I did or should I delete the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T10:11:06.193" Title="How do we feel about copying answers from other SE sites?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1396" CreationDate="2013-09-14T02:31:51.330" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's entirely OK to do this and would in fact encourage it. Each site should have their own collections of questions and answers, and often times I find bits to solutions on one of the other SE sites, but then take it over here and either expand it since now I feel it's more appropriate to do so, or take it in an entirely different direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always just try to make sure to reference the other source material so it's obvious to readers where this information came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When copying this material I always try to improve it when putting it into this site. Whether it's rephrasing sentences or cleaning up the grammar. If some of the phrasing isn't how I would say it, I re-work it in my own words, but the general ideas came from the other post, more times than not, since much of what we do on a daily basis is reuse more the newly created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to @JoelDavis' comment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep. points are just to get you in the door 8-). After a while they become less important, the real value of the SE sites is they increase the signal to noise ratio on the internet so that others can find information that's organized in some fashion rather then having to mine it themselves from a forum post or a 3 year old blog post 8-). The type of reuse going on here is tantamount to using code from a library. We do that every day without a 2nd thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-09-04T10:11:06.193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T10:11:06.193" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1400" CreationDate="2013-09-14T02:35:52.430" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been getting more frequent visitors from a particular troll, and I find it educational to be able to reference these deleted questions and answer exchanges with this particular troll. Is it possible to still access these deleted Q&amp;amp;A's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T07:38:08.983" Title="Is there a way to pull up the deleted questions by trolls when explaining the situation to junior members of the site?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1398" CreationDate="2013-09-14T07:38:08.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure any of his posts could be described as educational, but yes, you can see them as long as you have the links saved. Mods can see deleted posts on user profiles, but we've been destroying the accounts, so the profile doesn't exist anymore. I wouldn't put too much time into it; he's been a problem on other SE sites for ages, so you're probably not going to come up with anything new. Just flag the posts as spam and they'll get automatically deleted or we'll get rid of them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, don't waste your time with editing the posts, leaving comments, etc. You can if you really want to, but it's not going to help, and the post is going to end up deleted anyway&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T07:38:08.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2013-09-14T13:08:08.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I asked a question on the Unix site, didn't get an answer soon enough for my taste, and then asked my question again at the non-Stack Exchange Ask Fedora, and got an answer there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's &lt;em&gt;cross-posting&lt;/em&gt; -- whether or not you waited a decent amount of time, and in fact there are sites that only allow explicit cross-posting if you do wait -- and IMO good netiquette says &lt;strong&gt;you should indicate this at the time of the cross post&lt;/strong&gt;.  There are also sites that will close your question if you get caught cross-posting &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; admitting it explicitly.  Cross-posting is fine if you do it legitimately (by being explicit) but sort of inconsiderate otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for example if you ask a question here and somewhere else simultaneously, you should add a note to both posts saying this was &quot;Cross-posted to:&quot; and a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question here and then the next day ask the same question somewhere else, you should add the note to both posts when you create the second one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for cross-posting the answers, IMO that's &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; -- as in, much better than not doing so -- but you should of course credit the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2013-09-14T14:11:51.573" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T14:11:51.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-16T16:59:26.440" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;dr:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, there are 3 issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The right part of all fields are not aligned correctly. Rev, Title, the editor field and the preview has different widths.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The small yellow &lt;code&gt;?&lt;/code&gt; is being chopped off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;wdm-container&lt;/code&gt; div class has a &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt; rule that is added by one of my Addons. This rule works fine in any of the SE sites but here...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm taking a screenshot of the current post editor. As you can see the right side is chopped off. I believe some declared css width is making a mess, but I haven't tested fully. Also,the right margin is off, I believe for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**Post question:**                             **Suggested edits:**&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cTWko.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;                                                          &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pojyb.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This happens in Firefox (Iceweasel 25.0a2 Debian testing) with and without addons, Greasymonkey, etc.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chromium seems unaffected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**Suggested edits:**                            **Ask question:**&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PdmGT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;                                                        &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QjP4M.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is well known that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/195679/213575&quot;&gt;chrome/ium is broken by default&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T13:54:22.103" Title="Post editor for suggestions has chopped the right side and is not aligned correctly, same for writing questions" Tags="|bug|status-declined|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1404" CreationDate="2013-09-16T23:22:44.520" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have taken a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linuxmeta/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix and linuxmeta/queries&lt;/a&gt;, and tried to craft a query to return the above, without success. Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T05:29:56.170" Title="Search comments, from other commentors; on question/answers you authored, or have commented on" Tags="|support|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1403" CreationDate="2013-09-16T23:33:07.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an existing query called &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix%20and%20linux/query/122341/where-did-i-meet-this-user&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Where did I meet this user&lt;/a&gt; that seems to match what you're looking for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T05:29:56.170" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T05:29:56.170" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1402" CreationDate="2013-09-17T13:54:22.103" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Declining this bug, as it involves a pre-release version of a browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We support &lt;strong&gt;current&lt;/strong&gt; releases of browsers, not alpha or beta versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32138" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T13:54:22.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1407" CreationDate="2013-09-17T19:01:08.283" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure what caused the deletion of (what I believe was) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90717/space-left-on-linux-ram-tmp-fs/90789#90789&quot;&gt;Space left on Linux RAM/TMP,FS&lt;/a&gt;, but there was a link in there that now seems to be dead, presuming I remember it correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any chance of a 10k'r copying and pasting the answer and comments here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T05:52:15.403" Title="Request for c&amp;p of deleted answer and comments" Tags="|support|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1406" CreationDate="2013-09-17T20:06:08.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted my answer since a better one was posted and it did not add anything useful to the debate. I have now undeleted it and it should be accessible to you again. I guess you're looking for the parted magic isos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T20:06:08.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-18T04:08:32.920" Score="6" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/91192/10762&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; wasn't a migration, it wasn't problematic, and it isn't an autodelete based on negative feedback (it even had an accepted answer). Why was it deleted by Community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the user delete their account? There appears to be no account associated with that username, but as far as I know, after you post you can only get your account deleted by contacting support, which seems to have happened extremely quickly (since the question was posted less than an hour ago), so I suspect it's not that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T16:04:24.667" Title="Why was this question deleted by Community?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1411" CreationDate="2013-09-18T07:07:56.660" Score="6" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started dabbling in installing ChromiumOS on various machines and would like to contribute my progress somewhere. Should I create a new wiki page per device or start with a master one that would be empty for sometime? As it's definitely an emerging but still low volume Q&amp;amp;A demand, perhaps it's better to just put some specific questions and answer them myself, such as &quot;X won't display for MacBook 2007 in ChromiumOS&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't wish to maintain my own blog and enjoy the usability of SE only about 1,000 times more than Google Groups (one of the current tomes of ChromiumOS Q&amp;amp;A).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26076" LastEditorUserId="26076" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T07:25:07.867" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T14:18:15.143" Title="Community Wiki for ChromiumOS on &quot;such and such&quot; device" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1413" CreationDate="2013-09-19T12:16:03.530" Score="6" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time we'll get a question that seems more on-topic for Server Fault rather than Unix &amp;amp; Linux.  Such as this one, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91368/xen-hw-virtualization-on-power-architecture&quot;&gt;Xen HW virtualization on Power architecture?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when going through the &quot;close as off-topic&quot; picks I've never been able to find a way to off-topic something other than to Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to pick Server Fault?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not can it be added, or was it not for some reason not obvious to me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's possible what's the trick?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did find this question that @Sturgee as regarding Super User, titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1327/can-we-have-super-user-as-a-site-for-off-topic-close-reasons&quot;&gt;Can we have Super User as a site for off-topic close reasons?&lt;/a&gt;, and I understand the answer to that question, however it never really addressed Server Fault or any of the other SE sites such as Ask Ubuntu either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;UPDATE #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;: if you absolutely positively think an answer should be migrated, flag the mods via &quot;other&quot; and mention it in the comments that you think it should be migrated to SF. Use cautiously however given the overlap between the various SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T14:45:14.810" Title="Can we have Server Fault (or other SE site) as an off-topic choice?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2013-09-19T14:18:15.143" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely post your own questions and answers. Not sure what you mean by 'wiki', the only 'wikis' here would be the tags and that is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what they're for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;'community wiki'&lt;/a&gt; is not that clearly defined anymore and is usually used when someone does not want to take credit for other people's work. Posting and answering your own question is both accepted and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;encouraged&lt;/a&gt;, if someone feels they need to edit, they can, I see no reason for you to mark them as wiki directly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, posting questions and answers about problems you faced and solved would be great! Please do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T14:18:15.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1408" CreationDate="2013-09-19T14:37:04.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the user account doesn't show up in the system any longer I would assume that this account was linked to a spam/troller and was deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be doubly cautious when answering Q's from new users at least for while, we've had a rash of seemingly valid questions posted that have turned out to be from a troll. I hate to have to do this myself but it saves on the annoyance of giving a good answer only to have it disappear when his account is later deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel this was a good Q + A I would suggest &quot;rescuing&quot; it by posting yourself and answering it. I've done this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90657/how-to-remove-a-usb-drive-without-worrying-if-its-been-unmounted&quot;&gt;on one other occasion to save&lt;/a&gt; what I thought was a good answer to keep on the site that Gilles posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T14:37:04.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2013-09-19T14:40:30.553" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is the &quot;from time to time&quot; part. The answer is the same as for the SU question you linked to: they'll only give us a migration path to a site if we're frequently needing to send them posts, and in the last three months we've migrated to SF...twice. SU is up to 5, and AU is up to 8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Server Fault also has unusually restrictive criteria for what posts they consider on-topic, which most people won't know; they'll see &quot;server&quot; in the question and think &quot;sounds perfect for Server Fault, those guys love servers&quot;. I don't think they would want the question you linked to, it's not about a professional sysadmin dealing with server administration, it's just a generic question about a CPU that might be in a server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Super User and Ask Ubuntu are even riskier, because their scopes heavily overlap with ours. People are constantly trying to get us to punt questions to AU that are perfectly on-topic here; we only migrate there if the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;doesn't apply to other distros&lt;/a&gt; (or the asker wants us to), not because they happen to be on Ubuntu&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start getting a flood of posts that need to be migrated, I'll try to talk SE into giving us new migration paths. Mods can migrate to any site, so for now you can just mod flag posts that need to be moved and we'll deal with it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T14:40:30.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1417" CreationDate="2013-09-19T23:48:30.797" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm publicizing some ChromiumOS build torrents via the Pirate Bay and would like to share that link in the chat and possibly refer to it if relevant for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the controversy that exists for the site, I felt best to check here before doing something that could be perceived as unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26076" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T00:08:47.427" Title="Linking to Pirate Bay for open source content?" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1396" CreationDate="2013-09-20T20:02:05.780" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer this by way of example, since this question has been discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4708/what-to-do-with-cross-site-duplicates&quot;&gt;What to do with cross-site duplicates?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it is clearly a question that does belong on another site, migrate it and then treat it as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can't assume that all users will be on all sites. Each site has to stand on its own merits and you have to treat each site as a separate community. [...] In the edge case where the question is appropriate on more than one site, leave it on both sites and let the users of each community benefit from the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often an answer from a cross-site duplicates can be improved within the context of the local question and local community (e.g. adjusting terminologies and expected level of knowledge, tying the general info to the local questions's specific situation, filtering the information down to the most relevant for the local question). So in those cases, I would quote the other site and put these local improvements as the local answer. I see no issue from getting reps for that; moreover, the purpose of community wiki is not to post an answer with which you are not comfortable getting reps from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1989" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T19:59:46.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-21T00:04:34.453" Score="7" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91664/unix-files-system-related-puzzle&quot;&gt;Unix files system related puzzle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about a capture-the-flag exercise. It's on-topic since the point of the exercise is to use various unix features. However, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185102/responding-to-your-too-localized-concerns&quot;&gt;too localized&lt;/a&gt; in the sense that an answer would only be useful to solve this particular exercise. On the gripping hand, the answer would illustrate some simple unix penetration testing techniques. On the fourth hand (the dummy?), the answer is not discoverable because the question it's on isn't about any kind of repeatable, searchable problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've answered, because, well, I might as well put up a solution somewhere, and illustrate these general concepts. But I am not at all convinced that the question should remain on the site. It could be generalized to ask about penetration testing in general, but then it would become far too broad: there are oodles of potential penetration avenues, this exercise just illustrates a couple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T02:16:36.397" Title="Is solving a CTF too localized?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1414" CreationDate="2013-09-21T00:08:47.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sharing links to legal content isn't a problem in itself, even if it's to a torrent on Pirate Bay. However, this may trigger the ire of some corporate firewalls. So I would recommend avoiding doing it on the main site. In chat, though, I think it's ok. If you link to “dodgy” sites such as Pirate Bay, be sure to warn people who might be tempted in clicking on the link that it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSFW&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NSFW&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T00:08:47.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1416" CreationDate="2013-09-21T00:42:33.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see your points but I disagree. I think general concepts as to how to approach these types of questions are valuable to help others learn how to break this type of problem down into discernible parts. I've answered as well and I think others stand to learn from how we both attacked the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of question, IMO, are analogous to the types of questions we already field on the site where people ask how to parse text string X from a file. There are literally dozens of these questions, which really could have a single canonical solution, yet we allow them to exist because they each have an inherent value in how someone both approaches the problem and ultimately solves it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2013-09-21T15:12:49.167" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T15:12:49.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1416" CreationDate="2013-09-21T03:09:43.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The asker initially tried to dance around the CTF situation by paraphrasing it as a philosophical exercise.  Which didn't work at all, as the solution was specific to a slightly contrived VM set up.  Which is one way the question was too localised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone just asks “succeed at this online exercise” or even “win this CTF, post a transcript”, there's an actual clear goal, which is more fun for answerers, but the goal isn't contained in the question, and succeeding at this goal requires expediency which doesn't make for answers of lasting value.  As a guideline, I think questions and answers should both be useful to future participants.  Getting a highly specific problem solved is more immediately rewarding but also more selfish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer questions that can be judged on their own merits, sufficiently self-contained that one can participate from the question alone, and sufficiently open-ended that answers can also be evaluated with an open mind, rather than letting external factors decide which is canonical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2729" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T03:09:43.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1416" CreationDate="2013-09-21T15:19:40.670" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that in this particular case, the question does not belong here, no. I say this despite spending a pleasant few minutes banging my head against that puzzle. The problem is that the solution depends on non-standard tools. There was a specific binary with SUID that returned an SSH key which then could be used to log in to the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a a solution that will ever be applicable anywhere else. If it were a puzzle that could be solved using standard tools that one could expect to find on a *nix machine, I would vote to leave it as both helpful and fun. Since this solution is only applicable to this particular VM set up, I would vote to close the question since we (we = @slm and @Gilles who solved it ) are just showing the solution to the quiz without teaching anyone anything that could be applied elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would suggest that as a general rule puzzle questions are fine &lt;strong&gt;as long as their answer is portable&lt;/strong&gt; and can be applied to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; *nix. If they can only be solved in the context of a specific set-up, then they should be closed. Of course, we can't know that until actually solving the puzzle so it might be hard to identify them before hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T02:16:36.397" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T02:16:36.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1422" CreationDate="2013-09-23T20:25:19.480" Score="13" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;These tags don't seem that different. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm&lt;/a&gt; has a tag wiki, whereas &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm2&lt;/a&gt; does not, leading me to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm&lt;/a&gt; for my recent LVM2 question. Is there any difference between these, or should one go away? Possibly we could have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm1&lt;/a&gt; tag for anyone who's still using the old version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-06-30T09:10:32.750" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T09:10:32.750" Title="Why do we have both LVM and an LVM2 tags?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1421" CreationDate="2013-09-23T21:59:41.650" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall seeing a question about LVM1 on this site. It was already obsolete by the time this site started. So for all intents and purposes &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm2&lt;/a&gt; are currently equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I favor merging them, and making &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm&lt;/a&gt; the main tag. (Only moderators can do this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an incompatible LVM3 comes along, we can start using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm3&lt;/a&gt; for it. Then make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm2&lt;/a&gt; the main tag in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm2&lt;/a&gt; pair and remove the synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which reminds me, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grub&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grub&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grub&lt;/a&gt; is a mess. We have plenty of questions about Grub 1, but Grub 2 questions have also been tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grub&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grub&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grub&lt;/a&gt;, especially as Grub 1 is &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T21:59:41.650" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1421" CreationDate="2013-09-24T17:24:03.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just my two cents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might create noise, but having &lt;code&gt;lvm&lt;/code&gt; in the general neighborhood of &lt;code&gt;lvm2&lt;/code&gt; doesn't really mess things up. There's ambiguity but I don't think it's going to make or break any assumptions people could reasonably be expected to make about the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there does need to be a change, from what I can see there are two possibly legitimate uses of the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;strong&gt;As a reference to LVM1&lt;/strong&gt; as Gilles mentioned. It might be worthwhile to maintain the distinction as someone may have a question about the origins of the current LVM design and referencing a previous iteration might be a good reference point. If LVM2 ever gets marginalized in the enterprise by newer technologies, that would marginalize LVM1 to the point where it's so corner case as to be make this desire moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;-----------&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) This is pretty close to how it is now, and I'd prefer it this way: It also may be worthwhile &lt;strong&gt;to reference &quot;Logical Volume Management&quot; as a whole&lt;/strong&gt;, which (reading the description) seems like it basically was intended to be and it just wasn't made explicit. This is useful since &quot;LVM&quot; is a pretty broad topic, and providing a catch-all tag for anything under that particular tent may help people attract interested eyeballs to their question. For example, &lt;code&gt;clvm&lt;/code&gt; could have its own tag as does &lt;code&gt;lvm2&lt;/code&gt;. If I'm having an issue with clustered LVM, though, &lt;code&gt;lvm2&lt;/code&gt; feels like the wrong tag to put onto it since my problem isn't related to the particular version of LVM I'm running (except insofar as LVM2 is the only one that supports clustering, which isn't definitional identity since any forthcoming LVM3 would likely have that functionality as well). There's a similar case with HA-LVM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, having a catch-all tag also helps for questions that are likely going to be relevant to all LVM incarnations (such as metadata recovery). Having general questions that are likely to be applicable to people new to the over-all paradigm share a common tag is also useful. For example, if someone is just unfamiliar with the concepts of volume group/physical volume, snapshots, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all my LVM2-related posts are tagged as &lt;code&gt;lvm&lt;/code&gt; for this reason, I only use &lt;code&gt;lvm2&lt;/code&gt; if I'm in the mood to be super specific. People are going to assume lvm2 and even if the two were on parity, the onus should be on the asker to clear up ambiguity whether it's this or some other part of their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever is decided (assuming I'm not overlooking a third option) updating the description to make it explicit is probably still desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastEditorUserId="34520" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T17:31:12.310" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T17:31:12.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-25T02:17:28.283" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several times I've been looking for a general &quot;this is how you use a chroot to reinstall grub&quot; question (bind-mount &lt;code&gt;dev&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;proc&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sys&lt;/code&gt;) to point people towards, but haven't found anything which neatly fits into the &quot;canonical question&quot; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does U&amp;amp;L have &quot;canonical questions&quot; in the same way that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1986/what-are-the-canonical-answers-weve-discovered-over-the-years&quot;&gt;ServerFault does&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good &quot;use chroot to reinstall grub&quot; question around that would be suitable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10424" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:00.273" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T07:32:38.773" Title="Canonical &quot;chroot grub reinstall&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1424" CreationDate="2013-09-25T05:07:31.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't figure out from that post what Server Fault considers a &quot;canonical question&quot;; it seems to just be a regular question that gets asked a lot. If you're looking to post the question because you already know the answer and think it will help other people, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17463/can-i-answer-my-own-questions-even-if-i-knew-the-answer-before-asking&quot;&gt;go for it&lt;/a&gt;. Some questions that might already fit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56773/deleted-grub-root-directory-how-do-i-reinstall-grub&quot;&gt;Deleted GRUB root directory. How do I reinstall grub?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5356/having-trouble-reinstalling-grub-from-live-cd&quot;&gt;Having trouble reinstalling Grub from live CD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43738/mbr-is-toast-or-at-least-grub-is&quot;&gt;MBR is toast or at least Grub is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52726/after-bios-splash-will-not-boot-asked-to-select-os-but-cant&quot;&gt;after BIOS splash, will not boot, asked to select OS, but can&amp;#39;t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81219/fixing-botched-centos-5-9-grub-step&quot;&gt;Fixing botched CentOS 5.9 Grub step&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T05:07:31.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1429" CreationDate="2013-09-25T06:03:19.413" Score="1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why someone can be so frustrated to vote down a question like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81966/how-can-i-make-bind-command-to-work-in-sh-shell&quot;&gt;How can I make &amp;quot;bind&amp;quot; command to work in sh shell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some doubt about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not a valid question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a span?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is off topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is too broad?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is  primarily opinion-based?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is unclear what the OP asked?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does someone write a comment to the OP telling why the question is not in good format?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The list can continue: it is not well written, it is not in English, it is duplicate, etc. But I don't want to be sarcastic (&lt;em&gt;I already become&lt;/em&gt; - so, I will understand if this question will be voted down).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I'm aware that not every question is great. Many are simply middling: they don’t deserve an upvote, but also don’t deserve a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37944" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T08:34:03.180" Title="Should I vote down a question if it frustrates me?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1424" CreationDate="2013-09-25T07:32:18.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have a formal repository of these, but if you feel you can write one, please go ahead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also been looking for that one several times, and didn't find one on &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; last time I looked either, but I never got around to doing it. Ideally this should be written while testing in a VM, which takes a bit of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1425&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; found &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52726/after-bios-splash-will-not-boot-asked-to-select-os-but-cant&quot;&gt;after BIOS splash, will not boot, asked to select OS, but can&amp;#39;t&lt;/a&gt;, which is a pretty good reference for Grub2 on Debian and derivatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you write a canonical answer, be sure to state which distributions it applies to. Different distributions set up Grub in different ways. I think terdon's answer is suitable for Grub 2 on Debian and derivatives, the Arch wiki probably has something good already, which leaves Grub 1 on Red Hat as a major candidate for a canonical question (unless this is covered in the RH manual).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T07:32:18.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1426" CreationDate="2013-09-25T07:39:11.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's one downvote. Shrug it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A downvote doesn't indicate that a question is off-topic, too broad, primarily opinion-based or unclear. That's what close votes are for. (Unclear is also part of the guidelines for downvoting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can vote for whatever reason they like. There is official advice, but the only actual rule is to vote for the post and not for the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. In case it wasn't clear from the rest of my answer: I do not consider this meta question useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T07:39:11.130" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1426" CreationDate="2013-09-25T07:52:49.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things that takes a little getting used to is the whole voting on the SE sites. Everyone in the SE universe that has 15 rep or higher is allowed to vote up, and 125 rep for down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning, when I first frequented the sites, I too would see what appear to be perfectly valid questions with -1 or -2 or even 0. Then I posted my first questions and eventually my first answers and would invariably receive up and down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I realized, the votes are nothing more than signals. They are just a way for others around me, peers, to provide feedback, nothing more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way that a performer can get up in front of a crowd and do their thing, the crowd can either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clap&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do nothing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;boo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So too on the SE sites can the crowd do here as well. So my questions to you would be, as a performer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you perform for the claps, or do you perform for some other more self serving reason?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is for some more fundamental reason, do you not continue to perform?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not let a boo perturb you from performing! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask the best questions you can, if it get's downvoted, ask for help. Leave a comment asking for someone to help you make it a better question. Leave a comment asking why it was downvoted, become better at &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; craft, but don't torture yourself wondering why someone in the crowd might have &lt;em&gt;booed&lt;/em&gt; your performance, it will only drive you crazy, let it go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;Vote Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;What kind of behavior is expected of users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;Why is voting important?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T08:34:03.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-01T02:50:08.807" Score="12" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately we've seen a bunch of question about Windows, english usage, general programming questions, and when we should take the dog to a walk... so, I was thinking that instead of writing up a &quot;custom&quot; reason each time... some should be prewritten, no? Any ideas of what this text should say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2013-10-04T23:24:12.393" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T14:17:28.117" Title="New off-topic close reason for question that are... off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1430" CreationDate="2013-10-01T02:50:08.807" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposed text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is not about Unix or Linux. Questions about other operating systems can be asked on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and questions about general programming on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help page&lt;/a&gt; for a description of what kinds of questions are on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T14:17:28.117" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-10-01T02:50:08.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1430" CreationDate="2013-10-01T07:41:18.893" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually prefer that people are encouraged to think of a constructive reason for closing (for off-topic) and articulate it prior to clicking the button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may only be a small cognitive hurdle, but it does encourage thoughtful votes to close, at least from the first voter, rather than just the cost of a click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this contributes to the overall high quality nature of the content management on the site and I don't think it is worth trading away for a very small gain in perceived convenience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We aren't at the size yet&amp;mdash;from my perspective visiting daily&amp;mdash;where the volume of posts would make this a more compelling argument. Until we are, I think we should try and preserve the thoughtful, measured environment that has been cultivated to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T07:41:18.893" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-01T17:50:37.843" Score="2" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;If unix and linux are supposed to be so different, why are they sharing a category on this web site? This pairing of two OS on one stackexchange topic makes it seem that they are indistinguishable and a question concerning Linux can apply to Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48314" OwnerDisplayName="keepaustinbeard" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T01:10:32.920" Title="Unix &amp; Linux... together?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2013-10-01T18:35:54.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;GNU/Linux is a UNIX clone. UNIX is a big family and consist other family such as BSD, systemV, SVR and so on. for more information you can visit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.levenez.com/unix/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unix history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21911" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T18:35:54.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2013-10-01T19:21:35.570" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unix&lt;/code&gt; is not an operating system, it's a family of operating systems. Linux is not an operating system, it's the kernel found in a number of Unix-like and non-Unix-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's as much difference between one non-Linux-based Unix system and the next as between one Linux-based one and the next, but they all share very similar interfaces and have a lot concepts in common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes sense to have both. I find the &lt;em&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/em&gt; name confusing and misleading myself though because it mixes operating systems and kernels and seem to imply that things like GNU would be off-topic and that your TV, printer or smart phone running Linux would be on-topic. &lt;code&gt;Unix-like operating systems&lt;/code&gt; would have been a better name IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the name was chosen because few people suspect Debian or Fedora for instance are Unix-like operating systems, while more may have heard that they are built around a Linux kernel (though for Debian, Linux is not the only supported kernel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T19:33:27.430" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T19:33:27.430" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2013-10-02T01:10:32.920" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name is a useful reminder that GNU/Linux is not the only unix-like environment around and that, unless a particular flavour of unix or particular Linux distribution is mentioned in the question, answers should be careful to at least make note of any non-POSIX features used in the answer or provide both POSIX and non-POSIX versions of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. if your answer includes a shell script that uses features only available in bash, then mention that it is a &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; script, not a &lt;code&gt;sh&lt;/code&gt; script.  Similarly, if you use features of &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; or some other tool that are only available in the GNU versions of that tool, then mention it.  Bonus points for providing a variation of your answer that works using only POSIX features of the tool(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7696" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T01:10:32.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-02T18:25:45.080" Score="4" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Noticed that I was unable to open a new instance of &quot;/ask question&quot; (in a new tab) when I was in the midst of asking one question, and thought of another I wanted to create at least the title for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can also see coding href's into this menu bar, even for pages that one is currently on, as being advantageous for manually refreshing the page (Yes, there is always the browser refresh controls).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that the community thinks is worthwhile to change/can be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T18:32:58.627" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T18:32:58.627" Title="Href's on /ask question (and others) while on the page that it links to" Tags="|feature-request|status-bydesign|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1438" CreationDate="2013-10-02T18:32:49.110" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this exact question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61666/cant-click-ask-question-when-on-the-ask-a-question-page&quot;&gt;years ago&lt;/a&gt;, for the same reason. It's intentionally disabled because apparently some very confused people think that after they've filled out the question form, they should click the &quot;ask question&quot; link again to post, and get mad when instead it takes them to a blank ask question page. This only happens on the ask question page; the others are always linked even if you're already on that page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T18:32:49.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1441" CreationDate="2013-10-03T16:20:24.213" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you know of a client-side application able to read/write to stackexchange sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like the applications that interact with Twitter using &lt;code&gt;curl&lt;/code&gt;. Do you know of a similar script or application?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21911" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T19:49:04.663" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T04:11:53.357" Title="Client application for stackexchange sites" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1440" CreationDate="2013-10-06T04:11:53.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange API&lt;/a&gt;, you should have a look there. The various applications already developed using the API can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com&quot;&gt;stackapps.com&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, the API does not allow you to write, only read but you should have a look in case you find anything helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T04:11:53.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1443" CreationDate="2013-10-08T16:40:36.340" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use a different (although Ubuntu-based) types of Linux and I like, elementaryOS.  But there are not a lot of questions on that on Stack Exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is U&amp;amp;L the proper place for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="341192" OwnerDisplayName="user32012" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T11:45:44.400" Title="Is unix.stackexchange.com a proper place to ask questions about elementaryOS?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1442" CreationDate="2013-10-08T16:42:31.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the U&amp;amp;L &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Linux, FreeBSD and &lt;strong&gt;other Un*x-like operating systems&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would appear to be on topic on that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34435" OwnerDisplayName="Servy" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T16:42:31.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1442" CreationDate="2013-10-08T17:16:45.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely. Any questions related to Un*x like operating systems are welcome here. We even already have the 2 tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elementary-os&quot;&gt;elementary-os&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elementary&quot;&gt;elementary&lt;/a&gt; which a couple of questions each under them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given Elementary's lineage it should be relatively easy for most people on U&amp;amp;L to either answer your questions outright or at least provide you guidance as to how to resolve your issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T17:16:45.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-09T09:31:01.573" Score="11" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately I have come across several answers and comments from a user, that doesn't seem to understand the questions, often gives rather bogus suggestions and generally shows not-so-great fluency in a lot of topics he's responding to (he's got some nice answers though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I understand that everybody has a different degree of knowledge and enthusiasm and sometimes these two don't meet at the best spot, but the answers/comments I'm talking about basically just generate noise and might be even confusing for the asker or casual visitor. What is the right way of telling such a user to hold his horses and only reply when he's reasonably convinced he's right? I don't want to dissuade him from contributing, but sometimes he just seems not to even understand how wrong he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22886" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2013-10-12T14:38:22.567" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T23:24:32.267" Title="Inexperienced users commenting on questions they don't understand" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1445" CreationDate="2013-10-09T19:48:51.043" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;U&amp;amp;L is a paltform for learning. I think the best approach is to downvote and leave a comment that addresses any factual errors, thereby providing the well-meaning but misinformed poster with an opportunity to increase their understanding and also alerting any other visitor to the page that the answer is erroneous &lt;em&gt;and why&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second point is important because often seeing how an incorrect answer is wrong is just as helpful in understanding an issue as a correct answer is. What matters most is that there is a very clear delineation between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, over time, the hapless poster will find their niche on the site. Irrespective of that happening, the overall quality of the site will improve with both correct answers and well annotated wrong ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the answer is egregiously wrong and contains potentially harmful or damaging material&amp;mdash;or it is just completely irrelevant, it should just be flagged for deletion. Not every wrong answer is worth making into an exemplar to avoid or learn from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2013-10-09T19:55:58.520" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T19:55:58.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-10-10T05:42:59.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fpySl.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU emacs, an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T05:42:59.400" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-10-10T05:42:59.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-10-10T13:36:31.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2346&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LgFJu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T13:36:31.247" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-10-10T13:36:31.247" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1445" CreationDate="2013-10-10T23:41:55.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea behind the StackExchange format is that downvotes should deal with eliminating the noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is not getting the downvotes it deserves, it would be nice to have a way to attract the attention of other high-rep users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way for a user to mark an answer for review by the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4098" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T23:41:55.483" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1451" CreationDate="2013-10-11T12:52:12.923" Score="10" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using both ubuntu and elementaryOS. The latter has a community that is active most on irc and google plus, so that, after a while, it is very hard to keep track of the problems and answers. That community is not very active on stackexchange, although it is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would like to post here some of the main questions that I was confronted with in order to provide answers that would be easy to track by me and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It is ok to do this on askubuntu - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/q/111/47206&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32012" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T17:17:46.773" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T17:17:46.773" Title="Can I ask a question for the purpose of providing an answer that I consider useful to all?" Tags="|discussion|self-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1450" CreationDate="2013-10-11T13:23:46.747" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. This is okay on all of Stack Exchange. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T13:23:46.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-12T04:55:59.840" Score="15" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super sorry to bikeshed, but this is kind of bugging me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In network-wide contexts, like people's list of accounts, our description says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;A for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like &quot;FreeBSD&quot; is too specific, like saying &quot;users of Arch Linux&quot; instead of GNU/Linux users in general. Can we change it to something like &quot;the BSDs&quot; or &quot;*BSD&quot;? So the final description would end up being something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;A for users of Linux, the BSDs and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T17:13:37.253" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T17:17:32.193" Title="Can we change the &quot;FreeBSD&quot; in the network description to &quot;the BSDs&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|site-name|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1452" CreationDate="2013-10-12T14:52:01.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do we need to specify anything at all? We could just go for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;A for users of Unix and Unix-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or since Linux perhaps should be mentioned explicitly since it is in the site's name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;A for users of Unix, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't see the point of &lt;code&gt;Un*x-like&lt;/code&gt;, I could understand &lt;code&gt;*nix&lt;/code&gt; but that is a synonym of &lt;code&gt;Unix-like&lt;/code&gt; so why not just leave it at that? What does &lt;code&gt;Un*x-like&lt;/code&gt; convey that &lt;code&gt;Unix-like&lt;/code&gt; doesn't? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-10-12T14:52:01.687" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1455" CreationDate="2013-10-13T18:32:22.580" Score="0" ViewCount="408" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10435308/what-is-dev-tty-in-unix#comment28666746_10435447&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question on topic on &lt;em&gt;unix.se.com&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what's the application/use of unifying the two API[console API and file API] and providing such a feature[copy file from one terminal to another]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20447" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T20:27:20.517" Title="Is the question on-topic here (main site, not meta)?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1454" CreationDate="2013-10-13T20:38:47.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine, although I would definitely explain the whole context in the question. Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10435308/what-is-dev-tty-in-unix&quot;&gt;this Stack Overflow thread&lt;/a&gt; that each logical terminal has a &amp;quot;pseudo-terminal&amp;quot;, and that writing to one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ cat some-file.txt &amp;gt; /dev/ttys002&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will cause the data to appear in that terminal window. What's the reason for providing a file-like API to terminal windows? Is there any use case where this is helpful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-10-13T20:38:47.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1442" CreationDate="2013-10-14T11:45:44.400" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say use your best judgement. Is the problem based on other *nix utilities or something that users of other *nix systems may face? In that case you should post it on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if your question is extremely specific and is caused by issues in the underlying Ubuntu system, it would be a better idea to post on AskUbuntu. This is a very thin line and the best way is to use your judgement as to what fits where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21183" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T11:45:44.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1459" CreationDate="2013-10-14T19:08:27.807" Score="6" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see tons of these floating around. Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/71959/how-to-create-a-custom-debian-based-distro&quot;&gt;How to create a customized distribution based on Debian?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66930/how-to-create-my-own-linux-distro-say-from-ubuntu-source-code&quot;&gt;How to create my own Linux distro (say from ubuntu source code)?&lt;/a&gt; (note: this one's closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83439/how-can-i-create-my-own-distro-and-include-a-custom-kernel-packages&quot;&gt;How can I create my own distro and include a custom kernel &amp;amp; packages?&lt;/a&gt; (also closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then of course there are some alternative but still related ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79476/creating-a-user-less-distro&quot;&gt;Creating a User-less Distro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62418/creating-linux-distro-for-use-during-exam&quot;&gt;Creating linux distro for use during exam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34465/how-do-you-properly-fork-a-linux-distro&quot;&gt;How do you properly fork a Linux distro?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a single, canonical question that we all agree to flag duplicates against?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T16:00:01.467" Title="Should we have a canonical &quot;how to create a distro&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2013-10-14T19:47:15.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have an option to close because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions describing &lt;strong&gt;a problem that can't be reproduced&lt;/strong&gt; and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T19:47:15.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1457" CreationDate="2013-10-14T20:31:54.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to try and answer in a general way such that this could itself be a canonical Q&amp;amp;A, if you had asked &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can we create generalized, canonical questions out of a series of localized ones?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can we have a single, canonical question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people write their own Q&amp;amp;A when they notice something that hasn't been covered, which is great.  I think about doing it all the time WRT things that have been covered, but (as with your example), not in a clearly canonical way.  Stupidly, I still have yet to actually do this, and instead continue to type out answers to questions that should simply be referred to such a canonical version. &lt;em&gt;[Maybe the game point system encourages this inadvertently?]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not looked at the actual Q&amp;amp;A's you reference, but if &lt;em&gt;you think&lt;/em&gt; they could be summed up -- and of course you are free to refer to and quote them -- then I think you should go for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;that we all agree to flag duplicates against?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a &lt;em&gt;formal mechanism&lt;/em&gt;, that's a tough thing to accomplish.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  And although I do empathize with the desire for such a mechanism, I'm glad there isn't -- in essence you'd then have a system that doesn't need &quot;us&quot; to agree to flag anything.  You'd just have &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; person consult a list that was previously agreed to and mark the duplicate, or whatever.  The problem with that for me is I've seen questions closed inappropriately (IMO) on S.E. by &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; people.  So either it takes 5 people to agree or just 1 or some other number...and/or X number of people agree to abide by a standard previously set by X number of people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we've got already is a sort of a democratic, decentralized &quot;free market&quot; system.  No doubt this is laden with inefficiencies and ambiguities by nature -- e.g. I don't know what the heuristic is for the &quot;Related&quot; sidebar (presuming it includes votes, all those inefficiencies and ambiguities are also included), but it can't be made &lt;em&gt;perfect&lt;/em&gt;, so it sometimes disappoints.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't recall seeing it done, but personally I have no problem with someone writing a canonical Q&amp;amp;A in a case like this and &lt;strong&gt;explicitly referring to the not-so canonical questions they are trying to encapsulate.&lt;/strong&gt;  In other words, literally list them like you've done here and then say, &lt;em&gt;&quot;I'm seeking a canonical answer to sum up all of these&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, then write what you think it should be.  Anyone who sees that in future will get the point and, if you've done a good job, support your efforts by using it as the canonical reference. It will also help people looking for answers recognize what all those have in common, and hopefully why yours is the general answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Gilles mentions the reference question, which I was unaware of.  I'm not sure if that can be applicable in all cases though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T16:00:01.467" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T16:00:01.467" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1457" CreationDate="2013-10-15T11:28:06.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having a reference question with a solid answer is always a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reference question should be clearly linked from the relevant tag wiki. That's how we can agree to use it as a duplicate target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean that every vaguely related question is a duplicate! For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/71959/how-to-create-a-custom-debian-based-distro&quot;&gt;How to create a customized distribution based on Debian?&lt;/a&gt; is not about creating a distribution, and not even about creating a distribution derived from Debian (despite the title), it's about preseeding an installation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T11:28:06.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1462" CreationDate="2013-10-16T01:49:49.887" Score="15" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as a maintainer of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.whonix.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Whonix GNU/Linux&lt;/a&gt; which is a derivative of Debian GNU/Linux. Its focus is on anonymity/Tor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a dedicated user support forum for Whonix and teaching Windows users who use a Debian derivative for the first time in a virtual machine the most basic things eats up a lot time. And is a lot duplicate effort. Many of those questions can probably be answered using the search function of this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For basic questions, such as &quot;how to use apt-get&quot;, &quot;how to install a package&quot;, I would like to recommend Whonix's users to use unix.stackexchange.com. And also recommend, if they open a new question, adding the tag &quot;whonix&quot; (if that is ok).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For general Tor/anonymity questions I would like to recommend Whonix's users to use tor.stackexchange.com (after asking tor.se if that goes okay as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;whonix.org's own forum would stay open for questions not suited for the stackexchange format (opinion based, feedback, discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would myself &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/subscribe-to-tags-via-emai/&quot;&gt;subscribe&lt;/a&gt; to questions having the tag &quot;whonix&quot;, and answer if no one else was faster and/or comment if I feel necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you be happy to welcome Whonix GNU/Linux users on unix.se?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49297" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T17:18:22.713" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T17:18:22.713" Title="Would you be happy to welcome Whonix GNU/Linux users on unix.se?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1461" CreationDate="2013-10-16T02:03:44.950" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that is Unix or Unix-like is welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T02:03:44.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1461" CreationDate="2013-10-17T00:41:48.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having a dedicated user support forum for Whonix and teaching Windows users who use a Debian derivative for the first time in a virtual machine the most basic things eats up a lot time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the place...I'm also part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;raspberry pi S.E. site&lt;/a&gt;, and virtually all pi's run some flavour of linux; there are many people there who are also &lt;em&gt;&quot;Windows users who use a Debian derivative for the first time&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  I don't think the dedicated pi site is a bad thing, but &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; of the questions there would get much better treatment here because they are really general linux questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point being it is good you have noticed this overlap before you created your own forum.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;code&gt;whonix&lt;/code&gt; tag is totally appropriate and your community can use that to keep up with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:29.070" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T00:41:48.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-17T21:06:24.097" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96491/why-is-there-a-discrepancy-in-disk-usage-reported-by-du-and-ls-for-some-files-on&quot;&gt;Why does du report a size of 0 for some non-empty files on a HFS+ partition?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19882/directory-size-calculation-difference&quot;&gt;Directory size calculation difference&lt;/a&gt; that also treats this kind of problem, with &lt;code&gt;du&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;ls&lt;/code&gt; reporting different sizes for a file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the problem is completely different in my question, and I found the answer with good references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the questions look the same in surface, but mine is really HFS+ specific, and has the right answer (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really have the time to advocate for this question, as I already have the answer, but I know the answer is a bit tricky to find. Should I leave as it is ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20687" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T17:11:55.623" Title="Similar question but not duplicate, answers not in the other question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1464" CreationDate="2013-10-17T21:50:22.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you voted to reopen it, it ended up in the reopen queue, so other people would've reviewed it and in theory helped you reopen it without the need for a meta post. On the other hand, I doubt they would've realized without further explanation why the question isn't a duplicate, so it probably wouldn't have reopened. In any case, it's open again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T21:50:22.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1464" CreationDate="2013-10-18T17:11:55.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is mistakenly closed as a duplicate, it's usually because the difference is not as obvious as it should be. It is a good idea to edit the question to make the difference more apparent, for example by adding a sentence like “Unlike the situation in &amp;lt;link&amp;gt;, the widget I'm trying to frobnicate is not frilly”. It's best if the title includes something that establishes a distinction with the non-duplicate too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited the title here to make it more specific — the more common explanation for du and ls reporting different sizes would not justify du reporting 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T17:11:55.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1452" CreationDate="2013-10-18T17:17:32.193" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh. The next step would be “Linux, the BSDs, the Unix parts of OSX, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Unix™, OSF1, Xenix, SCO, Cygwin, the POSIX layer of QNX, MINIX, and other Unix-like operating systems”. I find “the BSDs” awkward. Let's just stick to the most popular of the BSDs, “and other Unix-like operating systems” makes it completely clear that Linux and FreeBSD are just examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T17:17:32.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2722" CreationDate="2013-10-20T20:30:28.693" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I need to include code under a bullet list or number list. When I do this I have to indent blocks of code 8 spaces instead of the typical 4. Is there a keyboard shortcut that will do this? I often use &lt;kbd&gt;Control&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; to do this, but selecting a block and doing this just undoes the indenting in this scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of the code block I'm talking about in case you're unaware of this technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Normal block of code (4 spaces)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash    &#xA;echo &quot;hello U&amp;amp;L world&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Block of code under a list (8 spaces)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;some list item #1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash        &#xA;echo &quot;hello U&amp;amp;L world #1&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;some list item #2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash    &#xA;echo &quot;hello U&amp;amp;L world #2&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;some list item #3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash    &#xA;echo &quot;hello U&amp;amp;L world #3&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T17:16:23.983" Title="Is there a keyboard shortcut in the Q&amp;A box for double indenting blocks of code?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1468" CreationDate="2013-10-20T20:33:51.430" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't, but there's a pretty quick workaround described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126226/wmd-code-inside-lists&quot;&gt;WMD: Code inside lists&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indent the code 4 spaces with &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a single non-space character to the beginning of the first line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indent the code 4 more spaces with &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; (the non-space character tricks the editor into thinking it needs to indent)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove the character you added to the first line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T20:33:51.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1471" CreationDate="2013-10-20T21:11:38.107" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the community feel about adding a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parted-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parted-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parted-magic&lt;/a&gt; tag to the site? Seems a fair few people are unfamiliar with it enough, to completely miss that it is the name of the distro in questions I have asked lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2013-10-20T22:54:38.100" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T22:54:38.100" Title="Tag addition request" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1470" CreationDate="2013-10-20T21:55:02.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with it. I've created the tag on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96883/way-of-compiling-installing-software-in-a-package-manager-less-distro&quot;&gt;this Q&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to go back through your prior questions and retag them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T21:55:02.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-20T22:16:12.363" Score="3" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several questions at the moment, that relate to Parted Magic. A tag for this distro has been created, but as other tags I have used in most of these questions have more followers (as expected) the one with the most followers is prepended to the HTML title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presuming others can see the helpfulness of this - Could this be changed, so the HTML title has all distro tags&quot; prioritized over other tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T22:16:12.363" Title="Use tag indicating distro, as one prepended into HTML title" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-20T22:34:30.880" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't find this rule that I just encountered when editing &lt;em&gt;my own&lt;/em&gt; questions, to include 1 extra tag that just got created, listed anywhere, but am guessing that someone will find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I digress.. Why (I have found the discussions about minor edits, which I think is a decent idea in order to prevent the potentially insane bumping I don't care for in this case, to discuss further)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S Is there a literal 24 hour timer, or is it somewhat fuzzy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T22:48:29.983" Title="Only 5 edits a day allowed" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-20T22:38:13.150" Score="0" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a link at the bottom of the questions tab on a user's profile page that reads &quot;deleted recent question&quot;. That doesn't seem like correct English; it should say &quot;recently deleted questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastEditorUserId="6869" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T14:01:17.597" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T14:01:17.597" Title="&quot;deleted recent questions&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1473" CreationDate="2013-10-20T22:48:29.983" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's explained on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/165885/why-cant-someone-edit-more-than-five-of-his-her-own-posts-per-day&quot;&gt;Why can't someone edit more than five of his/her own posts per day?&lt;/a&gt;. It's to prevent the case where a user gets mad and tries to vandalize all their own posts before leaving the site. The site stops you from editing further, and moderators are alerted to make sure that the edits aren't destroying the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T22:48:29.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1474" CreationDate="2013-10-20T22:53:56.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right that the phrasing is awkward, but technically they mean different things. &quot;Deleted recent questions&quot; are questions posted recently that have been deleted. &quot;Recently deleted questions&quot; are questions that were deleted recently, no matter how old they were. I think the former is how the page actually works, so &quot;recently deleted questions&quot; would be wrong, but they should come up with a better way to phrase it. In any case, this is already reported &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/192878/change-no-deleted-recent-answers-questions-to-no-recently-deleted-answers-que&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T22:53:56.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-20T23:34:21.957" Score="-4" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this has been addressed before on any of the Stack Exchange sub sites, but while it seems that tag order on asked questions is ruled by how popular each is, some people organise tag order based on largest/most dependent system, down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, can't see much of an advantage to users viewing the questions, either way around, so would like to suggest this gets changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastEditorUserId="18377" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T22:44:26.783" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T22:44:26.783" Title="Stop rearranging tag order" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1478" CreationDate="2013-10-21T00:02:36.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I've been using the site I've never thought the tags were organized in any fashion beyond them being relevant for a particular question. The tags are purely for categorization purposes, and probably wouldn't expect anything more from them than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T00:02:36.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1481" CreationDate="2013-10-21T02:52:08.283" Score="11" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that a lot of &lt;code&gt;new users&lt;/code&gt; tend to &lt;code&gt;format&lt;/code&gt; their &lt;code&gt;posts&lt;/code&gt; like this, where they put things they want to &lt;code&gt;emphasize&lt;/code&gt; or things that are even just barely vaguely &lt;code&gt;technical&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;code blocks&lt;/code&gt;. This drives me nuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to tell the person in a comment that they're formatting wrong, similar how we do the &quot;welcome to Stack Exchange, we like repeatable questions&quot; (or whatever other problem) dance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T05:01:40.877" Title="Is it OK to correct new users on formatting?" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1480" CreationDate="2013-10-21T03:19:12.400" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't harass. Just fix it, with a friendly comment in the edit summary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T05:01:40.877" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T05:01:40.877" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1484" CreationDate="2013-10-21T04:27:05.977" Score="5" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I Edited a post and later I noticed, that I did something wrong, can I revert it before it s reviewed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20661" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T00:16:05.270" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T00:16:05.270" Title="How do I cancel an edit before it is reviewed?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1482" CreationDate="2013-10-21T05:20:12.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean if you suggest an edit? No, there's currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80933/how-can-i-cancel-an-edit-i-made-on-another-users-question-or-answer&quot;&gt;no way to cancel them&lt;/a&gt;. If it's a bad edit it should get rejected though, and unless you make a lot of bad edits it won't really affect you, so don't worry about it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T05:20:12.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1482" CreationDate="2013-10-21T12:59:37.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I've caught myself having made a mistake in editing without having the rep on the site to have my edits become publicly visible immediately, &lt;strong&gt;I head right back to the post and make another edit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that isn't the best way to do it, but especially if it's a relatively small error, it seems better than cluttering up the edit history with yet another edit that should have been part of the first. The trick to that is catching the mistake quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the original edit &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; still be approved or rejected while you are making the new one, which makes the second edit a new one (at least I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that's how it works). At least in that case, the post is (hopefully) better off after the edits than it was before your second edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2465" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T12:59:37.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1445" CreationDate="2013-10-21T23:24:32.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of &quot;experienced&quot; users that are not knowledgeable and give incorrect answers. The voting system on SE sites is not perfect but is intended to help that (although I do think downvotes should be weighted equal to upvotes, also you cannot downvote comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the things you can do about it are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trust that if the reader &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; take incorrect information as correct, eventually at some point down the line, they will realize it was incorrect and all will be right again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Politely explain in a follow-up comment why the information is incorrect. If your explanation is effective, a reader will be able to discern for themselves what is correct and what is not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote if possible, not to &quot;punish&quot; the offender, but to indicate to other readers that the information may not be valid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that I think is easy to forget is that while a &lt;em&gt;reader&lt;/em&gt; may not be knowledgeable on a subject, they are still a human with at least some ability to either make their own conclusions, or learn later that their conclusions were incorrect. Too often we try to convince the person who made the incorrect statement that they are wrong, and completely forget that a reader may not need as much convincing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say, point out the mistake (in an effective way), let it slide (don't spend time arguing), and trust other readers to be the judge. In the worst case, a reader may have the wrong idea for a while, and eventually they will make their own observations that challenge what they read in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the internet is full of misinformation and it is an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of the social freedom it provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49422" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T23:24:32.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1489" CreationDate="2013-10-22T14:22:53.787" Score="9" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently run across questions that should be migrated to other sites, but right now the only site we have an option for is stackoverflow.com (as well as unix meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time I want to migrate to either serverfault.com or superuser.com, neither of which is available. Now I do see questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/971/can-the-list-of-targets-for-does-not-belong-here-be-expanded&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1327/can-we-have-super-user-as-a-site-for-off-topic-close-reasons&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; which ask about adding more migration options, but it seems clear we're not going to get any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually when I run across these I either mark to close for some other reason and leave a comment for the asker, or I just ignore it altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question becomes; what reason should be chosen when marking the question for close if the reason is because it belongs on a site which we don't have a migration option for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should have an option &lt;em&gt;&quot;belongs on another site, but one not in this list&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The specific example that prompted this inquiry is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/97110/prevent-mac-spoofing&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It has nothing to do with unix and clearly belongs on serverfault.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4358" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T22:47:33.543" Title="What close reason should be selected when migration site is not available?" Tags="|discussion|scope|migration|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1488" CreationDate="2013-10-22T14:47:06.177" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it as &quot;needs mod attention&quot; and say what site it should be migrated to. You can vote to close it as off-topic too if you want, but it won't really matter either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T14:47:06.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1492" CreationDate="2013-10-23T17:03:32.750" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to be missing the &lt;code&gt;reputation&lt;/code&gt; tab on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; account page, and options to view specific information about this subject through dropdown that is displayed by click my username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have both of these on (for example) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am actually not also sure if there was ever one on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can provide screenshots if any of the above is confusing, but hope someone knows why straight away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18377" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T17:17:47.703" Title="Missing reputation tab on meta.unix.stackexchange.com account page" Tags="|bug|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1491" CreationDate="2013-10-23T17:17:47.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/new-per-site-metas/&quot;&gt;Per-site metas&lt;/a&gt; don't have their own reputation, they inherit reputation from the parent site, so there's no need for a reputation tab on the profile page. The meta sites for the original three sites were created before we had per-site metas (which were created for SE 2.0 sites). The SU and SF metas were converted, but Meta Stack Overflow is unusually large and acts as the meta site for the whole network, so it was left like a regular site with its own accounts and reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T17:17:47.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1494" CreationDate="2013-10-25T03:52:47.737" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are all posts that I have posted till date available? If so where to search? To search my previous posts, I clicked my name on the top of the page. But there one post (regarding learning perl - web materials) which I had posted nearly a month back wasn't there. It's too important for me as it contains useful links for learning perl. &#xA;How to get that post please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46723" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-11-06T01:45:31.160" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T01:45:31.160" Title="Not able to view my earlier post!" Tags="|support|questions|user-accounts|deleted-questions|profile-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1493" CreationDate="2013-10-25T04:38:01.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking on your name is the easiest way to access your stats page, from there you can click the &quot;Questions&quot; link towards the bottom to get the list of all the questions you've asked on a given SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T04:38:01.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1493" CreationDate="2013-10-25T05:40:38.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92768/perl-knowledge-book-or-materials&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It was closed pretty fast as being opinion-based, and was categorized as abandoned by the system and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/145982&quot;&gt;automatically deleted&lt;/a&gt;. Questions aren't really supposed to hang around closed; in theory they either get fixed and reopened, or eventually deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There weren't any answers, and the only place the comments linked to was the Perl website, which doesn't seem like it would be hard to find on your own, but here are the links again: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://perldoc.perl.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://perldoc.perl.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://perldoc.perl.org/index-tutorials.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://perldoc.perl.org/index-tutorials.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perl.org/books/library.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.perl.org/books/library.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T05:40:38.810" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1497" CreationDate="2013-10-25T21:42:25.443" Score="4" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/97592/why-do-people-dislike-pulseaudio?noredirect=1#comment148363_97592&quot;&gt;Why do people dislike PulseAudio?&lt;/a&gt; a little while ago. It was put on hold as primarily opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that while the question possibly invites more opinion-based answers than most, it can still be answered with solid, technically grounded answers. Notice that the question isn't &quot;why is PulseAudio bad&quot;, but &quot;why do people &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that PulseAudio is bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T01:44:51.277" Title="Why was my question about perceived PulseAudio problems put on hold?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1496" CreationDate="2013-10-26T00:33:32.920" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;Notice that the question isn't &quot;why is PulseAudio bad&quot;, but &quot;why do people think that PulseAudio is bad&quot;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is actually &lt;em&gt;more likely&lt;/em&gt; than the former to solicit opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why is PA bad?&quot; (while still soliciting opinion&amp;mdash;don't get me wrong I would have voted to close this as well) is at least ostensibly focussed on the technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; people hold opinions and prejudices is a fool's errand. It is not possible for any of us to see into the minds of those who have well-reasoned and technically-based views about PA, let alone attempt to understand the ratmangle of paranoia and delirium that constitutes the &quot;reasoning&quot; for a very vocal section of the FOSS community about the inherent evil of PA and its creator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be very sound reasons for eschewing PA (I don't know, I don't use it myself&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;), but as soon as your line of inquiry includes normative terms such as &quot;like&quot; or &quot;dislike&quot; and &quot;think&quot; or... whatever the opposite of that is in this case, then the question&amp;mdash;and given the alacrity with which the zealots materialize&amp;mdash;and the vast majority of the answers, will be the typical roll call of flamebait, trolling and pointless posturing.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. By way of clarifying my position regarding the tin-foil hat wearers, I do use, quite happily, systemd and have no fears that Lennart is trying to overrun my machine or the wider *nix ecosystem.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2013-10-26T09:55:10.967" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T09:55:10.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-02T19:20:25.070" Score="-4" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;H&amp;#01;i fellows, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to point fingers in here, but there is a user that has &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; his reputation from removing &quot;thanks&quot; and &quot;hi&quot;. Except for a single answer with one upvote. I know (I read the post on meta Stack Overflow) you don't like greetings, but that's not what I'm talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He adds no other information as far as I've seen, in all edits simply removing greetings. This is not even reputation farming, it's worse, and, in my opinion, a repulsive behaviour that should not be taken so normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not blame him only, however; I blame those which approve such edits: why? Why on Earth would you do that so often? That is more close to censorship, and is certainly not added value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45907" LastEditorUserId="45907" LastEditDate="2013-11-07T19:26:58.060" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T19:26:58.060" Title="Is this behaviour adequate? Shouldn't edits add content?" Tags="|discussion|editing|reputation|suggested-edits|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1498" CreationDate="2013-11-02T19:38:39.387" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know exactly who you're talking about (and I have an idea who) but removing those items is perfectly fine, IMO. So what if he get's 2 points in this manner per edit, as soon as he gets to 2K that incentive goes away and if he continues then he's providing a service, which may be viewed as low value, but non the less it's providing the site with &quot;some&quot; value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've likely approved his edits and will continue to do so, to me it's a value, though in your opinion small. I truly wouldn't worry about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day how does it impact your interactions with the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-11-02T19:38:39.387" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1498" CreationDate="2013-11-03T04:18:39.697" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your reaction is both disproportionate (it certainly doesn't warrant the sort of emotive language you used: it's the Internet, it's not personal), and misguided. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user (whoever they are) deserves the reputation for their contribution. In all communities, there are a wide range of roles where people can &lt;em&gt;volunteer&lt;/em&gt; their time, commensurate with their ability and interest. Making small, &lt;strong&gt;valid&lt;/strong&gt; edits is one way to incrementally increase the value and utility of the site. It should be rewarded, and it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may not have the technical skills of some of the &gt;50k members, nor as much time to donate as others, but they are trying to improve the site, and doubtless their own knowledge of Unix &amp;amp; Linux at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than rush to judgement, why don't you just accept that the strength of this site and the community it fosters is dependent upon a diverse group of people, skills and enthusiasms and that disparaging any one of those paints you in a far less flattering light than it does them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T04:18:39.697" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-04T06:52:11.190" Score="10" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;When trying to vote to close a question as a duplicate, I copied the link to the duplicate question and, as I use HTTPS by default, the link was rejected with an error message along the lines of &quot;not a valid URL&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing the &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; and just using &lt;code&gt;http://...&lt;/code&gt; and the appropriate question was highlighted, allowing me to cast my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely, we should be able to access all of the functionality over a secure connection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related feature request on the main meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116782/better-https-support-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;Better HTTPS support for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T01:53:32.693" Title="HTTPS links not recognized as valid URLS" Tags="|feature-request|hyperlinks|ssl|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-04T23:49:08.177" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was checking the access log for one of my websites (&lt;a href=&quot;http://files.quickmediasolutions.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://files.quickmediasolutions.com&lt;/a&gt;) and came across literally &lt;strong&gt;tens of thousands&lt;/strong&gt; of requests for the file &lt;code&gt;/js/jsdiff.min.js&lt;/code&gt; (which existed at some point in the past but no longer does). This accounts for 99.7% of all requests to my website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes this strange is the referrers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/98871/how-do-i-display-contents-of-a-file-where-path-environment-chances-are-made&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11343/linux-tools-to-treat-files-as-sets-and-perform-set-operations-on-them/11667&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=comm&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This list is not inclusive, by any means.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know anything about this? As you can imagine, this is eating up a fair bit of server resources (namely disk space for the access logs). I wondered if perhaps someone has a UserScript installed that is hotlinking to the file?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-11-06T01:56:06.927" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T01:56:06.927" Title="What's with all of the requests for /js/jsdiff.min.js?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1502" CreationDate="2013-11-05T01:17:25.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I know the issue. I noticed that if you're using the Stack Exchange Post Editor that when I enable it I start seeing traffic to your domain when using &lt;code&gt;iftop&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ sudo iftop -i wlan0&#xA;greeneggs.local                                  =&amp;gt; quickmediasolutions.com                              4.32Kb   885b    221b&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I disable this extension the traffic stops. I believe you're the author of this UserScript extension for Chrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/3122/stack-exchange-post-editor-performing-basic-corrections-on-posts-automatically&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/questions/3122/stack-exchange-post-editor-performing-basic-corrections-on-posts-automatically&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically this line in the extension would seem to be the issue you're mentioning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    SPE_LoadDependentScript('http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/js/jsdiff.min.js', function() {&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:38.983" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T01:17:25.070" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1506" CreationDate="2013-11-05T07:32:38.903" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, this may overlap with the Linux tag. However, in practice, in most questions and answers Linux do not necessarily mean LSB, but more something like LSB + GNU, and sometimes even distro specifics. Beginners don't even know what the LSB is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32558" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T08:04:14.463" Title="Create a Linux Standard Base LSB tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1504" CreationDate="2013-11-05T07:57:05.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lsb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lsb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lsb&lt;/a&gt; Done. I'm far too lazy to go about adding it all over the place, or improving the tag wiki from what I copied from SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-11-05T08:04:14.463" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T08:04:14.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-05T08:03:30.160" Score="8" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I encountered the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard&lt;/a&gt; and am wondering if it's remotely a good idea. It seems to imply &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; standard... should it exist? or perhaps should we disallow it and encourage people to specify the standard they're asking about ANSI, ISO, POSIX, LSB, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-11-06T02:00:07.657" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T02:00:07.657" Title="Is the `standard` tag a good one?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1507" CreationDate="2013-11-05T08:12:36.287" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, the tag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard&lt;/a&gt; seems kind of useless. It would make more sense to have the actual names of standards as tags rather than this high level tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T08:12:36.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1507" CreationDate="2013-11-06T02:00:02.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there are many unix-related standards, by default, “standard” in a unix context refers to the POSIX/Single Unix standard family. When it doesn't, other tags should guide towards the applicable standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard&lt;/a&gt; tag is useful because quite a few askers don't know what standards apply in a given situation. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/standard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;standard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;standard&lt;/a&gt; is a perfectly reasonable tag for questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/42056/how-stable-are-unix-shell-stdin-stdout-apis&quot;&gt;How stable are Unix shell &amp;quot;stdin/stdout APIs&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37064/which-are-the-standard-commands-available-in-every-linux-based-distribution&quot;&gt;Which are the standard commands available in every Linux based distribution?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20538/what-is-not-shell-specific&quot;&gt;What is not shell specific?&lt;/a&gt;, …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T02:00:02.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1511" CreationDate="2013-11-06T03:23:10.930" Score="14" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently see lots of questions where in response to comments requesting more info, the asker provides links to pastebins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually my response to these is to go edit the question and put the pastebin info in the question itself. However on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85302/proc-cpuinfo-showing-zero-cpu-clock-speed&quot;&gt;this question here&lt;/a&gt;, it's not the usual person who's new to stack exchange and how things work. Also in this case, one of the pastebins is a big wall of text.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So before I went and edited his/her question, I went looking for an official policy, but couldn't find one in help, or anything here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is to always put the info in the question. No exemptions. I've seen it happen far too often where the external link goes dead and now the question is missing critical info. Or googling for text in the pastebin turns up the pastebin rather than the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling that putting the info in the question is the &quot;right&quot; answer, but I just want to make the decision official.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the policy here? Always put info in the question? Any exemptions for walls of text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4358" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T03:38:59.523" Title="Policy on pastebins for additional info?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1510" CreationDate="2013-11-06T03:27:42.077" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put it in the question, linking should be done for citation purposes only.  There's a reason why walls of text (when they are code blocks) end up with scrollbars past a certain length. Though On SO I will occasionally link to a project on github after providing what I think are the relevant details, as I could be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-11-06T03:38:59.523" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T03:38:59.523" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1514" CreationDate="2013-11-09T08:18:59.563" Score="9" ViewCount="1521" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the front page of unix.stackexchange.com and noticed today that these 2 questions had a order of magnitude more views than any of the other questions and was curious as to why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eDKct.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;original link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/99334/how-to-fill-90-of-the-free-memory&quot;&gt;How to fill 90% of the free memory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jHAMh.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;original link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9940/convince-apt-get-not-to-use-ipv6-method&quot;&gt;Convince apt-get *not* to use IPv6 method&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2nd question seems fine, but the 1st, IMO, is actually not that well written a question. Having 17 answers would seem to indicate this as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T15:00:49.967" Title="What causes questions like these to have such a high rate of views?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1513" CreationDate="2013-11-09T15:00:11.543" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/99334/how-to-fill-90-of-the-free-memory&quot;&gt;How to fill 90% of the free memory?&lt;/a&gt; was shared through social media (at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6695581&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hacker news&lt;/a&gt; and the Stack Exchange twitter feed), and it rose to the top of the Stack Exchange hot question list (which picks on popular questions and makes them more popular). It's simple enough that many people understand what it's about, don't get bored halfway through it, and have an opinion on the answers. That's a recipe for popularity. Quality doesn't really enter into it. This question has had its 15 minutes of fame, and if it wasn't for people specifically browsing the top popular or high-scoring questions, it would fall back onto obscurity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9940/convince-apt-get-not-to-use-ipv6-method&quot;&gt;Convince apt-get *not* to use IPv6 method&lt;/a&gt; didn't get very popular overnight. It got onto the Stack Exchange twitter feed, but that didn't amount to much. You can see in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/9940/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; that the votes have been trickling in in the two years the question has been online. It has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=http:%2F%2Funix.stackexchange.com%2Fquestions%2F9940%2Fconvince-apt-get-not-to-use-ipv6-method&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;linked&lt;/a&gt; here and there, and it solves a real, immediate problem that many people face. This is the kind of question that we like to see become popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top viewed questions are (in close order):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3568/how-to-switch-between-users-on-one-terminal&quot;&gt;How to switch between users on one terminal?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26047/how-to-correctly-add-a-path-to-path&quot;&gt;How to correctly add a path to PATH?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4561/how-do-i-find-out-what-hard-disks-are-in-the-system&quot;&gt;How do I find out what hard disks are in the system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly enough, they don't have a huge score, unlike the next runner-up &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34196/design-question-why-was-chosen-to-represent-the-home-directory&quot;&gt;Why was &amp;#39;~&amp;#39; chosen to represent the home directory?&lt;/a&gt;. This may have something to do with the manner in which they became popular: the top three gathered their votes over time, so they presumably got views because they corresponded to problems faced by people searching the Internet, whereas #4 got its views through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/34196/timeline&quot;&gt;two discrete events&lt;/a&gt;: on the first day, and on the day several months later when it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090344&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shared on Hacker News&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that HN readers have Stack Exchange accounts (so they view and vote), but people with actual problems to solve don't (so they view and don't vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T15:00:11.543" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-14T02:33:43.583" Score="-3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is this question unclear? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/101024/how-install-logmein-package-in-centos&quot;&gt;How Install LogMeIn package in CentOS&lt;/a&gt; [on hold]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title is all you need to know to answer the poster's question. I guess it is more fun to give the poster negative points than to spend the time researching the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like to me the poster would like to install LogMeIn on the poster's CentOS linux box.  What other interpretations are there? There is already one hint at where to find the software. I bet there would be more if it wasn't locked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help the poster out instead of making things difficult for the poster.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such placing things on hold and having multiple people gang up on the poster isn't helpful to the new user wanting to get a question answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49214" OwnerDisplayName="historystamp" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T21:39:24.467" Title="Why was this question closed and downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2515" CreationDate="2013-11-14T03:19:31.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one responded rudely, there was only one comment and it seemed to be left in an effort to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are not left to be rude, they're left as an indicator that:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort, it is unclear or not&#xA;  useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short they are an indicator that the post needs improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have in fact done the research, and haven't found what you're looking for, share the research you have done in the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you can add any additional information to clear up any ambiguity, do so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is only likely to help the person posting it, then its not really useful to the community. Edit it to be a little more applicable to others that may find it later. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm honestly not a user on Unix &amp;amp; Linux, but if they're anything like SO, chances are they don't care too much for really broad, can you write a tutorial for X type questions, but I would guess that if you can narrow it down to one very specific issue, and show that you've done the research and tried to solve the issue yourself, someone out there would be more than happy to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="apaul34208" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T03:19:31.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2515" CreationDate="2013-11-14T04:01:23.637" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pretty much completely rewrote that Q. It was in a poor state before that. When I edited it, it was already closed, I'm one of the users that voted to close it, here's my reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions should demonstrate some initiative at trying to solve the problem, and the user should be &quot;stuck&quot; on something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A 2 second search turned up the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beyond the comment that I left with the link to the software download for Hamachi, what else does one need? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question, beyond the grammar, which BTW, I never close on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my stats if you do not believe me, I edit a lot of peoples questions and answer as I see the value in their inherent value to the site and the community and want to help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SE sites are not a dumping ground for random lazy questions, and in my opinion, this question showed no attempt to solve the problem at hand before throwing it here, hence it has no value to the site and shouldn't remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I voted to close it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I did not down vote it, since it already had a couple, and again, DV's are not meant to punish, a person, only to bring attention to the fact that the Q or A is of low value and/or needs to be re-worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One additional comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The SE sites are a place where people can learn to fish, not to be fed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you instead had asked a question along the lines of, &quot;I tried to install Hamachi/LogMeIn on my CentOS box and ran into problem X&quot; then many people would've likely attempted to help you. And a question such as this would've been more valuable to the community in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T04:01:23.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2520" CreationDate="2013-11-15T01:49:51.393" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title basically sums it up. I just edited a question and while I'm not 100% sure that I didn't get +2 reputation from the edit - since I didn't look at my reputation count before, only after - my profile tab suggests that I didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this behavior intentional? Will I get it in a little while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T11:19:09.267" Title="Since I hit 2K rep, I no longer get reputation from edits. Is this intentional?" Tags="|support|editing|reputation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2013-11-15T02:03:54.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yup, that is only an enticement up to the 2k level, then it goes away. Here's the full info on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85229/not-getting-edits-2-rep-after-reaching-2k-rep&quot;&gt;Not getting edit&amp;#39;s +2 rep after reaching 2k rep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given you do a fair amount of editing on the site (I'm the one usually approving them) I hope you'll still continue with that behavior even w/o the reward of +2. It's appreciated and highly valued by many of us!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T02:12:02.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2013-11-15T02:39:42.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that bummed me out the first time I passed 2k on one of the sites too. Makes sense though, &gt;2k is a well established user who no longer needs the tiny +2 of editing because their fascinating questions and incisive answers will soon catapult them to glorious heights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something along those lines anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T02:39:42.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:19:09.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get a reputation bonus for editing only when your edit is reviewed by other uses and approved. You don't get a reputation bonus when your edit is immediately taken into account with no one reviewing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 2k reputation, you get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;privilege to edit questions and answers without supervision&lt;/a&gt;. So you no longer get reputation from such edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 20k reputation, you get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;privilege to edit tag wikis without supervision&lt;/a&gt;. So you no longer get reputation from such edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T11:19:09.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2523" CreationDate="2013-11-16T02:39:29.017" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across this SO meta Q titled:&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt; that I believe Jeff Atwood asked. It ultimately got declined and was wondering if anyone knew the back story as to what happened and why it was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T18:02:38.270" Title="What ever came of this proposal to increase the count of down votes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2522" CreationDate="2013-11-17T17:31:59.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have the answer but I do have an opinion (TL;DR -&gt; &lt;em&gt;Positive reinforcement is a better motivator than fear of punishment&lt;/em&gt;).  It's interesting that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When we started Stack Overflow, we wanted to make sure that downvotes&#xA;  were more of a visual and psychological motivator than a punitive&#xA;  action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems like a wise choice to me, because it emphasizes that what's significant is the question's score, not how many points it did or did not generate for the user.  The critique that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;downvotes don't quite carry enough... -5 downvotes and +1 upvote (for&#xA;  sympathy) yields zero points overall&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort of turns this on its head and implies that what's most important is the number under your name.  Of course, it's somewhat important, which is why this is even a question, but it should not be the ground of the whole scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now your user cred is mostly about people &lt;strong&gt;giving&lt;/strong&gt; (or not giving) you points.  If the game became more about people &lt;strong&gt;taking&lt;/strong&gt; points, my feeling is this would just attract more negative behavior, grudges, etc.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  It's one thing to be told you are wrong, it's another thing entirely for someone else to be able to arbitrarily penalize you for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't want to be a cop, and if I knew that someone might be sitting there going, &quot;Oh that sucks my points are down&quot;, then I would be less inclined to down vote -- I'm already disinclined as it is.  I don't want to punish people, I just want to draw their attention to their mistakes. Consider on U&amp;amp;L:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;goldilocks upvotes cast 658 down 24&#xA;slm upvotes cast 5831 down 104&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like I'm relatively stingy, :( hmmm...food for thought...better get out there and vote...anyway, I imagine what would happen if you changed the penalty would be some people would downvote less and some other people would downvote &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt;.  Betcha.  Would that be better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, downvotes should reflect more on the anwser/question than the answerer/questioner, which they do.  Again, &lt;em&gt;gaining&lt;/em&gt; points is what creates the game and encourages us to try and do a good job of it, but &lt;em&gt;losing&lt;/em&gt; points can only discourage people from trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; As is, making the penalty minor and including a small cost to the downvoter probably discourages &quot;retribution votes&quot;.  If downvotes were more serious affronts to the user, you'd see more people getting serious about retribution.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2013-11-17T18:02:38.270" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T18:02:38.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2525" CreationDate="2013-11-17T22:03:45.043" Score="5" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the page that lists privileges by level with links to explanations of how they work dozens of times, but for the life of me whenever I go to look for it I have to start googling.  There doesn't seem to be any direct link via the interface, and when I search in &lt;code&gt;help&lt;/code&gt; I just get other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where's the page and is there a direct link that I've missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T13:31:39.547" Title="Where's that page about privileges?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2524" CreationDate="2013-11-17T22:27:31.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You used to be able to get there by mousing over your name at the top of the page, but the new top bar eliminated that option. The only way to get there now is from the regular &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help&lt;/a&gt; page, which is linked in the top bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-help-privileges-link.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;View a full list of privileges you can earn http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-help-privileges-link.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T13:31:39.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2929" CreationDate="2013-11-18T04:31:54.610" Score="7" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Followup-ish question to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1365/why-was-there-no-election-since-2011&quot;&gt;Why was there no election since 2011?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the growth rate of U&amp;amp;L, and the rate of increase in spam (I'm assuming that we have data on these), and based on other Stack Exchange communities, when will we next have an election? I'm assuming that no one steps down. Not very precise answers like &quot;probably in a couple of years&quot; are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T21:12:21.393" Title="When are we likely to have another election?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2526" CreationDate="2013-11-18T05:29:54.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen no evidence that we need more. Is there something specific that wasn't addressed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1365/why-was-there-no-election-since-2011&quot;&gt;Why was there no election since 2011?&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few months ago we had a troll incident that was handled very well, IMO, and other than that the site has been very quiet otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We still have the 3 mods and they're very active within the site, again just my opinion. Additionally we have a very strong secondary core of users that handle much of the day to day that I don't really see the need for additional mods at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T05:29:54.877" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2526" CreationDate="2013-11-19T06:43:55.873" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As slm &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2527/21281&quot;&gt;mentions&lt;/a&gt;, we don't typically run elections unless needed.  Elections are triggered when either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we need to replace a moderator, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the workload increases enough that the moderator team needs help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix.SE is blessed with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;three committed moderators, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an exceptionally quiet site in terms of flags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's really no plans to run another election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note that while the site has been growing in terms of traffic, posts, etc., flags are being handled quickly and the flag queue is rarely very large.  That's a sign of an efficient and diligent moderator team.  I should also note that any number of things could change the situation, so I won't hazard a guess about when you could hope to gather election related badges.  Sorry about that. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21281" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T06:43:55.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2529" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-20T06:55:39.233" Score="11" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given our community has been growing, and we seem to have a fairly active base, several of us thought now might be a good time to do some house cleaning on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given cleaning is a never ending task, we thought we'd set the bar low, to start, and take up a re-tagging effort on some of our more popular tags (by use). These were the tags that were selected, per this &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26&quot;&gt;discussion in the U&amp;amp;L chatroom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; users in that conversation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;@Gilles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/977/derobert&quot;&gt;@derobert&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/73/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;@MichaelMrozek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22222/terdon&quot;&gt;@terdon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/41104/braiam&quot;&gt;@Braiam&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/7453/slm&quot;&gt;@slm&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Plan&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The outcome of this discussion was to do the following 3 things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List the tags we're going after&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rewrite their excerpts and wiki entries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Focus on re-tagging Q&amp;amp;A's covered by these tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Step 1 - the tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the list of tags that were deemed our targets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Step 2 - Cleaning up the excerpts + descriptions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one should be reviewed and discussed. I'm thinking these could be reviewed either on this meta Q or in the chatroom prior. Once we have consensus, one of us can make the changes to the actual excerpts and description entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to keep in mind when working on this part. The tags should likely start with the following phrases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excerpt should be: &quot;Use this for...&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the description can be: &quot;This is...&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general tags should be viewed as categories with which a question falls into, however keep in mind that ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;tags describe the question's topic&quot; view leads to the same result as the &quot;tags describe the expert who can answer&quot; view 99% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So tagging can be something of an art, at times. If you're not sure, it's best to leave it alone, and consult a quorum in the chatroom, rather than guess!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above all else remember this: &lt;strong&gt;WWGT&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;What Would Gilles Tag&lt;/em&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;8-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Step 3 - retagging effort&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This step, was not discussed at length, so I'd suggest we get through the first 2 steps and once we've got excerpts + descriptions locked, we'll focus on how to go about re-tagging things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Additional Information&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm providing links to additional resources within the meta site related to tagging &amp;amp; re-tagging below. They're broken up into 2 sections. Past re-tagging efforts, and references on tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Past re-tagging efforts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/604/splitting-the-ports-tag&quot;&gt;Splitting the ports tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1166/router-routing-route&quot;&gt;router, routing, route&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1077/polysemy-of-the-scheduling-tag&quot;&gt;Polysemy of the /scheduling tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/347/on-the-shell-shell-script-command-line-and-terminal-tags&quot;&gt;On the shell, shell-script, command-line and terminal tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tagging Reference Material&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1226/shall-tags-refer-to-the-solution-too&quot;&gt;Shall tags refer to the solution, too?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/168/tags-for-variant-agnostic-questions&quot;&gt;Tags for variant-agnostic questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/347/on-the-shell-shell-script-command-line-and-terminal-tags&quot;&gt;On the shell, shell-script, command-line and terminal tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1038/redundancy-between-sub-tags-linux-kernel-linux-kernel&quot;&gt;Redundancy between sub-tags: linux, kernel, linux-kernel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2580/lets-clean-up-the-grub-tags/2593?noredirect=1#2593&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s clean up the GRUB tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T20:17:46.790" Title="Re-tagging Activity - 2013" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2529" CreationDate="2013-11-20T14:28:31.840" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Suggestion for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's limit this one to things only about the shell itself. Probably for Bourne-inspired shells, or maybe even only POSIX shell. Description (at least the long description) would also mention the shell-specific tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zsh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zsh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zsh&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ksh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ksh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ksh&lt;/a&gt;, …)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Configuring shell variables (PS1, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Configuring shell options (shopt, set)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Redirection syntax (how to pipe, not what to pipe to)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keybindings [overlaps with readline, at least in some shells]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shell built-ins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shell language syntax (&lt;code&gt;if&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;while&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;for&lt;/code&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IOW, if it's not appropriate for &lt;code&gt;man 1 bash&lt;/code&gt; (or similar), this isn't the tag for you. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT what options some random command takes (tag with that command)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT which command you should pipe to (maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-line&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-line&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-line&lt;/a&gt;?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT some random error from a command you invoked (tag with that command)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOT solving that &lt;code&gt;*** STOP: 0x000000EA (…&lt;/code&gt; error that shows up with a blue background (try SuperUser).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This needs to be written better to become a tag wiki. Not going through the effort of writing well unless you all agree with the direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T14:28:31.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-25T10:29:43.897" Score="9" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I reviewed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/102486/revisions&quot;&gt;first revision of this&lt;/a&gt; answer. I recommended deletion, which AFAIK results in it getting queued for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recommendation might not be entirely correct, the answer was not invalid per se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is important is that the answer was edited afterwards, and only because someone commented on the automatically added comment (&quot;This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique ...&quot;) did I notice that the answer was changed. And changed into something that would no longer need moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not find a way to retract this recommendation, (like you can do with&amp;mdash;no longer applicable&amp;mdash;votes).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What is the proper way to proceed in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should I try and notify the moderators&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should I remove the automatically generated comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I indicated: without the comments I would never have noticed that this low-quality answer was changed after I had reviewed it. I would have liked a notification based on the edit of something I recommended to be deleted (even though I don't know how to proceed to change my recommendation), if nothing else to encourage the Answerer that things have indeed improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T05:00:10.940" Title="retracting moderator attention/recommend deletion" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2607" CreationDate="2013-11-26T00:08:44.877" Score="16" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/486/what-to-do-about-install-tag&quot;&gt;long held&lt;/a&gt; that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt; tag is bad and should be split into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/system-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;system-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;system-installation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-installation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are over 200 instances that need to be disambiguated manually, so we're doing this mostly organically and it takes forever. Granted, it could go quicker if we set our collective minds to it, but we don't want to fill the front page with that so we'd keep doing a handful at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the questions keep coming in. I try to catch them early but some always fall through the cracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please blacklist &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt; so that we can clean up the remaining occurrences. The tag wiki and excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/install&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;install&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt; clearly states what tags to use instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T10:34:49.920" Title="Please blacklist the /install tag" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2531" CreationDate="2013-11-26T16:48:47.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read up on how the low quality review queue works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161390/what-are-the-review-queues&quot;&gt;What are the review queues, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choosing Recommend Deletion does not send it to moderators.  It just marks your vote on the review.  Once six such votes are received, the answer will then be deleted.  One vote for &quot;looks good&quot; will end the review and the answer is left alone.  Therefore, no harm was done by your vote.  Five votes for recommend deletion will still have no effect if one vote is cast for &quot;looks good.&quot;  The vote cannot be changed after you cast it, so there is nothing to do now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you delete the comment?  Yes, I would delete it now that it is no longer accurate.  It keeps the site clean when obsolete comments are removed.  Moderators can see that the deleted comment used to be there.  They see deleted things as being highlighted in light red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Declined flags are a different matter.  You would have had to use the menu marked &quot;flag&quot; to set a flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1573" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T16:48:47.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2531" CreationDate="2013-11-29T05:00:10.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Recommend deletion&quot; does not trigger a mod flag (or any other flag), there is no need to notify the moderators. You cannot retract a deletion recommendation. You should delete your comment, as it is now obsolete, and perhaps add a comment thanking the poster for addressing the feedback and improving the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11750" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T05:00:10.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2537" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2538" CreationDate="2013-12-03T09:21:54.057" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/20752/kevdog777&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;, under the reputation frame, I see that I earned +1 reputation. I thought the minimum is +2 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please could someone explain this to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20752" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T09:31:13.867" Title="Why did I get +1 Reputation?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2537" CreationDate="2013-12-03T09:31:13.867" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, looking at the reputation tab, sorted by time, I can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+5   21:02  upvote&#xA;-2   16:02  downvote&#xA;-2   16:00  downvote&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that is where I got the +1 rep from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20752" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T09:31:13.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-03T16:04:53.400" Score="5" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer not to use the mouse when typing, I'm using the keyboard. (typing with the mouse is no fun.) I tend to think faster than I type so I sometimes get letters out of position. Spellchecker to the rescue. Google chrome puts these nice little squiggles under words that I need to look at closer. Now sometimes I don't know the right spelling for a word so I pop up the context menu and look for the right spelling, move to it and press enter. This is where things break. The enter key event is also interpreted as the end of the comment and it is closed. I was not finished yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T16:04:53.400" Title="google chrome closes comments during spell checking" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2542" CreationDate="2013-12-04T14:52:54.130" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just been rejected an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/32286&quot;&gt;edit suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, that was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;approved by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/7453/slm&quot;&gt;slm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rejected by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edited by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/33055/anthon&quot;&gt;Anthon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit, was more or less what I suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was it rejected then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it not approved and edited afterwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20752" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T19:04:15.440" Title="Editing a Question that gets Approved, Rejected and Edited all at once" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2540" CreationDate="2013-12-04T15:05:40.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very lazy answer, copying &amp;amp; pasting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12469307#12469307&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux chat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kevdog777&#xA;  @slm, hey. I have just asked a question why my edit suggestion was rejected after it was approved, rejected and edited all at once. meta.unix.stackexchange.com/…&#xA;  Really confusing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;derobert&#xA;  @Kevdog777 well, the simple answer is Anthon unchecked the 'suggested edit was helpful' box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kevdog777&#xA;  @derobert If he did check the box, could he still have edited it again afterwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;derobert&#xA;  When you have enough rep on the site (I forget how much exactly, 3k or 5k, probably), you get three options when reviewing suggested edits: approve, reject, improve&#xA;  If you click improve, it lets you edit the question/answer, starting with the suggested edit as a base&#xA;  There is a checkbox on that page for whether the suggested edit was helpful or not&#xA;  If you leave it checked, Community will approve the suggested edit. If you uncheck it, Community rejects the suggested edit.&#xA;  Either way, your improved edit shows after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2013-12-04T18:55:49.070" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T18:55:49.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2540" CreationDate="2013-12-04T19:04:15.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reviewers of suggested edits can choose between four possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Approve (takes effect if 2 reviewers choose this option)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reject (takes effect if 2 reviewers choose this option)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit, which opens the editor on the message. When the reviewer submits his edit, it becomes the new revision of the message. There is an additional checkbox “suggested edit was helpful”, which is checked by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the reviewer leaves the “helpful” box checked, the suggested edit appears in the post's revision history and is marked as approved by the Community user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the reviewer unchecks the “helpful” box, the suggested edit does not appear in the post's revision history and is marked as rejected by the Community user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewers uncheck the “helpful” box when they decide that there was something to edit in the post but the edit was not good, either because some changes were bad or because the edit was too minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible for an edit to be rejected by Community if someone else with edit privileges happens to edit at the same time: the direct edit wins over the suggested edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, you did well to lowercase the all-caps fragment and to add the keyboard formatting, but you also used code markup on proper names. I think I've rejected some of your edits for that reason too. Code markup is not for proper names, it's for code. Code markup is only for things that you would type — shell commands, file contents, etc. Proper names such as XFCE or SSH are written with an initial capital letter, or in all caps when they are initialisms, or sometimes in weirder ways, but never as code. SSH is the name of the protocol and of the application; &lt;code&gt;ssh&lt;/code&gt; is the command to start the application. &lt;code&gt;SSH&lt;/code&gt; doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T19:04:15.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-04T22:58:17.543" Score="18" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=voters&quot;&gt;vote a lot&lt;/a&gt; on Unix &amp;amp; Linux. I often run into the measly limit of 40 votes per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to ration my votes and not overly favor questions posted early morning, I frequently check how many votes I have left. This was easy with the old top bar design. Now, I need to visit my profile and scroll down to the bottom, or switch to another tab where I have my profile open and reload the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that most users aren't affected as much, because hitting the vote limit isn't very common over the whole user base. But for me on this site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/1172/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this is a major regression&lt;/a&gt;. Unsurprisingly &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/210055/i-want-my-vote-hover-popup-back-on-the-top-bar&quot;&gt;other heavy voters&lt;/a&gt; have the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few months later… my voting habits have changed a lot, and this is the cause. I now rarely ever run into the 40 vote limit, as long as I check the site roughly every 24 hours. That's because I have lowered my voting threshold a lot. You now need to post a pretty good question or answer to get an upvote from me. I've also started to vote or not-vote based on the existing score — if your post already has a handful of votes, I now tend to abstain. I think this is a bad consequence of this UI change — and I've yet to see a compensating benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T13:32:01.197" Title="Give me an EASY way to see my daily vote count" Tags="|feature-request|voting|top-bar|usability|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1105" CreationDate="2013-12-05T09:12:44.887" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sqlite.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5oXtk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Launchpad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37507" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T09:12:44.887" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-05T09:12:44.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-05T12:10:29.750" Score="0" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is that inverted triangle/arrow option which is in the old bar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find privilege option on that new top bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZXNdN.png&quot; alt=&quot;here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53243" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T12:10:29.750" Title="Where is privilege option in unix linux stack exchange?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-12-05T13:31:46.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2556" CreationDate="2013-12-05T18:35:39.290" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something strange. I received a video attachment in this weeks newsletter of Unix.SE that is received every Tuesday. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subject was 'Unix &amp;amp; Linux Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, December 3, 2013'&#xA;The video attached was [Why are Bad words bad] www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7dQh8u4Hc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't think Gmail added that ;). Didn't see any relevance with the video and unix.se newsletter. Have anyone else received it? Was it on purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Think that was not from the mail. But seeing it with the mail only with this newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot: &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LQea4.png&quot; alt=&quot;video down the newsletter&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17265" OwnerDisplayName="mtk" LastEditorUserId="17265" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T16:13:33.347" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T16:22:46.267" Title="Did anyone receive a video attached to the weekly newsletter for Unix.SE?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T10:21:55.077" Score="9" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was pointed out in chat that some user might have strange behaviour. I had actually ok-ed Late Answers from that user and had another look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/103815/33055&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This text is copied verbatim from &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-85446.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-85446.html&lt;/a&gt; ( post from 2008-12-14). Should I flag this after the fact? And if so how? Moderator attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC when reviewing there is an option to indicate a post is without attribution, but I am not sure which queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:22:27.560" Title="What to do about copied content" Tags="|discussion|plagiarism|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T11:39:14.320" Score="36" ViewCount="3309" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2549&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:54:46.110" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2014" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="39" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-01-01T03:22:06.030" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T11:39:14.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-06T11:39:14.320" Score="-20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HxSxU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T11:39:14.320" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T11:39:14.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2548" CreationDate="2013-12-06T12:12:50.390" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plagiarism is not acceptable anywhere on Stack Exchange. You can point people to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;“How to reference material written by others” in the help center&lt;/a&gt; and to FAQ on the main meta — I sometimes do it with a comment like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;Plagiarism&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83955/plagiarism-should-be-addressed-specifically-in-the-faq/134715#134715&quot;&gt;not cool&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plagiarism is passing someone else's content as your own.&lt;/strong&gt; Note that this is unrelated to any copyright or license. Furthermore, plagiarism is only about content, not ideas, and only applies if the content was copied, not if the content was written independently. (Note that the academic world also applies plagiarism to ideas: in an academic publication, all ideas must be credited unless they are “folklore”. This doesn't apply on Stack Exchange where we do not require citations and do not seek to specifically present novel ideas.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there might be a natural way to solve a problem, leading to multiple people writing the same short piece of code — that's not plagiarism. If you find the same solution explained in different words, that's not plagiarism. If this is an old post, beware that the external site may have copied Stack Exchange rather than the opposite. Also make sure not to berate someone for posting their own content — people might not use the same alias on Stack Exchange and on their blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've detected plagiarism, the first thing to do is &lt;strong&gt;correct the post&lt;/strong&gt;. This means two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a reference to the source (typically with a link);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put all copied text into quote formatting (even if it means that the whole post except for the attribution is in quote style).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second point is important — it isn't enough to cite your source if you pass the text as your own, you must &lt;strong&gt;make it clear what part of your post is copied and what part is yours&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to reiterate: if you detect plagiarism, the first step is an edit. If this is a suggested edit, make sure that the edit summary explains what you've done (e.g. “added quote formatting for text copied from another source”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you do more? It depends. If it's an old post and the user is long gone, there's no need to do anything more. If the user is still active, use your own judgement as to whether to leave a comment. I have had success educating some users; others just deny everything. It seems that some cultures do not have our aversion for plagiarism, and some users adapt while others don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice a pattern of plagiarized posts, flag one. Be precise: link to the plagiarized posts (where you've already edited in the attribution), explain that there is a pattern of plagiarism. See if this is ongoing or past behavior: check the user's latest few posts before flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't mention copyright. Moderators cannot decide whether a post violates someone's copyright and will (or at least should) deny all requests to make such decisions. This is because if moderators make a habit of enforcing the policing of copyright violations, they may be held liable if they once fail to make such enforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plagiarized answers have a higher than average chance of being irrelevant to the question where they're posted. If a plagiarized post is irrelevant, flag it for deletion and explain exactly why you're flagging (“this plagiarized answer does not answer the question at all because …”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T15:25:17.413" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-06T12:58:03.493" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tbdbt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;GNU's Not Unix!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T20:54:46.110" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:54:46.110" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T12:58:03.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-06T12:59:14.250" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KAyo5.png&quot; alt=&quot;FreeBSD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T12:59:14.250" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T12:59:14.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-07T05:33:32.160" Score="10" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok so I realize that this question has been asked a lot... or at least has been asked a lot with respect to Mac Os and Ubuntu. But I haven't been able to really figure out what the correct answer is with respect to all OSs, if there is one. I think my issue is that these types of discussions &#xA;(for example here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/685/where-exactly-is-the-border-between-apple-and-unix&quot;&gt;Where exactly is the border between apple and UNIX?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389/migrate-ubuntu-specific-questions-to-askubuntu&quot;&gt;Migrate Ubuntu-specific questions to AskUbuntu?&lt;/a&gt;) seem to have an underlying theme of trying to find the line between what is acceptable here and what should be considered Mac Os or Ubuntu specific, and therefore should be migrated to the appropriate SO site. But this to me indicates that there is such a thing as a question which is too specific to a given os for this site. I can't quite see why, or if, this requirement of  generality only applies to questions regarding Os X and Ubuntu  and doesn't extend to other *nix distros. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there are definitely questions, for example questions about proprietary software that will only run on os X, which are and should be considered off topic here. I think its much harder to see what those types of questions would be with Ubuntu. But if I had to guess at something, I'd probably say that questions specifically about Unity should best be asked at AU. But if this is the case, shouldn't questions specifically about Cinnamon be off topic as well? And maybe they are. This is the question I'm trying to get at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been my experience with Ask Ubuntu that any question which looks roughly like:&#xA;&quot;I'm using &lt;code&gt;$adjective $animal&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;$this_happened&lt;/code&gt;&quot; is perfectly acceptable, whereas &quot;I'm using &lt;code&gt;$not_ubuntu&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;$this_happened&lt;/code&gt;&quot; is always off topic, whether or not &lt;code&gt;$this_happens&lt;/code&gt; to a large number Ubuntu users. I like the criterion given by xenoterracide in the first link I put above for where to distinguish Os X specific vs. on-topic questions. I interpret this criterion as follows: If you double clicked on something and didn't like the outcome go to AD, otherwise there's a good chance that your question is appropriate here. But I would guess, having never tried it myself, that more unix-y questions than &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/112832/why-does-itunes-only-play-one-song&quot;&gt;Why does iTunes only play one song?&lt;/a&gt;, would also be acceptable there. So more or less, &quot;I'm using &lt;code&gt;$this_os&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;$this_is_my_question&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, where &lt;code&gt;$this_os&lt;/code&gt; is either a cat or some number ending in .04 or .10, are always on topic at their respective SO sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this site just a dumping ground everything else (modulo Windows)? Is it the case that as long you are running some sort of *nix os which is neither Ubuntu nor Mac, and your question is related to that operating system  (rather than, say, the Python script you are trying to debug) it is on topic here? Is having no other SO outlet, make your question appropriate here? Or is it the case that questions should be able to pass the would-someone-using-a-different-os-benefit-from-my-asking-and_or-someone-else-answering-this-question test? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because I have a very, very, &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; specific question about my recent Mint install wrt ubuntu-extended-extras. It is the type of question that I would have no qualms about asking on Ask Ubuntu, less the fact that it isn't about Ubuntu at all. I would also have no qualms about asking it on Ask Mint, except that that doesn't exist. I feel like I might be in a &quot;tough titties&quot; type situation here. I'm mostly hoping in asking this question that someone with a huge rep will say it's ok so I can blame you when someone down-votes me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:07.927" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T19:50:05.983" Title="Are questions specific to a particular OS on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2554" CreationDate="2013-12-07T13:11:34.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to state that I didn't think Ask Ubuntu needed to exist at all, and I could possibly be persuaded to feel the same way about Apple. Though we never got to have that argument about Apple, and lost the Ubuntu one, possibly because early descriptions said we'd be for advanced users only. There is much, much, overlap across AU, Unix, Apple, SU, and SF, and not a whole lot to be done about it. My personal policy is only migrate if it's requested that we migrate, I'm not going to worry about whether the question is appropriate on another site. I said in the beginning that we should not try to worry about what we aren't, but instead worry about what we are. Does it run on a Unix environment? is it &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; programming? then it's probably ok here. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/97/29&quot;&gt;Here's the historically relevant, long winded, version of that.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T19:50:05.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2547" CreationDate="2013-12-07T16:22:46.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a popular question on Unix.SE this week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103252/how-do-i-get-a-websites-title-using-command-line&quot;&gt;How do I get a websites title using command line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It contains a YouTube link points to &quot;Why Are Bad Words Bad?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the newsletter selected this hot topic on Unix.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Gmail processed the newsletter email, it auto generated a video preview for the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gmailblog.blogspot.hk/2010/02/gmail-labs-graduation-and-retirement.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube Previews - Gmail Labs graduation and retirement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26705" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T16:22:46.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-07T16:31:44.533" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.docker.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dLFuk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Docker: the Linux container engine&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26705" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T16:31:44.533" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-07T16:31:44.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2554" CreationDate="2013-12-07T16:37:12.633" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly fine to ask distribution-specific questions here. In fact, look at all the distribution tags — we try to use them only on questions that are specific to a distribution (or class of distributions — for example, many questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; are relevant to Mint), or at least that have solutions that are specific to a distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also fine to ask application-specific questions here. Even cross-platform applications such as Emacs, Firefox, etc. — all we ask is that you're running them on a unix system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much all questions that are on-topic on Ask Ubuntu are also on-topic here. The only exception would be questions related to services like Ubuntu One, and even then most such questions are on-topic, as long as you're interacting with the service from a unix system. The difference between U&amp;amp;L and AU is the nature of the answers you're likely to get — if you're using the default interface you're more likely to get useful answers on AU, while if you want answers that are applicable if you ever use other distributions, U&amp;amp;L is the better place. This explains why we have few &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unity&lt;/a&gt; questions compared to AU — but they are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As long as your question is related to the use or administration of a unix system, it's on-topic here.&lt;/strong&gt; It doesn't matter whether your question is applicable very broadly or only to a specific application running on a specific version of a specific distribution. It isn't even up to you as the asker to make this determination. The question's tags should be an indication of how specific it is, but if you don't know, it's fine, we'll retag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T16:37:12.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-07T20:40:24.983" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nbgEl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Dennis Ritchie Home Page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23779" LastEditorUserId="23779" LastEditDate="2015-07-31T22:19:02.227" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T22:19:02.227" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-07T20:40:24.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-08T18:07:51.773" Score="14" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is sort of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/634/should-i-include-tag-information-in-the-title-too&quot;&gt;a version of this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just reviewed an edit on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104224/how-do-i-apply-parameters-to-specific-kernels-with-grub-2&quot;&gt;How do I apply parameters to specific kernels with GRUB 2?&lt;/a&gt; that wanted to remove &lt;em&gt;GRUB 2&lt;/em&gt; from the title, because &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;tag-like titles should be in the tags&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;  But by the time I had typed out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are fine in titles.  We would end up with some very obtuse titles if we enforced this rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone else had approved the edit.  I then re-edited &amp;quot;GRUB 2&amp;quot; back in since I believe the edit is a bad one that changed the meaning of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to imagine people asking shell oriented questions without being allowed to use the word &amp;quot;shell&amp;quot;, etc, since that's a tag.  I'm hoping we can come to some consensus about this here to help prevent the proliferation of a bad, impromptu rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why this is a bad, improptu rule:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a bit of dialogue with Braiam, I admit I don't think it is necessarily wrong to remove a tag from a title, it's removing a tag from a title simply because it's a tag.  If someone removes or moves a word for the purpose of improving readability, grammar, etc., great.  But propagating the idea that tags should be removed from titles &lt;em&gt;just because&lt;/em&gt; is a not good -- if you can't justify the edit some other way (e.g., on the basis of readability) then don't do it.  If you can, then it's probably fine.  This case is a good example of why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original title was &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;grub - How do I apply parameters to specific kernels?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which looks a little like the OP was imitating a style encouraged by S.E. itself, which auto-appends a tag in the page &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  Chirp later capitalized GRUB.  Then Braiam changed the title to &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I apply parameters to specific kernels?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which changes the meaning of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that is hard to justify if the reason is &lt;em&gt;readability&lt;/em&gt;, because thinking about readability implies thinking about meaning -- part of &amp;quot;Does this read well?&amp;quot; is, &amp;quot;Is the meaning clear?&amp;quot;.  But thinking about a rule, &amp;quot;Must remove tags from titles&amp;quot; does not require thinking about the meaning of the question, and applying it as such will change the meaning of some questions.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some consensus that &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How do I apply parameters to specific kernels with GRUB 2?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is fine; IMO that's probably the best choice, and one that would be naturally obvious if the imperative was, &amp;quot;How can I make this read better?&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;How can I get this tag out of the title?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Which appears in the title bar and is used by search engines, etc.  I had not actually noticed this before, and to be honest it seems like &amp;quot;excessive featurism&amp;quot;, someone hammering out code for the sake of coding, and not something that serves a real purpose; the tag is simply auto-selected on the basis of it's popularity.  No doubt this leads to some stupid looking or inappropriate &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;'s...it also seems to be part of the reason for consternation about tags &lt;em&gt;at the beginning&lt;/em&gt; of the user composed title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Removing tags from titles could be done mechanistically, in which case we'd have a bad automated feature (remove tag from question) compensating for another bad automated feature (add tag to page title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T06:20:51.283" Title="Titles that contain tags" Tags="|discussion|questions|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2560" CreationDate="2013-12-08T18:36:59.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you skip to the later part, you will know how I will tackle the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that the system automatically prefixes the title with the most common tag (unless it's already in the title somewhere) to help search engines find it more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange as a whole doesn't &lt;del&gt;like&lt;/del&gt; need in the titles what can be found in the tags. I didn't find anything else in the question that needs improvement but looks weird (if not horrible) how the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YEXiQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;question appears in the search engines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that SE strives to be professional (in terms of quality), and I don't see how repeated terms in the titles of the questions helps to reach this. The answer that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/636/41104&quot;&gt;Jeff gave&lt;/a&gt; could apply better to this case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To be clear, I think it is fine to duplicate the tags in the title, &lt;strong&gt;but only when they can be worked into the titles organically and conversationally.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;em&gt;&quot;GRUB - How do I apply parameters to specific kernels?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; doesn't looks too good &lt;strong&gt;in my eyes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some resources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/130208/213575&quot;&gt;Should questions include “tags” in their titles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10648/213575&quot;&gt;How to write good titles&lt;/a&gt; (read reason 5 for the specific)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let me show how appears in google (&lt;strong&gt;beware, your eyes can start to bleed&lt;/strong&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YEXiQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/dwB9l5f.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T06:20:51.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2560" CreationDate="2013-12-08T22:43:42.223" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bad — titles should be a proper sentence or (usually better) sentence fragment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GRUB - How do I apply parameters to specific kernels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system adds the most popular tag that isn't already in the tag as a prefix, which looks bad enough on its own — here, this leads to duplication:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;grub2 - GRUB - How do I apply parameters to specific kernels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better, but not great, because it leaves some important information out of the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I apply parameters to specific kernels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question title should uniquely identify the question — there can't be two questions on the site with the same title. This question is very dependent on the bootloader, it would be different with, say, Lilo or Syslinux. So the bootloader belongs on the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I apply parameters to specific kernels with Grub 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better, because it doesn't waste words at the beginning of the title (the part that gets &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/how-do-i-write-a-good-title/10648#10648&quot;&gt;the most attention&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Apply parameters to specific kernels with Grub 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that question titles are titles for the whole thread, not for the title. There is no reason for titles to be questions, and indeed questions are often inferior as they waste words and suggest that the page only contains a question and not a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T22:43:42.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-09T01:46:21.687" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimprobable.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OoN3V.png&quot; alt=&quot;A keyboard-driven, minimalist web browser&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T01:46:21.687" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-09T01:46:21.687" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-10T08:43:20.587" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slackware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y6m4v.png&quot; alt=&quot;Slackware&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T08:43:20.587" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-10T08:43:20.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-11T02:43:38.153" Score="6" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user for this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104623/how-to-get-servers-ssl-certificate-in-a-human-readable-form&quot;&gt;How to get server's ssl certificate in a human readable form?&lt;/a&gt; asked if someone could add the tag [x509] to which I replied &quot;no I don't think we need it&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=x509&quot;&gt;searching for it I only found 29 references to x509&lt;/a&gt;, seemed a little unnecessary to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do others think we need this tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do others concur?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T23:13:13.050" Title="Do we need a &quot;x509&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2565" CreationDate="2013-12-11T13:05:49.267" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do others think we need this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that questions I normally ask myself &quot;Myself, what is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x509&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x509&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x509&lt;/a&gt;?&quot; and myself answers with a wikipedia dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In cryptography, X.509 is an ITU-T standard for a &lt;strong&gt;public key infrastructure&lt;/strong&gt; (PKI) and &lt;strong&gt;Privilege Management Infrastructure&lt;/strong&gt; (PMI). X.509 specifies, amongst other things, standard formats for public key &lt;strong&gt;certificates&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;certificate&lt;/strong&gt; revocation lists, attribute &lt;strong&gt;certificates&lt;/strong&gt;, and a &lt;strong&gt;certification&lt;/strong&gt; path validation algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I look another posts/tags that already has what x509 means: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=certificates&quot;&gt;cetificates&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=pki&quot;&gt;PKI&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=pmi&quot;&gt;PMI&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=Privilege+Management+Infrastructure&quot;&gt;Privilege Management Infrastructure&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=public+key+infrastructure&quot;&gt;public key infrastructure&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, other related terms/tags. Now, is the proportion of related terms big enough that it will make it &lt;strong&gt;difficult for answerers find the questions they want to answer&lt;/strong&gt;? No? Then we do not need a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that tags aren't there for the users asking questions but for the users to find questions they want/could answer ;). I do not think we have an important proportion of users that would like to answer those kinds of questions, so &lt;strong&gt;NO, we do not need that tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T17:11:55.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-12T01:32:53.420" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JSwG6.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU Emacs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12997" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T01:32:53.420" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-12T01:32:53.420" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-12T20:29:29.450" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zshwiki.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ctfg8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Zsh: the last word in Unix shells&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T20:47:53.833" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T20:47:53.833" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-12T20:29:29.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-12T21:26:45.187" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://qemu.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f1npv.png&quot; alt=&quot;qemu: OpenSource Virtualisation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T21:26:45.187" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-12T21:26:45.187" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-13T00:40:55.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://BXR.SU/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mY9Sz.png&quot; alt=&quot;BXR.SU &amp;mdash; Super User&amp;#39;s BSD Cross Reference &amp;mdash; BSD Source Code Search Engine over FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD source trees, based on OpenGrok, powered by nginx&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28354" LastEditorUserId="28354" LastEditDate="2013-12-13T02:12:04.403" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T02:12:04.403" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-13T00:40:55.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-13T03:26:45.633" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nginx.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LiQYq.png&quot; alt=&quot;nginx &amp;mdash; high-performance web-server for accelerated web infrastructure&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28354" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T03:26:45.633" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-13T03:26:45.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-13T11:30:50.140" Score="6" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were two chat messages this morning (my time) that left me wondering what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12630095#12630095&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/12630095#12630095&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1F5kA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the first beg (Williams) I responded only to find that the person did not post a question as requested even after urging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the second (captain) I did not respond, to me this is like cross posting and if I would have been mentioned (@Anthon) out of the blue in a chat like this, I would probably have given my opinion about what I think about begging and that I would look at questions if I had time and were on a site I frequent (I can be very unsubtle, I have practised that a lot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think my handling of Williams was OK, but I am not sure if this encouraged others to start begging on chat and how to put a stop to it (if necessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have reacted differently? Should I have complained to Captain, or is this, what I call begging, ok on chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T13:04:43.307" Title="chat instead of question and instead of cross-posting" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2013-12-13T13:04:43.307" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always keep this thought in the back of my mind: &lt;em&gt;If a user doesn't want to put the time in to write up their questions, then why should one of us be willing to help?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's their first time asking a question in chat, and I'm feeling like helping, I'll begin helping them their (sometimes) but often am trying to direct them to the main site where they should ask their question so that more people can see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's their second or third time (which it is for Williams) then I'll often times just ignore them in the chat room or remind them &lt;strong&gt;without&lt;/strong&gt; offering any help in the chat room. (Mainly because I do not want to encourage the bad behavior of asking questions in the chat room, or reward it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a small group of users that think they should ask their questions in the chat room or will post a question and then 2 seconds later start hounding regulars asking if they'd seen their question yet. To these users I would continuously remind them of the rules of the site and that people are here of &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; own accord, and hounding them for help will often times have the opposite effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read your interaction with both and thought you handled it fine. I certainly wouldn't recommend that anyone work an entire problem in chat. It happens from time to time, but if it's the same users asking for the help, and you've told them numerous times to ask their question on the main site and they don't, I would simply ignore their requests in chat...hopefully they'll get the message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T13:04:43.307" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-14T05:06:34.450" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bxr.su/FreeBSD/sys/kern/init_main.c#mi_startup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/amJWu.png&quot; alt=&quot;/sys/kern/init_main.c::mi_startup() &amp;mdash; system startup; initialise the world, create process 0, mount root filesystem and fork to create init and pagedaemon.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28354" LastActivityDate="2013-12-14T05:06:34.450" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-14T05:06:34.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-14T20:07:52.433" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wGd8a.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ken Thompson&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12997" LastEditorUserId="12997" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T07:48:21.930" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T07:48:21.930" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-14T20:07:52.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="126" CreationDate="2013-12-16T19:38:54.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will also endorse file-command, but i think we should add files for the data structure and depreciate and remove file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T19:38:54.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-16T20:09:55.960" Score="4" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I subscribe to a couple tags' rss feeds, which is cool, and I would like to subscribe to a couple others but sometimes I am only interested in some of the questions that get a tag, and would like to limit the feed to questions that have two specific tags like vi-mode and bash or questions that have one tag but not another like bash and not cat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T00:41:55.320" Title="boolean tags and rss feed" Tags="|support|tags|rss|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2578" CreationDate="2013-12-17T00:41:55.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can subscribe to a feed of questions that have multiple tags by joining the tag names with &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt;. For example, the feed of active &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vi-mode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vi-mode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vi-mode&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; questions is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/vi-mode+bash&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/vi-mode+bash&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's possible to have a feed that includes one tag and excludes another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T00:41:55.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2593" CreationDate="2013-12-17T02:48:26.650" Score="12" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;The GRUB tags are a mess. We have &quot;grub&quot; and &quot;grub2&quot; which &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be fine except that the &quot;grub&quot; tag wiki says that it's &quot;a modern bootloader installed by many distros nowadays&quot;. Either that's new and it should be a synonym of the &quot;grub2&quot; tag or it's really old, because GRUB 1 certainly isn't modern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that we blacklist &quot;grub&quot; and start using &quot;grub2&quot; and &quot;grub-legacy&quot;. Note that both of the two alternatives will show up as suggestions when an asker types &quot;grub&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T17:40:40.997" Title="Let's clean up the GRUB tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-17T05:03:01.547" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://freedesktop.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ki08Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;FreeDesktop.org&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T05:03:01.547" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-17T05:03:01.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-17T06:40:02.447" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archlinux.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v4t2D.png&quot; alt=&quot;Arch Linux: A simple, lightweight Linux distribution.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T06:40:02.447" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-17T06:40:02.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2585" CreationDate="2013-12-18T06:32:22.747" Score="0" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The introduction of the new, spiffy top bar has bought with it a recent bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highlight for flags now sits there, glowing bright yellow, urging me to atend to the task of weeding through the flags and to submit my considered judgement to the wisdom of the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, over the last couple of weeks, the number of flags has been invariably overstated. I log in, experience the Pavlovian rush of adrenalin and guilt and immediately click through only to find... &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2oJQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;The top bar LIES!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the good Russian doctor's hounds, I am unable to resist the siren call of the flag highlight; please help me, fix this bug so that I don't have to live with the weight of defeated expectations and the wretched frustration of stymied voting when I visit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T18:55:05.047" Title="False Flag Highlights" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-18T14:25:02.227" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://perl.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V6TxA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Perl&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26909" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T14:25:02.227" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-18T14:25:02.227" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2583" CreationDate="2013-12-18T18:55:05.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed now, kind of. The top bar shows the number of flags in the queue, but the actual flag list used to filter out flags you've already seen, and you had already reviewed those 6. It now shows all 10k flags, but dims the ones you've seen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T18:55:05.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2587" CreationDate="2013-12-19T00:47:23.470" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I earned a secret hat today and do not have any idea how I earned it. When I saw others with secret hats, I had the expectation that it would tell me the &quot;secret&quot; if I happened to earn one. This was not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are secret hats earned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13796" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T22:44:55.540" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T22:44:55.540" Title="How are secret hats during the winter bash earned?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2586" CreationDate="2013-12-19T01:08:40.937" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/211707/i-have-a-secret-hat&quot;&gt;not telling people&lt;/a&gt; -- Stack Exchange took their love of secrets to a whole new level this year. I don't really have any idea how you're supposed to deduce what a hat is for, but if you post about a specific one somebody who knows might be able to tell you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T01:08:40.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2589" CreationDate="2013-12-19T06:59:19.683" Score="7" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a badge for deleting your own question with a score of 4 (IIRC) or higher, called &quot;disciplined&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you ever want to delete your own question? There are two scenarios I can think of: your question is good (so deleting it would be a loss of knowledge) or it's bad/closed (in which case it's a useful example for the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T11:30:43.450" Title="In what context would deleting your own question be a good thing?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2013-12-19T07:37:01.450" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one situation where it would seem to make sense to reward that behaviour would be where you recognize, either through the passage of time or the careful probing in comments from other community members, that your question is not really answerable because you have either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;framed it incorrectly as you did not really understand the issue, or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it turns out to be an issue that is not reproducable and therefore will offer no real assistance to anyone else down the line, other than a frustrating dead end when it turns up in their search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T07:37:01.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2013-12-19T18:48:33.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a good thing to do in respects to SEO.  The situation I am thinking about is if it violates best practices in respect to framing.  Questions are upvoted when they are asked well and represent an good piece of knowledge to be gained.  I myself (and likely others) visit stack exchange often through search engine links and would feel responsible for the keywords that would be picked up.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please excuse the contrived example.  If I asked the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the quickest way to destroy a friends linux system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keywords: quick, destroy, system&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming it would be upvoted since it asks a specific question and technically there is knowledge that would be gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would likely want to delete and rewrite:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What methods do I have to protect against to prevent a quick destruction of my system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keywords: methods, protect, destruction, system&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the answer would be the same, I think the traffic coming to the site would be of higher value.  I should note this isn't about keeping people out.  It would be better questioning to funnel traffic into the site with higher accuracy.  I would prefer a stack exchange answer to most things and I have already found that certain positive words lead me to this site quicker.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32340" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T18:48:33.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2592" CreationDate="2013-12-19T19:26:09.430" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to make images that are included in a Q &amp;amp; A open in a larger view when either clicked on or hovered over? Some times I need to post a larger image than will fit, but I don't want to necessarily have a large image take up a lot of space in the normal view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T22:45:10.023" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T22:49:41.810" Title="Any way to open images in a larger window?" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2591" CreationDate="2013-12-19T22:49:41.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Include a smaller image in your post and link to the larger image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With images uploaded to Stack Exchange's imgur server (as they should), you can add &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; to get a smaller image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbRm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbR.jpg)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbRm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also specify &lt;code&gt;width&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;height&lt;/code&gt; attributes in the &lt;code&gt;img&lt;/code&gt; tag to perform arbitrary resizing. If you specify only one, the aspect ratio is kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbR.jpg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbR.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;100&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zFhbR.jpg&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;100&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T22:49:41.810" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2013-12-20T01:11:34.210" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support this proposal. The two versions of grub share a name but are configured and managed in ways that make answers or suggestions meant for one innapropriate for the other. Additionally, grub2 has enough new features that it will function in installations that either grub won't (EFI) or is difficult (/ on lvm,raid).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grub&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grub&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grub&lt;/a&gt; in favor of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grub-legacy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grub-legacy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grub-legacy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grub2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grub2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grub2&lt;/a&gt; is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53706" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2013-12-25T17:40:40.997" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T17:40:40.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2594" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-20T02:43:33.420" Score="-2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a thread mentioned below but its not present on the page that opens when I click my  name on the top. Its not in the 'deleted recent questions'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90731/connect-nokia-n73-to-laptop-via-bluetooth?noredirect=1#comment136986_90731&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90731/connect-nokia-n73-to-laptop-via-bluetooth?noredirect=1#comment136986_90731&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the above link from my Q in the below thread which is present on the page that opens when I click on my name in the top of this page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92661/no-bluetooth-adapters-found-how-to-get-rid-of-this-error-message&quot;&gt;No bluetooth adapters found: how to get rid of this error message?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a matter of chance only that this thread had the link of what I was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to spend a lot of time to get this. I was expecting that all threads whatever I posted should be present and I can retrieve it whenever required. It its not so then I request to please do the needful so that a member can get all his threads whenever he needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46723" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T17:51:59.323" Title="My thread is missing!" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2594" CreationDate="2013-12-20T03:13:27.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We went through this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1493/not-able-to-view-my-earlier-post&quot;&gt;last time&lt;/a&gt;. It's not in &quot;deleted recent questions&quot; because it was deleted months ago, because it was closed. Closed questions aren't meant to stick around forever, they were closed for a reason, so they get deleted automatically by the system if they have no answers. The only link in the comments was the Google search results for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+bluetooth+Nokia+N73&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;linux bluetooth Nokia N73&lt;/a&gt;, which doesn't exactly seem hard to come up with, but I guess that must be what you were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T17:51:49.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-20T10:55:32.890" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a few occasions I have disagreed with the flags on an answer, and have flagged it (as prompted) as &quot;invalid flags&quot; to indicate that I believe the existing flags should be ignored. On all of these that I've looked at that have been reviewed, I see &quot;disputed - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&quot;, but the flagged content remains, which I assume means that the moderator agreed with my conclusion that the existing flags were not valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My naive assumption is that this is because when the existing flags are disagreed with by a moderator, my &quot;invalid flags&quot; flag is also pulled in along with the flags on the content, and is also considered &quot;disputed&quot;, despite being commentary on the flags, and not the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't really bother me, but it seems to be a limitation of the implementation detail of &quot;invalid flags&quot;, if my assumption is correct. Perhaps the way it is implemented should be changed so that a moderator agreeing with an &quot;invalid flags&quot; flag doesn't result in &quot;disputed&quot; in the flag history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10762" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T11:10:38.157" Title="Is rejection of the &quot;invalid flags&quot; flag just a side effect of rejecting the invalid flags?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2596" CreationDate="2013-12-20T11:10:38.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your understanding is right, but to make sure, the flag response message will be of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{helpful | disputed | declined} [- why]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Disputed&quot; means it had both flags and counterflags (flagging a flag as invalid). If the flag was resolved helpful, it will either say &quot;helpful&quot; or &quot;disputed&quot;, depending on if it had counterflags, and there will be no &quot;why&quot;. If the flag was declined, it will either say &quot;declined&quot; or &quot;disputed&quot;, again depending on counterflags, and it will have whatever &quot;why&quot; the moderator who declined the flag chose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag responses are always to the main flag, not to any counterflags. That means you need to invert the reactions if the flag type is &quot;invalid flags&quot;. If you flagged &quot;invalid flags&quot; and the response was &quot;disputed - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&quot; (or some other reason), that flag was declined, which means your counterflag was correct. If it just says &quot;disputed&quot;, that means the flag was marked helpful, which can mean your counterflag was wrong or not -- I frequently mark flags helpful if I had to think for more than a moment about what to do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the whole interface does seem a little confusing. You probably want to see the result of all your flags, even counterflags, but saying that it was &quot;declined&quot; when your flag was right is unintuitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T11:10:38.157" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-21T06:57:02.100" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mdoc.su/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YNako.png&quot; alt=&quot;mdoc.su &amp;mdash; short manual page URLs, a deterministic URL shortener for BSD manual pages, written in nginx.conf&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28354" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T06:57:02.100" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-21T06:57:02.100" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-21T11:07:25.007" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default browser window doesn't need to be white. &#xA;And if your default color is black it's hard to work with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;screenshot&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aDiQD.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19663" LastEditorUserId="19663" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T15:17:55.470" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T15:17:55.470" Title="The site does not work with black black background" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2600" CreationDate="2013-12-21T17:14:45.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution is easy, just set the html background-color explicit to white and everything is as expected. (like on stackoverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19663" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T17:14:45.957" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-22T03:09:45.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://BXR.SU/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kKRXS.png&quot; alt=&quot;BXR.SU &amp;mdash; Super User&amp;#39;s BSD Cross Reference &amp;mdash; BSD Source Code Search Engine, over FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD source trees, based on OpenGrok, powered by nginx, it is uber fast and has very short URLs.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28354" LastEditorUserId="28354" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T01:12:31.353" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T01:12:31.353" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-22T03:09:45.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2604" CreationDate="2013-12-24T22:32:21.257" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106529/is-sudo-not-installed-by-default-in-debian&quot;&gt;Why is sudo not installed by default in Debian?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate. I believe this to be incorrect in that this question deals with a more subtle problem than the question it is marked a duplicate of. I am unable to find a button to vote to reopen. the reason that the other questions does not answer this one is that it assumes that lists are used to configure the preselected packages, which is true for all but a hand-full of cases, the most noticeable being sudo, which has behavior which is influenced by non package configuration options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T10:12:38.603" Title="reopen question closed as duplicate" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2603" CreationDate="2013-12-25T10:12:38.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T10:12:38.603" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-25T10:12:38.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-25T11:26:20.873" Score="1" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier I asked to have a question reopened in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2603/reopen-question-closed-as-duplicate?noredirect=1#comment2421_2603&quot;&gt;reopen question closed as duplicate&lt;/a&gt;. There was some debate and It was reopened. Thank you all who helped. So I decide to flag the reopen question finished, and was told that adding status-completed was a moderator only action. I believe this policy is slightly too strict. I believe that the original poster of unedited support requests like reopen questions should be able to mark them finished, after accepting a answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T14:13:25.183" Title="tag status-completed can't be added by OP to finished reopen requests" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2605" CreationDate="2013-12-25T14:13:25.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're missing the point of that tag. As a question asker you can show your question has been resolved by either marking one of the answers as accepted or writing an answer up yourself and marking it. This is the &lt;em&gt;mechanism&lt;/em&gt; for showing the issue's been resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The status-completed tag is when  new features are being worked on and/or implemented by moderators or StackExchange employees within the site or the software powering it. Using it in any other fashion would be confusing to the normal workflow of the Q&amp;amp;A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T14:13:25.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2532" CreationDate="2013-12-26T10:34:49.920" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and &lt;em&gt;installed&lt;/em&gt; this in the blacklist today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.... &lt;em&gt;ducks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3150" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T10:34:49.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-26T21:37:01.490" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've been doing some disambiguation of the grub tag, replacing it with grub2 or grub-legacy as appropriate, And I have done tag only edits to just shy of fifty questions, with no problem until I tried to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19232/boot-loader-to-boot-to-an-encrypted-partition&quot;&gt;Boot-loader to boot to an encrypted partition&lt;/a&gt;. This question would not let me make an edit without a six character edit to the body. So what is different about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T23:48:52.737" Title="six characters required on tag edit" Tags="|support|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2608" CreationDate="2013-12-26T22:11:19.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think because its been marked as a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to do a significant improvement, and this is just making sure that your edit is a reasonable amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general when retagging, please make sure that you're making your edits count. If there are typos etc. fix these too. When 3+ people edit a question and/or answer and there have been 10+ edits the question or answer switches to community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As both a questioner and answerer on the site I'd appreciate it if my write-ups didn't go into community wiki mode, I like to retain some control over them. I think others would appreciate this as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki questions and answers generally fall prey to &quot;abandon-ware&quot;, in my opinion. If you go looking around the SE sites, they're usually not well kept once the original author loses either the enticement to keep their products up to date through upvoting, or they get too many voices and become difficult to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T22:11:19.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-26T23:36:06.327" Score="3" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;So as part of my effort to waste a day and hit the daily rep count the hard way by re-tagging, I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/100787/bring-debian-to-second-position-in-the-grub-menu-at-startup&quot;&gt;Bring Debian to second Position in the GRUB Menu at startup&lt;/a&gt; which is a duplicate (no question about that.) and merged (and migrated just to make things fun). Now it is tagged grub which we are trying to kill, and since he is installing a recent debian which uses grub2, I decided to retag it as grub2, but the edit button is grayed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should I flag it, mention it here, or chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T05:06:26.847" Title="Re-tagging merged question" Tags="|support|status-completed|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2610" CreationDate="2013-12-27T00:43:47.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would either flag it and use the &quot;other&quot; with custom comment (which happens to be the only option on that question anyway) or mention it in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T00:43:47.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-27T02:55:23.303" Score="5" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;To help push along a tag cleanup as mentioned in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2580/lets-clean-up-the-grub-tags?noredirect=1#comment2431_2580&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s clean up the GRUB tags&lt;/a&gt;, I do hereby ask that the grub tag be locked to disallow future questions from being tagged such, in much the same fashion as the install tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T02:58:56.230" Title="Request for moderator assistance: tag lock" Tags="|support|retagging|blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2616" CreationDate="2013-12-28T07:04:57.450" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I know why this Q is still on hold although I edited it and clarified. Now the Q is too simple to understand. 1 day has passed since I edited but yet it's on hold. I had been waiting for some replies on that Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have added a new tag as I haven't found any tag that corresponds to my Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46723" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T17:53:04.653" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T17:53:04.653" Title="My Q still on hold though I edited it and clarified!" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2614" CreationDate="2013-12-28T09:20:39.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes five votes to reopen a question, and you'd only gotten three so far; traffic slows down quite a bit around Christmas. I reopened it, but Ubuntu-specific questions like this actually belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; (see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;), so I moved it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T09:20:39.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2623" CreationDate="2013-12-29T21:18:27.567" Score="12" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately I stumbled about a number of questions like this&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106837/how-to-check-which-version-of-java&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;simple java question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that got closed pretty fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it is quite clear what is being asked here, so I do not understand why that question got closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/106920/11083&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;set up routing automatically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; got closed very fast - this does not even give the chance to improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to understand why this happens here (and on SF, too). Lately (my feeling: this started about two months ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have we a spike in users who recently earned the close-vote-right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T01:06:29.833" Title="Are we a little bit trigger happy on close-votes?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2617" CreationDate="2013-12-29T22:01:39.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the people that voted to close this I'll comment as to my rationale. This question has a number of issues with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For starters it's overly broad. There are a number of reasons that java might not be working on this users system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It shows little effort/research as to possible reasons why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Though would solve this user's problem, this type of question is of little value to future visitors, given it's likely a very specific problem with this user's environment/setup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this question might seem answerable, but I personally feel we should resist the urge to answer a question just because we perceive it to be easy to answer. Questions like this tend to create meandering answers that are of little value to our site and to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather I'd like to see more durable and canonical questions and answers since what we produce on this site will stand the test of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't tell you how many times I've come across essentially garbage on other SE sites that is either wrong, or barely answered, or dated material that no one has bothered to care for or correct as time has passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better to close things like this early and often than to let it pile up on us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my $0.02.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP asked the following in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ok - so the real reason here would be: This lacks in quality and/or research. BUT in this particular case - it is quite common to have a java bundled somewhere in some location you do not know of. I will try to edit that question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which I replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The research is excusable, since many users do not fully understand things so I can overlook that. But IMO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what do these Q's bring to the site in terms of a slightly different take on a topic that we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=java+path&quot;&gt;covered pretty extensively already&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does it offer future visitors some alternative value that our current inventory of Q&amp;amp;A is lacking? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my experience these types of Q's are low value to others, since they'll likely meander, have a 1/2 dozen answers and basically become a mess to maintain, prompting new visitors to re-ask rather than try and extract value out of this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T22:50:31.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-30T18:23:19.830" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask a question, it is too short, but meets the quality standards. Why do I get this error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question does not meet the quality standards of site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to know when exactly I installed my OS. How can I do that in CentOS 6.4?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46819" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T17:52:20.183" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T17:52:20.183" Title="Asking a short question triggers the quality filter" Tags="|discussion|questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2619" CreationDate="2013-12-30T18:38:09.597" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'd have to find a way to make it longer to get past the quality filter... For example, maybe list a few of the things you've checked. Or some system details. This isn't just a way to defeat the filter, it also makes your question better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in this case, there is already an answer here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35566/what-is-a-distro-agnostic-way-determine-the-os-install-date&quot;&gt;What is a distro-agnostic way determine the OS install date?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will note that is the third result when searching for &lt;em&gt;install date&lt;/em&gt; and the first for &lt;em&gt;OS install date&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That search also shows a few related questions, which may also prove helpful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7149/installation-date-of-ubuntu/62529#62529&quot;&gt;Installation date of Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/58519/is-there-a-way-to-find-out-when-an-os-instance-was-installed-on-a-host&quot;&gt;Is there a way to find out when an OS instance was installed on a host?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/1352/how-can-i-tell-what-date-ubuntu-was-installed&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu: How can I tell what date Ubuntu was installed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T18:48:16.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2013-12-31T11:30:43.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a real world example. I recently asked a mod to delete my question (couldn't do it myself cause it had answers) because it turned out that I was being silly. I was trying to fix issues I had with sound on my laptop and it turned out that at least some of my problem came from faulty hardware. Therefore, the whole question thread was irrelevant since the issue boiled down to borked speakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meant that the question was not useful 'cause the problem was not reproducible and it made sense to delete it since it would not help any future visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T11:30:43.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-31T15:12:51.193" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.midnight-commander.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y1uzP.png&quot; alt=&quot;midnight commander&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T15:12:51.193" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-31T15:12:51.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2617" CreationDate="2013-12-31T15:13:56.777" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In any case, since the change a few months ago when &amp;quot;Closing&amp;quot; became putting &amp;quot;On Hold&amp;quot;, closing a question is not such a big deal. Note that the message it is closed with is (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;put on hold as unclear what you're asking by slm, Anthon, terdon, jasonwryan, rahmu yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question or leave a comment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as anyone edits a question that has been put on hold, it appears in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen&quot;&gt;Reopen&lt;/a&gt; review queue and so is brought to the attention of those users with enough rep to reopen it. Putting a question on hold is basically a way of telling the OP that it needs editing. If the question is improved, it will likely be reopened quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that need additional work or that are not a good fit for this site may be put on hold by experienced community members. While questions are on hold, they cannot be answered, but can be edited to make them eligible for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are edited within five days of being put on hold are automatically added to a reopening queue for community review. Questions that are not reopened within five days will change from [on hold] to [closed].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant meta.SE post is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-or-on-hold-question&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T15:13:56.777" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2013-12-31T15:26:37.657" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LgFJu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T17:21:27.930" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T17:21:27.930" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-31T15:26:37.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2617" CreationDate="2014-01-02T18:03:36.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's best to close questions quickly when they are not suitable in their current form, and to reopen them quickly if they become suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106837/how-to-check-which-version-of-java&quot;&gt;java question&lt;/a&gt; was perfectly comprehensible in its original form and should not have been closed. In its current form, it is actually too messy to reopen — it invalidates the existing answer and contains its own answer. Given that this is a pretty low-value question and the original asker no longer needs help I see no need to expend any effort to make this question reopenable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the closing of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106920/how-to-automate-route-commands&quot;&gt;route question&lt;/a&gt; and voted to reopen. We &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=12941066#12941066&quot;&gt;discussed it briefly in chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these questions are basic, beginner questions, but answerable. This site (unlike Server Fault) is not explicitly elitist and does not reject basic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You claim that “[closing] does not even give the chance to improve the question”, but in fact, it's the opposite. Closing a question does not prevent it from being edited, and increases the incentive that the asker will edit it into shape. When a closed question is edited, it is pushed onto the reopen queue, where voters can decide to reopen (and this usually happens pretty quickly on all sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T18:03:36.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2617" CreationDate="2014-01-03T18:14:10.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a general answer for closing questions fast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm envious of U&amp;amp;L precisely for this. You got the guys with enough close votes and can close promptly questions when they see they are unanswerable in their current form. If I had close votes or was able to catch the question I would put this question in the close queue pretty fast. This allows the moderators to get a rest and stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing questions fast is not a bug, is a feature. Most of SE sites live with a certain backlog, and if the question needs to be closed, close it (tm). I prefer close questions fast then reopening, than a backlog of (very) bad questions clutter the site for long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-01-04T01:06:29.833" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T01:06:29.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-03T18:44:20.287" Score="15" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/7453/slm&quot;&gt;@slm&lt;/a&gt; and I managed to vote to approve &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/34541&quot;&gt;this suggested edit&lt;/a&gt;, not realizing it was fixing broken code in the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; as opposed to an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. (Faheem Mitha rejected, after I admitted my mistake in chat and asked for reject votes). Of course, I went ahead and rolled back right after it was approved…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd like answers on the site to be free of errors, like the missing &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;, and to promote best practices, like quoting. So I think we want to continue approving suggested edits similar to that for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, those mistakes happened to be the problem the OP was experiencing. Fixing the code in the question lead to it being &quot;Hey, why doesn't this [working code] work?&quot;, leaving the question useless for the OP, and nonsensical to the rest of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to tell them apart on that screen, by looking at the very bottom, but it's easy to miss. (Examples from SO):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfpoH.png&quot; alt=&quot;bottom of an answer&quot;&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vs.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SgDVe.png&quot; alt=&quot;bottom of a question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, the only difference is the light-gray text, hidden at the bottom, saying &quot;answered&quot; or &quot;asked&quot;. (I think the line-wrapping difference is only due to the number of tags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T18:56:25.813" Title="The suggested edit queue needs to be clearer if it's a question or answer" Tags="|feature-request|suggested-edits|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-01-03T20:50:39.503" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaWOl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question closing feed&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T20:51:33.493" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T20:51:33.493" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-03T20:50:39.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2631" CreationDate="2014-01-04T18:34:15.840" Score="6" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my reputation dropdown, on the top bar, I see -10 reputation for &quot;user was removed&quot;. When I click on it, it links to my own profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T04:06:49.227" Title="Why did I get -10 reputation for &quot;user removed&quot;?" Tags="|support|reputation|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2630" CreationDate="2014-01-04T18:39:54.280" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126470/what-does-user-was-removed-mean-and-why-did-my-reputation-change-because-of-it&quot;&gt;What does “user was removed” mean and why did my reputation change because of it?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta. In short, a user who had upvoted one of your answers was deleted, so all their votes were removed as well, so you lost the 10 reputation you'd gotten from their upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T18:39:54.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-01-05T17:32:55.417" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vawPK.png&quot; alt=&quot;The universal operating system&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T17:32:55.417" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-05T17:32:55.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-01-05T17:40:04.363" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haiku-os.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BkrJ5.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Haiku OS&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T17:40:04.363" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-05T17:40:04.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2637" CreationDate="2014-01-06T01:42:25.467" Score="11" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/329/29146&quot;&gt;Are plan9 questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, and it seems like there wasn't really a consensus. The discussion was started, but never really finished. Plus, that was a couple years ago, there are new people, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are Plan 9 questions on-topic? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/41272/29146&quot;&gt;Plan 9 from Bell Labs book&lt;/a&gt; seems to indicate that they are, since it haven't been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions found by looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plan9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plan9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plan9&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/8337/29146&quot;&gt;What aspects of Plan 9 have made their way into Unix?&lt;/a&gt; - this is a UNIX-focused question, not a Plan 9-focused question. Therefore, irrelevant to this discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/36216/29146&quot;&gt;How to run programs with arguments like &amp;#39;arg=val&amp;#39; (e.g. dd) in rc shell (Linux version ported from Plan9 OS)?&lt;/a&gt; - this is about the port of &lt;code&gt;rc&lt;/code&gt; to UNIX done as a part of plan9port. It is about &lt;code&gt;rc&lt;/code&gt; on Linux, not Plan 9 in general. Therefore, irrelevant(ish) to this discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/8297/29146&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/8297/29146&lt;/a&gt; - closed due to the fact that it was too broad, not due to the fact that it was about Plan 9. Therefore, not an indication of consensus, and therefore, irrelevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone thinks this question is unwarranted and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/329/29146&quot;&gt;Are plan9 questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt; still represents community consensus, feel free to vote to close as a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T19:34:19.723" Title="Did we ever come to a consensus regarding Plan 9 questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-06T06:35:44.153" Score="8" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to have a fascination with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2635&quot;&gt;topics that were discussed in 2011&lt;/a&gt; today, but here goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like we were &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/662&quot;&gt;talking&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/743&quot;&gt;starting&lt;/a&gt; a blog back in 2011, but the discussion kinda fizzled out. Despite the fact that apparently people weren't that interested, both of those questions seem to have generated a fair amount of interest (based on both answer quality and votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, we are now a bigger, more well-defined and mature community. Should we revisit having a blog? Perhaps we should contact those who answered the &quot;who would write&quot; question, and see if they're still interested. I would certainly be interested in writing (when my school schedule permits). Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T17:22:00.563" Title="What ever happened to starting a blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2635" CreationDate="2014-01-06T19:34:19.723" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just judging by the votes on the previous question, people think that it's ok. I agree with @Gilles this site should not become &quot;not windows&quot;, anymore than the questions about applications that are ok, should be judged as ok by &quot;not windows&quot;. Basically we should never be &quot;not windows&quot;. Plan 9 is Unixy in spirit, even if it's not POSIXy. I'm personally ok with it, given its relation to Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T19:34:19.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2014-01-06T22:44:34.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a thought: one way to generate potential posts would be to encourage people to turn (theirs or others) answers into posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you read a great answer about X, so you upvote it and leave a comment to the effect: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Would you consider explaining some of the {history,background,way this works with Y} in one of the U&amp;L Community Blog Posts? $BLOG_ROOT would be happy to QA/edit the post for you before it was published.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T22:44:34.047" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-06T22:44:34.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2014-01-07T05:44:34.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we seem to be answering/updating this question again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested in contributing. I'm not sure how often I could do it, due to school and robotics taking up a lot of my time. But I could probably manage something every 3 or so weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things I've been thinking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting started with a version-controlled &lt;a href=&quot;http://dotfiles.github.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dotfiles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/1875/29146&quot;&gt;directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting started with Arch Linux (my favorite distribution)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interesting things going on in the GNOME community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's go decentralized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's in the data stack (an expansion on @slm's question about storage)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things that I would maybe do, but am not sure about yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What the hell is Plan 9, and why should I be interested? (wording TBD; I'm not sure how interested people will be in this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting started with systemd/why systemd is awesome (maybe - I'm not all that much of an expert on systemd yet)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Current state of Wayland on the desktop and beyond (should arguably be an edit to our existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/4771/29146&quot;&gt;What is Wayland?&lt;/a&gt; question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2636/what-ever-happened-to-starting-a-blog#comment2486_2636&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cKBge.png&quot; alt=&quot;@slm&amp;#39;s comment&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2636/what-ever-happened-to-starting-a-blog#comment2470_2636&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzwSQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;@Gilles&amp;#39;s comment&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'll bite. Since people seem to want me to do it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-i-volunteer-as-tribute-8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I'll volunteer&lt;/a&gt; to schedule, nag, beg, bribe, coerce, threaten, impersonate, tear hair out, burn bridges, set ultimatums, macromanage, micromanage, edit, shamelessly promote, etc. for the blog. We can try it for a while and see how it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T20:53:17.057" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-07T05:44:34.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-01-08T15:24:40.357" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.teckids.org/ad.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wwF00.png&quot; alt=&quot;Teckids e.V. – Erkunden, Entdecken, Erfinden – Discover, Explore, Forge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43720" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T15:24:40.357" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-08T15:24:40.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2014-01-08T16:29:07.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, LMDE &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Debian. It is 100% compatible with Debian repos and is not compatible with Ubuntu's. I also use LMDE and have been simply tagging with Debian, the differences are negligible and essentially consist of some added Mint-tools on a normal Debian testing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, there is nothing on LMDE that you will not also find on Debian apart from some configuration tools which are also installable on other distros anyway. Nevertheless, I have just created an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lmde&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lmde&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lmde&lt;/a&gt; tag which can now be used.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T00:47:53.370" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T00:47:53.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2659" CreationDate="2014-01-08T16:43:07.747" Score="18" ViewCount="1099" Body="&lt;p&gt;We recently had a brief &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/13063957#13063957&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; in chat about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/75686/22222&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question which asks for learning materials (specifically, online video courses). I feel that such questions are not a good fit for the site because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are not about a problem. The SE network specializes in giving specific solutions to specific problems, this type of question is either &quot;too broad&quot; or &quot;opinion based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any answers given will become obsolete very quickly as the courses change, links die, the institutions or individuals giving the courses update or change them etc etc. Answering this kind of question seems to invite link rot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I may be influenced in this by Super User where one of the close reasons is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;they tend to become obsolete quickly&lt;/a&gt;. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/a/5373/&quot;&gt;Here are a few suggestions&lt;/a&gt; on how to properly ask this type of question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;I feel we should allow questions requesting books which, as physical objects, are likely to stick around longer than random links to online resources. Requests for online learning material, on the other hand, are more problematic.&lt;/del&gt; Forget books as well, the same basic issue applies, there is no single authoritative answer, asking for books can very easily degenerate into a long list of references, making it very hard to choose one answer as the 'correct' one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do we feel about this here? Should we add the above to our list of close reasons? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 23/11/2014&lt;/strong&gt;: A new close reason has now been added the the list of off topic close reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for learning materials (tutorials, how-tos etc.) are off topic. The only exception is questions about where to find official documentation (e.g. POSIX specifications). See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; and our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2642/&quot;&gt;Community Meta&lt;/a&gt; for more information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T20:25:48.853" Title="How do we feel about requests for learning materials?" Tags="|discussion|questions|question-quality|scope|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2014-01-08T17:07:44.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. The lack of substantial online (or for that matter classroom) material on the referenced original question is in fact a very real tangible problem and IS definitely worth a question. I have taken a course on the topic but am still looking for more resources. This is a VERY relevant question for me, not just the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the material in the answers becomes obsolete then the solution is to edit the answer not close the question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12997" LastEditorUserId="12997" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T18:23:39.237" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T18:23:39.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2014-01-08T17:57:53.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the sole person to answer the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/75686/22222&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; I'm now in the position of really regretting that I ever answer that original question. This is not me being sour grapes or anything like that. I really could care less, I was attempt to help the OP when I answered that question, 1/2 expecting that it would get closed, but to my surprise it never did. I'd seen the OP ask several newbie related questions and so in a moment of weakness was attempting to help someone out by offering &quot;some&quot; guidance as to gaining more knowledge about this particular domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've since voted to close that question today, given it is not a good fit for the Q&amp;amp;A style on the SE sites, and I do think we should continue with honoring that guideline here as well on U&amp;amp;L. I realize the temptation to offer someone new to the knowledge space some guidance but the level of free materials is just not up to the quality that one would get by actually attending classes and getting a 2 or 4 year degree in the space. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in my mind, we're actually doing this persons a disservice in portraying that if they go through this material they're be on an equal footing with someone who went through a more formal and rigorous process in being educated. In stating that I'm sure I'll be run out of town on a rail but it's just how I perceive things in 2014, as both a producer and consumer of such content on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I full realize that there are tremendous resources available but the key ingredient that is missing is any kind of blueprint as to how to consume these resources. Getting a formal education is what gives one that blueprint, so that you're now equipped to continue ones journey in getting educated in this, or any, knowledge domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the wisdom that others have had before us, I must concur and say that we should not allow these types of broadly asked questions here either. Their perceived value is actually low, and we're misrepresenting the situation to people that are new to the technology field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T17:03:20.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2014-01-08T20:43:40.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this kind of question is that needs high maintenance. They are too volatile to be authoritatives. Too broad to assess the asker specific issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it in contrast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I add a ethernet module to the Linux kernel?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's all I need to know about the Linux kernel modules?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First is specific. &lt;strong&gt;To the point&lt;/strong&gt;. It's relevant for the rest of us (might someone have the same question, they can find answers here) and someone might have an answer that meets the asker needs. Both answerer and asker have what they need and share the knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the second... I could write a book. And those kind of answers are summary prohibited by this section of the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you're asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same with the questions in the example. I could write a big list of (my favorites) resources, referencing all the (my favorites) &lt;em&gt;existent&lt;/em&gt; and  &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; resource. But I could have forgotten (their favorite) some, someone might write a resource that becomes (my favorite) a best-seller tomorrow. We are not shopping lists of anyone (even if such resources are free). Such volatility is not good for the Q&amp;amp;A model of Stack Exchange and Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-01-09T02:16:07.707" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T02:16:07.707" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2014-01-09T10:07:48.203" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My major problem with recommendations for outside material is they are by nature inevitably very weak questions.  As terdon says, there is no real problem: it is not as if such material is hidden in some secret place requiring some special knowledge to find.  If you can log in to an S.E. site, you can use a search engine, and that's &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what a search engine is for -- searching for material.  There's also usually a plethora of opinions, reviews, and comments already available for stuff that is static and publicly distributed.  If you have problems &lt;em&gt;understanding&lt;/em&gt; the material you find, great, ask a specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An exception I'd make to this is a request for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;primary sources&lt;/a&gt;.  In context, that means the original documentation for foobar.  Questions about that have a clear and objective answer, and, as opposed to &lt;em&gt;secondary sources&lt;/em&gt; (such as &quot;Online course that covers Unix/Linux Systems programming&quot;, or Stack Exchange itself), primary sources can sometimes be surprisingly hard to find, perhaps because they are singular, and perhaps because they tend not to be disseminated in the same way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd really, really like to add that whoever at S.U. wrote &lt;em&gt;&quot;learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly&quot;&lt;/em&gt; needs to become obsolete quickly.  Besides the obvious, totally absurd circularity (what is an S.E. site besides &quot;learning material&quot;?) this obliterates any possible distinction between &quot;good answer&quot; and &quot;bad answer&quot;, if we waived the other, more valid objections to recommending (other) secondary material: because it is opinion based, and because it shows little or no research effort. People who can't find books in a library don't need coddling, they need a quick head check, and hopefully that's part of what closing a question provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2014-01-09T10:13:26.637" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T10:13:26.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2014-01-09T18:22:14.863" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can help with the administrative &amp;amp; editing duties. I have experience doing that from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cooking.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cooking.SE blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also willing to write some articles, though I don't have any ideas. (Unless I finally do that NTP thing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T18:22:14.863" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-09T18:22:14.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2014-01-09T21:12:23.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just adding my name to the list. I too maintain a technical blog outside of SE but would be interested in doing articles under the guise of SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topics that I would like to cover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Taking Answers that I've written and expanding them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'd like to do multi-part series on topics such as:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Samba&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User authentication within Active Directory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up LDAP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up printing and CUPS services&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up Nginx + Jetty and reverse proxying&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dealing with SSL certificates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Basics of compiling C code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Techniques for Debugging errant processes under Linux&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Building RPMS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setup and maintaining your own Yum repositories&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up a Koji build server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using Mock to build packages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Building your own Linux module&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;POSIX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to do some longer running series where we cover a variety of topics. These might be 10+ part series where we dive into some topics in a much deeper way, exploring various aspects of how the Linux Kernel works, how you can gain access to various bits of it's state, etc. I haven't full fleshed out this idea as of yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea for the longer format would be taking some hardware and interacting with it either through the USB or the GIO, these would be more hobbyist in nature, but the common thread would be in interacting with the physical world from a Linux platformed box such as a Raspberry Pi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T14:06:09.160" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T14:06:09.160" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-09T21:12:23.783" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2707" CreationDate="2014-01-10T05:13:50.677" Score="5" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/29146&quot;&gt;I volunteered&lt;/a&gt; to manage our blog, I've put together &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqJp--AmlmdwdEJSRVVBcEhjRGpXTzlBeVQtUDIya3c&amp;amp;usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt;* that includes a list of users that said they'd be willing to participate in the blog in some form, plus additional information about specifically what they'd be willing to do. It also includes a draft of the schedule, on a second sheet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind the schedule is that we will follow it (for four weeks, as of now), and then start again. The fourth entry is for anyone who said that they would contribute, but not regularly. The idea is that at first, we will roll with a three-week calendar cycle (dropping the unspecified person), until we accumulate some drafts that we can start publishing when the fourth slot rolls around. At that point, we'll switch to the four-week calendar cycle. Make sense, ish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every cycle, you will be paired with an editor. In the spreadsheet's draft schedule, every writer is paired with the same editor every cycle, but I'll probably switch it up every cycle in the final schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on if anyone else says that they'd be interested, you may write less frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer or comment if you have any objections. The spreadsheet is editable to the public, so if something isn't right with the users list (or if you aren't listed and wish to be), just go ahead and edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*Yes, I know it's Google. Centralized, data-sucking, proprietary Google. Not all of us have our own ownCloud instances (yet), though; if you object on ethical grounds and have an alternative, hit me up with it.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T19:57:53.137" Title="Starting a blog, part 3" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2652" CreationDate="2014-01-10T13:24:10.003" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never complain about having a bit more reputation point, but today somehow I get 5 upvote &#xA;for  answer I made in a very short term and I feel myself like not deserving those points.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Could that kind of behavior could be avoided by some kind of moderation automated process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T19:31:09.010" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T19:31:09.010" Title="Someone upvoted several of my answers in a very short time" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2653" CreationDate="2014-01-10T13:51:12.390" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I read this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/108703/4671&quot;&gt;Live USB linux distro to backup my Windows machine&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;My first reaction was to try to help the SExchanger, but then I realized that part of his post had already been answered several times (like how to make a backup).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In that case, should I flag the post as low quality or something or should I try to help anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also he asks for four very different things. Should those questions be in different posts or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T18:56:36.953" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T03:03:07.747" Title="Is a multiple part question acceptable if part of it has already been answered" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2650" CreationDate="2014-01-10T16:08:53.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;help center entry on reputation&lt;/a&gt; you can find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day from any combination of the activities below. Only bounty awards and accepted answers are not subject to the daily reputation limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so the moderation is taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If different questions are upvoted in short succession it could come from a single admirer who was pleased with one answer and looked at some others and  decided your effort was valuable. The StackExchange system keeps track of such things and when  upvotes excessively originate from one source (I don't have exact numbers for that) upvotes can be nullified and their reputation voided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T16:08:53.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2651" CreationDate="2014-01-10T16:28:46.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also he asks for 4 very different things and I wondered if those questions should be in different posts or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very much so. You should reach out to him with a comment telling him that multiple questions in one question are not acceptable. What I generally do is I decide which is the &quot;main&quot; question of the post, then edit out all the other ones (with an optional note in the edit summary). If the &quot;main&quot; question already has an answer, then I'd go ahead and flag as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T16:28:46.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-12T18:36:54.187" Score="13" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question while not knowing enough to clearly state my issue. (Here is the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/108842/15010&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/108842/15010&lt;/a&gt; .) I received a couple responses that helped me get on the right track, but they did not actually answer my question. I continued to read and learn, and today I found a solution. I posted my answer here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/109011/15010&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/109011/15010&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, now that I have a little more clarity, I can see how to massively edit my question to make it much more clear for other readers. This seems like a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My concern is that a massive edit will remove the context for the two responses I received so far. It might make those prior answers appear less relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: it seems somewhat unfair to the two responders to massively edit my question, but doing so will make the question much more useful to future readers. What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15010" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T23:12:51.420" Title="Is it OK to massively edit a question after receiving a couple responses?" Tags="|discussion|questions|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-12T18:42:29.977" Score="6" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am running the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox. See website here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Firefox 25.0.1 on Kubuntu 12.04.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If HTTPS Everywhere is active, I cannot log into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; . If I disable the extension I can log in. Obviously, I prefer to keep the extension active. I have never had issues at any other sites other than meta.*.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes me much less inclined to log in and participate in meta discussions because there is a barrier to doing so (and that barrier involves restarting my browser).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a greasemonkey script or something would solve this??? (I have no idea...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15010" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-01-12T23:13:57.193" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T17:06:51.627" Title="I cannot log into meta while using HTTPS-Everywhere in Firefox" Tags="|support|ssl|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2654" CreationDate="2014-01-12T18:54:35.737" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest leaving the old version alone and appending your revised version below it. Stick a note to that effect at the top. I notice your question is quite long, and this will make it even longer, so maybe this is not the ideal way to handle it, but given that there are no length limitations on SE questions that I know of, it is an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T18:54:35.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2654" CreationDate="2014-01-12T19:23:03.480" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave the original in place and try and make it so that it's as clearly in line with the A's. Then start a new Q and post your learnings as a new A. Also reference the original so that others see the linkages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T19:23:03.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2014-01-12T19:28:13.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't HTTPS Everywhere have a whitelist/blacklist facility where you can disable it on certain sites? I found these directions on making your own rulesets: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/rulesets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTTPS Everywhere Rulesets&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I agree with you it would be best if you didn't need to workaround this. I think your request is apt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T19:28:13.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2014-01-12T23:12:07.620" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions asking for lists of resources tend to degenerate into lists of items, as opposed to answers. They tend to become a poll rather than a question with its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange does not work well for polls, where each answer is a separate items. Voting on the answers results in a score that does not at all reflect the quality of the item mentioned in the answer, but primarily who posted first and secondarily how well-known the item is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for tutorials or other resources has its place somewhere on the web, but Stack Exchange is not that place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T23:12:07.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2014-01-13T01:21:08.180" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that HTTPS Everywhere causes login issues; I'm not sure exactly what it's caused by. I've seen it happen on meta.*.stackexchange.com sites, as well as chat.stackexchange.com. It happens on Windows (Firefox 26, Windows 7), Mac OS X (Firefox Nightly, built within the last 2 weeks as of 1/14/14), and Arch GNU/Linux (updated recently, Firefox 26).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a problem with the extension rulesets, not with Stack Exchange. I've been meaning to report it; if you do, please let us know so that we can make sure to not do the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="29146" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T17:06:51.627" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T17:06:51.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-14T02:48:37.260" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a site where I can discuss things related to mobile, but I couldn't find any relevant site in Stack Exchange (Did I overlook something?).&#xA;Please suggest if any relevant site is here in Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My immediate Q was: I want to know which mobile is available in market where I can work on Linux so that I get the feeling on working in computer (good facilitated mobile). Also I will use it for other purposes like Internet etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46723" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T17:16:58.273" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T17:16:58.273" Title="Site for asking questions related to mobile?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2014-01-16T11:12:01.087" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should allow such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are about a specific problem. The difference between &lt;code&gt;Where do I find the configuration of PostgreSQL&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Where do I find a course for PostreSQL&lt;/code&gt; is only in one thing: The second question has more valid answers than the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The topic of obsolescence has been throughly answered by goldilocks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Books are no different. If books are valid, so are online materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While to most of us who live in places where &quot;go to the library&quot; is a useful approach that is not true to everyone, because many places on this planet don't have libraries like we do. I'm biased as I know people to whom &quot;getting a book&quot; is a difficult approach, but their internet connection is relative stable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not all people learn equally well from books. I myself only use books as reference collections, but I nowadays I usually learn from online courses tutorials etc. as I found them more suited to my approach on learning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is too broad &lt;code&gt;Where do I find the course that teaches all about Linux&lt;/code&gt; then it should be closed for being to broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is too opinion based &lt;code&gt;Where do I find the best course for nfs&lt;/code&gt; it should be modified to remove &lt;code&gt;the best&lt;/code&gt; and therefore be no longer opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, if my situation is: &lt;code&gt;I {want|have} to learn about $topic but have no idea where to start.&lt;/code&gt; Then my problem is: &lt;code&gt;Where do I find a place that teaches me stuff about $topic.&lt;/code&gt; which is an answerable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have a lot of Q&amp;amp;A here that could be solved by searching online but are still considered on topic (&lt;code&gt;Where do I find configuration of PostgreSQL&lt;/code&gt;) up to the point that searching online brings people here because we answer such questions, the same should apply to learning material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54677" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T11:12:01.087" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-01-16T20:04:09.413" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gimp.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C7KdS.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU Image Manipulation Program&quot; title=&quot;The GNU Image Manipulation Program&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52956" LastEditorUserId="52956" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T21:10:07.900" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T21:10:07.900" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-16T20:04:09.413" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2636" CreationDate="2014-01-16T21:17:59.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I most likely have the time to create a blog and bother people to bring posts, doesn't sound too hard :). Unfortunately I have 0 experience with bloging, blog software etc. So, anybody got some recommendations (-&gt; Comment or Email an@steamnet.de )?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54677" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T21:17:59.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2667" CreationDate="2014-01-21T15:14:03.643" Score="0" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've copied the tag description for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unity&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unity&quot;&gt;gamedev&lt;/a&gt;: is this considered ok?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6426" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:18:55.277" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T15:37:39.560" Title="Copying wiki tags from other SE" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2666" CreationDate="2014-01-21T15:37:39.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, we'd rather you not just blindly copy the contents for a tag from one SE site to another. The tags, though the same name, may mean very different things to the various SE communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my $0.02.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T15:37:39.560" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-23T14:39:59.340" Score="78" ViewCount="6276" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it would be a nice idea if we could have a question thread where everyone posts an answer where they introduce themselves, talk about themselves a little bit, and tell the community their motivation for participating on &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some SE sites don't have much of a community (in the sense of people talking directly to each other), but unix.sx does have something of one, if only composed of people who hang out in chat, and community should be encouraged - there is never enough of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, unless you are royalty going incognito, step up and tell us all about yourself, and why you hang out here. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T09:20:51.383" LastActivityDate="2021-10-03T11:23:19.067" Title="Getting to know you: who are you and why do spend time on unix.se?" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="26" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-01-23T15:12:48.157" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Linux since 1996 (I think -- early 2.0.x kernels) starting with Red Hat and quickly switching to Slackware.  In the time since then I've used many other distributions and my go-to distro is Debian.  I've also worked with AIX on RS/6000, VMS on VAX, Digital Unix on Alpha and SCO before they became what they are today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently have 4 machines, running Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu* and OS X.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My motivation for being here is to help where I can.  Over the years (and increasingly so) when I need to Google something, a SE site pops up that tells me exactly what I need.  I've taken a lot from SO/*.SE and felt it was time to give something back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I'm a Ph.D. student of meteorology (severe storms and tornadoes).  Before that I flew the Embraer-145 regional jet for a regional airline for a number of years. I have also been employed as a programmer on and off over the years.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;on armhf and I'll be switching that once I have to time to setup a proper cross compile environment&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53706" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T12:18:48.717" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T12:18:48.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-01-23T16:28:39.910" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Linux-based operating systems since the summer of 1998, which coincided with the purchase of my first computer. I had used computers for a while before that, but they had been VAX, Suns, Windows and Macs. I think that time was my first exposure to a &quot;real&quot; operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started with Red Hat 5.1 (version inferred based on the date, I don't remember now), moved on to SuSE 6.2 in the summer of 1999, and eventually to Debian in 2001, having being considering that move for a while before that. I've used Debian pretty much exclusively since then, and in general I count myself satisfied. My one attempt to package something for Debian, namely CCL, has so far not borne fruit. It was rejected by the ftpmasters, who have still not replied to my response. :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My background is mathematical, but I've got a PhD in Statistics, and have published a few research papers, though mostly not in Statistics. I really need to set up a website. I've done a lot of programming off and on. My knowledge of things Unix is actually fairly rudimentary, but I'm quite familiar with Debian, so I tend to answer questions about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I frequent this site because I have found the Stack Exchange sites useful, particularly Stack Overflow. However, I don't really have very good or specialist knowledge about anything. I've worked across a lot of different areas so I'm something of a perpetual beginner. Plus I'm generally too lazy and/or too busy to put much effort into answering questions. For whatever reason, I tend to find it easiest to answer questions here, and the atmosphere is friendly and supportive, so I do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other SE site I frequent regularly is TeX.sx, which is also friendly. I'm a long time user of LaTeX, though again I know relatively little about it. And of course, everyone uses Stack Overflow, though it is too large to have a community, and I have not found it to be the friendliest of places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T17:02:53.963" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T17:02:53.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-24T10:18:34.670" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question about a crashing Linux software (&lt;code&gt;kdenlive&lt;/code&gt; to be more precise). Is this the right place for that? If not, which forum is best?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where to ask a different question about video editing software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31853" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T04:44:07.677" Title="Where to ask a question about a crashing linux software?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2671" CreationDate="2014-01-24T11:55:32.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you can ask your question on this site, so long as it's an application that's running on some form of Unix or Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general when you come into a Stack Exchange site, you should always refer to the &quot;Help Center&quot; under the help pull-down in the upper right hand corner. All SE sites have a &quot;On Topic&quot; section which explains what is and what is not on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T11:55:32.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-01-24T18:47:01.963" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bioinformatician&lt;/a&gt;/computational biologist or whatever, with a background in biology and no formal computer/programming training. Like the good little geek I am, I started using Linux some time around 1998 with the now defunct Mandrake. I then moved to SuSE (pre-novell days), briefly into openSuSE and then Ubuntu when that came out. Couple of years later I switched to Linux Mint and from there to Linux Mint Debian edition which is essentially Debian testing with some bells and whistles. I switched to Arch in the summer of 2016 and will probably be sticking with it for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My *nix expertise, if I can grace it with such a lofty title, is mostly on manipulating text and regular expressions since that represents a large chunk of my daily work. I've learnt more about shell scripting in the year or so that I've been hanging out here than I did in the previous 10. My favorite scripting language, and I'm sure this will come as a surprise to the regulars, is Perl. I spend a lot of time on U&amp;amp;L because I enjoy solving short, concise problems: it's fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more personal note, I am the son of a Greek mother and American father, and grew up in Greece as a bilingual child. I then went off to study in the UK, did my PhD in Barcelona and my post doctoral work in France. As a result, I sometimes get my languages mixed up which is a source of some embarrassment since I tend to be a grammar pedant.  When I'm not answering questions here or trying to solve life's mysteries, I play my beautiful &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gretschguitars.com/gear&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gretsch&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22812" LastEditDate="2019-04-01T17:00:43.250" LastActivityDate="2019-04-01T17:00:43.250" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-01-24T19:59:58.517" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who I am&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm an electronics and telecomm. engineer by training. I'm currently pursuing a master's degree in the field (specializing in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectromechanical_systems&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MEMS&lt;/a&gt;) in my hometown of Cairo, Egypt. I also work as a teaching assistant for a couple of undergraduate courses at my university.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm not doing techie stuff, I'm an avid reader of literature and poetry. I'm a big time &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; nerd. Give me a shout out if you are/were a fellow member of &lt;a href=&quot;http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Entmoot&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My *nix history&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm quite a late comer to the *nix world, I'm afraid. My first brush with it was in the early 2000's (2001~2002) when my father bought a computer magazine that came with a Mandrake LiveCD. I popped it in, booted from it, understood nothing and went happily on my Windows way. It wasn't until 2009 that I had a true introduction to GNU/Linux (as well as a very brief stint on a Solaris machine) via RHEL in an enterprise setting. This was during an internship for an electronics company that required me to learn the use of Red Hat (and Perl) for a scripting job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the internship was over, I was still reluctant to move my whole workflow over to GNU/Linux. The experience did draw me closer to the free software world, though, and Perl and LaTeX stuck with me in my Windows environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was in early 2010 that I finally made the full leap because I was required to &#xA;work on some simulation software for college that only worked under GNU/Linux. I switched to a Mandriva 2010 environment based on my TA's recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I graduated, I came into contact with a mixed environment of Mandriva 2010 and Mandriva 2011 boxes in the workplace as well as some CentOS (can't remember which version) boxes in the graduate research lab at school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since electronics people are not computer/programming-inclined by training or nature&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, and since my TA who recommended that I use Mandriva had left school to pursue other things, I was the only one knowledgeable enough to manage the research lab's network of (really ancient) CentOS boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, I have been incrementally learning system administration (and scripting skills) and have found it to be quite an enjoyable, albeit stressful, profession. I have recently revamped the lab with a pre-seeded installation of Debian Wheezy managed by Puppet, which has proven quite robust so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my personal computer, I have used Mandriva 2010, Debian Squeeze, Fedora 16 and Debian Wheezy in this order. I am currently waiting for some free time to try out Arch and Slackware so I can delve even deeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I also tried out LFS v7.1 but haven't had the time to play with it as much as I'd hoped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My weapon of choice for most tasks (professional or personal) is Perl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I come here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was once faced with an administration problem at work and couldn't find suitable Google search terms for it. Since StackExchange sites were always helpful during my Google searches, I signed up here and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55014/why-does-ssh-not-consult-etc-hosts&quot;&gt;asked my question&lt;/a&gt; and received the correct answer all in less than an hour. I have been a frequent visitor here ever since. First I asked questions then, as my experience grew, I became comfortable answering them as well. I second &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2673/26909&quot;&gt;terdon's sentiment&lt;/a&gt; that I have learned more about GNU/Linux by frequenting this site and interacting with people than I ever did by reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;With a few exceptions, obviously :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26909" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T22:25:38.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-01-25T08:46:00.247" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just another geek who got addicted to programming when I was 11. My first languages were JavaScript and then C. Unfortunately on that other OS :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow I happened to find a career in programming when I was 16. I build windows apps and web apps. While I have a good job writing a giant web app product, it all seems like stamp collecting when I read about how a young Finnish guy wrote an OS that runs half the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been meaning to get into the *nix world for ever so long (and eventually into kernel develop or anything close to the hardware). Lack of resources and being on my own made it a hard journey. Finally the time came when I was rejected for a job because I lacked *nix skills I swore I would pick it up, that's when I came here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year later today I own OSX, Fedora and Windows (for the day job :( ) I picked up Perl, a little Python and Haskell. I contributed into the Perl Core and Dancer2 (Perl Web Framework). and I'm re-learning C the Unix way now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last few months I've tried dabbling with toy OS's. Some Assembly, the Raspberry Pi and the Linux source code. However it has been blatantly hard! :/ Understanding how to interact with hardware, what manuals to read etc have just been daunting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what steps to take next, but I know I have a long journey and I'll be programming for a while. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32666" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T08:46:00.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-27T10:56:48.103" Score="-4" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, its kind of a stereotype that this question crops up in a Unix/Linux forum, but I need reassurance on this, i.e. I have an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not as much mind the questions as I mind the diverging answers. If the question is asked so that it can be answered by a pointer to the manual it should be. If there is a more specific problem, the question needs to be refined. Instead we see elaborate approaches to trivia and implied problems the original question never described. Even if this yields interesting things, nobody would find it when they need it, as those things would be hidden behind a trivial question, in title, tags and body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this has grown big enough to constitute a problem. It clutters the platform, binds a lot of time and undermines this sites approach to be a good platform for finding information. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that markup, a nice introduction and 1 or two implied problems often yield more reputation than a (correctly and adequetely used!) simple plain pointer to the manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need a generic, polite and educating way of telling people to read the manual. Maybe some sort of special flag where one can vote to close the question by providing a link to the manual. Better, a link to the manual and an excerpt with the relevant information. Restricting this to one link to one manual also limits the applicability so that this doesn't become a tool to slap people around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer isn't as simple as a link and an excerpt its a valid question requiring an elaborate answer, IMO. If the question is closed following a RTFM-vote the link to the manual and the excerpt are posted as first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This avoids redundancy, showcases the potential of manuals (who teaches this to people?), answers the question and gives people direct access to more knowledge on the topic at hand ... the manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To have questions in here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a problem with a flood of trivial questions on UnixLinuxSE so that we need to react? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we introduce a method to propagate the use of available information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on a wider scope: Does anybody else see the problem I describe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19575" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T06:20:25.390" Title="A polite way of giving RTFM for an answer" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1283" CreationDate="2014-01-27T14:51:23.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Analytical badge will no longer be awarded. It doesn't make sense to change it to &quot;visited every page of the help center&quot; because there's so much more content than in the old FAQ. Furthermore, this new help center is meant to be more reference material than single-sitting reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is just like the &quot;beta&quot; and &quot;precognitive&quot; badges on Stack Overflow; you simply can't earn them anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/183128/analytical-badge-still-showing-faq&quot;&gt;Analytical Badge still showing &amp;quot;FAQ&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6869" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T14:51:23.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2676" CreationDate="2014-01-27T19:42:09.457" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;Is there a problem with a flood of trivial questions on UnixLinuxSE so that we need to react?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I am aware of. In fact, taking all of the questions asked on the site, irrespective of their quality, I would struggle to apply the adjective &quot;flood&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are questions that are regularly asked that exhibit at best an introductory understanding of Unix &amp;amp; Linux, but the wiki is designed to cater for all levels of understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is important is the quality of the answers. Quoting the most &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; part of the manual can be both enlightening (in terms of addressing the immediate issue at hand) and also educational by way of teaching someone &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to use manuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Should we introduce a method to propagate the use of available information?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a method already: quality answers. The best answer, no matter how apparently trivial the question, can always highlight some additional information (like the history of the command, or how it works across different shells or platforms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is especially uninteresting, you can always edit it to fill it out and provides some broader context for it that may not be evident to the original poster (as long as the intent is not corrupted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are really desirous of conveying the message that the answer is well documented in the manual (or some other source), then just say that as part of your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111096/custom-commands#comment171884_111096&quot;&gt;always exceptions...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T19:42:09.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-27T22:11:00.233" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;firstly there does not appear to be a d-i tag or equivalent so I am operating under the assumption that all questions about the debian installer will be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; but when I search for &quot;[debian] installer&quot; the signal to noise ratio is atrocious due to automatic inclusion of related words. I am not interested in in &lt;em&gt;installing&lt;/em&gt; mplayer, how to &lt;em&gt;install&lt;/em&gt; vlc, or broken wine &lt;em&gt;installation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to tune my search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="29146" LastEditDate="2014-01-30T00:47:23.913" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T02:14:21.413" Title="When I search for debian-installer, how do I filter out questions about installing * on Debian?" Tags="|support|tags|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2679" CreationDate="2014-01-30T00:46:34.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/system-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;system-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;system-installation&lt;/a&gt; tag for installing systems. Therefore, use &lt;code&gt;[debian] [system-installation]&lt;/code&gt; as your search query, and that should get you relevant results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T00:46:34.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-01-30T02:06:54.153" Score="25" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Who am I?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a 15-year-old in 10th grade (as of this writing) so I don't have a fascinating job to tell you all about. I've always been super interested in technology and programming. My first language was Visual BASIC, but thankfully, I was never quite motivated enough to make a large program in it (especially since I got confused by all the Windows toolkit stuff), so I never really picked up bad habits from it. I spend a lot of my free time reading things on the internet (think GNOME Wiki, FreeDesktop specs, interesting bugs that are linked to in Mozilla lists, Wikipedia, etc). Things in my RSS reader: EFF Deeplinks, Planet GNOME, blog.SE, Defective by Design, the FSF blog and the GitHub blog. I also love Ultimate Frisbee, although recently I have stopped doing that and have been using basically all my spare time for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/game&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FIRST Tech Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &amp;lt;3 the open internet. I follow Fight For the Future, EFF, and related organizations, and despise all things censorship/anti-net neutrality. I'm anti-DRM because I find it unethical that I have to hand control of my own computer to someone else in order to watch a movie. Honestly, everything I've just said you could find in my bio. Go look at that if you wish I wrote more in this section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I swear on Meteor.js, Arch GNU/Linux, Emacs, git, and zsh. I use a Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2 (white, no key labels), which has prompted the question &quot;why are you using a keyboard from the 90s?&quot; from many of my friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What was my first *nix?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: I used Ubuntu for a while, then Darwin, then I used Ubuntu for a couple months before switching to Arch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Some background: around the time that my parents decided it was time for me to have a personal computer, so that theirs wouldn't be screwed up when I made mistakes, I really wanted a Mac, but they got me a Vista computer instead.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About  years ago, I was in carpool and noticed that the guy who was sitting in front of me was using something not familiar to me, so I asked him what it was, and he replied that it was a different operating system called Ubuntu. I thought that was really interesting, so eventually I ended up installing Ubuntu Gutsy on my laptop. While on Ubuntu, I picked up some rudimentary command-line skills, but couldn't do a ton (I have a clear memory of being on vt1, killing a process, but having to switch back to Xorg to look up a PID in Activity Monitor [since I didn't know about &lt;code&gt;ps&lt;/code&gt;]). I stayed with Ubuntu all the way up until Ubuntu Maverick, as that was the point at which I received an iMac as a gift. From then on, I used OS X, although I always missed GNU/Linux a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While on OS X I solidified a bunch of my command-line skills. However, I never really did anything (comparatively) advanced like I/O redirection or pipes. Then, about a year ago, Steam was ported to GNU/Linux, removing the last barrier to me going back. I used Ubuntu for about 3 months, until I had gotten a sufficient feel for the community to become angry at Canonical (and GNOME). At that point, I went DE-hopping for a while before I finally ditched for Arch (and awesomewm, although about a month ago I made my peace with GNOME and am back on the GNOME Shell train).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sysadmin a home server as a hobby. It's named steevie, and has been down for about 4 months due to a disk failure (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, I've also recently become very interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Plan 9 from Bell Labs&lt;/a&gt;. I have an server installed, but the Ethernet card(!) isn't recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Where do I want to take my UNIX skills next?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe I'm the only one here who will actually have an answer to this, so here goes. When I grow up, I want to hack on either GNOME, Mozilla, or GNU. Or, I want to sysadmin for one of those guys. More generally, I aspire to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;become a hacker in the classical sense&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the nearer future, I want to get better at text processing (e.g. learn regexps, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, etc.), and just become more familiar with the standard, classic UNIX tools (e.g. &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt;). I also want to become more familiar with the shell, as I still can't do a lot of I/O redirections besides stdout, and I certainly don't have the skills to customize my shell properly. It is also a goal of mine to gain mad Emacs-fu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do I spend time on unix.SE?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love learning about UNIX history, and a lot of the people here have great experiences from Back In The Day. Additionally, I am undoubtedly still learning, and I soak up a huge amount of knowledge here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said, I spend a lot of time reading about GNU/Linux stuff on the internet. So I really like the questions that are phrased as &quot;how does * work on the inside&quot;; they're fun to answer and fun to think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, to be perfectly honest, I am completely hooked on the gamification of Stack Exchange. Getting reputation and badges is awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Unix &amp;amp; Linux has an amazing community. I had used Stack Overflow before I found this site, and still do, but the difference is that I can't stand the SO community anymore. Mostly because it's so high-traffic. I like the more relaxed pace here, and I really love that you can actually &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; all the regulars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T17:01:00.810" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T17:01:00.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:22:19.623" Score="8" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2668&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, plus some discussions on chat. This is a survey, and is intended to be a little more scientific than @FaheemMitha's question. If you think that something should be represented here, feel free to add it. Bear in mind that the results for the tacked-on response will be skewed, because some people will have seen the question but not your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This survey has a couple different categories. Sorry about that; I didn't want to clog up Meta with a bunch of survey questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have read this whole thread, upvote &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2684/29146&quot;&gt;the answer that says so&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;even if you don't do anything else&lt;/em&gt;. This is to determine how many people have looked at the survey.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go through the answers. If one applies to you, upvote it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Friendly reminder that since votes are anonymous, so is this survey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Index&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a helpful index of the possible responses, organized by topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How do you feel about free software&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2685/29146&quot;&gt;I use free software for its utility&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2686/29146&quot;&gt;I use free software for ethical reasons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2687/29146&quot;&gt;I use free software for ethical reasons, but I choose to make permanent exceptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What desktop environment you use&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2690/29146&quot;&gt;I use GNOME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2688/29146&quot;&gt;I use KDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2691/29146&quot;&gt;I use Unity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2692/29146&quot;&gt;I use something that looks like GNOME 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2693/29146&quot;&gt;I use something that looks like KDE 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2694/29146&quot;&gt;I use a desktop environment targeted at low-resource environments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2695/29146&quot;&gt;I use another obscure desktop environment&lt;/a&gt; (feel free to tell us what)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2696/29146&quot;&gt;I use a window manager&lt;/a&gt; (feel free to tell us what)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Your choice in shell&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for interactive console use, not shell scripting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2697/29146&quot;&gt;I use &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2698/29146&quot;&gt;I use &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2699/29146&quot;&gt;I use some other shell&lt;/a&gt; (feel free to tell us what)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T09:18:20.050" Title="A small survey on your opinions on various issues" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:22:19.623" Score="32" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I have read this question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read through the answers on this question. I have upvoted all those that apply to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:22:19.623" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:22:19.623" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:24:04.083" Score="22" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use free software for its utility&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use free software because it is the best available with regards to utility. I may or may not use free software for ethical reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:24:04.083" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:24:04.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:25:58.937" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I prefer to use &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; free software for ethical reasons&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use free software because I believe it is more ethical and trustworthy than proprietary software. I would continue to use free software even if a proprietary solution came along that had better features or better support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this response applies to you if you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; use proprietary software, but are making an effort to move to the type of situation outlined here. It also applies to you if you believe in this sort of thing but are forced to use proprietary software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:25:58.937" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:25:58.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:27:11.160" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use mostly free software for ethical reasons, but I make permanent exceptions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use free software because I believe it is more ethical and trustworthy than proprietary software. I would generally continue to use free software even if a proprietary solution came along that had better features or better support, however, I have some proprietary software that I make a permanent exception for and use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this response doesn't apply to you if you are forced to use proprietary software due to something like company policy, when you would rather be using free software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2014-01-30T07:19:26.210" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T07:19:26.210" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:27:11.160" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:28:19.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use KDE 4&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My preferred computing environment is KDE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:28:19.273" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:28:19.273" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:29:15.377" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use GNOME 3&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My preferred computing environment is GNOME.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:29:15.377" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:29:15.377" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:30:41.643" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use Unity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My preferred computing environment is Ubuntu's Unity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:30:41.643" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:30:41.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:31:34.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use a GNOME-descended classical computing environment&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My preferred computing environment is GNOME 2, but the interface fascists at the GNOME Foundation took my baby away from me. Therefore, I use either Cinammon, the Classic mode of GNOME 3, or MATE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:31:34.803" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:31:34.803" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:32:36.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use a KDE-descended classical computing environment.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My preferred computing environment is KDE 3, but the KDE people totally betrayed me when they told me that KDE 4 was better. Therefore, I use Trinity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:32:36.837" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:32:36.837" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:33:15.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use a low-resource desktop environment&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use either Xfce, LXDE, or some other desktop environment specifically targeted at low-resource machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:33:15.480" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:47:04.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:33:51.610" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use a different desktop environment from those listed here&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use Razor-qt, Enlightenment, Pantheon, or some other equally obscure desktop environment not listed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:33:51.610" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:33:51.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:35:46.993" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I am &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too cool to use a bloated desktop environment&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use an alternative window manager, like awesomewm, xmonad, openbox, fluxbox, sawfish, ratpoison... the list goes on. Note that your window manager doesn't have to be tiling for this to apply to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2014-01-30T19:36:50.673" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T19:36:50.673" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:35:46.993" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:50:20.373" Score="25" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use bash as my interactive shell&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:50:20.373" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:50:20.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:52:00.670" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use zsh as my interactive shell&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T03:52:00.670" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:52:00.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T03:54:45.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use something besides bash or zsh for my interactive shell&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be anywhere from &lt;code&gt;ksh&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;tcsh&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;fish&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="29146" LastEditDate="2014-01-30T05:50:39.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T05:50:39.317" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T03:54:45.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T07:23:44.737" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I use free software because it is technically &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; ethically superior&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I am OK with that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T07:23:44.737" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T07:23:44.737" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2014-01-30T15:57:39.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use free software because it is technically and ethically superior. I also think that open source has a chance at becoming somewhat secure. With regard to proprietary software, I think that what Snowden has revealed shows it cannot be trusted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been using Zsh since (I believe) the mid 90s - it gets better and better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also use twm as my window manager - it's fast. You can configure menus and icons to actually help you rather than cause you to click on several different identical icons to figure out what runs in what window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user732" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2014-01-31T09:18:20.050" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T09:18:20.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-30T20:29:54.277" Score="11" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted an answer that worked exactly as the asker wanted, specific to his needs and maintainable by me (i.e. - I can answer questions about my answer if needed and explain its workings and why I provided it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user with a high reputation saw fit to edit my answer to the point that I cannot answer questions about my answer, nor can I explain why it works or even if it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do in this case?  I don't feel right just redoing my original work.  Is there a method to vode the other user's edits down without impacting my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the answer in question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/111727/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/111727/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57008" OwnerDisplayName="David Wilkins" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T14:39:51.383" Title="Proper way to undo an edit made to a working answer" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-01-30T23:39:09.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Ttgi.png&quot; alt=&quot;An open-source editor for experienced web designers and programmers, supporting many programming and markup languages, but focusing on creating dynamic and interactive websites.&quot; title=&quot;An open-source editor for experienced web designers and programmers, supporting many programming and markup languages, but focusing on creating dynamic and interactive websites.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52956" LastEditorUserId="52956" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T21:09:13.817" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T21:09:13.817" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-30T23:39:09.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2671" CreationDate="2014-01-31T04:44:07.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think a more appropriate place for such is the Bug/Issue tracker, either of the distro or of the software itself (upstream).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T04:44:07.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2728" CreationDate="2014-01-31T18:52:53.920" Score="11" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/602/tags-for-crashes-and-freezes&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but I'm still not convince about the usefulness of those tags. The meta Question itself recognize that the tag could not survive alone in any question which is specifically prohibited by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;the tag creation page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... tags that &lt;strong&gt;cannot stand alone as the only tag on a question&lt;/strong&gt;, are not allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, why should they exist? Also, isn't more useful if the tag instead of identify the symptoms try to identify the causes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag represents an abnormal state of (any) software, something that should not occur or that is not reproducible (unless it's a bug). A crash is simply a result of an error (in loose terms, a problem) and the cause/solution is relative to the technology at hand (meaning that other tags would be more relevant). Error represents another problem... either cause by the user or the program itself but it's more relevant to tag the question with the piece of software causing the error rather than just informing that I had an error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it in simple terms, let consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/app&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;app&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;app&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boot&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ruby&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ruby&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ruby&lt;/a&gt; application &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/php&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;php&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; each time I execute X &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now lets say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/app&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;app&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;app&lt;/a&gt; throws &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt; throws &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boot&lt;/a&gt; throws &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; throws &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ruby&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ruby&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ruby&lt;/a&gt; application throws &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; each time I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/php&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;php&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;php&lt;/a&gt; throws &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; of syntax each time I execute X &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each permutation tells that it vaguely describe the problem but I could already find that in the question body/title itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, most of SE sites are trying to get rid of those tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask Ubuntu (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/6894/169736&quot;&gt;both crash and error&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/6184/235569&quot;&gt;got rid of a similar tag&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/95513/213575&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T16:53:52.963" Title="Error and crash tags, are they really useful?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2702" CreationDate="2014-01-31T19:25:41.450" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand where you're coming from, this kind of edit can seem aggressive and impolite. In the defense of this particular user, it is true that on this site we tend to try and make answers as general and applicable to as many *nix flavors as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific edit in question changed this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;find . -maxdepth 1 -exec grep foo {} \;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;find . ! -name . -prune -type f -exec grep /dev/null foo {} +&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the user in question modified your answer to make it work on systems whose &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; implementation does not have the &lt;code&gt;-mindepth&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;-maxdepth&lt;/code&gt; parameters. This makes the answer more portable and applicable to a wider range of systems. Granted the syntax is a bit more esoteric and it would have been better had the user actually included an explanation of what the new command does and how it works. I agree that without an explanation, such a radical edit is a bit too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other edits were clearer, there is no reason to use &lt;code&gt;\;&lt;/code&gt; to end the &lt;code&gt;-exec&lt;/code&gt; command, ending it with &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; will make &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; minimize the number of separate commands it will run. From &lt;code&gt;man find&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   -exec command {} +&#xA;          This  variant  of the -exec action runs the specified command on&#xA;          the selected files, but the command line is built  by  appending&#xA;          each  selected file name at the end; the total number of invoca‐&#xA;          tions of the command will  be  much  less  than  the  number  of&#xA;          matched  files.   The command line is built in much the same way&#xA;          that xargs builds its command lines.  Only one instance of  `{}'&#xA;          is  allowed  within the command.  The command is executed in the&#xA;          starting directory.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases actually, &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; will be preferred over &lt;code&gt;\;&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding the &lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt; ensures that the name of the matching file is always shown. This is because when &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; is given more than a single file name, it will print the file name as well as the matching line for each match. Without it, and with the original version of your answer, you would only get the matching line with no indication of which file actually matched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the edit actually &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; improve your answer by the standards of this site. It made it more portable which is generally to be preferred and it made it both faster and lighter on the system because of using &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt;. Most importantly, it made it output the matched files, without which your original answer was incomplete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while I can see why this bothered you and your reaction is perfectly reasonable and while you have every right to rollback to the original version, I would recommend you use at least some of the tricks shown in the edit to improve your answer.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing, because the regulars of this site are very used to this user's edits and long experience has taught us that they always improve our answers, we are not bothered even by such radical changes. I admit that more than once I've had to delve into the man pages to understand why in the world a particular edit was made but there was a valid reason every time. Also, we have established that none of the regulars mind radical edits as long as they improve the answer. Most of us have stated so at one time or another. This means that there is more active editing going on here than on many other SE sites and this can be off-putting if you're not used to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, however, that your case demonstrates that we might be overdoing it a bit. Perhaps in the future we should make an effort to always add a detailed explanation to our edits, both for the benefit of the OP and for everyone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-02-01T14:39:51.383" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T14:39:51.383" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2649" CreationDate="2014-01-31T19:57:53.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sent a message to the six writers on your list who are still active on SE (including you). You should have it in your SE inbox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T19:57:53.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4738" CreationDate="2014-02-01T15:35:50.903" Score="40" ViewCount="2220" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few of us were talking about this the other day in chat, as we are now quite a bit larger and with several thousand Q&amp;amp;As, there are certain questions that are asked very often. Things like redirecting output, process substitution, batch renaming of files, fixing/reinstalling grub, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's compile a list of the best/most complete answers to such common questions here, and then we can always close new questions as duplicates of those. That way, we can have a single, canonical answer to these things which we can edit and make as good as we can and avoid having the dupes pointing at each other all over the place. The inspiration comes from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/3053/what-are-common-canonical-questions-for-our-site&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; meta AU question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, I would like to see an answer below that collects as many as possible. I will make a start but please edit to add more. As part of this initiative, we should also consider asking such questions and answering them ourselves. For example, I just read &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/q/709913/151431&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question over on SU, having that kind of thing here seems like a very good idea (not specifically for hardware, although that would be useful, but that type of canonical question&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the idea would be to hash it out here, and once we have a decent list, make a meta Q&amp;amp;A like the ones above, listing them. Then, we make sure to close as dupes of the canonical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Please vote for the answers below, upvote them if you consider the suggested Q&amp;amp;A to be a good candidate for the canonical one and downvote them if you don't. Upvoting the question itself is nice but less useful.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; I made a start here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/112023&quot;&gt;How can I replace a string in a file(s)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T18:15:41.360" Title="Let's compile a list of canonical Q&amp;As" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="33" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T15:51:32.663" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Redirecting output&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/111355/22222&quot;&gt;How to redirect the output of any command?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T16:17:25.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T16:00:46.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Searching and replacing strings in files.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a fair number of questions asked about this with variations, and it would be good if there was a meta answer pointing to the different variations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/60485/4671%5D&quot;&gt;Search and replacing a string on specific file extensions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/70878/4671&quot;&gt;Replacing string based on line number&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/34679/4671&quot;&gt;Recursively replace string in files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/73682/4671&quot;&gt;Search and replace full line in recursive files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Putative general Q&amp;amp;A:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/112023&quot;&gt;How can I replace a string in a file(s)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T10:32:39.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T16:15:29.230" Score="6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Search for files satisfying a specific criterion. E.g. file type.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/60205/4671&quot;&gt;locate vs find: usage, pros and cons of each other&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/108402/4671&quot;&gt;Locating files and displaying their owner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/63151/4671&quot;&gt;How to find inode number using “find” command?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/8750/4671&quot;&gt;Getting all files that have been modified on a specific date&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/19056/4671&quot;&gt;List all files containing a specific string&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/17805/4671&quot;&gt;Script to find files with a specific extension but NOT containing specific text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/106436/4671&quot;&gt;How to search for video files on Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/55563/4671&quot;&gt;Checking if a file exists in several directories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/87508/4671&quot;&gt;Find and move directories based on file type and date&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/22674/4671&quot;&gt;Shell script for moving oldest files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:48:37.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T16:17:46.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Installing/Reinstalling/Fixing grub&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/109464/22222&quot;&gt;How can I fix/install/reinstall grub?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just edited my answer to make it more generic but it might be a good idea to modify the title if we're going to use this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T17:29:32.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T17:12:10.873" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Batch renaming of files&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/1136/22222&quot;&gt;Batch renaming files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T17:40:33.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T17:14:58.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Determining the path of an executable&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/85249/22222&quot;&gt;Why not use &amp;quot;which&amp;quot;? What to use then?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T08:00:20.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T17:15:59.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Arithmetic calculations in the shell&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/40786/22222&quot;&gt;How to do integer &amp;amp; float calculations, in bash or other languages/frameworks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T17:40:16.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T19:24:56.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How do I monitor my server?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@slm's answer on this question is very good and inclusive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/75051/22222&quot;&gt;Commands for determining level of usage of server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T19:24:56.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-02-01T21:06:17.240" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Linux-based systems since '05, I think Ubuntu 5.04 was my first. I remember having it delivered &lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3aUbuntu_5.04-x86.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;via Shipit on CDs&lt;/a&gt; since at the time I used dial-up internet. It wasn't much, but it saved me when Windows broke the day before I needed to print a large homework assignment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I eventually dumped Windows when I realized I didn't really need it and that my occasional needs were satisfied by running it in a virtual machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then I have moved to other distros, but I mostly use Debian and Arch Linux and have other systems in virtual machines. Unfortunately those days I don't really have much time to tinker with stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My background is in electrical/electronics engineering, mostly as an embedded developer (not on embedded Linux, sadly, I keep myself to small microcontrollers) and doing some signal processing work on the side (mostly MATLAB, but moving to Python).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I frequent this site since I find its quality to be quite high both in terms of questions and answers: bad questions/answers tend to be eliminated through downvotes and duplicates get closed, unlike quite a few Linux/UNIX forums where the same questions are repeated many times and often get low-quality answers. I found this site when I asked something on Stack Overflow, saw a link to here and got interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other SE site I visit often is electronics.stackexchange, but mostly as a reader since my skills in electronics aren't as good as the skills of other people there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that's it for now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15630" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T21:06:17.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-01T21:26:43.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Using packages from more recent versions of a OS on earlier versions of that OS.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is probably most relevant on binary-based OSs like Debian/Fedora, and less relevant for source-based OSs like Gentoo/FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, one could give some hints about backporting, perhaps? For Debian, talk about backports, for ubuntu, PPAs, and so forth. This discussion should probably be restricted to official repositories, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted this here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/112157/4671&quot;&gt;How can I install packages from a more recent version of my OS than the one I am running?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T17:56:03.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-02-02T04:30:47.120" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using UNIX since 1993 and Linux since June 19, 1995.  I was a hardcore Linux user and a prosperous dot-com worker during the late 1990s tech boom.  When the dot-com party ended, I went to Mexico to learn Spanish, came back to the US to get my degree, and then lived in Mexico for a few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was just before the dot-com party ended when I started writing my big open source program: &lt;a href=&quot;http://maradns.samiam.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MaraDNS&lt;/a&gt;.  During this time, I let go of my Linux fanaticism while in Mexico and started dual-booting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I was getting married, I realized I could not support myself developing open source, so I finished up my open source project (which I still maintain) and am now seeing how I can best monetize my years of Linux and UNIX scripting and development experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am here because of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://samiam.org/blog/2014-01-01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New Year's resolution&lt;/a&gt; I made to only be part of online communities which can help me be more prosperous; I answer here because I enjoy being here and to show to potential employers how skilled I am in Linux and other UNIX clones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58180" LastEditorUserId="58180" LastEditDate="2014-02-02T06:34:02.727" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T06:34:02.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-02-02T05:36:39.110" Score="51" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Who am I (currently)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a computer engineer who's worked professionally first in electronic design (primarily as a design automation engineer for ~10+ years), followed by a stint in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DevOps&lt;/a&gt; for 5+ years. I'm currently a Software Engineer working on web technologies, still wearing many hats as DevOps &amp;amp; software development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My past - phase 1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I grew up with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tandy TRS-80&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;color computer&lt;/a&gt;), which initially came with 16K RAM, which we had upgraded to 64K (if my memory serves me correctly). Here's a picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                                       &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iYPzB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;ss of coco&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Release date:       1980&#xA;Introductory price: 399 USD&#xA;Operating system:   Color BASIC 1.0 / 2.0 / OS-9&#xA;CPU:                Motorola 6809E @ 0.895 MHz / 1.79 MHz&#xA;Memory:             4 kB / 16 kB / 32 kB / 64 kB / 128 kB / 512 kB&#xA;Graphics:           MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This computer carried me for a long time. I used it to play games, write BASIC programs and even got into telecommunications with it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the main screen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                                    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UtZ8K.png&quot; alt=&quot;the screen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had a cassette tape for storing programs, (&lt;code&gt;CLOAD&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;CSAVE&lt;/code&gt;) were the commands. In 7th grade I saved enough of my own money to get a modem (300 BAUD), you had to dial phone numbers by hand and then press a red button to connect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cassette &amp;amp; modem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                                  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZpLw.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss of cassette&quot; /&gt;          &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LhY7m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;300 bps modem&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My past - phase 2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the summer between 4th and 5th grade (9-10 years old) I got the chance to do 1 week's worth of computer programming on an Apple IIe. After that week I was hooked. I begged my mom to sign me up for another more in depth second week where we wrote little guessing game programs and a State Captiols game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of 5th grade I was the only kid that knew anything about our Apple IIe that we had in class, so I got tasked with showing everyone else how to use it, loading games etc. Our teacher would let me stay after to use it, and I did regularly. Our school also got a teletype machine, which was my first exposure to telecommunications, which ultimately drove me to wanting to get my own modem and exploring that world more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teletype machine (similar to this one)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                                         &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v0yYm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;telewriter&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My past - phase 3&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was in the 10th grade (14-15 yrs.) I got an actual PC (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Intel 8088&lt;/a&gt; - I think). It had a cool &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;turbo button&lt;/a&gt; so it could run at ~5MHz. I don't know what other specs this system had, it ran some version of MS-DOS (3.3?), since I didn't really know much about such things at that time. I was the only tech type in my family, no one else was into such things, and so I really only had myself to extend my knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amazingly the libraries in my city would allow you to check out software. So you could &amp;quot;check out&amp;quot; games, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Print_Shop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Print Shop Pro&lt;/a&gt;, in addition to productivity applications so I did!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point I purchased a 2400 Baud modem and started using that with this system as well, again getting into the whole BBS thing that was popular at the time. I'd use &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_%28protocol%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kermit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMODEM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;XMODEM&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMODEM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;YMODEM&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ZMODEM&lt;/a&gt;, as well as my beloved &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Telix&lt;/a&gt; to connect and upload and download shareware &amp;amp; chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jc7ay.png&quot; alt=&quot;telix&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6qKu.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss of BBS&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ultimately was the computer that I took to college. I was one of the few people that had a computer in their dorm room when I went. I had a 24 bit dot matrix printer for it too. I think it was me an 1 other computer guy, so I'd use it to explore &lt;a href=&quot;http://courses.cs.vt.edu/%7Ecs1604/notes/chap6/bitnetnodes.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;my college's VAX/VMS (Release 4 or 5)&lt;/a&gt;. It was also at this time I got exposed to online gaming (&lt;a href=&quot;http://mud.wikia.com/wiki/VAXMUD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;VAXMUD&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gaming was fun but never really held my attention. I was much more enthralled with the computer system itself, so I purchased a VAX/VMS book and began learning the command line interface, as well as, interacting with other users within the system using the built-in chat functions. Yes believe it or not instance messaging was available back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My past - phase 4&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After my first year I transferred to another university where I was exposed to assembly level programming as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zilog Z80 micro processor&lt;/a&gt;. Writing in assembly was probably my favorite activity. We'd create banking applications and write various programs and I absolutely loved writing at that level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; We used &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Macro_Assembler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;MASM&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_%28command%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;debug&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/debug/debug.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(manual)&lt;/a&gt; which used to be included with MS-DOS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My past - phase 5&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I eventually moved up to a Intel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;486DX2&lt;/a&gt; system that I saved up for and got MS-DOS 5 and then 6.22 and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x#Windows_for_Workgroups_3.11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Windows For Workgroups (3.11)&lt;/a&gt;. I then got 2 systems, when I added a 486DX4 that I built myself, for the first time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point I started getting into networking and got my first Ethernet card (10MB 3COM 509). The reason I remember this is because back in the day these cards were &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Standard_Architecture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISA based&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                                               &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eeQzT.png&quot; alt=&quot;3COM 509&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You really had to want to make peripherals and addon cards work back then. So you had to play a lot of games with changing the memory addresses and interrupts (IRQs) assigned to your various devices, as well as your COM1, COM2, serial ports, and LPT1 ports. So consequently you got to know your systems &lt;em&gt;very well&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I eventually added a CDROM (1x) (you now how they're all 52x now - this was the first, a whopping 150 KiB/s!). This was also the time that I got the game &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Myst&lt;/a&gt;. Hands down the best game I've ever played!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                                                      &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OwgLv.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss of myst&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My past - phase 6&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a consequence of building my own computers I used to frequent a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ferretronix.com/tech/hobby.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;monthly computer fair (Peter Trapp)&lt;/a&gt; in our area to get parts and see what was new and interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;                                    &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KfDym.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KfDym.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss of show announcement&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well at one of these events there was a booth where they were either giving away or selling (can't remember) CD sets with something called Linux on them. This booth was a Red Hat booth, and I'd gotten a very early edition of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RHL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then graduated and started my professional career. One of the first things I purchased was a copy of RHL 4.1 (&lt;em&gt;Vanderbilt, kernel ver. 2.0.27&lt;/em&gt;). Once I got my hands on this I was always working to get rid of Windows in my personal computing environments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I started with servers. I used to have a dial on demand setup that would automatically dial via a 28KBps modem, then a 56KBps modem using a Linux box running &lt;a href=&quot;http://diald.sourceforge.net/FAQ/diald-faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;diald&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, any time someone would attempt to surface the internet. I then graduated to broadband and RHL 9. These early versions are when I completely dumped Windows and was using Linux exclusively day to day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Red Hat discontinued RHL, I was almost ready to jump to Debian, but then Fedora came out and then CentOS and I stayed. I toyed a bit with Gentoo, Mandrake, Ubuntu, and Debian, but I always came back to my RPM based distros. Many here will joke that I'm the Red Hat guy here, I wear that notoriety with honor!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently (2014) I finally jumped from Fedora 14 to 19, and I still haven't been disappointed. Things change, but all in all the bar has always been moving up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Areas of expertise&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a very diverse range of areas, in what I would consider having a &lt;strong&gt;deep&lt;/strong&gt; knowledge. These are in no particular order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Server technologies&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Samba (2,3, &amp;amp; 4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NIS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NFS (3 &amp;amp; 4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DNS (Bind 9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apache/Nginx&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oracle (9i, 10g, 11g)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MySQL/MariaDB (all versions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PosgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JBOSS/Jetty/Tomcat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GridEngine/Open Grid Scheduler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SLURM &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slurm.net/community/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link1&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://slurm.schedmd.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flexerasoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flex Licensing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elasticsearch &amp;amp; *beats&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Security/Auth&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kerberos&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SAML/Shibboleth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Hadoop&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zoo Keeper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HDFS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HBase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MapReduce&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yarn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Virtualization&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;KVM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VirtualBox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VMWare&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OpenVZ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;libvirtd&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;virt-manager&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vagrant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Docker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Openstack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AWS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RHEV/RHV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kubernetes/Openshift&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Protocols&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HTTP/HTTPS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SSL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Languages&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bash&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sed, awk, grep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java/JDK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Javascript&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ruby&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Markups&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Textile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Markdown&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XWiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HTML&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XML/XSL (including stylesheets)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://getbootstrap.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twitter Bootstrap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jekyllbootstrap.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jekyll Bootstrap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Diagnostics&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hardware issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Performance issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Networking issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usability issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Monitoring&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nagios&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wireshark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A whole slew of misc. tools such as: (ntop, htop, nethogs, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Desktops&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GNOME&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;OSes&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian - all versions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Solaris (6,7,8,9, &amp;amp; 10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows (Vista, Win7, 2008, 2008R2, Win10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why I'm here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't gotten this from reading my history, acquiring the knowledge of how various technologies work, was at times arduous. This has always bugged me because it consumed enormous amounts of my time in acquiring this knowledge, that once I had, was obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I liken myself to a lighthouse operator now, trying to help others avoid the &amp;quot;cliffs&amp;quot;, by hopefully guiding them through the &amp;quot;safe passage&amp;quot; while making mention of key landmarks on either side as they pass through. All I ask in return is that people in turn &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;pay it forward&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;!.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Compliments&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may seem like a dumb category but one day in the chat room @terdon paid me the highest compliment I think one could ever receive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The way I see it, Stephane is some kind of mythical, magical creature, Gilles is a wizard and slm is a human paladin.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-models-model1.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TRS-80 Computers: TRS-80 Model I Permalink: http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/model-i/ Page Attributes: NONE&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;old-computers.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/comm1.htm#term&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Free Software for DOS Communication &amp;amp; Internet – 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2020-08-07T02:49:39.083" LastActivityDate="2020-08-07T02:49:39.083" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-02T13:44:50.587" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Where's my disk space?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do du and df return different values?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We seem to generally close these Qs as dupes of this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/9612/22222&quot;&gt;Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/17510/22222&quot;&gt;`du -sh` reports different used size than `df -h`&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/45771/22222&quot;&gt;df vs. du: why so much difference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we close as dupes of this one instead, I feel the answers here are better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/13828/22222&quot;&gt;df says I have 20G more disk space used than du. Why?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: @Gilles has posted The answer, so let's use that one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/120311/22222&quot;&gt;Why are there so many different ways to measure disk usage?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:50:34.783" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1468" CreationDate="2014-02-02T16:58:55.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found a really cool usersript that does just that: it enables using &lt;kbd&gt;tab&lt;/kbd&gt; for indenting code in the SE editor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/3247/17253&quot;&gt;https://stackapps.com/q/3247/17253&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hitting &lt;kbd&gt;tab&lt;/kbd&gt; twice will double indent so you can easily use it to format code in lists. I've been using this for a few days and can't understand how I lived without it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:38.983" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T17:16:23.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-03T08:32:34.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;See the output/control of a running command in another terminal&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=reptyr&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=reptyr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T08:32:34.343" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-03T08:32:34.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-03T08:34:37.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How to stop an application from buffering&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=stdbuf&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=stdbuf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:49:09.933" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-03T08:34:37.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1112" CreationDate="2014-02-03T17:05:33.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't repro: tagging with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/regex&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;regex&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;regex&lt;/a&gt; now automatically retags with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/regular-expression&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;regular-expression&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;regular-expression&lt;/a&gt; (singular). &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/regular-expressions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;regular-expressions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;regular-expressions&lt;/a&gt; is an unused tag (a part from one test I made that will go away very soon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6869" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T17:05:33.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-04T19:43:55.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Where should I set environment variables?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/alternative-to-bashrc/&quot;&gt;Is there a &amp;quot;.bashrc&amp;quot; equivalent file read by all shells?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T16:57:30.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2676" CreationDate="2014-02-05T06:20:25.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a related issue, here is an example of me politely telling a user to STFW (Search The Fine Web, the 21st version of RTFM):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/113538/oracle-ora-01089-immediate-shutdown-in-progress-no-operations-are-permitted/113552?noredirect=1#comment175769_113552&quot;&gt;Oracle: ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I normally don't do STFW answers, but I did one here because the question was a little unclear, so I answered the question with a tutorial on how to &lt;code&gt;SIGKILL&lt;/code&gt; processes until the person explained his problem was different (editing the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point where a lot of technical people can be, in my opinion, rude, is when they say a working solution is &quot;incorrect&quot; or &quot;wrong&quot;.  I think it is far better to say &quot;I would not do something that way because XXX&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, let us suppose was complaining that processes were not terminating via the &lt;code&gt;kill&lt;/code&gt; command, and someone tells them to &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; run kill as &lt;code&gt;kill -9&lt;/code&gt;.  Instead of saying, in a comment, &quot;That is wrong.  Always try to TERM a process before giving it a KILL signal&quot;, I would instead say &quot;That is not how I would do it.  If I send a KILL signal to a process, the process will have no opportunity to save its data before terminating.  I prefer to send a TERM first, and only a KILL if a hung process ignores TERM signals.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If topic drift is not allowed in meta, go ahead delete this &quot;answer&quot; and I will convert its contents in to a new &quot;question&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T06:20:25.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2705" CreationDate="2014-02-06T21:34:35.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since no one has answered and others have also upvoted, I may as well post an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, I don't think these tags are in any way useful, they don't impart any information and seem to add complexity rather than clarity. So, let's burninate them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vbLqH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update 2016-06-10&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; tag has now been blacklisted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bn6oD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bn6oD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T16:53:52.963" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-06T21:58:44.907" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a quick note to say that (using Chromium 31.0.1650.57) the &lt;code&gt;a:hover { border-bottom: ...; }&lt;/code&gt; attribute on the items in the Related list shown when viewing any question pushes all links below the &lt;code&gt;:hover&lt;/code&gt;ed item down by 1 pixel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This appears to occur on this Meta site too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save 50ms of thinking - this is fixed by adding &lt;code&gt;a { border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; }&lt;/code&gt; (or similar, like &lt;code&gt;padding-bottom: 1px&lt;/code&gt;). :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57627" LastEditorUserId="241388" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T06:33:22.877" LastActivityDate="2017-09-17T07:38:18.190" Title=":hover { border-bottom } on &quot;Related&quot; list in questions causes list to &quot;jitter&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|css|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-09T07:45:14.343" Score="8" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reviewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/114311/33055&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; where the OP answered their own Q. And although the actual actions were not clear to me they might be to someone else¹.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I noticed is that just 5 days ago someone commented on the original question about having the same problem. But AFAIK that person never gets notified of the now existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/53580/186664&quot;&gt;Starring as favourite&lt;/a&gt; does not seem to do that (yet)². Regularly having to come back as an interested party, while there might not even be a new answer is something few people would do on a regular basis. And expecting the OP or the person providing the answer to go over the comments specifying &quot;I have that problem to&quot; does not really seem a reasonable solution either, and I would hate to see comments like this spawn because it is the only way (to hope for) a notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from actually commenting on the comment and @usernaming the commenter and hoping someone will comment back once there is an answer, is there currently a way for him/her to get an automated notification about new answers on questions that the are interested in? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;I did ask for more details.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;² &lt;sub&gt;And from the zero favored this Q count I can see the commenter did not use that option anyway.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T07:45:14.343" Title="Getting notified of new answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-09T15:15:15.480" Score="5" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the canned messages for closing a question reads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. &lt;strong&gt;As it's currently written&lt;/strong&gt;, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no subject to which the &lt;em&gt;it's&lt;/em&gt; refers. As &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; is currently written? While it's true that there is not much room for misunderstanding, it is inelegant and, strictly speaking, ungrammatical. Could we please change that to something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what &lt;strong&gt;your post&lt;/strong&gt; is asking. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this is not that important but it bugs the grammar Nazi in me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="32138" LastEditDate="2014-02-10T11:17:41.947" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T11:17:41.947" Title="Grammatical error (inelegance at the very least) in a close reason" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-09T19:26:34.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Handling filenames with space and unusual characters&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So many answers can be simplified and easier understood, when these edge cases are omitted. So the question &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters&quot;&gt;Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; provides a canonical method to handle filenames with uncommon characters. &lt;code&gt;#()%^*space* *newline* [];'@:&amp;lt;&amp;gt;,&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Filenames to test your shell script against&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/347484/117549&quot;&gt;How can I test my shell script&amp;#39;s file-handling robustness?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31760" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-06-04T20:01:00.803" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T20:01:00.803" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-09T19:26:34.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-02-10T04:12:12.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mw3x8.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Ubuntu: Linux for human beings&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49277" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T04:12:12.213" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-10T04:12:12.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-02-10T04:13:50.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qZhMn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Linux Mint: from freedom freedom came elegance&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49277" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T04:13:50.677" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-10T04:13:50.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-11T17:55:17.160" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that several times recently, just now with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/114715/i-cant-figure-out-what-action-makes-hidden-files-bashrc-etc-show-up-and-ac&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I start a comment and want to address the OP. I write &quot;@&quot; and start typing the name but the autocompletion doesn't appear. Even worse: I write it manually and after sending the comment that part is erased. The user account still exists, though. I do not remember the other questions (or addressed users), though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-02-14T00:02:22.447" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T14:08:05.470" Title="@ user addressing in comments doesn't work sometimes" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2737" CreationDate="2014-02-11T19:09:36.070" Score="1" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The situation is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A bounty is set for 50pts by non-OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The funding party contributes an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bounty is awarded&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you read &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To avoid overly promotional bounties, if you are offering a bounty on&#xA;a question that you have already posted an answer to, your minimum&#xA;spend is 100 reputation (not 50).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Additionally, if you offer multiple bounties on the same question,&#xA;the minimum spend doubles with each subsequent bounty (50 reputation&#xA;on the first bounty, 100 reputation on the second, 200 on the third,&#xA;and so on).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a bounty is set again on the same question, will the cost be 100 or 200? In other words are those somehow cumulative? And does &lt;em&gt;multiple bounties&lt;/em&gt; refer to them being at the same time in any way i.e. would the result be different here if the second bounty had been started when the first one was still up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44370" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T19:16:27.330" Title="Second bounty to Q when funding party has provided an answer: are the conditions cumulative?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2014-02-11T19:09:36.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the answer is that in the situation described, the restrictions don't add up, and the cost would be &lt;code&gt;100 points&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44370" LastEditorDisplayName="user44370" LastEditDate="2014-02-11T19:16:27.330" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T19:16:27.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-02-11T22:10:31.250" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L05Np.png&quot; alt=&quot;systemd&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23373" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T22:10:31.250" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-02-11T22:10:31.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-12T11:00:52.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How does perl regexp and bash pattern work ?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would need a basic description of different specific symbols and would need to explain the differences between the two - mode pattern vs perl regexp. This question could be linked with tag related to perl/sed/string replacement...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That's one of the most important things to master as it is used in almost any command line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T13:49:56.907" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:49:56.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-14T14:22:02.463" Score="-4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;h2&gt;To organize the work I propose to do one letter by answer (eventually regourping letter with one or two occurences of tag)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;When I want to tag some question I often fall on tag without description and this can be very annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resolution&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resolution&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resolution&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA; resolution of what problem ? screen ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;or even worth &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/size&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;size&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;size&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA; you can have a size for everything, and as much as size matters tagging correctly question also matters&#xA;It isn't possible to force people who create new tags to add a definition even small because obviously there is some serious issue with some. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a campaign of definition and (eventually) suppression could be launch to solve some tagging issues ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I also find &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/group&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;group&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;group&lt;/a&gt; once at least assiociated with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm&lt;/a&gt;  and  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/string&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;string&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;string&lt;/a&gt; what is the point of tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/string&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;string&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;string&lt;/a&gt; when there is already text processing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vi&lt;/a&gt; tags... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Finally watch the 12 last tag created:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vLOZq.png&quot; alt=&quot;12 last created tag snapshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only 3 description, and one tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/advanced&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;advanced&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;advanced&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;What does that mean ? is it a tool ? a software ? or just an &lt;em&gt;advanced question&lt;/em&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="14084" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T19:54:03.637" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T20:19:55.500" Title="How can we organize some tag cleaning?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2745" CreationDate="2014-02-14T15:40:10.927" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;today I face this page: &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XuxDE.png&quot; alt=&quot;tag search features tab bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look carefully you will not see the featured question tab on this screen, and it just make me click back and reclick on the link I used and same error...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step to reproduce :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on Unix &amp;amp; Linux logo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;select &lt;code&gt;featured&lt;/code&gt; questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click on &lt;code&gt;/tags&lt;/code&gt;link to see the list of tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click on almost any tag (one for which there is no features question )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;see the strange screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing to bad but still not really consistent with the rest of the website experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="32138" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T13:38:10.063" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T14:46:24.037" Title="Bug with tag selection when featured question selected" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2741" CreationDate="2014-02-17T14:59:07.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Letter A&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No defintion (and often not used more than 2 or three time)&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ack&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ack&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ack&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;definition added&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audacious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audacious&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audacious&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;definition added&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aufs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aufs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aufs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;definition added&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auditd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auditd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auditd&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;definition added&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ansible&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ansible&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ansible&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;definition added&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aspell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aspell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aspell&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;definition added&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anaconda&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;Excerpt added&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/application&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;application&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;application&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;is about to be deleted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asp.net&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asp.net&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asp.net&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/async&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;async&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;async&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;em&gt;async should be either deleted or really precisely define because lots of thing can be asynchronous&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autocmd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autocmd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autocmd&lt;/a&gt; Suggested: &lt;em&gt;Automated action extension of VIM&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ati&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ati&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ati&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/atime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;atime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;atime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/atom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;atom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;atom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auto-complete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auto-complete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auto-complete&lt;/a&gt; which is synonym of autocomplete synonym of autocompletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autoconf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autoconf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autoconf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autoreconf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autoreconf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autoreconf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autocorrection&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autocorrection&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autocorrection&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/automake&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;automake&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;automake&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autojump&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autojump&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autojump&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autologin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autologin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autologin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt-get&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt-get&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt-get&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/array&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;array&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;array&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arithmetic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arithmetic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arithmetic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/archive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;archive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;archive&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ansi-term&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ansi-term&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ansi-term&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autorepeat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autorepeat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autorepeat&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autoplay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autoplay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autoplay&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avconv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avconv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avconv&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/axel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;axel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;axel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/android-terminal-emulator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;android-terminal-emulator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;android-terminal-emulator&lt;/a&gt; (obvious thought)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;very strange&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/administration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;administration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;administration&lt;/a&gt; most of post talks about admin issue or user issue this tag is too brood  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/advanced&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;advanced&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;advanced&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/akwextlib&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;akwextlib&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;akwextlib&lt;/a&gt; What ?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-screen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amusements&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amusements&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amusements&lt;/a&gt; it speaks for itself  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/access-point&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;access-point&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;access-point&lt;/a&gt; access point to what and how ? is it that important ?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accounts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accounts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accounts&lt;/a&gt; there is already a tag &lt;code&gt;/users&lt;/code&gt; more documented  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/appearance&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;appearance&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;appearance&lt;/a&gt; Why not but what does it mean ?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authorization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authorization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;authorization&lt;/a&gt; It seems really unclear in my here as you can set up an authorization for pretty much everything  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/art&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;art&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;art&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;feel free to complete the list&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="53092" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T15:48:09.573" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T15:48:09.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-18T13:29:36.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How can I install a custom kernel?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/115620/22222&quot;&gt;Configuring, compiling and installing a custom Linux kernel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Extra text added to stop the system from converting &quot;trivial&quot; answers to comments]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:51:44.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2742" CreationDate="2014-02-18T13:39:25.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This view is for featured questions with the wanted tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are none, this is what you see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a recent change to the phrasing on the sidebar, just under the number of questions (0) - it now says: &lt;code&gt;0 featured questions tagged &amp;lt;tag name&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32138" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T13:39:25.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T17:26:42.013" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens occasionally where someone will mark an answer I've provided as accepted but then unaccept it within the span of today. I find it a bit annoying because I'll see my rep at one point during the day and then notice a -15 (in the overall total, not as a line item) but there is no record of what happened on the reputation for today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway I can find out which answer this has occurred on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-02-20T17:36:12.520" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T17:56:06.260" Title="Any way to see what accepted answer was unaccepted?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2746" CreationDate="2014-02-20T17:56:06.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could grab &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; routinely and diff it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T17:56:06.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T19:58:31.637" Score="12" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found myself again in the situation that led up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2540/33055&quot;&gt;this question on this meta site&lt;/a&gt; asking why a suggested edit was rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several edits by the same person, some too minor, some bordering on the minor and others just half hearted: a few words changed to the correct way of writing  (e.g. wifi -&gt; Wi-Fi), but &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;done inconsistently by not changing all occurrences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not changing ungrammatical sentences missing words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently there seems to be little beyond rejecting or improving and unchecking that the edit was helpful to leave feedback. And I am not even sure if there is any feedback of that to the &quot;suggested editors&quot;. Is there something I can do to let those editors know what they need to improve on the edits (beyond hoping that they look at what I did if I improve and uncheck), to make their edits acceptable for my standards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested edit that finally triggered this particular question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/39381&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/39381&lt;/a&gt;, but there were a few in a row that where IMHO not so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one of these minor edits that I improved was on a closed Q, thereby triggering it, unnecessarily in the reopen review process (I just noticed that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person in question would be active on chat, I would leave a message there, but the low rep users involved most often are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T03:07:58.663" Title="What is the best way to improve the edits made by a suggested editor" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-02-20T22:53:13.080" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have approved quite a few of that user's edits (some of which after additional editing myself); and I agree that many of them tend to be minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is contrary to the message displayed about not making minor edits: I see these as valid attempts to improve the site that are, from time to time, imperfectly executed and that the overall quality of the site benefits from having people willing to do this sort of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally, I think the stock response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;This edit is too minor; suggested edits should be substantive improvements addressing multiple issues in the post&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should not be regarded as particularly helpful. Capitalizing a single letter can be a valid edit as it&amp;mdash;albeit minimally&amp;mdash;advances the overall quality of the question or answer and contributes to the imporvement of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everyone followed the current dictum, small and annoying grammatical errors, typos and other errata would proliferate and the overall impression that people have of the site would be impacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Small, janitorial-type edits are just as important in the long term view as the big, sweeping rewrites and the laborious reformatting of mangled posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd much prefer us to actively encourage people to edit the wiki and collectively push the site to include high quality content that is well written and free of errors. Lots of small edits don't add much to the member's reputation, but they do benefit everyone that uses the site. I'm appreciative of that effort and want to support it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are always opportunities for others to review these edits and correct any errors or further improve upon them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T22:53:13.080" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2014-02-21T16:31:36.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a slightly different take on this than @jasonwryan's. I also rejected the specific edit in question as too minor. Basically, I feel that such minor edits are great from users with enough rep to make them directly but are not worth going through the edit queue as I feel they just produce unnecessary &quot;work&quot; for the high rep users who review the queues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, all edits that improve a post's quality are good for the site. However, tiny edits like changing &quot;wifi&quot; to &quot;Wi-Fi&quot; do not really add anything that useful to the post and just needlessly fill the review queue. The cynical &lt;del&gt;bastard&lt;/del&gt; person in me also sometimes thinks they are just cheap tricks to get easy rep. This is probably truer in the larger sites of the network than here but still, the thought occurs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also push old posts back to the first page or into the reopen queue. While this is also true for edits made by &gt;2k rep users, they tend to know how the site works better and would not edit a closed question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in all I feel that such minor edits are best left to the users who have the rep to do it directly and submitting them for review causes needless load on the system. On sites where I don't have the rep for example, I have often left a comment to the OP pointing out the typo so they can fix it themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, edits that actually correct spelling or grammar mistakes I would approve as I don't think they are ever &quot;minor&quot;, corrections of SuSe to SUSE or wifi to Wi-Fi and the like I tend to reject as too minor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-02-22T03:07:58.663" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T03:07:58.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-22T13:50:45.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How can I recursively delete files/directories matching a given pattern?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed canonical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/23576/22222&quot;&gt;How do I recursively delete directories with wildcard?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T15:40:15.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-23T17:48:05.197" Score="8" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took me a year of membership and 9000 points rep to learn that you are notified about new answers if you make a question a favorite. And I learnt it just by chance: Someone mentioned that in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure that is explained somewhere. I didn't look that up now because it doesn't have any effect on my history here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest modifying the fly-over help for the favorite button. It should not just tell that this make the question a favorite but that you are notified about new answers. I consider that an easy and probably effective change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-02-23T17:48:05.197" Title="show the effect of favorite questions more effectively" Tags="|feature-request|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3165" CreationDate="2014-02-23T22:13:14.617" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot let go of the impression that scoring reputation on Unix &amp;amp; Linux is harder than on many other StackExchange sites (tex.se to name one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just my subjective impression or is there some truth to this feeling?&#xA;Could it be that certain actions are scored less than on other sites? Is this site &quot;rigged&quot; by moderators to give less reputation per action or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39845" LastEditorUserId="39845" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T09:07:03.337" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T12:17:36.410" Title="Is it harder to score reputation on unix.se than on other StackExchange sites?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2014-02-23T23:39:52.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's any harder or easier than any other SE site. I frequent AU, SU, SF and it seems about the same. It's really a matter of putting time in to do research and attempt to answer the Q's. That's all I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-02-23T23:39:52.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2014-02-24T00:59:01.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different SE communities vote differently. I find it harder to gain reputation on Stack Overflow than here for example. It's even easier in Ask Ubuntu, and easier still on main SE meta. It feels harder on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These experiences may be unique to me of course (I haven't done any measurements), but I am pretty sure the voting patterns are different between individual SE communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T11:39:25.533" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T11:39:25.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2014-02-24T08:52:36.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get the same rep changes by the same actions here as on other sites. &#xA;You can compare the help for the rep gains in on the various sites for that&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;unix&amp;amp;linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;tex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; people vote is in my experience quite different between the various sites, and that might give the impression that U&amp;amp;L is more difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially on newer sites like tex.se, and ebooks.se I noticed that you will more easily get a few up votes for an answer. Even when others answers are available. This might be because existing users are more concerned about people coming back there and thus want to encourage (I don't think that is a long term good strategy, but that is another discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can also be that, due to the topic, a site will have less (often) diverse good answers, that gives you less of a chance to gain rep if you answer with a working, but non-optimal answer. E.g. you give an answer here on U&amp;amp;L using &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; and then &lt;strike&gt;Gilles, Stephane or slm&lt;/strike&gt; someone comes with a better answer using &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;ksh&lt;/code&gt; only. Those simpler/better answers tend to get more up votes is my impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What certainly can be different between sites, is what levels of reputation gains you which  privileges. E.g. on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;U&amp;amp;L&lt;/a&gt; you get access to the moderator tools at 10K, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;ebooks&lt;/a&gt; this is at 2K. I lost some reviewing/voting privileges on tex.se at some point. I don't know whether that was because those rep levels were adjusted after getting out of Beta or enough users with higher rep were active. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T08:58:11.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2014-02-24T09:37:04.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of people who view an already answered question is important. The user numbers differ between the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember whether I had a similar impression on serverfault but here I am seldom satisfied with the voting I get. What I consider my best answers usually get few votes only (which does not mean that the community doesn't value the answer; it can simply mean that few people are interested in the question at all; and if you are not familiar with the subject then it's difficult to assess a complicated answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I recently got so many votes for an answer which was neither difficult nor comprehensive that I felt kind of embarrassed and did some research today in order to add some information to &quot;justify&quot; the voting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T09:37:04.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2014-02-25T11:50:22.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find that U&amp;amp;L is by far the easiest place to get rep. I'm active (as in &gt;2k) on Super User, English, Biology and regularly visit Ubuntu and SciFi. Of these, I find that people are much more generous with their upvotes here. For example, I went from 5k to 20k in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/1086299/terdon?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;about 4 months&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The differences you see depend on three main things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The number of users. Of course, since this is a smaller site than tex.se or SO, we get fewer views per post and, by extension, fewer possible votes. The flip side of this is that the regulars tend to read all questions at least once while on the big sites they get buried very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What constitutes a good answer for each community. We like long comprehensive answers here. We like platform agnostic ones; we like general and portable solutions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What kind of questions do we like? This community really gets off on obscure shell trickery and elegant one liners. It tends to be a (friendly) competition to out-geek each other. Other categories of question often get less love. We don't tend to be all that interested in GUI stuff for example (perfectly on-topic mind you). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, in your case, you have only posted 8 answers, how much rep do you want ;) ? Of those 8, 6 have not been upvoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of these is your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/116665/22222&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to your own post which you chose not to accept, you have no one to blame but yourself for that. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/106795/22222&quot;&gt;really great&lt;/a&gt; and detailed answer which has been unfairly overlooked (I upvoted it). Probably because it was a question not many people found interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/80056/22222&quot;&gt;not an answer&lt;/a&gt; but a comment (I've flagged it).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/106780/22222&quot;&gt;Another&lt;/a&gt; does not really answer the question, it just discusses the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/96958/22222&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is reasonable enough, just hasn't gotten much attention (and half of it is just repeating an earlier answer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/80230/22222&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is a bad answer because you mention a script and don't show the actual script. You just link to it and that is something we &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8231/203101&quot;&gt;try to avoid&lt;/a&gt;. Next time, include the script in your answer and give the link as a reference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in all, once you get the hang on what kind of answer we like here you'll see that it is actually quite easy to get rep. I hope you'll stick around and do so!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T11:55:45.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-02-25T12:52:29.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Install 32bit packages on a 64bit system&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed canonical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/12956/22222&quot;&gt;How do I run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilles' answer is excellent and distro agnostic and warlock's answer mentions &lt;code&gt;multiarch&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:50:14.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-25T13:19:40.560" Score="8" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116508/adding-to-path-vs-linking-from-bin/116510&quot;&gt;Adding to path vs. linking from /bin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two differing answers that I, as a non-expert, have no real way to know which is more correct. I don't want to accept an incorrect answer because it might mislead future non-experts arriving at the same question. What do I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: According to the SE rules, the OP has the right to accept whatever answer he/she prefers, even if it is totally incorrect. But what if I, as the OP, do want to accept the most correct answer?   Maybe there should be a way for the OP, in case he doesn't know what to accept, to pass the acceptance decision to the community in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16569" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-09-28T20:50:54.283" Title="How do I know which answer to accept?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2761" CreationDate="2014-02-25T13:31:53.500" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should accept the one that you prefer. That's it. You're the OP, you get to choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, the answers do not contradict each other, they both give valid reasons why linking is not the best approach. You have chosen to accept the most comprehensive one. That seems very reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, the OP has the right to accept whatever she/he wants. It is a personal choice. I have seen actual wrong answers accepted by the OP and I have seen lower quality ones accepted despite a much better answer having been given. Sometimes, given two equivalent answers, you can choose the one whose author has the lower reputation, just to help him out (as long as both answers are equally good). It's completely up to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T13:31:53.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2741" CreationDate="2014-02-25T14:12:11.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Letter B&lt;/h1&gt;  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;no complete yet I will add the rest in a while&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt missing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt;  use for wallpaper and background task&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bandwidth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bandwidth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bandwidth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/base64&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;base64&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;base64&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basename&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;basename&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;basename&lt;/a&gt; I propose: &lt;em&gt;POSIX binary to get the basename of a path&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bc&lt;/a&gt; I propose: &lt;em&gt;An arbitrary precision calculator language&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/binary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;binary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;binary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bind10&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bind10&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bind10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/block&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;block&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;block&lt;/a&gt; imperative because use for 2 very different meaning  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/badblocks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;badblocks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;badblocks&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No problem&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bashrc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bashrc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bashrc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash-script&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backlight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backlight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backlight&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backspace&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bazaar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bazaar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bazaar&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bcache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bcache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bcache&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/benchmark&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;benchmark&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;benchmark&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bind&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bind&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bind&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/binfmt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;binfmt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;binfmt&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bioinformatics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bioinformatics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bioinformatics&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bios&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bios&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bios&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bittorrent&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bittorrent&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bittorrent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T14:12:11.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2761" CreationDate="2014-02-25T14:37:27.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes as one of the answerers, I thought it was incorrect of Jllarge to pressure you into (unaccepting my answer) vs. accepting his. Not from the perspective that mine was right or his was right but that as the OP it's your prerogative. You even said to him in comments on his answer why you chose mine vs. his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I would've said nothing, but I took personal issue with how the entire experience was for you as the OP and that Jlliarge had either intentionally or unintentionally persuaded you to accept his. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has issue with an answer they should take it up with the answerer, that's what comments are for. Neither of us are in a position where we can conclusively say that making a link in &lt;code&gt;/bin&lt;/code&gt; will work or not, we can only offer you up examples from past experiences of when this will/won't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my original answer, I stated this fairly broadly for this exact reason. As is the case with Unix, the system is very malleable and so can fit a variety of situations, typically leaving the exact implementation up to the practitioner. Hence your confusion in which approach to use 8-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case I answered your question from my 20+ years of experience working at a fortune 500 company supports 100's of engineers that ran 100's of engineering applications on 100's of computers (Windows, Linux, and Solaris).  I also worked the last 6+ years in the WWW end supporting a Fortune 500 website (B2C, B2B, etc.) that ran a variety of applications include Java based solutions using Tomcat, JBoss, Ant, and Maven. I'm doing the same things now too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm more than qualified to answer your question and I know a thing or to about the correct ways to install and manage applications. Not trying to toot my own horn, but just making a point as to why my answer tried to strike a balanced approach of giving you some of the perils but then providing you with practical solutions to your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would've let @Terdon's excellent answer sit but this behavior really rubbed me the wrong way and I felt compelled to say something about it when I saw you had asked this on Meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope your experience on U&amp;amp;L was still a positive one, we all try very hard to provide high quality answers to the OP's and most of us strive to push the best answers to the top, even at the cost of our own!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T14:41:04.003" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T14:41:04.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-02-26T16:21:34.907" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a curious geek that works in IT Systems and network security. &#xA;I started computing on Windows 3.1 when I was 5, then I switched to Windows 95, then Millenium, and  since then I have tried to find a way out of the Microsoft way of mind. Lots of time later I finally found Ubuntu, Centos and now AIX.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I have two university diploma in France (yes I'm French), and I have been actively working for one year now.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been around first on Stack Overflow because I was a developer, then I discovered the magic of sysadmin and network security, and so I quit the developer World.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I have at the moment one of the most boring jobs ever (working in a recycling factory during summer was more attractive) I try to learn and help the maximum number of persons on the system I like: Linux.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want my resume you can have it; it's not hard to find, and if you want to know me better, I'm not on any social network except the professional one and Stack Exchange, which I consider as one of the nicest invention since the sundial.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, thanks for reading, see you around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T16:26:42.677" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T16:26:42.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2767" CreationDate="2014-02-26T20:05:05.653" Score="2" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question that became very popular very quickly (1000 views in 1 day). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed on the home page that it is now highlighted in blue. What does the hi light mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aEAmp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39263" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T20:17:54.620" Title="Why are some questions hi lighted in blue?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2766" CreationDate="2014-02-26T20:17:54.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The highlight indicates you are following one of the tags that question has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53706" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T20:17:54.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2770" CreationDate="2014-02-27T14:29:39.527" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/117102/is-there-a-way-to-cat-files-as-they-are-created&quot;&gt;Is there a way to cat files as they are created?&lt;/a&gt; ) is marked as a duplicate, but I believe it differs significantly from the indicated question.  I've added what I think are redundant explanations as to why I think it is not a duplicate and why the other question didn't even surface as what I was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to the previous question has a link to inotify-tools that if I had translated &quot;hook to a specific file&quot; to mean &quot;monitor files as they are created&quot; I might have seen as the solution to my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question here is this:  Am I off--base in thinking my question is significantly different and not a duplicate?  I think I understand the similarities, but are implicit similarities the equivalent to exact duplicates that any potential user should realize?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or better yet, is there a way of improving searches so that the other question would at least show up in a search for &quot;do something with files as they are created&quot;?  My [duplicate] question is result number 4 for that search and the only one I see that is actually relevant to the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57008" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T00:07:27.870" Title="Trying to illustrate how my question differs from an existing one" Tags="|discussion|search|duplicate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2768" CreationDate="2014-02-27T16:44:48.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've frequented the SE sites enough the dups serve a very useful purpose, they are the alternative paths to a singular Q + A's. Jeff Atwood wisely realized this (if you listen to the SE podcasts) and knew that it was impossible to create a rigid structure that would take a questioner to their exact answer, so rather they (Jeff &amp;amp; Joel) opted to provide multiple mechanisms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sorting by votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed and dups questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FAQ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;chatrooms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these mechanisms are like the lines on a road, they're guides, but no single one will always guarantee you a success. So you have to a bit plastic when you're searching for answers to your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Here are some of my general tactics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rule #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're ever given an error message, search for that within the site. Also search for that error message against the site using Google (site:unix.stackexchange.com &quot;..error msgs&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rule #2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Play with the words that you're searching for. In your case you locked in on &quot;hook to a specific file&quot;.  That phrasing to me could be recast as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;watch a specific file&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;monitor a specific file&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;watch file&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;monitor file&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;track file&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rule #3&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pivot the searches. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a question where the OP and earlier answers either didn't bother or didn't think to pivot their searches. What do I mean by pivot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A search is a refinement. Often times it's best to cast a wide net and then &quot;pivot&quot; it on something completely unrelated, such as &quot;user:gilles&quot; or &quot;user:slm&quot; or &quot;user:22565&quot; &amp;lt;--- that's Stephane Chazelas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can also pivot them on other things such as only showing answers, only showing questions etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have more tricks but these basic ones will usually route out 90% of the related Q&amp;amp;A to a phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T16:44:48.293" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2768" CreationDate="2014-02-27T17:25:39.500" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw that the question was marked as a duplicate and was just about to post a similar question one here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, in my opinion, you are not off-base in thinking that your question is significantly different enough to not be a duplicate. I understand that in many cases where the best answer to a particular question basically boils down to &quot;use this tool&quot; and that there is value in directing all those questions to a single canonical question even if there is some semantic difference in the questions. In fact I myself flagged a question as a duplicate today because ultimately the most viable answer was &quot;use &lt;code&gt;auditd&lt;/code&gt;&quot; (for logging all commands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the other end of the spectrum there are various tools which are too complex for it to be helpful just to give a answer of &quot;use this tool, here are the basics&quot;. There are many examples of this. One which comes up at most, if not every day is usage of &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;. There are multiple ways to use this tool, yet many test processing questions (often specifically asking for a &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; solution) result in an answer using its replace feature. These are not marked as dupes, and I believe rightly so because this feature is sufficiently complicated that it is unhelpful to point them all to a single &quot;how can I replace text?&quot; question and disallow specific answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example mentioned by the OP is &lt;code&gt;rsync&lt;/code&gt;. There are many nuances to consider when crafting a script to backup files, even if it has already been decided to use a particular tool first. I think it is necessary to consider these questions carefully on their semantics rather than whether they contain &quot;rsync&quot; and &quot;backup&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While usage of &lt;code&gt;inotifywait&lt;/code&gt; is considerably less complicated than &lt;code&gt;rsync&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, I still think there is enough nuance in its usage to warrant different questions answers showing this. For one, the question was about monitoring a directory rather than a specific file. Also in that it required a continuous process rather than the one off process given in the chosen answer to the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I gave I think also adds value in showing &lt;code&gt;inotifywait&lt;/code&gt; usage and shell syntax that may not be obvious to a beginner looking to do the same thing. This would be not only irrelevant, but incorrect if used in an answer to the other question. I think the question should ultimately be left open for anyone who comes up with a better idea, as great as I think the answer is :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a wider perspective I think this highlights a flaw in the system. Every time someone flags the question as a duplicate, this is a vote to mark it as such. What the system lacks is any way to vote that you don't think this is the case (which would obviously have been my vote). Currently in borderline cases like this, whether or not the question is closed relates more to the volume of traffic it receives. If enough people visit it, then eventually enough will flag it as a duplicate even if the majority of people who look at the duplicate link don't think so. If people can vote both ways, then the result would better reflect the balance of opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also looking for similar questions to this, it probably wouldn't be unreasonable to mark this one as a dupe... some irony in that I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48083" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-02-28T00:07:27.870" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T00:07:27.870" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2772" CreationDate="2014-03-01T15:36:04.647" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking forward to my &lt;code&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/code&gt; (funny: not even my dictionary knows that word...) badge. It says: &quot;Edited 80 posts&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?page=2&amp;amp;tab=editors&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;users list&lt;/a&gt; says I have 100+. Is that limited to certain kinds of edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T16:23:10.673" Title="Where is my badge...? :-S" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2014-03-01T16:23:10.673" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a word, it's the authors of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Elements of Style&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides what slm said, the users page counts all edits. Strunk &amp;amp; White (and Copy Editor) don't count edits to your own posts or tag edits, and each post only counts once no matter how many times you edit it. If you go to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;review queue&lt;/a&gt; and hover over the progress bar, it will show your progress towards Copy Editor, so you can see how close you are to 80 edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-review-badge-progress.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-review-badge-progress.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T16:23:10.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-02T07:15:00.063" Score="0" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here on &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Unix&lt;/a&gt;, login is not as smooth as on other sites on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange network&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was on this question page : &#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-its-name&quot;&gt;unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1262/where-did-the-wheel-group-get-its-name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was there as guest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked on “log in”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First glitch : I had to enter my e-mail address and my password. Usually, they are shared from other Stack Exchange sites. But this is not a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I logged in successfully, and I landed on the Unix home page : &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The site had lost the question. This is a bug.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, on other Stack Exchange sites, login keeps the question page — which is the expected behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for fixing this, and keep up the good work !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50499" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T07:46:21.880" Title="Login loses the question page" Tags="|bug|questions|stackexchange|user-accounts|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2773" CreationDate="2014-03-02T07:46:21.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you just didn't wait long enough. In general when I go to a SE site where I'm not logged in but have an account, when I go to the login page and click on the box to input my openid login if I reload that page or if I wait a bit it will detect me and auto log me in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't 100% rock solid across all the various SE properties but in general works I'd say 9 out of 10 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T07:46:21.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2776" CreationDate="2014-03-02T13:58:21.403" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does this reputation change mean? It says &quot;user removed&quot; and fifteen points were removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BzAP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40770" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T14:57:32.990" Title="User Removed -15 Points" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-03-02T17:26:02.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2775" CreationDate="2014-03-02T14:52:26.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time we have users that are setting up account for nefarious purposes. These accounts will often not get noticed initially until they've had some time to use the account. They're typically trying to establish the account as legit so they'll often ask seemingly real questions and upvote other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When these accounts are discovered they're deleted. When this occurs the upvoting and accepting that they've done to the rest of the community gets unwound. This can be extremely annoying to the rest of us and is one of the primary tasks that I spend copious amounts of time trying to detect and route out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've recently been getting someone that has been attempting to perform suggested edits to existing  answers, and replacing the contents with SPAM. All I can suggest is to not try and let this deter you from participating in this community and to try and scrutinize questions and answers that you might come across, before editing or answering them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truth be told it's not something we can do a lot about, other then not let it deter us as we continue to build the best Unix &amp;amp; Linux site on the internet. It's just the cost of being a large and legitimate site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I've gotten a decent amount of those too 8-). Here are some tips when sizing up a question to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a new account check if the user has other SE accounts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See how old the account is and if any other SE accounts are older.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If possible search the username on Google.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take pieces of the question, and search for them on Google. Spammers are lazy and will often take full questions out of other forums verbatim and post them here as legit questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look for tells in the question. Often the punctuation and words used will be slightly &quot;off&quot;. You'll notice seemingly real questions phrased strangely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask us in the chatroom if you're unsure. Our biggest strength and advantage is our community, so use it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's in all our best interests and the site's to keep these jerks out of here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-03-02T14:57:32.990" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T14:57:32.990" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2778" CreationDate="2014-03-02T16:59:31.880" Score="7" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had my first look at the flag queue. And, of course, I want this tool not to lose any quality by my contribution. And now even the first post I am shown turns out to be difficult:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39033/linux-ubuntu-inode-limitation-on-a-500gb-hard-disk-can-you-explain-please/117725#117725&quot;&gt;Linux Ubuntu - inode limitation on a 500GB hard disk ? Can you explain please?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do understand why this has been flagged (which is not the same as agreeing...). The answer is so general that it is hardly useful. And it contains comment elements (&quot;I need more info&quot;). But the flag text says &quot;It does not even try to answer the question&quot; and that is clearly not the case here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that not deleting but the voting system is responsible for handling rather bad answers. But what is the community concensus on the case of doubt: Leave a low quaility answer (which has a suitable voting) or throw it away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T22:02:11.907" Title="flagging decisions: not an answer" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2777" CreationDate="2014-03-02T17:13:35.983" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I flagged that one as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;, since it is really a comment, and also voted to delete it. The post is not answering the question, it's just asking the OP for more information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no limit on the hard disk - the limit is set on the filesystem you've applied to it. &lt;strong&gt;In order for me to explain further you'll have to tell us what filesystem you're actually using.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has the filesystem reached its limit?&lt;/strong&gt; If so, try clearing your caches on disk first such as ~/.cache and /tmp and etc before stressing too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not really an attempt to answer but an attempt to clarify the Q and, as such, was correctly flagged as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the whole idea of the reputation system is that someone who has &amp;gt;=10k rep can make these decisions. So, if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; feel it is a good answer, you should flag it as &amp;quot;has invalid flags&amp;quot;. It really is up to you, the SE sites are communities and you have just reached the rep level that means you are an experienced enough member of this community to make these kinds of judgment calls. So, do whatever you feel is best, irresepective of whether others agree or not. If enough people feel like you the answer will remain and if enough feel as I do, it will be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T00:57:08.003" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-03-03T21:48:18.943" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Transform/Extract info from a set of CSV files&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7425/is-there-a-robust-command-line-tool-for-processing-csv-files&quot;&gt;Is there a robust command line tool for processing csv files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional question/answer pair could be created.&#xA;The answer(s) should include regex/sed, awk based for those simpler CSVs, as well as Perl/Python based for when simple does not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few good small example CSVs in the text that clearly illustrate where simple processing will just stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T07:39:22.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-03-03T21:50:22.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Extract info from a XML/HTML file.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer(s) should include regex/sed, awk based for those simpler structured files and extractions, as well as Perl/Python/Ruby based for when simple does not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few good small example segments in the text that clearly illustrate where simple processing will just stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T13:50:57.497" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:50:57.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-04T20:21:52.490" Score="-1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title's a bit of a joke and this is perhaps not appropriate to meta but I'm throwing it in (shoot me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just spend several hours (most of the morning, actually) adding to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/117840/25985&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on a closed question (the addition starts with &lt;strong&gt;[Post OP Revision]&lt;/strong&gt;, -- &lt;em&gt;make sure to scroll down&lt;/em&gt; because the first part is not relevant).  I'm not debating the  closed status (I voted that way).  However, it's a particular kind of question where I'm always wishing I had some external resource to refer to,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; but have never seen anything that comes sufficiently close to what I'd like to say, and what I'd like to say is just too much to pack into an answer particularly since these kinds of questions are opinion based and should be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So occasionally I go ahead and do it anyway on the premise that one day in the future I'm going to gather that material together (hopefully these aren't deleted, lol) and put it online and then I will have an external reference,&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; and will hopefully never again have to spend hours trying to explain all this, because I have a polished, canonical version of my own thoughts on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That resource would would be, in part, an explication of the modular and heterogeneous nature of linux and linux distributions, which is something I've worked on in other questions and is a relatively concrete, objective topic.  All by itself, however, I don't think that is sufficient, and the answer I've referred to here is perhaps the other half of the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for some feedback, first and foremost WRT inaccuracies (i.e., if you have time, read through and point them out). But TBH I don't think there's much of that.  What I'm also looking for is opinions with regard to &lt;em&gt;what is most contentious&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;  The reason for that is I do NOT want to write a manifesto, meaning I don't want it to be about what I think the &quot;linux world&quot; &lt;em&gt;should be ideally&lt;/em&gt;, I want it to be about what it actually is (and what it is not).  Finally, I think a lot of people will be copacetic and positive feedback and suggestions/references&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt; from the like-minded would be terrific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking here partially because the original question is closed and should remain so, and perhaps there is something that can come out of this providing a  benefit to U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. As in, &quot;Go read this if you want to understand &lt;em&gt;what's wrong with your question.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2. I know slm already does this albeit with more technical material, which I think is great.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3. Contentious perhaps because they are not usually framed explicitly?  I'm thinking of stuff like (with emphasis added):&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;distros which parallel Redhat tend to be behind the times by a year or so [...] sort of pointless [...] &lt;em&gt;in the context of a single computer owned and operated by you for you,&lt;/em&gt; any problems resulting from not standing back far enough from the present are probably easily rectified&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Contemporary linux is what it is and two of the things I consider shining traits -- heterogeneity and transparency -- have a side effect, namely, &lt;em&gt;it takes a much greater degree of technical proficiency&lt;/em&gt; to use effectively than say, OSX.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;unlike with commercial products, &lt;em&gt;the authors of the software may not have much incentive to get you to use or understand it.&lt;/em&gt; If you have problems using it, there's no reason it should matter to them at all.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;it is easy to regard the system from an end user perspective as essentially the same kind of thing as a proprietary OS. This is a mistake, not because I think you need to care about FOSS ideology, but because &lt;em&gt;there are some substantial pragmatic differences&lt;/em&gt;...&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;As a linux user, YOU are part of the project to a much greater extent than the average user of the big proprietary OS's [...not] because I think that a sense of community is a nice thing [...but] &lt;em&gt;because the project requires work and you need to see yourself as part of that work (rather than as a consumer of it)&lt;/em&gt; [...] pragmatically speaking.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Switching distros out of frustration is giving up; I've done it, and in the long run I don't think it accomplishes much beyond soothing the momentary anger [...] Eventually you have to sit down and accept that if you want something your way you may have to do it yourself.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4. Eric S. Raymond springs to mind, although TBH I haven't actually read &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T08:39:07.947" Title="Canonical answers to opinion based questions!" Tags="|discussion|questions|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2783" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-05T21:58:24.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2549&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57552" LastEditorUserId="57552" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T02:50:26.073" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T02:50:26.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2784" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-05T21:58:24.963" Score="0" Body="Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown" OwnerUserId="57552" LastEditorUserId="57552" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T02:50:30.230" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T02:50:30.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-03-05T22:04:16.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/pipelight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mYOcK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pipelight allows you to use Windows only plugins in Linux browsers. It supports Silverlight, Unity Webplayer, Shockwave, Flash and more.&quot; title=&quot;Pipelight allows you to use Windows only plugins in Linux browsers. It supports Silverlight, Unity Webplayer, Shockwave, Flash and more.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57552" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T22:04:16.563" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-03-05T22:04:16.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-05T22:53:29.907" Score="5" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of you would know that I'm active here and on Ask Ubuntu. Recently, I started &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/8646/169736&quot;&gt;a discussion about&lt;/a&gt; enabling one-way migration paths from Ask Ubuntu to Unix &amp;amp; Linux, so I'm here to discuss with the &lt;em&gt;other party&lt;/em&gt; so discussions can be in parallel for both sides and expedite the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the relevant migration stats over the last 90 days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yZliD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389/migrate-ubuntu-specific-questions-to-askubuntu&quot;&gt;Migrate Ubuntu-specific questions to AskUbuntu?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/8646/169736&quot;&gt;Activate two way migration paths with Unix and Linux, should we?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T01:49:32.367" Title="Is there a problem that Ask Ubuntu has migration paths to us?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2786" CreationDate="2014-03-06T00:52:22.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we need this? I wouldn't think so. We have a migration option for SO because of the volume, that clearly doesn't apply here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it is straightforward enough to edit your generic off-topic close option&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; to propose migration to another site in the SE family&amp;mdash;that has proven quite a workable solution for a range of sites over the last couple of years that I have been here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update 7/3/14: for retitled question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1. Close &gt; Off-Topic &gt; Other (add a comment)...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2014-03-07T01:54:48.847" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T01:54:48.847" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2789" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-06T04:29:33.023" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider it unfair that all kinds of vote reasons are treated equally (e.g. with respect to badges). I kind of admire the people who bother searching for duplicates. If I get possible duplicates in my review queue then it takes me I guess three to ten times the time I need for the other reasons. I have to read and understand both questions and have a look at the answers. Every time. From time to time this is necessary for &quot;This is not an answer&quot;, too, but even then it is usually much easier (i.e. faster) to decide. And I guess checking a claimed duplicate is even clearly less work than finding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are &quot;off-topic&quot; votes then I have a short look at the posting and click, that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to reward the people doing this work by upvoting their comments but I guess they rarely get the five upvotes necessary to be counted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to suggest to give special rewards to this kind of work. Checking for duplicates should give you several points for the reviewer badges and there should be badges for x duplicate suggestions which have been closed (for this reason and for the suggested earlier question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T14:44:07.880" Title="duplicate vs. other reasons for close votes or flags" Tags="|feature-request|vote-to-close|duplicate|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2791" CreationDate="2014-03-06T05:30:05.323" Score="1" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had a look at my flag history. There are several points I don't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are not flags which I have &quot;created&quot; but such which I have handled in the flag queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84868/what-is-the-solution-for-the-error-grub-rescue-no-file-system-found/117857#117857&quot;&gt;this answer by vonbrand&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My flag history says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;invalid flags – Hauke Laging Mar 3 at 3:36   disputed - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is still there. I don't know whether and where I can see how this answer was flagged. But it seems that whatever it was I stated that the flag was wrong and the answer OK. &quot;disputed - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&quot; would make sense with respect to the original flag only IMHO. Is this a kind of bug? The system sees my &quot;invalid flag&quot; as &quot;flag&quot;, too, and because the mod decides to leave the answer alone I get this message (which doesn't make sense in my case)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point: That there is a &quot;helpful&quot; or &quot;declined&quot; for every entry makes the impression that all flags have been checked by a moderator. I thought that my confirmation of a flag (by a user with too little rep to cast votes) just turns the flag into a close (or leave open) vote. Why should a moderator look at that? Close votes work without a moderator, too. But maybe it works this way and the message just means &quot;The voting decision was according / against yours&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T05:55:09.277" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T07:19:28.103" Title="invalid flag: declined" Tags="|discussion|bug|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2790" CreationDate="2014-03-06T07:19:28.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/112393/158667&quot;&gt;this post on MSO&lt;/a&gt; for the first part. Yes, it's a bit confusing. The only possible &quot;resolution&quot; for an invalid-flags flag is disputed. And if the original flag gets declined with a reason, you get to see that too - sometimes. (i.e. you get to see what the moderator chose as a reason to decline the original flag.) I say sometimes because you won't see a message for flags that get dismissed automatically, and I don't think you'll see custom messages from the moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With 3k rep, you can't cast a close flag. You can only vote to close (if you have close votes left) or use a custom flag. When you cast a close vote following someone's close flag (from 10k tools), the original close flag doesn't get transformed into a close vote, it gets dismissed as helpful. &lt;em&gt;Your&lt;/em&gt; flag history doesn't show anything at all - you haven't cast a flag. Close flags can also be marked helpful/declined by moderators, if they act on them before the community does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that there's a helpful or declined resolution doesn't imply that a ♦ moderator handled it. Another example would be VLQ flags that get dismissed as helpful if the post is deleted, even if the deletion is carried out mere mortals and not ♦ overlords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T07:19:28.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2014-03-06T08:04:00.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The situation is IMHO even worse than you describe, in that the person &lt;strong&gt;originally&lt;/strong&gt; doing the research for a duplicate does not get to review the question as they already have voted the question to be closed. &#xA;Finding a duplicate, which I agree is one of the harder tasks if you don't happen to remember to have seen the question before, is thereby not rewarded towards the reviewers queue at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be more fair if e.g. the initiator of a &quot;close&quot; would get two review points on actual closing—when the other necessary votes have been cast. And maybe a minus one on the review point, if the question is left open with an otherwise unanimous cast of &quot;Leave Open&quot; votes (to discourage frivolous initiation of closing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general there will always be different, however difficult to judge, efforts in the system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;making a suggested edit (rep &amp;lt;2000) that only involves adding a tag, or removing thanks versus multiple reformatting, with manual adding of extra spaces etc., to make things look good¹.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reviewing small suggested edits, versus large ones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;finding posts on multiple sites, the more difficult if the OP has posted anonymously, or with multiple accounts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as an alternative to differentiating the award for normal reviews I would rather suggest to have the system assist reviewers in the more difficult review activities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you type a new question (or its title) you get a list of possible duplicates. A reviewer could be presented such a list as well (optionally), based on title, tags and content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to other activities of the same OP within a certain time frame, or if the same/similar title is used on another SO/SE site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being able to see the (initial parts of the) original question and a duplicate at the same time, the switching means you have to read through one completely, and memorize it, then switch and read; or alternatively go back and forth multiple times and loose where you had scrolled down to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While reviewing reopen votes, see the original reason for closing (which disappears when looking at changes, forcing you to go back and forth more often than necessary).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also tend to open the original post when reviewing, to get more context than an answer to be reviewed and the original question can give. Sometimes I look for originality of the answer (not a offence if not, but I tend to comment on answers that contribute nothing new). The system could help there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course with any change to the system it is important not to nudge the reviewer to much into the direction of a particular decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;That judgement is subjective. In reviewing suggested edits by the same person, removal of &quot;Thank in advance&quot; statements (which annoy me to no end) is something I almost always Accept, whereas adding one tag will I will Accept the first 2-3 times and then Reject as &quot;Too Minor&quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T14:44:07.880" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T14:44:07.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2014-03-06T08:32:05.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I admire your effort, IMHO the reason to put a question on hold (it is not closed as of this moment) as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; is to prevent &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean that such answers are not appreciated by the OP of the question, nor that they might or might not help the OP or other people, it just means they are not deemed appropriate for the Q&amp;amp;A form that was chosen for the StackOverflow/StackExchange sites¹.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹&lt;sub&gt;I am seriously considering whether proposing a feature change is appropriate. One that disallows editing of answers to questions that are on hold/closed; only allows removal of answers to questions that are on hold/closed (even if selected as accepted answer); disallowing voting on answers to closed questions (maybe below a certain rep); and/or not reward points for any (up) votes&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T08:39:07.947" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T08:39:07.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2786" CreationDate="2014-03-07T14:02:18.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a mod on Ask Ubuntu. Braiam has probably seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/8660/449&quot;&gt;the arguments I've made against this&lt;/a&gt; on our meta but this is the short version for the Unix.SE community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The quality of &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/search?q=mint%20is:q%20closed:1%20duplicate:0%20migrated:0&quot;&gt;our Mint (et al) questions&lt;/a&gt; would often not meet standards here. They barely meet our standards and if not for being off-topic, many would be duped, nuked, edited down heavily or otherwise butchered. But on seeing the word Mint (or another distribution) our users will migrate them here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Migrations are abandoned more times than not (unless the user is already a user in both places) — we need to push the users not their questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; little that you would need to send to us and what there is can be handled by moderators just fine&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the follow-up wasn't an issue, I honestly don't think you'd want to be on the receiving end of our close-OT firehose. Again, if you haven't, look at the stuff you'd be winning. If that's really content you as a community want, I'll stop wringing my hands and help this along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the questions that actually need migration (great questions or requested migrations) there are more than enough moderators between us to handle the migrations. These are few and far between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've taken so writing this post that the question was halved but the above should still apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="880" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T18:04:23.370" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2796" CreationDate="2014-03-07T22:45:47.210" Score="8" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know etiquette about editing has been heavily discussed, both on this meta and on StackExchange-meta but I couldn't find an answer for a particular problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/118648&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on Unix&amp;amp;Linux. It has been posted by a new user, and in its original non-edited version, it didn't respect formatting rules and cite an external resource without being self-sufficient. So, I posted a comment saying welcome and giving advice on how to improve the answer. And I also edited the answer to make it closer to the quality standards of StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is my problem. Should we give new authors the opportunity to improve their answer or just do it ourselves? Of course, it seems better to give authors the time to correct themselves but on the other hand, maybe giving an example is not a bad thing to do? And if we &quot;give time&quot;, when does it become appropriate to edit instead of letting the author do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T10:31:43.570" Title="Is it right to edit a new user answer right away?" Tags="|discussion|editing|etiquette|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2795" CreationDate="2014-03-07T23:34:58.153" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first off, that user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/403544/amos-folarin?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;is not a new user&lt;/a&gt; having started with Stack Overflow 2 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't think there is any reason to avoid improvement via editing for posts from new users. In fact, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts&quot;&gt;review queue for first posts from new users&lt;/a&gt; (link requires 500 rep). One of the things you're encouraged to do is edit posts to improve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if there is &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;, you could make the comment a little friendlier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome on StackExchange! And thank you for your answer. Nevertheless, you should improve it to meet the quality standards of this site. Even if you cite an external resource such as a URL, you must put enough content in your post to make it self-sufficient. –  lgeorget&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you swapped out &quot;meet quality standards&quot; (read: your answer is crap) with something about link-only answers being discouraged because adding context to links makes the answer better, and avoids problems with link-rot, etc., it'd be more positive. You could also refer to one of these in the comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/are-answers-that-just-contain-links-elsewhere-really-good-answers&quot;&gt;Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really &amp;quot;good answers&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/link-only-answers/info&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/link-only-answers/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T23:34:58.153" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-03-08T12:21:08.950" Score="14" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Unix background&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been working as a unix sysadmin since 1998, when I started as postmaster/spammer killer at one of the three largest ISPs in Sweden. Back then most of our systems were Solaris, with a few FreeBSD thrown in. FreeBSD is still my favourite free Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stayed at Algonet^WTelenordia^WTelenor^WTelenor Business Solutions^WTelenor for 8 years through multiple reorganisations. During that time the number of emails handled by our system rose by a few orders of magnitude. The qmail servers I started out working with got enhanced by a load-balancer with multiple bells and whistles built in Erlang, which is still the most stable email system I've ever had the pleasure to work with. In addition to handling the email systems, I spent time on pretty much all other customer-facing systems. Since all those systems were of necessity open to the Internet, that meant handling security issues as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that I went to work at one of the major banks in Sweden, where I handled a crucial part of the security systems for their internet banking sites. This was built on HP-UX which I still see as one of the best OSs for security purposes. Their combination of compartments and RBAC made it possible to have a very fine-grained approach to what each single process was able to do and see on the server. Obviously I can't go into details on how exactly it was implemented, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SecurityExt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HP-UX Security Containment basics&lt;/a&gt; describes the technology (until the next time they rebuild their website and destroy all links...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After eight years of that, I got tired of doing the same thing and got hired by a consultancy firm in 2013. My first gig for them was with a government agency handling their RHEL servers, looking at the next Redhat satellite, automating things and generally just sysadminning. It was a nice change of pace. After that, I worked at the Swedish Police with their PKI department, which was fun and interesting. I spent most on my time on revocation and OCSP systems. Currently I'm focusing on PKI; I'm working with a client setting up an entire PKI system from scratch, which is a lot more fun than working with a system where you're constrained by decisions made many years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Before that&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By looking at my profile you could have figured out that I was in my mid-20s before I got my first sysadmin job. I wasn't one of those kids who grew up around computers - my family couldn't afford it, and it wasn't on my radar at all. I did enjoy the few computer lessons we got at school, though, and generally ended up being the informal TA in that everyone asked me questions before asking the teacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first ~7 years of working life were spent in a few different jobs - shipping agency, translator... During that time, for the first time I could actually afford computer equipment and discovered more and more. I decided that unix sounded like what I wanted to work with, got a day job doing tech support at a phone company (that's internal tech support for their employees, not for their customers) and went to uni night classes to learn basic programming/system design. After that, I got the job at Algonet and have happily remained a unix sysadmin since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Programming&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a sysadmin, Jim, not a programmer. Still, in order to be a decent sysadmin one has to be able to create new tools as needed, so I do a fair bit of that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like many unix admins of my generation, I started out with shell scripts, perl and some C. (I am really not good at C; I can usually manage minor patches to existing programs but I'm really crap at e.g. memory allocation and other stuff beyond Hello World...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perl is my language of choice for most of the things I do as a sysadmin. It's got better data structures than shell scripts, and it's ubiquitous. It's also old enough to have most of its major bugs already ironed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that I became a better programmer when I started learning other types of languages. Perl, shell script and C are all procedural languages. Once I started looking at OO languages like Java and, later, Ruby, I got a new way of looking at things. And when I got into Erlang I was completely hooked, and also found that my perl programs got both more elegant and more readable thanks to the habits I learned from using Erlang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the three categories &amp;quot;procedural, OO, functional&amp;quot;, my favourite languages are perl, Ruby and Erlang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why I'm here&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like solving problems. No, scratch that - I &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; solving problems. Figuring out why something doesn't work and fixing it is a huge high for me. I also remember all the help I got, from complete strangers as well as from friends, when I started out, and I want to pay it forward. This is why I answer a lot more than I ask, both here and on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt; where I also hang out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site fills three needs for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the need to give back what was given to me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the need to find new puzzles and to solve them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the need to procrastinate while still finding and learning new things&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the chat room gives me a chance to stay in touch with other people with similar interests. What's not to like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other stuff&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a horse rider; I have a horse of my own. Consequently I have no spare time to worry about. In what little I have, I enjoy crafts (knitting, sewing, weaving...) and playing WoW (Argent Dawn, EU, I'm in the Plainrunners Tribe). I'm married, to a man who used to be a sysadmin and is now a developer/architect. It's nice to be with someone who understands the technical issues I work with; it makes for interesting conversations while driving to work... I live in Sweden, some ways outside of Stockholm where I work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T09:14:59.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-08T13:33:13.567" Score="-4" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Context&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following discussion happened in the comment thread on the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/118428/5197&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/118428/5197&lt;/a&gt;, which began with the question &quot;Is udev working properly on your server?&quot; and continued to suggest that the problem that led to the question might be that udev was either not running or that it was misconfigured.  In the end, the problem was discovered to be something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The disagreement&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anthon and slm both believe (I hope I do not misrepresent them) that because the answer was hypothetical and asked for further information, it was really a comment asking for further information and not any kind of answer.  I believe that because it contained an answer that might be the solution to some people with similar problems, it was an answer, albeit only a partial answer.  We then proceeded to disagree on the right interpretation of the FAQ; see the comment thread below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ongoing issue&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I think the disagreement is worth discussing is that the &quot;when is an answer not an answer&quot; criterion is one of the sharp edges that newbies get hurt by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original, question only comment clearly fell under the scope of &quot;should be flagged as not an answer&quot; as the answer consisted of just a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amended question changed the content of the answer from purely asking after information to provide what I understand as a partial attempt to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the disagreement over the revised answer that I think needs to be resolved.  Which of the following criteria are applicable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The criteria&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185073/how-do-i-properly-use-the-not-an-answer-flag/185074#185074&quot;&gt;How do I properly use the &amp;quot;Not an Answer&amp;quot; flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I use this flag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this flag when an answer is being used to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Ask a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Communicate with another user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Say &quot;thanks,&quot; or confirm that another posted answer worked for him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Bump&quot; the question, as in &quot;I have the same problem, have you found a solution?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I not use this flag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not use this flag when a user posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A partial answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A wrong or inaccurate answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;An answer to a (slightly) different question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;An answer you disagree with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cast a down-vote and/or comment instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The comment thread&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is really a comment, not an answer. With a bit more rep, you will be able to post comments. For the moment I've added the comment for you, and I'm flagging this post for deletion. – slm yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know, but since I cannot comment I had to put it like an answer (indeed, it may be the actual answer). – Alvaro yesterday    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If this is &quot;an actual answer&quot; then you should explain how to establish whether udev is running, what it is and how to enable if it isn't. – X Tian yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Anthon - I disagree with the idea that answers have to be complete in that they provide all diagnostic methods and full information on how to apply the solution. Some questions may be concrete and specific, but the qner does not provide quite enough information. That is the qner's fault, though not enough reason to close, and is certainly no reason to fault answers. The qner might not return with more information, or the answerer might not have time to iteratively discuss things with the qner. Do we then close the interesting qn, or leave it with no possibility of acceptable answers? – Charles Stewart yesterday        &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart I reviewed &quot;Is udev running in your server?&quot; (IIRC in the LQ queue). That answer is inappropriate as an answer, it should have been a comment, and I flagged it so, do you disagree with that? Alvaro had enough rep for commenting. The answer was later expanded, my flag (which automatically inserts the text, I now removed) was declined, but the system never gives a reviewer a message to re-review an answer, nor does it retract the text it inserts. Had Alvaro used @anthon I would have know about the change and his comment – Anthon 23 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Alvaro - You have 200 rep, how are you not able to comment? – slm 23 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart - if you have leads or partial ideas then those are comments, this isn't up for discussion, that's just how it is. If you're unfamiliar with this then please read the help on how to answer questions. – slm 23 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Anthon - yes I fixed it. – slm 23 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Anthon - Yes, I disagree. Per Robert Harvey, &quot;Do not use [the not an answer] flag when a user posts: A partial answer; A wrong or inaccurate answer ...&quot; - meta.stackoverflow.com/a/185074/140179 - and Alvaro's answer does say that problem might be that udev is wrong or misconfigured. Partial, but an answer. – Charles Stewart 21 hours ago    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart I am not sure what you disagree with as that link supports my action. The first point at &quot;When should I use this flag&quot; is Use this flag when an answer is being used to Ask a question. The whole answer was the sentence &quot;Is udev running in your server?&quot; and ends with a question mark. And you don't think it is a question, but a partial answer because of what? – Anthon 21 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Anthon - The FAQ text is talking about raising a new problem, something that should be posted as a question rather than an answer or a comment. Alvaro is just indicating that his answer depends on what is going on. It could be rephrased in terms of &quot;if $this, then $that&quot;. – Charles Stewart 20 hours ago    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart Which FAQ text are referring to? – Anthon 20 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Anthon: Robert Harvey's answer is a FAQ answer on meta.SO – Charles Stewart 20 hours ago      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart According to your standards no question or communication (both reasons for flagging according to Robert Harvey) can be flagged, as they always can rephrased. I might just not be smart enough to see that they could but turned into that. And if you were right I should have a lot more flags rejected than I have. – Anthon 20 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Anthon - I do not think anything I have said would be controversial on the other Stackexchange sites I am familiar with. I am really astonished at this dialogue - as I suppose you are. Perhaps a meta qn is in order, either here or on meta.SO. – Charles Stewart 19 hours ago   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart First of all slm flagged this as well. and I don't understand why you only address me on this issue and not him as well Second: I have somewhat less helpful flags on Stack Overflow (almost 300) than on Unix &amp;amp; Linux but the same behaviour in flagging and comparable number of rejects (some bloopers, some edited before being moved to comment/deleted, just as this one). I am sure that if Alvaro had waited even longer than the half-hour between posting his question and expanding upon it it would have been turned into a comment by the mods/10K+ers here, or deleted. – Anthon 19 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart I also flagged this as not an answer, it would be considered as such in all of the 5 SE sites where I have enough rep to have an opinion. Comments are for asking for clarifications, answers are for posting solutions. – terdon 19 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just for the record, I did not vote on this answer – Anthon 18 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CharlesStewart - This conversation is fruitless here, this A is not an A, it's a comment. Let's move this to a meta question either here or on meta.SO to get an actual decision. Sitting here and badgering Anthon and others who are highly viewed within this site's community is doing nothing constructive. Anthon has performed a lot of the reviews on this site as well as other SE sites and hasn't gotten any indications from those site's mods that he's doing it wrong! – slm 18 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The DV is from me. This is a comment! Expand it to an A and I'll gladly revert it as always! – slm 18 hours ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Anthon: I didn't use the '@' to signal slm because the Stack Exchange software has a limit whereby it only notifies one person. I'm prepared to accept that my interpretation is wrong, but my interpretation is the one that is followed on the Tex-SX site. I'll raise this question on meta in due course. – Charles Stewart 1 min ago   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@slm: Anthon is clearly conscientious and an asset to the site; this is only an argument about interpretation of rule. I agree that this discussion should take place on Meta. – Charles Stewart just now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5197" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T08:52:36.283" Title="A disagreement about the rules on non-answer answers" Tags="|discussion|comments|answer-quality|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2798" CreationDate="2014-03-08T18:12:01.950" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the problem here. An answer is something that offers a solution to the problem, explaining how that solution can be implemented. Even in its latest incarnation, the answer in question does not do so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is udev working properly on your server?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly not an answer but a request for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;udev is the device mapper in charge of the creation of those symlinks,&#xA;  so it can be that it is not working, or that it is not configured&#xA;  properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great, how does one configure it properly then? Again, this is not answering the question, it simply explains what udev is with no details on how it is relevant to the case at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it running? (i.e. /etc/init.d/udev status)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not an answer, again, asking the OP for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It may be that it is not configured properly, so check if your rules&#xA;  are OK:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;$ grep &quot;disk/by-uuid&quot; /lib/udev/rules.d/*&#xA;  /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage-dm.rules:ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}==&quot;filesystem|other|crypto&quot;,&#xA;  ENV{ID_FS_UUID_ENC}==&quot;?*&quot;,&#xA;  SYMLINK+=&quot;disk/by-uuid/$env{ID_FS_UUID_ENC}&quot;&#xA;  /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules: &#xA;  SYMLINK+=&quot;disk/by-uuid/$env{ID_FS_UUID_ENC}&quot; (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the closest the post gets to answering but &lt;strong&gt;it does not tell us what to check for&lt;/strong&gt;! As such, it is completely useless unfortunately. How does the output above help me determine if my udev rules are correct? If the user who posted this had highlighted what to look for and how to fix a possible problem, it might have been an answer. This, however, is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary, an answer is expected to provide an actual &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. This doesn't, ergo, it is not an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-03-03T08:52:36.283" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T08:52:36.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2798" CreationDate="2014-03-08T19:37:02.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give some more background, this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/118428/1&quot;&gt;is the text I got to review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Is udev running in your server?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This and only this version of the post by Alvaro is of interest. Because the discussion was about whether I should have flagged this or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was in the Low Quality Post queue (at the bottom of the list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VTrPf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it at 14:34.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above text has to be flagged as not an answer, it is a question and a communication with the OP. Therefore it has to be put in as a comment under the question. If you click [Add Comment] that is unmistakable from the text in grey you see in the box before you start typing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use comments to ask for clarification or add more information. Avoid comments like &quot;+1&quot; or &quot;thanks&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is udev running in your server?&lt;/strong&gt; is asking for clarification. Of course if the answer from the OP would be yes or no, you can use knowledge to start answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, and others here on unix.se put those questions in all the time, &lt;strong&gt;as comments&lt;/strong&gt;. If they get answered (preferably by improving the question), this will help me or someone else to give an answer to the question. If they comments do not get reacted upon, there is a good change the question gets closed as &quot;Unclear what you are asking&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking a question, you can incorporate it in a, what I would call, guessed solution. That would look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Have you checked A, B and C.&#xA;Because if A is not true, then you problem is X&#xA;And if B is not true, then your problem is Y&#xA;....&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is an answer: it guesses what might be wrong in the form of a question and provides an answer. I have seen these evolve as well, first the first line is posted, I flag them, and based on the comment the answerer expands. My flag gets rejected by the MODs but that is not nice, but I think the MODs are aware of a post changing after you judged it as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I flagged Alvaro's non-answer, the automatic text about not being an answer and being more appropriate as a comment got inserted. And that would have been the end of the line for me. I don't get automatically notified of expansion of the Answer. Alvaro failed to @anthon inform me of the changes that he made. Most low quality answers that I flag never get changed, I don't go back at the end of the day to see if any improvements were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is completely irrelevant is what the answered turned into, after Alvaro updated it the first time at 14:46.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could be up for discussion after that is whether the comment posted as an answer had turned into something acceptable as answer. That is out of my hands, and the MODs might decline my flag based on what they see when they look at the flag reviews. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO my flagging was correct behaviour based on the information that I got at the time of review. That doesn't mean I have not made mistakes in reviewing before, or that MODs have disagreed with me (here or on stackoverflow), but it has never been cause for complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have flagged this way on StackOverflow, Unix&amp;amp;Linux, Ebooks and also on TeX (33 flags out of which 1 disputed and that got edited after I flagged it) and I think it is the appropriate way to handle questions posted as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T19:44:34.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2786" CreationDate="2014-03-08T22:32:18.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I commented on your AU meta Q already, I'd be in favor of this. When Q's such as these are migrated it will contain the typical &quot;migrated from ...&quot; banner so these will be obvious when they come in. I think we need to just coordinate with the regulars that these might need to be treated a bit more relaxed to get them in the door but I have no problem with setting this up as a migration path from AU to UL. I'm not condoning the reverse, just so we're clear!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we must have AU's buying into this as well, which I believe they're OK with it, assuming Oli is speaking for the broader community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T01:49:32.367" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T01:49:32.367" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2786" CreationDate="2014-03-09T00:02:12.020" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me most/all of the objections to this discount the significance of &lt;em&gt;answering the question well&lt;/em&gt; and instead focus on minor technical hassles and how it will impact people potentially providing an answer (e.g. &quot;Why would you want our crap?&quot;).  Perhaps this misses the forest for the red tape, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kind of baffled as to why these paths don't exist already.  WRT to &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Very ubuntu centric questions will be better off on AU because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's got a greater volume of ubuntu-centric &lt;em&gt;answerers&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specific questions tend to benefit from being properly categorized.  This is why we have &lt;em&gt;tags&lt;/em&gt;, for example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;General linux questions would likely be better off here because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lower volume of &lt;em&gt;questioners&lt;/em&gt; means they will get more attention -- keeping in mind also that, given time, a cross-over of knowledgeable users from AU should occur.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This re-reinforces to the questioner that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a general linux question and not something specific to their distro -- an issue which seems to confuse many new users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Q&amp;amp;A is then more accessible to non-ubuntu users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WRT to &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; questions, &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions should not be restricted from migration because bad questions exist.  Further, if somebody has to deal with crap, I don't see what difference it makes whether it is dealt with here, there, or wherever.  The larger &lt;strong&gt;community&lt;/strong&gt; of which we are all a part is &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another objection which seems to assume there is nothing to be done about the lowest common denominator and that we must all simply throw our hands up on a race toward the bottom is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Migrations are abandoned more times than not (unless the user is already a user in both places)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were selling product for money, this kind of statistical analysis might be useful, since getting paid to do something &lt;em&gt;the wrong way&lt;/em&gt; is better than not getting paid.  Fortunately, such is not the case.  Going back to two points I've made already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That new linux users would benefit from understanding the difference between distro specific question and general linux questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That the community in the large is actually SE, not AU or U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration is a positive thing even if it often fails to bring the user, because not migrating is &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; to fail to bring the user (i.e., it is a gesture of pure defeat).   People should be encouraged, not discouraged, from learning about the various boards.  Given time, this would likely increase the amount of cross-over; saying that there isn't enough now so we can't do this is like saying there's no point in building a bridge here because there's not enough traffic crossing the river. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's ass-backward.  &lt;strong&gt;The reason there's not enough traffic crossing the river is because there is no bridge.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T00:02:12.020" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-10T09:05:30.360" Score="8" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36387/protect-files-from-rm-f/36393#36393&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for moderator attention: it suggests aliasing &lt;code&gt;rm&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;rm -f&lt;/code&gt; which, in every possible use case that I can imagine, is a spectacularly inadvisable course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag was declined with this note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about this answer does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; require moderator intervention? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we wish to keep here as a textbook example of an astonishingly thoughtless answer? Why would we not want to remove an answer that is a) patently wrong (garnering 10 downvotes) and b) that advocates an approach that is , if not dangerous, certainly foolhardy to the point of absurdity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping it around serves no purpose, educational or otherwise that I can see. What am I so obviously missing here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T14:35:26.513" Title="Flagging for deletion" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-10T13:17:59.260" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I'm overseeing it but is there a way to see the flagging history of a question or answer mixed in within the /timeline URL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/{questionid}/timeline&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general format for the &lt;code&gt;/timeline&lt;/code&gt; URL is as above. I'd like to see when particular flags were applied to the question &amp;amp; answers as well. I did not see this data here when I was poking around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go through my activity tab and find it that way or if I was lucky I could find it in one of the review queues (if I happened to flag through them), but often times I flag outside them, and so it's a pain to put this data together with the timeline of a given Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer on a question is what's driving me to ask this, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/108576/timeline&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/108576/timeline&lt;/a&gt;. I wanted to confirm when I flagged this. I believe that's my comment there, the timestamp seems to line up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;timeline&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lJv07.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;comment on answer&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0SBuf.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would be nice if the flagging data was mixed into the timeline view for easier corroboration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T22:56:46.063" Title="Overlay of flagging data with /timeline URL?" Tags="|support|feature-request|profile-page|flags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2803" CreationDate="2014-03-10T14:35:26.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flagging wrong answers is, in itself, wrong; at one point somebody even suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/202343/add-a-deactivated-wrong-answer-flag-option&quot;&gt;explicitly pointing it out in the flag dialog&lt;/a&gt;. We delete answers that are spam or that don't attempt to answer the question, not answers that attempt to answer the question and completely miss the mark. Wrong answers should be downvoted, and this one has 12, plus a few comments pointing out what a bad idea it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T14:35:26.513" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-10T16:30:54.893" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about WordPress and LDAP on a Unix platform, is the appropriate place for that Server Fault or here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T17:05:44.677" Title="Where's the line of demarcation with Server Fault?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2806" CreationDate="2014-03-10T17:05:44.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't, exactly. Server Fault is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;a site for system and network administrators needing expert answers related to managing computer systems in a professional capacity.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while we're:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so naturally there's lots of overlap. If it belongs on both you can pick which one you think you'll get a better answer on. In this case, I wouldn't expect WordPress to be particularly sysadmin-oriented, but SF has &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/wordpress&quot;&gt;quite a few questions about it&lt;/a&gt;, and certainly LDAP is on-topic there. Setting up any app on Unix is likely to be on-topic for us, so your question is probably fine on either site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T17:05:44.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2014-03-11T09:18:04.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although this is an improvement, I think a better (short-term) solution would be to have the following two things implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;notification that an answer you flagged has changed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ability to retract a flag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems more easy to implement (but I am not the person having to do so), but more importantly, might reduce the work for the flag reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T09:18:04.917" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2810" CreationDate="2014-03-11T23:09:23.547" Score="5" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joked recently here that the &quot;Flag or disagree&quot; button is misleading in that there is in fact no &quot;disagree&quot; option presented.  This bugs me most, of course, when I go through the queue and see flags I disagree with -- there's the plain as day invitation, but the interface does not fulfil the promise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet obviously there is a way to cast an &quot;invalid flag&quot; vote since those are noted on the right.  On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;U&amp;amp;L help page for the moderator tools privilege&lt;/a&gt;, there's a section about &quot;Handling flags&quot; which notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;you have a number of options [...including] &lt;em&gt;Flag as 'invalid flag'.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  Use this option if you feel the flag should be ignored or not acted&#xA;  upon by moderators. This will be visible in the flag list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had this privilege for a while but still can't find the option.  What's up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T00:01:22.177" Title="Where's the 'invalid flag' flag?" Tags="|support|flagging|flags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2809" CreationDate="2014-03-12T00:01:22.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see an option to say other flags are invalid when I access the reviews under the new colored links that show up in our toolbars at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rPkmD.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T00:01:22.177" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-13T05:58:00.877" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stackoverflow there is a horizontal line between a question and comments. This is an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22369026/how-to-remove-header-new-line-character-and&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22369026/how-to-remove-header-new-line-character-and&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on Unix &amp;amp; Linux there is no a horizontal line between a question and comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/118462/how-can-a-bash-script-detect-if-it-is-running-in-the-background&quot;&gt;How can a bash script detect if it is running in the background?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it by intention? It seems that it would look better with the horizontal line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user17530" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2014-09-26T05:35:09.757" Title="Horizontal line between a question and comments" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2813" CreationDate="2014-03-13T11:03:03.793" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to provide an answer but also indicate that this question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/119484/31760&quot;&gt;variables in crontab&lt;/a&gt; was a duplicate an existing question, and provide a link to the answer that I thought was best. ie This one, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/10657111/1515570&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/a/10657111/1515570&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I find particularily irritating, are two things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My answer was short and to the point, so it was interpreted as too&#xA;short and was immediately converted to a comment. I would have&#xA;prefered it gave me a chance to expand on my answer, so that I wouldn't&#xA;have to remove the comment and expand on it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I couldn't flag the questions, and provide, the Stack Overflow&#xA;question as an answer, because it belongs to another site on stack exchange. Even though, in my opinion it was a very good answer and had received 55&#xA;votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I handle these situations? I tend to give up and shrug my shoulders ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31760" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T11:35:01.987" Title="Can't mark as duplicate to other Stack Exchange Question" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|duplicate|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2812" CreationDate="2014-03-13T11:35:01.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're misunderstanding what a duplicate is. A duplicate is only within a single SE site, such as Unix &amp;amp; Linux. Duplicates do not span different SE sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The normal course of action should be to copy the answer from the other SE site, put it in our own words as much as you can and customize it so that it's appropriate for the question on U&amp;amp;L, and then provide a link to the source material (the other SE Q&amp;amp;A).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem like plagiarism or wasteful to do this, but each SE site is their own &quot;island&quot; and is attempting to collect the optimal solutions to questions &amp;amp; problems that are on topic for that SE site's charter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site's charter is to collect Q&amp;amp;A's that are related to Unix and Linux. Collect in the sense that it have local copies of these Q&amp;amp;A's not merely point to existing resources that are already on the internet that might answer them, even when those resources are other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T11:35:01.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-14T00:14:10.367" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Review Queue, I came across a question where Gilles had already voted to close as a duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/82687/how-to-freeze-system-clock-for-a-wine-application&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119583/how-to-run-a-command-with-a-specific-date&quot;&gt;the duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I attempted to vote to close, I was asked to select the duplicate, which I did, and was greeted with a message I had not seen before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the &quot;Close&quot; button remained greyed out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gpxg6.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of dialogue&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the time that it has taken to write this question, someone else has successfully voted to close as the count now stands at (2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has there been a change to the way this works?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you require a certain amount of reputation to close as a duplicate if there is no accepted or upvoted answer on the propsed duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this a just a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; now that a second vote has been cast, I am able to select the duplicate and vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T01:00:41.433" Title="Can't close as duplicate with no answers" Tags="|bug|vote-to-close|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2814" CreationDate="2014-03-14T00:25:35.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I've not been able to reproduce this but here are my thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first vote happened when the question had an upvoted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you tried to vote, the upvoted answer lost it's vote or someone else downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now you can because people started to upvote the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-03-14T01:00:41.433" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T01:00:41.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-15T17:12:58.517" Score="9" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;On-Topic page&lt;/a&gt; of your help center and noticed this line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which was what I was looking for and answered my question about scope. &lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt;, it's kinda inaccurate. The OS name is no longer MacOS (hasn't been for ages), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/16/2802281/apple-officially-renames-mac-os-x-to-os-x-drops-the-mac&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mac OS X was phased out two years ago&lt;/a&gt; - meaning the correct name is now &quot;OS X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the help center be edited to reflect this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user52555" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T17:22:20.807" Title="Change &quot;MacOS&quot; to &quot;OS X&quot; in the help center" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2816" CreationDate="2014-03-15T17:22:04.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying OS X (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T17:22:04.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2811" CreationDate="2014-03-17T03:06:44.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because our desing layout is a &quot;bar&quot; with buttons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6x5LW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of a line with tabs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BpGuD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line in any case would be redundant, since there's already a element that does this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-09-26T05:35:09.757" LastActivityDate="2014-09-26T05:35:09.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2014-03-22T20:36:11.077" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/27&quot;&gt;most upvoted answer here&lt;/a&gt; concludes that if an application also exists on Windows, then questions about it are off-topic. However, this is not the stance that the site adopted. As it says in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/97&quot;&gt;being cross-platform does not disqualify&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any question about Unix/Linux is welcome here&lt;/strong&gt; (as long as it's answerable in the Stack Exchange format, i.e. clear, not too broad, etc.), except for programming questions (which belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're using Linux or other unix variant, and you have a question about an application, then you're welcome to post here. You don't need to care, or indeed know, whether this application is also available on Windows, Android or VMS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T20:36:11.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2821" CreationDate="2014-03-23T05:11:29.777" Score="5" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anywhere we can see detailed site statistics (more so than the API in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/454/where-can-i-see-the-sites-statistics&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sorts of stats that I was curious about were things that provide some insight into how the site is functioning, ie., not traffic analytics but social ones, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Percentage of questions closed as &quot;Unclear what you are asking&quot; that are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Percentage of questions asked by people with no rep that are closed for any reason&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Percentage of questions closed as &quot;Unclear what you are asking&quot; that are voted to be reopened after at least one edit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T01:17:51.687" Title="Detailed site statistics" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2820" CreationDate="2014-03-24T01:17:51.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of these can probably be extracted using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…an open source tool for running arbitrary queries against public data from the Stack Exchange network. Features include collaborative query editing and OData endpoints for all graduated and public beta Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is not a particularly user friendly tool, it is designed by and for geeks, it is very well implemented and editing existing queries is simple enough. There are currently 225,631 queries so you are quite likely to find something that is close to what you are looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T01:17:51.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2824" CreationDate="2014-03-24T19:56:12.777" Score="24" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize this issue has been addressed here before &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2617/are-we-a-little-bit-trigger-happy-on-close-votes&quot;&gt;a few months ago&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems to me we are still a little overly eager to close/hold questions as soon as they appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/121198/do-i-need-to-worry-about-tail-unrecognized-file-system-type-0xbeefdead&quot;&gt;Do I need to worry about &amp;quot;tail: unrecognized file system type 0xbeefdead&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, this question was considered &quot;unclear&quot; to 3 people inside of the first hour.  Since it's hard to see what is unclear about it -- keeping in mind &quot;unclear&quot; does not mean &quot;I don't know the answer&quot; -- I'm inclined to believe there are people who prefer to shoot first and ask questions later at anything that appears in the Close queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you suspect a new question is unclear, but there is some unclearness in your suspicions, post the question on chat to get some opinions, and/or wait a few hours to see what happens with it.  In this case, an answer appeared fairly quickly which I think makes it clear just how clear the question was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is any ambiguity at all, you should leave a comment explaining your decision (IMO this should be mandatory for the first vote).  This way, someone else can spot your mistake and respond directly to it before you inspire a whole stream of gunslingers to repeat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is of course possible to reopen questions.  However, this then creates more work and hassle for other members.  It also creates the impression that we are a bunch of busy body zealots.  There should be a reasonable balance between setting a high bar in terms of quality and keeping the site accessible to casual users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in doubt, ask someone else.  Do not take the fact that something is in the close queue for evidence of the fact that it needs to be closed -- &lt;strong&gt;all of the five votes that are required should be thoughtful and considered,&lt;/strong&gt; not just the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[If the &quot;question&quot; here isn't clear, lol, I guess it is about whether or not other people have perceived the same problem generally.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T20:59:36.000" Title="Trigger Happy Close Voting Revisited" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2823" CreationDate="2014-03-24T20:59:36.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the people that voted to close that Q and I stand by my vote to close, it was unclear, as I had selected. Closing a Q is not an absolute thing. I have 5 options when reviewing questions on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave it alone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask in the chatroom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the lack of detail in the Q I opted to close it as unclear. I believe in keeping the site trim and try to cycle through most everything at least 1 time to help facilitate this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it's critical that we try and keep garbage out of the site, and the front door makes the most logical sense to me to do it there. Once poorly asked Q's are allowed to stay around, they generally just take up space and serve no useful purpose, again IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a Q that has been incorrectly identified as being closed, or is about to be, then by all means alert me or whomever else to this mistake. I have no problems retracting a vote if it's later brought to my knowledge that I did so incorrectly, or if one of our members or the OP cleans up the Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And closing a Q to me is not that traumatic. If we close something we're doing 2 things which IMO are good things. We're bringing attention to the OP that maybe they need to provide a bit more detail, or put a bit more effort into their Q. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second thing being that we get our community to rally together to improve upon Q's that fall into this category so that they can be better asked.  When Q's are incorrectly closed, it typically only takes minutes to get it reopened, and has the side effect of bringing additional resources to the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T20:59:36.000" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-03-25T15:04:24.413" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lrPCp.png&quot; alt=&quot;Freedom. Friends. Features. First.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T15:04:24.413" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-03-25T15:04:24.413" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-28T00:31:24.827" Score="3" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw an answer which was flagged as both &quot;low quality&quot; and &quot;not an answer&quot;. It was a very short answer but technically correct. Thus I flagged as &quot;invalid flags&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards I had a look at the question anyhow. And I noticed that there were other answers (given months earlier) which gave the same information. Thus this should have been flagged as &quot;very low quality&quot;, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to change a flag? I have not found a way to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T00:31:24.827" Title="change a flag (or just remove it)" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-01T05:06:07.043" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll probably notice this little image on the right sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dkdb9.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click it you can buy things in the unicoin store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WlVUq.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6BchD.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7SKdI.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just a gag, for the day (April 1st). Do not be alarmed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/227363/what-are-stack-overflow-unicoins&quot;&gt;What are Stack Overflow unicoins?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T13:54:12.153" Title="Beware it's April fools day and we have unicoins" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2829" CreationDate="2014-04-01T05:23:54.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tch. Obviously a shameless marketing tie-in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TosU4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Or else...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adult Swim will destroy Stack Exchange in patent court over the association:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unicorns, okay, public domain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rainbows, okay again -- public domain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;unicorns + rainbows&lt;/strong&gt; == infringement.  Everyone delete your account now before you become a liable party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T05:23:54.543" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2829" CreationDate="2014-04-01T13:54:12.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just when I think that this site has gotten 20% cooler.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/By813.png&quot; alt=&quot;Frustrated&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42920" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T13:54:12.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-04-03T17:55:29.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://BXR.SU/search?q=todo+OR+fixme+OR+XXX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1RWc.png&quot; alt=&quot;BXR.SU &amp;mdash; Super User&amp;#39;s BSD Cross Reference &amp;mdash; BSD Source Code Search Engine over FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD kernel and userland source trees, based on OpenGrok, powered by nginx and regular expressions.    BSD is Dying.  Seeking Kernel and Userland Developers to Hack and Improve BSD UNIX.  Qualifications: C (required), asm (a plus).  No prior open-source experience necessary.  Warning: it&amp;#39;s not for the faint of heart!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28354" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T17:55:29.573" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-03T17:55:29.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2833" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-04T00:32:47.193" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;A relevant share of the answers which appear in the flag queue are flagged because they contain little more than the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the usual suspects jump in and add the comments like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference. Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a concensus whether such answers shall be deleted? One might argue that telling the user and leaving the answer is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A related question: I wanted to ask whether there is a list of these standard comments. I assumed there may be a community question with a respective collection. Or the users have their own text file with a copy of them... But just now someone told me that this text was inserted automatically by him flagging the answer as low quality and selecting &quot;link-only&quot; as the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I flag (no matter whether from the flag queue or directly) I do not get such a selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T10:10:18.240" Title="Delete link-only answers" Tags="|discussion|flagging|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2833" CreationDate="2014-04-04T02:27:02.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the comment explains, these A's can become useless if the link becomes broken so they should be flagged for deletion, or at the very least, a comment should be left to the user letting them know that they should put the relevant info into their A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I typically flag these as such and leave this comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your Q about the comments, most of us use a browser plugin called &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE&lt;/a&gt; which augments the SE pages and adds a &quot;auto&quot; link when you click the &quot;add comment&quot; link under a Q or A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This plugin is indispensable in making the reviewing a lot smoother and more consistent. You can edit the comments to suite your own needs and there is a feed from a github repo where you can source the comments as well, getting what the community feels is the most optimally phrased comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjOkQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss of dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:38.983" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T03:16:45.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2833" CreationDate="2014-04-04T02:28:40.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those comments come from reviewing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/review-comment-dialog.png&quot; alt=&quot;This is a link-only answer (and not spam)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging them is fine. I generally add a post notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/unix-post-notice-too-short.png&quot; alt=&quot;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is right, ideally with citations. Answrs that don't include explanations may be removed.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And give the author (or somebody) a few days to fix it. If it stays unedited I delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T02:28:40.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2837" CreationDate="2014-04-05T13:20:28.093" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; seems to have a sligthtly bigger usage preference over &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt;, most questions are tagged with both. By the way, I'd prefer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; to be synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt;, not the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is that Apache is more that just the http server sub-project; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt; would be a better tag. Yet, using httpd for lighttpd or other web-servers, for historical reasons, would just be confusing, as lighttpd executable daemon is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; even called httpd. Would you tolerate the httpd tag for IIs on ServerFault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4142" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T13:42:20.610" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T14:27:42.343" Title="Tags [httpd] and [apache]: synonym candidates?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2836" CreationDate="2014-04-05T15:23:23.533" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apache isn't the only httpd, and looking through that tag I indeed saw another httpd (lighttpd) on the first page... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like maybe we should just get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about Apache get &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt;; ones about lighttpd would get &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lighttpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lighttpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lighttpd&lt;/a&gt;; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want a generic tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webserver&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webserver&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webserver&lt;/a&gt; would be much clearer, already exists, and is more popular. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T15:23:23.533" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2836" CreationDate="2014-04-05T16:51:00.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep an open mind. Just because you know of only one type of HTTP server doesn't mean it's the only one. Take a look at all the HTTP servers available in this list via Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_software&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comparison of web server software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more than this and often servers just as Jetty, JBOSS, Tomcat, and many others can be dual purposed to serve static content as a HTTP server as well as serve as an application server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;List via wikipedia&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qo557.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qo557.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With your edit I think your point is that Apache (the tag) could be associated with both the HTTPD server and the overarching project + the Apache Software Foundation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think part of the confusion is that most people associate the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; with the HTTP web server sub-project vs. anything else. For example I think most people would be surprised that Tomcat (another subject) is in fact called Apache Tomcat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think part of the confusion stems from Ubuntu (assuming Debian does the same) packages the HTTP server with an executable called &lt;code&gt;apache2&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What to do?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I would be inclined to reorganize the tags so that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; is used as a tag for Apache related items (software, licensing, foundation), while &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; and a synonym tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt; were used for actual HTTP server related items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dislike making &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; since it can span multiple pieces of software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-04-06T13:35:23.297" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T13:35:23.297" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-04-07T02:40:22.940" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;Tagline to show on mouseover http://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/unix.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T14:36:52.030" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-07T02:40:22.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-07T13:26:24.860" Score="7" ViewCount="813" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm raising this issue because it seems to me that when we find a new question that has an obvious duplicate, it should not necessarily be the new question that is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a good precedent in that occasionally someone will do a self-answered Q&amp;amp;A (actually the only one I know of is Gilles, and Gilles does a lot of the best Q&amp;amp;As on the site -- but I hope at least a couple of other people have tried) addressing a theme that already has one or more potential duplicates, and then elects those older questions for closing.  This is a great practice, since we do have oodles of idiosyncratic/localized questions that could really all have the same general answer, if only someone had posed the question properly to start with.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can edit such questions to start with, of course, except that in many cases the editing required would be very aggressive and I worry about introducing that as a common practice.  But maybe that is worthwhile anyway?  There are frequently &lt;em&gt;terribly&lt;/em&gt; written questions that do still involve a legitimate issue.  Perhaps a good policy would be: only do this if you can also provide an appropriate answer.  If this is done well, the OP will usually be appreciative, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the problems here is that a self-answered Q&amp;amp;A is cut n' dried -- it already has an answer that clearly matches the question, and since the author presumably knew what s/he was talking about, it is general enough to obviously cover the more localized dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that criteria, however, I think it is possible to identify new questions that are much better than old dupes.  &lt;em&gt;Too localized&lt;/em&gt; is the opposite of &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt;; it refers to questions of the sort that involve an excess of irrelevant particular details, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Thursday I was playing around in a subdirectory of &lt;code&gt;/usr&lt;/code&gt; on my&#xA;  CentOS server and noticed that...[some obviously more general phenomenon]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions, particularly when their titles are excessively localized as well, are serious problems because we end up with too much in the way of things that aren't even easily made into dupes, even though one &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question could be the one ring to bind them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my proposal that I present here for your evaluation is: When you find a duplicate to a new question, if the new question is clearly better and more generalized, with less irrelevant detail, and it already also has a decent answer, &lt;em&gt;close the old question instead&lt;/em&gt;.  If it does not already have a decent answer, try one of the following two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the old question has enough of an answer that you can provide a general answer to the new question (I think this should usually be the case, if you've found a legitimate dupe), then do that and nominate the old question for closing.  Remember, this is easy points for you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you can't do the former, the situation is obviously a little ambiguous.  If the new question &lt;strong&gt;is less than 4 hours old&lt;/strong&gt;, leave it open, and add a comment to the effect that &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is the question we should really want as the canonical one.  Doing so will also help to disseminate a good, if slightly complex-sounding-at-first, practice. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T13:54:08.553" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T13:54:08.553" Title="Which duplicate should be closed?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2840" CreationDate="2014-04-07T13:40:27.833" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general rules for closing as a duplicate is to use the question with the best answers as the target, and close the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we've done our job well, then the oldest question will have had good answers, and newer questions are to be closed as duplicates of the older one. However sometimes a question falls through the cracks. Also, sometimes a question has side issues that confuse matters and it is best to use a question focused on the core issue as the main one, and close others as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the criterion is &lt;em&gt;best answers&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;best question&lt;/em&gt;: if the question with the best answers is poorly written, it's best to edit it into shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary to what you're saying here, do not close a question as a duplicate of one which has poor answers. If you want a newer question to be the main one, first give it a good answer. The system won't even let you vote to close a question as a duplicate of an unanswered one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions can sometimes be merged, so that all the answers end up on the same question. However this requires the questions to be extremely similar, to a much larger extent than merely closing as a duplicate, in particular using the same examples (e.g. file names, commands, …).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it's good to create a “canonical question” which focuses on a core issue and give it a good answer. We generally discuss the necessity of canonical questions on a topic in chat or on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T13:40:27.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2833" CreationDate="2014-04-07T13:54:21.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an answer contains no information whatsoever and only says “you can find an answer at &amp;lt;link&amp;gt;”, then it should be deleted. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/your-answer-is-in-another-castle-when-is-an-answer-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;Shog9 puts it&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAUaw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Apples and answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the link looks useful, it may be worth preserving as a comment on the question. In this case, use a custom flag and explain the situation. If the linked page doesn't seem to contain an answer to the question, or if the link is one that you'd find in a Google search for obvious keywords, or if the link is mentioned in another answer, the post can be deleted outright; in this case you can flag as “very low quality” or “not an answer”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is recent, leave a comment to educate the answerer; you can refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;the official answer quality guidelines&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/your-answer-is-in-another-castle-when-is-an-answer-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;Shog9's post&lt;/a&gt;. If the answer is old and abandoned, I generally don't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that an answer can sometimes consist of just a link, syntactically speaking. This is generally a poor answer, but if the answer is semantically not link-only, then it is an answer and should not be deleted. For example, if the question is “how do I delete a file on the command line”, then an answer consisting solely of “&lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.die.net/man/1/rm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://linux.die.net/man/1/rm&lt;/a&gt;” is a poorly-written but valid answer — it says (albeit unclearly) to use the &lt;code&gt;rm&lt;/code&gt; command. An answer consisting solely of “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-delete-remove-file/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-unix-delete-remove-file/&lt;/a&gt;”, on the other hand, should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T13:54:21.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2836" CreationDate="2014-04-07T14:27:42.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the observations made by derobert and slm, we should use the tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the web server of the Apache project;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other tags (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lighttpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lighttpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lighttpd&lt;/a&gt;) for questions about a specific non-Apache web server;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webserver&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webserver&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webserver&lt;/a&gt; for questions about web servers in general.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; is overwhelmingly used to mean “Apache web server”, we should make this a synonym to a more clearly specific tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt;. Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; is a natural tag but a bit of a hodgepodge, we should make this a synonym of the more general tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webserver&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webserver&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webserver&lt;/a&gt; (if we don't make it a synonym, either it'll end up recreated or people will misuse &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt; obtained through completion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to get rid of the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt;. Most of the 388 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; questions are about Apache httpd, so we should track down the ones that aren't, then synonymize &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 28 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; questions but only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd+-apache&quot;&gt;13 that aren't also tagged apache&lt;/a&gt;. So the easiest course of action is to retag these 13 tags, then get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; and re-create it as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webserver&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webserver&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webserver&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the course of action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Community) Retag all 13 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd+-apache&quot;&gt;[httpd] -[apache]&lt;/a&gt; questions appropriately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Community) Go through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache+-httpd&quot;&gt;[apache] -[httpd]&lt;/a&gt; questions and retag the ones that aren't about the Apache web server.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Moderator) Merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt;, then remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; synonym and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webserver&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webserver&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webserver&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T14:27:42.343" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-07T14:44:50.733" Score="2" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;“Interface” is a very broad word that could mean anything. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interface&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interface&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interface&lt;/a&gt; tag is mostly about network interfaces, and the questions are mostly about Ethernet interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethernet&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethernet&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethernet&lt;/a&gt; tag for questions specifically about Ethernet transport and interfaces. However some questions may warrant a more generic tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/network-interface&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;network-interface&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;network-interface&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/network-interface&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;network-interface&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;network-interface&lt;/a&gt;? Are there other kinds of interfaces that warrant a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T16:33:22.917" Title="Clarifying the interface tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2844" CreationDate="2014-04-07T14:49:00.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that is not a bad idea, creating &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/network-interface&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;network-interface&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;network-interface&lt;/a&gt;, through we should verify what kind of questions should use the tag. I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interface&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interface&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interface&lt;/a&gt; itself should be deleted as I can't find anyone really &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/interface/topusers&quot;&gt;answering those questions&lt;/a&gt;, nor I have any idea what kind of questions I expect of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T14:49:00.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-07T15:22:23.083" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2836/tags-httpd-and-apache-synonym-candidates&quot;&gt;Tags [httpd] and [apache]: synonym candidates?&lt;/a&gt; I believe this warrants its own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt;, it is being used for several different things. Of the newest 50 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Apache HTTP Server: 43 (some ought to be retagged, because they're not really about the web server—however, they're not about any Apache Software Foundation project)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apache Tomcat: 1 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122045/apache-tomcat-not-working&quot;&gt;Apache Tomcat not working&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apache Ant: 1 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/115586/centos-how-to-update-ant-version-to-1-8-x-and-higher&quot;&gt;CentOS how to update Ant Version to 1.8.x and higher?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple Apache projects: 1 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122936/not-able-to-view-server-status&quot;&gt;Not able to view server-status&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and somehow that didn't total to 50, because I apparently can't count or add. Bravely ignoring that, the Apache HTTP Server clearly is the most frequent use of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T23:32:28.313" Title="Cleaning up the apache tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2846" CreationDate="2014-04-07T15:42:33.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest first that historically, &quot;Apache&quot; when used alone refers to the web server, and indeed still does. Consider the release announcement for 2.4.9 currently on the project's home page at &lt;a href=&quot;http://httpd.apache.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://httpd.apache.org/&lt;/a&gt;: (Other release announcements on the page call it &quot;httpd&quot; for short.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.9 of the Apache HTTP Server (&quot;Apache&quot;). This version of Apache is our latest GA release of the new generation 2.4.x branch of Apache HTTPD and represents fifteen years of innovation by the project, and is recommended over all previous releases. This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This usage is probably because Apache (the web server) has been the most popular web server on the Internet since before the Apache Software Foundation existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that means it'd be hard to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; mean anything but the web server; it'd be a constant battle against new mistagged questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, most of the questions people would probably have about the Apache Software Foundation (how does my project join, how do I join an ASF project, etc.) are off-topic here. The relationship between Apache projects is non-technical as well. Just because you're an expert with Ant, doesn't mean you have a clue about OpenOffice. It's no more a useful tag than, say, &quot;microsoft&quot; would be. If there are on-topic questions about the ASF, then it seems &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-foundation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-foundation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-foundation&lt;/a&gt; or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-software-foundation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-software-foundation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-software-foundation&lt;/a&gt; would be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tomcat should probably be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-tomcat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-tomcat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-tomcat&lt;/a&gt;, probably with a synonym from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tomcat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tomcat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tomcat&lt;/a&gt;. Or maybe the other way around; only the latter actually has questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ant should probably be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-ant&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-ant&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-ant&lt;/a&gt;. There aren't any questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ant&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ant&lt;/a&gt;, so I see no need for a synonym there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we do decide to retag the web server to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt; then we need to get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; entirely. Otherwise, we'll have to be constantly retagging. Wouldn't be surprised if we even need it blacklisted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-software-foundation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-software-foundation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-software-foundation&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-foundation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-foundation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-foundation&lt;/a&gt; if we find any on-topic questions actually about the ASF. (I have no idea if the ASF would accept a project named &quot;Foundation&quot;. If they did, then the latter tag would be confused again.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't see any reason to tag a question ASF just because it talks about an ASF project, any more than I think it'd make since to tag one Microsoft (more on Stack Overflow or Super User, of course).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T15:42:33.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2849" CreationDate="2014-04-07T21:03:26.947" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited this question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/67577/network-naming-on-arch-linux&quot;&gt;Network naming in Arch Linux&lt;/a&gt; and, as the original tags did not fully describe the range of issues at play, I included a couple more, most notably &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/systemd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;systemd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;systemd&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/udev&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;udev&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;udev&lt;/a&gt;: both of which are essential to the Arch networking stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user removed these tags and left a comment reproving me for adding them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt; please, don't add tags focusing on the kind of answer it will gather, but in the question itself.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting aside for the moment the applicability, or otherwise, of these tags for this question, the more general principle that this approach suggests is that the choice of tags should be circumscribed by the questioner's ignorance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if someone doesn't know that the X server is running their display and they have a question about logging in to a black screen but they don't include &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xorg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xorg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xorg&lt;/a&gt;, then it shouldn't be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By adding additional tags I haven't tampered with the questioner's original intent (or, indeed with the question itself), but added to the &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; metadata attached to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: should tags only be added that are already explicitly included in the question. And, if not, how much discretion do we have to include additional tags that provide relevant context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T18:16:47.393" Title="Should tags only reflect content in the original question?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2848" CreationDate="2014-04-07T21:37:09.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main function of tags on the site is to allow experts to follow tags that they're able to answer questions about. (They additionally can be used for several other things, like searching, but fulltext and Google do a better job of searching.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given, this isn't so important on our fairly small site; it was functionality developed for much larger sites, like Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to determine if a question should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/systemd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;systemd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;systemd&lt;/a&gt; you'd ask yourself, &quot;is this question something that is within the unique expertise of a systemd expert?&quot; The person asking the question takes the initial stab at this, but its ultimately up to the rest of the community how questions are tagged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trivial example: if a person asks about getting a script to run every 30 minutes, its appropriate to retag to include &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cron&lt;/a&gt; even though the OP has obviously never heard of cron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2014-04-08T20:00:33.983" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T20:00:33.983" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2851" CreationDate="2014-04-10T09:09:57.417" Score="2" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=votes&quot;&gt;unanswered list with the most vote&lt;/a&gt; the top question :&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/43883/53092&quot;&gt;Completing avfs fake directories in zsh&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;appears asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/2180/shawn-j-goff&quot;&gt;Shawn J. Goff&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L6se7.png&quot; alt=&quot;extract of the top voted unanswered question with the above mentioned question&quot;&gt;&#xA;Then when you open the question there's no answer no comment no edit and it appears asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TKEWu.png&quot; alt=&quot;the core of the question that shows what describe before.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As both user are still active could it result from a bug or an edition by a moderator ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And who's the OP ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same happen with all the quesitons of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T23:26:17.997" Title="does that question show a bug in asker identity?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2850" CreationDate="2014-04-10T14:15:00.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=votes&quot;&gt;unanswered list with the most vote&lt;/a&gt; the top question :&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/43883/53092&quot;&gt;Completing avfs fake directories in zsh&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;appears asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/2180/shawn-j-goff&quot;&gt;Shawn J. Goff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't, actually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DvLHN.png&quot; alt=&quot;modified Feb 14 at 14:24&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means Shawn J. Goff was the last person to have activity in the thread. In this case, he edited the answer that was there, but that answer was deleted the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T14:15:00.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2846" CreationDate="2014-04-10T23:32:28.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a second thread is needed, but whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; is almost exclusively used to mean the Apache web server, with the occasional use for other Apache project. So we should rename the tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-httpd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-httpd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/a&gt; and keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym. That way, if someone types &lt;code&gt;apache&lt;/code&gt;, they get the appropriate tag for the web server; in the rare case where that isn't what they meant, they'll see the tag being rewritten. The synonym is also useful in case of incoming migrations from &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;; an &lt;code&gt;apache-2.2&lt;/code&gt; synonym would be useful for migrations from &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/apache-2.2&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;. (I don't think we need to distinguish between Apache versions on U&amp;amp;L.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's assuming we don't keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; to mean what “Apache” usually means. I favor the longer tag only because it has the shorter name as a substring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tomcat is rarely called “Apache Tomcat”, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tomcat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tomcat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tomcat&lt;/a&gt; is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few questions about Ant but no tag; I think either &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-ant&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-ant&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-ant&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ant&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ant&lt;/a&gt; would do, with a preference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ant&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ant&lt;/a&gt; like on SO (and either way, a synonym).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T23:32:28.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2848" CreationDate="2014-04-12T17:47:50.183" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, let act like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory#Definition_and_scope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rational people&lt;/a&gt; and compare the benefits/costs of adding the tags the way you are doing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I won't argue the fact that udev/systemd is relevant for the context of the question. But, I would argue that you shouldn't just narrow down the topic to just that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/67588/41104&quot;&gt;Alex answer&lt;/a&gt; which doesn't do mention of systemd nor udev, and was able to provide an answer. If the tagging was done in the start and he was ignoring either udev or systemd tag, conscientiously or inconscientiously, he wouldn't be able to share the knowledge he has. This would be prejudicial for SE which objective is sharing knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is in our hands explain OP showing the world parting from &lt;strong&gt;his point of view&lt;/strong&gt;. It doesn't matter how good you write an answer if OP himself wouldn't be able to understand how to arrive to the conclusions you have made, and is a fatal mistake presume OP's has other knowledge related to the question he's about to ask. If you don't take into account this, your answer will be rather pointless for OP and any answerer that write a suboptimal answer but it clarifies the OP doubt would be more beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remember that tags is the answer to &amp;quot;is my question about ... ?&amp;quot;. OP doesn't even know what udev is, nor understand systemd. The scope of his question is within the realm of &amp;quot;Arch Linux&amp;quot; with the subset of &amp;quot;networking&amp;quot; and the &amp;quot;ifupdown&amp;quot; scripts. Any answer that doesn't take into account this and guides OP to the real causes of his issues will be undeniably a bad answer for the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The marginal gains of including more tags is infinitesimally less that the marginal costs of narrowing down the topic. If I could perfectly offer a valid answer without involving udev/systemd and don't do that because the udev or systemd tags or worse, someone looking for the same information but knows what is udev/systemd and is looking for an answer that doesn't involve either, will evade that question because it will interpret that all answers will to some extent touch the topic of udev/systemd which he's not looking for. This would produce a possible duplicated to the same question which could be avoided in the first place with a correct tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More tags means more people might view the question, yes, but it also means that if you narrow it down too much, is more likely people will not look at the question. Is a double-edged sword. That I know enough about a topic, doesn't mean that I will know about all the possibles branch of the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, you didn't need systemd nor udev tags to find the question, which means that is very likely that the tagging was done perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is true that you can use as many tags as you like, but keep them &lt;strong&gt;pertinent/relevant to the question asked&lt;/strong&gt;. This goes both ways: that I want to install something from source and I incidentally used firefox to download it doesn't mean that the question needs the firefox tag; that incidentally the question is related to udev/systemd but isn't included in the body of the question nor interactions with OP makes you think he has knowledge about it doesn't meant that you should tag it with udev/systemd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59334/213575&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59334/213575&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T18:16:47.393" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-14T18:56:08.250" Score="8" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prelude:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2642/how-do-we-feel-about-requests-for-learning-materials&quot;&gt;How do we feel about requests for learning materials?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm tagging this as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; since there was already previous discussion about the topic, but recent events may need further discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposal is composed of two changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explicitly add in the help center, on/off topic help pages and tour that we don't like learning material requests.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add an off-topic reason that specifically address this issue (exact wording could be found in SU/Programers and other SE sites, so we could just copy them).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you see the worth in this change? It's necessary? Do you have another idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T13:49:05.377" Title="Add specific close reason and explicit point in the help pages for learning material requests" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|close-reasons|help-center|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2863" CreationDate="2014-04-14T19:03:35.620" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know if the following question was on topic here. I asked this on SU somewhile back and it was closed as off topic. The revisions of the question are &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/posts/676348/revisions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, below is the original question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does there exist a tablet that will run linux natively?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't need recommendations, I just wanted to know if there exists a tablet that runs or can run linux natively (not sandboxed in the host os) with documented confirmation, and/or instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me be crystal clear: I'm not talking about Android tablets. If you answer this question by saying Android IS Linux I will downvote your answer into oblivion (I suspect those will be comments now). It's fine if it's an Android tablet with documented instructions on installing Linux and removing Android, but I'm not referring to running Linux Deploy within Android, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care about a specific distro at this point, although I am partial to debian based distros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36126" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T05:24:29.067" Title="Topic clarification: Native Linux tablets" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2871" CreationDate="2014-04-14T22:36:35.887" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love wondershaper, as it prevents me from abusing my little cheap bandwidth/router, but when I try to know how it does I'm suddenly immersed into tc output which looks alien to me and left me with this bad taste that I couldn't get rid of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through the manual of tc is complete in the &quot;usage&quot; part, it lacks of information in the &quot;how to check how awesome I am fairing&quot; department (the statistics section is one line long). Can I ask this question or should I drown myself in documentation (I'm sure is somewhere, but whenever I google for it I only find how to create and manage the rules)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T22:59:34.307" Title="Is &quot;How do I read/interpret X command output?&quot; a fair question?" Tags="|discussion|scope|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-04-15T10:57:37.973" Score="24" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyjmCg_VMU0#t=30&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smash it up!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like &lt;em&gt;destruction.&lt;/em&gt; Not in the smash-it-up kinda way, though that can have its finer points, but more as the reverse of &lt;em&gt;construction.&lt;/em&gt; I like things &lt;em&gt;broken&lt;/em&gt; into &lt;em&gt;pieces&lt;/em&gt; - not just &lt;em&gt;broken&lt;/em&gt; - because I like to know what goes on inside a thing that makes it tick in the first place. If I'm lucky - and I rarely am - I do get it back together in much the same shape as I found it. But regardless of how successful I am at &lt;em&gt;reconstructing&lt;/em&gt;, the chances are always pretty good I'll learn something worthwhile during the &lt;em&gt;destruction.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, I think, is why I like Unix - particularly Linux. I like to tear it to pieces and hopefully find out in the aftermath what those pieces did. It teaches me a lot about how computers work. It teaches more, better, and faster than any other system I've ever worked with. I really like to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57RIlznOpDM#t=31&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Early days...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My dad still tells the story of my parents' first microwave. I was barely 3 years old. My younger sister was nearly 2. My mother and father brought the machine home and propped it up on the kitchen table. Neither had ever had a microwave oven before. They didn't know really how one would work. They sat there, reading the instruction manual to each other, and generally poking at it. Eventually they got the hang of it and they put it up - but I sat quietly nearby listening and watching the entire time they were educating themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next morning my father awoke to the smell of smoke. He went into the kitchen and found that I had decided to cook my sister's breakfast for her - froot loops. Spoon, milk, and all. The reflection from the spoon was of course devastating to the microwave after several minutes cooking the cereal. My dad says today that I might not have lived to see my fourth year if Sear's hadn't taken that microwave back. He'll go on to tell you what a near thing it was for me as well when he found my peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the vcr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykLs#t=57&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;My first computer...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always liked tech. I like buttons. I like &lt;em&gt;rules.&lt;/em&gt; My first experience with computers was around the age of 9 or so, I think. My father invested more than $3,000 &lt;em&gt;(borrowed)&lt;/em&gt; dollars into a 486DX33 with a Diamond Viper VESA video card. It had 8 megabytes of RAM, a 128 megabyte hard drive, and an internal USR 9600 bps dial-up modem. The Intel DX chips came with a built-in math co-processor - this was high-tech stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The video card, math-coprocessor, and modem were all very important to my father because he wanted to learn to trade commodity &lt;em&gt;futures&lt;/em&gt; - like stock-trading but with soybeans or pork-bellies. He had all the books, and now he could draw up his own charts. Computer-use was not a foreign concept to Dad - he was and is an architect. He had the chart stuff pretty much down pat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wasn't very familiar with the command-line though. I think it was DOS 4 we had then, and Windows 3.0. One day he brought home a floppy-disk that was given to him by a colleague for my sake - it was Wolfenstein 3D. That did it. His colleague, I afterward learned, ran a 2-line BBS out of his home, and I was soon a daily-dialing member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I played Wolfenstein - and it was &lt;em&gt;awesome.&lt;/em&gt; Plenty of destruction was had. I also had to configure the high-mem and EGA/VGA graphics settings upon boot - at that time, if you wanted to use anything greater than the first 256KB of your memory, you had to deal with &lt;code&gt;hi-mem.sys&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;config.sys&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;autoexec.bat&lt;/code&gt;. I learned these things - at age 9 - and it wasn't long before my father was asking me how a thing should be done on the computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-XuMvxi-vc#t=11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The devil's party-line...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the BBSs - I dug up the phone numbers to as many as I could find. I played &lt;em&gt;Trade Wars 2002&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Legend of the Red Dragon&lt;/em&gt; - those two were my favorites, but there were others. Also, I eventually learned of and did my best to subscribe to members' only &lt;em&gt;pirate&lt;/em&gt; BBSs. My goal was selfish - I wanted to download free video games. But it was at that time that I first got a glimpse of the hacker society, and I first learned that some people thought software should be &lt;em&gt;free.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to steal AOL. I would use the free AOL disks you could get pretty much anywhere and use the 100 or so minutes they'd give you for free completely up before creating a new account and ... you know, rinse, repeat. The thing is - I was not yet a teenager, and the AOL sign-up process required a credit card to complete. I had no such thing. But what I did have was some crappy script - which I downloaded from AOL - that would randomly generate me a usable credit card number once in every ten or so tries. So I used that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong - I don't condone stealing, not in the way I used to - but there were some involved with those BBSs that did what they did as a matter of &lt;em&gt;principle.&lt;/em&gt; Whether or not their principles were a little skewed I cannot say - my impression of them remains to this day only what I could take away at nine and ten years old. But it has lasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9drameYoMek#t=61&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pirates!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing I downloaded from AOL was a little program called &lt;em&gt;DisEase&lt;/em&gt;. The computers at school were Macs. Mr. Wolfe, my literature teacher, would occasionally reward an especially good book report with a short while playing &lt;em&gt;Sid Meyers' Pirates!&lt;/em&gt;. I thought that game was &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; - but I couldn't be bothered to write a book report. Hence, &lt;em&gt;DisEase.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, their idea of security was a login manager called &lt;em&gt;At Ease.&lt;/em&gt; If I plugged in my &lt;em&gt;DisEased&lt;/em&gt; floppy and rebooted the machine, &lt;em&gt;DisEase&lt;/em&gt; would spit out their password - which I guess they all shared. So every spare moment in my eighth-grade year I was playing &lt;em&gt;Sid Meyers' Pirates!&lt;/em&gt; - book reports be &lt;em&gt;damned&lt;/em&gt;! Though, as I later found out, I could have been editing my report card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I was just a kid, too, you know. I told other kids. They told on me. I was hauled out of the principal's office one day late that school year in handcuffs. The school district settled with my father - and - maybe because he felt a little responsible, though he shouldn't have - Mr. Wolfe got me my first job at his brother-in-law's garden nursery. And I spent the whole summer working to pay for the IT crew they brought in to me-proof their computer systems. They rejected outright my own counterbid for the work. I spent my 13th birthday that August watering azaleas and day-dreaming of &lt;em&gt;DOOM&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjCDeXXvTTc#t=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scholastically...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My teenage years tended to separate me from my geekdom, I think. I never lost track of it, but it was cooler to wire car-audio, or to hit the bong. I did both things. I got my GED at sixteen after the latter thing saw me out of school at fifteen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried college at sixteen and seventeen, but for the same reasons I didn't want to go to high-school, I didn't much want to go to college either. Any class in which I was enrolled and for which the prof kept attendance I inevitably failed. The others, though, I aced. And that's how I squandered my first scholarship, which was awarded me for an outstanding score on the GED in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was several years later - while enlisted in the US Army - when I finally tried again at the school thing and met with some success. Today I have an associate's degree in nothing in particular and several it certs - but nothing outstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdILQwlP_pk#t=60&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Professionally...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I worked, pretty much, from age 13 on with few breaks. Restaurants. Gas stations. Garages. No tech. But I would always wind up helping the bosses understand their computers at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually I started selling cellular phones. I did very well. I was always - for the entire year and a half I held the job - the monthly number one cellular salesman in my &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Electronics&lt;/em&gt; region. That experience brought me the opportunity to work for my uncle at 321Studios selling wholesale his company's flagship product &lt;em&gt;DVD X Copy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't very good at the wholesale thing - there were four of us in wholesale sales, and I was barely 20 years old when I started the job, while the rest were all seasoned professionals. I was the &lt;em&gt;nephew&lt;/em&gt; so they would try to help me in the hopes that my uncle would notice - also, I wasn't exactly unlikable. I was fun, if mostly wrong-headed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4BSpuR-Rw#t=46&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quid pro quo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In searching for affiliate deals I became an associate of Jim McMahon of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorgeeks.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MajorGeeks.com&lt;/a&gt;. We advertised on his site, offered the shareware version of our product for download there, and he collected commission on any conversions tracked to his affiliate link. He's a very nice guy, by the way - and if you ever get him on the phone he'll likely tell you a longer and much more interesting story than this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His was not the only site I landed. Though it was Jim who introduced me to another man, whose name I now forget, who brought up a very interesting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He said, &amp;quot;So when I download your software from your website I'm asked to opt-in or out of the receipt of emails from your company promoting your product. But I never receive any emails. I think I could write those emails for you,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;if you'll allow me to promote other software alongside your own.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was curious to me, and I brought it to my boss, who was also intrigued. But he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We don't need that guy! We have an entire Creative Department! We can write our own newsletter!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRc_yreVl78#t=10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Damned if you do...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my cousin was head of the &lt;em&gt;entire Creative Department&lt;/em&gt; and my uncle liked to keep his son busy. There was little chance of my sneaking through my own project. So I quit going to work for a couple weeks. I holed up at home in my underwear reading every article I could digest at &lt;em&gt;webmonkey.com.&lt;/em&gt; I did manage to get my cousin's employee - Pete - to do a &lt;em&gt;Photoshopped&lt;/em&gt; mockup of what he thought a &lt;em&gt;lorem-ipsum 321Studios&lt;/em&gt; newsletter might look like. I took it and dissected it, wrote the material, and wrote the CSS and HTML I was then learning to make it work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I showed up to work a couple weeks later. I had been &lt;em&gt;missed&lt;/em&gt;. My uncle told me the newsletter would go out to our some 500,000 opt-in subscribers the coming Friday afternoon, and I had better hope it worked out because, in the event it didn't, I would need another job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, luckily for me, it was a smashing success! Our web-sales were some 2.5 times their weekend norms. And, of course, those numbers did not maintain - we soon saturated our target audience with weekly editions. I received my own commission for every box sold through my own affiliate link. And, more importantly, I got to keep my job, and now I was the &lt;em&gt;newsletter editor.&lt;/em&gt; This was influential to me, because our business was not that of your average software company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qoGqVq9EXw#t=38&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;David v. Goliath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, our software &lt;em&gt;DVD X Copy&lt;/em&gt; was a point-and-click Windows-friendly &lt;em&gt;decss&lt;/em&gt; complete product. You could take an encrypted Hollywood disc, pop it in your DVD-reader, feed your DVD-writer a blank disc, click the big, green &amp;quot;COPY!&amp;quot; button and 20 minutes or so later you had a decrypted copy of that movie. Hollywood was not a fan of &lt;em&gt;DVD X Copy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were big too - we had our own shelf in Wal-Mart nationwide. International distribution deals, even. Uncle Robert used to fly a helicopter to work. 321Studios did very well for awhile - but it couldn't last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My uncle was very aware of the possible legal ramifications involved with marketing a post-DMCA software product that subverted commercial encryption techniques, regardless of the encryption's efficacy. My uncle was a &lt;em&gt;ballsy&lt;/em&gt; man - he preemptively sued Hollywood. Much of 321Studios' profits were invested in the legal ordeal. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_X_Copy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anticipating a lawsuit by the major Hollywood motion picture studios,&#xA;in April 2002, 321 Studios filed a pre-emptive complaint against eight&#xA;Hollywood studios contending that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act&#xA;(DMCA), a law that prohibits the circumvention of copy protection&#xA;technology, violates consumer rights as provided in the Fair Use&#xA;doctrine of the Copyright Act of 1976. The Fair Use doctrine provides&#xA;individuals with limited rights to copy certain forms of copyrighted&#xA;material. The complaint named MGM Studios, Tristar Pictures, Columbia&#xA;Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Time Warner Entertainment,&#xA;Disney Enterprises, Universal City Studios, The Saul Zaentz Company&#xA;and Pixar Corporation as defendants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that first edition newsletter, Uncle Robert made it clear to me that, though I would be responsible for ensuring it continued to be an earner, the weekly newsletter's primary focus must be raising awareness for &lt;em&gt;Fair Use&lt;/em&gt;. And so, at age 20 and 21 I had the privilege of interacting with and publishing the EFF's Lawrence Lessig among others; I regularly featured news articles surrounding all types of &lt;em&gt;Fair Use&lt;/em&gt; issues of the day; I often shadow-wrote Robert's own message to our customers - though he always tailored the message in some way; I sponsored &lt;em&gt;Write Your Congressman&lt;/em&gt; campaigns - and interacted personally with a few of them, not to mention publishing their responses when they could be had. It was a very &lt;em&gt;political&lt;/em&gt; thing - and it all surrounded the notion of &lt;em&gt;freedom of information&lt;/em&gt;. Again, this was &lt;em&gt;influential&lt;/em&gt; to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY#t=12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This, too, shall pass...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said, though, it couldn't last. What kept 321Studios afloat throughout its costly legal ordeal was its profits from the sale of our product. As soon as the judge ruled for an injunction against our sale of it, 321Studios effectively folded. Though the legal battle was never officially lost, it might as well have been because once we sold off the last of our flagship &lt;em&gt;DVD X Copy&lt;/em&gt; product one week following the judge's injunction, there was no hope of maintaining the fight because, from that point on, there was no way to pay for it. And that marked the end of my &lt;em&gt;political&lt;/em&gt; career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I was a wholesale sales agent. And the injunction named only &lt;em&gt;321Studios.&lt;/em&gt; I did have a few regular distribution deals with resellers, which is not to mention a few more very short-term deals I negotiated in that last week we were still legally allowed to sell the software. The way it worked out was we did better business in that last week, than probably we had done in the entire previous fiscal quarter. My commission check for that last week was close to $40,000 - before taxes, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1lNqi3AXE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Be All That You Can Be...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there I was - jobless, barely of drinking age, living on my own in a rented house only a short walk's distance to at least three different bars. I did a lot of walking. Six months later, when most of the money was spent, I knew I had to find another job. I didn't much like the idea of looking, though, and while half-heartedly trying I passed an Army recruiter's office. &amp;quot;I bet,&amp;quot; I thought, &amp;quot;they'll give me a job!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spent the next six years maintaining electronics and weapons systems on the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior observational attack helicopter for my US Army. I saw the tops of mountains and the business end of a grenade launcher. I lived in Hawaii and Alaska. I flew &lt;em&gt;everywhere.&lt;/em&gt; I got a degree on the Army's dime. I got married and divorced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While taking an introductory Python course I also took a college algebra course. My math class turned out to be repetitive applications of a single formula per lesson. My Python class wound up doing my math class's homework. And it did so in Ubuntu Linux. My first installation of which was - I believe - 6.04. I kept up with Ubuntu until around 8.04 - I think. And then I started experimenting with Debian proper - but not for long. Soon I was tired of the whole Debian backports game, so I played with Crux, then settled on, at last Arch Linux. This was several years ago. It's my goto still today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like Arch because I like to tear it apart, and it comes apart very willingly. Not many others do, you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll edit this some more later, I guess. It's quite enough for now, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T01:48:01.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-15T18:24:59.407" Score="14" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little while ago, the new design for &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;our blog&lt;/a&gt; went up. I've now published the &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.blogoverflow.com/2014/04/getting-started-with-version-controlled-configurations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;first post&lt;/a&gt;, so let's write! Remember that even if something would be closed on the main site, it might still make a really good blog post (or series of blog posts)! This is an awesome community; we can come up with lots of juicy stuff to write about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you didn't know we had a blog, and are interested in writing, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2649/starting-a-blog-part-3&quot;&gt;the spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt; to sign up. We could always use more writers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T04:43:54.510" Title="Call For Papers: the blog is ready!" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-15T18:27:39.307" Score="7" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though the blog &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2859/call-for-papers-the-blog-is-ready&quot;&gt;is online&lt;/a&gt;, the &quot;blog&quot; link in the top bar dropdown still points to blog.stackexchange.com. It should be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T06:45:21.873" Title="The blog link still points to the main Stack Exchange blog" Tags="|feature-request|bug|blog|top-bar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-15T22:48:18.633" Score="19" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest unaliasing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libreoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libreoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libreoffice&lt;/a&gt; tag from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;openoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;openoffice&lt;/a&gt;. The two codebases are diverging more and more and LibreOffice is getting more attention in most cases. Also see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/614/22886&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/614/22886&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T21:22:46.957" Title="Unalias libreoffice from the openoffice tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2859" CreationDate="2014-04-17T04:43:54.510" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't intend on posting, you might want to drop by and at least leave a comment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T04:43:54.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2855" CreationDate="2014-04-17T05:24:29.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course a Q&amp;amp;A site about &lt;code&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/code&gt; might include people that know an answer to your question, but that is not the criterion on which to judge whether the question is appropriate here or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would vote to close¹ such a question as off-topic as it doesn't seem to match any of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;topics you can ask about on Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt;. If you decide to post here, including which of the categories as mentioned in the help you think this your question matches would of course be possible (and if you can't find a matching one, you should be able to draw your own conclusions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;If posted with the wording of the original question, I would also downvote into oblivion.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T05:24:29.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-04-17T09:18:36.820" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fishshell.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUYNc.png&quot; alt=&quot;friendly interactive shell&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45324" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T09:18:36.820" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-17T09:18:36.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2866" CreationDate="2014-04-18T11:43:40.227" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days earlier, I came to know about this feature of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;. I am not sure whether it was present earlier also or has been added recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;number&lt;/strong&gt; of votes for each question/answer can be clicked and it shows number of UPvotes and DOWNvotes separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this feature is not there here in Unix and Linux site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that feature is good and can be introduced here also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: I know I am not a very frequent visitor here, still wanted to put forward the suggestion, because this site along with AskUbuntu has helped me in some real problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43840" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T06:06:06.560" Title="Why is the number of votes not clickable on this SE site?" Tags="|support|user-interface|votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2014-04-18T13:40:35.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That feature is unlocked when you get to a particular level of rep (1000).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-user&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a browser plugin you can install (I have it installed in Chrome) which &quot;unlocks&quot; this feature independent of what your rep happens to be on an SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the stackapp that allows for this feature w/o 1000 rep: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/3082/view-vote-totals-without-1000-rep&quot;&gt;“View Vote totals” without 1000 rep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T14:14:20.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-18T18:52:15.793" Score="4" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally when I click the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; link I'll see questions from long ago float up to the top. I only see it from time to time but I was wondering what caused it. The latest one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125429/tracking-down-where-disk-space-has-gone-on-linux&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which was at the top of that page for me and is from clear back in 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after posting I'm seeing where it was migrated just a few minutes ago. I'm going to assume this is the likely cause of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T22:28:28.927" Title="Why do old questions pop up from time to time?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2014-04-18T18:52:53.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's one of the privileges that are unlocked when you have a certain minimum level of rep. It's on a per-site basis, so having the privilege on one site does not automatically provide the same privilege on other sites - unless you already have the requisite rep on the other sites. You are already well past the requirement on Stack Overflow, but have a ways to go on any of the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges page&lt;/a&gt; outlines the available privileges and corresponding rep requirements. The &lt;em&gt;Established User&lt;/em&gt; privilege requires 1000 rep, which you haven't yet reached on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31784" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T18:52:53.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2867" CreationDate="2014-04-18T19:30:38.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they have been edited, they appear on the front page, of course. Additionally, if the questions do not have an accepted answer, they are occasionally brought back to the front page, presumably so as to get them some attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T19:30:38.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2867" CreationDate="2014-04-18T22:26:04.433" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;community user&lt;/a&gt; also pushes old posts back to the front page. See its profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hi, I'm not really a person.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;I'm a background process that helps keep this site clean!&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I do things like:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;   * Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T22:26:04.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2857" CreationDate="2014-04-20T22:59:34.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've looked at the official documentation and you don't understand it or it doesn't have the information you want, then sure, go ahead and ask. That's kinda the whole point of having Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T22:59:34.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2854" CreationDate="2014-04-21T01:07:34.263" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why should we have a specific close reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/186530/what-close-reason-for-polling-questions&quot;&gt;that's the suggestion on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. But I disagree, because this is not a site-specific policy, it's a general thing everywhere on Stack Exchange that tutorial requests don't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While none of the built-in close reasons are a perfect fit, I go with “too broad” or “primarily opinion-based” with an explanatory comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already a help center page: “&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T01:07:34.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2884" CreationDate="2014-04-22T06:39:06.977" Score="8" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/delete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;delete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remove&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remove&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remove&lt;/a&gt; seem like the most useless things to me. They fail the adjective test (or whatever it's called): a question tagged with nothing but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/delete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;delete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remove&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remove&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remove&lt;/a&gt; tells you nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we burninate these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastEditorUserId="29146" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T21:36:02.240" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T21:36:02.240" Title="Let's burninate [delete] and [remove]" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-22T06:49:14.827" Score="24" ViewCount="644" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;Unix C API calls ontopic?&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )&quot; is explicitly on topic. That within reason links to the meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125744/mounting-a-file-system-using-a-c-program&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125744/mounting-a-file-system-using-a-c-program&lt;/a&gt; seems to be within that. Note that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;mount(2)&lt;/code&gt; seems like a common UNIX interface. Well, it's a Linux-ism, though the API is at least similar on e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount&amp;amp;sektion=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FreeBSD&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think it falls under &quot;very different systems like Cocoa.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;shell interfaces tend to be pretty close to the syscall interfaces&quot; definitely applies here; more or less the &lt;code&gt;mount(8)&lt;/code&gt; utility takes the exact same parameters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't require any real knowledge of C, or of programming. It's the same knowledge you'd need to, for example, understand the output of &lt;code&gt;strace /sbin/mount …&lt;/code&gt;. So, it seems to follow the guideline given:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The guideline is: will the question interest only programmers, or also users and administrators? A sysadmin debugging why a server won't start with truss/strace output is on-topic here. A programmer debugging why his kernel module is causing an OOPS is off-topic. &lt;em&gt;(From Gilles' answer to the meta question).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as I was writing this, it was closed &amp;amp; migrated to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand—it seems to clearly follow the rule spelled out in the Help Center, seems to follow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/315/977&quot;&gt;+13/-0 consensus written by Gilles&lt;/a&gt; and linked into the rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet it was closed. With a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/125744/revisions&quot;&gt;vote from Gilles&lt;/a&gt; and several other regulars no less. So either I don't understand Gilles' consensus post, or his opinion has changed—and many others' in the community, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, we need to fix something: clarify the consensus &amp;amp; the rules, change the rules to give the new consensus, or stop closing questions like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T14:08:16.420" Title="Is the Unix C API still on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|help-center|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2875" CreationDate="2014-04-22T06:56:54.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I can tell you the problem with that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem was that a UNIX C interface was the &lt;em&gt;solution&lt;/em&gt; to the question. The question was not about UNIX C APIs - not really. It was about &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; in the UNIX environment. And as the help center states, any programming question is off topic unless it contains the use of a shell script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the migration to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T06:56:54.097" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2875" CreationDate="2014-04-22T08:21:58.843" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having looked at this question, it is pretty clearly about Unix system programming, which is in C by definition, but which comprises a small subset of C programming. This belongs on a Unix site if anything does, in my opinion. I'd suggest adding a clarification/exception to the no programming rule, that Unix system programming is in scope. I agree with @derobert's implied stance that something so Unixy does belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; has the following language:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest adding Unix system programming as an explicit second exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, one could change (in the Help center)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces, including Unix system programming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I'd also add an exception for Unix kernel programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T17:32:00.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-04-22T16:46:03.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty much a beginner to the Linux environment. I started using Linux based systems only after I got a job as a systems administrator in my school. So, I efficiently got introduced to Linux on &lt;em&gt;July 31, 2013&lt;/em&gt;. From that time on, whenever I open my browser, I open 3 windows. My gmail account, my school email account and &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;AWESOME-O&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing I like about Linux is there are endless ways to do the same thing unlike Windows. I personally would like to thank my current job which allowed me to explore deep into many things and giving me the much needed confidence. I am not a good programmer in java which gives me creeps whenever I wanted to get an input, though I did most of my school projects in Java.  But with shell scripting, I feel the passion inside me asking to explore more and more and thus giving me the much needed confidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off late, it has become an obsession for me to just browse through the questions and read the answers though occasionally I answer some of them. The wonderful thing I like about &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;AWESOME-O&lt;/a&gt; is, people are really helpful. I never felt discouraged here. If I answer something wrongly or ask a dumb question, instead of constant downvoting, people actually point out what aspect is wrong in the question and give me constructive criticism, which I feel is a major advantage over other stack exchange sites. It always encourages me to do my research properly before posting something bluntly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even have changed my career ambition from looking for a software engineer job to something more of a systems engineer job. I am pretty sure that Linux is the way to go and in the coming years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My future goal is to contribute at least a package or fix for software bugs in Linux thus giving back something useful to the community which has always given me the best.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T16:46:03.680" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2874" CreationDate="2014-04-23T10:33:29.520" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/remove&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;remove&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;remove&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/delete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;delete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt;, which have indistinguishable meanings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please refrain from indiscriminately removing these tags&lt;/strong&gt;. While they are perhaps not right, they do carry some meaning — the question is about removing something. They are somewhat useful in searches, at least. They don't really fail the “adjective test” — a question can be said to be &lt;em&gt;about deleting something&lt;/em&gt;, which isn't that far from being &lt;em&gt;about deleting&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before removing these tags, we need to work out what kinds of things are being removed and what tags to use instead of these generic tags to convey this (if getting rid of the generic tags is indeed the right way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T10:33:29.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2874" CreationDate="2014-04-24T14:03:25.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following Gilles, let me see if we can reach an agreement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about deleting an array of files using the command line, remove delete/remove and use command line. This is because I could turn the question around and say that I need to create an array of files using the command line, and in principle, it would be almost the same procedure just with a different goal. Case point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remove all files named asdf001 through adsf050.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create all files named asdf001 through adsf050.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's about removing an specific file which can't be removed, I would say that filesystem can be applied to the question, maybe kernel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's about removing specific lines of a file, it could have text processing. If it's about removing specific lines of a files using X tool, it should have the tag of the tool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T14:03:25.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2883" CreationDate="2014-04-24T19:00:25.463" Score="4" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-disk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-disk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-disk&lt;/a&gt; with close to 300 questions about hard disks. There's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hdd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hdd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hdd&lt;/a&gt; with another six questions on hard disks, and I'm not aware of any other common meaning of &quot;hdd&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to synonymize &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hdd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hdd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hdd&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-disk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-disk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-disk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40798" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T19:22:59.747" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T19:22:59.747" Title="&quot;hdd&quot; should be a synonym of &quot;hard-disk&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2882" CreationDate="2014-04-24T19:18:32.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;And this is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;. I just retagged all the questions which is applicable the tag. Along the way I removed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drive&lt;/a&gt; tags. Wait until 00:00 UTC for the changes being done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T19:21:51.983" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T19:21:51.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2874" CreationDate="2014-04-24T20:48:13.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've removed a bunch of them, where the other tags (or some tags I can readily think of and add) convey enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can indeed be about (as Gilles mentions) deleting something. But that's not about &quot;deleting&quot; because they're all different. &quot;Deleting&quot; means very different things across different &lt;em&gt;somethings&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take some examples, from the current list of things tagged delete:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleting files/ directories.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preventing deleting of files/directories.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Un-deleting files.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleting email messages from an IMAP server.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete empty comments with sed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I submit that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The expert in deleting files is someone who is an expert in file management. We have a tag that fully covers that already. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;files&lt;/a&gt;. You could conceivably have an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-deletion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-deletion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-deletion&lt;/a&gt;. Preventing those files from being deleted is probably similar, but also adds in experts in backups, Samba (if applicable), and also even UX and training.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The expert in un-deleting files is the expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/data-recovery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data-recovery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;data-recovery&lt;/a&gt;. Or backups, but OP probably didn't have any.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The expert in deleting mail is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/imap&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;imap&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;imap&lt;/a&gt; expert, or maybe the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dovecot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dovecot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dovecot&lt;/a&gt; expert, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The expert in deleting comments with sed is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; expert.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these people are the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/delete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;delete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;delete&lt;/a&gt; expert. The expertise in one doesn't carry over to the other; a person could know a ton about IMAP, but be a novice at Unix file management (huge IMAP servers often do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; use file storage directly or at all; they use other data stores) or recovering deleted files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I take it as a given that when you go through the effort of retagging a question, you ought to make an effort to fix all tag problems, not just remove the one tag you're looking at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T20:48:13.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2897" CreationDate="2014-05-01T16:44:47.587" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;What differentiate the editors tag from other tags? It should be about asking for general stuff about editors (ie editor recommendation for an specific task, how to configure the default editor) or for specific editors that doesn't have their own tag (ie, how to do X in Serna (serna is an xml editor), how to configure my view in radare (a hexadecimal editor))? Should it get renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-editors&lt;/a&gt;? What is the usage of the tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="688" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T19:50:10.487" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T02:10:50.733" Title="What should the editors tag used for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2888" CreationDate="2014-05-02T02:47:37.257" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just a strange coincidence but I haven't seen any flags over the last days. Has there been a huge quality jump or one in flagging lazyness or are the mods on drugs (handling everything before the 10K users can see it) or was my flag assessment so bad that the system has decided better not to show them to me any more...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T01:59:41.263" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T01:59:41.263" Title="What has happened to flagging?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-02T02:58:51.680" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it doesn't make any sense to force me to wait three days until I can reward an existing answer. I totally see the sense of this regulation for the other cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is especially bad as it may reduce the number of cases in which this happens. Now I have to remember for two days that I wanted to give a bounty instead of just throwing some rep at the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore IMHO it doesn't make sense to show these questions in the bounty list. You even have to open them to see that the bounty has effectively already been awarded (just not technically yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T02:00:07.120" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T02:00:07.120" Title="Bounty handling: Reward existing answer" Tags="|feature-request|bounty|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2886" CreationDate="2014-05-02T03:14:16.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It changed.  See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/191638/notify-users-of-possible-reviews-on-toolbar/230726#230726&quot;&gt;Notify users of possible reviews on toolbar&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226092/lets-get-rid-of-the-10k-flag-queue&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s get rid of the 10K flag queue&lt;/a&gt; .  There is no more flag tab in the 10k tools.  Certain flagged posts (Not an answer among them) will be funneled into the VLQ review queue and handling them there will resolve the flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53706" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T03:14:16.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2890" CreationDate="2014-05-03T19:58:31.323" Score="5" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;rename, rename.ul (perl one) and mv are essentially different tools of the util-linux package (one of them isn't part of it), that though can do similar tasks (&lt;code&gt;mv&lt;/code&gt; can rename files, the same as &lt;code&gt;rename&lt;/code&gt;), they are highly specialized tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, change this back, there are 169 instances of &lt;code&gt;rename&lt;/code&gt; (the tool) used that were renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mv&lt;/a&gt; which the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rename&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rename&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rename&lt;/a&gt; tag won't be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="17390" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T20:57:39.257" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T20:57:39.257" Title="Unalias rename and mv" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2889" CreationDate="2014-05-03T21:21:37.150" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rename&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rename&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rename&lt;/a&gt; was meant to refer to the action of renaming, not the actual tool, but there's no tag wiki to be sure. I don't know where you came up with 169, but the synonym only took effect 40 times, so the rest of the time people have been choosing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rename&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rename&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rename&lt;/a&gt; to describe their problem. I dropped the synonym for now in case there's actually a need to distinguish usages of &lt;code&gt;mv&lt;/code&gt; from just generic &quot;renaming files&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T21:21:37.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2861" CreationDate="2014-05-03T21:22:46.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're separated now. Somebody will still need to go through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;openoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;openoffice&lt;/a&gt; and find any posts that are specific to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libreoffice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libreoffice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libreoffice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T21:22:46.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-04T13:53:50.940" Score="1" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ps1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ps1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ps1&lt;/a&gt; should be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/prompt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;prompt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;prompt&lt;/a&gt;. There are only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/124407/what-are-the-color-codes-that-i-can-use-in-my-ps1-prompt&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127799/how-can-i-get-my-ps1-prompt-to-show-time-user-host-directories-and-git-branch&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; using it currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3730" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T21:10:35.233" Title="Alias tag ps1 to prompt" Tags="|feature-request|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-05-04T19:56:49.683" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Who I am&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What drives me is knowledge &amp;amp; challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first started with Linux, the challenge was figuring it out, learning out all the pieces worked. Now, that's become simple, and my challenge has changed to figuring things out that nobody has tried before.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But one component of the challenge that always has been, and always will be, is making things beautiful. There are few things I hate more than an ugly design. When something in Linux is done right, it works efficiently, doesn't easily break, and is easy to understand.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the challenge thing things extends to more than just computers. I'm quite happy to tackle an ordinary puzzle :-). I've never been a big gamer. I've played video games sure, and I still do (Team Fortress 2), but they're not a big interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got Linux everwhere. At home I've got a NAS server, a general server, a router, several Raspberry Pis, couple laptops, and a desktop all running Linux (plus an Android phone, and head unit in my car). I stopped using Windows entirely around 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of the computer world, I love the outdoors. I moved to Florida because of the weather. I'm dead serious. I love being warm. I also love thunderstorms, and rain. Then there's the beach as well.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I enjoy kiteboarding, flying stunt kites, and frisbee. I also like hiking, and roller blading. Do a lot of reading too, but what computer geek doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why I'm here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All my Linux knowledge came from the community. Whether it be open source software, a man page, an IRC chat room, or a message board, almost everything I know about Linux came freely from other people. Where I am at today would not be possible without that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I believe in free knowledge.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I want to give that to other people.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But of course I don't know everything, and so I often enjoy solving the problems people post here. So I'm also here to continue my quest for knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;My history&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually had to trim this section down, as it was originally about three times as long, and I decided to spare you :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Introduction to computers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first started with computers back around 1994. It was a Hewlett Packard 486DX 33hz, with a whopping 16mb ram, a 300mb hard drive, and a 28.8kbps ISA modem (add on), running Windows 3.11.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I had used other computers before that, but they were things other people owned, and I never really used them much. But when my family got our own, I was immediately hooked. I just found it fascinating, and wanted to figure out how it worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing really spectacular for the next several years. Did a lot of messing around with computers. Parents got me my own so I'd stop breaking theirs. But still using Windows.&#xA;My first one I built used a 366mhz Celeron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Foray into Linux&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around the same time I built my first computer (late 1998), my father recommend I look into Linux. At this point I had no clue what Linux was. The only time I'd ever heard of Linux/UNIX was in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/a&gt; when Lex goes &quot;It's a UNIX system, I know this&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ordered a Debian CD (yes, I actually mail ordered a CD for a few dollars), and tried installing it. I tried several times actually. All of them complete disasters. It had no friendly installer, just this thing where you selected the packages you wanted to install. I had absolutely no clue what LILO was, and why I'd want it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In fact it was such a disaster, I gave up and went back to Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then a couple months later I was at a friend's house, and saw his PC was running not-windows. Turns out, it was Linux, specifically Mandrake. So I got a hold of Mandrake, and tried it instead.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This time it went much better. Mandrake had a nice GUI installer, and I was dropped into Gnome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the next several years, I played around with various distributions. SUSE, Debian (once I knew more, it got another shot), Slackware, &amp;amp; Gentoo. But during all this I was still dual-booting Windows. I still needed access to things that couldn't be done in Linux.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In fact I never gave up Windows entirely until around 2009. There were times when I'd have multiple machines, some of them dedicated to Linux, but I always had a Windows machine around somewhere. Though mostly this was because of work. But we're jumping way too far ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Settling into Gentoo&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we're in 2002 right now. As mentioned, I played around with several distributions, but then I tried Gentoo, and was hooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I thought I liked Gentoo because it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://funroll-loops.info/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;supposedly faster compiling everything yourself&lt;/a&gt;. But eventually I realized I liked it because it gave me control. I liked building my system from scratch, and knowing everything everything that went into it (plus other reasons, but that's irrelevant). This also provided me with a lot of knowledge about how Linux works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this day, I still use Gentoo as my primary OS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Job&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I Started my first Linux job in 2007 as a NOC tech. Basically monitoring systems and responding to alerts. Wasn't long before I was transferred onto the UNIX team, and there began my career in Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days I'm the system architect for cloud.com (division of Citrix Systems). Most of my work revolves around cloud computing, automation, and clustering (high availability, cluster filesystems, distributed computing, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/1319/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h76VJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Automation theory&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe in automating everything, thus I am very fond of scripting. I am fluent in shell script, perl, ruby, and unfortunately PHP (I was young once). I also know enough C to be able to code decently, but it's not something I do often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've worked with a lot of technologies. Solaris, FreeBSD, MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle, Bind, Postfix, OpenVPN, StrongSwan, Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, IPVS, IPTables, GlusterFS, Heartbeat, Pacemaker, Corosync, NIS, LDAP, to name a few.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But the things I work with and enjoy the most are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bash (general scripting, and ZSH for my personal shell)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VIM (&lt;code&gt;set -o vi&lt;/code&gt; and readline vi mode everywhere!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Puppet (for configuration management)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ruby (more advanced scripting &amp;amp; working with Puppet)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;High availability (load balancing, automatic recovery, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Networking (DOS prevention, WAN routing, VPNs)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Virtualization/Containerization (Cloud computing &amp;amp; Docker)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4358" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T19:56:49.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2892" CreationDate="2014-05-04T21:10:35.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just retag the two questions. Then &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ps1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ps1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ps1&lt;/a&gt; will go away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not much need for a synonym for something that is barely used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: looks like someone already has... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T21:10:35.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-06T13:50:37.023" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/124714/create-a-custom-xdg-dir-with-custom-icon&quot;&gt;previous question&lt;/a&gt; (about icons in a freedesktop compliant desktop), obvously, did not triggered anyone to answer. I suspect this is probably not the best place to ask those questions...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there a better place you know of? I once tryed to mail the freedesktop mailing list, but all I get are announces of server maintenance...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42189" OwnerDisplayName="Ninguém" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T17:12:23.720" Title="Where should I place questions about freedesktop issues?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2895" CreationDate="2014-05-06T17:12:23.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure you've asked in the right place. It may just be that no one knows how, or that it's not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T17:12:23.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2885" CreationDate="2014-05-09T02:10:50.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt; is indeed mostly if not exclusively about text editors, as the tag wiki indicates. I think I agree with renaming to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-editors&lt;/a&gt; — I can't think of many questions that could apply to a more general sense of “a program that modifies a file based on user interactions”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt; should only be used on the few questions that are about editors in general, as opposed to about a specific editor. If you have a question about Emacs, tag it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emacs&lt;/a&gt;. If you have a question about Serna, tag it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/serna&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;serna&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;serna&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples of questions that should have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about choosing the right editor for a task.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about how (a large class of) editors work, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/57705/modeless-vs-modal-editors&quot;&gt;Modeless vs modal editors&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55588/get-rid-of-files-in-kde-editors&quot;&gt;Get rid of *~ files in KDE editors&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89045/file-permissions-and-saving&quot;&gt;File permissions and saving&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about transforming text should use the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;, not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-editors&lt;/a&gt;, unless the question is specifically about doing the transformation interactively and not as part of a batch job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of cruft in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt; tag, due mainly to misuse with another editor tag. There should be very few, if any, questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emacs&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/editors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T02:10:50.733" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2900" CreationDate="2014-05-09T06:36:32.800" Score="5" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the SE network and U+L in particular, hence this is my prefered site to ask a question. I am unsure if it is &quot;okay&quot; to ask about a xen virtualization related question. Any advice much appreciated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24394" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T10:16:03.213" Title="Is U+L good to ask about virtualization and XEN?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2898" CreationDate="2014-05-09T10:16:03.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly, yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about dom0 (at least if that's a Unix system, not sure if there are choices other than Linux) are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So too, I think, are questions about the hypervisor itself at least if running under Linux or Unix. That's a part of many Linux distros, for example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about Linux or Unix guests are should be fine too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about Windows guests, probably not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternative sites would be Serverfault (if you're using Xen professionally) or Super User (especially for those Windows guest questions) . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: This is of course just my opinion. Voting will tell if the rest of the community agrees.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T10:16:03.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2903" CreationDate="2014-05-14T00:38:57.780" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was surfing through U &amp;amp; L site and stumbled upon this question titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80/recommended-reading-to-better-understand-unix-linux-internals&quot;&gt;Recommended reading to better understand Unix/Linux internals&lt;/a&gt;. According to the site's rules, the same question would have got closed if it had been asked these days. I feel it is not fair on new users if they have some questions on reading materials (provided they are not duplicate of some other question) and it gets closed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giles and slm had notified that these are old questions and may be that is the reason they are not closed. So, I will reframe my question as, if I come across such questions, can I vote to close them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T03:32:54.913" Title="why was this question not closed?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2901" CreationDate="2014-05-14T01:00:04.933" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It turns out these questions were asked when the site was in meta stage. However, if someone comes across questions that are not consistent with the site's rules they can flag the question for closing. It would also be better if users are notified in the chat window too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T01:00:04.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2901" CreationDate="2014-05-14T01:03:57.613" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As was discussed in a chat session. Questions such as this are just very old and came into existence during the site's beta or very early after the site came out of beta. They should be closed since they're primarily opinion based, just as we do with any new questions that are similar in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/conversation/closing-reading-questions&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/conversation/closing-reading-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T01:03:57.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2904" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-14T01:29:42.273" Score="6" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2642/41104&quot;&gt;previous discussion&lt;/a&gt; and one recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2901/why-was-this-question-not-closed&quot;&gt;meta question&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; seems to be the haven for that kind of question. The tag needs a revision of all its questions and we should check whether they are good or not for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below I will leave a list of questions to review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T19:48:37.340" Title="The books tag needs a revision" Tags="|discussion|tags|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2904" CreationDate="2014-05-14T01:29:42.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80&quot;&gt;Recommended reading to better understand Unix/Linux internals&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/conversation/closing-reading-questions&quot;&gt;closed per discussion on chat&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/238&quot;&gt;What is the best book to learn Linux system programming?&lt;/a&gt; also closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/422&quot;&gt;Good introduction to Subversion for inexperienced users?&lt;/a&gt;  [closed]  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2094&quot;&gt;Mono book recommendations&lt;/a&gt; [closed]  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3294&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3294&lt;/a&gt; [closed]  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4248&quot;&gt;Good free intro to Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt; [closed] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5723&quot;&gt;Looking for an old classical Unix toolkit textbook&lt;/a&gt; [open and should remain so, this one is a very specific question since it is asking for one book in particular]   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7517&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7517&lt;/a&gt; [closed]   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10531&quot;&gt;good unix troubleshooting book&lt;/a&gt;  [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13577&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13577&lt;/a&gt;  [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17002&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17002&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23283&quot;&gt;What unix certifications are available? Are there any self-taught?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/del&gt;  [not about books or learning material]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26045&quot;&gt;What do all the pictures on the front of the &amp;quot;Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook&amp;quot; represent?&lt;/a&gt; [Should be closed as a dupe of the one below] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26051&quot;&gt;What are all the items on the cover of the &amp;quot;Linux Administration Handbook&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;  [open and on topic(ish) I guess. Not a request for learning material in any case] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26428&quot;&gt;Stuck between these two books?&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34315&quot;&gt;What is the best book every Unix or Linux user should read?&lt;/a&gt; [closed] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41272&quot;&gt;Plan 9 from Bell Labs book&lt;/a&gt; [closed]  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45160&quot;&gt;Books/Resources which explain TCP/IP kernel implementation&lt;/a&gt; [closed] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48623&quot;&gt;Book or online article on analysis and tuning Linux system performance&lt;/a&gt;  [closed]  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61050&quot;&gt;Recommendation of books to setup and admin a web server in Linux&lt;/a&gt;  [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80631&quot;&gt;Is the Unix Power Tools book still relevant today?&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128125&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128125&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/del&gt; [Deleted]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T19:48:37.340" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-14T01:29:42.273" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-05-19T22:20:53.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoramagazine.org/category/general-news/fedora-this-week/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hidgm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Five Things in Fedora This Week&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T22:20:53.773" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-19T22:20:53.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-05-19T23:48:25.207" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoramagazine.org/category/general-news/fedora-this-week/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BDlbI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Five Things in Fedora This Week. Wow.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T23:48:25.207" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-19T23:48:25.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2909" CreationDate="2014-05-21T09:23:40.080" Score="14" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of answers that only provide a one to three line commands and nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is enough since the question was asked in a way that the answer is only one command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other cases these one command line answers are solving the problem, but in my opinion should explain what the command does and why it is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These answers provide help, but shouldn't they be edited so you don't need to first read the man pages of the used commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often enough these answers are flagged with &quot;it is very low quality&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now my questions what should be done with such answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do such answers have a low quality and should be flagged?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should they even be deleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should they be down voted for poor quality?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should they be as they are as long as they are not wrong?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39954" LastEditorUserId="39954" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T05:19:32.697" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T05:19:32.697" Title="Should &quot;command only&quot; answers be flagged, down voted and deleted?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2908" CreationDate="2014-05-22T09:07:04.150" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question basically asks, &quot;I think there is a command that does &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't remember which one. Which is it?&quot; In that case, an answer consisting of the command is a full answer to the question. Maybe it could be improved by a usage example, common flags, etc., but the answer is still fine. A comment (suggesting how the author can make the answer better) or edit would seem appropriate here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other times, the question is how to accomplish some task. The asker doesn't know of a command that'll accomplish it. Here, an answer including at least a short usage summary and/or example would be appreciated by the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a non-trivial use of the command (extreme example, question about a particular text processing task, answer &quot;you can use &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt; to do this.&quot;) then that's downvote and/or delete material. It's not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a trivial use of the command (example q: how do I copy a file? a: &lt;code&gt;cp&lt;/code&gt;) then I suggest that's only delete material if there is already a better answer. Especially if the better answer came first (yes, people do this). You can, as always, leave a comment suggesting how to improve the answer. You could also make it a better answer via editing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, take a look at the question. Sometimes bad questions draw bad answers. You can edit the question to improve it, or if unsalvageable downvote and/or close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there can be a blanket rule about command-only answers. Some judgment is required. Will the answer will be useful to the OP and to random people who stumble upon the question e.g., via Google? Or is it just noise? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T09:07:04.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T02:27:51.563" Score="22" ViewCount="680" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't know what kind of questions these are... well they're essentially the type asking to do their job for them. They have a task to accomplish, the task is to write a script, and they use us to write it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently (for like a couple of years), SO has been pretty harsh on these kinds of questions. In fact they have a close reason for them, but how about Unix &amp;amp; Linux? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we feel alright as a &quot;script writers service&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related previous discussions around the network, more or less about the topic or problems this behavior causes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/186575/213575&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/186575/213575&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/108552/213575&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/108552/213575&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10812/213575&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10812/213575&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/179035/213575&quot;&gt;How does &amp;quot;proof of effort&amp;quot; make a question better?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/119858/213575&quot;&gt;How can we stop help vampires?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10086/213575&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10086/213575&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T03:40:13.607" Title="How do you feel about &quot;GIVE ME TEH CODEZ&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2910" CreationDate="2014-05-27T03:04:24.487" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is a few lines of an actual script and the OP is asking for advice and guidance I'll simply echo their script back with edits/modifications made as an answer, with descriptions where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question includes a 20+ lines of code &quot;dump&quot; with little else then I'll take one of the following actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Investigate the OP to see if this is a one off type of question and then consider answering it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they've done this many times, downvote them, leave a comment asking them what they've tried and consider voting to close, assuming that it fits one of our options to do so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a partial answer explaining to them how to go about debugging their script, without digging in completely myself. Often times an answer to the effect of, enable debugging here, etc. to at least get the ball rolling in providing them some form of guidance so that they can ultimately either answer their own question(s) or give us further information so that a formal answer can be surmised.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;soapbox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the primary purposes of the SE sites is to provide help to others. To that end most/many of us are here to offer our expertise to others so that they can learn and grow as Unix professionals as well. There is no better way to mastering a discipline than to teach it, and so we should take each OP as that opportunity to do so, whether asking a highly technical question or with simple homework questions that they're struggling with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But do not let them abuse your generous gift, if you feel this way then do not offer to assist this particular OP, help one of the many others that are willing to help themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-05-27T03:14:50.327" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T03:14:50.327" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2913" CreationDate="2014-05-27T04:25:49.040" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose if I see a first post asked by a new user, I can use the edit button under the question and make the edits. Something as seen below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWSfG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the review queue, we have an option as First posts which has a gold badge for reviewing 1000 first posts. (As seen here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xnFIP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edits that I do for first posts asked by new users are calculated only from the &lt;strong&gt;review&lt;/strong&gt; panel and not if I do from the &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; under the question. Is it something that can be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S&lt;/strong&gt;: Though this question is childish, the reason is, I just want my user profile to have a flair of golden badges :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T10:08:56.457" Title="New users posts review count calculation" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2912" CreationDate="2014-05-27T05:50:59.663" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes the edits performed from the review queues is how these badge tallies get calculated. I along with other's have done many edits and unfortunately these &quot;off book&quot; edits do not count towards any review queue badges. They merely are helping with the maintenance of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is just how the system works, and I would not consider this a bug, IMO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I realize you're kidding with the flair of badges but they are a legitimate motivation, though vain, in getting people to perform various tasks within the site in specific ways, that are conducive to the care and feeding of the site. As one of the few that has almost all the review queue gold badges I understand this drive all too well and would not fault anyone for wanting to attain them 8-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just realize that they take a certain amount of discipline to acquire and there is nothing you can do except start watching the review queues like a hawk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-05-27T05:57:35.050" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T05:57:35.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2910" CreationDate="2014-05-27T07:14:27.543" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is a wiki, not a code takeaway joint. If the questioner is not interested in putting enough effort into their question to make it worthwhile for future readers, then it should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future visitors, the current community and the would-be questioner's employer or teacher will all be grateful for the intervention. And in the exceedingly rare case, the person looking for a drive-by answer may even come to understand the value in thinking for themselves.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1. But I doubt it...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T07:14:27.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2910" CreationDate="2014-05-29T03:40:13.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What bothers me is when people post what is clearly a class exercise or test question, and expect people to solve it for them so they can get credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind helping people with code they really need, particularly if I can turn it into a teaching moment to pass along knowledge. That to my mind is the beauty and value of this forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it's doing somebody's homework for them that's just wrong and I won't answer it, at least not directly and without making them think about the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56157" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T03:40:13.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2908" CreationDate="2014-05-29T03:56:50.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;People can read man pages. Sometimes all you need is to be pointed to the right command and see an example, and then you can read up on the command and learn what you need. That's at least helpful and no way should it be downvoted or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more helpful of course if people provide more guidance, but most people aren't going to do better than a man page anyway. Otherwise maybe their energy would be better spent improving the man page ;) That would have wider impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56157" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T03:56:50.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2918" CreationDate="2014-05-29T05:11:53.480" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to ask a question regarding a boot-loader program that has been written in x86 assembly language ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62096" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T16:19:45.863" Title="Assembly language question" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2917" CreationDate="2014-05-29T16:12:51.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like you want &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. Generally, programming questions belong there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception I can think of is if you're really asking questions about how your boot loader should start a Unix kernel, e.g., which &quot;command-line&quot; arguments to pass to Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it goes beyond the knowledge a sysadmin would need to configure GRUB, LILO, etc., it probably doesn't belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: You may want to review &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T16:19:45.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2912" CreationDate="2014-05-30T07:32:42.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You actually get the Steward badge for 1000 &lt;strong&gt;Reviews&lt;/strong&gt; not for Edits (although that is often a part of the process of reviewing First Posts). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For editing there is a different 'badge track' two of which you already seem to have: &quot;Editor&quot; and &quot;Strunk &amp;amp; White&quot;. At 500 total edits (induced through the review queues or by browsing), you can get the &quot;Copy Editor&quot; gold badge. You are almost 2/3 of the way there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing older posts also count against Excavator (which you have) and Archeologist (Silver).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @slm indicated, watch the queues like a hawk, or alternatively get some help. I had my computer beep at my when review tasks became available, which got me a nice position in most of the queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T10:08:56.457" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T10:08:56.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-30T11:09:32.227" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/45626/20447&quot;&gt;Output file contents while they change&lt;/a&gt; be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tail&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be easier find and much more search engine friendly. I know until the answer was provide the tag would have made any sense. But now that it has can it be tagged such. I'm assuming answers do have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/8424/44293&quot;&gt;affect&lt;/a&gt; on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20447" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T14:58:14.193" Title="Shouldn't the question &quot;Output file contents while they change&quot; be tagged &quot;tail&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2014-05-30T20:53:33.213" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question on a StackExchange site where I don't have a lot of experience, I always find it complicated to use appropriate tags. With this kind of questions on this site, you can expect that there is some tool that can help you. Only, how are you going to tag it properly if you don't know which tool to use? I would say that it makes perfectly sense to update the question-tags accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T20:53:33.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2014-05-30T21:36:25.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tail&lt;/a&gt; should exist, then it should be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;----BEGIN RANT----&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's not really to make it more searchable, it's to bring it to the attention of the &lt;code&gt;tail&lt;/code&gt; experts. (That sounds silly, which argues &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tail&lt;/a&gt; is silly, but let's ignore that.) It's really not useful for searching, because if you already know to use tail, you already know the answer. May be useful for finding duplicates, but again that's really for the expert(s) to decide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;----END RANT----&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rant now done, there is the issue of the edit queue. When something goes through the edit queue, it requires the time of two high-rep users, three if they disagree. That's the valuable thing that the &quot;too minor&quot; rule is to protect, not really the 2 rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we'd like most is if, in addition to retagging, you'd fix the other problems with the post. You'll get two rep and progress towards several badges, and most importantly make the Internet a (slightly) better place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another good option is of course to write enough good questions and answers to be able to edit without going through the review queue. Then you can make all the minor edits you'd like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you could just ignore it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T15:55:53.730" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T15:55:53.730" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-03T14:53:06.603" Score="41" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the time has come for me to step down as a community moderator here. I never ended up being as active as I intended to be, and now I have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoramagazine.org/first-thoughts-as-fedora-project-leader/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new job&lt;/a&gt; which is going to leave even less spare time. (I do plan to stay active and answer questions, particularly around Fedora!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="2511" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T15:46:19.637" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T11:15:59.747" Title="stepping down as moderator" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2924" CreationDate="2014-06-03T17:19:54.340" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;On behalf of the team here at The Stack Exchange Subterranean Lair, I'd like to thank you for all the work you've put in over the years and wish you all the best in your new job!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll kick off an election for your replacement next week, and I'll remove your diamond at its conclusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T17:19:54.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2014-06-03T17:31:14.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tail&lt;/a&gt; isn't just about the &lt;code&gt;tail(1)&lt;/code&gt; utility, but generally about keeping a file open and watching data that is appended to it — an activity which is often described in reference to &lt;code&gt;tail -f&lt;/code&gt; (as witness the names of utilities which extend &lt;code&gt;tail -f&lt;/code&gt;, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;multitail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://pjek.se/projects/colortail/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;colortail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://distanz.ch/inotail/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;inotail&lt;/a&gt;, …).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the author of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45626/output-file-contents-while-they-change&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; didn't know about this terminology, the question is about tailing a file. So &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tail&lt;/a&gt; applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've written a tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tail&lt;/a&gt;. I emphasize the tailing (follow mode) aspect — I'm not convinced we need &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/head&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;head&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;head&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tail&lt;/a&gt; tags for the &lt;code&gt;head&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tail&lt;/code&gt; utilities, as they're fairly specialized and only invite a small number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T17:31:14.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2936" CreationDate="2014-06-03T18:08:14.377" Score="15" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am really getting confused which site is used for which purpose. For example, see the questions below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From SuperUser&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/428033/why-use-the-command-apt-get-purge-remove-over-apt-get-purge-in-linux&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/questions/428033/why-use-the-command-apt-get-purge-remove-over-apt-get-purge-in-linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From AskUbuntu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/151941/how-can-you-completely-remove-a-package&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com/questions/151941/how-can-you-completely-remove-a-package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From our site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/118880/should-i-use-apt-get-remove-or-apt-get-purge&quot;&gt;Should I use &amp;quot;apt-get remove&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;apt-get purge&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the questions look pretty similar and I believe all these 3 questions ideally belong on &lt;strong&gt;AskUbuntu&lt;/strong&gt; site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T10:02:24.717" Title="How to identify which questions belong to which site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2927" CreationDate="2014-06-03T18:29:46.407" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually in an ideal world all of them belong here, because all Debian-based distributions has the apt binaries, which are in the scope of this QA. Now, here's the take, they are also in the scope of SU and AU. So, where they belong, wherever they can be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T18:29:46.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2526" CreationDate="2014-06-03T21:12:21.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will be one on &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/15879074#15879074&quot;&gt;Monday&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T21:12:21.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-03T21:42:54.603" Score="2" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most shell allow the temporary usage of a different localization for single commands. This is great in the case someone is not using an English locale and is using the output of a command in his/her question or reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance &lt;code&gt;# cd /nonexistent&lt;/code&gt; will output &lt;code&gt;-bash: cd: /nonexistent: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden&lt;/code&gt;. Everybody that doesn't speak German has basically speaking no clue what the message is telling.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But if I use this command &lt;code&gt;# LC_ALL=C cd /nonexitent&lt;/code&gt; I will get this output: &lt;code&gt;-bash: cd: /nonexistent: No such file or directory&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While posting commands where the output matters you of course should leave the &lt;code&gt;LC_ALL=C&lt;/code&gt; part out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is bad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;root@server:~# cd /nonexistent&#xA;-bash: cd: /nonexistent: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;root@server:~# LC_ALL=C cd /nonexistent&#xA;-bash: cd: /nonexistent: No such file or directory&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this would be perfect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;root@server:~# cd /nonexistent&#xA;-bash: cd: /nonexistent: No such file or directory&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should really make this a convention here and make sure everybody knows about it to make it a whole lot simpler for everybody to understand!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An older question (by me :( ) that has that problem: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20691852/linux-bash-parse-date-in-custom-format&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20691852/linux-bash-parse-date-in-custom-format&lt;/a&gt; (I didn't know there was this board when I posted this question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possible way of dealing with this &quot;problem&quot; would be putting this piece of advice directly on the &lt;code&gt;ask question&lt;/code&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this does not apply to people using their system in English!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45867" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2016-08-02T09:54:20.143" Title="Shouldn't we all be using &quot;LC_ALL=C&quot; infront of every command prior to posting the output here?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2930" CreationDate="2014-06-04T00:08:53.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, if you do that you should use LC_ALL=C&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T00:08:53.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2930" CreationDate="2014-06-04T06:26:22.777" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really see why &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt; should do that. I am non-native in English, but still I am not using any software in my mother tongue, but only English. Just because it is much easier to search for error messages and also other help, that are in English. If you are a serious programmer or Linux-user, I think it is really stupid to use any other language than English (also in comments. I once received a code with comments in Croatian, that is horrible!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sat aside, I don't really see why everybody should put any language statement in front, as the majority of users is using English for their language settings anyhow. New users using weird languages will not be familiar with these temporal settings change anyhow. Therefore, it will be better to comment something like &quot;Please use ... before executing, so all errors and warnings will be in English&quot;, and give the user some time to update their question. In practice, this will work a lot smoother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T06:26:22.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2924" CreationDate="2014-06-04T08:38:34.523" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a member of the general public¹ and the user-base you have served on this site I would like to publicly thank you for your years of volunteer effort. I wish you all the best in your new endeavors and hope they include lots of 'nixy stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;¹ Unlike some [liars] hiding in their subterranean lairs I am not ashamed to broadcast this message from the open!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T11:15:59.747" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T11:15:59.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-06T08:14:28.877" Score="-2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;it feels like &lt;code&gt;unix &amp;amp; linux&lt;/code&gt; site is more related to unix OSes. Such as *BSD , Solaris etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, some less &quot;user friendly&quot; Linux OSes, can safely find home here. Such as debian, slackware, linux from scratch etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is more there is another SE site for ubuntu questions! that is &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure I do see some questions getting migrated over to &lt;code&gt;askubuntu&lt;/code&gt; , but some questions of the type  &quot;my sound does not work in unity&quot; that are still found on here seem only to flood this SE site, which in turn make it more difficult to dig info on other OSes since ubuntu questions inevitably climb to the top of search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So shouldn't some measure be taken to move the vast majority of &lt;code&gt;/ubuntu&lt;/code&gt; tagged questions over there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29529" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T01:38:06.120" Title="should questions regarding ubuntu and its derivatives be asked here?" Tags="|discussion|ubuntu|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-06-11T21:59:41.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2934" CreationDate="2014-06-06T10:08:19.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No! Ubuntu is just another variant of Linux, which is a Unix like operating system so they are very much welcomed either here or on AskUbuntu. There is a certain amount of overlap with many of the technical Stack Exchange sites, and this is perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a fair share of questions that could easily been asked on ServerFault, SuperUser, StackOverflow, or AskUbuntu. So long as the questions meet the guidelines of an SE site and are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt;, then they're welcomed additions to Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T10:08:19.070" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2927" CreationDate="2014-06-06T21:44:07.123" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites overlap a lot. U&amp;amp;L is largely a subset of Super User, and Ask Ubuntu is largely a subset of both. That said, there are some areas which aren't contained in the more broad site, such as Super User probably doesn't want all our shell scripting questions. And we probably don't want questions about Ubuntu the organization. And of course there are lots of topics that Super User is OK with that we don't want, such as Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graphically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V3pyZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Diagram of the three sites&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there are overlaps with other sites too; for example, we overlap with Stack Overflow on scripts &amp;amp; the Unix API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How, then, to decide which site to ask on? Let's assume it's something you could ask on any of the three sites, as if it only fits on one, the answer is obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want an answer that may use Ubuntu-specific things, and will probably be focused on doing it through some GUI if possible, ask on Ask Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want an answer that'll assume familiarity with the command line and basic Unix knowledge, or that will work on multiple distros, ask here. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't suggest asking on Super User ⃰ unless there is a substantial overlap with one of the other OS's they're more familiar with. E.g., you're trying to get your Linux server to talk to your Windows client, and you're not sure which side is misconfigured and/or broken.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* If you asked me on chat, I'd say to ask there if you want a wrong and/or misguided answer, but that's not really fair to them—they've got quite a bit of Windows expertise there, we have Unix expertise here. We'd probably give you wrong and/or misguided Windows advice.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T10:02:24.717" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T10:02:24.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2875" CreationDate="2014-06-08T01:21:03.037" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125744/mounting-a-file-system-using-a-c-program&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125744/mounting-a-file-system-using-a-c-program&lt;/a&gt;, what makes the question off-topic is “How do I write a C program”. In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;previous discussion&lt;/a&gt;, I wrote (in an answer that seems consensual: no downvotes, no opposing views in comments or other answers) that the &lt;strong&gt;system interfaces&lt;/strong&gt; (system calls and certain C library functions) are on-topic. But that doesn't make &lt;em&gt;using the system interfaces in a programming language&lt;/em&gt; on-topic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical ways in which system interfaces arise on this site are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the output of &lt;code&gt;truss&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;strace&lt;/code&gt;/…, in &lt;code&gt;auditd&lt;/code&gt; logs and configuration, …;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when reading the source of a program (RTFS) to understand what's going on;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to explain the architecture of a unix system, e.g. showing that some programs behave in a similar way because they're using the same system interface underneath.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, this is a site for users and system administrators. We redirect all programming questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;¹. If the answer calls for code in a particular programming language, that's a programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2878&quot;&gt;making “Unix system programming” an exception&lt;/a&gt;. When it comes to user and administration questions, we're inclusive: questions don't have to be about applications that are specific to unix; you can ask a question about a cross-platform application, as long as you're using it on some unix variant. This is eminently sensible as users don't have to be aware that an application also works on some other platforms. Vim and KDE have been ported to Windows, but we wouldn't want them to be off-topic here. So why would we react differently to programming questions? It would presumably mean that a question about using &lt;code&gt;unlink&lt;/code&gt; in C would be on-topic (it's a POSIX API), but a question about &lt;code&gt;remove&lt;/code&gt; would be off-topic — yet &lt;code&gt;remove&lt;/code&gt; on unix is a thin wrapper around &lt;code&gt;unlink&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would make sense to have a site that caters to users, administrators and programmers on all Unix-like systems. On such a site, programming questions in any language would be on-topic as long as the program is meant to run on a unix system. However, this is not the site we built. We didn't build such a site because &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; already existed and catered reasonably satisfactorily to all programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; Shell programming straddles the border as it is the primary way for users and administrators to automate many tasks, rather than a tool to make applications. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T01:21:03.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-06-08T08:02:58.123" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My name's LE Manh Cuong, from Hanoi, Vietnam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not graduated from University yet, and I'm not going to do that. (There are many reasons, but that's another story). In University, I learned about Electronic and Telecommunication. All my knowledge about IT fields came from online learning (Thanks Coursera, edX, OCW) and researching by myself (Thanks Professor Google).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have worked in IT fields for about 3 years, as a Network Engineer, a System Administrator and a Perl Developer. Now I'm doing a startup with my friend, It's a mobile marketing system. In future, I'm going to become a DevOps Engineer because I love System Administrator as much as Programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first OS was Windows, but I switched to Linux when I got a job as a Linux System Administrator, and I did not know that I have loved it since when.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyday, I learn more about Linux, reading papers, documentation, doing some labs, writing some code. Knowing, discovering and explaning how things work, how things can be done like that make me feel great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why U&amp;amp;L&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My goal is sharing and learning more things about Linux (or *nix), and I feel I got it when I first was here. Reading answers and questions from people (like terdon, slm, Gilles, Stéphane Chazelas and others whom I have not remember yet) is awesome. Learning from community is awesome, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping people solving problem, get feedback from community, make solution better. This process make me (and people) better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My skills&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have worked on many Linux distro (Ubuntu, Centos, Arch, OpenSUSE...), some *nix (Solaris, AIX, OSX). Many skills that I have learned to work with them. Some skills that I am good at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bash (and other *nix shell)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vim&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AWK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apache&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nagios&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Salt stack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Haproxy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38906" LastEditorUserId="38906" LastEditDate="2015-06-03T15:49:07.487" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T15:49:07.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-09T20:00:00.410" Score="8" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2014 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T00:36:54.637" Title="2014 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|moderator-candidates|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-09T20:00:00.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-09T20:00:25.847" Score="17" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2980/2014-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, June 16th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this new process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T20:00:35.517" Title="2014 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-09T20:00:25.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T20:00:25.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-09T21:20:59.440" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, the action of closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an answer, etc, takes immediate effect, and does not require consensus from multiple users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting behavior? Will you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close questions just as you normally would cast a vote?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close if the question has existing votes indicating a trend?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Abstain from closing except in rare circumstances? And what would that be?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take some other stance?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(options apply to the other actions -- opening, deleting, etc -- as well)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4358" LastEditorUserId="4358" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T04:17:07.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T04:17:07.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2944" CreationDate="2014-06-09T21:55:50.383" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Moderators Nomination have just begin and I'm so excited about this event&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I know the moderators of the last year?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I nominate a moderator ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I nominate other people or I could only nominate myself ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45764" LastEditorUserId="45764" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T22:00:57.757" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T22:08:43.683" Title="Can I nominate other people?" Tags="|support|moderation|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2943" CreationDate="2014-06-09T22:08:43.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current moderators are listed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&lt;/a&gt; and they were elected during the previous election (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/1&lt;/a&gt;). As you see in the Community Bulletin, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2924/stepping-down-as-moderator&quot;&gt;mattdm is stepping down&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only nominate yourself to run; that's actually fairly common in nominations for elected office. Nominating yourself also says you're willing to do the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want someone besides yourself to run, you have to get him/her to volunteer (nominate him/herself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T22:08:43.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2543" CreationDate="2014-06-10T12:12:27.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I second this request. Months and months later I still miss it and inability to ration votes well is a poor way to contribute to high signal to noise ratios on the sites I frequent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose adding the information back in the form of a popup when voting, &lt;em&gt;beginning with the first vote of the day&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have 39 votes left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently this warning does not show up until you are down to 5, by which time it is too late to effectively ratio what is left. By showing this  data on EVERY vote instead of just as a last minute warning the  message would also serve and an encouragement to infrequent voters that they have more voice to contribute. The message could even be varied depending on context. For example the  first couple votes could say something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks for voting. You have 39 votes left today; use them all to help sort the most useful content to the top!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T12:12:27.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2543" CreationDate="2014-06-10T13:26:50.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2945&quot;&gt;Caleb's answer&lt;/a&gt; is on the right track, but it has a fatal flaw: I want an easy way to know how many votes I have left &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; voting, not after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does give me an idea: include the current vote count in the tooltip. For example, instead of ”This answer is useful“, show “This answer is useful (39 votes left)”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T13:26:50.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2927" CreationDate="2014-06-10T14:54:25.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No site in the Stack Exchange Network has a close reason of “this question would fit better on another site”. Each site defines its own scope, without reference to other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It follows, then, that a question about using apt-get to remove packages can be on topic on each of those sites. So where should the question be posted? Wherever the asker feels comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this duplicate work? Yes. Cross-site duplicates must be separately answered, rather than closed as dupes, so more work must be done. But SE seem to have decided they’re not worried about that. To be fair, most questions which are on topic on multiple sites are fairly simple questions, so it doesn’t duplicate &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can one person ask the same question on multiple sites? No. That is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64069/147191&quot;&gt;explicitly disallowed&lt;/a&gt;. I know that Christianity and Biblical Hermeneutics have come to an agreement that you can cross-post on both sites as long as you substantially rephrase the question to suit each audience: word-for-word cross-posting remains forbidden. I don’t know whether any other two sites have come to similar agreements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2017-03-22T17:21:46.330" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T17:21:46.330" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2949" CreationDate="2014-06-11T02:55:50.257" Score="6" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/136486/41104&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently it's interpreting &lt;code&gt;/*&lt;/code&gt; as the beginning of a comment which it isn't in any shell I known of (only JS, Java and some C-like language to my limited knowledge do this). I forced bash syntax highlighting with the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; stanza and the results changed, so it was fault of the shell-script tag. I don't know how much SE modified prettify library to &lt;s&gt;start shouting and flipping tables&lt;/s&gt; give an accurate diagnostic of where the bug is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T09:42:04.903" Title="Why prettify mistakes `/*` as comment for &quot;shell script&quot;" Tags="|support|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2948" CreationDate="2014-06-11T03:27:15.230" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's failing on that question because it's tagged with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; is associated with the &quot;bsh&quot; language, which I guess is a bash-specific highlighting. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; is associated with generic shell script highlighting. Since the question has two languages defined, prettify doesn't know which it should use and falls back on just doing generic highlighting, which doesn't work great. Specifying the language manually is probably the right fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T03:27:15.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-06-11T07:05:16.770" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://neovim.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kxZ8X.png&quot; alt=&quot;vim&amp;#39;s rebirth for the 21st century&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T07:11:41.173" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T07:11:41.173" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-06-11T07:05:16.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T08:59:12.487" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of the day can you be expected to be available for moderation?¹&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;This question is prompted by my impression that any delayed response/action by moderators up until now (if any), was the result of the unfortunate clustering of the moderators in a small band of time-zones.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T23:05:50.520" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T23:05:50.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T13:08:37.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you feel a blatantly incorrect answer should be handled? By blatantly incorrect I don't mean an obvious fat finger:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: How can I see how long my linux box has been running without a reboot?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A: &lt;code&gt;yptime&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about a fundamentally incorrect answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: When I run &lt;code&gt;uptime&lt;/code&gt; what do the load average numbers mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A: 1st is your power level, 2nd is your RAM temp, 3rd is your time flux capacitor usage &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65452" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T13:08:37.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:22:10.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close them, edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T15:22:10.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:24:19.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single piece of code? Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;cat /etc/host.conf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T15:24:19.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:25:37.700" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the context of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2875/41104&quot;&gt;Is the Unix C API still on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, how do you feel about these kind of questions, are they within the scope of Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T15:25:37.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:28:25.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Abuse comes in different ways/forms. Some sort occur by some user unknowingly, others well intentioned, and the nasty kind. In this context, what's the most frequent form of abuse you see on the site and what you can do as moderator to prevent it/fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T15:28:25.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:34:47.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know we all are here to ask/answer questions and in the process learning something new each and every day. But what fun quotient will you bring to the community? I see there is a tag as &lt;code&gt;fun&lt;/code&gt; in the meta site but I hardly see any question related to fun activity in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T15:34:47.467" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T17:50:44.953" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in general, U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising considering how people will go to war over editor choices, init systems or kernel design. Why do you think that is, and most importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T17:50:44.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T17:54:58.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they left bits of editor commands in their nomination post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're one of them, do you think that despite your poor computer usage skills, you'll be able to master the moderator tools?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't one of them, would you be able to work with a colleague who is, or do you think they should be kept out at all costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T18:36:50.747" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T18:36:50.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T18:00:37.757" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be fairly high-quality and welcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when it comes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#percentanswered&quot;&gt;questions with at least one upvoted answers&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12547/should-debian-have-a-home-of-its-own-at-stack-exchange/13285#13285&quot;&gt;not everyone&lt;/a&gt; shares this impression of being welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the major areas in which U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that moderators have a role in, what do you propose to do about it? If not, what should we (meaning all users) be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:40:57.413" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T18:00:37.757" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-12T09:06:54.363" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really had to... I mean, you've exhausted all possible alternatives and you're absolutely certain that they're limited to only these two... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Throw-up?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Install Windows?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also... and though I understand that a moderator's primary purpose is to resolve conflict I also understand that authority of any kind requires the personal strength to use it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know who you think would win in a fight - you or &lt;code&gt;root&lt;/code&gt;? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T09:06:54.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2970" CreationDate="2014-06-12T17:05:21.580" Score="10" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, someone asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/136767/41104&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and well, it's being closed, but we have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/licenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;licenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;licenses&lt;/a&gt; that kind of support asking these questions, as shown &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/licenses/info&quot;&gt;in the excerpt&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions concerning the terms under which Unix &amp;amp; Linux software can be used and redistributed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around the network, the only one that I know of that allow these kind of questions is Programmers.SE with a restricted set of parameters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Licensing questions on Programmers &lt;strong&gt;are limited to general use-cases of software licenses&lt;/strong&gt;: any specific questions about the legal enforcement of licenses (like, for example, suing people) is off-topic: consult your lawyer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is our scope similar? Where exactly ends our scope?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T04:15:23.603" Title="Is asking &quot;What license should I use&quot; on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2974" CreationDate="2014-06-12T19:55:08.537" Score="8" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was verifying how UL used tags for something and discovered these tags. Ok, I know that Xorg uses the term &quot;drivers&quot; to refer to the software that runs stuff, so kernel-drivers may be a differentiation, but the four tags seems to me like trying to convey the same information, and in fact the two that has excerpts does. Which tag should be used and for what purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T17:56:32.187" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T17:56:32.187" Title="What's the diference between kernel-modules, kernel-drivers, drivers and modules?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-12T20:17:52.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why should it be &lt;em&gt;more interesting&lt;/em&gt; that an answer is &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; as opposed to &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; in a discussion about the tasks of a moderator? How is an answer's overall worth relevant at all to any single member of a community purportedly devoted to collectively deciding on exactly that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="52934" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T20:23:15.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T20:23:15.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2963" CreationDate="2014-06-12T21:00:54.337" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of the tag is that it concerns the range of free and open source licenses that people would typically encounter in their interactions with U&amp;amp;L software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I voted to close the question you linked to is because it seems to me to really be asking about the commercial arrangements that RedHat makes with it's customers and partners, not necessarily the particular license that RHEL uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the question asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;what &lt;strong&gt;licensee&lt;/strong&gt; of red hat would allow me to distribute images of RHEL to my customers with my software already loaded?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The business of RedHat's commercial arrangements appears to be tangentially related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/licenses&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;licenses&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;licenses&lt;/a&gt;, but is actually off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T02:33:58.777" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T02:33:58.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2875" CreationDate="2014-06-13T01:31:45.627" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Small amounts of certain types of programming are reasonably within the scope of what a system administrator does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uncontroversially, writing a shell script to start a daemon, check if its running, and stop it is within scope (i.e., an init script). So is a shell scripting to automate system administration tasks, configure the environment for users (e.g., login and X11 startup scripts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fairly uncontroversially, we extend that to other scripting languages: Perl has been used for a long time by systems administrators, as has awk. More recently, Python and Ruby have joined that club as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there has actually been another language in the sysadmin's toolbox, before even awk and Perl, before even shell. Sure, we avoid using it when we don't have to (it a much harder to use, more dangerous tool)—and even when we do use it, we read it far more than we write it. We see it all the time in our man pages; we read it when even searching the &lt;em&gt;fine&lt;/em&gt; web fails; we write it when we have no choice. &lt;em&gt;That language is, of course, C.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that not all sysadmins know C—even enough to read it. But the same can be said of Perl, LDAP, or Linux. That's not a reason for it to be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me give one example of a sysadmin task that I solved with C—and I think it is pretty unambiguously a sysadmin task:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had a NFS server go down. The mount was set up such that &lt;code&gt;umount -f&lt;/code&gt; would kill all the programs accessing it, but allow the un-mount to succeed. Except when I tried to do the &lt;code&gt;umount -f&lt;/code&gt;, it hung. &lt;code&gt;strace&lt;/code&gt; revealed it was trying to stat the mount first—which if course hung, as the server was down. Even &lt;code&gt;--no-canonicalize&lt;/code&gt; did not help; turns out I'd hit a bug in &lt;code&gt;umount(8)&lt;/code&gt;. I reported &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642331&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Debian bug #642331&lt;/a&gt; about it, but of course, I still had a machine to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;code&gt;umount(8)&lt;/code&gt; is a wrapper around the &lt;code&gt;umount&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;umount2&lt;/code&gt; system call. So just call it from Perl, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ perl -MPOSIX=umount2&#xA;&quot;umount2&quot; is not exported by the POSIX module&#xA;Can't continue after import errors at /usr/lib/perl/5.18/POSIX.pm line 30.&#xA;BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(That's a different version of Perl than I had at the time, but same problem. And no, &lt;code&gt;umount&lt;/code&gt; doesn't work either. Not surprising; the calls are not in POSIX.) A quick search of other Perl modules installed on the system didn't find one to call &lt;code&gt;umount2&lt;/code&gt;. You can see in the bug report the actual solution I used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;sys/mount.h&amp;gt;&#xA;int main() {&#xA;    const char p[] = &quot;/mnt/portal-dev/customer-portal&quot;;&#xA;    umount2(p, MNT_FORCE);&#xA;    umount2(p, MNT_FORCE);&#xA;    return 0;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And that worked, avoiding me having to perform an unscheduled (and disruptive) reboot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a simple C program to solve a systems administration problem. I believe other sysadmins (for example, those not familiar with C) ought to be able to come here for help avoiding their unplanned reboots. That's why I think &lt;strong&gt;simple C which is essentially no more than making a call to the UNIX C API ought to be on topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T01:36:46.140" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T01:36:46.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-13T01:55:11.647" Score="26" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this couple of times—people copy information from Wikipedia or somewhere else, and paste it into the tag wiki/excerpt as is. &lt;strong&gt;This is not how it was meant to be used&lt;/strong&gt;! You can't just dump some piece of information, however accurate it may be, without spending any effort racking your brain thinking what that tag/topic means for Unix &amp;amp; Linux, this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag excerpt is the elevator pitch for the tag. It should explain what the topics to be tagged with this tag are. If it doesn't include how-to-use-it, it's likely a bad tag excerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki is more extensive. Apart of being more verbose about it's usage, it can contain some basic terms, references, etc. If you just dump the entire wikipedia article it's very likely that it will be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reviewers: please, read these edits carefully. These are informative bits of the system usage, and it's very important that it's accurate. Evaluate them all with extreme prejudice and do a search of phrases on the Internet to search for plagiarism. If you see a tag wiki/excerpt that's too good to be true, it is likely plagiarism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="1925" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T11:31:45.040" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T23:20:16.200" Title="PSA: If you are not going to spend any effort writing an useful tag wiki/excerpt, please don't do it" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2973" CreationDate="2014-06-13T02:08:58.940" Score="11" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is that time of the day again. Time now is &lt;strong&gt;21:00 CT&lt;/strong&gt;. There is one particular spam post which occurs exactly around this time every day. The most annoying thing is, it happens on the same answer by the same user and it introduces &lt;strong&gt;vandalism&lt;/strong&gt;. For those who have not seen it, it is this particular post. The answer to which the suggested edit always occurs is this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25880/i-want-to-use-a-bluetooth-keyboard-during-initram/25882#25882&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to reject the suggested edits or lock a post after repeated attempts of suggested edits on a particular post is rejected? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bVsEt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bVsEt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 7/2/2014&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it occurred again today. Is it possible to keep the post locked, may be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9VZ9p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T12:54:08.323" Title="Please take a look at this vandalism post" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2963" CreationDate="2014-06-13T02:38:43.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows&lt;/a&gt; tag, but that doesn't make all questions about Windows on-topic. Only a very narrow set of Windows questions, having to do with interoperability between Windows and Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about licenses of Unix software are… not so much accepted as tolerated, I would say. Licenses do play an important role in the history of Unix, so we field questions about that. Questions of the form “does license X allow this?” are more iffy: expertise in using and administering unix does not translate into expertise about legal contracts. When such expertise exists, it's almost always about free software license. Questions of the form “which product edition's license allows this?” are a far cry from that. In a company, they would normally be fielded by the lawyer, not by the sysadmin. They're way outside of the fence, and they're usually not answerable without a ton of details about what the asker wants to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/136767&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/136767&lt;/a&gt; falls into this last category. It's about business contracts. That's not what we do here. It's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T02:38:43.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2963" CreationDate="2014-06-13T04:09:26.593" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; The linked question is off-topic not because of any problem with the topic, but because is't a question directly for Redhat and Redhat alone; not for a bunch of not-Redhat-employees on the Internet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your title question, &quot;What license should I use&quot; is subjective. It's like &quot;what project should I build,&quot; or &quot;what should I have for lunch.&quot; There is no right answer ... or at least it's not an objectively right answer. In 100% of cases, the correct answer is: &quot;It depends on your particular desires and intentions.&quot;  It isn't just &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based, it's &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question is: &quot;What's the difference between 2-clause and 3-clause BSD license?&quot; or &quot;Does GPL license either limit or enhance community involvement?&quot; or &quot;Which OSI-approved license gives me the most control over how derivitive works are distributed?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't ask &quot;which should I choose&quot;, ask the questions that will help &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; decide. That's the close message that needs to be applied to questions like this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7067" LastEditorUserId="7067" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T04:15:23.603" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T04:15:23.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2014-06-13T04:13:31.567" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is your view of &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt;? Is it an existential threat to the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude newcomers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you translate this view into your moderation practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T04:13:31.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2969" CreationDate="2014-06-13T05:21:03.213" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, that's been going on forever. Supposedly users are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118213/is-there-some-form-of-blocking-in-place-for-rejected-suggested-edits-by-anonymou&quot;&gt;banned&lt;/a&gt; at the IP level if their edits are rejected too much. I can't tell if these were all submitted by the same IP or not, and there's no way to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/134694/are-there-any-proactive-ways-to-deal-with-repeated-anonymous-spam-edits&quot;&gt;manually ban&lt;/a&gt; them anyway, so I tried locking the post for a week to see what happens. I'll try to keep an eye out to see if it starts happening on another post; let me know if you see anything&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T05:21:03.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2964" CreationDate="2014-06-13T12:07:59.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first impression is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel-drivers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel-drivers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel-drivers&lt;/a&gt; should be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drivers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drivers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drivers&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/module&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;module&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;module&lt;/a&gt; was created by someone who typed &lt;code&gt;kernel module&lt;/code&gt; as separate words and grew from there. This is to be confirmed by browsing through the questions list which I haven't done yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/module+-kernel-modules+-kernel&quot;&gt;16 questions&lt;/a&gt; are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/module&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;module&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;module&lt;/a&gt; but not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel-modules&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel-modules&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel-modules&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel&lt;/a&gt;. 8 of these are about Linux kernel modules all the same. This leaves 8 questions where &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/module&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;module&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;module&lt;/a&gt; doesn't mean kernel module:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apache module: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7729/mod-auth-mysql-will-not-compile-under-slackware-13&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18824/localhost-htaccess-not-working-on-ubuntu&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65492/debian-installing-mod-qos-on-apache-results-in-error-on-start&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89754/module-dependencies&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt; Given that we don't have that many advanced Apache questions, I think these four questions can live without a tag indicating that they're about Apache modules. If you disagree, feel free to retag these questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache-module&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache-module&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache-module&lt;/a&gt;, but please go and look for &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; questions that should have the tag (this might warrant a separate meta discussion).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python module: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92830/adding-alsa-module-in-python-in-linux&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96199/different-version-of-python-cannot-find-modules&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111775/cant-find-module-six-py-when-reverse-engineering-python-project&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt; “Module” is Python for “library”, I retagged these questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libraries&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libraries&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libraries&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some Sharepoint thing? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59366/is-there-any-solution-like-sharepoint-in-linux&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; a question that should be closed anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remaining &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/module&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;module&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;module&lt;/a&gt; questions are about kernel modules, so my recommendation is that a moderator now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;merges &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/module&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;module&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;module&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel-modules&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel-modules&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel-modules&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;removes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/module&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;module&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;module&lt;/a&gt; synonym, which will kill that tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drivers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drivers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drivers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel-modules&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel-modules&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel-modules&lt;/a&gt; are different things. Many kernel modules are drivers, and many drivers are kernel modules, but some kernel modules aren't exactly drivers but more like support libraries for drivers, and conversely some software that mediates access to peripherals can be built into the main kernel image or might not run in the kernel at all. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kernel-modules&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kernel-modules&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kernel-modules&lt;/a&gt; is for questions like “how do I load this module on boot?” or “how do I build this module?” while &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drivers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drivers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drivers&lt;/a&gt; is for questions like “how do I interact with this piece of hardware”. Of course many questions like “how should I load this module so that it recognizes my hardware” warrant both tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T21:28:14.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-14T21:29:28.383" Score="-3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is for Unix and Linux question and I think that Network Services configuration and management is an important part of it so why the question that related to this domain don't get enough attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example:&#xA;Squid (30 view, 1answer) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134132/how-can-we-make-squid-do-a-reverse-nslookup&quot;&gt;How can we make Squid do a reverse nslookup?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DNS (35 view) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131543/how-to-nsupdate-remotely/131550#131550&quot;&gt;how to nsupdate remotely?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this site for this questions or Not, so why they are left out like this, and Is there a better site than &lt;code&gt;Unix and Linux&lt;/code&gt; for this services?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T01:08:24.563" Title="Why there isn't enough attention for Network services questions?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2975" CreationDate="2014-06-14T22:10:05.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can surely answer those questions here but they're probably more suited to Server Fault. I along with a few others can answer them but we are only a few users on this site. The vast majority probably cannot or choose not to. IMO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T22:10:05.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2975" CreationDate="2014-06-15T01:08:24.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;2 questions is hardly a valid sample to reach any sort of conclusion. I can pick &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132837&quot;&gt;any&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132761&quot;&gt;number&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132847&quot;&gt;of&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132129&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133926&quot;&gt;with&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133970&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133991&quot;&gt;lower&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133922&quot;&gt;view&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133988&quot;&gt;count,&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133995&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133997&quot;&gt;none&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134034&quot;&gt;of&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/133932&quot;&gt;them&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/136278&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132015&quot;&gt;network&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134125&quot;&gt;related.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132779/how-to-read-an-ip-address-backwards&quot;&gt;your very own question&lt;/a&gt; which is also DNS related, and has currently received 1,891 views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4358" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T01:08:24.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2979" CreationDate="2014-06-16T14:28:15.620" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;2014 Moderator Election page&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Every election has three phases:&#xA;&#xA;1. Nomination&#xA;2. Primary&#xA;3. Election&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is no (complete) explanation of the phases; currently -- I presume until the first phase is over -- the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/2?tab=primary&quot;&gt;primary&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/2?tab=election&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt; tabs provide no information.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe I've also seen a timeline for the three phases somewhere, but it is not on that page.  Does anyone know where that is, and/or have a link &lt;strong&gt;explaining the Stack Exchange election process&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T14:41:21.080" Title="What do the 3 phases of the election mean?" Tags="|support|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2014-06-16T14:41:21.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a blue box on the right side of the election page that explains the phase you're currently looking at; it also explains how long that phase lasts. A quick summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nomination&lt;/strong&gt; is 7 days of anyone with 300 rep entering their name as a candidate, including a short introduction. Anyone can comment on the nominations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary&lt;/strong&gt; is 4 days of up/down voting on each nomination, to cut the number down to 10 for the final election. Since it looks like we won't have more than 10 nominations, we'll skip this part&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Election&lt;/strong&gt; is 7 days of anyone with 150 rep voting on the final candidates, using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meek%27s_method#Meek.27s_method&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meek STV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're about to finish the nomination phase and go into the election, so it'll be over in a week&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T14:41:21.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T20:00:03.893" Score="16" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2940/2014-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/bc19b043-8a2f-48c9-85cb-b8bd66d4b313/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be fairly high-quality and welcoming. Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when it comes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#percentanswered&quot;&gt;questions with at least one upvoted answers&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12547/should-debian-have-a-home-of-its-own-at-stack-exchange/13285#13285&quot;&gt;not everyone&lt;/a&gt; shares this impression of being welcomed. What are the major areas in which U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that moderators have a role in, what do you propose to do about it? If not, what should we (meaning all users) be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of the day can you be expected to be available for moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single piece of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in general, U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising considering how people will go to war over editor choices, init systems or kernel design. Why do you think that is, and most importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is your view of &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt;? Is it an existential threat to the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude newcomers? How would you translate this view into your moderation practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting? As a moderator, the action of closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an answer, etc, takes immediate effect, and does not require consensus from multiple users. How will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting behavior? Would you act as if you made normal votes? Wait for the consensus of others? Abstain entirely outside of special circumstances? Some other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close them, edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they left bits of editor commands in their nomination post. If you're one of them, do you think that despite your poor computer usage skills, you'll be able to master the moderator tools? If you aren't one of them, would you be able to work with a colleague who is, or do you think they should be kept out at all costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:40:57.413" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T19:17:02.893" Title="2014 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2980" CreationDate="2014-06-17T02:41:02.110" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;terdon ⇘&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be&#xA;  fairly high-quality and welcoming. Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among&#xA;  SE sites when it comes to questions with at least one upvoted answers.&#xA;  And not everyone shares this impression of being welcomed. What are&#xA;  the major areas in which U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that&#xA;  moderators have a role in, what do you propose to do about it? If not,&#xA;  what should we (meaning all users) be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do consider this site fairly high-quality and welcoming. That might be because I'm a regular but then all the SE sites can appear hostile at first. The whole idea of demanding quality from questions and answers is somewhat surprising to someone used to forums where anything goes. That said, I do believe that this is one of the more welcoming SE communities and it certainly has been to me. My first experience here was very pleasant, if a little humbling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I have seen cases of comments that were more aggressive than I would like and that is something I hope to work on as a mod. Welcoming new users and &lt;em&gt;politely&lt;/em&gt; explaining how the site works to them is very important. That is something that all users can and should do but mods, as the community's representatives should spearhead the effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the stats, I'm not at all sure that's true. We have 43k questions, so it only makes sense for us to compare against sites with similar or greater numbers. With our answer rate (answers with at least one upvote) of 85%, we are at 20th of 34 sites with &gt;10k questions but that becomes 11th of 24 if we count those with the same percentage as taking one place. In any case, the mean answer rate of these sites is 86.1% and the median is 87.5% so &quot;way below average&quot; is unfair. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of&#xA;  the day can you be expected to be available for moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My time zone is UTC+1 but I keep very strange and erratic hours. I tend to be online in the evening and (very) late night but I could pop up at unexpected hours as well. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single&#xA;  piece of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not very fond of them. If the answer is actually correct, I would leave a comment asking the OP to flesh it out or do so myself. If it is not correct or is only an indication of where the correct answer could lie, I would probably delete it. This would, obviously, have to be evaluated on a case by case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in&#xA;  general, U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising&#xA;  considering how people will go to war over editor choices, init&#xA;  systems or kernel design. Why do you think that is, and most&#xA;  importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a lot of respect here among our members. We are lucky enough to have some extremely knowledgeable people among our ranks and this leads to mutual appreciation. We are not here to fight our little sectarian editor wars, we can answer the bugle calls elsewhere on the internet for that, we come to U&amp;amp;L to &lt;em&gt;learn&lt;/em&gt;, not fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I saw strife between users I would try to step in and mediate. I think that most issues can be resolved in a civilized manner and I would try to talk to everyone involved and help sort it out. Either by mail or in private chat or as a mediator in a shared chat with the users involved. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is your view of help vampirism? Is it an existential threat to&#xA;  the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude&#xA;  newcomers? How would you translate this view into your moderation&#xA;  practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is somewhere between the two. We are relatively free of this behavior here so it does not pose an existential threat as such. It could if it increased to far beyond what we see at the moment. It is most certainly not an elitist thing however. The requirement that a user spend at least some time and effort on their own question before coming to us for help is one of the most important reasons why the SE sites in general and U&amp;amp;L in particular have such high quality content. If I saw a user that repeatedly posted here asking us to, for example, do their homework for them and expected us to do all the work, I would first try and educate them in the ways of the site and try to explain how to ask good questions. If they persist in this behavior, I would escalate. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting? As a moderator, the&#xA;  action of closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an&#xA;  answer, etc, takes immediate effect, and does not require consensus&#xA;  from multiple users. How will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting&#xA;  behavior? Would you act as if you made normal votes? Wait for the&#xA;  consensus of others? Abstain entirely outside of special&#xA;  circumstances? Some other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will certainly vote to close or delete in the very clear cut cases. Things that are blatantly off topic or spam or otherwise clearly not a good fit for the site. For borderline cases, I expect I would let the community decide. Since my vote would be final, I would certainly not vote unless I were 100% sure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close&#xA;  them, edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is basically a form of help vampirism so my answer above applies. I am not referring to simple questions whose answer is a couple of lines of code, but those cases where the OP has a whole script in mind and is expecting us to write it for them. My specific actions will depend on the OP. If this is a new user, I'd explain that such questions are not welcome here. If this is a pattern of behavior, I would consider closing the question and consider more drastic measures of dealing with the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they&#xA;  left bits of editor commands in their nomination post. If you're one&#xA;  of them, do you think that despite your poor computer usage skills,&#xA;  you'll be able to master the moderator tools? If you aren't one of&#xA;  them, would you be able to work with a colleague who is, or do you&#xA;  think they should be kept out at all costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am proud to say I am not one of those unfortunates and am quite familiar with the workings of my editor. In fact, since I enjoy the incredible finger dexterity developed by all users of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the one true editor&lt;/a&gt;, (whose developers in their infinite wisdom have long realized that stretching the fingers can prevent carpal tunnel syndrome), I would never be so clumsy as to leave editor commands in my post. While I know that some misguided souls are seduced by lesser editors with snappy, monosyllabic names (because let's face it, polysyllabic words are &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt;), I am certain that this community would never elect such a person to the lofty role I am aspiring to. If, however, a twist of fate would make it so that I'd have to work with such a philistine, I would do my best to stifle my laughter and get the work done while doing my utmost to lead them into the fold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;And I want brownie points for not linking to xkcd 378.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of&#xA;  valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of&#xA;  arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk. Talk. Then talk some more. If a user is providing valuable content, then that is a user I don't want to lose. I would try very hard to get them to understand why they are being flagged (assuming that it is clear to me) and to get them to change their behavior. If this were to go on for a long time or to clearly start getting out of hand, I would ban the user for a short time. However, if this behavior continued I would certainly consider longer bans. While useful content is great, no single user is worth more than the community. I would also ask for opinions/suggestions from the other mods. If I felt that a user should be banned for a significant amount of time, I would first talk to the other mods and see if they agree before taking such drastic action. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc&#xA;  a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hash it out with the other mod and reach a compromise we both agree on. If no such compromise can be reached, I would probably back down. The last thing we need is an edit war between mods!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@ChrisDown  Raised a good point &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2980/2014-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire/2981#comment4229_2981&quot;&gt;in the comments&lt;/a&gt;, and I'd like to clarify. I would always make sure that the mods are pulling in the same direction. Mods should be interchangeable for the community, one should get the same answer on site policy irrespective of which mod they asked. I would therefore make sure that all mods are on the same page and that we all agree on the basic direction of the site and on how to deal with specific issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also mention that I'm always in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;the chat room&lt;/a&gt; and would continue to do so if elected so that users can easily contact me if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T13:57:11.580" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2980" CreationDate="2014-06-17T10:47:31.007" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caleb ⇘&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be fairly high-quality and welcoming. Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when it comes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#percentanswered&quot;&gt;questions with at least one upvoted answers&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12547/should-debian-have-a-home-of-its-own-at-stack-exchange/13285#13285&quot;&gt;not everyone&lt;/a&gt; shares this impression of being welcomed. What are the major areas in which U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that moderators have a role in, what do you propose to do about it? If not, what should we (meaning all users) be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record: I tend to fall half way between camps on this issue. I love U&amp;amp;L and think it is one of the better sites on the network. That being said I don't think it's without flaws. In particular, I think the disparity in expertise between questioners and answerers as well as the highly opinionated user base are a potential causes for concern. In many ways things have played out well enough for us here but there is room for improvement and even more room for awareness going forward. A major part of my motivation to run for this position is in the hope that my efforts will contribute to keeping this site from taking a turn for the worse—something I think could easily happen if steady hands are not kept on the tiller and moderation tasks are not stayed on top of. The time to curb negative patterns that lead to nonconstructive environments is early, not late. I've watched many communities (including a couple SE sites) get too far down the road before realizing they had a problem. When that is allowed to happen the folks that are left are not the ones with any motivation to fix the issue. If you wait until the overall tone is poisonous serious reform will be very difficult to pull off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This field (our profession generally) is prone to a number of insidious attitudes. We are always right¹—too often if we aren't braggarts we're condescending elitists. U&amp;amp;L has the advantage of being focused on an already narrow segment of the field and we tend to be excited about anybody that shows up in our pool and wants to swim with us. This bypasses a lot of the rapids involved in picking a pool (such as when choosing between proprietary architectures, settling on best practices, etc. are at stake) but it does not make us immune!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying we should baby every question that comes in and wear kid gloves with all new users to make sure they feel warm and fuzzy even if they post gibberish. I do suggest we need to have a robust, no-nonsense approach to the actions we do take and the comments we do make. Civility should not be optional. We can chide each-other about whatever² but snarking at users when they do dumb or wrong things should not be tolerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as quality goes, I'd personally don't think our high unanswered question ratio is necessarily a sign of poor quality. On the contrary one of the major signs of poor quality I see on some sites is an over-eagerness to Answer All The Questions™. This usually comes at the expense of those answers being meaningful contributions. When questions are &quot;answered&quot; before what is being asked is even resolved (or by people who don't really know the answers but are just playing the rep game) then quality suffers. Of course we do want to get those questions answered, but lets do them right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some unanswered questions should probably be closed. Many of them simply don't have enough information to be solved. Some are obscure one-off problems that even the OP can't replicate or they never bothered to flesh out the question with enough detail to make an answerable question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some unanswered questions are missing the right expertise. This is unfortunate, but if nobody knows the answer and they are good questions, the least we can do is upvote them and try to keep them promoted until they attract the right expertise. It might be worth organizing a community bounty system to regularly promote ones where the impetus clearly lies with potential answers to figure out an answer rather that with the questioner to shape up their question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also my answer to the one-line-answer question for further comments on quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of the day can you be expected to be available for moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I live in GMT+2 and keep loose hacker hours. You can reasonably expect to see me dropping by the site between UTC 07:00 and 23:00. Exceptions abound.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single piece of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;⇩ ⇩ ⇩&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No –seriously– this is one reason my down-vote count is as high as it is. As technically correct and potentially useful as these are they fail to be &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt; just when its needed most. The potential for these to be useful stays at just that: potential. Even if it means slowing down and posting less I think the site quality is boosted by kinetic energy, not potential. Give your answer a reason to live! Justify them. Explain them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's cliché, but &quot;don't just give people fish, teach them to fish&quot;. The best answers here will explain why things work, they will explain how to adapt them for various applications and they will point out where to learn more about specific issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not to suggest moderators summarily delete all the one-liners that get posted. I don't even think moderators should be deleting wrong or even dangerous answers. If they are a legitimate attempt to answer the original question and don't fall cross-wise of other guidelines then they are not moderator actionable on account of being one-liners. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/145951&quot;&gt;Link-only posts&lt;/a&gt; with no hint of the answer inline are different; comments that don't answer the question are different: those can go. But being allowed to stay on a technicality does not make one-liners something to encourage! They are typically sand and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;we should be optimizing for pearls&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been vocal about this elsewhere on the SE network. In fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://hermeneutics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/846/36&quot;&gt;on the Hermeneutics site I used analogies from the *nix a world&lt;/a&gt; to try to make the value of explaining answers more clear to a community that was struggling to discern the difference between &quot;answering a question&quot; and the kind of &quot;answer&quot; that SE sites are looking for. The context is different but the basic issue at stake there was similar to the issue here with one-liners and no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in general, U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising considering how people will go to war over editor choices, init systems or kernel design. Why do you think that is, and most importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main &quot;why&quot; I see for this is simply the QnA format—specifically the limited scope of each question and the strict expectation that answers will address the original question. This is dissimilar from most other formats online that lend themselves to ongoing discussions that drift from topic to topic. Even threaded forums really only have an expectation that each post will be related to the one before it, not necessarily to the original. This much goes for the SE network in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sites do better than others at playing to this format's strengths. I think the general scope of U&amp;amp;L lends itself to the format well and the current moderators have done an excellent job of keeping things on track. Our general scope is focused on problem solving and solution finding more than it is on development or abstracts. The wars over how things &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be in the *nix world—how program X &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; function, or which init system is is &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt;³—are simply not that relevant here because nothing gets &lt;em&gt;decided&lt;/em&gt; here. This is not the -devel mailing list for any particular piece of code. Here is where we help each-other learn how to use the tool-set we've got (even if sometimes that leaves us bemoaning their weaknesses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how I would cope with strife were it to ensue, I cite my history rather than any campaign promises. Even the term used to describe the most passionate disputes over editors, init systems, kernel designs and security practices: &quot;holy wars&quot; is only borrowed from where the real strife ridden topics are at. I've been a moderator (first &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/532/moderator-pro-tem-announcement&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;pro-tempore&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/2208002/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elected&lt;/a&gt;) for nearly 3 years over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;Christianity.SE&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to know how I cope with the onset of strife in a community, the thing to do is review some of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/users/30/caleb?tab=questions&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/users/30/caleb?tab=answers&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; on the C.SE Meta. Not &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; likes my moderation over there and I certainly have a few detractors. Listen to their side of the story if you like and decide after that if I've served the community in mitigating strife.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is your view of &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt;? Is it an existential threat to the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude newcomers? How would you translate this view into your moderation practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you mean you can't answer an ambiguous &quot;or&quot; question with a Boolean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes it's a threat to the community and yes its a term that gets abused. Such terms should &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; be used to approach the vampires directly. If you are commenting on their posts or bringing a case to meta this kind of terminology is generally not constructive. On the other hand the thing referred to is a real enough problem on the Internet. I've only seen a handful of cases here and few of those were egregious enough to be an &quot;existential&quot; threat. People usually don't end up on Unix &amp;amp; Linux with our brand of problems if they aren't at least a little bit interested in how things work. Even really dense cases that never do more than hack their way by come up with interesting questions &lt;em&gt;some of the time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it does happen, this is something moderators can deal with fairly easily. If a pattern develops where somebody with lots of low quality questions is blustering on and refusing to put any effort into following the community's suggestions for improvement, they can chat with, mod message and even temporarily suspend the culprits until they take the process seriously and---even if they never have valuable answers to contribute---at least put some effort into their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting? As a moderator, the action of closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an answer, etc., takes immediate effect, and does not require consensus from multiple users. How will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting behavior? Would you act as if you made normal votes? Wait for the consensus of others? Abstain entirely outside of special circumstances? Some other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly used to the binding vote problem. On the one hand I'm not afraid to use it. On the other hand I do think much more carefully about things like close votes than I would as a regular user. I'll double check that duplicates are actually duplicates and be ready to explain/defend my reasoning. Nothing will be done on a whim, but I will continue casting votes as usual. Moderators can be wrong (and I will be, so call be out on it when you catch it) but they are elected specifically because they show good judgment. The community should expect them to exercise that judgment, not put it on the shelf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one exception I've found is that as a 10/20k user there are a lot low quality posts that I can and do vote to delete because they are wrong or just not helpful. This is something I think the community can collaborate on that as a moderator I really have to step away from a bit. Moderator deletes are better used for NAA material and other egregious stuff. We are not tasked with moderating answers based on their content quality &lt;em&gt;per-se&lt;/em&gt; and deleting &quot;wrong&quot; answers is better handled directly by the community. For that I will back off to usually just plying the regular vote power (or maybe throwing in for that third delete vote).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close them, edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think truly blatant cases of this should be closed with impunity, but with polite comments explaining that this is not a place to have somebody else just do everything for you, noting what aspect(s) of a good question are missing, and giving them something concrete to work through when editing if they care to improve their question so it can be re-opened. If they show willingness to improve I'd help with editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise less obvious cases where the user is more clueless than lazy may not call for the insta-close treatment except when it is really unclear what they are trying to accomplish. Many dicey questions can be salvaged with an edit. Although I am a big fan of having questions fixed before they are answered, sometimes an answer can ever try to sort out the pieces if someone thinks they have a reasonable guess at what a confused user is into.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they left bits of editor commands in their nomination post. If you're one of them, do you think that despite your poor computer usage skills, you'll be able to master the moderator tools? If you aren't one of them, would you be able to work with a colleague who is, or do you think they should be kept out at all costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I CAN HAZ MOD⁴ TOOLZ? PLZ? &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Ctrl&amp;gt;C&amp;lt;Ctrl&amp;gt;Qexit&amp;lt;Enter&amp;gt;quit&amp;lt;Enter&amp;gt;asdf!*)+]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would start off with a low key straightforward reminder of what the comment system is for and what our expectations are for its proper use. I would follow through after that with relatively aggressive comment cleanup anywhere it was getting out of hand. As long as this stayed as an intermittent problem this might be enough. If it became apparent that there was chronic abuse of the system and that a user was not trying to reform their participation, a mod warning and eventually suspension would be in order. Such an escalation wouldn't be for an occasional abrasive comment but in the case of deliberate ongoing ill-manners moderators should intervene before it becomes poisonous to the overall environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience the vast majority of these cases where comments turn into arguments and get flagged happen when a user either A) takes something or another personally and gets bent out of shape over a particular user or B) gets some site usage pattern in their head that isn't common consensus. In both cases—and regardless of whether they had just cause to be disgruntled or not or whether their idea about the site is good or bad—the result is a stream of comments that end up not being about the specific post they under and not useful to other site visitors. It just so happens that every time they see that user or pattern it rubs them the wrong way and they reach for the nearest tool—comments—even though that is the wrong tool for the job. The correct venue for this sort of thing would be to air the issue out on meta. Besides the process of forming a meta a post being helpful to the person with the issue this allows the rest of the community to offer feedback on how something should be handled. It also allows a decision to be made so that it can be put to rest instead of festering. As a moderator I would pressure this pattern. When people with issues that are not post related keep using comments to bring up their issue over and over rather than taking it to meta I would be polite but firm and clean up such comments and make sure their issue was taken to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A closed question isn't worth a mod-edit-war—what kind of example would that be? In the mean time there are plenty of constructive ways to approach such an issue. An easy place to start is to ping the other mod in chat and discuss it. For very simple cases asking for clarifications in comments might work too, but an actual disagreement is likely to require a discussion for which comments aren't suitable. In my experience a bit of discussion with other mods will almost always resolve such cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the unlikely event that a serious disagreement is not quickly resolved in chat and both sides feel is important to escalate rather than drop, the next thing to do would be for one or both mods to post their viewpoint on the issue to meta and solicit some community feedback. Eventually this should reveal where the community is on the issue and a judgment call will be easier to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all that fails, recusing the case to another mod is probably in order—but seriously half the point of elected moderators is that the community gets to put people in place that have the power (and hopefully the wisdom and sensibility!) to make judgment calls when necessary in a way that will be constructive for the community as a whole. If we can't keep the peace among ourselves, who would we be to do it for everyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In several years of moderating I can think of several times I disagreed with another mod's actions but (co-mods please call me out on this if I have selective amnesia!) no case where I have executively reversed their action without their approval.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Errata:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;¹ More correctly, &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; am always right.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;² You wouldn't &lt;em&gt;seriously&lt;/em&gt; use &lt;code&gt;nano&lt;/code&gt; as your primary editor would you?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;³ I happen to be of the camp that embraces systemd even if it is &quot;an all-devouring octopus monster about crawl out of the sea and eat Tokyo and spit it out as a giant binary logfile&quot;. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;⁴ But seriously now: we make our Ask Ubuntu mods sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. Why shouldn't U&amp;amp;L mods be required to use the editor with a POSIX standard dedicated to it? For further reflection &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/vi.song.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I leave you with a poem&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2950/1925&quot;&gt;shameless plug&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:40:57.413" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T14:10:37.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2980" CreationDate="2014-06-17T15:44:20.037" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kevin&lt;/strong&gt; ⇘&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be fairly&#xA;  high-quality and welcoming. Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when&#xA;  it comes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#percentanswered&quot;&gt;questions with at least one upvoted&#xA;  answers&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12547/should-debian-have-a-home-of-its-own-at-stack-exchange/13285#13285&quot;&gt;not&#xA;  everyone&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  shares this impression of being welcomed. What are the major areas in which&#xA;  U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that moderators have a role in, what&#xA;  do you propose to do about it? If not, what should we (meaning all users) be&#xA;  doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of our unanswered questions are problems with unique hardware and&#xA;software combinations that either no one here can reproduce or the OP just&#xA;didn't stick around long enough to provide the debugging information necessary&#xA;to investigate. A couple years ago, we had a contest to bring up our unanswered&#xA;rate, answering questions when possible, closing where appropriate, and with a&#xA;drawing for swag, based on users' participation. I think another contest like&#xA;this would greatly help our unanswered percent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as being nice to new users, I think we are generally nice to users who appear to have put at a little effort into their questions. To be honest, I think the user linked to in the question is just overreacting.  That said, we should definitely try to be welcoming to new users, and polite even when they may not deserve it. To that end, if a user is acting overly aggressive or rude I will warn them, and if a new user is being problematic, I will provide him advice, and if he continues to be a problem, I will take further steps as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of the&#xA;  day can you be expected to be available for moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently in the US Northeast, and I can keep an eye on flags, dealing with&#xA;quick and easy flags, and situations that need immediate attention through most&#xA;of the workday, from about 10-6. I'm usually online at home from about 7pm to&#xA;11pm,  when I can more easily answer questions and deal with more complex&#xA;matters. In a few months, I will be moving to US pacific time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In UTC (if I did the math correctly), that's currently 1400-2200 and 2300-0300,&#xA;moving back to about 1700-0100 and 0200-0600 in September.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single piece of&#xA;  code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answerer should be encouraged with a comment to add explanation to the&#xA;answer, and if you as a user feel it's unhelpful, feel free to downvote along&#xA;with such a comment, but be prepared to come back and undownvote if the&#xA;answerer adds such explanation.  If it answers the question, it shouldn't be&#xA;flagged as &quot;not an answer,&quot; and if it can be made acceptable with some&#xA;explanation, it shouldn't be flagged as &quot;very low quality.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in general,&#xA;  U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising considering how people&#xA;  will go to war over editor choices, init systems or kernel design. Why do you&#xA;  think that is, and most importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Unix nerds are generally agreeable people -- why else would they give&#xA;so much time to open source software? Even the occasional editor &quot;war&quot; I find&#xA;to be good-natured.  If and when this changes, I will keep the site civil,&#xA;using those moderator powers necessary and proper to do so.  See the question&#xA;below about misbehaving prodigious members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is your view of &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help&#xA;  vampirism&lt;/a&gt;? Is it an existential&#xA;  threat to the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude&#xA;  newcomers? How would you translate this view into your moderation practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think help vampirism is a rampant problem here. If a user asks good&#xA;questions at a reasonable rate, they are welcome to continue doing so. If,&#xA;however, a user repeatedly asks poor questions, they may need a mod message or&#xA;suspension. As with all a mod's actions, that will be handled on a case-by-case&#xA;basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting? As a moderator, the action of&#xA;  closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an answer, etc, takes&#xA;  immediate effect, and does not require consensus from multiple users. How&#xA;  will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting behavior? Would you act as if you&#xA;  made normal votes? Wait for the consensus of others? Abstain entirely outside&#xA;  of special circumstances? Some other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A part of the price of a moderator's binding votes is giving up one's own&#xA;opinions as to their use.  A moderator's duty is to enforce a site's policies,&#xA;not one's own opinions.  Accordingly, I will take binding moderator actions&#xA;when and only when it is necessary and proper to enforce the policies&#xA;established by the users via &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close them,&#xA;  edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Politely encourage the asker to show some effort to solve the problem on their&#xA;own. Edit if there's a clear way to improve the question. Nothing about this&#xA;sort of question needs moderator intervention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they left&#xA;  bits of editor commands in their nomination post. If you're one of them, do&#xA;  you think that despite your poor computer usage skills, you'll be able to&#xA;  master the moderator tools? If you aren't one of them, would you be able to&#xA;  work with a colleague who is, or do you think they should be kept out at all&#xA;  costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although vim is clearly the best editor, the need for a good moderator&#xA;transcends the editor wars.  For the sake of the site I would be willing to&#xA;tolerate a colleague who uses emacs. Though nano/pico is pushing it, and&#xA;anything else we'll have to have a little chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for mastering the moderator tools, I already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable&#xA;  answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from&#xA;  comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the book: warning, mod message, suspension, as warranted by the severity of&#xA;their actions and their disciplinary history. Being a high-rep user doesn't&#xA;exempt you from the rules; if anything, it means you should be held to a higher&#xA;standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a&#xA;  question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would begin by discussing the matter with them in the Mod room. Maybe there&#xA;was some motivation for their action that I was not aware of. If I am still&#xA;dissatisfied with their explanation, I would present my point of view to them&#xA;so we can discuss what site policy says about the situation. If site policy&#xA;doesn't cover the situation and I can't come to an agreement with the other&#xA;mod, I would post it on Meta, as I would advise anyone else to do when they&#xA;disagree with a moderator's actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11750" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:40:57.413" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T20:43:06.757" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2980" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:30:56.390" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;slm ⇘&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be fairly high-quality and welcoming. Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when it comes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#percentanswered&quot;&gt;questions with at least one upvoted answers&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12547/should-debian-have-a-home-of-its-own-at-stack-exchange/13285#13285&quot;&gt;not everyone&lt;/a&gt; shares this impression of being welcomed. What are the major areas in which U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that moderators have a role in, what do you propose to do about it? If not, what should we (meaning all users) be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone that would consider themselves a &quot;regular&quot; to this site, this Q was of most interest to me. I've already &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2961/7453&quot;&gt;left comments on the Q addressing whether we should be concerned about the statistics&lt;/a&gt; of where the site shows up in the percent answered vs. the other SE sites. I'll repeat it here, that I'm not overly concerned with the site's rank in that particular stat, only because when you look at it compared to the other sites based on traffic patterns, the U&amp;amp;L site is 9th in traffic, yet 3rd in Q's with an A that has at least 1 UV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Site    Q's     A's     A'ed    Users   Visits/day&#xA;SO      7.5m    13m     75%     3.2m    6.4m&#xA;SU      225k    364k    73%     248k    571k&#xA;AU      160k    200k    66%     207k    333k&#xA;SF      177k    320k    81%     164k    256k&#xA;AR      45k     77k     93%     53k     197k&#xA;EL&amp;amp;U    38k     102k    99%     59k     174k&#xA;AD      41k     67k     76%     61k     134k&#xA;UL      43k     72k     84%     61k     115k&#xA;MA      295k    437k    81%     128k    82k&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also as someone that has gone through most of the Q's that do not have an answer, I can safely say that there are some technical Q's that are either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unanswerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lack enough details to answer, and should possibly be closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;require someone with a specific setup that is too difficult to replicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By and large, the Q's that haven't been answered fall in these categories. Are there some diamonds in the rough? Sure! I'm sure there are some Q's in there that if we lined them up with the right community member they could knock it off, and in some cases I as well as others have tried to ferret these Q's out, but it's a bit of an arduous task, and so is something that you invariably &quot;chip away&quot; at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;As to making everyone feel welcomed to the U&amp;amp;L site:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the last ~2+ years I have worked tirelessly to try and provide help to people that are asking for it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm #2 in edits on the site, having tried to help shape unclear Q's so that they're more coherent, so that others may answer them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I regularly burn through my votes every day, rewarding other user's hard work, with UV's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'll often leave comments providing guidance towards finding an ultimate answer to an OP's Q, in the hopes that it might help someone else find an eventual solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked Q's that I either had the answer to, or needed help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When a better answer's been revealed, I've worked to make that answer a better one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tried to provide encouragement to my fellow users either through support in the chat room or by acknowledging their achievements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Participated on Meta, asking and answering Q's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tried to work with AskUbuntu to get Q's that are off-topic there, moved to U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of the day can you be expected to be available for moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm generally always here. I typically sleep from 5am-10am UTC, but even that isn't consistent. I was on the site just this morning at 7am UTC, for example. My home timezone is United States/New York.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single piece of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate ones ability to show off how few characters a person can answer a question with, but I generally dislike these. I'll often expand on these answers when I come across them, or leave a comment asking the A'er to expand on it a bit. Most people, I find, when asked are more than willing. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in general, U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising considering how people will go to war over editor choices, init systems or kernel design. Why do you think that is, and most importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that most people in the tech industry have recognized that they are already standing on the shoulders of giants, and have realized that it's completely impossible for any one person to know &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;. So much of what they'll work on through out their professional career will be a team effort, so having to play nice is a must.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, when you deal with something that people are impassioned about, tempers will flair from time to time, and things can get heated. We've had a number of things like this pop up in the chat room from time to time, I generally try to help cool things down, and help mend bruised egos. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acknowledging both sides in an argument is generally all it takes to get things back to a calmer state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is your view of &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt;? Is it an existential threat to the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude newcomers? How would you translate this view into your moderation practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think this is a huge threat to this particular SE site. It's something that you have to keep a watchful eye out for, but in general it isn't a massive concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe it's a real &quot;thing&quot;, and can ruin a community if it goes unchecked. But we have enough people that are mindful of it, so it's kept at bay with garlic cloves 8-). I'll regularly bring it up if I see a particular user exhibiting the pattern in our chat room, often citing Jason W. Ryan's article on the subject, &lt;a href=&quot;http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/03/17/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Taxonomy of Help Vampires&lt;/a&gt;, since this was the first article that enlightened me to the issue, when I first started on the U&amp;amp;L site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting? As a moderator, the action of closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an answer, etc, takes immediate effect, and does not require consensus from multiple users. How will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting behavior? Would you act as if you made normal votes? Wait for the consensus of others? Abstain entirely outside of special circumstances? Some other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm elected moderator I'll be changing my approaches with respect to the review queues, VtC, and VtD. Now I help do a decent amount of the reviewing on this site. With a binding vote, I'll abstain until a quorum of votes has been established on a given item. For things that are egregious, I'll vote to quickly deal with things, but my general approach will be more hands off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally agree with the communal approach to taking decisive actions, such as these, on the site and would like to allow for that process to take its natural course, rather than be the judge and jury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close them, edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2911/7453&quot;&gt;A to that Q in the U&amp;amp;L meta&lt;/a&gt;. It explains exactly what process I would use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they left bits of editor commands in their nomination post. If you're one of them, do you think that despite your poor computer usage skills, you'll be able to master the moderator tools? If you aren't one of them, would you be able to work with a colleague who is, or do you think they should be kept out at all costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't know how to do something, I'm not one to sit twiddling my thumbs, and so I'll ask for help 8-). All mod candidates I either know directly through U&amp;amp;L very well, or know of them through my interactions with the site. I can work with any of them just fine, regardless of their editor issues 8-).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of the time people just want to be acknowledged and shown respect. I try and spend a fair amount of time providing encouragement to all our users whether it's in the chat room or by leaving them a comment when they've leveled up in a reputation milestone. I'll often try and find people that I know have been doing the good work of providing solid answers to the site, and helping to get them to these rep levels. One thing I know for a fact, SE sites will cease to exist without people either asking Q's or answering them. These are the most important resource(s) the sites have and they should be acknowledged constantly for their tireless efforts in making the world a nicer place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By taking the time to do this, I've noticed many times that people that may on first impressions seem like they have a mean streak, have become key contributors, and have expanded the U&amp;amp;L user base with a nice variety of various perspectives on how to solve problems. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would first chat them up either through one of the chat rooms or via email to see why this was done. If they can enlighten me as to the reason then I'll leave well enough alone. If it's something that I feel strongly about, I'll seek out one of the other mods to get a 3rd opinion. If the 3rd mod feels that the situation was handled properly, then I'll likely drop it, and provide any feedback to the OP or user (depending on the situation) looping them in on where things are.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:40:57.413" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T23:43:34.700" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2980" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:45:04.187" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;derobert&lt;/strong&gt;  ⇘&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answer Rate, Are We Welcoming?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be fairly high-quality and welcoming. Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when it comes to questions with at least one upvoted answers. And not everyone shares this impression of being welcomed. What are the major areas in which U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that moderators have a role in, what do you propose to do about it? If not, what should we (meaning all users) be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are actually two separate issues here. First, our percentage answered; second, if we're welcoming (presumably to new users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answer Rate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our percentage answered is lower than average, but only because you're including substantially smaller and younger sites in the average. If you sort the list by traffic, our neighbors are EL&amp;amp;U &amp;amp; Ask Different above and Math and Android below. We are #2, behind EL&amp;amp;U's astonishing 99%, in percent answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that glosses over the very different topic areas. If instead you compare us to similar sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Android           68%&#xA;Ask Different     76%&#xA;Ask Ubuntu        66%&#xA;Server Fault      81%&#xA;Super User        73%&#xA;Unix &amp;amp; Linux (us) 84%&#xA;Web Applications  79%&#xA;Windows Phone     87%&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we really are doing pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the work improving our answer rate isn't a moderator function, it's something that everyone on the site—even the newly signed up user with one reputation—can (and should) do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only mod-specific thing I see—and it really ought not be a high priority as it isn't really improving the site—is that there are old questions which ought to be closed. Closing them may improve the percentage a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are We Welcoming?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think for the most part, being welcoming is about how we react to less-than-perfect questions from new users. (Everyone is welcoming to perfect questions from new users). A large part again a community effort; copy editing, asking for clarification, retagging, etc. is something everyone should do, mod or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mod does have a special role, though, in stopping unwelcoming behavior such as abrasive comments by both deleting said comments and by reminding other users be nice. Thankfully, that's a problem that has mostly stayed away from U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mod also has, by having the diamond next to his/her name, a responsibility to be exceptionally civil and patient, and be willing to explain how site features work, repeatedly. I think if you look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/977/derobert?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&quot;&gt;my comment history&lt;/a&gt; you'll find that those are comments you'll approve of coming from a moderator. Of course, you should look beyond June 3, as no doubt we've all been on our best behavior since we heard about this election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Time Zone&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of the day can you be expected to be available for moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I live in Northern Virginia, US, which is in UTC-0500/-0400. However, I'm a night person, so I'm around, or at least pingable, from about 1400 UTC through 0600 UTC. Later on weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in chat, and am easily pingable there (which ultimately winds up on my phone via the Android app). I'll welcome any pings for moderator needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;One Line Answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single piece of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was asked on meta, and I'm the author of the highest-voted answer there. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2909/977&quot;&gt;My answer to “Should ‘command only’ answers be flagged, down voted and deleted?”&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in the future the consensus there could change to something I don't agree with. My job as moderator is not to enforce my &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; views, it's to enforce the &lt;em&gt;community's consensus&lt;/em&gt;. If I disagree with that consensus, I get to argue my point on chat and on meta like everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some cases that have come up on Stack Overflow where moderators have had to go against consensus, but those are few and far between, and mainly apply to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Strife&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in general, U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising considering how people will go to war over editor choices, init systems or kernel design. Why do you think that is, and most importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Strife on the Site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's not actually that weird for smaller, technically-focused Stack Exchange sites. Even Stack Overflow is pretty low on strife, compared to the Internet in general. By discouraging conversation threads and instead focusing on answers to specific technical questions, it's something the SE model does very well. We don't allow the kinds of questions that could turn into a flame war (&quot;what's the best init system?&quot; &quot;what's the best editor?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if someone asks an emacs question, any answer trying to start an editor war will surely be downvoted to oblivion and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think moderators play some role in preventing strife by getting rid of trolling, basically. Ultimately, that of course extends to suspending the users performing said trolling. The site has had trolls before, and I (and several other of the candidates) helped flagging and VtC the questions the troll was posting. We coordinated with the existing moderators over chat, and that worked fairly well. Eventually, the troll gave up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Strife in Chat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I've been asked about chat, I've seen those flags before (for a while, high-rep users got flags from all channels). There are a few situations where its obvious to anyone that a message is a problem; but mostly its important to understand the rules &amp;amp; customs of the room before attempting to moderate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's say something happened in our site's chat room. First, I'd make sure not to be drawn in to it. A heated, abusive argument isn't improved by another person joining in. Nor is it helped by arguing over authority (e.g., if someone says I can't tell them to stop, etc.) The proper response depends on the situation, but (in escalating order), its something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;general reminder to the channel to keep it civil, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;specific reminder about particular messages, to the person to made them. A reminder, not a threat (&quot;that's not cool&quot;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;warning to cut it out or face suspension&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;chat suspension&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd skip or repeat steps as appropriate; e.g., someone who shows up and just starts filling the channel with profanity is a troll, and just gets suspended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in addition, I'd delete or edit offensive messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Help Vampirism&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is your view of help vampirism? Is it an existential threat to the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude newcomers? How would you translate this view into your moderation practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It exists, but it is a pretty small problem here. I believe we ought to downvote questions which, as the tooltip says, &quot;do not show any research effort&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think our first assumption for most cases should be that the asker &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nngroup.com/articles/incompetent-search-skills/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;doesn't know how to do the research&lt;/a&gt;, and focus our efforts on helping with that problem as well. We can kindly point them to some search results, ask if those helped, etc. And of course answers can explain how the knowledge to answer was obtained, or where to go for further information (e.g., cite man pages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator only needs to step in for the few very bad cases, for example to close a question quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Closing &amp;amp; Deleting&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting? As a moderator, the action of closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an answer, etc, takes immediate effect, and does not require consensus from multiple users. How will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting behavior? Would you act as if you made normal votes? Wait for the consensus of others? Abstain entirely outside of special circumstances? Some other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I'll handling it that differently than I do now. I currently only vote to close a question that I'm pretty sure should be closed, etc. I don't consider the &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;-vote requirement a license to be sloppy in my voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Giv' me teh Codez&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close them, edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it depends on the question. Strictly speaking, a lot of the fairly simple &quot;I want to extract this bit of data and sort by it&quot; questions are &quot;give me the code&quot; questions. But they're also fairly atomic; you can't really break them down further. I think they're OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are other questions that ask for a solution to some complicated task. I think we ought to ask the OP to split it down into smaller, more focused questions, and close the overly broad one. Some of those are also likely off-topic, as they're fully programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, at present, the above is not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2910/how-do-you-feel-about-give-me-teh-codez-questions&quot;&gt;the consensus here&lt;/a&gt;. The consensus requires there be a pattern of it from the user, so I will only close questions when there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Editors&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they left bits of editor commands in their nomination post. If you're one of them, do you think that despite your poor computer usage skills, you'll be able to master the moderator tools? If you aren't one of them, would you be able to work with a colleague who is, or do you think they should be kept out at all costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm not one of them (possibly just because I hit the character limit in my nomination—I take the 5th on that), so I'd encourage my colleagues to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask a question&lt;/a&gt; on a very nice site I heard about that deals with Unix text editors, among other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answers v. Problems&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I'll assume for answering this that the flags are legitimate; if they're not, it's not that user's problem that some random jerk on the Internet is flagging all of his/her stuff. Also, I assume this is a new problem, not a long-running one; if it's a long-running one, presumably the existing moderation team already has a plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I'd need to decide if the user is doing it on purpose or not—it could be, for example, due to limited English proficiency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user is doing it on purpose, I'd give him/her a warning to cut it out. Otherwise, I'd try to help the user with phrasing, etc. that is less abrasive. I'd also, in either case, if its comments, ask the other users involved to please refrain, and just flag material instead. I'm not sure exactly how the moderator tools work (not currently being one), but I'd make sure this gets communicated to the rest of the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, if its proves unmanageable, and after discussion with the rest of the moderation team, I'd suspend the user; there are plenty of people who can provide answers without causing problems. Pretty much no user is that special to be worth constant trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Disagreements with other mods&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obviously, I'll chat-ping them with &lt;code&gt;@user +++ATH&lt;/code&gt; and hope they're on (well,&lt;/em&gt; were &lt;em&gt;on) modem connections (fallback: schedule backhoes to work in their neighborhoods). While they're waiting for their modems to redial and reconnect, I'll change their residences into truck stops on Google Maps, and laugh as the 18-wheelers pull up and demand burgers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a serious note, I'll talk to the other mod. I'm available in chat, as are most of the other candidates, and the current moderation team. Even as a non-moderator, when I came across a review queue item, closed question, etc. where I felt that one of the other chat regulars cast an incorrect vote, I asked them about it in chat. Or I asked about it on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone (mod or not) believes I've made a mistake, I want them to tell me. I'm willing to discuss it, and I know I do indeed make mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T17:04:56.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2980" CreationDate="2014-06-17T23:30:51.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Braiam&lt;/strong&gt; ⇘&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my impression that U&amp;amp;L regulars tend to consider the site to be fairly high-quality and welcoming. Yet U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when it comes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#percentanswered&quot;&gt;questions with at least one upvoted answers&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12547/should-debian-have-a-home-of-its-own-at-stack-exchange/13285#13285&quot;&gt;not everyone&lt;/a&gt; shares this impression of being welcomed. What are the major areas in which U&amp;amp;L should improve? If this is something that moderators have a role in, what do you propose to do about it? If not, what should we (meaning all users) be doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two questions, so I will address them separately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the welcoming part, I believe those users are not used to our model or are used to other models that just don't work in Stack Exchange. My first contact with Stack Exchange was on Stack Overflow which is believed to be more rude to newbies, and yet, my question was well retrieved; granted, I did my homework and wrote my question in the best of my abilities, so &lt;strong&gt;the reason that I was treated well, lies on me,&lt;/strong&gt; not in the rest of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;About our answers rate, I think there's always place to improve, but that improvement shouldn't be mindless. Most of those questions either, doesn't have enough information to provide a correct answers (troubleshooting kind) or there isn't just some user knowledgeable enough to answer them (cue some kernel memory management questions, and the likes).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So our principal goal should be attract users that can answer difficult questions and prevent that our backlog of troubleshooting questions rises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In which time-zone do you normally operate? And, in UTC, what hours of the day can you be expected to be available for moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UTC -4. I don't have fixed hours to participate in the site, but mainly I do it in &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; morning or &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you feel about one line answers which only feature a single piece of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should be strongly discouraged. We need to remember that the answers are not only for OP's benefit but for the rest of the internet. When the answer doesn't elaborate, it could be disastrous for someone that comes along an use the answer without understanding fully what's being done or how. I would certainly favor any answer that has a complete explanation of the code used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Exchange sites go, let alone communities on the Internet in general, U&amp;amp;L is pretty low on strife. This might be surprising considering how people will go to war over editor choices, init systems or kernel design. Why do you think that is, and most importantly, how would you cope if this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think that we all are professionals, or at very least how to behave &lt;em&gt;with professionalism&lt;/em&gt;. We all know that people will have preferences (myself not being too picky when it comes to editors, so sorry guys) and know how to respect them, share our opinions and discuss with moderation in an informal forum, like chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main site I know that any question trying to sway the flames of war would have a promptly response of every users and swiftly closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is your view of &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt;? Is it an existential threat to the community, or just another term for the elite to use to exclude newcomers? How would you translate this view into your moderation practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;vampires&quot; in my dictionary (which I will use from now on) are people that doesn't care about the rest of the community. These kind of users if they do not improve upon interaction with the site, maybe they are not SE material and we should show them the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in my nomination, as long as you help me to help you, you will get my help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will you participate in closing &amp;amp; deleting? As a moderator, the action of closing a question, opening a closed one, deleting an answer, etc, takes immediate effect, and does not require consensus from multiple users. How will this affect your closing &amp;amp; deleting behavior? Would you act as if you made normal votes? Wait for the consensus of others? Abstain entirely outside of special circumstances? Some other approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm an advocated of &quot;vote early, vote often&quot;, so I will continue as moderator. I always vote with responsibility when there's something right or wrong with the post. As moderator I will be asked to comment more when taking action which I normally don't do since most of the post I vote the problem is obvious or there's already a comment that has an explanation, so that's the only thing that will change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, we are humans and we are asked to make some judgment calls, but I will abide by the consensus on meta even if I don't agree totally with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you do with &quot;GIV' ME TEH CODEZ&quot; kind of questions? Close them, edit them, anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would certainly downvote them, with the reasons show in the tooltip. If a close reason applies, I would certainly close them, as I would do with any other question. If the community decides to treat them differently, I will abide by the deposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some candidates are apparently so bad at using their editor that they left bits of editor commands in their nomination post. If you're one of them, do you think that despite your poor computer usage skills, you'll be able to master the moderator tools? If you aren't one of them, would you be able to work with a colleague who is, or do you think they should be kept out at all costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know how to exit vim, I know how to save and close nano, I know how to flip bits with nothing more than alcohol, a needle and a steady pulse; I don't think the moderator tools would be more complicated to &lt;s&gt;play with&lt;/s&gt; use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Of course I know I would ask for help if I don't understand how to use a tool&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I will excuse myself and copy from my other answer on AU)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be deal in steps, and depends the gravity of the situation. I would treat them nice but firm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this also)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first should evaluate why I think why it should be closed/deleted/etc. Kind of &quot;put myself in other shoes&quot;, since there might be something I missed or I don't know in the moment. Once I do this, I could ask if I was spot on of why the action was done and would propose have done instead and why and offer that alternative. If consensus is reached, is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:40:57.413" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T23:37:36.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-20T12:32:05.337" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this couple of times: &lt;em&gt;How to foo the bar with X?&lt;/em&gt; X being a requirement of the asker. Now, maybe I'm biased by my &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/a/387/226&quot;&gt;participation in Software Recommendations&lt;/a&gt; where all requirements of OP should be met or at least explain why they couldn't meet them; but why are we answering &lt;em&gt;how to foo the bar with &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If OP is interested in accomplish a task &lt;strong&gt;with X&lt;/strong&gt;, for whatever reasons, why are we just forgetting about possible limitations of OP environment and just accomplishing the task? Is this really good practice for us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:52:39.143" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T13:22:58.113" Title="Why are we answering how to accomplish a task with X, we are answering with Y?" Tags="|discussion|answers|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-06-20T14:23:11.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2987" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:20:30.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on the fence with this as well. I find that when I'm searching via Google for solutions that I'll invariably find answers to questions on one of the Stack Exchange sites, that provides a solution that I was looking for, even though the original question may have specified &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; a particular X be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to answering the original question that wanted a solution using X, you're correct, it's violating the purpose of the OP asking for a solution using X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a community solution and I've left it alone since searching this site would seem to indicate that it's been this way since inception, or closely there after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T13:20:30.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2987" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:22:58.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question. I've seen this pattern quite a lot here: sometimes to constructive ends, sometimes not. The worst are when the resulting answers are just code one-liners. Double ouch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest a nuanced approach rather different from Software Recommendations: &lt;strong&gt;This &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be done but it needs to be justified&lt;/strong&gt;. The justification does not have to be elaborate, but it should instruct the OP and future readers on the comparative merits of different solutions or tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By way of example let me pick on &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; for a minute. Lets suppose we have a sample question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; How do I get result X out of dataset Y using sed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost a good answer to such a question will start off with a sed solution. Besides a working command, and explanation of the flags or routines used and any special data considerations are in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point the answerer may wish to provide a better solution as well. Their experience may tell them there is a better way go about solving the problem. Maybe sed is a cumbersome tool for the job at hand. Adding onto the answer with &quot;This would be much simpler in awk. {explanation}.&quot; should be perfectly acceptable. In fact this is quite useful. They might even provide several methods and comment on their merits in various circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that sed is not capable of the task and that another solution must be provided. It should be up to the answerer to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this is the case and not just leave them hanging by dumping an alternate solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now another answerer comes along. Of course they have the perl solution. Suppose the sed case is already well covered by another answer. I would suggest that in order to drop an answer using a different program than was specifically requested &lt;strong&gt;it is incumbent on them to also explain under what circumstances the alternate solution would be more appropriate&lt;/strong&gt;. If you are going to propose and alternate method, take a second to say something about the strengths or weaknesses of the method as compared to the requested one so that people can make informed decisions about what tool to use. The presumption is that even if the OP does not want to switch tools, some future readers might have a slightly different scenario or different preferences. Addressing these other scenarios is fine as long as they are put in context rather than just lobbed in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad¹:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Use perl instead: &lt;code&gt;perl -pne '])[{!}+*=!]+*{=]*]'&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Bob's answer shows how this can be done in sed, but as you can see it gets tricky trying to escape all the possible input strings. If you  want to sidestep t he whole problem, there is a more specialized tool &lt;code&gt;des&lt;/code&gt; that can make this less brittle. Use it like this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mean time don't:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;…just drop command one-liners with other tools.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;…ignore the specific scenario and tool questioned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think failure to follow these suggestions should automatically qualify posts as NAA material, but failure to do it should be a fair point of criticism and OP's should be encouraged to make their posts &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;. Failure to put their alternative solutions in context is also a &lt;em&gt;failure to be useful&lt;/em&gt; and should be dealt with just like other answers an the site that &lt;em&gt;fail to be useful&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;¹ Note this is not bad on account of being perl. I like perl, that's why I feel like I can pick on it. It's bad on account of not explaining when or why to use it, how it works, or how it relates to the requested tool.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T13:22:58.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-22T12:09:59.743" Score="-6" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;When entering a question, StackExchange tries to suggest previous answers.  It does so by filling a &quot;Questions that may already have your answer&quot; box between the title and the body of the question. Such box appears and disappears, making the text box for the question go up and down in a distracting way, and sometimes interfering with mouse clicks and text selections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this feature be disabled?  Or could this box be made fixed?  By the way, there is a similar &quot;Similar questions&quot; box on the right already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8785" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T13:15:40.713" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T13:15:40.713" Title="Can the suggestion box be disabled?" Tags="|feature-request|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2014-06-23T11:34:36.273" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rather like that the suggestion box works this way. It's happened to me that a search for keywords found nothing, but the title matcher found something relevant. Even if it finds nothing relevant, it's sometimes useful to mention in the question “this earlier question has a similar title, but my question is different in that …”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion box tries to shove potential duplicates in your face. Well, that sounds about right to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T11:34:36.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-24T17:05:35.867" Score="4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/138877/revisions&quot;&gt;suggested an edit&lt;/a&gt; to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/138877/23408&quot;&gt;Extracting text using sed does not work as expected&lt;/a&gt;. After a few minutes I checked back and found that an edit had been committed to the question. It was &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; edit, with a few cosmetic/stylistic changes. (For example, I had used “…” quotes around strings that were also in back-ticks; OK, I accept that that’s non-standard. And indentation and a blockquote that I had added were gone.) But my name was nowhere to be seen, and I didn’t get my two points of reputation. Was this a correct edit review?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T17:38:29.433" Title="How was my suggested edit not useful?" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2992" CreationDate="2014-06-24T17:38:29.433" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the differences between your suggestion and the improvement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed an excessive amount of whitespace before the input/output/commands&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Made the commands blocks instead of inline formatting, which they should be as they're on their own line.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed the note from a quote block, as it doesn't really belong in one. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ends up correcting about half of your changes. I would probably have left your edit marked helpful as I'm generous with such things, but I understand why the rejector rejected it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11750" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T17:38:29.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-24T20:00:54.963" Score="46" ViewCount="614" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;2nd moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/7453&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/7453.png&quot; alt=&quot;slm&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22222&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/22222.png&quot; alt=&quot;terdon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also bid a fond farewell to mattdm, who is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2924/stepping-down-as-moderator&quot;&gt;hanging up his diamond hat&lt;/a&gt; after &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;3 years of service&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/6185854364024832/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T18:23:51.383" Title="2014 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3000" CreationDate="2014-06-25T20:11:14.413" Score="10" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/139201/8556&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; which I tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;, and was then referred to a possible &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/90687/8556&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; which is tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt; is probably about all forms of wireless technology, including wifi, bluetooth, proprietary wireless USB devices, etc, but the tag wikis seems to suggest the tags may actually be duplicates, in which case I suggest they ought to be merged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions about wireless networking on Linux or other UNIX systems. Be sure to specify all relevant details (hardware model, operating system etc...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WiFi is a networking technology permitting the exchange of information through wireless (radio) connections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8556" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T01:07:57.770" Title="What is the intended difference between the 'wifi' and 'wireless' tags? Should they be merged?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2996" CreationDate="2014-06-25T22:03:31.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since wireless can be loosely interpreted as anything that transmit data using non-wired medium (RF, wifi, et al) I suggest just renaming wireless to wifi and done. No synonym. Of course it will be helpful to have a list of the questions that were affected so we can review calmly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;merge wireless into wifi.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remove any synonymization that puts wireless and wifi to mean the same&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be in line with our stances of creating technically correct tags without ambiguous meanings, ane synonymizing a ambiguous tag (wireless) with a clear tag (wifi) is not the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T11:03:56.617" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T11:03:56.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2996" CreationDate="2014-06-25T22:25:02.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the discussion in chat, my suggestion is that we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge all existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt; questions into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blacklist &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt;, and offer the following suggestions when someone attempts to tag their question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bluetooth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bluetooth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bluetooth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, perhaps other wireless technologies (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wireless USB&lt;/a&gt;?) will be ubiquitous enough to warrant their own tag suggestion as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8556" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T22:25:02.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2996" CreationDate="2014-06-25T22:32:38.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Examining the 50 most recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt; questions, all were about wifi. Braiam previously fixed one that was also tagged Bluetooth (one out of all 317 tagged wireless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So wireless is overwhelmingly about wifi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, that's how people use the term. If someone worries about using too much data on their phone plan because his/her smartphone isn't on wireless at work, that makes perfect sense. Wireless means WiFi. You don't become confused because cell data is wireless. Similarly, if someone suggests turning wireless off on your phone to troubleshoot something, you don't put in in airplane mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just merge it all to wifi, and put a synonym in place. The synonym will help people asking questions, and also anyone trying to search by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If at some point people start using wireless to mean AM radio again, a mod can undo the synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T22:32:38.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2996" CreationDate="2014-06-27T01:07:42.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt; tag has now been merged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/wifi/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonym&lt;/a&gt; created. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8OFD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T01:07:42.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3002" CreationDate="2014-06-27T15:00:51.243" Score="7" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to &quot;adopt&quot; this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49567/how-do-you-access-internet-in-rhel-5-using-android-smartphone-usb-lan&quot;&gt;RHEL5 reverse tethering&lt;/a&gt; question, since I am looking for exact the same thing right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to transfer ownership of that question to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or: Should I ask a more detailed one and flag the original as same question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The orignator of the q seems to be inactive - else I would just have edited his question. Drawback is that I will not get notified for new answers to that q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T15:26:32.393" Title="Adopt a question" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3001" CreationDate="2014-06-27T15:26:32.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd ask your question and if it gets traction we can link the other as a duplicate to yours. Be sure to reference the other question in yours so that it's clear to everyone that you've seen the other question and are looking for a more specific answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T15:26:32.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-27T16:54:51.993" Score="7" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Background: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2854/add-specific-close-reason-and-explicit-point-in-the-help-pages-for-learning-mate&quot;&gt;Add specific close reason and explicit point in the help pages for learning material requests&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that I made a mistake with my earlier proposal, since I didn't included proof of concept about neither the off-topic reason (I agree with Gilles that there should be a site wide reason...) nor the help page. This is focused in the off-topic reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T14:41:53.057" Title="How should we word the off-topic reason for learning material?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3003" CreationDate="2014-06-27T17:00:33.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking in something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Unix &amp;amp; Linux as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem you are currently facing and what has been done so far to solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T17:00:33.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3003" CreationDate="2014-06-27T17:03:35.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end I went with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that requests for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2642/&quot;&gt;learning materials&lt;/a&gt; (tutorials, how-tos etc.) are off topic. The only exception is questions about where to find official documentation (e.g. POSIX specifications).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text above has been added to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; help page. I don't think a specific close reason is needed, too broad should serve fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T13:49:41.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2854" CreationDate="2014-06-28T12:16:04.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sentence has now been added to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; help page. I don't think a specific close reason is needed, too broad should serve fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that requests for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2642/&quot;&gt;learning materials&lt;/a&gt; (tutorials, how-tos etc.) are off topic. The only exception is questions about where to find official documentation (e.g. POSIX specifications).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T13:49:05.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3009" CreationDate="2014-06-30T11:14:34.983" Score="11" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;my reputation was 910 and when I refresh the page It becames 908, I have checked the &lt;code&gt;achievement&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;INBOX&lt;/code&gt; and no reason is mentioned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this happened to me several times this week, even when I didn't do anything at all.&#xA;and it start to happend when I reach 900&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45764" LastEditorUserId="45764" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T11:40:47.487" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T11:43:25.487" Title="Why did I get -2 reputation without telling me why?" Tags="|support|reputation|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3008" CreationDate="2014-06-30T11:43:25.487" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The -2 you lost were because a question you had edited (which gained you +2) was deleted by the author. When a question is deleted, the reputation changes associated with it are reversed as happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also lost -4 reputation a couple of days ago because 2 questions you had edited were migrated away from the site because they were off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another -4 came a few days before that when two questions you had edited were deleted. One by the OP and the other by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/203101&quot;&gt;the system&lt;/a&gt; since it had been closed and had attracted no votes for more than 9 days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, since deleted posts are only visible to &gt;10k rep users, your profile doesn't show this information. You might be able to see the migrated ones but not the deleted ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T11:43:25.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2969" CreationDate="2014-07-03T05:29:44.980" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a 'snow shoe' spammer, and they often target very short posts because they think folks are less likely to notice the edits (yes, they're that dumb). I dug into our live DB and fetched the origins of edits rejected for spam / vandalism to that post, and blocked about 50 some networks from doing it in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system normally does this without intervention from us, however some spammers use 'snow shoes' (distributing their presence to avoid the system) that are quite large, so we have to help it along from time to time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this happens again, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; directly to let us know, and we'll run a query and shut them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3150" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T05:29:44.980" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2969" CreationDate="2014-07-05T12:54:08.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a protection in place that silently rejects suggested edits that completely rewrite a post. However it only triggers on posts that are sufficiently long, because the detection of “completely rewriting” is unreliable on posts that are too short to begin with. I don't remember the exact threshold value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25880/i-want-to-use-a-bluetooth-keyboard-during-initram/25882#25882&quot;&gt;I want to use a bluetooth keyboard during initram&lt;/a&gt; (by adding material from comments), which puts this one over the threshold. So even if the spammer finds a new botnet, they won't be able to annoy us with that particular post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T12:54:08.323" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-10T10:17:54.827" Score="6" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/96704/33055&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, while searching for a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For those of you that do not have the privilege of being able to see the now deleted post, and for which my link seems broken:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Rxu1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if the answer originally  was flagged as link only, IIRC you can only do so if it shows in the low quality queue, the option to flag as such does not show up when clicking the 'flag' link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oavwQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link is now broken, and I flagged this for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should try and get the &quot;This is a link only&quot; option added to the  list above, in a way that they get handled the same as reviewed answers marked that way (triggering deletion?). Possible (re-)inserting the answer in the low-quality review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that what happens with reviewed questions where &quot;This is a link only&quot; has been selected multiple times, is that they automatically do get deleted. Then the addition of the &quot;This is a link only option&quot; to the flag possibilities would have helped pushing this answer out of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get some mechanism in place to check on links in answers that were marked Link-only at some point and if the link is broken on two consecutive checks, have the system reinsert this in the low-quality review queue, probably resulting in deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just downvoting the answer seems a bit ineffective, selecting that it is very low quality is a bit vague for this specific problem (but might result in the item going in the review queues, I am not sure). Or is there any other alternative that doesn't involve the 'heavy hand' of calling in the mods, to get this cleaned up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T23:27:13.273" Title="Reviewing links on a answer" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3013" CreationDate="2014-07-10T23:27:13.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's not gonna be a 'link only' flag reason, because folks come up with some &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; odd interpretations of what &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; means&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; and we don't need to encourage that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer depends entirely on a broken link, you should probably either fix the link (archive.org is pretty great), edit in enough details for it to be useful without the link, or flag it for moderator attention and note that the link is broken and the answer is worthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, don't fixate on links - focus on the information contained in the answer itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if there's &lt;em&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; information in the text of the post geared toward answering the question, then it's not an answer, and you should flag it as such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the answer is unintelligible / embarrassingly poorly-written, then flag it as very low quality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you just think it's wrong or unhelpful, downvote it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/your-answer-is-in-another-castle-when-is-an-answer-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your second suggestion: we were working on an automated link-checker at one point, but the project has been on hold for a good while now; hopefully we can get back to it one of these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;most popular interpretation? a synonym of &amp;quot;having&amp;quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T23:27:13.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3017" CreationDate="2014-07-12T16:35:51.217" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/144192/3&quot;&gt;Removing duplicate files but ignoring certain lines (e.g. embedded timestamp)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect I am falling into an XY trap (I realized this more and more as I typed the question which is why the focus kind of shifts towards the end). My fundamental issue is making MySQL backups only if the database has changed. My current attempted solution is to write a script to find duplicates (which has the problem that timestamps are embedded in the files), and my immediate issue is with the attempted solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presented the fundamental issue for obvious reasons; to open the possibility for an answer that points out a better way entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this potentially &lt;em&gt;stops&lt;/em&gt; an answer to the immediate question of how to find duplicate files but ignore certain lines, which is also a useful question in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I leave the question as is, or should I split it (and how)? What's a good thing to do in general if I suspect there is a better way to do what I am trying to do but the specific solution is useful as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49422" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T02:20:24.363" Title="Should I split a possible XY problem question if the Y is potentially useful in general?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3015" CreationDate="2014-07-12T19:10:06.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest splitting it and leaving the find duplicates except for a few lines generic question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the MySQL backup part, you could ask that here (it's a program that runs on Unix after all) or you could try &lt;a href=&quot;https://dba.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;dba.se&lt;/a&gt;. Presuming of course you first check for a duplicate question over there. I suspect their answers would involve the MySQL binlog and/or some Percona tools. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW: search terms to use include &quot;incremental backup&quot; and &quot;differential backup&quot;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:42:42.083" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T19:10:06.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-14T12:12:54.587" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a scan and can't find a specific meta question for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm at the stage where I'm being offered edits for review.  There are quite a few edits where the change is to modify maybe two lines of formatting, or capitalise a number of words.  Neither make any substantive change to the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may prefer to read a post with proper capitalisation, but one or two lower case &quot;i's&quot; aren't going to ruin it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, going through someone's post and turning three or four mentions of a command into &lt;code&gt;command&lt;/code&gt; formatting helps, but is it a significant change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you go to review an edit, one of the rejection reasons is too trivial (or words to that effect).  Is there any guidance on what is too trivial?  Why would anyone reject a valid, but tiny update (like capitalising one word or replacing one command)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T15:02:10.687" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T04:38:04.947" Title="Edits: How trivial is trivial?" Tags="|discussion|editing|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3018" CreationDate="2014-07-14T17:49:35.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would approve anything that I feel improves the post, regardless of how small that improvement is. I'd however scan if there are some other obvious improvements and do them myself. Note that some other reviewers are more demanding. Part of their concern, and the only one I can think of that's valid, is bumping a Question repeatedly. But that to me sounds like an unworthy workaround that would be fixed by some of what's suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/122567&quot;&gt;this feature request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T17:49:35.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3018" CreationDate="2014-07-15T04:38:04.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Tshepang, although I never was too concerned with a minor edit bumping the Question in the active page (that is because &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; don't use it that much, not because it is not important). Minor changes make the site better readable and help encourage newcomers who take an &lt;em&gt;example&lt;/em&gt; of the questions they have looked at before they start typing their own, and thereby put some more effort in their question (be it formatting, proper spelling and/or grammar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the editor being reviewed, missed improvements, I add them, and if possible let the person know (e.g. when the lurk on the chat page). This is especially important if someone is on an edit spree (being seen several times a day on the suggested edits review queue) and if their omissions are structural. If the omissions are glaring, leaving out more than half of the improvements that could have been made, then I indicate the suggested edit was not helpful. Those editors that are conscious of the points they get will notice and investigate what they could have done to earn the 2 reputation, and often improve their way of editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the minor edits include changes that make things worse, or are include invalid changes then I tend to reject the suggested edit and (especially when I am the second person to do so), go back in and do the appropriate changes. For me, YMMV, the changes I don't accept include those:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;introducing incorrect spelling¹&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;changing bad grammar without creating a grammatical sentence¹&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;changing otherwise correct English to US-English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;formatting of words that should not be formatted (such as acronyms formatted as commands: YaST&amp;rarr;&lt;code&gt;YaST&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally I was concerned to make sure &quot;reviewable editors&quot; would know how things are done here, to maintain some kind of uniformity (primarily with formatting). But not that many keep up the editing, or gain enough points quick enough to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; get the feel for the site and have enough rep to make &quot;bad&quot; edits that no longer need to be reviewed. Still I do think of the review process of a chance to steer those willing to help improve the site, in a direction to maintain the uniformity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editors editing their first questions seldom start with doing any major (even if appropriate) rewriting, and I don't think we can expect that of them. The cost (in time) of the suggested edit review process, which is relatively high for minor edits, I see as the price to pay to be able to keep the site to my liking. &#xA;If you are willing to pay that price as well, then maybe you can see it as a chance to educate someone that might contribute to site in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;As a linguist by education, I am fully aware that spelling and grammar of language change over time, whatever the language fascists are trying to achieve to the contrary. On this site I am, however, more conservative with regards to this respect than normal, because any non-native speakers visiting here will have more difficulty understanding slang, neologisms and new spelling, than understanding the English written as they learned in school.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T04:38:04.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-15T22:30:17.763" Score="17" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most upvoted answer in the questionnaire in the recent moderator election, pointed out two issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;U&amp;amp;L is way below average among SE sites when it comes to questions with at least one upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not everyone shares this impression of being welcomed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one is a highly subjective matter, but the first one can be quantified and verified with hard data. So, I &lt;s&gt;stole&lt;/s&gt; borrowed from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/8575/169736&quot;&gt;rolf&lt;/a&gt; one of his queries to measure the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/161411/site-activity-and-votegraph#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;activity of the site&lt;/a&gt; and here's the result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sJVkq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, our votes on answers is normally greater than commenting and votes on questions are half way there. There are other healthy pieces of information, like the amount of answers is normally higher than the amount of questions in a proportion 5:4 (answers per questions) which is good, and some sites have problems to even keep up. Now, I compared this with Ask Ubuntu and Super User, as they are the most technically nearest SE sites to us, and here's the results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J6SxI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Super User&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ITwd5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ask Ubuntu&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took the same period of time (last 104 weeks) for all charts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do we see here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We do vote more than commenting on posts (which is a good thing IMO, since the main type of feedback should be in votes, no comments), contrary to our other counterparts which languish proportionally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have proportionally more votes on questions/answers per individual Q/A than SU and AU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least those two, we have way better standing than the other similar sites. What everyone else think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T22:30:17.763" Title="What's our status in voting?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|answer-quality|votes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3023" CreationDate="2014-07-16T00:47:59.523" Score="5" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read this question(by Braiam):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3021/whats-our-status-in-voting?cb=1&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s our status in voting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to thank him for his work, It is very good and show the advantages of this site over similar sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I'm so exited to be a part of this site, and I guess this site will be improved more in the future thanks to &lt;code&gt;slm&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;terdon&lt;/code&gt; (moderators) and a other active people, but I guess the problem that we faced in this site is the lack of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we only have (till now):44,784 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;super User has: 227,662 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask Ubuntu has: 161,741 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server Fault has: 178,223 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do we have to do to encourage sharing and to encourage migration of questions to this site to make it more popular?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally I'm just suggesting ideas, you are the professionals here, but I really want this site to be one of the best in the SE community. So are there any other ideas on how we can improve the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T02:10:51.687" Title="Encourage asking more questions on this site?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3022" CreationDate="2014-07-16T01:19:31.957" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sympathize with what you're saying, but if you look at those graphs that Braiam posted one thing you should be noticing is that they're all trending up. This IMO, is a good thing and will continue to grow if we keep doing what we've been doing here since the site's inception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the community friendly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look for holes in the existing Q's, if you find something lacking, ask it and then self answer it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Introduce Q's that you've personally experienced along with the solutions you came up with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look for interesting technologies that are under represented here and learn how to use them, then write a Q&amp;amp;A about it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue to improve our existing back catalog either through...&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;retagging efforts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;updating things as they become outdated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;improving things that have evolved (MBR vs. GPT for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be the best community member you can be&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last bullet is really what makes a site great, again IMO. If everyone is trying to help and doing what they are best able to do, then a site will invariably shine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High numbers of Q's doesn't equate to a high quality site. High quality Q's with high quality A's does, along with people that are genuinely trying to help each other and newcomers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T01:19:31.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3022" CreationDate="2014-07-16T01:34:55.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that we can do to engage more activity is write up your own findings in a Q &amp;amp; A format. I always do it most of the times. For example, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120077/the-ls-command-is-not-working-for-a-directory-with-a-huge-number-of-files&quot;&gt;Question 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/142667/maximum-memory-usable-by-a-32-bit-rhel-6-system&quot;&gt;Question 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/141269/mysql-restoration-process-takes-longer-time&quot;&gt;Question 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, I try to get some expert opinion on whether I have understood things correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way I try to increase the question count is, when I try to answer some user questions and not clear of some approach, I would again post them as questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128328/remove-blank-lines-in-awk-display&quot;&gt;Question 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I read something and not clear, I would post them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/137871/is-it-bad-to-select-remember-me-option-in-the-browsers-of-a-compromised-machine&quot;&gt;Question 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is basically upto the individual to engage himself in the community, so that it helps the community as well as the individual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T01:34:55.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3022" CreationDate="2014-07-16T02:10:51.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Popularity is not an end in itself, it should be a by-product of a high quality reference site maintained by a knowledgeable and approachable community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't think that there is a &quot;situation&quot; that needs &quot;improving.&quot; That isn't to say that the site can't be improved, it just means that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a slow, deliberate build up of quality questions and answers rather than a frenzied scramble to create as many questions as possible to try and attract new people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adopting the long view and paying attention to the details to ensure that the site grows in a sustainable way strikes me as a much more sensible approach. That means investing as much time in &quot;janitorial&quot; tasks with the current content; editing, tagging and re-tagging, identifying duplicates and weeding out the cruft, as it does creating new questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way when new people do arrive here, they will find a well curated and maintained wiki and will be more likely to be inclined to contribute to the commons by sticking around and helping out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T02:10:51.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-07-16T16:33:00.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How do I solve an APT dependency issue?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/121180/4671&quot;&gt;What information do I need to solve an APT dependency issue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one comes up fairly often. Most of the time, people have no idea what to do.&#xA;See also &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/q/140246/15729&quot;&gt;&quot;How do I resolve unmet dependencies?&quot; on Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. Essentially all the answers to this question are notable for totally missing the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:50:50.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3036" CreationDate="2014-07-16T20:17:00.350" Score="13" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, a new user asked, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/144656/34796&quot;&gt;Is it possible to define a command in bash?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a very basic question that has been answered thousands of times on the internet already.  That being said, it's useful to have it answered here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux as well.  However, after only one day it already has over 1 000 views and the simple &lt;code&gt;alias&lt;/code&gt; response has 34 up-votes?  That seems incredible!  What's going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34796" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T18:41:51.597" Title="Is it me or is it strange for this question to have blown up so much?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3027" CreationDate="2014-07-16T20:34:58.257" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very common on question and answer sites for questions to &quot;blow up&quot; when &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; knows the answer (or &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; they do). Whether or not the answers are controversial/debatable doesn't seem to matter; if the subject matter is easy and accessible, people will try and chime in to get some reputation. In the process of posting their comments/answers, they'll also often drop an upvote or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This phenomenon certainly isn't unique to Unix.SE. Look at some of the trivially easy questions asked on SuperUser or StackOverflow with hundreds, sometimes thousands of upvotes. It's not strange; it's just human nature. We can't prevent it within the current framework of the site; it's not like it's against the rules or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22703" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T20:34:58.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3030" CreationDate="2014-07-16T21:03:11.380" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;10 out 10 refresh/page change on UL have the New Relic advertisement in the sidebar. Seems like the normal Community ads, and non-community ones aren't appearing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this really expected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6s3Uh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="77778" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T22:25:11.150" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T03:14:15.620" Title="Why is New Relic advertisement sticky?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3029" CreationDate="2014-07-16T22:27:21.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot reproduce this behaviour at this time. Of approximately 20 refreshes that I did, I got a very random distribution of ads. I also visited new relic via their ad which seemed to make their advertisement appear more often (1 in 2-3 reloads) but I cannot get it to reliably appear each time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My colleague Anna's contribution to this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77778" LastEditorUserId="77778" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T22:35:50.817" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T22:35:50.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3029" CreationDate="2014-07-17T03:14:15.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is simply a result of New Relic purchasing a large share-of-voice, 25%, of available inventory. 25% is currently the maximum we're allowing any single advertiser to purchase at one time on the sites outside of the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: retargeting is not something we currently permit from paid advertisers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77794" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T03:14:15.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3033" CreationDate="2014-07-17T09:28:50.250" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question this morning, and after finishing my edit, did see that it was answered by someone else with very similar information, 2-3 minutes later. I briefly thought about commenting on that fact, but declined to do so and hoped the OP, assuming both answers would be acceptable, would give priority to the first answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the other answer is the accepted one, but not only that, it is also the first answer you see when sorting by oldest first:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GnNus.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is my answer at the bottom, although it is already in its 4 hour of existence, and the other answer is in its third? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see the answers are sorted by age. I don't mind too much not being the accepted answer, but unless you look at the times and that at a point that there is a difference (I don't think that many people look at the actual tag which includes the timestamp), it seems I was the copycat instead of it being the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-07-17T22:30:56.457" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T22:30:56.457" Title="What determines what is the oldest question?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2014-07-17T10:10:01.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;An accepted answer will be shown first, regardless of sort order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception to this is a self-answered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32138" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T10:10:01.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-18T09:24:38.423" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2996/what-is-the-intended-difference-between-the-wifi-and-wireless-tags-should-t&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, I do not see a difference between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wlan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wlan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wlan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Especially &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2999/61486&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61486" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T14:49:38.350" Title="Merging tags [wifi] and [wlan]" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3034" CreationDate="2014-07-18T14:49:38.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There aren't that many &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wlan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wlan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wlan&lt;/a&gt; questions. I think the best approach here is to manually retag them and let the system purge the tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T14:49:38.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3027" CreationDate="2014-07-18T18:41:51.597" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, part of the reason was that the question was listed on the Hot Network Questions on the right sidebar. Presumably there must have been reasons for the initial interest (as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/22703/%C3%83%C5%81%C5%81%C7%AB%C7%9B%C8%89%D0%96%CE%A6%CE%A4%D1%97%D2%AA&quot;&gt;ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3028/18887&quot;&gt;suggests&lt;/a&gt;), but then it probably snowballed after being featured on the sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T18:41:51.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-18T21:10:31.547" Score="18" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;When hanging out in the Ask Ubuntu General Chatroom, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/16663803#16663803&quot;&gt;hbdgaf commented&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wow... the Ubuntu tag blew up on UL today &gt;.&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This piqued my curiosity and I went to &lt;s&gt;witch hunt&lt;/s&gt; investigate his statement. Unsurprisingly I found clear examples of people tagging questions with Ubuntu as the only tag (which is IMO, not helpful, &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;) when they were not even Ubuntu-related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/145332/deffernt-between-sda-and-vda&quot;&gt;Difference between sdX and vdX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or where OP only happened to be using Ubuntu:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/145212/41104&quot;&gt;How to provision software across multiple laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/145223/41104&quot;&gt;Solution to integer expression expected&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/145212/41104&quot;&gt;How to provision software across multiple laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and on most of them, the tag didn't help to get the questions answered (none of the active members of Ask Ubuntu happened to answer those questions). So, since distributions tags can be helpful, I see that they are in most cases abused, or are just not relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I ask you to do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you see a distribution tag where it's not relevant, please remove&#xA;it&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check out combinations of tags where the distribution is not relevant (off &#xA;the top of my head, text-processing questions are answered with POSIX compatible answers)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search for questions that features only one of these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this can be done at the same time that we answer questions, and will also give questions that fell through the cracks due being mis-tagged another opportunity to get answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="488802" LastEditDate="2022-03-08T18:06:50.840" LastActivityDate="2022-03-08T18:06:50.840" Title="Distro tags needs pruning, with special mention of the Ubuntu tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3039" CreationDate="2014-07-19T02:50:35.523" Score="12" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had asked this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/137593/6-7-linux-headers-make-mrproper-fails-in-lfs-7-5&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. No one answered it. I solved the problem on my system and answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;strong&gt;OK&lt;/strong&gt; to accept one of my own answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking this because there are no answers from other people. There &lt;strong&gt;might not&lt;/strong&gt; be any answers from others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Or will it be cheating or unethical for accepting my own answer and gaining reputation points?&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I accepted my answer for my question and it did not increase my reputation at all. So, the above point is moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T21:09:31.373" Title="Accepting my own answer to my question" Tags="|discussion|reputation|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3038" CreationDate="2014-07-19T03:22:02.807" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly fine to accept your own answer to a question, regardless of whether it's the only one or one of many. The only thing that matters is that it answers your question, and you as the OP are marking an answer to denote that it solved your particular situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2014-07-29T21:09:31.373" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T21:09:31.373" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-19T06:45:18.400" Score="8" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt; is used for several unrelated meanings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is used for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“format a drive” = make a filesystem → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mkfs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mkfs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mkfs&lt;/a&gt; (should we have a more discoverable synonym for people who are new to unix?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“format a drive” = partition a disk → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/partition&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;partition&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;partition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;file formats → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;text markup → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;printf&lt;/code&gt; formats → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/printf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;printf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;printf&lt;/a&gt; [retagged 3]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;date&lt;/code&gt; formats → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt; [retagged 3]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strike&gt;50 43 36 23 4&lt;/strike&gt; 0 questions with this tag. We're done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T18:19:03.587" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T18:19:03.587" Title="Disambiguate the [format] tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3040" CreationDate="2014-07-19T12:43:45.090" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the use of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt; to mean creating a file system is going to be hard to eradicate. As you point out, most people won't know what &lt;code&gt;mkfs&lt;/code&gt; is while &lt;em&gt;format&lt;/em&gt; is a household term. This is always going to be a hard tag to deal with since it can be used to mean so many different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best solution I can see would be to blacklist the tag. Then, when someone tries to use it, we give them a message like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZlKng.png&quot; alt=&quot;blacklisted tag warning, showing available alternative tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is just a  mockup, we can tweak both the text and the alternative tags shown. If we decide this is the way to go, I will ask an SE employee to implement it (as far as I know, mods don't have access to the blacklisting tools). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now live, attempting to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/format&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;format&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt; brings up this message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wZkXa.png&quot; alt=&quot;real blacklisted tag warning, showing available alternative tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T18:18:56.480" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T18:18:56.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-20T02:59:03.883" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt; (which has the synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sound&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sound&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sound&lt;/a&gt;) is used for at least two different purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting sound from an application to the physical world. This covers sound systems like PulseAudio, JACK, etc. as well as audio drivers and tools such as mixer and volume control.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Manipulating files that represent sound, e.g. converting between sound file formats.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should disambiguate these, as they are different topics that don't overlap so much. The sound system/driver meaning is predominant. What tag names should we choose? Are there other, less common meanings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; is muddier to me, I'm not certain whether it should be broken down and if so, how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T12:59:27.047" Title="Disambiguate the audio=sound and video tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3042" CreationDate="2014-07-20T12:59:27.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no point in tagging questions about manipulating sound files as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;. They're not about audio as such, they're about format conversion. While audio formats are special and need particular tools to manage them, they are not really related to audio as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I suggest we tag audio file manipulation questions with say &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio-formats&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio-formats&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio-formats&lt;/a&gt; and keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt; for managing the sound system, recording etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T12:59:27.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3045" CreationDate="2014-07-20T17:46:25.380" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been looking at tags lately on Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange and I have always wondered what the general process of creating one is. Among that, I would like to know what it takes to create an appropriate tag that users will reference pertaining to the question(s) they ask. Can anyone provide me with some more information in regards to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72902" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T21:28:09.830" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T21:28:09.830" Title="How to create an appropriate tag that users will reference" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3044" CreationDate="2014-07-20T18:17:20.913" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion you are starting from the wrong point of view. The goals should not be to create a tag. I don't see any reason in doing so. The reason that we use tags, it that is helps classifying question, so that you can quicker find the ones that are interesting for you (by tag favorites), or can easier find something that you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the popular tags are there from the start. For obvious reason, they are often used, and therefor needed already on the early question. New tags that emerge now are either very rare, and therefore disappear quickly or otherwise related to new development or versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T18:17:20.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3037" CreationDate="2014-07-20T19:33:01.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/219777/find-lonely-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I've made a query to help with the third point.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only search for questions only tagged with any: debian, ubuntu, centos, kali-linux, linux-mint, fedora, arch-linux and rhel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-08-21T21:47:54.013" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T21:47:54.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3048" CreationDate="2014-07-21T01:08:21.110" Score="10" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Few days ago this user &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/77704/fucklinux&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/77704/fucklinux&lt;/a&gt; add an answer which show his hate for Linux in a very rude way: I have flagged his answer as a rude one, and the answer was deleted immediately , but what bother me is this user still in this site even if his name is rude and offensive too :f***linux, I have tried to flag or report this user to a moderator but I couldn't do it, what should I do in this situation?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T01:55:14.203" Title="How to flag (or report) a user?" Tags="|discussion|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3047" CreationDate="2014-07-21T01:55:14.203" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can simply flag one the user's posts for moderator attention, chose &quot;other (needs ♦ moderator attention)&quot; and explain why you're flagging. We'll have a look &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also, as you have done, bring it to meta. If you do, try to avoid naming specific users unless it's an extreme case like this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the user, they didn't post anything else in the few days since that &quot;answer&quot; so I have deleted the account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T01:55:14.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3050" CreationDate="2014-07-22T07:17:56.207" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose a user posts a question about a topic and then asks multiple questions regarding the same topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[TOPIC]&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Question 1: ... &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;    Question 2: ... &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;    etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and suppose I only know the answer for only 1 question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then should I write my reply as an answer or as a comment?&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;What about the situation where I know more than 1 answer but not for all of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: this question itself. (Recursive)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63606" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T08:35:40.430" Title="Partial answer to a question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2014-07-22T08:35:40.430" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally a user would post only one question, but sometimes there are closely related questions which it doesn't make sense to post separately. If this is not the case, politely suggest to the poster that breaking up his post into multiple posts would be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;suppose I only know the answer for only 1 question.&#xA;  Then should I write my reply as an answer or as a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answer, I think. At least, that is what I do. A comment is for non-answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What about the situation where I know more than 1 answer but not for all of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer whatever you can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T08:35:40.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3040" CreationDate="2014-07-22T15:28:14.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For your first bullet, I suggest replacing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mkfs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mkfs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mkfs&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem-creation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem-creation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem-creation&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fs-creation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fs-creation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fs-creation&lt;/a&gt; if the former is too long. This way, new users with a question about creating a filesystem and who don't know &lt;code&gt;mkfs&lt;/code&gt; will have more chance to select the relevant tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37538" LastEditorUserId="37538" LastEditDate="2014-07-22T15:37:42.823" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T15:37:42.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-23T22:40:43.840" Score="8" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel&lt;/a&gt; has at least three meanings. I propose to disambiguate them and get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Running programs or threads in parallel, i.e. exploiting multiple cores on one computer → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallelism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallelism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallelism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU Parallel&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu-parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu-parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu-parallel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Joey Hess's Parallel&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moreutils-parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moreutils-parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moreutils-parallel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to the current confusion, there is a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallels&lt;/a&gt; which is about the OSX virtualization software; I don't propose to change that tag, and the removal of &lt;code&gt;parallel&lt;/code&gt; should make it stand out a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T23:46:49.877" Title="Parallel /parallel tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3052" CreationDate="2014-07-23T23:46:49.877" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds very reasonable, but I would suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallelization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallelization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallelization&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallelism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallelism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallelism&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Parallelism&lt;/em&gt; can &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wordnik.com/words/parallelism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mean many things&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th&#xA;Edition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;n. The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;n. Likeness, correspondence, or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;n. Grammar The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;n. Philosophy The doctrine that to every mental change there corresponds a concomitant but causally unconnected physical&#xA;alteration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I have never seen it used in the context of parallel computing (which doesn't mean it isn't used of course). &lt;em&gt;Parallelization&lt;/em&gt;, on the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wordnik.com/words/parallelization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;means&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;n. The act of making things parallel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;n. The act of making operations work in parallel, particularly in, but not limited to, computing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=parallelism%2C%20parallelization&amp;amp;year_start=1800&amp;amp;year_end=2000&amp;amp;corpus=15&amp;amp;smoothing=3&amp;amp;share=&amp;amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2Cparallelism%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cparallelization%3B%2Cc0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This NGram&lt;/a&gt; shows a clear spike in the usage of &lt;em&gt;parallelization&lt;/em&gt; just when it started becoming common in the computer world:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kR0rO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the Wikipedia entry for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;parallelization&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; redirects to its page on parallel computing while its page for &lt;em&gt;parallelism&lt;/em&gt; takes you to a disambiguation entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T23:46:49.877" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3055" CreationDate="2014-07-24T05:23:20.290" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have observed on various occasions that a question which is simple, in the sense that it might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question itself is simple &lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt; the question is in a simple manner using words that people new to the topics find themselves familiar with (but the question itself might be about a high level concept not (easily)understood by newcomers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such type of questions gather more views opposed to questions which contain unfamiliar terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should a complex question be written so that it appears to be simple, containing familiar words or does doing such a thing (simplifying a complex question) prove detrimental to the level (complexity or sophistication) of question asked and the level of answer expected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt; is it just a matter of getting more views per question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I cannot provide a concrete example at this point of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; related question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3027/is-it-me-or-is-it-strange-for-this-question-to-have-blown-up-so-much?cb=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T13:22:06.933" Title="Simple or complex question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3054" CreationDate="2014-07-24T07:21:51.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the question will be asked at the level that the questioner best understands. Hopefully, they will put enough effort into the question to ensure that it is, at whatever level, unambiguous and reasonably comprehensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That much is really beyond our control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is within the communities' control is the ability to edit the question to draw out the essence of the issue, or refine the point of the question, providing that doesn't substantially alter the original intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is apparent that the questioner's level of understanding of the problem is sufficiently constrained that only a radical rewrite of the question would adequately expose the actual issue in a way that would support meaningful and helpful answers, I would propose closing the question (&quot;Unclear what you are asking&quot; or &quot;Too broad&quot;) and leaving a comment explaining that the question needs to be significantly reworked &lt;em&gt;and why&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the OP take up the offer to rewrite the question, their initial efforts could then be edited by others. Should they decline, the question could be deleted with no real loss to the wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original (obscured) issue was something that did merit its own question, anyone involved in the aforementioned exchange could write it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I haven't addressed the issue of the number of views; I don't consider that an end in itself, but a byproduct of interesting questions, or those that just happen to strike a chord with people here. Playing to the crowd is a short term strategy, and one that has its own peculiar risks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of popular questions will have a superficial appeal, but are unlikely to sustain the interest of the sorts of diverse specialist knowledge that this community is very fortunate to enjoy. We should be working to maintain a diverse *nix knowledge ecosystem, not the neckbeard linkbait-y equivalent of Gawker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T07:21:51.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3057" CreationDate="2014-07-24T10:53:44.173" Score="6" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;More often, I see some codeblocks &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/45340/72471&quot;&gt;like this c block&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/26047/72471&quot;&gt;this bash block&lt;/a&gt;, which just aren't highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often simple constructs like for-loops etc &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/26066/72471&quot;&gt;are, indeed, highlighted&lt;/a&gt;. But it looks broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/89587/72471&quot;&gt;it works better&lt;/a&gt;. This example only highlights the alias string, but not the alias command itself. It highlights the &lt;code&gt;function()&lt;/code&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another answer in the same thread, however, highlights &lt;code&gt;eval&lt;/code&gt;, so why is &lt;code&gt;alias&lt;/code&gt; not highlighted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is that a bug?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it broken?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72471" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T10:51:52.363" Title="Why aren't some codeblocks highlighted?" Tags="|support|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3056" CreationDate="2014-07-24T11:35:07.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The code highlighter is more often than not tied to the tags on the questions - tags can have a highlighting hint tied to them, but the c tag didn't have one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've set that up, so the c block actually highlights now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, the highlighter doesn't figure out what it needs to do, so needs help in the form of a highlighting hint:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-bash --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is described in the editing help section about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/editing-help#syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32138" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T10:51:52.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3054" CreationDate="2014-07-24T13:22:06.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple vs. complex is a false dichotomy. Neither is to be preferred, it simply is not a useful metric. Questions are as simple or complex as the problems they involve. Without knowing the solution, you won't always even know if your question is a simple or complex one. Only an expert in the matter will even know how simple or complex something really is. Which brings us to the real issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This site, like all Stack Exchange sites, is primarily targeted at experts in the field.&lt;/strong&gt; We are not trying to drum up more views for questions per-se. If we were, the best way to do that would be to focus on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bike-shed questions&lt;/a&gt;. Debate over how to handle these has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/31253/145951&quot;&gt;long an venerable history on SE&lt;/a&gt; but it is generally agreed that we're not here for those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some tips to think about rather than &quot;simple vs complex&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neither simplicity nor brevity are themselves an end-goal. They are only a means to an end. The real goals to have in mind when composing posts here should be clarity and accuracy. Use as much space as you need to explain the problem or solution clearly and accurately. Unnaturally short and it won't communicate the details it needs to. Unnecessarily long and you might just confuse the issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the most technically accurate terminology you can command. This doesn't mean you should throw in all the jargon you can think of just to sound nerdy. This means make the most efficient use of language that you can. This is especially true of asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who do you want answering your questions? The droves of Linux newbies that drift through here after Googling for some problem they had? Or an expert who really understands your problem and is going to know the right solution? If the latter, then go ahead and ask it in a way that is going to interest them rather than cause them to roll their eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your goal should be to explain your problem effectively in a way that those best qualified to answer you will appreciate. Optimizing for more views won't do this. Make your questions as clear as you can. Use whatever technical proficiency you have to make that happen. Especially when asking don't worry about going over the heads of people that won't be able to help anyway, but don't obscure your problem by using jargon that doesn't add to either clarity or accuracy either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of what makes experts experts in the Stack Exchange ecosystem is their ability to break up complex problems into simple parts and communicate the results of their problem solving clearly and accurately. Angle for the attention of those people by imitating those qualities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T13:22:06.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3060" CreationDate="2014-07-25T10:11:34.680" Score="7" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally created new tag while editing a question. I need to remove from this site. Is there any privileges required to do so? Or It will automatically get removed after I delete from the question (because that was only tag which is now removed)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31757" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T10:51:13.723" Title="How to remove tag?" Tags="|support|tags|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3059" CreationDate="2014-07-25T10:51:13.723" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, tags get automatically removed if there are no questions tagged with them. That's the only way normal users can remove a tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it, just wait a while and it will disappear. Unused tags are purged automatically once a day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T10:51:13.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-26T00:23:26.823" Score="8" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IP stands for &quot;Internet Protocol&quot;. It is one of the fundamental protocols that powers the internet. IP is how data is able to be routed to the correct destination - your computer is assigned an IP address, and when you need to get data back, that data gets sent to your IP address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still don't have any idea what this tag's supposed meaning is, nor what questions should be tagged with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there's the &lt;code&gt;ip&lt;/code&gt; utility which replaces &lt;code&gt;ifconfig&lt;/code&gt;, but then the tag makes no mention of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the usage of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ip&lt;/a&gt; tag, if any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T04:58:49.130" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T14:29:31.667" Title="What's the purpose of the [ip] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-27T18:44:46.303" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other day, I tried linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.syslinux.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SYSLINUX&lt;/a&gt; and the editor told me that's forbidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, I linked to one of the pages under that Domain (EXTLINUX) and things were fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1290" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T18:44:46.303" Title="Why is linking to syslinux.com forbidden?" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3069" CreationDate="2014-07-27T16:11:43.807" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the recommended forum site for Cups Common Unix Printing System forums (ask question-receive an answer) for new users to Linux using Cups within Qiana Cinn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried to log in to Cups forum and have not received a conformation via e-mail. This site might be geared to Super Users or Administrators?&#xA;To clarify my request,ideally I wish to contact informed users who can respond to general Cups questions and at the same time have a fairly knowledgeable base to receive an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have posted two inquires in the Linux Mint forum regarding Cups with fairly simple Cups questions with no answers? This leads me to wonder if I'm selecting the right forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just learned a little bit about Tags from this site. I will see if the Linux Mint Forum has this feature and use it. Your response(s) will be welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78847" OwnerDisplayName="user293396" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T20:58:17.437" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:58:17.437" Title="Which Forum to Post Questions about CUPS" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3061" CreationDate="2014-07-28T14:29:31.667" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the description of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/networking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;networking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;networking&lt;/a&gt; tag, you can see that the network section is organized by protocols and IP is one of them. Questions should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ip&lt;/a&gt; if they are specifically related to the protocol and concepts relative to it. Topics relative specifically to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ip&lt;/a&gt; and for which &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/networking&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;networking&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;networking&lt;/a&gt; would be too broad are for instance, the routing table, the structure of an IP datagram, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I can see is that this tag is sometimes overused. For example, questions about DHCP should be tagged only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dhcp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dhcp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dhcp&lt;/a&gt;. There is no need to also put &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ip&lt;/a&gt; even if the question is about IP addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want to make a tag for the &lt;code&gt;ip&lt;/code&gt; utility, it should be distinct from the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ip&lt;/a&gt; tag. Perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ip-utility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ip-utility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ip-utility&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37538" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T14:29:31.667" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-28T23:23:37.780" Score="17" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;server&lt;/a&gt; is about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs or a physical computer dedicated to running one or more such services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first meaning (a computer program) is a useful one: there are many questions about server programs. The second meaning (a computer dedicated to running server programs) is not: hardly any question is specifically about server computers. In practice, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;server&lt;/a&gt; is mostly used to mean “the computer where I'm having this problem doesn't have a console”, which is just as useless information as the color of the shirt that the asker is wearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first, useful meaning, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/daemon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;daemon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;daemon&lt;/a&gt; is fairly similar. So there's no use in trying to enforce the meaning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139869/its-time-to-blacklist-server&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; got rid of &lt;code&gt;server&lt;/code&gt; multiple times, as did &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/908/delete-server-tag&quot;&gt;Server&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1405/please-burninate-the-server-tag&quot;&gt;Fault&lt;/a&gt; and Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's just get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/155286801/artisan/culinary?view_mode=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YTvHW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Trogdor served on a plate&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T19:52:40.350" Title="Burninate [server]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T11:03:03.203" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is a follow-up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3066/burninate-server&quot; title=&quot;Burninate [server]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3066/burninate-server&quot;&gt;Burninate [server]&lt;/a&gt;, which proposes to burninate &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;server&lt;/a&gt; because it's not used for questions about the piece of hardware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the description of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-server&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A file server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for shared disk access[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to have the same problem. Furthermore, if you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot;&gt;questions tagged with it&lt;/a&gt;, it looks pretty redundant with either &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sshfs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sshfs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sshfs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nfs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nfs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nfs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/samba&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;samba&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;samba&lt;/a&gt;, or whichever the real daemon used for sharing files is. Ah, and there is also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-sharing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-sharing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-sharing&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-server&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-sharing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-sharing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-sharing&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-server&lt;/a&gt; is useless if one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/samba&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;samba&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;samba&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nfs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nfs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nfs&lt;/a&gt;, etc. is also used and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-server&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-sharing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-sharing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-sharing&lt;/a&gt; seem pretty redundant. There are only two questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-sharing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-sharing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-sharing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T12:08:59.527" Title="Do we need both [file-server] and [file-sharing] tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3067" CreationDate="2014-07-29T12:08:59.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've edited the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-server&lt;/a&gt; to clarify that it's about file server programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-server&lt;/a&gt; conveys that the question is about the server end. A lot of questions are misusing it by any reasonable definition, though, so I'm uncertain whether it's worth keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-sharing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-sharing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-sharing&lt;/a&gt; is ambiguous: it's use both for LAN situations (where it's similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-server&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-server&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-server&lt;/a&gt;) and for WAN situations (e.g. file sharing over peer-to-peer networks). I'm not sure what to do about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T12:08:59.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3064" CreationDate="2014-07-29T14:03:48.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are facing a specific problem with CUPS, you can ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the main site&lt;/a&gt;. CUPS issues are perfectly on topic here. Just make sure that your question follows the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;site guidelines&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is not geared to sysdamins or professionals. We welcome all users, irrespective of their level of knowledge. The questions here cover a very wide variety of issues from the newbie to the professional so feel very free to ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T14:03:48.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-30T06:22:23.607" Score="7" ViewCount="542" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know how to handle questions that primarily ask if someone exists who knows the answer to some secondary question, or questions that primarily ask for who could answer a secondary question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does anyone know how to install &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; under Labamba X.Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who knows how to install &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; under Labamba X.Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I know how to install &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; on my Labamba X.Y system, the answer to the first question is &quot;Yes&quot; and the to the second &quot;I do&quot;. That doesn't result in a good Q&amp;amp;A pair for this site, as it doesn't help other people much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often assume that the OP is more interested in the answer to the question &quot;How can I install &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; under Labamba X.Y?&quot;, but that is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; what is being asked. The OP of course might be genuinely interested in whether knowledgeable people exists or even looking for the names of people to hire as consultants. Both of which would make the question off topic for this site. And sometimes there is so little context to tip the balance that I am not comfortable to just change the meaning of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we educate our users not to ask these kind of questions? And if so, what is the best way to do so? Edit them to make the secondary question the primary? Voting to close the question as off-topic (and hoping the OP gets the hint)? Commenting on the questions that the OP should improve the question with a link to an answer¹ to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question? Extending the help and point to that in a comment? Extend the list of close options? Write a comment &quot;Yes there are such people&quot; (a sarcastic comment, some might not understand as criticism).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;Maybe some answers can be formulated in away that reading it provides help for &quot;offenders&quot;, automatically assuming agreement that this is a problem that should be addressed. I would then suggest to use the answer with most upvotes as a link in the comment.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T20:59:43.067" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:59:43.067" Title="Should we try and educate our users not to ask &quot;Does anyone ...&quot; or &quot;Who can..&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2014-07-30T06:22:23.607" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Does anyone know how to install xyz` under Labamba X.Y?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are about the capabilities of certain people and are off-topic on this site. So are questions, asking for names of people being able to help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Who knows how to install xyz under Labamba X.Y?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions are inappropriate for this site as they are not about Unix&amp;amp;Linux administration directly. They can be answered by &quot;Yes&quot; or &quot;No&quot;, resp. by giving someone’s name, not very helpful for U&amp;amp;L administration. Such questions should be closed or moved to the U&amp;amp;L meta site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know about how to &quot;install &lt;code&gt;xyz&lt;/code&gt; under Labamba X.Y&quot; then just ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;How do I install xyz under Labamba X.Y?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;along with specifying what you tried; why you think that should have worked; what went wrong; and which error messages you received. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T06:22:23.607" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3073" CreationDate="2014-07-30T07:45:28.410" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are few questions which are asked in the main site for which other users ask the poster of the question to post it in stackoverflow, or other stackexchange sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these questions are definitely meant for these sites. But there are lot of border questions which cannot be easily determined if they belong in this site or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a feature be included such that when users specify that feature, the question can be first checked by *certain people to determine whether it belongs to this site or not, before it is answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*By certain people I mean, those who have a certain reputation and above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sorry for this question, I just found out that one of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25031419/how-to-programmatically-read-until-a-certain-character-in-a-file&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; was migrated to another site from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:58:48.773" Title="How to determine which question belongs where?" Tags="|discussion|scope|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3072" CreationDate="2014-07-30T09:33:51.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feature you request is pretty much already implemented. When you ask a question people having enough reputation to cast a vote feel that it doesn't belong to Unix&amp;amp;Linux, your question is migrated as the result of a decision involving at least five people or a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, after having read the FAQ and other questions, you're unsure on whether your question belongs here or not, just post it and if it needs to be migrated, it will be. That's not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean is that you don't have to feel &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; because your question has been migrated, nobody will be angry at you for having posted such a question here. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, you should not delete your question, it no longer exists on Unix&amp;amp;Linux. It has been migrated to StackOverflow where it received an answer so everything is cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37538" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T14:30:04.217" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T14:30:04.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3075" CreationDate="2014-07-30T13:25:48.137" Score="6" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Got this notification when I signed in this morning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P4O9z.png&quot; alt=&quot;BOUNTY RRRRRRRRRR&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logic seems faulty to me, but maybe someone can explain it. Basically I have a bounty question where Ramesh answered after the bounty was posted.  The answer doesn't resolve the issue though so it seems wrong to award a bounty automatically just because someone posted some kind of answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ramesh's answers are usually high quality and it's not like I would get the bounty back anyways, so even if it does auto-reward to him this one time, I'm not too concerned about it. I'm just wondering what kind of incentives this creates going forward. I could see if I had upvoted or accepted as the answer but this seems like it's only in response to something having been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to stop the bounty from going to any answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T20:59:14.050" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T21:11:22.637" Title="Is it possible to stop bounty from being automatically awarded?" Tags="|feature-request|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3074" CreationDate="2014-07-30T14:06:53.623" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the below information from &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with a minimum score of 2 will be awarded half the bounty amount. If two or more eligible answers have the same score (i.e., their scores are tied), the oldest answer is awarded the bounty. If there's no answer meeting those criteria, the bounty is not awarded to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as per my understanding, the bounty will go to the community and it will not be awarded to some answer that doesn't answer the question. But the bounty points deducted from your reputation will not be rewarded back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T14:31:38.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-31T06:27:07.833" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/147368/ubuntu-13-10-has-suddenly-failed-to-boot&quot;&gt;this Q&lt;/a&gt; in unix.stackexchange.com that I feel should be migrated to askubuntu.com as it hasn't got much view. How to do that please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46723" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:30:35.467" Title="how to migrate my Q from unix.stackexchange.com to ubuntu.com?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3078" CreationDate="2014-07-31T12:12:05.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking in the chat room or leaving a comment on your question to a moderator are 2 ways to accomplish this. I've migrated your question to Ask Ubuntu as you've requested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T12:12:05.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3081" CreationDate="2014-07-31T16:52:33.310" Score="0" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it currently possible to add a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.teamdf.com/files/display/178/crosstab_1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tabular&lt;/a&gt; to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/47435/72471&quot;&gt;question like this one&lt;/a&gt;, e.g. to represent differences more clearly?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, then how hard is it to implement such a feature for SE sites and how can I contribute such a feature?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72471" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T17:43:04.957" Title="Tables/Tabulares for SE" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3080" CreationDate="2014-07-31T17:43:04.957" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't; this feature was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73566/is-there-any-markdown-to-create-tables&quot;&gt;requested&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/228464/145982&quot;&gt;declined&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just noticing that when we reviewed these proposals a while back, this one never got updated &lt;a href=&quot;https://dba.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/934/please-can-we-have-markdown-tables-on-dba-se/966#966&quot;&gt;even as the corresponding one on DBAs did&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: Implementing this in a way that wouldn't allow authors to break some / all page layouts, whether inadvertently or maliciously, is not feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know. It sucks. But that's HTML tables for ya.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T17:43:04.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3083" CreationDate="2014-07-31T17:51:16.443" Score="5" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;An example would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/147697/72471&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I had to exchange the original double dot &lt;code&gt;..&lt;/code&gt; in the title with `..` in the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does SE remove the double dots in a question title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72471" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:29:42.850" Title="Why do titles containing &quot;..&quot; remove these dots" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3082" CreationDate="2014-07-31T17:56:29.653" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It strips dots &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/187234/145982&quot;&gt;from the end of the title&lt;/a&gt; because it thinks you're ending the question in a period or ellipses. It also converts trailing exclamation points to question marks, as part of an attempt to keep titles consistent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T17:56:29.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3087" CreationDate="2014-07-31T20:42:25.190" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;wouldn't it be abuse of the Peer Pressure Badge to deliberately post a silly question that's bound to get bad reviews?  Or is that ok as bronze badges are for trying out things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T20:30:08.297" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:30:08.297" Title="abuse of the Peer Pressure Badge?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3086" CreationDate="2014-07-31T20:46:31.193" Score="7" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The explanation for the Curious Badge says &quot;Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is &quot;well-received&quot; and what is a &quot;positive question record&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T20:30:22.553" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:30:22.553" Title="Definition for Curious Badge" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3085" CreationDate="2014-07-31T22:13:21.487" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything is detailed in this meta post on the badges, &lt;a href=&quot;http://modnewsletter.stackexchange.com/2014/07/july-2014-newsletter/#askingdays&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Asking days badges&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;excerpt&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;well-received question on X separate days&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a&#xA;  score &gt; 0. If you ask at least one well-recieved question in a UTC day&#xA;  and none of your questions that day are deleted, downvoted, or closed,&#xA;  you get one more day of credit toward the badge. Whenever the badge&#xA;  criteria is checked, previous asking days are re-evaluated so that&#xA;  there's an incentive to fix downvoted and/or closed questions. The&#xA;  no-deleted-questions criteria is to prevent people from asking several&#xA;  questions at once and deleting any that aren't upvoted or answered to&#xA;  ask another day. (Though this is a losing strategy in the long run.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T22:13:21.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3084" CreationDate="2014-07-31T22:55:13.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We'd rather you didn't; the intent is to encourage you to delete bad posts, not to post more of them. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126679/flaw-in-the-the-peer-pressure-badge&quot;&gt;Flaw in the Peer Pressure badge&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/107628/badges-should-reward-positive-behavior&quot;&gt;Badges should reward positive behavior&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T22:55:13.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-01T15:07:06.777" Score="-8" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always search before asking which is my last resort. I've literally searched several hours upon this problem and all the solutions are irrelevant and/or not applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do to get this solved quick? I'm really annoyed, fed up, getting behind with several projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you can help please do &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/147723/device-descriptor-read-64-error-110-when-connecting-usb-keyboard&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78459" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T12:42:53.087" Title="How to make my problem solved?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2014-10-13T20:17:58.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3088" CreationDate="2014-08-01T15:21:56.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory you could &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;offer a bounty&lt;/a&gt;, but the question isn't old enough and you don't have enough reputation to offer for it. It hasn't been that long, I'd just wait and hope somebody who sees it has an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T15:21:56.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3088" CreationDate="2014-08-01T20:48:52.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that there are so many comments and no answers is a clear indication that the question itself is insufficiently detailed and does not have enough information for anyone to be able to proffer a substantive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find your question is only generating comments requesting more information or clarification, you are encouraged to edit it (repeatedly, if necessary) to improve its clarity, detail and overall quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good questions generate answers commensurate in quality (and often in quantity as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T20:48:52.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3066" CreationDate="2014-08-02T03:22:27.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;[edit: see my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3066/burninate-server#comment4677_3091&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, I now agree with burnination, though I think my reasons are different.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daemons are background programs, that run without direct user interaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many servers are daemons, but there are certainly servers that aren't. Like, say, an X server. Or your game set up to accept network players. Or your VoIP software. Or…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also plenty of daemons that aren't servers. Cron, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And are systemd socket-activated servers daemons? Or inetd servers? I think not, as they aren't background programs that sit around running, waiting for something to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention expertise in daemons is things like setting them up to run via init scripts, unit files, or the like; sequencing them to start in the correct order; supervising them to make sure they stay running; etc. Expertise in servers is things like picking appropriate addresses and ports; securing them from attackers; opening holes in firewalls to let connections through; etc. Those are fairly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we could certainly banish the non-&lt;code&gt;listen(2)&lt;/code&gt; meaning of server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T16:09:28.957" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3088" CreationDate="2014-08-03T12:42:53.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, we do not &amp;quot;mostly answer questions already answered on internet&amp;quot;, quite the opposite in fact. We, like all SE sites get annoyed when you ask questions whose answer is easily found elsewhere. Anyway, if your question has not been answered, that means a combination of the following things must be true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your question is not very clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the number of comments you have received, this is likely true here. For example, while you have given quite a bit of information you have not actually told us the make and model of your keyboard. You also further confuse the issue by mentioning Android, what does Android have to do with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question has not been seen by enough people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, wait a while. You posted this meta question less than 24 hours after posting your question. It has now been 3 days, questions are not always answered immediately. You might hare to wait a few days or weeks before whoever can help you actually reads it. Be patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The people who have seen it simply don't know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, we are not omniscient. This is not done to spite you, it is simply the way things are. Not all questions can be answered by the members of this community, sometimes we just don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T12:42:53.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-05T19:16:09.643" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; says that it's about GNU Screen &lt;sup&gt;[verification needed]&lt;/sup&gt;, but then there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/monitors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;monitors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;monitors&lt;/a&gt; which is about &quot;Computer monitors (i.e. screens or displays)&quot;, and there's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/display&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;display&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;display&lt;/a&gt;. Is common that people use them rather interchangeably which makes tagging hard. What should be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T22:47:04.100" Title="Cleanup [monitors], [display] and [screen]" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3074" CreationDate="2014-08-06T21:05:43.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be a method to throw away the bounty: create your own answer, and award the bounty to yourself.  The points will be lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/54999/135695&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/54999/135695&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this much-loved feature was apparently taken away, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/97802/135695&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/97802/135695&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These discussions are also relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/166172/135695&quot;&gt;Explicit “do not award bounty” button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/185967/135695&quot;&gt;Do not implicitly award bounty to an answer that has been downvoted by the investor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11284" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T21:11:22.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-07T15:28:41.037" Score="5" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like user &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; mentions in a comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2655/i-cannot-log-into-meta-while-using-https-everywhere-in-firefox/2660#comment2528_2655&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;&quot;HTTPS isn't officially supported yet and does not work fully&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that still the case?  Every page I visit seems to work with https, but I often have to prepend &lt;code&gt;https://&lt;/code&gt; to the link URLs manually, after the site tries to redirect me to a non-ssl page.  I would suggest to update the links throughout all the sites so that if one is connected with https, they stay there.  I make this suggestion with all due respect that the sites are awesome, and that it may not be a simple, easy task; just pointing it out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have enough points yet in the meta site to answer several questions about HttpsEverywhere;  but it seems like their problems are not the whitelist, or any other plugin, but that the links on Stackexchange forums don't correctly link back to https.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79216" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T22:21:41.883" Title="Is it possible to keep stackexchange sites from redirecting out of SSL (https)?" Tags="|feature-request|stackexchange|ssl|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3096" CreationDate="2014-08-07T22:35:42.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I confirm that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; is about Screen, the program, which is known as GNU Screen to the younger generations. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/monitors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;monitors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;monitors&lt;/a&gt; is about peripherals that turn a digital or analog electrical signal that represents a picture into visible light. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/display&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;display&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;display&lt;/a&gt; is a bit fuzzier: it's generally about the information flow from an application that wants to display something to the display hardware, including but not limited to the concept of displays in X11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see much misuse of the tags. We currently have 304 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt;, and 36 questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/215917/posts-from-which-an-initial-tag-was-removed?Tag=screen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;had the tag initially but no longer do&lt;/a&gt;. We may have missed a few, but not many by eyeballing the question list. That's an acceptable success rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; has now been renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu-screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu-screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu-screen&lt;/a&gt; to avoid the ambiguity.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T22:47:04.100" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T22:47:04.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3101" CreationDate="2014-08-09T16:35:02.447" Score="6" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/148426/44370&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about extracting &lt;em&gt;section 9&lt;/em&gt; api &quot;manpages&quot; from the kernel sources. The question is on hold for being unclear. If someone doesn't know that the &lt;em&gt;coreutils&lt;/em&gt; or the &lt;em&gt;kernel&lt;/em&gt; manpages are extracted/generated in such a way, well content discovery is not obvious. It helps for instance if the person asks himself/herself if &lt;code&gt;ls -1&lt;/code&gt; (that's one) appears or not in the manpages. No &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/111975/44370&quot;&gt;seriously&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have made a cautious edit to the original question. My question here is is there value in completely rewriting this to remove all dependency related stuff or should I make a new very precise question such as &quot;How do you exactly generate the section 9 kernel manpages&quot; and duplicate the answer I contributed? I think I should edit the original question very liberally but is that recommended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user44370" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T23:29:15.393" Title="Rewrite or duplicate answer in a new question?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3100" CreationDate="2014-08-10T00:25:18.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there aren't any other answers (well, other than FaheemMitha telling you the package name), you're not editing the foundation out of under someone else's answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'd say, edit boldly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T00:25:18.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-13T15:09:30.093" Score="14" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will start by saying, yes, there are cases where it will be relevant for the question asked, right. But are those weird, rare cases reason enough to overcome the drawbacks of having them in first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What drawbacks?&lt;/em&gt; you may ask, well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, those tags are often misapplied, and by often I mean &lt;em&gt;almost always&lt;/em&gt;. People don't even know when &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3037/&quot;&gt;distributions tags are relevant&lt;/a&gt; for their questions, we can't expect them to apply the version ones correctly. This is one reason the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/268202/792066&quot;&gt;almighty &lt;s&gt;Thor&lt;/s&gt; Shog describes in his recipe&lt;/a&gt; to remove tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;Does the tag add &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; meaningful information to the post?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    This covers a pretty big range of issues, from folks typing complete sentences into the tag entryfield causing useless tags to be applied, to folks just going overboard and applying &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;once-reasonable tags to questions where it is only tangentially-relevant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, to folks just finding two different terms for the same concept and using both of them. I'll usually start by looking at the &quot;related tags&quot; sidebar: there should be a few tags listed, but if any of them are &lt;em&gt;synonyms&lt;/em&gt; then they should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3037/&quot;&gt;merged&lt;/a&gt;; if that's not the case, then I'll start looking through questions to see how many of them are actually &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the concept represented by the tag (which I should have a basic understanding of after step #1). If the tag is superfluous on the vast majority of questions where it is used, then it should go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the bold + italics is the relevant part)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, which is related to the first, whenever a tag gets misapplied following the above precept, it creates overhead on users that should be doing something more important. This wastes time of users which have to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=17080715#17080715&quot;&gt;go against the tide&lt;/a&gt; just to remove these from the post where it's irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Third, and probably more important, these tags more often than not displace relevant ones. This is probably the most harmful effect of those tags, since they literally prevent the experts on certain topic from ever finding the questions they can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there some positive case where the benefit of having these tags (all of them) is greater than the losses it produce?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T15:48:47.280" Title="Do we need version specific tags for distributions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3102" CreationDate="2014-08-13T15:19:30.467" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't really think of any great reasons, for example one might ask how to add a service to boot in RHEL 7, this seems approriate for a RHEL 7 tag because it moved to &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt;, but the reality is that this should be 2 questions, &quot;how can I determine what init system I'm using?&quot; and &quot;how can I add a service to boot with init system X?&quot; because using systemd applies to more than rhel, and in some systems you could swap them. Also rolling distro's are versionless, and so versions don't really apply well to them. I also suspect most people would follow &lt;code&gt;distro&lt;/code&gt; tag and not &lt;code&gt;distro-x.x&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T15:19:30.467" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3105" CreationDate="2014-08-15T03:19:29.327" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;How come this community user has a reputation of 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug? I see the community user as not a person and generally has the reputation as 1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T09:43:01.577" Title="Community user reputation reported as 3" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3104" CreationDate="2014-08-15T09:43:01.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked about this in one of the mod rooms and the explanation I got was as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F9j9q.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss #1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this scenario where the Community user has a rep of 3, it likely got the +2 from an answer which was accepted on a question which was migrated to U&amp;amp;L. The migrated question likely already had an answer attached, which was later accepted after being migrated. In this scenario the user that provided that answer does not have an account on U&amp;amp;L, so the +2 is absorbed by the Community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was unclear to me if there was a systematic task that runs which resets the Community user's back down to 1 or if it just naturally happens when downvotes start occurring on the site, or against Q&amp;amp;A's that do not have an affiliated user on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T09:43:01.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-15T15:56:59.123" Score="-4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;can someone explain how is this question not a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150421/how-to-make-webpages-concise&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150421/how-to-make-webpages-concise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78459" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T20:29:50.800" Title="I'm questioning my question questionability" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3106" CreationDate="2014-08-15T16:09:10.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides the fact that such an extension would be magic, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Unix/Linux&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T16:09:10.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3102" CreationDate="2014-08-15T16:47:27.130" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our question volume is pretty low. Our most used distro tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt;) got four questions in the last 24h. Our 2nd most used (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;) got two. Things where this might make a little sense, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel&lt;/a&gt; got zero question in the last 24h.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to see that overwhelming our Debian or Ubuntu experts. And our RHEL experts must have fallen asleep at the keyboard by now. OTOH, if we add a bunch of version-specific tags, it'll either require putting the general tag on as well (wasting one of five tag slots) or alternatively said experts to follow additional tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, being an expert in Debian Wheezy, but having no clue about Squeeze, has got to be pretty rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T16:47:27.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3106" CreationDate="2014-08-15T20:29:50.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple issues with your post (I won't call it a question because it isn't one, either semantically or structurally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, you have made no effort to understand how the wiki works and to invest even a minimal amount of effort in presenting your issue in a way that conforms to the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your post is non-specific to the point of being unintelligble; you haven't even bothered to type it in English, preferring some pidgin txtspeak/pseudo programming patois that is made even more nonsensical by the random application of code formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, even if the post contained a question, and that question was intelligble (and, to recap, neither criteria were even remotely close to being met), it has&amp;mdash;assumimg that the title is some indication as to what you were attempting to ask&amp;mdash;absolutely &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to do with Unix and Linux and would probably only be suitable on the English Language and Usage site where, for the reasons stated above, it would also get closed promptly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I can only suggest that should you wish to continue to participate in the community, you recognise that typically when expecting something from a community (help, answers and the like) you make some small effort to bring something to the table yourself. In this case, pretty much all we ask is that you take the time to read the guidance and to format your question in a way that makes it easy for people to respond and &lt;em&gt;adds some value to the site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T20:29:50.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3110" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3116" CreationDate="2014-08-16T19:47:35.813" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Unix.StackExchange and my Stackoverflow are not updating correctly, I got some points, but they don't show up on my achievements tab. The tab &quot;Your Communities&quot; is also not updating correctly. The new points have been added to my points by the side of my picture but when I click the &quot;StackExchange&quot; button it hasn't updated that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the new points in &quot;Reputation&quot; info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to refresh the browser and I also tried to restart the browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36440" LastEditorUserId="343" LastEditDate="2014-08-18T19:18:28.790" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T19:18:28.790" Title="Is there a bug on StackExchange?" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|top-bar|notifications|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2014-08-16T20:30:53.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, there is! And:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gEOLw.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/268957/792066&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/268957/792066&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/238155/213575&quot;&gt;Reputation and inbox notification shows up again after refresh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.763" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T20:30:53.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-17T18:17:40.273" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66/pimp-my-gnu-grep&quot;&gt;How can I highlight matches using GNU grep?&lt;/a&gt; got closed for being too broad. I would like to know why this question is considered as too broad? Was it because of the first edit today? Or for different reasons? Answer can hopefully improve my close-voting behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T19:13:25.790" Title="How is this question too broad?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3118" CreationDate="2014-08-18T09:52:56.193" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/question-bans&quot;&gt;the documentation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed, but users are only banned &#xA;  if they have a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or &#xA;  deleted posts. One or two bad posts will not cause you to be blocked from using the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question statistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 zero votes of which 1 put on hold as unclear what you're asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the &quot;on hold&quot; status was removed from this question, the warning disappeared when I clicked the &lt;em&gt;Ask question&lt;/em&gt; button. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does a danger of being blocked from asking any more message appear while there is not a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65367" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T04:31:06.187" Title="You're in danger of being blocked from asking any more while there is not a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3112" CreationDate="2014-08-18T18:24:37.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started the close process (though originally as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;, not &quot;too broad&quot;) on that question because it popped up on the front page because someone posted a new answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The version of the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/66/3&quot;&gt;as of then&lt;/a&gt; had a title of &quot;Pimp my GNU grep&quot;, and a body containing &quot;How do you configure GNU grep best&quot; which is very subjective. Most of the answers were also supporting this as they had basically become everyone's favorite way of using &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the close was because it was a subjective question, and to get people to stop posting answers to it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Additionally, closing sends a message that such questions are not a good fit for the site, while still keeping it around as it has value. Otherwise people see the question, and think they can ask ones similar to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4358" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T19:13:25.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-18T18:30:31.730" Score="-1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have followed the guidelines and made it clear what the problem is and what I have done and yet &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150831/unable-to-disable-iptables-in-centos&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150831/unable-to-disable-iptables-in-centos&quot;&gt;Domain Name problems in CentOS hosted under VirtualBox&lt;/a&gt; has been downvoted. Can someone explain to me why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72902" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T20:11:40.343" Title="Can someone explain why my question may have been downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2014-08-18T19:18:20.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had problems with a datacenter test that left our caching layer in a partially broken state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All issues should now be resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268957/topbar-notifications-dont-go-away&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/268957/topbar-notifications-dont-go-away&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="343" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T19:18:20.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3102" CreationDate="2014-08-19T21:47:37.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember ever seeing a post where the version tag was useful. Some questions are specific to a distribution (or, technically speaking, to a distribution and its derivatives) or a small set of distributions. Some questions are specific to a range of versions in a distribution. But to a specific version? Sure, that happens very occasionally, but it isn't such a useful case to warrant a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no such thing as expertise in Ubuntu 12.10 as opposed to all other versions. A tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-12.10&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu-12.10&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu-12.10&lt;/a&gt; isn't useful to search in, as many issues that apply to Ubuntu 12.10 also apply to other versions and so will only have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; tag — or only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nautilus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nautilus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nautilus&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; or whatever because the question is about a specific version of a specific piece of software, not about a specific version of the distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has an example of at least two questions that are about a specific version of a specific distributions, let them speak now or forever hold their peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T21:47:37.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3113" CreationDate="2014-08-20T04:31:06.187" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you saw that warning, the last &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; questions you'd asked had been closed, one had been deleted, and the other was &lt;em&gt;eligible&lt;/em&gt; for deletion (the system or potentially other users would've removed it if it hadn't been reopened). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That alone isn't enough to actually cause you any problems. But it's enough to be worth warning you about: if that brief trend had continued, it could've resulted in a very real problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the purpose of a warning, after all: to &lt;em&gt;warn&lt;/em&gt; you about something before it actually happens. You did exactly what you should have: you edited your question and saw it reopened, thus removing the need for a warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T04:31:06.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3120" CreationDate="2014-08-20T08:00:46.200" Score="28" ViewCount="485" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is that normal? Should I take some action on it? How to figure out who is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/68714/gena2x?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/68714/gena2x?tab=reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68714" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T11:34:22.307" Title="Somebody downvotes my old answers en masse and without any reason" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3119" CreationDate="2014-08-20T12:04:11.400" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't find out who it is as all votes are kept anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not normal or welcome for someone to go round down- (or indeed up-) voting posts from specific users. You should be voting based on the content. There are scripts in place to detect what we call serial voting where there are a large number of votes from one user to another over a short period of time (where &quot;large&quot; and &quot;small&quot; are numbers not known to anyone outside the development team), but it's possible that some votes will fall outside these values and go undetected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you spot something you think is suspicious then you should flag one of your posts for moderator attention using the &quot;other&quot; flag and explain that you think you're a victim of vote abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are tools available to moderators where we (I'm a mod elsewhere) can spot voting &lt;em&gt;trends&lt;/em&gt; and this will confirm (or not) if there is targeted voting going on. If that's the case we can ask the team for those votes to be invalidated and then send the perpetrator a message and even suspend them if the vote abuse is serious enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11112" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-08-23T11:34:22.307" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T11:34:22.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3102" CreationDate="2014-08-20T15:48:47.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;remove&lt;/strong&gt; these tags pretty regularly on new questions and encourage others to do the same when you are sure something is not a distro specific issue (and as you point out Braiam, more often than not it isn't).  Sometimes I'll add a comment to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that may have a positive effect in demonstrating to people the extent to which linux issues are linux issues and not my-fav-distro issues.  That's not a good reason to have the tags, obviously, but it does mean this is not a total loss, communication/dissemination/organization wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most common confusions for new users seems to be conflating a specific DE with a specific distro.   That can be corrected by swapping tags and leaving a comment.  It's no harder to do than casting the first close vote (wink wink), so I don't see a problem with making this a &quot;recommended practice&quot; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I agree the tags are mostly misused, &lt;strong&gt;I don't agree with eliminating them.&lt;/strong&gt;  I think there are questions where they &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be appropriate.  I went through the newest questions tagged &lt;code&gt;fedora&lt;/code&gt; and removed the tag from the first two, and then hit &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150803/fedora-20-system-freezes-when-the-fedora-logo-appears&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.   While the solution &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; prove to be about components that are not unique to fedora (e.g., &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt;) or that could have a more specific tag of their own (e.g., in this case, &lt;code&gt;plymouth&lt;/code&gt;; I did this with &lt;code&gt;firewalld&lt;/code&gt; for one of the other questions), it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; also likely describe a phenomenon involving the interaction of components in a way that is unique to the distro, or at least, unique enough that it reoccurs.  &lt;strong&gt;That's important&lt;/strong&gt;, because &lt;em&gt;using the distro tag now makes it much easier for other people to find the question&lt;/em&gt; in combination with the other tag (&lt;code&gt;login&lt;/code&gt;), potentially saving us from dupe after dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think the &lt;code&gt;distro-x.x&lt;/code&gt; tags should go and have their questions reassigned to &lt;code&gt;distro&lt;/code&gt; as they hamper searching.  If there's a recurrent issue on Fedora 18, 19, and 20, and someone tags it &lt;code&gt;fedora19&lt;/code&gt;, that's just a hassle.  In this case, the excessive misuse and limited legitimate value justify the erasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T15:48:47.280" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3123" CreationDate="2014-08-21T09:53:52.387" Score="2" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do posts from people with &gt;50k reputation show up in the Low Quality queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it not make sense to have a filter where answers from users with more than &lt;code&gt;$arbitrary_high_number&lt;/code&gt; reputation do not appear in that queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I just had to review &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/151344/6761&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;; the risk of one of Stéphane's answers failing to meet the standards expected here is vanishingly small, it it exists at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T13:44:12.137" Title="Low quality posts from high rep users" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|answer-quality|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3122" CreationDate="2014-08-21T09:57:07.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They show up there purely due to their length (being too short). His answers are often just code with no explanations, so they often fall into this category, and I regularly have to approve them as OK too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it seems ridiculous, but I'm not sure how well received making a change to that automated audit will be. We can ask the higher ups to see what they have to say about it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the preliminary read on this is as I had imagined it. Other mods and SE staff are chiming in saying that being high rep doesn't make one exempt to producing crap A's, so the VLQ audit is unlikely to change. We can pursuit it further, but I don't see this mindset changing with any amount of discussions or time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-08-21T10:20:52.590" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T10:20:52.590" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3122" CreationDate="2014-08-21T13:43:57.843" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever you are in the Low Quality Review Queue, &lt;strong&gt;you are evaluating the quality of the post, not of the user.&lt;/strong&gt; If the post needs improvements and you can improve it, please do so. If only the author can do those improvements, you should comment asking for elaboration and select recommend deletion. If you are not sure, just hit skip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation should not be a measure of quality of the posts, most contrary, high reputation users set the example to the community and should be the higher quality possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T13:43:57.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3144" CreationDate="2014-08-27T14:32:25.780" Score="8" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following up &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3102/41104&quot;&gt;previous discussion&lt;/a&gt; we definitively found those tags useless, so there are two options to make the change definitive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Manual cleanup (bleh! but yay!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Automated (yay! but bleh!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why those reactions, well, manual cleanup also allows us to review the state of other tags, add tag, fix title, etc. make more improvements. The problem is that as &quot;manual&quot; implies, we need to use &quot;user time&quot; to do this. The automated way is the opposite, it doesn't use user time (only moderators &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/541/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;As Randal, I can&amp;#39;t figure out how to do it in a sane way :(&quot;&gt;&gt;:)&lt;/a&gt;), but leaves potential fixes that can be applied to such posts that a manual clean up could address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What $PATH should we take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T01:14:59.383" Title="&quot;Merge [distro-version] tags into [distro] tags&quot;, should we?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3125" CreationDate="2014-08-27T14:57:45.320" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts with /distro-version tags aren't significantly more in need of editing than average. There are plenty of /distro tags that shouldn't have that tag, too. Having decided that having the version in the tag is useless, changing /distro-version to /distro does not remove any information. So there is no advantage to a manual cleanup. There are obvious downsides to a manual cleanup: it takes significant effort and bumps questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence: &lt;strong&gt;merge&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm specifically talking about /distro-version tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora20&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora20&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora20&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheezy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheezy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheezy&lt;/a&gt;. /distro-variant tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kubuntu&lt;/a&gt; are a different matter; if we decide to get rid of them (and I'm not saying it's a good idea to do that), we'd have to decide whether to change &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kubuntu&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kde&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kde&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kde&lt;/a&gt; or both, on each question separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T14:57:45.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3125" CreationDate="2014-08-27T15:18:18.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unofficial list of distro-version tags, feel free to add more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Debian: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheezy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheezy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheezy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jessie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jessie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jessie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stretch&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stretch&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stretch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fedora: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora18&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora18&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora18&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora19&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora19&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora19&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora-16&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora-16&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora-16&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora20&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora20&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CentOS: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos6&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos6&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos7&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SLES: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sles11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sles11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sles11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2017-02-25T01:14:59.383" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T01:14:59.383" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-27T15:18:18.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3115" CreationDate="2014-08-28T19:44:41.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;So&lt;/strike&gt; If you hover the mouse above the down arrow (V) next to the beginning of a question, you get to see &quot;This question doesn't show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see when the down-votes occurred, but from the state of your question (on the main site), at the time you asked your question here, IMHO any of those three reasons for down-voting, could have applied for a person having read through one of the initial five versions of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; assume someone reads the title as part of the question text, and therefore always &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; state &lt;strong&gt;in the text itself&lt;/strong&gt; what the problem was that you encountered, followed by what you did, and why you think that should have solved the issue and/or what went wrong. That way a reader is not left guessing what it is that you are trying to achieve, until after reading the complete question text, as was the case with the first version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T19:44:41.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3130" CreationDate="2014-08-31T03:39:40.920" Score="17" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I asked a question about a particular feature of sh/bash. I have another question now. But now I wonder, if I had a question about the Python or Ruby interpreters, I'd be asking on SO and not U&amp;amp;L. (At least, that's where I think they belong.) Yet the shells are something we closely associate with Unix. So should I ask questions about bash features here or on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-08-31T15:23:01.340" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T22:17:23.500" Title="Are questions about the shells (bash, sh, others) well suited to U&amp;L?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2014-08-31T07:48:03.387" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should ask questions abouth sh/bash/zsh/(t)csh here. Although these shells have programming capabilities, their primary purpose is to provide an interactive command-line interface to the underlying system (of course not restricted to U&amp;amp;L).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Python and Ruby are primary programming languages. Most, but not all, implementations have interpreters, but due to the constraint of the language specifications make it kind of difficult to use in prolonged interactive mode (having to quote file names, even those without spaces, etc.). IMHO they are ideal for programmatically complex administrative purposes on Unix/Linux machines, but those are only a subset of the programming tasks you can use them for, therefore most of questions about Python &amp;amp; Ruby will end up on SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-08-31T10:27:44.240" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T10:27:44.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2014-08-31T18:35:16.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all you've named can be thrown into the same category. For a starter, Python is a language that can be easily executed on a Windows machine &lt;em&gt;without much extra fuss&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;On the other hand, to use &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;tcsh&lt;/code&gt; and others on Windows, you will either need a pre-compiled static binary (which is usually outdated by years since the number of people who maintain these is extraordinarily low) or you have to install a comprehensive third-party software called Cygwin, which will provide a UNIX layer that even allows you to use the GNU tools for building apps from source originally meant for U&amp;amp;L. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Python &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be called &quot;platform-independent&quot; and thus the great part of Python problems had better be posted on SO or &lt;em&gt;Programmers&lt;/em&gt; because on Windows, neither Python nor Ruby will ever be requiring any UNIX-ish component for their scripts resp. programs to run.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In contrary to that, bash &amp;amp; co. are by far &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &quot;platform-independent&quot; but they are in fact dependent on a platform which must be &lt;em&gt;emulated&lt;/em&gt; on Windows first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, it's two different pairs of shoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22858" LastEditorUserId="22858" LastEditDate="2014-08-31T22:09:32.117" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T22:09:32.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2014-08-31T20:36:10.233" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the language of interest should not determine the location of the question, but rather the goal of the task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is fundamentally about programming (even if the language used is a shell), then it is better suited for SO. If however, the question is about how that program will interact with a *nix system (even if the program is in a &quot;fully fledged&quot; language), it seems like it would be fine here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is to say, if you want help with programming, SO is the place; if you want help with *nix, then here seems fine to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit&lt;/em&gt;: to clarify, the above answer implies that shell questions will typically be on-topic here more often than on SO (since a shell's main purpose is to sit between the system and the user as an interactive REPL and since shells are more numerous and prolific under *nix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65525" LastEditorUserId="65525" LastEditDate="2014-08-31T22:17:23.500" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T22:17:23.500" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-02T01:38:14.847" Score="42" ViewCount="912" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see it most often on the &lt;code&gt;sed/awk/grep/perl&lt;/code&gt; type questions, but it does happen pretty frequently I think. A lot of times you'll find like 4 or 5 answers on a question with 0 votes and it just boggles my mind. Personally, I wouldn't bother providing an answer to a question which I did not think worth my upvote. It seems to me that doing so is exemplary of bad citizenship, honestly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/149679/52934&quot;&gt;Text File Renaming Using Unix Script&lt;/a&gt; - only upvote = mine&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/152743/52934&quot;&gt;Filter Require Capital words from a file( not all capital words )&lt;/a&gt; - 4 answers, 2 votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/152194/52934&quot;&gt;print only rows that has latest non empty cell that starts with the word “Failed” on a CSV file in Linux&lt;/a&gt; - 5 answers, 1 upvote &lt;em&gt;(mine)&lt;/em&gt;, 1 downvote &lt;em&gt;(almost definitely jasonwryan)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go on, but I'd really rather not. I'm just curious about what would motivate anyone to take the time to construct an answer to a question which they do not even care to click the &lt;code&gt;^&lt;/code&gt; button on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it seems to me, the community as a whole - the knowledge-base as a whole - is better served when a poor question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answered - except maybe via a comment that indicates to the asker both where an answer might be found and perhaps how better to ask for it in future. It also seems to me, that, for sake of the same, good questions are both answered when possible and upvoted as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T21:22:44.563" Title="Why answer a question not worth your upvote?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2014-09-02T04:40:33.227" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between a poor question and a poorly asked question. A poor question would be one where there is insufficient detail to answer, it is an X-Y problem or is otherwise just a wreck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A poorly asked question, which it seems the ones you linked to mostly represent (excluding the final one, naturally), have at their kernel a problem that can be solved (hence the answers), but show little effort in their construction (or are just downright lazy) and so are not worthy of an upvote, ie., do not &quot;show research effort&quot; or are &quot;useful and clear&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that, as the site continues to grow, we will likely see more drive-by questions designed to solicit some code that can be cut and pasted into an assignment. Most should probably be closed but if some do provide a platform for people to show off the range of solutions that &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;cut&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;et al&lt;/em&gt; can provide then some script golf is not a bad way to feed the ravenous maws of search bots...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="52934" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T04:42:02.723" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T04:42:02.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2014-09-02T04:57:31.977" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a small number of questions that are really well asked, a small number that are so bad I literally can't understand them, and a huge remainder that suck, but not so much that I can't piece together what they're looking for if I try hard enough. I generally only upvote questions if I think they'll help other people, or they're unusually well-written and I appreciate them actually making an effort. Most of the questions in the &quot;&lt;code&gt;sed/awk/grep/perl&lt;/code&gt;&quot; category are &quot;write this script for me, I can't figure it out on my own&quot;; they're of no help to anyone besides the author, so I see little reason to upvote them if they already have an answer -- nobody else needs to see it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T04:57:31.977" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2014-09-03T10:11:19.717" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least for me the answer lies in the tooltip text for an upvote: &lt;em&gt;this question shows research effort; it is useful and clear&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions simply don't show any research effort at all. Many questions demonstrate that the author didn't even bother to do obvious things like using a search engine or to have a look at wikipedia. Not to mention the terrible burden of reading a manual page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why do I answer those questions occasionally, in most cases I believe the question (and the answer) could have a broader audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T10:11:19.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2014-09-03T11:25:49.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;For myself. I answer questions I know the answer to (that are not homework). But I upvote questions that I want to know the answer to (because it got me thinking, or because I have that issue as well). Rarely do I upvote and answer. Only if the question is one that I think supports many people, is really well written, and I also know the answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as to not answering questions that I don't upvote, I feel that it's better to help someone out by answering their question, then to go out of my way (down vote, flag, and comment) to mark the question as a poor question. I think marking average questions as poor questions is really close to that &quot;old school&quot; Linux community of &quot;I smarter then you because I know this, but I'm not going to tell you because your not worth the time.&quot; We, as a community, have mostly gotten over this, and I don't see a reason to go back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An Example, out side of stack exchange:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Q: How do I get to Wal-Mart from here?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A: Left in two lights, then a right. It's on the left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's better then, buy a map, or use your GPS. But the question doesn't really invoke any &quot;good question&quot; feelings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: When should you switch to a &quot;older mileage&quot; oil in a 2003 Dodge?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A: ????  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question I would upvote, because I also want to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: How much is parking at the airport, for the overnight lot?&#xA;A: $10 a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question I would upvote, and answer, because I wanted to know too last time I flew, but I now have the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that helps clarify my stance at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50370" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T11:25:49.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-04T08:33:51.633" Score="-1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be for questions/answers that fall into the category of generally useful references.&#xA;canon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2708/4671&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s compile a list of canonical Q&amp;amp;As&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;is the current example that comes to mind, but I'm sure there are others. We really should be more systematically creating a list of canonical questions/answers and referring people to it. I had to spend some time searching for it just now. If it was permanently globally visible in meta, that would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ADDENDUM: Should this be put on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Meta&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T17:51:29.970" Title="Can we have a sticky area for meta questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3138" CreationDate="2014-09-04T17:51:29.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no. We have tags to categorize this. I don't see a need to use something else. You can add favorite tags if you are interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T17:51:29.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3140" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-04T23:34:57.060" Score="8" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Twice today I have clicked on the “edit” link for a post,&#xA;spent several minutes working on it, and then clicked on “Save Edits”, only to be told&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another edit is awaiting approval for this post.&#xA;  Further edits cannot be submitted until the pending edit is reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3rdXx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So obviously somebody else submitted an edit on the same post while I was editing it&#xA;(or maybe even before I started). &#xA;Why wasn’t the second person who tried to edit the post given a message like the above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-09-08T09:05:58.393" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T09:05:58.393" Title="Why aren’t simultaneous edits locked out (made exclusive)?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3140" CreationDate="2014-09-05T17:02:56.987" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Locking something requires that the lock gets released and sometimes that will not be done &lt;em&gt;in the normal way&lt;/em&gt;, because an edit is not finished in a reasonable time. Given that people might go out for a coffee (and stop typing, which might be detectable) or that a connection might go down (but the editor could come back and continue). That means you have to have something like a timeout period that needs to be determined and implemented, but the question is of course what is a reasonable amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site doesn't implement locking, but once you have enough points to be able to edit without the need of review, you can commit changes, even if someone else got in before you, assuming that you have more substantial edits (not sure how the system determines what is more substantial).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, as I have done a few edits, that it can take some time to edit a post, especially if someone who posted had no idea of how formatting works on this site, but a few minutes is IMHO quite a lot time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T17:02:56.987" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3143" CreationDate="2014-09-06T06:41:25.013" Score="6" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to highlight some code in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/154056/33055&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, by inserting an explicit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: python --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at the top of the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also tried &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: python --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; just before the block of code, and have replaced &lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt; by &lt;code&gt;py&lt;/code&gt; (as the latter is mentioned on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72082/changes-to-syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;meta-stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;) in both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these seem to trigger highlighting of the python code. I am doing something wrong, but what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T21:48:05.027" Title="How to switch on syntax highlighting for python snippet?" Tags="|support|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3142" CreationDate="2014-09-06T07:03:46.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem was &lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt;, which tells it to use the syntax highlighting associated with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/python&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;python&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, which for some reason was set to &quot;none&quot;. I changed it now, so both the methods you described will work. In the future, you can also directly specify a language from the list in that meta post (instead of specifying a tag), but you need to prefix it with &lt;code&gt;lang&lt;/code&gt;, e.g. &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-py --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/what-is-syntax-highlighting-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T07:03:46.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3125" CreationDate="2014-09-08T14:26:05.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheezy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheezy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheezy&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt;, the various fedoras into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos6&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos6&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos7&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos7&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sles11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sles11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sles11&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find any other version-specific tags so I think that's the lot of them. If anyone finds new ones, please leave me a comment here, or flag the relevant post for mod attention and point out the tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T14:26:05.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2014-09-09T13:02:43.610" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are no stupid questions, but quite a few inquisitive idiots.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I once was young and very green too. That which is trivial for me now, was not always&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer more questions than I ask and rarely upvote on questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the ones I answer fall in the category, where the asker simply does not know the correct jargon and I feel a comment of: &lt;em&gt;Just search on &quot;jargon term&quot;.&lt;/em&gt; is a bit too short. Not stellar questions, no upvote, but also ones I would also expect the junior colleagues I mentor not to immediately know the answer to either. So I answer those as I would answer them e.g. &quot;&lt;em&gt;the correct jargon term but with some context.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others are in the category where somebody is trying to achieve something and gets stuck halfway through and I feel their whole approach is wrong. Rather than answering their actual question or letting them struggle I suggest an alternate solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48232" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T13:02:43.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-09-09T19:48:21.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to setup passwordless access to my machine?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer provides some of the available options. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/103585/47538&quot;&gt;script to automate scp in network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:46:49.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-09-10T13:42:45.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Find Hardware Information of my machine from command line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/154813/47538&quot;&gt;How can I have a linux box capabilities?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/77724/47538&quot;&gt;32-bit, 64-bit CPU op-mode on Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:46:16.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-09-10T13:59:11.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How can I repeat the previous N commands in my shell?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed canonical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24739/how-to-execute-consecutive-command-from-history&quot;&gt;How to execute consecutive commands from history?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T13:59:11.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2014-09-11T10:50:12.857" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because we're nice. I answer questions to help the person asking (and sometimes, ok, &quot;because I know the answer&quot;:-), but I vote based on question quality and interest. These are two different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23344" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T10:50:12.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3152" CreationDate="2014-09-11T17:19:27.150" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I continue to earn more privileges through reputation gains, I'm beginning to broaden my posting knowledge.  While watching the Review/Late Answers queue, I thought I'd check the list, and ran into this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/155081/netgear-n300-model-no-d1500-telnet&quot;&gt;Enabling Telnet on the NETGEAR N300 Wi-Fi Gigabit Router (WNR3500L) Possible?&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the process of researching for an answer, I found that he had already posted the question at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/thread/56796/NETGEAR-N300-Model-No.-D1500-telnet-help/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The OpenRouter Forum - Same Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone Else cleaned up his Bolding mess, and I fixed the title after finding the correct model.  Is this considered a double Post?  Technically, he did not double post here, as one of the commenters pointed out, but I'd like some clarification, as I've never seen this situation before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64157" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T20:26:12.040" Title="Is this a Double Post?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3151" CreationDate="2014-09-11T20:26:12.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with an OP posting their questions outside of the Stack Exchange sites. More visibility to their issue is fine, when it's done in this manner. The only concern around double posting we as a SE community have, is when the exact same question is posted across multiple SE sites. This is discouraged and there's an option to close for what's called, cross-posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even this can be somewhat tolerated if the OP has customized their question so that it's specifically targeted to the SE site within which they've posted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1FkFT.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss#1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more on the subject the link in that pick discuss this a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center &gt; Asking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu&quot;&gt;Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T20:26:12.040" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-11T22:05:23.437" Score="11" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/154811/apache-2-4-wont-reload-any-problem-with-my-configuration&quot;&gt;apache 2.4 won&amp;#39;t reload, any problem with my configuration?&lt;/a&gt; . Now at the end of doing some more research and understanding what was wrong I ended up at a different question altogether. Is it ok to ask the related question or should I hold out for some more time hoping that somebody would answer the latter question or what should I do ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T10:32:53.263" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T10:32:53.263" Title="asking a related question to a question you asked" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3153" CreationDate="2014-09-12T00:07:29.890" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've found an answer to your original question then I'd encourage you to provide an answer to it yourself. It's perfectly acceptable to answer ones own questions, even after you've continued to research it yourself. That's fairly typical, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your new question. If it's completely different, then I'd ask it as it's own question and not pollute the original question by asking too much. The primary intent of the Stack Exchange sites is to provide clear questions with clear answers to them, so that the original poster (OP) can get their issues resolved.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A secondary intent of the SE sites, is to provide a valuable resource to the internet so that others that come after the OP, may benefit from both the original question along with any answers that were provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T00:07:29.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3153" CreationDate="2014-09-14T05:07:49.580" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the points in @slm's answer, you should in such a case (re-)consider if your original is going to be useful for someone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If its usefulness is doubtful, e.g. because it the question was indirectly caused by you misreading the &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; page of a command, and being led of track by this to think a program was not working as it supposed to be.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In that case, &lt;strong&gt;assuming no one answered the question yet&lt;/strong&gt;, you should consider deleting the original question altogether, when it has little to no value for future visitors of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By creating a new U&amp;amp;L question with the related question, you draw more attention because it doesn't just show up on the &quot;active&quot; question list, but also on the &quot;newest&quot; question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T05:07:49.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-14T15:04:05.910" Score="-1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I use my favorites for learning purpose, but specifying favorites's category is hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose unix.staxexchange is a firefox, and favorites of unix.stackexchange is bookmarks as in firefox. How can I create folder for bookmarks as in the firefox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21911" LastEditorUserId="80886" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T18:45:52.230" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T18:45:52.230" Title="Folderize favorites such as bookmarks in Firefox is needed for unix.stackexchange" Tags="|feature-request|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3156" CreationDate="2014-09-14T17:18:01.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Original Q: Searching within my favorites&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Braim's saying to do the following in the site's search boxes to get what you want. If you tell the search &lt;code&gt;infavorites:mine&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;infavorites:&amp;lt;SE user #&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; followed by either text or a tag, &lt;code&gt;[bash]&lt;/code&gt;, for example you'll get what you want. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the example below which should help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I24Vw.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Updated Q: Favorites manager for stackexchange favorites?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be any method for &quot;managing&quot; favorites. You can bookmark them within your browser and manage them externally from the site. There might be a way to &quot;export&quot; them from the site and &quot;import&quot; them into your browser's bookmark manager as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meta Q on stackexchange.com is asking for the very thing you're inquiring about. Titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75944/favorites-improvements-search-categorize-personal-tags-add-note-favorite-a&quot;&gt;Favorites improvements - search, categorize, personal tags, add note, favorite answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T01:13:10.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-17T04:14:31.683" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today the following item was in the Close Votes Review Queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Its bothering me On iftop i can see ip-172---2.ec2.internal Connected to my ubuntu ec2 server for long long time ?? This address doesn't even resolves as its a ec2 internal ip address.. How can block it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple reasons for me to immediately edit this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three more people need to make sense of this before they can meaningfully vote on it. (Unless a mod comes barging in).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as the questions needs extension, with answers to questions in the comment, a cleaner and more exemplary basis for the OP to do that on, is going to increase the value of the Q&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it gets closed unedited, and stays unimproved (content wise) someone might edit its grammar and spelling and it ends up in the reopen queue and maybe in the suggested edit queue as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also want to vote to close this Q, because there is an open questions in comments, that needs to be answered (by extending the Q). I cannot use the [Edit] &lt;em&gt;button&lt;/em&gt; option, as this assumes my improvements will improve the Q so much, that it can stay open. What I can do is open the question in another tab, edit it there, and then come back and vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I hoped I showed, there is need for editing &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; vote to close. Can we get an edit-only link on the presentation of the Close Votes review queue? So that I can improve a question's readability and provide myself (and my fellow reviewers) with an easier to judge text to begin (c.q. continue) with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can either remove the [Edit] button and provide the &quot;normal&quot; edit link below the question. Or leave the button in place, as this draws more attention to the possibility of improvement. In that case change the text to [Edit before Voting], or just change the caption.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The effort of the extra button click for [Leave open] resp. [Close] (or [Skip]) after editing, is negligible compared to the editing process itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T06:02:15.253" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T06:02:15.253" Title="Editing items that should be closed even after editing" Tags="|feature-request|editing|vote-to-close|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-17T04:31:27.023" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3159/33055&quot;&gt;question on meta&lt;/a&gt; I requested that the [Edit] button on the Close Vote review queue items would not imply that I want to leave the question open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cause of this, is that questions are currently initiated to be voted to be closed without the &quot;initiator&quot; taking any effort to make the question more readable (spelling, grammar, formatting and removal of cruft (thanks, names, appreciation, pretty please, I am new to Linux, etc.)). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As there are normally at least four more people that have to read through the Q and agree with you to close the Q, it would&#xA;be appropriate to make their lives somewhat easier by getting the question in a more presentable shape. I think it also gives a better message to the OP, as it is clear we put some effort in trying to get the Q in shape, but it is not enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we encourage the close vote &quot;initiators&quot; to edit (if appropriate/possible), and if so how can I/we do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T10:25:44.887" Title="Editing before vote to close" Tags="|discussion|editing|question-quality|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2014-09-17T04:50:21.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't fix what your suggesting, which I 100% agree with, by the way. But I'll typically open the Q outside of the review queue, in another tab, make the edits, and then click the &quot;Leave Closed&quot; option after making the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Bit of a diatribe&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My general approach/philosophy to being a good community member, is that we should edit Q's and make then as correct and presentable as possible. I've done so on Q's that we've then migrated or even closed there after. All in the hopes of leaving them in as good a state as I/we possibly can, hoping that the OP will be able to pick them up from there, add/fix what needs to be done so by them, so that we can then reopen them and get them answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T04:50:21.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3159" CreationDate="2014-09-17T05:15:36.223" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A vote to close is in essence a nomination for deletion, marking the question as no longer eligible for answers and enabling privileged users (and even the system itself in some cases) to delete it after the author is given sufficient time for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you're saying it should be removed entirely, why bother polishing it up? Save your time and energy for those posts that you might actually save.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address your specific points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A general inability to make sense of a question &lt;em&gt;is itself&lt;/em&gt; a reason to close. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are you trying to increase the value of a question you wish to be deleted? This is counter-productive; do one or the other, don't struggle against yourself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So because someone else &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; polish a turd, you feel the need to preempt them? Consider instead encouraging others to make substantive edits by providing examples of this in your own work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T05:15:36.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2014-09-17T10:25:44.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no need to polish a turd, but even with mediocre questions it's often best to edit them to some extent. Even if the question should be closed, often an edit makes it more clear that the question should be closed. Give it decent (if not perfect) tags so that it's seen by the right people, give it a title that reflects what the question is really about, ensure that it has one or two comprehensible sentences that make it clear that the question is off-topic, too broad, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have no idea what the question is about, and you don't think it's a matter of not being familiar with the topic, vote to close as unclear and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T10:25:44.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="351" CreationDate="2014-09-17T10:31:41.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting to close as a duplicate leaves a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see the history of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5268/how-do-i-merge-two-avi-files-into-one&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; now, and it's been thoroughly messed up by Jeff. For future reference, if there is a vote to close as duplicate without a comment, it means the comment has been deleted — presumably by the close voter when they realized that their vote was mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't possible then, but it is now possible to rescind close votes as long as the closure hasn't been carried out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a comment saying that the question is a duplicate, but you disagree that the question is a duplicate, it's a good idea to leave a comment clearly pointing out the difference. It's often a good idea to edit the question as well, but as long as the in-your-opinion-mistaken close votes are pending, comments are more visible to close vote reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T10:31:41.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2014-09-24T12:17:36.410" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;All sites grant the same amount of reputation for the same events. But different sites have different propensity to vote, and upvotes are the main source of reputation. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/workplace/query/195762/average-number-of-votes-on-all-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data explorer&lt;/a&gt; (data as of a few weeks ago), here are voting statistics for some Stack Exchange sites: the average number of upvotes and downvotes per non-deleted post; the rank is for average votes (up+down) per post. I've included computer-related sites plus the top and bottom 5 (the bottom 5 are all computer-related).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                    up    down  rank&#xA;skeptics           12.29  1.66     1&#xA;meta                7.95  1.57     2&#xA;workplace           7.81  1.14     3&#xA;cstheory            8.00  0.82     4&#xA;academia            8.11  0.52     5&#xA;programmers         7.71  0.85     6&#xA;tex                 5.74  0.06    23&#xA;mathematica         5.35  0.19    25&#xA;reverseengineering  4.80  0.32    35&#xA;security            4.63  0.38    38&#xA;ux                  4.30  0.20    51&#xA;softwarerecs        3.76  0.40    61&#xA;    (median)&#xA;networkengineering  3.72  0.30    67&#xA;gamedev             3.51  0.39    72&#xA;codereview          3.62  0.16    75&#xA;craftcms            3.52  0.04    82&#xA;blender             3.30  0.11    85&#xA;webapps             2.84  0.54    86&#xA;unix                3.12  0.14    90&#xA;windowsphone        2.62  0.26    101&#xA;raspberrypi         2.67  0.13    102&#xA;graphicdesign       2.56  0.23    103&#xA;dba                 2.55  0.18    104&#xA;tor                 2.57  0.15    105&#xA;android             2.33  0.38    106&#xA;sqa                 2.47  0.12    109&#xA;arduino             2.42  0.16    110&#xA;gis                 2.44  0.10    111&#xA;salesforce          2.39  0.12    112&#xA;SuperUser           2.26  0.22    113&#xA;ubuntu              2.19  0.24    114&#xA;apple               2.22  0.20    115&#xA;StackOverflow       2.17  0.23    116&#xA;webmasters          2.16  0.15    117&#xA;joomla              2.01  0.17    119&#xA;ServerFault         1.87  0.21    120&#xA;sound               1.85  0.07    121&#xA;expressionengine    1.57  0.04    122&#xA;drupal              1.36  0.23    123&#xA;wordpress           1.20  0.25    124&#xA;magento             1.08  0.13    125&#xA;sharepoint          1.13  0.05    126&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, computer-related sites tend not to vote much. TeX is an exception, being at the top of the third decile overall. Unix &amp;amp; Linux is way below the median, but is actually above the median for computer-related sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T12:17:36.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3168" CreationDate="2014-09-25T05:14:48.790" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does there exist consensus on having (or not having) tags for individual high-profile critical vulnerabilities? While Heartbleed was not directly Unix-related, Shellshock &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; (it occurs in bash).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24379" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-09-25T11:45:38.013" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T11:58:09.053" Title="Tags for shellshock, Heartbleed, and other named vulnerabilities" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3166" CreationDate="2014-09-25T08:09:40.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Critical vulnerabilities are (hopefully) short lived problems that might peak for a week or two and then will unlikely have new questions, once fixes have been rolled out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at tag definition help, it says something about that the definition should help apply the tag to a question, for me that indirectly implies that if the tag is unlikely to be going to be applied to new questions, it has lost a significant amount of usefulness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separate tags for each vulnerability are IMHO not necessary. A generic 'vulnerability' tag is more useful, just like we don't (want to) have a separate tag for each and every release for a particular Linux distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T08:09:40.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3166" CreationDate="2014-09-25T11:58:09.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the meaning of the tag clear from the name? Yes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is the tag name discoverable from the desired meaning? Yes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Does the tag name designate a topic that is related to the scope of the site? Yes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag that passes these fundamental tests is not particularly harmful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to be useful, tags need to be applied consistently. This is a strong form of the discoverability test: do people think of using the tag name often enough? Experience from Heartbleed and Shellshock suggests that the answer is yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the tag delineate an area of expertise? No, not really.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Does the tag represent a concept that some users will specifically want to avoid? No.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is the tag useful to guide searches? Not really: the name of the vulnerability is likely to be in the question body anyway. This would be different for vulnerabilities with a name that has other meanings, like Beast and Crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's not much value in having these tags, but on the other hand they don't hurt either. They are useful to identify duplicates more quickly, but it's true that this is mostly important in the early days of the publicization of the vulnerability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion is that I might not create the tag, but if someone bothers to tag the relevant questions with it, I'm not going to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T11:58:09.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2014-09-25T16:28:31.337" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;( I was pointed out that the prose could use some re-reading and correction, I will do so when as soon as I have some time (and feel like doing so, fixing someone else's errors is different))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a General Linguist by education and software developer by trade. I use Linux whenever I can, for specific tasks I use Windows or an Arduino (I prefer the Arduino: less restrictions). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like U&amp;amp;L as I found answers to many of my questions there or better solutions than I have come up with myself over the years. It also points out interesting (that is of course subjective) subjects that I never thought I wanted to know about in the first place. I don't read the new questions systematically, but being active on the review queues show me a fair share of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some history&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to play with my brother's slide-ruler (he was a few years older&#xA;and has a more technical education), and I was fascinated by the electronic&#xA;calculator I did see at the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoluon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;evoluon&lt;/a&gt;. Mine graduation year was the last&#xA;year that was not allowed to use a calculator for the final exams&#xA;(the ones before going to university), and I am glad of that, because I think that&#xA;forced me to learn to be able to do calculations on paper or in my head&#xA;quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final year in school I almost did some programming. But the&#xA;teacher explained that that would have involved sending pencil marked&#xA;punch-cards to a university, equipped with a computer to process the programs,&#xA;and that would have been a week or two round-trip time (this was 1978).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not until I started studying Mathematics (there was no separate computer&#xA;science at that time) at Leiden University at seventeen, did I have my&#xA;first real experience with programming, on  a IBM 370 compatible Amdahl system. We, the&#xA;first year students, had limited resources allocated for our &quot;jobs&quot;. This was determined by the job-control&#xA;punch-cards that you put in front of your actual program cards (in ALGOL 60). &#xA;I soon found out how to increase the run-time limitations we had to several seconds and to more than 4 pages of printed output. The first program I&#xA;wrote for my self was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Conway's game of&#xA;life&lt;/a&gt;, which&#xA;got me an official warning when I picked up the output of running the&#xA;program on the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/R-pentomino&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;R-pentomino&lt;/a&gt; (the output&#xA;was cut of at 100 pages of folding line printer paper and the admins&#xA;could not fail to notice this unusual amount of paper output for&#xA;single job for a first year student). One of the worst things that could happen to you in those days, was that the elastic band that kept the punch cards of your program together, would break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At University I worked with  Algol 68, APL (from which my dislike&#xA;for the &lt;em&gt;write only&lt;/em&gt; family of programming languages), Lisp. I got&#xA;interested in microprocessors, particularly liked the 6809&#xA;architecture: it was the&#xA;first microprocessor with SEX (an instruction for sign-extending an 8 bit value to 16&#xA;bit). I played my first interactive computer game on my friends&#xA;Sinclair (Timex) ZX80: you would run around a maze trying to find an&#xA;exit, or until a dinosaur blocked your way and you lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I co-founded and chaired the Dutch Hobby-Computer-Club chapter for&#xA;Motorola 68000 processors. However I did not have the money to buy a&#xA;full fledged 68000 system like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apple&#xA;Lisa&lt;/a&gt;. So I settled for a&#xA;6502 based BBC Micro computer and wrote a cross assembler in BASIC&#xA;that allowed me to upload&#xA;programs to my, self-soldered, 68000 board (with 4K ROM and 4K RAM!).&#xA;The BBC first had a cassette-tape (some programs were broadcast on&#xA;Dutch radio that you could record and upload to your system), later a&#xA;floppy drive (2x100Kb per 5.25&quot; disc. Apart from Basic and 6502 assembler the BBC allowed me to try Forth, BCPL, MicroProlog and Pascal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to University and an early age and that had kept me out of the draft for military service, but by&#xA;the time I started studying Japanese I was older and should have done that service&#xA;first. Of course this was found out and I got drafted on very, very,&#xA;short notice. I was not very happy in the service, among other things because I could&#xA;not find a place to meditate, like I was used to do every morning. I was&#xA;stationed at the Tonnet Kazerne military base &quot;'t Harde&quot; where in the&#xA;classroom next to where I was, an AP-23 mine (which had the colouring&#xA;of an instruction mine, but was a real one) exploded, killing &lt;a href=&quot;https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Nederlandse_rampen#1980-1989&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the&#xA;instructor and six of my&#xA;collegues&lt;/a&gt;. Afterwards I&#xA;asked our commander how to get out of the army in an&#xA;interview, and I was told to apply as an conscientious objector. I applied as such and was back&#xA;being a civilian within 24 hours. I think they were glad to have one&#xA;less person with potential trauma to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not make sense too much to continue studying full time, because,&#xA;as conscientious objector, I would soon have to do public service for&#xA;18 months (1.5 times the length of the military service). Public service&#xA;normally involved something like changing bedding in a hospital or home&#xA;for the elderly, but I was lucky. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I landed a temporary job as a&#xA;Basic programmer and sysadmin on a PDP-11 using multi-user basic under&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RT-11&lt;/a&gt;. I wrote software for&#xA;pupils to learn basic math and fill out blanks with correct words in&#xA;sentences. That system was about to be upgraded to Xenix, and I had to&#xA;program in Pascal (and some parts in C), translating the Basic&#xA;programs by hand at high speed. At the same time I started to use&#xA;curses instead of the programmed in escape sequences used to move the&#xA;cursor on the 6 different (second hand) serial line based CRT terminals we&#xA;were using. The PDP had 8&quot; floppys for making backups, I still have&#xA;some adhesive labels for those, if someone needs them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The software development was a university project and when I told the&#xA;director I could not sign on for a longer period because of my work as&#xA;a conscientious objector, he made arrangements so that I could&#xA;continue to do the same work as fulfilment of that requirement. The software development and &#xA;sysadmin work was way better than any other work I could have hoped for, but the&#xA;(prescribed) pay level was about a fifth of my previous pay for the same job.  Therefore I&#xA;worked a bit on the side selling computers. My company name: &quot;Antron&quot;,&#xA;as tacky as it gets, but which I thought a cool name at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By 1984 I had a 300 baud modem at home, and was the only student in&#xA;our student housing (170 rooms) having a private phone. The modem was hooked&#xA;up to my BBC micro running Kermit. I continued studying, but combining&#xA;Japanese with work was difficult. I switched to master in General&#xA;Linguistics, which allowed me to include courses like &quot;computability&quot;&#xA;and &quot;formal languages and automata&quot; in my general linguistics master program. Those courses were held at the now opened computer&#xA;science faculty, the CS&#xA;students didn't understand why a guy would do such subjects out of his&#xA;own volition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I could pick-up some speed in my studies again, some friends&#xA;from my high-school asked me to join a start-up. In that company we&#xA;instructed students at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam in the&#xA;use of computers and ran a laboratory for specialised computer usage&#xA;(with an A0 plotter etc.). I co-wrote a 3D modelling program running&#xA;on Atari ST and IBM PC AT (Autocad was still 2.5D only). And I&#xA;modified my Atari ST: it had more available memory (by piggy-backing&#xA;memory chips, soldering all but one pin to the existing 16 memory&#xA;chips); it had the processor de-soldered  (60+ pins, not so easy) and&#xA;replaced by it a socket, in which I put a board with the original&#xA;processor, a PAL based address selector and a 68881 floating point&#xA;coprocessor; and on the ROM module I installed a modified C't design&#xA;with dual ISA slots (on a read only bus!). In the ISA slots I had a IBM PGA graphics board. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our software was in Modula-2 and I rewrote the software floating point&#xA;library to use the 68881 math coprocessor and rewrote part of the library calling the GEM based graphics driver to redirect to the PGA. That way we could generate images much faster than on a&#xA;the PC, with significantly larger models (but rendering was still far from real-time). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For our&#xA;first real walk-through we drove an IBM monitor which was fixed to a 2&#xA;meter long board, and shot images with a film camera that was adapted for single shot&#xA;recording on the other side of the board (triggered by the Atari once&#xA;an image was ready). After running for 2 days and developing the film&#xA;we found that the CRT monitor had overheated (because of the cardboard casing that was there to keep the light out) and that the monitor had gone&#xA;completely off-color..... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During that time (late 80s) I also published&#xA;my first open source contribution in a magazine (an optimized&#xA;quick-sort implementation in Modula-2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We switched to a separate Z-buffer based renderer after I had&#xA;calculated that with the number of polygons we were handling (we did back to front&#xA;painting on the hardware accelerated PGA board), that Z-buffer&#xA;would be more efficient. We needed to store the resulting images, and&#xA;GIF was selected as there was software from CompuServe to show these&#xA;images on MSDOS computers with various graphics boards, as well as a program from IBM to show these on their PS/2&#xA;systems (which IBM had donated to the Academy). However there was no&#xA;program to go from software frame buffer to GIF, so I reverse&#xA;engineered that, with the help of the original article on LZW&#xA;compression and checking the output against the two viewers that we&#xA;had.  Once that was done I also wrote our own viewer for the special&#xA;graphics boards that were becoming available for AutoCAD (already at&#xA;that time the GPU was often more powerful than the PC the board was&#xA;put into). This was all done in Zortech C++.  On the PC we had a&#xA;minimal program (1.5Kb) to switch from renderer to viewer and back, so the viewing code did not take valuable memory (always at a premium on the PC). I&#xA;had not been in England that often and I called the viewing program&#xA;'shower.exe' as it &lt;em&gt;show&lt;/em&gt;ed our images. The guy reviewing our manuals&#xA;had a hard time, as he, as a native speaker of English, had difficulty not to associate &quot;shower&quot;&#xA;with a bathroom activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tried to speed things up using Transputers and parallel processing&#xA;at some time, but this was quite difficult. Occam, a nice language&#xA;with indentation as indication of block structure (like Python), was a far call from C and&#xA;Modula-2. Things looked much better when I tried the Transputer under&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeliOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Helios&lt;/a&gt; (a Unix like OS) on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;system Atari&#xA;developed&lt;/a&gt;, but unfortunately that never took of commercially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Academy bought two Sun machines, which were fast, except that the&#xA;FPU did not do square roots (as did the 68881) in hardware. And we&#xA;needed square rooting a lot in our software for vector&#xA;normalisation. Since the vectors multiplied were limited in input&#xA;values because of they were already normalized, I figured out we could&#xA;use a 1024 entry lookup table of floating point values. which nicely&#xA;speeded up calculations by an order of magnitude. The Sun machines&#xA;brought me back to using Unix and I have worked on Unix on a daily&#xA;basis since then (1990).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shower program was much wanted by graphic board manufacturers&#xA;(SPEA, ELSA, Artist Graphics, etc. all with proprietary hardware as&#xA;well as several VESA manufacturers). That was because we had&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;architectural&lt;/strong&gt; images that showed very well on their 256 colour&#xA;graphic boards. Their alternative were dithered GIF images based on&#xA;photos of scantily (if at all) clad women, not always a good thing to&#xA;use on trade shows.  Adapting the back-end of the &quot;shower&quot; to a new&#xA;board was a matter of routine after the first few that I did. I used&#xA;to visit the companies to have access to the latest (unreleased)&#xA;hardware and had several experiences of managers not believing they&#xA;work was finished in good cooperation with their engineers within an&#xA;hour or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By now we were using DOS-extender on 386 and while visiting Artist&#xA;Graphics, the spare time (I had flown to Dublin for 2 days, just in&#xA;case things would take longer) was put to good use. After adapting the&#xA;rendering program to map in the Z buffer in the high-memory mapped&#xA;graphics board space I could see the rendering taking place in real&#xA;time at an acceptable resolution. This slowed down the rendering&#xA;slightly, but made it much more easy for us to see where the rendering&#xA;process went wrong (if it did). Once SPEA found out, they did not want&#xA;to be outdone by the competition and we got an Intel 860 based board&#xA;from them, on which we could do the whole rendering, and see the&#xA;progress and it was faster than the state of the art 386 PC in which&#xA;the board was inserted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our single shot camera was exchanged for a videorecorder (rollback,&#xA;roll forward, take a single shot, roll back ....) and a targa/vista&#xA;graphics board (without file format description, but that was an easy&#xA;one to figure out). Some very nice video walkthroughs resulted from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the technical successes were not followed by enough sales and&#xA;investor money disappeared as in a black hole. I sold my shares, and&#xA;decided to use the money to finish my long postponed thesis. For the&#xA;research I used my&#xA;386 machine and dos-extender to run the text analysis programs. It&#xA;ran in an hour what the VAX machine at the Linguistics Institute could&#xA;only do in several days (the difference being mainly due to the whole&#xA;dictionary of words fitting in memory on the 16Mb RAM of the 386, so&#xA;lookups of word associated codes were much faster than on the VAX&#xA;where this had to come from disc repeatedly, as it had only 256Kb&#xA;memory and that shared with the processes the others ran).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time I also still had my Atari ST, often used by friends for&#xA;typesetting papers and thesis'. I had been using LaTeX since the mid&#xA;80s. Fortunately laser-printers became available, until that time I had&#xA;printed LaTeX output on my 9 needle STAR printer, going over each line&#xA;three (3!) times, I normally switched on the printer in the evening&#xA;and went to sleep somewhere else if I had to print more than 4&#xA;pages. I also helped set the book on Generative Grammar by one of my&#xA;professors and earned the gratitude of several people by converting&#xA;Word documents close to the deadline of submission, documents that&#xA;Microsoft Word would no longer render in any acceptable way (after an&#xA;image was inserted, or a table of contents requested).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With my thesis finished, I started as manager at the other 3D graphics&#xA;software company in Amsterdam. The software there ran on SGI Iris, DEC&#xA;Ultrix and on Sun, later also on HPUX and on Linux (mid 90s).  The&#xA;software was a solid modeller and ray-tracer with all kinds of modules&#xA;for NURBS, blobs and particles as extensions. I did not program much&#xA;as a manager but I kept an eye on the process and the revision control&#xA;system.  The program was in K&amp;amp;R C, parts of the interface in TCL and&#xA;an internally developed functional language called Intercol was used&#xA;for specification of surface &quot;materials' and also for interactive&#xA;interface design. When I took over the management of the project, one&#xA;of the features of Intercol was that there was no normal way of&#xA;documenting the software by inserting comments (the developer said&#xA;that if you really needed comments, you could just write a conditional&#xA;that was never true with a string in the non-evaluated part of the&#xA;conditional acting as some form of documentation...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had 50 DEC Ultrix machines in the basement (an expensive&#xA;heat source) for parallel rendering, each with 16Mb of memory, but&#xA;enough swap-space on disc (storage was on the network). Unfortunately&#xA;the users of the system (some extremely creative art students) did&#xA;rather want to use scanned images for textures (so they knew what it&#xA;would look like) than try and write some (Intercol) program that might&#xA;approached the visual effect of what they wanted. The memory&#xA;consumption was by these images was huge as our software memory mapped&#xA;the images and the rendering machine spent most of its time on&#xA;swapping. My main software development contribution in that time was&#xA;to write a Targa to tiled TIFF converter and then a caching mechanism&#xA;for those tiles in the renderer. That way we did not need to read in&#xA;the multi-megabyte images in memory completely. Because of the way the&#xA;ray-tracer used the pixels from these images (mostly requiring pixels&#xA;from the image close to each other) this helped speed things up a&#xA;lot. This immediately prompted the students to use much finer detail&#xA;images (read: higher resolution), but fortunately the tiling mechanism still&#xA;worked out fine for those as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here was also the first time I had to work with HTML in setting up the&#xA;first website I was involved in (late 1993). Some of my new employees had&#xA;introduced me to Python (which they had used at the CWI in Amsterdam&#xA;where Guido van Rossum was begin employed). I liked the design of that&#xA;language, but did not want a fourth language in our software. So it&#xA;took a few years before I actually did something with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mid 90s I spent two years in the USA, where I managed the&#xA;development of a multimedia database and associated front-end. Warner&#xA;Brothers, The Discovery Channel and Spielberg (his Survivors of the&#xA;Shoah project) were among our customers. During that time I was&#xA;almost exclusively involved with SGI (and IRIX) which was approaching&#xA;the top of their dominance in the graphics market. I also had my first&#xA;off-shore development team (to port the front-end to the Mac), with&#xA;often broken email communication to Bangalore that was not a very&#xA;successful experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After moving back to Europe, I started working in Las Palmas de Gran&#xA;Canaria, (voted best place to live before San Diego and Casablanca). We&#xA;would work in the morning, have lunch at 2pm, visit Las Canteras beach&#xA;until five, shower and then work until nine. I was still doing graphics,&#xA;this time editing and compositing software on SGI. Unfortunately that was&#xA;only a year  of employment to get the development organised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I will never forget is that we had 10base2 (coaxial)&#xA;Ethernet at the office in Las Palmas. Twice a week the workstations of&#xA;the developers could not reach each other or the server because the&#xA;cleaners would have swiped the floor and touched one of the Ethernet&#xA;transceivers, breaking the loop. Finding where the loop was broken&#xA;often took an hour. The company had money for SGI Indigo2 machines but&#xA;had not invested in a better network, so until we could get something&#xA;faster I used an unused 10baseT hub (unused because it was 110V for&#xA;use on trade shows) and telephone cable and RJ45 connectors to hook&#xA;the machines up and discard large tracts of the cheapernet that had of&#xA;course become very expensive because of the downtime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the founder of the company was afraid of people remotely&#xA;accessing our computers and steal the software, we had no internet&#xA;connection to our desktop like I was used to, and we also had no&#xA;email. I convinced the owner that the &quot;old&quot; way of doing emails would&#xA;really be safe enough and one spare Personal Iris system was set up&#xA;with a dial-out modem to pick up and sent emails. That system was&#xA;connected to another machine in our network using a serial port.  UUCP&#xA;(initiated from the internal network) was used to communicate the&#xA;emails. At least that way we could just write and receive emails at&#xA;our own desk. The revision control system I had set up while I was in&#xA;Las Palmas, was still operating after 12 years, when I did help the&#xA;company to upgrade to mercurial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would come back to Las Palmas but not after spending two years on&#xA;something completely different: Applying the lessons learned in the&#xA;software development process on molecular nanotechnology (there are&#xA;parallels, as both engineering activities require little in the form&#xA;of raw material, resulting in less careful design). I invested (and&#xA;lost) most of my savings on that project, but it was fun. That although&#xA;Brussels was a dreary place, especially after sunny Gran Canaria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Brussels I had ISDN, and set up my first Linux based machine at&#xA;home as a workstation and router (for my and my wifes laptops). The&#xA;server was SuSE based, as ISDN was popular in Germany and SuSE had&#xA;stable ISDN support out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also during that time I started developing software in Python, which&#xA;quickly became my favourite language for non-time-critical jobs.  I did&#xA;part-time development work after my son was born, while my wife was&#xA;travelling over Europe (helping her customers with ISO 9000&#xA;certification, I was supporting those customers with browser and&#xA;Python based software solutions). I contributed to some open source&#xA;projects (implemented new string matching specifications in&#xA;file/magic, packaged the ReiserFS software into RPMs before it was&#xA;part of the normal distributions). Since then I have made&#xA;contributions on a regular basis for many a project that I needed to&#xA;improve for my own use.  During that time (1999/2000) I also put a&#xA;second Pentium III in my computer to calculate the 196 palindrome&#xA;problem to 10 million places (John Walker of Autodesk fame had gone to&#xA;1 million a few years earlier on a Sun machine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a second child on its way I moved back to the USA to do some more&#xA;serious (and above all serious money making) work. I just managed to&#xA;hit the dot-com crash at the end of 2000, but found another job, had&#xA;to fly back because of visa issues but finally everything got resolved&#xA;before the money ran out. I first managed a small development group in&#xA;Sausalito (CA) making compositing software (used by ILM for the&#xA;StarWars movies). I was returning to Windows and Mac for development,&#xA;but I had Linux based machines for revision control. My personal&#xA;system was a Win98 based Sony laptop, that ran SuSE under VMware. So&#xA;Outlook Express would read the emails via IMAP from the SuSE based&#xA;IMAP server. Later I switched to a DELL D800 and ran it natively under&#xA;Linux with a Windows VM for compatibility (you learn when OpenOffice&#xA;mangles your bosses Word document).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By 2004 I had set up the engineering in most of the companies 10+&#xA;engineering locations in 5 countries (a result of acquisitions). It&#xA;used replication of compiled libraries, a whole development method&#xA;around that, remotely triggered builds and tests. The most&#xA;problematic group was in Germany and I (was) moved there to make sure&#xA;they got integrated in the process. Unfortunately our company was&#xA;sold, and the promises for my position in Germany over time were not&#xA;kept by the new management. Apart from that, the new mother company&#xA;had 4 engineers for maintaining ClearCase, where I had supported the&#xA;CVS/cvsup based revision control (later mercurial) for all locations&#xA;remotely on my own and next to my normal management responsibilities&#xA;for several products. I certainly did not see it as a career move to&#xA;learn ClearCase and work on that full-time. Politics started playing&#xA;up as well as some other indigestible management decisions, so I decided to&#xA;work as a freelancer again, which I have done since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where I am now&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say at least 25 of the 30 years I have been professionally&#xA;involved in software development, I have been working on some sort of&#xA;Unix or Linux. Initially with &lt;code&gt;csh&lt;/code&gt;, then &lt;code&gt;ksh&lt;/code&gt; (Sun IIRC), &lt;code&gt;tcsh&lt;/code&gt; (on&#xA;Irix) and now &#xA;&lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;. I like the maintainability of Python (I share much of&#xA;Eric S. Raymonds experience with fetchmail in that respect &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882)&lt;/a&gt;.) and switch from &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;to using Python before the quotes and its syntax start to irritate me. I&#xA;know how to use &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, but never bothered much with awk, essentially because&#xA;I can do anything that would require awk in Python (I'm not saying&#xA;Python is better, but I am certainly better &lt;strong&gt;at&lt;/strong&gt; Python).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuSE was problematic after Novell's takeover, it landed me with&#xA;inaccessible support pages and all kinds of problems not good for&#xA;persoal use of Linux, unacceptable for professional use. I attended&#xA;the Ubuntu delopment conference in Paris (2006) and switched first&#xA;myself and then the company, 15 machines or so, to Ubuntu. Currently I&#xA;am running 12.04 (in classic mode) and I am considering switching to&#xA;Linux Mint full time as I really don't like the direction the default&#xA;Ubuntu UI has taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never was a full time adminstrator of Unix or Linux, but the last 15&#xA;years I did &#xA;delve into many things U&amp;amp;L related and contributed when&#xA;possible. ReiserFS, mdadm, LUKS encrypted &lt;code&gt;/home&lt;/code&gt;, sendmail, postfix,&#xA;bind, Apache &amp;amp; mod_wsgi, file/magic, spamassassin, IMAP, all have&#xA;taken their fair share of my attention (as did several not direcly U&amp;amp;L&#xA;related projects, such as implementing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://anthon.home.xs4all.nl/Python/ordereddict/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ordereddict libary in C for&#xA;Python&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On U&amp;amp;L I am more inclined to be a reviewer than that I have broad&#xA;knowledge of U&amp;amp;L issues (maybe that is my managerial role showing&#xA;itself). I like the U&amp;amp;L atmosphere, and even though I sometimes&#xA;(necessarily) get corrected by the experts here, I think I make my&#xA;contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of U&amp;amp;L I am online active on Khan Academy, where I refreshed my&#xA;rusty math skills ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.khanacademy.org/profile/avdn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.khanacademy.org/profile/avdn/&lt;/a&gt; ) and try&#xA;to keep a good Energy Points and Badges earned score. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a board member of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.europython-society.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;EuroPython&#xA;Society&lt;/a&gt;, that is responsible for&#xA;the EuroPython conferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm not at my PC (it happens) I can be found in the local dojo,&#xA;training Shotokan Karate (I got my nidan in 2014). If you are stuck in&#xA;software problem and want some distraction there is nothing like a&#xA;fist that is quickly approach your face, to get back to reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I don't watch TV all, that still leaves me time to cook &#xA;for my daughter (who lives with me) and my girlfriend on a daily basis&#xA;(and bake bread because the Germans don't know how to do that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timeline/location: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1961 -&amp;gt; Netherlands 1994 -&amp;gt; Ohio/California 1996 -&amp;gt; &#xA;Gran Canaria 1997 -&amp;gt; Brussels 1999 -&amp;gt; Gran Canaria 2000 -&amp;gt; &#xA;San Francisco -&amp;gt; 2001 Gran Canaria 2001 -&amp;gt; Sausalito (CA) &#xA;2004 -&amp;gt;  Braunschweig, Germany&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T00:32:17.030" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T00:32:17.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-28T05:53:15.960" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to roll back to revision 2 of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/98675/revisions&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; because, in revision 3, code formatting was introduced inappropriately in multiple places and I did not want to start editing from there, and at least one type is still present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After confirming that I wanted to roll back to version 2, the system prompted a message: &lt;code&gt;Unable to rollback to the current version&lt;/code&gt;. I checked the question in case someone else had had the same problem with this third revision and in the mean time rolled back, but the version displayed in &quot;normal view&quot; was the third revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On second and third try I cannot roll back to 2. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it makes a difference: revision 2 was an approved edit, revision 3 a direct edit by a 2K+ user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can of course undo the (many) inappropriate changes in rev 3, but for now I left the question in peace in case the bug only can be reproduced with the current 3 revisions' data as input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nG6cU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-09-28T20:50:40.733" Title="Unable to rollback to the current revision - on previous rev" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3170" CreationDate="2014-09-28T18:01:34.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I encountered the same issue on another post. I wanted to roll back to revision 2 and got the message you show. So, I rolled back to the first revision and then rolled back again to the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works as a temporary workaround but, unfortunately, it also raises an automatic flag for a rollback war. Presumably because of the two consecutive roll backs. I, and I hope the other mods, can deal with that though, so for the time being I suggest you do that. Presumably the SE team will be fixing it soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-09-28T18:01:34.420" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-01T01:55:58.200" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly enough, there are a couple that we can't live without. Out of the top of my head, nvidia, ati and broadcom. Because they usually/sometimes have privative drivers so they are somewhat useful... but, what about the rest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say that a tag about a commercially available &lt;strong&gt;product&lt;/strong&gt; is fine, but a tag about a &lt;em&gt;company is not&lt;/em&gt;. You can see efforts eradicating these &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/8402/235569&quot;&gt;in Super User&lt;/a&gt;, along with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/a/8403/235569&quot;&gt;my proposal&lt;/a&gt; about company names that are also products: renaming into product-like tags, ie. nvidia -&gt; nvidia-graphics. What does everyone else think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:59:43.927" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T08:32:07.527" Title="Company tags, do we want them?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3172" CreationDate="2014-10-01T02:03:13.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your logic 100%, except I would be very sure to not go crazy with the product tags either. IMO it's generally enough to mention the model number, product name, etc. in the question. The tags become more useful when there's a large body of Q&amp;amp;A related to a particular thing. When there's only a handful of Q&amp;amp;A about a particular product then there's really no need for the tag to be created just yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, most issues, though specific to a particular hardware/driver/software version, should be solved using the same basic blueprints. So hiding a general purpose solution under the guise that it's product/vendor specific is just causing us to write 10 different answers for the same general questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I mean by this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well if we have a question that's asking how to map some special keys on a Lenovo/Thinkpad keyboard, the same approach can be leveraged by anyone. The same tools will be used to determine the key's scancode, the same tools will be used to map the key to something else, etc. So we're doing ourselves a huge disservice by tagging these questions with vendor/product tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T02:03:13.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3172" CreationDate="2014-10-01T08:48:38.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As so often with tags, the important thing is that the tag excerpt and description point the &quot;tagger&quot; towards the appropriate use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A description for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nvidia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nvidia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nvidia&lt;/a&gt; currently is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;nVidia is a manufacturer of graphics cards.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't help most of the taggers in the appropriate usage of that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;nvidia is used for question particular to the nVidia range of graphic boards/chips and their drivers. Use it only if you know for sure the problem is not a general graphics board issue (in that case use the tag: graphics)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please note that the first word has the casing of the tag, not the proper casing with regards to how the company writes their name: nVidia. Also note that there is no markup in the excerpt (so no &lt;code&gt;[tag:graphics]&lt;/code&gt;))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a more informative (currently empty) wiki description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-10-02T08:32:07.527" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T08:32:07.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3176" CreationDate="2014-10-06T08:09:00.783" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I got to be exactly at the same reputation points level as another users, on the main &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;/users&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;all&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My info showed up on the page &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the user that already had that reputation level. I expected to be listed after that person, as I was later to arrive at that same reputation level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ordering might be a random result. Or it is because I have more gold badges, or because my name is sorted before the other person's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not because I have a lower user number, not because I have been at the site longer (probably related to the user number) and not because I have more total badges (I have far less).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What determines the ordering on the /users pages when the reputation is exactly the same? Or more specific, what caused me to be listed first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T07:49:52.417" Title="What, after reputation, determines the order of users on the /users page?" Tags="|support|reputation|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3175" CreationDate="2014-10-06T19:34:01.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?page=77&amp;amp;tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;Experimentally&lt;/a&gt;, users with the same reputation seem to be listed in decreasing order of ID number. In other words, whoever joined the site most recently is listed first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't carry over in the voters and editors tab. There, reputation is the second criterion but decreasing ID isn't the third criterion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T19:34:01.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-06T19:37:23.697" Score="12" ViewCount="1854" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few of us were &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18009503#18009503&quot;&gt;discussing&lt;/a&gt; the fact that information on the various shell operators is spread across multiple Q&amp;amp;As. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/159489/22222&quot;&gt;Is there a difference between `;` and `&amp;amp;&amp;amp;` and `|`?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/16363/22222&quot;&gt;redirection and pipeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/24684/22222&quot;&gt;Confusing use of &amp;amp;&amp;amp; and || operators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/22111/22222&quot;&gt;Difference between &amp;gt; and | with /dev/tty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/67006/22222&quot;&gt;How can one run multiple programs in the background with single command?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And many others. The basic question in each case is how a particular shell operator works. So, I decided to write a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/159513/22222&quot;&gt;canonical Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt; giving a brief explanation of what the different operators do. The idea was that we can then close the various other questions as duplicates of the canonical one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/159513/22222&quot;&gt;What are the shell&amp;#39;s control and redirection operators?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My hope was that my answer would be general enough to serve as an answer to all of the above questions and also to the future ones. That it would act as a global target against which we can close any question about how shell operators work (at least with respect to bash).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also point out that I had not made my answer into a community wiki post which might have given the impression that I was after the reputation points. I have now made it a CW answer, something I should have done in the first place, so that should no longer be a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, today, I closed a question as a duplicate of mine and two users felt that I was overstepping my bounds as a moderator. I am therefore bringing this up here. Should we close those other questions as a duplicate of mine or should we instead choose one of the existing ones, broaden it and I should repost my answer there? What do you think is the best way of dealing with similar cases in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2708/22222&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s compile a list of canonical Q&amp;amp;As&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1424/22222&quot;&gt;Canonical &amp;quot;chroot grub reinstall&amp;quot; question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1457/22222&quot;&gt;Should we have a canonical &amp;quot;how to create a distro&amp;quot; question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T16:48:58.143" Title="Canonical question about shell operators" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3177" CreationDate="2014-10-06T20:20:29.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we close those other questions as a duplicate of mine or should we instead choose one of the existing ones, broaden it and I should repost my answer there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, close others as a dupe of yours. Broadening existing questions risks rendering many answers irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think is the best way of dealing with similar cases in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are several questions on closely-related issues that could be served with a slightly more-general question, sure, make a more general question, answer it well and close-dupe the others. Questions have been closed as duplicates of newer ones before, so the age is not as big an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This specific instance seems well-served by your question - a quick reference answer on common separators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, as you're moderator, I hope you will refrain from closing the others as dupes for some time (say a week), to see others' takes on your question. Or perhaps you could flag as a dupe and not close it directly. Questions which ask about some nuance of the operators would, of course, be left alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T20:20:29.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3177" CreationDate="2014-10-06T20:20:36.077" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unilaterally closing a question as a duplicate of one you asked and answered yourself is a bit iffy. Doing it after a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18009616#18009616&quot;&gt;discussion in chat&lt;/a&gt; is perfectly fine. I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/159489/revisions&quot;&gt;agree with your judgement that it is a duplicate&lt;/a&gt;. Posting a new question was warranted because the original question focused on a special case and it makes sense to have a more general canonical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T20:20:36.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3177" CreationDate="2014-10-06T22:19:43.677" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with closing duplicates; the more vigorously it is done now, the better the long term prospects of the wiki in maintaining the interest of the community that has coalesced around it. Anyone really want to see another bulk rename question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to actions characterised as &amp;quot;unilateral&amp;quot;; the simplest and most transparent approach is for moderators or gold badge privilege holders is to quite scrupulously manage any conflict of interest, &lt;em&gt;or the perception thereof&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it looks like you stand to gain some real or imaginary benefit from the closure, leave it. We have enough moderators now to be able to have them hand off tasks to one another to ensure that the administration of the site is seen to be fair and just, and that all is right with the world (for now)&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1. Don't make us head to the barn for the pitchforks...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T22:19:43.677" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3177" CreationDate="2014-10-07T03:57:12.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not commenting on whether the original question should be closed or left open. But I am a strong supporter of canonical question/answers for our community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that if a question gets 1k views in 2 days, it obviously means that the question has a much more wider audience and a good reach. So, in this context, if it attracts more views, then it is a good idea to have a more detailed question which answers from a much more broader perspective and explain things in detail. So I definitely appreciate the effort to put in a canonical question/answer to address a much more broader problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I feel these sort of things are what make ours a wonderful community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, we do have a question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/batch-renaming-files&quot;&gt;renaming&lt;/a&gt; which is also present in our canonical list. However, we still got a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159320/bash-multiple-rename-in-one-line-is-possible&quot;&gt;newer question asking the same&lt;/a&gt;. This will be repeated in future as well where people will be asking about the things that are present in the canonical list. But, these canonical questions can help the OP in doing a research and mention it in the original question. If such an effort is made from the OP side, then I would say the compilation of canonical questions/answers is definitely a success. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The community is by far the best SE community and let's work together in making it a more awesome one&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T04:03:16.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-10-08T15:35:08.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How can I remap the keys on my keyboard to other keys (or key combinations)?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed canonicals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13369/how-to-remap-the-context-menu-key-to-the-super-key&quot;&gt;How to remap the Context Menu key to the Super key&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52673/use-m-c-m-v-m-a-for-copy-paste-select-all&quot;&gt;Use M-C, M-V, M-A for Copy, Paste, Select All&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9635/how-to-assign-another-modifier-to-alt-key-for-x11&quot;&gt;how to assign another modifier to Alt key for X11?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T15:35:08.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2014-10-08T15:40:37.907" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How can I copy/paste files via the command line?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed canonical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30825/copy-and-paste-a-file-directory-from-command-line&quot;&gt;Copy and paste a file/directory from command line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T15:40:37.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3177" CreationDate="2014-10-08T16:48:58.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do think there should be canonical questions about the shell operators,&#xA;I feel it should not be only one question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I see it that one of the great effects of this platform would not work well for one combined question: The refinement of the answers. The combined answer like it exists currently is a couple of pages long, consisting of two answers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It already starts to be hard to read and navigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each type of operator is described, in a detailed and complete way.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But that's not all there is to the operator - there are relevant and interesting context informations for probably each of them;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not something one would write down in a go, but perfectly suited to be collected over time.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Examples would be common usage patterns, antipatterns and pitfalls. And often some uncommon, but useful usage patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, my point is, if one would even start to add relevant details or context to the operators, the answer would get unusably messy and hard to navigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I would add a description of how to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;||&lt;/code&gt; to chain commands with error handling with examples, that would go into a new answer. Editing the original answer to add it to the &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; section is not an option, because it would badly degrade the structure of the text. As result, there is an answer that refers to a small section of another answer. Also, answers would be refering to different topics, so the voting can not create a meaningful order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If there were canonical answers for each group of operators, these problems would be solved: the question can introduce the operator, like &quot;What is the &amp;amp;&amp;amp; in these command examples?&quot; The first answer gives the basic explanation. Related information can get added as further answers, and get voted on in a meaningful way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the questions should be suitable as duplicate targets&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This approach can be combined with a central question with references to the individual ones in various ways, differing in the amount of information kept in the central question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would propose that the central question gives an overview introducting the types of operators, and describing relations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a central duplicate target is needed, the central question should still work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the motivation is to allow for long term refinement of answers, which I assume will not work with a single central question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63775" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T16:48:58.143" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-08T20:29:40.247" Score="7" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a headline, sections marked as &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; use a font that is too small compared to the font of the headline.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Actually, the font size for code sections in title seems to be just the same as used for code sections in bold text: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Headline 1 with &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; section&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Headline 2 with &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; section&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Headline 3 with &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; section&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bold line with &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; section&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Plain line with &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; section&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I compared to askubuntu and found that the font adapts to the header font there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63775" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T20:42:29.220" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T21:27:52.230" Title="Font too small for code sections in headlines" Tags="|bug|design|css|fonts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3187" CreationDate="2014-10-08T21:27:52.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens because the font size for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags is specified as a fixed pixel value:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;font-size: 13px;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The normal font size for plain text on this site is 15px, so replacing the CSS rule above with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;font-size: 86.67%;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would let the font size of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; elements scale up in headers, while keeping the font size of code in plain text the same as it currently is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9334" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T21:27:52.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-08T23:46:10.970" Score="9" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I write answers that may help the OP to solve the actual underlying problem, but match the question as stated only tangentially.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That can work out great, like when the answer matches the OPs XY-problem so it get's accepted, or it gets voted to the top because reader think it's useful even with some change in scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, it works out ok, maybe getting some upvotes indicating that the alternative approach may indeed be a good idea.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I think the answer could be really useful - in the context of the right question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case that the answer is good in answering a useful question, but one that is too different from the original question to be regarded as a good answer,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I could create a new question matching my answer (or find an existing one), delete my answer from the old question  and use it to answer the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know whether that is acceptable as described, or in some variant?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(e.g.: not deleting the old instance of the answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of the problem, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/159960/63775&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159594/dealing-with-file-names-with-special-first-characters-ex-%e2%99%ab&quot;&gt;Dealing with file names with special first characters (ex. ♫)&lt;/a&gt;, which is proposing a more general approach that could solve the OP's task, but would create much overhead when used for this task.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is useful anyway because it can solve many tasks related to the OPs question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63775" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T13:33:23.653" Title="Is it ok to move my answer away to create a better question for it?" Tags="|discussion|answers|self-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-09T00:09:31.260" Score="7" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reviewing low quality posts, I often find answers of new users, that are just one line and should be converted into a Comment to the question instead (example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/63725&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/63725&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I handle these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often I see that someone says, that it is not an answer and they should comment instead, but that's a problem: you need &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;50 reputation&lt;/a&gt;, so &lt;strong&gt;They don't have the privilege to comment on any post yet!&lt;/strong&gt; That's why they posted their knowledge as an answer instead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20661" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T15:36:44.530" Title="How to handle reviewing answers that are only comments?" Tags="|support|answers|review|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-09T00:17:35.790" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159859/why-didnt-gnu-info-succeed-man&quot;&gt;one example&lt;/a&gt;. Now, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18064828#18064828&quot;&gt;I noted in chat&lt;/a&gt;, I could think of a couple of reasons about the &quot;why's&quot; something happened instead of something else. All of them are sound, and even logical, yet none is definitive and I could even be wrong about it. So, it boils down to &quot;what everyone thinks about why X happened and not Y?&quot; kind of question, which IMO doesn't have a definitive answer, one of the primary requirements of asking a question in SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a question of trying to explain choices on the line of &quot;why is preferred X and not Y when fooring the bar?&quot; that just happen to be that way really answerable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I know at least one, &quot;Why Xorg is being replaced by Wayland?&quot; but it doesn't strike me in the same category of above. BTW, is answerable and the answer is in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T19:24:27.803" Title="Are &quot;why replacement of X didn't replace X?&quot; really answerable questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3190" CreationDate="2014-10-09T00:26:24.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting 50 reputation is not that hard, and there are good reasons why we don't let new users comment. It's better that they get an idea of how the SE system works first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you find such answers, flag them as &quot;not an answer&quot; and we'll deal with them. If you flag as NAA, the mods can decide to leave the user another comment or delete the answer or turn it into a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T00:26:24.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3190" CreationDate="2014-10-09T00:42:58.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's why they posted their knowledge as an answer instead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are not answering the question, though, hence they are &lt;em&gt;not an answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They don't have the privilege to comment on any post yet! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting 50 reputation anywhere on SE &lt;strong&gt;is trivial&lt;/strong&gt; (I got 300 before I ever needed to comment on something) and in a couple of minutes you can get them (5 upvotes on a single answer, 4 checkmarks, 25 edits, or a combination of the ones before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should I handle these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag them, and recommend deletion. That's the only thing that users can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T01:31:50.007" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T01:31:50.007" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3189" CreationDate="2014-10-09T01:30:01.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is perfectly fine to do and would encourage you to do so. So long as your Q&amp;amp;A is not viewed as a duplicate of some other question that already exists, I can't really think of any reasons why this would be a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I've actually done this myself on a few occasions when a question has moved away from what it was originally asking, and my answer no longer was as good a fit. Other times I've misunderstood a question and did not want to waste a perfectly good answer, so I've gone and created the more niche question to house the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly I'll add this: the Stack Exchange sites are for the communities around a particular topic. So if any individual has energies around creating content that fits within this model, I'd strongly encourage you to speak up about it. Don't feel that you have to rely on the &quot;regular&quot; users to do 80% of the content, while everyone else simply sits on the sidelines and watches.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Participation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many ways to participate, creating questions that fill in holes within the back catalog of Q&amp;amp;A on the site is probably the most important thing that anyone can put energy towards. Editing content and maintaining our tag wikis is still another. Think of this site as a resource that if everyone puts there 1% into, they'll get back out many times their investment in being able to use the resource when &lt;em&gt;they need answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other projects&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're always trying to tend to the site through a variety of means. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; are good resources to start with if you're looking for things to help out on. Here's a rough list of some other things that go on from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;In no particular order&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2708/lets-compile-a-list-of-canonical-qas&quot;&gt;Canonical Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-tagging projects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing unanswerable or abandoned Q's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.blogoverflow.com/2014/04/getting-started-with-version-controlled-configurations/?shareadraft=baba21_530e2830c955a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Our blog&lt;/a&gt; (yes we have one and it needs writers + editors)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta discussions for blog topics - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/662/starting-a-unix-linux-community-blog/667#667&quot;&gt;#1&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/743/starting-a-blog-part-2/872#872&quot;&gt;#2&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2649/starting-a-blog-part-3?lq=1&quot;&gt;#3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-10-11T02:29:21.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3190" CreationDate="2014-10-09T10:09:30.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The major reason why low rep people are not allowed to comment yet, is that comments are not reviewed, so possible unwanted stuff in there is less easily detected (normally only the poster of the Q or A on which was commented gets notified). That is why there is a very small threshold of 50 rep before you are allowed to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a new user instead misuses an answer area as a comment. It clearly indicates (s)he has not taken the time to get familiar with this sites purpose and rules of behaviour. Whatever the value of the answer &lt;em&gt;as a comment&lt;/em&gt;, the poster should be notified and the answer removed or, at the mods discretion, converted to a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/63725&quot;&gt;case you indicate&lt;/a&gt;, the &quot;answerer&quot; was the Question's OP. And (s)he could have commented below the Question, or edited the original Question if more appropriate. That someone comes to U&amp;amp;L with a question and expects others to invest time to answer, without investing the time to learn how to properly use the site &lt;em&gt;themselves&lt;/em&gt; is something that worries me a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you should do is flag the item independent of the posters reputation. In addition down-vote it if the answer-comment is not useful, you will get the rep you loose for down-voting back, if the answer gets removed/converted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T10:09:30.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3191" CreationDate="2014-10-09T10:39:39.347" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes those questions are answerable. Whether they are good or un-opinionated answers, or whether the question should be closed (for whatever reason) is a different matter and sometimes involves some thin ice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system allows us to close questions when we think the &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; will be primarily opinionated. However you can give an opinionated answer to every question (whether the opinion is relevant is another matter altogether, if an answer is too opinionated there is of course a chance of mod intervention ). You can also try and give a factual answer to a question that would primarily invoke opinionated answers because of the way it was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that particular question I think the ice is thick enough, and an answer that includes some factual information about e.g. when &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;info&lt;/code&gt; and the newer browser based information system came into being, can be useful. That answer can include a time-line of gestation and a gentle reminder of the circumstances for the younger generation (like Gilles already started to do in a comment).¹ There might be some guesswork involved, but if appropriately indicated in the answer, that is IMO fine (clearly indicated guesswork can always be confirmed or rejected at a later stage, and most importantly readers do not get confused by mixed fact and guesswork).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such an answer is not necessarily hard science, but you can say that as well from a history thesis, if you compare it with physics' one. Having some historical information around can help us do a better job solving similar issues. And as such this particular question can be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;Sometimes you just have to have been there to experience it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T10:39:39.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3191" CreationDate="2014-10-09T10:47:30.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;With respect to the question that you referenced, I thought it wasn't answerable, and so I originally had closed it as such. But one of our regular users thought that it should be re-opened as he had an interest in seeing it answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I told him that if others thought it was of interest that I would be supportive of it being re-opened or he could get a group of 5 to VtR it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally find these types of questions unanswerable or rather that their answers are loaded with a lot of opinions, and so serve no useful purpose on this type of site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However SE sites do need to be some what flexible in the type of content that is allowed, and in looking over this particular question, it would represent unique  content about the subject matter that is likely not pulled together anywhere else on the internet. It's likely that some aspects to any high quality answers that it might generate would be useful as reference material when answering other questions that are related to the subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this particular case, I say let it be. But with respect to your main question: &quot;Why replacement of X didn't replace X&quot;, I agree as you, that these should likely be closed, perhaps initially, until individual community members step up and identify the question as being worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T10:47:30.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3191" CreationDate="2014-10-09T13:57:29.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, no they're not answerable. A question asking why X did not replace Y is essentially asking &quot;why do people not prefer Y to X?&quot; and that is pure opinion. How can we give a conclusive answer to why something is more popular than something else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way would be to conduct a poll of many users and ask each their reasons for their choice. By definition, such a thing would boil down to an opinion. The best case scenario would be that such a poll has already been carried out and the results are available. Even then, however, we could only say something like &quot;75% of users asked said they prefer &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; because it has more unicorns&quot; or whatever. Again, it would be an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This type of question can only be answered if it is made much more specific. For example, &quot;Why did Ubuntu abandon upstart&quot;? is actually answerable because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is asking for the reasons of one, specific organization which can, at least theoretically, be known. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer in this case is actually known: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316&lt;/a&gt;. The head of Canonical has published a blog post explaining why the decision was made.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in general, such questions will not be answerable since they will depend on the personal opinions of all the users who've made a choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-10-10T10:53:08.643" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T10:53:08.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3201" CreationDate="2014-10-10T09:43:38.110" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on U&amp;amp;L ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/148531/79818&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/148531/79818&lt;/a&gt; ) and latter on Security ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/q/69189/57225&quot;&gt;https://security.stackexchange.com/q/69189/57225&lt;/a&gt; ) where I received an answer (sort of).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I merge the two question ? or do I simply need to answer myself in both forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T15:36:17.853" Title="Un-duplicate my question that was posted on U&amp;L &amp; Security SE sites?" Tags="|discussion|cross-posting|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3202" CreationDate="2014-10-10T09:59:16.127" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I open this site on Google Chrome, it looks like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile and Tablet Layout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nzV6O.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But works fine on Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All other stackexchange sites works fine on both Chrome and Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Linux Ubuntu + Gnome Shell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52995" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-10-12T15:35:55.940" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T15:35:55.940" Title="Problem with unwanted mobile layout in Google Chrome!" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3199" CreationDate="2014-10-10T10:11:23.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;On U&amp;amp;L we frown upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu&quot;&gt;cross posting&lt;/a&gt; and in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; it is is explicitly mentioned. That your post has not been closed yet is just because until now nobody noticed and voted to close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please remove the question on this site, if someone encounters a problem similar to yours, and searches for it on google, (s)he will find the answer on Security.&#xA;Doing so automatically unduplicates your question and solves the problem of multiple updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T10:11:23.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3200" CreationDate="2014-10-10T12:23:16.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scroll to the bottom and click &quot;full site&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="928" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T12:23:16.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-13T19:29:00.340" Score="13" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was checking a question today and saw it with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cpu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cpu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cpu&lt;/a&gt; and wondering exactly &lt;em&gt;how it should be used&lt;/em&gt; I read the excerpt which basically told me what a CPU is, not what the tag is useful for. Now, checking the questions I see several questions about monitoring the cpu, cpu usage, cpu temperature, where the only thing in common is that the questions have something related with the CPU, but I do not see how that could be useful for this site. Is there any intended use that I'm not seeing? What should be the tag excerpt/wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T17:20:44.313" Title="What is the [cpu] tag intended use?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1364" CreationDate="2014-10-15T01:56:22.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came here with the same question as OP. Assuming a person asking a question is using the English language properly, &quot;how&quot; and &quot;why&quot; can drastically change the question being asked. I don't believe these should generally be assumed as duplicates unless it is painfully apparent in the body of the question that the same answer is being sought. In which case, the question title probably needs editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the following question turns out to be an entirely different question than the one it is said to be duplicate of:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/162134/how-to-execute-a-bash-script-without-typing&quot;&gt;how to execute a bash script without typing ./ [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt; - OP is essentially asking how to set the PATH variable for a script's directory so the user does not have to type the path to file each time it is executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare the above question to the one it is said to be duplicate of:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4430/why-do-we-use-to-execute-a-file&quot;&gt;Why do we use “./” to execute a file?&lt;/a&gt; - In this case OP specifically asks &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this syntax is used this way in the shell. No question is raised as to whether there is a method for executing files without specifying the current directory path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks.My doubt is why do you need ./ at the start.... I got the use&#xA;  of &quot;.&quot; (to poit the current directory) but why &quot;/&quot; after that? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4430/why-do-we-use-to-execute-a-file#comment5076_4431&quot;&gt;Renjith G Nov 30 '10 at 8:35&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is two very different questions prompting different answers. As reflected in the above examples, the answers for neither appear to appropriately answer for the other. Comparing similar &quot;how&quot; and &quot;why&quot; questions as possible duplicates may call for more careful consideration than usual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87728" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T01:56:22.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3206" CreationDate="2014-10-15T12:48:06.067" Score="8" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general in the projects I've been on, the system components were already setup or picked before I started, so I never really saw the process of why people chose say, Ubuntu over Centos, or vice-versa, why would one pick OpenSuse etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I want to learn more about the history of the various distros out there and why people pick one over the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first part seems ok (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/are-history-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;as history questions seem on topic&lt;/a&gt;), but asking what the specific advantages of certain distros over others seems like it's probably a too opionated answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just leave out the bit about advantages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T21:58:44.883" Title="Can I ask a history question that might also be opinionated?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3205" CreationDate="2014-10-15T12:56:55.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably should  leave out that bit, yes. Basically, the various Linux distributions are all as good as each other. Which one you prefer will depend on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personal preference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your objective. Whether you choose distro X or Y will depend on whether you're setting up a personal computer, a web server, a number cruncher, a laptop, a media studio etc. There are distributions tweaked to each of these functions and more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personal preference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with such questions is that points 1 and 3 are the most important. In most cases, you will choose X over Y because you like X better. This is not really something you can defend with arguments but a question of what you happen to like and such questions would be considered &quot;opinion-based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="63775" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T21:58:44.883" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T21:58:44.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-15T13:19:47.233" Score="5" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I asked this question my purpose was two fold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That people can self-help themselves into debugging their own scripts and discover what is wrong without asking us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That it serves as a lighting rod to all &quot;How I debug this script?&quot; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we had &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/162247/41104&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in which the OP seems to have two issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How he can discover what's wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Identify and fix whatever is wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first reason, I voted to close. It's a good behavior? Should we determine what kind of questions this can be a duplicated target for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T13:22:54.357" Title="How we should use the &quot;How to debug a bash script?&quot; canonical question?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3189" CreationDate="2014-10-15T13:33:23.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you should. In fact it will be encouraged &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/242044/213575&quot;&gt;from now on&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Encourage both askers and answerers to fix questions they care about.&lt;/strong&gt; We're taking baby steps in this direction with some new badges, but we could be doing so much more: how about a message shown to folks answering these questions warning them that their efforts may be wasted if they don't take a minute to also fix the question itself? And, combined with #1, a message shown to folks revisiting questions that are languishing, encouraging the same?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there would be a &lt;s&gt;do&lt;/s&gt; edit or die if you don't fix the question. Finally, if your answer is interesting, but either a) doesn't answer OP concerns, b) question is too crappy and salvageable, is recommended to write a clear and concise Q&amp;amp;A pair in which your knowledge could live on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T13:33:23.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3210" CreationDate="2014-10-16T01:12:13.033" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, clicking on the number of votes a question or answer has causes it to split into separate up and down vote counts. This is not done here on unix.stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78754" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T09:07:19.520" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T09:07:19.520" Title="Clicking on a vote number does not split into up and down vote counts" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|voting|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2014-10-16T01:32:10.010" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a privilege that you receive when you get to the 1000 point level. But you can install this browser plugin to unlock it on all SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/3082/view-vote-totals-without-1000-rep/4112#4112&quot;&gt;“View Vote totals” without 1000 rep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://astronomy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/211/why-cant-i-click-on-the-up-down-vote-counter-to-see-how-the-breakdown-looks?newreg=d418bdd629b44888bccc38ad9f64d990&quot;&gt;Why can't I click on the up/down vote counter to see how the breakdown looks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:38.983" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T02:50:15.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-16T09:43:52.830" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it fine that admin edits the answer in the way that incorrect answer becomes correct answer absolutely equal to mine and my answer becomes useless?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/162223/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/162223/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me summarize the changes made by @Gilles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers before his edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;------------begin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use that syntax: ${parameter/pattern/string}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ echo ${OUTPUT/\'/x}&#xA;axb&quot;c`d&#xA;$ echo ${OUTPUT/\&quot;/x}&#xA;a'bxc`d&#xA;$ echo ${OUTPUT/\`/x}&#xA;a'b&quot;cxd&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;------------end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;------------begin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;OUTPUT=&quot;${OUTPUT//[\`\&quot;\']/}&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;code&gt;${VAR//PATTERN/}&lt;/code&gt; removes all instances of the pattern. For more information bash parameter expansion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;------------end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after Gilles edit first answer became:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-----------begin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use that syntax: ${parameter//pattern/string} to replace all occurrences of the pattern with the string.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ echo &quot;${OUTPUT//\'/x}&quot;&#xA;axb&quot;c`d&#xA;$ echo &quot;${OUTPUT//\&quot;/x}&quot;&#xA;a'bxc`d&#xA;$ echo &quot;${OUTPUT//\`/x}&quot;&#xA;a'b&quot;cxd&#xA;$ echo &quot;${OUTPUT//[\'\&quot;\`]/x}&quot;&#xA;axbxcxd&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;---------end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added quotes - like in my answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added correct answer string - like in my answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added comment that // replaces all variables - like in my answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After these edits their answer became essentially the same as mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68714" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T09:52:00.853" Title="High reputation user edit which makes incorrect answer to be same as correct one" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3211" CreationDate="2014-10-16T11:24:53.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit in question was done by a fellow user of the site, not an admin. Edits on the site is typical for a variety of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spelling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;phrasing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;technical inaccuracies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;syntax in commands/scripts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the edit was to fix a syntax error where the variable &lt;code&gt;$OUTPUT&lt;/code&gt; was unquoted which you should typically never do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other fix was to do the same, and put quotes around the arguments to &lt;code&gt;echo&lt;/code&gt; and to add a 4th example which showed how the piecemeal search/replaces could be done in a single command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see an issue with this type of edit, this made this answer more useful, and all the pieces were already contained, this particular edit simply put the pieces together in one line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edits in general&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers that people provide on Stack Exchange sites are not solely to provide a solution to the original poster of the question. The site acts as a knowledge-base for future visitors as well, and these types of edits are done typically with that audience in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presenting a complete solution, such as this one, is more conducive to these future visitors, since they'll get a fully usable solution, rather than having to piece things together themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T11:24:53.510" CommentCount="26" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3211" CreationDate="2014-10-16T11:30:40.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, there's no such thing as an &quot;admin edit&quot;. Anyone can edit a post, once you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;2k reputation&lt;/a&gt;, you can do so directly but before that you can still submit an edit which will have to be accepted by 2 users with &gt;=2k reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the objective of the site is to have a collection of useful information, of good answers. It is more like a wiki than a forum. The edit you mention clearly improved the answer so, yes, it is perfectly acceptable. Also, it was a very minor edit, correcting a misunderstanding of the question. Since a global substitution was requested, the edit made the answer fit the question. Your answer is no less useful because of that, it has simply been joined by another correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, your answer is no less useful now than it was when you posted it. There is no limited pool of correctness where adding to one answer would remove from yours. The more correct answers we have, the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T09:52:00.853" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3215" CreationDate="2014-10-18T06:44:48.660" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is the &lt;strong&gt;Socratic&lt;/strong&gt; badge awarded? I see the badge description as,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Asked a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintained a&#xA;  positive question record. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the &lt;strong&gt;Inquisitive&lt;/strong&gt; badge which is a silver badge. It essentially is the same as &lt;strong&gt;Socratic&lt;/strong&gt; with fewer number of days (30 days). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a positive question record for more than 100 questions (I have more than 100 questions that have a positive score on them). And am also sure that I asked these questions on separate days (may be 1 or 2 questions might be asked on the same day). But I still do not have the &lt;strong&gt;Socratic&lt;/strong&gt; badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I believe it should have something to do with how well my questions were received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is a well-received question? Is it based on the number of views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is there a way to see how many more questions are needed for my &lt;strong&gt;Socratic&lt;/strong&gt; badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T13:19:31.017" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T13:19:31.017" Title="What are the criteria to get the Socratic badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3214" CreationDate="2014-10-18T14:05:34.373" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask 100 different Q's that are over the course of 100 unique days and have at least a +1 on said 100 Q's. This meta question titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/234259/asking-days-badges&quot;&gt;Asking days badges&lt;/a&gt; explains the well received as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;excerpt&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a&#xA;  score &gt; 0. If you ask at least one well-recieved question in a UTC day&#xA;  and none of your questions that day are deleted, downvoted, or closed,&#xA;  you get one more day of credit toward the badge. Whenever the badge&#xA;  criteria is checked, previous asking days are re-evaluated so that&#xA;  there's an incentive to fix downvoted and/or closed questions. The&#xA;  no-deleted-questions criteria is to prevent people from asking several&#xA;  questions at once and deleting any that aren't upvoted or answered to&#xA;  ask another day. (Though this is a losing strategy in the long run.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly suggest reading that meta question to get the full details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T14:05:34.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3217" CreationDate="2014-10-20T22:16:51.497" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;How long will an account's &quot;recently deleted questions&quot; be kept? Will that be the same for all SE sites, or vary? I wish they are kept forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T22:31:14.770" Title="How long will &quot;recently deleted questions&quot; be kept?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3216" CreationDate="2014-10-20T22:31:14.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE just soft-delete (the post is there, just that isn't visible) all the posts, so they are kept in the databases forever. Now, in your &quot;recently deleted questions/answers&quot; that appears in your user profile, that will only be kept for 60 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T22:31:14.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-22T06:11:57.317" Score="5" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/163508/33055&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which has a specially highlighted comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qqzK8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wondered how these comments got added, as they didn't seem to be a result of flagging or heavy downvoting. Nor do I get the impression that it is the result of any of the comments added to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some searching I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/163508/33055&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on meta.stackexchange.com that explains the moderators can add &lt;strong&gt;banners&lt;/strong&gt;, and that there are several available. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/958/citation-needed-header/1082#1082&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; with rather strong arguments against this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to flag for moderator attention if I think such a banner is appropriate? Or is there another way?¹&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can some links or hover texts be added to these canned text like in the example (from the skeptics cite). So that it is more clear what is expected from the Answerer?²&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the poster get a notification that such a banner is added? If not they might never notice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;These &quot;bannered&quot; questions obviously need attention in the form of editing. The poster might not be the only one being able to do so. Is there a way to find these &quot;bannered&quot; items? There doesn't seem to be a list even on the 10K+ tools page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;That feels like calling 911, when I just want to reach my girlfriend when she is at work and has forgotten her mobile.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;² &lt;sub&gt;The text behind the link for &lt;code&gt;cite&lt;/code&gt; could explain the inclusion of links, but also the use of text of man pages, relative specific for our site.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T06:21:30.077" Title="Where does &quot;This post does not cite any references or sources&quot; come from" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3218" CreationDate="2014-10-22T06:21:30.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators have additional options where we can post notices. The notices are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;citation needed&lt;/strong&gt; - This post does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this post by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;current event&lt;/strong&gt; - Post is related to a rapidly changing event.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;insufficient explanation&lt;/strong&gt; - We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is right, ideally with citations. Answers that don't include explanations may be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I posted that notice because this particular user is new to the site and had posted several sub-par answers, and I wanted to draw further attention to them, to stop doing so, and to take additional time/effort to develop their answers more thoroughly before writing any further answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Your Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do I need to flag for moderator attention if I think such a banner is appropriate? Or is there another way?¹&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging our attention on these is sufficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Can some links or hover texts be added to these canned text like in the example (from the skeptics cite). So that it is more clear what is expected from the Answerer?²&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, they're canned messages and cannot be customized beyond what they're showing on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does the poster get a notification that such a banner is added? If not they might never notice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good question. I do not know if they get additional messaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;These &quot;bannered&quot; questions obviously need attention in the form of editing. The poster might not be the only one being able to do so. Is there a way to find these &quot;bannered&quot; items? There doesn't seem to be a list even on the 10K+ tools page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q's and A's that receive such banners need to be periodically expunged, manually, AFAIK. I only recently learned about these notices myself, and so do not plan to use them liberally, so I'm keeping a running list of Q's and A's where I've used them, and will go back and manually deal with them after a period of time has passed.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T06:21:30.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-24T01:09:06.063" Score="8" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want someone to lend me their shoulder to cry on, each time I see a question with the title like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Help me understand this command&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions normally don't attract good feedback. Most people, when facing these titles, just don't bother reading the rest of the question. The title is the elevator pitch of your question; if you put a bad title, people will 'meh' at your question and won't click it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are cases where, if you get the title &lt;em&gt;average&lt;/em&gt; and the question body wrong, people would edit it. Meanwhile, if you get the title wrong and the body too, they would just downvote/close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, please, make an effort to write descriptive and accurate titles. There are a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10647/213575&quot;&gt;bunch of guides&lt;/a&gt; of how to write a acceptable/good title. Read them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T03:21:22.780" Title="Write a good title!" Tags="|discussion|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3223" CreationDate="2014-10-24T17:18:44.107" Score="14" ViewCount="634" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked the following question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/163838/why-does-music-still-loop-when-my-pc-freezes?noredirect=1#comment268939_163838&quot;&gt;Why does music still loop, when my PC freezes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took care to make the question as specific as possible and to not ask for a lot of detail, as I wanted a short, not an in-depth explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was put on hold, as it appeared to be too broad. But I fail to see how it can be too broad, when I didn't ask for a lot of detail and presented a case, that seems to be universally present in many kinds of situations, indicating the same type of problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is not, then it is my lack of knowledge, because of which I am asking the question, that is preventing me from specifying it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to have some feedback on how I can improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: There was a comment made basically answering the question, already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88357" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T18:52:42.523" Title="Why do questions get put on hold, without a reason given?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3221" CreationDate="2014-10-24T17:57:56.413" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm the one that put it on hold, I thought the default reason was clear enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a variety of reasons as to why a system can lockup and/or freeze, but still have some aspects to it which appear to be working, such as, I'm still able to type or move the mouse around; but the system is otherwise unusable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For someone that's providing an answer to this question, they'd have to wade through a lot of assumptions to get to an explanation. These types of explanations are not really conductive to good Q&amp;amp;A content on SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, there are actually 2 reasons that I closed this question, that was the first. The second reason is this question is actually off topic since it doesn't have anything to do with Linux per se, and would probably be better suited to the Super User site in its current form. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I was hoping that you would expand it a bit, since I was assuming you had an actual Linux system, which would make it better suited here in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Your question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, the behavior you're seeing is indicative of how hardware is typically constructed with various sub-systems. These sub-systems give the illusion that a computer or electronic device is a single entity, but rather they're a multitude of sub-systems working together in concert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I were to write this as an answer to your question, it would've just led you to more questioning (which would've been off-topic of U&amp;amp;L) and wouldn't have been a very useful answer to future visitors either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T18:52:42.523" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T18:52:42.523" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3221" CreationDate="2014-10-24T17:58:32.093" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not close that question but I can hazard a guess as to why @slm did. Had he not done so I would have closed it myself. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing inherently wrong with it, it is just not a good fit for this site because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is too broad. There are many, many possible reasons why this kind of behavior can happen. We can't answer unless we know more about the specific case you want to solve. I realize you understand this and even pointed it out in your question, mentioning that you've seen it in other OSs and asking what a general answer might be. Which brings us to point 2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're asking about why a computer might behave this way irrespective of operating system, the question is no longer on topic here. We only deal with things that are specific to the behavior of *nix systems. As soon as you move on to the general case, you are no longer on topic. This kind of general computing question should be asked on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're asking why this happens on your machine under conditions X, the question is unanswerable and would be closed as &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot; since we don't have enough data to be able to troubleshoot the specific instance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, either your question is about a specific case in which case it is unclear (we don't have enough data to answer it) or you're asking why a *nix system could behave that way in which case it's too broad (there are loads of possible scenarios that could result in what you describe) or you are asking about the even more general case of why a computer could behave that way in which case it is off topic. In other words, danged if you do, danged if you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to edit your question to ask only about the fact that the sound loops and why. That might indeed be answerable (hint: the sound card's buffer holds the last few seconds and there is still an active process reading from that buffer despite the fact that the buffer's contents are no longer refreshed) but I would recommend Super User for it anyway. General computing questions of the type &quot;Why do computers behave in X way?&quot; can be on topic on Super User but they won't be here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if you felt you were being brushed off, I know the Stack Exchange sites get some getting used to but this type of strict adherence to the rules about what is and isn't off topic is a big part of the network's success. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T17:58:32.093" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3225" CreationDate="2014-10-25T00:05:36.280" Score="8" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't specify this anywhere on the Tour page and I cannot find a meta question that directly answers this question (if one exists, please direct me there). Are questions on SE (and *nix.SE in particular) expected to be in English? If so, is there a reason that &quot;Not in English&quot; is not a flag option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65525" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T20:08:43.203" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T20:08:43.203" Title="Are (original) posts expected to be in English?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3224" CreationDate="2014-10-25T00:20:05.733" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this meta post on the topic. Yes only English is allowed. If posts are in anything other than English they should be either translated by the OP or closed/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13676/do-posts-have-to-be-in-english-on-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Do posts have to be in English on Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*excerpted the highest UV'd answer there - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow Trilogy has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot;&gt;official policy on non-English questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is not, nor has it ever been, our goal to be the one place in the&#xA;  world for all programming information in every possible human&#xA;  language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Direct question posters to native language resources. It is not the&#xA;    community's goal to teach English. The question asker should put some&#xA;    effort into the question. As long as the question is in salvageable&#xA;    English and makes some modicum of sense, it should be edited and&#xA;    improved like any other post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T00:20:05.733" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3226" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-25T21:19:19.813" Score="22" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we've reopened this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/163639/git-linux-kernel-and-ticketing-bug-reporting&quot;&gt;Git, Linux kernel and ticketing/bug-reporting&lt;/a&gt; - and I'd like to help it get as thorough an answer as possible. I've been adding links to resources that I'd like to get incorporated into the eventual answer, but I feel that among the community that I'm aware of, that we're just ill equipped to do it justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm asking within our ranks if anyone of us knows personally any of the actual developers that are at least a lieutenant to Linus or a level below? I feel without one of these people's input, this question is going to languish and not get as solid an answer as it could possibly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions are important from a nostalgia &amp;amp; morale point of view to our community, and the broader Linux community; as well as showing how something as complicated as the Linux kernel can be developed by such a broad community of developers, and for so long a period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who knows any one that can help us to knock this question's answer out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd be willing to make a sizable bounty payment to get a high ranking person to help capture this important information for our site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T21:19:19.813" Title="History of Linux kernel development question, what's next?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3228" CreationDate="2014-10-26T15:58:39.070" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;My review notification screen currently tells me that there are &lt;strong&gt;4 total items awaiting reviews&lt;/strong&gt; as seen in this below screenshot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8AKSZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after I go to the review queue, I could see that there are no items awaiting review and it is empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is happening quite frequently and it is not getting refreshed periodically. That is, the notification gives me some number greater than 0 even if the review queue is empty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something that could be done regarding this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T16:30:09.250" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T07:12:37.973" Title="review queue notification not getting refreshed" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3227" CreationDate="2014-10-26T16:03:09.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This indicator is shown &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; to moderators and users who've &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;gained access to the moderator tools&lt;/a&gt;. As such, it behaves in keeping with the design of those tools:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you poke around in /tools, you'll quickly notice that most of what's found there isn't directly actionable - it's informational! What you do with that information is up to you: hopefully, you've been around long enough now that you have some idea of how you want the site to be run, and are able to make good use of the information presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you're being given a birds-eye view of the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; state of review. It's one thing for the majority of reviewers to plow through their own tasks and move on, but &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; needs to keep an eye on things to make sure &lt;strong&gt;stuff is actually getting done.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that number is high or growing, then there's a problem. I've heard this lament from many different sites over the past year: &amp;quot;I do all I can, but there aren't enough of us and it just doesn't seem to have any effect!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is happening on your site, if that number is getting &lt;em&gt;bigger&lt;/em&gt; in spite of everything you do... Then it's time to raise a call for action. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251175/stack-overflow-is-not-yet-a-vast-wasteland-a-history-of-moderator-tooling&quot;&gt;Don't wait for the cruft to clog the streets&lt;/a&gt; before getting folks organized to clean it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if it's staying steady at a reasonably-small number (and chances are, you know what &amp;quot;reasonably small&amp;quot; means for your site better than I do), then there's nothing to worry about. In fact, you can probably skip clicking on it entirely unless or until it &lt;em&gt;changes&lt;/em&gt;, and get along just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/191638/notify-users-of-possible-reviews-on-toolbar&quot;&gt;Notify users of possible reviews on toolbar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/230802/213575&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/230802/213575&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T16:03:09.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3227" CreationDate="2014-10-26T16:09:03.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought this number indicated the items that needed reviewing, not necessarily the ones that &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; could review. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference lies in the fact that there can be items that you already have reviewed and need additional reviews (e.g. to get the required to 5 close votes), as well as first posts that you already reviewed in the late-answer or some other queue (and vice versa).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever see two different queues with items to review, and review an item in one queue only to find the other queue is empty directly afterwards, is is often because of you no longer being eligible to review this item, and not because someone else cleaned out the other queue. You can look in the history of the queues to get confirmation for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T07:12:37.973" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T07:12:37.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3237" CreationDate="2014-10-27T13:59:04.527" Score="13" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/164432/89316&quot;&gt;Why is the result of this for and while loop different? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt; (and that's just an example), I've voted to close the question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But because of my reputation on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; tag, that question has been closed straight away with the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Users with the [shell] gold badge can single-handedly mark [shell] questions as duplicates&quot;&lt;/em&gt; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like it for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not aware of all the questions posted around here. I know (and sometimes manage to remember) about the ones I've answered, so that's the ones I will typically suggest as duplicate. There may be better ones. So there's an unfair bias here toward high-rep users I'd say.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When I click &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt;, I do mean &lt;em&gt;suggest to close&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;vote to close&lt;/em&gt;. I like that being reviewed by others, including the OP who may want to edit the question to clarify why his question is different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When I see &lt;em&gt;&quot;Closed by John Doe&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, my reaction is &lt;em&gt;&quot;Who's that John Doe, who does he think he is?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, while when I see &lt;em&gt;&quot;Closed by John Doe, user2, user3, user4...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, even if I don't agree, my reaction is &lt;em&gt;&quot;fair enough, it's been closed through a democratic process by several people who cared to consider the relevance of the question&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know which tags I have a &lt;em&gt;gold&lt;/em&gt; badge for, nor want to have to check what were the original tags in the question, so I don't know when &quot;close&quot; is a &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; or a &lt;em&gt;vote to close&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Unix.SE, that's aggravated by the fact that half the questions are initially tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;, while most of the time, they're really about neither, but more about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;files&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some are re-tagged properly, and that means the original tag (like &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; (I don't even use that shell and I've got a gold badge on that!)) is no longer visible, which makes the UI even more misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That example above is quite typical. The question was a FAQ, it's a very common issue. I've seen countless similar questions on usenet, and a few on SE as well. It's a shell question, but it's a problem caused by &lt;code&gt;ssh&lt;/code&gt;, so tags don't help. Searching for them is not easy. I've &lt;em&gt;voted&lt;/em&gt; to close as a duplicate of the first one I found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there a way to relinquish one's right to close questions single-handedly (other than by creating a separate user as I just did)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, could the interface please be changed so the &quot;close&quot; link becomes a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;close!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; one, or some other way like a different colour or confirmation dialog to make it clear that the question is going to be single-handedly closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T07:48:23.980" Title="How does one relinquish his/her right to close questions without review?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2014-10-27T15:45:22.463" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't like it because the normal vote-to-close behavior tricks you into thinking your opinion is worth less than it really is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a trick. &lt;strong&gt;Your opinion is worth a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding duplicates is hard. You have to know what to search for, and then know enough about the topic to say whether the results match what's being asked. &lt;em&gt;No one&lt;/em&gt; has complete knowledge of every question asked - the chance that you'll know of a suitable original upon viewing a newly-asked duplicate are slim, which is why search is built into the close UI and why the selections of previous voters (or flaggers) are visible by default. In practice, most folks who aren't the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; voter don't bother seeking out duplicates unless the one previously chosen was &lt;strong&gt;blatantly&lt;/strong&gt; wrong... and sometimes not even then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you might make a mistake. You're probably better equipped to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; make mistakes than most of the people here, but to err is human. You were probably &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; making the occasional mistake... To date, you've cast 149 close votes here, and 114 have directly resulted in the questions being closed. One was later reopened. An additional 22 were later closed after your vote aged. You're not perfect, but you're doing far better at getting it right than the system is at preventing you from getting it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; make a mistake, there are still checks: others can vote to reopen, and there's a review queue for that too. If someone finds a better duplicate, they can just edit a link in - no harm done. And if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; realize you've erred, you can reopen such questions with a single vote as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent here is to speed things up when there's a pretty good chance you're right - not to make it harder to correct on those rare occasions when you're not. So continue focusing on doing the best you can, and be ready to admit it if you happen to make a mistake. That's all that's asked of anyone... Regardless of the weight of their votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T15:45:22.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-27T17:25:25.733" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were several grumpy users in chat talking about how boring or outright bad questions are the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tagged questions. One of the most pushed ideas was that text processing questions should include an attempt to get the desired output, the input, and the output (I think I got it right). Should we give a more detailed guidance to people asking these questions? If &quot;yes&quot;, what would be a good, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/242355/213575&quot;&gt;specific&lt;/a&gt; guidance text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T21:09:23.567" Title="Should we add tag tips for the [text-processing] tag" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tag-tips|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3233" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-10-27T17:56:19.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xvXIT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Picture of a tag tip&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally implemented for Stack Overflow; see &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/274632/help-the-helpless-with-how-to-ask-tag-tips/274634#274634&quot;&gt;Help the helpless with how-to-ask tag tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T17:56:19.607" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T17:56:19.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3234" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-10-27T17:56:19.607" Score="0" Body="Use to propose adding or changing tag-specific help messages shown when asking a question that explain how to ask a good question in the specific tag." OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T17:56:19.607" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T17:56:19.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3232" CreationDate="2014-10-27T18:04:30.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked the 5 most recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164437/extract-multiple-lines-from-text-file&quot;&gt;Extract multiple lines from text file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164359/how-to-update-files-based-on-another-file&quot;&gt;How to update three CSV files based on a fourth file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164346/extract-and-format-data-with-cut-and-awk&quot;&gt;Extract and format data with `cut` and `awk`&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164207/insert-missing-string-in-multiple-ordered-columns&quot;&gt;Insert missing string in multiple ordered columns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164136/convert-xml-to-sql-insert-statements-using-the-command-line&quot;&gt;Convert XML to SQL INSERT statements using the command line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those, only &quot;Insert missing string in multiple ordered columns&quot; was &lt;em&gt;asked&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;. So its OP is the only one who would have seen the tag tip. Its OP is also the one who most clearly doesn't need it, having given a properly formatting question with example input and output and even links to three other questions already reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think it'd not really help...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T18:49:23.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3232" CreationDate="2014-10-27T21:09:23.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to admit my culpability in retagging at least three of the questions that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3235/6761&quot;&gt;derobert mentions&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is twofold: one, each of the questions I retagged was fundamentally about processing text and, two, consistent tagging allows people to follow tags, or in the case of the disgruntled chat people, ignore them. The latter case is why I also assiduously retag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of addressing the problem, perceived or otherwise, I suspect that the type of questions that arouse the ire of the chat denizens, and justifiably so in the majority of these cases, are not asked by people inclined to read tag tips, the help centre or anything else that is going to convince them to think &lt;em&gt;a little&lt;/em&gt; harder before pasting their questions into the text field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason, short of adopting a more decriptive tag (eg., &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rubbish&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rubbish&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rubbish&lt;/a&gt;) for everyone to ignore, simple editing triage seems the most effective approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T21:09:23.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2014-10-28T05:03:20.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the system doesn't warn you or allows you to relinquish the right to close &quot;immediately&quot; there are at least two things you could consider to do, for the tags you have a gold badge for right now and for any future ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit the appropriate tag descriptions and insert a warning that alerts the person applying the tag, with an appropriate text that there is a member with a gold badge that might close posts, with this tag, with one stroke.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Install &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; and in it the script at the bottom of this post to make the UI less misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It highlights &quot;close&quot; in red, for any question that has a tag matching the list passed in with &lt;code&gt;check_tags()&lt;/code&gt;. It does so both while reviewing, as when just browsing posts. The review page loads the actual post per AJAX, that is why the &lt;code&gt;waitForKeyElements&lt;/code&gt; is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would still have the tedious job of adapting the script &lt;strong&gt;every time&lt;/strong&gt; for each new, tag related, gold badge. But fortunately you only have to do that once per tag. If that becomes too heavy a burden on your time you might consider parsing your badge information and updating the script automatically (once per day or more frequent as necessary). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        Highlight close&#xA;// @namespace   http://ruamel.eu&#xA;// @description Highlight close for posts with specific tags&#xA;// @match       http://*.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @match       http://*.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @version     1&#xA;// @grant       none&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;function highlight_close() {&#xA;  var elem = document.querySelector('.close-question-link');&#xA;  if (elem != '') {&#xA;    elem.style.color = 'red';&#xA;  }&#xA;  var elems = document.querySelectorAll('input');&#xA;  for (var i = 0; i &amp;lt; elems.length; i++) {&#xA;    if (elems[i].value == 'Close') {&#xA;       elems[i].style.backgroundColor = 'red';&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;function check_tags(tags) {&#xA;  var posttags = document.querySelectorAll('a.post-tag');&#xA;  for (var i = 0; i &amp;lt; posttags.length; i++) {&#xA;    for (var j = 0; j &amp;lt; tags.length; j++) {&#xA;      if (posttags[i].text == tags[j]) {&#xA;        highlight_close();&#xA;        return;&#xA;      }&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;function wait_check_tags(jNode) {&#xA;check_tags(['shell', 'bash']);   /* &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; extend here */&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;/* https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BrockA/2625891/raw/waitForKeyElements.js */&#xA;/*--- waitForKeyElements():  A utility function, for Greasemonkey scripts,&#xA;    that detects and handles AJAXed content.&#xA;&#xA;    Usage example:&#xA;&#xA;        waitForKeyElements (&#xA;            &quot;div.comments&quot;&#xA;            , commentCallbackFunction&#xA;        );&#xA;&#xA;        //--- Page-specific function to do what we want when the node is found.&#xA;        function commentCallbackFunction (jNode) {&#xA;            jNode.text (&quot;This comment changed by waitForKeyElements().&quot;);&#xA;        }&#xA;&#xA;    IMPORTANT: This function requires your script to have loaded jQuery.&#xA;*/&#xA;function waitForKeyElements (&#xA;    selectorTxt,    /* Required: The jQuery selector string that&#xA;                        specifies the desired element(s).&#xA;                    */&#xA;    actionFunction, /* Required: The code to run when elements are&#xA;                        found. It is passed a jNode to the matched&#xA;                        element.&#xA;                    */&#xA;    bWaitOnce,      /* Optional: If false, will continue to scan for&#xA;                        new elements even after the first match is&#xA;                        found.&#xA;                    */&#xA;    iframeSelector  /* Optional: If set, identifies the iframe to&#xA;                        search.&#xA;                    */&#xA;) {&#xA;    var targetNodes, btargetsFound;&#xA;&#xA;    if (typeof iframeSelector == &quot;undefined&quot;)&#xA;        targetNodes     = $(selectorTxt);&#xA;    else&#xA;        targetNodes     = $(iframeSelector).contents ()&#xA;                                           .find (selectorTxt);&#xA;&#xA;    if (targetNodes  &amp;amp;&amp;amp;  targetNodes.length &amp;gt; 0) {&#xA;        btargetsFound   = true;&#xA;        /*--- Found target node(s).  Go through each and act if they&#xA;            are new.&#xA;        */&#xA;        targetNodes.each ( function () {&#xA;            var jThis        = $(this);&#xA;            var alreadyFound = jThis.data ('alreadyFound')  ||  false;&#xA;&#xA;            if (!alreadyFound) {&#xA;                //--- Call the payload function.&#xA;                var cancelFound     = actionFunction (jThis);&#xA;                if (cancelFound)&#xA;                    btargetsFound   = false;&#xA;                else&#xA;                    jThis.data ('alreadyFound', true);&#xA;            }&#xA;        } );&#xA;    }&#xA;    else {&#xA;        btargetsFound   = false;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    //--- Get the timer-control variable for this selector.&#xA;    var controlObj      = waitForKeyElements.controlObj  ||  {};&#xA;    var controlKey      = selectorTxt.replace (/[^\w]/g, &quot;_&quot;);&#xA;    var timeControl     = controlObj [controlKey];&#xA;&#xA;    //--- Now set or clear the timer as appropriate.&#xA;    if (btargetsFound  &amp;amp;&amp;amp;  bWaitOnce  &amp;amp;&amp;amp;  timeControl) {&#xA;        //--- The only condition where we need to clear the timer.&#xA;        clearInterval (timeControl);&#xA;        delete controlObj [controlKey]&#xA;    }&#xA;    else {&#xA;        //--- Set a timer, if needed.&#xA;        if ( ! timeControl) {&#xA;            timeControl = setInterval ( function () {&#xA;                    waitForKeyElements (    selectorTxt,&#xA;                                            actionFunction,&#xA;                                            bWaitOnce,&#xA;                                            iframeSelector&#xA;                                        );&#xA;                },&#xA;                300&#xA;            );&#xA;            controlObj [controlKey] = timeControl;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    waitForKeyElements.controlObj   = controlObj;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;waitForKeyElements('div.user-info', wait_check_tags, true);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T12:08:24.217" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T12:08:24.217" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2014-10-30T07:48:23.980" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick Survey&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Do you think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dupehammer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dupehammer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dupehammer&lt;/a&gt; handling is not ideal and should be improved&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;upvote&lt;/strong&gt; if you agree&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;downvote&lt;/strong&gt; if you think it's as good as it will ever get and/or is not worth improving.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do nothing if you don't care either way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T07:48:23.980" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-10-30T07:48:23.980" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-30T07:59:15.137" Score="3" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see, I receive two identical newsletter e-mails at a time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8FVGn.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been subscribed for two weeks, and both times I got two identical e-mails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87832" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-10-30T14:28:06.597" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T14:28:06.597" Title="Why does the newsletter come doubled?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2014-11-03T09:52:42.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been putting some history questions per-se as well. Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/165582/can-somebody-list-the-earliest-public-source-code-repositories-and-when-they-ope&quot;&gt;Can somebody list the earliest public source-code repositories and when they opened?&lt;/a&gt; and if possible open it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T09:52:42.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-03T10:00:30.707" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite browser is Mozilla Firefox and it works fabulously on most of the stackexchange sites but somehow that does not work in meta, i.e. the profile does not get transferred and I remain as a person without either being able to sign up or able to login. I am able to use the chat as well in stackexchange without any issues. Looking forward for some solution. Please see &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/snOW5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Login page&quot;&gt; . I am running Iceweasel 31.1.0 . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Anthon I tried using the link &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt; but get this :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The page isn't redirecting properly&#xA;&#xA;Iceweasel has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.&#xA;&#xA;    This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@slm I tried clearing history but still no change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clueless, what to do next other than continue using chromium for talking on meta :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: umm... I think I got the issue but dunno how to clear it up. I see this on the CLI if I start iceweasel via CLI and try to do the above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;HTTPS Everywhere: Redirection loop trying to set HTTPS on:&#xA;  http://unix.stackexchange.com/users/login?returnurl=https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&#xA;(falling back to HTTP)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So seems it has to do with the ruleset of https anywhere with meta.unix.stackexchange.com. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the ruleset in HTTPS Everywhere as it now :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ruleset name=&quot;Stack Exchange (mixed content)&quot; platform=&quot;mixedcontent&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;stackexchange.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;*.stackexchange.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;securecookie host=&quot;\.stackexchange\.com$&quot; name=&quot;.+&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://(\w+\.)?stackexchange\.com/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://$1stackexchange.com/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ruleset&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where one can find more info. about httpseverywhere and how rulesets are made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a bigger ruleset as well called stackexchange (partial) as well. Both rulesets are xml files :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!--&#xA;    Other Stack Exchange rulesets:&#xA;&#xA;        - Ask_Ubuntu.com.xml&#xA;        - MathOverflow.net.xml&#xA;        - Server_Fault.com.xml&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    Nonfunctional domains:&#xA;&#xA;        - chat.stackexchange.com    (mixed content)&#xA;        - meta.*.stackexchange.com      (mismatched, CN: *.stackexchange.com)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    Problematic domains:&#xA;&#xA;        - www.stackapps.com *&#xA;&#xA;    * Mismatched&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    Fully covered domains:&#xA;&#xA;        - cdn-chat.sstatic.com&#xA;            - *.stackexchange.com&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    Mixed content:&#xA;&#xA;        - css on chat.stackexchange.com from cdn-chat.sstatic.net *&#xA;&#xA;        - Images on chat.stackexchange.com, from:&#xA;&#xA;            - www.gravatar.com *&#xA;            - i.stack.imgur.com *&#xA;            - cdn.sstatic.net *&#xA;&#xA;        - Web bugs on *.stackexchange.com from pixel.quantserve.com *&#xA;&#xA;    * Secured by us&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    As of Dec., 2013, stackexchange has a cert valid for:&#xA;&#xA;        - *.stackexchange.com&#xA;        - stackexchange.com&#xA;        - meta.stackexchange.com&#xA;        - *.meta.stackexchange.com&#xA;        - *.stackoverflow.com&#xA;        - stackoverflow.com&#xA;        - serverfault.com&#xA;        - stackauth.com&#xA;        - sstatic.net&#xA;        - meta.serverfault.com&#xA;        - superuser.com&#xA;        - meta.superuser.com&#xA;        - stackapps.com&#xA;        - openid.stackauth.com&#xA;&#xA;--&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;ruleset name=&quot;Stack Exchange (partial)&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;blogoverflow.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;www.blogoverflow.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;sstatic.net&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;*.sstatic.net&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;stackapps.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;www.stackapps.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;stackexchange.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;*.stackexchange.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;exclusion pattern=&quot;^http://(?:\w+\.)?stackexchange\.com/search\?&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;exclusion pattern=&quot;^http://chat\.stackexchange\.com/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;exclusion pattern=&quot;^http://(?:\w+\.)?(stackexchange|stackoverflow)\.com/users/authenticate/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;*.stackoverflow.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;app.stacktack.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;superuser.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;target host=&quot;*.superuser.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;securecookie host=&quot;^\.sstatic\.net$&quot; name=&quot;.+&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;securecookie host=&quot;\.stackexchange\.com$&quot; name=&quot;.+&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://(?:www\.)?blogoverflow\.com/$&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/blogs&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://(?:(or\.)?cdn\.)?sstatic\.net/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://$1cdn.sstatic.net/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://cdn-chat\.sstatic\.net/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://cdn-chat.sstatic.net/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://(?:www\.)?stackapps\.com/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://stackapps.com/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://(\w+\.)?stackexchange\.com/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://$1stackexchange.com/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^https://(\w+\.)?stackexchange\.com/search\?&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;http://$1stackexchange.com/search?&quot;&#xA;    downgrade=&quot;1&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://(www\.|meta\.|careers\.)?stackoverflow\.com/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://$1stackoverflow.com/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://app\.stacktack\.com/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://s3.amazonaws.com/stacktackapp/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;rule from=&quot;^http://(www\.|meta\.)?superuser\.com/&quot;&#xA;        to=&quot;https://$1superuser.com/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ruleset&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/rulesets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/rulesets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T15:38:33.763" Title="Have to use chromium to ask questions on meta" Tags="|bug|meta|usability|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3242" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-03T13:40:00.200" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some new users that just scroll through the tour and get the 'informed' badge, and then start using the site in, what I think, is the wrong way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post a poorly asked question; it gets put on hold/closed as unclear what you asking; they repost the same or a slightly reworded question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post a concise question which however is only a small part of the things the OP cannot fix; it gets one or more answers; the OP decides that doesn't completely solve their problem, so they extend the question, invalidating the answers.¹&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the first post these questions don't show up in the &lt;code&gt;First Posts&lt;/code&gt; review queue, and not necessarily &quot;Low Quality&quot; posts, so it usually depends on someone remembering that the same OP posted similar or related questions on an earlier date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on any of the following:²&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;low average reputation per question asked so far&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvotes on X percent of questions asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on hold/closed questions in the last Y days that the OP did not try to get reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;low participation (acceptance of answers, votes cast)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can new questions by OPs fulfilling these criteria, either be be put in the First Posts queue, or put in some new queue that and be shown in some more context (links to the other, closed, questions). The OP should be notified that (s)he is in extended review mode and why that is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And additionally can these users maybe be prompted to take a small quiz that shows they understand the operations of the site and as long as they fail the test are not allowed to post new questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am all for initial faith in people doing the right thing, but I think a system response against initial misuse, recognised based on published criteria, works better than some user notifying and complaining in comments to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;And in the process might just ignore formatting and spelling improvements on their original post (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/165652/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/165652/revisions&lt;/a&gt; rev 2-3)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;² &lt;sub&gt;There might be more, also relevant, criteria&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T17:19:37.467" Title="Can we get some more system help checking on new users?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3241" CreationDate="2014-11-03T15:38:33.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is the same as given on &lt;a href=&quot;https://tor.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/tor-browser-can-only-access-se-meta-sites-if-i-disable-https-everywhere-entirely&quot;&gt;https://tor.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/tor-browser-can-only-access-se-meta-sites-if-i-disable-https-everywhere-entirely&lt;/a&gt; specifically &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tor.meta.stackexchange.com/a/215/3547&quot;&gt;https://tor.meta.stackexchange.com/a/215/3547&lt;/a&gt; . This is the right way to do it. Having to remember to do it each time would be a pain though :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:52:15.280" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T15:38:33.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3245" CreationDate="2014-11-04T05:05:48.107" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I abstract my problem, I post it very quickly before thinking twice. After looking at answers from others, I realize that my phrasing may mislead other people, so I have to change it often according to people's feedback. As a result, my little reputation will be decreased, and the question will be voted down. Of course it is my fault that I did not ask a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really appreciate their help and want give them more of a reward. However, as a beginner, I can not vote up their answer except accepting it. Is there any method or feature to help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Feature request&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be some privileges granted to beginners that are revoked when you're not a beginner anymore.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be two categories of privilege: one for privileges at a certain reputation level that you lose if your reputation drops below that level, and one for privileges that are never lost once acquired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87568" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2014-11-04T05:10:24.597" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T15:47:33.167" Title="Make some privileges permanent once acquired" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3244" CreationDate="2014-11-04T08:23:34.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is necessary to make (some) privileges permanent. They are, except for users with very low reputation, rather difficult to lose, as losing reputation is not that easy, both in theory and in practise (as on this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you lost your privileges, and I see that as an exception (from my observation visiting the site, not from statistics). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all let me say that that when the other members of a site let a user lose reputation, that doesn't mean a user is a bad person, or that that user doens't have valid questions. It is primarily a means of telling that user that something is wrong with their contribution to this site, either with regards to the content of their questions/answers, or by their use of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reputation levels for priviliges and reputation change&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the help page the privilege changes are at 5, 10, 15, 20, 50, 75 100, 125, 250, 300, 500, 1000, 2000, 2500, 3000, 5000, 10000, 20000 reputation points. The &quot;normal&quot; reputation gain is by upvoted question (+5), upvoted answer (+10), accepted answer (+15) and the &quot;normal&quot; reputation loss is through downvoted question (-2), downvoted answer (-2).¹ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So normally if a question is dubious, and the same number people vote as vote down, the OP still comes out ahead 3 points for every up-down pair of voters.&#xA;That however is not the whole picture. If someone upvoted your question and decides to down vote it, the nett difference is 7 points. The system only allows a &quot;voter&quot; to do that if the question has changed.² &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practise, if you don't edit your question except for cosmetics, voters on this site don't retract their upvote or change it to a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the reputation level sequence shows, the more reputation you have the less likely it is that you loose a privilege (as the gaps between there where your rep can &quot;move about&quot; becomes larger).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users who answer a question are more than average likely to have read and upvote that question. And since a reworked question, invalidates their answer and the effort they put into that&amp;mdash;with the additional chance of a retracted votes or downvotes on their answer because it doesn't answer the question in the post&amp;mdash;they are more likely to retract/change their upvote on the question than others. So this compounds the effect a radical change of a question will have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How to get and keep your upvotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a new users concentrates on his/her questions to be clear and concise, by stating both the context of the larger goal and the immediate problem, there is less necessity of correcting the question and that minimizes the chances of the -5 or -7 rep change with retracted or changed upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are already a response that answers the question, even if that doesn't solve the real problem, the OP should not further change the questions meaning, even if they realise it did not solve their problem. Certainly not if that question was upvoted and thus someone indicated that the question, as it was at that time, was valuable. If the OP realises there is a different problem, than there is room for a different question (with more chances for upvotes). To prevent closure as duplicate the OP should refer to the other question and clearly state what is the difference &lt;em&gt;and for the second question give some extra thought about why the first didn't answer the real problem, so there is no need for a third related question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets downvoted before any answers appear, an OP can consider to close it, and think about how to improve it (or search some more for duplicates), often, but unfortunately not always, comments might be of help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Facit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the above steps it is relatively easy to prevent retracted/changed votes and get out of the danger zone of loosing a privilege. Normal downvotes' (not reversed upvotes) effect on rep (-2) are so small, that this is far less likely to be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the incentive, of trying to keep privileges, as an extra motivation, beyond reputation alone, to make and keep questions (and answers) clear and relevant and worthy of other peoples upvote. And with that in mind, I see no reason to make (some) privileges permanent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;There are other reasons for rep gain and loss, but involving them do not add to the argument&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;² &lt;sub&gt;The same holds for downvoting a previously upvoted answer, the difference there is 12 rep points&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-11-04T15:47:33.167" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T15:47:33.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-07T02:38:54.100" Score="13" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another user asked me in the comments section to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/166186/22222&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; here why I combined so many approaches in a single answer. This made me realize we don't seem to have a clear consensus on if and when it is proper to post multiple answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this thread on the main meta:&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25209/what-is-the-official-etiquette-on-answering-a-question-twice&quot;&gt;What is the official etiquette on answering a question twice?&lt;/a&gt; where the top voted answer suggests that different approaches should be posted as different answers. Others, namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/25211/203101&quot;&gt;@JeffAttwood&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/204005/203101&quot;&gt;@Gilles&lt;/a&gt;, suggest that as a general rule it's better to post a single answer, providing the different approaches in one place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do we, the U&amp;amp;L community feel about this? When is it OK to post multiple answers to the same question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T19:54:56.317" Title="When should I post multiple answers to a question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3247" CreationDate="2014-11-07T05:32:04.727" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is commendable where people in the community have the knowledge&amp;mdash;and the willingness to share it&amp;mdash;to include multiple approaches to solving a problem; for example, by providing solutions in more than one language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does this provide the original question asker with more options for them in addressing their specific issue, but it makes the wiki a much richer resource for those that discover the question through search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the community's point of view, it is also incredibly instructive to see how so many really knowledgeable people would solve different problems with an array of tools or approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal preference would be that, rather than submitting multiple answers, you post a single answer with the different approaches clearly delineated (and, ideally, some commentary on the merits of one over the other, if it makes sense to do so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T05:32:04.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3247" CreationDate="2014-11-07T12:09:25.650" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My approach to &quot;when to post multiple answers...&quot; (something I've done myself a few times) is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I have multiple approaches that tackle the problem in different ways and all of the various approaches have pros and cons.  Then I post the multiple answers and let the community vote and comment on the approaches.  This has proved effective in helping me hone in on the best answer from the multiple that I have thought of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10043" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T12:09:25.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3220" CreationDate="2014-11-09T03:21:22.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll summarize the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/how-do-i-write-a-good-title/10648#10648&quot;&gt;most important points&lt;/a&gt; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Identify the question&lt;/strong&gt;. There can't be two questions with the same title; your title does have to mention what's unique about the question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Bad: “need help in making script”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Good: “List files based on the date and time in the file name”  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep it short&lt;/strong&gt;. The full details belong in the question body. Lead with the most important words: readers' attention drops as the title gets longer. Avoid useless verbiage like “how do I …”, “command to …”.&#xA;Bad: “Are there disadvantages/consequences to adding scheduled tasks directly to /etc/crontab instead of using the crontab command?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Good: “System crontab or root crontab”  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make it meaningful&lt;/strong&gt;. A title should be a sentence or a noun phrase, not a jumble of keywords.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Bad: “delete folders read/write permisions”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Good: “Delete a directory under Cryptkeeper without access to its account”  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A title doesn't have to be a full sentence, and it doesn't have to be phrased as a question (see “keep it short”). The title is a title for the whole thread.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T03:21:22.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-15T02:01:40.863" Score="7" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to  trying to get &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85249/why-not-use-which-what-to-use-then&quot;&gt;Why not use &amp;quot;which&amp;quot;? What to use then?&lt;/a&gt; to show up in the search and I searched for title:which* and it is not turning up. Needless to say, title:which and title:*which* doesn't work either although the latter works literally which suggests that the wildcards don't work in titles? Is there a way to get them to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26979" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T01:32:18.490" Title="Using wildcards in the title operator" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3252" CreationDate="2014-11-15T03:34:17.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my trials, wildcards simply do not work when using &lt;code&gt;title:&lt;/code&gt;. For a demonstration try searching for &lt;code&gt;title:char*cter&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to be an issue that's been known about for at least a year. I found this meta highlighting the exact same issue as yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/195083/allow-wildcard-in-title-search&quot;&gt;Allow wildcard in title search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also go directly to the API and use this page to query the site directly, but it will fail in the same way, mainly in that &lt;code&gt;title:&lt;/code&gt; simply cannot handle wildcards, only literal strings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search#order=desc&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;title=why%20not%20use&amp;amp;filter=default&amp;amp;site=unix&amp;amp;run=true&quot;&gt;result searching for &quot;Why not use&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Alternatives&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally don't use the SE search unless I'm looking for something specific that I know I wrote up or Gilles, or some other user by name. So I often do &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;user:885&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;user:22565&lt;/code&gt;. I'll occasionally use our tags, but more times than not I'm using Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, searching for that &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt; question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aunix.stackexchange.com%20%22which*%22&amp;amp;oq=site%3Aunix.stackexchange.com%20%22which*%22&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.11877j0j7&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;es_sm=93&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;site:unix.stackexchange.com &quot;which*&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows it as the 7th result. If you can remember &quot;not use which&quot; you can get it as the 1st result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?num=30&amp;amp;es_sm=93&amp;amp;q=site%3Aunix.stackexchange.com%20%22not%20use%20which%22&amp;amp;oq=site%3Aunix.stackexchange.com%20%22not%20use%20which%22&amp;amp;gs_l=serp.3...44411.46534.0.47452.10.9.1.0.0.0.96.672.8.8.0.msedrc...0...1c.1.58.serp..10.0.0.NTyeNlQ_Ktg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;site:unix.stackexchange.com &quot;not use which&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T03:43:35.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3256" CreationDate="2014-11-18T23:14:43.410" Score="31" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; We're in for the hats this year. We just submitted the form!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last year, Stack Exchange ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2013.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Winter Bash 2013&lt;/a&gt;, in which users earned hats which they proudly displayed upon their gravatar. There was a leaderboard of hatters, mad or not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8CNLP.png&quot; alt=&quot;2013 top hat wearers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's that time of the year again and we get to choose whether we want to do it again this year. Hats are enabled on a per-site basis, but each site has to opt-in and choose to participate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are hats, I hear you ask. Well, hats are kinda like ephemeral badges. You can choose to have one displayed over your avatar and you win them by certain actions on the webpage. Users can turn off hats on a per-user basis, so if you're against them for any reason, you can disable the feature and not see your hats nor those of the users who have opted in. As far as you are concerned, the hats will not exist.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we choose to accept, the event will run from 15 December 2014 to 4 January 2015. After that, all the hats go away into Last Year's Hat Bin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to decide if we want hats by December 1. So, do we like hats or hate hats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T09:14:20.870" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:14:20.870" Title="Do we like hats?" Tags="|discussion|winterbash-2014|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3252" CreationDate="2014-11-19T01:32:18.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt; is in quotes in the title: . I think there's some oddity (quite possibly a bug) where the indexer stores &lt;code&gt;&quot;which&quot;&lt;/code&gt; (including the quotes) but the search query parser strips punctuation and passes &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt; with no quotes to the backend. Wildcards don't help because they can't be combined with the &lt;code&gt;title:&lt;/code&gt; operator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would edit the quotes out of the title, except that because “which” is a syntactically highly meaningful word in English, it would make the sentence hard to parse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to find this question is to navigate to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/which&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;which&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;which&lt;/a&gt; tag, which you can reach by typing &lt;code&gt;[which]&lt;/code&gt; as a search query. That question is the top-voted one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is also linked from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/which&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;which&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;which&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T01:32:18.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3254" CreationDate="2014-11-19T01:54:12.187" Score="47" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, of course we want hats!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be a hater, be a hatter!&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://communitybuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/a/192/90&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think the more important question is:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hatter#The_Hatter.27s_riddle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why is a raven like a writing desk?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28893" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:51:13.837" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T01:54:12.187" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3254" CreationDate="2014-11-19T03:04:10.143" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No to the hats!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let the avatars be free, unencumbered by the headware of lollygaggers and poppinjays...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T03:04:10.143" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3260" CreationDate="2014-11-21T23:09:10.657" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/169334/search-for-an-user-name-in-file-and-output-the-users-phone-number&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; was a question asked by a new user and there was not enough details provided by the OP in the original question. So, I asked for a clarification from the user in the comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/169334/search-for-an-user-name-in-file-and-output-the-users-phone-number#comment279004_169334&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I did not want to discourage the new user and wanted him to show what he had tried thus far so that he could get all the help that he needs. The OP too responded &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/169334/search-for-an-user-name-in-file-and-output-the-users-phone-number#comment279005_169334&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; saying he will post what he tried. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in the mean time, he got an answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/169339/47538&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This invalidates all the comments exchanged earlier and basically the OP gets what he needs without sparing much of his effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want the new users to feel at ease here but at the same time want them to show some effort on their part. From the OP's perspective, this is a completely new forum to them and we do not expect the question to be perfect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at least can we wait till the OP responds back showing some genuine effort before starting to answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T03:35:32.953" Title="How can we encourage users not to post answers to a new OP question until we get all the details?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3258" CreationDate="2014-11-21T23:26:22.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer does obviously not &quot;invalidate&quot; the comments. The comments did not claim that it was not possible / difficult to give useful answers – because that was not the case (in contrast to many other questions). The request for more info was about explaining the OP's mistakes to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing prevents the OP from showing his code. He would be stupid if he didn't care just because he has a working solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case it is ridiculous to downvote an answer to indirectly educate the OP; as it is to push someone (especially a high rep user) for something that is not even a community consensus yet (as your own wording shows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T23:26:22.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3258" CreationDate="2014-11-22T03:35:32.953" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two different issues being conflated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3259/6761&quot;&gt;Hauke Laging notes in his answer&lt;/a&gt; is that, in this particular case, further clarification from the poster was not required for someone to satisfactorily answer the question. The only information still being sought was to demonstrate that the poster had made sufficient effort themselves&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Invalidated comments are not such a big deal, they can be deleted if they end up making no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second, more substantive issue, and one that is captured by your question title is worth some consideration. Posting an answer where the question is incomplete, ie., lacking sufficient facts or details, is essentially speculative; it is a &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; as to what the correct answer might be. Filling the wiki with guesses, or hedged bets designed to garner upvotes before the complete information is available is a waste of everyone's time, and should be actively discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the two cases, the second is clearly pernicious; the first hardly ever so. If&amp;mdash;as a matter of policy&amp;mdash; we were to adopt such a punitive approach to all new questioners, &lt;em&gt;demanding&lt;/em&gt; they show their own work prior to receiving any assistance, then the tone of the community would shift, markedly, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is that it is perfectly acceptable to ask people, particularly newcomers, politely to provide some evidence of their own effort (especially if this is a homework question), but only in cases of recidivism or blatant &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt; should answers be withheld or questions closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the question that you link to, my view was that it was not homework, was a decent enough question to ask here, and the subsequent edit by the questioner suggests that it was asked in good faith. Let's encourage that behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1. Note: I completely support not enabling learned helplessness...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T03:35:32.953" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3262" CreationDate="2014-11-22T19:59:31.403" Score="6" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure that I should have been awarded a badge for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pacman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pacman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pacman&lt;/a&gt; by now. I have defintitely answered more than 20 times (22) and am currently sitting on 111 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the script is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/253587/can-i-haz-stinkin-silver-tag-badge-plz&quot;&gt;run infrequently&lt;/a&gt; but, as I passed the threshold some time ago, that seems unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ezEZJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to make some sort of sacrifical offering to appease the elder gods? If so, please indicate the type of critter and the preferred means of dispatch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T20:18:39.850" Title="Is the tag badge allocation broken?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3261" CreationDate="2014-11-22T20:18:39.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags aren't considered for tag badges until they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/68395/145982&quot;&gt;used on 100 questions&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pacman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pacman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pacman&lt;/a&gt; is only at 86 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T20:18:39.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3272" CreationDate="2014-11-26T06:40:15.773" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the site grows larger, we invariably see the same question asked again and again, often with a single, undistinguishable variation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2708/lets-compile-a-list-of-canonical-qas&quot;&gt;started compiling canonical Q&amp;amp;As&lt;/a&gt; and it occurred to me that it would be much easier to locate these if they shared a tag; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canonical&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;canonical&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;canonical&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside is that, inevitably, questions relating to Ubuntu may get mis-tagged. I think it is worth the risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170002/how-to-replace-a-specific-pattern-from-all-files&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and the niggling feeling I had when I first saw it that it &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to have been answered before...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T14:36:42.940" Title="Should we create a canonical tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3263" CreationDate="2014-11-26T22:57:48.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canonical&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;canonical&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;canonical&lt;/a&gt; might be confusing, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; can't we just take something that is less confusing? E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oap&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oap&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oap&lt;/a&gt; for Often Answered Posts¹&#xA;But essentially any word that is not a common unix-command nor anything else often used in the Unix/Linux environment will do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people doing the searches would have to remember this of course and the tag description clear enough to make sense to people that come across it and are  wondering what the tag is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing to consider is what to do if such a canonical question already has the maximum of 5 tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;Originally I considered Frequently Answered Posts, I don't think that anyone would have problems remembering a tag that is an acronym of that, but it might not give the right impression to some visitors&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T22:57:48.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-02T10:06:38.090" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sombody has just edited my answer. I don't see an argument for this edit. It seems that I cannot address him in a comment though he is shown as editor. I remember similar situations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it make sense to include editors in the comment addressing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T14:39:41.013" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T14:39:41.013" Title="comments to editors" Tags="|feature-request|editing|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3263" CreationDate="2014-12-02T10:15:51.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest the boring but unambiguous solution: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canonical-answer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;canonical-answer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;canonical-answer&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canonically-answered&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;canonically-answered&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;canonically-answered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T10:15:51.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3270" CreationDate="2014-12-03T12:37:27.850" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently trying to go through a series of steps that one of the community members posted in their answer. But since all the other members are commenting, I'm finding it difficult to keep the conversation focused on a particular version of these steps. A snapshot of the steps would give an exact meaning to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can be done about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93151" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T13:12:43.687" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T13:32:37.170" Title="Any way to snapshot a series of steps within an answer, churn of comments is making it hard to follow what I should be trying as the OP?" Tags="|discussion|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3269" CreationDate="2014-12-03T13:32:37.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're talking about the dynamic nature of the content on the site (questions &amp;amp; answers) in combination with the commenting that can occur. It takes a little getting used to but there isn't really anything you can do beyond looking through the edit history on either your question or on the various answers you receive when asking questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; Each question and answer has a edit link under it where you can see a full history of the various changes that were made over time and by whom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With time you'll adapt to the pace at which solutions to your question are thrown at you, and can evolve over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites are unique in this dynamic nature, most people are accustom to a more traditional forum where you ask your question and then it remains there in stasis, and you as the questioner don't have to do a lot of interacting afterwords. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here questions and answers can be edited as new information is revealed, so it's expected that questioners take a more active role in helping to solve their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T13:32:37.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2549" CreationDate="2014-12-03T14:30:16.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.stackexchange.com/tags/operating-systems&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IdXrV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Operating systems principles and design — Computer Science Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:29.820" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T14:30:16.557" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-03T14:30:16.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3263" CreationDate="2014-12-03T14:36:42.940" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see much point. “Canonical” isn't so much of a binary thing: there are questions written to be canonical, but also naturally-arising questions with widely-applicable answers. What I prefer, both as a categorizer of canonical questions and a poster of canonical question links, is to &lt;strong&gt;record canonical questions in the applicable tag wiki(s)&lt;/strong&gt;. Linking widely-applicable threads in tag wikis is useful in its own right anyway. I've been calling these sections “Further reading”. See for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/shell/info&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/ssh/info&quot;&gt;ssh&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/sudo/info&quot;&gt;sudo&lt;/a&gt;, …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T14:36:42.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3267" CreationDate="2014-12-03T14:39:32.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you write &lt;code&gt;@bob&lt;/code&gt; in a comment and bob edited the post, then bob will be notified of your comment. Yes, this works, even though editor names are not included in the completion list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the rationale for not making this feature obvious is that commenting to an editor is discouraged, because it bothers the post author as well and it's likely to be the start of a discussion. But it is allowed, I think, mostly for the use case that you want: to allow the author to discuss an edit with the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only ping editors that way. This includes submitters of accepted suggested edits, not submitters of pending or rejected suggested edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T14:39:32.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3275" CreationDate="2014-12-04T15:38:19.707" Score="10" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read a few of the discussions relating to migrating off-topic questions and haven't got to the bottom of why the list cannot be expanded beyond Meta and SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been a few observations that the need isn't there, but I'd beg to differ - I've come accross a few Windows questions.  I can either vote that they are closed or flag them and hope that a moderator moves them to a more appropriate site.  In fact, I'd (guesstimate) that I've come accross more Windows questions than programming ones. Oddly enough, I have an option to vote to migrate to SO but not to any other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a downside to having some of the popular computing sites listed in addition to SO?  Such as Super User and Server Fault?  If there is a limit, then maybe swap SO for one of the other two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29406" LastEditorUserId="29406" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T15:56:22.360" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T22:07:16.493" Title="Yearly Revisit of List of Sites to Migrate" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|migration|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2014-12-04T15:59:04.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main sites we would probably want new paths to are superuser (SU), serverfault (SF), and askubuntu (AU). I'd be fine with SU for when we get Windows questions; I think it's fairly rare, but I don't see a downside. I mentioned the downsides to the others &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1413/73&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. People outside of SF don't understand their unique policies, so virtually all of the requests we get to migrate there are wrong. We've only migrated one post there in the last three months -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/630468/data-only-seems-to-go-one-way-on-ethernet-over-usb-connection&quot;&gt;they rejected it&lt;/a&gt;. Historically AU was worse; any question with &quot;Ubuntu&quot; in the body would get flagged for migration there, even if it had nothing to do with Ubuntu. I haven't seen that happen recently, so we could potentially try it, but I think that one is much more open to bad migrations than SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:51.103" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T22:07:16.493" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-04T17:34:40.813" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just voted for deleting a question for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand that correctly then 15 votes are required to delete a question – and 18 users of this site (probably not all of them active) are capable of voting for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that correct? Has ever a question been deleted by voting? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;misunderstanding solved&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message mentioning &quot;13 votes&quot; referred to the votes I had left on that day, not to the votes required yet to delete the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="32191" LastEditDate="2014-12-07T16:56:41.377" LastActivityDate="2014-12-07T16:56:41.377" Title="Deleting questions" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3276" CreationDate="2014-12-04T18:18:18.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleting questions only requires &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10k&lt;/a&gt;, not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;20k&lt;/a&gt; (that's for deleting answers), so there's actually 54 users that can do it. It also only requires 3 votes by default; it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50523/should-delete-votes-be-limited-like-close-votes/51071#51071&quot;&gt;scales up based on question popularity&lt;/a&gt;, but is capped at 10. I'm not sure where you got 15 from, but if you mouseover the &quot;delete&quot; link on a post it will say how many more votes are needed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/npb2V.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T18:18:18.920" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3279" CreationDate="2014-12-04T22:09:24.997" Score="8" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a relatively new Stack Exchange user and contributor, I see a lot of the same questions in some form or fashion day after day.  I don't mind helping each visitor, but before I do, I always have a certain number of comments asking  for more information, that are always related to one of the three categories below..  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Categories&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a Poster, you must decide what category your question belongs in.  I consider there to be 3 major categories.  They are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Troubleshooting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General Knowledge &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scripting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that my question fits in one of those categories, how can I be certain that one of the knowledgeable people here will answer it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64157" OwnerDisplayName="eyoung100" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2014-12-05T07:03:56.693" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T22:28:32.643" Title="How can I be assured that my issue can be helped here?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3278" CreationDate="2014-12-04T22:09:24.997" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Decide Which Category&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, as a poster, you must decide which of the three categories your question belongs in.  The reason for this is &lt;strong&gt;Knowing the category helps determine the additional information, we as answer writers need to give you an effective answer.&lt;/strong&gt;  Consider these three vague examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My Screen is Black.  I think my Video Card Broke.  Help??&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My Computer was Hacked.  I had no SSL.  What happened??&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I need a Script that Prints Hello at Every Number divisible by 3 and 5.  Help!!!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put these in order that I listed the categories to make it easier to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Troubleshooting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the details in the Title, all I know is that your screen is black.  I can assume your Video Card is broken, and waste your time and mine.  Instead when posting a troubleshooting question, your post needs to contain output from at leat one of these two tools:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;lshw&lt;/code&gt; - Short for List Hardware, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hardware Lister&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/12/how-to-get-hardware-specs-of-your-system-using-lshw-hardware-lister/#more-281&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A great tutorial on Hardware Lister&lt;/a&gt; if you've never used it.  Answer Posters will need this information to determine the type of hardware related to your issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;lspci&lt;/code&gt; and/or &lt;code&gt;lsusb&lt;/code&gt; - Short for PCI Hardware Lister and/or USB Lister.  This tool will most likely always be there if you do not have &lt;code&gt;lshw&lt;/code&gt;.  It presents the same information, just in a different display format. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2014/04/lspci-examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PCI Lister Tutorial&lt;/a&gt; if you've never used it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other tool that provides output for what you think is relevant to your issue is also helpful.  This can include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compiler Output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Configuration File Listings/Settings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kernel Module Listings and Output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And More...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;General Knowledge&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the easiest for post answers to spot and answer.  Most of these will be put &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;on hold&lt;/a&gt;, unless they can be edited to fit the Q&amp;amp;A Format.  The questions in this category that are done properly are amazing, as they spread knowledge of concepts to all readers.  These questions do not require any tools like the troubleshooting category, but tool use is encouraged when using the tool to make or show a point.  As of now, I've only been able to answer 2 questions in this category type, and I present those questions to you now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120525/on-system-memory-specifically-the-difference-between-tmpfs-shm-and-hug&quot;&gt;On system memory… specifically the difference between &lt;code&gt;tmpfs,&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;shm,&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;hugepages…&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/171143/what-does-ltr-kernel-mean&quot;&gt;What does LTR kernel mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Scripting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are frequent here because most users here are starting out in scripting.  These questions are also mostly about which tool or tools to use in an executable script to accomplish a task.  &lt;strong&gt;Note: If the script you are writing is for homework, we will not write a script for you&lt;/strong&gt; This category requires 2 types of information, a.k.a. tools to be posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Shell you wrote the script in.  There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxcommand.org/lts0010.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;4 major Linux Shells&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A copy of a script you wrote to accomplish the task you are asking about.  The script can be working or not.  &lt;strong&gt;Example (bash)&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; for n in {1..100}; do&#xA;   ([ $((n%15)) -eq 0 ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo 'FizzBuzz') ||&#xA;   ([ $((n%5)) -eq 0 ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo 'Buzz') ||&#xA;   ([ $((n%3)) -eq 0 ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo 'Fizz') ||&#xA;   echo $n;&#xA; done&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remembering these steps will greatly increase 2 areas related to posting here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question Effectiveness - The More effective a question is, the higher your upvote count will be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer Turnaround - The better possible answer posters can read and understand your question, the faster we can answer it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64157" OwnerDisplayName="eyoung100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T22:28:32.643" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2014-12-04T22:32:11.537" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/stats&quot;&gt;past 90 days&lt;/a&gt; (10k only), we've migrated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;55 questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; (7% rejected)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 to &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 each to &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Recommendations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Security&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://magento.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Magento&lt;/a&gt;. All were rejected except the one to Magento.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a migration path does result in more migrations, but still, that's 10 times more to SO than to SU. We don't need a migration path to SU, let alone any other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, the statistics do confirm my subjective impression that we get on the order of one programming question per day but Windows questions are more of a monthly occurrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T22:32:11.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-06T14:51:12.987" Score="4" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to gather some feedback on availability and ease of access to information (statistics) about my moderation and reviewing. Similar info as available for flags, where you go to the profile page and click on the number after &quot;helpful flags&quot; and get an idea how you are doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewing the flag information helped with determining what were wrong applications of the flags by me, and allowed me to improve on &quot;flagging&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For other areas this kind of input is not available (AFAIK), or not at an early stage. E.g. you can only easily look at how others voted to close on reviews by the time you have a rep that you should have a relative good grasp of reviewing this anyway. It would be useful to have a page much earlier (rep wise), where you can see your own reviews that had a different outcome than what you voted (maybe that is there but I missed it), and this information could be more  anonymous than the history link available to high rep users (which shows the names of the other reviewers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;4 out of 5 U&amp;amp;L other reviewers recommended deleting this post&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another case, the one that triggered this question, is based on a recent comment from a Michael Mrozek about an answer that I reviewed (Low Quality queue IIRC) and where I, and two reviewers before me, voted to delete because it looked like a comment/request for clarification. Michael preferred to change to change the answer to something looking more like a real answer. Having been made aware of that, I will keep that in mind and do that myself. Without that comment addressed to me however, I would probably never have noticed. And I have no clue how often this has happened in the past, nor where I could get info about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we answer here (possible as wiki answers), we could use the voting mechanism on the answers to determine opinions on usefulness and then make a combined feature request at some point based on that. Or, if the poster missed some already available mechanism to get information, the answer could be marked with a clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;this information is already available&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and help future visitors looking for this information in one place, together with information about feedback/statistics what they cannot hope to find (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a feature request or support request on existing features on its own. As I indicated, it is intended as a discussion item, possible resulting in a feature request distilled from the information here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is also not intended to eventually make voting etc. more uniform, being able to review once actions compared to others doesn't mean one &lt;strong&gt;has to&lt;/strong&gt; change, but could help those who are interested, to focus on a potential different way of (re-)acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T16:42:34.740" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T16:43:48.397" Title="What kind of extra feedback would be useful for moderation/reviewing?" Tags="|discussion|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-06T16:15:58.013" Score="13" ViewCount="1338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using a rather restrictive firewall on my machine, mostly to block potential port scanning. If any IP address sends me a unsolicited packet (packet that is not a response to my query) the IP address gets blocked for X minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-A INPUT -i  wlan0 -m recent --name PORTSCAN --update --seconds 300  -j   DROP&#xA;-A INPUT -i  wlan0 -m conntrack   --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED      -j ACCEPT&#xA;-A INPUT -i  wlan0 -m recent --name PORTSCAN --set                   -j   DROP&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This rule never blocks legitimate websites. The only &quot;legitimate&quot; website that gets blocked are the stackexchange websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens constantly. I did not have time to investigate further, but the problem must be on your side, because I don't get these problems anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is your website scanning peoples machines ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43007" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T01:52:47.223" Title="stackexchange.com is sending me unsolicited packets (and consequently gets blocked by firewall)" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3282" CreationDate="2014-12-06T16:50:39.470" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gonna throw out a wild guess: your filter sees web socket traffic as &quot;unsolicited&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We use websockets to provide real-time updates for various events happening on the site. If you're blocking HTTP responses that fall outside of a strict window, this will probably break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't jibe with what you're seeing, you'll have to post more info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T16:50:39.470" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3281" CreationDate="2014-12-07T07:05:31.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Close Votes review queue&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Current state:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some historical information you can look at the history tab in the Close Votes (CV) review queue. This allows you to correlate your action (3rd column) with an action at the end of the question title, if any (&lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[duplicate]&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking the action link (&lt;code&gt;Close&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Leave Open&lt;/code&gt;) brings up a page where one can see how others voted (without any detail on Close reason) on this review item (so you can only see this after you cast your vote, because there is no entry in the history yet if you didn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 10K rep the primary difference is that the overview includes the actions of other reviewers (names in the first column), even for items you have not voted upon yet. This makes it only marginally more easy to compare actions as the entries cannot be sorted by review item and votes by different reviewers on a particular item are seldom contiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible improvements:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An easier way of viewing which reviews had a different result then ones own action (e.g. as a filter on the history list, like you can include skipped items). Differentiate between being single differing reviewer, or more heavily disputed items (i.e. multiple reviewers that voted different than the final decision).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Statistical information about your own review action being aligned or not with the other reviewers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Detail on aligned reviews, i.e. reason for closure. Thereby being able to answer such questions as: &quot;Do others vote to close for being to broad as often as I do&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some way to mark review items as something to come back to, to see how others voted (once a consensus is reached). Currently the only thing one can do is make a bookmark in your browser before concluding the review, or search for the in your review activity history (activity → review in your profile).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T16:43:48.397" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T16:43:48.397" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-12-07T07:05:31.697" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-07T23:44:38.177" Score="6" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of the currently 41 &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sleep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sleep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sleep&lt;/a&gt;-questions, some (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/130715/using-the-echo-command-with-sleep-command&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) are about the &lt;code&gt;sleep&lt;/code&gt; program; the rest refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suspend&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suspend&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suspend&lt;/a&gt;, as in low-power-mode; suspend-to-RAM|disk. (But few questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suspend&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suspend&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suspend&lt;/a&gt; are about suspending a program in a terminal with Ctrl+Z.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a way to denote the &lt;code&gt;sleep&lt;/code&gt; command other than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sleep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sleep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sleep&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suspend&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suspend&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suspend&lt;/a&gt; is definitely the less ambiguous alternative for low-power-mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I right here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've suggested edits to the tag wikis to help people get them right, but having no edit-powers makes retagging tedious. Could someone more reputed have a poke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T18:28:53.480" Title="Can we retag suspend-related questions from &quot;sleep&quot;→&quot;suspend&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-08T19:20:19.223" Score="4" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the edited answer I'm referring to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/68397&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/68397&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do in this case? Posting the up-to-date solution in a separate answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17855" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T20:04:57.183" Title="I tried updating info in an answer but the suggested edit got rejected" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3286" CreationDate="2014-12-08T20:04:57.183" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the rejecters: yes, it would have been appropriate to post a new answer &lt;em&gt;with your rationale for the changes&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Introducing that much new information without the original author's involvement (through commenting) would have changed their intent, as per our editing guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T20:04:57.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3289" CreationDate="2014-12-10T02:40:26.993" Score="4" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3267/33055&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; asks about how to address the editors of some question. These can be addressed with &lt;code&gt;@name&lt;/code&gt; although the system will not offer completion while typing &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to comment to someone that provided a bounty on some other person's Question. Can I address the bounty provider in the same way and rely on that they get an inbox message from the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T16:31:24.690" Title="Comments to 3rd party bounty providers" Tags="|support|comments|bounty|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3288" CreationDate="2014-12-10T04:20:16.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. You can address &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/129232/are-bounty-placers-notified-of-comments#comment353626_129236&quot;&gt;anyone who is the sole owner of an entry in the revision history&lt;/a&gt;. Besides editors, this includes bounty placers, and people who (un)protected. This also includes moderators who (unlocked), closed or reopened, but not ordinary users who cast close/reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T16:31:13.143" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T16:31:13.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3300" CreationDate="2014-12-11T06:51:31.280" Score="13" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that this practice, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/269993/placeholder-answers-will-update-with-answer-soon&quot;&gt;is discouraged&lt;/a&gt;, has started to occur here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested to hear some of the moderators' takes on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would hope that it does not take hold as&amp;mdash;in addition to the reasons outlined in the meta post above&amp;mdash;it just clutters the wiki with useless edits and, in emphasising speed over substance, undermines the commitment to quality that the community here has worked hard to establish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to start flagging for deletion as &quot;Not an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T13:35:55.420" Title="Placeholder answers" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3294" CreationDate="2014-12-12T01:26:19.667" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've filed two questions recently on unix stackexchange and for both I noticed that one of the tags I used &lt;code&gt;bash-script&lt;/code&gt; does not become an actual tag for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19416" OwnerDisplayName="test" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-12-13T18:55:44.493" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T18:57:44.777" Title="bash-script tag doesn't work on unix stackexchange" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-12T01:22:06.080" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing a question right now on unix stackexchange and on the right there is a pane with a blue background and orange text. It is hard to read. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LkDvS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is you change the colors of that pane so that it's easier to read. For example, this site's similar questions pane looks fine, the contrast is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19416" OwnerDisplayName="test" LastEditorUserId="100625" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T01:04:29.550" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T04:00:55.657" Title="Increase the contrast of 'similar questions' pane on unix stackexchange" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3291" CreationDate="2014-12-13T18:57:44.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash-script&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of the more general tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt;: you can use &lt;code&gt;bash-script&lt;/code&gt; as a tag name, but it's automatically rewritten to &lt;code&gt;shell-script&lt;/code&gt;. If you enter both, you'll only end up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions about writing shell scripts don't depend on the exact shell being used, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; is good enough. If your question is specifically about a bash feature, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T18:57:44.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3296" CreationDate="2014-12-15T00:46:21.123" Score="4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I earned some kind of hat thing &lt;em&gt;(for what I don't know - who is Saint Lucia?)&lt;/em&gt; and I dunno how to be rid of it. @terdon seems &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3254/52934&quot;&gt;to indicate&lt;/a&gt; I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; turn it off... so how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T01:04:49.963" Title="how to disable this crazy hat thing?" Tags="|support|winterbash-2014|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3295" CreationDate="2014-12-15T01:04:38.583" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the snowflake icon, and select &quot;I hate hats&quot;, or go to your profile, and click the same (snowflake -&gt; I hate hats).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand... YOU HAT HATTER :'(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T01:04:38.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3282" CreationDate="2014-12-16T01:52:47.223" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your &quot;anti-portscan&quot; rules do not play well with long-lasting, low-traffic connections.  The StackExchange sites use such connections in the form of websockets to update the status bar.  If a status bar update arrives after the connection-tracking timeout has expired, the server that sent the update will be blocked for five minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of thing is why you need to understand the inner workings of the firewall modules you use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62988" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T01:52:47.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3299" CreationDate="2014-12-17T15:49:32.367" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was quite surprised to see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22565/st%C3%A9phane-chazelas&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22565/st%C3%A9phane-chazelas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/89316/ste%CC%81phane-chazelas&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/89316/ste%CC%81phane-chazelas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, that's funny: Now it doesn't look like the same any more. When I copied just the name part from the URL and pasted it into my shell it was the same. Probably some UTF encoding stuff, missing normalization or the like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2014-12-17T23:44:14.613" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T23:49:38.803" Title="Can there be two accounts with the same name?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3298" CreationDate="2014-12-17T23:43:53.733" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25404/why-does-stack-overflow-allow-duplicate-display-names&quot;&gt;Yes, there can be multiple accounts with the same name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can choose any name you want as long as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it isn't offensive (e.g. stuffing insults into your user name will cause moderators to forcibly rename you and suspend you);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you aren't impersonating someone. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;Terms of service&lt;/a&gt; §4: “Under no circumstances will Subscriber use the Network or the Service to (…) (c) create a false identity or to impersonate another person”.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impersonation implies an element of confusion. &lt;strong&gt;It's ok to use the same username as someone else&lt;/strong&gt; — for example, there are many users who go by their first name alone, which triggers many collisions, and that's fine. &lt;strong&gt;It's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ok to use someone's name and avatar&lt;/strong&gt;: that shows a deliberate attempt to pass for another user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stéphane Chazelas (the original) writes his username with the Unicode character U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE. Stéphane Chazelas (the newcomer) uses U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E followed by U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT. These are two ways to encode the same text in Unicode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in this case, the newcomer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164416/how-can-i-remove-lines-matching-foo-but-not-matching-bar/164439#comment269901_164439&quot;&gt;is the same person as the original&lt;/a&gt;, so this is not a case of impersonation. It's ok for someone to have two accounts as long as the accounts don't interact (no voting on each other's posts, etc.) — it's tricky to carry out, and the Stack Exchange team declines responsibility if the accounts end up being merged, but it isn't against the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T23:49:38.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3290" CreationDate="2014-12-21T13:35:55.420" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the good things about this site is that we tend to vote for long, comprehensive answers. The most voted answer is often not the first posted. With that in mind, placeholder answers are even sillier here than on larger sites like SO. Just take your time, write up a good answer and post it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from being unnecessary, it is also a bad habit to get into. Such answers are pointless and basically noise. If you see one, feel free to flag as &quot;not an answer&quot; and we'll deal with it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T13:35:55.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-22T08:03:19.260" Score="8" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/175317/33055&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and while doing so decided to change the two commands in the text to preformatted text. IIRC I selected the text in the rendered output, and not (as I should have) in the &lt;code&gt;textarea&lt;/code&gt;, after which I  hit &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; to get the preformatted text, and nothing happened (at least not to the text I selected).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed my mistake, went to the text area and did the operation again after which the backquotes around the text appeared as expected (and I also did changed the second command the same way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I finished my answer and all seemed fine, except that, when coming back to the question, after a few minutes later, I noticed that the top of the question now had &lt;code&gt;Enter code here&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/175317/2&quot;&gt;at the top of the text&lt;/a&gt;. Had I missed that when I first read the Q? No, the history indicates I inserted this, probably by hitting the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; while I had no text selected in the textarea (but in the rendered area).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this insertion occurred outside of my scroll window, and was not close to the edit I made later, I never noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen these insertions before (reviewing edits) and now that it happened to me, it seems easy to overlook when it happens. Could the system be changed to complain about this unaltered inserted text &quot;&lt;code&gt;[enter code here]&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, at least when it occurs at the beginning of a question/answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T16:55:34.413" Title="Can the system check for &quot;[enter code here]&quot; in the text?" Tags="|feature-request|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-24T19:01:46.587" Score="17" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm self-training on &lt;code&gt;puppet&lt;/code&gt; and interested in writing up some Puppet-related topics in Q&amp;amp;A format for questions that took me a while to answer because I wasn't able to find a decent resource online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;code&gt;puppet&lt;/code&gt; is multiplatform (even with &lt;a href=&quot;http://info.puppetlabs.com/what-windows-admins-need-from-configuration-management.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Windows support&lt;/a&gt;) would it still be considered on-topic for this SE or would I need to post those over on ServerFault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T17:25:59.823" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T23:43:02.897" Title="Is Puppet On Topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2014-12-24T20:14:48.203" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely. As long as something works on *nix, it's on topic. Whether it works on other systems as well or not is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your questions are about using software X on a *nix platform, they are welcome here. If they are platform agnostic, Super User might be a better place for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T23:04:16.407" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T23:04:16.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2014-12-26T23:43:02.897" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;While such questions may be acceptable on Unix.SE, DevOps type questions are more at home on ServerFault. They currently have &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/puppet&quot;&gt;1,175 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;puppet&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:51.103" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T23:43:02.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T21:05:53.070" Score="1" ViewCount="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, this is an edit I just got approved a few minutes ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/73579&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/73579&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a very minor discrepancy that may still be a bug though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the markdown side-by-side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xvcml.png&quot; alt=&quot;markdown&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, I add some code formatting around &quot;Cc:&quot; and &quot;Subject:&quot; to make it more reminiscent of the terminal output being seen.  The &quot;and a&quot; portion between them is untouched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's where the bug is - in the rendered content:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tw2pB.png&quot; alt=&quot;rendered&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rendered, it says the &quot;and&quot; was removed and added.  While this is a minor issue and I might just be anal about bugs and wanting to be a perfectionist at times, is this something that can be fixed?  Or is it just on my end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5807" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T21:05:53.070" Title="Possible changes highlighting/rendering bug in Edit Review page" Tags="|bug|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-29T04:53:46.313" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/148041/recovering-from-grub-rescue-crash/148042#148042&quot;&gt;My most popular question and answer&lt;/a&gt; has suddenly been put on Hold by a bunch of moderators I've never heard of. It has been viewed nearly 10,000 times here and the original on AskUbuntu has been viewed nearly 400,000 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you care about information that solves people's problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone is running the latest and greatest software. People need answers for older versions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27437" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T21:30:53.570" Title="Senior Moderator Intervention Requested" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3306" CreationDate="2014-12-29T05:32:21.167" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question seems fine to me, but as the close message (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;) explained, we don't generally want the same question posted on multiple sites, since it leads to duplication of effort. We want to solve people's problems, but we don't want to solve the same problem the same way multiple times; that's just a waste of time and annoys people that search for the problem and find duplicated solutions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're apparently worried about your AskUbuntu question getting deleted, but at the moment it &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/197833/recovering-from-grub-rescue-crash&quot;&gt;appears to be intact&lt;/a&gt;. Since that question was asked first and answered years ago, this one was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T05:32:21.167" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3309" CreationDate="2014-12-30T09:27:02.070" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on unix.stackexchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/174558/use-only-one-wireless-card-to-connect-to-wifi-network-and-share-internet-through&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody answered, but luckily I found solution on askubuntu &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/318973/how-do-i-create-a-wifi-hotspot-sharing-wireless-internet-connection-single-adap&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;I thought to answer my question myself by giving the link, so that other users can find solution to their similar problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but whenever I type the answer it gets converted to comment giving me this: &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; + &lt;code&gt;Trivial answer converted in comment&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this helped me, found it on askubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/318973/how-do-i-create-a-wifi-hotspot-sharing-wireless-internet-connection-single-adap&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52733" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T10:07:46.590" Title="Trivial answer converted in comment" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3308" CreationDate="2014-12-30T10:07:46.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes,  we don't like link only answers.  Thanks for taking the time to post an answer but please explain the solution you found instead of just linking to it. That way the information is &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; and not on another web page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it comes from another SE site,  you can just copy the relevant parts directly into your answer and link back to the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T10:07:46.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3310" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-31T08:20:14.923" Score="1" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(This is mainly about unix.SE, but it might be a general thing to consider as well.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering whether it would be much better to have the &lt;em&gt;number of answers&lt;/em&gt; shown in the &quot;Related&quot; pane.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The &quot;0&quot; always confuses the heck out of me, because I always keep thinking that this question has no answers yet (and might just be still in need of &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; contribution!) But once I click into there, I can see lots of answers, because I've been fooled again: the &quot;0&quot; indicates in fact that there are 0 &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt; (which does not necessarily imply that it's a low-quality question, mind you!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another advantage of this would be that questions previously overlooked will attract user attention again because it shows that this question is still wanting an answer. The current way of having to check out every related question by hand for its number of answers is, to put it mildly, cumbersome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22858" LastEditorUserId="22858" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T09:01:32.837" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T09:01:32.837" Title="Show number of answers with questions in &quot;Related&quot; pane instead of the vote count? Or even both?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T03:20:08.683" Score="19" ViewCount="1173" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/3311&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:55:05.263" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2015" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-05-26T16:41:40.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T03:20:08.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-01T03:20:08.683" Score="-18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/roESL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T03:20:08.683" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T03:20:08.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-01T04:50:10.643" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vim.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xs4j3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vim: the power tool for everyone&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T04:50:10.643" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T04:50:10.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-01T07:13:29.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dwm.suckless.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3yE6m.png&quot; alt=&quot;software that sucks less...&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T07:26:59.643" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T07:26:59.643" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T07:13:29.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-01T10:32:54.710" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c0RVP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Arch wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96257" LastEditorUserId="96257" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T18:28:39.803" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T18:28:39.803" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T10:32:54.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:19:49.877" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.stackexchange.com/tags/operating-systems&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IdXrV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Operating systems principles and design — Computer Science Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:29.820" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:19:49.877" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T22:19:49.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:23:12.967" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zshwiki.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ctfg8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Zsh: the last word in Unix shells&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:23:12.967" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T22:23:12.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:24:28.417" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tbdbt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;GNU's Not Unix!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T20:55:05.263" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:55:05.263" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T22:24:28.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-02T03:58:07.120" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimprobable.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OoN3V.png&quot; alt=&quot;A keyboard-driven, minimalist web browser&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T03:58:07.120" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-02T03:58:07.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="329" CreationDate="2015-01-02T12:54:23.383" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been my opinion for a while now that the “real” name of this site is “*nix.SE”, not “Unix.SE”. Since BSD, HURD, Mach and various other kernels (and their constituent operating systems) have seemed welcome here, I no longer see the usefulness in allowing &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; UNIX and Linux and close derivations thereupon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, even if we were to consider this as to only be on-topic for “unicies,” I would be amazed to see wide support for the notion that plan9 (and its currently maintained forks, à la 9atom and 9front) do not fall in that category. Not only was plan9 brought to bear by the same organization as UNIX, but has been regarded as having taken UNIX philosophy to its logical next evolution where UNIX itself faltered (read “Everything is a file”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am continually tempted to switch one of my machines over to 9front and see if I might find a home there; I see no compelling reason that *nix.SE should not become a home for plan9 as well. As always, I remain open to hearing well-reasoned counterarguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65525" LastEditorUserId="65525" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T20:52:31.560" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T20:52:31.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-04T03:53:04.257" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awk.info/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GKnE7.png&quot; alt=&quot;A convenient and expressive programming language&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2015-01-04T04:58:05.940" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T04:58:05.940" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-04T03:53:04.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-06T17:55:06.973" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org/s/parallel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6hTP.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU Parallel - for people who live life in the parallel lane&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2972" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T17:55:06.973" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-06T17:55:06.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-07T09:53:41.463" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kde.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dtt8g.png&quot; alt=&quot;KDE Community&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24516" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T09:53:41.463" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-07T09:53:41.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-07T10:39:17.853" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freebsd.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WAA5A.png&quot; alt=&quot;The FreeBSD Project&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24516" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T10:39:17.853" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-07T10:39:17.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3326" CreationDate="2015-01-08T00:14:46.610" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just received a link to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/74207&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/74207&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be in regard to a question I asked some time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not clear as to what (if anything) I am supposed to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first link of this sort which I have received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone clue me in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10292" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T10:57:28.560" Title="Reviewing Suggested Edits" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3325" CreationDate="2015-01-08T00:20:31.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, nothing. The community dealt with the edit itself (rejecting it) and all good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T00:20:31.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3325" CreationDate="2015-01-08T10:57:28.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If any of your posts (questions or answers) are edited, you will receive a message letting you know. If the user who edited the post has less than 2k reputation, you will be given the chance to approve or reject the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are part of how the site works and nothing to worry about. When you receive such a notification, just check the edited post and make sure that the change does not introduce errors or is otherwise inappropriate. If it is, you can roll back to the previous version or fix it manually. If it looks good, you can approve it (if need it) or just ignore it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T10:57:28.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-08T14:46:59.220" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently deleted a question about ext3/block tunables because I answered it myself and figured it had an obvious answer. Then I noticed that my reputation went down five points as a result. I was just wondering why this was the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would seem like we would &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; people to remove unnecessary questions to improve the signal-to-noise ratio on searches. At the very least I was penalized for doing what amounts to proactive housecleaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to say I was going to take a vacation to Maui with my fake reputation points, just kind of unusual behavior from where I sit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T15:04:06.150" Title="Why is removing a question penalized?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3328" CreationDate="2015-01-08T15:04:06.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not unusual at all really.  Presumably,  someone had up voted your question which gave you 5 points. When a post is deleted (be it a question or an answer), you loose any reputation you had gained from that post.  So,  when you deleted your own question, you lost any reputation associated with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for housecleaning,  yes removing crap is a good thing but I don't really see what is so bad about that question. If you really want to be a Good User©,  post an answer explaining your findings instead of deleting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T15:04:06.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3331" CreationDate="2015-01-08T15:47:31.227" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noted that I misunderstood the change I have just reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily it turns out that I was stupid again and that my decision happened to be OK. But the question is pending nonetheless, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edited post is not by me. This is the link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/74669&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/74669&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't aware of these approve vs. reject statistics before. Funny to compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reviewer Stats&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community has approved 2559 edit suggestions and rejected 447 edit suggestions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hauke Laging has approved 114 edit suggestions and rejected 10 edit suggestions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John WH Smith has approved 69 edit suggestions and rejected 45 edit suggestions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From 8% to 39%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="32191" LastEditDate="2015-01-08T17:54:27.307" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T18:23:08.517" Title="Is it possible to change a suggested edit decision?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2015-01-08T18:23:08.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any way of changing the decision, no. In this particular case, I wouldn't worry about is since the OP has already dealt with the edit accordingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something similar happens again, just go in and edit the post directly yourself. Since you have enough rep to be able to edit without needing approval, that is the simplest solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T18:23:08.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-08T19:22:55.443" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://getfedora.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6HCkK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora is now more focused — Less setup, more innovation. Choose a flavor of Fedora streamlined for your needs, and get to work right away.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T19:22:55.443" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-08T19:22:55.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3336" CreationDate="2015-01-08T21:17:55.590" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reviewing low quality posts such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/74698&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one, what option should I select after notifying the user that more details are needed in the answer? In this case, the user is already notified and I upvoted the comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The options that are available to me are,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Looks Ok&lt;/strong&gt; - This option couldn't be selected as the answer still needs more details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; - This option is also not applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recommend Deletion&lt;/strong&gt; - I think I should go for this but the problem is if 2  users having more than 10k rep select this, the person who answered the question will not get a chance to add contents to the answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be the course of action to help facilitate the new user fix his answer in such scenarios? Shouldn't we give the new user some time to fix the answer or I should simply select &lt;strong&gt;recommend deletion&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T13:05:36.043" Title="Help in selecting options for low quality posts" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3335" CreationDate="2015-01-08T22:43:48.777" Score="5" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I encountered an answer which was basically just a link to another external source. It was an old question asked some 2 years back. The answer in discussion is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/24691/47538&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added the relevant details from the link to here. In this case, the details could fit in here which is why I went ahead and added the relevant details to the answer itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question basically is, what should I do if I encounter a link only answer that has occured in the past? Should I just add the relevant details as I did this time or flag it for moderator attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T23:39:47.393" Title="How to handle link only answers that occured in the past?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3334" CreationDate="2015-01-08T22:48:08.463" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel like adding the relevant details,  that's great, please go ahead and do so. If the details are hard to find or you don't have the time or the inclination to fix it,  then flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you shouldn't do is ignore it.  Time is irrelevant, a link only answer is always bad and always a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T22:48:08.463" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3333" CreationDate="2015-01-09T13:05:36.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to give the OP the chance to fix their post, leave them a comment and then choose &lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt;. Since you haven't actually fixed the issue with the post, that seems the most reasonable option since it will let you move on to the next review item and won't clear it from the queue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T13:05:36.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-10T15:44:43.727" Score="-7" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have a policy specifically addressing editing in links that add no useful content to answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/178457/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/178457/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5197" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T16:55:56.047" Title="Problematic editing-in of links" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3337" CreationDate="2015-01-10T16:59:41.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would the text of the policy look like? &quot;Do not add links to sites the OP doesn't like&quot;? That is simply not a reasonable request, especially when the site is Wikipedia... among the most credible sites on the planet. Besides, I believe those edits were made by people who wanted to make the post better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am curious, what is it that you mistrust about Wikipedia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T16:59:41.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3337" CreationDate="2015-01-10T17:02:26.617" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, no. Editing each other's posts is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;big part of the site&lt;/a&gt;, and we can't really be clearing every website with the post author before linking to it, particularly well-known sites like Wikipedia. In this case the links seem pretty unnecessary though, we don't need to link every phrase in a post to the corresponding Wikipedia entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T17:02:26.617" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3337" CreationDate="2015-01-11T16:07:56.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As terdon points out, you don't have an exclusive license on the content you contribute here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that the links in this particular case are extremely superfluous, they don't at all detract from the post except perhaps in a minor, subjective sense -- because they are so superfluous, they make it seem a bit silly.  If this were &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; post, I'd probably be a bit ticked too and roll it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in general I think these kinds of (reasonably stable) links, &lt;em&gt;particularly to Wikipedia&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; are a good thing.  I notice them quite often in the &quot;suggested edit&quot; queue and I am happy to approve of them, although not as an unbreakable rule: Again, in this particular case I would probably reject it noting that they are superfluous/don't add value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, you have the right to roll back an edit if you feel it is justified.  We don't have a rule that says, &quot;You can't remove Wikipedia links&quot;.  If you do it to one of my posts though, I'll roll it back ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. Which I think is a terrific, very well conceived and executed resource, much like this one.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2015-01-11T16:35:11.287" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T16:35:11.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3337" CreationDate="2015-01-12T16:30:00.757" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposed edits should not be accepted unless they &lt;em&gt;make the post substantively better&lt;/em&gt; (see existing policy, below), and the purpose of the review system is for higher reputation users to coach enthusiastic newcomers in best practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The incentives the current software implements are problematic: they reward overenthusiastic newbies with an arduous but low-risk source of reputation, and they implement a Pavlovian reward to bored, trinket-loving experienced members in the form of hard-to-earn badges for clicking 'accept' thoughtlessly on poor edits. (This is not, I should make clear, what happened in this case, but it happens a lot on Stack Overflow, and it started to happen on tex.sx until an agreement was reached about how to handle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite true that no great, direct harm is done by weak edits being applied, because the worst edits tend to get rolled back, but if the site culture does not address the issue of problematic incentives, the quality of editing on the site can suffer.  Fewer, better edits, rather than a loosely converging Brownian motion of sloppy edits, make the place more rewarding for the users who value and understand the site best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Proposed policy on editing-in links on answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since irrelevant links are distracting, and may possibly be tiresome for users who hunt large pages in the expectation of finding useful information that isn't there, links should only be edited into an answer if the refer to content that is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clearly relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Well-organised, in the sense that the relevant content is easy to find&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lack bias (especially for non-wiki answers, where links suggest endorsement by the original answerer), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expected to retain its relevance over time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a potentially interesting link fails to meet all these criteria, it is recommended to draw attention to the link in a comment, rather than editing it into the body of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Existing Stack Exchange / Trilogy Policy&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;the edit privileges page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When should I edit posts?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any time you feel you can make the post better, and are inclined to do so. Editing is encouraged!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some common reasons to edit are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to clarify the meaning of a post without changing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to make the post substantively better when you edit, not just change a single character. Tiny, trivial edits are discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;An aside about Wikipedia&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is perhaps a mistake to debate the benefits of Wikipedia, but since goldilocks said it is &amp;quot;a terrific, very well conceived and executed resource, much like this one&amp;quot;, I'll say that Stack Exchange is far smarter about finding the golden mean between expertise and usefulness than Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, while I find Wikipedia to be important and useful, I also think it is problematic in principle --it sets up janitors to be judges of content-- and in execution: e.g., founder Larry Sanger managed to get blocked for criticising the content of an article about Wikipedia in a talk page, constituting 'disruption' in the eyes of some: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=29482&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=29482&lt;/a&gt;, which is as ironic an illustration of the cost of not separating expertise from janitorial duty as one could hope for; for a more painful illustration of how systematic the harm from this can be, look up the story of how FT2, a systematic pusher of anti-scientific POV, managed to get voted to Wikipedia's highest court, the ArbCom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, relatively few Wikipedia articles will meet my proposed criteria, though there are classes of good articles, e.g., articles on important IETF standards tend to be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5197" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T16:44:38.117" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2636" CreationDate="2015-01-12T16:37:42.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Question of the Week' series of posts at security.stackexchange.com works very well, and might be a model for us here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5197" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T16:37:42.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-12T23:56:27.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org/s/parallel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X7Aqn.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU Parallel - for people who live life in the parallel lane&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2972" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T23:56:27.617" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-12T23:56:27.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-13T14:27:13.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NNKDZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Emacs text editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24516" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T14:27:13.943" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-13T14:27:13.943" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-17T22:30:10.930" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1DzmO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T22:30:10.930" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-17T22:30:10.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-20T19:59:27.427" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoramagazine.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7rVvK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Magazine: News and articles for users and contributors&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T19:59:27.427" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-20T19:59:27.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3348" CreationDate="2015-01-21T07:04:49.933" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had a look at the close review queue history and noticed something strange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/179999/unable-to-connect-to-rhel-client-release-5-6-tikanga&quot;&gt;Unable to connect to RHEL client release 5.6 (Tikanga)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is on hold but cuonglm was the last one voting and he voted for &quot;leave open&quot;. How can a &quot;leave open&quot; vote close a question? Doesn't make sense to me. If I click on his or my vote (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/75723&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/75723&lt;/a&gt;) then the voting box says only&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cuonglm reviewed this 21 hours ago: Leave Open&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hauke Laging reviewed this 22 hours ago: Close&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But below the question it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;put on hold as unclear what you're asking by Anthon, Michael Homer, jasonwryan, Hauke Laging, cuonglm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even two strange effects: Why are the three other ones not shown in the voting box above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-01-21T18:06:49.813" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T18:19:12.170" Title="strange question closing (after &quot;leave open&quot;)" Tags="|support|bug|vote-to-close|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2015-01-21T18:08:32.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He voted outside the queue. The &quot;Leave open&quot; review was done at 2015-01-20 09:56:56Z while the last close vote was at 2015-01-20 09:57:17Z. 21 seconds of difference, which is enough to go back, click &quot;link&quot; and vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-01-21T18:19:12.170" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T18:19:12.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2015-01-21T18:08:46.897" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you visit the question directly and vote (instead of through the review queue), you won't show up as having reviewed it. So that's probably why the three others are not shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; cuonglm accidentally clicked leave open, then went back to the question to correct his mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="47538" LastEditDate="2015-01-21T18:11:31.047" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T18:11:31.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3356" CreationDate="2015-01-22T16:57:59.320" Score="13" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/558/41104&quot;&gt;this has come&lt;/a&gt; to bite our behinds. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd&lt;/a&gt; is again used for either the optical disk and the change directory command. I propose renaming [cd] to [cd-command] and re-tag whatever isn't about the command with their appropriates tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recent examples of mistagging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/180169/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/180169/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/177284/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/177284/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/145441/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/145441/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T03:46:19.723" Title="Rename [cd] to [cd-command]" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-01-22T17:57:59.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fixed a handful of other mistaggings in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd&lt;/a&gt;, moved the rest to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd-command&lt;/a&gt;, and put in a request to blacklist &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T17:57:59.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3352" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-23T15:33:14.963" Score="4" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this because sincerely it doesn't make sense. If I tag my question with [shell], whatever I'm asking is either, about &lt;em&gt;several shells&lt;/em&gt; or is valid on &lt;em&gt;any shell&lt;/em&gt;. Then why would I want to use something more specific, even though I'm not using a bash-ism, zsh-ism or weirder? Now, this seems &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/281095/792066&quot;&gt;to be the view&lt;/a&gt; of other posts when several intrinsically related tags are concerned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In all cases, try to avoid just throwing a bunch of related tags onto the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which makes sense. Why would I use [bash] [zsh] [tcsh] [shell] [ksh] to write an generic for-loop, or using cd, or something more generic? Is there a valid use of several shell tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T11:24:24.180" Title="Are really valid questions that can have both [shell] and [bash], [zsh], [tcsh], etc. tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2015-01-23T16:05:53.377" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes there is.  First of all, lets have a little background on how tags work and what they should be used for. The tagging guidelines can be found on the main meta site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18878/how-do-i-correctly-tag-my-questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and they are also explained in the Help Center, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The following points are relevant to this discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Tag from the general to the specific. Include at least one broad tag and also include some specific ones. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; for the general and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zsh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zsh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zsh&lt;/a&gt; for the specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;As a general rule, you should try and add as many tags as you can. You are limited to 5 and, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; there are 5 applicable tags&lt;/strong&gt;, you should use them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is nice and clear. If a question is about both bash and zsh, or if it can be, then it can carry both tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You should try and pick popular tags, those that are used most often.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zsh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zsh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zsh&lt;/a&gt; are among the more popular tags so it makes sense to include them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;While you should not attempt to summarize the question with the tags, the tags should give an idea of what the question is about.&lt;/strong&gt; Tags are used to sort questions into categories, so if a question fits into more than one category, it should be tagged with more than one tag. In addition, many users have &quot;Favorite Tags&quot; and questions tagged with them are highlighted. This means that if you use one of those tags, you are more likely to attract the attention of the people who are most capable of answering you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, basically, use as many useful tags as are relevant. In the case of the shells, tagging something that applies to both &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zsh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zsh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zsh&lt;/a&gt; makes a lot of sense since i) these are among the most popular tags, many people have favorited them and will therefore notice the question ii) people often search using the specific shell so it makes sense to have the question tagged with both if both apply and iii) there is absolutely no reason not to. You have 5 places for tags, use them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, on the more specific issue you are raising in this question, of course there are examples of questions that need both tags. Please don't try to make such general rules, they are very rarely valid across the board. The tagging of questions should be decided upon on a case by case basis. To take a silly example, if I were to ask &quot;How can I get zsh feature X in bash?&quot; I would, obviously, tag it as both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zsh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zsh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zsh&lt;/a&gt;. So, yes, of course there are cases where both tags would be needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T11:28:41.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2015-01-23T16:09:14.493" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is ok to have both the generic [shell] tag and a specific shell tag on a question.  My interpretation of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/281094/tags-is-less-more/281095#281095&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; supports this.  That question is about tagging programming questions on SO and Shog9 recommends two tags -- language and API.  This is essentially a broad topic and a drilled down specific topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the specific case you mention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; for the general &quot;language&quot; of shells&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; (or whatever) for the specific shell language dialect you are interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that this continues for each dialect interested in, e.g. having a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zsh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zsh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zsh&lt;/a&gt; would be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the limit of including all dialect tags (e.g. all of: shell, csh, ksh, bash, zsh) then you are actually dialect agnostic and need only use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53706" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T16:25:26.800" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-01-24T01:05:58.873" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blacklisted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask?tags=cd&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gvMWx.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T01:05:58.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-24T01:22:04.590" Score="2" ViewCount="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dual-monitor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dual-monitor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dual-monitor&lt;/a&gt; is probably better than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dualhead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dualhead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dualhead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T01:22:04.590" Title="merge tags [dualhead] and [dual-monitor]" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-24T21:50:22.693" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just created three tags, whereas two (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fakeroot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fakeroot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fakeroot&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fakeroot-ng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fakeroot-ng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fakeroot-ng&lt;/a&gt;) are closely related. Regarding functionality the latter is a replacement for the former, but the innards are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the latter rather be a synonym?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, may I ask readers with enough rep to kindly suggest that synonym on my behalf? I tried and I am unable as of now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5462" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T02:08:19.323" Title="Tags: fakeroot and fakeroot-ng, should the latter be a synonym?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3358" CreationDate="2015-01-25T00:18:56.103" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not so easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with more than 2500 reputation and a &lt;strong&gt;total answer score of 5 or&#xA;  more on the tag&lt;/strong&gt;, can suggest tag synonyms. Users with a total answer&#xA;  score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag,&#xA;  can vote for tag synonyms. &lt;strong&gt;Suggestions will be automatically approved&#xA;  when they reach a score of 4, and automatically deleted when they&#xA;  reach a score of -2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you have just created this tag nobody can suggest tag synonym, and even if someone could you still would need 4 other guys (each with 5 score on this tag) to approve the suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps moderators can help you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T00:18:56.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3358" CreationDate="2015-01-25T02:08:19.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure why you want to merge the two tags... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, they're related in that they aim to accomplish the same goal. But the implementations are entirely different, and so are the behaviors. To quote the fakeroot-ng homepage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the functional level, there are many differences between fakeroot and fakeroot-ng. Some of these differences are a result of the different technologies used by the two programs, and some are more derivatives of the above. The differences cover such areas as default ownership of unknown files, handling of SUID executables and chroot support. The differences are covered in more depth in the fakeroot vs fakeroot-ng comparison page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, then, the questions could be distinct as well, and the experts as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two separate tags seem entirely appropriate. Well, at least as well as can be determined from the 0 questions that actually are so tagged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T02:08:19.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3362" CreationDate="2015-01-25T07:02:47.543" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just hit on this question in the review queue: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/180639/is-there-way-to-see-man-document-only-for-specified-option-of-a-command&quot;&gt;Is there way to see `man` document only for specified option of a command&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is going to be closed as a duplicate of this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159214/how-to-filter-any-part-of-description-or-option-from-manpage&quot;&gt;How to filter any part of description or option from manpage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that this is not a good idea, was going to ask about it but found an answer (in my opinion): &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2841/32191&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2841/32191&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer omits one important point, though: What to do if the others have already started to vote this in the wrong direction? First comes to my mind to flag it and have the mod reverse the closing. Maybe it is possible to vote for closing as duplicate in the other direction but I would probably lose that as the other reviewing is a few votes ahead. I might add a comment on both questions but probably that just delays losing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there could be a technical solution: The close votiong dialog could be extended by a second voting for the closing direction. On the other hand this may happen so seldom that individual handling by the mods is preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T14:44:45.193" Title="reverse duplicate direction" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3361" CreationDate="2015-01-25T10:30:03.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think flagging is the best choice.  This does not happen very often so we shouldn't have any problem dealing with this.  Just flag one of the two posts and let us know what's wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case,  the questions were close enough that I just merged them.  Thanks for bringing it up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T10:30:03.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2015-01-26T11:24:24.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was led here from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/157763/do-we-have-more-history-for-cd&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. There's a big banner across the subject line that reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Locked by Michael Mrozek♦ 7 hours ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. For more info visit meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look through the revision history of that question, you'll see the original question was put thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we have more history for &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt;?&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;cd -&lt;/code&gt; can move to the last visited directory. Can we visit more history other than the last one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And its only tag at that time was &lt;code&gt;cd-command&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then the text of the question has been edited not at all, but the tags have seen 10 revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For whatever reason @Gilles next tagged it with &lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt;. While I understand the first one, the other two don't make any sense to me. I could understand if there was some indication in the text of the question that the asker was more interested in a solution geared toward one shell implementation than a solution geared toward another, but there is nothing of the sort there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging that question with &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; feels a bit like misappropriation. It lends a connotation to the question that it never assumed of its own accord. If the question should be tagged &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; then it should also be tagged &lt;code&gt;tcsh&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;csh&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;fish&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ksh88&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ksh93&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;posh&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;yash&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ash&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;dash&lt;/code&gt; and innumerable others. Because that would just be silly, instead the question should probably just have a &lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt; tag and the rest dropped - they are only redundant in this context and are more readers' assumptions than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what's more, if the question must be &lt;em&gt;locked while disputes about its content are being resolved&lt;/em&gt; - then why is it not locked in its original form and is instead locked w/ all of the additional disputed content added in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T11:24:24.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3366" CreationDate="2015-01-26T11:41:09.997" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/159214/66803&quot;&gt;How to filter any part of description or option from manpage&lt;/a&gt; is merged with &lt;strong&gt;Newer&lt;/strong&gt; question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/180639/66803&quot;&gt;Is there way to see `man` document only for specified option of a command&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newer question should be merged as duplicate but here things are opposite! As you can see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/159214/66803&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; posted on &lt;em&gt;Oct 4 '14 at 5:45&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/180639/66803&quot;&gt;newer question&lt;/a&gt; posted on &lt;em&gt;Jan 23'15 at 13:57&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In-spite of this, My question is merged with newer question! (and reasoned exact duplicate!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T12:07:48.733" Title="What is wrong with my question! [Reverse Direction of Merging]" Tags="|discussion|support|merging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3365" CreationDate="2015-01-26T11:49:58.097" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is absolutely nothing wrong with your question! Why would you think anything was wrong with it? Merging is done to improve the site,  it should not be perceived as an attack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which question is older and which newer has nothing to do with it.  In this particular case,  the new question had more and better answers.  I therefore chose to merge in this way since that would cause the least disruption. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the two questions were basically identical,  merging makes a lot of sense and doing it in this way moves the smallest number of posts around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T11:49:58.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-27T10:35:01.753" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/tags/linux&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f7KtY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Software Recommendations&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:01.533" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T16:23:30.727" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-27T10:35:01.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-28T08:04:14.223" Score="4" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had a look at the history of the reopen review queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/history&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not going to criticize the single decisions; it may well be possible that they are all &quot;correct&quot;. But from the perspective of those whose questions get closed this is a depressing result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I think it might be a good idea to add a hint to the edit window if a closed question is edited. Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of the last 100 closed questions only 7 were reopened. Please consider that when editing this question. Usually the edit must be a big quality change to the question to be successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may lead to less but better edits and to less disappointed users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T07:54:00.597" Title="Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-28T14:23:36.007" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspiration was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/181569/what-is-the-functionality-of-sched-softirq-in-linux&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; which was mistakenly tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scheduling&lt;/a&gt; even though the description on the tag page seems to be saying it's for &lt;code&gt;crond&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;atd&lt;/code&gt; scheduled jobs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scheduling&quot;&gt;some other people seem to have taken it&lt;/a&gt; to mean what I would have assumed it meant: determining the share and order of some sort of operation (Disk I/O, network packet queuing, CPU time, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like an issue with organization. Should the description updated or should these be re-tagged with something else and leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scheduling&lt;/a&gt; to mean &lt;code&gt;crond&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;atd&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T21:53:41.893" Title="Should &quot;scheduling&quot; be renamed, questions re-tagged or just the description updated?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-01-29T19:02:57.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://neovim.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kxZ8X.png&quot; alt=&quot;vim&amp;#39;s rebirth for the 21st century&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T19:02:57.200" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-29T19:02:57.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3371" CreationDate="2015-01-29T21:53:41.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure splitting process and I/O scheduling is really worth it, as they're often deeply interconnected anyway. (E.g., if a process is waiting on I/O, it can't be scheduled to run). Also, network scheduling is more normally called QoS, rate limiting, or traffic shaping, and is configured differently than disk I/O scheduling, so I wouldn't include it in I/O scheduling. I'd suggest keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scheduling&lt;/a&gt; the refer to process and I/O scheduling, though would not object to splitting that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/process-scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;process-scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;process-scheduling&lt;/a&gt; and either &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disk-scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;disk-scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;disk-scheduling&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/io-scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;io-scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;io-scheduling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_scheduler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Job scheduling&lt;/a&gt; is, I think, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; normally used to refer to cron-style &quot;run this at 01:03 every Sunday&quot;; it's closer to what &lt;code&gt;batch&lt;/code&gt; does. Though would often be used across a cluster. So I wouldn't use that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Task Scheduler is the name of a Windows component. It's also quite close to multitasking, which is what process (and I/O) scheduling does. Further, &quot;task&quot; isn't normal Unix terminology. So I wouldn't suggest that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cron manpage describes it as a &quot;daemon to execute scheduled commands&quot;. So I'd suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-scheduling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-scheduling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-scheduling&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T21:53:41.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3370" CreationDate="2015-01-30T07:54:00.597" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appreciate your concern, I regularly look what others voted after I cast mine when voting to reopen, and I often do  et the feeling I am alone in giving a question a second chance. There is currently little incentive for a reviewer to comment the reason for their decision (as a chance to help the OP who is obviously struggling to get the question in an acceptable form). And although the original close voters are listed below a question, few can see who kept a question from re-opening and as such a reviewer you never get a question (as a comment or as email) from the OP on why you did not vote to reopen, as you do when voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I suggest you could try and see if it makes a difference to comment to the OP when you do a close review yourself (if the tendency is towards closing as it normally is) or reopen review, urging the OP to do their bests or not bother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am under the impression that many of the non-reopened questions are not reopened because of the same reason they were closed in the first place: the OP not really bothering, or being able to, to try and find out if the question (s)he has is appropriate for the site and/or understandable by those reading it without the OPs background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For such an non-bothering OP an extra message might hardly make any difference. In the same way that a large percentage don't seem to understand this place is not a forum and use the comments to &quot;improve&quot; their question instead of making the original post crisp and understandable. So although the hard numbers of chances of reopening are ok, but the notion of big quality change is IMO to vague, direct links to relevant and practical information on how to create such a change would be required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not knowing how to comment to the OP in a way (and with information that makes a difference) has kept me from making more helpful comments. My idea was to have some meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3071/33055&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;) as reference point(s) for such comments, but I have to confess it's easier just to do a quick review wihtout further bothering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T07:54:00.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3350" CreationDate="2015-01-31T03:46:19.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;/cdrom&lt;/code&gt; would be a better tag than &lt;code&gt;/data-cd&lt;/code&gt;, I think.  Typing &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; would pop it up as an autocompletion, so people would discover it automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;code&gt;/optical-disc&lt;/code&gt; would cover data dvds and data blu-rays, too.  We don't need or want different tags for those, do we?  Tags that are too specific mean too many tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79808" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T03:46:19.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3378" CreationDate="2015-02-05T13:55:45.757" Score="1" ViewCount="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are badges for certain numbers (50?) of days on which you have reached the daily limit of 200 rep points. Is there an easy way to see how many such days have been there for you? For many badges in the &quot;you need some more of this&quot; category (e.g. Reviewer, Steward, tag badges) you are shown precisely (and prominently) how much you have and need yet. For the &quot;copy editor&quot; you have to click a few times but can see your current status then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Counting days in the reputation diagram seems unpleasant to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: I noticed that the ratio of rep points to badges is quite different among the users. If you look at the page with the most rep users then you find several cases (including me) where users on consecutive positions differ in badges by a factor of two. I wouldn't be surprised about that with low-rep users because you &quot;have to&quot; want certain badges in order to get them. But I would expect this difference to become much smaller at higher rep numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T14:17:37.210" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T14:17:37.210" Title="Is the number of days with the daily rep limit reached shown somewhere?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3377" CreationDate="2015-02-05T14:17:28.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the /reputation path there's an entry at the end that tells you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; on 4 days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the one you are looking for is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;earned at least 200 reputation on 4 days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T14:17:28.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3380" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:08:13.737" Score="12" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &quot;not an answer&quot; flag was raised against &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/183113/22222&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. As you can see, it is not actually providing any new solutions, just comparing the ones already provided by other answers and showing which one is faster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, it is not an answer. It is not attempting to solve the issue. It is, however, providing useful information that can help users choose between the proposed methods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I lean towards allowing that type of post. I have to, I have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/130744/22222&quot;&gt;guilty of posting&lt;/a&gt; such myself. In my own answer, I simply collected all posted solutions and compared them in terms of speed. That answer has received 9 upvotes to date and no downvotes, which (might) suggest that the community feels that such comparisons are useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how so we feel about comparative answers? Answers that provide no new method of solving the OP's issue but do provide useful information about the existing answers. Do we like them? Do we not? Should they be deleted? Or do we feel that they add useful information and can be tolerated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T05:00:42.803" Title="Are answers comparing existing answers acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:26:08.590" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I observe two things about that answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if you've read every other answer, that one still offers additional information regarding the solutions proposed elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if &lt;em&gt;every other answer was deleted&lt;/em&gt;, that answer would still allow a reader to solve the problem presented in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; completely &lt;em&gt;redundant&lt;/em&gt; and it &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;stand alone&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quick update, since a few people seem to have assumed I was planning on deleting the other answers or something: observation #1 establishes that the answer isn't redundant, while observation #2 establishes that the answer &lt;em&gt;is actually an answer&lt;/em&gt; - that while it builds on the work done by other answers, it does so without becoming &lt;em&gt;dependent&lt;/em&gt; on them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At worst, I see no harm in it, and for some readers it may offer significant benefits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T05:00:42.803" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T05:00:42.803" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:29:30.510" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it answer the question? Clearly; in fact, it gives four solutions. That alone makes it an answer (i.e. not not-an-answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question is, should it be downvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it add value compared to the other solutions? Yes, it gives objective benchmarks. Those can be very helpful in figuring out which solution to use for in and similar situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything should be changed about this post, it's that it should give credit to the authors of the posts from which his solutions are taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11750" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T17:29:30.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:43:30.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that enhancements or clarifications to existing solutions are Ok, as long as long as the resulting post is itself an answer. Case in point, some years ago I added the following answer:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/9288547/350713&quot;&gt;“unpacking” a tuple to call a matching function pointer&lt;/a&gt;. This formally adds absolutely nothing new to the answer by Johanne, but it has 24 upvotes and no downvotes at this time of writing, so presumably people find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T17:43:30.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2015-02-05T20:59:24.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original question is already a duplicate and now we have more duplicated information, that is, in addition, not really critical of the solutions used (e.g. using the default &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;grep -F&lt;/code&gt; which can be used as there are no patterns involved (muru's answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO it is preferable to have this answer in a separate Q&amp;amp;A pair, whereby the title of that question should be adapted to what the answer answers, i.e. includes information about the speed comparison. That way someone might actually hit upon the answer, now googling for &lt;code&gt;text processing speed comparison unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; doesn't seem to show things (but that might be my googling deficiency).&#xA;A link to the original question and answers with appropriate credits would of course be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T20:59:24.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2015-02-06T00:28:56.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like comparisons of different tools. When we decide which tool should be used for the given job then time needed for particular operation is one of the most important thing (the others are availability, portability, etc). So yes, for me it is perfectly acceptable answer, and at least once I gave similar comparison: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/156602/80886&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/156602/80886&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, with that being said I have to admit that discussed benchmark looks fishy to me because I can hardly believe that 3 consecutive &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; are 6x faster than single &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, and 10x faster than single &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;. Really???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a fast xcheck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# creating the file by repeating next 'cat' until abc.txt=196MB&#xA;$ cat /usr/src/linux/Documentation/**/*.txt &amp;gt;&amp;gt; abc.txt&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;single &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ time bash -c &quot;awk '/a/ &amp;amp;&amp;amp; /b/ &amp;amp;&amp;amp; /c/' abc.txt &amp;gt;&amp;gt; /dev/null&quot;&#xA;7.75s user 0.23s system 99% cpu 7.984 total&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;triple &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ time bash -c &quot;grep a abc.txt | grep b | grep c &amp;gt;&amp;gt; /dev/null&quot;&#xA;5.65s user 1.41s system 188% cpu 3.745 total&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;single &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$  time bash -c &quot;grep -e 'a.*b.*c' -e 'a.*c.*b' -e 'b.*a.*c' -e 'b.*c.*a' -e 'c.*a.*b' -e 'c.*b.*a' abc.txt &amp;gt;&amp;gt; /dev/null&quot;&#xA;2.43s user 0.13s system 99% cpu 2.565 total&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;single &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ time bash -c &quot;perl -ne 'print if /a/ &amp;amp;&amp;amp; /b/ &amp;amp;&amp;amp; /c/' abc.txt &amp;gt;&amp;gt; /dev/null&quot;&#xA;11.95s user 0.21s system 99% cpu 12.174 total&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that something is incorrect in that answer, but above results make more sense to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; as a dedicated tool is fastest because it is designed and optimized to do only one job, and do it fast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;single &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; is faster than 3, because no time is wasted for forking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt; is slowest as it is the largest program&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Test done on weak netbook with atom processor, so only relative times make sense.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T00:28:56.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-06T00:38:23.247" Score="14" ViewCount="616" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to unix.SE, but I've spent a lot of time thinking about how SE sites should work. I was a moderator on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net&quot;&gt;MathOverflow&lt;/a&gt; for several years, so I understand that it's important to keep the site clean, and I understand how this sometimes upsets users (especially new users). That said, I was surprised by the response to my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/183150/79064&quot;&gt;How can I loop over possible completions?&lt;/a&gt; I'm certainly not looking to get into fights on the internet, but I thought that it would be more useful to invite analysis of what went wrong here, rather than just deciding to never post on this site again. Hence, this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm clearly biased, this seems like a particularly bad reception for a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think I asked a pretty clear question, even illustrating the sort of input/output I expect from the function I'm trying to produce.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I put considerable work into on possible solution before posting my question, and summarized this work in an answer. Since this possible solution could well be a blind alley, I posted it as an answer to keep the question itself clearer: I'm looking for an answer to the question, not comments on my possibly-bad approach.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A high-rep user posted an answer, apparently without reading the body of the question. I pointed out that his answer doesn't answer the question. He says my question wasn't clear. I ask how I could have made it clearer. He is silent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This high-rep user, and another fairly high-rep user comment that my answer should be part of the question, saying that it will likely get deleted (!). I explain why I kept it separate, citing the FAQ. The high-rep user expresses amusement that I would refer him to the FAQ, and says &quot;I wrote that after I saw your answer in the review queue where it is currently at 4:1 for deletion.&quot; Note: at this point the question had a mere 27 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, &quot;Wow! What a waste of time.&quot; Aside from my initial question and answer, nobody has contributed anything on-topic, two high-rep users have added off-topic noise (which I realize is sometimes necessary when the original questioner is unclear), and apparently 5 people have engaged in the bureaucracy of voting to delete the on-topic answer. WTF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit]&#xA;Thank you for the responses. I appreciate the effort. Let me comment on some common bits in the answers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;The answer should have been part of the question.&quot; I think this is a respectable point of view. I don't think it would be &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; to merge them. If the answer were more partial (e.g. shorter than the question proper), I would agree that it should be part of the question, but as it is, I think it's clearer for them to be separate. If/when the question is conclusively answered, having included the partial answer in the question would cause one of a number of problems: either I'd edit the question to contain what is now a complete answer, or future readers looking to answer the same question would be distracted by a partial answer before getting to the real answer, or I'd edit the partial answer out of the question, rendering any answers which referred to it very difficult to understand.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;B.&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;An answer should be a complete answer.&quot; I hope you don't believe this. An incomplete answer that somebody has put a lot of effort into can be very valuable. Would the answer have been deleted if it were posted by anybody other than me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;C.&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;It was correct to vote to delete.&quot; I've always used a vote to delete to mean &quot;the site would be better without this&quot;. Did anybody vote to delete thinking this? If you &lt;em&gt;strongly&lt;/em&gt; believe that the answer should have been part of the question, as seems to be the norm in this community, it takes less rep to edit than to vote to delete. See &quot;what are the criteria for deletion&quot; at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222&lt;/a&gt;, which your FAQ points to. The answer does answer the question (albeit as a sketch, missing tedious details), and it is not of no value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79064" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T17:34:09.667" Title="Case study: bad experience of new user (but veteran Stack Exchange user)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-06T02:07:51.610" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand your disappointment, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I kinda agree with what Hauke did. He saw a post that was likely to get deleted and decided to comment on what's possibly wrong before it did. Throwing the FAQ at him (when, IMHO,  you're wrong) isn't going to change how the others vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That answer, while a partial answer, &lt;em&gt;is a whole question&lt;/em&gt;. It should be part of the question. Do not answer unless you have a concrete answer. You're the OP, you have the luxury of modifying the original question. Other users don't, so there's some justification if they post work-in-progress answers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add that as edit to the question, there are two good scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somebody else fills in the missing part. Great, question as it stands is now answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You discover how to do the missing part. &lt;em&gt;Now&lt;/em&gt; you can edit out the current answer part from the question, fill it and post an answer. Again, question answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T02:07:51.610" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-06T04:18:00.363" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;Aside from my initial question and answer, nobody has contributed anything on-topic...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a very odd claim to make. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone did attempt to assist you, by providing an answer which would qualify it as on topic in my view (the fact that it is not the answer you were looking for is due as much to the phrasing of the question as it is to Hauke's misreading of it. Note, neither of those statements is intended to be pejorative). In fact, it is very much par for the course here, where people will attempt to clarify requirements through the comments and refine their answers in response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to the second issue, the votes to delete your answer (I was one of those who voted in favour of deletion), I think you did yourself a disservice with the &quot;&lt;em&gt;what I have learned so far&lt;/em&gt;&quot; heading. However, after reading this question and looking back at your question and answer, I would vote the same way again: it is not a complete answer (by your own criteria) and, if added to the question, would make it far easier for someone else to provide a comprehensive answer; in its current state, it has the opposite effect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your final summation here, &quot;Wow! What a waste of time&quot; is similarly odd; the question has been up for less than half a day, has attracted one answer and, if the question were further refined, undoubtedly would attract more. Petulantly dismissing the effort people have put in to help you because it doesn't meet your expectations says a lot more about you than it does about the community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T04:18:00.363" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-06T04:22:12.013" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the users that flagged your posted answer for deletion, allow me to offer a little more of an explanation. It is common-place for OPs to edit their posts to include updated information if they should discover more or clarify something for prospective answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not intend for you to be discouraged, but rather for you to add the clarification to the OP so that people who can answer your question know which parts you still need answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, as @muru mentioned, if you manage to discover the full answer then it would certainly be beneficial to edit your question and answer to be of the Q&amp;amp;A style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, again, my vote was not intended to discourage you, but rather shift how you approach your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65525" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T04:22:12.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-06T06:45:25.910" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll resist saying much about MathOverflow other than that it's not a particularly good example of how things will go on the average Stack Exchange site -- what happened in this post seems pretty standard. Content that explains what you've tried so far that hasn't totally solved the problem yet almost always goes in the question. At the risk of just repeating what comments already said, an answer shouldn't end in a follow-up question, it should be a complete answer. The comments aren't &quot;noise&quot;, they're trying to explain what went wrong. The other answer is wrong, but the poster just misunderstood the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T06:45:25.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-06T13:57:42.863" Score="-1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand it's frustrating when you want to help but can't understand what the person needs help with but at the same time you have to balance that with the user's interests since ultimately that's the value this website contributes to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've ran across several questions where someone has voted to close without ever even asking for clarification on any particular point. I don't think &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; should be a synonym for &quot;I just don't know the answer&quot; or &quot;you made grammatical mistakes in your post&quot; since closing questions for either reason doesn't help anyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/183296/how-to-logrotate-openerp-server-log-to-openerp-server-yy-mm-dd-log/183314#183314&quot;&gt;This is something I found this morning&lt;/a&gt;. I've since edited it, but the question was clear enough to me and it seems obvious that the OP is just ESL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several more votes to close like this just this morning as I browse but it's something I've seen off and on for a while. It seems like a good way to scare off new users or make people feel like it's not worth contributing to this particular SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T14:48:24.573" Title="Is it possible to require comment activity before letting people vote to close as unclear?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2015-02-06T14:43:00.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, requiring comments seems a bit annoying, since in many cases the explanation given by the close box covers everything. It's not that a particular line is unclear, that's usually fixable, it's that the whole post is totally unclear to the degree that nobody knows how to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, this site in particular seems happy to close imperfect questions that are easily fixed. I don't think requiring comments would solve that though, people just leave generic comments instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T14:43:00.233" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-06T15:45:53.217" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, thank you for taking the time to post here and discuss this. That takes a certain amount of time and effort and it is very much appreciated. That said, I too will agree that everything worked as it should here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You linked to the Help pages; well those very clearly state that (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;how to ask&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tell us what you found and why it didn’t meet your needs. This demonstrates that you’ve taken the time to try to help yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;how to answer&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Read the question carefully. &lt;strong&gt;What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer provides that – or a viable alternative&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, finally (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;self-answer&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have a question that you already know the answer to&lt;/strong&gt;, and you would like to document that knowledge in public so that others (including yourself) can find it later, it's perfectly okay to ask and answer your own question on a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, what you've done so far belongs in the question and answers should always be answering the question asked. Your answer was not answering the question. It was providing extra information needed for us to understand the question better and showing what you've tried so we don't reinvent the wheel. That's great stuff! We want to see it. Just not in an answer. It should be in the question where it belongs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, by the way, is the case on all SE sites since it is part of the generic FAQ and not specific to U&amp;amp;L. I am very surprised that someone with the SE experience you have is not aware of that. Answers are &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, this is pretty much the one golden rule that holds true across the whole network. It is certainly true for the 6 sites I contribute to regularly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading your question, I thought someone had been rude to you. Given that this is a site for *nix geeks, a breed that is not famous for their social skills, patience or excessive care not to offend, I was ready to come in and wave my mod hammer around chastising rude users. This is not a problem we have often but it does happen. However, looking at the comments you received, I see only polite explanations of how you can improve your post so it doesn't get deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please use the edit link on your question to add additional information. The Post Answer button should be used only for complete answers to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This should be part of the question, not an answer (it may get deleted). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both comments are perfectly civil (at worst, the last one can be called terse, but not rude as such), and are trying to explain to a new user how the site works and what we expect from our users. Good! That's precisely what we want new users to find here: helpful people who push them in the right direction and aid them in improving their posts. I really don't understand what you found to take offense at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You answered the last comment with: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is not part of the question. This is a partial answer which happens to be produced by the same person who asked the question. I considered making this part of the question, but decided that would detract from the clarity of the question. I refer you to the site FAQ: unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask, unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer, and unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are directing the user who tried to help you to the very same Help pages which, apparently, you yourself have failed to read (since, as I showed above, they explain that all information relevant to the question should be in the question and that answers should &lt;em&gt;provide an answer&lt;/em&gt;). Next time, at least refer to the specific section of the Help pages which you feel supports your choice. As it stands, your comment was a little patronizing and did not explain why you feel the Help pages suggest you were doing the right thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, what I see here is the community trying to help a new user in the best traditions of SE. Why not just edit your question, include the information from your answer and leave it at that? It's only been a day!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T15:45:53.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2015-02-06T19:14:56.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There comes a point where it just is not worth the effort trying to help someone ask their question in a way that would solicit valuable responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happily vote to close as unclear if the question is poorly worded&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;shows no research effort; ie., is &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;is obviously homework (related to the above)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;has all the signs of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Y problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;where the OP has a history of drawing commenters into protracted exchanges that amount to handholding and/or hair splitting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;are, or should be, tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;include the phrase &quot;comprised of&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, this site is a wiki; every question isn't worth saving. And, like the other FOSS support sites on the Internet, no-one is entitled to 24/7 support from the community. Make an effort, show your work and try and contribute a question that will be as helpful for anyone else reading the site as it will serve your immediate needs and you will be doing everyone a favour, not just scratching your own itch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1. The exception being txtspeek: then I just vote to close, I don't require any additional criteria...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T19:14:56.983" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2015-02-06T20:48:41.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the reason for it, if you encounter a question that you understand and others are confused by, &lt;strong&gt;edit it to clarify!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/10/new-editing-badges-and-enhancements-to-suggested-edits/&quot;&gt;There are even badge to recognize this activity&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not a panacea; all too often, comment critiques based on misunderstanding lead to even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; confusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now on Stack Overflow, we're &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/278380/help-us-test-question-triage&quot;&gt;experimenting with a system to quickly sort&lt;/a&gt; new questions according to how they're initially perceived, with the goal of funneling the majority of confusing or otherwise-problematic questions into a path where folks like yourself can find and improve them rather than going through the sometimes-laborious close-edit-reopen process. We're not sure if this can be made to work on smaller sites like this yet, but it does offer some hope for a smoother process in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T20:48:41.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-08T21:00:04.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;B. &quot;An answer should be a complete answer.&quot; I hope you don't believe this. An incomplete answer that somebody has put a lot of effort into can be very valuable. Would the answer have been deleted if it were posted by anybody other than me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps not, but I still think what you had belonged in &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question.  The difference between that and someone else doing the same thing is not a matter of &lt;strong&gt;content&lt;/strong&gt; but of &lt;strong&gt;context&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a partial answer is okay if there are actually multiple questions in the &quot;question&quot;, and the &quot;partial&quot; answer deals with at least one of them (questions which are subject to this, however, probably aren't very good questions to begin with and should have been broken up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think an answer which sketches a possible approach to a solution, which is what you did, is also okay &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt;, as in this case, it is really an addendum to the question.  What's the difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the first case, someone has come along, grokked what you are trying to do, and suggested, via an outline of some kind, how you might approach it.  This is fairly reasonable, particularly if a complete solution would be too long.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the second case, the person who asked the question is elaborating on what it is they want to accomplish.  That is not &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; kind of answer.  It's a modification of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reasoning seems to be that it is a &quot;partial answer&quot; because if someone else wrote exactly the same answer, it might be acceptable.  I agree, it might be (although in this case, I'd say it was of low quality and likely to be downvoted).  However, &lt;strong&gt;the context&lt;/strong&gt;, as just described, is not at all the same.  By analogy: someone else who comes along with the same idea &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; take it upon themselves to, instead of providing the partial sketch answer, edit the partial sketch into your question with the suggestion that &quot;here's a potential approach I'd like to see elaborated&quot;, resulting in exactly the same &lt;strong&gt;content&lt;/strong&gt; in the question. However, again, &lt;strong&gt;context&lt;/strong&gt; would almost certainly make this inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T21:05:28.420" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T21:05:28.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2015-02-08T21:34:39.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is sort of interesting because it's something I've gradually changed my mind about.  Several times in the past, I've argued in chat that I think the first close vote should require a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel that way anymore.  I'm not sure if it is a matter of becoming more cynical -- or less, with regard to putting faith in the efficacy of the system.  I admit the hold banners are explicit enough and often do not require a further comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of your example, looking at the original edit, I'm trying to imagine a version which demonstrates less thought put into it.  The fact that it is a simple and straightforward question is no excuse; in that case, it should be even easier to make sure it is completely clear.  That the OP had a problem with English perhaps makes it an unfortunate corner case, but often people with that problem make it &lt;em&gt;clear&lt;/em&gt; -- so maybe there is still a lesson in this for the poster.  You're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; clear by consensus.  What are you going to do about that?  Just because someone's English is poor does not mean they are stupid and cannot solve elementary communication problems, starting with, &quot;My English is not good...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some people seem to approach the task thinking that they should begin by making as little effort as humanly possible, then if that doesn't get them what they want, maybe they have to try harder.  Hence, we are &lt;strong&gt;explicitly&lt;/strong&gt; asking them to try harder, and that is not unreasonable. Do we always need to elaborate on &quot;unclear&quot;?  There's a whole paragraph explaining it in the &quot;hold&quot; bar, including the invitation to leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also believe a lot of people who don't answer questions sometimes have a hard time empathizing with those who do.  I'm not saying they should have to answer questions if they can't or don't want to, but I think they should step back and consider that just because you get something for free does not mean it is a product of unlimited resources.  If you can't be bothered to try, &lt;em&gt;why should anyone else&lt;/em&gt;?  Why should the community give you time?&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  Answers are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a product of unlimited resources, and therefore, there need to be limits and standards imposed on questions.  If S.E. arbitrated for money instead, I'm sure people would make an effort to be &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; clear about &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; what they are looking for, lest they get, &quot;Sorry, the answer genie did answer your question as asked; if you want another, they are $5 each&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of forums, etc., around where you can act as slovenly as you like.  I think setting a higher bar results in an all round better site.  Does this catch some people off guard at first? Sure, but they have the opportunity to learn from their mistakes.  To do facilitate that, they need to be pointed out.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. The objection could be made that if you don't want to answer a question you don't have to, but that doesn't mean you should vote to make it impossible for anyone else.  My problem with that has to do with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;broken windows theory&lt;/a&gt;.  Allowing really low quality questions to float creates the impression that it is okay because someone who isn't so fussy will come along eventually.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T14:48:24.573" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T14:48:24.573" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2015-02-09T02:04:25.577" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are answers comparing existing answers acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Those answers are essentially regurgitating someone else words. They do not give anything novel back (frankly, I don't trust any Joe Doe performance tests, not even mines), and just serve to clutter the answers further with the information already available somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone considers that one solution is fastest/cheaper/awesome they can readily express them by upvotes and/or comments complementing the information on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the NAA flag wasn't exactly the flag it should be raised here, but a &quot;other&quot; -&gt; &quot;this answer doesn't add anything new and simply repeats the solutions of other answers&quot;, which I believe any moderator would acted by deleting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when comparing existing answers is a valid answer? When your very own solution is part of the comparison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I recommend fooring the bar with X tool, since the times are 20, 23 and 40 percent faster than Joe, Marc, Jhon solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, you are just cluttering the answers. If you want to add your own comparison, just comment on the specifics answers you benchmarked (or whatever variable you were comparing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T02:09:26.450" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T02:09:26.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3399" CreationDate="2015-02-09T08:25:18.980" Score="27" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;I earned the tumbleweed badge. It's description: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; This sounds quite negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Why) should I be proud / happy about that? That is usually the point of earning badges. Or did I ask a bad question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46717" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T08:44:53.537" Title="Should I be happy about the tumbleweed badge?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2015-02-09T08:33:40.473" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think of it as a pick-me-up thing. It's like SE saying: &lt;em&gt;You didn't get anything useful, so here's badge to cheer you up!&lt;/em&gt; So, yes, be a little happy! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poking around on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1576/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-tumbleweed-badge#comment2615_1579&quot;&gt;Meta SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is exactly the intent. And it's sort of fun, also useful because it gives us a data point about how many questions are utter failures in the system (not due to the user's fault, necessarily, either) –  Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T14:17:11.157" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-09T20:37:11.307" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think I asked a pretty clear question, even illustrating the sort of input/output I expect from the function I'm trying to produce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree. I had no trouble understanding what you wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I put considerable work into on possible solution before posting my question, and summarized this work in an answer. Since this possible solution could well be a blind alley, I posted it as an answer to keep the question itself clearer: I'm looking for an answer to the question, not comments on my possibly-bad approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this possible solution could be a blind alley, it is not a partial answer, but a potential answer. What you posted as an answer does not solve the problem. If someone knows nothing about the subject, they can't use your answer for anything. Thus the right thing was to post this in a question, stating that you'd tried this but weren't sure whether it would be fruitful. Your edit to the question was great. Posting it as an answer wasn't right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/183464&quot;&gt;muru's answer&lt;/a&gt; is a partial answer: it only works in the case of a completion defined by &lt;code&gt;complete -F&lt;/code&gt;, not in the general case, but it does cover the example you gave as well as many others. If someone knows nothing about the subject, but is only interested in this fairly common case, this answer will suit them fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T20:37:11.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3398" CreationDate="2015-02-11T08:57:56.117" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even more than with material things the acquisition of virtualities like badges on StackExchange is not something you should make your happiness depend upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you ask a bad question? Maybe, but not necessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at who recently got the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/21/tumbleweed&quot;&gt;tubmleweed&lt;/a&gt; badge, you can see that several a day seem to be given out, and the total given out is approaching 2K.  That can't all be bad questions, especially not because AFAIK it doesn't get awarded for questions that are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first thought that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gentoo&quot;&gt;Gentoo related questions&lt;/a&gt; don't seem that well answered here on U&amp;amp;L, 22 out of the newest 50 questions tagged with Gentoo have no answer but other distros tags give similar results (arch-linux: 24, Debian: 20, CentOS: 18)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is more a case of a question that is difficult to answer without having encountered the problem or at least knowing about the issue. I have no idea what it is exactly about (not your fault, I understand what you ask but are not familiar with why you would do such a thing, as I am not using gentoo myself), and I have little inclination to try and find out and answer your question. If the question was about using &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; to parse some field out of a text file, many more people could answer and several would try to gain a few reputation points doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The surrounding posts (currently accessible by using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?page=17&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;) have mostly many more views, so it doesn't seem that nobody was online to look at the question (as might happen on the weekend or between 7-9 AM GMT as is my impression), that IMO supports the notion that the question is not something others have found necessary to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately if you post is not answered within a few hours, your chances of getting an answer at all are vastly  reduced. Someone has to stumble upon it who solved the issue (why would such a person look at it in the first place?), or remember seeing your question when they solved it later on, and come back to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offering a bounty might help to draw attention, I know at least one person on U&amp;amp;L that studied something completely new for the extra bounty points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T08:44:53.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-12T11:15:29.703" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been using unix.stackexchange.com for almost 2 years, and during the time, I have asked more than 200 questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to SE, I have solved problems that I could not have solved on my own. I have often relied on &quot;bounty&quot; to draw attention to a problem that was particularly important to me. But still, some of my questions/problems remain unsolved to this day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that perhaps they are to specific that not enough people care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be happy to pay real $$$ for a solution, but AFAIK this is not possible on this site. Are there any plans for paying real money on SE sites ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43007" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T10:04:25.337" Title="I would be happy to pay real money for succesful solution to my question" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3402" CreationDate="2015-02-12T13:15:37.000" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not as far as I know,  no.  That's not what SE is about.  There are many sites out there that help you hire programmers,  we just do Q&amp;amp;A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been similar proposals on the main meta which have always been turned down. Adding money to the SE model would just result in loads of unanswered questions since people would go for the ones they get paid for. It would also create a business relationship between the asker and whoever answers,  allowing the OP to feel entitled to an answer.  Not to mention, the huge legal complications involved with the transfer of services for money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So,  in short,  no there are no such plans and I fervently hope there never will be. Personally,  I would stop participating if this became a paid service. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T10:04:25.337" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T10:04:25.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3402" CreationDate="2015-02-12T20:35:37.743" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commericalising this community, or any of the other places around the Internet where people who believe in free and open source software give their time to help others, would have nothing but a deleterious effect. Not everything of value can and should be reduced to a cash transaction (or, in the words of growth hackers, &quot;monetised&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to pay a developer to help you, there are plenty of ways to do that. Turning this site into a marketplace isn't one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T20:35:37.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-17T18:59:40.597" Score="5" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can something be done to enable me to log into unix.stackexchange chat?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I am logged into unix.stackexchange, I sometimes click on links to join chat, either within the comments of a posting, or in the formal chat room area.  But in each case, I am only able to view the requested chat room, and I get a message indicating that I need to be logged in before I can chat.  But I am already logged in at that point.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify the problem, I try things like logging in again, logging in to stackexchange, etc.  But even after these steps, I still get the same message about not being able to join chat until I log in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, I am allowed to engage in chat in other stackexchange sites of which I am a member.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: I am using CentOS 7 and Firefox.  However, I just tested it on Windows 7 using Internet Explorer 11, and the site did not allow me to log in to chat either.  In internet explorer, I tested it with both InPrivate and with normal browsing.  Also, this is a problem 100% of the time, so this is not a problem with server maintenance as suggested by a comment below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I am also not able to log into serverfault chat., but of course i can log in to stack overflow chat.&#xA;What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92670" LastEditorUserId="92670" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T20:15:37.090" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T20:15:37.090" Title="cannot log into chat" Tags="|bug|chat|login|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3385" CreationDate="2015-02-21T17:34:09.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a low ranking user, not having access to the review queue, I can understand your pain.  As a user who &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have access to the review queue on another site in the SE network, I can understand the poor schmucks who had to review your question too!  &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So trying to give a balanced (?) answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the review queue contains more then 1000 items, the poor schmucks mentioned above, have to review 40 items per day or 20 if lower... (Again: I'm a low ranking user here, so I have no clue how big the review queue was when you asked your question, but yours was 1 out of 20 or 40 questions to review).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've visited &lt;a href=&quot;http://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;math.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; once and knew I was out of my league straight away: I can solve integrals because of my scientific background, but what is going on @Math is in stark contrast to @Unix...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Math I browsed around and never saw anything which even remotely looks like the ... erm, pile of bovine excrement??? that occasionally comes in as a &quot;question&quot; here @Unix and has to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;triaged&lt;/a&gt; to be able to help as many users as possible... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question unfortunately got mixed up in the triage queue, a few people &lt;em&gt;saw a duplicate&lt;/em&gt; so tried to get you to &lt;em&gt;an answer ASAHP&lt;/em&gt; and flagged it as such...  :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So think of your mum asking a question here, and all of your friend's mums and then think about your own question in-between those...  (If your mother is a maths teacher, think of your crazy uncle Bob and all &lt;em&gt;his friends&lt;/em&gt;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shrug, re-open your question and get an answer!!!  &lt;strong&gt;&gt;:)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T17:34:09.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2015-02-24T07:33:38.367" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My script runs from the commandline, but not from cron&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was sure I had answered this before but could not find it or another generic answer (but I probably overlooked this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/186512/not-able-to-run-shell-script-using-cron&quot;&gt;Not able to run shell script using cron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T07:33:38.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-03-01T13:23:58.823" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;See all questions with active bounties http://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/unix.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9454" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T13:23:58.823" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-03-01T13:23:58.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:02:23.060" Score="30" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many people think that [screen] refers to screen as in monitor screen and use this tag inappropriately. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/182856/screen-brightness-adjustment-not-working-in-ubuntu-14-04&quot;&gt;Screen brightness adjustment not working in Ubuntu 14.04&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/182279/unable-to-start-x-server-with-no-screens-no-xorg-config-to-edit&quot;&gt;Unable to start X Server with no screens, no xorg.config to edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/181725/cant-change-screen-resolution-in-kali-linux&quot;&gt;Cant change screen resolution in Kali Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that [screen] should be renamed to [gnu-screen] to limit this ambiguity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72304" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T16:23:00.303" Title="Rename [screen] to [gnu-screen]" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3409" CreationDate="2015-03-04T16:23:00.303" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu-screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu-screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu-screen&lt;/a&gt; was already set up as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt;. That means that anyone attempting to tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu-screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu-screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu-screen&lt;/a&gt; would end up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now reversed the synonym so anyone tagging with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; will get &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu-screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu-screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu-screen&lt;/a&gt; instead. I've also retagged the questions you linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T16:23:00.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3412" CreationDate="2015-03-04T16:41:06.680" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm confused.  I've asked several questions in the past asking for the &quot;most efficient&quot; way of doing something: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102852/what-is-the-most-efficient-way-to-move-a-large-number-of-files-that-reside-in-a&quot;&gt;What is the most efficient way to move a large number of files that reside in a single directory?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/118018/whats-the-most-efficient-way-to-grep-for-two-completely-separate-things-and-ass&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the most efficient way to grep for two completely separate things and assign the values to separate variables?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90106/whats-the-most-resource-efficient-way-to-count-how-many-files-are-in-a-director&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the most resource efficient way to count how many files are in a directory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time though, when I asked what the most efficient method for calculating disk usage, the question was placed on hold: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/188006/whats-the-most-efficient-way-to-find-out-what-is-consuming-disk-space&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/188006/whats-the-most-efficient-way-to-find-out-what-is-consuming-disk-space&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question originally ended with asking &quot;What's a faster way of doing this&quot; (which admittedly is open-ended and subjective).  I have since modified the question to once again state &quot;What is the most efficient way of doing this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this still out of scope?  If so, why were the other questions allowed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1822" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T23:55:50.247" Title="Are questions that request the &quot;most efficient&quot; command/method for accomplishing a task out of scope?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3411" CreationDate="2015-03-04T23:48:07.423" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to realize about how Stack Exchange works: The close reason displayed isn't always what all the voters picked. It displays the most popular one. Personally, I voted to close as unclear; let me explain why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;du&lt;/code&gt; works by going through all directories, reading all the entries and &lt;code&gt;stat&lt;/code&gt;ing them. It adds up and prints the sizes as it goes. Pretty much, this is the only way to do what it does within the Unix API. That said, there are more or less optimal ways to do this, but they're all reasonably close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few ways to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actually do the above work (e.g., caching the results and avoiding re-scanning unchanged directory trees—you can do this, depending on the filesystem in use), moving the work to somewhere its faster (on a file server instead of the client), etc. All these are very setup-specific. And, e.g., if you're only checking once, not repeatedly, that cached version is going to be slower. You didn't give us any details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You presented us with a machine that takes much longer. It'd be interesting to answer why it takes longer—but again, no details. Maybe the machine just has a thousand times more files? Maybe it has slow disks? Maybe it's scanning a slow NFS mount? Maybe there are other processes competing for I/O? Maybe the hardware is failing, and &lt;code&gt;du&lt;/code&gt; is actually waiting for disk I/O retries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More or less, you've asked &quot;what's the fastest &lt;code&gt;du&lt;/code&gt;?&quot;. If you compare it to the other questions you listed, you'll notice the others are more focused and more detailed. They're detailed enough that someone answering can actually run benchmarks that'll likely apply to your situation as well. (I suspect this is where the &quot;opinion based&quot; reason comes in; without those details, there isn't a clear way to answer which &lt;code&gt;du&lt;/code&gt;, within the set of reasonably efficient ones, is fastest).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T23:55:50.247" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T23:55:50.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-06T13:32:58.387" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/188511/cant-mkdir-events-no-space-left-on-device-ec2-linux&quot;&gt;Can&amp;#39;t mkdir events No space left on device - EC2 Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;many distros &lt;strong&gt;now&lt;/strong&gt; consider &lt;code&gt;btrfs&lt;/code&gt; to be stable. back when the original answer was posted, I would not have suggested &lt;code&gt;btrfs&lt;/code&gt; but today it seems to be widely suggested (and I am using it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the general way on SE to give a different answer when the referred thread is too old?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11666" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T16:50:36.720" Title="should duplicate answers be marked as such if old?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2015-03-06T16:50:36.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That depends a bit on whether there is a chance that the &quot;old&quot; question will get a different accepted answer, and that has to do with the availability (i.e. how recent was the OP active). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the information in the &quot;old&quot; question is blatantly outdated, but the OP of the question is not active, then a correct answer there is unlikely going to get noticed. In that case giving an up-to-date answer to the new question might be more appropriate, and the old question could be marked as duplicate (preferably after the answer is accepted, but IIRC at least it needs to have an upvote to be allowed to be the duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T16:50:36.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3416" CreationDate="2015-03-08T15:36:12.417" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138371/how-to-install-touch%C3%A9gg-on-fedora-20&quot;&gt;How to install Touch&amp;#233;gg on Fedora 20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only RPMs that seem to be available are for Mageia, a fairly distant distro. Needs dependcies from Mageia  (mesagl, which needs Mageia's version of drivers and Mesa) which conflict with the Fedora native ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I haven't found any SRPMs for it so far&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/CompileSourceCode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;instructions to compile it&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;are for Ubuntu&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The above question is one of the top results when searching for varying forms of &lt;code&gt;touchegg fedora&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't have enough &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;rep here to vote to reopen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also may be close to a answer anyway because I am trying to get it working on Fedora 21, and then will do the same for a Fedora 20 box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see why it was closed as it was originally just:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I install &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Touchégg&lt;/a&gt; on Fedora 20? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a edit was made after to add what the user had tried - so this still should be a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52956" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T12:29:46.970" Title="Can this be reopened?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3415" CreationDate="2015-03-09T12:29:46.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have reopened the post. Note that it was quite correctly closed, if you check the revision history, you will see that the original question was simply &quot;How do I install touchegg on Fedora?&quot; and lacked the details that were added later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T12:29:46.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3418" CreationDate="2015-03-10T06:16:02.760" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the first, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/80929&quot;&gt;close vote queue prompted&lt;/a&gt; reviewer of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106122/mount-nfs-access-denied-by-server-while-mounting-on-ubuntu-machines&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question. The original close reason was that it was cross posted on multiple sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there was no comment pointing to the &quot;other&quot; post. I did search via the profile for the OPs other site activities, did not find anything. Then realised the question was so old it would not be one of the first entries, looked again, still could not find the &quot;other&quot; post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have tried to contact the person who allegedly found the cross post, whose name shows up as the first one if a post is put on hold/closed. I realised I don't know where to find that name until the post is closed. It is not in the review queue history (available for high rep). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anywhere I could have found the name of the original close initiator, in order e.g. to ping the person on chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T14:58:41.757" Title="See close vote initiater, not just the close vote queue reviewers" Tags="|support|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3417" CreationDate="2015-03-10T14:58:41.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/20805/michael-hampton&quot;&gt;Michael Hampton&lt;/a&gt; in this case. Mods can see it as part of a post history view, but unfortunately I don't think there's a way for most users to see it until the post closes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T14:58:41.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3420" CreationDate="2015-03-13T00:26:49.253" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this isn't a duplicate and I have tried to search Google for the response and am out of ideas where to go. So here it goes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I am working on a project I like to try and solve my own problems myself.  I find it more rewarding to find the solution myself than find the answer on SE or similar sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I typically use &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;whatis&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;whereis&lt;/code&gt; to the best of my ability.  I often will just type &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; and use tab completion to see all the pages available and try to find corresponding commands.  So I guess what I am looking for is there a &lt;code&gt;whatdoes&lt;/code&gt; command. So for example is there a way to find all the commands that process text or all commands that perform disk operations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is probably a dumb question and the answer will be NO but I figured it was worth a try... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106018" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T03:30:20.380" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T03:30:20.380" Title="Is there a better way to self teach yourself Linux (besides man pages)" Tags="|support|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-03-13T13:08:04.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3419" CreationDate="2015-03-13T06:52:24.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 90s I would go over all of the package descriptions after an update of my SuSE linux, mark anything that seemed useful and read more about that, and tried to keep an overview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gave up on that, but when looking for alternatives to a specific command, mostly use the projects web page (good projects don't fear to mention potential competition), or wikipedia, which often has a list of similar commands, or points to a comparison page etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;info&lt;/code&gt; pages often restrict themselves to only refer to related man pages (of file formats, or closely related command). Those are more disjunct pieces of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T06:52:24.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3445" CreationDate="2015-03-14T12:29:36.750" Score="16" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, we got two terminals emulator named &quot;terminator&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/jessies/wiki/TerminatorFAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;jessies.org Terminator&lt;/a&gt;, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnometerminator.blogspot.fr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chris Jones's Terminator&lt;/a&gt; (also known as GNOME Terminator)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue lies that I know of questions using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt; for referring to the latter when the tag wiki/excerpt refers to the former, and there's simply no way to tell them apart other that answer them and hope that you assumed correctly which. Luckily, is only applied to 22 question, so solving the problem &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; there's a sudden influx of new questions due popularity of either, is relatively easy, yet I am unsure how to approach it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-terminator&lt;/a&gt; tag, retag the ones that are about it and create their tag wiki/excerpt indicating the difference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jessies.org-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jessies.org-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jessies.org-terminator&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/java-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;java-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;java-terminator&lt;/a&gt; is outright out, since it gives the impression that is something related to Java), create &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-terminator&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jones-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jones-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jones-terminator&lt;/a&gt;, retag accordingly, and create a tag wiki/excerpt indicating the differences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do nothing and wait until the bomb explodes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there are some problems with each of the approaches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People don't read tag wiki/excerpt&lt;sup&gt;[citation needed]&lt;/sup&gt; and they could indistinctly use both tag to refer to any of three terminal emulators, yeah, GNOME Terminal can be confused with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The naming scheme can be seen cluttered and give the impression to users that that's not what they are asking about, through both should appear when they type &quot;terminator&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't need to explain why is the worst possible solution, right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't know if the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/274634/792066&quot;&gt;tag tips&lt;/a&gt; can be of any help here, adding a warning for each tag that serves as click-trhough to &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; and make sure the users use the correct tag for their question, or any other approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2019-10-27T19:45:39.843" LastActivityDate="2019-10-27T19:45:39.843" Title="We just need one [terminator] to change the past but we got two" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-14T13:50:48.743" Score="22" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we remove the &quot;cross-posted&quot; close reason and instead flag for mod attention as they do everywhere else on the SE network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cross-posting on multiple sites of the Stack Exchange network is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068/203101&quot;&gt;frowned upon&lt;/a&gt;. The general feeling of the community seems to be that having the same question on multiple sites leads to duplicated effort and wastes everyone's time. Perhaps. However, we take it to a whole new level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, U&amp;amp;L is the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; site of the SE network with a close reason specific to cross-posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cbkJc.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the cross-posting close reason&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, our users tend to close cross-posted questions on sight. I have a number of problems with this approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New users have no idea that cross-posting is discouraged. How could they? It's buried in the help pages and is very easy to miss even if the user in question has actually read the help. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider the case of Ask Ubuntu (&lt;code&gt;http://askubuntu.com&lt;/code&gt;), Super User (&lt;code&gt;http://superuser.com&lt;/code&gt;) and U&amp;amp;L (&lt;code&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;). There are many questions that can be on topic on all three. How can I, as a new user, unfamiliar with Stack Exchange, know that those three are part of a single network of sites? They all have different UI styles, completely different URLs and different titles. It is very easy to assume they are independent sites. Yes, they share some similarities but so do &lt;a href=&quot;http://biostars.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://biostars.org&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.debian.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://ask.debian.net/&lt;/a&gt; neither of which is affiliated with SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most importantly, I don't like losing questions. If a question has been cross-posted on multiple sites, is on-topic on all of them and &lt;em&gt;is a decent question&lt;/em&gt;, one of them should remain open. Because of this close-reason, that is almost never the one that is here! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I already mentioned that other sites don't have such a close reason. Back when I first joined an SE site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/5972/151431&quot;&gt;I had asked&lt;/a&gt; what the correct way of dealing with cross-posts was. One of the mods on SU answered thusly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's usually enough to just say that it's been cross posted. Don't forget to include a link to the other version(s), so we can take a&#xA;  look ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want to be super helpful, tell us whether the question has already received an answer on the other site(s) it's been posted on.&#xA;  In that case we can usually close it or even delete it here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't have an answer on either site, please only flag on one site. We'll deal with contacting other sites' moderators and resolving&#xA;  the issue. Alerting moderators on all sites will probably lead to even&#xA;  more confusion. In the worst case all instances of the question would&#xA;  be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think that is the best way of dealing with cross-posts. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/189998/22222&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was recently asked here, on AU and on SU. Because it was cross-posted, it received close votes and downvotes and flags on all three sites. That is messy and unhelpful to the OP and would have resulted in all three being closed. The question here had received a good answer so I contacted the mods on AU and SU, asked them to close their version of the question and then I re-opened the one here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, that is not a particularly stellar question but it is useful. It should exist on the SE network and the current system of closing cross-posts blindly would result in its loss network-wide. I feel that flagging is a much better way of dealing with cross-posts than close-voting. If the post is flagged, the mods can&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check which of the cross-posts is most on topic on its respective site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check whether any of the cross-posted questions has received an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check whether any of the others has been closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contacts the mods of the other site(s) in question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And decide which to close in each particular case taking into account the particular situation. With all this in mind, I suggest we remove the cross-posted close reason. Instead of immediately closing cross-posted questions, we should leave a comment like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cross-posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Please don't post the same question on multiple sites of the Stack Exchange network. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068/203101&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, flag the post for mod attention, giving us the link to the cross-post. We can then coordinate with the mods of the other site to choose the best home for the Q. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what does everyone think? Should we get rid of the close reason and flag/comment instead like everyone else? Or do we hate cross-posts so much more than anyone else on the network and really, really need this close reason on U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T06:52:21.253" Title="Should we get rid of the &quot;cross-posted&quot; close reason?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2015-03-14T14:11:38.357" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;U&amp;amp;L is the only site I know of where multi-posting¹ is one of the moderator-defined close reasons. However most other sites do close multi-posts. In the old days, we used the badly-fitting “too localized” reason (on the basis that the copy of the question here is not useful to anyone since it has answers on another site). Nowadays, we use the worse-fitting “off-topic” reason with a custom comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one site I'm aware of that doesn't have this policy is &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Mathematics&lt;/a&gt; (which &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9337/is-cross-posted-forbidden-discouraged-on-stack-exchange-sites-if-so-why&quot;&gt;tends to accept multi-posts as long as all copies link to each other&lt;/a&gt;). Its research-level sister site &lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/&quot;&gt;Math Overflow&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/423/close-cross-posts-between-here-and-mse&quot;&gt;does have a policy against multi-posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should close all but one copy of multi-posts as fast as possible so that people don't waste effort writing similar answers independently on different sites. Waiting is the worst possible reaction. I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/5972/should-i-flag-cross-posted-questions/5973#5973&quot;&gt;slhck&lt;/a&gt;: users should be encouraged to vote to close in addition to flagging. (I do not encourage downvotes for multi-posts, however, unless the user doing it has already been told not to in the past.) If the question ends up closed on both sides (which rarely happens, usually moderators react faster than the question can get 5 close votes on both sides), a moderator can easily reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't need to be a moderator-defined close reason, but I would only support removing it to make room for a different moderator-defined close reason. We have a policy against multiposts and should keep it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; Technically, this is not cross-posting, since it isn't the same post appearing in multiple locations but identical yet unlinked posts. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:47.217" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T12:51:20.400" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2015-03-14T19:39:05.777" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;To address your concerns individually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;New users have no idea that cross-posting is discouraged. How could they? It's buried in the help pages and is very easy to miss even if the user in question has actually read the help.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People that cross-post the same question across multiple sites generally have little interest in reading the help pages anyway: they just want their question answered, and answered &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt;, and the most expeditious way to acheive that is to put it, word for word, in as many places as possible because, like dropping dynamite in a pond, it is far more likely to get you the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/59966/6761&quot;&gt;damn fish&lt;/a&gt;, irrespective of the side effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are side effects to this sort of behaviour. It isn't just about the this site generating more questions (see below), it is about the impact upon the community of volunteers that make this network of sites what it is. Cross-posting is an expression of selfish disregard for the time and effort that the community put in to maintaining these sites; it is a practice that should be, as the help centre notes, &lt;em&gt;actively discouraged&lt;/em&gt;. And by actively, that means that, we the community, not just moderators, should have the ability to make that decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Most importantly, I don't like losing questions. If a question has been cross-posted on multiple sites, is on-topic on all of them and is a decent question, one of them should remain open. Because of this close-reason, that is almost never the one that is here!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand this position, I think &lt;em&gt;in this case&lt;/em&gt;, it is misguided. The sorts of questions that are cross-posted, because of the mentality that drives that behaviour, are almost always of poor quality. The sense of entitlement that leads someone to spam every community they can with their important question, is the same sense that renders them incapable of reading the documentation, searching for other answers already posted or taking the time to read the help centre pages. They are so busy farming out their question and then furiously hitting refresh with a sense of mounting indignation that people are actually ignoring their life threatening issue that they need to find yet another hapless community to inflict it upon...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, we have nothing to fear from closing these questions &lt;em&gt;on all the sites they appear on&lt;/em&gt;: we, as a community aren't in danger of losing some precious resource, we are actually contributing to the greater good of the FOSS ecosystem by helping to establish and maintain some basic standard of civility and regard for the longer term good of our collective efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my view would be that it is important that the ability to close these questions remains in the hands of the community, and is not solely left to the discretion of the moderators (fine, upstanding people that they are). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T19:39:05.777" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2015-03-16T08:21:34.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have much of an opinion on how the cross posts get closed, as long as it is fast, before it generates the reintegration work associated with multiple answers on different sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was to suggest including something in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask/advice&quot;&gt;&quot;Welcome&quot; text&lt;/a&gt; that you get when you post your first question (not sure if that is true and you get this text, I just followed a link in a post on meta.stackexchange and applied the path to our site), but as others indicated people just click through that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there is IMO another approach: it is easy for me to check if someone cross-posts if they use the same account on multiple sites, and more difficult, but still possible, if they do so using multiple accounts (by matching title, content). To do that one can write a program to look up new questions by following the profile link of the question's OP to see what other (recent) activity there has been on other, subscribed, sites and give notification of possible cross-posts. Matching titles across questions on all SE sites independent of poster would be more expensive but not impossible. The delay of a question showing up on google seems so small you could even use that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the extra information that is available to the application observing new posts within the StackExchange network (easy database access on OPs recent activity, but checking other activity from the same IP should catch most cross-posters using multiple account), checking for cross posts should be relatively simple and not very expensive. Based on that analyses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP could be warned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP could be altogether prohibited from posting the question that is too similar to a question somewhere else (or even similar to one the same site by the same OP, we have those every once in a while as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moderators could be notified&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An automated close vote could be cast, with a comment &quot;possible cross-posted&quot; so reviewers can directly check.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we need a proof of concept, I can offer looking into creation of a client side tool for that.  I can have the tool add answers to some special meta-post created for this purpose, for potential cross posts found, so everyone interested can see there how well this works (instead of directly putting comments on real questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T08:21:34.950" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3421" CreationDate="2015-03-17T17:11:12.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I have to agree that this seems more like a solution in search of a problem. We have a measly 22 (21 now) questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt;, I very much doubt that this will be an issue in the future and I don't see it as much of one  now. Anyway, let's have a look at the questions. For each question below, &quot;unclear&quot; means that I couldn't figure out which of the two it refers to.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/190083/how-do-i-make-terminator-gain-focus-on-un-hiding&quot;&gt;How do I make Terminator gain focus on un-hiding?&lt;/a&gt; : unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/184912/terminator-does-not-keep-color-profile-between-splits-and-new-tabs&quot;&gt;Terminator does not keep color profile between splits and new tabs&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/179610/solarized-theme-in-both-mc-and-terminator&quot;&gt;Solarized theme in both mc and Terminator&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/172287/terminator-panes-automatically-connect-to-different-servers&quot;&gt;terminator panes automatically connect to different servers&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/168436/how-to-open-terminal-split-to-9-terminals-and-switch-between-them-using-one-scr&quot;&gt;How to open terminal, split to 9 terminals and switch between them using one script?&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/167933/terminator-custom-colors-overriden-by-kde&quot;&gt;Terminator custom colors overriden by KDE&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/151163/terminal-not-reporting-resize-properly&quot;&gt;Terminal not reporting resize properly&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150411/syntax-highlighting-in-bash-in-terminal&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150411/syntax-highlighting-in-bash-in-terminal&lt;/a&gt; : Closed/Unclear, probably GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/149882/add-parameters-to-default-profile-in-terminator&quot;&gt;Add parameters to default profile in terminator&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144594/terminator-doesnt-open-new-window&quot;&gt;Terminator doesn&amp;#39;t open new window&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134205/how-to-select-block-of-text-in-xterm&quot;&gt;How to select block of text in xterm&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119764/terminator-interface-inside-tilda-emulator&quot;&gt;Terminator interface inside tilda emulator?&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/117089/cannot-exit-terminal-emulator&quot;&gt;Cannot exit terminal emulator&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/112125/is-there-a-reason-why-ls-does-not-have-a-zero-or-0-option&quot;&gt;Is there a reason why ls does not have a --zero or -0 option&lt;/a&gt; : MISTAGGED, tag removed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111419/utf-8-in-terminator&quot;&gt;UTF-8 in Terminator&lt;/a&gt; : unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89802/terminator-ctrl-tab-key-binding&quot;&gt;terminator ctrl-tab key binding&lt;/a&gt; : unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75216/tmux-set-titles-doesnt-work&quot;&gt;tmux set-titles doesn&amp;#39;t work?&lt;/a&gt; : unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72805/change-default-encoding-in-terminator&quot;&gt;Change default Encoding in Terminator&lt;/a&gt; : unclear &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/67641/searching-the-scrollback-buffer&quot;&gt;Searching the scrollback buffer&lt;/a&gt; : unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/64154/terminator-wont-open-with-default-profile&quot;&gt;Terminator won&amp;#39;t open with default profile&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48699/new-terminator-window-on-remote-server&quot;&gt;New terminator window on remote server&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45519/vi-setting-for-new-window&quot;&gt;vi setting for new window&lt;/a&gt; : GNOME terminator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the clear majority is about GNOME terminal. This is by far the most common of the two, is the only one that is commonly available in repositories and is the better known. We don't even have a single question that I can be sure refers to Jessie's &lt;code&gt;terminator&lt;/code&gt;. Of those that are unclear, I'm pretty sure that most also refer to the GNOME one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, instead of fiddling about with the tags, I have simply changed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt; excerpt to refer to GNOME &lt;code&gt;terminator&lt;/code&gt;. I think that is all that's needed. The excerpt now reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about GNOME Terminator (&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnometerminator.blogspot.fr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://gnometerminator.blogspot.fr/&lt;/a&gt;). Please only use this tag if your question is specific to this terminal emulator which is not the same as the identically named emulator found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/jessies/wiki/TerminatorFAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://code.google.com/p/jessies/wiki/TerminatorFAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt; is now a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-terminator&lt;/a&gt; and the two have been merged. New questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt; will now be tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-terminator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T14:26:34.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-17T21:27:08.940" Score="11" ViewCount="794" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A major design update is now live!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the changes are not visible; these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are moving the site's CSS to a newly refactored LESS system, so that it's easier for us to fix SE network CSS bugs globally and launch new features in the future. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are updating the graphics to SVG for retina support. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We've fixed a LOT of obscure bugs that arose when new features were not thoroughly tested across the entire network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visually it should &quot;feel&quot; the same as the old site with slight layout adjustments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This update should retro-actively fix most of the old design bugs. If you see any new ones, or old ones not yet fixed, please post an answer here to let us know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100625" LastEditorUserId="100625" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T22:06:08.567" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T18:27:47.427" Title="Site Design Updates" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-17T22:30:04.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Odd &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; remnant above the banner on Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1n5Ef.png&quot; alt=&quot;Wayward clickable pixel&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T18:57:28.027" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T18:57:28.027" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3292" CreationDate="2015-03-18T00:22:29.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine now (since the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3429/site-design-updates&quot;&gt;latest design update&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VsfRT.png&quot; alt=&quot;similar questions screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T00:22:29.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-18T00:28:38.913" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me go through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/design+-status-completed?sort=newest&quot;&gt;previously reported issues&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118/captcha-image-nominations&quot;&gt;Captcha Image Nominations&lt;/a&gt; — NO, we still have the boring captcha image&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120/404-image-nominations&quot;&gt;404 Image Nominations&lt;/a&gt; — NO, we still have the boring 404 image&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/bolder-question-title-font&quot;&gt;Bolder question title font&lt;/a&gt; — there've been several changes since then, at least to the site and perhaps to my perception. I'm ok with the page titles now, but &lt;strong&gt;the titles on &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; are not visible enough&lt;/strong&gt;. They could stand being several points bigger, and perhaps bolder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/413/poor-contrast-on-the-how-to-ask-widgets&quot;&gt;Poor contrast on the “How to Ask” widgets&lt;/a&gt; — YES (actually from an earlier redesign IIRC)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/426/favourite-tagged-questions-highlight-colors-too-bright&quot;&gt;Favourite tagged questions: highlight colors, too bright?..&lt;/a&gt; — ? The contrast is enough for me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/error-image-nominations&quot;&gt;Error image nominations&lt;/a&gt; — NO, we still have the boring error image&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/761/can-the-font-in-the-badges-section-be-changed&quot;&gt;Can the font in the badges section be changed?&lt;/a&gt; — ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/800/better-question-title-font&quot;&gt;Better question title font&lt;/a&gt; — REGRESSION! &lt;strong&gt;This serif font looks weird for titles that often contain bits of code&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/890/code-inside-spoiler-markup-is-not-hidden&quot;&gt;Code inside spoiler markup is not hidden&lt;/a&gt; — PARTIALLY. Code in spoilers is now hidden, but showing a different background.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wFoNx.png&quot; alt=&quot;code in spoiler&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1300/links-colours-are-not-distinctive-enough&quot;&gt;Links colours are not distinctive enough&lt;/a&gt; — PARTIALLY. The link colors have changed, and I think they're now further from non-links, but &lt;strong&gt;visited links and non-visited links are hard to tell apart&lt;/strong&gt;. The same problem occurs &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251473/new-beta-style-is-much-harder-on-my-eyes-looking-for-css-overrides-to-fix&quot;&gt;on beta sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3187/font-too-small-for-code-sections-in-headlines&quot;&gt;Font too small for code sections in headlines&lt;/a&gt; — NO, still exactly like before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3292/increase-the-contrast-of-similar-questions-pane-on-unix-stackexchange&quot;&gt;Increase the contrast of &amp;#39;similar questions&amp;#39; pane on unix stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; — YES!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more important point, which I'm sure I've reported on meta before but I can't find now: &lt;strong&gt;double quotes &lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; in titles&lt;/strong&gt; are rewritten to their slanted versions &lt;code&gt;“…”&lt;/code&gt;. This is highly inappropriate on a site where &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quoting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quoting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quoting&lt;/a&gt; is an important matter. Double quotes in titles are often the ASCII character (U+0022 QUOTATION MARK) in a bit of Unix shell syntax, and showing different characters gives the impression that what is written is not shell syntax. We can use the typographically pleasant U+201C and U+201D when we want. Please leave U+0022 alone when we mean it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T19:24:22.833" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="890" CreationDate="2015-03-18T00:30:16.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is mostly fixed now: code in spoiler is hidden. There's still a glitch: the code part has a different background from the rest of the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wFoNx.png&quot; alt=&quot;code in spoiler&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T00:30:16.830" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="413" CreationDate="2015-03-18T00:32:20.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3429/site-design-updates&quot;&gt;latest design update&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Main site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VsfRT.png&quot; alt=&quot;main — Similar Questions&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/83LnS.png&quot; alt=&quot;meta — How to Ask&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T00:32:20.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="761" CreationDate="2015-03-18T02:03:53.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent design updates to the site, the badge font is now larger. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3429/site-design-updates&quot;&gt;Site Design Updates&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100625" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T02:03:53.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-19T00:03:58.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing a dot pattern in the background.  I don't like that. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3169" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T00:03:58.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-19T00:05:32.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'status-completed'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The heading font is inconsistent with the rest of the page, and is harder to read for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3169" LastEditorUserId="100625" LastEditDate="2015-03-25T19:21:23.027" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T19:21:23.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3439" CreationDate="2015-03-19T05:29:50.650" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oEvpE.png&quot; alt=&quot;What&amp;#39;s wrong with certificate?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with security certificate for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47022" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-03-20T21:03:21.010" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T21:03:21.010" Title="What's wrong with HTTPS?" Tags="|bug|ssl|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3438" CreationDate="2015-03-19T06:08:53.983" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name in the certificate does not match the host name to use. The certificate is valid for lots of different names and includes wildcards such as &lt;code&gt;*.meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; (which would match against &lt;code&gt;unix.meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;) but no name which matches against &lt;code&gt;meta.unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. Note that the included &lt;code&gt;*.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; will not match because a wildcard matches only a single label, i.e. &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; but not &lt;code&gt;meta.unix&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57127" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T06:08:53.983" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2015-03-19T06:52:21.253" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we are talking about cross-posting among the sites in the SE network which necessarily share the code and inner structure - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;- why not do a provision in a UI for the cross-posting that would legally merge all the sites' answers and form a interdisciplinary question?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let the scoring be &lt;em&gt;independently&lt;/em&gt; counted on all sites (upvotes/downvotes) but with points that are &lt;strong&gt;an arithmetic mean of the points given on each site&lt;/strong&gt;. This way the scoring system will automatically discourage publishing the question on sites where it would get low scores and give no bonus to the act of cross-posting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions will obviously be visible on all SE sites into which it is cross-posted, but with references to the other sites as well. And each site would conveniently merge all answers together, but only local answers would be active. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think most of this functionality can be rendered on the client side. Think about it as a layer of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greasespot.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; scripts that are applied when the question is flagged as cross-posted. The only time the sites from the SE network will have to contact with each other is to calculate the common scoring rule I proposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it might be a challenge to program this. But don't say it is impossible. And we should strive for the best, right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you still have your doubts - think about this very question. I bet there is more than one SE community that has this &quot;cross-posted&quot; flag. Why not it be shared on all of these sites' meta to get a collective discussion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being an another interdisciplinary person (physicist turned-statistician who also administer a cluster of his own Ubuntu Linux servers and fluently program in several languages) I too often have a feeling that tailoring a problem into a question that fits exactly on &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; SE network really hurts its potential. And maintaining the proper cross-posting etiquette is tedious and time-consuming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17765" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T06:52:21.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-19T22:14:06.690" Score="2" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;_http://example.com_&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://example.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(italic but no hyperlink) and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;_anything http://example.com_&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;anything &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com_&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hyperlink but with a trailing &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; in the target URL and not in the link name (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;anything &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com_&quot;&amp;gt;http://example.com&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also applies to &lt;code&gt;__http://example.com__&lt;/code&gt;, but not &lt;code&gt;*http://example.com*&lt;/code&gt; nor &lt;code&gt;**http://example.com**&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-03-20T21:06:05.190" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T21:06:05.190" Title="markdown bug in URLs inside italic (with underscore)" Tags="|bug|markdown|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-20T15:48:28.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The links below questions break alignment when there are pending edits and (or?) close votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TkiEl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T15:48:28.823" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3443" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-21T05:37:08.753" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am come from China, and I can't log in stack exchange. It is always show 'requires external javascript from another domain' when I click log in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user107470" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T07:06:12.823" Title="Why can not log in stack exchange" Tags="|discussion|login|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3421" CreationDate="2015-03-21T14:51:44.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I was plaining to retag the obvious ones as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-terminator&lt;/a&gt; as terdon posts shows, the ones unclear I left a comment asking for clarification, which at least one ended to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-terminator&lt;/a&gt;, other cases would be left on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the tag was just merged as is, which surprisingly may not be wrong (checked the unclear ones and nothing pointed out to Jesiess terminator, yet there were hints to Gnome terminator), so this should be done as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt; merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-terminator&lt;/a&gt; and synonymized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T15:35:12.163" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T15:35:12.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-21T19:36:33.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add &lt;code&gt;background-color: white&lt;/code&gt; or make your layout working with dark window backgrounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VOnLb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19663" LastEditorUserId="100625" LastEditDate="2015-03-25T19:20:56.783" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T19:20:56.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3448" CreationDate="2015-03-22T13:50:14.507" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3443/33055&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; got migrated from the main site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user has been asked for clarification in comments, but that user has only 1 rep. Can such a user answer, or update her/his post, if (s)he hasn't got the minimum of 5 rep necessary to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/participate-in-meta&quot;&gt;participate in meta&lt;/a&gt;? Or can you always edit your own posts, even on meta with too little rep?¹&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As that user has not other questions, it is impossible to &quot;upgrade&quot; the user by up-voting such a question (up-voting on meta has no effect on rep). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had realised this before, and up-voted the question before voting to move, would the rep have been lost by the move to meta?²&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle this could also happen if a user a very few questions and answers and low rep, then posts on meta and her/his rep decreases by a down-vote or a changed/retracted vote. But then at least one can bump the less-than-5-rep, by up-voting one of the questions/answers on main.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;A move to another site would not be the problem, that should work as there is no minimum rep to participate, you just have to add that site to your account.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;² &lt;sub&gt;Probably it is, I am just curious in case up-voting before voting to move, would help for a future occurrence&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T14:38:44.890" Title="Comment, edit post on meta with 1 rep?" Tags="|support|comments|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3447" CreationDate="2015-03-22T14:07:33.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users can independently of reputation edit and comment on their own posts. This works in meta the same as the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-03-22T14:38:44.890" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T14:38:44.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-24T15:04:56.483" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question titles in the side bar for Sections &quot;&lt;em&gt;Featured on Meta&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Hot Meta Posts&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Linked&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;em&gt;Related&lt;/em&gt;&quot; are harder to read than before. It is now using &lt;code&gt;font-family: 'Liberation Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;font-size: 12px;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;em&gt;Hot Network Questions&lt;/em&gt;&quot; doesn't seem to have changed and is more readable. It is using &lt;code&gt;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;font-size: 12px;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sans-serif fonts seem more readable. In addition, the serif fonts used here feel smaller. As far as I know, distinct fonts don't necessarily have the same visual size when used with an equivalent point size, so the same presumably applies to px sizes. (In fact, after zooming in an &quot;o&quot; in the new serif font at 12px is 6-pixel tall, whereas it is 7-pixel tall with the sans-serif font.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JicVZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2644" LastEditorUserId="100625" LastEditDate="2015-03-25T19:21:55.857" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T19:21:55.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-25T10:07:01.137" Score="1" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not able to submit comment, when I try to submit a comment, which is a reply to one of the comment for my question, I am getting error &quot;an error occured during comment submission&quot;. Is it a bug? or if it is purposefully, the message could have been more descriptive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NzBk8.png&quot; alt=&quot;error while sumitting comment&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106741" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T12:50:22.043" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T12:50:22.043" Title="Error while submitting comment" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3453" CreationDate="2015-03-27T01:14:49.823" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in... question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/192486/can-ssh-host-command-be-configured-to-always-load-server-side-startup-file&quot;&gt;Can &amp;#39;ssh &amp;lt;host&amp;gt; &amp;lt;command&amp;gt;&amp;#39; be configured to always load server-side startup files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56601" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T12:54:39.853" Title="My question was put on hold. I rephrased it. Can I get it unlocked?" Tags="|support|specific-question|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3452" CreationDate="2015-03-27T05:01:57.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been reopened. You can just flag for mod attention next time (the &quot;flag&quot; link under the post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T05:01:57.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3455" CreationDate="2015-03-27T15:23:00.137" Score="6" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wanted to post an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166975/ssh-connection-to-server-closed-after-authentication-immediately&quot;&gt;ssh connection to server closed after authentication immediately&lt;/a&gt;, but it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;protected by Community♦ Dec 17 '14 at 23:23&#xA;&#xA;Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality &#xA;answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site. &#xA;&#xA;Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the top of the screen I see 101 reputation (mainly because I have rep on other sites).  Refreshing (or shift-refresh) doesn't do it.  I posted my answer as a comment.  Oh well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T12:51:12.793" Title="Question won't let me post answer, saying I need 10 reputation. I have 101. What gives?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2015-03-27T15:48:22.553" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have at least 200 reputation on any site of the Stack Exchange network, you will receive an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&quot;&gt;&quot;association bonus&quot;&lt;/a&gt; of 100 reputation points when you create a new account on any other site of the network. That's why you have a reputation of 101 here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the question you tried to answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions&quot;&gt;protected&lt;/a&gt;, this means that you must have earned at least 10 reputation points &lt;strong&gt;on this site&lt;/strong&gt; in order to answer it. Since you have not gained any reputation &lt;em&gt;on this site&lt;/em&gt; yet, the system won't let you answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't let that discourage you, you can still answer the vast majority of questions here, only a very few are protected. Go forth and answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T15:48:22.553" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-03-29T11:28:24.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing favourite/ignored tags from the front page, the &lt;kbd&gt;Add&lt;/kbd&gt; button is hidden because it protrudes beyond the right column (at least on FF ESR 31.5.3):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uIbB7.png&quot; alt=&quot;layout bug: add button not visible&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3929" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T11:28:24.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3451" CreationDate="2015-03-29T20:08:07.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to guess here... we see folks unable to post from certain corporate networks that run paranoid software that blocks traffic that looks malicious. Things like SQL in particular tend to set those off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One workaround is to visit the site over HTTPS, which makes this sort of traffic monitoring impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you were able to post from another network and there don't seem to be any related exceptions in our logs, my money is on that. If you run into this problem again from that same location, try the workaround above and let me know if it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="928" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T20:08:07.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3459" CreationDate="2015-03-30T10:56:09.243" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry that I can't give you the answer/question I edited with this question but I can't remember what it was, just that I've been on the lookout for day's now for it to show up in my stats/achievements but it just isn't appearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use different computers where I access this site and I've refreshed the cache in my browser if it matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the two points appearing in my score but there is no record of the edit. What is wrong/reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it's missing from the actions page(was never there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36440" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T12:50:39.987" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T12:50:39.987" Title="Edited and got two points for it but it isn't showing up anywhere in my stats or achivements" Tags="|support|reputation|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2015-03-30T11:24:00.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You edited a question that was then deleted. So, while your edit was approved and you got your +2, you can't see the post in your profile because the question is no longer visible to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T11:24:00.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3461" CreationDate="2015-04-01T17:25:49.073" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Here != Meta-Unix&amp;amp;Linux)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question related to a research project I am undertaking that involves knowing &lt;strong&gt;which files related to &lt;code&gt;wpa_supplicant&lt;/code&gt; need to be modified&lt;/strong&gt; to accomplish my goal of emulating/simulating certain wireless channel characteristics. While this will be a programming heavy task, the necessary answer will require extensive knowledge of how Linux WiFi drivers interact with this Linux module and perhaps how the configuration files will need to be set up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think this question would be best served on the Unix &amp;amp; Linux StackExchange site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Edit: Here is the question being referenced &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/193871/108864&quot;&gt;Simulating Signal Strength Changes to wpa_supplicant&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108864" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T19:54:00.553" Title="Is a question regarding wpa_supplicant modifications for a research project on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3460" CreationDate="2015-04-01T17:35:28.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. As long as you're not asking about how to implement whatever it is you're doing in programming language X but instead are asking about the internals of how &lt;code&gt;wpa_supplicant&lt;/code&gt; works, then yes, it should be perfectly on topic here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, even questions about interacting with the UNIX API are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/314/22222&quot;&gt;on topic within reason&lt;/a&gt;. In other words, if you know your C but have questions about how to interact with a *nix system, they will be welcome here. If your question is not so much about the API but about how to implement something in C, then it should go to SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T19:54:00.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-04-02T20:04:04.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A minor cosmetic CSS thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When zooming out – I usually have zoom set to something between 65% and 90% – for some zoom levels one get a scroll-bar in the main menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It almost looks as if there is some disabled extra menu thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qeTDG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Scrollbar in menubar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Rightmost scroll-bar arrows&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28489" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T20:04:04.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3500" CreationDate="2015-04-05T22:34:03.670" Score="13" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt; is mostly about background processes, but there are also questions about background colors and background images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retag questions about background colors to just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/colors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;colors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;colors&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/theme&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;theme&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;theme&lt;/a&gt; as appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retag questions about background images to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/desktop-background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;desktop-background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;desktop-background&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retag any question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt; but not about background processes as appropriate — are there any?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background-process&lt;/a&gt; to avoid confusion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T17:16:49.277" Title="Disambiguate the /background tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-06T08:13:02.893" Score="9" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194552/why-is-gzip-usually-used-for-compressing-text-files&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, which had been put on hold as primary opinion based.&#xA;Although I did not get to review it in the Close Review queue, I would have voted to close it myself as well. I did not want the question to be reopened based on my edits, but it contained a grammatically incorrect statement, that additionally, inappropriately, had a question mark attached to it (i.e. the sentence wasn't a question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My edit caused the post to be show up in the reopen queue, although I did not select the reopen link below the question (and I reviewed to leave closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the automatic reopen of edited post be changed so that, if an edit is done by a person with high enough reputation that the &lt;code&gt;reopen&lt;/code&gt; link shows, that that link should explicitly be selected? Or alternatively that the &amp;quot;edit session&amp;quot; of a closed vote shows an additional &lt;kbd&gt;Save edits and vote to reopen&lt;/kbd&gt; button next to the &lt;kbd&gt;Save Edits&lt;/kbd&gt; button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general not every improvement to a closed question (e.g. removing typos, grammatical errors, thanks, etc) warrants reopening of that question, but I rather have those improvements in there, to help the OP, or someone else, to already get it in a better state, in case it warrants reopening by further edits at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If I get to review such a question in the review queue, I normally take the time to make the edits, before the question gets closed, by opening a second window/tab on the original, circumventing the whole reopen issue)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T21:25:02.527" Title="improving closed questions without reopening" Tags="|feature-request|editing|review|closed-questions|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3463" CreationDate="2015-04-06T16:00:05.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &lt;em&gt;background&lt;/em&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.memidex.com/background&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;many meanings&lt;/a&gt; all of which could conceivably apply to U&amp;amp;L. In addition to your list, &lt;em&gt;philosophical&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;historical&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;technical backgrounds&lt;/em&gt; abound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let it burn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T16:00:05.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-06T19:07:03.127" Score="-2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194320/wifi-not-working-after-a-fresh-install-of-arch-linux&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194320/wifi-not-working-after-a-fresh-install-of-arch-linux&lt;/a&gt; unclear? Both in the title and then in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this markdown environment I ask the question again being more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot fix a question when the close reason doesn't quite jive with the post. Additionally, the hold reason says add detail. I have added all the pertinent detail I believe. If something else is needed, no one has asked for further clarification, so without feedback, I can't improve the post anymore as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36241" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T19:40:05.687" Title="How is this question unclear?" Tags="|discussion|support|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2015-04-06T19:40:05.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close as unclear for two primary reasons: first, despite repeatedly being asked to connect manually, which would have generated meaningful error messages at the appropriate points, you declined to do so. Without that information, the question is essentially unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And secondly, because the edit history of the questions shows more and more irrelevant information being added to the question, making it harder and harder to read and &lt;em&gt;decreasing&lt;/em&gt; the likelihood of anyone being able to answer (or the question being of any value for future visitors).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I included a link in one of my comments to the relevant section of the Arch wiki; follow that methodically and include exactly where it fails and any error messages and remove all of the extraneous material from the existing question and it would be a candidate for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T19:40:05.687" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-07T13:09:12.383" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194638/calligra-not-working-on-xfce&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question but don't know why it's downvoted, I really searched , nothing on google says about calligra on xfce.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a new linux mint user, I don't know much about desktops(I only tried cinnamon and xfce).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so why it's downvoted ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105060" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T16:43:44.150" Title="why is my question downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|questions|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3468" CreationDate="2015-04-07T16:43:44.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The downvote is from me. While reviewing your post, and applying the bare minimum of markup for code to get things somewhat more readable, I found that your question is still not clear to me (and being unclear is one of the reasons indicated when hovering above the downvote arrow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often write something about my downvote when I do. But not always, e.g. if there is already someone who made a remark in a comment to the same effect as I would write. I'm not sure why I didn't do write a comment on this post. Maybe a comment that was there was removed, but more likely I got distracted after editing your question and downvoting  (around that time one of the drives in my  RAID-6 drives decided to go off-line).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a reconstruction as to the reason why I down voted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the multiple references to searching you make are not contributing to a clear question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is seldom a need to write a PS, just edit your post to get it into shape and make it easy on the reader instead of on yourself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion: reread the post. Remove any part that will not help a potential answerer to answer your question (e.g. the whole sentence &quot;Anyway I searched and didn't find out what files calligra needs.&quot; If you want to know which files &lt;code&gt;calligra&lt;/code&gt; needs, just ask that, don't tell us about your searching efforts). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at statements like &quot;I may have known that Calligra needs some KDE files&quot;. &lt;em&gt;You may have known?&lt;/em&gt; Does that mean you knew, but don't know any more? Or you knew and consciously didn't install them (and &lt;code&gt;apt-get&lt;/code&gt; did not pull them in automatically). That kind of statements do not add to the questions, it just makes it unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My apologies for not giving a reason where I could have. On the other hand realise that one is not required to do so on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't take things to personal if you get a downvote. If you get multiple downvotes on a question, if the question gets closed/put on hold, or doesn't get any answers: look it over if it could be improved upon. Read at least the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;help tour&lt;/a&gt; (I can see from your badges that you haven't) and spent a few minutes on how we mark up text that allows you to make your post more readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that, a Sunday (and especially not Easter Sunday) is not a day I would recommend for posting and hoping to get a quick answer, far fewer people online than during weekdays and once new questions pile on top of yours, there is IMO less chance of it getting answered. Caligra has not come up before as far as I can remember, so you might not get an answer because nobody here uses it or knows enough about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get discouraged by this, even if your question doesn't get answered. Try again if you have something else, we normally are helpful (although sometimes critical) bunch, especially if you show that you put in some effort yourself. In parallel you can always reap the benefits of others who posted here similar problems to what you may encounter and already got an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T16:43:44.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3464" CreationDate="2015-04-08T11:32:51.637" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a feature. In general, there is little point in editing a closed post unless you want to improve it for reopening. If you don't want it to enter the reopen queue, don't edit it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I too am guilty of doing this. It seems that you too are one of those pedantic people who can't stand seeing mistakes in a text without fixing them. I share your pain. I will also sometimes succumb to my pedantry and correct closed questions but the general SE stance is to just leave them alone and not bother fixing unless you want it to be in the reopen queue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T11:32:51.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-09T06:13:22.257" Score="6" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just reviewed a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/84453&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gQ8o2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first reaction was: what invisible edit was made to the text ( e.g. insert &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) to get this minimal edit in the queue. Then I noticed I had seen that gravatar before, that the editor has 17K6 reputation and that the proposed change was made in 2013 (when the editor had less then 2K rep.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I briefly suspected that we now have review audits on U&amp;amp;L, but accepting the proposed change did not give any feedback to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There were no more edits than the change to the title. Nowadays you need to make larger changes for the system to accept them (at least on sites where I recently started with a low rep). When was the restriction of making larger minimal changes introduced? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was this delay a result of a bug in the software? Or from some edge case in the database? If so what triggered this to show up in the review queue?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was it an accident that this showed up, or are there more of these cases and are they being fed into the system at a low rate?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this behaviour cannot be explained and/or is not intentional, I would consider it a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those wondering about it: the editor did get his +2 rep for an accepted edit. I hope it was worth the wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:16:52.277" Title="Review a minor suggested edit" Tags="|bug|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-09T14:19:08.960" Score="7" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the 2015 &lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/election?cb=1&quot;&gt;community moderator election&lt;/a&gt; (this is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; about a moderator election on Unix &amp;amp; Linux), the candidates have a moderator score attached to their application, showing a number of points out of 40 based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reputation 1 point per 1K rep (max 20)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moderation badges: max 8&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing badges: max 6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;participation badges: max 6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The detailed description for this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/289473/1307905candidate-score-badge-breakdown&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even people not aspiring to become moderator might be interested how their score on U&amp;amp;L would be can put their user id in &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/edit/298739&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&#xA;query&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be useful to have this on a future moderator election on U&amp;amp;L (and I hope that that will be a far-far away future)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T08:53:50.013" Title="Moderator election score" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3472" CreationDate="2015-04-09T15:11:45.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reviewing the previous two elections (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/2?tab=election&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), it looks to me that this has been retroactively added as not all the necessary badges that are counted have been available at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chances are good, this will be done as well if and when a future election on U&amp;amp;L is held.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T08:53:50.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-09T16:19:25.993" Score="8" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could add to the question template that users see, a suggestion to mention the operating system or distribution, and also the version/release of that operating system. This should of course be only a suggestion, as this information is not pertinent to all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, one could suggest that the poster mention the version of any software being used in the question, and also mention whether it is a binary package install or locally compiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this would not apply to all questions, I think it would apply to a big chunk of them. However, perhaps I'm suffering from selection bias, because those are the questions I tend to answer. In any case, I seem to be constantly asking what distribution people are using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more speculative idea would be to customize the question template based on what tags people add, but I'm not sure how that would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T20:25:05.947" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:52:55.850" Title="Add suggestions in user template about mentioning OS/distribution and version" Tags="|feature-request|questions|user-interface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3476" CreationDate="2015-04-10T07:16:41.760" Score="11" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8055/what-should-server-fault-do-with-questions-about-web-hosting-control-panels?cb=1&quot;&gt;a discussion over on ServerFault Meta about how to handle questions about web hosting control panels&lt;/a&gt;, such as e.g. webmin, cpanel and their ilk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consensus is that at least 99% of those questions don't belong on ServerFault, because using those things pretty much destroy any chance of handling the system according to best practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be appropriate to move such questions to Unix/Linux, or would they be considered off-topic here too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see how they would be on-topic, given that they're about software that runs on Unix. I could also see how they would be off-topic, given that at least cpanel mucks around with the systems so much that it's very hard for someone who knows &quot;normal&quot; unix operations to figure out how to solve their problems. And I'd rather not recommend migration of stuff that this community doesn't want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:00.273" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T08:43:47.340" Title="Are web hosting control panels on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3475" CreationDate="2015-04-10T08:43:47.340" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/97/20805&quot;&gt;The general rule&lt;/a&gt; is: If the software runs on UNIX or Linux, it's on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that doesn't mean that here is the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; place to ask a given question. Many questions which are on topic here will get better answers, or answers with different perspectives, on other Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of web hosting control panels, I would say that those which run on UNIX/Linux can be asked about here, but are not likely to get good answers, as the community has little expertise in this niche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Server Fault is looking for a good migration target for these questions, it would be well advised to look elsewhere first before considering U&amp;amp;L. A better choice might be Webmasters, which is focused on exactly the community which would be most likely to have, or want to have, experts to answer these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20805" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T08:43:47.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3478" CreationDate="2015-04-10T08:12:41.043" Score="7" ViewCount="376" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194741/script-to-add-date-to-ping-not-working&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/194741/script-to-add-date-to-ping-not-working&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an honest question, but 7 people thought it was ambiguous, but an 8th actually took the time to answer what I missed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is there lost points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88194" OwnerDisplayName="Jason" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T19:37:29.790" Title="I don't understand the reason I lost rep for this question?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3477" CreationDate="2015-04-10T10:03:32.940" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like jasonwryan explained your problem within one minute of posting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess the reason people voted it as unclear is that commenting something out in code appears purposeful -- you actually managed to cut and paste that in without noticing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't downvote this, but I would not compensate with an upvote either.  The tooltip for the down arrow reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your mistake was simply a very obvious typo &lt;em&gt;that you didn't understand&lt;/em&gt; in five lines of code, then perhaps it is unfair to consider you to have been acting hastily or thoughtlessly.  I would give you the benefit of the doubt here, which is why I wouldn't downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that benefit of the doubt is a bit of a stretch, and I can understand someone looking at this and thinking, &quot;You didn't even bother to proofread this, boo -- downvote.&quot;  Which is why I wouldn't upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than 80% of the questions I start to compose here never get posted because in the process of trying to make the question as clear as possible, etc., I recognize my mistake or realize the answer, and that it is of a nature that probably isn't useful in a general sense, or has already been asked and answered.  Some of the S.E. mechanisms, such as downvoting and closing/holding questions, hopefully encourage people to think this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that your question currently does not have any answers and is not useful in a general sense.  No one is likely to come around having made an identical typo and find this question.  That being the case, it is perfectly fine if you &lt;strong&gt;delete the question&lt;/strong&gt;, in which case &lt;em&gt;you get your lost rep back!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it would probably be best if you do delete that since it is not generally useful.  Perhaps the downvote was meant to encourage you to do so.  Although I know not everyone shares my opinion here, self-deleting downvoted answers (and questions, when it is possible -- you can't if someone answers and gets an upvote) is a common practice and helps to keep the site clear of pointless nonsense.  Not to say your post is quite nonsense, but it is close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="25985" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T17:21:18.733" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T17:21:18.733" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3474" CreationDate="2015-04-10T10:17:33.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's a good idea.  Although, as Anton says, many people may not read the instructions, this does not mean it is a waste of time to have them.  Some people will, and others can be pointed to them explicitly.  This would allow for an easy generic comment &quot;Please indicate your OS as per the instructions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would even go so far as to implement a mechanism whereby in addition to having to include at least one tag, you have to include at least one OS/distro tag, or else explicitly tick something confirming such really does not apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T10:17:33.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3480" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-12T12:32:46.103" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see that historical questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73/are-history-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; would love to see a tag called &lt;code&gt;/ history&lt;/code&gt; . Like many of the others, there are lot of historical questions I want to ask and having a history tag would be useful not just for putting my own questions but also to find historical questions I might never have known, thought of or asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking forward to know what people think of it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:24:47.560" Title="have a history tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-04-16T21:25:16.183" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3480" CreationDate="2015-04-12T15:22:53.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of the name &lt;code&gt;history&lt;/code&gt;, I suggest using &lt;code&gt;history-of&lt;/code&gt;, an idea I have seen on &lt;a href=&quot;https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot;&gt;Vi and Vim&lt;/a&gt;. One reason would be to avoid confusion with shell command history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh wait. We already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; tag with your meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:51:57.093" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T15:22:53.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3463" CreationDate="2015-04-13T05:29:04.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt; tag clearly talks about background processes. To avoid confusion probably the clearest solution is to rename the tag to &lt;code&gt;background-process&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29241" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T05:29:04.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3429" CreationDate="2015-04-13T17:50:42.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is new or not (which would indicate it is not that important either) but the Meta U&amp;amp;L logo in the side bar is blurry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;firefox 37.0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GHl2b.png&quot; alt=&quot;blurry icon&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It looks much better on chromium 31.0.1650.63. It's still a little blurry but not enough to really make it an issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y1lIs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Same goes for opera 12.16&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ebJE4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All screenshots were taken from a system running 64bit Debian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T18:27:47.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3485" CreationDate="2015-04-14T17:56:51.123" Score="27" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to be part of the community, helping to upvote good answers, and answering questions. But, I need to get 15 reputation to do those things. It seems to me the only way to do that is to ask questions. However, the community is a great place here, and all the questions I would ask, have already been asked. What's a guy to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I get the required 15 reputation without spamming the questions with junk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really just want to be able to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44394" OwnerDisplayName="superboot" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T12:48:01.047" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T12:48:01.047" Title="How to get reputation here on Unix &amp; Linux stack exchange?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3484" CreationDate="2015-04-14T18:04:06.577" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can answer questions, without the need for reputation. Upvotes on those answers earn you 10 reputation. Just find a question in an area you are familiar with, preferably one which is recent and not yet answered (or answered and you have a better solution).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also earn 2 reputation by correcting errors in a post. E.g by removing chit-chat Like greetings, &quot;thank you&quot; and names from &lt;strong&gt;other people's&lt;/strong&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking questions is not that hard, but finding ones that have not been asked before can be a challenge. Take a few minutes to think about something U&amp;amp;L related where you had a problem that was never solved. Or something you found hard to find a solution for. It is fine to post such a question (as long as it is not a duplicate) and the answer to that question, with double chances of earning reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure you read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;help→tour&lt;/a&gt; and get familiar with the rest of the help pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" OwnerDisplayName="Anthon" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T19:13:43.123" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3484" CreationDate="2015-04-15T20:38:40.607" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an answer for everyone, but it was the correct answer for me:&#xA;Participate on Another SE Family Site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a fairly infrequent user of several sites in the StackExchange network.&#xA;However, I have answered several  questions on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you gain 200 reputation on a StackExchange site, you get an instant bonus of 100 rep on all other SE sites.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my first answer on this site, but I'm able to give it because I've posted answers which have been upvoted elsewhere.&#xA;I actually think this is the best approach, as it gives you privileges on all SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understandably, that 200 rep burden seems much larger than the 15 rep burden on a given site, but the benefit offered is similarly greater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110607" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T20:38:40.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3488" CreationDate="2015-04-16T21:18:21.793" Score="12" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized that I submitted an edit request when entirely too tired to sanely do so, and accidentally sent an incorrect title correction, and realized that there’s no way to retract it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think it would be nice to either be able to cancel/retract a sent edit suggestion, showing that you know that it was wrong and thus not needing anyone to look over it, or add a way to comment on an edit suggestion so that you can make the reviewers aware of the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33521" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T20:21:24.563" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:21:24.563" Title="Retracting an edit suggestion" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3487" CreationDate="2015-04-16T21:28:00.680" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have rejected your edit so no harm done. In my opinion, this is not something that happens often enough to merit a feature. Next time, just pop into the main site's &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; and ask someone there to reject your edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no one around, you can also flag the post with a custom flag and tell us (the mods) what happened. We'll deal with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for posting here, you're clearly trying to do the right thing and that's appreciated. Don't worry about it though, we all make mistakes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T21:28:00.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-16T22:21:32.860" Score="14" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the last couple of weeks I have been diligently, like one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Skinner's pigeons&lt;/a&gt;, giving the thumb's up or thumb's down to the various SE network ads that appear in the right sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Because you can. And because, thanks to the cunning UI, you are actually encouraged to do so. Mousing over one of the ads will reveal the option to approve (Green thumbs up) or disapprove (Red thumb's down) the respective ads. Selecting a red thumb allows you to choose a reason for your displeasure, from &quot;Uninteresting&quot; to &quot;Offensive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the only thing offensive about this is the fact that no matter how strongly or repeatedly I insist that I don't wish to see ads about Failbook or some obscure parenting issue in a Beta site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://a.pomf.se/hebqoa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;they keep re-appearing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3311/community-promotion-ads-2015&quot;&gt;selection of ads that the community &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to see displayed&lt;/a&gt;, why are we forced to keep seeing the same drivel &lt;em&gt;despite clearly indicating a desire not to&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the feedback just to taunt us? Is this part of some cunning operant conditioning whose nefarious purpose will be revealed at some later date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the powers that be want to treat us like lab animals, please at least send a treat down the chute every once in a while; all this pecking is making me thirsty...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T02:53:12.860" Title="Thumbs down for the Ads" Tags="|bug|voting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-17T18:59:37.127" Score="6" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the habit of cut-and-pasting the content of suggested edits on tags, and tag wikis, into Google, especially if they are completely new content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/85432&quot;&gt;This proposed edit&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;code&gt;/u-boot&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Das U-Boot is used in embedded devices to package the instructions to boot the device's operating system kernel. It is available for a number of computer architectures, including 68k, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, MicroBlaze, MIPS, Nios, PPC and x86&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if searched in full in Google, doesn't give a clear match in, but if you take only the first few words to search, you'll get the English wikipedia article as first hit, and although you don't see anything matching there, &lt;em&gt;if you open the article&lt;/em&gt;, it starts with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Das U-Boot (Universal Bootloader) is an open source, primary boot loader used in embedded devices to package the instructions to boot the device's operating system kernel. It is available for a number of computer architectures, including 68k, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, MicroBlaze, MIPS, Nios, PPC and x86.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me that is clearly copied content and AFAIK is never acceptable. The two other reviewers (one before, and one after me) approved this suggested edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Feature request:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get the option to paste in a URL when we reject a suggested edit based on copied content? This would already directly help me to re-find the original page on which I based my judgement (which is, as I indicated above, not always an matter of easy cut-and-paste in Google and search).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And once that link can be pasted in there, can other reviewers see this, as it is easier to confirm a source someone copied from than to detect this yourself. Or alternatively, could the copied content with URL, be taken as a flag for others/mods to review?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Discussion:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A completely different matter is how now to follow up on this. IMO at least the original poster of the suggested edit should be warned not to copy content and certainly not without properly giving credits. I prefer to be able to flag the post, and have some others review that, and then have the system tell the poster that this is copied content. That is much better than me just, in my characteristic unsubtle way telling another user what to do and not WRT copied content. I would flag the post once more to get a moderators attention, but now that it is accepted, I would not know where to do so. Is there some place for this. There is also no feedback to the other reviewers, who might be oblivious to what is going on and on the next tag (wiki) review one more not bother with properly checking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case it is content from wikipedia, and it probably suffices to just include a URL as the source. But in other cases it is not so easy and the content might have to be removed, which is not trivial as determining copied content is easier then writing an alternative. A more structural way to approach this would be appropriate, the only thing I can think of doing in such a case is pinging the mods in chat and explain things. I much rather have my review as 'copied content' be taken as a more serious judgement, more like a flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:53:36.170" Title="copied content when rejecting suggested edits on tags and tag wikis" Tags="|feature-request|suggested-edits|review|tag-wiki|plagiarism|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3471" CreationDate="2015-04-18T06:49:56.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/289747/suggested-edit-from-2012-in-review-queue&quot;&gt;A bug in suggested edits was tracked down where&lt;/a&gt; around 100 older suggested edits had been missed¹.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹&lt;sub&gt; Do I get a special badge now, having reviewed one of these unique suggested edits?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T09:23:36.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-18T12:49:45.453" Score="3" ViewCount="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that there is a ‘votes’ tab under the regular tab bar on the activity tab of my own profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following screenshots are from Chromium 41 on Arch Linux:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Summary tab:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0LTR.png&quot; alt=&quot;summary tab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tags tab:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FjTWI.png&quot; alt=&quot;tags tab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Votes tab:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T8mbC.png&quot; alt=&quot;votes tab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33521" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T20:17:26.720" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:17:26.720" Title="Floating votes tab on new profile page" Tags="|bug|design|profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-18T13:26:37.957" Score="1" ViewCount="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the past few days (since the new profile pages came out, I think), each time I try to post an answer on U&amp;amp;L, I get this dialog when I click on &quot;Post your answer&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Fb3v.png&quot; alt=&quot;confirm that you want to leave popup&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I choose &quot;Stay on page&quot; and try to submit my answer again, I get the new answers notification banner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OfHUx.png&quot; alt=&quot;new answers notification banner&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And attempting to submit again, I am told my answer is a dupe since, apparently, it was actually submitted on my first attempt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zEAbZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Duplicate answer notification&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I just found out when posting this question, I get the same issue when posting questions (at least on meta) as well. Choosing to &quot;Leave page&quot; submits the question (and, presumably the answer) as expected but this is very annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearing my browser's cache lets me post one answer normally but the next time I try to post, I get the same issue again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is on Firefox 37.0 on a 64bit Debian (LMDE). What gives? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T20:18:10.610" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:18:10.610" Title="Posting an answer triggers the &quot;Confirm that you want to leave&quot; dialogue" Tags="|bug|answers|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3496" CreationDate="2015-04-18T15:52:58.043" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now, i watch 62,571 questios beside of screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is , Are those open and closed questions or only open questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21911" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T16:13:18.460" Title="Open and closed questions. close and open or only open questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3495" CreationDate="2015-04-18T16:13:18.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It includes closed questions as well. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?page=1252&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;Go to the last page and you can see it for yourself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T16:13:18.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-18T18:00:15.613" Score="0" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged a question as off-topic; it was a stats plotting question, so I wanted to send it over to Cross Validated. However, the only choices it displayed were LaTeX and Stack Overflow, so I went back a step and changed my flag to &quot;blatantly&quot; off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like having the most common misclassified exchanges at the top, but shouldn't I be able to send it (or flag it for transfer) to any other Stack Exchange site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50950" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T14:08:07.260" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T14:08:07.260" Title="Flag question as off-topic, limited other stack exchange options" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-04-18T18:09:27.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3464" CreationDate="2015-04-18T20:49:16.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed and you don't think it's worth reopening, then it's usually not worth editing. Ideally, all closed questions should be either reopened or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that is worth editing about closed questions is their tags. Questions that were missing important tags may have failed to reach the subject experts who would have been able to recognize the gem hidden in a poorly-written post and edit it into a good question. Tagging the question properly makes it more likely to reach the right people. In this case, the question should be proposed for reopening, so tag edits should send it into the reopen queue according to the normal rules (or even with a more inclusive policy than non-tag edits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one case where I see this making sense is duplicate questions, which are not meant to be deleted. Often the edit made by someone who is not the author won't affect the fact that the question is a duplicate. Editing duplicates for things like spelling and presentation is often worthwhile to make them more prone to be found in a search, which is the point of keeping duplicates around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:49:16.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3474" CreationDate="2015-04-18T20:52:55.850" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people who tend to read this kind of message are also the people who are smart and attentive enough to provide relevant information in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who don't provide critical information are also by and large the same people who don't read what's on their screen and just click on that annoying “Yes, I have read all this information” button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an extra user interface feature that would not help with anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T20:52:55.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3463" CreationDate="2015-04-19T17:16:49.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were 129 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt; only three of which were not about background processes. Presumably you all have been busy retagging, thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;retagged those three with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wallpaper&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wallpaper&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wallpaper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/desktop-background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;desktop-background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;desktop-background&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wallpaper&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wallpaper&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wallpaper&lt;/a&gt; synonym. I did it this way since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wallpaper&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wallpaper&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wallpaper&lt;/a&gt; already existed and it was less disruptive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background-process&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T17:16:49.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-19T17:34:11.650" Score="13" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any point in having separate tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uefi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uefi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uefi&lt;/a&gt;? EFI and UEFI are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;different versions of the same standard&lt;/a&gt;. Most if not all questions are about 2.x (“UEFI”) versions, not about the 1.x “EFI” versions, so we should either clean up &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efi&lt;/a&gt; to be only about the actual EFI versions or merge it into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uefi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uefi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uefi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-06-18T18:43:03.247" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T18:43:03.247" Title="Do we need /efi or just /uefi?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="309" CreationDate="2015-04-21T14:27:19.050" Score="2" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$a = trueOrFalse(&quot;are they on-topic?&quot;)&#xA;// TRUE&#xA;$b = trueOrFalse(&quot;is this the best site for these questions?&quot;)&#xA;// FALSE&#xA;if (!$a || !$b)&#xA;{ // !TRUE || !FALSE -&amp;gt; This is never called!&#xA;    pleasePrintBestSiteFor(&quot;questions about vi and clones&quot;)&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your meta code doesn't include vi clones, so I'll explain it in human language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They question about Vi/Vim are on-topic here, because &lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;ex&lt;/code&gt; is text editor created for specially the Unix, however since Feb 2015 you should consider posting questions about Vi/Vim usage, scripts and plugins at the dedicated &lt;a href=&quot;https://vi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Vim Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; site where they belong. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://vi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7/467&quot;&gt;What is considered to be vi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about shell vi mode (&lt;code&gt;set -o vi&lt;/code&gt;) should be asked here, however if you've questions about not compatible clones and 3rd party integration (such as [vintage-mode][2] in Sublime, evil, etc.), it should be asked at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about programming (such as regex), they still belong to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you got confused and posted on the wrong site, flag the question to be considered for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/10249/191655&quot;&gt;migration&lt;/a&gt; (not older than 60 days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/25925/191655&quot;&gt;Vim questions: do they belong to Stack Overflow or Super User?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21471" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:51:57.093" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T14:27:19.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3508" CreationDate="2015-04-23T19:05:15.513" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited two tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/satellite&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;satellite&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;satellite&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/katello&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;katello&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;katello&lt;/a&gt; but it seems that I got &lt;code&gt;+2&lt;/code&gt; reputation twice for each edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qPqEq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Awards&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T19:15:37.717" Title="Why did I get multiple awards for each tag edit?" Tags="|bug|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-23T19:13:08.347" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just noticed there is both a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e2fsck&quot;&gt;e2fsck&lt;/a&gt; and a (much larger) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fsck&quot;&gt;fsck&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason these shouldn't be merged?  There might be questions that are specifically about e2fsck, but they are just as likely to get tagged fsck and that level of specificity seems inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T19:36:16.037" Title="Merge e2fsck and fsck" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3506" CreationDate="2015-04-23T19:15:37.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can edit a tag wiki and a tag excerpt separately (through the system doesn't allow you to create a tag wiki, if the tag excerpt isn't created), so you get reputation for each one equally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T19:15:37.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3507" CreationDate="2015-04-23T19:36:16.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think just retag them and let &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e2fsck&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;e2fsck&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;e2fsck&lt;/a&gt; die. They're not really synonyms; just e2fsck is a subset of fsck. Not to mention a synonym is hardly worth it for two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T19:36:16.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-24T17:35:37.157" Score="10" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other sites (for example, Ask Ubuntu) have occasionally had &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/1220/85695&quot;&gt;question cleanup events&lt;/a&gt; in an attempt to clear out unanswered questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the AU mods made a kind of game where they selected candidate questions from the heap of unanswered and you were rewarded if you found the solution to them. I remember winning an AU t-shirt and a couple of Stack Exchange pens for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we do the same here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18251" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T23:58:35.343" Title="Clean up question on this Q&amp;A" Tags="|discussion|contest|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3501" CreationDate="2015-04-25T06:28:30.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merging makes sense for the most part, the only significant user visible difference that has made itself felt is secure boot, which is only available in uefi. If you turn off secure boot the typical user will not be able to tell the difference. The real differences between versions would be visible to developers so I would recommend against merging them on stackoverflow (unless there was significant confusion) and for merging here unless there is general disgust with secure boot amongst the efi folks, even so anyone who knows efi will know how to deal with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2015-04-25T06:28:30.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3513" CreationDate="2015-04-27T14:34:23.340" Score="4" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to display a numbered list that is followed by a code block? It seems that an answer with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/198904/100397&quot;&gt;this structure&lt;/a&gt; breaks the formatting applied via Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example to illustrate the point, with the broken formatting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We will have a first point&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And a second point as an alternative to the first&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And finally a catch-all in case neither the of the first options apply&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;!/bin/bash&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#&#xA;echo &quot;I intend that this four-line block should be displayed as code&quot;&#xA;echo &quot;But it isn't.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T23:57:53.947" Title="Numbered list followed by code block breaks formatting" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3512" CreationDate="2015-04-27T14:43:07.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to indent it with eight spaces instead of four:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Numbered list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Code block&#xA;Line 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indenting a line right after a list indicated that it's part of that list item. If you make a new, non-indented line after the list, you'll see it's not part of that list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Numbered list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Next line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As compared to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Numbered list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Next line (4 space indent)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next list item&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four spaces makes that line part of the previous list item. Eight spaces is four spaces to include the line with the preceding list, and four more to make it code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T14:47:13.400" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T14:47:13.400" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3515" CreationDate="2015-04-29T01:23:34.727" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199017/how-to-artificially-cause-a-page-fault-in-linux-kernel&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199017/how-to-artificially-cause-a-page-fault-in-linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; Was closed as unclear (which it was, but the comments fixed that), but it is realy off topic as it is a programing question. I flagged it for migration but that has not happened. Should I try to do anything about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T22:56:14.060" Title="Question closed for wrong reason, seems like it needs to be migrated?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3514" CreationDate="2015-04-29T03:55:41.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally it's best to flag questions for the mods in this case if you notice they aren't being routed properly, or are stalled out, such is the case with this one. You can also alert other users of the site in the chatroom to enlist their assistance if you're unsure what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to this particular question, I've merged the comments into the question, so that it more clearly states what the OP is actually trying to accomplish. I'll migrate the question to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T03:55:41.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-05T12:14:59.787" Score="-1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;refering to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200528/how-to-copy-the-lines-in-multiple-files-between-two-given-dates&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200528/how-to-copy-the-lines-in-multiple-files-between-two-given-dates&lt;/a&gt; and &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200467/i-will-use-switch-statement&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200467/i-will-use-switch-statement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering, shouldn't we add a new close reason : homework ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would generate a comment like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stackexchange is not a homework site, we might answer your question providing you show us what you have tried. Please edit your question with you personal research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T14:16:12.713" Title="add a new close reason : homework?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|question-quality|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3517" CreationDate="2015-05-05T13:15:03.663" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think not. We don't want to discourage people from asking for help with their homework, per se. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users that are seeking help with their homework should be welcomed to the SE sites, rather we want to discourage them from simply dumping their assignments here, and expecting users to provide them a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this we can use custom comments as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, if you find yourself having to leave the same comments over and over, I'd encourage you to checkout the many extensions to Chrome and Firefox that provide these facilities within your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For canned comments I use this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Benjol/SE-AutoReviewComments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This extension gives you an extra link on every SE page titled &quot;auto&quot; next to the comment areas that you can click when you want to use one of your custom comments. You can even customize the phrasing of comments and add your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:38.983" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T14:16:12.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3517" CreationDate="2015-05-05T22:55:27.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, this existed on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After much debate, it was retired. Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/147100/the-homework-tag-is-now-officially-deprecated&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; for more detail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see your view point and have commented on questions that smell like homework; however, we need to close poorly written questions and make sure that whenever we answer it is &quot;why not just how&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23797" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T22:55:27.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-06T00:00:16.913" Score="11" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as the title says: is it appropriate to reword questions to make them more generic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of questions that ask the same thing; however, the titles aren't related and the average user might not know how to search for them. It reminds of this Alice in Wonderland quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?&quot;&#xA;&quot;That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.&quot;&#xA;&quot;I don't much care where –&quot;&#xA;&quot;Then it doesn't matter which way you go.” &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people don't know what their problem is then how can they search for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A set of questions that comes to mind is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/187599/cant-boot-to-kali-linux&quot;&gt;Cant boot to Kali linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200629/my-windows-disappeared-from-grub-after-i-installed-fedora&quot;&gt;My windows disappeared from grub after I installed Fedora&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41170/cannot-boot-linux-mint-after-installing-windows-first-and-linux-mint-second&quot;&gt;Cannot boot Linux Mint after installing Windows (First) and Linux Mint (Second)&lt;/a&gt;. All of these questions are about the same thing: a messed up bootloader where an entry is not showing at start up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read the other first two questions listed, it doesn't seem that the askers know what they really need help with. They may have an idea, but aren't certain how to go from there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I rephrase the third question as: &quot;I just installed linux and can no longer boot to windows&quot; and hope someone marks it for community wiki? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if I were to do that then when a user is typing in their title it'll pop up. It assumes that people search for their question first and pay attention to suggestions, but it might help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt; EDIT &lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative is to write a new question and with the purpose of having it be community wiki owned so the original asker doesn't lose reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know which would better suit the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23797" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T13:09:24.830" Title="Is it appropriate to reword questions to make them more generic in prep to make them community wiki?" Tags="|discussion|editing|asking-questions|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3520" CreationDate="2015-05-06T00:45:09.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Renaming the definitive question strikes me as a good idea; not only does it make it a better search target, but when someone finds their question closed as a duplicate, it makes a lot more sense if the title of the duplicate is generic enough so that the connection is immediately apparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:45:09.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3520" CreationDate="2015-05-06T14:43:32.893" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make many improvements to questions, but you should leave the intent of the OP as is. And diversity can be of interest as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you might consider as &quot;The OP doesn't know what their problem is&quot; might be because of you and the OP having a different background. I, e.g., tend to use the word &lt;em&gt;directory&lt;/em&gt; and tend to think of &lt;em&gt;Folder&lt;/em&gt; as some beginner (wrt U&amp;amp;L) makes when coming from Windows. However I realise I am no good judge for that, and I am too lazy to research whether Folder is used in documentation of modern Unix/Linux (desktop) distributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better approach to rewrites is @slm's suggestion to make a generic question and answer it yourself. I would specify that you are making a generic post, provide links to the other posts that are now duplicates of your posts and flag (or close by the time you have the rep for that) any non-duplicate posts as being a duplicate of your new entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That kind of clean-up takes some time, but in general is highly appreciated. You also should look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2708/33055&quot;&gt;Let's compile a list of canonical Q&amp;amp;As&lt;/a&gt; if you haven't already done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T14:43:32.893" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3517" CreationDate="2015-05-06T23:01:37.173" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful (click again to undo)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lazy homework questions meet these criteria. So use the tool for which the text above is the tooltip: &lt;strong&gt;downvote&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that a question may be homework is not relevant to determining whether it is (usefully) &lt;strong&gt;answerable&lt;/strong&gt;. The point of closure is to get rid of unanswerable questions. Homework questions are not intrinsically unanswerable, so we should not close questions on this basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it's impossible to tell homework questions in general. Having constraining homework policies is only good for generating arguments about something is homework. (“We won't do your homework.” “But it isn't homework! I'm trying to do …” “Who are you kidding? I can tell it's homework.” “What are you on? I tell you it isn't!” “Nuh huh.” “Uh huh.” …)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T23:01:37.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3520" CreationDate="2015-05-06T23:13:49.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it can be appropriate to make questions more general so as to bring them to a wider audience, and use them as duplicate targets. As it says in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog post “The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions”&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is OK to edit a question to make it more general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, don't go overboard. Sometimes it's difficult to make questions really general, because it obscures the issue. If there are irrelevant details in the question title (e.g. mention of a distribution for something that isn't distribution-specific, doing something “in bash” when the purpose of the question is just to do some basic scripting, …), please do edit them. But don't edit too many details out of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've usually found it difficult to properly generalize specific questions to make them widely applicable and suitable duplicate targets. There are usually too many specific details to edit out, and that often reduces the helpfulness of the question. Instead, if a topic comes up often, it's usually best to write a new question and write a detailed answer (which often goes beyond covering a specific problem, and also discusses how to recognize the symptoms, the limitations of the approach, etc.). We call such questions &lt;em&gt;canonical questions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Canonical questions are good candidates for closing other questions as a duplicate of them (even older ones). Sometimes the canonical question addresses only 90% of the issue; in these cases it's best to write a short answer that explains how the question relates to the generic problem, or how to implement the general solution in this specific case, and refer to the canonical Q&amp;amp;A for detailed explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you write or find a canonical question, please add a link to it in the relevant tag wiki(s). That's the best way to find canonical questions on a topic. If you're unsure whether a question is worth listing, ask in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's absolutely no reason to make the questions community wiki. If you write an answer that you intend to be collaboratively edited, make it community wiki; if you write an essay that you expect to stand on its own, don't make it community wiki. (A couple of examples from me: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43539/what-do-the-flags-in-proc-cpuinfo-mean&quot;&gt;collaborative&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters&quot;&gt;essay&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T23:13:49.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3517" CreationDate="2015-05-07T10:45:03.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't care if a question is homework or not. What I care is whether the question is good, well thought out, shows a decent amount of research and context and is generally answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I object to people asking me to do their work for them, and I don't care whether it's homework, work work or anything else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF a question is unclear or generally poor quality - tools exist for dealing with that. If it isn't, then ... leave it be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is all about making a sort of mega FAQ - supplicants getting their questions answered is rather a beneficial side effect of the process of collating questions and their answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65333" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T10:45:03.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3527" CreationDate="2015-05-08T18:47:39.223" Score="-5" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I'm relatively new to SE it seems there is a recent upsurge in the number of new users who ask question after question but appear to have no interest in accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a (low) limit on the number of concurrently open but unanswered questions that a low scoring user can ask? Would this feature be useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically I would expect it only to affect a new user because once such a user started accepting answers their score would begin to increase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that multiple downvoted or closed questions can trigger SE to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/question-bans&quot;&gt;stop further questions&lt;/a&gt;. This isn't what I'm looking for. Also, it's possible that leeching has been here all along and I've only just noticed, but nevertheless my question stands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T18:20:04.713" Title="Limit number of open questions per person" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3526" CreationDate="2015-05-09T06:25:27.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having spent quite some time on this site and its review queues, I don't think there is need to worry, and that the &quot;influx&quot; of question dumpers is well within limits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not accepting answers is not a problem, although not very nice behaviour. I think the system might actually prompt you after some time if you upvote an answer without accepting it. And if the OP is bothered to write &quot;thank you&quot; as a comment, the upvoting/accepting is often pointed out by some other commenter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if the system doesn't notice someone not accepting, some other user (like you) will, and it is perfectly OK to leave a remark in a comment to tell the poster that you noticed very few of the answers to his/her questions were accepted. Insert appropriate links  &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;Why is voting important&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;What does it mean when an answer is &quot;accepted&quot;?&lt;/a&gt; in that comment, and point out that there are benefits when accepting for the poster (+2 rep) and the stimulation accepting might provide for the answerer (in lieu of any financial rewards for their effort).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not accepting is IMO primarily a result of unfamiliarity with the system and once made aware of the workings, posters will accept (and often go back to older questions to amend their ways).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T18:20:04.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3520" CreationDate="2015-05-14T13:09:24.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you need to be very very careful in doing these kinds of edits. I would suggest the default be to create a new question. The reason is pretty simple. Looking at your example, Kali Linux and Linux Mint may have different methods for recovering GRUB.  One OP may have efi the other BIOS. Sure you can (and should) make a general question (like &quot;What do I do after install Linux to dual boot Windows?&quot; or such), but you do not want to loose the original context just so you can get the question into the community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better example would be the same question between Debian and CentOS. The basics may be the same, but paths, mount points, package installs, etc are all going to be different. This fact doesn't reduce the need for a general &quot;what to do&quot; type question, but a user could still need the more specific instructions based on a specific distro. This is even more true for an inexperienced user, or in new &quot;edge&quot; cases (i.e. installing Linux next to Windows 8.1 can be very different then next to Windows 2008)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think it's worth a community wiki question and answer(s), but if your really trying to help someone new, then giving them generic instructions or a question with 1 answer per major distro is way more confusing then a question and answer based on their specific distro.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50370" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T13:09:24.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3530" CreationDate="2015-05-20T11:48:35.630" Score="8" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following scenario: one of my answers gets accepted, then somebody else edits what I wrote in a way that I disagree with.  Now I have a post supposedly written by me, that doesn't reflect my views.  Sure, the edit history is available, but how many people look at that?  I might not be aware of the change myself if I happen to be away from the site for a while.  And even if I am, I can no longer delete my post, since it has already been accepted.  So, is there a reasonable way to deal with this situation?  Can I somehow disown the post, so that it is no longer associated with my name?  Continuously policing my posts doesn't seem to be a reasonable approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111878" LastEditorUserId="111878" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T12:06:06.147" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T12:11:31.440" Title="Disowning an answer?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3529" CreationDate="2015-05-20T12:11:31.440" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no easy way to disown a post short of requesting that your account is deleted. You can request that a particular post be disassociated from your account but that requires manual intervention from SE staff and should only be used in extreme cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the situation you describe, all you need to do is roll back the edit. Go to the answer you are talking about, click on the review history and scroll down to the last version you find acceptable. There will be a &quot;rollback&quot; link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xcYuJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;rollback link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on that and the question will revert to that version. As for continuously policing, that shouldn't be necessary. You are usually notified if time one of your posts is edited (there are some exceptions, I'm not sure about the details but an edit that is enough for you to object to should always come with a notification). If you don't like the edit, just roll it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, please don't get into edit wars. If a user keeps editing their changes back, instead of starting an endless back and forth of edits, just flag the post for mod attention and we'll deal with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T12:11:31.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:00:34.490" Score="12" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; feels a bit vague to me. It covers several related topics, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user account metadata (password, shell, …), e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204612/shell-script-to-change-user-shell&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/201833/how-to-cat-etc-shadow-on-an-hmc&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/191663/any-concerns-with-using-high-uid-numbers-3000-on-rhel5&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user account databases, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199220/how-to-loop-over-users&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197124/why-are-there-many-accounts-im-the-only-user&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;privileges of a user (the files they can write, etc.), e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/203869/killall-processes-under-a-user&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/196932/how-to-limit-the-number-of-active-logins-per-user&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;file ownership, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/201694/find-files-created-by-a-particular-user&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;; often &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chown&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chown&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chown&lt;/a&gt; is used instead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accounts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accounts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accounts&lt;/a&gt;, which covers user account metadata and databases. I don't know when to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accounts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accounts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accounts&lt;/a&gt; and when to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; for this meaning (except that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accounts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accounts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accounts&lt;/a&gt; can also apply to groups).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we split &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt;? If so, should we unify one of the meanings with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accounts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accounts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accounts&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/group&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;group&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;group&lt;/a&gt;, it feels more tame to me. But it should be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/groups&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;groups&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;groups&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T23:41:00.273" Title="Should we be using the /users tag? And how do we account for /accounts?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:07:34.380" Score="20" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;volume&lt;/a&gt; is ambiguous. It's used at least for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sound volume, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204782/pulseaudio-with-external-sound-adapter-work-around-broken-sound&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204268/how-can-i-synchronise-kmix-and-alsamixer-volumes-at-maximum&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Storage volumes, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/189054/how-to-obtain-info-about-physical-volume-as-non-root-user&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166846/tar-using-progress-bar-and-handling-multi-volumes&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we disambiguate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T07:07:34.380" Title="Stop /volume from increasing" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3536" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:07:34.380" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;For generic storage topics, there's already &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/storage&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;storage&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;storage&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/block-device&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;block-device&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;block-device&lt;/a&gt;. For specific types of volume, there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lvm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lvm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lvm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/device-mapper&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;device-mapper&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;device-mapper&lt;/a&gt;, etc. So I think we should just get rid of the uses of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;volume&lt;/a&gt; for storage topics, by retagging to existing tags. Eyeballing it, that's maybe 15 questions to retag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we've done that, we should rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;volume&lt;/a&gt; to something less ambiguous. I propose &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sound-volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sound-volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sound-volume&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio-volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio-volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio-volume&lt;/a&gt; (perhaps both). “sound volume” wins &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=audio+volume%2Csound+volume&amp;amp;year_start=1800&amp;amp;year_end=2000&amp;amp;corpus=15&amp;amp;smoothing=3&amp;amp;share=&amp;amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2Caudio%20volume%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csound%20volume%3B%2Cc0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books ngram&lt;/a&gt;, for what it's worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T07:07:34.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:12:38.527" Score="10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input&lt;/a&gt; has at least two unrelated meanings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Input devices (keyboard, mouse, etc.), in particular device-independent event mechanisms, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/202229/how-to-get-the-mouse-keyboard-raw-events&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198179/usb-bar-code-scanner-not-working-on-raspbian&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Input to a program, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/202113/when-does-cat-finish-reading-from-a-pipe&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/193602/how-many-bytes-can-a-keypress-return-and-should-a-metafied-key-return-more&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That second category is a bit fuzzy. It overlaps with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stdin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stdin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stdin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/output&quot;&gt;tag:output&lt;/a&gt;, which is mostly the pendant of the second category, and its companion &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stdout&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stdout&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stdout&lt;/a&gt; (plus &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stderr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stderr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stderr&lt;/a&gt; but that's a more useful tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to rename the input device meaning to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/input-device&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;input-device&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;input-device&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure what to do about the program input meaning and about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/output&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;output&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;output&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T07:54:18.207" Title="What's your input on /input?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3538" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:54:18.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As regards &lt;code&gt;/input&lt;/code&gt;, I second moving it to &lt;code&gt;/input-device&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;code&gt;/output&lt;/code&gt;, how about simply making it a synonym of &lt;code&gt;/stdout&lt;/code&gt;? That seems to be the most frequent usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21109" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T07:54:18.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-28T05:07:53.923" Score="9" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed some rather odd behavior when moving the cursor over links to answers displayed in my user profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gqOf1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I opened Firebug to see if I could determine exactly what was going on here. The cause of the problem was not immediately obvious but it turned out to be a typo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the HTML elements for one of the answer links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;td title=&quot;...&quot; class=&quot;answer-hyperlink&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;a class=&quot;answer-hyperlink &quot; href=&quot;...&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        How to set C++11 as my default compiler?&#xA;    &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that both the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; use the &lt;code&gt;.answer-hyperlink&lt;/code&gt; class. What exactly is in the declaration for this CSS class?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.question-hyperlink:hover, .answer-hyperlink:hover {&#xA;    border-bottom: 1px dotted #666;&#xA;    text-decoration: none;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we've got a rule here that puts a dotted border along the bottom of both the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; when they are hovered over. But then how come this doesn't happen for the links in the question section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's where things get fun. There's another CSS rule that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; override that one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.user-page .question-hyperlink:hover, .user-page answer-hyperlink:hover {&#xA;    border-bottom: medium none;&#xA;    text-decoration: underline;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the subtle bug in there? &lt;code&gt;answer_hyperlink&lt;/code&gt; should probable be &lt;code&gt;.answer-hyperlink&lt;/code&gt; (a class not an element). Once this typo is fixed, everything works as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1049" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T05:07:53.923" Title="Weird double-underline for links to answers in user profile" Tags="|bug|css|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3535" CreationDate="2015-05-28T06:33:18.060" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do associate &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; with, &lt;code&gt;users&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;/etc/group&lt;/code&gt;. IIRC this used to be the initial group account for when new user accounts were made (before the practise of making a group with the username for each user became widespread).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18198/gid-current-primary-supplementary-effective-and-real-group-ids&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; questions seems to use it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that that once case warrants keeping that tag around. If there are more such cases a more generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/initial-group&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;initial-group&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;initial-group&lt;/a&gt; would be more appropriate (i.e. describing its function not necessarily the actual name used). During a re-tag action one could retag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/users&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;users&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; to this for appropriate questions and tally at the end to see whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/initial-group&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;initial-group&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;initial-group&lt;/a&gt; should be a keeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T06:33:18.060" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3535" CreationDate="2015-05-28T13:11:14.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we could get away of groups, accounts, user(s) and group(s) if we used a single &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/user-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;user-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;user-management&lt;/a&gt; for all questions about UID/GID and related topics, as they pertain the user administration of the kernel/system. Other usages, like databases, web servers and the like, that are not directly related with the user/group of the (file)system itself should use their respective applications tags, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mysql&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mysql&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mysql&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pam&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pam&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pam&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the most simple solution I can find, which would have the most desired effect and prevents confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T13:11:14.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3535" CreationDate="2015-06-02T15:21:12.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could be oversimplifying this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users - Attached to a human&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accounts - Not Attached to a human&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User in a database would be accounts since it is overshadowed by account used by the database itself.  Hopefully, we aren't running our services as personal users anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32340" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T15:21:12.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3535" CreationDate="2015-06-02T23:41:00.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to disagree with DarkSheep, As much as it would be nice to have a good unix-wide distinction between users and accounts (bob is a user, apache is an account) this is not a distinction that really exists outside a small number of administrative tools. The confusion between users (Bob, a man who has less hair than he wishes), user accounts (bob, the login for the man who wants more hair), pseudo-users (the thing the computer thinks is out there, maybe), and pseudo-user accounts (the user account set aside for the web server) is not well defined on a truly global scale (although some distributions are trying to draw a line in the sand)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were to adopt site specific definitions (which I think would be a good thing as long as we recognise that these definitions are not fully accepted) I would propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User: PEBKAC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;System User Account: The association of data identifying a user returned by &lt;code&gt;pwgent&lt;/code&gt; including UID, GID, username, and related information, but specifically not including password related information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Application User Account: any user account used by an application that is not returned by pwgent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pseudo-user Account: Any special case of System User Account that does not have a corresponding User.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regular User Account: Any System User Account associated either with an individual or organization.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't even get me started on groups Which are an even bigger mess with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User group:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;organization for supporting users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the group with the same name as the user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a group containing real pebkac users (which sometimes is called users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Group user: a user that is a member of a specific group&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Administrative group: a group of users (pebkac) that have permissions based on group membership.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;system group: a group without real users (ie bin, games, lpr)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;system user group (apache)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to improve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T23:41:00.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2015-06-07T21:02:26.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have also done that although I prefer to replace it with a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which in my experience reflects a more common character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10043" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T21:02:26.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3548" CreationDate="2015-06-08T17:18:47.490" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to this site and posted a question about RAID 10 configuration in CentOS Linux on the Unix &amp;amp; Linux portion of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207997/software-raid-10-array-space-loss&quot;&gt;Software RAID 10 Array Space Loss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@psusi, @Anthon, @Archemar, @slm put the question on hold as off-topic. I had to research what this meant and after reading through the help topics referenced in the hold notice, I'm really confused as to why that question is off topic for a Unix &amp;amp; Linux site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully I'm putting this question in the right place...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118358" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T04:03:29.567" Title="Confused as to why a question about RAID 10 on CentOS is off-topic" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3546" CreationDate="2015-06-08T18:11:08.933" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why that's off topic either. I'm sure one of the close voters will come by and explain their reasoning&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; but the question as it is now seems perfectly on topic. I am therefore reopening it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I would also like to welcome you to the site and thank you for taking the time to 1) read the rules and 2) post on meta. I wish more new users would do so!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;All of those users know way more than I do about RAID so I might be missing something. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T18:11:08.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3546" CreationDate="2015-06-08T22:15:41.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The terminology in that close reason can be confusing since it's covering a few different scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;off-topic → Questions describing a problem that can't be reproduced and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as it was previously phrased was off-topic, in the sense that it was not reproducible for a variety of reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users here do not have access to your hosting provider's environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question lacked enough details to be answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So myself and others selected this close reason since it was the one that matched closely with the situation as it stood at that time. You've since provided more details per feedback from @frostschutz, which has improved things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the primary functions of closing a question is to block it from eliciting many partial answers which are attempting to answer a question which hasn't been asked with enough specificity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;what makes a good question&lt;/a&gt; these 2 bullets are pretty crucial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Be specific&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you ask a vague question, you’ll get a vague answer. But if you give us details and context, we can provide a useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Make it relevant to others&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We like to help as many people at a time as we can. Make it clear how your question is relevant to more people than just you, and more of us will be interested in your question and willing to look into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I've personally never cared for the term &quot;close&quot; on questions since it has a negative connotation. Comments and closing are however, the 2 primary methods users have with interacting with the questions posted on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this makes a bit more sense to you and welcome to U&amp;amp;L. Hopefully you'll not take this as a negative experience. Everyone here is generally eager to help and there can be a bit of a learning curve if you're new to the StackExchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We appreciate you taking the time to read through the help (this is one of the biggest frustrations to older users of the site 8-)). Hopefully you've gained insight into why you were having your particular problem, and how the site as a whole, functions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T22:15:41.393" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3546" CreationDate="2015-06-10T21:44:12.503" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot know this, but it's a side effect of this site being part of the larger Stack Exchange network. These sites all have a few common close reasons (e.g. the question is so broad the answers would fill a book). One of the close reasons is &quot;off topic&quot;. What is &quot;off topic&quot; is defined per-site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most sites on the network found out that there are a few types of questions which frequently crop up, but are not good for the site, because they cannot produce satisfactory answers, or because they lead to flame wars. So each site got custom close reasons too. The questions could mostly be defined by their topic. For example, Cooking.stackexchange.com has as a custom close reason &quot;question about health and nutrition&quot;. So this is where the custom close reasons are sorted, under &quot;off topic&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It so happens that Unix and Linux has a custom close reason of &quot;can't be reproduced&quot;, which is not a topic-bound category. But because all sites in the network run on instances of the same software, the custom close reason appears under the &quot;off topic&quot; part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, your question here is in the right place on Meta. I also see that your original question got improved, reopened and answered - thank you for participating in this process, it is what we'd like to happen to most of our closed questions (except for the handful which is beyond salvaging). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18829" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T21:44:12.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3546" CreationDate="2015-06-11T04:03:29.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As to my specific reason to vote to close this was that you &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;asked why there wasn't more space on the disc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wrote that you have &quot;a RAID 10 software array&quot; (i.e. not multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of the 4 disk are completely used ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get an answer pointing out that your disc are partitioned and not used as one whole, so your calculations started from the wrong premisses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this is as if you we writing: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have two number 8 boxes of 12 eggs. I counted them and I got 96, but 8 * 11 is 88, (I checked on a calculator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e. I saw this as a misreading on your part and unlikely to help future readers. Hence the specific close action I chose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T04:03:29.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3555" CreationDate="2015-06-12T08:39:05.167" Score="12" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, a question about text processing is tagged with the &lt;em&gt;utilities&lt;/em&gt; like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;when they are just soliciting any valid solutions&lt;/strong&gt;. Should we attempt to clean-up such questions by replacing these specific tags with just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these questions, my justification is that using the utilities-specific tags are either too strict, or will be repetitive across questions if enforced. In other words, if the question doesn't care whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; gets the job done, why should the question be tagged as such? What if a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;perl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;perl&lt;/a&gt; solution comes in? Hence, I feel that the all-purpose &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the question started as an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; question, and is seeking help specifically for that, then we can leave that tag in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44356" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T14:06:49.177" Title="How to use the text-processing tag effectively?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-12T09:22:46.157" Score="9" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found two similar tags on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; site which are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt;. But I am little confuse to understand exactly which of them should be used when?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As both deals with Text processing/formatting utilities like: &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;cut&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;diff&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sort&lt;/code&gt; etc. why both are exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should one of them be synonyms of another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T10:01:50.863" Title="What is difference between text-processing and text-formatting tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2015-06-12T09:42:46.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Text processing may involve additional filtering or 'rows'/'cells' transposition etc., which are more than just formatting the text differently from the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you might still be onto something. Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt; is created much more recently and is more narrow in scope, it may not be too far-fetched to think of it as a synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44356" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T09:42:46.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2015-06-12T11:12:18.637" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure that we need both tags but there is a difference between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;. First of all, yes, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt; is a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;. However, &lt;em&gt;formatting&lt;/em&gt; refers to changing a file's format, not to extracting information from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/209025/22222&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is about text &lt;em&gt;formatting&lt;/em&gt;. The OP has a file in a particular format and wants the same information but in a different format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; for extracting information from text files (parsing them) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt; for manipulating the way that data from a text file are displayed. As a rule of thumb, if a subset of the information is to be extracted, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; and if only the format, the presentation of the data, is to be changed, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt; (or both). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Please don't assume that this is site policy. This is just my personal take on these tags, feel free to downvote/disagree.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T11:12:18.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3551" CreationDate="2015-06-12T12:37:45.460" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already guidance on the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/text-processing/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which I think covers the issue quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unix systems tend to favor text files, often consisting of one record&#xA;  per line. Most Unix configuration files are text files. Unix systems&#xA;  come with many tools to manipulate such files. Most tools process the&#xA;  file in a stream: read a line, process it, emit the corresponding&#xA;  output; this makes it possible to chain scripts with pipes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag when your question is about processing text files and&#xA;  you're not sure which tool to use. If your question is about a&#xA;  specific tool, use its tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe when this topic has come up in the past we've rationalized it like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to get clarification from the OP if they strictly want an &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, etc. solution or are open to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; command. Both situations come up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're generally very tolerant on unix.stackexchange.com vs. other SE's with respect to not flagging answers to questions that make use of alternative tools, when a question is tagged with something specific.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Part of our interaction with OP's is to help get this clarification up front via comments, before providing a solution, so we should focus on doing this as the questions come. Often times, users new to Unix are unaware that they have choices. They will have some vague notions about there being tools like &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, etc. but don't fully grasp their subtleties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cleaning up the site is always an appreciated service so I would encourage you to pull some searches together to get an idea of how many questions we're looking at here and then post another question on meta to help track the work. Let us know through comments/chat if you're unclear how to proceed and what tasks you need others to help with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll generally post a search or list of questions and divide the work up amongst other members so that it isn't too burdensome for a single individual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T14:06:49.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2015-06-14T23:06:57.893" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I understand the tag name &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt; spontaneously is that it's about applying formatting to text, such as bold, italic, section titles, line and page breaks, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki gives a completely different meaning. I understand it as applying to &lt;em&gt;producing&lt;/em&gt; text which has to be arranged in a particular way, as opposed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; which is about &lt;em&gt;reading&lt;/em&gt; text and often, but not always producing modified text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-formatting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-formatting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-formatting&lt;/a&gt; isn't on my mental radar, I wouldn't have thought of using it before seeing this meta thread. I'm not sure if I'll be remembering it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T23:06:57.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3558" CreationDate="2015-06-17T13:32:52.653" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/209295/33055&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; has  keyboard (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) tagged characters as follows: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;... &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt; then &lt;kbd&gt;A&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;E&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Space&lt;/kbd&gt; ... &lt;br&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean I have to press six buttons at the same time? If not what is the convention on this site? ¹&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt;A similar question was asked in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/209293/mint-17-cinnamon-ctrlshiftu-not-letting-me-enter-unicode-symbols/209295?noredirect=1#comment355849_209295&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; to the answer&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T06:54:13.430" Title="What does the keyboard formatted [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[U] then [A][E][Space] mean?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3557" CreationDate="2015-06-17T13:32:52.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The typical convention used on this site is that all characters have their own &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/kdb&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; box and that multi-character entries are only used for &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Space&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a &quot;+&quot; between two keys that means that the characters have to be typed at the same time. If there is a comma (or nothing) you type the characters one after another. I have not seen any particular convention for press and hold X  then press Y.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typing (i.e. press and release) &lt;kbd&gt;A&lt;/kbd&gt; normally results in lowercase 'a'. To get 'A' this would be represented as &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;A&lt;/kbd&gt;. It is never &lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt; as the actual character on the keyboard is uppercase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sequence &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt; then &lt;kbd&gt;A&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;E&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Space&lt;/kbd&gt; means: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;press &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt; at the same time and release&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type &lt;kbd&gt;A&lt;/kbd&gt;  (type means: press and release)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type &lt;kbd&gt;E&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type &lt;kbd&gt;Space&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T06:54:13.430" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T06:54:13.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3560" CreationDate="2015-06-19T07:13:45.893" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I saw a nicely formatted question and wanted to see how it was generated, meaning I want to see the &quot;syntax&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the Edit Button is Disabled and the popup text says &quot;editing not allowed on non-wiki questions&quot;. I do not want to edit, I only want to see the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this can be enhanced for usability: Make the edit button always enabled. When clicked on a non-wiki question, simply pop-up a comment &quot;Edits can not be saved&quot;. If user had wanted to edit, he will say &quot;cancel&quot; and go away. If user wanted to see the syntax, he will say &quot;ok continue&quot; so now show him the text box with the raw syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54246" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T21:05:16.647" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:05:16.647" Title="See the source of a post when the edit button is disabled" Tags="|support|editing|markdown|view-source|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3559" CreationDate="2015-06-19T11:05:00.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need to &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; to view the source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get the post ID (click on &lt;em&gt;share&lt;/em&gt;, or look at the question URL, note the first number). For your question, that would be &lt;code&gt;3559&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;site.name&amp;gt;/posts/&amp;lt;ID&amp;gt;/revisions&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/3559/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/3559/revisions&lt;/a&gt;, for your question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the &lt;code&gt;source&lt;/code&gt; link next to the revision number. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/49df3d5e-39a3-4616-a290-a2021376ff09/view-source&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/49df3d5e-39a3-4616-a290-a2021376ff09/view-source&lt;/a&gt;, for your question.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For posts that have been edited already, you can just click on the &lt;em&gt;Edited at ...&lt;/em&gt; link directly to get the revisions, then one more click to the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T12:35:10.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3562" CreationDate="2015-06-20T10:50:37.703" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic:-&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic:-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;Ubuntu posts are a special case&lt;/strong&gt;. If your question applies to Ubuntu only, or you're looking for answers that are Ubuntu-specific, you should post it on the Ask Ubuntu Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; says:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;http://askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt; is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes Users ask question which are Ubuntu specific. When I flagged questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/209911/unable-to-run-software-updater-ubuntu-software-center-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; as Off-Topic &gt; Migration I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;meta.unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; But &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt; is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gc24v.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many chance may Ubuntu specific questions are posted here (as well as programming question -stackoverflow) instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think one more option should be provided:- belongs on &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T11:47:24.550" Title="Add askubuntu.com to Closing &gt; Off-Topic &gt; Migration" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-20T11:48:13.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3561" CreationDate="2015-06-20T11:47:24.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will repeat the arguments Michael made in the duplicate, just to point out that nothing has changed in the intervening time. There have been a grand total of 10 questions migrated to AU in the past &lt;em&gt;year&lt;/em&gt;. That's a really, really tiny number of the ~30-40,000 questions posted in that time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the vast majority of Ubuntu questions are perfectly on topic here since they are about Linux. That the OP happens to be using Ubuntu is usually irrelevant. We only want to migrate those few questions that only concern Ubuntu and which wouldn't be relevant to any other distribution. That is not an easy call to make, it requires a certain level of familiarity with both Ubuntu and other distributions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I don't think we need this because 1) there really aren't that many questions that deserve migration and 2) I fear that would result in our losing many on topic questions and 3) we would end up migrating things that shouldn't be migrated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you find posts that belong on AU, just flag them and we'll deal with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T11:47:24.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3564" CreationDate="2015-06-21T07:56:30.103" Score="0" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/156962/how-to-change-to-normal-user-in-the-command-line-when-logged-in-as-the-root-user&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; some time ago which got mixed response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited the selected &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/157974/36440&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;(myOwn) and short time after I got a down-vote on it which pisses me off because I feel it's a good answer and the question got alot of down-votes when I asked it and stands with -1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I flagged my answer explaining that after the edit I got a down-vote I don't understand and ask if it is the commentator that commented right after the down-vote. I expected that the &lt;code&gt;mod&lt;/code&gt; could decide if it was a fair down-vote. After this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of&#xA;  content that requires their intervention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can figure out that it doesn't work that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pissed off because the question got alot of down-votes and also alot of people telling me that I shouldn't be doing what I describe I'm doing in the question(ssh as root) and the guy who probably gave my answer the down-vote also is commenting on security while I didn't ask if it was secure to ssh as root, I asked how to change user in the shell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is..... do I just bite it in and let it be....that I got these down-votes, -1 for the answer and stands -1 for the question or do I rebel and hope the gods will keep me safe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you give your opinion on the question and selected answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your input greatly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T14:24:03.040" Title="I got a down-vote I really disagree with and flagging it was probably a mistake" Tags="|discussion|editing|down-votes|flags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2015-06-21T13:05:36.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, mods can't see who voted on what. That is confidential and only available to SE employees. Also, since you mention it, what you did is a clear abuse of the flagging system. As you figured out, it doesn't work that way and please don't do it again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, your question got 4 downvotes and 3 upvotes. That means a net reputation change of +7. Not really something to complain about. Especially since it was quite frankly a horrible question. 5 minutes of searching for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&amp;amp;q=Linux%20switch%20user&amp;amp;ia=qa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Linux switch user&lt;/a&gt;&quot; would have given you the answer. Therefore, the question showed a clear lack of research which is one of the primary reasons for downvoting. It's even mentioned in the popup that appears when you hover over the down arrow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, you ignored the previous answers that all told you to use &lt;code&gt;su&lt;/code&gt; and instead posted your own answer repeating that information. You did this &lt;em&gt;a week&lt;/em&gt; after the posted answers. Why? Why not accept one of the existing ones? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also blatantly plagiarized the content of another site (grammatical mistakes and all) and, while you did give attribution, you did not put the text in a quote block. This gives the impression that those were your words and not that you had simply copy/pasted from someone else's work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this is not really important but you also used code blocks for emphasis, a practice that is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/135112/203101&quot;&gt;frowned upon&lt;/a&gt; and which actually makes your post harder to read. On some sites (SO, for example) that in itself would be enough to get some excessively zealous people to downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if all this were not the case, complaining about downvotes is pointless. We have no way of knowing who downvoted or why. Complaining about a single downvote (which is all your answer received) on a post that has given you a net reputation gain of 15-2-8=+5&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; is kind of strange, really. Downvotes happen, they often happen for completely random reasons. In this particular case, I am honestly surprised you didn't get more. There is rarely, if ever, any point in complaining about them  unless you are getting very many. In that case, there are automated scripts that can detect targeted voting and the votes are usually reversed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in conclusion, you have gained 7 reputation points from a question with 0 research and an answer that is simply copied from somewhere else and repeats the same information already given to you by others. So yes, bite the bullet and let it be and be thankful you didn't get more downvotes than you did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;3 upvotes=+15, 1 downvote on the answer=-2, 4 downvotes on the question=-8&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T14:24:03.040" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3567" CreationDate="2015-06-24T04:05:55.820" Score="21" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to unix.sx. In some other StackExchange community I participated in, it's a usual thing to encourage user to post an answer to their own question once they've found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example at unix.sx: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/183666/booting-gentoo-on-lvm-inside-luks-with-gpg-encrypted-keyfile&quot;&gt;OP mentions the problem is solved, and it's clear to them what happened but it all happens in comments, and the question is marked unanswered&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems very appropriate for me to ask the OP to post a full answer themselves, and accept it. I wonder if it may be not appropriate for some reason. There could be some: I'm mostly familiar with StackExchange communities where answers are unlikely to change in future, and are likely to be as useful in the (at least near) future as they are now (examples: mathematics; heavily standardised software). This may often not be the case with Unix &amp;amp; Linux, so one might argue that it's better to not waste each other's time describing solution to a problem that was fixed with a new release, or that varies wildly with implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, however, that it's not clear from the comment in example whether it was a bug that's fixed by now, or it was both that and OP's own mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all that,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;is it appropriate at unix.sx to ask OPs to post answers once they found them by themselves, and to mark them as accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;in case the problem is now history due to bug fix, is it better to post an answer, or to delete the question altogether? or maybe unix.sx is quite OK with unanswered questions and doesn't consider them a burden at all?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120692" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T21:58:06.663" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T11:38:21.600" Title="When is it appropriate, if at all, to encourage OP to post an answer they found themselves?" Tags="|discussion|self-answer|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3575" CreationDate="2015-06-24T04:11:20.690" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick background: I recently posted a question on the Web Apps site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/79433/how-can-i-remove-skype-from-outlook-com&quot;&gt;How can I remove Skype from Outlook.com&lt;/a&gt;.  It concerns being unable to access email on Outlook.com because of a popup from Microsoft that blocks access to email while demanding that I sign up for a Skype account.  The problem started within the last few days, pointing to either a recent web site change or some update on my system underlying the problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem occurs with all browsers I've tried in Debian but does not occur with the browsers I tried in Windows.  Firefox (same version and add-ons in both OSes) works in Windows but not Debian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only theory is that the problem is Java-based.  Debian uses a version based on IcedTea, which is not identical to what runs in Windows.  So basically, I want to ask if any other Debian users are encountering the same problem, which would point to IcedTea-based Java being the common denominator.  If anyone is currently using Outlook.com successfully, their configuration could be the solution.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see a number of reasons why this would likely be off-topic.  Is there a way to ask this that would not be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:57:25.363" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T11:33:11.817" Title="Is there a way to ask this that is not off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3565" CreationDate="2015-06-24T04:19:00.433" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q1) is it appropriate at unix.sx to ask OPs to post answers once they found them by themselves, and to mark them as accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure we do this all the time. Many of us often will also fill in gaps that we stumble across on the internet or on this site and will post a question, merely to provide our own answer(s) a home here and on the internet at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q2) in case the problem is now history due to bug fix, is it better to post an answer, or to delete the question whatsoever? or maybe unix.sx is quite OK with unanswered questions and doesn't consider them a burden at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the problem is now history, then I'd probably be inclined to post as an answer, a link to the issue tracker that includes the details that this bug has now been fixed. Many users are unaware that bugs get fixed, and many users are either forced to run on older distros/software or haven't yet upgraded. In these cases a question with an answer directing them to the issue tracker will in fact be another marker on the internet that that will hopefully direct them to the resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases it is more desireable to delete the question all together. I'd probably delete it if it's a extremely old issue. It's difficult to scope what this time should be though. Maybe say 10+ years? When in doubt I'd probably bring this issue up in our chatroom for guidance as you come across such instances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We try hard to provide an answer to every question, but there are questions that do not have an answer...yet, and may never get one. We periodically will try to coordinate efforts to do a roundup of unanswered questions and attempt to survey them, but more times than not, nothing has changed, and we continue to leave these questions on the site without an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually 3-4 times a year, I'll personally do this to see if there are some more recent questions that I can attempt to answer. I know a few other higher rep'd users do this from time to time as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are suppose to be used to entice users to attempt to answer these types of questions, but I'm not a big fan of them. I find that more times than not, putting bounties on questions, has really no effect, at least on this site. We have a smaller group of users, but they're pretty active on the site already, so if a question is going unanswered, it's likely that everyone has already seen it and jus don't know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T04:19:00.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2015-06-24T09:53:39.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference between &lt;code&gt;text-processing&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;text-formatting&lt;/code&gt; is that you might process a text into some other format, such as an image, or a page description (as in &lt;code&gt;pdf&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;ps&lt;/code&gt;), while text formatting formats a text to produce another text in a special formatted way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So roughly I would say, when you process a text the result might be have any format and encoding or even no visual result at all but some kind of system function, while when you format a text the source and destination formats are plain texts basically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As both deals with Text processing/formatting utilities like: sed, awk, perl, cut, grep, diff, sort etc. why both are exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those tools are text formatting tools, while text processing tools are &lt;code&gt;tex&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;roff&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;metapost&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;gs&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course &lt;code&gt;text-formatting&lt;/code&gt; tools are often used to format text for further processing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119519" LastEditorUserId="119519" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T10:01:50.863" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T10:01:50.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3565" CreationDate="2015-06-25T07:24:16.417" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's always appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user expects to get free answers and give none when they figure it out, well I'll let you finish the sentence.  More specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Absolutely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) I've fixed quite a few new things by seeing how older related things were fixed.  I think there's value in deleting barely anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117454" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T07:24:16.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3565" CreationDate="2015-06-25T17:37:41.247" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer is an answer.  It doesn't matter the source.&#xA;The purpose of stack exchange is the collation of good questions and answers to them. &#xA;The individual poster getting &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; question answered is a beneficial side effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a noticeable problem to solve, typically you will continue with it in parallel anyway. Things you discover you should share, unless someone has beaten you to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely ok to post and accept your own answer if it was what helped the most.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as such, it is impolite to ask a community for help without at least contributing your answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65333" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T17:37:41.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-25T18:50:50.670" Score="3" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Time to time, I see questions with what I think are easy answers, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/211609/manually-compile-and-add-module-r8169-and-others&quot;&gt;Manually compile and add module r8169 (and others)&lt;/a&gt;, and I think OK, I use Gentoo, and compile my own kernel often so let's tailor a solution to Debian, and earn some easy reputation because I like it here, and want to become a moderator etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I start to formulate and research my answer to type up and realize that Debian 6.0 (from the comment), a.k.a Squeeze will be EOL soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DebianSqueeze&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Releases&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2014-07-19 : Updated (6.0.10) (press release).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2016-02-06 : End of LTS security updates for i386 and amd64 (five    years after initial release)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmmm, even the LTS will be gone... Should I continue and answer his question, or let the security conscious user in me loose, and do more than &quot;gently urge?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reasoning&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First the Definition via &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_(product)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;End-of-life&quot; (EOL) is a term used with respect to a product supplied&#xA;  to customers, indicating that the product is in the end of its useful&#xA;  life (from the vendor's point of view), and a vendor intends to stop&#xA;  marketing, selling, or sustaining it. (The vendor may simply intend to&#xA;  limit or end support for the product.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that users/readers come here because in some cases the StackExchange Community is the only place that particular reader can find an answer, but I'm asking for advice because although software is about freedom, using an EOL distribution can cause problems on many fronts, including but not limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No Vendor Support&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Security Issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only update mechanism is backports.  If those break, you're up a creek anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Outdated Software.  See Items 2 and 3.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Probably Others, I can't think of&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Options&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AskUbuntu has tags separated by version - I expect that there, as some Ubuntu users are new to the distribution, and don't know the proper upgrade path: (A mod can edit this later with a report from AskUbuntu)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total Count by Tag:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/12.10&quot;&gt;/12.10&lt;/a&gt;  4,271&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/13.04&quot;&gt;/13.04&lt;/a&gt;  3,826&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/13.10&quot;&gt;/13.10&lt;/a&gt;  2,872&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Total&lt;/strong&gt;:  10,969&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wow, 10,000 Questions we could dump because &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ubuntu Support Ended&lt;/a&gt;! Do we need a similar system, ie tagging by version? For all the distros we answer questions for?  Lots of work because we answer more than Ubuntu based questions.... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we &quot;gently push&quot; posters to upgrade as I did via comment?  Chances are the driver the OP wants is in a newer 3.x kernel, and already created in the RAM Disk my answer will involve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recommend tag creation, i.e. &lt;code&gt;eol-ubuntu&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;eol-redhat&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;eol-fedora&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;eol-debian&lt;/code&gt; and others, for questions dealing with EOL Support.  This tag tells answer writers that older documentation may be needed, and it also tells answer writers that they not receive an answer, and helps comment writers and editors with Option 2. In the same way, we'll end up with 26,000+ questions that may or may not end up answered, but at least some posters may upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64157" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T05:10:14.473" Title="How should we approach End Of Life Questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3573" CreationDate="2015-06-26T06:26:54.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should not &lt;strong&gt;dump&lt;/strong&gt; any questions and certainly not questions from a non-EOL version of Ubuntu (12.04  has support until &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;, thank you very much).&#xA;Having less questions only makes sense if that makes it easier to find relevant questions/answers for &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt;, not when it makes it impossible to find answers for some people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions on U&amp;amp;L are version specific, others are not. Even if a specific version of the distribution was mentioned that might be just information the OP &lt;strong&gt;thought&lt;/strong&gt; might make a difference. Each and every single question should be checked to make sure that the problem is indeed version specific. That means checking if the behaviour differs from later versions of that OS. And if it does, should we add &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-12.04&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu-12.04&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu-12.04&lt;/a&gt; to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-8.04&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu-8.04&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu-8.04&lt;/a&gt; question because 12.04 has the same problem and is not EOL (yet)? And what about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-10.04&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu-10.04&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu-10.04&lt;/a&gt;? I would not want to add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eol-ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eol-ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eol-ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; in that case, and there might not be room for it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the indication in the text, combined with how old the post is is enough information and we don't need to use the limited 5 spot tag info for EOL tag. Inexperienced users are anyway more likely to post a new question than to find an answer to a post relevant only to an EOL version of their OS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is of course OK to comment to an OP that her/his OS is EOL. It is &lt;strong&gt;their&lt;/strong&gt; decision to live with the risks and other inconveniences (ever tried to install additional software on a EOL version of Ubuntu?). Legacy software often requires an old machine to keep things running. Therefore we shouldn't go further than pointing out the EOL status and its &lt;strong&gt;potential&lt;/strong&gt; risks in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3472/33055&quot;&gt;Your moderator election score on U&amp;amp;L&lt;/a&gt; is 12/40, so there is still some room for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T06:26:54.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3566" CreationDate="2015-06-26T11:33:11.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a problem with an application (Firefox) running on a unix (Debian). The problem involves interaction with a server, but you have evidence that the problem isn't purely on the server side (it works on Windows). Asking how to solve this problem &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97/offtopic-a-stance-programming-servers-cross-platform-applications&quot;&gt;is on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Who else has this problem” &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;wouldn't be appropriate for Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't necessarily the best site — since the problem is ultimately with a web application, it's possible that people who are familiar with the webapp are the experts you need to reach, and they hang around &lt;a href=&quot;https://webapps.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Web Applications&lt;/a&gt;. It's also possible that the experts are the people who know the minutiae of how Java differs between Windows and Linux, and those hang around &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. Your question is on-topic on three sites; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-it-possible-to-post-questions-across-a-couple-of-the-sites-because-its-debata/64073#64073&quot;&gt;pick one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:57:25.363" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T11:33:11.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3565" CreationDate="2015-06-26T11:38:21.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's always appropriate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;answer your own question if you have the answer&lt;/a&gt;. If the asker signals that they have solved their problem, it's appropriate to encourage them to post an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer must explain how the problem was solved. Don't answer “The problem is fixed” just to make a question answered. Explain what was needed to fix it, e.g. modifying a configuration setting, upgrading, etc. If you found a bug report with a solution, do link to the bug report. In fact, answer with a link to the bug report and a summary of the bug description even if the bug hasn't been fixed, that'll be helpful to future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only case where it wouldn't be appropriate to post an answer is if the solution wouldn't teach anyone anything. There are two common cases for that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The source of the bug was mysterious — “I reinstalled and the bug went away”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bug was due to a simple mistake, and there is nothing teachable in how the mistake was found and repaired — “I made a typo in the file name”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such cases, vote to close the question as “off-topic” — “Questions describing a problem that can't be reproduced and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.” In every other case, please do answer the question if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T11:38:21.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3577" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-29T07:02:42.063" Score="-11" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep getting edits rejected based on the belief that I am changing the intent of the answer or not making the answer more correct. The reviewers are wrong on both points, I am actually changing incorrect terminology when it is clear what the answer intended to refer to. Why have the same reasons for the rejections been given despite the clear edit summary which states this? It seems counter productive to require an edit summary and ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the edits were approved and later rejected as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user121246" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T16:11:58.963" Title="Edit Review Rejections" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2015-06-29T14:26:12.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/121246/caruni-melj?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=suggestions&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt;, it seems you've made edit suggestions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93425/what-makes-a-distribution-gnu-and-are-there-linux-distributions-that-are-not-gn/93429#93429&quot;&gt;What makes a distribution GNU and are there Linux distributions, that are not GNU?&lt;/a&gt; mainly changing &quot;operating system&quot; to &quot;system distribution&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95955&quot;&gt;edit 95955&lt;/a&gt;, you spelled distribution wrong (as &quot;diatribution&quot;, probably a typo). I don't think you can complain about that one being rejected. Not to mention, you entered that after the author rolled back your first (approved) suggested edit on that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The author of the post and apparently several other community members disagree with you on the terminology. You're using a narrow definition of operating system (which is probably correct in certain technical/academic contexts, but not in general usage). And for example, you changed calling Debian an operating system to calling it a system distribution, but if you look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;debian.org&lt;/a&gt;—they call it an operating system themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what people think of your additions about how successful Stallman had been at getting everyone to call it GNU/Linux. It strikes me as adding in your own take on it, which the author may not agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please use suggested edits when you can make a post substantially better, not just for relatively minor terminology changes. Especially where the terminology may be correct by a strict technical definition, but common usage of the terms differs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you want to argue with the author over terminology, try chat (that author is active on &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;the site's chat room&lt;/a&gt;) or comments. Putting in a second suggested edit is rarely going to be productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T14:26:12.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2015-06-29T17:28:41.637" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree with derobert. I don't see a single valid edit in your profile. In fact, I have rolled back the two that were approved. Let's look at your edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95906&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95906&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, you completely change the meaning of the post. Let's have a look at your changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An operating system is a combination of a kernel and a userland. Basically, the kernel manages the hardware while the userland provides a comprehensive interface to the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was changed to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The kernel manages the hardware while the userland provides a comprehensive interface to the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You simply arbitrarily decided that no, the OP should not be explaining what an OS is and instead should be talking about the kernel. Why? You broke the flow of the answer, that sentence now makes little sense and doesn't say anything relevant (the question was about &lt;em&gt;operating systems&lt;/em&gt;). The edits go downhill from there:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GNU was started way before Linux, and provides with a large amount of utilities to build a full operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was changed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GNU was started way before Linux, and provides with a large amount of utilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? The aim was in fact to build an operating system. In any case, removing that, again, changes the meaning of the sentence. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And as each other is essential to have an operating system, why not naming the association &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU/Linux&lt;/a&gt; so each project is put under the spot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here you had some room for improvement since that sentence has grammatical issues. Instead on focusing on those, you chose to insert opinion (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GNU feels both are essential&lt;/strong&gt;, thus the naming the association &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU/Linux&lt;/a&gt; so each project is given advertisement?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did that GNU come from? The post's author is not trying to give the GNU foundation's opinion, why are you? Changing &lt;em&gt;under the spot&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;is given advertisement&lt;/em&gt; is actually helpful but not the rest. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You then changed &quot;BSD operating system&quot; to &quot;BSD distributions&quot;. I could live with that but, again, it's really not necessary. Finally, you changed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And as an universal operating system, you can run Debian with a FreeBSD kernel and a GNU userland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And as an universal system, you can run Debian with a FreeBSD kernel and a GNU userland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What in the world is a &lt;em&gt;universal system&lt;/em&gt;? How is Debian not an operating system? You could have at least called it a &lt;em&gt;distribution&lt;/em&gt; or even a &lt;em&gt;system distribution&lt;/em&gt; but a &lt;em&gt;system&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95907&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95907&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, on the same post again, you changed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Free Software Foundation argues that the majority of Linux distributions are in fact GNU systems, which happen to use a Linux kernel. They base this claim on the fact that GNU was a longstanding project to develop a free operating system before Linux came along, and that the kernel was only the last missing piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Free Software Foundation argues that the majority of Linux distributions are in fact GNU systems, which happen to use a Linux kernel. They base this claim on the fact that GNU was a longstanding project to develop a free &lt;strong&gt;system distribution&lt;/strong&gt; before Linux came along, and that the kernel was only the last missing piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the FSF folks themselves &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fsf.org/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;disagree with you&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The FSF sponsors the GNU project—the ongoing effort to provide a complete &lt;strong&gt;operating system&lt;/strong&gt; licensed as free software. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU folks as well&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GNU is an &lt;strong&gt;operating system&lt;/strong&gt; that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, you were not only attempting to put words in the post author's mouth, you were also doing the same to the FSF and GNU. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95908&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95908&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, again, you tried to change the term &lt;em&gt;operating system&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;system distribution&lt;/em&gt;. What's more, you left an edit reason that suggests you don't actually understand the terms you are using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linux and Hurd are operating systems, not userspace tools.&lt;/strong&gt; Systems and system distributions are not the same as operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the answer never claimed that Linux or Hurd were userspace tools! In addition, both Linux and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hurd&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;em&gt;kernels&lt;/em&gt; and not operating systems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, both the FSF and GNU agree that what GNU is making is called an &lt;em&gt;operating system&lt;/em&gt; (see above), so I really don't understand why you would call it otherwise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, you added a qualifier that changes the tone of the sentence in a way that the OP did not intend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course it is true that Stallman has promoted such names independently [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was changed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course it is true that Stallman has promoted such names independently, and unsuccessfully [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did that come from? The author did not choose to say that. Many of us, including yourself, obviously, do actually use the GNU/Linux term. Calling RMS's attempts unsuccessful seems biased at the very least. Most importantly, however, it alters the original intent of the post. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95954&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95954&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the same as edit 2. If your edit is rejected, don't try and force your opinion. Instead, either back off, or leave a comment to the OP explaining your position or post here, on meta, as you have now done. Next time, however, do so before attempting to reedit. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95955&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/95955&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, you are yet again trying to force your view. As if that were not enough, because your first bad edit was approved, the author of the post rolled it back. Yet you insisted and tried to push your edit again. Don't do that. As I said above, when your edit is rejected, don't resubmit it, either back off or post on meta but don't try and force it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add insult to injury, you even wrote the word wrong and twice! Of your three attempts to write &lt;em&gt;distribution&lt;/em&gt;, only one was spelled correctly, the others were &lt;em&gt;diatribution&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;distributiona&lt;/em&gt;. At the very least, you should take the time to reread your edits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, all of your edits were either plain wrong or a matter of opinion. You should never try to push your edits. If an edit is rolled back (and this goes double if it was rolled back by the author) 9 times out of 10, the right thing to do is to back off or flag for mod attention or comment or post on meta or &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; but attempting to resubmit the same edit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T16:11:58.963" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3581" CreationDate="2015-07-02T09:01:27.937" Score="11" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just flagged this comment (from the OP on his own post):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hi Can any one help on this ?Thanks – &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as non-constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen such comments before and I don't want to comment on them myself, primarily because the chance is high that the OP will jump on me and start making the begging directed to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this appropriate? I don't want to burden the mods unnecessary, but nor do I want (me and others) to have read through such irrelevancies ad infinitum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T11:03:06.390" Title="flag comments that only beg for an answer as non-constructive" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3580" CreationDate="2015-07-02T11:03:06.390" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the flag was appropriate. The comment was indeed non-constructive and the flag was fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no point in such comments and I think they are usually from people new to SE who consider that the same as posting &quot;bump&quot; in a forum. So yes, flagging them is the appropriate reaction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T11:03:06.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3583" CreationDate="2015-07-04T07:57:44.273" Score="9" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some suggested edits are substantial improvements to the original answers, to the point of being better answers by themselves.  Is there a recommended way to deal with these?  On one hand they are valuable and rejecting them seems wrong, but on the other hand a case can be made that they are against the intentions of the original poster, who either didn't go to the same length with the research, or didn't bother to explain it in so much detail.  If the edit gets approved, the original poster ends up being attributed a post that ultimately she didn't wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a way to gently tell the editor to post the edits as a new answer.  As far as I can tell the current interface doesn't allow that though.  Comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111878" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T18:40:11.267" Title="Dealing with substantial improvements to answers" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3582" CreationDate="2015-07-04T14:02:48.237" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take your 2 questions in reverse order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a way to gently tell the editor to post the edits as a new answer. As far as I can tell the current interface doesn't allow that though. Comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure there is, you can leave them a comment to this effect. Comments &amp;amp; the chat room (to a lesser degree) are the 2 tools at your disposal for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some suggested edits are substantial improvements to the original answers, to the point of being better answers by themselves. .....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really comes down to, are you the type of person that's in it for the reputation points or are you more interesting in getting information out that will help the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can attest to having taken very weak answers, and have completely overhauled them to the point that they're 90% me and 10% someone else. My rationale is that it's more critical to keep questions clean so that there's a few answers, rather than many answers that all provide pieces to a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; How many times have you gone onto StackOverflow and had to read through 10+ answers to figure out what to do? Yeah I hate that too 8-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as you've mentioned, you're now venturing into the realm of making the answer something that the author may not have wanted. So I tend to deal with this situation in a few ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's a new user to the site, I'll opt to provide much more detail to their answer. &lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; This has the side effect of showing the new answerer what we expect on this site in terms of effort when providing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's a senior member to the site, I'll ask them if they'd mind if I further expand their answer first, before doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there's a few answers already to a question, I'll edit an existing answer that's lacking in details, rather than add a 5th+ answer to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is only 1-2 weak answers, and none of them really show the intent of what I want to provide as an answer, I'll add that 3rd answer as my own.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is all fine when it's your material. However if you're reviewing someone else's edit, then things get even more complicated. One other trick we have up our sleeve here, is that moderators can actually merge answers in extreme cases. So you could reject the edit, and leave it up to a moderator to clean up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd hesitate to do this, since it's cumbersome from a reviewers standpoint, since you either have to reject the edit, get the author to post it as their own answer, and then flag them so a moderator can merge them instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for these situations, there's really no 1 rule that fits all. Hence why we have humans in the loop, performing the reviews, for suggested edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a final note, when a user gets to a 2000 rep, they no longer have to have their edits reviewed. So anyone that's gained that much trust within the site, can edit, without any such review. This last bit, IMO, really emphasizes the point that the Stack Exchange engine really wants people to edit and improve existing answers, rather than add their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this helps answer your question(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="33055" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T18:40:11.267" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T18:40:11.267" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3586" CreationDate="2015-07-07T09:34:19.937" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I intend to ask the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I install Geant4 alongside GEANT-3 on my Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)? I have already installed GEANT-3. How can I install Geant4 without making any problems?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask the question on Unix and Linux as suggested by an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/298563/3623705&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; at Stack Overflow meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84855" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T18:12:28.587" Title="Installing Geant4 alongside GEANT3: Question for Unix and Linux meta?" Tags="|discussion|support|scope|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3585" CreationDate="2015-07-07T18:12:28.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can I ask the question on Unix and Linux as suggested by an answer at Stack Overflow meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  Factors such as how &lt;code&gt;$PATH&lt;/code&gt; is set on *nix systems including Ubuntu might be relevant, so it is entirely appropriate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T18:12:28.587" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3588" CreationDate="2015-07-09T23:19:09.910" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had questions marked as duplicates just because they were similar in some aspects. However, in many of these cases, I do not think that my questions are duplicates. I can't message the person(s) who flagged them directly and if there are steps to ask a moderator to get rid of this flag, they are not stated very clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More broadly, is there a way to argue that a question is not a duplicate and should not be flagged as such? If so, what steps should I take to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117308" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T19:40:55.907" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T19:40:55.907" Title="Who should I argue my case to if I think my question is not a duplicate?" Tags="|support|feature-request|flagging|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3587" CreationDate="2015-07-10T03:12:20.103" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only see 1 question in your history that was marked as a duplicate. This is the one you're referring to? &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214886/check-if-string-represents-valid-path-in-bash&quot;&gt;check if string represents valid path in BASH&lt;/a&gt;. This question was closed by a single user who has a gold badge for questions that have been tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally it's the case that it takes 5 votes from user's to close a question as a duplicate, or if a moderator decides to do so. In this case given this user has earned a certain amount of score for answering questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; tag, they're awarded the privilege of being able to automatically cast close and duplicate votes that are binding, and have an immediate effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you need to alert a mod for any reason you can always select the flags link under a question or answer and then select the &quot;in need of moderator intervention&quot; option and write a custom note to us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment directed to this individual using an at sign + username i.e. &quot;@their-username&quot;, under your question. When you own the question you automatically have this ability even if you do not have enough rep to leave comments anywhere else on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider adjusting your question so that it is more specific and is no longer covered directly by an answer to the duplicate that it was linked to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 3rd option is typically the problem with many questions that fall into the realm of being marked a duplicate of another question. They typically lack enough specifics that make them standout on their own, so that an already pre-existing answer on the site does not fully cover them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, our help section in the upper right hand corner provides much of the details that I've mentioned as well: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&lt;/a&gt;. Also this meta covers the privilege: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230865/increase-close-vote-weight-for-gold-tag-badge-holders&quot;&gt;Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Screenshots&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's where you click the flag link on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/54D3w.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss#1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's the resulting dialog, where you can select to alert a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JCniG.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss#2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T01:29:51.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="904" CreationDate="2015-07-15T22:52:35.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange now appears to have its own Android app:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stackexchange.marvin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange App&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16892" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T22:52:35.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-18T18:32:48.797" Score="12" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Consider This&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm still too new, but I'm going to put this issue out there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not good with cars. Say I'm out driving and my car breaks down.  I call a tow truck and take it to the mechanic, who I tell I'm willing to pay after agreeing to the terms.  I tell the mechanic the transmission may be broken, and that caused the problem.  I leave my car with him, and leave for home in a borrowed car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the week, the mechanic calls me and lets me know the car is fixed, but tells me that the problem was not the transmission, but was electrical, and needed a tuneup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Outcome&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have 2 options here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can be offended because the mechanic figured I knew nothing about cars, and never checked my transmission.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can trust the experience I paid for and use my now working car until the next time it malfunctions use the same mechanic, building trust in the process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How This Applies Here&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty &quot;experienced&quot; at understanding how Linux works.  I know that the major difference is the package manager, the release schedules, and at times configuration files.  Also knowing the distribution methodology helps determine the types of users in the userbase helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I answered these 2 questions recently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216233/glibc-can-not-be-used-when-i-have-installed-the-gcc-5-1-0&quot;&gt;“GLIBC” can not be used when I have installed the gcc 5.1.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216856/c-compiler-cannot-create-executables&quot;&gt;C compiler cannot create executables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with negative to no vote at all.  My issue here is should I answer the question as posed, i.e. check the transmission when it's not the problem, or should I properly fix the car, so that the customer drives off happy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, readers have rewarded me negatively because I chose to make the customer happy instead of answering the question as posed.  In the first case, telling the OP to politely reinstall instead of walking him through a side by side installation, as the other answer suggests, puts his broken system in a usable state.  In the second situation possibly a new user wants to install WINE to play a game, so should I make the problem worse by telling him to install &lt;code&gt;build-essentials&lt;/code&gt;, which all the answer posters knew to do including me (installing a building a package for a relative newcomer can be a somewhat daunting task, and notice the OP said install, not compile...), or should I give him his completed car, and have him install WINE, so he can play his game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments Welcome...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64157" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T11:38:31.233" Title="The Question vs The Outcome" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3591" CreationDate="2015-07-18T19:12:24.417" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Writing answers that are well received takes practice. Before I started answering questions here I looked at answers that I thought were good and tried to emulate them in my approach until I found what worked for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the 1st answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216233/glibc-can-not-be-used-when-i-have-installed-the-gcc-5-1-0&quot;&gt;“GLIBC” can not be used when I have installed the gcc 5.1.0&lt;/a&gt;, I'd restructure it so that the solution is at the top and not the bottom. People are generally more interested getting it fixed and moving on, than they are with why. By stating the problem, you're forcing everyone to read through that first, so that by the time they get to your actual solution, they've already had a negative experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the 2nd answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216856/c-compiler-cannot-create-executables&quot;&gt;C compiler cannot create executables&lt;/a&gt;, I disagree with your logic for never compiling from source. &lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't d/v it though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this answer, you've taken a position of scolding the OP and anyone else who's done this, and then began mentioning things that most people will have to go read through to get what you're talking about, specifically who's &quot;Yaegashi&quot; and what does he have to do with the problem at hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other problems with this answer, and I don't want to completely slam you on it, since I appreciate anyone that's attempting to do something better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when answering a question I generally try and do the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be concise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put the solutions up at the top; put the reasons why it didn't work or ways to improve it at the bottom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pull the meat of other resources into your answer, don't make people have to chase 2-3 links of material to get your points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always try and treat the OP as a student, and you're the teacher attempting to explain material to them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write your answers for a larger audience, and not just the OP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always provide real examples. Again, Stack Exchange is all about teaching moments for the OP and any future visitors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've generally fallen into the pattern of answering like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;### Solution&#xA;  ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;### Why&#xA;  ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;### References&#xA;  ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And lastly try and keep a sense of humor about things. Otherwise the Internet will drive you crazy 8-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and compiler Q &amp;amp; A has always notoriously had a very low return on investment in terms of your time vs. rep returned, so there's that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T06:10:56.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3593" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-22T21:04:21.813" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing another stack exchange community (&lt;em&gt;space&lt;/em&gt;, if it makes a difference) and a unix question with mangled title appeared in the &lt;em&gt;Hot Network Questions&lt;/em&gt; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/217622/add-path-to-path-if-not-already-in-path&quot;&gt;Add path to $PATH if not already in $PATH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGWGm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGWGm.png&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like MathJaX being overzealous, but it's weird to see it enabled for questions of other communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure this is the right place to report, but since it was a unix question that broke the thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52837" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T21:04:21.813" Title="Question title mangled in &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot;" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-07-23T01:19:43.107" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3591" CreationDate="2015-07-23T11:38:17.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lets continue with your transmission/electric problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a friend which car had a &quot;problem with the transmission&quot;, because that was what was failing. The only apparent issue. Well, results that his problem was actually electric (after months of going to mechanics trying to figuring out what was wrong with the transmission), which was only visible in the transmission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we learn of this? That the problem isn't always were it appears to be. That's why, instead of going about that you &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; where the problem is, when asking the question is more important to provide context relevant (and sometimes irrelevant) to the issue you are facing, which then would leave the experts to pinpoint what's wrong and how to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I find such actions useful, is when you describe what you think is wrong, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, and any attempt to fix it. That way, when someone suggest you a solution, they have all the information which could screw up their methods or having bad compatibility with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T11:38:17.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3595" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-23T23:54:16.777" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the OP for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10750/why-is-debians-root-shell-colorless&quot;&gt;this famous question&lt;/a&gt;. It was originally posted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/posts/256354/revisions&quot;&gt;ServerFault.com&lt;/a&gt;. After 4 years of existence, I think it is time to accept an answer. Turns out that I cannot. Is this by design or a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28697" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T10:25:53.950" Title="Accepting an answer from a question migrated from another site" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-25T16:49:36.103" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/217853/ram-disk-related-questions&quot;&gt;RAM Disk related questions&lt;/a&gt; is closed as a duplicate of a closed question. I object on general principles as having dupes of closed is frustrating for everyone involved, but both questions are asked by the same user, both appear to be the same question, neither makes any sense (definitely muddled thinking leading to an unclear question). I saw this come up in the reopen que, and voted to leave closed, but was wondering if there is anything we can do to help this fellow (or at least get him to stop slurping soup with a spoon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T16:49:36.103" Title="zakhar_asli only has one question and it does not make sense" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-16T15:41:54.543" Score="3" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got to review a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223518/error-in-yum-installation&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; today, that looked very much like another one I had &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223490/about-yum-installation&quot;&gt;seen and commented on&lt;/a&gt;. I tried to find the &quot;original&quot; via the users profile page, but it indicated the user only had one question on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspected deletion, went into the first post review queue, and found the original. However if I had not remembered that I had seen it there, I might not so easily have found the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the people with enough rep to view deleted posts, get a grace period (e.g. a day) in which the deleted post still show up in a list somewhere? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way it is easier to check if someone if a new user is throwing away useful edits, to get rid of comments or for some other, possible inappropriate, reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recently deleted posts could be shown tagged in the users profile and preferably as well in a &quot;recently deleted&quot; section of the 10K tools (the recently deleted section there, currently only seems to show &quot;Community&quot; deleted posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T15:41:54.543" Title="See recently deleted questions in a user profile" Tags="|feature-request|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3600" CreationDate="2015-08-16T19:33:00.660" Score="4" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few questions here are about date/time manipulation like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/223543&quot;&gt;Get the date of last month&amp;#39;s last day in a shell script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/49053&quot;&gt;linux + add X days to date and get new virtual date&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/84381&quot;&gt;How to compare two dates in a shell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/97913&quot;&gt;Next day of the user entered date - date +1 day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the date for last Monday?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the number of seconds between two dates?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find a tag for that. Should we make one? What shall it be? &lt;code&gt;date-manipulation&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;date-calculation&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;time-calculation&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of those questions above are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt;. At the moment, the description of that tag is for the &lt;code&gt;date&lt;/code&gt; utility. Except for the GNU implementation, that utility's date manipulation capabilities are very limited. Maybe the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt; tag could be changed to mean anything date/time related (including the POSIX &lt;code&gt;date&lt;/code&gt; utility).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T19:49:48.987" Title="How about a [date-manipulation] tag or redefine the [date] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2015-08-18T20:05:43.257" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the low interest, I've just gone and edited the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt; tag to make it a generic &lt;em&gt;date&lt;/em&gt; tag as opposed to a &lt;code&gt;date&lt;/code&gt; utility one (the description there was GNU specific by the way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T20:05:43.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2015-08-19T19:49:48.987" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt; tag approach. The calendar &lt;em&gt;date&lt;/em&gt; and the utility &lt;code&gt;date&lt;/code&gt; have much in common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This however cannot be said about similar problem with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; tag. Currently it is defined as &lt;code&gt;time&lt;/code&gt; utility, but people constantly use it together with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt; tag in the &lt;em&gt;clock&lt;/em&gt; time meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/218056/date-time-setting-does-not-work-after-unplugging-power-adapter-or-sudden-power-c&quot;&gt;date/time setting does not work after unplugging power adapter or sudden power cut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214336/why-is-the-localtime-reset-to-the-default-timezone&quot;&gt;Why is the localtime reset to the default timezone?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/205229/set-my-system-date-time-via-terminal&quot;&gt;set my system date &amp;amp; time via terminal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; tag should be renamed to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-command&lt;/a&gt; as in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cd-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cd-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cd-command&lt;/a&gt; case, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; tag should be deleted or linked to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T19:49:48.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3605" CreationDate="2015-08-21T20:56:08.470" Score="32" ViewCount="1162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm more active on Ask Ubuntu and normally refer Kali users to U&amp;amp;L by telling them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're sorry, but this site is all about Ubuntu and its official derivatives as posted on &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;so Kali is off-topic here as well.&lt;/strong&gt; However, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix&amp;amp;Linux&lt;/a&gt;, a sister site to Ask Ubuntu, they're very good at all varieties of Linux and Unix, especially if you use the &lt;em&gt;Kali-Linux&lt;/em&gt; tag.  &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I stop referring them here and just post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're sorry, but this site is all about Ubuntu and its official derivatives as posted on &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;so Kali is off-topic here as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or continue doing the first one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Voting closed a while ago...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and the AU chat room now shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=kali+questions+are+allowed+on+Unix&amp;amp;room=201&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TVeRb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kali Linux Allowed&quot; title=&quot;Kali Questions Alowed&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T19:29:56.187" Title="Should I stop referring Kali users to U&amp;L from AU?" Tags="|discussion|kali|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2015-08-21T20:56:08.470" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please. Please! PLEASE! Keep those Kali questions &lt;em&gt;away from here!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T20:56:08.470" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2015-08-21T20:56:24.537" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kali &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a *nix distribution! Keep the script-kiddies coming!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T20:56:24.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2015-08-22T07:09:04.853" Score="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are, sadly, more appropriate here, seeing the distro is based on a Linux kernel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to minimise the impact on those of us who have little patience for the numbats that think that installing Kali will make them &lt;em&gt;l337 haXX0r5&lt;/em&gt;, please&amp;mdash;as a public service&amp;mdash; ensure that they are all tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; so we can add them to our ignored tag list and thus remain happily oblivious to the bewildering array of ineptitude that consititutes those posts here.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I live in hope that, one day, they have their own StackExchange site where they can happily congregate, breathless with equal amounts of excitement and cluelessness, and their adolescent ardour for penetration is finally able to be appreciated by the audience it deserves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1. This has been my own crusade for some significant time now, and I would welcome more hands to the pump...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T08:03:42.787" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T08:03:42.787" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4045" CreationDate="2015-08-22T19:27:32.777" Score="2" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/60685/djdavid98?tab=topactivity&quot;&gt;my profile page&lt;/a&gt;, when I hover over the reputation graph, an underline appears between the month names. I'm using Chrome 44.0.2403.157 on Windows 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPQi5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPQi5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60685" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T08:46:01.353" Title="Underline appears between reputation graph month names on hover" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-25T21:32:18.713" Score="12" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been a Windows user, but I know the OS isn't perfect. To help make it a little better I use &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GOW&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of linux tools ported to Windows. ls, cat, which, wc, and 100+ other utilities added to my path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that these tools are not running on Linux and may have tiny impacting differences between them and their Linux originals, but would asking questions about these tools or complicated combinations of these tools be off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the question I'm dying to ask is how to scan a folder looking for duplicates AND deleting them. Currently I have &lt;code&gt;sha1sum * | sort | uniq -D -c 40&lt;/code&gt; which will print all matching files (determined by identical sha1 hashes) pointing me in the right direction for which ones to delete. Even though I'm running this on Windows, would this be an acceptable question here on Unix/Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80529" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T21:50:52.907" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T19:58:33.127" Title="Using Linux tools on Windows?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-11-19T10:14:09.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3608" CreationDate="2015-08-26T04:48:56.547" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say it's fine. One of the bullets in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; FAQ entry is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/97/29&quot;&gt;cross-platform does not disqualify&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the question isn't Windows-specific (i.e. it wouldn't apply when using that tool on a Unix-like system), it should be fine here. If you have Windows-specific questions, they're probably better on &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T04:48:56.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3608" CreationDate="2015-08-27T16:07:23.367" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that as GOW native compiles their utilities they suffer from windows poor support for io redirection especially as they use cmd.exe as the shell, and have horrible terminal emulation (arguably worse than dos which at least had ansi.sys which sucked). Maybe one of these days windows will get all the features that unix had in the 1970s. Other than those limitations, we welcome your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T16:07:23.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="461" CreationDate="2015-08-30T23:35:54.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Writing “Nix” is harmful because &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_package_manager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;there is a software package called Nix which is relevant to this site&lt;/a&gt;. Writing “*nix” or “'nix” or the like is similarly harmful because it's confusing: are you actually talking about Nix with some weird punctuation (perhaps broken formatting), or about Unix? It's also harmful because searches will find “Nix”, not “Unix”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Write what you mean. If you mean Unix, write “Unix”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T23:35:54.743" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-01T05:41:48.647" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a downvote for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/226306/56901&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226206/how-to-add-a-header-and-or-footer-to-a-sed-or-awk-stream&quot;&gt;How to add a header and/or footer to a sed or awk stream?&lt;/a&gt;, because the answer was written in the Python language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I provided a Python answer because I found a text processing tag on that question. You know all Linux distributions have Python pre-installed. Is providing a Python answer for a question with the &quot;text processing&quot; tag wrong? If yes, then when or where can I provide Python type answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56901" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T17:00:46.333" Title="Is there anything wrong in providing a python answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2015-09-01T07:40:48.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's most likely that you got downvoted because someone thought that you wasn't answering the quesiton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, when people ask how to solve X problem regarding text manipulation, they either want to embed it in their script, or use as a command to type in terminal. &lt;code&gt;Python&lt;/code&gt; isn't well suited for this type of questions, because it's probably slower in text processing then specialised tools, plus question was asking specifically about &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However; I think that no answer that addresses an issue is wrong answer. Even if by coincidence someone finds your answer helpful, it's still a plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe your answer wasn't the best fit, but it isn't against rules either. I'd continue providing quality content. Some people tend to downvote too much; we can't do anything about it, but focus on the purpose of the site - helping others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T07:40:48.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="164" CreationDate="2015-09-01T07:51:54.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it depends on question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;There is SE site for software recommendations.&lt;/a&gt; We can redirect questions that are too broad(&quot;What is good music player for Linux?&quot;, &quot;Lightweight outlook alternative for Linux?&quot;), but some questions might apply to Unix specifically and be beneficial for our community(there are many utility tools that can be used, but some users don't know them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I disagree with your #1 and #2 dots. Stack Exchange might also get deprecated; but this doesn't discourage us from posting answers here. Also, answers can be updated, so if program gets deprecated but question is reviewed often, we can simply update it. At worst, we will only help less people then we could. I think it's still better then helping no one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:01.533" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T07:51:54.943" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-01T07:51:54.943" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2015-09-01T14:54:17.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is pretty disingenuous; the post has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag, but also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; tags, the title is &quot;How to add a header and/or footer to a sed or awk stream?&quot;, and the first sentence is &quot;I have a bunch of output going through sed and awk.&quot;. The asker was pretty clear about wanting a sed or awk answer. With text processing in particular people have a bad habit of specifying a tool when it doesn't actually matter, but you have to check first; you can't just assume part of the question was optional and do it some other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T14:54:17.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2015-09-02T03:34:44.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would repeat some of what the other answers said,&#xA;and add some points that they missed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question was explicitly about &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; and/or &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, etc…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You point out that the question was tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;What you seem not to have noticed was that the OP didn’t use that tag;&#xA;it got edited in four hours after the question was asked, by another person. &#xA;So you can’t really use the presence of the tag to justify your claim that&#xA;the OP didn’t really want to restrict the answers to use &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;. &#xA;But, on the other hand, I don’t believe that it’s reasonable&#xA;to expect every potential answerer to read the revision history&#xA;and try to figure out what the OP wants and what he doesn’t. &#xA;Many questions, as posted, are incomprehensible nonsense,&#xA;and therefore we allow other people&#xA;(who may understand the underlying technology, and/or know English,&#xA;better than the OP) to improve them. &#xA;You shouldn’t have to sift through chaotic previous versions of the question. &#xA;You should be able to answer the question, in its state at the time,&#xA;and have your answer judged with reference to that version of the question,&#xA;and not some past or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/9514/150988&quot;&gt;future&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Side note:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  The person who added the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag to the question&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; posted an answer not using &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;. &#xA;  One way to look at the narrative is that this person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;found a question that was completely and exhaustively answered,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;edited the question to make it slightly broader, and then&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;posted an answer that would have been out of scope for the original answer,&#xA;  but was (arguably) in scope for the revised answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and it might be reasonable to ask whether &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; was appropriate behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You point to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag and claim&#xA;“all Linux distributions &lt;del&gt;has&lt;/del&gt; have python pre-installed”&#xA;to justify posting an answer using a tool other than what was asked for. &#xA;But, even if you interpret the question broadly,&#xA;it’s hard to deny that it’s looking for a command-line answer. &#xA;All the other answers present a command that can be typed into a shell,&#xA;and either hooked up to a pipe or given a filename parameter. &#xA;Yours doesn’t; it presents a Python &lt;em&gt;program&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;Sure, it’s just a matter of typing&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;python -c '&lt;i&gt;your_answer&lt;/i&gt;'&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;(or maybe &lt;code&gt;python&lt;b&gt;3&lt;/b&gt; -c …&lt;/code&gt;) &#xA;But&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you left out that part, which a beginner might not be able to figure out, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it’s not that simple,&#xA;because your answer uses both single quotes (&lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;) and double quotes (&lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;),&#xA;so it can’t just be enclosed in quotes. &#xA;To add insult to injury, I was able to change your code, &lt;code&gt;end = &quot;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;to &lt;code&gt;end = ''&lt;/code&gt;, and it worked,&#xA;so your use of both kinds of quotes was an unnecessary complication. &#xA;(I don’t know Python, so I don’t know&#xA;whether you were following generally recognized good programming style,&#xA;or just being arbitrary.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question says, “I have a bunch of output going through sed and awk.” &#xA;It does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; say, “I have a file …”  All the other answers&#xA;present a command that can take input from a pipe (or a file). &#xA;Your answer, as written, works only on a named file. &#xA;Again, I’m sure it’s trivial to change the Python code&#xA;to read from the standard input, but you didn’t do it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, that said, I believe that your answer doesn’t deserve downvotes. &#xA;But those are some of the reasons why I didn’t upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I am the author of one of the other answers to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:59:43.927" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T03:34:44.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3621" CreationDate="2015-09-02T12:21:46.837" Score="1" ViewCount="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/227013/kali-linux-usb-persistence-cannot-change-root-password&quot;&gt;In this question&lt;/a&gt; user mentioned that he tried tagging an answer with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/passwd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;passwd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;passwd&lt;/a&gt;, but it got changed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/password&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;password&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;password&lt;/a&gt; automatically. I tried re-tagging it with edit, but apparently I failed, too. Is this a bug, did someone decline my tag change, or am I just missing something simple?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T16:07:43.997" Title="Passwd tag getting changed to password automatically?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3620" CreationDate="2015-09-02T15:11:52.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/passwd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;passwd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;passwd&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/password/synonyms&quot;&gt;a synonym&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/password&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;password&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;password&lt;/a&gt;. I don't know why it is so, but the behaviour you have seen is expected of synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T15:11:52.297" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3623" CreationDate="2015-09-02T15:20:39.610" Score="1" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having found out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3620/passwd-tag-getting-changed-to-password-automatically&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/password&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;password&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;password&lt;/a&gt; is synonym to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/passwd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;passwd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;passwd&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to ask if that's intended behaviour? &lt;code&gt;passwd&lt;/code&gt; refers to a tool; &lt;code&gt;password&lt;/code&gt; should be a tag for questions that ask about passwords, password managers, password authentication, etc. They both have different descriptions and meanings; Sometimes you want to ask question that is specific to &lt;code&gt;passwd&lt;/code&gt; tool, and sometimes your question refers to &lt;code&gt;passwords&lt;/code&gt;, but not &lt;code&gt;passwd&lt;/code&gt;. Plus, it's easier to navigate searching for &lt;code&gt;passwd&lt;/code&gt;, when trying to solve related problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T17:01:51.570" Title="Passwd tag synonymous to password?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3622" CreationDate="2015-09-02T15:34:22.157" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it was intended by the user who suggested it and the others who voted on it, but it does seem wrong to me, so I removed the synonym. It renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/passwd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;passwd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;passwd&lt;/a&gt; 45 times since January 2014 though, and those won't automatically change back, so there's potentially some posts in that time frame that should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/passwd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;passwd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;passwd&lt;/a&gt; but aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T17:01:51.570" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T17:01:51.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3627" CreationDate="2015-09-03T04:12:51.460" Score="5" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;elevator pitch&quot; of this site in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; has a typo: the first sentence ends with two dots..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Al5sS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that the string describing the audience of the site ends with a period, which it should not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This string is also returned by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/sites#pagesize=999&amp;amp;filter=!.UDMsvaYdFr.b0xP&amp;amp;run=true&quot;&gt;API&lt;/a&gt; and appears in the Site Switcher in the top bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T16:51:37.100" Title="An extra dot in the tour of the site" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3626" CreationDate="2015-09-03T16:51:37.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The extra dot has been DESTROYED!!  Thanks for the report..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T16:51:37.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-04T12:38:15.400" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everyone using this site would recognise &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/227343/can-someone-explain-what-this-command-does&quot;&gt;this command&lt;/a&gt; as extremely destructive, and a small but non-zero percentage of those people will probably run it just to see, under the assumption that the community is not out to sabotage them. This example is easy for an experienced *nix user to understand, but people &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be posting more convoluted commands, whether as trolls or innocently. Next time might be a simple virus piped to Bash or a command to send your &lt;code&gt;~/.ssh/id_rsa&lt;/code&gt; or browser history to a chat channel, who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have added a comment to the question, but &lt;strong&gt;I feel like the command should instead be rendered harmless by replacing &lt;code&gt;rm&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;echo&lt;/code&gt; and explaining why in the question itself&lt;/strong&gt;, with a warning to not try this at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3645" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T16:11:28.113" Title="What to do with harmful commands?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3630" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:04:01.457" Score="30" ViewCount="529" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, while reviewing late answers, I've noticed a latecomer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was asked few years ago. Person who asked has accepted some answer(which in detail explained how to solve the problem). After few years, our latecomer decided to answer the question, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it'd be fine if he provided some meaningful input, but I think his input wasn't that great:&#xA;(from now on, I'll refer to Accepted Answer(er) as AA)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, his answer was less accurate version of AA(not a copy, but you would already know everything from the accepted answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, his answer was rather poor; The language wasn't as precise as AA's, instructions weren't as clear as in AA. They might even be a little confusing; not misleading, but surely not as easy to follow as AA's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And thirdly, question had already an answer, and was asked few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third argument isn't strong - any solution that wasn't listed is valuable, as it might help someone(and actually be simpler to execute); however, the fact that he didn't show any new solution or didn't explain it in a simpler way makes me feel it's just redundant and unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know how to react. From the style I knew that asking him to refine his answer wouldn't help much; I also didn't know how to edit his post, since the best version was already in AA. Should I just leave it there as 0-score answer, flag it somehow, or ask user to take some action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T10:39:34.020" Title="What about latecomers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3629" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:24:32.933" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just leave it alone. You could, if you like, suggest to the OP that they improve the answer, or you could do it yourself. Apart from that, just let it be. We all produced some pretty sad excuses for answers when we first started posting. With any luck, this new user will spend some time on the site, see how things work here and improve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case you describe, I don't think it deserves a downvote and there's not much point in doing anything else apart from attempting to improve it as I suggested above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:24:32.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3628" CreationDate="2015-09-04T16:11:28.113" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Replacing &lt;code&gt;rm&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;echo&lt;/code&gt; would change what the command does and invalidate existing answers. If people are seriously copying any command they don't understand on the internet and pasting it into a shell to see what happens, they probably aren't going to last very long. Particularly if the command says &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; run this command! It &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; break your installation&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; right above it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T16:11:28.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-06T11:44:59.520" Score="-3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was about to write a post about Linux–FreeBSD virtual &lt;em&gt;consoles&lt;/em&gt; and their difference from virtual &lt;em&gt;terminals&lt;/em&gt;, an anomaly surfaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17810/computer-terminal-and-virtual-console&quot;&gt;Computer terminal and virtual console&lt;/a&gt; asked namely this thing; note the second Wikipedia quote. But it was dumped into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-con&quot;&gt;What is the exact difference between a &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;, a &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;, a &amp;#39;tty&amp;#39; and a &amp;#39;console&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt; that considers such thing as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;terminal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;shell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;console&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and nothing about &lt;strong&gt;virtual&lt;/strong&gt; consoles, that is a special concept deserving some attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO closing users were misled by confusing (and largely off-topical) answers to the former question, and made a wrong decision to close as duplicate. &lt;strong&gt;Could anybody help with reopening?&lt;/strong&gt; If it’s impractical, then Ī̲ could leave my post under “What is the exact…”, but the thread is already overcomplicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now posted at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/228050/how-are-virtual-consoles-related-to-traditional-computer-terminals&quot;&gt;How are virtual consoles related to traditional computer terminals?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/228052/80483&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/228052/80483&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80483" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:15:31.627" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T11:15:31.627" Title="Virtual consoles (Linux–FreeBSD): possibly mistaken closure" Tags="|support|duplicate|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2015-09-06T15:54:57.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closed question will remain closed even if we decide it's not a dupe. It is asking 3 questions at once and that would make it too broad anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, if you feel you have something to add with respect to the distinction between &quot;computer terminal&quot; and &quot;virtual console&quot;, by all means either add your own answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4126/what-is-the-exact-difference-between-a-terminal-a-shell-a-tty-and-a-con&quot;&gt;dupe's target&lt;/a&gt; (you could always preface it with something like &quot;I will focus on the differences between...), or post your own question, limiting its scope to only the differences between the terms and post the answer there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T15:54:57.083" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3608" CreationDate="2015-09-06T19:58:33.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the subject is &quot;Using Linux tools on Windows?&quot;, I'm going to suggest Cygwin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://cygwin.com/install.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://cygwin.com/install.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will give you a complete Bash shell with most tools in the standard install, thus giving you a much better feel of Linux on Windows with even the ability to install servers like Openssh, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132866" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T19:58:33.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1240" CreationDate="2015-09-07T11:25:56.903" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tty&lt;/a&gt;s are special files (i. e. an interface provided by kernel) for terminal devices, and things directly related to it (&lt;code&gt;stty&lt;/code&gt;, line vs character mode, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/console&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;console&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;console&lt;/a&gt; is an actual set of devices and stuff specific to it (virtual consoles, &lt;code&gt;loadkeys&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;setfont&lt;/code&gt;, framebuffer vs VGA, raw vs cooked keyboard in Linux, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ī̲ don’t know whether a useful denotation for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; can be defined under current conditions of this site. It is so broadly used that ceased to be selective; seemingly for anything related to TUI (mostly run within emulators by modern users). Whereas specific tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal-emulator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal-emulator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal-emulator&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pty&lt;/a&gt;) are underpopulated and neglected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80483" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T11:25:56.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3637" CreationDate="2015-09-08T07:28:53.140" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only recently topped 25k, but it was &lt;em&gt;less recent&lt;/em&gt; than was my award of the &lt;em&gt;View Site Analytics&lt;/em&gt; privilege. How come?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBeRY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBeRY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T08:55:25.093" Title="Why just yesterday?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3636" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:55:25.093" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/260849/270345&quot;&gt;It's a new privilege, created very recently.&lt;/a&gt; I crossed 25k on another site long ago, but got the privilege yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T08:55:25.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-09-08T14:48:15.777" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/90327/geomatics-and-remote-sensing?referrer=8G2asYAyI_To9RoVf1VtPg2&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/90327.png&quot; alt=&quot;Check out the Area 51 Remote Sensing Proposal&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119190" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T14:48:15.777" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-08T14:48:15.777" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3629" CreationDate="2015-09-09T19:44:21.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see loads of this same type of answer across the SE network. It would be nice to do something about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting might be seen by some as a bit harsh in this case - depending on whether our definition of that famous tooltip &quot;This answer is not useful&quot; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;passive: only for counterproductive answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or active: includes redundant ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how I feel about this dichotomy, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, aside from that, I would certainly suggest leaving a comment saying something &lt;em&gt;somewhat&lt;/em&gt; like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Hi, welcome, blah blah,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but this answer (although not inaccurate) does not appear to be useful in this context - because X and Y (e.g. already answered, and 3 years ago).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could you please tell me if I've missed something?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Otherwise, please check over our rules (or informal guidelines, or canonical meta threads, or whatever) to learn why the community would generally advise against leaving answers like this.'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're not leaving a downvote that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; go against the stated purpose of downvoting and/or be interpreted by the recipient as offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; you leave something for them - and, in some cases more importantly, other readers - to see and think about why they might want to avoid leaving the same kind of answers in future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not known for being an expert on netiquette!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124753" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T19:44:21.680" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3629" CreationDate="2015-09-10T10:39:34.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't know if the latecomer is hoping to become a serious member or not. Maybe he himself or she herself doesn't know that yet. You can do several things to improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote the right answer (and other answers that are useful and no copies). That's a positive downvote for the latecomer's answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on the latecomer answer and explain that his answer does not provide new insights. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain that if he wants to build up reputation, he would better focus on questions where he can really improve the given answers. Copying answers can result in downvotes, which destroy your reputation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34756" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T10:39:34.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3643" CreationDate="2015-09-10T17:19:28.733" Score="15" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/228867/how-can-i-recover-deleted-files-shared-with-a-linux-vm&quot;&gt;How can I recover deleted files shared with a linux VM?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recognize that I can be short with &quot;lazy-web&quot; posters. Are my responses in my answer and/or comments too blunt or unhelpful? I'm not &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to be an ass, but I reviewed this post and realized I may be coming across pretty poorly, so I am asking for the more experienced community to weigh in...am I violating Wheaton's Law?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62481" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:42:31.653" Title="Am I being too bitchy or intolerant?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3642" CreationDate="2015-09-10T21:31:33.373" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not at all. In fact, given the paucity of information provided in the question, it is a very good answer: it covers a range of scenarios, likely to be helpful to others who find themselves in a similar situation and is completely devoid of what would be otherwise understandable snark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a trap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T21:31:33.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3645" CreationDate="2015-09-12T13:15:56.723" Score="5" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/32558/ciro-santilli-%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6-%E6%B3%95%E8%BD%AE%E5%8A%9F-%E7%BA%B3%E7%B1%B3%E6%AF%94%E4%BA%9A-%E5%A8%81%E8%A7%86&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt;, trying to ask why he left non-commented links in comments, that were links to the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the message &lt;code&gt;Comments cannot contain that content&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkwLV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkwLV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After rewording and rewording I noticed this is because of the content of the user's name that gets inserted by typing  &lt;kbd&gt;@&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I comment to this user without using the (blocked) full name in a way that he will be notified of being addressed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now I flagged the link-only comments, that are without any explanation, as non-constructive. But I rather ask the poster for an explanation of intentions and potentially improve his commenting behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T13:30:23.740" Title="How to reach a user that has a name with disallowed content?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3644" CreationDate="2015-09-12T13:30:23.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presumably, the links are relevant to what the OP is asking. I let them stay, there might be some useful info there. As for the other bit, you don't need to &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; the user if your comment is right under theirs, they will be notified anyway (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you should be able to &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; ping the user with the 1st three letters of their name. All of these should work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@cir&#xA;@ciro&#xA;@ciros&#xA;@cirosantilli&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why, that's probably because Chinese and Korean characters &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/263725/203101&quot;&gt;are blocked&lt;/a&gt; due to excessive spam in those languages. I know that's the case for titles, it seems to be so for comments as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T13:30:23.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3647" CreationDate="2015-09-13T12:02:12.000" Score="22" ViewCount="670" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ok to ask questions about command line, bash, environment variable, etc. here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is better to ask here and what is better to ask on Super User?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133909" LastEditorUserId="5842" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T11:47:22.090" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T17:12:55.200" Title="What is the difference between Stack Exchange &quot;Super User&quot; and &quot;Unix &amp; Linux&quot;?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2015-09-13T13:25:07.090" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the sites do have a significant overlap. Briefly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Super User (SU) : Any question about using/administering computers. This includes simple scripts of the type a sysadmin is likely to write (file and user management scripts for example). SU is platform agnostic. You can ask about any operating system there. Most of the questions here would also be on topic on SU. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux (U&amp;amp;L) : Anything related to *nix. We deal with installing and configuring your system at any level and for any flavor of *nix (including Linux, Unix, OSX, BSD etc.). We also accept simple scripting questions about the shell or perl and python. Again, however, this will depend on the complexity of the issue. If you want a detailed answer about how Perl handles pointers internally, you go to SO. If you want help writing a script that parses text, that would be welcome here. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do you chose? Often, it comes down to what kind of answer you want.  Administering a Linux box is on topic here and on SU. Personally, I have had a much better experience here though. An exception might be questions about the GUI side of things. They are welcome here but the community is not very interested in them. Those might be better asked on SU instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb is that when I want a detailed answer about the nitty-gritty of how a system works under the hood, I will ask here. If I want something more general, and a user-level answer (say, how to change the color of my buttons) I might ask on SU instead. Shell scripts are on topic on SU but you are much more likely to get a good answer here. Configuring your desktop environment is on topic here but you might get a better answer, or at least get your question more noticed, on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, it's up to you. As long as your question is on topic, it is welcome on either site. Just make sure you don't ask the same question on both sites. Finally, if you feel you asked on the wrong place, you can flag your question and ask a mod to migrate it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-09-29T17:12:55.200" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T17:12:55.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3642" CreationDate="2015-09-14T07:48:37.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you were too quick to mark the question as a duplicate.  There is one critical piece of information (the poster is running Linux in a VM on Windows) that makes the answer potentially completely different.  Therefore the question is not a duplicate of &quot;how to you undelete files on Linux&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41341" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T07:48:37.630" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-14T09:53:44.650" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this sounds a bit like an often asked question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/229541/view-full-commands-in-ps-output&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;code&gt;ps&lt;/code&gt; which was already answered in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2159860/viewing-full-output-of-ps-command&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; , according to comment, Cross posting was OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I cross posted (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/148531/how-to-sign-end-encrypt-mail-using-openssl&quot;&gt;U&amp;amp;L&lt;/a&gt; (deleted) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/69189/how-to-sign-and-encrypt-mail-using-openssl&quot;&gt;Sec Policy&lt;/a&gt;) a while ago, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3199/un-duplicate-my-question-that-was-posted-on-ul-security-se-sites&quot;&gt;asked about it&lt;/a&gt; , and policy was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; to cross post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is cross posting ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allowed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;frown upon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tolerated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;forbidden&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;strictly forbidden  ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T13:33:25.123" Title="fuzzing of cross posting policy" Tags="|discussion|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3649" CreationDate="2015-09-14T10:16:42.333" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cross-posting is not allowed and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068/203101&quot;&gt;is frowned upon&lt;/a&gt;. However, cross-posting only refers to posts &lt;em&gt;by the same author&lt;/em&gt;. If you ask here and somebody else asks on SO, that's not cross-posting. In the example you cite, the OP here was not the same person who'd asked on SO so it's not a cross-post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I feel that the SE community is a bit too obsessed with cross-posts and that it's a mentality left over from the days of the trilogy (SO,SF and SU) whose scopes were much clearer and with less overlap. Today we have sites like AU, U&amp;amp;L etc. whose scopes are very similar and it would, in my opinion, be a good idea to have a mechanism to somehow link Qs from different sites or allow cross-posting or something but I seem to be in the minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, at the moment, community consensus is clearly against cross-posts so no, they're not allowed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T10:16:42.333" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3642" CreationDate="2015-09-14T16:13:49.437" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the post and comparing it to my experience with USENET, I would say your tone is almost saintly, given that you have no overt or even covert ad-hominem attacks, or complaints about the &quot;laziness of kids today&quot;, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing a technical question is a skill, and pointing out that information is missing is a perfectly good, and super useful lesson to impart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7503" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T16:13:49.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3653" CreationDate="2015-09-17T09:54:45.473" Score="11" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26047/how-to-correctly-add-a-path-to-path&quot;&gt;This question about PATH&lt;/a&gt; has a perfectly valid part (Question 1) which has great answers and a score of 267 which show how useful it is. However, the question also has a much longer second part (Question 2) which is not reproducible and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/26066/106927&quot;&gt;related to a localized issue of the OP's system&lt;/a&gt;. In its current state it just confuses the readers, making them believe that a perfectly valid way of setting PATH variable does not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone advise me on what should be done in a situation like this? Personally I feel that the irrelevant part of the question should be simply removed, but I'm kind of afraid of suggesting an edit which removes content from a popular question without getting a second opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T18:09:39.070" Title="What to do with a misleading part of the question?" Tags="|discussion|editing|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3652" CreationDate="2015-09-17T10:49:42.863" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would indeed have been a good edit to make but you're quite right that it would have looked strange at first glance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now removed the second, misleading question from the post. Thanks for bringing it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="88983" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T18:09:39.070" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T18:09:39.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-17T15:49:46.520" Score="6" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I imagine that happens for every other Stack* user, I receive eventual emails about questions I have made/comment and changes in my account here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually don't see the HTML version of these messages because its colors are totally different from the colors I prefer to use, and the colors I have in the mail clients I use, web or not. There is a text version of the message, as it happens for most emails. But Stack* messsages have a very bad version. I'll show 3 things here the full text version of a message; a meta-description manually made of what I can see in the HTML version; and a suggestion of what could have been automatically made for the text version of the message (using old, simple but very good ideas that had worked for a few decades around the world).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Text version of the message. Note the amount of spaces used in it. Also note that I have not added or changed any newline characters. The full message is what I paste here:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                comment&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                Sep 14 at 22:39&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        Is there a full XMPP client, for any mobile? [that sends/receives files, etc., like PC clients do]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        You may want to check the &quot;xmpp&quot; tag on Software Recommendations (and/or ask your quest...&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                answer&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                Sep 10 at 14:10&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        Need a captcha for JavaScript less page&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        JavaScript is required to view Stack Exchange. This will be status-declined.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                answer&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                Sep 10 at 14:02&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        Need a captcha for JavaScript less page&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        Your question sounds more of a rant than a question. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with t...&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                comment&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                                Sep 10 at 12:25&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        Need a captcha for JavaScript less page&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                        For the record, I've had the JS reCAPTCHA prompt appear when submitting a question, and my te...&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                    Want instant inbox notifications on your phone? 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Let us know on our [feedback site](hXXP//meta.stackexchange.com).&#xA;            If you no longer wish to receive updates weekly, you may [unsubscribe from this email](hTTP//meta.stackexchange.com/email/unsubscribe/inbox/6321188/76fdd32b1fdb99e2a4d487dfe63824f173d036fe7fd106129736d8191a7825fe).&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Stack Exchange Inc. 110 William Street, 28th floor, NY NY 10038 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The message, as we can see in the HTML version, in pseudo XML here, and comments starting with &quot;#&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;stack exchange logo&amp;gt; # or other logos, varying in other messages&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;dark blue background box&amp;gt;The following items were added to your Stack Exchange global inbox since you last checked it on 2015-09-10:&#xA;&amp;lt;/dark blue background box&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;image &quot;apple touch icon&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;comment     Sep 14 at 22:39 &#xA;&amp;lt;link href='hTTP//unix.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/391920?noredirect=1'&amp;gt;Is there a full XMPP client, for any mobile? [that sends/receives files, etc., like PC clients do]&#xA;&amp;lt;/link&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;You may want to check the &quot;xmpp&quot; tag on Software Recommendations (and/or ask your quest...&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;answer  Sep 10 at 14:10 &#xA;&amp;lt;link href=''&amp;gt;&#xA;Need a captcha for JavaScript less page &#xA;&amp;lt;/link&amp;gt;&#xA; JavaScript is required to view Stack Exchange. This will be status-declined. &#xA;        answer  Sep 10 at 14:02 &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;link href=''&amp;gt;&#xA;Need a captcha for JavaScript less page &#xA;&amp;lt;/link&amp;gt;&#xA; Your question sounds more of a rant than a question. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with t... &#xA;        comment     Sep 10 at 12:25 &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;link href=''&amp;gt;&#xA;Need a captcha for JavaScript less page &#xA;&amp;lt;/link&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;For the record, I've had the JS reCAPTCHA prompt appear when submitting a question, and my te... &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Want instant inbox notifications on your phone? 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If you no longer wish to receive updates weekly, you may &amp;lt;link href='hTTP//meta.stackexchange.com/email/unsubscribe/inbox/6321188/76fdd32b1fdb99e2a4d487dfe63824f173d036fe7fd106129736d8191a7825fe'&amp;gt;unsubscribe from this email&amp;lt;/link&amp;gt;. &#xA;&#xA;Stack Exchange Inc. 110 William Street, 28th floor, NY NY 10038 &amp;lt;some form of text, with a title that we may see or not even note its existence; title='because we care'; color='maroon'&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;/some&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/bottom text, very clear font in white background; awful to read!&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As we have noted, the signature is the only really useful part in the text message. But it could be a good simple, complete and concise text message. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;The following 4 items were added to your Stack Exchange global inbox since you last checked it on 2015-09-10:&#xA;&#xA;- a comment, date Sep 14 at 22:39, in the question:&#xA;    Is there a full XMPP client, for any mobile? [that sends/receives files, etc., like PC clients do]&#xA;    hTTP//unix.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/391920&#xA;&#xA;    &quot;You may want to check the ''xmpp'' tag on Software Recommendations (and/or ask your quest [...]&quot;&#xA;&#xA;- an answer, date Sep 10 at 14:10, in the question:&#xA;    Need a captcha for JavaScript less page&#xA;    hXXp//...com/123456/#654321&#xA;&#xA;    &quot;JavaScript is required to view Stack Exchange. This will be status-declined.&quot;&#xA;&#xA;- a comment, date Sep 10 at 12:25, in the question:&#xA;    Need a captcha for JavaScript less page &#xA;    hXXp//...com/123456/#654321&#xA;&#xA;For the record, I've had the JS reCAPTCHA prompt appear when submitting a question, and my te... &#xA;&#xA;- an answer, date Sep 10 at 14:02 , in the question:&#xA;    Need a captcha for JavaScript less page &#xA;    hXXp//...com/123456/#654321&#xA;&#xA;    &quot;Your question sounds more of a rant than a question. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with t... &quot;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;==================================&#xA;Want instant inbox notifications on your phone? Download the Stack Exchange mobile app for iOS or Android!&#xA;&#xA;hXXp//stack...com/mobileapps/&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;==================================&#xA;Questions? Comments? Let us know on our Feedback site:&#xA;    hXXp//meta.stackexchange.com&#xA;&#xA;If you no longer wish to receive updates weekly, you may unsubcribe from this email:&#xA;    hXXp//meta.stackexchange.com/email/unsubscribe/inbox/6321188/76fdd32b1fdb99e2a4d487dfe63824f173d036fe7fd106129736d8191a7825fe&#xA;&#xA;Stack Exchange Inc. 110 William Street, 28th floor, NY NY 10038 3&#xA;&#xA;&quot;Because we care&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes on the above example, that I have built using some assumed &quot;restrictions&quot; from the actual message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the comments made on questions, even the short ones are cut out to be short, even in the middle of the words. May be needless, since the comment are restricted to one line (the newlines in the are filtered out, if present); and so are usually short, could be fully included in the message.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the used dates could have a chosen format that the user prefers. Wikipedia, for example, let we choose the ISO format, a local format, or any other we may feel pleased and are used to read, instead of the English format that are somewhat harder to read for people around the world, where English is not their natural language.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since it is only one URL for both mobile apps, as we saw up there, it can be a readable one like the given example. Simple. Perfect. :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The unsubscribe URL could be smaller, couldn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117674" OwnerDisplayName="Balaco" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T21:31:04.280" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T21:31:04.280" Title="The plain text alternative of notification emails is not usable" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3656" CreationDate="2015-09-18T07:37:16.960" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to use backticks at the beginning and the end of an inline code block.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using multiple backticks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using multiple backticks with space character between them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; html tag outside the backticks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But none of above will work. I need to know how to escape special meaning of backticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In my special case, I want to show subshells inside my sentence. I can use &lt;code&gt;$(command)&lt;/code&gt; but I want to use the backtick method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132907" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T21:28:43.987" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T21:28:43.987" Title="How to use backticks at the beginning and the end of inline code blocks?" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3655" CreationDate="2015-09-18T07:40:05.280" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;As a code block&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming you mean something like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`&#xA;blah...code...blah&#xA;`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply indent the code block using 4 spaces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;As inlined code block&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If on the other hand you want them inlined then simply prefix the inline code block with 2 backticks before and after instead. Any single backticks within these will render as a backtick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;code&gt;inline code block with a ` and another `&lt;/code&gt;. The same trick can be applied to get backticks at the beginning and end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;code&gt;` &amp;lt;-- beginning backtick, and ending backtick --&amp;gt; `&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code to create the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`` ` &amp;lt;-- beginning backtick, and ending backtick --&amp;gt; ` ``&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55437/how-can-the-backtick-character-be-included-in-code&quot;&gt;How can the backtick character ` be included in code?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T07:45:32.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-19T22:51:57.933" Score="4" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you think this suggestion would be against the newbies, then you maybe misunderstood. The goal of the suggestion is exactly the opposite: to attract more. Please read the details, it is important.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I would be glad to citate the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Area51 FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;The questions on your site say a lot about the community. To attract experts, you need a site where people are asking very interesting and challenging questions, not the basic questions found on every other Q&amp;amp;A site. Your goal is to make it clear that this is a professional site. &quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Remember, pro sites WILL attract the enthusiasts, but not the other way around!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions request for help in some awk/sed/sh scripting or some similarly trivial task for a power user. Answering them is an easy way to collect reputation, but doesn't attract highly qualified visitors. For example, a developer of kernel drivers won't be here too long, because the topics which are interesting here for him, would be closed or migrated to the StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the StackOverflow is a very broad mix of very different topics, asking highly specific things isn't really feasible there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, what should be allowed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming questions about the standardized, unix-specific APIs. Especially about the posix standard.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming questions with deeply unix-specific object (especially kernel / libc hacking).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming questions about the internal workings of unix-specific software (some examples: kernels, apache module internals).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it would result in some overlapping with the StackOVerflow. But I don't think that it would be harmful or problematic. The SO, being a very broad site, already has a lot of overlap with other SE sites (f.e. with Prog SE or Android).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The common (StackExchange-wide) consensus about the overlapping questions is that they remain, where they were opened (i.e. no migration, if it is ontopic on both sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, if the Unix SE wants to attract the experts of an area, instead of being a help site where power users help not-so-power-users with configs and scripts, it should change to a behavior similar to the ProgSE - StackOverflow relation, and follow the more global, SE-wide consensus, instead of using a homebrewed, self-harming one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Extension: On the comments it seems to me as if you, dear reader, would think, I am argumenting against the enthusiast-level content. This is completely a misunderstanding, my argument is exactly the opposite: read my citation of the area51 faq. Having also high-level (i.e. programming) questions will attract &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; enthusiasts, and this is also a goal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T14:07:57.017" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T15:44:24.350" Title="An argument for the Unix-specific programming questions: site quality" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3642" CreationDate="2015-09-21T09:42:31.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression is that you've been descriptive. Concise and determined, but not arrogant and downward-looking. I would just suggest to start a post with 'Hi!' simply to give it a gentle feel at the outset. Perhaps this can also help you feel better about your own approach. Good that you put yourself into discussion! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132913" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:42:31.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3660" CreationDate="2015-09-21T19:36:55.523" Score="5" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/230948/implicit-declaration-of-strlcpy-and-strlcat-even-with-string-h-included&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt;, and it was put on hold. Maybe it wasn't clear, but it was clear enough to get the solution in the comments. How can I &quot;un-hold&quot; it now I edited the question? What have I done wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone answered in the comments that I should post in on Stack Overflow and not here in the Unix / Linux forum. But the problem is not about my code, it's about installing something in Linux. If I have a similar question in the future, where should I post it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've posted in total two questions, and for both, the solutions were posted in comments, so I can't accept them. Is that normal?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What title should I have put for this post? Since English is not my native language it's a bit difficult for me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T19:45:30.320" Title="What do you think about this post?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3659" CreationDate="2015-09-21T19:45:30.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can flag the question (there's a link just underneath it) and ask for it to be reopened. It's open now&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of an edge case, but I would say those questions are probably better off on Stack Overflow, since they require programming knowledge to solve (particularly the one that was closed)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It depends; frequently people post answers in the comments if they're not sure if they're correct (which they shouldn't do, but they do). In this case it seems like the poster was confident they were correct, so I don't know why they posted a comment&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the title really matters for a one-off meta post. &quot;What's wrong with this question?&quot;, maybe, but yours is fine too&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T19:45:30.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-22T08:45:56.553" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/231261/ubuntu-server-monitor-goes-to-sleep-in-10-minutes&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and since it asks about something Ubuntu-specific, I thought about flagging it for migration. However, I've only found SO and Meta links. What should I do if I want to indicate that this should, in my opinion, be migrated to Ubuntu SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T08:45:56.553" Title="Who/what decides about which sites can post be migrated to?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-09-22T14:41:14.737" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-22T10:18:44.440" Score="-1" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is more of a statement than a question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I went through the answer to the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/48579/why-can-rm-remove-read-only-files&quot;&gt;Why can rm remove read-only files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/48580/3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;accepted&lt;/strong&gt; answer&lt;/a&gt; to it was &lt;strong&gt;incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;The answer has since been corrected after I commented the mistake in it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The &lt;strong&gt;problem&lt;/strong&gt; was that I already got like around &lt;strong&gt;60 vote-ups&lt;/strong&gt; and the answer had like &lt;strong&gt;25k views&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People (in this question they were around 60) who have no knowledge of answer are voting up. The people who are learning are getting wrong knowledge (in this case there were around 25k views).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what does this say about our culture on Stack Exchange? The trustworthiness of Stack Exchange?&lt;/strong&gt; Stack Exchange has got a good reputation already. Whatever people will read on it (especially the accepted answer), they will take it to be true (well, in this case they have got only misinformation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what should be done to prevent this in future (from Stack Exchange's side and not the users')?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52733" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T20:15:09.503" Title="Trustworthiness of Stack Exchange (Unix &amp; Linux)" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3662" CreationDate="2015-09-22T11:59:34.950" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It speaks nothing of the culture. We're safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to be aware that you are browsing an Internet - and while answers are generally accepted and encouraged by Community, these might still be lacking, wrong or misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't help it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can always edit the question - so if you've spotted the mistake, correct it, improving the answer. The point of SE is to provide Q&amp;amp;A format of popular questions(and less popular too), so that whenever you encounter a problem, you can find compact solution, and solution is kind of public - you can edit it to improve, provide additional insight, or update, if such need arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet you specify the very root cause of the problem - people who are looking for an answer are usually people, who &lt;em&gt;don't know the answer&lt;/em&gt;! Therefore, they might not see the mistake(especially this one, which could be considered relatively small, depending on context).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is inevitable in every source of knowledge - if you read academic papers, there are often some errors in there - some books contain wrong information too - blog posts, YouTube videos - mistakes are everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we're good. The answer wasn't providing the shell script that wiped out your disc, it most likely couldn't affect anyone in a harmful way - so the worst that could happen is that the answer &lt;em&gt;didn't work&lt;/em&gt;. And while it's sad to see upvoted and popular answer turn out to be wrong, in the end of the day we focus on our mission - improve it, and continue providing quality content to the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Also note that as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3662/trustworthiness-of-stack-exchange-unix-linux#comment5694_3662&quot;&gt;Michael said&lt;/a&gt;, the system worked - and it worked well, actually. Compare this to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the scandal I've recently learned about&lt;/a&gt;, where some physicist falsified data to provide (false) evidence to his theory. Now his work lasted for a bit longer than a question, he also received few awards for his work, until it was discovered to be a fraud. As I said - you can never be sure - but we are fortunate to have a community where providing false answers isn't profitable for both sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T09:03:17.513" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3662" CreationDate="2015-09-23T03:33:19.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are types of information if one looks at it :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. No information &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. An answer that could be a right answer or not depending on the context it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c. An answer which is right for that moment in time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;d. A quick and dirty work-around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e. An answer which would be more expansive and actually frames in with different contexts of time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we had a choice, I would always like to go with e. and if not that not c. and so on and so forth. But for e. to happen both the answerer should have enough time to give sufficient depth and at the same time he should be amply rewarded for taking time to answer the question from various contexts and perspectives. But more often than not, I have seen people upvoting d. rather than e. or c. but I cannot blame the community for that. They upvote the solution which works for them. You will always see that it is only a tiny community which is interested to know the genesis and the different reasons, perspectives of state of affairs (whether it is a simple tool or an mini-ecosystem like systemd or something else altogether)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also do not believe that all actors are trying to mislead people intentionally as well simply because I don't think you can benefit in longer-term because of it. You may get some short-term gains but then that is nullified if you indulge in that behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of stackexchange is quite interesting. You have game mechanics (in the form of points), you have community and you have knowledge-base both in the form of wiki as well as interesting questions that people ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we should strive to improve, I do not think we are lessening the quality or should improve the quality of the site at the cost of not being accessible for millions of users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good thing from your question is do we have enough incentive for people to curate both the question and answer and I do not have enough knowledge of that to say it in one way or the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope the answer sheds a bit more light on what you are asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T03:33:19.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3662" CreationDate="2015-09-23T14:15:14.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, obviously, wrong answers can and do get upvoted. Votes only indicate people's opinion, they do not magically make something correct. Sometimes, many people get it wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this particular case the original answer was not wrong. At worst, you can say it was incomplete. The first version of the answer stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All rm needs is write permission on the parent directory. The permissions of the file itself are irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true, but incomplete. Deleting a file does, indeed, also require execute permissions on the parent directory. However, the main point here is that the permissions of the file itself are irrelevant and that you need write permissions on the parent. The question was asking why a file with read-only permissions can be removed. The answer quite correctly explained that i) the file's permissions are irrelevant and ii) that you need write permissions on the parent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, and most importantly, the answer was edited by the OP five minutes after posting to include a quote that explicitly mentions the execute permissions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Execute permission is needed on a directory to be able to cd into it (that is, to make some directory your current working directory).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the answer was actually correct for all but its first five minutes of existence. Yes, the OP's text didn't explicitly mention execute permissions but the quoted text did. I don't really see that there was a problem here. Everything worked as it should and the people who upvoted did so because the answer was fine, despite the omission at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T20:15:09.503" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T20:15:09.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-09-25T02:16:31.940" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LMMOe.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T13:24:14.063" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T13:24:14.063" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-25T02:16:31.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3668" CreationDate="2015-09-29T21:36:54.993" Score="16" ViewCount="588" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have the criteria for late answers changed recently? After checking this evening there were 558 Late Answers to review. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VtGoD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VtGoD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the dates of most of the answers that I reviewed, maybe this category should be temporarily renamed to the &lt;em&gt;Late Review&lt;/em&gt; queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="21281" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T17:01:35.833" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T17:01:35.833" Title="Why do we have a sudden influx of late answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3667" CreationDate="2015-09-29T21:43:12.357" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to re-post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/a/14470/158442&quot;&gt;my answer from Meta AU&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 hours ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/266696/270345&quot;&gt;this feature request&lt;/a&gt; was tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to raise the bar for &lt;strong&gt;late answers&lt;/strong&gt; to enter the &lt;strong&gt;Late&#xA;  Answers Review Queue&lt;/strong&gt; to 50 rep, which is the threshold after which&#xA;  users gain the ability &lt;strong&gt;to comment&lt;/strong&gt;. Here are some answers that were&#xA;  posted by users with between 10 to 50 rep (yes, there's a little&#xA;  selection bias to be sure. I suspect most/all of these will be 10k&#xA;  links only by the time you're reading this. Note, all of these are&#xA;  from the &lt;strong&gt;last 5 hours.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/267080/270345&quot;&gt;the proposal by SE employee Jon Ericson&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Raising the bar to 100 would require changing two variables at once.&#xA;  Since that would make it harder to evaluate each individual change,&#xA;  I'd like to try raising the reputation for getting enqueued to the&#xA;  Late Answer reviews to 50 and reconsider upping it to 100 at some&#xA;  point in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems to be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely a bug, though. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/266696/can-we-raise-the-bar-for-reputation-for-late-answers-to-enter-the-review-queue#comment866393_267080&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just to note, the answers should not be older than a month and the&#xA;  current spike &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be temporary. –  Jon Ericson♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sigh&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@muru: I'm sorry about that. Thank goodness I didn't raise the limit&#xA;  to 100. As a reminder, it's easier to clear a task from this queue&#xA;  than many others. A single review dequeues. –  Jon Ericson♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Sven: Reverting won't help, I'm afraid. The damage has been done. I&#xA;  have gone over to pitch in on Server Fault as an act of penitence. – &#xA;  Jon Ericson♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Let's get cracking, folks.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T21:43:12.357" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-01T12:14:46.097" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm asking questions regarding shell scripting. Where is the right place to do so? Is it Stackexchange original page or this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133184" OwnerDisplayName="loadl" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T12:28:55.550" Title="Asking questions regarding shell scripting - Is this the right place?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-10-01T12:30:41.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3669" CreationDate="2015-10-01T12:28:55.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both are fine. Shell scripting is on topic and welcome on both SO and here. Which site you prefer is basically up to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, and clearly this is a completely unbiased opinion, I would recommend you ask them here. SO gets thousands of questions per day, while we get less than 100. Your question is more likely to be noticed here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T12:28:55.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-02T12:38:11.753" Score="4" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to find if I have asked a question about disk-image, so I tried various permutations of &lt;code&gt;user:me tags [disk-image]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;user:me type is:question tags [disk-image]&lt;/code&gt; but failed to find any relevant results. I finally put up a question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233485/preparing-a-usb-drive-to-be-bootable&quot;&gt;preparing a usb drive to be bootable&lt;/a&gt; and again tried to see but came up with the same result, i.e. no result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a delay in the site indexing the tags with user etc. or is the search broken someway or am I not doing it correctly, maybe there is a specific order in which the search pattern should be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T14:00:30.307" Title="indexing and searching within unix.stackexchange.com" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3671" CreationDate="2015-10-02T13:42:59.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that &lt;code&gt;[foo]&lt;/code&gt; already searches for posts tagged with &lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt;. That's what the &lt;code&gt;[ ]&lt;/code&gt; do. You can find your question by searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A50490%20%5Bdisk-image%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me [disk-image]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Because you searched for &lt;code&gt;tags [disk-image]&lt;/code&gt;, you actually searched for the string &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; in questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;[disk-image]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is explained on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search help page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To search within specific tag(s), enter them in square brackets: [maintenance] seat searches for mentions of &quot;seat&quot; within the [maintenance] tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T14:00:30.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3673" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3683" CreationDate="2015-10-03T22:21:02.943" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen quite a few tag excerpts that contain pointers to &lt;em&gt;choose a more specific tag&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;only use if...&lt;/em&gt; but almost none that suggest it might be better to ask in a different Stack Exchange community. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/267312/306433&quot;&gt;I asked this on Meta Exchange but it was suggested the correct answer was probably community specific&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have specific instance in mind but I'm sure this applies across many tags here that are duplicates (in meaning if not always name) on &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt; and other communities here on Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that every case will be individual but when a tag has much more traffic, even though it is pretty much on-topic in either community, is it correct etiquette to suggest in the tag wiki that the question might be answered quicker on ServerFault (or some other community)? Specifically this would be done to avoid possible migration and get the user an answer quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think such advice belongs in the wiki excerpt so to be immediate obvious but am interested in others opinions, as it would probably better suited to the main tag wiki which is not just plain text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation that inspired me into this thought was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/232877/133470&quot;&gt;Question I had regarding denyhosts&lt;/a&gt; - before I made it I did consider whether it belonged on ServerFault or here on U&amp;amp;L, I chose here based on the fact &lt;code&gt;denyhosts&lt;/code&gt; is pretty much a *nix only tool, it does work on OSX (which for the most part I consider unix) and probably could be made to do something sane anywhere Python exists but... also the fact that many use it outside of server type environments, to protect themselves when on less trustworthy networks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway to cut a long story short, the question has got almost no attention and I have been doing quite a bit more background research, some of this has made me aware that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/denyhosts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;denyhosts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;denyhosts&lt;/a&gt; doesn't get that much use here but has a little more on SF, and also it is regularly misused in both places. I contemplated asking for a migration but thought it was worth being a bit more patient and in the meantime thinking actually giving some content to the tag wiki in both places may help with the misuse issue. This led to me thinking that maybe one tag wiki excerpt should actually suggest it might be better posting in the other community if the question was more &lt;em&gt;on topic&lt;/em&gt; there... and here I am still pondering that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133470" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T11:12:35.260" Title="Is it appropriate to suggest another community in a tag wiki to help get answer quicker and/or avoid a migration?" Tags="|support|migration|etiquette|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3675" CreationDate="2015-10-04T18:24:35.803" Score="5" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;At times I ask a question and then get an answer. At times, the answers prompt another question where I share the link of the original Q&amp;amp;A . There should be a way to indicate to the original question about the new question. This way both the answerer and people who were interested in the original question also get the related question/s which were asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would and should increase both the attention span as well as possibility of the new question to be answered as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point - The latest question I asked.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233627/bootable-live-usb-doesnt-boot-knoppix&quot;&gt;bootable live usb doesn&amp;#39;t boot, KNOPPIX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comes from blogging where people do it all the time using old links to also drive traffic to old posts as well. While this isn't supposed to hard-core commercial site, finding relevant content also is a bit difficult due to limited tag creation and finding content which is relevant to what you are searching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T20:30:57.463" Title="there should be some indicator to a Q&amp;A if it's used in another question." Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3674" CreationDate="2015-10-04T19:17:19.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're looking for the &quot;linked&quot; box in the sidebar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ydQjm.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any time a question, one of its answers, or a comment links to another post, both posts will show links to each other in that box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T19:17:19.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2015-10-05T07:54:15.667" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO Answers to this question which address specific model/vendor are not helpful at all. People who see an upvoted answer which states that e.g. Lenovo laptops are good with Linux are inclined to think that they should prefer such laptops over a different brand, e.g. Acer. This is not true for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answerer didn't really evaluate the whole model line of Lenovo laptops, he just got himself a particular model which happens to have Linux-compatible hardware. While there are vendor-specific features which have good or bad Linux support, the overall experience largely depends on the video adapter, wifi module and whatever extra hardware the reader will get when they buy one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So far I didn't see much evidence that answerers have tried many laptop brands aside the one they are recommending. What is the value of such recommendations without a comparison? I have two laptops (Emachines and Compaq) which run Linux with no issues. Do you really think it will be a valuable contribution if I write an answer about my experience?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Statistically, answers about big vendors like Dell and Lenovo will get most of the upvotes, simply because more people have such laptops and run Linux on them. In no case does it mean that such laptops are better for Linux than a less known brand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T07:54:15.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3679" CreationDate="2015-10-07T17:01:04.113" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer to a proposed duplicate question can be solved by the accepted answer to an existing question, but the new question specifically asks about a specific tool/technique then is it really a duplicate question? Or just a duplicate answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many ways of solving problems within unix platforms that may not be applicable to a one or other *nix variety, or the asker may have specific restrictions with regard to the command they want to use - even it is just for educational purposes. Eg. a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/234544/133470&quot;&gt;question could be asked about grep that has solutions in sed, awk, perl, etc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commenting and pointing the asker at other techniques to solve their problem, including other questions with answers, is all very good and helpful, but is it fair to call it out as a duplicate question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133470" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T19:40:14.720" Title="Is a question really a duplicate if specifically asked about one tool but suggested duplicate is for another?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3677" CreationDate="2015-10-07T17:53:19.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's one of the consequences of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/270345&quot;&gt;the XY problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users tend to name out tools which they think &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; solve the current problem using the current approach. I have often seen people tag a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grep&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt;, and anything else they imagine can be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the very case you mention, OP ends up using &lt;code&gt;ed&lt;/code&gt;! Not &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ed&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is interested in &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, they can (and should) stress that they are interested in only &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, maybe specifying the reasons for such a choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The right tool for the right job.&quot; is the default position, unless other conditions apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T17:53:19.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3677" CreationDate="2015-10-07T18:30:52.023" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general I don't like to give answers that ignore part of the question; nobody would answer a question about Chrome with &quot;here's how you do it in Firefox&quot;. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; is turning into rather a special case -- people constantly specify a particular tool when they don't actually care what tool is used. I prefer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3618/73&quot;&gt;check first&lt;/a&gt;, and ideally edit the question if it turns out the asker doesn't care, but in a large majority of cases it seems like the particular tool doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the asker really does care, you have to deal with it. I've seen cases where the asker says &quot;no seriously, I have to use X&quot; and people keep telling them they're wrong and they should really use Y. Answers that ignore part of the question that the asker clarifies is actually important are considered non-answers and can end up deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T18:30:52.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-09T20:46:29.607" Score="6" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems there is no possibility to suggest an edit or flag the missing image when the post is locked. Is that a bug or feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/227/21471&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite image is hosted at stack.imgur.com server, it has been removed for some reason. There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20130514191409/https://i.stack.imgur.com/fc1GI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;archived version&lt;/a&gt; from 2013, but it doesn't work either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related SE meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/129550/191655&quot;&gt;Unable to flag posts on historically locked questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21471" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T19:40:09.723" Title="Can't suggest an edit or flag the missing image, because the post is locked" Tags="|support|feature-request|bug|suggested-edits|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3681" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-10T13:29:26.330" Score="11" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sidebar next to each question shows miscellaneous related/unrelated questions. On &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/727809/nginx-serve-different-files-using-try-files-based-on-cookies-conditions-if&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, it's clear which of those have accepted answers, because there's a box around the vote count:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XBJRW.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here there's no way to tell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5CE5H.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Server Fault styling looks pretty much the same as on the main page, so we could do the same too -- mark posts with accepted answered green, unanswered gray. This would improve readability of the site and make things easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:51.103" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T15:31:57.160" Title="Mark accepted answers on side panel" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3681" CreationDate="2015-10-10T15:31:57.160" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is actually a style that applies the color (&lt;code&gt;answered-accepted&lt;/code&gt;), but then another one overrides it; I can't tell if this is intentional or not. This is what it looks like with the color coming through:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3cq7u.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it stands out enough, but it's definitely visible. I'm definitely for some sort of indicator though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T15:31:57.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3673" CreationDate="2015-10-12T11:12:35.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick answer: no, not really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two issues here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each site has a different scope. Yes, there is overlap. Everything on Unix &amp;amp; Linux (U&amp;amp;L) is also on topic on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; (SU). Everything on &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; is also on topic on U&amp;amp;L. Nevertheless, Ubuntu questions are welcome here and will only be migrated in the, relatively unlikely, case that the question is truly specific to Ubuntu and wouldn't be relevant to any other Linux distribution. Basically, when choosing between SU, AU or U&amp;amp;L, the main criterion is what type of answer you would like. I would post general copmuting issues that I just happen to have encountered on *nix on SU, questions about configuring my GUI on an Ubuntu system on AU and hard core commanline stuff here. &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; (SF) is even more clear. SF is a site for &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt; system administrators. If you are not a professional, your question is automatically off topic there. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question is on topic on a site, there is no reason to migrate it away. Ubuntu questions are welcome here. Linux questions are welcome on SU. As long as the question fits the site's scope, we leave it be. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, no, I don't think it would make sense to suggest alternative sites in the tag's description. It most certainly would not be a good idea to suggest SF based on a tag. Not ever. While a professional sysadmin is very welcome to post here, an amateur is not welcome to post there. Since every single tag could be used by either, suggesting SF by default would never be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct etiquette if you feel a question would fare better elsewhere is to leave the OP a comment suggesting they delete it and repost it on the other site. Bear in mind, though, that i) we really don't want on topic questions moved just because they're also on topic elsewhere and ii) that the OP should never post the same question on multiple sites. In the past, I have used comments like the following to make the point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question doesn't get any good answers here after a few days, you might want to think about deleting it and posting it on Site X instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, it is clear that the question is welcome, that the OP should wait a while and see if they get any answers and that duplicate questions by the same poster on different sites are not welcome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T11:12:35.260" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3680" CreationDate="2015-10-12T19:40:09.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a feature.  The point of locking a post is to keep it from being developed by the community (edits, answers, anything) until the author fixes whatever rules it violates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sucks when there is something uncontroversially wrong (grammar, spelling, broken link, etc), but the pros outweigh the cons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99989" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T19:40:09.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3677" CreationDate="2015-10-13T19:40:14.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a duplicate question, however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It should be noted in the question very clearly (by the asker) that (a) he knows how to do it using other tools and is aware of those other tools, and (b) he wants an answer specifically for the tool he is asking about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A link should be provided to the more general question which contains answers for other tools.  The link should be included by the asker, either in the question body or as a comment on the question (by the asker).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to questions that ask about specific tools:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the asker followed point (1) above, then &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; post an answer that uses a different tool.  Post such an answer at the question linked as per (2), instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the asker asked about a specific tool but &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; specify that he is not interested in other tools, you can answer with another tool, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preface your answer with something like &quot;I'm not sure how to do this with X, but there is a simple way to do it with Y, as follows:&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you know how to do it with X, even if it is more complicated than with Y, answer the question—say how to do it with X.  You can say how to do it with Y also.  Or at least say, &quot;You can do it with X, but it's very complicated; you'll have to research Z, Q, F and B to write your settings file for X the way you want.  In Y it is simpler...&quot;  (This is if it is so complicated in X you don't want to do all that work yourself.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's complicated to do it with Y, you can still post how, but at least acknowledge the fact that it's probably more complicated than needful.  &quot;I don't know how to do it with X, but you can do it with Y as follows.  It might be more complicated than with X but it works.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points 5-7 above are the key to avoiding downvotes on this type of semi-off-topic answer.  It can be a totally valid answer to post, because it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; help &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt;, even if not the original asker.  However, leaving out those statements makes it not actually an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to the question asked; hence you are likely to get downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my opinion, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T19:40:14.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3687" CreationDate="2015-10-18T11:57:08.137" Score="11" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;System suggested to discuss it on meta, as &quot;ftp&quot; tag exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we use &quot;ftp&quot; and &quot;ssl&quot; tags in case of questions relating to &quot;FTPS&quot; or shall be new tag created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9689" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T15:25:41.147" Title="New tag proposal: &quot;FTPS&quot; tag for &quot;FTP over SSL&quot; related issues" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3686" CreationDate="2015-10-18T15:25:41.147" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That seems very reasonable. We already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ftp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ftp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ftp&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sftp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sftp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sftp&lt;/a&gt; and ftps is distinct from both of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gone ahead and created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ftps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ftps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ftps&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T15:25:41.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3689" CreationDate="2015-10-19T12:24:50.013" Score="7" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked out a question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/237050/how-to-redirect-the-output-of-a-command-to-an-already-existing-file-without-dele&quot;&gt;How to redirect the output of a command to an already existing file without deleting its contents?&lt;/a&gt;, that was asked yesterday and got a large amount of upvotes. Some other user then gave, what I would consider a simple answer, and their answer also got a lot of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue is that the asker could have just done a simple Google search and gotten answers which were essentially the same as the accepted one - (even stackoverflow.com had a lot of pages when I tried &quot;site:stackoverflow.com append output to file bash&quot; ). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question can be judged as low quality, such as, the user not trying to search on Google (or alike) for simple problems, is there some other factor(s) which led to this question and answer both being perceived as good which would correlate to the volume of upvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50810" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T22:42:38.547" Title="Question and accepted answer got lot of upvotes despite easily googlable" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3688" CreationDate="2015-10-19T12:31:06.073" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question made the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;&quot;Hot Network Questions&quot;&lt;/a&gt; list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4rSHd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4rSHd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is shown on the right hand sidebar on every site on the Stack Exchange network. That's why the question and answer got so many votes: people came from other sites and voted for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't confuse &lt;em&gt;upvoted&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;. They are sometimes the same but certainly not always. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T13:06:02.150" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T13:06:02.150" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3691" CreationDate="2015-10-20T16:22:44.697" Score="13" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious on how to pronounce a specific Linux file when speaking out loud.  Is that an appropriate question to ask? Or too subjective? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1822" LastEditorUserId="1822" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T19:24:29.090" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T19:24:29.090" Title="Is it appropriate to ask how to pronounce common filenames?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3690" CreationDate="2015-10-20T17:16:02.907" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you could ask what the accepted pronunciation is for a given command, since any common command will probably have one. Less well known projects that have unclear pronunciations probably address it on their website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have already been a couple of such questions which was quite well received:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/103347/22222&quot;&gt;Pronunciation for /usr directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/2212/22222&quot;&gt;Why do Unix-heads say &amp;quot;minus&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T17:33:15.197" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3692" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3698" CreationDate="2015-10-22T15:31:43.107" Score="17" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just started looking at our tags; I'm wondering if we can clean up some of the package-related ones. We currently have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; (with an alias of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-manager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-manager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-manager&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packaging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packaging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packaging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-conflicts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-conflicts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-conflicts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yum&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rpm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rpm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rpm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packagekit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packagekit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packagekit&lt;/a&gt;, and probably other tags for specific package managers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest that we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(merge?) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-conflicts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-conflicts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-conflicts&lt;/a&gt;, as those questions should deal with a specific package manager&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; to clarify my suggestions for changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packages&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-conflicts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-conflicts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-conflicts&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the package-specific tags (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yum&lt;/a&gt;, etc).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm in favor of removing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packaging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packaging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packaging&lt;/a&gt; as it would commonly relate to a specific package manager. Not opposed to keeping it for general packaging questions, though (pros/cons of RPM vs DEB; how do I avoid filename conflicts).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2015-10-24T12:55:14.297" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T21:45:51.627" Title="Cleanup of the packaging tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-10-22T18:15:43.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L5mX1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Workstation: This is the Linux workstation you&amp;#39;ve been waiting for.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T18:15:43.937" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-10-22T18:15:43.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-10-22T18:17:01.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dFqHc.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Cloud: Lean. Powerful. Everycloud ready.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T18:17:01.590" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-10-22T18:17:01.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2015-10-22T18:18:48.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/en/server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hTycP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Server: The latest technology. A stable foundation.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T18:18:48.230" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-10-22T18:18:48.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3688" CreationDate="2015-10-23T06:59:33.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the way the question was phrased, the OP probably wasn't familiar with the term &quot;append&quot;. Granted, simply searching for the title of the post would also find the answer, a bit down the list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to look at the bright side, next time someone asks the question using those words, this answer will probably be high on the search results :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137733" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T06:59:33.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3688" CreationDate="2015-10-23T11:43:31.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand it either... if someone can't ask a good question (like your use of &quot;append&quot; in the search example, but &quot;without deleting&quot; in the question), then it's not a good question, and does not deserve upvotes. Upvotes are supposed to be a measure of how useful the question is for others to come across, how likely they are to be interested in the answers that come out of it, and thus learn something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But upvoting the answer is still good so less experienced people can see what seems to be the best answer to learn from. So the only problem I see there is the answerer is getting full credit for upvotes on such a simple answer, making their account seem more expert than it actually is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I find that terdon has it backwards in his answer. It was on the hot list before people clicked on it due to being on the hot list... so that can't be the original cause. I personally find that the highest activity is on questions where I think everyone ought to know the answer of it, and wonder why it doesn't already have an accepted answer. Such a puzzle, so I take a peek too, adding to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18593" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T11:43:31.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3692" CreationDate="2015-10-23T16:52:01.147" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything in your first four points can be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt;, but specific package manager tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yum&lt;/a&gt;) and package format tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rpm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rpm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rpm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deb&lt;/a&gt;) should stay as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific package manager tags needs to stay as-is because they behave differently in some cases, and package format tags because I could ask a question about creating and installing packages independent of the package manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @FaheemMitha says, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/packaging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;packaging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;packaging&lt;/a&gt; should remain to indicate questions about creating/dismantling packages, of course with a proper description indicating so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8305" LastEditorUserId="8305" LastEditDate="2015-10-24T12:12:32.833" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T12:12:32.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-24T14:53:05.727" Score="9" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I discover an unanswered question that describes the exact problem I'm having, and I want to subscribe to it, so that I receive e-mail notifications whenever someone writes a comment or an answer. How do I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have seen the 'favorite question' feature - is that the feature I want?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98784" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T17:54:14.950" Title="How do I subscribe to a question?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3699" CreationDate="2015-10-24T17:54:14.950" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can subscribe by RSS/Atom using the &quot;question feed&quot; link at the bottom of the sidebar. But as far as I know there is no email notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20805" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T17:54:14.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3692" CreationDate="2015-10-24T21:45:51.627" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;packages&quot; should definitely be folded in to &quot;package-management&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;packaging&quot; should definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be folded in; I've just proposed a tag wiki edit based on my understanding of that tag (for packag&lt;em&gt;ing&lt;/em&gt;, not the end user's experience with packages).  (It also seems to me that a software developer would want to make packages for multiple distros where possible, but maybe that is harder than I think.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;package-conflicts&quot; seemed at first glance to be a valid tag, but when I checked it only has 8 questions tagged, and the majority of those seem like they should just be tagged with &quot;software-installation&quot;.  So given the sparse use of the tag, I say yes, it could be removed without loss.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T21:45:51.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3688" CreationDate="2015-10-24T22:42:38.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My attitude is twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For myself, I don't bother asking a question until either (a) I have done some serious googling, or (b) I have a question so interesting that I think it should be here regardless of how easy it is to google.  That is, assuming it's not already here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For other people, it would be nice if they googled it perhaps, but keep in mind that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/search-all-stack-exchange-sites/&quot;&gt;we want Google to be the stackexchange home page&lt;/a&gt;.  The point being, if the first page of Google search results for the question &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; include the answer on stackexchange, preferably as the first result, there is room for improvement.  And if a search &lt;em&gt;on stackexchange&lt;/em&gt; doesn't turn up anything, and the question is a valid one...then the question &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be asked here, and answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing to watch for in that second case is that the wording of the question and the quality of the answer is such as to attract more people to our community and give them a very positive impression of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Peter, I think that a &quot;simple answer&quot;, providing only that it is well explained, is &lt;em&gt;preferable&lt;/em&gt;.  Particularly when the answer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; simple.  On the question under discussion, the accepted answer is absolutely correct and there is no need to get any more complicated about it.  On a question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/169716/why-is-using-a-shell-loop-to-process-text-considered-bad-practice&quot;&gt;Why not use shell loops to process text?&lt;/a&gt;, the answer is extremely lengthy, and again appropriately IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think it's a non-issue.  If you want trickier questions, ask them.  And answer the ones you find.  And upvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/soapbox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T22:42:38.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2968" CreationDate="2015-10-24T22:52:54.163" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, the keynote here is &quot;Do original work&quot; on tag wikis, is that correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the point here is &quot;Don't bother suggesting a tag wiki at all unless you're going to do a complete top-to-bottom suggestion that needs no further polish whatsoever,&quot; then I don't think I can face up to doing tag wiki edits at all.  It becomes almost as daunting as writing a résumé from scratch, with comparable worries about rejection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the idea that &quot;Don't bother if you just want that statistic and a badge,&quot; I can agree with utterly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say it this way: &lt;strong&gt;We welcome &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; suggestions on tag wikis, but only if they are &lt;em&gt;yours&lt;/em&gt;.  Not Wikipedia's or xyzsite.com's.&lt;/strong&gt;  Because unlike Wikipedia, on a tag wiki &quot;Original research&quot; is not only acceptable, it is &lt;em&gt;mandatory&lt;/em&gt;.  Do the best job you possibly can and proofread your own edit before submitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a &lt;em&gt;decent&lt;/em&gt; tag wiki is better than none, but a &lt;em&gt;lazy&lt;/em&gt; tag wiki is worse than none.  And then, of course, we should look at the tag wiki for tags we actually use often, and see if there is anything we can do to improve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Edit: Actually I was thinking of tag excerpts mostly, but I think all this applies to tag wikis as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T22:52:54.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3706" CreationDate="2015-10-28T02:45:20.313" Score="15" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, a user has been filling up the suggested edits queue with very minor edits, most of the time by digging up old questions from last year, and fixing typos/formatting. This happens from time to time, but this is the second time recently that I've had 10+ such edits from that user to review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't review too many edits myself, but I think I remember reading somewhere that minor edits should only be approved if the question is rather recent. Such edits should not be made to old questions, because it brings them back into the top questions list for no significant reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this still true today, or is it a rule I think I've read somewhere, but actually haven't? Should I keep rejecting these edits to keep the questions down the list, or should I consider approving them, since they usually do improve grammar and formatting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the solution is still to reject them, then aside from the chat (which the user might not use), is there any way I can reach out to that user and explain why I keep rejecting his edits like that? I'm considering contacting that member by email, but such information might not be available every time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41892" LastEditorUserId="41892" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T02:51:23.103" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T12:36:41.110" Title="How to handle mass minor edits from a user?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3704" CreationDate="2015-10-28T03:18:37.260" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before suggested edits were revamped last year, there was a rejection reason for this case. It read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too minor&lt;/strong&gt; - This edit is too minor; suggested edits should be substantive improvements addressing multiple issues in the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is implicit in the &quot;Reject and Edit&quot; option, which implies that there was more wrong with the post that the editor should have fixed. Instead there's a new rejection reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no improvement whatsoever&lt;/strong&gt; - This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two things make me think Stack Exchange's goal is to reject minor edits only if there were more important edits that the editor missed. They shouldn't just fix a missing apostrophe if half the post is in shambles and needs to be rewritten, but if the only things wrong with the post are minor errors, they might as well fix them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for telling the user they're messing up, the site will do that for you. If too high a proportion of a user's suggested edits are rejected, the system will ban them from suggesting new edits for a week, and tell them so when they try. They can look at their own history to see the reasons their previous edits were rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T03:18:37.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3704" CreationDate="2015-10-28T19:46:30.870" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been reviewing the user's edits and, for the vast majority, they are actually quite helpful. Yes, they are more geared towards grammar and formatting, but overall, edits of this type do lift the quality of the site and they should be welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have rejected a small proportion of them where the edits themselves may have been correct (grammatically, for example), but they were a classic example of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_on_a_pig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lipstick on a pig&lt;/a&gt;, viz. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/113990&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also draw your attention to the &quot;Improve Edit&quot; button: this gives you the option to include your own contributions to the edit to fill out any shortcomings of the original editor's revision. It is often a better outcome to continue to lift the quality of the site, rather than just reject any effort at improvement, irrespective of how minor you perceive it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T20:55:38.617" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3708" CreationDate="2015-11-03T15:23:13.997" Score="4" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the help page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does access from the stack exchange app counts as visiting the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139259" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T15:53:42.353" Title="Does fanatic badge counts access from the app?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3707" CreationDate="2015-11-03T15:53:42.353" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/193269/145982&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; from a developer. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66485/145982&quot;&gt;This other answer&lt;/a&gt; defines &quot;real&quot; access as access to non-&quot;homepage style&quot; pages. I know the login page and the question list don't count as real, but viewing any individual question does&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T15:53:42.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3704" CreationDate="2015-11-06T12:36:41.110" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I routinely reject any post which only changes grammar or spelling as &quot;no improvement whatsoever&quot;. If the post makes the poster look ignorant, why should anyone correct it? If the editor can figure out what the poster meant so can the rest of us, and if not they are probably misrepresenting it. I admit the temptation to correct poor spelling, but count to 10 and it goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I occasionally have people edit my posts. I find it offensive if they &quot;correct&quot; my grammar. My expression is sometimes idiosyncratic, but it is mine. If someone changes it they are misrepresenting me. If you really MUST edit someone's grammar you should have the manners to identify yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47111" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T12:36:41.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3711" CreationDate="2015-11-08T08:20:12.847" Score="37" ViewCount="916" Body="&lt;p&gt;When linking to man pages (example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.die.net/man/1/man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;man man&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), what are good target sites? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often use whatever Google finds when I search for &lt;code&gt;man whatever&lt;/code&gt;, which in practice usually is &lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.die.net/man/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://linux.die.net/man/&lt;/a&gt; but I think some people would prefer some other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is quite opinion-based, but still, a choice must be made when actually adding the link, and there has to be some kind of consensus of what are good and what are less good... I wouldn't be surprised if using the wrong site might even prevent up-vote from someone who might prefer another site (or even get a down-vote, on a bad day). So it's important to know the collective opinion of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33724" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T13:18:31.463" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T16:53:52.333" Title="Linking man pages, but where to?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3710" CreationDate="2015-11-08T16:49:32.657" Score="31" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For Ubuntu derivatives, the canonical place is &lt;a href=&quot;http://manpages.ubuntu.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://manpages.ubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For Debian, it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://manpages.debian.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://manpages.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For Linux system calls, and other kernel-related things, &lt;a href=&quot;http://man7.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://man7.org&lt;/a&gt; is apparently generated from the docs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For a variety of systems, especially CentOS and a number of BSD and Unix systems, &lt;a href=&quot;http://freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent resource (though it might not have the latest release's documentation for other OSes). It's also very useful for historical interest, manpages dating back to 2.8 BSD are available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For GNU, the manpages supplied by the various distros are often derived from the info pages. As such, the info page can have more information than the manpage. The GNU documentation is available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unsure of the source or canonicity of &lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.die.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://linux.die.net&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally pick the resource most suited the question - &lt;strong&gt;it's important that both the asker and the answerer be on the same page w.r.t. documentation&lt;/strong&gt;. Often, it's the case that your manpage may list features that the OP doesn't have, rendering your potential answer irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem can be considerably mitigated by sticking to the POSIX manpages (with Ubuntu, that's the sections &lt;code&gt;1posix&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;3posix&lt;/code&gt;, etc.), to get a common core feature set. However, U&amp;amp;L being what it is, there's still no way to be sure without looking at documentation specific to the OS mentioned in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Ubuntu's manpage site (and I suppose other sites as well) suffers from a bug where identically named manpages aren't listed separately - so, if an utility is provided by different sources, only one of them is likely to show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T06:29:03.090" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T06:29:03.090" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3710" CreationDate="2015-11-11T23:39:12.660" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For general UNIX and POSIX things, OpenBSD is often regarded as having the best documentation; and FreeBSD is a great choice, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quickest way to link to either is through &lt;a href=&quot;http://mdoc.su/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mdoc.su/&lt;/a&gt;, which provides a semantic URL namespace for man-pages, and ensures that you get a quick and canonical URL that you don't have to look up and/or copy/paste prior to writing your answer.  It's fast and open-source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;According to the [fork(2)](http://mdoc.su/o/fork.2) system call, ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mdoc.su/o/fork.2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fork(2)&lt;/a&gt; system call, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;To use ZFS, use [`zpool`](http://mdoc.su/f/zpool) to create a `raidz` pool...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use ZFS, use &lt;a href=&quot;http://mdoc.su/f/zpool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;zpool&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to create a &lt;code&gt;raidz&lt;/code&gt; pool...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28354" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T23:39:12.660" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3715" CreationDate="2015-11-13T09:51:37.773" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are wrong examples of usage, and for newbie this can be confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everywhere are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;__italic__ or **bold**&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but that is wrong because result of this is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;italic&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*italic* or **bold**&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*italic* or __bold__&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What gives:&#xA;&lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133532" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T14:10:18.950" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T17:09:05.410" Title="Help to markdown editing" Tags="|bug|markdown|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-11-19T01:25:51.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3716" CreationDate="2015-11-13T15:27:26.343" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm mostly active on Ask Ubuntu, and I'd define Ask Ubuntu as my primary community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I also often attend U&amp;amp;L, and I wanted to make a Community Promotion Ad for U&amp;amp;L to be shown among the other Ask Ubuntu Community Promotion Ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My GIMP skills are very low, however this is what I came up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dZP4i.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dZP4i.png&quot; alt=&quot;cpa&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/a/14674/380067&quot;&gt;Link to the post on Ask Ubuntu Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a few concerns though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is technically an unauthorized use of the logo, and alters the original logo's layout. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance&quot;&gt;Guidelines for the Use of the Stack Exchange Trademarks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not use our logo unless you have been granted special permission by Stack Exchange Inc.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Do not distort or alter our logo in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I actually need a permission or otherwise could these rules be walved for an intra-network use of the logo?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is about this community, so I'd like to hear from this community. Are you fine with this alteration of the original logo's layout?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if anything is wrong with this and I'll take down the post promptly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114435" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T09:49:44.467" Title="U&amp;L Community Promotion Ad on Ask Ubuntu and Stack Exchange trademarks guidelines" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3713" CreationDate="2015-11-13T17:09:05.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know where you've seen these &quot;wrong&quot; examples. The basic rule is that one is italic and two is bold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;_italic1_&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;*italic2*&lt;/code&gt; :  &lt;em&gt;italic1&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;italic2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;__bold1__&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;**bold2**&lt;/code&gt; : &lt;strong&gt;bold1&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;bold2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, three means italic &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; bold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;***italic &amp;amp; bold***&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;___italic &amp;amp; bold___&lt;/code&gt; : &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;italic &amp;amp; bold&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;italic &amp;amp; bold&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's exactly what is shown in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;formatting help&lt;/a&gt; page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T17:09:05.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3714" CreationDate="2015-11-13T17:21:15.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering only the community aspect, yes I'm fine with rearranging it to be vertical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also steal the layout from the twitter ad, but of course that comes with negative feelings already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, on a side note, does this ad actually explain to Ask Ubuntu folks why they'd want to come here?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T17:21:15.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3718" CreationDate="2015-11-14T19:45:54.740" Score="30" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a user who seems to be (systematically?) asking a series of basic questions and then, apparently as soon as someone answers them, deleting them before they receive an upvote (or, obviously, accepting the answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only noticed this because I voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243038/test-expression-usage-message&quot;&gt;one of their questions&lt;/a&gt; after it had received an answer (classic typo: &lt;code&gt;[$arg&lt;/code&gt;) and then they reasked the question in a slightly modified form, armed with the information provided by the previous answer. I tried to mark it as a duplicate only to find the original was gone...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strikes me as the worst type of &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt;: poster gets what they need and then leaves nothing for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T19:56:47.093" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:52:28.977" Title="Should we discourage people that delete their question after they receive an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3717" CreationDate="2015-11-15T20:52:28.977" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, yes, users shouldn't be deleting their questions once they get answered (which is why the system tries to stop them). There is an automatic flag if the user deletes too many of their own posts, but I'm not sure exactly what triggers it (they might need to be upvoted posts or the deletions might need to be in a short amount of time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, only one of the user's 5 deleted questions actually has an answer. I don't know why they keep posting and then rapidly deleting their questions before getting any feedback; possibly they figure it out on their own or decide the question is incomplete. I undeleted the one question that had an answer, since the answer also included a useful shortcut for what the user was trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:52:28.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-17T21:27:34.097" Score="8" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a great believer in reminding new users that they should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/3719/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; their question to include updates rather than losing them amongst comments. What I find, though, is that the single word &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/3719/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; is sometimes not as useful or visible as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/3719/edit&quot;&gt;link to the edit button with some descriptive text&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found that it's not possible to use arbitrary text without unrolling the convenient shortcut [edit], and I was hoping that it would be a reasonable request to have [edit] work with [any relevant text](edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could then write &lt;em&gt;please [edit your question](edit)&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;please [edit your question](https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/3719/edit)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T21:27:34.097" Title="Extend [edit] link markup to allow arbitrary text" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-25T16:14:57.800" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35550/how-can-i-create-a-file-with-multiple-lines-from-the-command-line?noredirect=1#comment421559_35550&quot;&gt;How can I create a file with multiple lines from the command-line?&lt;/a&gt; (for short A) was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159672/how-to-create-a-simple-txt-text-file-using-terminal&quot;&gt;How to create a simple .txt (text) file using terminal?&lt;/a&gt;(B).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But B was closed as being too broad. Now the new question A which is to the point is closed as a duplicated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this make sense? I would have guessed that when a question is too broad one would need to create a question that is more precise or split it into smaller questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain to me where my interpretation is wrong? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39954" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T17:38:16.853" Title="Should question be marked as duplicates when the &quot;duplicate&quot; was closed as too broad?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-26T04:49:00.500" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just read one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/245574/3169&quot;&gt;best answers I've ever seen&lt;/a&gt; on stackexchange.  Accurate, detailed, clear, and not too verbose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I know to pay tribute is to offer a bounty, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;help&lt;/a&gt; says I can't offer a bounty until the question is two days old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other option?  Can that restriction be lifted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T04:49:00.500" Title="Award a bounty less than 48 hours after posting" Tags="|feature-request|bounty|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3726" CreationDate="2015-11-26T12:08:14.330" Score="6" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;On our &lt;strong&gt;meta&lt;/strong&gt; site, there are two different tags &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/on-topic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;on-topic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; but actually &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/on-topic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;on-topic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; is synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt;. Refer &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/scope/synonyms&quot;&gt;MSO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:54.237" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T14:13:23.987" Title="The tag &quot;on-topic&quot; should be synonyms of the tag &quot;scope&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3724" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-26T12:15:41.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is very general tag of Meta sites which helps to decide on-topicness of a specific subject. In other words, scope of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T14:18:03.893" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T14:18:03.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3725" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-26T12:15:41.713" Score="0" Body="Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why (i.e scope of the site)." OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T14:18:11.037" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T14:18:11.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3723" CreationDate="2015-11-26T14:09:24.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turns out there was already a suggested synonym which I have now approved. I also removed the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/off-topic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;off-topic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; tag from the three questions that had it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/on-topic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;on-topic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; is now a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T14:09:24.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3728" CreationDate="2015-11-27T09:30:26.580" Score="11" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow the user named &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1/Community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; managed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/245657/52934&quot;&gt;close a question as a duplicate&lt;/a&gt; yesterday. Community's vote to close was only the second such on that question. It looked weird to me - it doesn't jive. Community is supposed to be a bot, right? What is it doing voting at all? Does it have any other similarly dubious and sinister abilities of which I can be made aware?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T13:31:36.407" Title="Since when does Community vote?" Tags="|discussion|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3727" CreationDate="2015-11-27T13:31:36.407" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250981/new-ui-encourages-askers-to-confirm-or-dispute-duplicate-votes&quot;&gt;have implemented&lt;/a&gt; a new button that lets you close your own question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f62NG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f62NG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific question you linked to, what happened was that @muru cast a close vote, and this made the following appear to the OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BtT34.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BtT34.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP saw it and agreed, so clicked on the button and, as a result, the question was closed and the OP's binding close vote is shown as originating from the Community user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry, we still control the AIs, the bot is not on a &lt;del&gt;killing&lt;/del&gt; voting spree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T13:31:36.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3731" CreationDate="2015-11-28T21:06:19.410" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am surprised that there is no tag like &lt;code&gt;sugar&lt;/code&gt; for questions related to Sugar, Sugar on a Stick (SoaS), One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and anything that has anything to do with these awesome projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment you can run Sugar on Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Fedora and many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an overview of what Sugar is:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GXGXI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GXGXI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sugar taxonomy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some links for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GitHub organisation: &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sugarlabs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/sugarlabs/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Official website of Sugar: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sugarlabs.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.sugarlabs.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sugar wiki: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sugar on a Stick website: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_(software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_(software)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OLPC homepage: &lt;a href=&quot;http://one.laptop.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://one.laptop.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try Sugar online (its called &lt;em&gt;Sugarizer&lt;/em&gt;): &lt;a href=&quot;http://sugarizer.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sugarizer.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out that although the Sugar environment is appearing from time to time in questions or answers, the only questions related with Sugar directly are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246118/unable-to-run-sugar-on-arch-linux-due-to-pygiwarning&quot;&gt;Unable to run Sugar on Arch Linux due to PyGIWarning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/245285/how-to-make-a-tp-link-tl-wn321g-wireless-card-work-sugar-on-a-stick-fedora-23&quot;&gt;How to make a TP-LINK TL-WN321G wireless card work? (Sugar on a Stick, Fedora 23)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/244994/how-to-remove-the-return-code-from-the-terminal-prompt-in-sugar-on-a-stick&quot;&gt;How to remove the return code from the terminal prompt in Sugar on a Stick?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T01:55:39.220" Title="Proposal of a new tag for Sugar, SoaS and OLPC related questions" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3729" CreationDate="2015-11-28T22:52:00.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no tag for sugar, simply because nobody have ever had a question about diabetes ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T22:52:00.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3729" CreationDate="2015-11-29T01:55:39.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the one answer states, there's simply never been any questions on any of these things, or the issues that were raised with respect to these technologies were not at the root cause of any questions that would've merited tagging it with one of these technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags server only to categorize things, they're not intended to be exhaustive per SE site. So you'll never find a SE site where tags have been arbitrarily loaded into an SE site in anticipation that they'll then get used down the road. Tags are dynamic and ebb and flow as the questions drive the need for them to exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start asking questions that merit the use of such tags then create them and they'll then exist at that point when they're actually needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But don't simply tag something with these tags if the root cause of the issue has nothing to do with these technologies. That's not their intended purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you're running on Ubuntu, and are having an issue with Systemd, don't merely tag the question as Ubuntu, since that doesn't really have anything to do with the issue being highlighted in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T01:55:39.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3733" CreationDate="2015-11-29T16:32:38.570" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/246234/20549&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Before asking it, I had a hard time deciding, if asking it won't be off-topic. I have found many similar questions here, that were closed as opinion-based. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the same time, I found many of them, nearly similar (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/7329/20549&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/6045/20549&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, etc.) remaing for months, if not years, not closed, well-received, upvoted, answered with many answers etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any rule of thumb here (which I may be missing), which explain, why certains of the same sounding questions were closed while other, quite similar, remains open and well-received?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T13:30:23.713" Title="Are distribution-choice questions on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3732" CreationDate="2015-11-30T00:51:00.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens frequently.  I write an answer and before I can post it the question is closed as &quot;opinion based&quot;.  I propose that there are fact-based answers to this question which will help the questioner make an educated decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer (which can be seen in this post's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/3733/revisions&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt;), for example, contained many &lt;em&gt;facts&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;references&lt;/em&gt; as well as a &lt;em&gt;disclaimer&lt;/em&gt; of opinion-affecting experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139893" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T13:30:23.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3732" CreationDate="2015-11-30T13:13:06.480" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question was closed as &quot;Primarily opinion based&quot;, not &quot;off topic&quot;. Distribution choice is more often decided by personal preference (some say religion) than any objective criterion. The truth is that there is very little difference between distributions. They all have more or less the same core software and capabilities. The main things&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; that change are the package management system and, sometimes, their default desktop environment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distribution-choice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;distribution-choice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;distribution-choice&lt;/a&gt; question that isn't opinion based, you need to give very precise requirements. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/227807/22222&quot;&gt;Looking for a distro that has linux kernel 4.0?&lt;/a&gt; : Here, the OP specified that they need a specific version of the kernel shipped by default. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/200583/22222&quot;&gt;Stable server distribution without systemd (for OpenVZ)?&lt;/a&gt; : Here, they require one that doesn't use a specific init system. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question did give two requirements, but neither can really be answered objectively:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since I'm rather beginner, I'm not looking for a solution, which will take me two weeks of browsing docs to just begin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That one is indeed less opinion-based than the next but it still doesn't have one right answer. Of the three distros you were asking about yes, Ubuntu is the simplest for a newbie, but so are Sabayon, Mint, MEPIS, PCLinuxOS. . . The list goes on. Actually, there are far fewer distros that require browsing of docs to begin than those that don't these days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, none of the distros you list will require weeks of reading docs to use. Of the three, only Ubuntu is explicitly newbie-friendly but none is particularly hard (the way Arch or Gentoo are, for example). Which one you choose comes down to which one you prefer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;since I'm planning to host my private code on this machine and maybe (in future) use the same distro for a production server (on different machine), then I would like to pick security-oriented distro, which will not fall on first penetration test or on simplest hack-child or script-kiddie toy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid this one is more problematic. Pretty much &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; distros are secure. There isn't any Linux system that will &quot;fall on first penetration test or on simplest hack-child or script-kiddie toy&quot;. Not a one. We can't answer that except by saying &quot;Well, &lt;em&gt;I prefer&lt;/em&gt; distro X&quot;. There simply can't be one, single right answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, about the examples of similar questions you cite:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/7329/20549&quot;&gt;Lightweight custom linux build&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one, like the two others I cited above, is actually answerable. It asks for a specific requirement: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am looking for a Linux build that takes up very little memory to boot up. I don't need any of the UI modules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is specific enough to answer. There are distributions whose aim is precisely to minimize their footprint and take up little memory. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/6045/20549&quot;&gt;What distro for an old HP (Celeron/384MB)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one I just closed for the same reason as yours. Look at the answers; there is one from the OP saying he gave up and then 6 other answers recommending 10 different distributions. That's &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; why this type of question is problematic. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, questions about choosing a distribution &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be on topic but only if they have very specific requirements. Anything else will quickly devolve into people posting their favorite distributions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;By no means the only things, of course, just the most obvious.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T13:13:06.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3738" CreationDate="2015-12-01T11:04:50.377" Score="13" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/246530/52934&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;, for example, is currently being reviewed for close. Its chances are good, I think, in that it has already received 2 &lt;em&gt;leave open&lt;/em&gt; votes, but there doesn't appear to be any clear-cut reason it was nominated in the first place. Definitely, at least, it doesn't appear that the asker has been alerted to this fact, or that the asker has been given any chance or incentive to edit the question. The same is true of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/246589/52934&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should be in the business of &lt;em&gt;closing bad questions&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;(though I don't consider this question falls into that category, or that they shouldn't be closed as appropriate)&lt;/em&gt;, but should rather be trying to procure &lt;em&gt;good questions&lt;/em&gt;. And so it seems to me that the least that can be done is to alert the asker that their question is currently undergoing review, and to provide them some list of possibly correctable deficiencies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I mistaken somehow, or are these flukes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T17:21:02.430" Title="Is an asker alerted when his/her question is nominated for close?" Tags="|discussion|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3736" CreationDate="2015-12-01T12:43:20.870" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question such as this is often times closed until it's improved. Don't confuse closed with something that's finite. I would encourage you (or anyone) to improve it by editing it, so that it's more detailed, if possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In its current form it's a little light and if I were to come across it, I'd need additional info such as what version of Calibre along with a sample of the offending files. Without either of those it's difficult to debug these types of questions further, which is often at the heart of what's wrong with them in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing is a broadly used term where sometimes questions are closed (permanently) but in other cases are closed until their deficiencies can be addressed. I would categorize this question as the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to notifications, I don't believe OP's are notified as to the state of their questions through any SE mechanisms, rather it's their responsibility to steward their questions any address any issues that may come up with it. The U&amp;amp;L SE community's responsibility is to help in this endeavor, where possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2015-12-01T13:27:20.487" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T13:27:20.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3736" CreationDate="2015-12-01T13:23:51.807" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the question in your title, no, the OP is not notified of close votes. The exceptions are votes to close as a duplicate or with a custom reason since those trigger automatic comments. All other close votes go unnoticed by the OP unless they have enough rep to see close votes and happen to check. And yes, this is a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the only way around this is to always leave the OP a comment explaining why you voted and how the post can be improved. When unclear, let them know what information is needed to make it clear, for example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T13:23:51.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3740" CreationDate="2015-12-02T11:10:37.097" Score="3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at a simple code example written in Bash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SkdKl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SkdKl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the light grey comment highlighting in line 3 starts at the &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; symbol, although it's part of the reserved variable name &lt;code&gt;$#&lt;/code&gt; and should not start a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this behaviour please be fixed? Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103151" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T12:32:25.183" Title="False bash syntax highlighting: '$#' should not get identified as comment start" Tags="|bug|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3739" CreationDate="2015-12-02T12:04:12.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/184108/203101&quot;&gt;this meta.se FAQ post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange does not have its own syntax highlighting engine. It uses Google Code Prettify. Therefore, any bugs and feature requests regarding syntax highlighting cannot be handled by Stack Exchange and should be directed to the team behind Google Code Prettify. In fact, as pointed out by the OP, there is already an &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/google/code-prettify/issues/355&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;open issue&lt;/a&gt; about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, unless the SE folks want to get actively involved in the code-prettify project, I doubt they will fix it. The good news is that this is an open source project &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/google/code-prettify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hosted on github&lt;/a&gt; so anyone else who wants to could give it a go and fix it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in the example you show above, you can get it to work as expected if you quote your variables correctly. Yet another reason to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/171346/22222&quot;&gt;always quote your variables&lt;/a&gt; in shell scripts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/52fld.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/52fld.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T12:32:25.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3743" CreationDate="2015-12-03T13:46:18.660" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am still new to the StackExchange community. I noticed there was an accept an answer functionality in StackOverflow. Is it available here? If yes, where is it found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143031" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T14:22:44.730" Title="Is the Accept an answer feature available?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2015-12-03T14:10:57.760" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;accept answer&quot; functionality exists globally on all Stack Exchange sites, Unix&amp;amp;Linux included.  It also exists on all the meta sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a fundamental part of the Stack Exchange Question/Answer format and infrastructure, and is definitely available here (and on ever other Stack Exchange site/community that is launched). You can accept answers &lt;strong&gt;to questions you have asked&lt;/strong&gt; by clicking on the check mark to the left of the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uqJeW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uqJeW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is explained in the relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;Help Center page&lt;/a&gt; and in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235/203101&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on the network's meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that every Stack Exchange site runs the same software as Stack Overflow does.  It's the same software, just a different 'community' and 'focus' to the site than Stack Overflow has (here on Unix&amp;amp;Linux specifically, the focus is to serve Unix &amp;amp; Linux users and to provide them a place to ask questions that are on topic per the Help Center's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;On-Topic Question Topics&lt;/a&gt; and to get relevant answers to those questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5807" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T14:22:44.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3745" CreationDate="2015-12-04T00:08:56.127" Score="26" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year, Stack Exchange ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2014.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Winter Bash 2014&lt;/a&gt;, in which users earned hats which they proudly displayed upon their gravatar. There was a leaderboard of hatters, mad or not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/stackexchange/Img/promos/winter-bash-2014/2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2014 top hat wearers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's that time of the year again and we get to choose whether we want to do it again this time around. Hats are enabled on a per-site basis, but each site has to opt-in and choose to participate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are hats, I hear you ask. Well, hats are kinda like ephemeral badges. You can choose to have one displayed over your avatar and you win them by certain actions on the webpage. Users can turn off hats on a per-user basis, so if you're against them for any reason, you can disable the feature and not see your hats nor those of the users who have opted in. As far as you are concerned, the hats will not exist.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we choose to accept, the event will run from 15 December 2015 to 4 January 2016. After that, all the hats go away into Last Year's Hat Bin. More information will be available on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2015 Winter Bash page&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to decide if we want hats by Thursday December 10. So, do we like hats or hate hats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T11:13:14.880" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T11:13:14.880" Title="Do we still like hats?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3744" CreationDate="2015-12-04T04:25:24.907" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if I'll like them or not, but I think it's been designed correctly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opt-in on a per-site basis, and opt-out on a per-user basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I say, go for it.  If I don't like them I will disable the feature, but I won't know unless we enable it for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to opt in to this years Winter Bash, upvote this answer to say a big&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Yes, gimme the hats!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T11:43:36.847" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3744" CreationDate="2015-12-05T11:42:34.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the sake of completeness, upvote this answer to say a big&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;NO to hats!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T11:42:34.687" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-06T01:29:28.430" Score="3" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jRtp3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jRtp3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question's only twelve minutes old, it's the user's sort of &lt;em&gt;maiden&lt;/em&gt; voyage here, and it's already got a negative three. That is not &lt;em&gt;welcoming&lt;/em&gt;. It looks like the user might not be a native English speaker, but the question was written in English, and was readable. There's never really a good reason to take a question past, say, &lt;code&gt;-1&lt;/code&gt; - why do it to a brand new user? You don't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to upvote it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were three comments - one from some user here, and the next two from this user saying polite things - &lt;em&gt;thanking&lt;/em&gt; us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just not nice. Please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T08:31:48.210" Title="Please don't do this?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:34:11.027" Score="11" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Current &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; page has no clarification about whether historical questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/73950/66803&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; are on-topic or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zuoSE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zuoSE.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While discussing about this on chat-room, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26116136#26116136&quot;&gt;found&lt;/a&gt; that there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/73/66803&quot;&gt;no problem&lt;/a&gt; with such question and we can allow this type question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R5KOL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R5KOL.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am asking for changing the on-topic page to include the clarification about this type question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T14:17:17.030" Title="Justify whether history questions are on-topic or not at /help/on-topic" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3750" CreationDate="2015-12-14T03:41:26.297" Score="10" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree that questions about the history of Unix should be on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree that the help/on-topic page is vague on the subject,&#xA;and it wouldn't hurt to clarify it.  Or not. &#xA;I'm not sure we need to change the help page,&#xA;since it doesn't say anything &lt;em&gt;excluding&lt;/em&gt; such topics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think you're mixing apples and oranges. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/154119/80216&quot;&gt;When did directories stop being readable as files?&lt;/a&gt; is a great example of a history question that's appropriate for our site. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/73950/80216&quot;&gt;Why isn't Linux embraced as the official GNU kernel?&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;on the other hand, is a question about why people chose to do (or not do)&#xA;certain things.  Sure, if Linus Torvalds has an account on Stack Exchange,&#xA;I'd be interested in seeing what he has to say.  &#xA;And I suppose that a link to a statement that he's made would be valuable. &#xA;But questions like this seem to be most likely to attract guesses&#xA;and opinions; therefore, I consider it to be off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T03:41:26.297" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3753" CreationDate="2015-12-14T11:34:53.293" Score="9" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;and why aren't I at least told if it's &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; secret hat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ximii.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ximii.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and why isn't it a hat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....hmmm....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g8YOI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g8YOI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T13:15:02.720" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T21:59:04.310" Title="What's so secret about my hat, anyway?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3752" CreationDate="2015-12-15T03:29:10.537" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The secrecy is not in the hat, of course, but in how you gain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's explained in the user-maintained &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/270837/270345&quot;&gt;list of secret hats on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/270789/winter-bash-2015-secret-hats/270837#comment877745_270837&quot;&gt;Miller guessed it&lt;/a&gt; - posting an answer with 0 comments on a question with 0 comments, and the answer reach score of 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T03:29:10.537" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3758" CreationDate="2015-12-15T19:25:30.717" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/247090/is-ufw-behind-a-firewalled-gateway-router-necessary&quot;&gt;UFW behind a Firewall&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; I think I kind of meant for it to be ongoing/discussion based as there is no &quot;correct answer&quot; IMO. Should I just let users answer/upvote the answer they think is best? Should I select an answer I like best?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130767" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T17:30:24.807" Title="Should I Accept answer for discussion/opinion based question?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3752" CreationDate="2015-12-15T21:59:04.310" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the second part of your question: uh, well, you see, it's a &lt;em&gt;secret&lt;/em&gt; hat, and since 007 is a &lt;em&gt;secret&lt;/em&gt; agent, er, the actual headgear part of the hat, y'see, it's um, just &lt;em&gt;invisible&lt;/em&gt;, 'cause it's a high-tech spy gadget thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, fine. You got us. The design of this hat went through several iterations, and we finally ended up in a spot where we had a trigger and a name we really liked, but without an actual hat, because James Bond doesn't have a single truly iconic hat, at least that I'm aware of. Rather than try to keep fiddling with the rest of the design, I just gave up on making all hats literal headcoverings (which, if it's any consolation, is a bit of a personal disappointment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, congratulations on your non-hat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2610" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T21:59:04.310" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3764" CreationDate="2015-12-16T17:02:51.083" Score="9" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/commandsub.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Command substitution&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; (and other shells) is a very versatile technique, and it comes in many forms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/195575/using-command-substitution&quot;&gt;Assigning&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16024/how-can-i-assign-the-output-of-a-command-to-a-shell-variable&quot;&gt;command&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4569/storing-output-of-command-in-shell-variable&quot;&gt;output&lt;/a&gt; to a variable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/236581/how-to-pipe-output-of-find-as-input-for-diff&quot;&gt;Using&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243862/pipes-inserting-pipe-to-middle-of-string&quot;&gt;command&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/91138/piping-pwd-to-an-executable-as-an-argument&quot;&gt;output&lt;/a&gt; as a parameter for another command&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249730/i-need-to-take-the-output-of-command-and-make-it-the-name-of-a-file-using-a-scri&quot;&gt;Naming&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166246/i-need-to-create-file-with-name-is-the-result-of-the-command-in-solaris&quot;&gt;files&lt;/a&gt; after command output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions involving command substitution are effectively duplicates. However, due to the multitude of forms that command substitution takes, it's hard to close them as such. There seems to be no canonical question which could be used to link those new questions to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People at Electronics SE had a similar experience with questions about power supplies, so they came up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/34745/choosing-power-supply-how-to-get-the-voltage-and-current-ratings&quot;&gt;this canonical question&lt;/a&gt;, and now have a happy life. If you need a PSU, they won't care if it's for your Arduino, mobile phone, toy robot or laptop: you'll have to understand basic concepts if you don't want your question closed. In my opinion, command substitution merits a similar canonical question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you think that duplicate questions revolving around command substitution concept are a problem, or is it just me?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you do, how about we make a canonical question about this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T16:40:20.243" Title="Are questions about command substitution considered duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3755" CreationDate="2015-12-17T17:30:24.807" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a question for which there can be no single right — or at least, judged to be best — answer, it's not a good fit for Stack Exchange in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean it's &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; — it's just not what we're here for. See the site help for more, under &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T17:30:24.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3760" CreationDate="2015-12-17T17:36:26.357" Score="6" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/138999/100397&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/138999/100397&lt;/a&gt; appears to have been answered in June 2014. But the question was only asked in February this year (2015).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T17:54:16.593" Title="Question answered 8 months before it was asked" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3759" CreationDate="2015-12-17T17:54:16.593" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look under the revisions history of the question you'll notice that the older answer was merged into this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/185829/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/185829/revisions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/icA7y.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/icA7y.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T17:54:16.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-17T22:23:07.900" Score="9" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just posted this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/250035/how-can-i-prevent-my-browser-from-hogging-all-system-resources&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/250035/how-can-i-prevent-my-browser-from-hogging-all-system-resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the main site, but I'm not really sure whether this is the right place for it, or rather Super User; the thing is, while I'm running Linux, it's not entirely a Linux-y issue, and you get the same problem on other operating systems as well. And, actually, I'm running Ubuntu, so in the other direction you could say it's Ubuntu-specific enough to ask there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I call this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34868" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:31:51.783" Title="A question which might fit in Ask Ubuntu, here or SuperUser" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2015-12-18T01:25:42.060" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question does fit the scope of all three sites, since you are using Ubuntu, so it's up to you to decide where to ask. Ubuntu questions are not unwelcome here, Linux questions are not unwelcome on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right that the question could be asked about other OSes, but... &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; question isn't asking about other OSes. Let's cross that bridge when we get to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, questions are only migrated to Ask Ubuntu if they are so specific to Ubuntu as to not be valid for other distributions, or it fits Ask Ubuntu's scope but doesn't fit here. (But then, I have seen such a migration happen only twice, I think.) So, the question fits here just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T08:31:51.783" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:31:51.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3748" CreationDate="2015-12-18T08:31:48.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frankly think that regarding the score of your question as a true index of its reception by the community is a good mindset for users, but it's the result of &lt;em&gt;time spent using the site&lt;/em&gt;.  It's not something that a first-time poster will necessarily do automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the inverse: would a first-time poster feel &quot;welcomed&quot; if he received three upvotes but no answers and no comments for a week?  (I think not.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe &quot;vote early, vote often&quot; is the best approach, combined with a conditional &quot;Add a helpful/welcoming comment if you can (assuming you can't just answer).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is really: We welcome the new user, but only to the degree that they contribute and abide by the guidelines/rules.  We don't welcome everyone and anyone who wants to ask about anything without even reading the tour page or doing any research.  Otherwise we wouldn't have a community at all.  So we express through voting what questions we think should be validated and what should not be.  Applying a different standard to new users would be a version of &quot;voting for the user instead of the content&quot;, which is frowned upon heavily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T08:31:48.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3757" CreationDate="2015-12-18T16:40:20.243" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem like much of a problem to me.  I like the first answer you linked to, from Gilles; it looks already semi-canonical, though it has other info pertinent to that specific question mixed in with general data about command substitution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Command substitution is more of a common &lt;em&gt;solution&lt;/em&gt; than a common question; often people who ask questions which are solved by command substitution won't realize that's what they are looking for.  I don't think there's an easy way to title such a canonical question in such a way that people who need to learn about it will actually &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; it when they go to ask their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, unlike, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/169716/135943&quot;&gt;using a shell loop to process text&lt;/a&gt;, command substitution &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; fairly adequately covered in the &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; manpage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T16:40:20.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3766" CreationDate="2015-12-21T17:46:44.037" Score="7" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/230399/how-can-i-write-to-the-buzz-controllers-hid-device-created-by-hid-sony-c-to-work&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; had tried various methods to WRITE to the HID device (Sony Playstation &quot;Buzz&quot; controllers) but had not had any success - including via a shell script.  I too had been trying on and off for a couple of years and recently I found out that I could do so easily with a simple script and perhaps due to changes that had already been incorporated in the GNU/Linux kernel that were not, I think present, when I first tried many moons ago.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the question has been &quot;closed as off-topic by jasonwryan, Gilles, cuonglm, chaos, garethTheRed Sep 18 at 6:56&quot; and my standing on U&amp;amp;LSE is not high enough I cannot post an answer even though it and the question would fall within the remit of on-topic questions as listed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on the Meta SE, specifically in the area of &quot;Shell scripting&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the second half of the OP's question is not relevant I was reluctant to suggest an edit that would remove the material (if only to show all the things the OP had tried) - I did suggest a change to the title (which WAS accepted) to make it seem less like a C coding question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please can this question be reopened so I can post a valid, on-topic, answer (and try for my &quot;Revival&quot; or &quot;Necromancer&quot; badges!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144991" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T18:04:13.230" Title="Please can &quot;how-can-i-write-to-the-buzz-controllers-...-to-work-LEDs&quot; be reopened for answer" Tags="|discussion|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3765" CreationDate="2015-12-21T18:04:13.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and reopened it. I can't guarantee it will remain that way since the original question was indeed more of a programming issue than *nix so I won't insist if others vote to close it again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, having a shell-based answer sounds useful so let's see how it goes. Go forth and claim your badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T18:04:13.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3768" CreationDate="2015-12-23T12:39:54.370" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently answered a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/251103/should-variables-be-quoted-when-executed/251133&quot;&gt;Should variables be quoted when executed?&lt;/a&gt; Basically, my answer stated that executing variables is a doomed technique, that no amount of quoting will cover all the edge cases, and the only real alternative is to use functions or &lt;code&gt;eval&lt;/code&gt;. That answer was deleted on the spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I can understand how this answer is unhelpful for the OP who have already decided to execute variables and wants to know how to use quoting to its best. But isn't it helpful to have it as a warning for newcomers who may consider that executing variables in &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; is a perfectly valid approach, without even considering alternatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case my answer is simply wrong, why did it get deleted instead of being downvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:11:36.437" Title="Is stating that OP's technique is doomed considered not an answer?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3767" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:11:36.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted it because it wasn't actually an answer. Perhaps I should have let another mod do this since this was my own question but it seemed like a very clear-cut case. Your answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are you trying to achieve by executing variables? It's simply&#xA;  impossible to write a &lt;code&gt;run_this&lt;/code&gt; function which correctly handles all&#xA;  the edge cases, like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;pipelines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;input/output redirections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;shell statements like &lt;code&gt;if&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;while&lt;/code&gt; etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to avoid code repetition, you're better off using&#xA;  functions. And if the commands are only available at run time, why not&#xA;  just use &lt;code&gt;eval&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, it never actually answers a question. All it does is ask new ones. You give some valid advice, but none of it actually answers the question asked. Answers should only be posted if they provide an answer to the question. Yours seemed to be asking the OP (OK, me) why he chose to do something this way. That should have been in a comment. The question wasn't about any of the edge cases your answer addressed but about the simple ones asked in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question, foolish and born of a lack of caffeine though it was, was about the specific case of executing &lt;code&gt;$@&lt;/code&gt; inside a function. If your answer had been &quot;Don't do that, it's silly&quot;, it wouldn't have been deleted. However, the answer you posted mostly consisted of more questions and offered no clear answer to the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next time, write your answer in a way that makes it clear that you're answering. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's simply&#xA;  impossible to write a &lt;code&gt;run_this&lt;/code&gt; function which correctly handles all&#xA;  the edge cases, like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;pipelines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;input/output redirections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;shell statements like &lt;code&gt;if&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;while&lt;/code&gt; etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to avoid code repetition, you're better off using&#xA;  functions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;show an example of a function that does what the OP wnats&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And if the commands are only available at run time, you can use &lt;code&gt;eval&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;show an example of using eval for what the OP wants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to post such an answer, you can either edit your original one and flag it for mod attention (I'll undelete it) or post a new one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:11:36.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3794" CreationDate="2015-12-25T19:55:34.227" Score="43" ViewCount="1258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux&quot;&gt;chat room is called &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Unix and Linux&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is all good, most (all?) of the other chat rooms in all&#xA;the other Stack Exchange sites have funnier, cooler names than&#xA;just their site names. Who are we to be behind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the spirit of the Holiday Season, I propose a competition&#xA;for a &quot;better&quot; name. One name per answer, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strive for the amusing, the unexpected, the original. But also, of course, something suitable for the Unix and Linux Stack Exchange main chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: Per @muru's suggestion, try sorting the answers by the active tab to see more recent responses to the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g3qt8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g3qt8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T16:38:35.813" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T16:38:35.813" Title="A better, cooler name for the Chat Room" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|chat|fun|" AnswerCount="53" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-25T20:15:12.143" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I'm an outsider to your room, but I have some experience with the naming conventions of Stack Exchange chat rooms. So, here is my idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Kernel Space&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck in choosing! I'm interested in seeing what others will come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18829" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T20:15:12.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T07:33:24.757" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Command Line&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about chat as a command-line by means if which we can talk!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T04:01:06.863" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T04:01:06.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T08:11:09.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Wall&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the &lt;code&gt;wall&lt;/code&gt; command, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:11:09.077" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T08:37:13.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Terminal&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about chat-room as the terminal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T04:02:39.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T08:44:16.510" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by @rumtscho's excellent answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User Space&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:44:16.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T08:52:07.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Pipeline&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which suggests a data flow between active agents. &#xA;This has the problem that is sounds like a unidirectional flow. &#xA;Some of the other communities&#xA;(e.g., Super User, Ask Ubuntu, and Server Fault)&#xA;might fight us for the right to use this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:52:07.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T08:53:27.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Socket&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which suggests a data flow between active agents. &#xA;Some of the other communities&#xA;(e.g., Super User, Ask Ubuntu, and Server Fault)&#xA;might fight us for the right to use this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:53:27.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T08:54:32.530" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Network Socket&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which suggests a data flow between active agents. &#xA;Some of the other communities&#xA;(e.g., Super User, Ask Ubuntu, and Server Fault)&#xA;might fight us for the right to use this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:54:32.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T08:55:37.170" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Network&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which suggests a data flow between active agents. &#xA;Some of the other communities&#xA;(e.g., Super User, Ask Ubuntu, and Server Fault)&#xA;might fight us for the right to use this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T08:55:37.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T11:53:45.957" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Windowless room&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might have no Windows, but we have a great view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T14:35:39.207" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T14:35:39.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T11:54:47.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;/dev/null&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where all the discards go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T14:35:22.657" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T12:14:34.317" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the chapters in the Glyn Moody book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rebel Code&lt;/a&gt; has the chapter name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Boot Time&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that might be a good name for a chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T12:14:34.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T14:31:30.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to suggest...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Panic Room&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where are your LEDs start blinking. But then I remembered &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_Room&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;where&lt;/a&gt; I had seen that name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41892" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T14:31:30.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T15:07:20.060" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one might be a bit too Linux specific, but how about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Penguin Bar&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T15:07:20.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T16:44:38.683" Score="18" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Swap Space&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T16:44:38.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T16:46:16.530" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;swapon -a&lt;/code&gt; Space&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to the Swap on but w/ the actual command. Might be a bit too obscure though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T16:46:16.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T18:08:13.567" Score="28" Body="&lt;h3&gt;~​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52934" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T18:08:13.567" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T19:05:55.507" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Stalk&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the tradition of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;talk&lt;/a&gt; and its implementations or lookalikes ntalk, ytalk, gtalk, etalk, etc., stalk is the Stack Exchange talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:05:55.507" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T19:08:43.093" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;SRC&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;tack Exchange &lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;elay &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;hat, after the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;traditional open chat protocol&lt;/a&gt; (not particularly unix-y however). The acronym just happens to be an abbreviation for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;something else&lt;/a&gt; that tends to come up often in our world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:08:43.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T19:16:36.060" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another idea from me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;/dev/ttySE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or some other tty, be it an existing one or something someone made up, like ttyTALK or ttyCHAT. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you guys like the play on /dev/tty but feel that some other ending will be cooler, post your own variation, I won't see it as plagiarism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18829" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:16:36.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T19:25:40.060" Score="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;code&gt;chat&lt;/code&gt; as a device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:31:39.460" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-26T19:42:59.753" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;code&gt;/tmp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... where (almost) everyone can post, and (usually) others can't modify your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:42:59.753" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3798" CreationDate="2015-12-26T20:06:03.417" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;help section&lt;/a&gt; of the site states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please do not add a comment on your question or on an answer to say&#xA;  &quot;Thank you&quot;. Comments are meant for requesting clarification, leaving&#xA;  constructive criticism, or adding relevant but minor additional&#xA;  information – not for socializing. If you want to say &quot;thank you,&quot;&#xA;  vote on or accept that person's answer, or simply pay it forward by&#xA;  providing a great answer to someone else's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone speak to why this kind of comment is explicitly discouraged? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've observed that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These comments happen anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't harm the site in any noticeable way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They help make the community a friendlier place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the idea behind this; accepting an answer and/or up-voting it is the suggested method of saying &quot;Thanks&quot; but what is the harm in adding a comment of thanks as well?  Would there be any harm in removing this paragraph from the help section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141481" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T22:13:10.463" Title="Comments of thanks" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3797" CreationDate="2015-12-26T20:50:42.473" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, lets just say that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; is willing to have a thanks each time someone finds one of his answers helpful. You know what would happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kS8XR.png&quot; alt=&quot;this would happen&quot; title=&quot;this would happen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not very useful, right? How can he find what &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; his attention vs everything else? He can't. His inbox effectively becomes useless for all purposes. That's why noise (any kind) is actively discouraged and on some &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/277314/792066&quot;&gt;cases directly blocked&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Respect&lt;/strong&gt; every people inboxes, don't fill it with noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T21:32:06.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3797" CreationDate="2015-12-26T21:37:49.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the main problems with forums is how miserable they are for future readers; a lot of Stack Exchange policies exist to try and keep posts useful long-term. This is why questions get closed and merged, rather than repeating information over and over on new posts, and why duplicate answers get removed and long comment threads get cleaned up. &quot;Thank you&quot; comments make the person being thanked feel good, potentially, but are just unhelpful lines that need to be scrolled past for every future visitor with the same question. Upvotes serve the same functionality, while helping sort answers, and don't waste space or get in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T22:13:10.463" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T22:13:10.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3802" CreationDate="2015-12-26T22:26:02.723" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there is a &lt;em&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt; meta: a meta that applies to the &lt;strong&gt;entire&lt;/strong&gt; Stack Exchange network and allows for users from all sub-sites to contribute feedback that could be applied to the entire network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147301" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T12:59:41.677" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T12:59:41.677" Title="Is there a Stack Exchange meta?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3801" CreationDate="2015-12-26T22:50:57.403" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T22:50:57.403" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T00:04:24.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;why haven't i seen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;code&gt;/dev/urandom&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since &lt;code&gt;urandom&lt;/code&gt; is pseudorandom and cryptographically secure, and not the same as &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136107" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T14:14:05.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T00:08:58.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not something related to system signals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;code&gt;SIGINFO&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=siginfo&amp;amp;sektion=3&amp;amp;apropos=0&amp;amp;manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FreeBSD docs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A process may request signal information when it is catching a signal.&#xA;       The information specifies why the system generated that signal.  To&#xA;       request signal information in a signal handler, the user can set&#xA;       SA_SIGINFO in sa_flags before sigaction(2) is called, otherwise the user&#xA;       can use sigwaitinfo(2) and sigtimedwait(2) to get signal information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136107" LastEditorUserId="136107" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T18:01:01.370" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T18:01:01.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T00:11:42.873" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;What better name for a Unix&amp;amp;Linux user's group than&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.unix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;alt.unix&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136107" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T17:58:18.480" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-27T00:31:38.147" Score="15" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10438/can-i-create-a-user-specific-hosts-file-to-complement-etc-hosts&quot;&gt;Can I create a user-specific hosts file to complement /etc/hosts?&lt;/a&gt; , the question was asked and answered some time ago.  After a while, the landscape in which the question was asked has changed and a much better, more current answer has emerged.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user that asked the question is not really maintaining the question. (unaccepting the old answer and accepting the new, better answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As-is, links from Google (and others) hit a question/answer for which the &quot;right&quot; answer is ambiguous in spite of the accepted answer no longer being right and the right answer just beating the pants off the accepted answer's vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a Google link follower should be able to sort out that for the link I provided, the old answer is now stale and that the more recent, highly voted answer is more correct, there are other unmaintained questions for which this is far less clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any mechanism for dealing with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19689" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:13:01.703" Title="Is there a mechanism for dealing with unmaintained questions?" Tags="|discussion|answers|obsolete-information|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3806" CreationDate="2015-12-27T01:40:32.860" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the only mechanisms are to vote the better answer(s) up above the one that's marked as the accepted answer. It's not a huge deal, IMO, so long as the answers are basically the 1st 2 a user coming in via Google will see. The marked one and the best answer that's voted with more upvotes than the accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may take time for a better answer to get significantly more votes than a previously accepted answer but beyond editing the previous answer there isn't really anything than can be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T01:40:32.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T02:50:04.663" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;S.A.S.E. talk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;primarily System Administrators of Stack Exchange, secondarily sassy; tertiarily self-addressed stamped envelope (for easy feedback!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T02:50:04.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T02:55:32.730" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;/home/root&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if we can't have mikeserv's ~. A compromise towards the Linux home dir. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T02:55:32.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T02:57:18.947" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if we can't have mikeserv's ~. A compromise towards the traditional UNIX root home dir. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T02:57:18.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T05:56:35.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;code&gt;cd /chat&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entering into chat directory!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T03:56:57.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T08:32:38.573" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about Chat as environment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;env CHAT=&amp;quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also use &lt;code&gt;export&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;env&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T04:05:03.620" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-12-29T04:05:03.620" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T10:11:40.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Chatnix&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, obviously, a reference to the *nix systems we deal with and also reminiscent of &lt;em&gt;beatniks&lt;/em&gt; and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T10:11:40.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T12:00:52.113" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A possible variant of &lt;code&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/code&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;/home/chat&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T12:00:52.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T18:03:52.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;More subtle than &lt;code&gt;the-pipeline&lt;/code&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;code&gt;SIGPIPE&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because it connotes that a possibly unreliable data stream (compared to the main site, chat is pretty off-topic) failed to connect if no-one's online or...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know, it was just an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136107" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T18:03:52.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T21:42:01.367" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my (complicated at first) proposition - a modification of some previous answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;cat &amp;lt;&amp;lt;\EOF &amp;gt;/dev/tty3&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It simulates basic chat, i.e. redirects inputs from different users to one place: &lt;code&gt;tty3&lt;/code&gt;. All users are treated on an equal footing, posts appear with fifo queue, and without formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;code&gt;3&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Because posts are sent to a third site on U&amp;amp;L (chat is third, after main and meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T21:42:01.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-27T21:46:15.813" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about imitation of simple prompt and cursor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;$_&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T21:46:15.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-28T10:56:38.560" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;echo &lt;code&gt;your question&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since chat are mostly about asking questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T10:56:38.560" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-28T11:15:23.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/code&gt; answer so far is the best, and personally I support it. It is distinctly related to something Unix/Linux, easily recognizable. You know what else is distinctly related to *nix systems ? Shells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposition is &lt;strong&gt;/bin/chatsh&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85039" LastEditorUserId="85039" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T11:50:00.307" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T11:50:00.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-28T11:50:43.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;code&gt;mount /dev/chat&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mounting the &lt;em&gt;chat&lt;/em&gt; device!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Inspired by @FaheemMitha's  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3794/66803&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T17:21:24.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-28T12:15:52.623" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Bourne shell&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the most popular shell/command-line interpreter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T14:20:29.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-28T16:54:33.630" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;code&gt;/dev/fd/3&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat is Stack Exchange's &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/do-trilogy-sites-need-a-third-place/&quot;&gt;“third place”&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;/dev/fd/3&lt;/code&gt; is a way to designate file descriptor 3 on many Unix variants. That's the first non-standard file descriptor (after stdin, stdout and stderr). That actually makes it the &lt;em&gt;fourth&lt;/em&gt; file descriptor, but &lt;code&gt;/dev/fd/2&lt;/code&gt; is taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3818&quot;&gt;jimmij's proposal&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T16:54:33.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-28T16:57:23.887" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;code&gt;/dev/stdchat&lt;/code&gt; (stdchat for short)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like stdin, stdout and stderr, we'd have a &lt;code&gt;stdchat&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T16:57:23.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-28T17:02:58.573" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yet another &lt;strong&gt;chat&lt;/strong&gt; variation, as a shebang this time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/chat&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T17:02:58.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3806" CreationDate="2015-12-28T17:21:15.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a post notice saying something like &quot;this answer is obsolete by now&quot; being discussed, but as far as I know, it has not been implemented. It is a difficult thing to work with, as it would require a moderator to know the subject matter sufficiently well to can judge when it's appropriate to put it on a post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the time being, you can comment on the accepted answer that it's obsolete (&lt;strike&gt;in addition to the bounty&lt;/strike&gt;) and hope that the comment will get enough upvotes to draw attention. If there are already tons of other comments, flag custom and write in the reason that the answer needs a cleanup so the new comment will get visibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: apparently a bounty is not an effective mechanism, so I removed that recommendation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18829" LastEditorUserId="18829" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T21:44:21.703" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T21:44:21.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-30T01:30:56.057" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;code&gt;initctl start chat&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starting &lt;em&gt;chat&lt;/em&gt; process!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T01:30:56.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-30T17:15:02.813" Score="26" Body="&lt;h1&gt;talk(1)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=talk&amp;amp;sektion=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;talk(1)&lt;/a&gt; was/is a way to chat with users between Unix machines, going back to 4.2BSD (1983). &lt;strong&gt;ytalk&lt;/strong&gt; would be another good name, as it introduced 3+-user chat, but that'd be more confusing to people who have never heard of the command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;short history of talk and its successors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T17:21:49.503" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T17:21:49.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2015-12-31T00:03:08.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;$HOME&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In case ~ won't fly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Need to fill this up...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28496" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T00:03:08.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3850" CreationDate="2015-12-31T16:14:50.250" Score="9" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I review Low-Quality-Posts which are in fact very high quality from technical point of view, but lack the explanation. These kind of answers usually come from higher reputation users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no good solution for a reviewer - it is a pity to delete good answer, but at the same time a few lines of code (or even one) is completely useless for the asker and later viewers, so in principle those posts should be deleted. The reviewer can edit reviewed post himself if feel up to the task, but that is not always the case and sometimes is a significant effort. A good example comes from a related question on meta:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3122/low-quality-posts-from-high-rep-users&quot;&gt;Low quality posts from high rep users&lt;/a&gt;. That post was extensively edited by moderator and finally ended up as a community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be a good idea to add notification to the user that his/her post is in low quality queue, so that he/she can take a second look and edit the post himself to prevent from being deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether that's good idea for newcomers (they could be confused), but it would certainly remind high rep users to keep theirs posts on an equally high level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T08:55:02.193" Title="Can a user be notified when his post hits low quality queue?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|review|answer-quality|low-quality-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-01T15:21:56.613" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a variation of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3828/80886&quot;&gt;my previous post&lt;/a&gt;, but I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3831/80886&quot;&gt;derobert's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;code&gt;talk&lt;/code&gt; is more appropriate in &lt;strong&gt;*nix&lt;/strong&gt; world than &lt;code&gt;chat&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, lets join forces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/talk&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T15:21:56.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-01T18:33:32.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about using &lt;strong&gt;/bin/chatter&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148399" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T18:33:32.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-02T06:22:18.940" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about considering &lt;strong&gt;/mnt/chat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user130949" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T06:22:18.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-02T07:34:58.833" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about using &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_%28Unix%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;write&lt;/a&gt; for chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;code&gt;write user chat&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T11:34:00.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3841" CreationDate="2016-01-04T06:44:53.877" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is related to &quot;Activity Profile&quot;. &#xA;And particularly for &quot;posts edited&quot; (Total number of edits made to improve existing posts).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2BaYX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2BaYX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I observed from few days that my count of &quot;posts edited&quot; is decremented from 403 to 401 and today it is showing 399.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;From which calculations this count is decided? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31757" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T19:08:02.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T19:08:02.937" Title="why my &quot;posts edited&quot; count decrements?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3840" CreationDate="2016-01-04T12:39:24.040" Score="16" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;There recently was a case where OP, after initially accepting my answer, later posted their own, quite extensive answer and consecutively accepted that answer.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/252907/128583&quot;&gt;new&lt;/a&gt; answer references my post and adds some (potentially useful) information, so that's fine with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/223151/128583&quot;&gt;similar&lt;/a&gt; situation a while back, but decided to leave the original answer marked as accepted, as it was the most helpful &lt;em&gt;for me&lt;/em&gt; while solving the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made me wonder if there exist a guidelines on whether accepting a newer, more complete answer is better.  As I see it, a comprehensive answer will be more useful to future visitors and should be made easy to find.  On the other hand, I prefer to give credit where credit is due, even at the risk of burying important information in a non-accepted self-answer.  Is that wrong?&#xA;How should one handle those situations in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128583" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T19:10:00.450" Title="Should a self-answer be accepted if the best answer doesn't paint the whole picture?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|self-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3839" CreationDate="2016-01-04T13:35:23.110" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The metaSO site has this Q&amp;amp;A on the subject: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/how-does-accepting-an-answer-work&quot;&gt;How does accepting an answer work?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within a bullet list there in the accepted answer (ironically) is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The bottom line is that you should accept the answer that you found to be the most helpful to you, personally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's entirely up to the OP to accept whichever and it's just something you have to accept when providing answers on the SE sites. I've had many OP's take what I've written and make it much more specific to their situations in the form of an answer and mark it as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In looking at the OP's answer vs. yours, their's is the superior answer now, even though they needed yours to develop it. So it makes sense to me that it be the accepted now as well. The OP also put a bold acknowledgment at the top giving you credit for helping to develop their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always try and keep perspective on your motives on why you're answering. I generally answer for a few reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;help others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;help future me and others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fill in holes in the collective knowledge on the Internet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only human, IMO, to have the response you're having, since I've had this exact same thought creep in from time to time as well. I use the above 3 bullets as my reminder(s) as to why I'm here and what my actual objectives are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I leave it to you to determine what motivates you, but I'd hope your list is similar to mine 8-).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T13:35:23.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3838" CreationDate="2016-01-04T15:45:00.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the tooltip, it's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total number of edits made to improve existing posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is a little misleading, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/138232/145982&quot;&gt;there are exceptions&lt;/a&gt;. But in your case I suspect it's the &quot;existing posts&quot; part that's relevant; you edited posts that ended up getting deleted. That figure counts the number of non-deleted posts by other people where you made a substantive (non-retagging) edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T15:45:00.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-04T15:52:54.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User Land&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(obviously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50112" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T15:52:54.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3710" CreationDate="2016-01-05T09:58:26.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Linux man-pages project&lt;/a&gt; is good. You can refer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxcommand.org/superman_pages.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;linuxcommand.org&lt;/a&gt; where you can find manpages for Fedora Core 4 by alphabetical index or function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lne6M.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lne6M.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: manpage for &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/man1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;man(1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also refer &lt;a href=&quot;http://ss64.com/bash/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ss64.com&lt;/a&gt; which contains some A-Z index of Bash commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T06:18:59.770" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T06:18:59.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-05T22:39:10.250" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;code&gt;/bin/cat&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;echos back everything you type into it.  I know some of you will complain this is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UUoC&lt;/a&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34061" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T22:39:10.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-07T13:26:29.687" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as linux stands for &quot;&lt;code&gt;Linux Is Not UniX&lt;/code&gt;&quot; and the site is &quot;&lt;code&gt;Unix AND Linux&lt;/code&gt;&quot; I'd think the obvious would be either&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Union&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Self Contradicting&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or the ever most popular&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oxymoronically Uniqs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which hopefully would also appeal to the OSX crowd (but not to the rest of bsdom)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77319" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T15:09:00.237" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T15:09:00.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3770" CreationDate="2016-01-07T13:28:07.343" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nix Speak&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding for the 30 char limit. blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77319" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T13:28:07.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3849" CreationDate="2016-01-08T13:52:59.050" Score="11" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found that we have currently separate tags for the different levels of raid : &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raid0&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raid0&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raid0&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raid5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raid5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raid5&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raid1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raid1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raid1&lt;/a&gt;. So, should they be merged into the main tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raid&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raid&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raid&lt;/a&gt;, or do they provide necessary additional information? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T13:54:35.220" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T10:40:07.010" Title="Do we need separate tags for the levels of raid?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2016-01-08T17:12:34.383" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have different performance and redundancy characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably more importantly here, they have different steps to handle recoverable failures, different things to attempt recovery in a disaster, different steps required to to boot from them (e.g., RAID1 can boot w/o special bootloader support, RAID0, 4, 5, 6, can not). So, you often need to know the RAID level(s) involved to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I view tags as largely about directing questions to the appropriate experts. I'm not sure if there are experts in a particular RAID level—so as a tag to follow, they fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, others view tags as about categorization (and I personally think that's a good secondary use), and raid levels appear to be perfectly valid categorization. Also useful, I suppose if you're searching for a question about booting from RAID5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T17:12:34.383" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3833" CreationDate="2016-01-12T08:55:02.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You make an interesting point, but there are a few things to keep in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is useful even though it could be improved by an explanation, &lt;strong&gt;it shouldn't be deleted&lt;/strong&gt;—but you should add a comment requesting that it be expanded to explain it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer truly isn't clear and is too short to be useful, it should be deleted &lt;strong&gt;no matter who wrote it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion there are very few cases where a user needs to be specially notified that his post has his the low-quality queue, and &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of these can be handled by the reviewer simply &lt;em&gt;adding a comment&lt;/em&gt; to the answer, thus notifying the person who posted the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should keep in mind a few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The queue is seen by people with a certain rep level, so &lt;em&gt;hopefully&lt;/em&gt; people reviewing &quot;low-quality&quot; posts have a little bit of judgement/intelligence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As noted in the related question you linked to, high-rep users are capable of writing crap also.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes short answers &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; all that's needed.  For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/237051/135943&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; is very short but could probably be three times shorter and still contain the needed info.  If that showed up in the low-quality queue, it would be up to the reviewer to say, &quot;Yes, this is a good answer even though it's short.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An automated &quot;Your post hit the low-quality queue&quot; wouldn't serve much purpose:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would confuse a newcomer who actually &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; post crap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For a newcomer who posted a valid answer that was simply short, it would likely provoke some slight degree of protest.  (&quot;But—that wasn't low quality!&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For a long term user who &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; already know better but nevertheless posted actual crap—do you think an automated message will make him improve?  (I think not, but I think messages from actual &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; in the community might help.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For a high-rep user who posted a valid but short answer, it would just be more noise.  &quot;Oh yeah, there's the 'low quality queue' alert because that's a short answer.  I guess I'll keep an eye on it; the reviewers should see that it's valid....&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of having a review queue is to allow &lt;em&gt;human judgement&lt;/em&gt; to enter the equation, and to quietly, discreetly handle posts that need handling, without alarming/alienating/confusing/annoying authors of &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt; posts that somehow trip the automated filters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T08:55:02.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2016-01-12T15:10:33.907" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion (as a storage engineer, so appreciate my perspective might differ from most of U&amp;amp;L):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RAID variant is a configuration detail. If you are here asking a question about RAID, then there are other configuration details more important than the RAID mode. Like hardware platform, OS, controller type, HBA model, disk tech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; more significant details in filtering a question about RAID, and as such I would suggest they would be worth synonym-ising to &lt;code&gt;raid&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65333" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T15:10:33.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:22:51.120" Score="17" ViewCount="967" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 2016 now, and we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272563/were-standardizing-the-sidebar-width-at-300px-on-all-sites&quot;&gt;made some changes to the sidebar size&lt;/a&gt;. As such, we can now restart the Community Promotion Ads for 2016!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, we have updated some of the guidelines compared to previously - the changes are marked in bold in the Image Requirements section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;300 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of &lt;strong&gt;150 KB&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px (2px if high DPI) border surrounding it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/3854&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T21:30:32.583" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2016" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:22:51.120" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1bHcV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T03:22:51.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-16T14:46:39.470" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zQ0wI.png&quot; alt=&quot;raspberrypi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:29.070" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T17:33:38.700" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-16T14:46:39.470" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-16T15:34:33.243" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWlmG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Arch wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T13:57:31.957" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:57:31.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-16T15:36:27.743" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69b1o.png&quot; alt=&quot;The universal operating system&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T13:56:51.090" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:56:51.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-16T15:48:01.850" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OtHLx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Greg&amp;#39;s (GreyCat&amp;#39;s) Bash Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T13:35:12.210" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:35:12.210" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-16T17:02:27.523" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7SzMY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Love software? Visit Software Recommendations&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120145" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:01.533" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T17:02:27.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3839" CreationDate="2016-01-16T19:10:00.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with part of @slm's answer, specifically: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The metaSO site has this Q&amp;amp;A on the subject: How does accepting an answer work?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Within a bullet list there in the accepted answer (ironically) is this:        &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The bottom line is that you should accept the answer that you found to be the most helpful to you, personally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So it's entirely up to the OP to accept whichever and it's just something you have to accept when providing answers on the SE sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is some loss of data when the situation described by the OP occurs, specifically the history of the original Q&amp;amp;A process (think of a person coming to the post later via a web search or something). As many here are familiar with, this would be undesirable in terms of source control/scm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose there is a missing feature on the stackExchange family of sites which would help preserve the history of the Q&amp;amp;A process. Perhaps a feature like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Author's Final Comments&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which would always be optional (and becomes attached to the OP), but fits the bill for situations like these (also allowing the original answer to be maintained for future reference, among other things, and providing a good spot for the author to add fine or extra detail).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I would suggest a time limit on changing accepted answers. Similar to a bounty period, although globally-standardized and much more generous (perhaps around 3 months?), as this would allow sufficient time for better answers to come in. This is similar to already-established closing of old threads in forums. After the period expires, the history is &quot;locked down&quot; and preserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147451" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T19:10:00.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T21:15:03.877" Score="5" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question few days ago, and while it received few upvotes, no one answered it. I'd like to &quot;bump&quot; it, so that it goes to the top. Can I do it? How can I do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T23:02:10.303" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:02:10.303" Title="Is there some way to bump my question?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3862" CreationDate="2016-01-16T23:54:56.463" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically any activity on the question will get it back on the front page, but bounties are the real way to get your question more visibility. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7046/145982&quot;&gt;this main meta question&lt;/a&gt; for more information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T23:54:56.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-18T14:08:57.337" Score="2" ViewCount="1170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which font is use for the title logo of our website? The closes I found is Liberation Serif but it is not exactly the same font used for logo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52733" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T18:06:28.767" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T18:06:28.767" Title="Which font is used for the title logo of Unix &amp; Linux website?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3864" CreationDate="2016-01-18T14:44:45.763" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/results?ch%5B0%5D=U&amp;amp;ch%5B1%5D=N&amp;amp;ch%5B2%5D=I&amp;amp;ch%5B3%5D=X&amp;amp;ch%5B4%5D=%26&amp;amp;ch%5B5%5D=L&amp;amp;ch%5B6%5D=I&amp;amp;ch%5B7%5D=N&amp;amp;ch%5B8%5D=U&amp;amp;ch%5B9%5D=X&amp;amp;session=0008c46e566f790d000f23b60000754d1&amp;amp;x=53&amp;amp;y=26&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;myfont.com&lt;/a&gt; font identifier, it's Georgia. And indeed, as you can see in the image below which I created in LibreOffice using the Georgia font, it does look about right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HNGwu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HNGwu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux logo attempt&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T14:44:45.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2016-01-19T10:33:30.473" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having built RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and just recently RAID-10 arrays in Kali Linux, I found the differences in each class to be very interesting.  My usb is needed of course to boot up my RAID-10, and two of the RAID arrays I built inside the usb, which incidentally is 65 Gigs.  The difference in performance in my system now is indeed noteworthy after going from RAID-6 to RAID-10.  I'm the new guy here, and it looks like I've already pissed someone off, oops. Anyways, I don't see any harm in having separate, specific tags for each structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152163" LastEditorUserId="152163" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T10:40:07.010" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T10:40:07.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3870" CreationDate="2016-01-21T00:43:13.803" Score="19" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249479/is-scanner-canon-pixma-mg2450-supported&quot;&gt;this question (U&amp;amp;L)&lt;/a&gt; which was recently posted again &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/723592/is-scanner-canon-pixma-mg2450-supported&quot;&gt;here (AU)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; once &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/1482/455520&quot;&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt; that cross-posting between UL and anywhere &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/402/136107&quot;&gt;is against&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ/on-topic guidelines&lt;/a&gt; which specifically mention and &lt;em&gt;strongly&lt;/em&gt; discourage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Ask Ubuntu policy, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/users/449/oli&quot;&gt;Oli&lt;/a&gt;, one of Ask Ubuntu's mods, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/1481/455520&quot;&gt;is that TLDR, it's okay/tolerated in some cases but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is discouraged&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The AskUbuntu help center &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/help/search?q=cross+posting&quot;&gt;does not explicitly mention cross-posting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this question designated off-topic here or there? Will/should anything be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136107" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T21:36:23.627" Title="Is this cross-post against site rules?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|asking-questions|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3862" CreationDate="2016-01-21T00:43:53.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any question with neither upvoted nor accepted answers will be automatically bumped to the top from time to time, but typically that only happens a few times a year.  If you want to draw attention to your question, the best way is to offer a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62988" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T00:43:53.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3867" CreationDate="2016-01-21T01:37:38.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Will close when the bounty ends, and potentially migrate to AU depending on what happens on their end in the meantime&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's less consensus on migrating it than I expected; sounds like we're going to leave both posts open on their respective sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-01-23T21:36:23.627" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T21:36:23.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3867" CreationDate="2016-01-21T07:28:42.410" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take here is slightly different. I don't consider that question to be cross-posted at all. While it is true that posting the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; question on multiple sites of the network is frowned upon, posting different versions of the same question to target the different audiences on each target site is not. This has been mentioned in various places by various Stack Exchange employees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/626/8651&quot;&gt;Robert Cartaino&lt;/a&gt; (Director of Community Development for the Stack Exchange Network)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you do not receive an adequate answer, then it might be okay to ask your question again to another group of users — as long as the question is on topic and appropriate for that second site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But cutting-and-pasting between two sites is never okay. &lt;strong&gt;If you want a different perspective, you should phrase the question specifically for that group.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu#comment181805_75012&quot;&gt;Jeff Attwood&lt;/a&gt; (co-founder of SE)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This can be OK, &lt;strong&gt;so long as the question is tailored to each audience on the different sites&lt;/strong&gt; and is materially different in each case. Just to be 100% clear, copy-pasting a question across sites with no changes is considered abusive behavor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/167478/203101&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; (Community Manager for Stack Exchange)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cross-posting is discouraged when it's someone spamming multiple sites without bothering to identify the appropriate audience or tailor the question for each site&lt;/strong&gt;, but if you have a question that hasn't been well-answered on one site - whether that's another SE site or something external - re-asking it in a more appropriate venue is perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/71949/203101&quot;&gt;Jeff again&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is also ok to ask two different versions of a question but &lt;strong&gt;you MUST tailor it to the audience on that site&lt;/strong&gt;. Copying and pasting would put you on the road to account suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of all the above and various other meta threads I've read over the years is that bad cross-posting is posting the exact same question on multiple sites. Posting different versions of the same question on multiple sites is fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the OP took the time to modify their question to fit the different audiences. They didn't do a direct copy/paste. Granted, the original version of the question was more similar (OK, almost identical) but the current incarnations of the two questions are quite different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the OP has tried three different distributions. Mint, Elementary and Xubuntu. The first two are explicitly off topic on Ask Ubuntu but on topic here. He therefore quite correctly posted the two versions on different sites. This seems to me to be precisely what we want our users to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:15:45.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3871" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-22T10:15:41.100" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T10:15:41.100" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T10:15:41.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3872" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-22T10:15:41.100" Score="0" Body="For questions about reputation, a measurement of a user's contributions to the site, and the extent to which the community &quot;trusts&quot; that user with extra privileges" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T15:39:45.137" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T15:39:45.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-22T18:24:21.260" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5iLoy.gif&quot; alt=&quot;The Linux workstation you&amp;#39;ve been waiting for&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T18:24:21.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-22T18:26:04.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/en/server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6W5d.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Server: The latest technology and a stable foundation for your  apps and services.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T18:26:04.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-22T18:27:15.930" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/cloud/download/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W10Tr.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Cloud: Lean. Powerful. Everycloud ready.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="2511" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T15:27:44.673" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T15:27:44.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-23T21:19:49.743" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256659/why-is-subshell-created-by-background-control-operator-not-displayed-under-p&quot;&gt;Why is subshell created by background control operator (&amp;amp;) not displayed under pstree&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41382/rule-for-invoking-subshell-in-bash&quot;&gt;Rule for invoking subshell in Bash?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see why people would think it’s a duplicate: both askers are interested in the mechanism by which a subshell is created and how one might use the &lt;code&gt;pstree&lt;/code&gt; command to verify details of the subshell process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this question covers commands being run in the background with the &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; control operator while the other question focuses on commands enclosed in parentheses (it also doesn’t mention that pipeline components are also run in subshells).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both my answer and Gilles’ answer explore how &lt;code&gt;fork&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;exec&lt;/code&gt; are used to create subshells but these are fundamentals for any question dealing with Unix processes. The rest of my answer is very different from either of the answers to the “duplicate” and wouldn’t be appropriate for the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually check the &lt;em&gt;Related&lt;/em&gt; questions for possible duplicates (then flag them) before answering a question and was aware of the other question before answering. I found this question to be informative, thought-provoking and offering a greater insight into an aspect of subshells not covered in the “duplicate” question.  If you look at my answer, you can see it went through some drastic revisions as I explored the topic and improved my own understanding. While I now feel I have a good grasp of the issue, I’d still like to see more knowledgeable answers to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions&quot;&gt;procedure for re-opening questions&lt;/a&gt; which recommends editing the question. However, I don’t think it can be &lt;em&gt;usefully&lt;/em&gt; edited to make it less different.  One suggestion was to comment on the question – which I’ve done (though it could have been more constructive) and another was to flag the question for moderator attention. I just recently checked my flagged posts list and saw that it was declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you feel something was wrongly closed, either vote to reopen or bring it up on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I don’t have enough reputation to vote, I thought I’d post here and see what the community thinks.  FWIW, I think the moderation model for Stack Exchange sites works remarkably well and I do my best to contribute by flagging problematic issues when I come across them and checking the various review queues. This is the first time that I’ve ever felt the need to appeal a moderator decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T21:19:49.743" Title="Reopen question on subshells closed as a duplicate" Tags="|discussion|support|duplicate|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-24T20:56:57.847" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXWI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T20:56:57.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2016-01-26T01:10:56.083" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first computer was running OS/2; I was probably the last one in my class to get one. So as you may already guess I have never used any version of Windows as my regular OS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first contact with Linux was buying SuSE 5.1(?). I did not intend to use it; I just wanted to have a look at it because I had heard about it again and again. From an OS/2 perspective that was a &quot;seen, laughed, deleted&quot; experience. Not very attractive to someone who doesn't know what a mount point is (and has noone for asking). I kept on laughing about the Linux desktops for quite a while but became jealous of the process killing capabilities. Then IBM's PowerPC disaster killed OS/2's perspective (maybe just accelerated the inevitable). I switched to Linux at SuSE 7.x and used KDE (SuSE's default desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later I somehow got in touch with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.belug.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Berlin Linux User Group (BeLUG)&lt;/a&gt; and helped organize the Berlinux 2005, a small Linux fair at the Berlin Institute of Technology (where I was studying management and computer science). Then I lost contact to BeLUG for several years. At that time I started becoming familiar with cryptography (the usage part not the math). For a few years I was very active in a political party and tried to get this party &quot;more interested&quot; in Linux and crypto. Not very successfully as you may have guessed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then fate kicked in: I got in contact with someone at BeLUG via Facebook(!)... In autumn 2012 I started giving regular crypto courses at BeLUG. In theory for the general public but IIRC we never had participants from the outside. I created offline mainkeys for my participants. Manually in the console. What a pain (though it didn't really feel like it at that time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of 2012 I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openpgp-schulungen.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.openpgp-schulungen.de/&lt;/a&gt; - the first of now several crypto-related web sites by me. This web site should help others to give similar courses (on a high technical level).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then fate &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; kicked in: Edward Snowden happened. It took even me several days to recognize the impact of this event. Cryptoparty existed at this point but was a tiny event hardly anyone cared about. Because the Berlin Cryptoparty people did not allow the TV people to shoot at their events, the TV people all came to me... Until then I did not call my courses &quot;Cryptoparty&quot; because I don't like several aspects of the Cryptoparty attitude. In July 2013 BeLUG introduced a weekly crypto course (for OpenPGP and XMPP-OTR) which lasted about a year and has been reduced to an about monthly event afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I March 2014 I started participating in the regular meetings of Berlin's computer science teachers (twice a year). At the four events in 2014 and 2015 I gave crypto courses there. In November 2014 I started a project (together with the former head of this teacher association) for getting regular crypto courses at schools. Although there were several interested teachers and we met a couple of times this was a complete failure. I consider this very unfortunate because it should be quite easy and very effective to have such (voluntary) courses at schools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In spring or summer 2013 I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crypto-fuer-alle.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.crypto-fuer-alle.de/&lt;/a&gt;. Until today this web site is (to my knowledge) the biggest collection of organizational and technical suggestions for spreading (and improving) crypto. Most of it is in German, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In April 2014 I started giving regular crypto courses at Berlin's Free University, mainly for computer science students. With the exception of the first event in a semester (which was part of the introduction events for the new students) we never had a lot of participants. After about a year this activity has heen reduced to one or two events per year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2014, 2015, and 2016 I was elected to the board of BeLUG. Until 2014 Berlin had Germany's biggest Linux event (LinuxTag) in which BeLUG has been participating more or less from the beginning (in Berlin). After the LinuxTag 2014 several people at BeLUG were of the opinion that this event was not well suited for getting new Linux users. This was not criticism: I am not even sure whether the LinuxTag ever considered this as an important target group. Thus we thought about what kind of event we would like to have as an addition to the LinuxTag. The (probably) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heise.de/forum/Open-Source/News-Kommentare/LinuxTag-faellt-2015-aus/Was-fuer-Veranstaltungen-brauchen-wir/posting-3166637/show/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first public appearance of this idea&lt;/a&gt; was in October 2014 after the LinuxTag had been cancelled for 2015. This was a bit embarrassing for Berlin which made the start of the revolution easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On BeLUG's Christmas party 2014 we talked about this with people from Berlin's other big LUG. And on BeLUG's next general meeting (in January 2015) we officially decided to give this a try. At that time not even the name was fixed. This became &quot;Linux Presentation Day&quot; soon after; not very German but we did not want to solve a German problem but a (as we thought) worldwide problem and didn't consider it helpful to use a name which had to be translated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic idea (explained in more detail on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the international web site&lt;/a&gt;) is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to have lots of quite small (and thus easily and cheaply organized) events so that more or less every group (does not even have to be a registered association) is capable of acting as host&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to make so many cities participate in this regular (twice per year) event that we get coverage in the nationwide non-IT media.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some nice side effects like we help potential organizers get the necessary resources (people, room, computers) and support them with digital and (free) printed material. Similarly we hel people found new Linux user groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This concept really had an impact. We started in May 2015 with 8 locations (limited to Berlin). In November 2015 we had (after many cancellations!) 79 locations in 72 cities in three countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, of course). The next event, on April, 30th 2016, will probably have about 100 cities in Germany alone and at least 8 involved European countries (among them the five biggest). Thus I really expect this to become the Linux revolution. We guess that between 1% and 10% of the Windows users is interested in having a look at Linux and can imagine switing to Linux (if it turns out usable). Being mentioned twice per year in nationwide media many more people will hear about Linux and consider having a look at it. I consider it possible that from 2017 or 2018 we may get about 1% of the computer users per year to Linux. 1% does not sound like much and I guess that at least the 1% of Windows users who are most easy for us to get already hate Windows... But 1% means about 500,000 people per year in Germany. I guess BeLUG (with its current resources and organization) can easily help about 100 people per year to install Linux. Compare that to 20,000 per year in Berlin. Thus the expected success may be difficult to handle. Fortunately the adult education centers are very interested in the Linux Presentation Day (and lots of future customers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being the one who had the idea I am currently the only real organizer for the Linux Presentation Day for Berlin (i.e. beyond one location), Germany and Europe. So you can indeed say that this is my own revolution... :-)  BTW: We have to wait for the real results but a few hours ago terdon became active (after I pointed out the LPD to him in UL chat) which probably just made Greece the next LPD country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="32191" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T02:52:27.507" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T02:52:27.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2016-01-26T08:07:30.717" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Why I'm here on Unix.SE?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can consider computing on &lt;strong&gt;GNU/Linux&lt;/strong&gt; as one of my hobbies/interests. Especially I'm fascinated with the &lt;code&gt;command-line&lt;/code&gt;! And I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;software freedom&lt;/a&gt; is ethical. You may know the contribution of GNU in developing Free/Libre operating system and that of FSF in supporting the freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Technically+Ethically GNU/Linux became my area of interest and finally computing with GNU/Linux lead me to this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Computing History:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The education system of my state board used to add &amp;quot;computer&amp;quot; as one subject in the syllabus of 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; standard, 11 years ago;  when working with Windows Explore, Microsoft Office and basic HTML had been taught in the high-school. JavaScript, C language, Open Office and basic commands of Linux had been taught in the higher-secondary. So, during high-school I was not aware of what forms the operating system or what's Linux but I liked learning HTML which was interesting. While I was in higher-secondary I had got a Desktop computer (with Windows XP) at my home and enjoyed learning JavaScript. Though working with some basic commands of Linux had been taught theoretically but I couldn't practice that at my home since I hadn't GNU/Linux installed on my PC and actually I was not much aware what is Linux at all! (Because it was very hard to find even a single person using operating system other than Windows in my area)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However I was always curious to experience (what's called) Linux. In early of 2013 when I was in 1st year of college [note that my field of study has nothing to do with computer] I got one copy of Ubuntu 10.10 from my friend which I tried to install on my PC. I was not aware with setting up mount point properly but out of curiosity I anyhow tried to install that Ubuntu and accidentally formatted whole the Hard-disk (lost the data) and finally I was having Ubuntu 10.10 alone living in my PC! (of-curse I re-installed Windows in a day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later on we purchase a dongle/net-setter to have a dialup connection and Internet at home. I started to learn about Linux and found that there are many distributions and among them Ubuntu is recommended for new-users. I went to ubuntu.com and downloaded latest LTS i.e Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and properly installed on separate partition and then I used to have dual boot (XP &amp;amp; Ubuntu) successfully. I was very happy that I'm now running something other than Windows! Then I learned many things regarding using Ubuntu, I joined AskUbutu and my learning considerably enhanced.(So, having Internet connection played important role in learning Linux)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Xfce Desktop Environment and enjoyed learning of Debian package-management as well as text processing with grep, tr, cut, sed etc in mid of 2014. Soon I found that I'm one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-users-never-heard-of-gnu.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU users who never heard of GNU&lt;/a&gt;. I became aware with GNU project, and liked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Philosophy of the GNU Project&lt;/a&gt;. I came to know the requirement of Linux-Libre and list of distributions &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;endorsed by FSF&lt;/a&gt;. I migrated to Trisquel GNU/Linux-Libre 7.0 LTS on 28th Nov. 2014 because I felt that's something like &lt;em&gt;Freebuntu&lt;/em&gt;. Then I also learned about software licenses in 2015. You may see &lt;a href=&quot;https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/907/296&quot;&gt;my answer on Open Source Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. Visit my computing post at &lt;a href=&quot;https://deepppandya.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/how-i-do-my-computing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wordpress&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2017, during post graduation, I purchased a Dell Laptop (which came with Windows 10) on which I installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS (because I was not sure whether GPU and wireless hardware supported by Trisquel, Yes I needed to install non-free drivers and firmware to make wifi and nvidia graphics working). Meanwhile on the Desktop computer, I replaced the outdated Windows XP with Windows 7 and after long waiting upgraded to Trisquel 8 LTS in 2018.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In March 2019, I decided to switch to Debian GNU/Linux on my laptop. So, I replaced Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with &lt;strong&gt;Debian 9.8 Stretch&lt;/strong&gt; and upgraded to Debian 10 when it was released. Earlier I used to prefer GNONE Desktop Environment but now I have been using KDE Plasma for last 9 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I run &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pureos.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PureOS&lt;/a&gt; replacing Trisquel on Desktop computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Late 2020 onwards: I use &lt;strong&gt;Debian&lt;/strong&gt; GNU/Linux (Stable Version) with MATE Desktop Environment on both machines (Desktop PC and Laptop)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've elaborated in computing history, AskUbuntu is the oldest community I joined on Stack Exchange. In 2014 when I learned a lot about debian-packagement and then &lt;strong&gt;text-processing and bash scripting&lt;/strong&gt;, I found this community be more interesting! In other words, &lt;em&gt;this is the real community of Unix &amp;amp; Linux experts.&lt;/em&gt; (Also after migrating to Debian GNU/Linux my questions became off-topic on AskUbuntu). Quality of posts and nice moderation makes Stack Exchange communities very reliable according to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who am I?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this may not be helpful to you because I am not a software developer/engineer or a programmer, neither my educational-study nor profession/business is relevant with Unix &amp;amp; Linux (or say computing in general). Actually my field of study is Mechanical/Thermal Engineering. That's why I started with &lt;em&gt;You can consider computing with GNU/Linux is one of my hobbies/interests&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2021-10-03T11:23:19.067" LastActivityDate="2021-10-03T11:23:19.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2016-01-26T08:29:08.657" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Why I am here&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined Linux&amp;amp;Unix three months ago mostly because I am a senior sysadmin/netadmin turning devop. I also enjoy technical reading, the ocasional challenge, and learning while helping others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;First years&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through all my life I enjoyed tinkering with computers since my early teens, and nowadays I am a mix breed between a sysadmin, a network admin, and a little of programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started very early in the summer of 1984 with a clone of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ZX Spectrum 48K&lt;/a&gt;, the Timex 2048. The ZX Spectrum was a (relatively) low-cost 8 bit machine very popular in Europe, and particularly in the UK. It had a Zilog Z80 processor, that was pretty well known at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Timex_Computer_2048_(Thomas_Cont%C3%A9)_(xparent_bg_and_retouch).png/320px-Timex_Computer_2048_(Thomas_Cont%C3%A9)_(xparent_bg_and_retouch).png&quot; alt=&quot;tc 2048&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was already writing BASIC when a few months later on joined a technical school, and by xmas time was writing my first Z80 assembly programs. I learned a lot from the inner workings of this machine, and about the hardware, especially from the point of view of an assembly programmer. I still remember with fondness all the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microhobby.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MicroHobby Spanish magazines&lt;/a&gt; that I manage to get hold in their not-so-regular two week publishing schedule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After finishing technical school, had a summer course in 1987 about Unix and C programming using HP/UX dumb terminals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this time I also bought my first PC/XT compatible computer, an Olivetti PC1. &lt;img src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vIaenD0-OY8/Wqh3k5Dd3OI/AAAAAAAACH0/UL8wdxPkBuY6oreVEvdxND_cpEK1s9uqACEwYBhgL/s1600/DSC_6078.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Olivetti PC1&quot;&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Life as a programmer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In early 1988, got my first job as a programmer for 3 years in C and x86 assembly in the DOS era, and was always tinkering with stuff. Got contact again with the Unix world using Microsoft´s ill-fated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/xenix_microsoft_shortlived_love_affair_with_unix.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Xenix&lt;/a&gt; around this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Warming up to English&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the summer of 1989, a Galician mentor I had at work lent me the whole Tolkien collection, and I read it all as my first really serious approach to English. Consequentially, I started using English more extensively. Before that, all my study materials were mostly in Spanish, which is very akin to my mother tongue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Back to University&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Got really tired of the numbing work as a full-time programmer and joined University at day time around 1992. During University always kept having related IT part time jobs, and tinkering with IT. Also bought a 386SX, and shortly thereafter a 486DX, that I used to run DOS and Unix SCO V at home, and later on Windows 3.11, OS/2 and Windows 95.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done a lot of mischief, including hacking the Unix SCO V server and the Novell services at the University. Also hacked [lots of] games at home. Started also using BBSs and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Minitel&lt;/a&gt; services at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Erasmus developer project in England&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1995, started using the Internet at the faculty, mostly HTTP and IRC. Went on as a Erasmus student to England, and wrote in Bristol as my thesis the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ruka12.tripod.com/wspecem.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;first emulator for Windows of the ZX Spectrum 48K&lt;/a&gt;, and actually the first open source emulator for Windows. That C source code was used as a pioneer concept on Windows for many emulators that followed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was also particularly active in &lt;a href=&quot;http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comp.sys.sinclair&lt;/a&gt; at that time, specially in rather long threads about the inner dark workings of the Z80 processor with Ian Collier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;First Unix sysadmin/network admin job&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon returning in 1996, I was offered the place of the Unix system administrator of the core services of the Polytechnic Universities of my home town, Porto. I had to pickup on the network administrator tasks as there was not a network administrator. Got seriously hacked in the first year, and there were so many days and night were I was actually forced to learn security on the other side of the fence. Got there my first contacts with firewalls, exploits, security hardening, Cisco, Thin-Ethernet, UTP, switches, Ultrix, Digital Unix, HP/UX, RedHat Linux 4.0 to 6.0, Debian Linux and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NeXTs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YbxtH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;at job&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had a life changing interview at the end of my first year of work, in which I was rudely called a clown by not knowing some core Unix concepts, or rather explaining them in a way more convoluted than it was expected of me. Spent the 2nd year, besides working, using up all my waking hours reading every damn book I could find in the University library about Unix and communications, often to the tune of 3-4 books per week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Life as a network, systems, and security Consultant&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in 1998, I was hired to work as a network, systems and security consultant in the best purely Portuguese consulting agency at the time. Was placed in a customer that loved my work; actually the customer told to the consulting outlet I was wasted there, in several meetings. That consulting company gave me a lot of training abroad, and I was sent to conferences in USA, Paris, London. Good old times, actually. Got here real experience with Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, OpenBSD, Debian, RedHat, Checkpoint, VPNs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;International Consultant&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offered myself as volunteer for International projects. Went to the first projects in Mozambique in 2000. The first one was performance analysis where I solved an huge nation-wide communication problem in an ISP; the 2nd one was designing and setting up the Internet connection and security infra-structure of the national central bank, where I dealt with Debian, Mandrake Linux, Solaris, Cisco, network design, security and Checkpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Network Administrator&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2003 went to work in the network team of the largest country-wide data network in my home country, Portugal; was there a year, doubling up as a Unix Solaris/Linux administrator, automating usual and regular network tasks, and setting up IDSs and Nagios. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;One-man IT department in the largest ISP of Maputo&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An opportunity came up to go to Mozambique as an expat, to keep the cable Internet running in 2004, or it was that much I was told when I was hired.&#xA;Arrived there to an empty IT department that fired themselves due to a CEO with a very strong temper, and kept the ISP running (almost) single-handled for more than a whole year, until finding people able to give me a hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Life as an expat in Africa&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never had so many hats at once: I was the IT manager, the sysadmin, the network admin, the programmer, the DNS/DHCP master, the Helpdesk manager, and the 3rd-4th line of technical support... Learned a lot in the process. Had very good days, very bad days. Managed to get along with the CEO, and whilst the project was supposed to be 1 year, I ended up being there 5 years. Also give an helping hand to the Angola department. In the first 3 years there, I do not have a doubt I was one the best of the country in what touched to systems and communications. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Used for the ISP servers Debian and FreeBSD,  and also got my fundaments of ISP inner workings (BGP, others) and large scale services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Started using Macs&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, also in 2005, discovered OS/X by accident, as my CEO often asked me to fix his more strange problems, and took a liking for it to this day. (I had previous Mac contacts with OS/9). So around 2006, I started using an iMac at work, bought for my personal machine a PowerBook G4, and mandated iMacs as the standard desktops for the ISP offices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/PowerBook_redjar.jpg/1280px-PowerBook_redjar.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;powerbook G4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;back home - Freelancer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Went back to my home country in 2009 due to personal reasons. While unemployed I tried to go freelancer working for local cable companies...however had problems getting paid. Did a fantastic jack of all trades job for a local cable company, where singled handed reconfigured their voIP MTAs, their modems, wrote the backend software for controlling the provisioning in the cable network, designed their redundancy system using BGP, and wrote software to capture the customer usage drinking from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/ios-nx-os-software/ios-netflow/prod_white_paper0900aecd80406232.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NetFlow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Back to academia, as network / system / security administrator&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of this spell, I went on to work for a very prestigious local University in 2010 where I was hired for the network team, and after a year was asked to double my tasks as the Senior Linux Administrator..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The environment was quite good as managed to tinker and put hands in a lot of new technology; I also got my skills up to date with Unix/Linux using SuSE and Debian, even got myself certified. Also learnt new things, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ansible.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ansible&lt;/a&gt;, FreeRadius (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eduroam.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;EDUROAM&lt;/a&gt;), vmware, and so much more. Also had regularly trainees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Back to the corporate IT world&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in 2018, went back to the corporate world as a Linux Cloud Consultant working for the major player in the ISP industry in Portugal. Also went again using a desktop Linux machine due to being &quot;given&quot; a corporate Intel notebook. Using AntiX Linux on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;IT hobbies at home&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays at home I am tinkering with iOS, OS/X, Unix, ARM architectures and &lt;a href=&quot;https://openwrt.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;OpenWRT&lt;/a&gt;. I have got a very interesting home server, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://lamobo.com/lamobor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lamobo R1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wjbYZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;at home&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Who am I&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally to give a final personal touch to this rather lengthy professional oriented post, I am a man in my 40s, have a beautiful blond daughter born in South Africa, and currently have a Philippine wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am leaving my linked.in profile &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rui-ribeiro/16/ab8/434&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I am an open networker, and I do welcome a lot contacts, especially from people on the IT field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2018-08-08T20:24:22.633" LastActivityDate="2018-08-08T20:24:22.633" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-29T05:39:25.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://trisquel.info&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFo0Q.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Trisquel GNU/Linux&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T08:55:38.707" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T08:55:38.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-30T05:31:07.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NbhtZ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Unix-like operating system that is free software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2016-09-18T07:23:12.973" LastActivityDate="2016-09-18T07:23:12.973" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-01-30T12:03:50.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://emacs.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mb4U3.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Q &amp;amp; A on Emacs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="66803" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T08:52:00.597" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T08:52:00.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3886" CreationDate="2016-01-31T14:09:14.307" Score="3" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I visit a question on Unix.SE, I get the following message:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmqgv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bmqgv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vote Up&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any other SE site, I don't get it.  When I click close this message, the next time I visit a question, I get the same message.  Why is this, and can I turn it off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151922" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T23:01:46.863" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:01:46.863" Title="Why does Unix.SE give me this message and no other SE sites do?" Tags="|support|user-interface|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3885" CreationDate="2016-01-31T14:21:57.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/a/91564/213575&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This isn't a bug, this is &lt;a href=&quot;//meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89045/disable-dont-forget-to-vote-message/89059#89059&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;by design&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Welcome back! If you found this question useful, don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;only appears if&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you haven't been seen on the target site for 48 hours&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you hold a valid user cookie on the target site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your account has more than 15 rep on the target site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you arrive on a question from a search engine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are a very infrequent visitor, yet tend to hit a lot of web&#xA;  search results... you might want to log out. &lt;strong&gt;But you really should&#xA;  be voting up all those search results if you found them, and they are&#xA;  helping you!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T14:21:57.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-01T16:28:31.053" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to ask this question &quot;Which package managers can transfer packages via BitTorrent?&quot; on Unix &amp;amp; Linux SE but I hesitated in posting it. See I thought that maybe it would be considered to have too many answers for it to be acceptable to this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27613" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T23:01:26.767" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:01:26.767" Title="Would this question on which package managers can transfer packages over BitTorrent be considered off-topic for this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3887" CreationDate="2016-02-01T19:25:11.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems you'd be asking a pretty broad question, except that I think the answer is &quot;Debian &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tried&lt;/a&gt;, it &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730459&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;didn't work out&lt;/a&gt;, no one else is crazy enough.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask anyway, you need to keep the question as narrow as possible, so it's actually answerable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limit it to Linux distributions at least. The more you limit it, the more answerable it becomes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain why you want to download packages over BitTorrent. Practical problems tend to get better answers (including, possibly, some different solutions that you never thought of) than &quot;sounds like it'd be cool&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be aware of existing related stuff, and mention it as appropriate. E.g., you can get CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/etc. images for most distros via BitTorrent. Or (for the case when you want to save bandwidth updating your dozens of machines), many package managers have caching solutions so you only download the package once, then the cache serves it to the other &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; machines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also consider asking on &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Recommendations&lt;/a&gt;, if you can make your question fit their rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:01.533" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T19:25:11.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3890" CreationDate="2016-02-05T23:21:36.350" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question I was just writing up, but when I realized Unix &amp;amp; Linux SE does not have a &lt;code&gt;search-engine&lt;/code&gt; tag I thought that maybe this question would be considered off-topic for this site. Here is the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to know if there is anyway I can search for Zsh themes&#xA;  that fulfil several specific criteria I specify to the search.&#xA;  Presently all search engines for Zsh themes I have found (including&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://zshthem.es/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;zshthem.es&lt;/a&gt;) do not appear to allow me to search&#xA;  for multiple specific features the theme possesses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;An Example to Clarify what I mean&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, at the moment I am interested in using a Zsh theme with all of the following features:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;They display the local time in AM/PM format&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the current working directory is a git repository it indicates whether or not all local changes have been pushed upstream. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;It uses different symbols for root and user prompts, respectively. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;It displays the hostname, username (e.g., &lt;code&gt;root&lt;/code&gt; in a root prompt and the username in a non-root prompt) and a shortened form of the&#xA;  present working directory. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An example of what I am referring to with each of these criteria, is&#xA;  that previously I was using the &lt;code&gt;gentoo&lt;/code&gt; Zsh theme, which for me&#xA;  (username: fusion809) when my current working directory is a git&#xA;  repository at &lt;code&gt;~/GitHub/PKGBUILDs/enlightenment&lt;/code&gt; which has unstaged&#xA;  commits displays: &lt;code&gt;fusion809@brenton-pc&#xA;  ~/GitHub/PKGBUILDs/enlightenment (master*) $&lt;/code&gt; as my user prompt. Where&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;brenton-pc&lt;/code&gt; is my username, &lt;code&gt;~/GitHub/PKGBUILDs/enlightenment&lt;/code&gt; is the&#xA;  &quot;shortened form of the present working directory&quot; I was referring to,&#xA;  with the long form being, of course,&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;/home/fusion809/GitHub/PKGBUILDs/enlightenment&lt;/code&gt;. The &lt;code&gt;master*&lt;/code&gt; is how&#xA;  this theme indicates that I have unstaged commits to the git&#xA;  repository I am presently in. The dollar sign (&lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;) denotes that the&#xA;  prompt is a user prompt, not a root prompt. So, the only thing the&#xA;  Gentoo theme lacks that I would like at the moment is that it does not&#xA;  display the local time in AM/PM format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to be clear that my question is not me asking what theme fulfils the  criteria I outlined in the previous &quot;An Example to&#xA;  Clarify what I mean&quot; section, but rather how I can search for such&#xA;  themes myself using a search engine or (if it is possible, which I&#xA;  suspect not) from the command-line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so essentially I want to know if this question is on-topic and whether other questions relating to searching for themes, plugins, &lt;em&gt;etc.&lt;/em&gt; for Unix/Linux software would be considered on-topic for this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27613" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T02:56:40.510" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T02:56:40.510" Title="Are how to use search engines to find Unix/Linux-related information appropriate for this website?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3889" CreationDate="2016-02-06T01:12:26.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't consider this on topic here because it essentially depends on someone, somewhere, building a site that is for sharing Zsh prompts and includes facility for tagging said prompts with the various features you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds more like a unicorn hunt than a procedure that will be of benefit to other Unix &amp;amp; Linux readers. Especially because you could just as easily write the prompt that you want yourself, using &lt;a href=&quot;http://zshwiki.org/home/config/prompt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zsh's excellent documentation&lt;/a&gt; and the many examples that are available on places like github.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T01:12:26.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3900" CreationDate="2016-02-11T15:35:41.857" Score="60" ViewCount="1453" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Request for learning material&lt;/em&gt;, from what I gather, is a request for links or pointers to offsite learning materials, or books, courses, etc. In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2642&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do we feel about requests for learning materials?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is defines it quite clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't cover a request to be taught something, but there have been quite a few questions closed on here lately that use &lt;em&gt;Request for learning materials&lt;/em&gt; as the justification.  Here's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/261525&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt; from today – I'm not picking on that specific one; there have been many similar closures lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site claims to be for Question &amp;amp; Answers – doesn't that translate to Ask and Learn?  In the example above, the OP is simply asking a question about Linux internals and is hoping to learn from the answer; not asking for tutorials or learning materials as the closure reason states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some more examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/126750&quot;&gt;Execute command on ranger selection&lt;/a&gt; is a good example. &#xA;It makes the strategic error of &lt;em&gt;referring&lt;/em&gt; to a search for a tutorial,&#xA;but then asks a fairly specific, bounded, well-scoped question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/123089&quot;&gt;What is the difference between Docker, LXD, and LXC?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;probably should have been closed as “too broad”,&#xA;so it just got closed for the wrong reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/118790&quot;&gt;Installing Wi-Fi drivers when no Ethernet connection is available&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;was deleted by its author (so  most of you won’t be able to see it)&#xA;after it was closed as a “request for learning materials”. &#xA;It’s not a great question,&#xA;and it also commits the sin of mentioning the word “tutorial”,&#xA;but it boils down to a reasonably specific question&#xA;that is an amplified version of its title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/468445/&quot;&gt;Sorting Words in Alphabetical Order&lt;/a&gt; made no mention of learning materials whatsoever, but was a plain old &lt;em&gt;How do I?&lt;/em&gt; question asking how to sort into alphabetical order a text file dictionary with a slightly unusual structure containing pairs of English and Latin words.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we too trigger-happy with &lt;em&gt;Request for learning materials&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29406" LastEditorUserId="5132" LastEditDate="2018-09-12T12:35:15.240" LastActivityDate="2018-09-12T12:35:15.240" Title="Are we abusing &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; as a reason to close?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-02-12T23:12:49.160" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org/s/parallel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xnT88.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU Parallel - for people who live life in the parallel lane&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2972" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T23:12:49.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3894" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-13T13:33:19.147" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;my edit suggestion was rejected by someone, and I would like to ask him/her to tell me more specific reasons. How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151927" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T13:33:19.147" Title="How to ask an edit reviewer questions about his review of my edit?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3896" CreationDate="2016-02-13T21:23:58.627" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted two answers of mine, because after some thinking I came to the conclusion those answers were not very good and/or not really my field of expertise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/261680/how-to-allocate-more-storage-for-home-directory&quot;&gt;how to allocate more storage for home directory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Edit: I agree with [kba](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/261944/151927) that using a partition manager to increase your home partition is not a good idea in your particular setup, because you would need to move your boot partition sda8 and that might cause problems. &#xA;&#xA;I have no idea how LVM works. That is why I cannot help you that much.&#xA;&#xA;One last thing: You might want to consider using sda5 which has 800gb as your home partition if that is possible.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;----------&#xA;You can increase the size of the partition where your /home directory is with a partition manager like gparted.&#xA;&#xA;Since you already have linux installed, I would make a gparted Live USB key manually with the instructions on the following site: http://gparted.org/liveusb.php#linux-method-b&#xA;&#xA;I recommend this method, because the other methods to create a Live USB key sometimes don't work (gparted won't boot).&#xA;&#xA;Alternatively you can create a Ubuntu Live USB key with any version of unetbootin (Windows or linux version). It has gparted preinstalled.&#xA;&#xA;I hope I understood your question right.&#xA;&#xA;If you need more detailed instructions, I would gladly provide it.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/261672/what-does-pwd-output&quot;&gt;What does pwd output?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;I will answer my own question.&#xA;&#xA;No, at the beginning of a shell script `pwd` returns the directory from which the shell script containing `pwd` is executed. This can be any folder in the computer. In the script you can call `cd` to enter different directories which changes the `pwd` to the directory the script entered.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are bad answers and/or there were better answers, so I deleted them to improve the quality of this site. Why did I get minus 20 reps for them, and now I am stuck not being able to answer questions where I do have expertise, because I cannot ask for more details with comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151927" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:01:14.063" Title="Why is deleting answers discouraged?" Tags="|support|reputation|answers|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3895" CreationDate="2016-02-13T22:05:02.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't directly get or lose any reputation from deleting posts, but it does cancel out the reputation those posts gave. One of the answers was at +1/-0 upvotes/downvotes, and the other was +1/-1, so you'd received 18 rep total from those posts. You lose that rep when they're deleted, I assume because it would be odd to give credit for something that was undone. There's even a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/19/disciplined&quot;&gt;badge&lt;/a&gt; for deleting an answer you decide was bad even though it was upvoted, but yours weren't upvoted enough to qualify for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, you're only a couple upvotes away from being able to comment again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T22:05:02.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-02-14T09:30:37.587" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org/s/parallel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gxk2W.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU Parallel - for people who live life in the parallel lane&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2972" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T09:30:37.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-02-14T21:54:34.323" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/jaguardesignstudio/why-zsh-is-cooler-than-your-shell-16194692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NyFcU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Why zsh is cooler than your shell&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T21:54:34.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3892" CreationDate="2016-02-16T05:44:17.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't characterise the use of this close reason, or any of the others in the Off-Topic menu, for that matter, as abuse. It strikes me as the result of two, sometimes potentially related, issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is the constraints posed by the canned close reasons (and, yes, there is always the open-ended option where you can fill in your own, but people will almost always opt for the canned response¹); questions that don't fit comfortably into one of these reasons but perhaps include incidental phrases welcoming pointers to documentation, for example, will be pushed towards here. I know, I've done it, thinking &quot;close enough...&quot; The imperative, after all, is to close the question, not quibble about the semantics of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it was closed².&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is human error. People just get it wrong, as in the example you linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither case seems to be particularly vulnerable to abuse: whatever the reason chose by the initial voter, it still requires four others to agree to it and that threshold has obviously been deemed by the powers that be to be sufficient to ensure, &lt;em&gt;in the majority of cases&lt;/em&gt;, that the question should actually be closed, whatever the reason chosen by the initiator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reopen queue is also sufficiently quiet to suggest that there is no burning issue that needs to be addressed with respect to closing questions--again, irrespective of the reason chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt; Nope, as you were...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;¹ There are bound to be some stats that could illuminate that point, somewhere...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;² This isn't to suggest that I support the indiscriminate closing of questions, rather that I make a judgement call about the overall quality of the question and whether it meets the threshold; once I have made that decision, I then start looking around for the correct justification.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="112566" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T15:25:57.723" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T15:25:57.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3892" CreationDate="2016-02-16T16:34:02.000" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how any of your examples were requests for learning materials. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/261091/22222&quot;&gt;Execute command on ranger selection&lt;/a&gt; has now been reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/254956/22222&quot;&gt;What is the difference between Docker, LXD, and LXC&lt;/a&gt; looks like it should be too broad but has received what appear to be two very good answers, one of which has been accepted so I also reopened that one. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/247453/installing-wi-fi-drivers-when-no-ethernet-connection-is-available&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/247453/installing-wi-fi-drivers-when-no-ethernet-connection-is-available&lt;/a&gt; has been deleted by the OP and I let it lie. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your original example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/261525/22222&quot;&gt;Please explain &amp;quot;kobject&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, is about to be closed again with various close reasons. While there may be a valid reason to close it, that is most certainly not that it's a request for learning materials. I'll be keeping an eye on it and will reopen if it is closed for that reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choosing the right close reason is very important. This is true even for those cases where the question is complete crap and the site is better off without it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, one of the objectives of closing questions is to preserve the quality of the site. As far as that is concerned, one close reason is as good as another. &lt;strong&gt;However, an equally (at the very least) important objective of closing is to educate our users about the sort of questions we want/accept.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we close with the wrong close message, we fail that objective. We are not helping new users understand the site, and will either drive them away in bafflement at our arcane rules, or suffer an incessant barrage of low quality questions since we didn't take the time to actually explain what was wrong with what they asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, closing those questions as requests for learning materials when they clearly weren't is most certainly an abuse of the close reason. &lt;strong&gt;If none of the available close reasons are good enough, write your own. If you can't be bothered to spend a few seconds writing a custom close reason, then you probably shouldn't be voting to close in the first place.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-01-21T16:32:29.917" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T16:32:29.917" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3902" CreationDate="2016-02-17T07:19:41.440" Score="2" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3895/why-is-deleting-answers-discouraged&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question when I decided (for no reason) to remove the &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; portion of the link and hit return. It took me to this question!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2842/debian-server-on-a-intel-core-i3-and-intel-q57-chipset-will-it-work/3895#3895&quot;&gt;Debian server on a Intel Core i3 and Intel Q57 Chipset - will it work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the accepted answer! Does anyone know why this happens? Is it reproducible? I have been able to duplicate the results on another computer and in another browser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also works with other meta links. Doing it with any random link seems to lead to a random question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone provide an explanation for this? For some meta questions, it leads straight to the question on the regular site with the same number identification in the link. For others, it just jumps to a random number altogether. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135355" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T09:23:43.820" Title="meta.unix.stackexchange.com link change leads to specific question on non-meta site?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3901" CreationDate="2016-02-17T07:46:25.900" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; that has the matching ID number. You get redirected to &lt;code&gt;...questions/2842/debian-server-on-a-intel-core-i3-and-intel-q57-chipset-will-it-work/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;3895#3895&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the canonical URL for answer 3895.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The times when you end up on a same-numbered question, the post with that number is a question. When it's an answer (and most posts are answers), you end up on the answer, and whichever question it happens to be in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T07:46:25.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3928" CreationDate="2016-02-17T08:04:27.560" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need a new tag &lt;code&gt;vulkan&lt;/code&gt; for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new graphics api&lt;/a&gt; from the Khronos group additional to the already existing &lt;code&gt;opengl&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93316" LastEditorUserId="93316" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T19:47:24.347" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T12:20:16.953" Title="We need a new Tag [vulkan]" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-19T14:50:27.033" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone please explain why &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/247657/are-any-upcoming-distros-offering-php-7-by-default&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question of mine was closed as &quot;too broad&quot;.  It seems to conform to the site guidelines.  And it is very specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102202" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:00:20.917" Title="Question about distributions offering certain software labeled as &quot;too broad&quot;" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3905" CreationDate="2016-02-19T16:35:03.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I probably wouldn't have voted to close it but it feels overly broad to me in the sense that there are a lot of distros that will fall into this category, and that list will change overtime, so there won't be a consistent answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other bit, and you do say &quot;default&quot; so you're trying to restrict the question's broadness, is that who's to say that a 3rd party repo that's well supported, isn't in play when discussing what one would consider as &quot;default&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I'd consider the EPEL repo as &quot;technically&quot; part of the default, even though you have to add it, given it's well maintained and pretty core to most anything you'll want to do on a CentOS distro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other distros will vary, but I suspect there are repos similar to this in other distros as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again this is just my $0.02 on this but this question just has a air of broadness that it cuts just too close to the edge, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T16:35:03.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-19T18:28:35.400" Score="5" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are Linux kernel questions about OS concepts (which doesn't necessarily involve source code, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/264416/differences-between-system-processes-and-user-processes-kernel-control-paths-a&quot;&gt;Differences between system processes, and user processes, kernel control paths and kernel thread&lt;/a&gt;) suitable on this site, Stack Overflow, both, or some other site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if the questions involve source code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2019-01-19T18:47:46.440" Title="Are Linux kernel questions more suitable on this site or stackoverflow?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3907" CreationDate="2016-02-19T19:57:32.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your questions are about &lt;em&gt;concepts&lt;/em&gt;, why not try the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cs.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Computer Science Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;? OS questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.meta.stackexchange.com/q/56/27761&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:23.127" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T19:57:32.867" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3905" CreationDate="2016-02-19T20:07:11.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are&lt;/strong&gt; either &lt;strong&gt;too many possible answers&lt;/strong&gt;, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the&#xA;  answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few&#xA;  paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time T1, $RANDOM_DISTRO1 plans to add PHP7 as a default. It's an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time T2, $RANDOM_DISTRO2 plans to add PHP7 as a default. It's an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time T3, $RANDOM_DISTRO3 plans to add PHP7 as a default. It's an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, most distros will have PHP7 as a default. The question is meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T20:07:11.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-19T21:04:10.980" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I delete my profile on unix.stackexchange.com ? Thank you!&#xA;I have tried to find a delete function in my profile preferences but there doesn't seem to be anything like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user131093" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T23:00:06.557" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:00:06.557" Title="How can I delete my profile (unix.stackexchange)?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2016-02-19T22:28:22.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/deleting-account&quot;&gt;this FAQ entry&lt;/a&gt;. Since your account has activity, you need to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;; choose the topic &quot;I need to delete my user profile&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T22:28:22.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3657" CreationDate="2016-02-19T22:59:44.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally agree with the following statement in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming questions about the standardized, unix-specific APIs.&#xA;Especially about the POSIX standard.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming questions with deeply unix-specific object (especially&#xA;kernel / libc hacking).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming questions about the internal workings of unix-specific&#xA;software (some examples: kernels, apache module internals).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is actually no clear concensus on this issue, as you can see from the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2875/4671&quot;&gt;Is the Unix C API still on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, where derobert and myself spoke for (roughly speaking), and Gilles spoke against. And there does not appear to be a clear mechanism within Stack Exchange for clarifying scope. Such decisions would presumably be needed to be made by some kind of voting mechanism or by some hypothetical higher authority, and no such procedure exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There also seems to be a lot of hairsplitting/debate over whether a C question (for example) about the C API is really a question about C the programming language or really about the Unix C API. As you can see, I favor not worrying about this that much, and allowing questions which involve asking about the C API as long as the C API is an significant part of the question. I.e. the C API could not easily be substituted by something else in the question. A question which is really a C programming question, say where the question is how to include headers in a C file, and which involves Unix content only incidentally should be moved to Stack Overflow, I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also true that there is a gray area here, but in case of doubt, I favor coming down more strongly on the side of inclusion vs the side of exclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice it seems that such questions end up getting closed, but this is more a reflection of the fact that the people who don't like such questions close or migrate  them, and the people who are fine with them don't vote to reopen. I'm not sure why this is. Perhaps they don't want to have more arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/261525/4671&quot;&gt;Please explain “kobject”&lt;/a&gt; is a recent question, for example, that I consider to be on-topic here. However, others apparently disagree. This is, in your words, a &amp;quot;deeply Unix-specific&amp;quot; question. It's not a good question, but that's a separate issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with your view that Unix system stuff should be an important part of a Unix site like this one. Specifically, when you write&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions request for help in some awk/sed/sh scripting or&#xA;some similarly trivial task for a power user. Answering them is an&#xA;easy way to collect reputation, but doesn't attract highly qualified&#xA;visitors. For example, a developer of kernel drivers won't be here too&#xA;long, because the topics which are interesting here for him, would be&#xA;closed or migrated to the StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To some extent I think this also reflects the fact that the current membership is interested in things like shell programming, which is considered to be more of general interest, while Unix programming type stuff is considered to be of marginal/minority interest. It's true that we (probably) would not want to be overrun by the Linux Kernel mailing list, but I doubt that is an issue,any more than being overrun by Debian development mailing lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Answering late, because I just saw this question - nobody pointed me to it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-12-15T15:44:24.350" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T15:44:24.350" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2016-02-21T18:40:11.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've registered with U&amp;amp;L yesterday and came across this issue three times now, when trying to add tags or missing quotes as I used to over at SO. I can sincerely say I consider this limitation an unnecessary nuisance :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157411" LastEditorUserId="157411" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T20:05:36.617" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T20:05:36.617" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3915" CreationDate="2016-02-22T18:33:26.473" Score="6" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, across the SE network, according to each site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;help center on the topic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the accepted answer is chosen by the OP as most helpful / informative to the asker&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/264920/why-doesnt-the-enter-key-send-eol&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t the Enter key send EOL?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and got two great answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;one, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/264923/136107&quot;&gt;written by Thomas Dickey&lt;/a&gt;, an author of xterm and &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; unix applications and utilities, which directly and clearly answers my question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;another, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/265071/136107&quot;&gt;written by Nominal Animal&lt;/a&gt;, which is far less of a direct answer and more very helpful information to someone writing, for instance, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/catb0t/pmlr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;poor man's &lt;code&gt;libreadline&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which I am.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nominal Animal &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/264920/why-doesnt-the-enter-key-send-eol/265071#comment458520_265071&quot;&gt;wants&lt;/a&gt; me to change the accepted answer on the basis theirs is Not An Answer, and doesn't attempt to answer the question. I don't believe this to be the case, but I'm afraid Nominal will delete their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the correct thing to do is not waver in my choice of acceptance, but my question for meta is twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;is what I believe the correct thing to do, actually correct?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can a Moderator prevent Nominal from deleting their answer? I think it's quite valuable. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136107" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T22:34:39.890" Title="Whose choice is accepting an answer?" Tags="|support|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3914" CreationDate="2016-02-22T18:54:14.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;What answer you accept is completely up to you. You should accept the one which you, personally, found most helpful. If that isn't the one you would consider objectively &quot;best&quot;, so be it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers can only be deleted by mods so there's no danger of Nominal Animal deleting the answer you've accepted. Answers on the SE sites are publicly licensed and no longer belong to their authors once posted. In some cases, mods will even undelete answers whose posters have deleted them if they feel that they are useful to the site. Now, if the poster feels it is a horrible answer and asks you to please unaccept so they can delete, you can &lt;em&gt;choose&lt;/em&gt; to do so, or not, but it's completely up to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, what you believe is indeed correct and no moderator intervention is needed; accepted answers cannot be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T18:54:14.400" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3917" CreationDate="2016-02-24T04:09:15.243" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been using various StackExchanges as reference for many questions over the past couple years but am still a novice in most areas. I am starting to break into the Linux kernel world and thus intend to spend a good amount of time here. Thus, while the comment/question I am about to state may pertain to any StackExchange community, I wish to make it here as this one will be most relevant to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the way beginners are encouraged to start participating in these communities is purely by asking questions. I understand that you wouldn't want to give inexperienced people the ability to throw around poor answers and want us to build up credibility. However, before posting a question I will always do my best to search through existing material/posts already available to avoid wasting experts' time. 99% of the time I can find what I'm looking for and have no need to duplicate questions to the community. Thus I have no need to actually post questions and gain the starting credentials I need to start contributing in other ways, such as giving up votes to express that an answer also helped me. In this way it feels to me that I'd gain credentials faster if I put in less effort searching and just blasted away questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said please correct me if there is some other way that I should be trying to become a part of the community. If there isn't then I wonder if there could be some other way new members like myself could get our start. It seems like a difficult problem to me and most answers likely have inherent issues as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I think on it I feel that the up voting component of StackExchange serves as a means for experts to tell us which answers are correct and helpful, but I wonder if there could not be another feature by which any member (who did not &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt; the question) could communicate that a given answer was helpful to them or perhaps also solved the same problem for them. Like an &quot;I found this helpful&quot; button or something. Something like this might not be a good way of gaining credentials, as people would just spam this on posts, but it would make me feel more a part of the community earlier on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new and so I hope that I'm not way out of line trying to make suggestions, but this is the only time I can have this perspective and so I thought to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113024" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T16:45:41.767" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T16:45:41.767" Title="Beginners on StackExchange Encouraged to Post Repeat Questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3916" CreationDate="2016-02-24T16:45:34.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the way beginners are encouraged to start participating in these communities is purely by asking questions. I understand that you wouldn't want to give inexperienced people the ability to throw around poor answers and want us to build up credibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where you've gotten this impression; new (and even unregistered) users can &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-posts&quot;&gt;post answers&lt;/a&gt; from the very beginning. Posting questions is probably &lt;em&gt;easier&lt;/em&gt;, at least for most people, but you're more than welcome to post answers if you see a question you can be helpful on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wonder if there could not be another feature by which any member (who did not post the question) could communicate that a given answer was helpful to them or perhaps also solved the same problem for them. Like an &quot;I found this helpful&quot; button or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98630/anonymous-user-feedback-now-in-testing&quot;&gt;already exist&lt;/a&gt;. There's a link below the comments of a post labeled &quot;feedback&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPByW.png&quot; alt=&quot;feedback&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which displays a &quot;Was this question helpful to you?&quot; prompt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cdho9.png&quot; alt=&quot;Was this question helpful to you? [Yes] [No]&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is referred to as &quot;anonymous user feedback&quot; all over meta, and that seems to be the primary source, but on our feedback summary page I can see a row for &quot;registered feedback&quot; with 10 entries this week, so I think this should be visible to you as well, until you hit the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;upvote posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T16:45:34.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-24T17:32:43.943" Score="1" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen several questions recently where one very reasonable reason for closing would have been that they are more generic security questions, not really Unix specific. Is it possible to add migration there as a close reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28496" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T18:20:50.457" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T00:02:27.517" Title="Migration to security by default too?" Tags="|feature-request|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3923" CreationDate="2016-02-26T00:06:09.493" Score="6" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed another strange colors on Unix.SE buttons here and on Meta. There is not enough contrast in any of them, examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TM73p.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TM73p.png&quot; alt=&quot;post question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WUzYN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WUzYN.png&quot; alt=&quot;post answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous colors/gradient were fine. Similar issue appeared week ago on AskUbuntu (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15063/redesigned-disabled-buttons-in-review-are-hard-to-distinguish&quot;&gt;my meta question&lt;/a&gt;). Not sure if it is the same issue, but it might be related. Buttons also appear in reviews, but I don't have any available at this time. Disabled button might look a bit different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text is really hard to read and when hovered, it is not much better (you can try bellow on the button).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Review queues are even more funny. Disabled buttons are not even shown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BhvvI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BhvvI.png&quot; alt=&quot;review&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2&lt;/strong&gt;: After fix, gradient is here, but the contrast on meta is still ... would say not sufficient:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rdD8v.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rdD8v.png&quot; alt=&quot;meta.unix&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Do I have to also add a kitten to have it fixed?&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121504" LastEditorUserId="121504" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T21:11:14.253" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T21:54:37.210" Title="Broken buttons colors [contrast]?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3921" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:14:52.677" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wish to have the following question reopened:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265961/what-happens-to-the-c-mysqlconnectionstringbuilder-classs-default-constructor&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265961/what-happens-to-the-c-mysqlconnectionstringbuilder-classs-default-constructor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I do that? I was told it was a C# programming question but I wish to port from windows 7 to Ubuntu Linux 15.10. How can I make it fit the scope of the site better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T22:55:52.130" Title="How to take a question off &quot;on hold&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3921" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:31:48.960" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question seems to have very little to do with Linux. It doesn't matter that you're developing on a Linux machine; the question is about how something in C# works. As explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has many more users with the C# expertise necessary to answer this question. If Stack Overflow isn't accepting your questions, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers-from-th&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:31:48.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3919" CreationDate="2016-02-26T21:00:48.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for pointing this out. Looking into this further, the button wasn't displaying correctly on Unix.SE or Meta.Unix. A background gradient should have been applied, but wasn't. This was because the gradient wasn't being applied to &lt;code&gt;input&lt;/code&gt; correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been corrected. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Okay another push has been made to darken the buttons on meta to&#xA;increase the contrast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thanks again for posting this bug. It helped me uncover another bug which affected almost the entire Stack Exchange network. Kudos!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156341" LastEditorUserId="156341" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T21:54:37.210" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T21:54:37.210" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3918" CreationDate="2016-02-27T00:02:27.517" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with 10k rep can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/away&quot;&gt;a history of outgoing migrations&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/stats&quot;&gt;recent statistics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a single migration in the last three months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even accounting for the fact that some migrations may be missed because nobody thinks of flagging, this is very far from warranting adding a new target to the migration dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition there's a risk that questions will be migrated even though they're on-topic here, or worse, even though they're off-topic on the proposed destination. Questions about, say, configuring Apache for HTTPS or public key authentication for SSH, or setting up a firewall, are off-topic on Security.SE (because they're about configuring some tool, not about achieving a security objective), but Sec.SE frequently gets such question and has to migrate them away. If there was a migration path, I'd expect some of our community who are unfamiliar with the scope of Security.SE to see trigger words like “key” and “SSL” and migrate questions away even though they're on-topic here and off-topic on Sec.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a regular both here and on Sec.SE. My subjective perception is that we do get the occasional question that would be on-topic on Sec.SE, but those are rarely &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; here; when I see a question that is on-topic on both sides but would be better served on Sec.SE, I leave a comment suggesting that &lt;em&gt;if the asker wishes&lt;/em&gt; they may have their question migrated. In the very rare cases when the question is actually off-topic here, I flag to migrate. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who does this. I doubt that many questions fall through the cracks, considering that I read more than half the questions here and I'm very likely to read a question if it's related to security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, no, we should not have a migration path to Security.SE, because it would be misused more often than useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T00:02:27.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3926" CreationDate="2016-02-29T03:40:45.570" Score="35" ViewCount="858" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many cases, every time exact answers are posting via comments instead of answers. So I would like to get clarification, is that the encouraged way here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#traffic&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange traffic portal&lt;/a&gt; that unix.stackexchange.com has 77% questions answered and its better than other infamous sites like Ask Ubuntu and Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please encourage answering questions by posting answers instead of comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: All my thoughts are very clear and to make unix.stackexchange.com as a better place (of course it's already). I am not writing this to point anyone out intentionally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19072" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2016-03-01T13:55:49.657" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T01:05:12.190" Title="why are we not encouraging posting answers as an answer but not via comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3925" CreationDate="2016-02-29T04:07:59.480" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're always encouraged to answer questions as actual answers and not simply as comments. But it's really up to the individual users of the site to put in whatever effort they are most comfortable with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage you, or anyone that may come across this situation, to look at these comments as an opportunity to write them up as more complete answers yourself. I would ask the user who provided the comment first before doing so, but I've found most everyone here to be very encouraging to others, with respect to having others take their comments and convert them into formal answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T04:07:59.480" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3925" CreationDate="2016-02-29T17:47:28.670" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; opposed to answers as comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the comments robs us of the ability to vote up or down or suggest edits, and basically defeats the functioning of the Stack Exchange engine. And since comments on the question go above real answers, it's a way to get in a first word, which is unfair to the real answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen many people say &quot;But, I did that because I didn't have a complete or real answer&quot;. That's actually &lt;em&gt;worse&lt;/em&gt;! Now these lower-quality partial answers come above the real ones, can't be voted on properly, and can't be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer-comments also push down comments which might be used to get clarification and improve the question itself, so they distract from the actual intended purpose of comments to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have a good, succinct answer, please put it in the answer section.&lt;/strong&gt; If you know that your comment is an incomplete answer, it's probably best to think about how to round it out. Or maybe just let someone else answer. Or, if you really can't resist, think about coming back later after someone else answers and deleting your comment so it doesn't distract. Maybe it could even fit as an edit to another answer, or a comment to an answer, which is less harmful since at least the answer comes first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Some of this answer was lifted from my post over at Photo SE, &lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4655/short-answers-as-comments-please-resist-the-urge&quot;&gt;Short answers as comments — please resist the urge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:03.093" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T17:47:28.670" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3903" CreationDate="2016-03-02T12:20:16.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As commented by @don_cristi, we now have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vulkan&quot;&gt;/vulkan&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93316" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T12:20:16.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2016-03-04T13:27:44.223" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I m a linux user from 2008 and my first Linux is Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2012 I became Ubuntu Member via Ubuntu Forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2012 I started using CentOS but not much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since 2014 CentOS became my main Linux OS as I started my career as Linux System Administrator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyday improving my skills of BASH and Python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Why I am here&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I want to learn Linux not about one particular type of  OS . I want to know Linux core parts.And this is the place to learn.I found so many questions which are awesome and with excellent information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next I am happy with my Ask Ubuntu contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I choose this place as my new home with first preference of learning and next answering what I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am Raja and I am Indian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19072" LastEditorUserId="19072" LastEditDate="2016-03-04T15:45:19.213" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T15:45:19.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3925" CreationDate="2016-03-04T13:48:08.693" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there are legit reasons to provide an answer (or sometimes a hint) in a comment if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question should not be answered (it's silly, duplicate, off-topic etc.) and either&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question lacks basic understanding but is asked in good faith and deserves at least a hint, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question asks about something dangerous and a quick warning is in order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, the question can still be safely deleted, but the OP gets at least some reward for their effort. And if he's about to do something dangerous, he gets warned quickly (this applies more to EE.SE, where people ask things like &quot;I'm trying to connect this circuit to 220 Volts&quot;, and you instantly see they shouldn't, but I can imagine similar cases relevant to U&amp;amp;L).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it also happened to me to see a question I didn't know the answer for, see the comments, google around and finally post a complete answer based on someone else's comment. I don't see anything wrong with this practice, and nobody ever told me that I've stolen their answer, so I don't agree that comments discourage real answers to be posted. On the contrary, if the author of the comment didn't write it, the OP wouldn't probably get a full answer at all, or at least not as quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="106927" LastEditDate="2016-03-04T14:01:35.147" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T14:01:35.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3933" CreationDate="2016-03-07T18:43:44.107" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that we have two &quot;time utility&quot; tags -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-utility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-utility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-utility&lt;/a&gt;. There are 8 questions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-utility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-utility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-utility&lt;/a&gt; and 209 in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time-utility tag had no wiki, so I just now suggested an edit to make it look the same as time's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see there have been recent edits to questions that were tagged &lt;code&gt;time&lt;/code&gt; that were retagged as &lt;code&gt;time-utility&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about merging the time and time-utility tags? Is this a situation where tag-synonyms would be helpful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to help clean up, I just wanted to head in the &quot;right&quot; direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T02:16:30.933" Title="Tag cleanup: time vs time-utility" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3931" CreationDate="2016-03-07T18:43:44.107" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one possibility, just to kick things off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-tag all 209 'time' questions to 'time-utility' then make time a synonym of time-utility.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T18:43:44.107" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3931" CreationDate="2016-03-09T02:16:30.933" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; is an ambiguous tag. It's used to mean several things, at least:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;time&lt;/code&gt; utility and shell builtin. These are sufficiently close to use the same tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-utility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-utility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-utility&lt;/a&gt;. Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266705/call-time-with-format-option&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226515/different-times-called-in-similar-environments-in-bash&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Measuring the execution time of a program. This is often but not always done with the &lt;code&gt;time&lt;/code&gt; utility (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallelism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallelism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallelism&lt;/a&gt; ≠ &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu-parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu-parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu-parallel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt; ≠ &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;). Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/255328/dd-process-real-vs-sys-time&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254885/log-of-open-and-close-time-of-a-program&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computing, parsing or formatting dates and times. There should be a single tag encompassing dates and times as they make a whole. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3599/how-about-a-date-manipulation-tag-or-redefine-the-date-tag&quot;&gt;How about a [date-manipulation] tag or redefine the [date] tag?&lt;/a&gt;. Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265950/convert-unix-timestamp-to-hhmmsssss-where-sss-is-milliseconds-in-awk&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/237603/unix-epoch-in-milliseconds&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/245751/date-getting-next-certain-hour&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Working with file timestamps. We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timestamps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timestamps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timestamps&lt;/a&gt; for that. Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/255479/incorrect-file-creation-modification-time&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/232023/gnu-find-cmatime-option-and-daylight-saving-time&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What time it is, i.e. reading or setting a clock. That's what &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clock&lt;/a&gt; is for. Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/259927/must-set-cmos-clock-to-localtime-due-to-dos-dual-boot-timedatectl-or-hwclock&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/257892/what-service-executes-that-sets-up-the-real-time-clock&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/255900/system-time-in-minix-with-best-precision&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Timezone issues, which should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timezone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timezone&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timezone&lt;/a&gt;. Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246553/using-corrected-time-in-the-attribution-variable-of-mutt&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/235752/embedded-debian-linux-no-timezone&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some question touch more than one topic (e.g. display a file's timestamp in a certain format), these are all distinct topics that tags would help sort out, so we should get rid of the ambiguous tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/date&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;date&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;date&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; and use more specific tags instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T02:16:30.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3247" CreationDate="2016-03-10T19:54:56.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once posted multiple answers on a question and was downvoted numerous times until I combined them.  I think that was a different stack Exchange, so the climate might have been different there.  Maybe Super User?.  My first thought was &quot;different approach, different answer&quot;, but apparently several people disagreed.  I think it will depend on the individual Stack Exchange and the users who do or do not see and respond to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, @Gilles might have been the one telling me to combine them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124120" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T19:54:56.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3925" CreationDate="2016-03-16T01:05:12.190" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this point.  I'm actually wondering, given that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can flag questions as &quot;not really a question&quot; (a.k.a. &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can mark answers as &quot;Please ask this as a separate question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can mark answers as &quot;Please use comments for this&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a typically seen response to questions given in comments is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Please ask this as a new question rather than posting it in comments&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why, then, don't we have the ability to &lt;strong&gt;flag a comment as &quot;this should be posted as an answer&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just mathematically, there are three things—questions, comments, answers.  That gives 6 ways you can mix things up by confusing one for another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether a non-question is a comment or an &quot;answer&quot;, it gets marked the same (&quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;), which takes care of 2 out of 6.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers that aren't answers are either comments or questions (the same question or a different one) and get handled either way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments that are actually answers are the &lt;strong&gt;1/6th&lt;/strong&gt; of the possible mixups and the only one that we don't have clear-cut community agreement on how to handle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have even a &lt;em&gt;partial&lt;/em&gt; answer, post it with the button marked &quot;Post Your Answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way we can use votes, suggested edits, comment on your answer, link to it semi-permanently; it will be indexed properly for search engines; etc., etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T01:05:12.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3937" CreationDate="2016-03-16T10:35:44.123" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a question and satisfied with the answers. I have ticked one of them. Is there any way in which i can &quot;close&quot; the question to further answering or is there any convention on what i should put in the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110103" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T10:54:47.480" Title="Is there any way to close your own question" Tags="|discussion|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3936" CreationDate="2016-03-16T10:54:47.480" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, you've done everything you need to do already. Please don't edit the title to add &quot;solved&quot; or anything like that, that's not how this site works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are never &quot;closed&quot; to further answers. You never know when a new, useful answer could be posted. Your ticking (accepting) of one of the answers is enough to mark the question as answered, nothing else is needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T10:54:47.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3940" CreationDate="2016-03-16T22:04:54.297" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I see a very interesting question, one to which I do not the answer but would very much like to have. I see no way to &quot;watch&quot; that question. Is there a trick to doing this? Is this a feature we can add to this site? I would expect a blue or yellow pip in my mailbox when someone posts an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105631" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T17:21:54.143" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T17:21:54.143" Title="Feature request: Watch other person's question for answers/updates" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2016-03-16T22:22:57.857" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It won't show up in your SE &amp;quot;mailbox&amp;quot;, but there is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RSS feed&lt;/a&gt; for every question: the link is at the bottom of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V2q4f.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V2q4f.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subscribing will allow you to monitor updates to the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T22:22:57.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2016-03-17T12:35:41.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can favourite the post by clicking on the star next to it (below the voting buttons). In your profile, there will be section for these questions which will show the number of changed posts. It's manual, but one way to keep track of interesting posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/53585/270345&quot;&gt;How do favourite questions work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T12:35:41.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3942" CreationDate="2016-03-18T02:56:09.120" Score="6" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a really minor question. Now that I'm (just) over 5k in reputation, I have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;approve tag wiki edits&lt;/a&gt; privilege (which I haven't had a chance to use yet), but I think it's causing my Unix.SE header to show my own pending edits. I just submitted a tag edit, and back on the main screen, I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7jDtc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7jDtc.png&quot; alt=&quot;5k suggested edit header&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click on the &lt;code&gt;2&lt;/code&gt; next to the review link, it takes me to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&lt;/a&gt; where it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This queue has been cleared!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yet I know that my edits are still pending). The &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; suggested edits queue (for Q &amp;amp; A edits) actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; clear (at the moment). I'm assuming this link has used different logic from the UI header to come to the correct conclusion that I can't approve my own edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is it a simple UI bug, or is it something harder to fix? Or do I just ignore this until I get to 10k :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-03-18T08:58:41.560" Title="5k .. 10k reputation bug? header shows (unavailable) own suggested edit" Tags="|support|bug|design|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3941" CreationDate="2016-03-18T08:58:41.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The numbers shown there are the absolute number of pending review items. This includes things you've already cast a vote on and those you've submitted yourself. The SE devs have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/230726/203101&quot;&gt;explained&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta that having the numbers be per-user is too costly and have chosen to cache it instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Correct, @gnat: this is everything in review, even stuff that you, personally, can't review. Super-expensive to personalize this - so the alternative is simply not having an indicator. Think of it as... A reminder to encourage your peers to review.- Shog9  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/191638/notify-users-of-possible-reviews-on-toolbar/230726#comment758002_230726&quot;&gt;Apr 29 '14 at 22:29&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/251914/203101&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/251914/203101&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-03-18T08:58:41.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3944" CreationDate="2016-03-19T04:29:52.273" Score="37" ViewCount="473" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I have a question that I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; I have seen on here before.  I try searching for it as the first step.  If I can't find it that way, I click &quot;Ask a Question&quot; and type in the title, because that seems more successful for finding the question than the search box is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes I don't see the question I'm looking for in the &quot;Questions that may already have your answer&quot; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; I've seen the question; it's just a matter of hunting it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it just recently occurred to me that perhaps such hunting is counter-productive.  The whole reason we can &quot;close as duplicates&quot; is to make finding the best answers easier.  If I spend 15 minutes digging through my browser history and complex search results to find the question again, isn't it an indicator that there is a missing search term/phrasing for the question?  Won't it just make more work for the next person who thinks of that wording of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if there is a question I have that I've seen here before, and I write a good, concise wording of it, and the answer doesn't show up...is it bad to ask the question so that it can eventually be dupe-closed?  Thus the next person to search the phrasing I came up with would get a link to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On a related note, is it possible/desirable to dupe-close your own question rather than delete it?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; Is it considered a &quot;good thing&quot; by the community to write a new form of a question when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You know it already exists someplace on here,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't find it even with moderate effort, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your wording of the question is relatively simple?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="10043" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T12:27:20.440" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T12:27:20.440" Title="Is it bad to repeat a question if an existing one is hard to find?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3943" CreationDate="2016-03-19T18:35:17.157" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the existing question is poorly formulated, edit it! Improvements are always welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that the existing formulation is fine, you can still edit the question to add search fodder, e.g. with a paragraph “In other words, I'm asking how to &amp;lt;different formulation&amp;gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really think that the question would be best served under multiple titles, then go ahead and type your question. Check whether the “Questions that may already have your answer” box has the existing questions as one of the first few hits. If it does, then a duplicate isn't warranted after all. If the similar question search doesn't find the existing question, then go ahead and ask. Post a comment clearly stating that you intend for this to be a duplicate, with a link to the existing question. Once at least one person has flagged or voted to close as a duplicate, you can finish the duplicate vote in one click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anonymous visitors are automatically redirected to the duplicate if the question that they land on has no answers and is closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T18:35:17.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-03-21T15:10:46.810" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/download/atomic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nziWL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Create and run applications in Linux containers.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T15:10:46.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-03-21T15:13:00.247" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoramagazine.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OuRao.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora distro news for users&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T15:13:00.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3948" CreationDate="2016-03-26T15:28:17.210" Score="9" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose you ask a question, say on Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange, but after asking it, the question becomes irrelevant. Say for example you ask if you can fix network protocol(s) which Windows says have been deleted on your machine but after fiddling about on your laptop in a Linux terminal suddenly they reappear (you have restarted your machine before, it's not a Windows restart issue, and you have done nothing to directly fix the issue). Your question may be relevant to other users but no-one actually answered it directly, including yourself, but the route taken to fix the issue seems totally baffling. What do you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138973" LastEditorUserId="138973" LastEditDate="2016-05-01T08:28:39.110" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T08:28:39.110" Title="When a computing problem becomes moot what should you do about the question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3947" CreationDate="2016-03-26T15:37:20.517" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a specific close reason for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions describing a problem that can't be reproduced and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is available in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flag menu&lt;/a&gt; when you reach 50 reputation and, after 3000 reputation, it's in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;close menu&lt;/a&gt;. If this is your question and you can't vote to close it, you can always delete it as long as it's unanswered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, post an answer explaining what you did that resulted in the fix. Even if that's not necessarily reproducible, just say &quot;I poked it with a stick and now it's fine&quot;. Expect the question to be closed and deleted unless there's a teachable moment there though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it's up to you. Delete it or post an answer or flag to close as too localized (the close reason given above). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T08:07:14.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-29T19:19:24.933" Score="-1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm late to the party, but it seems I'm not the only uninvited guest. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; tags are still around, despite an apparent conclusion back in 2014 to burninate them:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2705/error-and-crash-tags-are-they-really-useful&quot;&gt;Error and crash tags, are they really useful?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they need to be blacklisted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T20:38:39.477" Title="How should we re-delete the /crash and /error tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3806" CreationDate="2016-03-29T23:13:01.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a single way that's best in all circumstances. Ideally the asker is still around, and will change the accepted answer if a now-better one comes along. But if the asker isn't around or won't change the accepted answer, nobody else can do it for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is no longer the best, it's often a good idea to edit it to succintly but prominently mention qualifications, and refer to other answers. For example, add a preamble that says something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since version 3.5, you can &amp;lt;one-sentence summary&amp;gt;. For more information, see &amp;lt;link to other answer&amp;gt;. This answer applies to versions 3.4 and below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That keeps the information about older versions around (keep in mind that people will keep using 3.4 until long after 3.5 was released) and adds a clearly visible notice at the top of the first answer, so that people will see it even if they aren't paying much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:13:01.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2705" CreationDate="2016-03-29T23:25:24.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen your question but I'm still not convinced by the uselessness of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt;. Ok, maybe it should be renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/investigating-a-crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;investigating-a-crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;investigating-a-crash&lt;/a&gt;. The tag means “this question is about investigating a crash”. It has a clear meaning, so it isn't a meta-tag. It's useful in a search: “Apache crashes” isn't the same problem as “Apache isn't doing what I want it to do”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; is too unspecific and should be burninated. Unlike crashes, errors are pervasive, and they're ambiguously defined (what messages count as errors as opposed to normal diagnostics?). Before burninating we should review the uses, as some questions should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error-handling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error-handling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error-handling&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt; or perhaps others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T23:25:24.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-31T23:16:28.263" Score="-9" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;To authenticate to &lt;code&gt;unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; is clearly reasonable that it is necessary to accept a cookie from &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; which I want and accept. It does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; seem reasonable that third party cookies from &lt;code&gt;sstatic.com&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt; are also set and used (&lt;a href=&quot;https://sstatic.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sstatic.com&lt;/code&gt; claims to be a cookie-less site&lt;/a&gt;. I do not know what is the relation of &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;. But whichever it is I do not want their third party cookies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also understand and expect that some Javascript from &lt;code&gt;unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; may be needed and will be useful. But that I also &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; accept all javascript from  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;google-analytics.com&#xA;quantserve.com&#xA;scorecardresearch.com&#xA;adzerk.com&#xA;sstatic.net&#xA;ajax.googleapis.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is mindbogglingly extreme. Why should I (also) trust google or adzerk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that cookies from &lt;code&gt;imgur.com&lt;/code&gt; and javascript from &lt;code&gt;adzerk.com&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;scorecardresearch.com&lt;/code&gt; (clear and known ad entities) do is enable ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And ads are finally appearing on the stack exchange network.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As demonstrated by this image extracted from the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GIVXx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GIVXx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That an user (like me) which is clearly authenticated and that makes useful contributions to the site is now going to be (also) subject to ads seems just too much to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were an un-identified user who does not contribute I may understand the need to show ads. But the strange fact is that an un-identified user may block all that crap and still see the site content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That raises the question of why should users like me need to be subject to ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also raises the question of Why should I authenticate?. It may be a lot simpler to &quot;not contribute&quot; and read the content without authentication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that is the reason of so many &quot;look but not vote&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem something very small today, but ads will only grow and get worse with time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am just on the border of &quot;dropping authentication on stackexchange&quot; and just read the content without cookies or javascript. It may be &quot;not so pretty&quot;, but: &quot;who cares?&quot;, the information will still be accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user79743" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T15:11:45.647" Title="I dislike the intrusive use of cookies and (recently) ads" Tags="|discussion|community-ads-meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-01T09:41:13.597" Score="8" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &quot;Select your next badge&quot; recommends going for the Epic badge, and there are still a few alternatives to work on as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G72po.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G72po.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that I had obtained all the badges I can select from, apart from &quot;Peer Pressure&quot;, would that badge actually be recommended as the next goal?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T22:14:58.003" Title="Will the peer pressure badge eventually get recommended as next badge?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3952" CreationDate="2016-04-01T15:11:45.647" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your browser must have some kind of malware that's serving those ads. I don't see any of those ads you mention, and I'm not getting any cookie either. Here's a screenshot of the home page of the main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HCrXg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of unix&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get an ad on startup, it doesn't come from Stack Exchange. To skip this ad, put this line in your init file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(setq inhibit-startup-message t)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T15:11:45.647" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3965" CreationDate="2016-04-01T16:42:04.890" Score="4" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens sometimes; you answer or ask a question, but people don't like it. You get downvotes. Hiding your head in shame, you delete your post, so that no one knows about this. Do you get your points back/lose points you've gained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T14:10:44.140" Title="Do you gain points back when deleting question/answer?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3961" CreationDate="2016-04-01T21:10:00.307" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you show images in your posts? When I &quot;upload the image&quot; it doesn't show up in the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T21:07:47.160" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:07:47.160" Title="How do you show images in your posts?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3966" CreationDate="2016-04-01T23:42:55.213" Score="5" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: This question could possibly fit as a question on a main site &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;, whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;stack overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://ux.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;user experience&lt;/a&gt; or somewhere else.  I'm asking it here because: (a) I don't know where else it would fit, and (b) The primary reason I want to know is to improve my answering abilities on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Linking to man pages&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already have a favored method for this, which you can read about in the &lt;code&gt;less&lt;/code&gt; man page in two places:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;LESS='+/\+cmd' man less&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;LESS='+/LESS[[:space:]]*Options' man less&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See what I did there?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Linking to websites&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The easy&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some websites, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/CommandsAndArguments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wooledge Bash guide&lt;/a&gt;, have little &quot;table of contents&quot; at the top which allows you to easily link to a very specific part of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/CommandsAndArguments#Aliases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Link to Aliases section of guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The moderate&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other pages such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;POSIX specifications&lt;/a&gt; don't have such an easy interface for linking, but it is still possible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_02&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Direct link to section 2.9.2, Pipelines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the tag name at the end of the URL is much less human-readable on the POSIX site than the tags in the Bash guide:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://....#Aliases&#xA;vs.&#xA;http://....#tag_18_09_02&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The difficult&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other websites contain info that I would like to be able to link to directly, but it may be buried far down on the page with no obvious way to link directly to it.  For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Art of Unix Programming&lt;/a&gt; is full of excellent material, but I don't know of any way to link with any finer granularity than a whole page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch04s02.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The lengthy page containing &quot;The SPOT Rule&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to construct a link with a tag that will take users to an arbitrarily specific point on the page?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If not, how can I see what tags have been included by the creator of the website so that I can link directly to a specific point on the page?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T07:02:30.580" Title="How can I link people to arbitrarily specific points on a reference page?" Tags="|discussion|answers|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3957" CreationDate="2016-04-02T02:31:04.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I typically use this trick to embed images in my posts and make them so you can click on them to get their original sizes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![image test][1]][1]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vdTJD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vdTJD.png&quot; alt=&quot;image test&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This trick embeds an image reference, &lt;code&gt;![image test][1]&lt;/code&gt; inside of another linked reference, &lt;code&gt;[..above..][1]&lt;/code&gt;. Doing it this way allows for the image to be clicked on so that the original can be seen when needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T02:31:04.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3964" CreationDate="2016-04-02T09:02:55.177" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273474/how-to-recover-after-messing-with-hard-drive-during-mid-session-sleep&quot;&gt;How to recover after messing with hard drive during mid-session sleep?&lt;/a&gt;.  It appeared to be a Linux issue, which is why I posted it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a lot of diagnosis, it turned out that the intractable aspect of the issue was primarily a hardware problem.  It wasn't a fluke, but a relatively common problem (failure of an old external hard drive enclosure).  There actually was a Linux problem (corruption of the file system).  The added hardware problem turned the issue from something easily resolved into one with more severe symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed as a hiccup (not reproducible, solved itself with trivial solution, not likely to be helpful to others).  I'm wondering whether that's applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problem is reproducible by anyone unfortunate enough to have an external drive enclosure with a common type of failure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It didn't solve itself or magically disappear.  It required significant diagnostic work to discover the hardware issue.  Fixing the hardware problem is what allowed the Linux issue to be resolved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many apparently difficult problems turn out to be difficult because the user is focused on what appears to be a purely OS or software problem when it is actually caused by, or complicated by, a hardware issue.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how many people would make the same stupid mistake I did, and concurrently have a similar hardware problem.  However, I can see value in the example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It illustrates the value of checking potential hardware issues when faced with an apparent OS or software problem that is harder to resolve than it ought to be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For someone who makes the same mistake of disconnecting the drive during a session, the answer provides some reassurance by explaining that under normal circumstances, it may be fairly easy to recover from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There probably won't be a lot of people with the identical problem, but it's conceivable that another person or two might be in the same situation, in which case, the question and answer would be directly useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the hardware issue make this question off-topic (is the hold appropriate)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any potential for rewording to solve the hold issue?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T11:21:04.883" Title="Are problems that turn out to be caused by hardware off topic?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3962" CreationDate="2016-04-02T10:10:12.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flakey or defective hardware is clearly not relevant to the site, which is about the Unix-related group of operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately problem hardware is a fact of life, and granted hardware and OS issues can be difficult to disentangle, but once something is determined to be a hardware issue, it should be removed from the question to avoid clutter and distraction. If the question turns out to be solely about problem hardware, then it should be closed or deleted. Basically, the question (and answers) should try to stay on-topic as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T10:10:12.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3962" CreationDate="2016-04-02T11:21:04.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The important point here is that the problem was specific to your hardware. It is, therefore, unlikely to help a broad audience. In any case, yes, hardware issues are off topic here. If the solution was simply running &lt;code&gt;fsck&lt;/code&gt;, I would argue that wasn't a hardware issue, as such, but a filesystem issue and that is on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you answer mentions that using the cable you had used originally instead of plugging the drive in made it work again. That would suggest that the problem was the cable (hardware). I admit I am not entirely sure what happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does seem clear is that your issue was specific to the setup you happened to have been using and, as such, is unlikely to help future visitors and, therefore, it makes sense to close the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last thing. Don't take this personally. It is in no way a judgement on yourself or your question. Closing is an integral part of how the site works and no black marks will follow you or anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T11:21:04.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3955" CreationDate="2016-04-02T11:34:25.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly yes, deleting a post nullifies any reputation changes caused by votes cast on it. More details are given in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/203101&quot;&gt;the community FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation changes from bounties, votes (both up and down), and acceptances on deleted posts (including answers to a deleted question) are nullified. (Exception: Reputation earned for posts with a score of three or higher, and where the post has been visible on the site for at least 60 days, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/reputation-and-historical-archives/&quot;&gt;is retained&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation lost as a penalty for having a post deleted by flagging is not returned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T14:10:44.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3960" CreationDate="2016-04-02T11:44:53.543" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The type of links you are referring to are constructed using the &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; attribute to the HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag. The general idea is that you set an &lt;em&gt;anchor&lt;/em&gt; like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a name=&quot;foo&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then link to that part of the page by linking to the anchor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;#foo&quot;&amp;gt;link to foo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way of knowing whether a particular page's author has chosen to include such anchors is to look at the page's source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no there is no way of creating such a link if it is not already present in the webpage you want to link to and the only way you can find out if it is is to search for something like &lt;code&gt;&quot;#&lt;/code&gt; in the page's source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-04-03T03:29:54.550" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T03:29:54.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3968" CreationDate="2016-04-04T01:19:34.187" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason, whenever I answer a question, under the 'unanswered' or 'questions' tab it says I asked it. even when I'm logged out. Does anyone know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-04-04T08:29:21.413" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T08:29:21.413" Title="Bug of answering questions" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3967" CreationDate="2016-04-04T08:29:06.397" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't say you asked it. I assume you are referring to the fact that your username appears on the front page (&lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;) associated with the question. If you look closely, however, you'll see that you're marked as having answered, not asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aftQE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aftQE.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the front page showing posts marked as asked, asnwered or modified&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see above, the last person to act on the question is listed but they are listed with the action they took. So, if you answer, your username will appear and be shown as &quot;answered by John&quot;. If you edit, it will appear next to &quot;modified by&quot; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare that to what is shown on the questions page (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;) where only the asker's name is shown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W8j09.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W8j09.png&quot; alt=&quot;questions page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T08:29:06.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-09T20:12:24.797" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to add more google logins, but it always logs me in with this account which I want deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user165071" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T03:18:23.273" LastActivityDate="2016-04-10T03:18:23.273" Title="I want login to stackexchange with another google account. How can I do it?" Tags="|discussion|login|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3975" CreationDate="2016-04-10T18:52:34.390" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a question which is applicable to two or more different communities but you don't get an answer in the first community you post it to, is it acceptable to ask it in one or more others? If so, how long would people suggest waiting? 24 hours or so seems fair except in urgent situations...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example would be the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/275529/opensuse-leap-42-1-installs-fine-in-a-vm-but-refuses-to-dual-boot&quot;&gt;openSUSE Leap 42.1 won&amp;#39;t boot install as dual boot (works fine in VM)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which has yet to receive an answer on the Linux Stack Exchange, so I'm wondering if it would be acceptable to repost in Super User...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:06:23.573" Title="Is it acceptable to ask the same question in two different Stack Exchange communities?" Tags="|discussion|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-05-11T21:00:31.517" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3974" CreationDate="2016-04-11T03:38:03.273" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/275608/change-with-the-command-iptables-not-reflected-in-the-output-of-the-command-nets&quot;&gt;Change with the command iptables not reflected in the output of the command netstat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the first comment (from Jeff Schaller) I have a feeling that there is some fundamental way I have misunderstood the concepts I have discussed in my question. In that way I feel that the question is wrong. What to do in such a case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165188" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:07:20.923" Title="What to do if the question itself is wrong?" Tags="|discussion|questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2016-04-11T07:30:51.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it appears you've misunderstood the concepts involved. You've at minimum confused two meanings of a port being &quot;open&quot;. (Being open in a firewall like iptables means something different than what &lt;code&gt;netstat -l&lt;/code&gt; tells you). You are also likely confused (or, possibly, run into one of Rumsfeld's infamous &lt;em&gt;things we don't know that we don't know&lt;/em&gt;) with how traffic is passed between a virtual machine, it's host machine, and the other machines on the network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, someone will add an answer trying to explain it. Weekends are, last I looked, pretty low-traffic for the site, so it's not surprising your question has remained unanswered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also, for anyone answering, a concern when seeing a question like that: explaining all of that is potentially a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of explanation. It takes a good while to write a thorough answer trying to resolve all the confusion. Someone with five or ten minutes to kill isn't going to have time. I'd encourage you to edit in at least some hint of how much you know about IP networking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T07:30:51.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3972" CreationDate="2016-04-11T07:59:40.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For reasons that I personally don't agree with, cross-posting is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64069/203101&quot;&gt;frowned upon&lt;/a&gt; on the SE network. The general assumption is that your question fits one site better than all others. I realize this is often not the case, but them's the rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you ask a question on site1.stackexchange.com and decide that it would be better off on site2.stackexchange.com, you can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete your question from one site and repost on the other;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag your question for moderator attention and ask us to migrate it for you. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you cannot do and should avoid is having the question on more than one site. If you do, you are likely to end up with both questions closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T07:59:40.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3979" CreationDate="2016-04-13T20:14:15.613" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember using Knoppix, a live Debian-based distro, a decade ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a nightmare, since user-friendly documentation was hard to come by. &lt;code&gt;--help&lt;/code&gt; synopsis for the &lt;code&gt;coreutils&lt;/code&gt; commands are too short for a beginner to understand much, &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; pages are littered with detailed documentation for long-tail use-cases that you don't need 80% of the time. Good luck finding the command and/or configuration file to connect to the Internet, to get help from usenet, a forum, or AltaVista. You were lucky if you managed to accomplish something in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays I get &gt;75% of my questions answered &lt;strong&gt;instantly&lt;/strong&gt; by Google that redirects me to a StackExchange post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My actual question is: Can I post a historical question like this on Unix/Linux? I'm very eager to hear other user's experiences, or is this not suited for this Q&amp;amp;A site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163673" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T21:36:29.540" Title="How did regular *nix users survive before StackExchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3978" CreationDate="2016-04-13T21:36:29.540" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this wouldn't be suited for the main site. Questions about history of Unix systems are on-topic, but this isn't about Unix systems, it's about coping without today's Internet and about learning techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back then, when the Internet was something private individuals didn't really have access to, and if you did have access to it then you'd better know where to search because search engines weren't very good or didn't exist yet, and dinosaurs sat in machine rooms, …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People read books&lt;/strong&gt;. Read books to learn the basics, and to know where to look. After that the manuals will make more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could ask questions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Usenet&lt;/a&gt;, if you had access to it. It was kind of like Stack Exchange without the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linux distributions came with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How-to&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;howtos&lt;/a&gt;. And back then they weren't over a decade old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T21:36:29.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3982" CreationDate="2016-04-16T21:24:24.227" Score="-6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot; title=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; the highest ranked unix.stackexchange user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His page says he is in the top 0.02%. Is there someone in the top 0.01%?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way for querying for this information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26026" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T01:14:34.730" Title="Is Gilles the highest ranked unix.stackexchange user?" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3981" CreationDate="2016-04-16T21:27:05.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gilles is the top user by reputation. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;the list of users&lt;/a&gt; ordered by reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-04-16T21:27:05.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3984" CreationDate="2016-04-17T15:26:20.893" Score="4" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a single row of 3 reviews in the Low Quality review queue today the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/136894&quot;&gt;third review&lt;/a&gt; would not let me select Delete, although the others would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't go below the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;Trusted User&lt;/a&gt; between those reviews, so I assumed this is caused by the &quot;state&quot; of the answer or the other reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the other reviews had a &quot;Looks OK&quot; from another reviewer as well, so I assume that is not it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This last review &lt;strong&gt;did have a positive score&lt;/strong&gt;. Is that why I could only &quot;Recommend deletion&quot; and not &quot;Delete&quot;? Is that decrease of privileges documented somewhere in the help pages or somewhere else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Shortly after, @slm used his moderator powers to delete all 3 posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T01:14:19.290" Title="'recommend deletion' instead of 'delete'" Tags="|support|review|low-quality-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3983" CreationDate="2016-04-17T16:08:54.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/226092&quot;&gt;the documentation on Low Quality Review Queue&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post accumulates 3 Delete votes (can only happen when post scores &amp;lt;= 0 and reviewers have &gt;= 20K rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a question page, a 20K user can only cast delete votes on negatively scored answers. From the review, they are also allowed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/230873&quot;&gt;cast them on zero-scored questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Review gives you a bit of a boost by allowing you to vote to delete 0-scored answers. This is done just to save you the step of having to down-vote them first and then vote to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the answer score is positive, nobody other than a mod (or the post owner) can cast a vote to delete it. This is why your review decision is a recommendation. When 6 users recommend deletion on such a post, the following happens, per the documentation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;mark flags &quot;helpful&quot;. If the post scores &gt; 0 then raise DisputedLowQuality mod flag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the final decision rests with a moderator then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T16:08:54.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3960" CreationDate="2016-04-19T07:02:30.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the website developer added someway to hook into a specific element or section of a webpage then you could use the &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; attributes of those HTML elements as previously mentioned.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If the developer provided no such mechanism, there is a service &lt;a href=&quot;http://citebite.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://citebite.com/&lt;/a&gt; which allows you to create a link which takes the person clicking the link to a specific section of text within a page.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Here is a link created with citebite.com which takes you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://pages.citebite.com/s5a1d7a4m1rvx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a specific section within a page&lt;/a&gt;  from the art of Unix programming website.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The only downside is its not the real website, it seems - in order to generate the hook - they need to recreate the webpage, but any links within this cloned webpage take you back to the original site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106525" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T07:02:30.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3991" CreationDate="2016-04-19T23:58:26.187" Score="41" ViewCount="942" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me, but it seems like people's shift keys are getting flaky. Maybe it's a manufacturing problem, but I'm afraid it's not. Why would someone go to the effort of capitalizing some words but not others? Is there a trend in humanity to self-deprecate by using lower-case &amp;quot;i&amp;quot;? Am I just a prematurely grumpy old man who had a stricter English teacher than average? The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; makes a few references like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It's built and run by &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Your reputation score goes up when others vote up your questions ...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you earn reputation, you'll unlock new privileges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our goal is to have the best answers to every question, so if you see questions or answers that can be improved, you can edit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing a sloppily-worded question immediately lowers my urge to help because if they can't hit the shift key, are they willing to learn the ins &amp;amp; outs of Unix?&#xA;Something I saw in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/171172/stack-overflow-technology-makes-me-write-bad-answers/171225#171225&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; a while ago stuck with me -- these Questions and Answers may (should?) stick around for a while and be helpful. Don't you want your best foot forward?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, I will be scratching my grammar itch with some data.sx queries and editing. Do poorly-written questions bother anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T17:38:22.307" Title="Has something happened to shift keys recently?" Tags="|discussion|editing|question-quality|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3989" CreationDate="2016-04-20T01:32:48.323" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the downside of success: this site is growing, and that means we're attracting more and more people who don't necessarily know what they're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing a sloppily-worded question lowers my urge to help, too. The less well-worded a question is, the higher the chance is that I'll simply ignore it when I'm browsing the question list. If I do decide to open a question, if it isn't clear at first glance, I'm likely to vote to close or just move on. With over 100 questions on a weekday, I can't afford to spend even 30 seconds per question — that would be an hour per day just to read the questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I encourage everyone to edit questions into shape. But there's a limit: some questions are just unsalvageable, and some &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be salvageable but aren't worth spending much effort on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you answer a question, that presumes that the question is useful: please edit it, at least give it a meaningful title and appropriate tags. If you don't think a question is likely to be very useful, and it's so badly written that it needs to be deciphered rather than edited, feel free to vote to close as unclear and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T17:38:22.307" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T17:38:22.307" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3989" CreationDate="2016-04-20T13:53:28.233" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe not an answer for the exact situations you're encountering, but from the little German I've learned, I know Germans capitalize nouns. So, maybe they would have a tendency to write something like &quot;I ate some Fish at my Parents' house&quot;. Perhaps there's a pattern in the &quot;random&quot; words you're seeing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From other experiences, I think that people who come from &quot;oriental&quot; languages (Hindi, Arabic, CJK) Also Have A Tendency To Write Every Word Capitalized. I'm not sure why, though - I don't speak any of those languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, on my early days on the Internet, I remember never typing capitals because I was a kid and kids don't always care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having people complain at me for my lack of capitals worked. I can even pinpoint (a little ashamed, though) the turning moment for me, when I was 16: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/forum-questions-concerns-comments/257570-ranked-polls.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/forum-questions-concerns-comments/257570-ranked-polls.html&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even for a while later I would miss the &quot;I&quot;s. I'm Portuguese, and back then, I had doubts on what to capitalize in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases (where posters are not native English speakers), I would shrug it off as translation issues. Isn't this another reason why posts can be edited by anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77547" LastEditorUserId="135943" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T08:04:32.953" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T08:04:32.953" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3989" CreationDate="2016-04-20T19:37:47.677" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been doing my share of &lt;code&gt;i&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;I&lt;/code&gt; changes and I feel your pain. We all make mistakes, especially if English is not the first language, but consistency in spelling is something one can expect IMO. (The other thing that greatly annoys me is having no spaces behind punctuation, or having some before punctuation (assuming reading from left to right)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was unpleasantly surprised last year, that the English advertisements in the Adidas store in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria wrote their slogans with lowercase &lt;code&gt;i&lt;/code&gt;. This might have been going on longer, but I seldom see advertisements having no television&amp;mdash;no time, have to check the U&amp;amp;L review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of this is the result of the always ongoing language change, sometimes fueled by the need of adolescents to &quot;distinguish&quot; themselves from the previous generation. &#xA;That might make evolutionary sense, but it does sometimes hurt my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T19:37:47.677" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3995" CreationDate="2016-04-21T08:29:54.500" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to improve on an edit that should show &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Ctrl&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Alt&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this comes out as &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;. I ended up inserting backquotes around the &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;, resulting in &#xA;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As single &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;*&lt;/kbd&gt; shows fine, &#xA;is there a better way to solve this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T21:06:13.760" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:06:13.760" Title="How to get the * (asterisk) to show in &lt;kbd&gt; mode if used twice" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3994" CreationDate="2016-04-21T08:32:22.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can backslash the Markdown characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Ctrl&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;\*&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Alt&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;\*&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;*&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;*&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T08:32:22.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-22T16:19:54.713" Score="4" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no explanation as to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278175/do-any-open-source-linux-terminals-and-fonts-support-ligatures?noredirect=1#comment483761_278175&quot;&gt;why my question&lt;/a&gt; is closed. I'd like it reopened as it seems to be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's asking about the support of native Linux terminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T00:06:49.947" Title="Why was this question closed?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3996" CreationDate="2016-04-22T22:23:51.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, technically, there is an explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about Unix or Linux within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your first version (before your edit) was borderline, in my opinion, but was validly closed. The edit was an improvement; when I encountered it in the Reopen review queue, however, I voted to keep closed. Looking back on it, I probably should have gone the other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A listing of the terminals and fonts in Linux that support ligatures seems a worthwhile enough resource to have here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-11-03T00:06:49.947" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T00:06:49.947" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3989" CreationDate="2016-04-23T02:02:40.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most modern keyboards are garbage for touch typists, no matter the brand or expense. Every keyboard I've had in the last 15 years has developed problems such as sticking keys, unreliable keys, and yes even the &lt;code&gt;Shift&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;Alt&lt;/code&gt; modifiers failing. I'll gladly own all my own grammar, spelling, and typing errors, but I do make an effort to be correct and assume the same of others (perhaps wrongly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94174" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T02:02:40.080" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4000" CreationDate="2016-04-23T21:05:55.450" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;When is a post deleted, either by the system automatically or by moderators manually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, when a post is deleted by the system automatically, what is the criterion for taking the action? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T21:06:06.493" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:06:06.493" Title="When is a post deleted?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3999" CreationDate="2016-04-23T21:17:19.430" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The overview of deletion is in the FAQ post &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the criteria for automatic deletion are stated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some guidelines for deletion are on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;10K privilege page&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;20K privilege page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T21:17:19.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4004" CreationDate="2016-04-25T00:06:48.873" Score="-2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macintosh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macintosh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macintosh&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; where osx is the master tag? Those tags seem to have the same meaning, and it is unnecessary to have both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2016-04-25T02:33:54.860" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T06:15:10.837" Title="Can we merge the macintosh and the osx tag?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|tag-synonyms|useless-tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2705" CreationDate="2016-04-27T18:44:05.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across this question after I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; did not have a tag description, and after viewing some posts that it might be a good candidate for burnination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added a description to error, so it is less likely to be used again, burned ~285 tags changed ~15 into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error-handling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error-handling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error-handling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stderr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stderr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stderr&lt;/a&gt; and some others (for the two questions with only the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the original 303 posts with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; there are now two left that are merges and that I cannot edit. That also solves the problem of how to keep the tag from disappearing (with its description) and then being recreated without its current excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;THIS IS NOT THE TAG YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. The tag [error] is so generic that it has no value in identifying questions. Please don't use this tag. You might be looking for [error-handling] or [return-status], otherwise tag with the name of the program or the action that caused an error condition or error message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T18:44:05.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3949" CreationDate="2016-04-27T20:38:39.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no consensus that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; needed to go. Out of the 300+ &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; entries only the two that I could not burn are left, out of the others about 15 were changed (two had to be changed because &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/error&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;error&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error&lt;/a&gt; was the only tag) and the rest deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T20:38:39.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4001" CreationDate="2016-04-28T06:15:10.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm torn between the fact that there really is a meaningly difference in the taxonomy here (and at least historically, it was relevant to this site) and the obvious issue that people suck at picking appropriate tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the solution is probably to make it harder for people to use the wrong tags without having the correct ones put in front of them. For example a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mac&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mac&lt;/a&gt; could be made as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; to catch people that start to type and don't know where to start. This way the first tag suggested to them when they start typing &lt;code&gt;ma...&lt;/code&gt; will be the tag most likely to be correct. Additionally the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macintosh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macintosh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macintosh&lt;/a&gt; tag excerpt could be expanded with a blatant explanation/warning of what hardware is covered by that moniker. Currently reading what comes up in the popup won't tip off most people about how to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally the tag summary for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; would benefit from being simplified so people aren't so shy of using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T06:15:10.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4006" CreationDate="2016-04-29T19:13:16.310" Score="13" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of edits in the edit queue for adding the &quot;Preformatted text&quot; markdown. Here's an extreme example from this morning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ND1la.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ND1la.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally just approve them, under the theory that a low-rep user is trying to help clean things up and that's useful and it also encourages that newer user to keep contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm curious how useful those tags are. When &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; see them (and use them myself) in posts, they're really just eye candy. For filenames sometimes they help set the filename apart, but that doesn't seem like a huge benefit. Is there some deeper reason to use them? Do they help sort search results, or benefit screen readers, or something else I'm not aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, the real reason I ask those questions: should I keep approving edits like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4443" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T15:28:48.823" Title="How useful are the markdown tags for keys?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4005" CreationDate="2016-04-29T20:22:45.623" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's likely a low rep user, attempting to gain rep, which is fine. I would put this to you, is the edit worthwhile enough that it makes the Q or A better than it was before? If so then approve it, otherwise I'd reject it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO these are worthwhile edits, so I'd approve them as well, if that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T20:22:45.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-29T23:57:52.367" Score="-1" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original post in April 2016&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the past several weeks/months, I notice that someone has/have regularly downvoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;my most recent posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;my old posts which were most recently upvoted by others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quality of the downvoted posts varies, and I think the motivation of the behaviour is personal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been living with it. But is it normal? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updates in Oct 2016&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new pattern about the behavior is that around the time of 23:30 once in a few days, the downvoter fumbled in my account for some posts which got upvoted recently to downvote. See my screenshots below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The behavior happened &lt;strong&gt;much less frequently recently&lt;/strong&gt; than it did when I posted this in April, probably because I have been less active on the main site. But it is personal targeting, persistent and without good reasons. If I begin active again, I believe that behavior will also happen much more frequently, see my reputation records in April, March, February, and January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible, can the downvoter be identified and discouraged from continuing the behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/saYkH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/saYkH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SVbbz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SVbbz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CZ5ZB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CZ5ZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2016-10-02T02:54:57.517" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T02:54:57.517" Title="Can someone who systematically downvotes my posts be banned from doing so?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-05-02T00:43:41.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4007" CreationDate="2016-04-30T00:13:22.320" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't know that person and have never pissed him/her off, then it's not normal at all. Otherwise, in my experience, &lt;strong&gt;some people tend to do that when they're seriously mad at you&lt;/strong&gt;. Doing this &lt;strong&gt;for some weeks or even months seems quite unusual&lt;/strong&gt; though, especially if you don't know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you see/guess if it is a bot?&lt;/strong&gt; That would be the only reasonable explanation how somebody would do this over such a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140422" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T00:13:22.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4005" CreationDate="2016-04-30T08:16:32.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; have improved the post to some degree. But &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;to what extent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is up for debate; deciding what to do with edits which consist primarily of changes in formatting are a matter of balance between allowing small improvements through, and inviting a pile of tiny edits to constantly be suggested, stealing time away from the more important activities on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few comments (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/263115/when-is-it-okay-to-edit-answers-for-code-formatting#comment56038_263115&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/311422/my-code-was-edited-to-a-different-indentation-and-code-styling-i-wish-to-revert/311524#comment278007_311422&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) on the subject of format-only edits which this question brings to memory, both from Stackoverflow's meta site. The first, more-relevant one states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Formatting edits are only valid when the post had no / barely any formatting to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although a bit tougher-sounding than the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4005/how-useful-are-the-markdown-tags-for-keys?noredirect=1#comment6581_4006&quot;&gt;remark&lt;/a&gt; made by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/6761/jasonwryan&quot;&gt;jasonwryan&lt;/a&gt;, they both flow along the lines that a little bit of visual variation can improve the legibility of a post, make it easier to find things and &lt;em&gt;harder&lt;/em&gt; to lose one's place (or one's interest in actually reading it, for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific context of the question, I can imagine a person who would have a better chance of understanding what was going on in the discussion &lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt; if &lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt; the tricky characters appeared in separate blocks (or if they were delimited &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt;). This potential reader might be new to ext4, and perhaps barely understands NTFS or filesystems in general, needing all the clues they can get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking generally again, the popularity/utility of a question-andanswer are also worth considering; there's more added value from smaller edits to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;highly-seen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; posts than to ones that are basically just a conversation between the OP and one or two answerers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have edits on a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;new question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, it's really up to the individual reviewer to make a judgement as to whether the suggester is just somebody grabbing low-hanging fruit for rep while overlooking potential improvements to informational content (adding links or updating outdated statements) or whether the post is solid otherwise, and this is just the pretty cherry on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's more discussion which generally applies to this topic of &quot;backtick edits&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/263115/when-is-it-okay-to-edit-answers-for-code-formatting&quot; title=&quot;here&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/209305/user-making-inappropriate-edits-with-backticks&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106159" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T08:26:22.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4007" CreationDate="2016-04-30T11:44:47.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is tough question and I am not here for too long to understand everything about this site, but even though I managed to &lt;em&gt;encounter some of your questions&lt;/em&gt; and act upon them (answering, finding solution, up-voting or down-voting, closing or re-opening). Some of &lt;strong&gt;your questions&lt;/strong&gt; are really &lt;strong&gt;interesting&lt;/strong&gt; and I appreciate the imagination and the ideas you have to put various pieces together and formulate questions which (usually) makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;Question and &lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt; site&lt;/em&gt;. By visiting your profile, everyone can see that you asked &lt;strong&gt;589 questions&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;answered 2&lt;/strong&gt; (your own) questions (by today). It evokes one question. Did you ever learn something from them during these years? Quoting your profile information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just a slow learner.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does not help that. Being slow does not mean that you do not learn anything at all. I understand you give your part to the site by the questions, by the votes and accepting the answers. But some people might not see it this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Checking Review queues?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering questions of some other lerners? The questions are coming back over and over again. I believe you would be able to answer some of them pretty easily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Checking &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt;? I see you miss &lt;strong&gt;Informed&lt;/strong&gt; badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you come up with some non-trivial question, did you considered offering a bounty on it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might &lt;strong&gt;show your profile in brighter colors&lt;/strong&gt; and motivate other people to behave more friendly (not that in current state it would excuse their behavior). Don't consider this as an offense against your person. It is my point of view, but other people might see it the same way or even worse light and act upon that (down-vote is the easiest and anonymous way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Disclaimer: I am &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; the one who down-votes you if it is just for the sake of you. It it is sick behavior.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121504" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T11:44:47.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4011" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-30T13:33:27.930" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to provide a new (much easier to use) answer to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105821/audible-drm-removal-for-personal-use&quot;&gt;Audible DRM Removal for personal use&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I can't, due to this error message: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder why I cannot answer the question, even though my reputation is (right now) 108, which definitely is over 10?&#xA;I know that 100 of those reputation points are a transferral from other sites of the Q&amp;amp;A network, but from what I know these are explicitly to allow trusted users to skip the barriers for new users (like this one), so it does not make sense to me that they apparantly are not being counted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72087" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T15:05:17.047" Title="Why am I not allowed to answer this question" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4011" CreationDate="2016-04-30T15:05:17.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a long running feature request to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/210481/improve-protected-question-message-with-regard-to-rep-gained-through-associati&quot;&gt;improve the wording of the protection notice&lt;/a&gt;. TL;DR: The association bonus &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; count for protected questions. IMO it might be clearer if you read the notice this way: You have to earn 10 rep on &lt;em&gt;this site&lt;/em&gt;. The 100 you get is a freebie from other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intention is to ensure that you have at least some degree of familiarity with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T15:05:17.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-01T08:07:12.020" Score="-2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came back from a group meeting at the pub last night. When I woke up this morning I found I have the Peer Pressure badge, which I'm not sure I want but keep getting... (even for a good question that's down-voted for questionable (or non-questionable if you'll pardon the linguistic inversion; often it's to do with anon trolls I have counter-trolled in the past, if you'll pardon the digression) reasons I'm not sure if it's a good one...?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But anyway, yeah, how do I find out which deleted question the troll badge was awarded for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138973" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T21:05:46.353" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:05:46.353" Title="How to find out which post I got the 'Peer Pressure' badge for?" Tags="|support|badges|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4013" CreationDate="2016-05-01T08:42:41.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might find it in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/138973/peter-david-carter?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=all&quot;&gt;&quot;All Actions&quot;&lt;/a&gt; tab under your profile. I don't see this record there, but it might not be public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you, should be able to see it in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/138973/peter-david-carter?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Reputation&lt;/a&gt; tab, if you check &quot;show removed posts&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121504" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T08:47:57.547" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4013" CreationDate="2016-05-01T09:04:29.983" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You made it sound like you get this badge all the time; it should only be awardable once. You got it when &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/277463/403-forbidden-error-only-appears-on-linux-system-other-devices-connect-fine-f&quot;&gt;'403 Forbidden' error only appears on Linux system; other devices connect fine from same IP address&lt;/a&gt; was automatically deleted as part of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;daily cleanup routine&lt;/a&gt; (it falls under the last category). I think this might actually be a bug, since Peer Pressure is supposed to be for deleting your own post; you shouldn't get it when the system deletes it for you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T09:04:29.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-01T16:26:17.120" Score="8" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a privilege to review pending edits for answers. One edit changes the answer considerably - not only providing minor fixes, but adding external knowledge and changing the answer to the point that it can't really be called the answer of user X, but a collaborative effort. Should I allow such change, or decline it because it modifies answer too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129998" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T21:01:49.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T21:01:49.613" Title="An edit for answer changes it considerably. Should I allow it?" Tags="|support|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4016" CreationDate="2016-05-02T04:00:42.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow (site, not company) policy on this is to reject any edits which change the content, and not form, of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I call this dumb. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/316503/should-i-propose-a-rejected-suggested-edit-once-more&quot;&gt;I've had this debate there.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not here to protect the sanctity of post ownership. We are here to maintain a pool of quality knowledge. And Stack Exchange does note when a post a has been edited, and provides a revision history to see who edited and what they changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, generally, two situations where massive edits to a post are warranted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post was correct, and has become outdated and is now incorrect or even dangerous. An answer could be posted separately, but the visibility of a highly voted answer renders this ineffective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post was correct, but lacking in details. It's just a line of explanation and a command or two, or maybe just a link pointing to the correct answer. And somebody edits it to add substantial details. In this case, too, the editor could add a new answer, but many of us don't really care about rep, and some would like to show the poster how it's done by improving their post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For 1, I check the votes and number of answers to the post, and the invalidity of the old answer, and the correctness of the edit, before approving. It's a judgement call on how much visibility I feel the new solution needs, and how problematic the original. Also, I'd rather the original was left untouched, and the new method added to the top or bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subpoint to 1, it could be that the answer was very general, and attempted to cover a range of categories involved in the question. The edit aims to keep the post updated with changing times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For 2, as long as the actual point of the answer is retained, it's approve all the way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both cases require that I have enough expertise in the matter to judge the additions. If I don't, pass. Maybe mention the edit in chat so someone else can judge it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat imaginary examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer dealing with init systems had only sysv and Upstart. Someone adds in systemd. Approve.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone had posted an excellent answer in a (somewhat) dupe. Since the posts aren't similar enough to be merged, and the parent post has just a barebones answer, they chose to edit in major parts of their answer (screenshots guiding what needed to be done) to the parent post's answer. Approve.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:26.463" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T07:42:27.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-04T15:21:06.600" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was desperate for an answer and asked the same question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198010/unable-to-configure-font-in-xterm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29809617/unable-to-configure-font-in-xterm&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; and it's been put on-hold here as being off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given the nature of the question, I feel it's more relevant here. StackOverflow also says that it's too old to migrate. Will deleting it from there be sufficient to remove the on-hold status?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111534" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:33.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T20:59:05.753" Title="Posted to multiple Stack* sites, put on hold here for being off-topic" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4005" CreationDate="2016-05-04T15:28:48.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I had low enough rep to still go through edit moderation, I was explained that such edits (also, fixing up bad tags, with no other changes to the text body) are frowned upon as they are too small to provide worth (unless it’s something like, making a program snippet legible at all by prepending four spaces to every line) and the moderators should not be burdened by lots of such small edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the user:&lt;/strong&gt; Do not submit such edits to the edit queue. Wait until you gain enough reputation to be able to edit without moderation; after that, this kind of edits is perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the moderator:&lt;/strong&gt; If possible, explain this situation to the user. &lt;em&gt;Decline the edit in the moderation queue.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43720" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T15:28:48.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4018" CreationDate="2016-05-04T18:07:46.903" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure what the right thing to do is since the SO version is too old to migrate and can't be deleted with an accepted answer. I just reopened our version so you can post the answer (and edit it out of the question), and I guess we'll have both around, which is unfortunate for the people who find the SO version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T18:07:46.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2016-05-05T20:27:34.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will this put everything below this in a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag on the mobile site (and maybe also on the desktop site on some computers / browsers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it did.  (I deleted it because it messed up the sandbox, see edit history, Kusalananda)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T11:04:26.623" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T11:04:26.623" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-05-05T20:27:34.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2016-05-05T21:04:02.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;are these words bold?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2017-03-28T21:06:01.340" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T21:06:01.340" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-05-05T21:04:02.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-06T07:00:54.577" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/247779/44992&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/247779/44992&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not answering the question posed in the title of the question, it does address a possible cause of the actual problem that the poster was actually trying to solve. Additionally, the other (non-deleted) answers don't answer the question posed in the title either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind if my answer is a good candidate for deletion, but I'd like to understand the reasons for it (and also the inconsistency) since both comments on it appear to be by people unable to read beyond the first paragraph, and the other answers address the original question/problem even less than mine does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44992" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T15:10:01.753" Title="Answer the question title or the question body?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4026" CreationDate="2016-05-06T12:48:28.847" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;After editing a post, I always put the original text (word, command line etc.) that I removed into the &lt;strong&gt;Edit Summary&lt;/strong&gt;. For example, if I removed &quot;plz help me&quot; or &quot;i need help plzz&quot;, that's what I put in the edit summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that the right way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153195" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T20:57:36.340" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T20:57:36.340" Title="&quot;Edit Summary&quot; How to edit a post correctly?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4025" CreationDate="2016-05-06T13:08:09.337" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit summary should explain to the author of the post and to anyone else who reads it why the edit was made. So, instead of writing &quot;plz help me&quot; there, write something like &quot;Removed irrelevant text&quot; or &quot;There's no reason to write things like 'pls help me'&quot; or some other informative message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that the user whose post you edited will be able to read the message and understand why the you chose to edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T13:08:09.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4024" CreationDate="2016-05-06T15:10:01.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is virtually always the case in the &quot;why did you delete one bad post but not the other bad posts right next to it&quot;, it's because your post got flagged and the others didn't, so it's the only one we actually looked at (it showed up in the review queue and another user checked it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The others were non-answers, so I would delete them, but since one of them was posted by the asker saying that they worked around the problem, and the question seems abandoned now, I just got rid of the whole thing. If somebody else does run into this problem again they can post a new question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T15:10:01.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4038" CreationDate="2016-05-07T03:12:53.113" Score="7" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent (last ~36 hours?) changes to some of the CSS has had a detrimental impact on the accessibility of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The seclected menu option is now &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; completely indistinguishable from the background. See &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; below (in the bottom image, &lt;code&gt;/tags&lt;/code&gt; is being hovered):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VwoXA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VwoXA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The menu on the main site is working correctly with the selected item the same colour as the hovered element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="156341" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T12:55:01.150" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T12:55:01.150" Title="Menu CSS is not accessible" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-07T10:34:44.813" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get signed in automatically, I don't like this.&#xA;Also I do not see any option to logout or signout&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="169326" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T20:55:48.690" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T20:55:48.690" Title="How to log out from Stack Exchange" Tags="|support|login|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4029" CreationDate="2016-05-07T11:11:34.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how you can avoid being signed in automatically. An authentication token is set when you first log in and you will be logged in automatically until the token expires. Presumably, you can delete this (perhaps by clearing your cookies) but I don't really know how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logging out, however, is easy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5su2B.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5su2B.png&quot; alt=&quot;open menu with log out link highlighted&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just click on the Stack Exchange menu in the top bar, and then click on &quot;log out&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T11:11:34.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4029" CreationDate="2016-05-07T11:14:17.760" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To log out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xy5vv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xy5vv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which takes you here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/foxJD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/foxJD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to not be remembered across browser settings, you'll need to set your browser to clear cookies from &lt;code&gt;*.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; on exit; there is no easy way to do this on-site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137885" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T11:14:17.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4032" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-05-08T01:21:44.927" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T01:21:44.927" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T01:21:44.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4033" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-05-08T01:21:44.927" Score="0" Body="For questions about the community user." OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T16:05:28.553" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T16:05:28.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1064" CreationDate="2016-05-08T01:49:31.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a flag for cross posting. Click &lt;strong&gt;should be closed…&lt;/strong&gt; , &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt;, then &lt;strong&gt;This question has been posted on multiple sites. Cross-posting is strongly discouraged; see the help center and community FAQ for more information.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: the &lt;strong&gt;should be closed&lt;/strong&gt; option only appears if you have 50 or more reputation, so you must have at least 50 reputation to use this flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2016-08-30T17:45:51.340" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T17:45:51.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-08T23:17:26.947" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much when WLAN connectivity became widespread, we were referring to wireless LAN as &quot;WLAN&quot;. But for whatever reason, people began to refer to it as &quot;Wi-Fi&quot; which to me, is just the certificate that the &quot;WiFi Alliance&quot; puts onto devices. In other words, it still feels kinda &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; that people started using the term &quot;WiFi&quot; to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still find it a little difficult to refer to that as &quot;WiFi&quot;, because we're talking about WLAN devices in my mind. I'm unsure if this causes for confusion, though. Should I refrain from using WLAN and use WiFi instead, when responding to questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1290" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T21:22:26.103" Title="Should I use &quot;WLAN&quot; or &quot;Wi-Fi&quot; to refer to wireless LAN?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4035" CreationDate="2016-05-09T06:58:19.143" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long before it got to the point where I felt the need to ask this question, I would probably have just started calling it &quot;wifi&quot;. Much like when the world suddenly decided we were calling asynchronous Javascript &quot;AJAX&quot;, and &quot;SQL&quot; suddenly became a word instead of three letters. I really don't care what you call it, but &quot;wifi&quot; is pretty much ubiquitous, whereas I'm not sure I've ever heard &quot;WLAN&quot; before now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T06:58:19.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4039" CreationDate="2016-05-09T11:53:21.697" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been awarded the Pundit badge, for making 10 comments with score of 5 or more. All very nice, but I'm curious to know which comments were well received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T14:27:51.113" Title="Why did I get the pundit badge?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4028" CreationDate="2016-05-09T12:11:37.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting the issue. This will be fixed with the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156341" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T12:11:37.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4037" CreationDate="2016-05-09T14:27:51.113" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/483986/pundit-comments?UserId=100397&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Data Explorer query&lt;/a&gt; to find most of them; unfortunately the data isn't live, it was last updated yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T14:27:51.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-11T16:32:18.867" Score="-1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come up with a tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/per-directory-settings/info&quot;&gt;per-directory-settings&lt;/a&gt;) for questions about configuration files that override or merge over one another based on an answer to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282547/what-are-configuration-files-that-can-be-overriden-by-existing-in-the-current-di&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; if you think the name of it sucks, please come up with a better one; and tag anything you think this may apply to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head I can think of &lt;code&gt;.gitignore&lt;/code&gt;, and Apache2 .htaccess.  If you come up with other ones please tag them accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag is needed because the concept exists in so many different pieces of software (git, apache2, vim, emacs). People could figure out if a piece of software supports such a functionality just by looking at the tag on a relevant question. Or by filtering question on both the name of the software and the tag I'm proposing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T18:52:41.193" Title="Proposed Tag for configuration files which override or merge" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4040" CreationDate="2016-05-11T18:52:41.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two main uses of tags (in no particular order, to avoid the question of which is primary):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags aid in searching for questions before asking, when looking for duplicates, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags direct questions to the relevant experts (e.g., following a tag) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, remember you only get five tags maximum per question. So they can't be an index of every concept in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this proposed tag aid anyone in searching for a question? I'd guess not. If you want to know how to block access to a directory in Apache, you'll look for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apache&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/configuration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;configuration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;configuration&lt;/a&gt;. Or maybe htaccess if you know the name. Very unlikely you'll even think of this tag to search with, or find value in it (maybe it would have been better to use a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Directory …&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block, not an htaccess file?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there experts? I think not, as different programs handle things so differently. Git looks in a file per repository, Apache in every directory, mpv in every directory plus one for every media file, etc. All the syntax is different. Which configuration options you can put in each location varies. If you want to know about htaccess files, ask an Apache expert. If you want to know about managing configuration (e.g., keeping track of it all), ask a configuration expert. What would you ask a per directory settings expert, if such a person existed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T18:52:41.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-12T15:44:53.540" Score="5" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is my own question, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/137453/mount-cifs-fails-while-smbclient-succeeds&quot;&gt;mount.cifs fails while smbclient succeeds&lt;/a&gt; has apparently at some point reached &quot;famous question&quot; level status even though it seems pretty niche. I'd still like an answer if someone out there knows (so I don't want to delete it) but currently has 11,375 views and I refuse to believe that many people have had that exact problem happen to them. That leads me to believe that it's somehow getting higher-than-deserved visibility in some sort of search function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is whether there's anything I can do about it or if anyone can hazard a guess as to what keywords are in that question that might account for all the views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34520" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T16:12:13.783" Title="Is there a way to de-prioritize your own question?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4042" CreationDate="2016-05-12T16:12:13.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there's nothing you can do, and nothing you should do either. Just consider yourself lucky. There's no reason to feel bad if one of your questions gets more attention than you think it deserves. Obviously, for whatever reason, it has interested more people than you thought it would. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various reasons why it could have garnered so much attention (apart from its simply being a good question). First of all, you offered a bounty. Bounties increase a question's visibility by putting it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=featured&quot;&gt;Featured Questions&lt;/a&gt; list. In addition, bountied questions are tweeted by the SE tweetbot so a &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackUnix/status/484475274256711680&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tweet&lt;/a&gt; about your question went out on the 2nd of July 2014. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, and probably most importantly, your question's title contains &quot;mount.cifs fails&quot;. This means that anybody searching for &quot;mount.cifs fails&quot;, either on a search engine or on the site, is likely to come across your question. While the specifics of your issue are indeed pretty niche, as you say, mount.cifs errors are not, so many people have probably visited your question to see if it helps with their issue. That you only have 5 upvotes so far would suggest that most of them were drive-by visitors or that their issue was actually something different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, don't worry about it, you've done nothing wrong and, with luck, the extra attention might eventually bring up the right answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T16:12:13.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3606" CreationDate="2016-05-23T08:46:01.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be fixed now, it will be live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108707" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T08:46:01.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4924" CreationDate="2016-05-26T12:06:11.383" Score="8" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;h1&gt;h1 element&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;h2 element&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;h3 element&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The h2 header uses a different font, is this really expected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;h1 font-family: body&gt; &quot;Arial,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;h2 font-family: h2&gt; &quot;DejaVu Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&quot;,&quot;Courier New&quot;,Courier,Consolas,&quot;Andale Mono WT&quot;,&quot;Andale Mono&quot;,&quot;Lucida Console&quot;,&quot;Lucida Sans Typewriter&quot;,monospace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;h3 font-family: body&gt; Arial,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,sans-serif&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently only the h2 element has a specific font (selector &lt;code&gt;.subheader h1,h2&lt;/code&gt;), the others are inherited  from the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T15:23:07.670" Title="Is expected that header elements use different fonts?" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4048" CreationDate="2016-06-01T22:54:36.620" Score="2" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to share some info regarding Debian and GCC. (I needed to add non-free repos to my sources.list file in order to be able to fetch gcc-doc package -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;manpages for gcc&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;-. I search for an explanation and I found it, &lt;em&gt;thanks Google!&lt;/em&gt;. And I want to share it here, well, not exactly here, but in the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I do that? and if I can, How is the best way to do it? &#xA;Do I create a wiki question/post?&#xA;Do I use the '&lt;em&gt;Answer your own question&lt;/em&gt;' checkbox and effectively answer my own question?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="172514" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T23:55:04.353" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T23:55:04.353" Title="Community Wiki or Answer to my own Question (gcc-doc non free)" Tags="|discussion|support|asking-questions|self-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4047" CreationDate="2016-06-01T23:20:19.063" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both, although there's no need to make it a wiki. Post a question along the lines of &quot;Why can't I fetch the gcc-doc package on Debian?&quot; with a description of what goes wrong when you try without the non-free repos, and then post your own answer with the solution. Just try to keep them distinct; the question should really be a question somebody who doesn't already know the answer would ask, it shouldn't have part of the answer in it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T23:20:19.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-03T11:58:09.013" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a horizontal line which appears between the pagination buttons under the question list when you hover over any of the buttons. I've tested it on Chrome 50 and IE11 and it's present on both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSxHI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSxHI.png&quot; alt=&quot;pagination CSS issue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be caused by this rule in &lt;code&gt;all.css&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a:hover {&#xA;    text-decoration: underline;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding the following rule fixes it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.pager a:hover {&#xA;    text-decoration: none;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, hovering over a related question that is more than one line long shifts everything down one pixel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zp11x.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zp11x.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A potential fix for this would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.related .question-hyperlink:hover {&#xA;    margin-bottom: -1px !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The score of the question also has an underline when hovered, which doesn't seem intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ItcR7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ItcR7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get rid of it on just the score:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.related .spacer a:nth-child(1) {&#xA;    text-decoration: none;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get rid of it on both the score and question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.related a:hover {&#xA;    text-decoration: none;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="173390" LastEditorUserId="173390" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T16:05:17.453" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T16:05:17.453" Title="Horizontal line between pagination buttons + other issues (CSS)" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4050" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-05T17:28:10.393" Score="5" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a related (stack exchange) place where we can ask *NIX questions in french?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If not, what would be an example of a relatively (in context) popular *NIX site that would accept french or multilingual questions?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="172805" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T22:38:34.137" Title="French Unix Linux questions? Est-ce qu'il y a un site / lieu de questions Unix / Linux en francais?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4050" CreationDate="2016-06-05T17:47:20.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the list of Stack Exchange sites &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and the list of proposed sites &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. As far as I know the only site to fork into multiple languages is Stack Overflow, and it only has &lt;a href=&quot;https://es.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Spanish&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://ru.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Russian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://pt.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Portugese&lt;/a&gt;, and soon to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/34945/stack-overflow-in-turkish&quot;&gt;Turkish&lt;/a&gt;; I don't see anything in French. You could try &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/create?category=technology&quot;&gt;proposing a new site&lt;/a&gt;, but it takes a while to get going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:00:54.253" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T17:47:20.477" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4050" CreationDate="2016-06-05T22:38:34.137" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, Stack Exchange has reneged on its &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52331/is-it-ok-to-have-non-english-question-and-answers-in-area-51/53004#53004&quot;&gt;permission to create non-English sites&lt;/a&gt;. The rules are now that non-English sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20987/internationalization-state-of-the-stack-stack-overflow-edition&quot;&gt;must be about programming&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;must be in one of a small set of languages for which Stack Exchange is willing to hire a community manager.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20988/internationalization-state-of-the-stack-se-2-0-sites-edition&quot;&gt;official status of non-English non-programming sites&lt;/a&gt; is “not yet” — and given how long we've waited, been told “yes” only to be told “no” after a proposal had gained momentum, I've given up hope. The official rule is that a site about programming must exist before Stack Exchange will even consider the possibility of a site about a different topic, and that hasn't happened yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception is sites about languages, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://french.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;French Language&lt;/a&gt; accepts questions in French (about the French language, of course). But unfortunately those sites only have an interface in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, there won't be a Stack Exchange site about Unix in French any time soon. And be wary of promises from Stack Exchange, there's a long history of them going back on their promises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside Stack Exchange, unfortunately, question-and-answer sites suck. There's Usenet, Reddit, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxfr.org/forums&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Linuxfr forums&lt;/a&gt;, etc. But they lack the tools and the community to be good at answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:40:57.413" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T22:38:34.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4054" CreationDate="2016-06-08T07:13:22.203" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/288105/what-is-less-doing-with-rpm-and-how-do-i-get-that-text-without-rpm&quot;&gt;What is less doing with rpm, and how do I get that text without rpm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OrangeDog has asked why not use the environment variable directly. I have answered in the comment, and modified the general answer to reflect his later comment. The comment discussion was deleted, so now someone new asks the exact same question that was already answered, in the comment section of the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new comment by jpmc26 is a duplicate of OrangeDog's, and would have been avoided if the comments weren't deleted.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/288105/what-is-less-doing-with-rpm-and-how-do-i-get-that-text-without-rpm/288108#comment504009_288108&quot;&gt;What is less doing with rpm, and how do I get that text without rpm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77319" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:21:23.233" Title="Someone deleted comments, so now new comments with exact same erroneous question appear again" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4053" CreationDate="2016-06-08T08:21:23.233" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are generally intended to be temporary. Comments on questions should help understand what the problem is, and relevant details should be edited into the question until it has enough information to be answered. Comments on answers should address problems or ask follow-up questions, and the answer should be edited until it's correct/complete, especially if the follow-up question seems to be common. Once that's done the comments aren't needed anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I would probably add a sentence to the answer like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You need to specify the script (&lt;code&gt;lesspipe.sh&lt;/code&gt;) directly because &lt;code&gt;$LESSOPEN&lt;/code&gt; begins with a &lt;code&gt;|&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:21:23.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4056" CreationDate="2016-06-08T21:07:39.160" Score="13" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recently answered a question that was tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/localhost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;localhost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;localhost&lt;/a&gt;. It's the only question that uses this tag but the tag doesn’t add anything to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag seems to have been created without any &lt;em&gt;usage guidance&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;wiki description&lt;/em&gt; so it’s not clear what the creator intended the tag for. While there’s still only one question using this tag (and no followers), I thought it would be good to either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get rid of it or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;write appropriate usage guidance and tag wiki for it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d lean towards the first option but only because I can’t personally think of a good use for the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T21:22:43.433" Title="Remove [localhost]" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4055" CreationDate="2016-06-08T21:22:43.433" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see much of a use case for it. You can just remove it from the post; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19754/145982&quot;&gt;unused tags are deleted daily&lt;/a&gt;, so it'll get removed automatically&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T21:22:43.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-09T14:47:05.673" Score="-6" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;After cleaning up a few facepalm coding questions from &lt;strong&gt;novices&lt;/strong&gt;, I failed to find an existing appropriate &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt; to distinguish such questions.  Quality-based tags do exist however, (i.e. the &quot;humor&quot; tag), so the question is &lt;em&gt;what would be the most useful name for such a tag or tags?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terms that come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;novice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;newbie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learner-programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learner-(name of programming language)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learner-English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;showMeTehCode&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;humor-unintentional&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not_even_wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of those might needlessly offend some users, and are therefore doubtful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4059/165517&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/em&gt; notes that SE once had Meta-tags&lt;/a&gt;, which were often abused and were thereafter abolished.  Therefore any quality-based tag that survived that purge should not be construed as a model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any general demographic impressions as to &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; those Meta-tags tags were abused?  That is, was the problem universal?  Did the tags corrupt any who read or used them, or was there some conspicuously errant minority or majority?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If the problems were not general, then it suggests a question of non-general meta-tags -- tags that require permission (i.e. reputation or whatnot) to write, or perhaps read.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165517" LastEditorUserId="165517" LastEditDate="2018-06-17T16:01:15.547" LastActivityDate="2018-06-17T16:01:15.547" Title="Quality-based tag for novice questions" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4057" CreationDate="2016-06-09T14:56:57.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagging such question looks a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've all have been (or still are somehow) newbie. Be it in unix, iphone, gardenning, whatever. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on newby question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question is too broad (I want to compile my very own kernel, how do I start ?), unclear etc, then it is put on hold.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question is legitimate, but often ask (how I redirect a command ? ) then we find the dupplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;once in a while, a good one arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T14:56:57.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4057" CreationDate="2016-06-09T14:58:03.977" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a serious question, based on the tag name suggestions, but no. It took Stack Overflow years to eradicate &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt;. I didn't even know we had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/humor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;humor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;humor&lt;/a&gt; tag, but it's fortunately unused; I'm not sure why it wasn't automatically removed by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T14:58:03.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4061" CreationDate="2016-06-15T17:00:22.960" Score="3" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I am trying to review a first post, I get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Our system has identified this post as possible spam; please review carefully&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NB&lt;/strong&gt; : The post does not contain any codes or urls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to review it correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153195" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-06-17T21:27:33.947" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T21:27:33.947" Title="How to review a first post correctly when getting &quot;Our system has identified this post as possible spam; please review carefully&quot;?" Tags="|support|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4060" CreationDate="2016-06-15T17:26:21.100" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would depend on the post, naturally, but I assume you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/145913&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. That post looks perfectly fine, so you would choose &quot;No Action Needed&quot; (as another reviewer already has). If you're not sure you can always choose &quot;Skip&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:04.800" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T17:26:21.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4063" CreationDate="2016-06-16T07:22:28.453" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a tendency for more questions appearing with users created just for that question. i.e. those two questions &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/290004/how-to-share-a-dhcp-serverdebian-that-is-created-on-vmware-to-other-pc-in-the&quot;&gt;How to share a DHCP Server(Debian) that is created on VMware to other PC in the same switch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/290086/cant-sftp-to-raspberry-pi-using-public-ip-address-can-ssh-without-problem&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/290086/cant-sftp-to-raspberry-pi-using-public-ip-address-can-ssh-without-problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this behaviour condoned, are there any built-in code defences, or we just ignore it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best advisable way to deal with these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interacting with these users also gets more complicated because they do not have enough privileges to comment or edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T02:54:26.267" Title="Questions with throw away users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4062" CreationDate="2016-06-16T15:48:41.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not just condoned, it's intentionally supported, which is why the ask page has the option to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aJfpa.png&quot; alt=&quot;Post as a guest&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to think there's some issue with these questions, without actually saying what the issue is -- the best way to deal with them is to answer them. Users can &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;always comment on their own posts&lt;/a&gt;, as well as comment on answers to their question, and can always edit their posts (not to mention suggesting edits to any post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue that can come up is the user submits the question under one guest account, gets logged out, and registers a new independent account to start interacting with people. That account won't be able to comment and confuses people when they starts talking like the asker when they don't appear to be. In that situation, flag for mod attention and we can get Stack Exchange to merge the accounts (or the user can &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;do it themselves&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T02:54:26.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4065" CreationDate="2016-06-16T23:20:28.903" Score="4" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2577/how-can-i-move-files-and-view-the-progress-e-g-with-a-progress-bar&quot;&gt;How can I move files and view the progress (e.g. with a progress bar)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its a very interesting question, and the OP criteria for marking the accepted answer makes perfect sense to me, with the exception that the link is dead by now, and nobody has been able to find a working link to a similar, let alone the same, resource. And, as you can see, the whole answer depends on that, &lt;em&gt;now dead&lt;/em&gt;, link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to request that an answer could be marked as something like &quot;not usable in it's current state&quot;, if you don't want that post deleted?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="172514" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T23:04:26.143" Title="What can we (normal users) can do with an accepted answer that contains dead links?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4064" CreationDate="2016-06-17T02:48:26.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In looking at that answer, someone has already tended to it by linking to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/web/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wayback Machine's website&lt;/a&gt; where a backup of the original page is being maintained, so I don't see what the issue is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;In general&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators do not possess the ability to unmark an accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best I can think of is to edit the answer and put a message at the top, mentioning that the link is broken and no alternative could be found. I would also do something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;...link...&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the link so that it's obvious the link is no longer functioning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; Before doing the above, I would exhaust every option first. I typically will find alternative material through Google's Cache or the Wayback Machine, as someone else has done here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T02:48:26.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-17T02:56:15.233" Score="2" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/nc/info&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;nc&lt;/code&gt; tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;. In the guidance section, I only talk about &lt;code&gt;nc&lt;/code&gt;, but in the description part I breezily list &lt;code&gt;ncat&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;netcat&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;socat&lt;/code&gt; as similar programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is whether I should explicitly recommend using this tag for questions about all four programs, or should each program get a separate tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being non-POSIX, we have four different programs that all provide the same core set of functionality, but which have different command line interfaces and different sets of unique peripheral features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the &lt;code&gt;nc&lt;/code&gt; tag is only used on 8 questions, three of which actually seem to be about &lt;code&gt;netcat&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no &lt;code&gt;ncat&lt;/code&gt; tag, perhaps reflecting its relative youth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/socat/info&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;socat&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt;, used on 27 questions, but without any guidance or description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, merge or split?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T02:56:15.233" Title="nc tag: should it cover ncat, netcat, and/or socat?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4057" CreationDate="2016-06-17T10:02:07.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My objection to this idea is not about their being meta-tags, as such, it's more about their being finger-pointing tags. The only thing these tags would convey is that, in the opinion of the tagger, this question is not up to snuff. If a question is bad, downvote it. That's what votes are for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see absolutely no benefit in using tags to publicly shame users. Not to mention the issue of deciding a question's &quot;quality&quot;. Who gets to choose? What is a beginner for you? Maybe what you consider a beginner question is too advanced for someone else. Or, perhaps, what you consider advanced looks trivial to a third person. These are all very subjective issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The objective of tags is to i) help categorize questions and facilitate searching and ii) guide experts to questions on their subject matter. A quick rule of thumb when thinking about creating a new tag is to ask yourself whether there could be any experts in the tag's subject matter. I think it's pretty obvious that there will never be any experts in any of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;novice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;newbie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learner-programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learner-(name of programming language)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learner-English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;showMeTehCode&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;humor-unintentional&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not_even_wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all &quot;shaming tags&quot;. There can't be any experts in any of these things and tagging with such tags would have no benefit whatsoever and would only make people feel bad. So no, don't create such tags. Edit, or downvote or vote to close as appropriate and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T10:02:07.903" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4064" CreationDate="2016-06-20T04:57:23.483" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Step 2 ...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is to take the content of the page in the Wayback Machine&#xA;and search for it (e.g., in Google or whatever other search engine you prefer). &#xA;Often you can find a new site that has taken over hosting the desired content. &#xA;By searching for &amp;quot;Advanced Copy is a mod for the GNU cp and GNU mv tools&amp;quot;&#xA;in Google, I found&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SlackBuilds Repository - advcopy — &lt;a href=&quot;https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/advcopy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/advcopy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ArchLinux User Repository - advcopy — &lt;a href=&quot;https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/advcopy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/advcopy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GitHub - atdt/advcpmv: A patch for cp / mv to add progress bars —&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/atdt/advcpmv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/atdt/advcpmv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pkgs.org - advcopy-0.5-i486-1_slack.txz Slackware 14.1 Download —&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pkgs.org/slackware-14.1/slackonly-i486/advcopy-0.5-i486-1_slack.txz.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://pkgs.org/slackware-14.1/slackonly-i486/advcopy-0.5-i486-1_slack.txz.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these is an exact duplicate of the originally referenced page&#xA;(as represented in the Wayback Machine),&#xA;and I can't tell which one is most current,&#xA;so I'm not adding any of them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/2577/23408#2579&quot;&gt;fschmitt's answer&lt;/a&gt; —&#xA;but anybody who reads this should feel free to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T04:57:23.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-22T21:36:13.993" Score="-7" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed my next badge section and is not consistent with the others stack-exchange sites: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hSnFJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hSnFJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ObYou.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ObYou.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Electorate vote description says: Vote on 600 questions[both questions and answers] and 25% or more of total votes are on questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I think is taken into consideration just the number of questions instead of the total number of votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22558" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-07-09T22:52:04.360" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T22:52:04.360" Title="The Electorate badge doesn't work well on Unix &amp; Linux" Tags="|discussion|support|status-bydesign|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2016-06-23T01:19:33.850" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see where you found the parenthetical (both questions and answers). The description of the Electorate badge is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, one needs to satisfy both requirements: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least 600 votes on questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Out of all votes on questions and answers, at least 25% are on questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T01:19:33.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2016-06-23T03:03:38.787" Score="4" Body="&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162551" LastEditorUserId="162551" LastEditDate="2017-07-03T03:07:38.203" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T03:07:38.203" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-06-23T03:03:38.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-23T12:36:04.827" Score="0" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I presume this subsite was aiming for a light pastel-y look, but I think it's taken it way too far. Have a look at these two screenshots of questions on different SE sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rrxke.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rrxke.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Unix/Linux SE&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3bqrr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3bqrr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The problem (or not, depending on where you're sitting)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the difference in the visibility of the background colours of two types of highlight (annotated with their R,G,B values for Unix/Linux), familiar across StackExchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the light blue that indicates the question-asker when their name appears in their question or in comments on answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the grey that highlights block or inline excerpts of &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least on the screens I've tried, which are modern panels set to 50% for all parameters, these colours are so light that they're almost imperceptible - and therefore functionally almost useless. In particular, I had to squint for about 20 seconds at my monitor, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; stoop down to get a slightly better angle, just to work out whether or not the person commenting on the top answer was the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'OP or not' is a status that is extremely relevant when reading discussions and was presumably the rationale behind this highlight colour (on better themes). As for the &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; background, this is, I suppose, less critical due to the fact that the padding and font provide other visual signifiers - but it's still very inconsistent with the other SE sites that have practically visible backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's the point of highlighting any of this, if it's not visible without eye and/or neck strain? I'm pretty sure I'd be considered a very able user in terms of accessibility, and this theme just doesn't work for me, so I can only wonder what it must be like for those with additional requirements reading this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please could you revise the theme to have a usable degree of contrast, to grant some utility to these backgrounds, same as they provide in other SE sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124753" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-07-09T22:52:17.797" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T12:50:54.730" Title="Theme's background colours to highlight question asker, `code`, etc. are too faint" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4073" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-23T14:43:07.177" Score="4" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/291398/trouble-joining-an-active-directory-domain?noredirect=1#comment510252_291398&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; here yesterday and after 6 hours I had less than 10 views. So I crossposted to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/790377/trouble-joining-an-active-directory-domain&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu SE&lt;/a&gt; since it is a bit more active of a site. The question is by no means Ubuntu specific and I genuinely think the answer would be of value to this site. But in order to achieve an answer, I spread my net a little bit wider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I crossposted, I edited my post to include some new information and to mention the crosspost. I did this as I have been told before on other sites on the SE network that crossposting is fine so long as you observe proper etiquette and mention the crosspost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then received a comment from a user telling me, I'm paraphrasing here, that they had information that might solve my problem but that they would not give it to me because I crossposted. Shortly thereafter, the post was closed as off-topic by a diamond mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of problems with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it is not off-topic here. If anything it is off-topic at Ask Ubuntu because it is not Ubuntu specific. I simply went there because it is a bigger site than the Unix SE so there would be more traffic and more chances at a possible answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the user's statement that they could help but wouldn't due to a breach of etiquette seems to be contrary to the Stack Exchange's &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mission statement&lt;/a&gt; which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of&#xA;  good programming knowledge in the world&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anytime I've crossposted and got an answer, I've gone back and answered my own unanswered questions so that I can help increase the sum total of good knowledge in the world. None of my previous crossposted questions on any other site have ever been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, the close reason included states that, &quot;Cross-posting is strongly discouraged.&quot; Discouraged, yes. But outright banned, no. For every post calling for an outright ban on crossposting (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64069/196158&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/95621/196158&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;), there is another (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/141824/196158&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266159/1418091&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) suggesting that limited use, as long as it is openly declared, is fine. And as long as you go back and spread the knowledge, it is a net positive. This is in contrast to having the knowledge but refusing to share it do to a perceived breach of etiquette which I see as a net negative for this site in particular and the network at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reference to some of the statements in the above linked meta posts, I had honestly not even considered migrating the question. Because, as I've mentioned, it is more of a general Unix question than an Ubuntu specific question. Some of the links in my question reference Fedora, SUSE, and others. So I really feel that it belongs here. But if the knowledge is not available here, getting it elsewhere and bringing it back is of value to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what irks me most is that, had I not mentioned that I had crossposted, the user might have shared his knowledge, fixed my problem, and added to the volume of good posts on this site. But I had been told in the past that crossposting is okay if proper etiquette is observed and the crosspost is declared. I did so and ended up getting my question closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is this: Specific to Unix SE, is crossposting outright banned here? If so, I simply won't mention it again. Or do others think as I do and that obtaining good answers elsewhere (when they cannot be obtained here in a reasonable amount of time) and bringing them back here increases the value of the site so long as it is done in an open and transparent way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37468" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.763" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T23:14:48.427" Title="Crossposting Etiquette" Tags="|discussion|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4073" CreationDate="2016-06-23T14:57:46.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know where this focus on admitting it came from, but it seems irrelevant to me if you divulged the crosspost, that's not the reason we avoid them. If you post on one site, aren't getting any answers, and want to move to another site, we can move it for you. Duplicating the post and trying to keep it in sync is unnecessary work for you, and since almost everyone else who does this ends up &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; keeping the posts in sync, we just don't allow it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's little reason to have the information duplicated; future users don't benefit by googling a question and finding the answer on AU followed by the exact same answer on UL. We're part of the same network, just capture the information somewhere so people can find it. We generally link to the still-open version so people who stumble across our version can find the other one, so nobody misses out on a solution. There's no benefit to separate threads; it's like keeping two copies of a file around instead of symlinking one to the other&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:57:46.337" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4080" CreationDate="2016-06-23T16:48:21.883" Score="20" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we change badge icons to something &lt;em&gt;Unix&amp;amp;Linux&lt;/em&gt; specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently many sites changed their icons, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;close related to us &lt;a href=&quot;http://android.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;android&lt;/a&gt; uses their robo mascot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://emacs.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;emacs&lt;/a&gt; uses parenthesis &lt;code&gt;()&lt;/code&gt; to be identified as lisp code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;math&lt;/a&gt; uses different geometric figures (that's the coolest, because not only colour, but also shape is different)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think would be the best icons to shortly characterize this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T21:06:45.207" Title="Icons of the badge counts" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4079" CreationDate="2016-06-26T13:38:54.693" Score="-4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest to add this feature of retroactively gaining badges.&#xA;Badges that gained based on quantity of visits/answer upvotes etc shouldn't be relied on tracking.&#xA;For example, say I'm a somewhat new user, and my answer got upvoted while I was tracking the &quot;Informed&quot; badge.&#xA;I will not receive the &quot;Supporter&quot; badge even though I have at least one answer getting upvoted because I didn't track it; After getting the &quot;Informed&quot; badge and having answers being upvoted, I will not get the &quot;Supporter&quot; badge retroactively even if I then track it, only when one of my answers will get upvoted again.&#xA;Not cool guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let us gain badges fairly, even retroactively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="176814" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T18:21:42.380" Title="Gaining badges retroactively" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-07-09T08:48:07.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3203" CreationDate="2016-06-26T13:48:53.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing more to it actually.&#xA;The CPU tag is for CPU related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CPU is the piece of hardware executing instructions, therefore subjects can be related to the CPU in different ways. One can ask about performance while the other about intel x86 architecture, both are CPU related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To your question - programmers writing low-level code, security researchers, performance engineers are just a few examples of people might be interested in CPU related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="176814" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T13:48:53.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4077" CreationDate="2016-06-26T18:21:42.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't how badges work at all, so I think you're confused about something. I never pay attention to the badge tracking feature and I get badges all the time; all tracking does is let you monitor your progress towards a particular badge if you're particularly interested in it. As for &quot;retroactively&quot; gaining badges, that word doesn't seem to apply to what you're talking about, but you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; get badges retroactively if they are added to the site and you already qualified for them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T18:21:42.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4075" CreationDate="2016-06-27T21:01:25.320" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the idea from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;math site&lt;/a&gt; where they use different shapes for bronze, silver, and gold badges, what about having different prompts for ours? Gold could be a (root shell) &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;, but I'm not sure how to differentiate silver and bronze (&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on feedback in the comments, here's a clearer proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gold: &lt;code&gt;#_&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Silver: &lt;code&gt;$_&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bronze: &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;_&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am harshly reminded why I'm not a graphical designer, but here's something to look at to compare &amp;amp; contrast foreground vs background colors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gti0P.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gti0P.png&quot; alt=&quot;badge foregrounds vs backgrounds&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please don't use these as-is - they're hastily put together)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The left-hand column is supposed to represent the symbol in the badge's color on a black background; the right-hand column is the symbol in black on the badge color's background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:08.380" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T15:17:57.620" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="120" CreationDate="2016-06-30T01:59:34.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this as a U&amp;amp;L 404 &quot;image&quot; ? I tried to simulate loading (mounting) a URL, then a have a generalized &lt;code&gt;fsck&lt;/code&gt; error message related to failing to find a URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# mount /http/URL /dev/console&#xA;mount: special device /http/URL does not exist&#xA;# fsck /http/url&#xA;fsck 1.43.1 (29-Jun-2016)&#xA;fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /http/url&#xA;&#xA;The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct&#xA;URL. If the device is valid and it really contains a URL (and&#xA;not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is &#xA;corrupt, and you might try running fsck with an alternate superblock.&#xA;&#xA;You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.&#xA;#&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T01:59:34.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4075" CreationDate="2016-07-05T17:12:40.770" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was bored so I re-made the badges' design proposed by Jeff Schaller.  My take on it is according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://aviation.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;aviation.SE&lt;/a&gt;, which has the biggest badges that I managed to find on SE (increased here by a factor of 10):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Mq59.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Mq59.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I draw the black pixels to show how I measured it, the image suggests that SO/SE badges are 16x16 pixels sprites.  The aviation.SE badges are not round, therefore I believe that not round badges are OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, for U&amp;amp;L we could try this (increased here by a factor of 3):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONVxr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONVxr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the actual badge size (16x16 each) these look as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Used the SE colors, as per comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEKL9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEKL9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, created a white version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MaaKR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MaaKR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a very white versions (not sure which one scales better):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RDl44.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RDl44.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The images are 16x48/16x56 but the badges are actually slightly smaller than 16x16, to fit better in the 16x16 container)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The font used is &lt;em&gt;Liberation Mono&lt;/em&gt;, a version that is already under the SIL open font licence.  Therefore no copyright problems exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="172635" LastEditorUserId="172635" LastEditDate="2016-07-05T21:06:45.207" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T21:06:45.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4084" CreationDate="2016-07-06T04:30:54.280" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that I lost four points of reputation earlier, and the number of posts I've edited was also reduced by two. Is there any way for me to tell which of the posts I edited were merged or deleted? They don't seem to appear in my profile any more, that I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found in another similar question that users with more than 10,000 reputation can see deleted posts, but I think it would be useful for users of any reputation to be able to see the deleted posts that they've successfully edited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be a good learning experience to go back and review a post I've edited, but happened to be subsequently deleted. Rather than edit such posts in the first place, it seems like it would be more appropriate to flag them immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174178" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T15:54:49.267" Title="Viewing posts that you've edited, but were later deleted or merged?" Tags="|feature-request|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4083" CreationDate="2016-07-06T09:23:39.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You had edited these two posts (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/292003/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/292215/&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) which were later closed and subsequently deleted. I'm afraid there's no way for you to see them before you get 10k rep, but your edit was fine in case you were wondering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're asking for is very unlikely to be implemented since it would require SE to change the rules and allow users with less than 10k rep to see deleted posts. I also, frankly, don't really see the point. You don't have much to learn from such posts, they were just deleted. I suggest you just shrig it off and go on posting good content and suggesting good edits. You'll get to 10k in no time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T15:54:49.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-07T12:09:24.210" Score="9" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to ask when the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/download&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;download&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; should be used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it seems to be a rather useless tag since in the 150 question nearly half seem to be about &lt;code&gt;wget&lt;/code&gt; and the other half about &lt;code&gt;curl&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some are about downloading distros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the purpose of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/download&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;download&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39954" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2016-07-07T12:24:22.013" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T22:41:16.147" Title="When should [download] be used?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-07T15:01:23.557" Score="143" ViewCount="10830" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking or answering questions, please don't post screenshots of text. This is a very bad idea because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't copy/paste the commands into answers, google searches, local files to work on a solution, or anything else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They won't come up when searching&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post is heavier (in terms of the amount of data) and will take longer to load. This can be a serious problem for people with slow connections.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post is useless to people using text based browsers or who have disabled the displaying of images&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post is useless for people who have sight problems and are maybe accessing the site using text-to-speech software.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image is only guaranteed to be legible on YOUR monitor.  Anyone with a different monitor (e.g. different DPI, higher resolution, viewing on a tablet etc) will be unable to read the tiny little fonts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Image questions are often ignored.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are sometimes valid reasons for this (discussing colored output, font problems, graphics driver glitches, terminal emulator transparency or other issues where &lt;strong&gt;the core of the question is visual in nature&lt;/strong&gt;), in most cases it is not useful and causes the problems listed above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it is harder to do. Copy pasting your terminal text and putting it inside a code block is much simpler and faster. For help on formatting your posts, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other notable valid reason is that a camera snapshot or VM window snapshot is often the &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; way of posting BIOS, boot-loader, or kernel error messages (although even this is sometimes avoidable if you go to the trouble of setting up a serial console - reasonably easy and highly recommended for VMs, not so easy for physical machines as it requires another machine and a null-modem cable to connect with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-06-29T10:49:20.013" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T10:49:20.013" Title="PSA: Please don't post images of text" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|policy|psa|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4085" CreationDate="2016-07-07T15:19:50.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a need for it; who is out there looking for questions to answer about &quot;downloads&quot;? I think there would be a piece of software involved (wget, curl, etc) that could be tagged, instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T15:19:50.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-07T17:02:54.153" Score="7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some coding questions provide sample input files but don't get around to  naming the input file.  The answerers often make up their own unique input filenames, like &lt;em&gt;&quot;file&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;input&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;inputfile&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&quot;foo&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Sometimes a reasonable variation on an input file name can break a seemingly correct given answer, or make it harder to understand, (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; when describing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_(command)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;file&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; command syntax &lt;code&gt;file file&lt;/code&gt; is more confusing than &lt;code&gt;file foo&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a given answer it's more useful for readers to just see &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; set of names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;s and &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;s be retroactively harmonized, &lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; edited to use the same names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, &lt;em&gt;which names&lt;/em&gt;?  (The most popular &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;, or the &lt;em&gt;OP&lt;/em&gt;'s favorite &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;, or what?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Qualification: some &lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;s are simple enough, (with minimal file access), that they need no specific input file names, and are therefore outside of the scope of this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165517" LastEditorUserId="165517" LastEditDate="2018-06-17T16:12:49.813" LastActivityDate="2018-06-17T16:12:49.813" Title="Best practice: add and harmonize missing input filenames for Qs &amp; As?" Tags="|discussion|editing|questions|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4085" CreationDate="2016-07-08T00:15:12.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Rationale&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only see two valid question types with that tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Connectivity problems with tools that perform downloads.  Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/261465/problem-in-installing-new-software-rhel6&quot;&gt;question about RHEL packages without connectivity&lt;/a&gt;.  Should probably be tagged with the piece of software used (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rpm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rpm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rpm&lt;/a&gt; in the example question).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question concerning operation on files that are still incomplete due to the fact that they're being operated on.  This is a little harder, I believe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/281139/check-in-pure-bash-that-the-download-is-complete&quot;&gt;question about monitoring the downloads directory&lt;/a&gt; would be as valid if, instead of firefox, curl or wget was used (let's imagine that it is some wget process running in the background).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/248762/can-i-download-tar-gz-file-while-it-is-being-compressed&quot;&gt;this question about uploading a file that is being generated&lt;/a&gt; is also independent of the program used for the upload/download.  Moreover OP is asking what program he can use to perform the upload/download.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, the last example question (just above) would be poorer without the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/download&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;download&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;. On the other hand it is arguable that &lt;em&gt;download&lt;/em&gt; is a poor definition for what OP is looking for.  He is actually looking for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-transfer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-transfer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-transfer&lt;/a&gt;.  The same can be said about the question on download monitoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my humble opinion &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/download&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;download&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; should be synonymized to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-transfer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-transfer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-transfer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="172635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T00:15:12.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4086" CreationDate="2016-07-08T12:38:46.277" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;About the only time it's appropriate to post a screenshot of text is when it's the &lt;em&gt;appearance&lt;/em&gt; that is the issue, and the &lt;em&gt;text itself&lt;/em&gt; is not important.  Examples might include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;problems selecting the desired font on a particular system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;problems relating to an editor's syntax-highlighting feature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself, and any code used, must be present in ordinary Markdown text, for all the reasons mentioned.  As a reminder, it's best to use a cut+paste facility if you have one (e.g. Mouse-1 and Mouse-2 in X11), to avoid transcription errors which could affect the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112566" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T12:38:46.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4064" CreationDate="2016-07-09T23:04:26.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/your-answer-is-in-another-castle-when-is-an-answer-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;if an answer fundamentally depends on an external link and is completely unusable if the link dies, this is not a proper answer and it should be deleted&lt;/a&gt;. This is a question and answer site, not a link collection. This goes whether the link is already dead or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, many legitimate answers on this site say “use this software”, and don't make sense if the software can't be obtained. When you write “use this software” in an answer, please make it clear what software you're refering to: don't just write &lt;code&gt;use [this program](http://www.example.com/djadji)&lt;/code&gt;, write &lt;code&gt;use [Frobozz Friskish Frobnicator](http://www.example.com/djadji)&lt;/code&gt;. Case in point: “patches at this page” doesn't convey any useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, the harm is done, but fortunately &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4068&quot;&gt;Scott has tracked the software in question&lt;/a&gt; or a derivative. The answer should be edited to indicate one that matches the answer (which I'm not going to do today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T23:04:26.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4088" CreationDate="2016-07-09T23:07:59.597" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If harmonized file names are really useful to follow the question and answers, then please do harmonize them. Pick a sensible set, preferably the one in the question, failing that one used in an answer. Which answer doesn't really matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harmonized file names don't always matter. If there's just one input file and one output file, it's easy enough to follow. Edit only if having consistent file names throughout genuinely makes the answers easier to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T23:07:59.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4073" CreationDate="2016-07-09T23:14:48.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't see the comment you're talking about, but your attack on its author is out of line. Anybody is free not to answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multi-posting is forbidden between Stack Exchange sites by default, by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu/64069#64069&quot;&gt;near-consensus on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;. A few Stack Exchange sites do allow it, check their metas for policies. Unix &amp;amp; Linux does not allow multi-posting and even has an explicit close reason for that. The fact that this close reason is misclassified under “off-topic” is due to a limitation in the Stack Exchange engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The posts you're citing as saying that multi-posting is “fine” actually apply to multi-posting between Stack Exchange and a non-SE site, and they don't say that it's fine, they say that it's discouraged but that if you do it anyway you must be explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I didn't get enough attention” is not a valid reason to repost. Reposting the same content again to get more attention is a form of spam, and on Stack Exchange, like pretty much anywhere on the internet, we don't like spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.763" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T23:14:48.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4086" CreationDate="2016-07-09T23:32:42.820" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Counterexample: boot spew. Consider the case where a (possibly new) user cannot successfuly boot, but gets a large quantity of boot spew (e.g., white text on black background) before abend. Should not the user be able to take camera snapshots of the spew and post those to a question? The user should type in the last few lines for use in the question (at least, for its title), but should s/he be required to type in &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the spew (which can be a lot)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38638" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T23:32:42.820" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4085" CreationDate="2016-07-10T05:12:44.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Playing Devil's Advocate to Jeff Schaller's answer for voting purposes; I haven't actually looked up the tag itself]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a need for it; I often see someone asking a question to help them use a command-line tool to &quot;download&quot; something [usually scraping; occasionally something more interesting]. There may be a piece of software involved (wget, curl, etc.) that is mistakenly tagged, instead, but the questioner &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;doesn't actually care about the minutiae of that software&lt;/a&gt; but just wants to learn how to &lt;em&gt;download&lt;/em&gt; something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4443" LastActivityDate="2016-07-10T05:12:44.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4072" CreationDate="2016-07-11T12:50:54.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The levels of shading actually look fine to me, both on the site and in your screen shots. I suggest the problem is likely your monitor and that you have the contrast, gamma levels, or color temperature out of whack and it is not displaying to you an accurate representation of what is being provided to it. Try resetting the color profile and turning down the contrast and gamma levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1925" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T12:50:54.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4085" CreationDate="2016-07-12T00:16:51.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the download tag is meant for downloads that aren't wget, curl, and the like.&#xA;However, it's being mis-used, and so wget and curl questions have the tag on them.&#xA;My solution, is if there are already wget and curl tags, move those questions to them.&#xA;Alternatively, we could just delete download altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178505" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T00:16:51.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4102" CreationDate="2016-07-14T18:14:24.047" Score="2" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the header of the tab shows the first tag and not the title of the question as other stackexchange sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68382" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-07-16T22:47:54.357" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T22:47:54.357" Title="Why does the header of the tab shows the first tag and not the title of the question?" Tags="|discussion|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4085" CreationDate="2016-07-15T18:35:56.217" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if someone wants to generally look for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/download&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;download&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;, and not just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wget&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wget&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wget&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/curl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;curl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;curl&lt;/a&gt;?&#xA;Then, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/download&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;download&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; seems useful. &lt;sup&gt;No, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wget&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wget&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/curl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;curl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;curl&lt;/a&gt; is not a correct search term, what if a new tool gets added?&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81848" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-07-16T22:41:16.147" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T22:41:16.147" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-16T21:38:29.733" Score="3" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/streams&quot;&gt;most of the questions tagged as [streams]&lt;/a&gt; are about I/O in general rather than the STREAMS framework that the tag's wiki describes. Perhaps the tag is a little ambiguous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71894" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T22:41:02.090" Title="Questions incorrectly tagged [streams]" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4100" CreationDate="2016-07-16T22:41:02.090" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;STREAMS is rather obscure. Additionally, STREAMS is normally written all-uppercase but tag names are in lowercase. So it's understandable that people see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/streams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;streams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;streams&lt;/a&gt; and don't realize that it refers to some concept they don't know about. (Tag wiki? Who reads tag wikis?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's an ideal solution but renaming the tag should help. How about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sysv-streams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sysv-streams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sysv-streams&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T22:41:02.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4098" CreationDate="2016-07-16T22:47:36.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's done to boost the Google ranking of Stack Exchange pages. It's been the case &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71906/first-tag-in-the-title-of-the-page-is-not-that-convenient&quot;&gt;since 2010&lt;/a&gt;. Google's ranking algorithms have changed quite a lot, I don't know if there's been any reevaluation of whether this is still relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens on all Stack Exchange sites, not just this one. But it doesn't happen for every question: if all the tags of the question are already a word in the title, no tag is added. Also this isn't done on meta, presumably because Google ranking of meta posts isn't important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it annoys you, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71951/remove-the-most-popular-tag-from-the-title-using-javascript&quot;&gt;remove it via a browser extension&lt;/a&gt;. That's what I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T22:47:36.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4103" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-07-17T12:41:05.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Public Service Announcement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2016-07-17T12:41:05.980" LastActivityDate="2016-07-17T12:41:05.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4104" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-07-17T12:41:05.980" Score="0" Body="Public Service Announcement" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2016-07-17T12:41:05.980" LastActivityDate="2016-07-17T12:41:05.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-18T11:05:21.517" Score="26" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered this question.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/263654/can-linux-desktop-oss-work-on-baytrail-tablet-devices-that-ship-with-windows&quot;&gt;linux on baytrail tablets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I gave was correct at the time but it is now completely outdated as it mentions a kernel bug that has been fixed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do to update this?  Add another answer?  Edit the previous one? Should I delete the old answer?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156756" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T23:19:27.947" Title="An answer you gave is now incorrect/obsolete due to software updates." Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4105" CreationDate="2016-07-18T12:37:24.693" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;People might be using old kernel version, and for many reasons be unwilling or unable to update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;just update your answer with something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kernel version 3.14.15.927 released on July 18, 2016 fixed this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With older versions, [the existing answer]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-07-19T23:19:27.947" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T23:19:27.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-19T11:40:14.903" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;On occasion there is a comment thread (three or four comments and responses) that result in a useful clarification of a Question or Answer. Once the question has been amended the comments are no longer required and can be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking now about the last response on such a comment thread. If that comment is deleted, will the person to whom is was addressed be able to read it? Or for all intents and purposes will it have disappeared without necessarily being read?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer: Use &lt;code&gt;some_command and its arguments&lt;/code&gt; to fix the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment from roaima: Can you explain why, please&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment: @roaima it's because of &lt;em&gt;foo bar&lt;/em&gt; interacting with the widget&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment from roaima: Ah, great. Could you add that into your answer please&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment: @roaima it's done&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point the comments can be deleted. The last comment is there solely to flag the change to me (roaima) so I get an inbox notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at what point can that last comment be deleted, knowing that I (roaima) will be able to read the comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T11:40:14.903" Title="When can I usefully delete my comment?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4111" CreationDate="2016-07-19T22:03:57.610" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a post is edited in a way that changes the author's intent, and the edit somehow ends up being approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Take for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/296187/3&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; edit: it adds a paragraph (the last one) with no correspondent in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/296187/1&quot;&gt;original post&lt;/a&gt;, and it does make a difference.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a recommended way to deal with situations like that, besides reverting the edit and hoping for the best?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The author of the edit admitted the extra paragraph was his own idea, and claims a honest misunderstanding.  I suppose there is no reason to believe otherwise; this is where a system of private messages between users might have been useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the question stands: how should I handle edits I strongly disagree with?  Currently there is no way to appeal, or even report, edits that have been approved.  There is also no way to appeal edit rejects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T08:02:00.613" Title="Dealing with questionable edits?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4110" CreationDate="2016-07-20T00:31:29.957" Score="9" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it bad form to flag a post that's already been flagged? Does doing this create more work? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I just came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/73076/use-synaptic-package-installer-by-default/296996#296996&quot;&gt;this posted answer&lt;/a&gt;, which doesn't attempt to address the question. There's a comment suggesting to ask a new question and a link saying it came from the low-quality post review queue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and flagged it, which I've done a few times in similar situations. Should I avoid doing so in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T02:58:10.293" Title="Flagging a post that's already been flagged" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2016-07-20T02:58:10.293" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it shouldn't cause extra work (can't be in the queue more than once), and even if it did, that'd be a bug in the site which should be fixed. The workload on Unix.SE is not overwhelming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was actually still in the review queue until just now, when I gave it a delete vote, deleting it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/150874&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/150874&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T02:58:10.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4108" CreationDate="2016-07-20T08:02:00.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see an edit your strongly disagree with, you have the following options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep, fix it yourself or, if you don't, suggest an edit fixing it. If you disagree with the entire edit, you can roll it back to a previous version. However, if this is then rolled back again, do not engage in an edit war. In that case, flag for mod attention and we'll deal with it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the edit is vandalism or offensive or otherwise very, very bad and you don't have the rep to fix it directly, flag it for mod attention. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see you already submitted an edit removing the extra paragraph (I've accepted it). That's great and exactly the right action to take. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for appealing, that's what meta is for. If you see an edit you really disagree with or want to understand why one of your suggestions was rejected, post about it on meta. Mind you, at the rate you've been gaining rep recently, I don't think that rejected suggestions will be an issuie for you for very long :). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T08:02:00.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4114" CreationDate="2016-07-22T18:29:46.383" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost one year ago, I had posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/218970/125388&quot;&gt;my first question on Unix.SE&lt;/a&gt;. It is the only question I have to this date, since I have been resolving other questions I have on my own, by googling and/or by doing trials and errors. As such, I tend to ask questions that cannot be easily resolved by googling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is now &quot;closed as too broad&quot;. I could guess the reason: The closure is likely due to reaching &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/218970/4&quot;&gt;this revision&lt;/a&gt;, which I had added &quot;What answer is expected&quot;. My intention was to suggest someone could use one of the schemas based on my findings that I cannot clarify on my own, so that the question might be answered easier. Unfortunately, it was counter-productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last month, I had revised the question to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For Linux distributions, which boot loader is used for live CD? If SYSLINUX is indeed most often used, why it is used instead of other boot loaders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I voted once to reopen, but probably had been rejected again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this question falls under &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/477/125388&quot;&gt;curiosity question&lt;/a&gt; or historical question that cannot be answered (kind of &quot;It was so-and-so, then why question it?&quot;). For the reason I ask &quot;why&quot;, is that we can learn how the subject was being developed, changed and adapted to what we are using today (similar to &quot;the making of&quot; documentaries).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As today, I am giving up the question and about to delete it. But I don't feel like deleting by myself a question that has received over 100 views, 2 upvotes, 0 downvotes and some informative comments. Then again, I don't want to clutter this site with my closed yet unanswered question either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do with this question? And, if I ever thought of similar historical question that I wanted to know the reason behind it, what is a better way to ask such question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user125388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T20:26:22.327" Title="What should I do with unanswered historical question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4115" CreationDate="2016-07-23T12:49:55.557" Score="7" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that “Vim Navigation” isn't a phrase. It's just navigation in Vim. So the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim-navigation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim-navigation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim-navigation&lt;/a&gt; isn't refering to a particular software package or anything, it's just redundant with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt;. This tag shouldn't exist, but all questions with it should have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim-navigation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim-navigation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim-navigation&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt; and then remove the synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-07-23T20:47:06.597" LastActivityDate="2016-07-23T20:47:33.503" Title="Please merge [vim-navigation] into [vim]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|useless-tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4112" CreationDate="2016-07-23T15:41:38.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your original question has several problems. I would recommend you just delete it or try and formalize it into something that's more technical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having questions like this is perfectly fine, they're just not a good fit for the primary purpose of stackexchange sites. Most SE sites are focusing on a narrow niche of questions that can be answered with 1 or a few answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nature of your question will drive a lot of answers and most will likely be filled with a lot of opinions and conjecture, which is simply not the intent of the style of questions &amp;amp; answers that SE sites are geared towards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To your question, often times there is no rhyme or reason as to why a specific technology was chosen, other than:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was easily available&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;familiar to the developers looking to use it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;offered all the features that the developers were looking for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was chosen by 1 ancient project, that future project's derive from or mimic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;licensing reasons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I could go on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_live_CDs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list of Live Linux CD's&lt;/a&gt;. Notice that most of them are pooled together and build off of each other. The one that I'm most familiar with, Knoppix, and I believe it to be one of the first to pull live booting off, has a comment in the Wikipedia article titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_live_CDs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of Live CDs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A large number of live CDs are based on Knoppix. The list of those is in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix#Derivatives&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;derivatives section of the Knoppix article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given its lineage it's likely the reason that a predominant number of live CDs use whatever technologies were present in Knoppix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the case....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because of these types of reasons leading to potential answers, your original question would just not be a good fit within the SE format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2016-07-23T15:52:12.090" LastActivityDate="2016-07-23T15:52:12.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4113" CreationDate="2016-07-23T20:47:33.503" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt; was already on 7 all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-07-23T20:47:33.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4117" CreationDate="2016-07-24T11:45:04.223" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I find the time that a question was asked? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking at a question that is labelled as asked yesterday.&#xA;The exact time, may be of relevance in answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/297577/4778&quot;&gt;Unable to change time-zone properly, the time is still from the previous time-zone&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4778" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T20:58:36.423" Title="What time was question asked" Tags="|support|questions|answers|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4116" CreationDate="2016-07-24T12:39:22.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hover your mouse over the time shown (the words &quot;asked yesterday&quot; in your example, &quot;asked two days ago&quot; in the screenshot below) in the box with the name of the asker of any question and the time will show as a pop-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AXMsC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AXMsC.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot showing the time popup&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pop-up might show up differently in different browsers. In Chrome on OSX, for example it shows up as white for me. The above screenshot, @terdon added to this post, shows it as black background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4uYvq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4uYvq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just so it's clear, you have to hover directly over the time the question was asked to see this (#1 in the 2nd screenshot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2016-07-24T12:52:55.873" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T12:52:55.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-28T17:07:37.717" Score="3" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/298789/has-a-file-changed-of-value/298796&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; clearly belongs on StackOverflow, but the poster has stated &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/298789/has-a-file-changed-of-value/298796#comment525498_298789&quot;&gt;they were banned&lt;/a&gt; in the comments, in response to stating the question belonged on SO. In my humble opinion, using another StackExchange site to circumvent a ban on another is unethical behaviour; I'm not sure how the community feels about it, but I can't imagine it's exactly smiled upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I flag the question? It's already on-hold, but I don't know if any moderators have noticed the person said that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="181278" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-07-28T18:20:50.700" Title="Should I flag a question/comment where the user has stated they are circumventing a block on SO?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4120" CreationDate="2016-07-28T18:20:50.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with everything you said, but I'm not sure what you'd be flagging the post for or what action you expect to be taken at this point. We mostly don't care about a user's status on other SE sites; as long as the post is valid here we'll take it. On the other hand, as you said that post clearly belongs on SO since it requires &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;knowledge of Python&lt;/a&gt;. Given that, it should be closed as off-topic no matter who asked it. If we try to migrate a post to a site where the asker is banned, it just gets converted to a normal off-topic closure, so there's no danger of them using us to backdoor a post onto a site they can't post on directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-07-28T18:20:50.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4123" CreationDate="2016-07-29T18:19:47.220" Score="26" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comments to question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/299123/bash-screen-command-not-found&quot;&gt;299123&lt;/a&gt; (now on hold for being too broad), the user makes it clear that he wants to log onto a node in a cluster and use &lt;code&gt;screen&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His problem is that on this particular node, &lt;code&gt;screen&lt;/code&gt; is not installed.  I commented that maybe he should ask his system administrator about why this was so, and he replied that they weren't supposed to run interactive sessions on these nodes, and how would he solve this without involving the admin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: What's the course of action when someone wants help with breaking a local rule, in this case using a node in a cluster interactively even though they are not supposed to? Flagging for moderator intervention? Help them solve the issue at hand? Do we care?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, posing the question more generally: Should we help people to be antisocial?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking as someone actually &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; one of those compute clusters, and has to live with people running jobs outside of the queuing system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also the person who, once upon a time, asked question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/209398/how-do-i-renice-my-login-shell&quot;&gt;209398&lt;/a&gt;, which may not be entirely surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T15:53:45.350" Title="Helping a user break local rules?" Tags="|discussion|questions|specific-question|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4122" CreationDate="2016-07-31T06:08:57.857" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting question.  I believe the key to the situation is that Stack Exchange is not geared to handle individuals, but individuals' &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, with a preference for questions applicable to many people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I would say &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; assist someone to break local rules or laws.  If there is a valid general question, you can and should answer it.  If the asker's intentions are unclear (or if the answer you're giving &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be abused), preface your answer with a disclaimer and admonition to follow the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the asker clearly states his intention of breaking the rules or breaking the laws, &lt;strong&gt;do not help&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can provide know-how if it has any valid white-hat use.  We can advise not to put it to black-hat use.  We can't prevent black hats from ignoring that advice and misusing the provided information (not in an online setting, anyway), but we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; withhold information when the questioner is overtly defying the laws/rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple example to illustrate this is the difference between the two (invented) questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I'm locked out of my Linux server; how can I reset the root password?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;My co-worker is away for two days and I have physical access to the Linux server in his cubicle; how can I reset the root password?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technical answer would be the same, but the latter question should be downvoted to oblivion and remain unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former question should be answered, but with a preface to the effect of &quot;Please only reset the password if it's either your personal server, or you're the authorized person to do so.  That said, you can do this by....&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl; dr&lt;/strong&gt;: If someone is being antisocial, downvote and comment.  If it's very overt and they are unrepentant, flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T06:08:57.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4112" CreationDate="2016-07-31T20:26:22.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earlier answer by @slm had addressed particularly on my deleted question. Just one thing is missing: There was no apparent reply for &quot;what is a better way to ask such question?&quot; part. I think answering the latter part of question is necessary, in case future-me or someone else decided to ask similar questions later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the following text, I have included some points to help anyone to justify whether historical questions can be asked or else, as well as whether historical question can have objective answers or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I ask the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Historical questions can be asked to clarify the known facts and usually have some amount of information that could be written into objective answers. Unfortunately, not all facts are well known or properly documented in place. This will bring to the next point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I get the answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. Given that most information could be collected by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Five Ws&lt;/a&gt;, the question will likely have an answer and therefore a yes. However, given that limited access to the information due to lack of documentation and publication, the question might not have any answer and therefore a no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I have the answer anyway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be, as long as the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; closed and answerable. When existing resources are limited, there are several ways to increase the chance to get the answer. One way is to send a direct enquiry to the developers or the members of the project; Another way is to hope that any user with real experience could explain about the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following posts on Unix &amp;amp; Linux SE are relevant examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/75238&quot;&gt;Which was the very first music player application for Linux?&lt;/a&gt; was asked on May 9 '13 at 14:52, then answered on May 9 '13 at 15:16; Real experience from the user and available information from Wikipedia had helped to answer the question in less than an hour. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/227897&quot;&gt;Where does the name of i3 (the WM) come from?&lt;/a&gt; was asked on Sep 6 '15 at 18:04, but doesn't seem to have any answer to this date.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/289265&quot;&gt;Which desktop environment does Maru OS use?&lt;/a&gt; was asked on Jun 12 at 9:25, then answered on Jun 12 at 18:23; The original poster had contacted the developer via e-mail and fortunate to get a reply and managed to self-answer on the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, the question may become answerable. That being said, these are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; sure-successful ways to get the answer; Both ways depend on whether people are willing to provide information and put that into an appropriate answer. For serious askers, one's willpower and patience are required for finding the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When to delete the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had waited for almost a year before I had to give up on my historical question. I had concluded that it was not answerable due to the &quot;lost history&quot; of SYSLINUX (or ISOLINUX to be exact). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this answered date, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSLINUX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; had very less information on the history of SYSLINUX. Not even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the project page&lt;/a&gt; had mentioned anything relevant. The oldest page I found from respective sources were created in 2003 and 2006. In contrast, SYSLINUX supposedly had existed since 1994. The gap spans between 12 and 14 years, which I referred as the &quot;lost history&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such question had been asked and remained unanswered, one may try rewording the question in other way of relating the subject. Although, historical questions are quite straightforward that leaves very little room to rewording the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, if such question had been asked, remained unanswered and then closed, consider to delete the question as recommended by @slm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A better way to ask&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to asking historical questions on this SE site, the subject of interest must be identified and the basic information can be accessed by the public. If some basic information are already missing from beginning, it might be better not to ask here. And if such question is posted anyway, it may be closed for any reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a better way to ask is perhaps, by not asking such question. Keep the question to yourself, then after some time, review and determine whether the question can be answered or else. This way, it is better than directly posting the question here, only to find later closed by the community and yet, disappointed by having no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt; Most historical questions could have objective answers. Lack of basic information indicates that some questions might not be answerable. Perhaps better not to ask such questions in Q&amp;amp;A format; Find other ways or give up instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user125388" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T20:26:22.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4620" CreationDate="2016-07-31T21:03:18.180" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/parallel-parallel-tags&quot;&gt;decided to disambiguate&lt;/a&gt; the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel&lt;/a&gt;. We've made some headway on retagging the existing questions but it would help if there weren't new questions with the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please blacklist &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel&lt;/a&gt; and show a message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The “parallel” tag is not allowed. Please use either &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnu-parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnu-parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnu-parallel&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallelism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallelism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallelism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Other potential tags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moreutils-parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moreutils-parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moreutils-parallel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel-port&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel-port&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel-port&lt;/a&gt; but these are very rarely used.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T16:51:47.507" Title="Please blacklist the /parallel tag" Tags="|feature-request|tags|blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4122" CreationDate="2016-07-31T22:26:40.423" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two reasons why you shouldn't worry about “breaking rules”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason is that the assertion that the user wants to “break local rule” is an assumption on your part. You have no way to know whether this is true. There is quite a leap of faith between “I want to install Screen” and “I want to bypass the job scheduler to run my jobs ahead of other people”. Logging in, and using Screen, could also be useful to monitor jobs executed via the scheduler. You're assuming bad faith on the part of the asker. &lt;strong&gt;This is not nice&lt;/strong&gt;, and being nice is not just a good idea, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;it's a rule!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be welcoming, be patient, and assume good intentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Not to mention “Don't be a jerk”. Calling someone “antisocial” because they want to install Screen?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other reason why you shouldn't worry about “breaking rules”, or at least not close or flag on this basis, is that answers are for everyone, not just for the original asker. Very occasionally we get a question where it is actually clear that the asker is up to no good. But this certainty comes from context, it is not intrinsic in the question. Someone else may have exactly the same question in a different context which has no moral implication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking how to install Screen is certainly not an unreasonable question. All we need to know to answer this question is: the system is RHEL, the user is not root (and can't get the administrator to do it), and what happens when the user tried to install Screen manually (“I tried to install, but failed.” is not enough information, which is why the question in question should be closed). Why the administrator doesn't cooperate is irrelevant — they may be on vacation, or overworked, or incompetent — so you shouldn't judge the question on this basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, nothing compels you to answer a question. &lt;strong&gt;If you don't like a question, just move on&lt;/strong&gt;. If you think a question won't be useful to anyone, downvote. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;please refrain from flinging accusations around&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1278/circumvention-of-security-or-policy&quot;&gt;circumvention of security or policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T22:26:40.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4122" CreationDate="2016-08-01T14:21:33.473" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; have democracy here, if someone believe for some unknown reason that the user is right, this someone have the right to say that in the comment (he had the right to be wrong, the comments exist to say things without any warranty), and that can prevent a user to be punished without a discussion and show to us the another point because sometimes, we can be wrong about the local rules too and misunderstood the user question (not in that case, but whatever)... I think this kind of discussions are nice and can improve our respect for the people before judge they. In the other way, that' true too, if every moderator think the question is beautiful right, but i personally think is not following the rules, why cant i comment saying this- and if i am right and can prove that, this will not be good for the moderators to reconsider? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170792" LastEditorUserId="170792" LastEditDate="2016-08-01T14:37:47.177" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T14:37:47.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4129" CreationDate="2016-08-01T23:42:35.697" Score="5" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've long had a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auditd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auditd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auditd&lt;/a&gt; about Linux's &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Audit_framework&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;audit framework&lt;/a&gt;, in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audit&lt;/a&gt;, which is about the concept of auditing in general. We now have an additional tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-audit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-audit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-audit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-audit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-audit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-audit&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auditd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auditd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auditd&lt;/a&gt;? What is the best name for a tag about Linux's audit framework — &lt;code&gt;linux-audit&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;linux-audit-framework&lt;/code&gt;, something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the general conceptual tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audit&lt;/a&gt; be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auditing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auditing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auditing&lt;/a&gt; to reduce confusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T12:03:34.933" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:03:34.933" Title="Auditing the /audit and /auditd tags" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4128" CreationDate="2016-08-02T11:02:46.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have to remember that Linux Audit is not the only audit standard in the Unix &amp;amp; Linux world. There is a BSM standard as well which is mostly used in the *BSD systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I suggest (after applying Gilles' suggestions):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audit&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auditing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auditing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auditing&lt;/a&gt; should be used for general questions about auditing, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78474/is-there-a-tool-for-seeing-audit-events-as-they-happen-without-writing-them-to-t&quot;&gt;this one (Is there a tool for seeing audit events as they happen without writing them to the disk?)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/auditd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;auditd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;auditd&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-audit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-audit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-audit&lt;/a&gt; which seems to be suitable for questions about the Linux Audit standard and framework. This would be a tag for questions on Linux Audit logs, auditd, auditctl, etc. We should try to add a tag related to the OS of the original poster since the versions of audit frameworks on different GNU/Linux distros tend to differ significantly. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe in the future there will be the need to create a tag for the BSM auditing standard (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bsm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bsm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bsm&lt;/a&gt; maybe?) but for the time being there are no questions about this very specific topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that there is a closely related tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/log&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;log&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;log&lt;/a&gt; which often refers to the files produced by auditing tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-08-02T12:31:55.737" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-02T12:04:15.657" Score="8" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a thought that has occurred a number of times for me, especially when concerning questions that asks for help deleting files. Most recently with question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/299793/list-folders-which-contain-only-attic-subfolder&quot;&gt;299793&lt;/a&gt; today, which asks with help to identify and remove folders that only contains one folder with a certain name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, the user states that he's well aware of the &quot;risks and implications&quot;, but I nonetheless found myself typing &quot;I take no responsibility for the loss of data&quot; at the end of my answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any type of disclaimer to refer to (that may be implicit) when it comes to applying answers that unintentionally (through either a bug in the answer, or by applying it in the wrong way) may result in the loss of data?  Or are we personally responsible if our submitted answers are faulty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, answers should be properly tested (and ideally, users should use their brains before copying and pasting a command from a web site into their terminal), but there will always be cases where something is overlooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found no such disclaimer in the U&amp;amp;L help pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: No answer that I have &lt;em&gt;seen&lt;/em&gt; or written has caused any damages, as far as I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I found this in the &quot;Warranty disclaimer&quot; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Much of the Content of the Network is provided by and is the responsibility of the user or subscriber who posted the Content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this means I'll be adding more disclaimers to my answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Similar concerns have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104821/wanted-a-standard-way-for-a-site-to-have-a-prominent-professional-advice-discla&quot;&gt;raised in the past&lt;/a&gt; for other (albeit non-technical) forums on Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at least one other forum has a disclaimer about not offering &quot;personalized, professional advice&quot;. The reasons are obviously entirely different though, but &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; users may unwittingly also relate to the author of an answer as a source of near absolute authority, based on their high &quot;reputation&quot; and skill at explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CNPTH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CNPTH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image from the judaism.stackexchange.com forum&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T20:54:47.303" Title="Adding a disclaimer to some answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4128" CreationDate="2016-08-03T01:10:49.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the differences between Linux, Solaris, AIX, and *BSD auditing, and barring any known direction by POSIX to create a common auditing standard, my knee-jerk reaction would be to create OS-specific tags for each. Given that it seems that all of the auditd questions are Linux-based, I see no reason not to merge it into linux-audit. The site's general philosophy on tags persuades me in this direction, to better identify questions and answers of particular interest.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it'd be valuable to simplify auditing tags down to just a single &quot;audit&quot; and require that the associated OS also be tagged. It seems to me that most on-topic, answerable questions on the site would be based in a particular OS (or two). I would be persuaded in this direction based mainly on the small number of auditing-related questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T01:10:49.473" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2016-08-03T01:17:26.600" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO questions about deleting files and formatting partitions and creating filesystems and installing a 2nd OS all invite the possibility of accidental destruction of desired data, and so it's caveat emptor. We are not pulling the virtual trigger, and have to rely on the asker's interpretation of reality. It's up to them to gain the knowledge, confidence, and backups necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I'm a fan of answers / scripts that echo out destructive commands before choosing to execute them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T01:17:26.600" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2016-08-09T01:36:40.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;not offering &quot;personalized, professional advice&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is actually relevant for us on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can divide today's UNIX systems into two categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;AIX&lt;/code&gt; (IBM), &lt;code&gt;HP-UX&lt;/code&gt; (HP), &lt;code&gt;Solaris&lt;/code&gt; (Oracle): Which are supported by their vendors.  And (as far as I am aware) neither IBM or Oracle people come here to U&amp;amp;L to &lt;em&gt;officially&lt;/em&gt; support their systems.  It may be the case where an employee of Oracle working on &lt;code&gt;Solaris&lt;/code&gt; comes here and answers questions about Solaris, but he is not being paid by Oracle to do so (Disclaimer: at least not as far as I am aware :) ).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Linux&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;*BSD&lt;/code&gt; (including &lt;code&gt;Suse&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;RedHat&lt;/code&gt; or even &lt;code&gt;Oracle Linux&lt;/code&gt;):  These systems come with &lt;em&gt;caveat emptor&lt;/em&gt; by default.  Installing such a system prompts you with the message that it comes without warranty (not even the implied warranty of fitness to a particular purpose...), or at least &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; prompt with such a message.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For type 1 systems we should say that &lt;em&gt;we do not provide &quot;personal, professional service&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and for type 2 systems we should remind the users that these systems are &lt;em&gt;caveat emptor&lt;/em&gt; by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A first attempt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;U&amp;amp;L is a community of users of UNIX and UNIX-like systems.  As a community we have no affiliations with vendors of UNIX systems and therefore we do not provide professional support service.  All answers are presented in the hope they will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although just adding &lt;em&gt;WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY&lt;/em&gt; should be enough, I'd still lean towards &lt;em&gt;we do not provide professional support service&lt;/em&gt;.  Imagine, for example, that someone using &lt;code&gt;AIX&lt;/code&gt; gets an answer here at U&amp;amp;L and the user that gave the answer has an &lt;code&gt;IBM&lt;/code&gt; logo as his profile picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory the user is liable for trademark infringement, but is he liable for damages resulting from his answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="172635" LastEditorUserId="172635" LastEditDate="2016-08-10T21:23:39.320" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T21:23:39.320" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4135" CreationDate="2016-08-09T15:50:36.147" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am no longer earning reputation for approved edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is happening?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has the rules changed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had a few edits approved, but my rep has still stayed the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20752" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2016-08-10T13:20:49.933" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T13:20:49.933" Title="No longer Earning Rep for Edits" Tags="|bug|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4134" CreationDate="2016-08-09T16:01:09.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You gain reputation when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;suggested edit is accepted: +2 (up to +1000 total per user)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/522665&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT(*) FROM SuggestedEdits WHERE OwnerUserId = 20752 AND ApprovalDate IS NOT NULL;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've had 614 approved edits, so you're probably at the cap&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T16:01:09.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-10T03:16:18.310" Score="3" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;rsync is more of a Linux thing, but I'm using it to update NTFS from a Mac.  I went through the list and didn't see a Windows community (but could have missed it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case it matters, here's the question:&#xA;Why does rsync update NTFS directories when the source has not changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm taking classes with lots of phonetic and grammatical analysis.  They've given me an account on a Windows 10 network.  Since I am much more comfortable with Mac and Linux (and since the Windows availability hours are limited), I do my work on my Mac laptop.  I automounted my NTFS directories, but there's something flaky with their LAN, so that quite often &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; apps have read-only access or no access at all.  Consequently, I work in a local copy and frequently rsync changes.  But rsync &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; updates &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; NTFS directory—the directory only, never any files (unless I have actually changed the file).  Most of those directories, I have never navigated into, yet rsync reports updates all the way down the subduer tree.  It's not major—finishes in seconds—but it's still pretty weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="183937" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T03:16:18.310" Title="Where should I ask a question involving rsync, Mac, and NTFS?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4142" CreationDate="2016-08-10T05:26:06.890" Score="5" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I got &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/153758&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt;, and read through it. The already marked reason for closing, was to close it based on the &quot;problem went away because of a typo&quot;, which—looking at the comments—seemed reasonable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before voting to close however, I took the time to look up the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_Mint_releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Linux Mint releases information&lt;/a&gt; to be able to provide a link, in a comment, asking the OP why one would want to install a version of Mint for which support ended in May 2014, intending to point out the risks of doing so in the comment. Only after looking that up did I see that the post for review was from 2013, which made making such a comment kind of inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently it looks like some background process digs up such old posts for review, or else it seems that someone systematically goes over older stuff. That is fine, and I don't mind doing the reviews as they trickle in, but it would be nice to have some banner more clearly indicating that these are old posts brought up for clean-up. Assuming some automated process inserts these old posts in the review queue, can we get such a banner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative is that I constantly put up my glasses while reviewing. The low contrast light-gray colored date information (on a light-blue background) is just beyond the edge of what I can comfortably read on my computer screen with my old eyes. (Normal black on white text I can still read, but for how long?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T17:37:48.900" Title="Marking &quot;old post reviews&quot; with a banner" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2016-08-10T06:32:58.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think certain cases justify a disclaimer, but it's merely a way for the answerer to advise carefulness in the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The terms of the site protect it from user's mistakes anyway, and abusing disclaimers would probably become annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167583" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T06:32:58.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-10T22:27:54.347" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a question (now deleted), and I created a tag for it, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sys&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sys&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sys&lt;/a&gt;. I looked for it before and didn't know it was the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sysfs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sysfs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sysfs&lt;/a&gt;. I figured out from a comment to my question. The question was about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sys&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sys&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sys&lt;/a&gt; in general and I thought it's too broad and closed it down. Now I want to also clean up the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sys&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sys&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sys&lt;/a&gt; tag, but don't know how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should it stay and be added to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sys&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sys&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sys&lt;/a&gt;'s synonyms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2016-08-10T23:10:55.863" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T23:10:55.863" Title="Deleting a tag (/sys)" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4141" CreationDate="2016-08-11T02:12:06.193" Score="-3" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;And 5 respect points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think this is a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T07:19:12.600" Title="Should a person who asks the 100k-th question get a special badge?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4140" CreationDate="2016-08-11T07:19:12.600" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd think not. First, I'm not sure it's even possible with the Stack Exchange software to do that... But I'll leave that to an SE person to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are used to encourage behavior beneficial to the site. Trying to time your question to be a certain question number isn't (at best, it's neutral). And would you want to award a badge if it turns out to the 100k question is not a good question? Or what if it's by a not even registered user? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are also, with the exception of the beta badge, something everyone can earn. The folks who got the site going in beta did something important, so that's justifiably different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, badges are because you accomplished something, you earn them. But asking the Nth question isn't something you've earned, you could have just stumbled across this site and its your first question. You didn't really do anything to earn a badge—it was the work of everyone else collectively that created 100k questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Celebration is probably in order, but giving a random lucky person a badge isn't the way to do it. It's an accomplishment of everyone working together, of the site, not of an individual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T07:19:12.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4137" CreationDate="2016-08-11T17:37:48.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something like this as a user stylesheet might help, though unfortunately would require yearly maintenance. JavaScript could do a proper date test and eliminate the maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackexchange.com&quot;) {&#xA;  span.relativetime[title^=&quot;200&quot;],&#xA;  span.relativetime[title^=&quot;2010&quot;],&#xA;  span.relativetime[title^=&quot;2011&quot;],&#xA;  span.relativetime[title^=&quot;2012&quot;],&#xA;  span.relativetime[title^=&quot;2013&quot;],&#xA;  span.relativetime[title^=&quot;2014&quot;],&#xA;  span.relativetime[title^=&quot;2015&quot;]&#xA;  {&#xA;    background-color: red;&#xA;    color: black;&#xA;    font-weight: bold;&#xA;    padding: 4px;&#xA;    border: 2px solid black;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T17:37:48.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2016-08-12T15:53:52.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The disclaimer is present in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Services, Content, Network and any Software are provided on an &quot;as is&quot; basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot more similar language that only concerns Stack Exchange's liability and not content authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of Stack Exchange sites that have an additional disclaimer, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6/updated-can-we-get-a-blanket-disclaimer-out-of-the-way&quot;&gt;Law&lt;/a&gt; (text linking to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/help/disclaimer&quot;&gt;disclaimer page&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess a tweaked version of that could be put in the help section of every site. Out of the way — &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; on every page. We don't need more useless verbiage on every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone doesn't use their brain before copying and pasting, they won't pay attention to disclaimers either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should of course make it clear when a command is dangerous. When the question is about deleting file, it is obvious that answers will show how to delete files, and people copy-pasting blindly risk deleting the wrong files. No amount of additional disclaimers is going to deter the blind copy-pasters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:00:26.207" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T15:53:52.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-15T11:56:20.697" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have posted a question on &lt;code&gt;Unix&amp;amp;Linux&lt;/code&gt; in which I described what the inconsistent symptoms of a critical Debian-Linux behavior is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/302282/how-to-alter-memory-ram-errors-on-linux-debian-8-jessie&quot;&gt;here: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;How to alter Memory/RAM errors on Linux Debian 8 Jessie [closed]&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I invested much time trying to solve it by doing research, experimenting with proposed solutions, and exposing the detailed description of the symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First the question was put &quot;on-hold&quot;, arguing that it would be &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. I'm not really sure if all the five voters read the post carefully. However, I've adapted some parts as well as the title -- as described in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;Help Center advices&lt;/a&gt; --, trying to conform with the request. Now the question turned closed. The reason remains unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reputation is not high. However, I'm not new to &lt;code&gt;StackExchange&lt;/code&gt;, asked many questions, and no-one considered my questions &quot;unclear&quot;. Consequently I find this &quot;unclear&quot; labeling arbitrary -- and certainly more unclear then the post itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T19:48:32.820" Title="Avoid being put [on-hold/close]: What are the required question elements in order to be evidently clear?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4144" CreationDate="2016-08-15T12:01:59.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the main issue is that it's hard to understand what your actual problem is. Are you asking how to fix your firefox issue? Are you asking for help in interpreting your memtest results? Both? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, when asking, it is a good idea to include a final sentence that clearly states what question you are trying to ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:01:59.300" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2016-08-15T20:54:47.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be a question for the law stack exchange. According to my sense of justice, no one who gives free advice in a setting like Stackexchange is in any way accountable for damages which occur from people using that knowledge, but courts all over the world may disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's possible for users to be held accountable after all (in a legal manner, beyond downvoting ;-) ) then I think all stackexchange sites should include waivers into their terms of use to also protect the actual content authors and not just themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think it's a highly unlikely scenario that someone would try to sue over a destructive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the topic of disclaimers: Well, if any, I guess they should be voted on on a per question answer. Because if the question is about something critical (like deleting files) then &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers will be prone to destructive behaviour if they contain any mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think it would be very hard to decide, probably rather subjective, and so probably not productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117010" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T20:54:47.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4149" CreationDate="2016-08-16T01:17:25.753" Score="19" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems redundant to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jobs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jobs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jobs&lt;/a&gt; just says &quot;Job control in a shell,&quot; but the full wiki is more useful and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A job is a process or group of processes which is managed by a shell running in a terminal. The shell tracks which job is in the foreground, reports jobs' termination, can suspend and resume jobs, and can send signals to running jobs. This feature is known as job control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-control&lt;/a&gt; tag has no wiki entry, but a longer usage excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about the various ways jobs can be controlled by the shell: suspending, resuming, terminating execution etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason for these to be separate tags.  If anyone disagrees with this, what should be the distinction between their uses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we merge these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-08-22T22:11:53.743" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T22:15:22.173" Title="Why are there tags for &quot;jobs&quot; and &quot;job-control&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4148" CreationDate="2016-08-22T22:15:22.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-control&lt;/a&gt; is mostly used for shell job control, i.e. most questions revolve around &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;fg&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;bg&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;nohup&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;disown&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jobs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jobs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jobs&lt;/a&gt; is used mainly for job control but also for background processes. (And occasionally for people asking for or offering work…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should go through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jobs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jobs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jobs&lt;/a&gt; and retag some questions that aren't about shell job control but about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/background-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;background-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;background-process&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batch-jobs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batch-jobs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batch-jobs&lt;/a&gt;. Once this is done (but not before), merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jobs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jobs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jobs&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/job-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;job-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;job-control&lt;/a&gt; and remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jobs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jobs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jobs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T22:15:22.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4150" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4151" CreationDate="2016-08-25T08:14:07.327" Score="22" ViewCount="484" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently found this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/281881/is-it-possible-to-convert-audio-to-midi-with-the-shell/305576?noredirect=1#comment536841_305576&quot;&gt;Is it possible to convert audio to midi with the shell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the person actually leading to the answer used the comments section to provide his answer instead of posting an &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; answer post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who asked the question then added an answer based on what the other person had written in the comments and accepted his own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this would seem like &amp;quot;reputation theft&amp;quot;, but here's a different issue: the person that answered in the comments seems like he isn't active anymore. The answer was given eight months ago, and the user hasn't received any more rep. since. On the other hand, that user seems to be quite active on &lt;a href=&quot;http://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unsure how to deal with things like that. Should it be transferred to the community wiki or something? Should I flag this question and/or answer in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1290" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-01-21T13:05:56.523" LastActivityDate="2023-01-21T13:05:56.523" Title="How should we deal with question answered in the comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|self-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2016-08-25T09:36:42.813" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers posted as comments are fair game. Here's what Tim Post, the Director of Stack Overflow Communities &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/157912/203101&quot;&gt;has to say&lt;/a&gt; about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have anything to feel guilty about. If the person was interested in writing and maintaining an answer, they would have done so. If it was in fact the correct answer it's hardly likely that they would be the only one to think of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing what you did by expanding it into a proper answer is perfectly fine. The question came off the unanswered list, the answer exists in a much more articulated state to help future visitors and at the end of the day everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers posted as comments are actively harmful to the site. They can't be voted for or against, and they leave the question unanswered. Answers should be posted as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, nobody did anything wrong here and nothing should be flagged. The OP waited a few months (&lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt;!) and, when the person who commented never expanded their comment into an answer, they did the right thing and posted it themselves. All's well that ends well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T00:10:03.307" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4154" CreationDate="2016-08-28T21:23:59.810" Score="11" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/304920/what-are-methods-for-recovering-a-linux-kernel-config&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; and spent a long time wordsmithing it before submitting.  The entire idea was to demonstrate that there were many things I had checked and save time from people suggesting those answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is I keep getting answers which show people are not even reading the original question.  What is the correct thing to do here?  I'm commenting on each one individually but there isn't a &quot;flag&quot; option of &quot;didn't bother to read the question&quot; and thus I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; flagging is the right answer.  Any thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14189" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T21:49:06.880" Title="What to do about poor quality answers?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2016-09-02T23:03:36.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am afraid that searching for a solution on Google has become a quasi-synonym of searching on Stack Exchange, seen the number of posts from Q&amp;amp;A sites that come up at the top of the results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I have experienced that getting hold of  &lt;em&gt;definitions&lt;/em&gt; of something on the www is discouraging because the number of people who struggled with that something is so high that the number of Q&amp;amp;A is overwhelming. The so-called &lt;em&gt;general reference&lt;/em&gt; disappears towards the tail of the listing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skimming through search results can be so exhausting that one just throws down a new question, only for a greater sense of helplessness and urge caused by the search itself. Moreover, smaller devices only augment the eye discomfort and often invite using poor-quality time for activities that actually demand sustained focus and critical thinking. Hence, a shorter attention span and so forth... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in many a parlance, &lt;em&gt;search it on Google&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;google it&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;you'll find it on Google&lt;/em&gt; has become a sloppy replacement for &lt;em&gt;you'll get it sorted yourself, won't you&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;I am a great expert, but thanks to Google I don't need try and explain myself, right?&lt;/em&gt;. This creates inflation of questions, I presume. (Not to mention that this may sound unfair to other search engines that are not Google...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that we should take into account the potential role of these situations in figuring out the trends within SE and the like. The risk that I see that the more search engines tap from Q&amp;amp;A questions (fair in itself), the more fractal the path to the understanding of what the question is about in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible mitigation measures. Have Q&amp;amp;A forums glossaries where the visitors can first figure out what they are trying to target first, and then formulate their questions? Would it be useful that to give more prominence to the tags and make their definitions serve as path-finders ahead of the question? Should search engines privilege the &lt;em&gt;what is?&lt;/em&gt; questions, rather?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132913" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T23:03:36.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4152" CreationDate="2016-09-04T21:49:06.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would go and downvote the answer along with a comment, to educate the user. In addition to that, I would also flag the question as &quot;Very Low Quality&quot; if it is really that bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way community knows about the questions poor state and with the flagging others, with responsability are being informed of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157052" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T21:49:06.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4156" CreationDate="2016-09-05T00:11:19.047" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307879/does-linux-operating-systems-not-run-as-hot-as-windows-10&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307879/does-linux-operating-systems-not-run-as-hot-as-windows-10&lt;/a&gt; I see the question has been marked as &quot;put on hold as unclear what you're asking by Thomas Dickey, jasonwryan, Stephen Harris, Scott, Jeff Schaller 7 mins ago&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I marked it as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; (because it's very very dependent on the hardware, the drivers, the OS version...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for being put on hold is now attributing to me a statement I didn't make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This isn't the first time I've seen this; just the first time I've been motivated to ask :-))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a site issue, or am I misunderstanding the message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T23:11:16.247" Title="Is the &quot;On hold&quot; message sometimes wrong?" Tags="|support|close-reasons|vote-to-close|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4155" CreationDate="2016-09-05T08:59:51.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What Jasonwryan said. When more than one close reason has been chosen by the people who voted to close, the most popular one is shown. I'm not sure what happens if each voter chose a different one and we end up with 5 separate reasons, but in all other cases, there will be at least one reason with more votes and that's the one which will be shown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T08:59:51.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4155" CreationDate="2016-09-08T23:11:16.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a known issue; you are not the only one who dislikes having your name associated with an opinion you may not share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are so inclined, I suggest you add your voice to the discussion on Meta of this subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/54917/307622&quot;&gt;Distinguish close votes by reason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T23:11:16.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4159" CreationDate="2016-09-09T08:02:03.090" Score="3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the question I want to discuss about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/261799&quot;&gt;Delayed Expansion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to know why the &quot;Any help is appreciated!&quot; message was &lt;a href=&quot;//unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/261799/6&quot;&gt;removed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have put such a message in AU questions too, but I don't know if it's an Ask Ubuntu thing or a general one. That's because this sort of thing was very popular on AU in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe I can't show my appreciation here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81848" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T09:26:12.850" Title="Can't show appreciation?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2016-09-09T09:25:36.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Messages like the one you mention, or &quot;Hello!&quot;, &quot;Thanks&quot; etc, are considered noise on the Stack Exchange network sites. SE aims to create a repository of knowledge in the form of questions and answers. It is not trying to be a forum where discussion occurs, so anything that doesn't actively contribute to the question is considered noise. That, in fact, is the first information given to new users when they take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site is all about getting answers. It's not a discussion forum. &lt;strong&gt;There's no chit-chat&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ideal question would contain absolutely nothing that doesn't help the question be understood. So, a message like &quot;Any help is appreciated&quot; is completely useless. Of course help is appreciated, you wouldn't be posting here if you didn't need help. All that adds is one more line to your question and doesn't help clarify it in any way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, questions and answers on SE sites are not only for the person asking them. The whole idea is that other people will find them useful so personalizing them in any way isn't a very good idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your appreciation can be expressed with upvotes and/or by accepting answers. Nothing more is needed since nothing more is useful to the site. Don't worry, nobody will think you rude if you don't leave a &quot;Thanks!&quot; comment (that will be deleted as &quot;too chatty&quot; anyway) or if you don't sign off your question as though it were a letter. Different places have different cultures and norms and the SE norms are against anything that can be seen as noise. Such things are routinely removed from questions and answers across the SE network. Here's the relevant discussion (well, one of them, there are loads) from the main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2950/203101&quot;&gt;Should &amp;#39;Hi&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;thanks&amp;#39;, taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T09:25:36.517" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4162" CreationDate="2016-09-09T12:57:00.487" Score="7" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently flagged an answer because I (erroneously, as it turned out) believed it to cause harm. The flag was declined on the ground that the purpose of a flag is not to judge technical content. Agreed. However, what if the advice really causes harm (say, it bricks a device)? What about malicious advice as in the following scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: I am a newbie and I need help on xyz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: yada yada yada ... and &lt;code&gt;rm -Rf /&lt;/code&gt; will do what you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T04:48:02.540" Title="What to do about dangerous or malicious advice in an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4160" CreationDate="2016-09-09T13:04:31.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, if it is something &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; dangerous like deleting the EFI firmware or something, that should probably be flagged. For other things, just downvote and/or leave a comment explaining why the command is dangerous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T13:04:31.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4160" CreationDate="2016-09-09T15:12:19.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site has only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;a few moderators&lt;/a&gt; who handle all the flags, and while they're all fairly knowledgeable folks, they're not expected to be (nor are they) competent technical reviewers for any arbitrary question on the site.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; It's pretty reasonable to ask them to handle obviously bad advice (like your &lt;code&gt;rm -Rf /&lt;/code&gt; example&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;), but that's obvious trolling. Moderators should delete trolling and ban trolls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are plenty of harmful answers that are given in good faith, and may require specific expertise to spot. If we asked our moderators to deal with those, they'd probably wind up trying to find some experts to ask. But if you can find a few experts to ask, you don't actually need the moderators—the experts can just downvote it, leave comments, etc. And just as importantly, they can write and/or upvote good answers as well. So, generally, we don't expect our moderators to deal with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what you can do when you spot an answer you think is harmful, but not trolling:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment explaining why it's harmful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you feel strongly about it and/or its very harmful, and you have sufficient rep (2k+), edit the answer to warn the reader to first review the comments. Just a note to make sure the reader is aware of the comments—don't try to start an edit war with the author. With &amp;lt;2k you could try to put that through the edit review queue, but I'm not sure how it'd fare.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask about the question on &lt;code&gt;#&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt; to get more people to review (and vote on) the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask about the question here on meta, again to get more people to review and vote on the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At this point, if it's agreed to be harmful and somehow hasn't already been voted into oblivion, I suppose a moderator would probably be willing to delete it.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, most of the time you see an incorrect answer (even that is harmful in that it wastes everyone's time), you don't get past steps 1 or 2. You should only very rarely get to step 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some special cases that a moderator might be willing to delete earlier—e.g., if we got a highly-voted, wrong answer migrated from a larger site. It could take forever for us to outvote the migrated votes from Stack Overflow or Super User, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;If they actually are, I have a few unanswered questions I'd like to flag for moderator attention.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Actually not harmful with a semi-recent coreutils.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;I'm not a moderator, so I can't say for sure.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T04:48:02.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4164" CreationDate="2016-09-09T20:11:14.567" Score="16" ViewCount="549" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;em&gt;scored&lt;/em&gt; 4 close votes on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/308943/why-does-plan-9-use-snarf-instead-of-copy&quot;&gt;my question regarding the reason behind using the &quot;snarf&quot; word instead of &quot;copy&quot; in Plan 9 applications (link)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that questions about history (there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot;&gt;234 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; at the moment) and Plan 9 (see &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2635/did-we-ever-come-to-a-consensus-regarding-plan-9-questions&quot;&gt;Did we ever come to a consensus regarding Plan 9 questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) are both welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not understand the reason of the close votes I receive, especially that I receive no feedback. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you got any idea why people vote to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/308943/why-does-plan-9-use-snarf-instead-of-copy&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is very specific and is definitely not opinion based. The reason why &lt;em&gt;snarf&lt;/em&gt; is used instead of &lt;em&gt;copy&lt;/em&gt; is a fact and I believe there might be a reason for that. There are some well-received questions which ask about similar things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243262/what-is-the-significance-of-tab-e-g-in-crontab-or-initab&quot;&gt;What is the significance of &amp;quot;tab&amp;quot; e.g. in &amp;quot;crontab&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;initab&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103307/what-does-the-f-in-fdisk-stand-for&quot;&gt;What does the &amp;quot;f&amp;quot; in fdisk stand for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6804/what-does-dd-stand-for&quot;&gt;What does dd stand for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the my question is simply obvious to other community members (due to the fact that I am not a native English speaker). Nevertheless, this should not be the reason to put questions on hold as it is discussed in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/rejecting-obvious-questions?rq=1&quot;&gt;Rejecting obvious questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update: The question was reopen&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for voting to reopen my question. Nevertheless, I'd like to know what cause putting it on hold in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T04:22:37.773" Title="Closing votes on a historic question about Plan 9" Tags="|discussion|scope|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4163" CreationDate="2016-09-10T09:52:52.353" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW: I don't see the point in taking questions on historical design decisions as &quot;opinion-based&quot; either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, there's usually a factual answer as to why the choice was made, &lt;em&gt;even if it's just&lt;/em&gt; that some grand old hacker wanted to do it that way 20 years ago. Though an answer like that would need a reference, otherwise it will seem like a flippant remark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T09:52:52.353" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4166" CreationDate="2016-09-12T11:14:57.847" Score="10" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wanting to undo tmux breakout pane I've searched for answer, found it, but as it seemingly addressed a similar problem and didn't work for me I asked my own question. Turns out, I should've read deeper, or change perspectives and read, as when few folks kindly pointed out my question was a dupe, I re-read the question they pointed to and found one remark, that in the end was crucial to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question has the answer there. It is a dupe. I'm now wondering, if I'd found it without being pointed that my question is a duplicate. So, for obvious bias, I'm turning here for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My tmux question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/309241/bring-a-broken-out-pane-back-to-window-in-tmux&quot;&gt;Bring a broken out pane back to window in tmux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pondering: &lt;strong&gt;DELETE&lt;/strong&gt;, leave for two weeks and see if anybody has that problem, then leave or delete, leave. Advice from other members is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65176" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T01:09:47.403" Title="Delete, wait and see or leave?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4165" CreationDate="2016-09-12T11:26:45.997" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave it alone. Duplicates are useful for the site since they help other users find the right answer. There is absolutely no reason to delete your question and very good reason not to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So do nothing. You have your answer, the question is correctly marked as a duplicate and all is well with the world :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T11:26:45.997" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4163" CreationDate="2016-09-17T04:22:37.773" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;I do not understand the reason of the close votes I receive, especially that I receive no feedback.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My hypothesis, based on some similar experiences: &quot;moderators are people too,&quot; &quot;power tends to corrupt,&quot; hence folks sometimes feel authorized to snap-close questions that don't appeal to them personally. Especially moderators who occasionally allow their dedication to Specific Questions and Stack Hygiene to go to extremes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38638" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T04:22:37.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3854" CreationDate="2016-09-20T21:30:32.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;See all questions with active bounties http://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/unix.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9454" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T21:30:32.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4174" CreationDate="2016-09-21T11:07:09.010" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask why we need cpu modes, and also if being in one cpu mode applies to the entire IC or the cores. (not sure if this behaviour is ISA related. But if so, then in context of the x86 architecture)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By hardware questions I mean things that are really high tech, not like what voltage indicates a 1 or 0 inside a computer. But things that are above the instruction set border. Considering that the computer architecture is something that applies to all operating systems, so it wouldn't be a unix related question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="181999" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-09-21T12:23:11.527" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T01:28:46.993" Title="Can I ask hardware specific questions here?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4170" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4172" CreationDate="2016-09-21T12:37:44.937" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following up on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3122/64248&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (and its answers), I was recently confronted with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/309572/64248&quot;&gt;one of Stephane's answers&lt;/a&gt; in the LQPRQ. I commented that he should know better, he responded that &lt;em&gt;awk code is self-explanatory&lt;/em&gt; and no further explanation is necessary. In some sense there is a point, as: what else should there be? - The answers solves the question. However, not everyone speaks awk as fluently as him, so the whole issue of code-only answers is still bothering me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, once in a while I come across other users' code-only answers in the LQPRQ, and my (preliminary) take on those is that they &quot;Look OK&quot;, where I leave to the users to judge whether the solution works or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I am not certain whether this is the right thing to do (bearing in mind the question &lt;em&gt;what else should there be if the code answers the question?&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a more precise guideline for such cases? How do sites like SuperUser or StackOverflow handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T13:13:12.203" Title="Reviewing Low Quality Posts that are Code Only" Tags="|discussion|review|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4169" CreationDate="2016-09-21T14:46:20.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it wouldn't be a unix related question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems an odd place to ask it then. Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T14:46:20.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4170" CreationDate="2016-09-22T13:13:12.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel an answer isn't good, feel free to downvote it. That it was written by a high-rep user is irrelevant. Personally, I agree that an answer which is just code is rarely useful and some explanation is always helpful. On the other hand, I also understand that for very simple things, the explanation would have to explain the most basic syntax of the language/tool used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while I tend to try and explain even things like &quot;awk reads your file line by line, splitting into fields which are then available as $1, $2 ... $N&quot;, I can understand why someone would say that that is too simple. And yes, a code-only answer that works and does what was asked for is better than no answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, an answer that provides both code and guidance is always to be preferred. As for the specific user you mention, he has been known to explain his answers. When he feels it necessary, he can even provide &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/65819/22222&quot;&gt;small essays&lt;/a&gt;. So I wouldn't call it a general problem. He just seems to feel that some things are self explanatory. And they are, as long as you are passingly familiar with awk anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in the beginning, however, if you feel it isn't a good answer, &lt;em&gt;downvote it&lt;/em&gt;! Don't be afraid to downvote high rep, knowledgeable users when their answers deserve it. Nobody's perfect (and they won't know it was you anyway ;) ). Alternatively, and preferably, leave them a comment asking for an explanation. They might comply. Finally, if you're feeling particularly helpful, edit the answer and add the explanation yourself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T13:13:12.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4165" CreationDate="2016-09-23T01:09:47.403" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with terdon, but since you said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...I re-read the question they pointed to and found &lt;strong&gt;one remark, that in the end was crucial to the answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add that it would be a very good idea to specify which one remark that was, &lt;em&gt;somewhere.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could put a comment on the answer that helped, quoting the important line and emphasizing its importance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could put a comment on your question, linking directly to the answer that helped and specifying which was the crucial sentence (by quoting it in your comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing which is the &lt;em&gt;important&lt;/em&gt; sentence of the answer is a useful addition to the community's knowledge.  And knowing its relevance to your duplicate question (by a comment on your question) would enhance your question's value as a sign board pointing to the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And of course, if that one important remark was in a comment, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in an answer, then put it in an answer!  Comments are temporary.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T01:09:47.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4169" CreationDate="2016-09-23T01:28:46.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; seems to be an appropriate place for such questions;&#xA;see, for example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/q/634733/150988&quot;&gt;Why so many modes are in CPU?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/q/163971/150988&quot;&gt;Protected mode and Real mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/q/167746/150988&quot;&gt;Kernel and User mode distinguishing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/search?q=cpu+mode+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;about 800 others&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:24.263" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T01:28:46.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-24T05:25:11.500" Score="26" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was answering a post that involved the key combos &lt;code&gt;ctrl+,&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;ctrl+,&lt;/code&gt;. I was going to use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags, but they look the same for &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;,&lt;/code&gt; - or at least too close for me to tell the difference without sitting 3 inches from the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;,&lt;/kbd&gt;  (this is a comma)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;.&lt;/kbd&gt; (this is a period)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen resolution is 1920x1080, it's the same in Chrome and Edge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndNwE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndNwE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28569" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T00:01:40.920" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T00:18:38.403" Title="Is it possible to have the &lt;kbd&gt; for the comma enlarged?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|fonts|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-24T19:47:16.100" Score="3" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been working recently with content falling under the heading &lt;em&gt;Radio Frequency&lt;/em&gt;. I've noticed the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt; is synonymous with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, it defaults to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;, and this is reasonable considering its proper usage. But as for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wireless&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wireless&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt;, I'd rather not have it a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &lt;em&gt;wireless&lt;/em&gt; in its basic or original meaning denotes a communication technology, which doesn't employ a wire, in general. And what I would do is to make it stand for itself for the wireless communication in general. Moreover, I'd make it synonymous with a yet nonexistent tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rf&lt;/a&gt;, denoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_frequency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Radio Frequency&lt;/a&gt; technologies ranging from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bluetooth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bluetooth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bluetooth&lt;/a&gt; through &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mobile&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mobile&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mobile&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/satellite&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;satellite&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;satellite&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the Wikipedia's entry for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wireless&lt;/a&gt;. Also notice how the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Network Engineers&lt;/a&gt; have it organised:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/ieee-802.11/synonyms&quot;&gt;wifi&lt;/a&gt; is synonymous there with &lt;a href=&quot;https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/ieee-802.11/info&quot;&gt;ieee-802.11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;while &lt;a href=&quot;https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/wireless/info&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt; has this usage instruction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For WiFi or 802.11 questions, please use the [ieee-802.11] tag. For&#xA;  questions about wireless networking, including any licensed or&#xA;  unlicensed RF medium used to provide point-to-point or&#xA;  point-to-multipoint network links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T00:11:03.337" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T00:11:03.337" Title="Unplug the /wireless tag from /wifi" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4035" CreationDate="2016-09-24T21:22:26.103" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, &lt;em&gt;Wi-Fi&lt;/em&gt; stands in the marketing lingo for the standard &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IEEE_802.11&lt;/a&gt;. That's why the name is met on router labels, most likely with a specifier added like &lt;em&gt;802.11b&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;802.11g&lt;/em&gt;. So &lt;em&gt;in its strict meaning&lt;/em&gt; this term denotes a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_layer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;physical layer&lt;/a&gt; standard, as seen in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OSI Model&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;em&gt;WLAN&lt;/em&gt;, it denotes a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_area_network&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Local Area Network&lt;/a&gt;, which uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wireless&lt;/a&gt; or (another name) &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_frequency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;radio&lt;/a&gt; interfaces as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_layer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;physical layer&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OSI Model&lt;/a&gt;, though not necessarily exclusively. So a &lt;em&gt;WLAN&lt;/em&gt; is a &lt;em&gt;LAN&lt;/em&gt;, but the name indicates a radio access way is present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference is then one between &lt;em&gt;an area network&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;a protocol group&lt;/em&gt;. The contrast becomes sharper when you compare both terms against &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_WAN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wireless WAN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;WWAN&lt;/em&gt; for short. Here the physical radio layer part has many faces, not just Wi-Fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is then intuitively clear to me that as far as &lt;em&gt;strictness&lt;/em&gt; is concerned, &lt;em&gt;WLAN&lt;/em&gt; is a more appropriate name for &lt;em&gt;Wireless LAN&lt;/em&gt; than &lt;em&gt;Wi-Fi&lt;/em&gt;. The latter, however, can be used to denote &lt;em&gt;WLAN&lt;/em&gt; in its (&lt;em&gt;Wi-Fi&lt;/em&gt;'s) figurative, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;metonymous&lt;/a&gt; sense, which is far from precision, but is more popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T21:22:26.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-26T08:54:15.923" Score="-5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Ask Ubuntu does exist only for the shake of canonical (the company behind ubuntu). It is definately under the scope of (and hence the duplicate of) Unix &amp;amp; Linux. Unix &amp;amp; Linux misses many useful question because users of Ubuntu prefer to post on AU instead if U&amp;amp;L. Especially command-line, shell-scripting, text-processing, package-management etc are which U&amp;amp;L deserves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Ask Ubuntu should be merged into Unix &amp;amp; Linux which is the world for unix-like operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or at-least I'm requesting to post a page at the help center or meta of AU to encourage users to post their non-ubintu_specific questions on Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user191877" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-09-26T13:57:17.977" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T13:57:17.977" Title="Merge Ask Ubuntu into Unix &amp; Linux" Tags="|discussion|ubuntu|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-10-04T22:15:34.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4178" CreationDate="2016-09-26T09:48:09.480" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;AskUbuntu is the &lt;strong&gt;official&lt;/strong&gt; support site for Ubuntu. Canonical does not need to provide support for other operating systems than their own so the split between AU and U&amp;amp;L is a valid one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10017" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T09:48:09.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4178" CreationDate="2016-09-26T11:43:07.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, there actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a page on the Ask Ubuntu help center directing users here. This is a quote from AU's &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;on topic&amp;quot; help page&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that you should avoid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04) and other Linux distributions (&lt;strong&gt;try our friends at &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, while the scopes of the two sites most certainly do overlap, they are not identical. We deal with all *nix systems while AU only deals with Ubuntu flavors. Furthermore, AU covers services provided by Canonical such as Launchpad, Ubuntu One, Ubuntu Advantage and anything else offered by Canonical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the majority of Ubuntu users use Unity, a desktop environment that is almost exclusively used by Ubuntu users and, therefore, questions about Unity, while perfectly on topic here, are unlikely to find an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, while the scopes of the two sites clearly overlap, they are not identical. Some things that are on topic on AU are not on topic here and vice versa. More importantly, the character of the two sites is quite different. We're much more command line oriented while AU focuses most often on GUI approaches. The users of AU do not care about portability issues or other non-Ubuntu OSs. Also, since AU is actually officially recognized as a support portal by Canonical, AU gets loads of questions from users who have no idea how the SE model works. I can assure you that the U&amp;amp;L users have no interest in receiving those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, yes there are command line questions asked on AU instead of here. However, shell scripting is on topic on AU, U&amp;amp;L, Stack Overflow, Super User, Ask Different and probably others. We can't force people to post them here just because they're also on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the sites will not be merged since they cater to different audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T11:43:07.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4175" CreationDate="2016-09-26T17:52:45.083" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;For discussion, a possible improvement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YYi2g.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YYi2g.png&quot; alt=&quot;big comma key screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is a screenshot, created with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&quot;transform-origin:bottom;transform:scale(3) translateY(0.4ex)&quot;&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For something that's supposed to look like a comma &lt;em&gt;key&lt;/em&gt;, there's no reason for it to be proportional to the size of the letters on a letter key. Why &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; blow it up so it occupies half of the available space? (The only reason not to occupy &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the space is to avoid confusion with the apostrophe key)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CSS transforms are tricky, so this isn't a great solution. But ignoring the implementation difficulty, I wanted to put this out there to demonstrate emphatic agreement that the current font is way WAY &lt;strong&gt;WAY&lt;/strong&gt; too small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user41515" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T17:52:45.083" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-27T00:23:24.413" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this site, Alpine can refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alpine Linux&lt;/a&gt;, a Linux distribution, or to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alpine&lt;/a&gt;, an email client (an open source rewrite of Pine). Until a few minutes ago, both used the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine&lt;/a&gt;. Out of 26 questions with the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16 referred to the email client, and I left them tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 referred to the distribution, and I retagged 8 to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine-linux&lt;/a&gt; and removed the tag from the 2 others because the distribution was only incidental to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the email client has the majority, this seems to be changing quickly: out of 11 questions with the tag posted in 2016, 9 referred to the distribution. Should we rename the tag for the email client?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T00:51:16.667" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T00:51:16.667" Title="The uphill battle for /alpine" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4184" CreationDate="2016-09-27T00:51:01.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine-mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine-mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine-mail&lt;/a&gt; should work, providing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine&lt;/a&gt; is removed so people can't inadvertently use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T00:51:01.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-29T01:52:34.347" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to find a post of mine, answered by a user e.g. Gilles, with &quot;encoding&quot; in his reply. Can I do that either on the main site or on data.SE site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T18:13:39.453" Title="How to search for a post of mine answered by a particular user with some word in his reply?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4186" CreationDate="2016-09-29T18:13:39.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the main site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search options&lt;/a&gt; are advanced enough to let you find posts by a particular user that are answers to questions by another particular user. It's pretty easy with the data explorer though: &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/546618?AnswererId=885&amp;amp;BodyText=encoding&amp;amp;UserId=674&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/546618?AnswererId=885&amp;amp;BodyText=encoding&amp;amp;UserId=674&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:06.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T18:13:39.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4188" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-10-03T15:14:23.107" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-10-03T15:14:23.107" LastActivityDate="2016-10-03T15:14:23.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4189" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-10-03T15:14:23.107" Score="0" Body="Questions about how to promote Unix &amp; Linux Stack Exchange, in order to attract more users. " OwnerUserId="158988" LastEditorUserId="158988" LastEditDate="2016-10-04T22:44:04.343" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T22:44:04.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4175" CreationDate="2016-10-05T10:37:27.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a solution without resorting to JS libraries or CSS hacks. If you bold the characters, they become slightly larger, making the distinction between &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;,&lt;/code&gt; more obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normal vs. &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;kbd&gt;,&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;.&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;,&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;.&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;  &#xA;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;**,**&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;**.**&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="193481" LastActivityDate="2016-10-05T10:37:27.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4175" CreationDate="2016-10-06T00:18:38.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want, you can use something like this: &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lrzd0.png&quot; alt=&quot;,&quot;&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an in-line comparison: &lt;kbd&gt;,&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lrzd0.png&quot; alt=&quot;,&quot;&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lrzd0.png&quot; alt=&quot;,&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; twice? Here's why: &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lrzd0.png&quot; alt=&quot;,&quot;&gt; (it isn't in the same line!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image is a png with exactly 261 bytes. Here's it in base64:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABIAAAATCAMAAACqTK3AAAAAWlBMVEXh4+X///+ts7nOz8/t7/DBxci1usAkJynf39/Z296Bx+Xu7uXh493UqmmnYynu+Pzc9ffh4/Ds4+Wj0+V2ueXh49Mqcbvh0bD/5K5Td64kJ1GaWyl1RylaJynnr9rlAAAAZklEQVQY05XQORKDMBBE0W6Z0WKMbfb9/tckIECaoqD44YtmGgzWRNlABMkYlUmA3eUwC0MiijSPqJ2da1L6fJ1731LJYVUEFFOtqF+6XFEx/itFP+YXp569LXocgZd0QvGgfyV5bm+YA6elnAiSAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclamer&lt;/strong&gt;: I've made the image in PNG by taking a printscreen of an oversized coma (30px) by using the element inspector. The image itself was made using MSPaint and optimized using &lt;a href=&quot;https://tinypng.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tinypng.com/&lt;/a&gt;. The double &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; was an attempt to fix the problem of the image being in weird positions. And may not work in every browser! (It doesn't work in IE11.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133591" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T00:18:38.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4193" CreationDate="2016-10-06T16:49:37.650" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently encountered this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/314774/unix-script-to-pass-variables&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/314774/unix-script-to-pass-variables&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It made me wonder how questions that are &quot;very low quality&quot; should be handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently there is a flag for &quot;very low quality&quot; answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This answer has severe formatting or content problems. &#xA;This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed. &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I encountered seems quiet obviously just a copy/paste of a homework question looking for an answer they can simply copy/paste. However it doesn't seem to actually violate any of the help center criteria &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/asking&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/asking&lt;/a&gt;. I see no issue with questions relating to homework, but &lt;em&gt;if the asker is not willing to put any effort into resolving their question&lt;/em&gt; I take issue with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest it seems is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Why do I see a message that my question does not meet quality standards?&#xA;&#xA;* Any background research you've tried but wasn't enough to solve your problem.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;How do I ask a good question?&#xA;&#xA;Search, and research&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously some questions like these make it past the quality standards filter, and most would agree it's a &quot;bad&quot; question, but it is certainly possible to answer (it is specific, on topic, and not opinion based).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the lack of effort on the asker's part is reason enough to close the question (had they done some research on their own they would have found the answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative in this case is to go looking for a duplicate, but I doubt it would help anyone, the question is downvoted/closed so it'll be at the bottom of search results for that tag, and the asker will likely ignore anything but a working solution handed to them. This just means extra work searching for an appropriate duplicate with little benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the &quot;very low quality&quot; flag also has a place for questions, with text like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This question has severe formatting or content problems. &#xA;This question demonstrates a clear lack of effort, &#xA;is unlikely to be salvageable though editing, and might need to be removed.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the community agrees that questions like these are a waste, provide little benefit to future users, and should simply be closed. As it stands the current close flags are a bit ambiguous (the closest being &quot;Off-topic&quot; which isn't really true, or &quot;Duplicate&quot; which may not be true, or puts work on legitimate users with no gain). I don't think that people should be discouraged from asking questions simply because they relate to homework, but they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be discouraged from asking questions without trying to find the answer themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67807" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T23:04:58.157" Title="Flagging questions that are &quot;Very Low Quality&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4192" CreationDate="2016-10-06T20:02:45.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off-Topic allows you to craft your own reason. That allows you to accomplish three things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provide specific feedback to the asker about why their question is being closed where one of the canned responses is inadequate or ambiguous&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;signal to the people in the review queue the exact rationale for the question being marked for closure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(perhaps) discourage people from &quot;helpfully&quot; providing answers to questions that really should be closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This last point is (increasingly) important because the last thing that this community needs is to encourage the sort of drive-by &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;help vampirism&lt;/a&gt; that is increasingly prevalent here as the site attracts more search engine juice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are of no value because they are almost always duplicates, but the sort of people that paste their homework are also the sort of people that lack the inclination to search themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are also not the sort of people that will ever contribute anything else to the community, so the argument that they should be gently steered towards the help pages or other documentation is flawed (if they were inclined to read documentation they wouldn't be pasting their homework here). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, there is no actual or potential benefit to this community tolerating their behaviour. Use the custom field of the Off-Topic close reason and make it clear that homework is assigned for a reason, and it &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; to drain the goodwill of open source communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2016-10-06T23:04:58.157" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T23:04:58.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-08T17:46:02.387" Score="4" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: The use of the word &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; on this site is unclear.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;See the answers for what to do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU/Linux naming controversy&lt;/a&gt; is an issue that has surprisingly not been brought up before on meta, so many people might not even know how ambiguous &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; has become this millennium. For people who haven't heard of it before, I have provided a summary. You can skip the following paragraph if you already know what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The GNU operating system began development in 1984, so that the *nix goodness could be free for all. Lots of programs had been written, but the operating system was still missing a kernel. In 1991, Linus Torvalds created a kernel which he named Linux, and packaged it with GNU shortly afterwards. People started using this new system, and it soon became widespread, along with the name &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; which to many people referred to the operating system as a whole. But other people are cross that the whole thing is being called Linux, because Linux is just a single, small (albeit important) program in the entire operating system. See &lt;a href=&quot;//www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Linux and GNU&lt;/a&gt; for a longer explanation (from one point of view) and &lt;a href=&quot;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; for more information about the conflict (at time of writing &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; biased towards the other).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; is ambiguous. Most people use the word &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; to mean GNU/Linux (the operating system / kernel pair), but this usage is &lt;em&gt;not consistent&lt;/em&gt;, even on this site alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is called Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange. It would be silly to try change that, even if there was majority consensus, and that is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; what I am asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first sentence of the tour page is as follows (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of &lt;strong&gt;Linux&lt;/strong&gt;, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like &lt;strong&gt;operating systems&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is confusing. &amp;quot;Linux is the name of a kernel, isn't it?&amp;quot;, new users could think. You might consider this nitpicking, as the word &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; obviously refers to the operating system when it's right next to the words &amp;quot;operating system&amp;quot;. But let's have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are about Linux in general -- NOT specific to a particular distribution. If the question just happens to be in a Linux environment, please specify your Linux distribution in the body of your question, but do NOT use the /linux tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki itself is fine, but the excerpt is not. Nowhere does it make it clear that it's referring mostly to the GNU operating system part, and not the Linux kernel (the part that's &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; called &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot;). Replacing the first sentence with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are about the Linux operating system in general&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, more &amp;quot;correctly&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are about GNU/Linux in general&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you want to exclude pedantic people claiming &amp;quot;this means that Android's on-topic&amp;quot; and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid the &lt;a href=&quot;//xkcd.com/927/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;standards proliferation&lt;/a&gt; issue, I have decided to limit my suggested solutions to the three most obvious ones. I do not necessarily agree with them all, especially as they contradict each other somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129690" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:36:05.343" Title="But Linux is a Kernel!" Tags="|discussion|site-name|help-center|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4194" CreationDate="2016-10-08T17:47:16.927" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Make this clearer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the phrases &quot;operating system&quot; or &quot;kernel&quot; where necessary to avoid ambiguity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129690" LastActivityDate="2016-10-08T17:47:16.927" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-10-08T17:47:16.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4194" CreationDate="2016-10-08T17:49:08.523" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Do nothing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a problem; it is fine how it is. Any confusion caused is far too minor to require any action. Any possible gain is too small to be worth the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129690" LastActivityDate="2016-10-08T17:49:08.523" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-10-08T17:49:08.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4194" CreationDate="2016-10-08T17:51:37.367" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Use the term &quot;GNU/Linux&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would kill two birds with one stone. This would not only remove ambiguity, but also help make users aware that GNU/Linux means the same as what they often call &quot;Linux&quot;, and &lt;a href=&quot;//www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all the reasons listed here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129690" LastActivityDate="2016-10-08T17:51:37.367" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-10-08T17:51:37.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4199" CreationDate="2016-10-08T19:33:17.807" Score="3" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if a question (I'm thinking of answering my own question) on how to cross compile to a specific Linux distro on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the help center&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that requests for learning materials (tutorials, how-tos etc.) are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; a request (I will be answering it), but it is a tutorial/step by step instructions. I'm thinking the title will be (to make clearer what my question will be about):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I cross compile to the Raspberry Pi from Arch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or some similar wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm under the impression that it is off-topic, is this true? Or can I post it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="194077" LastActivityDate="2016-10-09T01:33:59.417" Title="Are step by step instructions about cross compiling to a linux distro on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4198" CreationDate="2016-10-09T01:33:59.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;(In case anyone isn't familiar with how meta works: this is just my opinion, the community will indicate its agreement or disagreement by voting on it) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you have to worry about the &quot;learning materials&quot; close reason. That's more about overly broad questions, and the idea that an answer is actually supposed to answer the question, not just link to an answer elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You pretty much address those concerns by posting a good answer at the same time. That's the first caveat, it needs to be a good answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second concern is that we're focused on users and administrators of Unix-like systems, not developers. Compiling software is a concern of all three groups, but your question and answer should focus on the two that are the site's focus. If you want to focus on development, you'd need to check if it'd be accepted by Stack Overflow or the Raspberry Pi site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2016-10-09T01:33:59.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-11T17:27:01.107" Score="2" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the FreeBSD Handbook approach very effective. IMO it is comprehensive, seems to be exhaustive, and yet brief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I found that when I last night tried to install a desktop environment; xkfc. I have followed the instructions in the handbook for this, also tried the one alternative way described in the handbook for this. But I could not get an xkfc desktop for my freeBSD 10.3.  &quot;not found&quot; error when I type the &lt;code&gt;startx&lt;/code&gt; command as instructed in the handbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I ask this on the main site -- is that on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118346" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T03:47:34.563" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T03:47:34.563" Title="Is this a FreeBSD Handbook deficiency?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4200" CreationDate="2016-10-12T08:17:46.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I don't see why not. BSDs are Unices and all Unix systems are on topic on Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T08:17:46.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-12T13:39:54.127" Score="2" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to ask the following on the main site?:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the Node.js is available via &lt;strong&gt;freeBSD&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;pkg&lt;/code&gt; or probably with &lt;code&gt;ports&lt;/code&gt;. I have actually had an installation from the &lt;code&gt;pkg&lt;/code&gt; recently.&#xA;However, on Nodejs.org ther is no version for any UNIX or freeBSD. Does that mean it is not officially supported by Node.js?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118346" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T14:48:30.150" Title="Asking support status of Node.js for UNIX" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4202" CreationDate="2016-10-12T14:42:23.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two possible questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does node.js officially support BSD? This is essentially a question about a programming framework and whether or not the developers of the framework &quot;officially&quot; support operating system X. I would recommend asking on Stack Overflow instead. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can I get node.js to work on BSD? That is fine for Unix &amp;amp; Linux since you're asking how to do X on a *nix machine. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T14:42:23.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4205" CreationDate="2016-10-13T10:10:46.367" Score="9" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just reached the rep to get into the close votes review queue.  What I see there are a lot of off-topic flags with which I often do not agree.  That's sketchy so I'll add two examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/245260/midnight-commander-opens-file-wrong&quot;&gt;Midnight Commander opens file wrong&lt;/a&gt;.  Midnight commander is often regarded a an MS windows application but there is a GNU mc for Linux.  And GNU mc is certainly on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316132/find-cpu-times-and-system-times-of-process-in-linux&quot;&gt;Find CPU times and system times of process in linux&lt;/a&gt;.  Well yeah, that's C code, but the question appears to be about the &lt;code&gt;execlv&lt;/code&gt; syscall, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;C syscalls are on topic&lt;/a&gt;.  The question is not well written though, and I'd argue that it falls under the &quot;unsure what you are asking&quot; flag, but not under the off-topic flag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because I'm not sure whether it is community consensus to flag these questions as off-topic (and therefore I'm doing the opposite work by rejecting the flags and I should stop).  Or it is just a lack of attention of some users that may be flagging questions at 4AM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, are these questions really off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="172635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T10:24:28.713" Title="Flood of off-topic flags, is this the norm here?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4204" CreationDate="2016-10-13T10:24:28.713" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, congratulations and welcome to the janitorial staff! Now, finding things you don't agree with in the review queues is quite normal. That's why they're reviewed, after all. If you don't agree that a question should be closed (by the way, those are close votes, not flags), then vote to leave it open and move on. That's how it works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your specific examples, personally, I consider them both off topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/245260/midnight-commander-opens-file-wrong&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/245260/midnight-commander-opens-file-wrong&lt;/a&gt; is not being closed as off topic because anyone thought it was a Windows program (hell, I didn't even know there was a Windows &lt;code&gt;mc&lt;/code&gt;, it's always been a *nix thing for me), it's being closed as &quot;Off Topic -&gt; Non reproducible&quot; which is something else again. That's because the OP stated that they found a solution in the settings, but didn't post an answer. Since this is such a very minor issue which seems to be solvable anyway and it is an old question, closing it as non-reproducible makes sense. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316132/find-cpu-times-and-system-times-of-process-in-linux&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316132/find-cpu-times-and-system-times-of-process-in-linux&lt;/a&gt; is a C question pure and simple. Yes, it happens to use a Unix-C API call, but the question itself is not about the API or how to use it, so it isn't on topic here. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T10:24:28.713" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4206" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-22T01:53:58.443" Score="4" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I speak in particular reference to this question from today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/318075/135943&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/318075/135943&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is an exact duplicate (in different words) of the same homework question from a different user posted &lt;em&gt;yesterday&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/317816/135943&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/317816/135943&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same question was asked twice in October 2014, one of them with a slight twist (copying instead of removing, but the same example directory tree):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/164762/135943&quot;&gt;Remove parent and sub directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/162354/135943&quot;&gt;How can I copy a file from another directory to the current one?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;copying&quot; form was also posted in June 2015:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/211656/135943&quot;&gt;Copying and relative Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/211656/copying-and-relative-home#comment358558_211656&quot;&gt;a comment on this last post&lt;/a&gt; that sums up the situation (links are at the original but here is the text):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to the 2014 duplicate here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux already pointed out, this was asked on Yahoo Answers Canada and on StackOverflow (stackoverflow.com/questions/19193933) in 2013. It's part of the coursework for ULI101 at Seneca College. This year's is due in 3 days' time, and the course page says that all assignments &quot;MUST consist of the student’s OWN work&quot;. I suspect that getting a bunch of people here to do it doesn't count. – JdeBP Jun 23 '15 at 20:43 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are annoying and not the purpose of the site.  It is a relatively minor occurrence, but it spans &lt;s&gt;three&lt;/s&gt; &lt;strong&gt;four&lt;/strong&gt; different years now, if you count the Stack Overflow question as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should any new posts of this type be flagged as spam?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should any filters be modified to reject these questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-22T01:53:58.443" Title="Should commonly posted duplicate homework questions be flagged (or filtered) as spam?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4208" CreationDate="2016-10-22T21:30:40.927" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does LQ permit down-voting and up-voting with neither reason no identification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that IF a person were able to identify whom or WHY they down-voted, one could LEARN from that mistake and not do it anymore. In the instance of up-voting it would do the reverse and highlight the positives and show what others found useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases it would socially mature the individuals and thus the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171354" OwnerDisplayName="Tim Danielson" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2016-11-01T02:47:19.253" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T02:47:19.253" Title="Linux questions down-voting or up-voting?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4207" CreationDate="2016-10-22T22:50:28.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see that you've received some down votes, and your question here is probably rooted more in your reaction to receiving these than anything. I think part of your frustration is that your answer was DV'd because it was a question in the answer section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This DV was because you were using the SE site incorrectly.  See the help section: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SE sites are strongly structured in their model of Q&amp;amp;A with voting + comments. This is just how this particular site works and it's best to just adapt to it, if you want to participate within this community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other forums that do things differently, but this particular site is structured like this because Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood were trying to achieve something new on the Internet by providing a place for others to participate in a manner where experts could earn reputation through their efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The natural approach, IMO, is that if you provide users a method for earning something, means that you have to provide a method for taking that rep away, hence the voting structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people vote either way, they can leave a comment explaining why they did so or not, but they are not obligated to do so. When someone DV's a answer, they are losing a portion of their rep (-1) when they do it so they typically must feel strongly to do so, to forgo some of their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/company/management&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/company/management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T11:33:13.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4207" CreationDate="2016-10-23T00:19:46.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4208/6761&quot;&gt;slm's excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; it is worth noting that U&amp;amp;L, and the other SE sites, operate differently to most other Q&amp;amp;A sites. First, this is &lt;em&gt;a wiki&lt;/em&gt;, not a discussion board; the difference is critical to understanding how the site works. The community isn't up and down voting based on a discussion, but rather on the quality of the contribution to the page, which is a wiki for a specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the onus is on the contributors to understand how the site works and to add to the wiki accordingly. There is no need to explain why you downvote something, in almost all cases it should be self-evident. There may be exceptions to the rule, in which case people will generally comment and give the asker or answerer an opportunity to correct their contribution &lt;em&gt;before downvoting&lt;/em&gt;, but generally it is accepted to just hit the down arrow and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find you are on the receiving end of successive down votes, read the help section and ensure that your contributions are consistent with the expectations that are set out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T00:19:46.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4212" CreationDate="2016-10-24T10:57:53.350" Score="12" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once in a while I come across an old (&gt; 2 yrs, say) unanswered question of the type &lt;em&gt;I cannot build XYZ version u.v.w.&lt;/em&gt; where u.v.w. is outdated by today. I guess, chances that someone bothers to answer these questions are next to zero, and personally I would rather have them removed. But &lt;em&gt;closing&lt;/em&gt; (the option to vote for I have) means only that they cannot be answered but are still there. So should I leave them as they are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addendum: The question can be generalized to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/144823/64248&quot;&gt;questions like this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T11:05:24.687" Title="Closing unanswered questions for (now) outdated software" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4211" CreationDate="2016-10-24T11:05:24.687" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess we may as well close them. Closed questions don't count as unanswered so there's no real reason to delete and, anyway, closed questions with no answers get deleted automatically after a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what reason we'd use to close them though. Non-reproducible is probably the best choice. We might want to consider adding a new close reason for old questions if we want to take this road. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see if we can reach a consensus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T11:05:24.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-24T16:25:39.120" Score="7" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask questions now and then, and sometimes they are closed. At times I wanna re-visit my closed questions but don't know where to look at those. This is to improve the closed question and well, to ask the people who closed my question to have another look. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone elaborate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if questions are closed and after some days they are deleted, is there a time-frame for it? If yes, what is the time-frame and is the whole thing documented somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2016-10-26T01:16:16.957" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T01:16:16.957" Title="Do closed questions go to a virtual land-fill and can they be seen?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4213" CreationDate="2016-10-24T18:18:57.920" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closed questions are still accessible to anyone. You can use a couple search filters to find &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:50490+closed:yes&quot;&gt;your own closed questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:50490&lt;/code&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;) will show only your posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;closed:yes&lt;/code&gt; will show only closed questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've edited an old question and think it should be reopened, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;vote to reopen it&lt;/a&gt; and it will show up in a review queue so other users can check it and vote as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automatic deletion of questions is documented &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/enable-automatic-deletion-of-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year&quot;&gt;on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-10-25T14:54:20.983" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2016-10-31T12:18:26.783" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a Newbie in your community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I come from Germany. Forgive bad english, I never use it outside the school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;50 years old and pensioner without IT background. I had several physical Job's like (storekeeper, detergency), because i had no industrial training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bought my 1st computer 2001. After 2 months I switched from Windows XP to Linux (SuSE). Later to Debian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ lsb_release -a&#xA;No LSB modules are available.&#xA;Distributor ID: Debian&#xA;Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie)&#xA;Release:    8.6&#xA;Codename:   jessie&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most time I was learning by doing and out books. Then I discovered Internet. I'm a late bloomer :D &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most time I am active in a German Ubuntu-Forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I come here for learning and to train my brain. I am a stroke patient and I think the best way to train is to solve problems and to try learn more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I have not written any funny stuff. Leo.org is not always helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;greeting bahamut&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2018-08-08T09:58:33.000" LastActivityDate="2018-08-08T09:58:33.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-01T23:19:01.177" Score="18" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the links in the navigation bar have a space in-between the &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; and the text except for &quot;ask question.&quot; This happens both on main and on meta, and should probably be fixed at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T15:46:20.663" Title="&quot;/ask question&quot; in the site header should be changed to &quot;/ ask question&quot;" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2016-11-04T15:45:18.573" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because an alternate solution was offered in the comments, here it is for voting purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the others should be changed to conform with the Unix&#xA;convention of no spaces at the beginning of directory names&#xA;/etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;jasonwryan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T15:45:18.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2016-11-04T15:46:20.663" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For voting purposes, the original proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the links in the navigation bar have a space in-between the / and&#xA;the text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;strugee&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T15:46:20.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-08T01:49:59.083" Score="8" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think links are a pretty important aspect of many answers.&lt;/strong&gt; However, while reading an answer (and I was rereading it for about 30 minutes), I never noticed that there was actually a link in the answer as the color is very similar to the surrounding text's color. Ofcourse, this is completely subjective, other's might be seeing it just fine, but I think overall, visually, links can be improved. (I'm not color blind or anything). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a picture. (Also I must admit, after I saw it I can't unsee the dark blue, but still on my screen it's pretty hard to see). &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PJ33J.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PJ33J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="198953" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T01:49:59.083" Title="Make Link Colors Brighter and/or add Dotted Underline" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4220" CreationDate="2016-11-08T01:49:59.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Suggestion: Make links brighter, add dotted underline&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to make all links a brighter blue or a different brighter color and/or add dotted underline to all links to make it very clear there's a link. Meta.Stackoverflow uses this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IdQkD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IdQkD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="198953" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T01:49:59.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-10T23:00:10.317" Score="18" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information on the project and a call for help from the community can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286329/project-reduplication-of-deduplication-has-begun&quot;&gt;Project Reduplication of Deduplication Has Begun!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In it, Tim Post mentions that Doris Hoogeveen (me) will post a message on the different meta sites to let you know that we're ready for help. This is it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a brief summary, the project is about finding ways to automatically determine if two questions are duplicates, and also to detect the opposite: falsely tagged duplicates. To validate our methods, we need manual judgements from people who really know the data. This is where we need your help. It is impossible to manually annotate all the data from Stack Exchange, and so we have applied several filters to make sure we only show you questions pairs with a high likelihood of being duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is completely optional, and there's no minimum time requirement. There's a reputation requirement however: only people who have duplicate question tagging rights on the site can participate. That is people with at least 3000 reputation points, or a gold badge. This is to ensure the annotations are compatible with StackExchange's quality standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are interested in participating in the project, please head over to the annotation interface, which can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/se-annotate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://hum.csse.unimelb.edu.au/se-annotate/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can log in with your Stack Exchange account, so no sign up is required. The site also contains some more information on the project, which might answer some questions you may have. And I'm also happy to answer them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="197244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:36.977" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T23:58:46.697" Title="Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Unix &amp; Linux" Tags="|discussion|support|duplicate|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-11T21:04:57.567" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/322686/wget-isnt-downloading-files&quot;&gt;Wget isn&amp;#39;t downloading files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that in some instances people down-vote questions simply because they self-resolve, which seems illegitimate to me. Are there Stack Exchange guidelines on this issue? If so, what are they? If it were believed that the question might legitimately have been down-voted for other reasons could anyone tell me what they might be, because at the moment I see no ways in which it runs contrary to any site guidelines, explicit, implicit or unwritten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user196935" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T12:01:49.713" Title="Problem with downvotes for legitimate question seemingly because it self-resolved" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4223" CreationDate="2016-11-12T12:01:49.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, downvotes are left at the discretion of the users. Nobody (including mods) has any knowledge of who downvoted or why except the person who cast the vote. There is nothing anyone can do about it. Are downvotes sometimes cast unfairly? Sure. But that's life. Overall, the voting on this, and all SE sites, tends to be quite valid, but yes, sometimes things go awry. File it under &quot;people are strange&quot; and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, in your particular case, I can sort of understand the downvote. As you yourself pointed out in a comment, the file was actually there. So, either you missed it, or you were in a different directory or you were simply too tired and your eyes weren't working. That happens to the best of us, but it doesn't make for a very useful question for the site. While I personally would probably not have downvoted that, someone else felt differently. Or they were having a bad day. Or, perhaps, they hate usernames that start with the letter M. As I said in the first paragraph, this isn't something anyone can control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, just ignore it, there's nothing you or anyone else can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T12:01:49.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4228" CreationDate="2016-11-13T12:46:59.867" Score="3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/322942/how-to-use-awk-to-query-a-file-loaded-with-mapfile&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question in particular and wondering whether it would be better suited to Code Review SE than here.  It's about shell scripting, which is on topic here and so I don't have a big issue with it being asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it is a piece of functioning code (though a comment there makes me wonder if that's true, but the point of the question is about a working piece of code).  Given that it's about trying to improve the performance of a working piece of code, that would (also?) be on topic at Code Review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some questions can be on topic in many sites and it's up to the questioner to pick where they think it belongs, but should we try to migrate such questions or keep them here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109842" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T00:22:59.363" Title="Should questions about improving the performance of scripts be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4579" CreationDate="2016-11-14T22:29:13.047" Score="18" ViewCount="443" Body="&lt;p&gt;What tag name should we use for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Windows Subsystem for Linux&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The right answer is of course &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows-subsystem-for-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows-subsystem-for-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows-subsystem-for-linux&lt;/a&gt;, except that it's too long: tags are limited to 25 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WSL is an obvious choice but it's an obscure abbreviation that few people recognize at this stage. Maybe it'll become sensible in a few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the least bad abbreviation then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime I've created &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows-subsystem-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows-subsystem-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows-subsystem-linux&lt;/a&gt;, which is at least comprehensible but not so discoverable and not good in searches. Moderators please synonymize when we find a good name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T02:05:59.067" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T02:05:59.067" Title="The tag 'windows-subsystem-for-linux' is too long; the maximum length is 25 characters" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4226" CreationDate="2016-11-15T00:18:06.037" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favor of windows-subsystem-linux as it starts with &quot;windows&quot;, and so jumps out in our short list of tags that start with &quot;windows&quot;; and Windows is the base OS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WSL could be a synonym, just in case someone tries it. World Surf League is an unlikely collision.  Ditto Windows scripting language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acronymfinder.com/WSL.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.acronymfinder.com/WSL.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T00:18:06.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4225" CreationDate="2016-11-15T00:22:59.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I appreciate the sentiment behind code golf and UUOC awards, it's rare that the common, everyday scripting question on here suffers extensive runtime because of an extra process. Having said that, though, I would appreciate seeing creative solutions (with comparative benchmarks) for solving problems that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; constrained, performance-wise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go either way, but I lean towards &quot;keep&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T00:22:59.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4226" CreationDate="2016-11-15T11:12:37.223" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A windows subsystem for Linux makes me think of X11, some subsystem to manage windows on Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After googling it, it looks more like it's some Microsoft product to run GNU/Unix/Ubuntu applications on Microsoft Windows operating systems, rather than something like wine to run MS Windows applications on Linux-based systems as the name would suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, microsoft-wsl (with a link to the Microsoft page in the description) would be better as it hides the ambiguous name and makes it clear it's a Microsoft product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=microsoft-wsl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;microsoft-wsl&lt;/a&gt; google search seems to only bring up relevant links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2016-11-15T11:27:18.663" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T11:27:18.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4226" CreationDate="2016-11-16T08:47:37.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For another perspective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://AskUbuntu.com/questions/tagged/wsl&quot;&gt;wsl&lt;/a&gt; on AskUbuntu.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://AskUbuntu.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-on-windows&quot;&gt;ubuntu-on-windows&lt;/a&gt; hasn't caught on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://SuperUser.com/questions/tagged/windows-linux-subsystem&quot;&gt;windows-linux-subsystem&lt;/a&gt; on SuperUser, with &lt;code&gt;linux-windows-subsystem&lt;/code&gt; being an alias.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stéphane Chazelas is wrong about it being a Microsoft product.  It's &lt;em&gt;a combined Canonical and Microsoft product&lt;/em&gt;, with Microsoft providing the kernel and Canonical providing the shell.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from SuperUser and AskUbuntu, in fact &lt;em&gt;people normally ask&lt;/em&gt; about the Canonical-supplied parts.  There's the odd question here and there about, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/838186/&quot;&gt;terminal emulator behaviour on consoles&lt;/a&gt; but there are questions about the Canonical parts ranging from &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/834125/&quot;&gt;the behaviour of &lt;code&gt;apt-get&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; through &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/1137816/&quot;&gt;how to run a C compiler&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/825101/&quot;&gt;not using &lt;code&gt;initctl&lt;/code&gt; when there's no Upstart&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/284249/&quot;&gt;which latter is asked as much about Ubuntu 15/16&lt;/a&gt; as it is about the Windows Subsystem for Linux; for the same toolsets with the same install/deinstall procedures, even).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T08:47:37.117" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4232" CreationDate="2016-11-16T11:31:34.030" Score="22" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an aspect of duplicate questions I have long wondered about: I often see questions that are similar or identical to an existing question, but the answers to the older question are poor or incomplete in various ways. What is the right thing to do in such cases? Closing the question as a duplicate, or not asking it at all (if I am about to ask but discover a duplicate without a good answer) only serves to perpetuate the lack of a good answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23344" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T17:25:27.267" Title="&quot;This question already has a lousy answer here&quot;" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4231" CreationDate="2016-11-16T11:51:31.023" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask your question again. Link to the existing one, explain that the solutions there didn't help you, or that there are no solutions at all. Make sure your question is a better one than the dupe (more detailed, clearer, better researched, whatever) and then we can close the old one as a dupe of yours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T11:51:31.023" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-16T23:18:07.817" Score="6" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's something wrong with the migration of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/323524/seperating-glx-from-x11&quot;&gt;Seperating GLX from X11&lt;/a&gt; to had 4 votes to migrate to Stack Overflow. It looks like the migration is in limbo: it's started (the question has been locked), but the question hasn't appeared on Stack Overflow (the asker has since then &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40625663/separating-x11-and-glx&quot;&gt;reposted&lt;/a&gt; it). It's been weeks, so this is not due to caching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T01:14:35.527" Title="Migration to Stack Overflow locked but not actually migrated" Tags="|bug|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4235" CreationDate="2016-11-17T04:21:55.347" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/323615/143394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I was asked to quote Wikipedia as the source for the source that I used in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did find one of the links via Wikipedia, but I'm quoting the source directly rather than quoting Wikipedia. I'd consider it analogous to finding something via google, and not quoting google... unless I have something to learn about quoting on StackExchange? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reply was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not analogous because some person did the work for finding that reference and adding it to Wikipedia. Not acknowledging that doesn't seem right. I'm sorry, but I'm downvoting this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see that things could devolve into quoting a source quoting a source quoting a source, but at the same time, perhaps one level could give a greater context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is best practice in this regard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T00:53:29.533" Title="Quote the source of sources?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4234" CreationDate="2016-11-17T11:28:03.363" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The litmus test on SE is effectively how people vote on your post, which in your case would tend to indicate that most readers don't mind much! (There's probably some amount of drive-by upvoting involved, as pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/70524/muru&quot;&gt;muru&lt;/a&gt;. Upvoting and downvoting also tend to be unbalanced since the latter has a cost: it usually takes more incorrectness to get an answer downvoted, than it takes correctness and usefulness to get it upvoted. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/319264/86440&quot;&gt;One of my most-upvoted answers&lt;/a&gt; was incorrect at first, and got many of its upvotes before I corrected it...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as best practice goes, I would consider three aspects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;effort&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;investigation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Effort&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting an answer to a question (and even posting a question) involves a variable amount of effort, depending on the question, the answer and the answerer. In my mind, any &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt; who helps reduce the amount of effort involved in answering a question deserves some credit: thus if someone points something out to me in a comment on one of my answers, I'll generally credit that person in my update which takes that comment into account. In this instance, whoever wrote or updated the Wikipedia article which pointed you in the right direction probably deserves some credit by that measure. What's more, you can do this in a way which doesn't affect the readability of your answer much:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random#cite_ref-5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; indicates that the &quot;u&quot; stands for &quot;&lt;strong&gt;unlimited&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, based on the fact that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://repo.or.cz/w/davej-history.git/blob/d0562c8dc:/drivers/char/random.c#l682&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;random_read_unlimited&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; function name seems to indicate that the etymology of the letter &lt;code&gt;u&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;urandom&lt;/code&gt; comes from &lt;code&gt;unlimited&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Sources&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that pointing at definitive sources is better than pointing at intermediaries, so it's useful to have the link to the source of the function in question. It's even more useful to have the link to Ted Ts'o's message on &lt;code&gt;sci.crypt&lt;/code&gt; which Stéphane Chazelas dug up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless I think the Wikipedia article is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; a source, and not just an intermediary, since that's where the interpretation is given that 'u' stands for &quot;unlimited&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Investigation&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in many of these types of answers (historical, or digging into a complex technical issue), the investigative process is as interesting as the answer — in some cases even more interesting! So it's always useful to include that as far as I'm concerned, at least as long as it doesn't affect the readability of the answer. One useful approach can be the journalistic pyramid, or tl;dr: you give the answer in brief as the first paragraph, then add more and more detail in later paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find loads of examples of different styles on the site. Some users who tend to document their answers extensively are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22565/st%C3%A9phane-chazelas?tab=answers&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;Stéphane Chazelas&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles?tab=answers&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/5132/jdebp?tab=answers&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;JdeBP&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/105132/thomas-dickey?tab=answers&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;Thomas Dickey&lt;/a&gt;; it's no accident that they have some very highly-upvoted answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T12:50:14.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4231" CreationDate="2016-11-18T15:28:10.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close as duplicate. If necessary, answer the existing question, edit it to improve the question (there's almost always room to do so!), or add a bounty to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something got a lousy answer once, asking twice isn't going to magically make a better answer appear. Better to have everything consolidated so the voting system can work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T15:28:10.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4231" CreationDate="2016-11-22T12:42:07.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;** Not an answer but I cannot add a comment with reputation &amp;lt; 50 **&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a reader of forums like this I get very frustrated with sites that kill a question as a duplicate - when google brought me to the 'killed' question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worst of all is when it gets closed with &quot;answered elsewhere&quot;, but no reference. While, perhaps, that might have some relevance to whoever asked the question (do your research better) - it does not help someone who comes here later and does not know how your search mechanism works - to find that other better or worse question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &quot;reputation permitting&quot; I am going to up-vote the answer that suggests to &quot;duplicate-tag&quot; the earlier question, especially if &quot;new questions&quot; get more weight from search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Request to moderators: please ALWAYS add a link to the 'other', i.e. &quot;not a dup&quot; question. Many thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="201205" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T12:42:07.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4231" CreationDate="2016-11-22T17:09:55.303" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This situation is partially due to voting patterns. People don't like to downvote lousy answers, because doing so makes them look ungrateful (if only in their own eyes) and cost them rep. Add some sympathy upvotes and voila! - you have an upvoted answer which makes the question an eligible target for dupe closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you're about to ask a question and have found a duplicate with a +1 answer which can't possibly help, just downvote that answer and ask. People won't be able to close your question if the dupe target doesn't have at least a half-decent answer:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x8WC2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x8WC2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this advice doesn't apply to cases where the answers in question are outdated or dealing with an issue which is not identical. In that case, @terdon's advice fully applies: you should be able to easily explain why your question is not a duplicate, so there's no problem to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="106927" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T17:25:27.267" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T17:25:27.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4222" CreationDate="2016-11-22T17:52:34.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I have seen so far, your dataset contains very few duplicates. Now, I do understand that this is something normal: your goal is to improve the algorithm, so in the beginning it's expected to have somewhat low signal-to-noise ratio. But I'm afraid you risk getting biased data because of this: if someone has to click on &quot;NO DUPLICATES&quot; 10 times before seeing a pair of &lt;em&gt;somewhat related&lt;/em&gt; questions, the urge to click on &quot;DUPLICATE&quot; button is strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you considered to artificially add some known duplicates in the mix, at least in the beginning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T17:52:34.270" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4255" CreationDate="2016-11-23T13:47:05.353" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even I've answered this question, which is closed now because off-topic:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/325428/make-all-error-2-while-make&quot;&gt;make: *** [all] Error 2 while make&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP was asking about missing &lt;code&gt;strdup(3p)&lt;/code&gt; which is POSIX. Why is this off-topic? &lt;code&gt;strdup&lt;/code&gt; may require different includes/defines on different UNIX systems. IMO interesting to investigate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why any trivial sed/awk/shell question seems to be valid in &quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&quot; but not about portable C programming or fixing non-portable C snippets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28765" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T00:40:06.737" Title="Why strdup question was closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4244" CreationDate="2016-11-23T15:14:09.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't vote on that particular question, but I agree that it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than unix shell scripting languages, ask on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T15:14:09.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4247" CreationDate="2016-11-24T04:10:39.510" Score="12" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there be a HTTP -&gt; HTTPS redirect on all Stack Exchange sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using the HTTPS Everywhere add-on in Chromium, so I am unaffected, but I don't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see we have a certificate issued from DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA, which must have cost something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, we use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.htbridge.com/ssl/?id=43caeae3b2c73d2019d37975a5e61fe2e28d68fd7bf41f8912c0c7260052bba3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;good configuration&lt;/a&gt;, which someone must have taken care of, why not use the effort that has been put into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious as to what exactly is the problem here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126755" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2016-11-24T13:34:09.467" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T07:30:09.510" Title="Why don't Stack Exchange sites use HTTPS redirection?" Tags="|discussion|ssl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4246" CreationDate="2016-11-28T07:30:09.510" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has a lot of mixed content which is blocked by modern browsers' Mixed Content Blocker implementations. Ref &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Mixed_content&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=513163&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chrome&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2011/06/23/internet-explorer-9-security-part-4-protecting-consumers-from-malicious-mixed-content/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IE/Edge&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-mixed-content/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;W3C editor's draft&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in question comments, Nick Craver &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/801235862038122496&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tweeted&lt;/a&gt; recently that the conversion work is close to being done. He also has &lt;a href=&quot;https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/04/23/stackoverflow-com-the-road-to-ssl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a much older post&lt;/a&gt; detailing why turning on HTTPS is so complicated (and thus has taken so long) for Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29146" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T07:30:09.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4249" CreationDate="2016-11-28T08:45:19.243" Score="-10" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/326207/is-it-possible-to-create-portable-linux-applications/326208#326208&quot;&gt;There was a question&lt;/a&gt;, that recently closed as too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, so good — but there's more to it! &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/326208/59928&quot;&gt;I've had an answer&lt;/a&gt;, now surrounded by red square with a title &lt;code&gt;deleted&lt;/code&gt;. It's &lt;em&gt;the only&lt;/em&gt; deleted answer — other ones left as is &lt;em&gt;(at least as I can see)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd think it was for a reason, but there's no comment indicating who or why would remove it — nothing. But…! Of all &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, mine is the single having also a label &lt;code&gt;locked by&lt;/code&gt;, and it's by &lt;code&gt;Community&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, someone anonymously deleted my answer — but why? I don't remember an engagement against someone on unix.se, so it's probably a person with another intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, btw, why was the question closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long&#xA;  for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an&#xA;  issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aha! Here we go: my answer did exactly this — it narrowed down possible issues of the question to a small neat list, and answered them one-by-one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;: someone decided to close the question, but my answer put up a danger of rejecting the vote &lt;em&gt;(it was on the top because of votes)&lt;/em&gt;. So the user deleted my answer before casting the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone having dirty politics out here, and we want to know the hero, aren't we? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59928" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T21:39:21.980" Title="Dirty politics of some high-rep user" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4248" CreationDate="2016-11-28T10:47:23.033" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't be unnecessarily dramatic. Your answer was originally on Ask Ubuntu, from where this post was migrated here. When a post is migrated, it is deleted and locked on the original site. When the question got closed, the migration was rejected, so the original post was undeleted. Therefore, your post here was deleted, since it now &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/a/853872/158442&quot;&gt;exists (undeleted) on Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the other answers were posted here, they remain here instead of being deleted. Each answer only exists in one site, which is fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T10:47:23.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4248" CreationDate="2016-11-28T21:39:21.980" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a &amp;quot;meta&amp;quot; answer (independent of muru's &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; answer), mostly in response to the comment string, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3941/5k-10k-reputation-bug-header-shows-unavailable-own-suggested-edit&quot;&gt;continue to learn new ways in which this site works&lt;/a&gt;. Often times, it's something that's already been asked and answered on either meta.unix.stackexchange.com or meta.stackexchange.com. I can see how your situation would have been confusing, but I think the point that terdon was trying to make is that &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; your research, you used phrases in your meta Question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dirty&lt;/em&gt; politics of some high-rep user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;someone &lt;em&gt;anonymously&lt;/em&gt; deleted my answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so it's probably a person with &lt;em&gt;another intention&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion: &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; decided to close the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the user deleted my answer before casting the (closing) vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which sounds like you're assuming &lt;em&gt;ill-intent&lt;/em&gt; on the part of another &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt;, and doesn't allow for an understanding of a way in which the site might be working that's surprising to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a suggestion, ask a question with only the facts that you're directly aware of and with the part that confused you. In my experience, most of the activities on this site are logged with the person's name, so there's not much chance for anonymous activity (beyond up &amp;amp; down-voting, I suppose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T21:39:21.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4253" CreationDate="2016-12-02T17:22:25.007" Score="48" ViewCount="696" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year, Stack Exchange ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Winter Bash 2015&lt;/a&gt;, in which users earned hats which they proudly displayed upon their gravatar. There was a leaderboard of hatters, mad or not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackpromos.com/content/img/common/winter-bash-2015/2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2015 top hat wearers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's that time of the year again and we get to choose whether we want to do it this time around. Because of the popularity enjoyed by the previous years' bashes, all sites now opt-in by default unless the community decides to opt out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are hats, I hear you ask. Well, hats are kinda like ephemeral badges. You can choose to have one displayed over your avatar and you win them by certain actions on the webpage. Users can turn off hats on a per-user basis, so if you're against them for any reason, you can disable the feature and not see your hats nor those of the users who have opted in. As far as you are concerned, the hats will not exist.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we choose to opt out, the event will run  from 19 December 2016 up to and including 08 January 2017. After that, all the hats go away into Last Year's Hat Bin. More information will be available on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2016 Winter Bash page&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want to opt out, we have to decide to do so by Tuesday, 13 December 2016. So, do we like hats or hate hats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T13:57:21.110" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T13:57:21.110" Title="Are hats in fashion this year?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4251" CreationDate="2016-12-02T17:24:42.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote this answer to say a big&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;NO to hats!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hats? That's so 2015!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T17:24:42.803" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4251" CreationDate="2016-12-02T17:46:31.853" Score="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote this answer to say a big&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;YES to hats!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hats are always in fashion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T17:46:31.853" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4244" CreationDate="2016-12-05T00:40:06.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question was not closed. It was deleted by the asker. The asker of a question can delete it if it has no answer, or a single answer with no upvote — the idea being that the answer might be something like “there was a typo at line 3”, in which case deleting the question which would not have helped anyone is the best scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of deletion, it had a single close vote, out of 5 required to close. The question was actually on-topic, since it was about compiling software that the asker didn't write. This site is for users and administrators of unix systems, and compiling a program is an administrator task. If the question had been about writing a program and compiling it (for example, if it had actually been about &lt;code&gt;strdup&lt;/code&gt; — but it isn't), it would have been a developer task, and off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I think the question is worthwhile and shouldn't be deleted. The asker may have deleted because they believed the (incorrect) comment on the question stating that it's off-topic. But your answer is wrong — the code is being compiled by a C++ compiler, but judging by the error message it's actually C code, or C++ that requires a particularly C-friendly C++ compiler (it might be achievable with the right &lt;code&gt;g++&lt;/code&gt; options, I don't know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T00:40:06.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4234" CreationDate="2016-12-05T00:53:29.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not generally quote the source of a source, and consider muru's comment out of line. In this case, I would only quote Wikipedia if it provided distinct useful information — if it's information that I could find with a minute's search on LXR, I would not cite Wikipedia, even if I read the Wikipedia article before I looked up LXR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The standards for citations vary between Stack Exchange sites. Unix &amp;amp; Linux is rather on the low-citation side because most answers concern verifiable statements — you just type the code and run it. If you found information in a third-party, you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; cite it, but it isn't strictly required. (If you copy &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt;, that's a different matter: you &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;must&lt;/a&gt; cite your source.) There are several purposes to citing a source: it's an acknowledgement (credit goes to the one who found or produced the information in the first place), an authority (if you don't believe me, believe that guy), and a place to look for more explanations (either background or further explanations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, if a source only says “look at this other source”, then there's no point in citing it unless the other source is hard to find. If Google hit #1 links to Google hit #2 but is otherwise not useful, there's no point in citing Google hit #1. On the other hand, it would be good to cite the Wikipedia article if it provided a comprehensive overview of the topic gathered from multiple sources, or if the original source was hard to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T00:53:29.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4260" CreationDate="2016-12-07T18:42:41.367" Score="17" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;While browsing the review queues, I'll occasionally come across an answer by a new user to an old, highly-trafficked question.  The new user's answer ostensibly answers the question, but is short and only includes information already covered by other answers in greater detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/328747/34505&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is an example of such an answer that came up in the review queues recently. I can't help but feel that answers like this miss the spirit of this site, though they technically follow the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In review, what should I do about such answers? I don't think I should flag the answer as a non-answer, since the answer is in fact an answer.  I'm not sure I should always downvote, since such an answer considered in isolation might actually be a good answer. At the same time, the answer doesn't actually contribute anything new, so it doesn't seem necessary to keep the &quot;duplicate&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T13:13:47.523" Title="What should I do about duplicate answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-07T18:44:12.950" Score="3" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of my SE experience comes from Stack Overflow, which is... somewhat unforgiving of off-topic posts. I took a look at U&amp;amp;L's help center before referring someone here from Super User, and was surprised to see this comment about cross-posting and potentially off-topic posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're not sure if your question is on-topic, ask on meta or just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;give it a try&lt;/a&gt; and the community will decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this seems to imply that posting a possibly off-topic question is just as acceptable as asking about it on meta. I checked the &quot;What topics can I ask about here?&quot; sections of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;multiple&lt;/a&gt; other &lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Stack&lt;/a&gt; Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;sites'&lt;/a&gt; help centers, and didn't find any similar phrasing. It seems a bit too encouraging of the &quot;meh, I'll just ask and let someone else fix it if it's wrong&quot; mentality that we want to discourage on the SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the U&amp;amp;L community a bit more forgiving of off-topic questions since the scopes of U&amp;amp;L, Ask Ubuntu, and Super User may be confusing to new users, or should it be changed? Am I just reading too much into a small phrase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T09:01:14.310" Title="Should the help center encourage people to &quot;give it a try&quot; for possibly off-topic posts?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4258" CreationDate="2016-12-07T19:12:14.697" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I delete those answers; as you said, they don't add anything, and it doesn't really matter how good an answer is in isolation since it isn't. If the queue has a delete option, you can vote for that directly, or flag it &quot;needs mod attention&quot; and mention it doesn't add anything new&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T19:12:14.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4259" CreationDate="2016-12-08T07:30:52.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't spend much time on SO, so I can't really compare. We do close quite a few questions (for Unix.SE of course — the scale is rather different on SO) — over the last 30 days, we closed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats&quot;&gt;nearly 20% of the questions asked&lt;/a&gt;, and “off-topic” questions account for nearly 20% of the questions closed (so nearly 4% total).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tend not to edit questions to make them on-topic, so I don't think this sets up the expectation in the long run that people can just ask anything and let others fix their question. At least, people who set out with that expectation will have it quickly adjusted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think this is representative of two aspects of Unix.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;we like specific questions, so instead of asking on Meta whether a certain type of question is on-topic, it's easier just to ask the question — that will effectively result in a more specific Meta question (albeit not on Meta — the implied “is this question on-topic?” asked of any question on the site); if it's off-topic, we'll know exactly, and if it's on-topic, we've saved one step in the answering process;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;we're quite a welcoming community, and I get the impression we'd rather have new users err on the side of asking rather than worrying about how their question will be received (although sometimes I think many of us would like more users to search for themselves, but that's a general problem we can't solve here).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T07:30:52.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4259" CreationDate="2016-12-08T09:01:14.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uhm, I have to admit I'd never noticed that. While I agree with Stephen's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4261/22222&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, I'm guessing that text is from way back when the site first got started and we had a lower volume of questions. Personally, I'm leaning towards removing that suggestion and making the text read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're not sure if your question is on-topic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask on meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see much benefit in urging people to post things that may be off topic. I'll take upvotes to this answer as meaning people agree that the text should be modified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T09:01:14.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4258" CreationDate="2016-12-08T14:37:17.003" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; those answers add value when they provide a quick &quot;tl;dr&quot; summary of existing longer answers (possibly even referring to them for more detail).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But usually not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T14:37:17.003" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4265" CreationDate="2016-12-08T22:44:58.270" Score="6" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/224846/34505&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; that I believed to be unnecessarily preachy and opinionated.  Specifically, I felt this answer rubbed up against the guidelines (as enumerated in the help center) promoting objective and civil answers. I edited it to remove the strong opinions and flagged it as &quot;rude or abusive&quot;.  The result was that the OP rolled back my edit and the flag was rejected.  So I settled for simply downvoting the answer, as I didn't want to get into an edit war with the OP nor re-raise a flag and potentially abuse the flagging system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: what should I do about answers (to well-formed questions) containing strong opinions? Should I flag them, and if so what flag should I use? Or should I simply downvote and move on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T15:05:10.983" Title="What should I do about highly opinionated answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4264" CreationDate="2016-12-08T23:22:42.280" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, I declined your flag. The &quot;rude or abusive&quot; flag  should only be used for the truly egregious cases; for posts that contain offensive language, racism, sexism or any other horrible -ism. Not for posts that simply defend a position you happen to disagree with. Even if they do so in an admittedly very opinionated and biased way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, after all, a site for *nix geeks. If we were to flag every strong opinion our members expressed, we'd be left with very few posts. In this case, while I agree that the answer could be expressed in a better way, it really isn't what I would consider &lt;em&gt;offensive&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what you should do is pretty much exactly what you did. You made an edit (which is your right), the OP rolled it back (which is theirs) and you downvoted and walked away like a responsible adult and came to ask about it on Meta. That is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the way to deal with it, and thank you! You could also leave a comment, if you like, but really I think what you did is best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, this is a community of volunteers who are entitled to their opinions. If you disagree with the opinion stated, you can downvote. If it is an answer consisting entirely of opinion and nothing else, you can flag as not an answer. If, however, it is providing an answer but is also providing a strong dose of unsolicited opinion, downvoting is the only defense you have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more general note, I've written an answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/a/15921/85695&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that gives some guidelines on what flag to use when. While it is for another site, the same principles also apply here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:13:10.953" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T23:22:42.280" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4268" CreationDate="2016-12-09T07:52:32.150" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3704/how-to-handle-mass-minor-edits-from-a-user&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must put much effort into getting it into his pretty useless edits to be in &lt;em&gt;usable&lt;/em&gt; state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I Reject and edit, or Improve an edit, thus giving him +2 points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT1&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I might not get out without an example, so here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/273497/2&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/273497/2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He just added the &lt;code&gt;kbd&lt;/code&gt; formatting, while leaving everything else intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to re-write large text for it to become &lt;em&gt;usable&lt;/em&gt; to my standards. Still not perfect, though, I will put more effort into it the next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126755" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T01:26:13.210" Title="What should I do with minor edits made, where I must put much effort into getting it into *usable* state" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4269" CreationDate="2016-12-10T09:45:59.093" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in a doubt as  I'm not getting replies to  my questions. &#xA;I would request the moderators to cross check that everything &#xA;is fine at your end &amp;amp; there is no issue like blockage of sorts on my&#xA;questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46723" LastEditorUserId="2465" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T12:57:10.327" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T19:04:20.607" Title="Not getting reply to questions as earlier" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4266" CreationDate="2016-12-10T14:17:52.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is largely a question of personal preference.  If you feel the editor didn't really put in enough work and is just &lt;em&gt;creating&lt;/em&gt; work for the reviewers, you can reject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're in a good mood and decide that, &quot;Nah, at least they made it a little bit better,&quot; approve and let them get the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I've sort of oscillated between the two positions at different times. It comes down to what you feel like. Was this review worth your time? Did it improve the post? Decide and act accordingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-12-21T01:26:13.210" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T01:26:13.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4267" CreationDate="2016-12-10T19:04:20.607" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no shadowban-like state in which you can post questions but they aren't displayed to other users. It is possible to be blocked from posting questions entirely, but you would get an error message when you tried. If you're able to post questions, other users can see them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T19:04:20.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-15T10:15:36.870" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/330484/64248&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question in the first posts review queue and voted to close it (see my comment to it) because I cannot see how U&amp;amp;L would benefit from it. Next, I found one of the answers in the review queue, and as I &quot;feared&quot;, an opinion based discussion was already going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Independent from this case: When I think that a question is off-topic and I see an answer that confirms my view, then what should I do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T10:59:24.660" Title="What to do with answers to off-topic questions?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4271" CreationDate="2016-12-15T10:59:24.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing. Just vote to close the question as off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't really see why that question is off topic. It basically boils down to: &quot;Why does this *nix program behave in one way and this other *nix program behave in another way&quot;, so I'd call that on topic, myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T10:59:24.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4274" CreationDate="2016-12-15T14:57:20.343" Score="9" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today in my notification box I received the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y3W1s.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y3W1s.png&quot; alt=&quot;yearlingx2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this confusing in a couple different ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/67643/elder-geek?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=all&amp;amp;page=6&quot;&gt;history page&lt;/a&gt; indicates no activity prior to May 14th here on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) I was notified twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the Yearling badge can be awarded multiple times but was under the impression that it's supposed to be awarded on the annual anniversary date. After searching diligently (granted I didn't check every bug post) I'm still completely baffled by this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reviewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions/68258#68258&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt; as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104465/two-yearling-badges-on-the-same-day/104469#104469&quot;&gt;Two yearling badges on the same day?&lt;/a&gt; but the math doesn't parse as described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67643" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T17:27:40.123" Title="Double notfication on Yearling Badge. Is this a bug or am I missing something?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4273" CreationDate="2016-12-15T18:19:38.070" Score="9" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't need to have been active a year ago, you just need an account at least a year old and with enough rep to qualify as active -- your account is 2 years old, so you need at least 2(200) + 1 = 401 rep, which you just made. You could make an account, do nothing for a year, and then get 200 rep in one day and you'd get the badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You got the badge for the main Unix and Linux site, and again for meta because the rep is shared; that's why the logo is greyed out on one of the notifications&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T18:19:38.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4258" CreationDate="2016-12-15T22:06:53.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How I would treat such an answer depends on whether it is plagiarism or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a verbatim copy of another answer to the same question or just a part of another answer, I flag it for moderator access and explain that this is plagiarism and provide a direct link to the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the text of the new answer is original, but doesn't provide any new information compared to older answers, I write a comment to the answer pointing out that the same information is already provided in an earlier answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68601" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T22:06:53.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-19T16:38:39.937" Score="4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;C is the programming language Linux was originally written in.  I learned C many years ago, but haven't used it since college. (I'm an EE degree, computers were necessary, but programming was left primarily to the programmers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, due to recent job requirements I am learning (and using) C++ specifically in the Linux environment - which isn't QUITE the same as using it in Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are there no questions in the c++ section of unix stackexchange, and why, nearly immediately after asking a valid question, is my question almost immediately deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it strange at best that the community wouldn't support questions concerning the very language that the OS evolved in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206251" OwnerDisplayName="bugstalker" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T19:00:20.963" Title="c++ and Linux go together - why are there no questions in this section?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4276" CreationDate="2016-12-19T17:21:00.167" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, Unix &amp;amp; Linux is primary for &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;administrators&lt;/em&gt; of Unix and Linux systems, not &lt;em&gt;programmers&lt;/em&gt; of them. Programming questions, which almost all C++ questions would be, belong on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, we deal in questions which have reasonably objective correct answers. Through experience, we've learned that the Stack Exchange software &amp;amp; community just doesn't work well with questions that are mainly opinion-based, like &quot;what's your favorite editor&quot;. Which is basically what you asked, and is why your question was closed &amp;amp; deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for an IDE with a &lt;em&gt;specific list of features&lt;/em&gt;, then that is an answerable question if it were asked on our &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Recommendations&lt;/a&gt; site. Please refer to the help center there, in particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;, before asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:01.533" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T17:21:00.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4276" CreationDate="2016-12-19T19:00:20.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is basically a question of scope. Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/331432/22222&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; wouldn't be on topic anywhere on the Stack Exchange network. These are strictly Q&amp;amp;A sites and they all consider discussion off topic by definition. Specifically, your question was asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyone out there commercially writing code in C++ using an IDE in Linux, that can recommend a particular one? Reasons why the one you use is better than others? etc. Intuitive and easy to learn is a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking for &amp;quot;I like this one better&amp;quot;. That is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I need are specifics - how seamlessly the IDE you use works in Linux, what special capabilities and features it has that would make programming easier, less time consuming. I am looking for specific things that set the IDE you use apart from other similar IDE's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that last paragraph (which was added after the question was closed) makes an attempt at making it less of an opinion based question, you're still asking other people for their experience. If you were listing a set of specific features you would like your IDE to have, that might be on topic. As it is, you are asking people to tell you what they use why they like and what's so cool about it. This is a great discussion for chat or for any number of forums (or fora, if you prefer) out there. It's just not a valid question for a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the community supporting the language the OS was coded in, none of the operating systems on topic here are written in C++. Or, rather, none of the main ones. I won't swear that there isn't any *nix system out there written in C++ but the most popular ones are all written in plain old C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, no matter what language the software was written in, programming is off topic here. The closest we get to programming questions is simple scripts to parse text, manipulate files and other sysadmin-type jobs. Questions about the workings of any language are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, even if your question were actually valid for SE and had a single valid answer as opposed to being the seed of an interesting discussion, even then, questions about C would be off topic here. If you need help on installing the IDE of your choice, this is the place to ask. Not so for choosing one though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T19:00:20.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4258" CreationDate="2016-12-20T13:13:47.523" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like duplicate answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First it gives me more confidence on the correctness. On some special topic, we have from time to time only one, and BTW wrong answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually the duplicate answers are written with other &lt;em&gt;languages&lt;/em&gt; (other choice of words), so the search engines will bring more users to the better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156079" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T13:13:47.523" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4282" CreationDate="2016-12-20T20:33:24.033" Score="24" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;In review I came across a suggested edit for this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/331202/135943&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/331202/135943&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposed edit ain't bad, just a tiny bit of grammar and wording cleanup.  It's not a totally trivial edit, but not a major copy-edit job either.  (As I said, mediocre.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have clicked &quot;approve&quot; except I really don't want to encourage the laziness and sloppiness of including the edit message, &quot;Improve blah blah.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this related meta post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2748/135943&quot;&gt;What is the best way to improve the edits made by a suggested editor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I haven't seen a post that discussed acceptable &lt;em&gt;edits&lt;/em&gt; with a sloppy or uninformative &lt;em&gt;edit message.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the options?  What do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think should be done in such a case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-26T15:27:02.210" Title="What to do with mediocre edits with &quot;blah blah&quot; edit message?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4280" CreationDate="2016-12-21T05:31:10.077" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the suggested edit is good enough&#xA;that you would consider accepting it, based on its own merits,&#xA;and ignoring the comment, here’s a possible approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time you see something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept the edit (or improve it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment for the editor asking him to write better comments. &#xA;(You can @-ping people who have (successfully) edited a post. &#xA;But you’ll have to type (or copy and paste) the user’s name,&#xA;because it isn’t included in the auto-complete. &#xA;And this doesn’t work at all for users&#xA;who have suggested edits that were rejected.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a note of the user name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when you see more low-quality edit comments coming from the same users,&#xA;reject them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastEditorUserId="172635" LastEditDate="2016-12-26T15:27:02.210" LastActivityDate="2016-12-26T15:27:02.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4284" CreationDate="2016-12-22T04:27:30.633" Score="2" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is in the title, I'm not trying to setup virtual users accounts but rather virtual mailboxes IN a user account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is to achieve a &quot;Gmail&quot; like feature of labels, but for some reason I get an error that I can't seem to find any answers on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for guiding me. I'm not sure if Dovecot is on topic here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206712" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T04:33:58.180" Title="I need help on a Dovecot Virtual Mailboxes setup, should I be posting here on unix SE?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2016-12-22T04:33:58.180" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go for it; questions about applications that run on Linux are fine. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; section of our help includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T04:33:58.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4286" CreationDate="2016-12-22T05:17:13.143" Score="12" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, this question is currently active on meta.SO &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/340104/where-to-ask-questions-with-a-historical-element/340105?noredirect=1#comment424135_340105&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. They think that my question SO &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41275674/rsyslogd-as-a-session-leader&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; would be more relevant here, and are willing to migrate it if you think so as well. Consider the below in regards to the eligibility of the question for Unix.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As from my original post on meta.SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently have a question on stack overflow &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41275674/rsyslogd-as-a-session-leader&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that has a historical element to it. While the majority of the question asks about the behaviour as it exists today, there is this sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The book clearly wants to make a point of why it's different, so if anyone knows why historically it didn't used to be a session leader, and why it is now, that'd be excellent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do wonder if this question is appropriate for stack overflow. I wouldn't normally ask questions with a historical element, but I feel in this case it is fairly essential to the question. Despite requiring some history, I don't think the question is opinion based and I'm sure it has a concrete answer out there. Indeed, some of the best answers on this site delve into a bit of history first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to hear some insight about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="194119" LastEditorUserId="194119" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T09:38:02.747" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T10:21:56.293" Title="Where to ask questions with a historical element" Tags="|discussion|support|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4285" CreationDate="2016-12-22T10:21:56.293" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really see anything about programming there. Yes, &lt;code&gt;fork&lt;/code&gt; is relevant, but you're not asking about &lt;code&gt;fork&lt;/code&gt;, you're asking i) whether &lt;code&gt;rsyslogd&lt;/code&gt; is indeed a session leader and your book is wrong; ii) if that's a new systemd thing and the book was right for its time and iii) assuming it was right for its time, what where the reasons it was implemented that way and, perhaps, what changed for systemd. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I interpret this correctly, then your question is perfectly on topic here and off topic on SO. In other words, yes, bring it over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T10:21:56.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4289" CreationDate="2016-12-23T23:03:42.653" Score="11" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't I close my own questions ? I should be able to close it once while I have either received an answer or I find the question was either too broad or whatever&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2016-12-24T01:45:23.030" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T01:35:53.080" Title="why can't I close my own questions?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4288" CreationDate="2016-12-24T00:08:57.277" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question can't be answered for some reason, you can skip over closing and just delete it yourself. Once the question gets answers it can't be unilaterally deleted anymore because other people have contributed to it; enough people will need to vote to close/delete it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T00:08:57.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-26T14:07:50.163" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a strange behavior regarding the links referencing other posts in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/241173/how-are-dev-linux-files-created/241176&quot;&gt;How are “/dev” Linux files created?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In kasperd's answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One previous answer has &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/241176/68601&quot;&gt;many details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about that, which I am not going to repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And in Basile Starynkevitch's answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition of device nodes explained in other answers (created with mknod(2) or supplied by some devfs), notably the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/241176/50557&quot;&gt;one from Sepahrad Salour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both links lead back to the referencing post &amp;quot;How are “/dev” Linux files created?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong and how can I fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2016-12-26T15:04:02.473" Title="Referenced posts redirect back to the referencing question #241173 in its answers #241190 &amp; #241180" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4290" CreationDate="2016-12-26T15:04:02.473" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer that's linked to here is now deleted, since it was just a copy-paste of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;. I fixed the answers to point to that article instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2016-12-26T15:04:02.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-27T19:03:21.567" Score="2" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/333033/replacing-one-column-with-another-column-in-csv-files&quot;&gt;Replacing one column with another column in csv files&lt;/a&gt; was marked as a duplicate, but the question is specifically about line-numbering. There are answers to that question that are not applicable to the broader case described by the earlier question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it still be considered a duplicate, since correct answers for the more specific case would not be considered correct answers for the more general case?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, should the question title be edited to better reflect the specific question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86787" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:03:21.567" Title="Question marked as duplicate but is a specific subcase of the duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4293" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-12-27T19:58:04.410" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T19:58:04.410" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:58:04.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4294" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-12-27T19:58:04.410" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T19:58:04.410" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:58:04.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4295" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-27T21:28:58.287" Score="11" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it came up again in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/333033#comment586483_333033&quot;&gt;some of the comments of a particular question&lt;/a&gt; here once of at all:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;To what extent are changes to posts of others OK?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/332891/2&quot;&gt;don_crissti hijacked someone else's answer to add a different solution&lt;/a&gt; (after discussing with me similar solutions in the comments to my post but that's not important here), to which I objected. I pointed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/11476/307607&quot;&gt;a [meta-se] post which said that edits should not change the meaning/intent of questions/answers&lt;/a&gt; and in my the opinion a different solution would have been such a no-no change. (IMHO, this is even the case if the different approach would have led to exactly the same result.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I gather (mostly from discussions that got deleted in the meantime) &lt;em&gt;don&lt;/em&gt;'s position seems to be (@don: please correct me if I'm wrong) that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[unix-se] is not [so]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The content here is a collaborative effort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These sort of changes are OK and this is the majority opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of point 1 and 3 I'm creating this thread here, and concerning point 2 I would argue that there is a difference between posts marked as &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt; (which is not the default) and those that are not for a reason. So it's not all wiki in that sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this thread here is not meant to be about those specific edits mentioned in the background section but to come up with a somewhat clear consensus rule on what is and what isn't OK for editing on [unix-se]. Specific examples are OK though (but obviously no finger pointing please).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T19:22:26.580" Title="To what extent are changes to posts of others OK? When does the meaning change?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-27T21:36:37.447" Score="11" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I answered a question which the user thought was good, and accepted. They then told me &quot;can u up my question?&quot;. I don't want to violate any rules, but I also don't want to hurt the user's feelings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I go about this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178505" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T12:45:26.373" Title="User wants me to upvote their question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4295" CreationDate="2016-12-28T01:48:47.070" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/316503/should-i-propose-a-rejected-suggested-edit-once-more&quot;&gt;a similar discussion on Meta SO&lt;/a&gt; some time ago. Quite frankly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;I consider the SO position dumb.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On both Ask Ubuntu and Unix &amp;amp; Linux (I find both these sites are very similar when it comes to editing), several answers have been edited (even extensively) by multiple editors over time. If I see an edit that simplifies commands in a post, or provides a combined version, or updates it, or fixes some problem in it, I'd happily accept. And so would most users I know on either site. I have had contributions to my own posts, suggested and directly edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific instances (from trawling the list of top-voted questions):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/1292/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/1292/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/10650/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/10650/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/3572/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/3572/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/25378/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/25378/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And I bet you could find many, &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; more.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time I reject such a change would be when the new method is so different from the original that it has nothing in common, and should probably be recognised as a different answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for community wikis, I rarely see those created these days in AU or U&amp;amp;L - and usually then the user specifically intends to gather multiple answers together. For me, community wikis have pretty much lost all meaning (beyond the underhanded protection from downvotes that I have seen some people misuse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T01:48:47.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4296" CreationDate="2016-12-28T02:01:53.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ignore the comment. Upvote if the post is worthy of upvoting by whatever standards you usually use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe flag the comment as not constructive. That's what I would do. And probably downvote to boot. &gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T02:01:53.833" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4296" CreationDate="2016-12-28T12:45:26.373" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting a question means you find it interesting or useful, that it shows research effort and is clear. Most of the times, if a question is interesting enough for you to take the time to answer it, it is good enough to be upvoted. Not always, but usually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no rules that can be broken by upvoting a question, so I don't know what rules you're thinking of. In any case, don't worry, upvote any post you find useful freely, you won't be breaking any rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in the specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/333118/22222&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; you are referring to, you suggested to the OP that they might want to accept your answer (which is fine, when done politely as you did) and they answered with a request to upvote their question. This is not quite the same as the OP asking you for an upvote out of the blue. I'm not saying it's OK—asking for votes is never a useful comment, even asking for accepts is borderline—but there was more context to the OP's request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the best response to that comment would be, as @muru &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4298/22222&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt;, to flag it as &quot;not constructive&quot;, which it is. However, you should indeed also seriously consider voting on the post. The basic message here is that you should upvote whenever you feel a question or answer deserves an upvote and you should downvote whenever youl feel a question or answer deserves a downvote. That's the way the site works and both up and downvotes are essential as they help separate the bad posts from the good. I notice that you have been a member of the site for 5 months and yet have cast a total of 3 votes! Please start voting more often. Votes are essential to the Stack Exchange model. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T12:45:26.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4288" CreationDate="2016-12-28T21:46:40.043" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I think of it as 'as an example of one person's experience that others may likely have' instead of 'my question' I find it makes more sense to me that should have to leave it there for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10043" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T21:46:40.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-29T14:38:15.840" Score="10" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332906/why-dev-null-was-called-this-way&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about the &lt;strong&gt;history&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt; has been closed as &quot;opinion-based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited it to make it crystal-clear that I'm looking for historic references, not opinions or explanations about the null device working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I improve it more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T23:12:58.257" Title="How can I improve a question on history?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4302" CreationDate="2016-12-30T19:35:29.753" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a slight issue is whether you're interested in where the idea for /dev/null came from, or where the &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; came from (which to me it could be read as). For the first I could only find the very brief man page from v7 Unix, but there may be more. For the latter though, you could argue its for the same reasons null is used a lot in C, so that is more opinion based, maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="194761" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T19:35:29.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4305" CreationDate="2016-12-31T17:11:54.727" Score="11" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user has been asking the same questions repeatedly with very slight modifications in the past week.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't they simply make adjustments to their relevant question to get a suitable answer if those supplied aren't satisfactory because they don't like any that they don't come with on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is obviously not a case of spamming but it is of overall really bad quality and appears to only serve in self-promotion and getting points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to get your take on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167583" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-01-09T09:39:51.503" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T19:57:04.163" Title="extremely similar questions - Is it normal/allowed" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4304" CreationDate="2017-01-01T01:50:46.797" Score="8" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's best to ask oneself: &lt;em&gt;Is the question as it stands ever&#xA;possibly useful to anyone else?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if there is no answer yet then additionally: &lt;em&gt;How likely is &#xA;anyone else is ever going to post an answer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, just hold back on downvoting and maybe also thinking about whether any of the flags would apply… (e.g. I think &quot;unclear&quot; would have applied in some of the user's posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, don't care about the people asking questions too much, what makes the site run are answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117599" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-01-09T09:40:25.663" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T09:40:25.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4302" CreationDate="2017-01-01T23:12:58.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, IMHO, it’s still a little short of crystal-clear. &#xA;I still don’t see a single sentence that says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’m looking for historical references&#xA;  that describe the decision-making process&#xA;  that led to the decision to use the name &lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t even see a question that says,&#xA;“Why was &lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt; given that name?” except in the title,&#xA;and in Michael Homer’s edit,&#xA;and some of us believe&#xA;that a question ought to make perfect and complete sense&#xA;even if its title is removed. &#xA;Your version of yours didn’t quite (again, IMHO). &#xA;It meandered around,&#xA;saying “I wonder why” (which is not an actual question)&#xA;and (gently and politely) ranting that it should be called &lt;code&gt;/dev/empty&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;that the name &lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt; is inappropriate,&#xA;that the documentation discussing it doesn’t make sense,&#xA;and that the “black hole” analogy doesn’t work for you. &#xA;That’s the sort of opinion-based talk that got the question closed,&#xA;and Michael improved the question by scaling that back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, note the official close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion&#xA;  based on expert experience,&#xA;  but answers to this question will tend to be&#xA;  almost entirely based on opinions,&#xA;  rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s fairly well known that Unix was basically created&#xA;by two people (Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson). &#xA;Some reports suggest that they were basically&#xA;playing around with some hardware that nobody else was using;&#xA;even that the work was (to at least some extent) motivated&#xA;by a desire to have a platform that ran a game that they wanted to play. &#xA;It’s unclear whether they were working under anybody’s direction,&#xA;or merely with their employers’ permission. &#xA;They probably didn’t know that they were creating a dynasty&#xA;that is now in its fifth decade.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t know whether Ritchie and Thompson shared an office,&#xA;or had offices in the same hallway, or what. &#xA;In any case, given the informality of the early days,&#xA;it seems likely that many decisions were made in casual conversations. &#xA;There probably were not a lot of formal, design committee review meetings,&#xA;and it’s unlikely that many records were kept (and preserved for 45 years!). &#xA;I found a reference to the design of the file system&#xA;(&lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;/bin&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;..&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, etc.)&#xA;being worked out on a chalkboard (an intrinsically ephemeral medium). &#xA;I can imagine that some trivial decisions (like names for things)&#xA;were made unilaterally by one of the developers,&#xA;with no consultation or record-keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is, I find it highly unlikely&#xA;that there are any historical records that would answer your question. &#xA;We’re having trouble piecing together the software base&#xA;and the official documentation from that far back,&#xA;and documentation on why developers made arbitrary decisions&#xA;tends to be sparse. &#xA;Of course, there might be records;&#xA;there was some published discussion regarding&#xA;why the file-creation system call was called &lt;code&gt;creat&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;when the software development system supported six-letter identifiers&#xA;(notably, &lt;code&gt;unlink&lt;/code&gt;). &#xA;And, if any of the surviving&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; members&#xA;of the Unix development team are on Stack Exchange,&#xA;I’d be thrilled to hear from them. &#xA;But, IMHO, it’s a needle in a haystack,&#xA;and “answers to this question will tend to be&#xA;almost entirely based on opinions,&#xA;rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.” &#xA;I fear that your question will attract counter-rants&#xA;from people explaining why &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;they believe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;that &lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt; is a perfectly sensible name&#xA;(and perhaps critiquing &lt;code&gt;/dev/empty&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I would remind you of this paragraph&#xA;from &lt;a href=&quot;//unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt; —&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions&#xA;  based on actual problems that you face. &#xA;  Chatty, open-ended questions&#xA;  diminish the usefulness of our site&#xA;  and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been some debate about what “actual problems that you face” means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify (at the risk of beating a dead horse),&#xA;I’m not totally opposed to history-related questions&#xA;if they are original/unique, on-topic, clear, well-scoped, objective,&#xA;and infrequent. &#xA;Hypothetical examples of acceptable history-related questions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what version of Unix was feature &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; first introduced?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How could you do &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; in Unix before then?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When was version &lt;em&gt;Z&lt;/em&gt; released?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What did you, Giacomo Tesio, have for lunch on September 9, 1973&#xA;(or some other arbitrary date in the distant past)?   &#xA;(And, of course, this would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic; I offer it to make a point.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions may be answerable&#xA;with facts, references, or specific knowledge. &#xA;You might still have a receipt from lunch on September 9, 1973. &#xA;But, if we ascertain what you had for lunch,&#xA;and we then ask why you chose that meal, the slope gets more slippery. &#xA;There’s probably no record of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you selected that food. &#xA;Conceivably &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; might remember,&#xA;but you won’t be able to support an answer with evidence,&#xA;and it’s almost impossible that anybody else would be able&#xA;to give an authoritative answer at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet you’re asking&#xA;“What was Dennis Ritchie thinking on some day in the early 1970s?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, in spite of all of that, I have voted to reopen,&#xA;in the hope that somebody may be able to provide a good answer. &#xA;Happy New Year.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;____________&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Of course, this is largely speculation on my part;&#xA;i.e., my &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &#xA;It’s next to impossible for us to ascertain&#xA;what they knew and when they knew it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dennis M. Ritchie died in 2011&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;and, if &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ken Thompson&lt;/a&gt; is still alive, he’ll be 74 next month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T23:12:58.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4288" CreationDate="2017-01-02T01:35:53.080" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are satisfied with an answer that the question has received,&#xA;that's no reason to close it. &#xA;If you accept the best answer,&#xA;that marks the question as having been satisfactorily answered,&#xA;so people know that you don't still &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; an answer. &#xA;But if the question is clear, on-topic, well-scoped, objective and unique, &#xA;it should be left open, so new and better answers can be added later,&#xA;and future searchers can benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T01:35:53.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4304" CreationDate="2017-01-03T09:08:37.277" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my &lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt;, asking a new question about a similar thing (but another aspect of it) is much more preferable to modifying (adjusting) an existing question. It's extremely frustrating when someone modifies a question as it possibly totally invalidates a number of submitted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also preferable to submit multiple questions about details rather than collecting everything in one huge (and possibly vague) question, as the individual questions may be of more use to others. Keep an eye out for XY-problems though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that there are a lot of questions about particular topics from particular users, and I might wish people actually &lt;em&gt;read their manuals a bit closer&lt;/em&gt;, but I'll answer if I feel inclined, without actually looking at who's asking most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of this particular individual, he's obviously working something out. I don't think it's a matter of farming reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be paying more attention to the panel on the right and its &quot;Related&quot; list of similar questions in the future, in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-01-11T19:57:04.163" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T19:57:04.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-04T04:43:39.673" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow is flooded with many questions every second, while the site here seems  not about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about Linux/Unix system calls or APIs suitable here, or on SO with some suitable tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41456225/how-and-when-does-exec-change-the-effective-user-id-when-the-set-user-id-is-s&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41456225/how-and-when-does-exec-change-the-effective-user-id-when-the-set-user-id-is-s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5697/lets-return-to-the-full-meaning-of-unix-linux&quot;&gt;a chronic request&lt;/a&gt;, and by more than just myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-12-15T16:02:28.283" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T16:02:28.283" Title="Are questions about Linux/Unix system calls or APIs suitable here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4309" CreationDate="2017-01-04T05:57:09.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would seem to be more of a programming question at first glance, so it should remain on Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T05:57:09.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4309" CreationDate="2017-01-04T08:17:23.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading that question, I'm not sure what you're asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you wondering how exec works &lt;em&gt;inside the kernel&lt;/em&gt;, because you're writing some kernel code that needs to change how it works, program something similar, etc.? If so, that's clearly for Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you asking as a sysadmin who's vaguely familiar with how the C interface works, and is worried that set user ID might be a race condition, or is just confused that it appears magic? Then that's for us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure which you're asking from your question. I'd guess that's also part of why it's been ignored on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T08:33:13.043" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T08:33:13.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-04T14:51:11.850" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;suppose&lt;/em&gt; if you're using an API to run the CLI, that could be asked in Stackoverflow, but might not be best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the question handy, but saw that a question was closed as off topic because it related to aws-cli itself, which isn't a Linux distro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe group all VPS stuff into one stack? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/267478/17056&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flagged to close because the AWS command line tools are not platform&#xA;  specific, nor are any of the problems mentioned here. – Evan Carroll&#xA;  Apr 22 '16 at 16:16&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/336179/can-i-send-e-mails-from-amazon&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/336179/can-i-send-e-mails-from-amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will be closed.  It's not really a programming question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;makes me wonder.  migrate to where?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T13:34:40.263" Title="aws-cli usage questions go....?" Tags="|discussion|tags|scope|migration|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-07T01:11:09.490" Score="1" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of users come to this site in a (misguided) quest for general help. I often see questions by new users along the lines of &quot;My dual-boot system/live USB/whatever isn't booting, help plz&quot; or &quot;Help me construct a shell pipeline to solve my particular problem&quot; or &quot;Help me troubleshoot my networking issues&quot;. These questions are almost always closed as &quot;needs clarification&quot; or &quot;off topic&quot;, which is correct according to the rules and culture of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately for the people who are asking such questions, this isn't particularly helpful.  They came here looking for assistance, and got the message &quot;bugger off&quot; instead.  Of course, we can point them to the guidelines in the help center on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; questions, which tell you all about what sort of questions are on- and off-limits here, but (without a trace of irony) don't provide very many suggestions on where to get helpful responses for questions that don't fit U&amp;amp;L SE, aside from the general suggestion of &quot;Look what else is in the SE network!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we be providing suggestions on alternative sites where users might be able to get help for questions that don't fit the format of this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments I could see in favor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could make U&amp;amp;L a warmer &amp;amp; more inviting community, particularly to new users who aren't familiar with the scope of this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could reduce the number of close votes cast and &quot;low quality&quot; flags raised if such information is available to new users before they post their questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments I could see against:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't want to endorse any particular sites outside the SE network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could potentially drive users away if they get the impression that U&amp;amp;L is a niche site that can't serve their needs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2017-01-15T21:33:12.243" Title="Should we be redirecting users who need general Unix/Linux help to a different site?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-08T17:07:36.013" Score="8" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should self-promotion (without disclosing one's affiliation, in the context of posts referred to as &quot;spam&quot;) inside of comments be always a flaggable offense or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have guessed that it is just like for posts, but apparently at least one mod disagrees with me in the cases where there is still some value in the comment (e.g. if the link points to a possibly helpful blog post or video [of course only as long as it stays up]). It's also worth noting that these links are marked as &lt;em&gt;nofollow&lt;/em&gt; so this makes it less of a problem from the search engine side of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84752/comparing-two-files-using-unix-and-awk#comment193087_84752&quot;&gt;Comparing two files using Unix and Awk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9125/how-do-i-find-text-within-a-file-and-have-it-search-multiple-subfolders#comment200114_9125&quot;&gt;How do I find text within a file and have it search multiple subfolders?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4999/how-to-find-which-processes-are-taking-all-the-memory#comment199761_4999&quot;&gt;How to find which processes are taking all the memory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T12:00:21.667" Title="Self-promotion inside of comments, sometimes OK?" Tags="|discussion|comments|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-01-08T17:14:03.907" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel it's OK for very specific cases. The trigger for this discussion was a user who had posted links to &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; posts on their blog as comments on various questions/answers here. Yes, they had not mentioned that the blog was theirs, but the posts they linked to were indeed relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that if the following criteria are met, there is nothing wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comment must be relevant. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The self-promotion is limited to linking to your blog (not trying to flog a product or anything like that)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The content linked to is free.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is just a comment and not an answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only thing wrong with it is not disclosing affiliation. If the comment would have been fine if it were linking to someone else's blog, why shouldn't it be fine if it's linking to the author's?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all of the above are met, I don't see any problem with leaving comments like &quot;Have a look at this relevant blog post: &lt;code&gt;http://some.blog.com&lt;/code&gt;&quot;. However, things like &quot;You should read this blog, it is excellent!&quot; or other overtly promotional messages are not cool. But just a link to a relevant blog post is fine by me, irrespective of whether the person leaving the comment also mentions they're the author of the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this isn't the mod laying down the rules. This is just my take on the matter, so if anyone disagrees please post an answer and we'll see how the community at large feels about this sort of thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-01-08T17:36:05.463" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T17:36:05.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-01-08T17:54:34.527" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's okay to link to your own site without disclosure, whether in a comment or an answer. I mostly agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4315/2376&quot;&gt;terdon's answer&lt;/a&gt; here. I see this as just setting a slightly higher bar: if you can potentially benefit from people clicking on the link, you should probably be letting them know, even in comments, and even for blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, as with most bad things, there are really bad forms and not so bad forms, and so appropriate responses may vary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is mostly about not misleading anyone. A link is an implicit endorsement: it says, &quot;I have looked at this site, and I think it will be useful to you.&quot; If it's your own site, it's a biased endorsement. To avoid potentially misleading anyone, it's best to always disclose that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also about fairness to site owners. There are plenty of naive site owners who excitedly link to their blog when they see a relevant question, and don't think to disclose affiliation. There are also plenty of site owners who know that links affect their traffic and search engine ranking, and therefore actively seek out opportunities to create links. Sometimes they may not see anything wrong with this, sometimes they may know it's iffy, and deliberately try to make it look like an unbiased third-party endorsement. The most straightforward way to keep the bad stuff under control is to just apply the same standards to all self-promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, it's not a large burden: &quot;from my site: [link]&quot; isn't much harder to write, and doesn't really detract from genuinely useful links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2376" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T17:59:37.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-01-10T08:01:38.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm quite new to this whole SE universe, so either my comments are &lt;em&gt;uneducated&lt;/em&gt;, and therefore serve no value, or they are &lt;em&gt;fresh eyes&lt;/em&gt; and could be helpfull. So, here goes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a link, answer, comment, or elsewhere, that is &quot;affiliated&quot; should be disclosed as such. If it meets the points set by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4315/2376&quot;&gt;terdon's answer&lt;/a&gt;, and it isn't disclosed, maybe a moderator could edit it to show that disclosure, and sent a note to the author reminding them to disclose in the future. Repeated failure to disclose, after being reminded, could be interpreted as intentional, with proper measures taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may entail to much work for moderators. (I did say &quot;universe&quot; didn't I?) However; if such edits and notices are possible by members with high enough rep, then it may not be such a monumental task. I think that's how this place works anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jefromi said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it's not a large burden: &quot;from my site: [link]&quot; isn't much harder to write&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so it's not much of an edit either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that if someone is doing it flagrantly, they will limit there activities to an area small enough that others who frequent the same area will notice it quickly, and can flag them or notify someone else higher up the chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, curtail abuse without punishing lapses and/or removing content which may be useful for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="207673" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T08:01:38.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4313" CreationDate="2017-01-10T12:09:40.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long version: While not guilty of posting to this site in a (misguided) quest for general help, I have seen said posts as Google results many times. I am new to U&amp;amp;L, and to SE in general, and reading those closed posts as search results was/is frustrating. I also created an image in my mind of the people behind the closing of the questions as &quot;snobs&quot;. And, yes, to me it looked like you were saying &quot;bugger off,&quot; as jayhendren put it. Granted, the response &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; polite, proper, and not degrading to the OP; still, since I was looking for answers to my own questions, it just added to the frustration and was received negatively. I didn't even connect the assorted SE sites together after seeing the same/similar response in many places. All I saw was someone asking &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; question, and being told &quot;not here fella!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flip side: Had I made a posting worthy of such a response, I likely wouldn't have come back to see the answer, or the suggested alternative site anyway. I was looking for an answer to a problem in the now, and needed the solution in the now, not a few days, or even hours, later. Having seen those posts before, I was alert to their (common?) usage, and was cautious enough to investigate the rules, and culture, before making my first post. And I seem to have gotten it in the wrong section anyway. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think questions along the lines mentioned by the OP are best handled by internet search, not by &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; forum, where the question and the answer might be days apart. If, on the other hand, the querent does have the time to invest in the problem, and does edit/clarify the query, then there are likely to be good and useful answers that benefit the querent, and later searchers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to making U&amp;amp;L a warmer &amp;amp; more inviting community - I don't think a suggested site alternative would make that happen. Maybe useful to the querent, but still would seem condescending rather than inviting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just the twopence-worth of an U&amp;amp;L/SE newbie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two other thoughts: 1) The OP stated perfectly the question, comments not withstanding. 2) Is there a way to keep those &lt;em&gt;dead&lt;/em&gt; questions out of search engine results? (Delete them, maybe?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="207673" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T12:09:40.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4222" CreationDate="2017-01-11T23:58:46.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The project is drawing to a close, and I am planning to take down the annotation interface this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much to everyone who helped out, and thank you for all the valuable feedback and suggestions. Hopefully the collected annotations will lead to the development of better duplicate question detection systems, especially for StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="197244" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T23:58:46.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4313" CreationDate="2017-01-15T21:33:12.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Yes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;No very long answer here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is simply that the question's stated arguments in &lt;em&gt;favor&lt;/em&gt; outweigh the arguments &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt;, both in their importance and likelihood of actually happening.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be the most helpful and polite solution for the poster's of the misguided questions, with a minimum of negative impact on this site's regular users.  Also, The willingness to refer to other site's as one possible solution makes us look particularly helpful in the big picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I do agree with the first of Gypsy Spellweaver's other thoughts: &#xA;&quot;The OP stated perfectly the question...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="209268" LastActivityDate="2017-01-15T21:33:12.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-15T22:03:56.807" Score="6" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the off-topic &quot;Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)&quot; messages are sometimes non-constructive at best, and outright insulting at worst. I don't think that we should be insulting people asking questions, and we shouldn't be having the community and the system reinforcing messages that do so. The option is there so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1432/73093&quot;&gt;that people are encouraged to think of a constructive reason for closing (for off-topic) and articulate it prior to clicking the button, and to encourage thoughtful votes to close&lt;/a&gt;, not so that other users can make personal comments about the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sort of comment on its own is bad enough, but close reasons are worse. Close reasons are put into the review system, and get automatically upvoted when someone agrees that the post should be closed, creating an illusion (I hope) of consensus on those sentiments. A question may be off-topic, may be low quality, and may lack effort or thought, but it's possible to write a closure message without being gratuitous (and indeed, some of those things &lt;em&gt;are not reasons for closure&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In review, I've sometimes found it necessary to add my own comment rather than agreeing with the first vote, even when the existing reason was arguably true, and at times even to flag the previous automated comment as &quot;rude or offensive&quot;. I've noticed this coming up every so often for a while, but looking at the recent reasons in the moderation tools has shown that it's not an isolated case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;At the end of the post I've included the current&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; list of custom off-topic close reasons from the last 30 days.&lt;/del&gt; Because this seemed to distract people who then didn't read any of the rest of the post, I've removed it; it's still present in the revision history for those who wish to see it. It has all messages from the 30-day list at the time of asking, good, bad, and otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of them are fine, many are even constructive in suggesting better places to ask or explaining why the question is off-topic, some are brusque, and a few are clearly inappropriate. I don't want to identify particular messages or authors, but I think it's clear that at least some of them are not suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some relevant parts of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice policy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rudeness and belittling language are not okay.&lt;/strong&gt; Your tone should match the way you'd talk in person with someone you respect and whom you want to respect you. &lt;em&gt;If you don't have time to say something politely, just leave it for someone who does.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;... If you see them, flag them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name-calling&lt;/strong&gt;. Focus on the post, not the person. That includes terms that feel personal even when they're applied to posts (like &quot;lazy&quot;, &quot;ignorant&quot;, or &quot;whiny&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask people, firstly, to &lt;strong&gt;stop posting these close reasons&lt;/strong&gt;, and secondly, &lt;strong&gt;not to agree with them when they encounter them in review&lt;/strong&gt;, which adds an upvote to the comment and gives the impression that the community is agreeing with the sentiment, &lt;strong&gt;nor to upvote them directly&lt;/strong&gt; as comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, &lt;strong&gt;provide an alternative comment&lt;/strong&gt; or use one of the built-in reasons if applicable, and if appropriate &lt;strong&gt;flag the inappropriate comment for deletion&lt;/strong&gt;. If there's a particular tag, or a particular user, whose questions you find infuriating, just skip them entirely. There are also positive examples of close messages below, so use those as a model when composing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;del&gt;1&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;del&gt;I believe the list is incomplete, given the way that switching date ranges seems to behave, but it has representative examples of all the sorts of message I want to mention.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T21:25:52.783" Title="Custom off-topic reasons are sometimes disparaging" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4321" CreationDate="2017-01-15T23:28:11.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of these are mine. I stand by all of the ones I wrote. They are all in response to questions that offer zero value to this community (direct cut and pastes from assignments, for example) and actually have &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a longer term deleterious effect&lt;/a&gt; if they are not &lt;em&gt;actively discouraged&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the key point: &lt;em&gt;without explicitly including a reason in the close vote, none of these people will receive any specific feedback to the effect that their behaviour is undesirable and well outside the norms of this community.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, I will not stop using custom off-topic reasons that accurately convey my displeasure at people abusing the goodwill of the community with little interest in making even a minimal effort to frame a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more detailed rationale for this approach, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Well Kept Gardens Die by Pacifism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I find it odd that you ask people to not upvote these reasons, when clearly that indicates that they &lt;em&gt;do agree&lt;/em&gt; with the sentiment and the expression. The fact that you do not does not in any way invalidate any one else's opinion or, more importantly, their vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2017-01-15T23:40:20.570" LastActivityDate="2017-01-15T23:40:20.570" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4321" CreationDate="2017-01-16T04:35:29.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The principle reason behind many of these custom reasons is the lack of a &quot;this is not Unix or Linux&quot; reason, like Ask Ubuntu has. Over at AU, the &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; off-topic close reason is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is not about Ubuntu&lt;/strong&gt;. Questions about &lt;strong&gt;other Linux distributions&lt;/strong&gt; can be asked on Unix &amp;amp; Linux, those about &lt;strong&gt;Windows&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  on Super User, those about &lt;strong&gt;Apple products&lt;/strong&gt; on Ask Different and&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;generic programming&lt;/strong&gt; questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(with the site names linkified)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as we don't have an equivalent close reason, we'd be forced to write our own comments. And I am not asking for a reason listing other sites, that gets quickly unweildy. Something as simple as this one from the given list would be nice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it is not about Unix &amp;amp; Linux as defined in the [help/on-topic].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or open more migration paths, but I wager many of these are on crap questions and we don't want to migrate crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T04:35:29.530" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4325" CreationDate="2017-01-17T18:13:06.800" Score="7" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an edit suggestion which adds a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; tag to a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/177179&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/177179&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not mention &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; anywhere and originally only had the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; tag and mentioned OP's attempt in &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;. The only thing related to &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; is the answer with the most votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this OK? According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1226/shall-tags-refer-to-the-solution-too?rq=1&quot;&gt;Shall tags refer to the solution, too?&lt;/a&gt; it would be. But in this case it might also be better to remove both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; tags since OP might very likely not mind, making the question not specific to either? And maybe adding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that there is the following canned edit dismissal text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. &lt;strong&gt;Tags should help to describe what the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;, not just what it &lt;em&gt;contains&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Highlight by me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T04:58:46.707" Title="Adding a tag which refers to the best answer in the case of /sed and /awk when there is also /text-processing?" Tags="|discussion|tags|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4324" CreationDate="2017-01-17T19:38:24.917" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags help display questions to the right people. They don't mainly function to describe a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are mainly additive, not subtractive. People follow tags to hear about new questions in those tags. Its possible to ignore tags as well, but that's only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; ;-). So for the most part, adding a tag adds audience; removing a tag removes audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same is true when searching for a question or answer, and that's probably the main use after the question is thoroughly answered. I know I saw a good sed answer to X, so I search for &lt;code&gt;[sed] X&lt;/code&gt;. Removing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; means it'll be harder to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T19:38:24.917" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4314" CreationDate="2017-01-19T13:40:56.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My rule-of-thumb is simply, &quot;stick to the &lt;em&gt;point.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  If your link (or what have you) is indeed relevant to what you are saying and is beneficial to the eventual reader's understanding, then &quot;that's fine with me.&quot;  You should of course tell me in context &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the link is present, when it was last updated, what it contains, and why on earth I should click it.  All to add value to your comment, reply, or post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you are simply &quot;tooting your own horn,&quot; then that's uncalled for. (If a horn is to be &quot;tooted,&quot; then of course it should be &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; horn, not yours!)  &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little of this goes a long way. &quot;Stick to the &lt;em&gt;point,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and make it very clear to the reader why you said what you did. It all exists for the usually-frazzled reader's benefit, so make that benefit clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211317" LastActivityDate="2017-01-19T13:40:56.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-19T16:25:33.157" Score="2" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;By default in Unix stackexchange as well as elsewhere, the default number of questions you can look into your profile or somebody else's profile is 50 per page. There should be a way to increase/make it variable so at a glance I can look at all my questions . For e.g. in my profile I have 150 odd questions &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/50490/shirish?tab=questions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/50490/shirish?tab=questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have to browse through 3 pages. It would be nice if I could set in my profile as to how many questions I would like to look at . Sometimes tags and keywords are just not enough and I need to hunt/browse through to see if I have not asked the question before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/glIpQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/glIpQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;how it looks&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2017-01-19T16:25:33.157" Title="Preference to show x number of questions when looking at own profile" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-20T18:50:00.350" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at the Research Assistant badge bit but couldn't understand how that works. It says 50 tag wikis but doesn't explain what it means. Does it mean editing tags on one site, say unix and linux stackexchange or 50 tag edits from different sites/corner under stackexchange banner ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T23:08:21.780" Title="How does the Research Assistant badge work?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4329" CreationDate="2017-01-20T23:08:21.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you click on a tag, each one has a short description and a long description (for many, of course, it's currently blank). That's the tag wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure all badges are per-site. So you need to do 50 on any site you'd like the badge (and you can earn the badge on multiple sites). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T23:08:21.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4331" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-01-21T01:22:44.240" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-01-21T01:22:44.240" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T01:22:44.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4332" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-01-21T01:22:44.240" Score="0" Body="seeing the source code like html, markdown to see how a post/page was constructed. " OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="50490" LastEditDate="2017-01-23T15:48:53.497" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T15:48:53.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4324" CreationDate="2017-01-25T04:58:46.707" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I tag, I do it in the context of the question, which is exactly what the help center tells us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A tag is a word or phrase that &lt;strong&gt;describes the topic of the question&lt;/strong&gt;. Tags are a means of connecting experts with questions they will be able to answer by sorting questions into specific, well-defined categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user used awk as an attempt to accomplish the task, but it could also been perl, or sed, or tr, or grep, or any other string manipulating utility. That was why the text processing tag was created, because unless you are asking about &quot;why your solution doesn't work?&quot;, any of the most focused and defined tags would reduce the universe of potential answers. That is why tags should focus on the question, not on the potential answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could use sed and text processing to mean that you want to process text with sed, because &lt;em&gt;reasons&lt;/em&gt;. If you add awk to that question, when the question doesn't ask for that (ie. why sed doesn't match /this patter/?), in an attempt to draw awk answers, people that search for that issue will be presented with a disparated solution that doesn't have resemblance with the inquiry they had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On most occasions when the question seems to be less about using a tool in specific, and rather just accomplish the task, I tend to remove the irrelevant tags from the question, as they should be, since those tag counts towards their score, it would be quite baffling if you were awarded with a tag badge on a topic you don't know iota about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T04:58:46.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2017-01-31T04:30:18.930" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry this thread is stale, because I'd like to join the losing team and say that requests for information should be just as relevant as requests for specific answers.  What is useful is up to the asker to decide. There are often many answers to be found to some question, and they go out of date too and it can be a matter of opinion which of several methods is best. But a well recommended document can be a godsend.  Googling will give you sometimes a million posibilities and knowing which ones are recommened can be a huge help even if it is only 'opinion'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56145" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T04:30:18.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:04:03.267" Score="14" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/4337&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T12:42:40.690" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2017" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:04:29.170" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1bHcV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T14:04:29.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:51:57.093" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoramagazine.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OuRao.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora distro news for users&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T14:51:57.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:53:21.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/workstation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5iLoy.gif&quot; alt=&quot;The Linux workstation you&amp;#39;ve been waiting for&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="2511" LastEditDate="2017-02-02T16:56:15.937" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T16:56:15.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:54:25.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/atomic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nziWL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Create and run applications in Linux containers.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="2511" LastEditDate="2017-02-02T16:56:32.173" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T16:56:32.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:55:50.980" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6W5d.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Server: The latest technology and a stable foundation for your  apps and services.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastEditorUserId="2511" LastEditDate="2017-02-02T16:56:48.540" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T16:56:48.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-02T19:54:46.290" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/jaguardesignstudio/why-zsh-is-cooler-than-your-shell-16194692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NyFcU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Why zsh is cooler than your shell&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T19:54:46.290" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-03T01:34:28.120" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXWI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T01:34:28.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-03T13:04:02.047" Score="2" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was excited when &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/330414/intended-use-of-ctrlt-in-bash&quot;&gt;one of my questions&lt;/a&gt; was taking off and becoming slightly popular but it ended up getting closed for being off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the history of how commands became universal in bash and origins of wide-spread commands interesting. I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/337623/origin-of-shutdown-vs-reboot&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; that I ended up marking as a duplicate because I found a good answer on another post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question here is are these types of linux history questions relevant here or should I stick to questions with a clear technical purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16792" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.363" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T13:10:38.140" Title="Linux history questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-03T16:19:28.250" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://iot.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CzkJ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Internet of Things Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="184220" LastEditorUserId="184220" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T16:30:32.763" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T16:30:32.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-04T12:18:44.823" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NbhtZ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Unix-like operating system that is free software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T12:18:44.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4345" CreationDate="2017-02-06T13:00:48.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite enjoy questions about Unix history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They provide a nice way of learning how something came about, and will in the end (if the answer is good) give me a better understanding of the evolution of the tools at the centre of one of my main professional hobbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a pity that this particular question hasn't been reopened, and that it has, so far, only gathered (IMHO) mediocre answers (from a history point of view)&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. Yes, it's GNU Readline rather than Bash that uses &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+T&lt;/kbd&gt; to transpose characters, but where did &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; come from? Well, it's from Emacs, and it was present in Emacs 18 (ref to &lt;code&gt;lisp/simple.el&lt;/code&gt; in the source distribution, from 1992). Can we say anything about older versions of Emacs with regards to this? Influences from other editors (TECO, for example)? And so on... ideally ending up with names of actual human beings making decisions on particular dates (or at least in or around some year). It makes it relatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;Except for Stephen Kitt's answer &lt;em&gt;in a comment to the question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-02-06T13:10:38.140" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T13:10:38.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-08T14:50:03.957" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/97295/devops&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/97295.png&quot; alt=&quot;Check out the Area 51 DevOps Proposal!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117333" LastEditorUserId="117333" LastEditDate="2017-02-24T16:33:15.903" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T16:33:15.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4352" CreationDate="2017-02-09T16:42:10.520" Score="14" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the correct action for trolling questions from an editor's perspective? Recent example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/343778/13792&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/343778/13792&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't sure initially they were trolling, but the comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The also got &quot;kill&quot; and &quot;killall&quot;. if a you are being investigated by feds with racial profiling in mind.. they can easily use it in court and say &quot;suspect was constantly typing kill all on his computer &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13792" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T13:05:05.910" Title="Correct action for trolling questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4351" CreationDate="2017-02-09T16:51:29.057" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the general case, if the question is posted by somebody who thinks they're being funny and isn't actually looking for help, vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, this person (I assume it's the same person) has been posting nonsense questions like this for a week or two now. Just flag it and we'll delete the account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T16:51:29.057" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4354" CreationDate="2017-02-11T12:50:10.547" Score="10" ViewCount="1683" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I see the time of a question on the interface, something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4116/what-time-was-question-asked&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; I see the time shared as &lt;strong&gt;2017-02-11 12:46:00Z&lt;/strong&gt; which is the current time. From calculations it seems the time is in UTC but then what does 'Z' stand for here? Is there a special meaning to Z, some term?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:03.970" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T17:36:11.420" Title="What does the 'Z' stand for in timestamps?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4353" CreationDate="2017-02-11T12:59:03.300" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Zulu&quot;, the military time zone which is identical to UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Time_zones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The time zone using UTC is sometimes denoted UTC±00:00 or by the letter Z—a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950. Time zones were identified by successive letters of the alphabet and the Greenwich time zone was marked by a Z as it was the point of origin. The letter also refers to the &quot;zone description&quot; of zero hours, which has been used since 1920 (see time zone history). Since the NATO phonetic alphabet word for Z is &quot;Zulu&quot;, UTC is sometimes known as &quot;Zulu time&quot;. This is especially true in aviation, where &quot;Zulu&quot; is the universal standard. This ensures all pilots regardless of location are using the same 24-hour clock, thus avoiding confusion when flying between time zones. See the list of military time zones for letters used in addition to Z in qualifying time zones other than Greenwich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T12:59:03.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-14T14:47:28.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://algernon.roboticoverlords.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FBCnD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Algernon Web Server&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3920" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T14:47:28.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-15T00:04:12.207" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnu.org/s/parallel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k93ja.png&quot; alt=&quot;GNU Parallel - for people who live life in the parallel lane&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2972" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T00:04:12.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-16T23:10:18.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PytX1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sawfish — the extensible window manager&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T23:10:18.530" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-19T19:10:12.803" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69b1o.png&quot; alt=&quot;The universal operating system&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T19:10:12.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-19T19:11:45.437" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OtHLx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Greg&amp;#39;s (GreyCat&amp;#39;s) Bash Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T19:11:45.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-19T19:12:51.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWlmG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Arch wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T19:12:51.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-19T19:15:25.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P7jTf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-02-19T21:28:07.600" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T21:28:07.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-02-19T19:43:16.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Lazza/RecuperaBit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oWxnL.png&quot; alt=&quot;RecuperaBit – Open Source NTFS Recovery&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84179" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T19:43:16.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4351" CreationDate="2017-02-20T00:45:56.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might be interesting if for each question that was &quot;clearly&quot; spam, they'd get a spam-point on their account.  Then for each point (or modified by some&#xA;multiplier), ask another level (or set) of &quot;are you human&quot; questions.&#xA;I'd have the spam-points on their account be dated and aged, so after 'N' &quot;time units&quot; (MultK * [days|weeks]?) the oldest point expire.  Would have to play with numbers, but maybe 'spam points**(expK)'.  I seem to find that a bit more &quot;useful&quot; (&quot;sane recovery&quot; based on behavior, with minimal intervention needed by admins).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for expK=1.4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;5 pts would create a 9.5 day wait before 1st expiration,&#xA;10pts=&amp;gt;25 days&#xA;20 =&amp;gt; 66 days...etc.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constant might need playing with depending on feedback and how well it deters spam.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to like having the computer follow a formula, by default, so if admins are busy and can't respond, the system does its best to &quot;auto-manage&quot; itself, Admins could remove 1 or more points if the situation justified it.  I also like the computer handling the 'default' case, so usually there will be little reason for people to think they are being singled out -- never a good thing in maintaining a community environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37521" LastActivityDate="2017-02-20T00:45:56.737" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4368" CreationDate="2017-02-23T06:03:11.957" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to find out why a question has been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/346499/bash-put-text-into-a-variable-without-needing-to-escape-characters/346504#346504&quot;&gt;answered this question&lt;/a&gt;  yesterday, and a 200+K rep user improved my answer. Trying to view the question I now I get a message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question was removed from Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange for reasons of moderation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way of seeing the discussion as to why the question was removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not interested in why it may have been removed, I'm interested in why it was actually removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was a decent question as I answered it, and would like to refine my understanding of what is a good question based upon the discussion when it was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143394" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2017-02-26T17:32:12.283" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T17:32:12.283" Title="Find why a question was removed" Tags="|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4369" CreationDate="2017-02-23T07:17:20.177" Score="6" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/automount/info&quot;&gt;&quot;automount&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (no description, count=20) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/automounting/info&quot;&gt;&quot;automounting&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (count=216) tags exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can we merge these tags?  If not, how do we differentiate them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the answers to this question determine that they should be merged, how is this actioned? Do I flag for moderator intervention?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143394" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-03-01T10:45:43.617" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T10:45:43.617" Title="Merge &quot;automount&quot; and &quot;automounting&quot; tags" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4366" CreationDate="2017-02-23T10:07:40.943" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a well known troll user who's been plaguing the SE network for years. He has been declared no longer welcome across the entire network. As a result, we (mods) delete his accounts whenever we see them. This time, I destroyed the account (as opposed to &quot;deleting&quot;) which also caused the questions posted to be deleted. I hadn't realized one of them had received useful answers, so that was also deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now undeleted the question since the answers are indeed useful. I always try to keep useful content even if posted in response to questions by less than useful users, but I messed this one up. Sorry!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please note that the questions themselves are sometimes perfectly decent. In those cases, please do answer them. I normally&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; check before deleting an account and take care not to destroy useful content. So answer the question if it's worth answering, but also flag it for mod attention if it looks like it's our friendly troll. The troll account will be deleted but your answer can help anyone else who finds the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;Um. Except this time :( &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-02-24T01:42:42.450" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T01:42:42.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4367" CreationDate="2017-02-23T10:13:41.887" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think those should indeed be merged, yes. And this is precisely how to get it done: post on meta, see if everyone agrees and wait until the mods do their jobs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, unless anyone objects, I'll be merging them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-02-23T10:13:41.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-25T01:12:09.493" Score="11" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;After we decided &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3102/41104&quot;&gt;we don't need version specific tags&lt;/a&gt;, nothing had changed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; got an average of 1 question/day in the last 30 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the last 24 hours, it got 6 questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jessie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jessie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jessie&lt;/a&gt; has an worse unanswered rate than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt;: 57% vs 52% for the last 30 days, 87% vs 70% in the last 7.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, questioner asking questions with the tag jessie tend to be worse off than those that use just debian as tag. Can we bury it under 6 feet again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently was silently created 10 months ago by some user. stretch, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora25&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora25&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora25&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora24&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora24&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora24&lt;/a&gt; should have the same fate. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora23&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora23&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora23&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rhel7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rhel7&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rhel7&lt;/a&gt; were late to the party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:04.017" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T12:29:16.040" Title="This criquet needs help!" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4370" CreationDate="2017-02-27T12:33:49.457" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've cleaned up the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jessie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jessie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jessie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stretch&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stretch&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stretch&lt;/a&gt; tags. As I understand it, if the tags don't get any new content they should be automatically deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T12:33:49.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4382" CreationDate="2017-02-28T08:12:18.043" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I delete for the 1. time a question, because the issue turn out as an hardware problem, so no way to resolve it with Unix/Linux. So i decide to delete it, and was surprised, that no explanation is necessary for that. &#xA;Why is this so? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I do not oversee some relevated info's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T15:29:08.190" Title="Why do user have not explain when they delete their question?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4381" CreationDate="2017-02-28T14:50:24.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, you can delete your own questions as long as they're unanswered, since nobody has posted any useful ideas yet. Once an answer on the question gets upvoted or accepted, or there's more than one answer, you can't delete the question anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-02-28T15:29:08.190" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T15:29:08.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4389" CreationDate="2017-03-03T01:52:11.020" Score="14" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;In unix.stackexchange.com, there're at least &lt;del&gt;6&lt;/del&gt; 7 questions (see below) about USB flash memories that become read-only. In superuser.com, there're many, and the user &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/users/73918/bwdraco&quot;&gt;bwDraco&lt;/a&gt; wrote a &quot;canonical&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/1125282/what-can-i-do-if-my-usb-flash-drive-is-write-protected-or-read-only&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and answer. Other questions are labeled as duplicate  of that question. It was based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/11820/canonical-question-on-usb-flash-drives-becoming-write-protected&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think unix.stackexchange.com needs a similar solution, i.e.: (1) Give a summary of that question in superuser.com, and put the link to it. (2) Mark existing quetions as its duplicates. (It's beyond my privilege.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea? I've asked dwDraco for a comment, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of such questions I've found is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/174527/usb-forcely-turn-write-protection-off&quot;&gt;USB forcely turn write protection off&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216152/usb-disk-read-only-cannot-format-turn-off-write-protection&quot;&gt;USB Disk Read-only, cannot format - Turn off write-protection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138518/how-to-format-write-protected-sd-card&quot;&gt;How to format write protected SD card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327707/how-to-remove-write-protection-or-read-only-from-a-usb-flash-disk&quot;&gt;How to remove write-protection (or read-only) from a USB flash disk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76397/remove-usb-flash-drive-write-protection&quot;&gt;Remove USB flash-drive write-protection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/181130/flash-memory-and-set-to-read-only-is-it-virus&quot;&gt;Flash memory and set to read only , Is it virus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/121061/disk-on-key-is-read-only-on-every-computer&quot;&gt;Disk on key is read only on every computer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW there's one &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/123560/190880&quot;&gt;read-only MTD question&lt;/a&gt; (in fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/14690356/780703&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt; in stackoverflow.com.) I didn't know MTD, which seems Linux, and I thought it's similar to our FAQ, and suggested to have a look to our FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="190880" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T22:28:48.770" Title="FAQ on USB flash memories that become read-only, and my proposed solution" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-05T20:03:54.333" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/347035/98471&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, but I am not even getting any comments. I am not sure if this has some issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody help me improve the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98471" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.103" LastActivityDate="2017-03-05T20:03:54.333" Title="How can I improve this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4386" CreationDate="2017-03-07T23:04:42.080" Score="3" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just edited this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/349851/ssh-packet-write-wait-broken-pipe&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; and I'm now somehow concerned about this person's security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, when users are requested to give back debug output a lot of private information could leak. Some are more and some less concerning/consequential for the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does StackExchange have a policy about this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would there be a tool to i.e. to filter IP adresses and replace it with generic ones (to still make the output useful/readable)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to discuss this particular case, but want to know in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="218887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T09:08:56.970" Title="Should we redact/remove IP addresses?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4385" CreationDate="2017-03-08T10:24:53.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there's no tool I know of. I just edited that question and replaced the IP with &lt;code&gt;123.456.789.10&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing to be careful about when making this sort of change is keeping the IPs consistent. For example, if the OP is mentioning two IPs and they're on the same subnet, make sure any dummy IPs you might edit into the post also have the same dummy subnet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details on how to treat sensitive information, see the main meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/132119/203101&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T09:08:56.970" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T09:08:56.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4390" CreationDate="2017-03-10T23:33:40.473" Score="5" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/350659/revisions&quot;&gt;this revision&lt;/a&gt; to a question in U&amp;amp;L, I edited a question to remove a hotlink to a complete copy of a book which appeared not to be as far as I could tell in the Public Domain.  I know I'm sort of asking for forgiveness rather than permission, but is this generally an accepted practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20246" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T20:59:04.803" Title="What is the policy on redacting links to copyrighted material?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4383" CreationDate="2017-03-11T02:02:17.110" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/350679/what-can-i-do-if-my-usb-flash-drive-sd-card-is-write-protected-or-read-only#autocomment620731&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please upvote it. It seems necessary to mark other questions as duplicates of that reference question. Thanks for your attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="190880" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T02:02:17.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4383" CreationDate="2017-03-11T14:22:06.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While your idea makes sense, I am afraid the way you implemented it is very wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, don't post a new question unless absolutely necessary. First check the existing ones. is one of them good enough to have your answer? Can one be edited slightly to make it fit the broad, general answer you want to post? If so, it is better to post your answer there instead of posting a whole new question. The whole idea is to keep things organized, so avoid posting something new unless it is needed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't say &quot;this is a dummy question copied from elsewhere&quot;. Just ask a question. An actual question that is broad enough to cover the cases you are aiming at. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't say anything in the question about its being special. It isn't, yet. Just write it in such a way that it can serve as a master post and then we can close others as duplicates of it. At most, you can leave a small note linking to this meta post, but no more than that and even that is not needed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post an actual answer. Don't just link to the answer on SU. If you want to have the question answered here, &lt;em&gt;it needs to be answered &lt;strong&gt;here!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since you will be copying information from somewhere else, make sure to provide attribution. Ideally, however, you will pick only the relevant bits from the other answer, tweak them a little as needed to be specific to *nix, add some extra *nix-specific information that might be missing from the other post and make a new answer. If you want to just copy and add nothing, it would be polite of you to mark the answer as community wiki. Both to allow easier editing and so that you don't get rep from just repeating someone else's work. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T22:28:48.770" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T22:28:48.770" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4387" CreationDate="2017-03-12T20:59:04.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's generally advisable to search for questions such as this on the main &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; site given this issue is more broad than simply U&amp;amp;L. Looking for &quot;copyright&quot; and &quot;links&quot; reveals these Q&amp;amp;A's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the FAQ can be helpful: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;FAQ for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/171488/are-links-to-copyright-material-allowed-or-not&quot;&gt;Are links to copyright material allowed or not? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-worry-about-copyright-issues-for-code-posted-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Do I have to worry about copyright issues for code posted on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/219736/can-we-have-documentation-on-copyright-and-fair-use-with-regards-to-improving-li&quot;&gt;Can we have documentation on copyright and fair-use with regards to improving link-only answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 4th link is interesting, the answer is shog whose actually an employee of SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;relevant help page&lt;/a&gt; doesn't say anything about&#xA;  copyright because there's no &quot;safe&quot; way to copy - if someone wants to&#xA;  be an ass about it, they can go after you for copying a paragraph as&#xA;  easily as a page. Doesn't mean they'll win, but you can be pretty sure&#xA;  that everyone loses time and money waiting for a fair use ruling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And that's ignoring the differences in copyright laws world-wide. &#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal#15CopyrightPolicy&quot;&gt;And DMCA&lt;/a&gt;. Y'all aren't lawyers and neither am I - so frankly, the less&#xA;  said about copyright the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What we should focus on is plagiarism: this is not a legal issue, but&#xA;  a matter of etiquette, and one that I think is pretty easy to apply:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;we ask for attribution&lt;/a&gt; from folks copying stuff posted here, so we&#xA;  should extend the same courtesy to stuff copied to here. Some&#xA;  communities are more strict about this than others when it comes to&#xA;  the amount of text being copied, but at minimum you should always&#xA;  require that the original author is credited for his work. It's just&#xA;  good manners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, for the link-only delete reason... It's pretty close already; maybe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;This link may answer the question, but answers that depend entirely on&#xA;    an external site can become invalid if the linked page changes. It is&#xA;    better to include the essential parts of the answer here (with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;credit&#xA;    given to the original author&lt;/a&gt;) and provide the link for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given the above I'd recommend calling it out if it's a &lt;strong&gt;link-only-answer&lt;/strong&gt; as such and by addressing it as a &lt;strong&gt;link-only-answer&lt;/strong&gt;, some portion of the link would need to be moved into U&amp;amp;L to make it more complete and tolerant to the link going away in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By moving it in, if the material is not meant to be here due to copyright restrictions, it should be deleted/closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:52.470" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T20:59:04.803" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4392" CreationDate="2017-03-13T15:07:15.870" Score="5" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/326377/install-jdk-8-on-debian/350551#350551&quot;&gt;Install JDK 8 on Debian&lt;/a&gt; and answer was chosen was by the OP. What I don't understand is how I won 15 points. Usually you win 2 points if somebody accepts your answer right ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a glitch or some other forces at work which I don't quite understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T18:29:55.807" Title="How did I get 15 points for an answer when there is not even one up vote?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4391" CreationDate="2017-03-13T18:29:55.807" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get 2 points for accepting an answer to your question -- the person who wrote the answer gets 15. So in this case &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/220614/user567?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;user567&lt;/a&gt; is the one who got +2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HdQzd.png&quot; alt=&quot;+2  4 hours ago  accept  Install JDK 8 on Debian&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T18:29:55.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-03-15T19:29:44.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fedoralovespython.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vvvoz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Loves Python. Learn why...&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="196399" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T19:29:44.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4395" CreationDate="2017-03-20T02:52:47.877" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have felt that the questions I post on the Unix &amp;amp; Linux website do not get enough views and/or responses in comparison with other stack exchange websites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it is because my questions are not properly framed (or the tags I use are not popular on this website) or if  &quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&quot; is not as populated as other websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My motive is not to blame or criticize this website or its members&lt;/strong&gt;. I genuinely want to know how I can get the most out of this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;I posted this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/352466/why-do-i-see-unable-to-locate-tools-jar-expected-to-find-it-in-when-i-ru/352514#352514&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt; and I did not get feedback from any of the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202519" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T01:05:56.797" Title="Do I need to improve the quality of my questions or does it normally take time to get feedback on questions here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4394" CreationDate="2017-03-21T01:05:56.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I left a comment as to what's wrong with your script in &lt;code&gt;/etc/profile.d&lt;/code&gt; on your answer. See that for your actual issue. Your question is fair enough for this site, but given it's fairly basic some people just might not be inclined to help. As @Bratchley has stated, this site is run by volunteers, so if someone helps it's of their own accord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future you might want to boil your question down to a more simplistic issue you're experiencing, by framing it in terms of a Java issue that deters people that may have helped you in answering, since on the surface they might be inclined to think that its a Java issue when it's really a Bash and/or &lt;code&gt;/etc/profile.d&lt;/code&gt; issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T01:05:56.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4401" CreationDate="2017-03-21T09:56:32.680" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I write a comment, I often permute the backticks. So I have to edit it.&#xA;When it is not much work to implement such a feature, it would be nice :D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2017-03-22T04:32:50.350" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T19:18:52.170" Title="Is there a way for a preview for comments?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2017-03-21T10:19:11.537" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name is Kusalananda. I'm one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;your moderators&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/116858/kusalananda&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/116858.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for Kusalananda at Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange, Q&amp;amp;A for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems&quot; title=&quot;profile for Kusalananda at Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange, Q&amp;amp;A for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work as a government-funded software developer, systems developer, or DevOps engineer in Sweden.  I am accustomed to working in very international teams, and my current job involves supporting the larger academic community of bioinformaticians at Swedish research institutions (universities). In the Unix &amp;amp; Linux forum, I seem to be mainly interested in &lt;strong&gt;shell script programming&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Unix tools&lt;/strong&gt;, but I also enjoy programming in C and Perl, and Python when I'm forced to it. I quite like meddling in SQL too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My father gave me a Commodore 64 when I was 13, and later an Amiga 500.  I used them mainly for playing games, but also for learning Basic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best computer I've ever owned was a Macintosh SE/30 which served me well during the first few years of university in the early 90s. For its time, it was a real power brick in a neat and compact design. I'm terribly sad that I sold it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the early 1990's I rapidly progressed though a number of Apple machines while at the same time doing most of my actual programming for classes (mostly in C++ and Fortran 90 at the time) on SUN SPARCstations and SUN Ultra workstations running this Unix thing (earlier versions of &lt;strong&gt;Solaris&lt;/strong&gt;, or possibly SunOS, I'm not entirely sure). I learned to use the system by solving tasks related to my programming assignments, and by testing random commands to see what they did. I never took a &quot;Unix class&quot;. I knew how to write a Makefile before I knew very much about shell programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My department was a &lt;em&gt;Scientific Computing&lt;/em&gt; department, not a Computer Science department, and I started out on a Ph.D. in numerical analysis. Numerical analysis involves solving systems of equations using iterative methods. I soon found that I was more interested in (and better at) the actual implementation of the methods than working out the linear algebra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my Ph.D. project I was implementing a parallel preconditioner for the Euler and Navier-Stokes' equations in Fortran 77, using PVM to do the message passing between the four supercomputers we had at the department. PVM (Parallel Virtual machine), for those that may not know, was (is?) a bit like the development test-bed for MPI, the Message Passing Interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a Ph.D. student in Sweden is a bit different than what's it like in e.g. Britain. You're employed, you have a salary, you have an office, you teach. I taught Object Oriented Analysis and Design with C++ and a bit of parallel programming using PVM and MPI with Fortran 90 and C. I also ran an after-hours help desk in the department's computer lab, helping students with everything from printer problems to sorting out their programming logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed helping. I enjoyed teaching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Love and boredom made me quit the Ph.D. and we moved to New Zealand, for &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; Ph.D. in biochemistry. By this time (2000), I've had a cursory glance at &lt;strong&gt;Debian GNU/Linux&lt;/strong&gt;, but had decided I thought it was too &quot;sprawling&quot; and not &quot;well defined&quot; enough. I ran &lt;strong&gt;NetBSD&lt;/strong&gt; on a decommissioned SUN Blade workstation for a while, while working for a Life Science Crown Research Institute outside Dunedin, maintaining a cluster of RedHat servers and doing general programming odd-jobs for the people there needing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since December 2000 and OpenBSD 2.8 I've used &lt;strong&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/strong&gt; as my main platform. For about 11 years, I did a lot of Perl and SQL for a large project at the EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust in the UK (these places do research in bioinformatics and biomedicine), but I finally moved back to Sweden in 2014 for the position that I'm currently at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current setup is a macOS system on which I run OpenBSD-current in a VirtualBox headless virtual machine instance (10 GiB disk, 1 CPU, and a whooping 1 GiB of RAM seems to be what I need). Then I have a couple of OpenBSD laptops playing file servers, mail servers and other types of servers. All my work happens in or via the OpenBSD system while macOS provides me with a browser and a Slack client, and not much else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I do here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm an elected moderator, so I do moderating.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I take a particular interest in shell scripting and Unix tools questions in general.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I (hopefully) write answers that are clear and easy to understand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I learn a lot from people that know more than I do. A &lt;em&gt;whole&lt;/em&gt; lot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get annoyed with GNU-isms (when taken as universal standard) and with people that don't know that there are other Unices besides Linux.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like helping individuals with getting things done.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get a kick out of seeing someone else learn something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I enjoy short and self-contained problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like learning more about things I know only little about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I need to keep my brain working.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I enjoy this community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix systems, in order of preference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NetBSD&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linux (Ubuntu, probably)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Solaris&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anything else that looks &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt;. I've played around with Minix (but the lack of Dvorak key mappings put me off) and even had a go on the GNU Hurd, and Plan 9 (9front), just to be able to say I was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FreeBSD has been &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; uninteresting to me, but I can't really say why.  I like &quot;small&quot; systems, which is why I stick to OpenBSD.  I only just recently installed my first FreeBSD virtual machine to have a system to test some of my own software on.  Likewise, I keep an Ubuntu Linux system around, but I never really use it.  At work, we have multi-user servers and clusters (real and virtualized) running Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things I believe I can say I know something about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shell script programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;POSIX tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SQL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GNU autotools (&lt;code&gt;autoconf&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;automake&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My approach to answering questions in this forum (I don't strictly follow this):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Solve the problem.  For example, the question may be about syntax, but the problem is about copying files or parsing a file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix-related achievements benefiting others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I helped out with reviving the lost &lt;code&gt;groff&lt;/code&gt; sources of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unix Text Processing&lt;/a&gt; book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I maintain the ports of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU Stow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sshguard.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sshguard&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/projects/anacron/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anacron&lt;/a&gt; for OpenBSD. I previously also maintained some more obscure ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I maintain a tiny software project I call &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/kusalananda/shell-toolbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell-toolbox&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which I use for testing solutions to questions on this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other odd Unix-related facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I run &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; as my login shell.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I prefer &lt;code&gt;groff&lt;/code&gt; over LaTeX.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My main editor is &lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;nvi&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My six most used shell command are, according to my history file,&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;doas&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;ls&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;less&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dq5PZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dq5PZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Recent screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kusalananda&lt;/em&gt; is very much a given name, albeit not my legal name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-05-18T11:00:55.200" LastActivityDate="2020-05-18T11:00:55.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-25T21:36:39.523" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/349362/my-usb-wont-boot&quot;&gt;Unable to create a bootable USB drive using Linux Mint&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was edited a week ago, and it still hasn't been reopened. Can someone look at it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178962" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-03-25T22:31:45.820" Title="Edited my question, hasn't been reopened for a long time" Tags="|support|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4398" CreationDate="2017-03-25T22:31:32.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's reopened now. Posts that are edited after being closed are normally put in a queue to be reviewed by the community and potentially reopened, but the edit has to be within 5 days of the post closing (not really sure why, come to think of it). If it ever comes up again in the future, you can use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; link under a post to let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2017-03-25T22:31:32.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4396" CreationDate="2017-03-27T04:14:56.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can edit your comment in the &lt;code&gt;answer box&lt;/code&gt;, after you finish editing, you can copy/paste to the &lt;code&gt;comment box&lt;/code&gt;. They share the some common rules for editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92640" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T04:14:56.277" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4396" CreationDate="2017-03-27T19:18:52.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A workaround is to go to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/3122/195817&quot;&gt;Formatting Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;a pseudo-question on the super-meta site&#xA;that exists specifically to allow people to experiment with formatting. &#xA;You still may need to do repeated edits to get it right,&#xA;but at least people won’t be watching you while you do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T19:18:52.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-29T23:14:23.530" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/353076/how-to-indent-an-heredoc-inside-an-heredoc-the-right-way&quot;&gt;In here&lt;/a&gt; I mistakenly gave bounty to another answer. The bounty should go to xhienne. I clicked on the blue box when it was seemingly clickable (about 10 seconds) but I couldn't undo my action. I ask the mods to please give the bounty to xhienne or allow me to undo my action in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user149572" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T04:12:11.653" Title="I mistakenly gave bounty to another answer" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4402" CreationDate="2017-03-30T04:12:11.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, this action is permanent. Moderators can refund a bounty before it is awarded, but once it's awarded, it stays awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/16067/270345&quot;&gt;From the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;After awarding the bounty, can I remove it or move it to another answer at a later time?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, awarding is permanent. (But you're warned about that when actually&#xA;  awarding the bounty.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T04:12:11.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4407" CreationDate="2017-04-01T11:28:49.523" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across a great (long) Q, with great (long) answers, several bounties awarded, a pleasure to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the tags, and the first few lines of the Q it was not clear to me, whether I would enjoy it, or even read till the end. (&lt;strong&gt;¹&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the Question, I knew I wanted to up-vote, but already seeing the first/next answer, and that it has &gt;0 score, makes me continue scrolling down and continue my reading flow instead of scrolling up to up-vote the just-read question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I arrive at the bottom of the page, have 5+ new browser-tabs open, and now have to curb my burning curiosity to go scrolling up several screens to hunt for 3 up-vote buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times my curiosity wins, I read the next tabs, forget/postpone to up-vote, and next time my Firefox updates, I close the accumulated 400+ tabs, and thousands in rep are lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see several options (perhaps with a choice in the user-settings):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dynamically reposition the vote buttons to always be in view&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add an up-vote button also near the bottom right of the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a Keyboard Shortcut for up-voting, (or document it better, if exists)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 1 might be doable with some simple CSS/JS, implemented on your side, but somebody might have already make a user-script for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 2 is the one I would prefer. To the left of the post-author tag at the bottom of the post you could easily add an up-vote button/indicator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 3 I would also like, but that might be tricky to implement. &quot;Which of the 2 answers currently partially visible on his screen does he want to up-vote?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note 1: I posted this on Meta.U&amp;amp;L, because I do most of my reading and voting here, but this applies to all SE sites, and as such I do not object to any mod moves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note 2: This could be seen as a &quot;bug&quot; in the user-experience, so I also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; ed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) It's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/1189222/cd-rom-subchannel-is-different-when-dumping-the-same-disc&quot;&gt;Q&lt;/a&gt; about an aspect of CD Video-Game ripping on Windows10. (An interesting aspect, as it turns out, not not only applicable to video games)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stumbled on this, because it was linked to from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/12241/481365&quot; title=&quot;Meta Q&quot;&gt;HNP Meta Q&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127903" LastEditorUserId="32138" LastEditDate="2017-04-03T08:07:24.890" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T08:03:17.663" Title="Many times I &quot;forget&quot; to give (deserved) upvotes, because I would have to scroll up again" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|voting|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-01T18:12:02.963" Score="4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got an email from somone who edited my post for readability, which I don't mind, but can someone please tell me how I can email people who send me messages on here  - There seems to be no way to send private messages or emails to users, and I don't want to get into trouble because I cant send a message or communicate in email or privately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="223776" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T05:38:12.050" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T05:38:12.050" Title="How do you communicate with users who send to your inbox on this site" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4405" CreationDate="2017-04-01T19:17:39.117" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no user-to-user private communication mechanism on the site. If you're trying to leave feedback on an edit to a particular post, you can comment on that post and begin with &lt;code&gt;@name_of_the_person_who_edited&lt;/code&gt;. In your case, you would comment on your question with &lt;code&gt;@Jakuje Your message here&lt;/code&gt;, and Jakuje would see a notification in their inbox (the tray icon next to the StackExchange logo at the top of the screen). But that comment is posted publicly on the question, and you can only alert certain people that way (the complete list is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43020/145982&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on some of your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/355141/revisions&quot;&gt;question revisions&lt;/a&gt;, you seem confused about how edit diffs work. The revisions page just shows each revision in order. Red crossed-out sections were removed in that revision, and green sections were added, but that's just to help understand what each revision did -- the actual post doesn't look anything like that. It's probably clearer if you use the &quot;side-by-side&quot; view above each diff -- if you ignore the green coloring, the view on the right is what the post looked like after that revision. Edits certainly aren't intended to answer the question, they're a totally separate function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T19:17:39.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4404" CreationDate="2017-04-02T17:11:52.803" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keyboard shortcuts are already available. Enable them in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/current&quot;&gt;your preferences&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1Fvc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1Fvc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The help &lt;kbd&gt;?&lt;/kbd&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xvmFQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xvmFQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting &lt;kbd&gt;v&lt;/kbd&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rsx2P.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rsx2P.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2017-04-04T08:03:17.663" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T08:03:17.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-03T20:50:54.133" Score="11" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;career&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;career&lt;/a&gt; tag has only 9 questions and most of them are closed (7 out of 9) because they are off-topic. Career questions belong to the Workplace Stack Exchange. Should we delete this tag to not encourage users to post off-topic questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50149" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-04-04T11:24:23.977" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T12:48:43.483" Title="Delete the /career tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4408" CreationDate="2017-04-04T09:46:53.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, as far as I'm concerned. I don't see any point in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/career&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;career&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;career&lt;/a&gt; and can't really imagine any question that would be on topic and fit that tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless anyone objects, we can just remove the tag from those 9 questions and let it disappear from the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-04-04T11:24:34.270" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T11:24:34.270" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4408" CreationDate="2017-04-04T11:58:21.063" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions that have the tag are correctly tagged, they are about careers. So don't edit the questions to remove the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions with this tag are already closed. If we decide we don't want career-related questions, then we should finish the job: close and delete the undesirable questions. Once there are no non-deleted questions with the tag, the tag will disappear from the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-04-04T12:48:43.483" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T12:48:43.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4412" CreationDate="2017-04-10T14:41:42.220" Score="5" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started a bounty &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/355259/thunar-volman-automount-and-autoplay-not-longer-working-dvd-cd-only&quot;&gt;thunar-volman-automount-and-autoplay-not-longer-working-dvd-cd-only&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And found the Solution myself after 2 days. Now I should give someone the bounty, but there is only my answer. So please: what to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T17:56:26.837" Title="I started a bounty, and found the answer myself" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4411" CreationDate="2017-04-10T14:57:51.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately you can't award bounties to your own answers anymore (you used to be able to, but even then you got no reputation for it). If there are no other answers there's nothing you can do with it; it will expire automatically without being awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T14:57:51.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4414" CreationDate="2017-04-10T17:35:31.427" Score="12" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;on this answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/283528/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/283528/revisions&lt;/a&gt; I added example code to actually accomplish what was in the answer. It said use tool XYZ and I showed how to use it specifically as an answer to the question (as in, &lt;code&gt;XYZ parameters...&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My edit was later reverted back to the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when is it okay to add examples/code to an existing answer? I didn't want to duplicate an answer just with some more examples.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was it okay to revert the answer back to the original that did not include examples and, at least in my opinion, is slightly less useful to answer-seekers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user79560" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.037" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T23:30:30.803" Title="editing an answer to add code example, and then it was reverted" Tags="|discussion|editing|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4413" CreationDate="2017-04-10T17:54:14.333" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with improving existing answers; so does the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When should I edit posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any time you feel you can make the post better, and are inclined to do so. Editing is encouraged!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some common reasons to edit are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to clarify the meaning of a post without changing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak to the decision on the roll-back, but that appears to have been updated recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:05.530" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T17:54:14.333" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4415" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-04-13T13:58:53.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/07/10/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/07/10/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:58:53.070" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T13:58:53.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4416" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-04-13T13:58:53.070" Score="0" Body="One of the 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:58:53.070" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T13:58:53.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4418" CreationDate="2017-04-17T08:38:49.503" Score="27" ViewCount="502" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I wanted to show a question in &quot;Unix and Linux&quot; to a workmate; more exactly this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/359225/create-self-signed-certificate-with-end-date-in-the-past/359231#359231&quot;&gt;Create self-signed certificate with end-date in the past&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He used the &quot;Duck Duck Go&quot; search engine, and instead of landing in the proper question as it appears in Google, the first search gave him this result &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.candoerz.com/question/300567/create-self-signed-certificate-with-end-date-in-the-past.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://blogs.candoerz.com/question/300567/create-self-signed-certificate-with-end-date-in-the-past.aspx&lt;/a&gt; ; the original page was anywhere seen near the top (apparently). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the previous entry seems to indicate somewhat groups with names similar to stackexchange groups, landing directly in the webpage appears deceptive as it seems to be a forum of their own; furthermore the authors of questions and answers are defaced too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell for their entry page, they seems to be a competing outlet, that is scraping content from several groups of StackExchange to leverage their (new?) service and attract users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this on line with the terms of copyright of Stack Exchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2018-11-26T13:10:55.810" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T13:10:55.810" Title="Unauthorised web scraping of Unix &amp; Linux?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4417" CreationDate="2017-04-17T18:41:00.257" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual guidance is to report the offending site through the &quot;contact us&quot; link on every page. The contact form has a dropdown of reasons, one of which is unauthorized copying without attribution of the site's contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My experience (mainly from Stack Overflow) is that Stack Exchange take care of these sites behind the scenes, quietly, once you report them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19240" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T18:41:00.257" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4413" CreationDate="2017-04-20T10:03:33.317" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me try to be as very clear as I can as to why I reverted back to my original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 1:&#xA;&quot;People found it to be useful regardless of your edits.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 2:&#xA;&quot;I found xdotool on my own, my suggesting it was enough.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 3:&#xA;&quot;I provided a few basic features of the tool I suggested. Enough to get one researching if interest peaked.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 4:&#xA;&quot;The tool's --help argument and man page is HIGHLY readable and easy to understand. No code was necessary.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 5:&#xA;&quot;I don't need anymore reasons.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all practicality, since this IS a communistic site where the majority vetos the minority, you moderators, terdon, and others can simply delete my answer, manufacture your own, and post it. It was a 4-year-old question for god's sake! Make a big deal from something petty all you wish fellas, it doesn't make this kind of forum better. Matter of fact, you all have made it worse from childish tantrums rather than allowing information to be learned by others. A nice lesson that the tech world needs to learn is: &lt;em&gt;SPOONFEEDING DOESN'T TEACH&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take another lesson from Richard Stallman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.&lt;/em&gt; ~R. Stallman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Call me an extremist or whatever, but my madness has a method and the method has pretense. And it doesn't matter if anyone agrees with it or not.Don't wine and cry to the moderators because you didn't get your way. That is called being spoiled and immature. Want to improve the information provided? Make your own answer posts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170676" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2017-04-22T19:19:32.093" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T19:19:32.093" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4422" CreationDate="2017-04-21T22:09:12.073" Score="13" ViewCount="449" Body="&lt;p&gt;(S)he asks a very entry level &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/360530/fortran-in-fedora-linux&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that could be easily answered if they spent a few minutes looking over the Fedora 'getting started guide'. In fact, I mentioned exactly that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I checked, and realized the Guide is currently offline. I decided to post the quick answer and explain why the post was low quality (-3 at that point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be seen as polite and kind, but is it a good idea or does it undermine the intent of posting guidelines? Specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&lt;/a&gt; and the guidance to Search for an answer before asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62481" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T23:07:22.803" Title="I took pity on a new site member over a low quality post" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2017-04-21T23:07:22.803" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that sort of thing is better said in a comment. It isn't answering the question, so it doesn't really belong in an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we try to have answers answer the question and nothing else. No chit chat, as the help center says. So yeah, a comment would be better for this sort of thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T23:07:22.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4424" CreationDate="2017-04-22T04:46:03.497" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I &lt;em&gt;intend&lt;/em&gt; to post something, even plan it out in my mind. Sometimes I make a draft in my editor first. Still, I get distracted and forget to post my comment from time to time. Until now I've been able to tell if I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; commented, or merely planned to, by reviewing the question from my favorites tab, and either finding my comment, or seeing that it's not there and knowing I still have to take the final step and actually post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4420/207673&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is one I am almost certain that I commented on, and I think I even got a response to it. The reverse logic around the OP's use of a quote from R. Stallman is what sticks in my mind. Admittedly my ancient, code addled brain has some bad sectors in it, yet I'm sure the comment &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can think of is that my comment was deleted, along with the response to it, by someone with that power. (A mod, maybe high-rep user, not sure, and it don't matter.) I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I recall a much larger list of comments than is currently there as well. Anyway, since I can't see any remnants of my comment in my profile page, on the question page, or in my inbox, can someone tell me if I really did post the comment, and it later got deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care if it was deleted as part of the site's upkeep. That's a legitimate process for the good of the site. I just want to know if my mind is developing more bad sectors, or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="207673" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-04-22T05:19:29.117" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T05:19:29.117" Title="Did I post a comment on this answer?" Tags="|support|status-completed|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4423" CreationDate="2017-04-22T05:17:50.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments can be deleted by the people who posted them as well as moderators, but in this case it was actually an entirely different answer. The author deleted the existing answer and posted an almost identical answer all within a few seconds, I assume because the first answer had several downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I restored the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4419/73&quot;&gt;original answer&lt;/a&gt;, moved the comments the new answer had gotten onto it so they're all in one place, and deleted the new answer you were seeing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T05:17:50.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-24T05:26:48.790" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm working on a huge project, the learning curve has been steep, and I've been finding myself needing to ask questions outside the scope of the 'This single issue' =&gt; 'This single action to resolve said issue' stack-exchange format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the situations I'm investigating, and the decisions I'm making, I'm finding myself wanting to ask vague questions where the answers will most definitely contain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: an opinion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B: an explanation (occasionally patronizing) of something that could be found in documentation, that I simply did not know where to find&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C: That's a bad idea don't do that, without suggestions for better approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D: Not adhering to a strict context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E: The question has been asked, but the answer does not satisfy my needs in context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love this site, I end up here multiple times everyday, and have come to rely on the expertise of the user-base here. Are there any good places, that aren't decade old forums with good SEO, or IRC channels that anyone could recommend to gain/share knowledge with a more casual format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Update:]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will check it out, but the question still stands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80706" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T17:50:06.620" Title="Are there any good IRC channels, forums for questions that don't 'quite' fit this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2017-04-24T13:16:47.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;the &lt;code&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/code&gt; chat&lt;/a&gt;, but that's not the place to solve problems. In fact, it's discouraged (EDIT: Ow, this sounded harsh, come say hello and see what happens). We want well formulated questions with good answers on the main U&amp;amp;L site, for the benefit of &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; who's visiting. That is the purpose of U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking in the chat whether a question &lt;em&gt;would be suitable&lt;/em&gt; as a full-blown question on the main site is possible, and that happens from time to time. It may also be the place where one could get input for framing and (re-)formulating a question, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with the main U&amp;amp;L site, people might ignore you in the chat (if anyone is there at all), lose interest, or kindly tell you to go read your manuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd encourage you to ask your questions on the main site, but to be aware that if they are interpreted as being a bit nebulous or off-topic, they may be downvoted and/or ignored, closed (&quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;, &quot;unclear&quot; etc.), or possibly migrated to a more suitable forum (if they are good questions). This is as it should be, and should not be taken personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main use of the &lt;code&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/code&gt; chat, during the time that I've been there, is to connect with people, share ideas, and to make others aware of issues on the main U&amp;amp;L site. There is currently a handful of people that visit it regularly.  From time to time there's a flurry of activity (usually between two or three people) while other days may be totally silent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-04-24T17:50:06.620" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T17:50:06.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2017-04-24T15:56:02.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some topics, chat rooms over on the Stack Overflow side of the network have a relaxed policy and enough visitors to approach critical mass for this sort of informal guidance seeking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a regular in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/98569/bin-bash&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash&lt;/code&gt; room&lt;/a&gt; where however there is no activity for hours on end and few visitors; but if your topic is related to shell programming, you are welcome to pop in for a quick question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am less familiar with e.g. the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/6/python&quot;&gt;Python&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/10/loungec&quot;&gt;C++&lt;/a&gt; rooms, both of which have much higher traffic volumes but also (especially in the C++ room) stricter rules. There is a plethora of other rooms where you may find people who are happy to chat about technical topics - just take it slow, try to be brief and specific at least until you are familiar with the culture in any particular room, and respect the room's focus (don't barge in with Unix questions in a Windows or Android room, or C questions in a PHP room; don't speak English in rooms with a different language, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also mention that it's possible to create a room of your own on pretty much any reasonable topic, though it's hard to attract a community of regular visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like in any sort of forum, get familiar with the conventions by lurking for a bit before you do anything which could be perceived as a hostile takeover of an ongoing conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19240" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T15:56:02.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2017-04-25T07:55:43.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Remember to quote your variables&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed question and answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/171346/security-implications-of-forgetting-to-quote-a-variable-in-bash-posix-shells&quot;&gt;Security implications of forgetting to quote a variable in bash/POSIX shells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T07:55:43.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2017-04-25T07:57:49.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Do not parse the output of &lt;code&gt;ls&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed question and answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128985/why-not-parse-ls&quot;&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; parse &lt;code&gt;ls&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T07:57:49.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-25T14:33:42.757" Score="8" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/191200&quot;&gt;an edit&lt;/a&gt; to an answer, and it was rejected.  The reason given was: &quot;This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggested the edit to the top-voted answer for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer was already well-written and covered most of the likely scenarios.  It didn't seem appropriate to add a different answer when 90% of the answer would have been the same content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A comment would not have been as visible, easily discoverable, or appropriately legible to most readers, especially given that my suggested edit had some code-formatted text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I searched for the problem I was having, the referenced question was the first hit on Google.  Putting the information that actually solved my issue (which was very close to the accepted answer, but needed one additional step) in the answer seemed like it would help the most people and require the least amount of effort for future users seeking help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is adding a separate answer (or a daisy chain of comments) really the best approach here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153792" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T07:22:45.830" Title="Clarification on rejected edit" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2017-04-27T00:04:03.213" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for improving Unix Stack Exchange! Your edit suggestion was indeed best as an edit to the existing answer. It's a minor increment to the existing answer, so it's best added to that answer rather than posting another answer that would have to repeat most of the material in the existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment would not have been right: comments are for unresolved issues. If you want to request some clarification about an answer, a comment is the right tool. If you want to suggest an improvement but you aren't sure whether it's correct then a comment is the right tool. But if you have a minor improvement that you're sure of then the issue is resolved and a comment is not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your wording could have been improved a bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“If the &lt;code&gt;uid&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;gid&lt;/code&gt; do not match on the client and server” — no need to mention this again, it's the whole point of the thread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, you don't actually explain why &lt;code&gt;forceuid&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;forcegid&lt;/code&gt; may be necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“More information is available via &lt;code&gt;man mount.cifs&lt;/code&gt;” — best to just add a link to an online copy of the man page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T00:04:03.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4437" CreationDate="2017-04-27T10:21:08.707" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just noticed a user who posts a number of questions, then answers the question them-self almost immediately. It is like they are using the site as their own blog. I guess this could happen often, but this is the first time I noticed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt this is a prolific user either, but this activity is also a little strange (to me, personally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing a little strange is within 18 months they have a Rep. of 14k+. Now that is a lot of work. Some of their posts are a little obscure and seem to get a number of up votes pretty quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is: Is this user exploiting the site for some self promoting reason, and if so is this a problem at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I don't mind either way (problem or not) just curious about the general consensus. Also I would rather not state the users name - which would make this subject hard to discuss (as you are can not see their Q&amp;amp;A history), but if it is clear that a majority of people feel the user name is required, I'll post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28317" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T05:05:51.917" Title="User asks a lot of questions, but often answer themself. Is this a problem?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2017-04-27T14:00:10.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Common homework questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/361676/how-might-a-technician-use-ps-and-kill-to-investigate-a-misbehaving-system&quot;&gt;Computing GCSE Controlled Assessment - Evaluate the usefulness of the top command and discuss how a computer technician might use it together with ps and kill in order to investigate a system that is misbehaving.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/347039/how-do-you-show-bash-history&quot;&gt;Computing GCSE Controlled Assessment - Show and explain the content of the file that contains the Bash history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/347027/how-to-get-linux-to-display-hidden-files-beginning-with-b&quot;&gt;Computing GCSE Controlled Assessment - At the command prompt, type ls -a. Demonstrate and explain what happens. Modify this command so that it only shows hidden files beginning with the letter ‘b’.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T14:00:10.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4435" CreationDate="2017-04-28T04:56:21.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Asking &amp;amp; Answering your own questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a problem. I do this myself when I find either interesting things that I've figured out how to do and/or gaps in knowledge across the internet. I used to maintain a blog for this purpose but have since moved a lot of my content to SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The docs even support this position BTW: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Fraudulent voting&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that would be bad with this, is if they had &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57682/how-should-sockpuppets-be-handled-on-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;sock puppet accounts&lt;/a&gt; and were upvoting their own questions and answers, but otherwise, without additional information we cannot dig any deeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Accepting your own answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are caveat to accepting your own answer. They're covered here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/06/accept-your-own-answers/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/06/accept-your-own-answers/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait 48 hours. You must wait 2 days from the time you originally asked your question before you can accept your own answer. This gives other users a chance to answer the question in good faith, and earn the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No change in sort order. Normally, accepted answers are “docked” under the question. This is not true for owner accepted answers; they stay in standard sort order like any other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No reputation is earned. Normally, accepted answers confer +15 rep to the answerer and +2 to the owner. Owner accepted answers do not earn rep (or badges) for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if you search the meta sites for SE etc. you'll find Q&amp;amp;A's like this one as well explaining it further: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16930/is-it-ok-to-answer-your-own-question-and-accept-it&quot;&gt;Is it ok to answer your own question and accept it?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2017-04-28T05:05:51.917" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T05:05:51.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-02T11:11:21.923" Score="17" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are these two - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt;. Moreover,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt; is synonymous with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/non-interactive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-interactive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;non-interactive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; is synonymous with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash-script&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-scripting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what's the point of having the two of these separate. If a script is not a shell script, then it's more about programming than Unix/Linux. Right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind having a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scripting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scripting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt; tag, but would like to clarify the usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-05-02T20:28:28.243" LastActivityDate="2017-05-02T20:28:28.243" Title="Should the tags /scripting and /shell-script be merged?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4440" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-03T13:00:59.320" Score="5" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed the &lt;code&gt;hover&lt;/code&gt; behaviour of Related Questions section. Below there's another section &amp;quot;Hot Network Questions&amp;quot; that is performing well on &lt;code&gt;hover&lt;/code&gt;. Is that a bug or &lt;em&gt;is it a feature&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovDUg.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's the gif.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit for clarification&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;When hovering elements from the &lt;em&gt;Related&lt;/em&gt; [questions] section, a 1px border is added at the bottom of the element that is being hovered. The 1px border doesn't exist in the default state of the element which causes elements below the one that's being hovered to be pushed with 1px .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browser&lt;/strong&gt;: Chrome, Version 57.0.2987.133 (64-bit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OS&lt;/strong&gt;: macOS Sierra 10.12.4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem is reproducible in 99% of the browser, I believe. Since it's expected behaviour when you're adding border at the bottom of an element, that doesn't exist, without the element being hovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: The problem is obviously fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53070" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T08:23:44.080" Title="&quot;Related&quot; questions section is dancing" Tags="|bug|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4481" CreationDate="2017-05-03T18:15:55.947" Score="6" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes refer to &quot;canonical questions&quot; in my answers, and I've noticed that while I'm writing the answer, the preview of the text shows the actual title of the linked question rather than the URL, even though I've only pasted in a plain URL with no extra formatting, &lt;em&gt;which is a nice feature&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once I submit the answer, those same links revert to being rendered as ordinary URLs again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Example: I paste in the link https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/218169/is-there-ever-a-good-reason-to-run-sudo-su&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the preview I can now see the above line rendered as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: I paste in the link &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/218169/is-there-ever-a-good-reason-to-run-sudo-su&quot;&gt;Is there ever a good reason to run sudo su?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but when I submit it, it will invariably revert to a plain URL&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I obviously know about inserting links using the &lt;code&gt;[link text](link URL)&lt;/code&gt; syntax, but since the preview is doing such a good job of showing the title of questions when linking to them with the URL only, I think it's a bit of a shame that this doesn't carry over from the preview to the submitted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;I'm almost 75% certain (i.e. &quot;I seem to remember, but I may be wrong&quot;) that I've seen the formatting of links persist to the submitted answer occasionally, but never recently.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T19:56:10.200" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T21:12:20.857" Title="Regarding links to U&amp;L questions in answers, and the way they do/don't expand to the title of the question" Tags="|bug|hyperlinks|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2017-05-04T07:22:45.830" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a little late to this party, but as one of the reviewers who rejected the edit, I will leave my two-cents.  I will start by quoting from the (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When should I edit posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any time you see a post that needs improvement and are inclined to suggest an edit, you are welcome to do so. The original author of a question or answer may always edit their own post, regardless of reputation level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than you found it. Common reasons for edits include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To fix grammar and spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (without changing that meaning)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the  information relevant to the post is contained in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To correct minor mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your edit, and the reviewers judgement of applicability of same, I think falls under &lt;em&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (without changing that meaning)&lt;/em&gt;.  So that is where I end up weighing this edit recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, this is a substantial contribution, and deserving of its own answer. And as such I thought it changed the meaning of the edited post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reject reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is not ideal, but I think captures the intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would suggest this content would be best presented as its own answer, with a reference to the context of the answer you were originally editing. It is not uncommon to say something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/68081/208146&quot;&gt;Huygens answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;code&gt;uid&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;gid&lt;/code&gt; do not match on the client and server, you can force the &lt;code&gt;uid&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;gid&lt;/code&gt; specified in the mount/fstab by adding &lt;code&gt;forceuid&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;forcegid&lt;/code&gt;.  More information is available via &lt;code&gt;man mount.cifs&lt;/code&gt;.  See below for a usage example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo mount -t cifs -o username=${USER},password=${PASSWORD},uid=&amp;lt;user&amp;gt;,gid=&amp;lt;group&amp;gt;,forceuid,forcegid //server-address/folder /mount/path/on/ubuntu&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please allow me to apologize profusely if this edit rejection in some way discourages you from posting high quality content like this in the future.  Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208146" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T07:22:45.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4444" CreationDate="2017-05-04T16:54:36.527" Score="7" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363084/bond-eth0-and-lte-modem&quot;&gt;Bond eth0 and LTE Modem&lt;/a&gt; a pointer, I was trying to find a previous answer I knew I'd written about how we use multiple ISPs at work. I was also going to point to some other folk's answers, but first of course I had to find them. Policy routing on Linux is done with the &lt;code&gt;ip&lt;/code&gt; command's &lt;code&gt;rule&lt;/code&gt; subcommand. So the answers should all include &lt;code&gt;ip rule&lt;/code&gt;, but searching for that didn't really find any. I know I have written one, so I searched:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22ip+rule%22+is%3Aa+user%3A977&quot;&gt;&quot;ip rule&quot; is:a user:977&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;      → 0 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Errr, I managed to find my answer eventually: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/70440/routing-for-multiple-uplinks-providers/71834#71834&quot;&gt;Routing for multiple uplinks/providers&lt;/a&gt; and note the line &lt;code&gt;Maginot:~# ip rule ls&lt;/code&gt; — &quot;ip rule&quot; is right there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I search for just &quot;rule&quot; instead, it finds it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can figure is that search is ignoring code blocks. Ugh. Presuming that's the case, is there some trick (other than the obvious, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22derobert%22+%22ip+rule%22+site%3Aunix.stackexchange.com&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;why did you bother with a search other than Google?&lt;/a&gt;) to get search to search inside code blocks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-05-04T18:52:39.927" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T18:52:39.927" Title="Why doesn't search find my answer?" Tags="|support|answers|search|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4443" CreationDate="2017-05-04T17:49:30.270" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does seem like search just ignores code blocks; I can't find any mention of if this is intentional, it seems like an odd decision, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160100/a-new-search-engine-for-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;meta thread about the new search engine&lt;/a&gt; implies that it should work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Quoted phrases are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; matches except for case-sensitivity, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=&amp;quot;COUNT%28*%29+AS+UpVotes&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;you can search for code&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22*=%22&quot;&gt;symbols&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a way to search &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; code blocks, the entirely undocumented &lt;code&gt;code:&lt;/code&gt; filter, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=code%3A%22ip+rule%22+is%3Aa+user%3A977&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;code:&quot;ip rule&quot; is:a user:997&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; will work. Note that that wouldn't find answers where you mentioned &quot;ip rule&quot; outside a code block; I think you'd have to run two separate searches to cover both cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:04.423" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T17:49:30.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4449" CreationDate="2017-05-06T00:47:04.870" Score="6" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask two questions in the same day. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363164/why-doesnt-find-rm-iname-phpmyadmin-delete-phpmyadmin-version-xyz-zip&quot;&gt;The first question&lt;/a&gt;, is quite simple one, asked due to a mistake I myself did in Regex. This question is very thumbed up and was shared between people. I didn't imagine it to be even upvoted at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363169/makefile-alternative-for-those-who-dont-want-to-tab-indent-everything-under-the&quot;&gt;The second question&lt;/a&gt; deals with a far more exotic issue (GNU make) and seems to me harder to solve. Yet this second question got thumb downs and no thumb up given after I tried to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to have your opinion, dear veterans, on what actually happens here --- Why the first simple, allegedly trivial question is that liked compared to the scripting issue of question 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only explanation is that maybe I wasn't the only one here thinking that rm -rf deals only with directories (a misconception I had as Linux freshman, until last morning).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user149572" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2017-05-11T12:50:39.133" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T10:18:56.567" Title="I asked 2 questions in the same day - One very thumbed up, one very thumbed down --- Why?" Tags="|discussion|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-06T02:40:48.537" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, there are several kde/plasma tags that are similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kde5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kde5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kde5&lt;/a&gt; (40 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plasma5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plasma5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plasma5&lt;/a&gt; (37 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kde&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kde&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kde&lt;/a&gt; (771 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plasma&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plasma&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plasma&lt;/a&gt; (72 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kde4&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kde4&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kde4&lt;/a&gt; (63 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my understanding that KDE is the community that creates the Plasma desktop environment. However, KDE also creates other software, including KDE Frameworks. I'm unsure what the &lt;code&gt;kde[45]?&lt;/code&gt; tags specifically denote. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kde&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kde&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kde&lt;/a&gt; tag description says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a full featured desktop environment and collection of software for communication, work, education and entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which includes everything that the KDE community creates, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the issue of three &lt;code&gt;kde[45]?&lt;/code&gt; tags. Similarly, there are two Plasma-related tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plasma&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plasma&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plasma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plasma5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plasma5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plasma5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;for KDE Plasma 5-related questions. Plasma 5 is the fifth generation of desktop environment from KDE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess having both is a historical thing. When Plasma 5 was released, a distinct tag was necessary. However, since most people are now using Plasma 5, most questions could be tagged with both. In addition, these questions could also be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kde&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kde&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kde&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kde5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kde5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kde5&lt;/a&gt; too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we merge some of the tags, and/or blacklist some of them, and if so, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18887" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T21:44:46.923" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T21:44:46.923" Title="Could we please clean up the kde/plasma tags?" Tags="|discussion|status-planned|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-06T04:02:25.150" Score="34" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;More often than I'd like, I see screenshots of terminal emulators while browsing through the newest questions and the &quot;First Posts&quot; review queue.  If, given the context of the post, it is clear that the screenshot is posted for its textual content rather than its appearance, I generally edit the post to instead contain a transcription of said screenshot.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After doing so, I tend to leave a comment along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4086&quot;&gt;Please don't post images of text.&lt;/a&gt;  I have transcribed the contents for you, but you may want to check for errors in transcription.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have received thanks from one or two posters for this, and nobody has yet seemed opposed to the practice, but I would like a broader opinion — is image transcription in and of itself a valid reason to edit a post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Often the edit involves grammar fixes and other formatting changes as well, but that is not the point of my question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175857" LastActivityDate="2022-09-18T13:17:13.140" Title="Is it acceptable to transcribe images?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|etiquette|policy|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-05-06T08:21:40.330" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely. Yes indeedy. Thank you kindly. Editing a post to convert a non-editable image into malleable text is very helpful. Even if all the edit does is transcribe, it is absolutely a helpful edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, please keep doing that and thank you for taking the time to do so!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T08:21:40.330" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2017-05-06T09:24:07.667" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasons people have for voting a question up or down are many. Ideally someone voting will be voting based on objective reasoning, but I'm sure that people vote on questions from purely subjective and emotional standpoints as well. In particular, it's hard to be objective on a topic one knows little about (and one should maybe consider &lt;em&gt;avoiding&lt;/em&gt; voting on such questions entirely because of this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that they think the question is well posed, complete and accurately describes all components in such a way that it makes it easy to answer for someone who knows a bit about the topic, or that they are intellectually intrigued by the question, or that they found the answer they were looking for while having a similar issue themselves, or that they learnt something from the question together with its answers, or simply that they understand it and are able to see a solution by themselves (and therefore up-votes it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is contrived, poorly written or lacking in information, shows that little or no effort went into researching the topic, or if someone decides that it's of very little use to anyone other than the person posting the question, some may choose to vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is too specific to a particular setup or situation, or if it is far too technical for people to understand, it may be left without votes or voted down by people that are simply confused by it, or up-voted by those few that actually grasp the issue and who thinks it's worth up-voting (or down-voted because they understand that it's such a narrow use-case that it's unlikely to be of interest to anyone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;The Help Center says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; to the person asking may not be of general interest or use, and what's of general interest and use may definitely be debated (but probably never decided in any useful way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of these two questions in particular, it may be that the up-voted one was simply more &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; to those seeing it, or just &lt;em&gt;easier to understand and solve&lt;/em&gt;, while the second one may have been too narrow or harder to understand (it may have been, in your own words, a too &quot;exotic&quot; issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to the second question received multiple up-votes, which shows that the people reading them thought that they were good answers.  A down-voted question with a few really good answers is still interesting and worth while reading (personal opinion). Unfortunately, it doesn't affect the score of the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Another&lt;/em&gt; contributing factor for the up-votes on the first question may be the relatively large number of views (1100+). This may be due to a well-composed title, a good choice of tags.  It may also have been promoted on Twitter and/or made it into the &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; list.  More views equals more votes on both the question and the answers, and generally, a good question/answer receives more views, so it's a self feeding loop in a sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question has less than 100 views, and that may be because Makefiles simply isn't a &quot;hot&quot; or &quot;interesting&quot; topic. It may be more &quot;fun&quot; to read and answer a question about &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; and globbing patterns (topics that any shell user may relate to) than about Makefiles (a topic that mostly developers relate to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T10:18:56.567" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T10:18:56.567" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-05-08T11:23:24.587" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acceptable? Sure, why not, it makes the question easier to read, search and use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you be expected to spend your time on that? I don't think so.&#xA;The original asker is quite likely to already have the relevant data in text, so it's much easier for them to copy and paste the text to the question. Transcribing takes time and is prone to errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And should you do it even if not expected? In my not so humble opinion, maybe no. It makes crap questions seem more acceptable and enables users who don't spend the little time of formatting their questions, instead of helping them learn to write better questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;How to ask&quot; document&lt;/a&gt; in the help doesn't seem to contain a note about preferring text over images, so I don't know where new users are expected to see that advice and the reasoning for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T11:23:24.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4454" CreationDate="2017-05-08T19:23:29.613" Score="2" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;43 questions are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/log&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;log&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;log&lt;/a&gt; and 1004 questions are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/logs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;logs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;logs&lt;/a&gt; which also has a nice description to come with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/log&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;log&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;log&lt;/a&gt; be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/logs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;logs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;logs&lt;/a&gt; as it is more established and they both share the same meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user103789" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T21:51:51.230" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T21:51:51.230" Title="&quot;log&quot; tag should be made a synonym of &quot;logs&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4453" CreationDate="2017-05-08T20:26:32.093" Score="0" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to embed the code put up on gist.github.com in either the question or the answer instead of repeating the same thing here ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T21:08:06.480" Title="embedding gists from github in stackexchange.com" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4452" CreationDate="2017-05-08T21:08:06.480" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. That would be the same as linking, which means that should the gist disappear, the question/answer here becomes useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Won't fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T21:08:06.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4451" CreationDate="2017-05-08T21:51:43.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merged, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/log&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;log&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;log&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/logs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;logs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;logs&lt;/a&gt; synonym added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T21:51:43.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4456" CreationDate="2017-05-09T10:57:32.257" Score="1" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363357/why-install-lxde-core-no-include-the-lxterminal-recommend&quot;&gt;Why install lxde-core no include the lxterminal recommend?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;Whether I should post a same question to other similar StackExchange communities or not?&#xA;Particularly,I should done this when my question no any useful answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230141" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T12:33:49.787" Title="Whether I should post a same question to other similar StackExchange communities or not?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4455" CreationDate="2017-05-09T11:14:34.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, please don't post the same question on multiple Stack Exchange sites. That is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu&quot;&gt;explicitly against the rules&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to ask on another site, you can either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the post here and repost it on the other site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag it for moderator attention and ask us to migrate it for you. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But don't post the same question on multiple sites, that can end up with all copies of the question closed. Finally, I can't imagine any other site more suited for your question. It would also be on topic on Super User but it is a better fit here. Still, moving it is absolutely your choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T12:33:49.787" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T12:33:49.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4458" CreationDate="2017-05-09T17:24:33.793" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a comment tells me to try something, should I only edit the result into the question, or also reply to the comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363357/why-isnt-lxterminal-installed-when-installing-lxde-core#comment645926_363357&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t lxterminal installed when installing lxde-core?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I should do for that comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230141" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-05-10T23:56:46.630" LastActivityDate="2017-05-10T23:56:46.630" Title="If a comment tells me to try something, should I only edit the result into the question, or also reply to the comment?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4457" CreationDate="2017-05-09T19:00:56.710" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having trouble understanding your question; I think it's this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a comment tells me to try something, should I edit the result into the question, or reply to the comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should do both. The question should be complete, readers shouldn't need to check the comments to get the whole story. However, the person who left a comment will get an alert if you leave a reply comment, so they'll know to check your updated question; otherwise they might forget to ever come back and reread it. If the other person is really on top of things, they'll flag both comments as obsolete once they come back, and we'll clean them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T19:00:56.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4462" CreationDate="2017-05-10T09:05:12.987" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I value this community and try to provide value to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363824/get-wifi-ssid-and-name-upon-connection&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which was originally +1 but then moved to be -2 in the space of about an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In which ways is it a poor question?  What could I do to improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143394" LastActivityDate="2017-05-10T18:34:37.367" Title="Question downvoted with no comments as to why" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4460" CreationDate="2017-05-10T18:34:37.367" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comes up from time to time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The best advice I can give you is to look at how other questions are structured on the site that are popular and possibly related to the area you're asking your question in. Then model your question off of their structure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additionally always provide as much detail about OS, versions etc. within your question and try to tell a story. This last bit is to explain what you've done to this point in how you've attempted to solve the question yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also don't be afraid to reframe your question as new details come to light. Don't use comments for this. Edit your question and incorporate details into your question as you refine and focus it to an eventual solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember that voting up/down are signals to you. Try not to interpret these as a personal attack of any sort. Some will leave comments but many do not. It's just part of the SE model and something you have to come to terms with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2017-05-10T18:34:37.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-12T17:45:48.923" Score="0" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;These question should flags as duplicate or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363357/why-isnt-lxterminal-installed-when-installing-lxde-core&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t lxterminal installed when installing lxde-core?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/364481/when-a-package-recommends-a-or-b-which-one-is-installed&quot;&gt;When a package recommends A or B, which one is installed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230141" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T17:45:48.923" Title="These question should flags as duplicate or not?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-05-15T08:50:07.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-13T10:13:31.143" Score="-1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to merge my own duplicate question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/364481/when-a-package-recommends-a-or-b-which-one-is-installed&quot;&gt;When a package recommends A or B, which one is installed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363357/why-isnt-lxterminal-installed-when-installing-lxde-core?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t lxterminal installed when installing lxde-core?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230141" LastActivityDate="2017-05-13T14:51:56.363" Title="How to merge my own duplicate question?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|specific-question|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4466" CreationDate="2017-05-13T14:51:56.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the question has already been marked as a duplicate, you can simply click on the button to accept the dupe target:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BtT34.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BtT34.png&quot; alt=&quot;accept dupe button&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on this feature, see:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/250981/203101&quot;&gt;New UI encourages askers to confirm or dispute duplicate votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-05-13T14:51:56.363" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-05-13T15:12:51.073" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Analogy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is as acceptable as it is for mother to cut your meat.  It is necessary in some cases: when the person is unable to cut their own meat, often due to lack of skill.  Outside of this case, mother is often just overbearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="220935" LastActivityDate="2017-05-13T15:12:51.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4470" CreationDate="2017-05-13T15:37:13.137" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is effect to me if my question or answers receive too much downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230141" LastEditorUserId="230141" LastEditDate="2017-05-13T15:53:25.967" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T06:28:05.523" Title="What is effect to me if my question or answers receive too much downvote?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4469" CreationDate="2017-05-13T20:19:33.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The effect on you is that you lose &quot;reputation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each time someone downvotes a question or an answer that you have written, you get -2 &quot;reputation&quot;, but it will never drop below 1.  This is explained &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;in the Help Center&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question with many downvotes is less likely to be seen by other users, so another effect is that it becomes less likely to attract an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in comments below, receiving consistent downvotes may get you temporarily blocked from asking further questions, and eventually even banned from asking &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T06:28:05.523" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T06:28:05.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4474" CreationDate="2017-05-15T06:06:04.973" Score="-4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to find some question that I can perfect answer it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230141" LastEditorUserId="230141" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T06:55:36.320" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T04:41:13.720" Title="How to find some question that I can perfect answer it?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-05-27T16:28:10.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2017-05-15T06:53:55.957" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making the text within that image non-searchable might have been the exact intention. It could be real world data used to demonstrate a problem which, while not confidential, the asker does not wish to have indexed and screenscraped everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142027" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T06:53:55.957" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4472" CreationDate="2017-05-15T06:57:44.937" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To more easily find questions that you would be able to answer, you may look for the &lt;em&gt;tags&lt;/em&gt; associated with the topics that you are interested in and know something about, or that you would like to know more about by reading questions and answers written by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can search for a particular tag using &lt;code&gt;[tagname]&lt;/code&gt; in the search box, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bposix%5D+substitution&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[posix] substitution&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; if you want to search for things tagged with &lt;code&gt;posix&lt;/code&gt; and containing the word &lt;code&gt;substitution&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also automatically get certain questions highlighted or dimmed on the main page by adding &quot;favorite&quot; and &quot;ignored&quot; tags. Just click &quot;edit&quot; after &quot;Favorite Tags&quot; on the right hand side pane of the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="135943" LastEditDate="2017-07-08T04:41:13.720" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T04:41:13.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4476" CreationDate="2017-05-15T17:47:31.513" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site, this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-shell --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    # do these steps on each distro&#xA;    mv Documents Documents.old&#xA;    ln -s /shared/your-user/Documents Documents&#xA;    mv -i Documents.old/* Documents/&#xA;    rmdir Documents.old&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;produced rather silly syntax highlighting (screenshot, since I can't get &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; syntax highlighting to happen on meta):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bg5U0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bg5U0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Above example, screenshot from the preview&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to think &lt;code&gt;Documents&lt;/code&gt; means something to shell. And possibly that &lt;code&gt;rmdir&lt;/code&gt; introduces a comment (or at least it uses the same color as the comment up top). I tried &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;lang-bash&lt;/code&gt; as well, both do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The documentation says shell should be supported: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/what-is-syntax-highlighting-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T17:54:19.637" LastActivityDate="2017-06-11T06:26:05.107" Title="Shell syntax highlighting does silly things like consider rmdir a comment" Tags="|bug|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4475" CreationDate="2017-05-15T19:29:39.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You either need to specify a tag name, or a language prefixed with &lt;code&gt;lang-&lt;/code&gt;. There is no registered language named &lt;code&gt;shell&lt;/code&gt;, so &lt;code&gt;lang-shell&lt;/code&gt; kicks it into a default mode the same as if you'd done &lt;code&gt;lang-foobarbaz&lt;/code&gt;, and apparently in that mode it looks for C-style comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-sh --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: shell --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (which tells it to use the language associated with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; tag, which is &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt;), it should work, and the last section doesn't get highlighted as a comment. &lt;code&gt;Documents&lt;/code&gt; is still wrong though, it gets colored as a typename, which seems to be happening because it's capitalized. I tried to look into &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/google/code-prettify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;code-prettify&lt;/a&gt; to see why they do that, but I don't even see support for &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt;, so it's not clear to me how this all fits together. But whatever the problem is, it's probably in code-prettify, not anything in Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T19:29:39.977" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4478" CreationDate="2017-05-17T00:30:16.890" Score="29" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/365457/pipe-into-if-statement&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and got an answer that solved my question, so I up-voted and then accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then someone else posted a new answer which included the information of the first answer plus many additional points. I plan to switch my project's code to reflect the new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand I already accepted so I don't want to cause the original poster to loose reputation. On the other hand objectively the newer answer is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an obligation to switch accepted answer if a better one comes along that builds and improves on another answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16792" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-05-28T22:14:23.823" Title="Better answer after accepting?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4477" CreationDate="2017-05-17T00:44:22.187" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not an obligation, but it is in the spirit of the site. Think of future readers; you want to signpost the answer that you, the question asker, deemed most helpful so that it will be evident to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about the original answerer losing some rep: it comes and it goes. What is important is that the wiki contains helpful answers and recognizes the best of them with the green tick of goodness™…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T00:44:22.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4477" CreationDate="2017-05-17T19:12:43.807" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution to that situation is to not accept so quickly... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sounds a bit simplistic, but consider that not everyone gets to see the question right when it's posted. There will be answers that come a bit later. Also, questions with accepted answers show up with a green box in the question list, immediately signalling &quot;case closed&quot; even before the question is opened. That may discourage others from adding new answers. (It doesn't discourage everyone, of course, but it might.) Similar arguments are mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235&quot;&gt;here on meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;, too, so I guess I'm not the only one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waiting a while may increase your chances of getting better answers, and decrease the likelihood of having to feel like stealing candy from a child when you have to take the check mark away from someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the particular question you referred to, the first answer came in about 8 minutes, the second about 9 minutes later. That's quite quick, in my humble opinion. Perhaps there would have been time to sit on the check mark and revisit the question after a coffee break or such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For self-answers, there's a mandatory 48 hour waiting period before accepting your own answer. I'm not sure if it would be bad to have a mandatory waiting period for all accepts, though of course not on that scale. (Sure, that might make it even harder to get drive-by users to accept any answers, but I'm just thinking out loud here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T19:12:43.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4487" CreationDate="2017-05-18T02:53:14.877" Score="12" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those (like me) who often &quot;Skip&quot; in reviewing many items because of lack of confidence / experience / training, is there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A more detailed guide to how to be a good reviewer (than the brief text in &lt;code&gt;(more)&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way to view some historical examples which would train a newbie (me) in best practices?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A list of recommended meta.se reading&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143394" LastEditorUserId="143394" LastEditDate="2017-05-18T02:58:35.600" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T21:20:06.130" Title="Learning the art of the review queue" Tags="|discussion|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4441" CreationDate="2017-05-18T10:02:33.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That’s not something I’ve noticed recently (and I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I’ve used question links in some of my recent answers...). One thing I have noticed is that  questions are replaced by their title, whether the long or short URL is used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/218169/is-there-ever-a-good-reason-to-run-sudo-su&quot;&gt;Is there ever a good reason to run sudo su?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/218169/86440&quot;&gt;Is there ever a good reason to run sudo su?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but answers aren’t (which sort of makes sense since they don’t have a separate title — but it would be nice if they were replaced):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/218175/86440&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/218175/86440&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw the issue occur when editing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/permissions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;permissions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;permissions&lt;/a&gt;’s tag wiki. I added a link to a question, and as long as the tag wiki was open in the editor, the preview showed all the questions titles; but saving the edit would invariably result in a list of question links, with only the new link replaced with its title. It turns out all the old links used &lt;code&gt;http://&lt;/code&gt;, and the new one used &lt;code&gt;https://&lt;/code&gt;; changing all the links to &lt;code&gt;https://&lt;/code&gt; fixed the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2018-08-28T21:12:20.857" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T21:12:20.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4483" CreationDate="2017-05-19T02:52:51.753" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read many article about operating system, and find many following situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1tWil.jpg&quot; width=&quot;322&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, there is &lt;code&gt;*nix&lt;/code&gt; systems in the web page, why not the Unix? why there is &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; to replace it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I found many case, so I doubt if there is other meanings here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I want to ask this type question in Unix&amp;amp;Linux site, but I don't know if is in legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215089" OwnerDisplayName="aircraft" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T04:41:33.190" Title="Can I ask this type question in Unix&amp;Linux?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4482" CreationDate="2017-05-19T04:41:33.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The good news is that you don't have to, because someone already did: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2342/why-is-there-a-when-there-is-mention-of-unix-throughout-the-internet&quot;&gt;Why is there a * When There is Mention of Unix Throughout the Internet?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a legitimate historical question there that is on-topic. There probably aren't very many other questions of the same sort, but this is one that has been addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T04:41:33.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-22T14:38:20.687" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know the message &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edits must be at least 6 characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I understand the reason for that and read discussions &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/756/edits-must-be-at-least-6-characters&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt;, it's even more annoying for questions with wrong or missing formatting. Questions with some file or commands given become completely unreadable without formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the first one reading the post could spend 10 seconds to correct the formatting, a bunch of other reader would save a minute figuring out the meaning. Unfortunally the edit usually consists of newlines and spaces only, but they don't count for the 6-char limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want suggestors and reviewers to waste time with useless changes that are only made to avoid the limit. Can't whitespaces be couted for the limit? I believe abuse of that possibility is unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216004" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T14:38:20.687" Title="Spaces should be counted for the 6 character edit limit" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4477" CreationDate="2017-05-25T14:08:32.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the idea of changing the accepted answer being distinct from unaccepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unaccept an answer is essentially:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought this answer was right, but it actually has some issue or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the accepted answer is essentially:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is more right&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I could see reason to say unaccepting the answer without choosing a different accepted answer is to say there's something wrong with the answer you choose originally, hence a reputation loss (which is really just a reduced reputation gain, you don't lose as much as you got from being accepted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picking a different accepted answer instead doesn't mean there is an issue with the original answer, so incur no penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is already mostly implemented. You can accept a different answer by clicking on the grey checkmark, I'd say that action should incur no penalty on the old answer. Specifically unchecking the accepted answer should incur the penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67807" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T14:08:32.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4480" CreationDate="2017-05-27T15:59:41.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A more detailed guide to how to be a good reviewer (than the brief text in (more))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really want to answer this one, but as I've commented, I feel like this deserves a separate Q&amp;amp;A to cover the wide variety of review queues; there are ten ways to close a question! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A way to view some historical examples which would train a newbie (me) in best practices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way would be to use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; to see previously-closed Questions. The data there is not &quot;live&quot; -- it is refreshed weekly (look at the top-right of the home page of SEDE to see the actual date of the update).  Try a query such as this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Id AS [Post Link], *&#xA;FROM posts &#xA;WHERE ClosedDate IS NOT NULL AND posttypeid = 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An indirect answer to this point would be simply to spend time on the site looking at Answers. What kinds of answers get accepted? How in-depth do answers get? What kind of questions generate multiple answers? What kind generate no answers -- are people stumped, or uninterested? What questions get upvoted? Downvoted? I think this awareness gives you a better background for being able to decide whether a given question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;good&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (upvote it, comment on it, answer it) versus a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;poor&lt;/a&gt; one that could get downvoted or closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A list of recommended meta.se reading&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &quot;meta&quot; answer (on meta, to meta!) -- some relevant tag searches to see what's been discussed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On U&amp;amp;L Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/close-reasons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/review&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/review&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/close-reasons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161390/what-are-the-review-queues-and-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What are the review queues, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155538/what-are-the-guidelines-for-reviewing&quot;&gt;What are the guidelines for reviewing?&lt;/a&gt; (though slanted slightly towards Stack Overflow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps a badge for completing a tutorial&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(From the comments). There's no tutorial for reviewing, but there are badges awarded for completing some number of reviews, one per queue: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/137/custodian&quot;&gt;Custodian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/97/reviewer&quot;&gt;Reviewer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/138/steward&quot;&gt;Steward&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the realm of feedback, I would add these following points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;watch for, and read, comments that tag you in a post that you voted on (if a future reviewer perhaps disagrees with you, or is clarifying something)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't be afraid to ask (again) here on Meta if something's confusing (though another option would be to Skip that review and watch what happens to it, since we tend to have enough reviewers at this point in time to clear the queues)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't be afraid to ask in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;watch for comments in chat related to an action you took&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all forms of feedback (or questioning) that I've encountered in my time here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-10-28T21:20:06.130" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T21:20:06.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-28T22:16:02.947" Score="10" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Forked from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4480/117549&quot;&gt;Learning the art of the review queue&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who often &quot;Skip&quot; in reviewing &lt;strong&gt;close-vote&lt;/strong&gt; items because of lack of confidence / experience / training, is there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A more detailed guide to how to be a good reviewer (than the brief text in &lt;code&gt;(more)&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way to view some historical examples which would train a someone in best practices?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A list of recommended meta.se reading&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-07-09T18:18:06.320" Title="Learning the art of the close-vote review queue" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2017-05-29T03:31:48.537" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the following outline breaks down the various close types, the heart of the matter is really &quot;is this question answerable (here)?&quot;. I found a relevant quote from jasonwryan (one of the first 20 users registered on the site, over 6 years ago!) while researching this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I make a judgement call about the overall quality of the question and whether it meets the threshold; once I have made that decision, I then start looking around for the correct justification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd refer you back to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4487/117549&quot;&gt;earlier review question&lt;/a&gt; where I suggest simply paying attention to the site's questions and answers to get a feel for the types of questions that get answers vs the ones that get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to tell if a question is answerable is if you think that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; could answer it. The trickier way to tell if a question is answerable is if you think that &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; on the site could answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question in the close-vote review queue has received one or more close votes; they may all be the same type or of varying types. You get to decide whether you want to leave the question open, close it (for a particular reason), or edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that choosing the Edit button -- instead of choosing the Close button -- implies a vote to leave open! Related link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3160/editing-before-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;Editing before vote to close&lt;/a&gt; . If you want to edit a post &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; close it, open the post in a separate tab/window before VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how I broke down the process and some thought processes along the way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enter the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close&quot;&gt;close-vote review queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the question; notice the specific close-type at the top; the close type listed is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/288100/307535&quot;&gt;majority of the vote types given&lt;/a&gt;, which may often be unanimous, but not always. Get a sense for what the question is about. Note if the asker is a new user or not; they may not be familiar with the site yet. Consider their experience level with Stack Exchange in any comments you leave.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as too broad, see if you agree. Can the question be answered by someone who has knowledge of the question’s topic (see also the tags)? Can it be answered in a reasonable length post? Does it lack specific details that would lend itself to a specific answer? Has the question been edited recently to address concerns in the comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is too broad; VTC. If there's a specific part of the question that makes it too broad, or you have thoughts on how to productively narrow the question down to an answerable level, and there's not already a comment to that effect, consider leaving such a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is answerable; Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not too broad, but VTC for a different reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as a duplicate, read the duplicate question(s) and see if you agree. Has the question been edited recently to address differences from the duplicate(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC as a duplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The duplicate does not answer this question. Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as Off-Topic, problem that can't be reproduced, read the Comments (and any self-answers) to see if you agree. An easy case is clear indication from the OP that the problem no longer exists. A “simple” typo could be cause for closure -- assuming the OP knew better, and it was a mistake. Typos from ignorance could be a teaching opportunity, and could be left open if it’s apparent from the question and/or comment string that they don’t understand the typo in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problem can’t be reproduced; VTC.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is an instructive typo here; Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC for a different reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as Off-Topic, posted on multiple sites, look to see if there was a link left in the comments to the cross-post; otherwise, click on the user link, then their Network Profile, then on the “activity” tab, and optionally on the “posts” sub-tab. See if a similar (or the same) question was posted elsewhere. Consider that the cross-post may have been deleted in-between the OP being made aware and your review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a cross-post exists, VTC. If you had to find the cross-post, leave a comment with a link for the next reviewer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it had been posted, but is now gone/deleted, optionally leave a comment to that effect and Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No evidence of a cross-post, but VTC for a different reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as Off-Topic, requests for learning materials, see if you agree. Meta links:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2642/how-do-we-feel-about-requests-for-learning-materials&quot;&gt;How do we feel about requests for learning materials?&lt;/a&gt; (from 2014), &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2854/add-specific-close-reason-and-explicit-point-in-the-help-pages-for-learning-mate&quot;&gt;Add specific close reason and explicit point in the help pages for learning material requests&lt;/a&gt; (also from 2014), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3892/are-we-abusing-request-for-learning-materials-as-a-reason-to-close&quot;&gt;Are we abusing &amp;quot;Request for learning materials&amp;quot; as a reason to close?&lt;/a&gt; (from 2016). Questions should have a fairly specific problem to them, and not be of the form “what are the steps to set up an mail server?”. To me, these are a specific variation of “too broad”, where the “right” answer is a potentially ever-changing tutorial from the vendor or elsewhere. See if the question been edited recently to bring it back on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC for some other reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as Off-Topic, migrate to Meta, see if it’s asking &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the site instead of &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; the site about an actual Unix &amp;amp; Linux topic. Rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC, migrate to Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as Off-Topic, migrate to SO, is the question on-topic at SO and answerable (clear) there? (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1178/should-we-have-a-migration-path-to-so&quot;&gt;Meta link for the creation of the SO migration path&lt;/a&gt;). Also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/576/what-to-do-about-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Meta discussion on programming questions&lt;/a&gt;, and the link from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;our tour page&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces being on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC, migrate to SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC because it’s unclear or not answerable as-is; optionally leave a comment that a better Q could be on-topic at SO (or elsewhere). “We don’t migrate crap”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is on-topic at U&amp;amp;L and is answerable; Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is on-topic at U&amp;amp;L, but &lt;strike&gt;VTC for a different reason&lt;/strike&gt; vote to leave open; otherwise, the question could get incorrectly migrated to SO (since there are other votes to migrate).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as Off-Topic, other custom reason, see if you agree with that reason. Has the question been edited recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC with the existing reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC for a different reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as unclear, see if you think it’s answerable as-is (seeing, but ignoring the comments for the sake of closure). Has the question been edited recently? If OP comments would clear it up, leave a comment to suggest editing the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If answerable, Vote to Leave Open; optionally leave a clarifying comment -- something that you think the OP may have meant but didn’t make explicit, that would make the question clearer. If it’s an obvious or extreme case, consider making (or proposing) an edit (as well as a comment, for future reviewers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not clear/answerable, VTC as unclear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC for some other reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it’s been flagged as being primarily opinion-based, see if you agree. See if the question been edited recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC as opinion-based.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A slight adjustment could save it: additionally leave a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC for different reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; answerable with facts -- Vote to Leave Open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hm4sN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hm4sN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;close-q flowchart&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-07-09T18:18:06.320" LastActivityDate="2017-07-09T18:18:06.320" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-05-29T03:31:48.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4493" CreationDate="2017-06-02T15:52:54.793" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made an edit in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368812/why-does-apt-get-upgrade-show-error-grub-efi-amd64-r-base-core-packages-are-no&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Question  for formatting. But now I see it is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I something wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-06-04T12:52:49.100" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T12:52:49.100" Title="edit for formatting gone" Tags="|support|specific-question|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4492" CreationDate="2017-06-02T19:45:55.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to me that you did nothing wrong; the owner of the post reverted or rejected your change. I left a note on their post to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T19:45:55.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4495" CreationDate="2017-06-04T18:11:01.593" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the second time that someone edits my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/369111/my-wlan-connection-is-hidden-even-broadcast-is-on&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with it? It is short, output from the terminal is formatted. It is vexing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2017-06-04T18:22:20.723" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T19:08:01.460" Title="I don't get why my question needs an edit" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4494" CreationDate="2017-06-04T18:21:23.533" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your version loses the line breaks, which makes it much harder to read than the edited versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare your version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2an0q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2an0q.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bahamat’s rendered version&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with this edited version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/00D8i.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/00D8i.png&quot; alt=&quot;another rendered version&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2017-06-04T19:08:01.460" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T19:08:01.460" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-06-08T12:30:28.967" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fsfe.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ELR3O.png&quot; alt=&quot;Free Software Foundation Europe&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208450" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T12:30:28.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4475" CreationDate="2017-06-11T06:26:05.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't notice (or at least didn't mention)&#xA;that the last word of the fourth line, and the entire fifth line,&#xA;are colored gray as comments. &#xA;That is almost surely because, right in the middle of the fourth line,&#xA;you have &lt;code&gt;/*&lt;/code&gt;, so everything up through a matching &lt;code&gt;*/&lt;/code&gt; is a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt;  formatting to be annoying and distracting,&#xA;so I often suppress it with &lt;code&gt;lang-none&lt;/code&gt;. &#xA;You can also get a code block&#xA;displayed in the fixed-width font that we're accustomed to, but no silly colors,&#xA;by putting it in a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block. &#xA;(Of course then you must use &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;and maybe also &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in place of &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is documented somewhere, but I don't know how well known it is,&#xA;so I'll repeat it here.&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-&lt;i&gt;xxx&lt;/i&gt; --&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;sets the pretty-printing language for the immediately following code block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language&lt;b&gt;-all&lt;/b&gt;: lang-&lt;i&gt;xxx&lt;/i&gt; --&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;sets it for all remaining code blocks in the post&#xA;(or until it is overridden by another&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-&lt;i&gt;xxx&lt;/i&gt; --&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastActivityDate="2017-06-11T06:26:05.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-13T18:41:07.807" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several days ago, I posted the following question which was subsequently labeled a &quot;tumbleweed&quot;. There have been no votes, no comments, nothing. It's not at all clear to me what would help make this question sufficiently interesting to the community to make it worthy of a response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that it must be relevant to more people than just myself since this issue arose on a fresh install of RedHat on a popular enterprise desktop PC (Dell OptiPlex). What is the missing ingredient that would make this question more enticing? I would place a bounty on it, but I don't have enough points on this site yet to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/368345/why-are-amds-graphics-drivers-not-working&quot;&gt;Why are AMD&amp;#39;s graphics drivers not working?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162690" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T18:41:07.807" Title="How could I improve this question in order to get a response?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-15T19:48:04.383" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my question still unclear then how to next? (I have deplete my ideas, I need help or more clue as similar comments already in my question, thanks you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to reopen my &quot;on hold&quot; question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If my question enough clear then how to reopen it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/371296/how-allow-special-sound-is-audible-for-all-user-with-pulseaudio&quot;&gt;How to use directly play sound bypass pulseaudio daemon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230141" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2017-06-20T11:23:27.677" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T11:23:27.677" Title="How to reopen my &quot;on hold&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|support|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4500" CreationDate="2017-06-15T22:22:04.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you edit your closed question, it's automatically put into a list for other users to review and possibly vote to reopen. This has already happened twice with your question (you &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/371296/6&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt;, it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/197310&quot;&gt;reviewed&lt;/a&gt; and left closed, you &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/371296/8&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; again, and it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/197323&quot;&gt;reviewed&lt;/a&gt; and left closed again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment I agree with the reviewers; it's still not clear what you're trying to do. If user A is currently logged in and a process owned by user B starts making noise, you still want it to come out of the speakers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T22:22:04.020" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-16T08:05:32.260" Score="1" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am interested in getting a general overview of available file systems for Linux (specifically to be used for the root file system), with pros and cons of each, but I am wondering would that be considered too broad a topic for this website? This is as opposed to asking about a specific file system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27613" LastEditorUserId="27613" LastEditDate="2017-06-16T08:36:58.487" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T11:45:11.297" Title="Would it be appropriate to ask for a general overview of available file systems that are suitable for Linux root partitions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4502" CreationDate="2017-06-16T10:06:51.473" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without a very specific use case with explicit requirements mentioned, this would be a question that would be &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion based&lt;/em&gt; and/or &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt;, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be primarily opinion based, because Linux people have their favourite filesystems that they use for various reasons. Some swear by &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; filesystem, others by &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; filesystem, and sometimes on purely emotional (or other non-technical) grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be too broad, because specific filesystems may be better for specific use cases, such as a private laptop, a server room RAID array, a high throughput genomic sequencing storage machine, a router, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To alleviate these issues, the question would have to be on the form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tried doing &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; kind of filesystem, but &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; happened. What filesystems would better handle &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; scenario?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35976/filesystem-for-gentoo-root&quot;&gt;Filesystem for Gentoo root?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; does this. The problem is &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt;: user has performance issues on a Gentoo workstation using &lt;code&gt;ext4&lt;/code&gt; when there are many small files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-06-16T11:45:11.297" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T11:45:11.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-06-18T15:34:28.203" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cseducators.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B6fyK.png&quot; alt=&quot;You can also join us in the CS room, http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59701/join-cs-educators&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="199535" LastActivityDate="2017-06-18T15:34:28.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4506" CreationDate="2017-06-19T09:52:17.500" Score="0" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had start bounty my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363622/a-program-made-in-c-runs-on-double-click-in-windows-but-not-in-linux&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; worth of 50 but is it possible to add more 50 right now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="229410" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T10:36:58.680" Title="Is it possible add more bounty on a question?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4505" CreationDate="2017-06-19T10:36:58.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not until the current one expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;Help Center &gt; Reputation &amp;amp; Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions may only have one active question bounty at any given time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T10:36:58.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4508" CreationDate="2017-06-19T10:47:12.097" Score="9" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efi&lt;/a&gt; are effectively a subset of questions marked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uefi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uefi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uefi&lt;/a&gt;. I can't find an &quot;official&quot; definition of the term EFI. UEFI of course stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. So I suppose EFI would mean Extensible Firmware Interface. Do you really need both tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see a case for getting rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efi&lt;/a&gt; and retagging all those questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uefi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uefi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uefi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2267259&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2267259&lt;/a&gt; observes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UEFI is the new replacement for BIOS, the efi is a name/label of the partition where UEFI boot files are stored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And indeed the name of the partition is the only place where I see EFI being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T09:11:59.493" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T09:12:36.480" Title="Get rid of the [efi] tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4507" CreationDate="2017-06-20T07:46:59.270" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;EFI and UEFI refer to different versions of the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mid 1990s, Intel began working on an improvement over the PC BIOS in order to work well with the more powerful machines they were building.  The result was an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), and Intel &lt;a href=&quot;https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-specification/efi-v1-10-specification.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;still hosts&lt;/a&gt; the version of the specification they published in 2002.  In 2005, Intel passed EFI to a new group, the Unified EFI Forum, with representatives from several companies.  This group extended the specification, publishing new versions under a new name: UEFI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there value in the tags being distinct?  I do not believe there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be useful to mention when features are used that are introduced in or deprecated in certain versions of the specification, but that is almost certainly a more granular breakdown than EFI vs UEFI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions tagged (U)EFI seem to deal with troubleshooting boot problems.  These are either general enough that advice could reasonably apply to every version of the specification, or specific to a given implementation of a given version.  In the former case, no tag-based distinction is necessary.  In the latter case, more information is necessary than whether the machine is newer or older than 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: As it is the current and most well-known name for the specification, UEFI should be the canonical name for a combined tag, with EFI as a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175857" LastEditorUserId="175857" LastEditDate="2017-06-20T16:32:06.337" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T16:32:06.337" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4507" CreationDate="2017-06-23T09:12:36.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efi&lt;/a&gt; is now a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uefi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uefi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uefi&lt;/a&gt; and all questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/efi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;efi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;efi&lt;/a&gt; are now tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/uefi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;uefi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;uefi&lt;/a&gt; instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T09:12:36.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-23T15:34:18.457" Score="0" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freerdp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freerdp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;freerdp&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xfreerdp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xfreerdp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xfreerdp&lt;/a&gt;, please?  Most if not all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freerdp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freerdp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;freerdp&lt;/a&gt; questions are about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xfreerdp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xfreerdp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xfreerdp&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15654" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T15:34:18.457" Title="Merge freerdp and xfreerdp" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-29T16:42:26.533" Score="7" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt;, I can barely tell when someone has included a hyperlink. Just today I could tell from context that a user had included a link in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/374220/238000&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, but until hovering over it with my mouse I wasn't sure which word(s) were part of the hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The contrast is pretty poor in Chrome, but reasonably bad in Firefox and Internet Explorer. For me it gets even worse when I'm not facing the screen exactly straight; even the difference between my eye level and the top of the screen makes it noticeably more difficult to distinguish between normal text and hyperlinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/137438/361960&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question already discusses this topic in general across all Stack Exchange sites (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66658/hard-to-pick-up-hyperlinks-in-answers&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one asks in a really vague way), but I wanted to bring this up in the context of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; specifically since that's the place where it's been the biggest issue for me. I've never had too much of an issue on other Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I'm currently on Windows 7 if that makes a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="238000" OwnerDisplayName="Harrison Mc" LastEditorUserId="93139" LastEditDate="2017-08-01T14:58:26.270" LastActivityDate="2017-08-01T14:58:26.270" Title="Hyperlink color on Unix &amp; Linux is too subtle on Chrome" Tags="|bug|design|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-02T15:50:08.873" Score="0" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using an iPhone and clicking on things on a  page is &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt; borken in weird ways. For example, the link to this meta site actually linked to &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/&lt;/a&gt; for me just now. Clicking on questions often takes me to a different question, a tag, or a user's profile page, often apparently links which were near the one I actually clicked on. Similarly, when viewing a question, clicking on a link sometimes takes me to an adjacent link. But every time I decide I want to report this, the symptom disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen it maybe half a dozen times in the last couple of months, only ever on my iPhone, where I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://grazingbrowser.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://grazingbrowser.com/&lt;/a&gt; and only ever on Unix &amp;amp; Linux, never on Stack Overflow which I visit a lot more often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot from this very page where I have clicked open my &quot;supercollider&quot; inbox and held down my finger on the comment on a Procmail question I receved today. There is no way I could have misclicked this large target seven-eight times in a row, enough to persuade my phone to let me finally get a representative screen shot with all the pertinent details included after several attempts. The phone displays options for the link I clicked; you'll notice that the URL is for a chat comment, corresponding to the next entry in the inbox menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gAKPXm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Clicked Procmail comment, got chat link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19240" LastEditorUserId="19240" LastEditDate="2017-07-05T15:45:20.800" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T15:45:20.800" Title="Links are sometimes wrong on mobile" Tags="|bug|usability|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4517" CreationDate="2017-07-04T08:37:34.727" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me first describe my question, and then describe my particular situation which inspired the question. My question is the following: Is it appropriate on this site to ask for a list of solutions to 'my unix-related problem' whatever that problem might be? If yes, what are best-practices for such types of questions? And is it appropriate to ask follow-up questions in order to determine which solution is the best fit for me? If yes, what are best-practices for such types of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the context of my question, it is the following: I am looking into the possibility of using a smartphone as my only private computer. Therefore, I would like to know which full-fledged unix-like operating system options are available on smart phones. It seems that such options exist, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://maruos.com/#/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;maru os&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://plasma-mobile.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Plasma Mobile&lt;/a&gt; or using &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/meefik/linuxdeploy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Linux Deploy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine asking for a list of solutions, specifying for each solution: Which unix-like operating systems (or distros if linux) are available? Which devices are supported? Does the solution require breaching of the end-user software license agreement (or: Do you forfeit your warranty with this solution)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may also consider asking one or more follow-up questions to determine how a particular smartphone solution compares to an actual laptop solution in terms of, say, computing power and security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219602" LastEditorUserId="219602" LastEditDate="2017-07-04T11:25:19.150" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T20:56:00.263" Title="Is it appropriate to request a list of solutions to a particular problem?" Tags="|discussion|questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4516" CreationDate="2017-07-04T20:56:00.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on this would be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's basically a &lt;strong&gt;recommendation question.&lt;/strong&gt; Those are problematic, even though they are not directly outlawed on this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's probably &lt;strong&gt;too broad.&lt;/strong&gt; You are asking for a combination of hardware and software, (at this point) without defining &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; what your acceptance criteria are.  Given the topic, I don't think a lot of people have done what you are requesting, and those may have done so will probably have had requirements which differ from yours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It sounds very specifically like a &lt;strong&gt;&quot;shopping list question&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; which is notoriously problematic, and decidedly off-topic.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See this Meta question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/158809/why-are-shopping-list-questions-bad&quot;&gt;Why are &amp;quot;shopping list&amp;quot; questions bad?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the general topic of &quot;can I request a list of solutions,&quot; that's similarly a pesky variant of shopping list question.  The topic of follow-up questions isn't really suitable for the Stack Exchange sites, either; when you have a series of well-defined questions, it's fine to ask each as a separate post, with links to the previous one(s) for context, but your example sounds more like you would want to update and modify your original question indefinitely until old answers are probably no longer the good answers they were when your question was originally posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in conclusion, to me this sounds like something you should avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more limited question like &quot;can you run Linux on a phone&quot; the trivial answer is that Android and Ubuntu and a number of other platforms are already doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19240" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T20:56:00.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4519" CreationDate="2017-07-05T16:27:37.030" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted identical answers to these two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown/375329#375329&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown/375329#375329&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/145497/how-to-make-a-cifs-smb-mount-ignore-umask/375328#375328&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/145497/how-to-make-a-cifs-smb-mount-ignore-umask/375328#375328&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I posted was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;noperm&lt;/code&gt; fstab flag allows all users to read and write to the CIFS mount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment left on one of my answers was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please don't post identical answers. If the questions really are identical, flag them as duplicates. If not, modify your answer to fit each question. In any case, this is a comment, not an answer. You give no explanation of what this option does, how it is supposed to be used, whether it is safe or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand how posting identical answers would not be desired. But is that a reason to delete both answers? Is there ever a legitimate case for having the same answers for two questions who diverge enough and aren't marked as duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the second part of the comment, I believe my answer clearly states what the flag does and how it's used: I explicitly state it's an &lt;code&gt;fstab&lt;/code&gt; flag and that it gives all users read and write access to the CIFS mount. I don't know how clearer I could be except for giving an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally I would have liked to have a chance to modify my answer before getting them both deleted. It just seems so harsh and unforgiving when all I'm trying to do is give helpful answers which I would have loved to have read when looking at those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16287" OwnerDisplayName="Daniel K" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T16:40:39.877" Title="Did both of these answers have to be deleted?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4518" CreationDate="2017-07-05T16:40:39.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the culprit here. I deleted your answer because it wasn't really answering the question. It was a comment rather than an answer and wasn't really providing something that could be used by the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to post that as an answer, include an example of an fstab file with that option set, or at least an explanation of how fstab options can be set. I would also strongly urge you to explain what the option does. It doesn't simply allow writing the CIFS share, it allows &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; to read, write and execute. The OP is asking how to allow a specific user, and you are suggesting letting &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; be able to delete their files. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the OP shows no indication that they're even using &lt;code&gt;fstab&lt;/code&gt; so a useful answer would at least explain how to add that option to the command line they were using. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, feel free to post again but please flesh it out so that it is actually giving the answer and not the first step from which an answer might be inferred. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T16:40:39.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4529" CreationDate="2017-07-05T21:53:44.610" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frequent user of stackexchanges but new to the Unix one specifically, so maybe there are different rules here I'm unaware of (I read &quot;how to ask a good question&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question was put on hold:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/375227/at-command-wont-open-program?noredirect=1#comment668120_375227&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;at&amp;#39; command won&amp;#39;t open program&lt;/a&gt;.  Originally, I foolishly failed to mention my OS, although there is ample evidence in the question I'm using a Mac.  The question was put on hold after I edited that in, though (I believe) and even after flagging it for a moderator, I haven't gotten any response (possible I'm just being impatient).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this question missing?  I feel it's clear what I'm asking and what efforts I've put forward so far, but maybe I'm too close to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228742" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-07-09T17:27:12.977" LastActivityDate="2017-07-09T17:37:35.020" Title="How can I improve and un-hold this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4521" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-06T03:48:05.387" Score="2" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;In creating a new tag, I've just been prompted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Check your spelling and make sure existing tags do not already cover the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To increase quality by making things easier for users, could we have the text &lt;code&gt;existing tags&lt;/code&gt; be a link to:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took me a while to work out that &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; is on the top navigation. It's generally not visible after typing in a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T03:48:05.387" Title="Give link to existing tags when asked to confirm creating a new one" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4523" CreationDate="2017-07-06T06:16:47.840" Score="11" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/375612/origin-of-different-network-timeouts&quot;&gt;Origin of different network timeouts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know why e.g. linux uses 20 second timeout for socket connect. I can't find any information myself so I'm curious if anyone knows better sources or happens to know the rational off-hand. Are questions about historical purpose of a given unix/linux facet generally too broad? Or is there a way I can improve my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50630" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T23:35:22.743" Title="How can I improve my question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4522" CreationDate="2017-07-06T08:33:43.823" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your questions were put &lt;em&gt;On Hold&lt;/em&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;help-center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt; - if your question could be answered by an entire book, or&#xA;  has many valid answers (but no way to determine which - if any - are&#xA;  correct), then it is probably too broad for our format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple&#xA;  distinct questions at once. See the How to Ask page for help&#xA;  clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that having one specific question would be a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd rephrase it as follows:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Linux uses 20 seconds as default network timeout&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is the reason for this specific timeout value?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note that:&lt;/strong&gt; java and bsd use different values for the network timeout &#xA;  (30 for java and ~75 for bsd)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any references for the timeout values you mentioned, I'd add those references as a note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="215641" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-07-08T23:35:22.743" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T23:35:22.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-06T14:28:24.683" Score="4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for how to find your own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239481" OwnerDisplayName="French_Albator" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-07-21T00:46:43.453" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T00:46:43.453" Title="How to find your own questions?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4524" CreationDate="2017-07-06T15:14:32.143" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/239481/french-albator?tab=questions&quot;&gt;tab&lt;/a&gt; for it on your profile. You can also click the search box at the top-right and search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3Ame+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me is:question&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T15:14:32.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4526" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-08T21:04:34.823" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;A common sight here is someone asks a question that ultimately gets closed, but before that happens they receive upvotes/answers. These answers are also liable to get upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually the question gets marked as duplicate (most common) or closed for some other reason, but large swaths of reputation can be handed out. A valid method to &quot;farm&quot; reputation would be to go through new questions, find ones that show a lack of research and answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take as an example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/180943/terminal-vs-bash&quot;&gt;Terminal vs bash?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all of the asker's rep comes from this question marked as duplicate. A fair amount of reputation also dished out to those that answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So my questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should askers be rewarded for low quality questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should those who answer such questions be rewarded for not marking these questions to be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the answer might fall somewhere between, giving no rep to the asker and half to those who answer. Maybe reputation gain for successfully marking to close, similar to edits. I know reputation isn't a huge deal, but it does hand out priveleges, and can encourage bad practices. It's likely an asker who receives 200+ rep on a question that gets closed will consider it a success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67807" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T23:27:27.450" Title="Should Closed Questions Offer Full Reputation?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4526" CreationDate="2017-07-08T23:27:27.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an answer is upvoted, someone found it useful. I see no reason why the question's status is even relevant. If you object to these answers, you are free to downvote, but why wouldn't they offer reputation? They're answers, aren't they? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions, finding dupes is not easy. The search function isn't the best, to say the least, and it is very easy to post something without realizing it is a dupe. If your dupe is a well thought out, well crafted question, it deserves upvotes and associated rep as much as any other. That's why we don't delete duplicates, after all: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/32311/203101&quot;&gt;they are useful as signposts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific question you highlighted is a great example. It is a perfectly decent question, the OP put effort into it and it is asking about things it is very hard to search for if you don't know the right terminology. All the asker got for it is a measly 90 reputation points. That's 18 upvotes. I see no reason to begrudge them just because the answer existed in another post. If anything, the asker of the dupe target which shows no effort whatsoever and has received &lt;em&gt;eight hundred and seven&lt;/em&gt; votes at the time of my writing this could be said to not deserve their rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Low quality questions are something else again. This site is actually particularly good at downvoting them. I really doubt you've found many cases of low quality questions being upvoted. And note that closing doesn't protect you from &lt;em&gt;losing&lt;/em&gt; rep because of a crappy question. Why should it bar you from gaining it for a good one that happens to be a dupe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the issue you mention with people answering poor questions is not a real issue here as far as I can tell. It's simply not something that happens often and is just as likely to backfire, people are just as likely to vote the answer down, as gain any rep for whoever answered it. On the other hand, managing to give a great answer to a crap question deserves all the rep in the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, I don't see any good reason to stop the rep system just because a question is closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T23:27:27.450" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4528" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-09T16:15:00.990" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had recently started to formulate a question I wanted to ask on the main site.&#xA;In the meantime I thought of a separate unrelated question that required less research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I opened up the ask a question page which still had the old question cached and replaced the body of the question with my new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This led to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/377300/why-is-this-directory-size-greater-than-4096-bytes&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; where the body and title did not match.&#xA;I then deleted the question so I could post it fresh with the correct title.&#xA;I did this so there wasn't an edit log with a completely unrelated title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when I try to repost the new question it won't let me as it is a repeat of the now deleted question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3216/how-long-will-recently-deleted-questions-be-kept&quot;&gt;This other question&lt;/a&gt; from meta implies I will have to wait 60 days for the mistitled question to be purged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any way I can speed this process up?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="232710" LastEditorUserId="153195" LastEditDate="2019-09-11T16:45:53.127" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T22:33:28.620" Title="Is there any way to force erase a deleted question?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4520" CreationDate="2017-07-09T17:37:35.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that you've recently deleted the question, so it won't get any answers now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was one of the VTC votes when it wasn't clear what the actual problem was -- the python code or the interaction with &lt;code&gt;at&lt;/code&gt; or opening a GUI interface from &lt;code&gt;at&lt;/code&gt;. The only indication that you were on a Mac were the email headers, so adding that information was helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After you responded to the comments, I was also one of the votes to reopen; it was reopened after being on-hold for only about 17 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was also then one of the VTC votes when you indicated that the problem went away; if we can't validate that an Answer works, then the Question doesn't do much good any more -- even if it was a good question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only guess as to the lack of answers is a small OSX community here; only ~1% of our total questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx?sort=newest&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;tagged OSX&lt;/a&gt;, and 25% of those are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx?sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;unanswered&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-07-09T17:37:35.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4531" CreationDate="2017-07-09T22:56:27.630" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently started to use meta.&#xA;I noticed that for me certain parts of meta are not functioning as expected.&#xA;Since before the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/292058/network-wide-https-its-time&quot;&gt;rollover to HTTPS&lt;/a&gt; there has been a number of issues e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3438/whats-wrong-with-https&quot;&gt;non-matching certificates&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Some of them were related to the HTTPS everywhere browser extension.&#xA;This caused some users to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2655/i-cannot-log-into-meta-while-using-https-everywhere-in-firefox&quot;&gt;not be able to log in&lt;/a&gt; although this was before the move to &lt;code&gt;*.meta&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;There was also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3241/have-to-use-chromium-to-ask-questions-on-meta&quot;&gt;redirection issues&lt;/a&gt; since then which seem to &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/pull/9110&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;be fixed&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's excellent that SE has made the move to full HTTPS.&#xA;I also understand that &lt;a href=&quot;https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/#certificates-child-metas-metastackexchangecom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it's hard&lt;/a&gt; so it's great that all of the effort is being put in to transition fully.&#xA;There are a few kinks that are still not ironed out while using Firefox with HTTPS everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;Recent inbox messages&quot; button at the top doesn't open the pop up menu. It just flashes briefly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The inline help above the question text box never loads fully, the loading animation loops indefinitely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trying to insert an image doesn't work, clicking the button or pressing Ctrl+G just puts a grey overlay over the screen. Successive key presses just lead to darker grey overlays&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When trying to post a question a red pop up box is displayed with the message &quot;An error occurred submitting the question.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag suggestions never load but can be input manually.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am running an updated Arch GNU/Linux with Firefox 54.0.1 and HTTPS everywhere 5.2.9.&#xA;These issues were fixed by disabling the &quot;Stack Exchange (partial)&quot; rules, this is of course not a correct solution though.&#xA;I assume this can be fixed by a small change to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/domains/stackexchange.com.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HTTPS everywhere ruleset&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;The linked page has a bug report link but I don't know enough of the technical details to post a good report.&#xA;I hope this is something easily fixable so we can make this great site even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="232710" LastEditorUserId="32138" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T07:00:22.910" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T07:00:22.910" Title="Certain parts of meta are broken with HTTPS everywhere" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4530" CreationDate="2017-07-10T00:38:38.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Michael Horner points out in the comments these problems have been fixed in a more recent version of HTTPS everywhere.&#xA;My problem was that somehow I had turned off the auto updates of my Firefox extensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution is to &lt;strong&gt;Keep your system up to date!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="232710" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T00:38:38.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-10T07:42:39.197" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came upon this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/377359/how-to-use-ocr-from-the-command-line-in-linux&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;  which is marked as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/548/ocr-on-linux-systems&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, earliest answer is 6 years old, things might have change since them. I feel there should be a way to tell apart &lt;em&gt;intemporal&lt;/em&gt; duplicate (difference between tty/console/shell, for instance), and duplicate where things change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to leave open, yet are there any other mechanism I'm unaware of to solve this issue ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(my question was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3413/should-duplicate-answers-be-marked-as-such-if-old&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; before)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T09:47:45.640" Title="handling years old duplicate" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4532" CreationDate="2017-07-10T09:47:03.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mQfwc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mQfwc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T09:47:03.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-10T20:45:30.250" Score="10" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love you all so much, seriously... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilles, Tripleee, Jeff Schaller, dirkt, slm, Stéphane Chazelas. Kusalananda, slm, terdon, mikeserv, and many others I can't remember names of right now, I am highly inspired by you all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sorry to have typed this message like a coward like this. But I fear that you might feel like I am trying to be some catchy eye person mentioning your names in my post to highlight my name in your eyes. I don't know how you might take my statement which is why I made this new account just to thank you all for making such a great community. I would always be thankful to all of you who made this community so much helpful for freshers and experienced too. No matter how long a question is, I have seen answers on almost all of them in detail. I do understand that StackExchange has built an awesome platform but it would not have been this awesome you were not there. Thank you from my bottom of the heart to be so helpful to all, beginners and experienced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really love you all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we are all strangers to one another, but I wish I could hug you all one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-No One&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240038" LastEditorUserId="240038" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T20:54:29.180" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T20:54:29.180" Title="Just wanted to thank you all" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-11T23:42:54.980" Score="8" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/377417/move-all-files-from-one-folder-to-another-based-on-a-list&quot;&gt;Move all files from one folder to another, based on a list&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/115734/move-file-by-list-in-file&quot;&gt;move file by list in file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more recent one has been validly suggested as a duplicate of the older, and is likely to get marked as such. However, each of the questions has some useful different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the new question gets closed in favour of the old one people are likely to jump to that older one. And, of course, vice versa. I should point out I have provided an answer on the newer question - not having known at the time there was a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can and/or should these questions be merged? Or do I wait until the new one is closed and then repost my own answer against the old but open question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's etiquette in this kind of situation (and perhaps more importantly, what's the most useful/appropriate way of offering an answer that will get seen)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T22:33:25.657" Title="Duplicate questions but each has some useful answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4537" CreationDate="2017-07-13T09:30:28.690" Score="9" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Include details about what you have tried and exactly what you are&#xA;  trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see questions (from tags I follow, primarily text processing based) asked without showing any code whatsoever from OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In past I've answered such questions myself, but recently I am trying to avoid answering and sometimes add a comment asking OP to add what they've tried. I've seen others asking OP to show code as well on some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not adding question links here. If needed I can spend some time and add some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know what is preferred guideline for such questions. Is it okay to answer them? Vote to close such questions? and so on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109046" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T07:22:40.497" Title="Clarification on questions asked without showing what user has tried to solve" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4536" CreationDate="2017-07-13T11:06:18.100" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&lt;/a&gt; also says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tell us what you found and why it didn’t meet your needs. This demonstrates that you’ve taken the time to try to help yourself, it saves us from reiterating obvious answers, and above all, it helps you get a more specific and relevant answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think the question is answerable, then by all means, go ahead and answer it. I think there's a range of effort that's put into questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Here's my homework&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I have a problem&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Here's my homework, and here's what I tried&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I have a problem, and here's what I tried&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a problem (homework or not) and here's all the things I've tried.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a gray area in there where it's hard to tell if the person is being lazy, or is simply ignorant (of Unix and/or the U&amp;amp;L site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common reactions to the lower-effort questions are &quot;we are not a scripting service&quot;, yet there's a (reputation?) appeal to writing Answers, so it can be confusing to see downvotes &amp;amp; closures to some questions, yet answers to other, similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I think if you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer the question, and feel like doing so, go ahead. If the question is unclear, that's a different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T11:06:18.100" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4539" CreationDate="2017-07-14T06:45:27.397" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this happen a couple of times: It's going very fast to put a message on hold, but taking very long (if at all) to revive it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/378127/need-awk-python-script-help-for-flag-repeated-more-than-once-need-a-new-identifi&quot;&gt;this message&lt;/a&gt;, which needed some more seconds of thinking in the original version. Somebody did understand and answer it, but others didn't and voted to put on hold. This is okay, you can expect people to post a better question if they want good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the problem is, although I reworded the question to be understood more easily, it didn't get enough votes to be reopened. And that's what I observed before. Users struggled hard to improve the quality of their question, but it didn't get rewarded. This is frustrating, as you can see from a couple of questions in meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the 3000 reputation to be part of close voting, but obviously flagged posts draw a lot more attention to get close votes than on hold questions get to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could be done about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.: This is not about the given example! That man has his answer and I don't care. Let's not argue about a specific case, but about the general problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216004" LastEditorUserId="216004" LastEditDate="2017-07-14T07:42:09.450" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T16:05:53.730" Title="Almost impossible to get questions out of &quot;on hold&quot; state" Tags="|discussion|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4538" CreationDate="2017-07-14T16:05:53.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let's not argue about a specific case, but about the general problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, over the last 30 days, 588 questions were closed. 24 of them were reopened, which sounds low, but only 93 of them were ever edited after being closed; most are just bad questions that get abandoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 3000 reputation that can vote to close/reopen also have access to review queues that highlight questions that are good candidates to be closed/reopened. Closed questions that have any reopen votes, or are edited by anyone within 5 days of the question's closure, or just have lots of views, are automatically put into the reopen queue to be reviewed. 372 votes were cast in the reopen queue in the last 30 days, but 2/3s of them were to leave the question closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case you listed, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/200995&quot;&gt;was reviewed&lt;/a&gt;, and it was an exact tie between &quot;leave closed&quot; and &quot;reopen&quot;, so it stayed closed. Of all the reopen reviews in the last day, every one was unanimous except that one, so you seem to have found an edge case. If you have a particular suggestion to help reopen good questions, we can look into that, but it seems like in most cases the questions are closed for a good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T16:05:53.730" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-14T19:27:01.840" Score="2" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/378409/connect-to-external-host-with-as-local-ip&quot;&gt;Connect to external host with/as local ip&lt;/a&gt; came up in the close que and it exposes a fundamental but common lack of understanding of how network routing works. It is undoubtedly a bad question, but unfortunately it is clear that the asker does not have the understanding to ask a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like a canonical question on cross subnet address changes to point these folks to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T19:27:01.840" Title="We need a stock question on changing ip address to other subnet" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4535" CreationDate="2017-07-14T22:33:25.657" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would just post a comment on the older question linking directly to your answer and stating, &lt;em&gt;&quot;You can also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/377424/135943&quot;&gt;do this with &lt;code&gt;rsync&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which has an option expressly for this purpose.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  (Note the link style, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/links-should-never-say-click-here/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;avoiding &quot;here&quot; links&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new one is closed now, so if you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to move your answer, you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know enough about the mechanics of merging to judge that.  They do seem to be asking the same question, except that in one of them there is extra whitespace in the filename list.  That may make a difference to some answers.  (Would &lt;code&gt;rsync --files-from&lt;/code&gt; work with extra leading whitespace in the list?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice answer, by the way.  &lt;code&gt;rsync&lt;/code&gt; is a crazy power tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T22:33:25.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4536" CreationDate="2017-07-16T03:50:59.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering such questions isn't a problem, it's in no way prohibited. General consensus on StackExchange sites like this is that you have to show at least some effort before asking a question. But a completely new user may not have any clue whatsoever for what to google, what terms to search for, or not even be aware of existence of the common *nix tools that we use on daily basis. In such case, writing an answer will benefit everybody trying to learn, not just this one user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To some extend there is a bit of a bias towards new users with low rep amount, I believe. Generally, a user with some stable amount of reputation can be trusted that they've pulled enough hair out of their head while trying to solve the problem and came here to ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, writing good answers that add value is always good. If it's a duplicate ( which likely it is, since a lot of such questions are about basic stuff) you can always vote to close. If without examples from OP  there's no clarity as to what they actually want, vote to close as unclear.  If none of those categories fit, you're always free to consider answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the slightly different case is students and homework. On one hand, you can take a hard stance and deny answering.  After all, students should be doing their own homework, but at the same time you don't have to give an answer that does everything for the user. Once of the things I do is provide suggestions/hints that may lead the user in the right direction, just like how a tutor or teacher would. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to know what is preferred guideline for such questions. Is it okay to answer them? Vote to close such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've answered that already. If it fits into closable categories, sure - vote to close.  Providing answers that are useful, is always ok. Waiting for OP to edit their post is always good - that's what that edit button is for. And in general, there is no &quot;one-size-fits-all&quot; rule. Look at the specific case and decide whether or not it would be more valuable/useful to answer, or let the person ponder it on their own ( or try to ask elsewhere). It's all about communication with OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85039" LastEditorUserId="85039" LastEditDate="2017-07-16T03:57:52.653" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T03:57:52.653" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-17T15:59:50.087" Score="24" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I provided a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/232995/206121&quot;&gt;a question/answer&lt;/a&gt; about the &lt;code&gt;scp&lt;/code&gt; command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone noticed a single character error in a command over there, and he was upset because it had cost him and his team time. I suggested we simply fix the error. It was obviously wrong, and we both tested it to be wrong. I even provided &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/AndreCAndersen/a102ec73ab399505736d8926848ae6a5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;proof that it was wrong&lt;/a&gt; in the comments. Ultimately, I did what makes sense, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/201374&quot;&gt;I contributed an edit&lt;/a&gt;. To my surprise it was rejected within short time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thomas reviewed this 11 hours ago: &lt;strong&gt;Reject&lt;/strong&gt; This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vlastimil reviewed this 11 hours ago: &lt;strong&gt;Reject&lt;/strong&gt; This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really understand the reasoning behind these rejection notices. I simply fixed a syntax error by adding a single colon (&lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt;) in the command. I also added an edit notice so that new readers would understand the context of the discussion in the comments below the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has happened to me before over at other SE sites, so I'm starting to wonder if fixing syntax/coding errors is not encouraged? I checked if this sort of edits were ok over at SO, and it &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;seems like it is encouraged there&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than you found it. Common reasons for edits include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To correct minor mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming the same applies to U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, such rejections happen, and I was about to just ignore the whole thing, but then I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/232995/revisions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. Someone with higher U&amp;amp;L reputation did the same edit as me. This is of course a good thing, however, it does seem like the edit review process needs more work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why where the reviewers inclined to reject my original edit? Could I have made a better edit? If it was an ok edit, how can we improve the edit review process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206121" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-07-30T13:17:13.323" Title="Should I refrain from correcting syntax/coding errors in answers? It seems like they aren't encouraged" Tags="|discussion|reputation|comments|review|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4544" CreationDate="2017-07-17T17:19:00.860" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately reviewers are not perfect—and I think you just happened to run into two very, uh, not perfect reviews. Neither of the reject reasons are correct: fixing a syntax error clearly makes an answer more accurate and I'm pretty sure the answer's author intended to give the correct syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is much you can do about a one-off mistake, other than asking in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; or here on meta to get a high-rep user to repeat the edit for you (as high-rep users do not need approval of their edits). If you notice a pattern of bad reviews by a reviewer, though, please feel free to get in touch with the moderators. Best way to get in touch with the moderators is probably to flag the question, pick the 'in need of moderator intervention', and explain in the comment box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Also: in case you're new to meta, multiple people may post answers to your meta question, and the community will indicate its opinion on the answers by voting on them.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T17:19:00.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4544" CreationDate="2017-07-17T18:21:27.173" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have likely rejected your edit on the basis that it adds the text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Fixed missing &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; in command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which belongs in the edit comment rather than the answer body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be what the reviewers latched on to, but they chose a vote reason that doesn't match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16369" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T18:21:27.173" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-18T01:01:47.703" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I crossed the threshold for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/23/fanatic&quot;&gt;Fanatic&lt;/a&gt; badge some time ago, and have been idly wondering how long I can keep up my consecutive visits. I stumbled across a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/6761/jasonwryan&quot;&gt;previously-achieved goal&lt;/a&gt; of 1500 days and wondered: do we have any super fanatics -- users with a high number of consecutive visits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T01:49:31.323" Title="Do we have any superfan(atics)?" Tags="|discussion|profile-page|fun|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4547" CreationDate="2017-07-18T01:01:47.703" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a point of reference, as of today I have: &quot;visited 779 days, 779 consecutive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T01:01:47.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4547" CreationDate="2017-07-18T01:49:31.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sitting on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ptpb.pw/vTBM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2282 as of today&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T01:49:31.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-18T19:32:45.140" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cause of the problem is the rule&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.question-hyperlink:hover,.answer-hyperlink:hover {&#xA;    border-bottom: 1px dotted #666;&#xA;    text-decoration: none&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is wiggling if the mouse goes over the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other sites I didn't experience this effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you could set &lt;code&gt;border-bottom-width&lt;/code&gt; to 0 in the &lt;code&gt;#h-related&lt;/code&gt; box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshots:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dS4Dv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dS4Dv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Not hovered&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUBhl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUBhl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hovered&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T19:32:45.140" Title="On the Unix SE, &quot;related&quot; tab 1px wiggling on hover" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-07-18T20:57:44.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2729" CreationDate="2017-07-19T06:33:03.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting, fix is waiting in repo for build. Should be live in couple hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just FYI: I'm working in Stack in Design team&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="241388" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T06:33:03.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4553" CreationDate="2017-07-20T09:51:37.720" Score="3" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I install the Ceph in the CentOS7.2, I get a error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ......&#xA;    --&amp;gt; Finished Dependency Resolution&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:ceph-base-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: liblttng-ust.so.0()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:ceph-radosgw-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: libfcgi.so.0()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:ceph-mon-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: libleveldb.so.1()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:ceph-common-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: libbabeltrace-ctf.so.1()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:librados2-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: liblttng-ust.so.0()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:ceph-osd-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: libleveldb.so.1()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:librgw2-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: libfcgi.so.0()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:ceph-common-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: libbabeltrace.so.1()(64bit)&#xA;    Error: Package: 1:librbd1-10.2.9-0.el7.x86_64 (Ceph)&#xA;               Requires: liblttng-ust.so.0()(64bit)&#xA;     You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem&#xA;     You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't know if I can ask this type question on Unix&amp;amp;Linux, because the ceph tag count only &lt;code&gt;9&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228116" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T10:16:28.293" Title="Can I ask question about storage technical question on Unix &amp; Linux?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4552" CreationDate="2017-07-20T10:16:28.293" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why not. You are running a tool on a *nix system and having trouble with it. That seems perfectly on topic to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T10:16:28.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4536" CreationDate="2017-07-26T14:18:29.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a question where the answer is going to be a single one liner, it's hard to really give any good examples of what you have tried as everything will just be one line of bash that does not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how useful that would be to anyone except maybe to demonstrate that you have put some effort into figuring it out on your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="241827" LastEditorUserId="241827" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T14:27:09.610" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T14:27:09.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4544" CreationDate="2017-07-27T07:05:26.783" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixing a wrong command is indeed a good edit, it's a shame yours got rejected. In the future, don't add the edit comment in the post just to get over the 6-character limit. Instead, fix some syntax / grammar, provide links to &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; pages or link an uncommon abbreviation to Wikipedia. There's always something to be improved (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/232995/revisions&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you may be interested in reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77233/are-we-discouraged-from-fixing-typos-and-misspellings-on-stack-exchange-sites/287660#287660&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; on the 6-character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T07:05:26.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4536" CreationDate="2017-07-27T07:22:40.497" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel the question lacks research effort, downvote. That's what the hint says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question &lt;strong&gt;does not show any research effort&lt;/strong&gt;, it is not clear or not useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T07:22:40.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-27T20:18:19.873" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/378565/52456&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; seems to be especially scary to some folks.  Now it is not the only answer I have given that has a negative score (it happens, along with a bunch that have no score), there are five others. Now I will stand by all the answers I have posted that have a negative score, but I think in this case my answer is the better (more unixish answer). I do not think Wildcard's answer is wrong, I voted it up, but it neglects the true power of unix which is using multiple tools to accomplish more than each can on its own. What would be the best way to convince people that this is a viable answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52456" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-08-03T23:56:46.313" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T07:44:42.167" Title="Is it really that bad?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|answers|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-03T01:37:43.517" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does one try to add a comment to help clarify the quality of an answer if one's reputation points aren't enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On being sent a course outline that suggested I download Python 3.6, I attempted this on a Debian stable build.   I've got a few hours until the course starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone blithely suggested we download all the experimental and unstable features, and it had 13 upvotes at the time of reading, which seemed sufficiently high, and there were no adverse comments to the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332641/how-to-install-python-3-6&quot;&gt;How to install Python 3.6?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accordingly, being a little bit short of Debian knowledge, but hoping for the best with a stable build, went ahead and switched Debian over to an experimental build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After an hour of downloading, it seems that what I've done has suddenly changed the profile of my Debian build quite dramatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a sinking gut feel, I'm now reading that changing the profile back is probably going to be a mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to save someone else from their ignorance, it would be nice to be able to add something to that particular answer, but I can't because I lack reputational points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244763" OwnerDisplayName="christo" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T04:40:51.047" Title="How to clarify an answer if you're short on reputational points?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2017-08-03T04:23:09.663" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gain 50 rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on other people's posts are enabled at 50 points.  That's not hard to get, it's a deliberately low barrier to entry.  A few good answers or questions will do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 20 points, you can use the chat rooms so if there's something urgent that needs to be commented on, you can ask someone in there to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 15 points you can flag a post or a comment.  Choose &quot;needs moderator attention&quot; and describe exactly what the problem is, what you want done, and why.  Don't do this frivolously, it creates work for the mods even if they don't take any action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I just added the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/332641/how-to-install-python-3-6#comment681995_340482&quot;&gt;Warning comment&lt;/a&gt; to the answer that recommends upgrading to experimental:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning:&lt;/strong&gt; this will upgrade your system to a hybrid of whatever debian release you are running now (probably 'stable') plus 'unstable'&#xA;  plus 'experimental'.  This will be &lt;strong&gt;far worse&lt;/strong&gt; than just&#xA;  dist-upgrading to unstable and cherry-picking a few packages from&#xA;  experimental, or (better yet, staying with stable and cherry-picking&#xA;  from backports and/or unstable and/or experimental).   Reverting from&#xA;  this will be near impossible.   &lt;strong&gt;NOT recommended unless you have a&#xA;  LOT of experience with debian and debian packaging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7696" LastEditorUserId="7696" LastEditDate="2017-08-03T04:40:51.047" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T04:40:51.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-03T23:40:58.027" Score="-2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago I left an answer to a question.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383015/how-to-use-ubuntu-17-04&quot;&gt;The question&lt;/a&gt; was not a good one.&#xA;It was extremely broad and non specific.&#xA;However, the core of it boiled down to two things: how do I use GNU/Linux, and how do I use python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I left began by reminding the new user that this style of question is a bad fit for a stackexchange site, with links to the help center advice for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;how to ask a good question&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Then, I gave brief answers to the two questions, both of which were essentially: &lt;em&gt;learn by doing, experiment with what is available to you&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;I gave multiple links to the user showing how their question could be answered by some simple web searches.&#xA;However, I did not explicitly copy/paste information from the links.&#xA;The answer I gave was then flagged for deletion as it &lt;code&gt;&quot;does not provide an answer to the question&quot;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;, answers may be removed if they &lt;code&gt;do not fundamentally answer the question&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;I believe that the given answer does answer the question that was asked.&#xA;It seems that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/rejecting-obvious-questions/207#207&quot;&gt;the consensus&lt;/a&gt; is that even poor questions should be given a fair answer.&#xA;With all of this in mind, &lt;strong&gt;what are the reasons this answer was flagged for deletion?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="232710" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T09:02:13.950" Title="What are the reasons for this answer being deleted?" Tags="|support|answer-quality|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4565" CreationDate="2017-08-04T00:52:26.257" Score="0" ViewCount="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I subscribe to tags and receive notifications on Stack Exchange's website only, and not on my mail-id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224025" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T01:55:49.953" Title="Subscribing tags to get only website notifications" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4564" CreationDate="2017-08-04T01:55:49.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this Q&amp;amp;A on the mSO site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254318/how-to-subscribe-to-tags&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254318/how-to-subscribe-to-tags&lt;/a&gt;, specifically this page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/filters/71248/my-filter&quot;&gt;https://stackexchange.com/filters/71248/my-filter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T01:55:49.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4563" CreationDate="2017-08-04T09:02:13.950" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't delete your answer, but I would have done the same thing if I had seen it. Your answer wasn't answering the question. The only relevant bits were the links and links are not answers. This is the entire text of your answer (with the links removed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This style of question is not a good fit for this site. This question&#xA;  is very broad and open ended. Questions that fit well are specific and&#xA;  show prior research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That said, here's a couple of links about using GNU/Linux. I found&#xA;  these after a single web search. It boils down to this, GNU/Linux can&#xA;  be used for basically any task that other operating systems can be&#xA;  used for. Just explore your system and experiment with what you can&#xA;  do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;About learning Python, here's some more links. Again though, the best&#xA;  way to learn is to get stuck in! Do some web searches and try to do&#xA;  your own research. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, without the links it gives no useful information. So if your links break, or change or in any way become inaccessible, your answer becomes useless. This is why we always want answers to be self contained. In other words &quot;Do this&quot; is an answer, &quot;Go here to find the answer&quot; is not an answer, it is an indication of where an answer can  be found. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is explained very nicely in this post on the main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/203101&quot;&gt;Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T09:02:13.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-04T13:00:42.753" Score="-7" ViewCount="709" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update on Aug 18 2017:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To all who could sympathize with me, thank you very much. That is very precious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To all who couldn't, I just wanted to make my learning process at unix.se smoother. I apologize for having made you less comfortable, which I didn't mean to, and I have my own problems to work on.&#xA;I have considered to delete this post, but  it was not something that I wrote when I lost my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is hard to refrain from expressing,  while sometimes it is also not easy to speak out for self without being perceived   confrontational and defensive. &#xA;I haven't reached a perfect balance, and I have already lost to time  in this discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am here to report possible abusers of close votes (and possibly downvotes). &#xA;There are   &lt;strong&gt;patterns about the close voters.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't personally know them. I judge them not based  on how high their reputations are, how splendid their personal experiences look, how many recommendations they received on their linkedin pages. Those have little to do with how they behave on my posts.&#xA;I will let you decide if there is abusing here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383818/674&quot;&gt;Is any alias equivalent to a function?&lt;/a&gt; put on hold as unclear what you're asking by Mikel, Stephen Rauch, Scott, Archemar, Romeo Ninov&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383796/674&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383796/674&lt;/a&gt; put on hold as too broad by Jeff Schaller, Stephen Rauch, Scott, countermode, Archemar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383544/674&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383544/674&lt;/a&gt; put on hold as off-topic by mdpc, Stephen Rauch, Scott, Anthon, Archemar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383351/674&quot;&gt;Arguments in `bash -c mycommand arg1 arg2`&lt;/a&gt; put on hold as off-topic by cas, Archemar, Scott, Toby Speight, Romeo Ninov&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383018/674&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/383018/674&lt;/a&gt; put on hold as unclear what you're asking by Jeff Schaller, Stephen Rauch, Scott, Rui F Ribeiro, Romeo Ninov&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/382984/674&quot;&gt;The zeroth argument to a command executed by exec&lt;/a&gt; put on hold as unclear what you're asking by Jeff Schaller, Scott, Rui F Ribeiro, Romeo Ninov, cas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/382736/674&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/382736/674&lt;/a&gt; put on hold as too broad by Rui F Ribeiro, Jeff Schaller, Stephen Rauch, Romeo Ninov, Anthon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... (I can go on and on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding the cited closing reasons:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unclear&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have put efforts and cares to make my questions as clear as possible, and most of time I think I make them clear. If not, I welcome well-intentional comments, and am always happy to improve them, because I know about my limitations. On the other hand, just as I know about my limitations, the abusers of downvotes and close votes  better know about theirs too. We are just a bunch of people who happen to gather here at unix.se, a place which is supposed to be  free of workplace politics. Some need to improve themselves, and some are generous and willing to help. We all have different backgrounds and experiences, and therefore we are limited in different ways. If some discussion isn't clear to me, I would &lt;strong&gt;consider&lt;/strong&gt; if it is because of my limitations and if the discussion is not meant for me, and if I should leave the discussion open to others rather than  downvote and close it. I would  give some &lt;strong&gt;advice&lt;/strong&gt; : know to control self ego, be   humble, know when to back off, don't use own criteria to measure others and to judge if something is worth it, ....  Examples of &quot;should have not got involved&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/384209/does-executing-a-function-mean-calling-a-function-or-running-the-definition#comment683302_384209&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, ....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Too broad&quot; and &quot;Off topic&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When possible, I try to ask  fundamental things to break the limitation by specific examples (examples, however,   may  also help others understand my questions), because those fundamental things have significance to learning and understanding and to help me cope with having the same confusions and  making the same mistakes over and over again. Fundamental stuffs often come with a little more abstraction and concepts in a bigger picture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers can be conducted at different levels, while many here believe that questions can only be answered at one level which they are used to. So when some questions are closed due to too-broad nor off-topic, they are actually asked at a slightly abstract level or in a big picture, and expect answers at that level. It is also helpful to think the same thing across different levels and from different angles. Unfortunately, some people criticize those who ask related questions as not learning or improving. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why close votes should be used in a more spare manner.&lt;/strong&gt; After a post is closed, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there are  much less space and more discourage for others to participate in the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is always much harder to reopen a closed post than close a post. I have  posts that have been waiting forever for more reopen votes (some just one reopen vote away), while a close vote and a bad comment would trigger other close votes and downvotes very quickly, and people are easily influenced by the behaviour of others, especially those who look reputable. The difficulty of reopening a closed question maybe comes from that the same bunch of people who closed a question decide whether to reopen the question. So it is asking the same people to admit what they did was not correct, and a battle of one versus 5~10 with the rest mostly bystanders who either don't want to get involved or  follow whichever side that looks more powerful and hope to benefit from such. There is not yet any mechanism to regulate the behaviors of close voters, and to make them be responsive and responsible when needing to reopen the posts on which they cast close votes. The lack of such mechanism encourages abuse of close votes possibly as a way of personal attack, retaliation, stereotyping and discrimination or badge gaming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whenever things like that happen,&lt;/strong&gt; I first inspect myself to see if I did some thing bad, and  most of time I refrain from talking back. But that doesn't mean that I don't have something to say. Respect is mutual, if there is little respect from one side, it takes the other side a lot to show respect back.  If I ever question their votes and comments, I can only receive severe retaliation: more downvotes and close votes on the posts that are under discussion and even on older posts that are not relevant (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4007/674&quot;&gt;some people like to dig my profile and history and show  me their existence and influence there&lt;/a&gt;). It somehow shows that people are more or less opinionated, and I shouldn't expect to change their minds and waste time arguing.  Some are very ready to attack and retaliate, if they don't receive much attention, are not much agreed with, or don't see everything that they ask for happen. They are bringing real-life workplace politics and personal attacks to the site, which is opposite to every bullet listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;the be nice policy&lt;/a&gt; and I have not seen been moderated under control.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of verbal bully (non verbal bully includes many cases of floods of downvote and close votes): &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/382660/shell-functions-and-variables-with-the-same-name#comment680126_382660&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383351/arguments-in-bash-c-mycommand-arg1-arg2#comment681473_383351&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of support I have received: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/333712/why-is-invoking-stat-with-env-suggested#comment587771_333712&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383818/is-any-alias-equivalent-to-a-function#comment682638_383818&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Re the replies and comments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;strong&gt;my voting and acceptance pattern&lt;/strong&gt; has little to do with my   post here at meta and I have more or less  explained this in several comments in history,  it doesn't hurt  to reiterate it.&#xA;It is really my personal issue, nothing against anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There can be multiple possibilities why I haven't accepted a reply for one specific post. It is possible that there is  no satisfactory answer. But more likely, I haven't reached a point to understand the received answers, and will come back and try again some time later. Once I understand an answer and the answer addresses the questions correctly and is the best among all, I would happily accept it without hesitation. &#xA;It is unethical for me to accept an answer when I don't actually understand it but just because someone requests me to. I thank again for your patience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is also my belief that the ultimate goal of stackexchange sites is not their &quot;successful&quot; and &quot;innovative&quot; mechanism for voting, accepting and rewarding, but going beyond that to  promote passing knowledge among human beings, and inspiring thoughts and  questions. So I feel very delighted since stackexchange sites   stopped showing the acceptance rate of every user in their profiles   a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless I have been upvoting the majority (99%) of the replies that I have received with   appreciations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is wrong with  asking about and quoting the bash manual?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the first few years at Unix.SE, I asked questions when I had difficulty in practice, even though I knew the importance of RTFM. The manual has less than 200 pages, but it is not a easy read at all. I  tried to read the manual but couldn't actually understand the organization of the topics and many sentences in the manual, even though I could understand every single word. There were many online materials much easier to understand, but as many other people have pointed out, most of the online materials about bash were misleading. Since misconceptions slow down my learning and understanding as I have to discover them and correct them, being misinformed makes things much harder compared to learning from the official and standard reference even if it were learning something that is completely new to me, so I realized that there was no shortcut and I had to read and learn Bash manual, with more focus on what I didn't understand.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I had never said anything about that until now, because I didn't really want to downgrade myself to argue with those endlessly mocking and discriminating against my post asking about and quoting the bash manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is wrong with asking followup questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I  have hard time understanding often times. So shall I pretend that I understand and move on (and maybe even accept someone's reply just because they ask me to), instead of what I have been doing, trying to ask a few more times before giving up for coming back sometime in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does someone else really knows better about whether I have learnt something than I do?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am happy and grateful that I have been improving my understanding a great deal from this site. I see having new questions as part of continuously learning and thinking. If one day I stop asking questions, that will probably be because either I have been banned or I don't think and study things any more. Note that I deliberately change &quot;learn something&quot; to &quot;improve understanding&quot;, because I never know. Quite often when I think I have learned something, sooner or later I will discover that it was actually some improvement on understanding, and then new thoughts and questions will follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2017-08-18T20:45:47.520" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T20:45:47.520" Title="Abusers of closing votes" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2017-08-04T17:31:08.970" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I've been named as a possible abuser of close votes (and since &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4489/117549&quot;&gt;voting-to-close is fresh in my head&lt;/a&gt;), I'm happy to speak to my votes. I am not shy about voting my opinion on Questions and Answers, because ever since finding this site only 2 years ago, I have found it valuable and rewarding (and often &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3941/5k-10k-reputation-bug-header-shows-unavailable-own-suggested-edit&quot;&gt;confusing&lt;/a&gt;), and I am still (at my slow pace) getting used to how the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding upvotes and downvotes, as of this past Sunday's Data Explorer dump, I am 2nd in votes-per-day, and 6th in total votes cast on this site (not counting Community♦). I have voted over 7,000 times &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;in order to improve the quality of the site&lt;/a&gt;, both to signal interesting/useful questions/answers and to signal poor questions/answers. I admit to some curiosity regarding your own voting patterns; after nearly 7 years of membership on this site, you have cast ~1200 votes. OK; voting and editing (and answering) aren't what you're here for. You like to ask questions. I personally find many of your questions interesting, as I can tell that you're interested in understanding concepts in a wide range of Unix tools, and I too like understanding how things work. I can appreciate that you want to be careful with your understanding, and while you say you're &quot;a slow learner; thanks for your enlightenment!&quot;, I also have to ask; why do so many of your 700+ questions not have accepted answers? Are you not getting satisfactory answers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally regarding votes-to-close, I'm sure you're right that most Questions that get closed are not re-opened. I only have my one vote (if I happen to visit the site while voting would be available for the question), so I would only  add that a closed question is an indication that something was wrong, and to try again differently. After all, what do visitors to this site want, except answers to questions; how do we get answers to questions? We build a community of people that want to answer them. How can they answer questions? By asking answerable ones! What makes them answerable? The decisions of the people who would answer them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of trying again differently, a vote-to-close is just that: a signal that some number of people thought that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;&quot;needs additional work or that is not a good fit for this site&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. The question then goes on-hold for a period of time, for editing. If the future comments and edits to the question don't convince five more people to reopen it, then the &quot;community&quot; has spoken and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; the question is closed. I hope I got the mechanics of that right, and that you already understood it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383796/which-of-the-following-operations-does-shell-perform-when-reading-a-complete-li&quot;&gt;Which of the following operations does shell perform when &amp;quot;reading a complete line of input&amp;quot; and when &amp;quot;executing any of the commands in the line&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;. I cast the first vote to close as &quot;too broad&quot; and without any comment. I see eight question marks of your own in that question. In your question that you link to from here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383802/how-can-i-show-the-results-after-bash-reads-one-complete-line-of-input-but-befor&quot;&gt;How can I show the results after Bash reads one complete line of input but before executing any of the commands on that line?&lt;/a&gt;, notice that it is shorter, has one question mark in it, and &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;upvoted&lt;/em&gt; answers.  In this case, the stock text says it well enough for me: &quot;limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer&quot;. I would only add here that the individual questions in this Question &lt;em&gt;sound&lt;/em&gt; broad and don't give &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; any sense for where your understanding &lt;em&gt;starts&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do reading a complete line of input and executing any of the commands mean respectively?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What steps in the following quote belong to &quot;reading&quot; in the above quote?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What steps in the following quote belong to &quot;execution&quot; in the above quote?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there are steps that don't belong to &quot;reading&quot; or &quot;execution&quot;, then what do they belong to?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you seem (to me) to be asking is for us to interpret the bash manual author's words. &lt;em&gt;If it was me&lt;/em&gt;, I would find an example that demonstrated bash behavior that was surprising to me, so that I could dig in and try to figure out what part I had misunderstood. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it relevant to others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383018/do-environment-variables-apply-to-all-kinds-of-commands&quot;&gt;Do environment variables apply to all kinds of commands?&lt;/a&gt;. I cast the first vote to close as &quot;unclear what you were asking&quot; after reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kinds of commands, when they are executed in a shell, do environment variables apply to?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and commenting: &quot;every quoted part of your question talks about the environment; what part is unclear?&quot; I then did my very best to guess at what you were &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; asking about, to which you responded, including &quot;Could you please cast close votes with more objectivity&quot;, and I left my final comment. I see that you have edited the question to add in your one clarifying comment. I still believe that the question has a large amount of distraction around what you're really asking, which seems to be buried at the bottom of the post. If you're wondering about functions, don't make the &lt;em&gt;rest&lt;/em&gt; of the question about &lt;em&gt;other things&lt;/em&gt;.  Above and beyond all of that, this is &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; a documentation question. Can you motivate it with a real-world example that tripped you up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/382984/the-zeroth-argument-to-a-command-executed-by-exec&quot;&gt;The zeroth argument to a command executed by exec&lt;/a&gt;. I cast the first vote to close as &quot;unclear&quot;, along with a comment. I got different output from you, and so I wondered what might be different in our environments. If I can't reproduce the problem, then something is amiss &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;. I see that you've already improved the wording at my confusion regarding the phrase &quot;what is the zeroth argument passed to command like&quot; -- thank you! I see also that Celada answered the question, not without some confusion of her own, and included strace output that shows how you (could have) demonstrated the behavior to yourself. That's indeed why I asked about strace in my comment; I didn't know what kind of answer would increase your understanding, since again your questions were generic -- &quot;What is the purpose of ...?&quot; The purpose is to do the things they say in the manual. Can you show where you used them and were surprised?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourth question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/382736/can-the-scope-of-a-variable-be-changed&quot;&gt;Can the scope of a variable be changed?&lt;/a&gt;. I cast the second vote to close, and can't recall or find what my close-reason was, whether it was &quot;too broad&quot; or &quot;unclear&quot;. This question seems &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; answerable to me, since you show a possibly-confusing example of a variable with the same name both globally and local to a function. Does that motivate your question? Are you trying to change the scope of a variable and failing? What I don't understand about your question is the &lt;em&gt;use case&lt;/em&gt; -- can you demonstrate (with shell commands) cases where you want to change the scope?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T17:31:08.970" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2017-08-05T22:25:01.520" Score="20" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Pattern of Abuse.  Or maybe just a pattern of reviewing?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as one of the top candidates in the potential review abuse department, I will put in my two cents.  I think the pattern you are seeing may simply be that the names that keep recurring are the same names that appear in the list of those who are taking the time to do the reviews in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of all of the reviewers who appeared more than once in your list of seven closed questions.  All of the questions were in the last week, so I looked up the reviewer stats in the Close Vote review queue for the last week, and got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mentions  Reviewer       Recent Reviews&#xA;  6x      Scott            97 week&#xA;  5x      Stephen Rauch    131 week&#xA;  5x      Romeo Ninov      40 week&#xA;  4x      Archemar         74 week&#xA;  4x      Jeff Schaller    56 week&#xA;  3x      Rui F Ribeiro    57 week&#xA;  2x      Anthon           59 week&#xA;  2x      cas              21 week&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is 535 reviews in a week by only 8 people.  I am not a 10k user on this site, so I cannot see all of the history, but I am going to imagine that 535 reviews is a significant fraction of the Close Vote reviews in the last week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I respectfully suggest that maybe the same names keep appearing because these are the same people who are performing many of the reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-08-07T09:35:59.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4558" CreationDate="2017-08-06T01:20:39.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What Mr. Mrozek said; it's only one downvote. You may or may not find someone else that thinks the same way you do. I think you've done the right thing to add an explanation so people have a better chance of following along. You yourself note that 'sed eval is always risky'! Your answer adds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a rarer printf format, %U&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reliance on GNU tools (find's &lt;code&gt;-print0&lt;/code&gt; and sed's &lt;code&gt;-z&lt;/code&gt;) that weren't explicitly part of the OP's environment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;obfuscation of the actual change, inside &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; with the &lt;code&gt;/e&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;requiring a confident parsing of the sed command to piece together the actual execution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also add that your Answer doesn't provide an easy way to do a &quot;dry run&quot; to make sure you got everything right before letting it loose on 10 Tb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, Wildcard's answer uses only &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; with its common &lt;code&gt;-exec&lt;/code&gt; option, and the &lt;code&gt;chown&lt;/code&gt; command, all of which are POSIX-specified. The desired changes are tied directly to each other; any more pair-wise changes could be added in very easily, and the whole thing could be easily tested by inserting an &lt;code&gt;echo&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;printf&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, only the OP has this particular problem to solve, so we're not likely to get a lot of other readers with the same question; and it seems unlikely that we'll get a speed/performance comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admire the effort you put into the answer to make it robust and desire to demonstrate the effects of caching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-08-21T07:44:42.167" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T07:44:42.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-06T10:15:39.927" Score="3" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I asked this question(&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/384092/152971&quot;&gt;Memory Randomization in Linux&lt;/a&gt;) on Unix and Linux forum and I found it a little difficult to select the tag for it. Though I used the tags &lt;code&gt;/stack&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;/memory&lt;/code&gt; but I believe that ASLR should be a tag for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Justification:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;/stack&lt;/code&gt; : ASLR(Address Space Layout Randomization) includes but is not only limited to Stack randomization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;/memory&lt;/code&gt; : I believe that stating &lt;code&gt;memory&lt;/code&gt; as a tag for such questions is too broad and does not points to the problem appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS : It's my first ever question in a Meta section. Pardon me if there's a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152971" LastEditorUserId="152971" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T10:27:14.227" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T10:27:14.227" Title="Tag related to ASLR" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2017-08-06T14:14:16.997" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Glad you put it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came to U&amp;amp;L (and whole stackexchange site) to learn, and I learn more than I answer question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;understanding U&amp;amp;L&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difficult mission of U&amp;amp;L is to mix plain english question and technical one. My first question here was about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/158400/etc-shadow-how-to-generate-6-s-encrypted-password&quot;&gt;encrypted password that look like &lt;code&gt;$6$sds..&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (plain english), had I asked about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52108/how-to-create-sha512-password-hashes-on-command-line&quot;&gt;sha512 hash&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (technical) I would have find an answer without asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Your questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand you need of explanation and details, yet I see two trends among your many questions :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-explain in other english word what's already in manual. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If a user can't differenciate return code and output, no matter how we phrase it, how long we explain, he will still make mistake)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why don't unix bend to my understanding ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think of a question where a user was doing &lt;code&gt;scp /path/a path.com&lt;/code&gt; (with no &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt;) and asked &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381660/make-scp-behave-like-it-is-supposed-to-remote-file-copy-program/381668&quot;&gt;I did scp, why is &lt;code&gt;scp&lt;/code&gt; behaving like &lt;code&gt;cp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ? scp should guess remote host)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, about your questions :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383018/do-environment-variables-apply-to-all-kinds-of-commands&quot;&gt;Do environment variables apply to all kinds of commands?&lt;/a&gt; =&gt; Is this rethoric or you have an actual problem ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383351/arguments-in-bash-c-mycommand-arg1-arg2&quot;&gt;Arguments in `bash -c mycommand arg1 arg2`&lt;/a&gt; =&gt; same question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO understanding unix come with writing, testing, using and debugging scripts, not by (many) theorical questions about shell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If and when you came to particular problem (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383351/arguments-in-bash-c-mycommand-arg1-arg2&quot;&gt;like I did with ssh&lt;/a&gt;), it is time to ask question and broaden your uderstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;my Vote To Close&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;kbd&gt;close&lt;/kbd&gt; when  questions are unlikely to help other, either not a practical case (your questions) or very specific (most of kali linux question, very specific and fuzzy text processing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I  &lt;kbd&gt;leave open&lt;/kbd&gt; if question can be reused (like cutting third column, merging file, etc ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boundary is thin, I also &lt;kbd&gt;skip&lt;/kbd&gt; sometime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a final note, I try not to close too many of your question (no more than one per day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastEditorUserId="79818" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T16:30:42.720" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T16:30:42.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-07T15:53:21.573" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; lists the following as acceptable topics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying OS X (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(plus a few more uninteresting topics.) Why is only the Unix foundation underlying OS X or an embedded device interesting, but not the underlying foundation of server and workstation Linux, BSD Unix, AIX, HP-UX, etc? What makes the Mac so special?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="187960" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T20:13:18.367" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T20:13:18.367" Title="Why are questions about OS X in particular on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4574" CreationDate="2017-08-07T16:01:47.907" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand you correctly, you read the text as saying &quot;of underlying Unix foundations, only those of OS X and embedded systems/handheld devices are on-topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the intent is to say that &quot;on OS X and on embedded systems/handheld devices, only the underlying Unix foundations are on-topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the Unix foundation is on-topic for &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; Unix systems. But on BSD, Linux, AIX, HP-UX etc, the rest of the system is, too. What makes Mac so special is that the rest of the system is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21109" LastActivityDate="2017-08-07T16:01:47.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4577" CreationDate="2017-08-08T06:30:20.887" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will change my password, because I realize that is in use for another account too. Can I do it myself somehow or must I do this over &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/reset-password&quot;&gt;reset-password&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T02:29:26.987" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T11:12:52.380" Title="changing password directly possible?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4576" CreationDate="2017-08-08T07:04:02.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;select your user on top screen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;select &quot;edit my profile &amp;amp; setting&quot; (&quot;setting&quot; if on meta)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;select &quot;My Logins&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a &quot;change password&quot; link under &quot;Stack exchange&quot; line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T07:04:02.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4574" CreationDate="2017-08-08T10:50:30.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The help center is actually clearer than that. You are quoting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt; page which states (emphasis mine): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unix and Linux Stack Exchange is &lt;strong&gt;for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other&#xA;  Un*x-like operating systems&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying OS X (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Shell scripting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being cross-platform does not disqualify)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those two first sentences in bold make it clear that anything *nix related is on topic. The rest are to explain the edge cases. Those systems which are kinda sorta *nix but not entirely. So we specify that for those systems, and those systems only, their *nix side is on topic here but not the rest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The underlying foundation of server and workstation Linux, BSD Unix, AIX, HP-UX, etc&quot; are all covered by the first bullet point: any question about those systems will come under &quot;using or administering a *nix desktop or server&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T10:50:30.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4226" CreationDate="2017-08-09T00:21:46.123" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197889/raising-the-25-chars-limit-for-tags/299490#299490&quot;&gt;The tag length limit has been raised&lt;/a&gt;, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows-subsystem-for-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows-subsystem-for-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows-subsystem-for-linux&lt;/a&gt; is now a valid tag name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T00:21:46.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4581" CreationDate="2017-08-09T05:30:18.573" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure the issue is caused by hardware or the Linux system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My host machine is always stuck recently. and sometimes also black screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when I start my host machine(CentOS 7.2), it records those information in the &lt;code&gt;/var/log/messages&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dMk2D.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dMk2D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logs is below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:ff:12.0: BAR 5: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:ff:12.4: BAR 1: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:ff:12.4: BAR 1: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:ff:12.4: BAR 3: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:ff:12.4: BAR 3: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:ff:12.4: BAR 5: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:ff:12.4: BAR 5: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci_bus 0000:ff: Some PCI device resources are unassigned, try booting with pci=realloc&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 2: no space for [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 2: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 4: no space for [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 4: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 2: no space for [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 2: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 4: no space for [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 4: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000040]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 1: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 1: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 3: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 3: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 5: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.0: BAR 5: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 1: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 1: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 3: no space for [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;Aug  8 16:29:18 localhost kernel: pci 0000:7f:12.4: BAR 3: failed to assign [mem size 0x00000010]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with my host machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can I ask this question on Unix&amp;amp;Linux? or which SE site is suitable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239156" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T08:41:21.683" Title="Can I ask this question on Unix&amp;Linux?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4580" CreationDate="2017-08-09T08:41:21.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why not. You seem to have a problem with your Linux machine and want to ask how to fix it and what's wrong. That's precisely what the site is for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better to give some more information though. Explain exactly how the machine gets stuck, when it happens (on boot? randomly? only in GUI?), give us more details on your hardware (especially your graphics card and the driver you use with it), the state of your disk drives (&lt;code&gt;df -h&lt;/code&gt;) etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that, yes, go for it. Ask your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T08:41:21.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-10T15:18:10.937" Score="-1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I view a question and immediately below the question instead of an answer is the block which states this is a 'duplicate question'.  That's all well and fine but how do I find the original question so I can see the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245923" OwnerDisplayName="user245923" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T17:27:11.967" Title="Duplicate questions, where to find them" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4582" CreationDate="2017-08-10T17:27:11.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below the question title. Two styles of banners are used (the old one is actually inserted as editable text in the question, the new one is not part of the question text):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;new&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdRNS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdRNS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;old&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4RYDU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4RYDU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T17:27:11.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-18T07:25:04.863" Score="4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Question adapted according to the information given by Michael Homer)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1274/216004&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I did believe that &quot;&lt;em&gt;edited closed questions get put into the review queue&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, and Michael Homer's comment confirms this. However, those question still look like they were forgotten after the reopening was rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to users waiting for one day and finally posting the same question anew with identical content, which doesn't seem useful neither for the user nor for the platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So either the closing banner should be updated to &quot;The question remains on hold for this and that reason&quot; or the ones voting to leave it closed should be encouraged to give a commentary on their vote. Maybe there are better ideas, but the readers shouldn't be left unclear of the status of the question, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Background, if you care: I stumbled over &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/386854/url-filtering-with-input-mac-addresses&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and thought I've seen it before. And found &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/386689/url-filtering-based-on-input-mac-address&quot;&gt;this identical question&lt;/a&gt;. This has been closed in the first version for good reasons, edited after an hour, then flagged by a single user to reopen, but still on hold for 15 hours, so finally the user posted the question anew (not flagged to close, getting helpful reactions and even an upvote). It seems that it's easier to post a new question with same content than to struggle to reopen the old one. I don't want to argue about this specific question, just about the feedback mechanism. In my eyes, even a user with a bad question deserves to receive a reaction like &quot;still not good enough&quot; or &quot;reopened&quot; in a time not too much longer than the time to close it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216004" LastEditorUserId="216004" LastEditDate="2017-08-18T08:25:55.123" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T08:25:55.123" Title="Missing feedback why a question is kept on hold" Tags="|discussion|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2017-08-18T09:18:42.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember having read one of Tims questions and intentionally didn't read the linked ones. But I took the time to read the question, the answers and the comments. Thus, my following observations and thoughts are only from this discussion, without all that background some of you are referring to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I realized that the strategy of learning technical things, asking questions, answering and using this site is even broader than I thought it was. Like in real life, this mixture can be a source of annoyance, which is something we have to deal with. Or it can be a source of misunderstanding assumptions, which should be avoided, I think. &quot;Abusage&quot; is such an assumption, &quot;not spending any effort&quot; is another. If the other person was like me, I could interpret his actions in that way. But he is different, so I can't tell the real motivation for his actions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The correlation between the total close votes and the close votes on Tim's questions seems plausible. On the other hand, I sense a tendency to be biased on Tim's postings. This is only human (I myself have to keep myself from rejecting a minor edit just because it comes from someone flooding the queue with useless edits). Tim, there is a way prove or disprove that: Create a different account and for your next dozends of questions, through a coin with which account you are posting it. You will see whether the questions posted from the new account will get rejected significantly less.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My personal strategy is to say my opinion clearly, but follow the rules of the majority if I can't convince them and I can avoid an ongoing conflict. One must not follow this principle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216004" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T09:18:42.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4588" CreationDate="2017-08-18T10:21:31.197" Score="9" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user has posted two answers but the problem is that [s]he has just copy pasted the answers given before in the thread. Here are the 2 answers I came across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/386860/224025&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/386860/224025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/386862/224025&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/386862/224025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I am new here, I don't think copy-pasting other answers &quot;as is&quot; is allowed in the community. What flag should I use to indicate that the answer is just a plain copy-paste of another answer to the same question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224025" LastEditorUserId="112566" LastEditDate="2017-08-23T11:00:45.213" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T11:00:45.213" Title="What to do when a user has simply copied other users' answers on the same question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4586" CreationDate="2017-08-18T12:09:52.033" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, use a custom flag and tell us the answer is copied. Custom is better because copied answers are often good answers and the flag interface will only show us the flagged post. So it might look like a perfectly decent answer unless you tell us it's been copied and we open the relevant page to see the plagiarism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T21:20:49.250" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T21:20:49.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4586" CreationDate="2017-08-19T05:50:07.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackexchange is the best community that checks and prevents plagiarism. Flag the content that you found as a copy and the moderators will look into it. The meta stackexchange clearly answered this question. You can find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160071/what-to-do-when-plagiarism-is-discovered&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was also found for the same guilt previous month and let me share the content mail I received after suspending my account for seven days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It has come to our attention that several of your answers consisted&#xA;  primarily or entirely of text copied from other answers or websites.&#xA;  We prefer not to simply copy content already available elsewhere in&#xA;  lieu of creating something that adds value to this site specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever possible, we prefer that posts be your own original work, but&#xA;  when a great answer already exists elsewhere, including a small&#xA;  passage of text from another source can be a great way to support your&#xA;  solution. But please note that we require full attribution with a link&#xA;  to the original author, and please be sure you are not copying content&#xA;  without permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you, and I look forward to your contributions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have temporarily suspended your account; you may return after 7&#xA;  days.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can be happy that your contents have got enough respect and value in stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214223" LastEditorUserId="214223" LastEditDate="2017-08-22T10:55:56.507" LastActivityDate="2017-08-22T10:55:56.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4591" CreationDate="2017-08-20T23:23:03.027" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't really a bug, more of a &quot;why does it work this way?&quot;, hope I'm tagging it right&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The default view at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; is the &quot;questions&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it that &quot;the community&quot; bumps questions to this tab that are ancient (in computing terms)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make sense (to me) to give focus to an un-answered &quot;old&quot; question vs. the questions that have recent activity (being asked, being answered, being commented on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several times I've seen a question with no answers - or one answer but not accepted yet - at the top of the &quot;questions&quot; tab and thought &quot;Oh, I can answer that...&quot; only to discover that the question in question is about Debian Squeeze from 2012... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the problem becomes defining &quot;old&quot; - especially in computing terms, and the *nix world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204448" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T06:49:05.103" Title="why does &quot;the community&quot; bump ancient questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4590" CreationDate="2017-08-21T06:49:05.103" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, if a question is unanswered, it should be answered, no matter how old and stale it is. If it has a few old unaccepted answers, and they are outdated, then add an updated answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that very old questions are unlikely to have their answers accepted, but I have seen it happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this &quot;bumping&quot; is a good thing, and as far as I have noticed, it does not drown out new incoming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the aim is not to get as many answers &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; as possible, but to provide well formulated answers to all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good answer is usually an answer that has been accepted (a human would presumably not accept a bad answer). When a question has no accepted answer, &quot;bumping&quot; it provides a way for us to look at the given answers and improve on them, either though editing or by adding further answers. In that way, the overall quality of answers on the site hopefully increases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a good thing, because even though the question is ancient, people will definitely stumble upon it and use bits and pieces from the existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as an opportunity for a bit of quality control if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T06:49:05.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-21T12:05:52.583" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some days ago, I wrote this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/386012/screenshot-takes-a-long-time&quot;&gt;Screenshot takes a long time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post was closed as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; as unclear what you're asking by [5 different users] Aug 14 at 13:36&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ok, maybe my question needs improvements, but I don't know what improvements since I'm not a Unix master in fact...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, nobody helps me find out where does my questions needs improvements or where I made an error writing my question; so It's difficult for me to do better ^^'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always have my problem of too long time to take screenshot on my computer, and I don't find anything on Internet and also here on Unix stackexchange. Maybe I missed something, but for now, I'm just lost with my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you explain me what was wrong with my question; in order to I can improve it or rewrite it if just improving will not help you to find clues to solve my problem ?&#xA;Thank you for your help ! And if you need more information, please ask for them, and not just flag my post as unclear; it's not helping me very well. I'm ready to improve the description of the problem as many as needed; to finally fix this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246427" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-08-21T23:28:27.753" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T05:23:05.363" Title="Question closed without any explanation (and I'm always searching for an answer)" Tags="|support|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4592" CreationDate="2017-08-24T04:42:29.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First rule of making great questions is to ask yourself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What am I trying to say? and what is my reader going to understand from that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, you have problems with your screenshots... but what else? have you hardware issues? software issues? which methods have you already tried? is there some error when you take a screenshot? some output? have you tried to debug the info? what have you already looked for? have you any idea of what's going on? what is the exact procedure that you use to take a screenshot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as you can see... a lot of questions can arise from a very simple problem... and for us is hard to try to figure out what's happening with only one approach...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;now to your problem... I can see that there are some comments of people trying to help you, so I believe that the rest comes up to you, we are here to help, not to solve the problem. We can point a direction and is up to you to try harder and find the very best solution... It happens a lot here that people seek only for a quick solution and they don't want to learn and become even better... so you need to understand that there are hundreds of bad questions and bad answers, but we do our best to try to help...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really hope that you will be able to find your solution and learn in the process, good luck :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. give shutter or any other software for screenshots a try ;) maybe it will help you to make it faster as the problems are with the keyboard shortcuts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246185" LastActivityDate="2017-08-24T04:42:29.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4595" CreationDate="2017-08-24T13:42:24.613" Score="5" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have enough reputation to comment on an answer which I believe has a few flaws, so I'm wondering what action I should take instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, I should comment when I want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I shouldn't comment when I am:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggesting corrections that don't &lt;em&gt;fundamentally&lt;/em&gt; change the meaning of the post; instead, make or suggest an edit;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel comfortable enough proposing an edit, and I do feel that the suggestions would change the answer &lt;em&gt;fundamentally&lt;/em&gt; - yet wouldn't warrant it's own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a bit of context, the answer I wanted to comment on is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/388117/209558&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/388117/209558&lt;/a&gt;. I'm under the impression that the user &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; authenticate as root, however if they authenticate as a user they might need to be part of the group &quot;lp&quot;. The only thing I have backing me up is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Connection_Interfaces&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arch Linux Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, so I don't feel quite comfortable outright suggesting an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="209558" LastActivityDate="2017-08-25T16:06:35.890" Title="What action to take if I can't comment?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4594" CreationDate="2017-08-24T13:46:31.120" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid the only answer is &quot;spend some time on the site, get 50 reputation points and then comment&quot;. The rep limit for commenting is really low, it only takes 5 upvotes on answers or ten on questions. That's not hard to reach if you want to take part in the site. Answer or ask a few     questions and you'll get there in no time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you do, you can comment freely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-08-24T13:46:31.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4594" CreationDate="2017-08-25T16:06:35.890" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;An alternative to terdon's suggestion is writing your own answer. &lt;strong&gt;NOTE: Writing your own answer is NOT putting a comment as an answer.&lt;/strong&gt; If one answer is inaccurate or has notable flaws, consider answering the question yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78518" LastActivityDate="2017-08-25T16:06:35.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-25T17:26:29.437" Score="9" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by a recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/355598/can-we-merge-the-four-multiple-monitors-tags&quot;&gt;MSO question&lt;/a&gt;, I looked here and found two possibly-overlapping tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dual-monitor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dual-monitor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dual-monitor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/multi-monitor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;multi-monitor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;multi-monitor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we merge them and make dual-monitor a synonym of multi-monitor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-08-25T17:26:29.437" Title="Do we need multiple multi-monitor tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-26T00:56:11.287" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted one of my answers right now because I found out that a person before me had already taken the approach that I took in a more efficient way to solve the problem. So, my answer does the same thing but in a non-efficient manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere that deleting multiple question and answers can lead to your account being banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it justified in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was my second answer that I deleted because I realized that it was not good enough for the question as compared to other answers. Also I have deleted some of my questions in the past when the question didn't receive good support from the community and also when I realized that the question doesn't serve good to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When is it not justified to delete your own answer or question ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what circumstances would a user's account be blocked for deleting questions/answers and how much probability is there for getting blocked because of deleting your own questions/answers ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224025" LastEditorUserId="224025" LastEditDate="2017-08-26T01:10:24.983" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T01:23:56.387" Title="Is it justified to delete your own answer when someone else has a better solution than yours?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4598" CreationDate="2017-08-26T08:57:27.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Personal opinion&lt;/em&gt;, and also dependent on the particular question/answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; justified to delete a &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;instead of accepting an answer&lt;/em&gt; (this is only possible if there is only one answer with no up-vote), or after receiving a comment (but no answers) that solves the problem.  I have seen this happening a few time and might be due to the user being embarrassed about having to ask at all (they shouldn't be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; justified to delete a &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; when you suddenly realize it's &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt;. If you are prevented from doing this (there are a few answers or answers with up-votes), then flag for the attention of a moderator (who will either migrate or close/delete the question, or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; justified to delete your own &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; if it's plainly &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;can not be salvaged&lt;/em&gt;. I think this is better than editing it, adding a piece of text saying &amp;quot;this is all wrong&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; justified to delete your own &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; if someone else has a more general, portable and more beautiful solution to the same problem. Personally, I would probably leave my answer in there if it's actually correct (though I have deleted these kinds of answers myself too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer is not just about solving &lt;em&gt;one particular&lt;/em&gt; problem. It may give hints to how to go about solving other (possibly unrelated) issues. An inefficient answer may still use a particular quirk of some tool, grammar, or syntax that a reader might not know from before (but now learns), and that the &amp;quot;better&amp;quot; answer doesn't use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding down-votes: Don't care about them too much. It may sting a bit, but everyone gets down-voted, both on questions and answers. If you write an answer that gathers a few down votes without any explanation, just look at the answer and see if there might be room for a bit of explanatory text. A proper explanation to go with the plain solution may prompt someone to comment, at which point you may realize what the down-vote was about (and whether to retire the answer or to modify it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want input from others on particular answers, ask in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;the chat&lt;/a&gt; or here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic questions with proper explanation and context rarely gets down-voted. Again, ask in the chat or here if you need input about improving a down-voted question. People will help depending on their availability and expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have said nothing about being blocked for deleting too many answers/questions because I did not know that this was a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related, about deletion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-08-26T09:17:43.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4598" CreationDate="2017-08-27T01:23:56.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly fine to delete an answer if you're dissatisfied with it, especially if there is a better one. There's also no harm in leaving it but always try and improve it if you can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the warnings are geared towards when someone does what they call rage quitting by deleting everything that they've done on the various stackexchange site(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267629/what-is-a-rage-quit&quot;&gt;What is a rage quit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/290801/how-should-we-go-about-users-rage-quitting-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How should we go about users “rage quitting” Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T01:23:56.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4602" CreationDate="2017-08-27T19:39:30.657" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this query &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/388531/was-debian-the-first-distribution-to-come-and-have-the-idea-of-changelog-gz-and&quot;&gt;Was debian the first distribution to come and have the idea of changelog.gz and changelog.debian.gz?&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw somebody comment at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/388531/was-debian-the-first-distribution-to-come-and-have-the-idea-of-changelog-gz-and?noredirect=1#comment692170_388531&quot;&gt;Was debian the first distribution to come and have the idea of changelog.gz and changelog.debian.gz?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I feel to understand the rationale behind that assumption if true. Could anybody shed more light on the subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems my question is related to also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4398/edited-my-question-hasnt-been-reopened-for-a-long-time&quot;&gt;Edited my question, hasn&amp;#39;t been reopened for a long time&lt;/a&gt; but there still seems to be ambiguity as how or on what basis closed votes are chosen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way for the asker/questionnaire to know why a question had closed votes :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastEditorUserId="50490" LastEditDate="2017-08-28T09:25:19.460" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T02:46:02.933" Title="how do people assume that a question has been abandoned?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4601" CreationDate="2017-08-29T02:46:02.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have enough reputation to cast close votes on your question, so you can also see what reasons others have given so far. Just click on the close button and look at the numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/avbs6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/avbs6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HMd5c.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HMd5c.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't voted yet, and I don't intend to explain others' voting, so no point asking me anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T02:46:02.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-29T12:12:14.933" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to publish a somewhat long list of timing processes (~15K lines), related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/386629/13011&quot;&gt;Worth using parallel instead of forking processes in a for loop?&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, I want to exted the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/386974/13011&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/386974/13011&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I attach an ascii file with all timings?&#xA;Or, can I use a collapsible panel to click-show/click-hide it's contents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is a good way to present such long text material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13011" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T12:12:14.933" Title="Can I attach an ascii file or use a collapsible panel?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-30T13:56:01.447" Score="4" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to search for questions on extended attributes, then I found that there seem to be at least two tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xattr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xattr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xattr&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-attributes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-attributes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-attributes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mentioned tags seem to refer to the same topic, but they are not aliased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;code&gt;extended-attributes&lt;/code&gt; be an alias for &lt;code&gt;xattr&lt;/code&gt;? The latter seems to be used (much) more frequently. Or should this be streamlined in a different way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-08-30T14:57:19.493" LastActivityDate="2017-09-07T04:47:51.990" Title="Tag synonyms: xattr vs. extended-attributes" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-31T03:33:54.840" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe I asked a dup because my problem didn't solve at first. Now that I solved my problem, you might want to put together my question as a duplicate of the first question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/388399/enable-history-for-shell&quot;&gt;Enable history for shell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/386319/how-to-enable-ksh-command-history-between-sessions/386344#386344&quot;&gt;How to enable ksh command history between sessions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9115" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T03:33:54.840" Title="Duplicate question" Tags="|support|duplicate|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2565" CreationDate="2017-08-31T23:13:13.050" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, X.509 and certificates are not synonyms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X.509 covers not only certificates, but also certificate requests and certificate revocation lists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be possible to encode certificates in other formats.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the level of this website, I don't see any distinction to be made between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x509&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x509&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x509&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/certificates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;certificates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;certificates&lt;/a&gt;. In practice nobody encodes certificates in anything other than X.509. If a question is specifically about certificate requests or certificate revocation, it can use a tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/certi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;certi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;certi&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/crl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crl&lt;/a&gt; in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/certificates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;certificates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;certificates&lt;/a&gt;. So I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x509&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x509&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x509&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/certificates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;certificates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;certificates&lt;/a&gt; should be synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Security.SE has separate tags, but even there I don't think it's warranted; &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2781/can-we-authoritatively-merge-certificates-and-x-509&quot;&gt;I've raised that on their meta&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T23:13:13.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4608" CreationDate="2017-09-01T16:38:21.597" Score="15" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speak now if you want to defend the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/failure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;failure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;failure&lt;/a&gt; tag. I believe it to be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta-tag&lt;/a&gt; that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not &quot;describe the content of the question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;can't work as the only tag on a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;commonly means different things to different people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be retagging the existing 57 questions; some of them really aim at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt;; others are about hardware failure; and many are just about some-other-failure-that-needs-to-be-described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the tag is cleared out, I believe the tag should be blacklisted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2017-09-19T21:52:58.860" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T21:52:58.860" Title="Removal of the [failure] tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4607" CreationDate="2017-09-02T01:45:04.713" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your logic and IMO it should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2017-09-02T01:45:04.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4604" CreationDate="2017-09-07T04:47:51.990" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think these should be synonyms. &lt;code&gt;xattr&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/xattr/xattr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a specific tool&lt;/a&gt;, provided out-of-the-box on some platforms, and &quot;extended attributes&quot; is a concept and filesystem feature that is accessed many ways, mostly not through that particular tool. It's unfortunate that there's a collision, but there's a clear disambiguation to be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better to separate the tags and have the excerpts be clear on which to use. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xattr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xattr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xattr&lt;/a&gt; is a not a good name for the extended-attributes tag in any case - it's an incomprehensible abbreviation if you just knew &quot;extended attributes&quot; were what you were looking for - and if they were to be unified, it should be in the other direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's reasonable for somebody to have expertise on the tool, but not the general concept, or to be searching for questions about one in particular, and vice-versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xattr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xattr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xattr&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;code&gt;xattr&lt;/code&gt; tool, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-attributes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-attributes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-attributes&lt;/a&gt; for the feature. To that end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xattr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xattr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xattr&lt;/a&gt; should be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-attributes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-attributes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-attributes&lt;/a&gt; (regardless of whether they are merged or not).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xattr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xattr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xattr&lt;/a&gt; is created for the tool, and relevant questions are re-tagged with it (possibly in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-attributes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-attributes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-attributes&lt;/a&gt;, possibly instead).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xattr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xattr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xattr&lt;/a&gt; should state &quot;This tag is for questions about the &lt;code&gt;xattr&lt;/code&gt; command-line tool. For questions about extended attributes in general, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-attributes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-attributes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-attributes&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-attributes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-attributes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-attributes&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps it could be omitted from the excerpt and only in the wiki, but somewhere at least: &quot;For questions about the use of the &lt;code&gt;xattr&lt;/code&gt; command-line tool, [also?] use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xattr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xattr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xattr&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastActivityDate="2017-09-07T04:47:51.990" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-08T20:09:04.350" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot really use this site on my Nexus 6P, but it would be great to quickly look up things away from a desktop device (e.g. in a very small server room or on the subway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244809" OwnerDisplayName="Mohl" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2017-09-08T21:00:27.263" LastActivityDate="2017-09-08T21:18:40.760" Title="Why is unix.stackexchange.com not optimized for mobile devices?" Tags="|discussion|design|mobile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4610" CreationDate="2017-09-08T21:18:40.760" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what it looks like on my device:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jX6LR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of U&amp;amp;L on my phone&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Versus Gaming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b77WZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of Gaming on my phone&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you don't have your browser set to request the desktop version of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-09-08T21:18:40.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4615" CreationDate="2017-09-11T00:58:32.963" Score="4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Calling all those interested in helping the site and potentially gaining a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/53/tag-editor&quot;&gt;tag editor&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/108/research-assistant&quot;&gt;research assistant&lt;/a&gt; badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a tag with an old, copy-pasted excerpt &amp;amp; wiki that could use some attention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/chrome/info&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/chrome/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you follow this tag or know enough about its use on this site, please consider taking some time to improve its excerpt and/or wiki!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two resources that I've relied on are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/24/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;Redesigned Tags Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120586/examples-of-great-tag-wikis&quot;&gt;Examples of great tag wikis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The guidelines that I use for myself&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; excerpt will:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;define the shared quality of questions containing this tag -- boiled down to a few short sentences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid generically defining the concept behind a tag, unless it is highly specialized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concentrate on what a tag means to your community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide basic guidance on when to use the tag. In other words, what kinds of questions should have this tag + common alternatives (“don’t use this tag”)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; wiki will expand on the excerpt, plus have a clear structure, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About [tag]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fuller description (wikipedia?), with key features&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;logo &amp;amp; link to any official website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list of alternative implementations and related (client/server access) programs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using [tag] in Unix.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other release/version-specific versions of the tag, if any&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags that get confused with this one (“what this tag is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about”) -- see the History tag for an example; also “mac” vs “mac address”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional resources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in-line text of common troubleshooting tips (top 1 or 2 Q’s?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;links to Q’s for common tasks, FAQ’s, canonical / popular Q’s&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;guide to any In-program help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;links to any online communities / forums&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;links to good/popular books, guides, articles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. These are the top 3 tags (question-wise) from &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/721119/janitortags-excerpt-wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-11-08T17:53:58.670" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T17:53:58.670" Title="Can you polish up the chrome tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4614" CreationDate="2017-09-11T14:17:08.677" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently added &lt;em&gt;Usage Guidance&lt;/em&gt; and the first version of a tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-flow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;control-flow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;control-flow&lt;/a&gt;. A few (about 6) questions using this tag actually refer to the similarly-named but distinct concept of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_control_(data)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;terminal flow control&lt;/a&gt;. I thought I’d ask on Meta for advice on what to do with these questions. The options I’ve considered so far are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;simply edit the questions to remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-flow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;control-flow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;control-flow&lt;/a&gt; tag (there are only a few of them)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/flow-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;flow-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;flow-control&lt;/a&gt; and re-tag the questions – the name is short but could be easily confused with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-flow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;control-flow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;control-flow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal-flow-control&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal-flow-control&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal-flow-control&lt;/a&gt; – avoids confusion with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-flow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;control-flow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;control-flow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T13:27:54.553" Title="Controlling the control flow tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4613" CreationDate="2017-09-12T13:27:54.553" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I followed Jeff’s advice and edited just &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; questions to remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/control-flow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;control-flow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;control-flow&lt;/a&gt; tag and replace it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminal&lt;/a&gt; if the question wasn’t already tagged as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T13:27:54.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4612" CreationDate="2017-09-12T15:17:08.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve just updated the excerpt (usage guidance) and tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrome&lt;/a&gt;.  I was going to update the boot-loader tag but working on the Chrome tag took a lot longer than I had anticipated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now also completed the usage guidance and a first draft of the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boot-loader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boot-loader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boot-loader&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastEditorUserId="22812" LastEditDate="2017-09-18T21:50:28.820" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T21:50:28.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4693" CreationDate="2017-09-13T17:28:03.800" Score="4" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I have written a few answers covering SELinux recently (2 about file labeling and another about booleans), I have been thinking if it would be useful to have some generic Q&amp;amp;A on common SELinux issues. I would be willing to write some, if I had a better idea on what kind of topics would be considered useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The default SELinux policy is used by default on RHEL/Fedora based distributions. This sometimes results in questions here about permissions problems. People asking the questions do not always realize that their problem actually is SELinux related. At least, if the problem turns out to be SELinux related the question should in my opinion include &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/selinux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;selinux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;selinux&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due the nature of SELinux's default policy (many applications, most daemons have their own file labeling rules, contexts and configurable booleans), a very generic answer probably isn't ever going be specific enough to mark other questions as duplicate. A specific question's answer would still need to have the specific details for the application in question (using booleans, file labeling, additional policy modules, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm asking here to discuss about: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is having some generic Q&amp;amp;A regarding SELinux useful at all?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions and answers would be useful?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/392833/configure-selinux-to-allow-daemons-to-use-files-in-non-default-locations/392834#392834&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do I configure SELinux to allow daemons to use files in non-default locations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/469822/239817&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to troubleshoot SELinux issues?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/418643/239817&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to install the manpage httpd_selinux?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (applies to other module manpages as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to customize SELinux policy for daemon (to allow access to X)?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it acceptable (or a good idea) to answer topics which are explained in multiple howtos/tutorials/FAQs elsewhere but haven't been featured in U&amp;amp;L SE (at least in a generic question)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239817" LastEditorUserId="239817" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T21:20:55.537" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T21:20:55.537" Title="Writing generic SELinux Q&amp;A" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-20T01:51:49.513" Score="7" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Calling all those interested in helping the site and potentially gaining a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/53/tag-editor&quot;&gt;tag editor&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/108/research-assistant&quot;&gt;research assistant&lt;/a&gt; badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a tag with an old, copy-pasted excerpt &amp;amp; wiki that could use some attention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/autocomplete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;autocomplete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;autocomplete&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/autocomplete/info&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/autocomplete/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you follow this tag or know enough about its use on this site, please consider taking some time to improve its excerpt and/or wiki!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To avoid duplicate effort&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please comment on this post if you intend to update the excerpt or wiki, so that we do not end up with wasted effort. Consider the comment an advisory lock. If you don't feel like making a full edit/contribution, consider adding an Answer here with suggestions on the direction you'd like to see the excerpt or wiki take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two resources that I've relied on for tag excerpts &amp;amp; wikis are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/24/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;Redesigned Tags Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120586/examples-of-great-tag-wikis&quot;&gt;Examples of great tag wikis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The guidelines that I use for myself&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; excerpt will:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;define the shared quality of questions containing this tag -- boiled down to a few short sentences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid generically defining the concept behind a tag, unless it is highly specialized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concentrate on what a tag means to your community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide basic guidance on when to use the tag. In other words, what kinds of questions should have this tag + common alternatives (“don’t use this tag”)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; wiki will expand on the excerpt, plus have a clear structure, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About [tag]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fuller description (wikipedia?), with key features&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;logo &amp;amp; link to any official website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list of alternative implementations and related (client/server access) programs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using [tag] in Unix.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other release/version-specific versions of the tag, if any&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags that get confused with this one (“what this tag is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about”) -- see the History tag for an example; also “mac” vs “mac address”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional resources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in-line text of common troubleshooting tips (top 1 or 2 Q’s?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;links to Q’s for common tasks, FAQ’s, canonical / popular Q’s&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;guide to any In-program help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;links to any online communities / forums&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;links to good/popular books, guides, articles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. I discovered this tag from &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/721119/janitortags-excerpt-wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T17:59:46.947" Title="&quot;You ... you complete me&quot; said the autocomplete tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2017-09-23T12:42:40.690" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/unix.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;See all questions with active bounties&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9454" LastActivityDate="2017-09-23T12:42:40.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4125" CreationDate="2017-09-29T16:51:47.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel&lt;/a&gt; tag is now devoid of questions and is ready for blacklisting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T16:51:47.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4622" CreationDate="2017-09-29T21:16:16.167" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;For E.G in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/395213/usb-flash-drive-no-longer-being-read-by-xubuntu&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, the user is trying to edit his/her question with another account that has the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this edit be Approved or Rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237568" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:38:34.237" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:38:34.237" Title="What do I do when a user edits their question with another account" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4621" CreationDate="2017-09-29T21:27:26.837" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This generally happens because they posted the question on an unregistered account and then later registered one when they realized they would need to follow-up on comments. I have yet to come across a case where somebody makes a fake account with the same name to impersonate another user, so you can probably assume it's the same user and approve it, as long as the edit looks to actually be useful. You can also flag these posts and mention that the user accidentally has two accounts, and we can put in a request with Stack Exchange to merge them so their new registered account will take ownership of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T21:27:26.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-02T04:45:11.743" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many times we have found a solution on stackexchange or stackoverflow sites those are useful and deserve an upvote but because of having less reputation those solutions didn't get that upvotes.&#xA;Please remove this condition else provide other alternatives to thanks, users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also If I have more than 15 reputations on other stackexchange or stackoverflow sites then also allow me to upvote their solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="198070" OwnerDisplayName="arun pal" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:38:04.060" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:38:04.060" Title="Remove condition of having minimum 15 reputation for upvotes" Tags="|feature-request|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4623" CreationDate="2017-10-02T05:28:12.407" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I applaud your desire to upvote those that have helped you. Sadly SPAM and other nefarious activities are a sad fact of the modern internet.  So these limits are in place.  But it turns out your idea &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/141648/what-is-the-association-bonus&quot;&gt;has been implemented&lt;/a&gt;.  It is just that the thresholds are a bit higher than your proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/141648/what-is-the-association-bonus&quot;&gt;200 points on any SE site&lt;/a&gt;, then you will be given 100 points as an association bonus on all SE sites.  This is enough reputation to up-vote 40 times a day, on each site.   Not enough to downvote but that is only another 24 reputation away on each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would strongly encourage you to concentrate on one site, and go earn 200 reputation. You are already 1/3 of the way there on SO. This will then allow you upvote to your hearts content, network wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208146" LastActivityDate="2017-10-02T05:28:12.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-04T10:21:41.150" Score="-2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a openSUSE Linux user, and I would be interested in a SE site for this distro in the same fashion of AskUbuntu; I know that there is already &quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&quot;, but it seems focused more on general distro-agnostic knowledge (its top tags are &lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;shell-script&lt;/code&gt;, and so on), more focused on Linux itself (shell and CLI) and less on daily usage of distros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/113962/opensuse&quot;&gt;proposal on Area 51&lt;/a&gt;, and I'd like to know if other users here would be interested to back it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37439" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T06:42:47.317" Title="Someone interested in an openSUSE SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4629" CreationDate="2017-10-04T23:14:22.490" Score="44" ViewCount="990" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3717/should-we-discourage-people-that-delete-their-question-after-they-receive-an-ans&quot;&gt;Should we discourage people that delete their question after they receive an answer?&lt;/a&gt;, and to the AskUbuntu Meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2281/please-stop-posting-half-answers-and-dumb-advice-as-comments&quot;&gt;Please stop posting half answers and dumb advice as comments&lt;/a&gt;. It's a combination of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This evening I've had two instances of questions being deleted, literally from beneath my fingertips, as I was typing my answers. The reason? An answer was given as a comment, and the user withdrew the question immediately upon seeing it. It was a pity that this happened, not just because I had spent some time writing an answer, but since in one of the cases, the user left with a piece of code that was still wrong in more ways than what the question and comment-answer addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could we (me included) stop giving actual answers in comments, please?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is infuriatingly annoying to have the &quot;this question has been deleted&quot; thing pop up when you've spent 10 minutes typing away trying to explain what's wrong, what they should be doing, and why, just because someone casually says &quot;do this: ...&quot; in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments are for comments.  Answers are for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have the answer, type it up. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't have the time to do that, &lt;em&gt;then you don't have the answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are &lt;em&gt;dying&lt;/em&gt; to leave a witty comment about an issue in the code that may resolve the question in a wonderful puff of smoke, then write it up as an answer, or hold that thought and come back later when the question no longer can be deleted (&gt;1 answers, or an answer with an upvote, or one accepted answer).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers are peer reviewed, edited, upvoted and downvoted, referred to by other answers, and read by many people. The same goes for questions.  Comments, not so much. This means that good answers generally provide more context to the issue in the question as well as a higher quality (in terms of both exposition and of correctness) than what comments do. This is what this site is about: providing good answers to questions related to Unix and Linux, so that the person asking, and others, may benefit and learn something.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that writing an answer instead of a comments is no cure for users deleting their questions (unless the answer is good enough to get an immediate upvote), but it would make it more probable that the question may get enough undeletion votes to be resurrected.  AFAIK, there is no undeletion review queue, but the more &quot;reputable&quot; people frequenting &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;the chat&lt;/a&gt; could possibly help out with this, and a moderator would probably be able to track down the deleted question, &lt;em&gt;especially if you wrote an answer to it that you think was worth rescuing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, no real question here other than &quot;could we write real answers instead of comments, please?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2017-10-04T23:24:23.507" LastActivityDate="2020-10-22T11:06:34.477" Title="Users deleting their questions after receiving answer as comment (stop answering in comments)" Tags="|discussion|comments|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4625" CreationDate="2017-10-05T06:42:47.317" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed to open a Red Hat SE some time ago, but the proposal was not accepted. The reason (which makes sense after all) is that it would be a duplicate of Unix&amp;amp;Linux. So I don't think openSUSE stands better chances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34039" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T06:42:47.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2017-10-05T07:08:23.677" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Resisting the temptation to answer this in a comment... But yes, please, let’s write answers instead of comments (of course the users most likely to answer questions in comments are unlikely to read this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably included in the “peer reviewed” part of your question, I think it’s worth expanding on: comments are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; peer reviewed, and I see lots of wildly incorrect comments which end up getting upvoted somehow with no easy way to react (a response in a long list of comments is pretty much invisible, especially in reaction to an upvoted comment). A good rule of thumb for comments relates to the reasons they can be flagged for deletion (offensive, obsolete, or in need of moderator attention; this doesn’t explicitly include “utterly bonkers”): basically, only write a comment if there’s a clear path to its removal, &lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt;, you’re asking for or providing further information which &lt;strong&gt;will result in an edit&lt;/strong&gt; to the question or answer, and the removal of the comment (either by its author, or by a moderator after someone flags it as obsolete). Note that this also applies to “further information”-style comments; I tend to comment as a suggestion of extra information the author might want to include, in cases where I don’t feel comfortable just editing the question or answer. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/396028/86440&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for a recent example. I think the information is relevant and useful, it’s just not obvious to me how to include it verbatim in the answer without making the answer harder to read.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out by Eliah Kagan in the chatroom, this is all just a re-hash of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help page explaining comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think in general we should all get used to editing questions and answers more, if necessary explaining the “why” in the change description; I certainly found it enlightening the first few times &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22565/st%C3%A9phane-chazelas&quot;&gt;Stéphane&lt;/a&gt; edited one of my answers for me, instead of either commenting on it or adding their own answer. The whole point is to get the right answer to affected users (plural, not just the OP), in the safest way possible, and the most “educating” way possible (without drowning the reader in detail); reputation points and badges don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. (That’s much easier for high-rep users to say obviously, but if you’re active enough on the site to be editing questions, reading Meta and generally thinking of janitorial duties, reputation will follow.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it would also be great if we could review our questions, answers and comments every once in a while, and merge any relevant comments, flag them as obsolete, and delete our own obsolete comments. If you’re afraid deleting your own comment will make the surrounding ones harder to review, don’t be, flag the surrounding comments: moderators can see deleted comments, and they’ll take the whole context into account when reviewing flags (most of the time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2017-10-05T07:30:40.050" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T07:30:40.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2017-10-05T07:41:11.883" Score="28" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you don't have the time to do that, then you don't have the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct. So leaving a comment &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be an acceptable approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mention this because I have been chastised for leaving an &quot;answer&quot; as a comment. There are a couple of reasons why I do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There isn't sufficient detail in the question for me to be sure that my answer will, in fact, address their issue. The comment can both elicit more information and, if my assumption proves correct, prove the basis for  a more detailed response as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is part of an obvious pattern (pretty much anything in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;, for example). Dropping the answer as a comment is unlikely to dissuade the avalanche of answers that will likely follow, and if the question is deleted it is similarly unlikely that the site loses anything of value.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also fundamentally disagree with the premise, that the people &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt;--even if in the comments--are the problem, or even part of it. What you are objecting to is people who selfishly abuse the goodwill of the community with no intention of reciprocating by contributing back to the commons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those of us who &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; contributing should be free to do that, whether it be commenting, editing, reviewing or whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T07:41:11.883" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2017-10-05T10:27:22.703" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, the comments are a valuable part of the ecosystem and of helping users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making comments is a part of the game and the interactive process of interacting with the OP and community at large to define and refine the process of writing a proper answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments also allow for people without time or when mobile at that particular moment to add their opinion or point others in the direction of the answer, and/or as an anchor to come back to a particular question later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proper answers also take a significant investment in time to write, and comments are a way to weed out some of the questions that for varied reasons might not warrant that kind of attention, while still pointing the OP in some direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2017-10-05T10:32:23.083" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T10:32:23.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2017-10-05T12:29:50.670" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add this a comment but....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a general rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a question is worth typing up an answer, then it is likely worth an up vote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I will often up vote a question before I provide an answer.  Don't know that it will slow down deletions, but it can not hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208146" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T12:29:50.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2017-10-08T08:03:36.710" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall agreed.  However, here is a case where it is appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the &quot;answer&quot; is to point out the typo in the code in the question that is causing it not to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be accompanied by a flag &quot;off topic for describing a problem that cannot be reproduced, or which went away when a typo was fixed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this just now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/396785/135943&quot;&gt;Selecting two sets of conditions in awk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T08:03:36.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4635" CreationDate="2017-10-12T09:06:50.470" Score="-2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appear to have a question ban that has persisted for over a year, and has not reset at the six month stage. The majority of my questions have been neutrally or positively received but there are three very slightly naive questions which were downvoted (two very heavily, perhaps even draconianly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it is my understanding that the software resets itself every 6 months it feels as if there must be a bug. None of my downvoted questions were poorly written, badly formatted or in any other way negatively contributing to the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also recently received the 'popular question' award for one of the downvoted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138973" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:37:25.613" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:37:25.613" Title="Question ban persisting based on newbie questions over a year old" Tags="|support|question-quality|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-12T09:34:16.547" Score="-5" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see that more and more questions about this topic are posted on Super User or Unix &amp;amp; Linux. It usually goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Someone bought a used Chromebook online (eBay, Amazon Marketplace, Craigslist, …) but the device is enrolled to the Chromebook for &lt;a href=&quot;https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/devices/#chromebooks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Enterprise&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://edu.google.com/k-12-solutions/chromebooks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Education&lt;/a&gt; environment and cannot be used like a privately owned Chromebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference here is what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183084?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;support page&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;Reset a work or school Chromebook&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're using your Chromebook at work or school, you can't reset it.&#xA;  Ask your administrator to wipe the data on your Chromebook and&#xA;  re-enroll the device on your work or school network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my point of view any modification to these devices is very likely to be illegal (as in computer fraud, sabotage or possession of stolen goods), so such questions should better be closed and a &lt;strong&gt;recommendation&lt;/strong&gt; be given to the OP &lt;strong&gt;to return the device&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that there is a slight chance of sloppy managed enrolled devices being sold online, enrollment though should be removed when the device can be kept after leaving the organization in question—thus weaken the argument of spying on users. No customer should have to deal with this nor should sites like Stack Exchange and other communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of an &lt;strong&gt;employee or student of the respective organization&lt;/strong&gt; being unhappy with the device being enrolled s/he &lt;strong&gt;should contact the respective administrator or contact person&lt;/strong&gt; of the organization instead of asking for hacking advice. A clear distinction between company/organization property and privately owned may also help here understanding why things are as they are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cross-posted to Superuser: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/12697/252532&quot;&gt;https://meta.superuser.com/q/12697/252532&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49853" LastEditorUserId="49853" LastEditDate="2017-10-17T16:09:53.767" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T00:10:08.733" Title="Questions about removing enrollment from Chromebooks" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4633" CreationDate="2017-10-12T14:29:52.503" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The majority of my questions have been neutrally or positively received but there are three very slightly naive questions which were downvoted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You actually have quite a few downvoted questions, they were just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;automatically deleted&lt;/a&gt; by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since it is my understanding that the software resets itself every 6 months it feels as if there must be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where you heard this, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/86998/145982&quot;&gt;question bans never expire&lt;/a&gt;. The recommended solution is to post good answers, as answer upvotes can get your account to a point where the question ban no longer applies. You can also try &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contacting Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and explaining the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-10-12T14:29:52.503" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2017-10-17T03:58:09.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;On other, larger, more antagonistic sites, they are doing this, because downvoted questions can't be deleted even by their owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an evil thing in the StackExchange, they are fighting this evil by deleting their questions while they can. If the question has an upvoted answer, or multiple answers, it can't be deleted even by its owner any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternate solution for the problem is using a secondary account only for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the Unix SE is a friendly site and I can't see the reason, why would it be needed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T03:58:09.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-17T14:08:14.487" Score="-4" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most internet sites have the ability to maintain a personal ignore list. This makes utterances of annoying people invisible for the user feeling annoyed. I like this feature very much, because it simplifies my life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where can I define an ignore list for unix.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7167" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:36:42.707" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:36:42.707" Title="How to ignore annoying users?" Tags="|support|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2017-10-21T23:59:34.550" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Social interaction&lt;/strong&gt; sites have ignore lists. Stack Exchange is not a social interaction site. There is no ignore list on Wikipedia. There is no ignore list on Stack Exchange either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;not nice&lt;/a&gt;, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flag&lt;/a&gt; the offending post or comment to let moderators know. Do not respond in kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange &lt;em&gt;chat&lt;/em&gt; is a social interaction medium and it does have an ignore &#xA;list (click on the user name then on “ignore this user”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T23:59:34.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4634" CreationDate="2017-10-22T00:10:08.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Computer fraud, sabotage? What on earth makes you think that? Buying a second-hand computer is legal! Organizations sell their old hardware, you know. I don't doubt that there are stolen goods on eBay sometimes, but most goods on eBay are perfectly legitimate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, we &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;give people the benefit of doubt&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1278/circumvention-of-security-or-policy&quot;&gt;we do not censor questions based on hypothesized security policies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T00:10:08.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-22T00:46:50.877" Score="107" ViewCount="15833" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's well-known that we have a quality problem in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; tag. Some statistics corroborate this perception (though not to the extent that I'd expected):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16.4% of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; questions have a negative score, compared with 3% for the site as a whole.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;39.6% of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; questions have a score ≤ 0, compared with 27% for the site as a whole.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;21.9% have no answer, compared with 15.8% for the site as a whole.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;21.9% of non-closed question have no answer, compared with 15.6% for the site as a whole.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7% are closed (excluding duplicates), compared with 3.5% for the site as a whole.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2.4% are closed as duplicates, compared with 4.2% for the site as a whole.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't a &lt;em&gt;flood&lt;/em&gt; of Kali questions, mind you. About 1.3% of the recently asked questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; (that's the rate for 2017 as a whole as well as for August and for September, rounded to the nearest 0.1%), excluding deleted questions (can a mod please edit in figures that account for deleted questions?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In chat, several regulars have said that they largely ignore Kali questions. (Personally, I don't ignore the tag, but I tend to skip the questions without reading them.) It seems that many Kali questions are a bad thing for answerers. And I suspect that they're also a bad thing for askers, because all too often, we aren't helping them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do about Kali questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T17:33:24.473" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T17:33:24.473" Title="What should we do about Kali Linux questions?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|kali|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-10-22T00:46:50.877" Score="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've often talked in the chat about having a “reference question” telling people not to use Kali Linux. Well, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;here's my proposal&lt;/a&gt;. Edits welcome, but please keep the gist unless we decide on meta that this isn't the advice we want to give as a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I do not propose systematically closing Kali questions! Each question should be judged on its merit. But &lt;strong&gt;when people are clearly in way over their head&lt;/strong&gt; and they've asked a question with the usual novice problems (unclear because they didn't explain what they were doing, they didn't copy-paste error messages, they didn't provide relevant information about their system, etc.), we could close it as a duplicate of this advice-giving question &lt;em&gt;rather than letting the question rot with zero answers and zero comments or closing it as unclear&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T00:46:50.877" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-10-22T10:46:15.453" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO the flood of questions is not being per se about kali questions; it is just that a large number of questions about kali are badly formed, and most are a rush job from inexperienced users/people with bad work ethics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most are just inexperienced users not wanting to invest time in investigating the OS, and furthermore not wanting to take time writing a proper answer (or often not even wanting to lose time with requests for improving the question). They also seem to have unrealistic expectations wanting/hoping to have the maximum return/investment of time in an answer from elements of our community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also do not quite understand why is it that kali attracts so many users of that kind. Is it a regional thing? Without having access to the country of the OP, we cannot tell. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it also must surely be, is people using it as a framework in security course/hacking tutorials, and not having the tools/background to further customise kali, and then wanting quick answers without investing time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the kali/TP-Link/realtek flood of bad questions could be more of a symptom than a cause. Contrary to other forums, there is very little investment on creating new users/posting questions here, for better or for worse. For instance, I have come across forums where you have a 24h cooling off period when creating a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, a reference question to point when needing to close kali questions for being out of topic seems a brilliant idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2017-10-22T22:45:53.200" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T22:45:53.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-10-22T20:28:04.400" Score="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should we do about Kali questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should treat them just like questions for any other distribution, perhaps with extra warnings in the tag excerpt and wiki. Just a quick reminder that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3602/117549&quot;&gt;we voted to allow Kali questions&lt;/a&gt; as on-topic here (pushed over from Ask Ubuntu), given that they applied the Kali tag. I try to re-tag questions that &quot;forget&quot; to include the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have the occasional &quot;good&quot; (not close-worthy) Kali question; it could receive answers just like any other good question. The fact that the tag is ignored by high-rep users is an unfortunate side effect of the poor Kali questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we (and we do!) get poor questions, then they should be downvoted and/or closed as unclear, just like any other Stack Exchange question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine two categories of poor Kali questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I can't play $GAME on my fourth monitor&quot; -- using Kali for its unintended purposes. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I tried to follow these instructions but it didn't work&quot; -- using Kali for its intended purposes, but leaving out key details.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/399627/117549&quot;&gt;existing answer&lt;/a&gt; as a possible close-target for the first type, although I still feel weird telling someone that the answer to &quot;X&quot; is &quot;don't do X&quot;. A part of me would almost feel better leaving such a question unanswered (despite my desire to provide answers in general), as it's a flag to future askers that perhaps such a thing is not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly the second category deserves the normal VTC as unclear; and if the person comes back with elaboration to the point of being answerable, then I don't think we should close it as &quot;don't do that&quot; a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose what I'm talking myself into here is caution in closing every new Kali question as a duplicate of &quot;don't use Kali&quot;; rather, only questions that are clearly deviating from the &quot;normal&quot; Kali usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also my opinion that we could add some extra verbiage to the tag (in the hopes that anyone reads it) that warns askers that we expect a higher level of expertise to show through in their questions, given that they're using a special purpose-built distribution.  Much of the existing answer could be extended into the tag's wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T20:28:04.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-10-24T02:27:41.697" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Listening to my fellow networking security classmates from years back, when it was still called BackTrack Linux, I can fully understand this phenomenon. It's somewhat anecdotal, but Kali Linux is seen as the &quot;Swiss army knife&quot; of Linux, and if you haven't installed it yet you aren't cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile I had been using Debian for years, and around that time was learning how to use Arch Linux. The types of people interested in it expect it to unlock the powers of jujitsu without any rigor of actually understanding Linux. It was like the secret to becoming a nerd quickly without all the fuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that end it may not be particularly useful to tell such askers not to use Kali.. because they want to (say they) use Kali. We'd be better off making &quot;Kali - Script Kiddies Edition&quot; with a Ubuntu installer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think to some degree this is the nature of this userbase and simply put fewer of those questions will get answered. I do not think there should be any special response to questions that simply aren't researched or well written. Those should be handled like any other question that isn't well written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand there's a special place in my heart for Linux noobs and those newly interested in Linux and I tend to pick up on questions that are simply misinformed rather than poorly written. I do believe that Kali is a vector for getting people interested in Linux as a whole. So that again argues for not telling all these users &quot;your question is irrelevant you were wrong the moment you decided to use Kali Linux.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a three step filter should be applied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question isn't well researched, close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Kali isn't being used for its intended purpose, refer to Gilles&#xA;answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the user is struggling because they are in over their head, then here we need to question the purpose of this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this site is to help all users of Linux and Unix do what &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; want to, then we should just try our best to answer those questions. If we want to be more like teachers or guides then we should point such users away from Kali and toward a more suitable Linux distribution first. The latter might be hard considering that many Kali users use it because of the name alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm new to this site and to Meta. But I figured I'd participate since I have somewhat unique knowledge on the subject.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255491" LastEditorUserId="112566" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T09:04:08.680" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T09:04:08.680" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-24T22:46:07.560" Score="4" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/display-settings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;display-settings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;display-settings&lt;/a&gt; tag is used in a pretty generic way by people who want to change something related to their display, whether it's monitor arrangement, GPU tuning, window manager decorations, etc. As currently used, the tag is too ambiguous to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this tag useful at all? I think we need at least a disambiguation campaign, replacing this tag by a more appropriate one in each case. What tags are likely target of the disambiguation? Should the tag be kept at all, and if so what is it supposed to mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-10-25T19:10:39.993" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T14:11:03.777" Title="Set the display-settings tag in order" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4646" CreationDate="2017-10-27T13:37:49.587" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say it's not much helpful. I cannot imagine there are users who specifically answer to questions about display settings, and avoid answering other questions about displays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is really need of a tag, I would say &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/display&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;display&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;display&lt;/a&gt; is sufficient, since its tag wiki reports it is about (among other thing) &lt;em&gt;the display(s) attached to a unix or linux machine&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1114" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T13:37:49.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4650" CreationDate="2017-11-01T05:58:28.040" Score="12" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone complained to me recently that my answer was too difficult to implement. I was very conscious when putting together my answer of giving it in general terms as opposed to being super specific. The instructions were step by step, and should not be too difficult to understand, even with only a bit of experience. I could write out the entire script for them (and I've seen this done before) but then how specific should I be about it? Should I write it just for their system? This will make the answer less general, and less useful for people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/401526/116911&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/401526/116911&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116911" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:36:20.333" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:36:20.333" Title="How far should I go when answering?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4648" CreationDate="2017-11-01T14:44:29.717" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen the link, I'm not sure there is anything here that requires fixing. The answer looks reasonable - it gives a general sketch of an approach to solve a problem. You certainly shouldn't feel compelled to fill in routine details. And I don't see where the poster complained to you. If you mean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks, however, this seems like alot of nontrivial programming that would take a while to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that could be described as much a comment as a complaint, and it doesn't seem the poster is expecting you do anything more than you have. She has certainly made no explicit statement to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2017-11-01T14:44:29.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4648" CreationDate="2017-11-02T02:44:39.440" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a big question, and so I think it's a little unreasonable to expect a pile of working code in an Answer.  The Question would like an iptables-based answer, but does say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If this can't be done at the iptables level, is there some way to do it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer?&lt;/a&gt; -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any answer that gets the asker going in the right direction is helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- I think you've done that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you go further? Sure! Limiting access to websites is a reasonably common goal, and it seems to me that your approach could easily be modified for other people's specific situations, even if you picked some arbitrary hosts to use as examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T02:44:39.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4150" CreationDate="2017-11-02T21:20:15.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple: &lt;strong&gt;poach them with no mercy!&lt;/strong&gt; I am going to make it my business to poach each and every question I find that has been answered in the comments. If the commenter doesn't like it, tough - they should have posted a proper answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(seriously, this is one of my pet hates on SE ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="257802" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T21:20:15.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-06T22:03:34.313" Score="-3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;As You know, there is everlasting question (especially from beginners): &quot;what is best (GNU/Linux) distribution?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those threads are always closed as opinion based and beginners are left on their own or to blindly trust random people's opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering, if is it possible to group by some set of criterion, that are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;helpful (especially for beginners) when choosing distribution for self&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;based on facts (so no one can call them opinion-based)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to compose such criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes - what are those criteria?&#xA;If no - why is it impossible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we solve this problem once and for all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160959" OwnerDisplayName="spam" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:26:54.183" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:26:54.183" Title="How can we compare distributions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4654" CreationDate="2017-11-07T12:49:33.863" Score="8" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the difference between &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/policykit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;policykit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;policykit&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/polkit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;polkit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;polkit&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user192526" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-06-18T18:47:12.303" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T18:47:12.303" Title="Are polkit and policykit tags not the same?" Tags="|discussion|support|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4653" CreationDate="2017-11-07T15:11:38.640" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You’re right that they’re they same. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Polkit Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since version 0.105, released in 2015 the name of the project was changed&#xA;  from &lt;em&gt;PolicyKit&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;polkit&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the tag wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/policykit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;policykit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;policykit&lt;/a&gt; is a copy of the first line of the above Wikipedia article,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide&#xA;  privileges in Unix-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t have enough (any) reputation in these tags to suggest a synonym but I’d recommend that a moderator or high rep user change &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/policykit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;policykit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;policykit&lt;/a&gt; to be a synonym for the newer name, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/polkit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;polkit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;polkit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T15:11:38.640" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-07T18:16:38.097" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/403135/df-shows-100-used-but-logs-keep-getting-written&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, and was given an answer almost immediately. Initially the answer didn't seem to solve my problem, and I couldn't get much clarification on the answer, so I gave it a down vote. Not that it wasn't the answer I needed, but that I couldn't get the details from the answer that I needed at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward 5-10 minutes later, and after doing more observation it was apparent that the answer, though not very descriptive, was in fact the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, since it's been more than x-minutes, while I can go back and mark the answer as &lt;em&gt;Correct&lt;/em&gt;, I can't actually change my down vote to an up vote; my prior vote is locked in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Should we allow users to change their vote on answers they mark as correct?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79419" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T10:38:37.123" Title="Should we be allowed to change our vote on an answer, if we ultimately go back and mark it as &quot;the&quot; answer?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|up-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4655" CreationDate="2017-11-08T02:06:37.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced that it'd be a useful change. I would encourage you to be careful with your voting. You might get lucky with other answers or answerers, as they might edit their question in response to comments or voting; but if they don't, your vote is locked in, as you saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best suggestion would be to leave a comment on the Answer saying that you mistakenly down-voted the answer and would like to reverse your vote, but that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5213/307535&quot;&gt;requires an edit to the question&lt;/a&gt;. You could suggest an edit that would improve your understanding of the answer, if there is one. If the answerer declines, or the suggested edit is not approved, then you are simply stuck with the down-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T02:06:37.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4659" CreationDate="2017-11-08T10:05:41.537" Score="7" ViewCount="969" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I asked the reviewer who originally posted the duplicate link why he was duping &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/403253/apt-get-command-not-found-in-kali-linu&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, he referred me to this Meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4640/what-should-we-do-about-kali-linux-questions&quot;&gt;What should we do about Kali Linux questions?&lt;/a&gt;. In the top-upvoted answer it says &quot;I do not propose systematically closing Kali questions!&quot;. Although the question has an accepted answer, it was marked as a duplicate of a question that is not specific to the question that was asked, and then it was (incorrectly??) closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38285" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T17:33:19.003" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T17:33:19.003" Title="Systematically closing Kali questions" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|reopen-closed|kali|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4655" CreationDate="2017-11-08T10:38:37.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’d agree with Jeff’s answer about being cautious when voting and I imagine that’s the intention of this Stack Exchange feature (locking in votes unless a question is edited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first started using Stack Exchange sites, I had a similar problem: I’d upvote an answer that looked like it was correct but after implementing the suggestions/code and realising that it did not solve the problem, it would be too late to change my vote. This can be particularly annoying if there are correct/useful answers with the same amount of (or less) upvotes. In such situations, I’d normally leave a comment to help future users – and to encourage the poster to edit their answer to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is a good one (so upvoted) and I can see how you wouldn’t have found Ignacio’s answer to be particularly useful. Personally, I reserve downvotes for answers that are positively unhelpful, misleading or factually inaccurate. If an answer lacks enough detail to be useful, I tend to leave it be (neither upvote nor downvote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T10:38:37.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4657" CreationDate="2017-11-08T14:01:57.133" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;No, I agree that one shouldn't have been closed. This is a surprising change since &lt;code&gt;apt-get&lt;/code&gt; has been the standard for many years and even experienced users might have been blindsided by it.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had completely misunderstood the situation. I thought that Debian and, by extension Kali, no longer used &lt;code&gt;apt-get&lt;/code&gt; and only shipped with &lt;code&gt;apt&lt;/code&gt;. I thought this was a new change and, therefore, would indeed surprise many users. As was &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/41022644#41022644&quot;&gt;explained to me in chat&lt;/a&gt; that's nonsense, &lt;code&gt;apt-get&lt;/code&gt; is part of the &lt;code&gt;apt&lt;/code&gt; package and the only way to have one without the other is via some sort of PEBKAC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, while I can understand closing that question as non-reproducible or too broad or unclear (as some of the close voters had indeed chosen to do), I don't think that one was a valid duplicate of the broad &quot;Kali is not for newbs&quot; question since it was a specific problem and actually answerable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I have reopened the question and would like to take this opportunity to ask the community not to automatically close in favor of the &quot;Kali is hard&quot; question. We should only use that as a dupe target when the issue is obviously that the OP is new to Linux and really shouldn't be using Kali &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; they are new to Linux.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-11-08T15:55:48.953" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T15:55:48.953" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-08T18:10:20.193" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if there are guidelines for being considerate while responding to mental health or similar appearing issues...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically because I saw a 600+ word answer which was very confused.  E.g. bringing up a complex, uncited problem on a pretty different system as an example, arguing that the fairly common issue in the question, was not actually caused by what the asker had thought.  IMO 1) the answer was not relevant, 2) the user was affected by a mental health problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer was rendered just under the accepted answer.  It had one upvote (dunno why).  However it was sorted above two answers with 10 and 4 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was somewhat frustrating.  If for some reason a bad answer is going to be &quot;unfairly&quot; favoured above more useful, higher ranked ones, the question would be improved by deleting it, downvoting to oblivion, or whatever.  The posting did not fit SE's aims IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my asking, &lt;a href=&quot;https://metatalk.metafilter.com/22004/yey-him-yey-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; came to mind.  But I guess there's no point hoping a discussion like that could work half as well over here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the best option I think I have (if I decide to do anything), is &quot;flag it and move on&quot;.  I.e. get attention from moderators, suggesting the answer be deleted.  Then a quorum can potentially leave feedback, make a decision, and act if appropriate.  It might help avoid aggravating posters over a longer period - rather than downvoting with a comment to explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a good response?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2017-11-09T14:41:14.103" LastActivityDate="2017-11-09T15:31:15.010" Title="Mental health considerations?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4660" CreationDate="2017-11-09T13:31:19.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, flag (or downvote) and move on is the right thing to do. We are neither equipt nor qualified to deal with users' mental health issues. Nor is diagnosing people over the internet ethical even if we were. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the only thing we can do is protect the site. If a post is nonsense, flag it as such, no matter what you feel might be the reason it is nonsense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you honestly fear the OP may be suicidal, there is a nice post on the main meta with some suggestions of services you can direct them to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/243700/203101&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the official SE response to serious mentions of suicide or self-harm in posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that, there really isn't anything we can do, so treat nonsense as nonsense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-11-09T15:31:15.010" LastActivityDate="2017-11-09T15:31:15.010" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-09T17:11:08.810" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right after asking this question I &quot;realized&quot; that the problem was the exact same as another I'd faced before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I marked as duplicate and then tried outputting into a &lt;code&gt;/tmp&lt;/code&gt; file instead of the source I was using &lt;code&gt;cat&lt;/code&gt; on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I made the change I found that I was still getting the original error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cat my.json | jq -S &amp;gt; my.json&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now trying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cat my.json | jq -S &amp;gt; /tmp/my.json&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still get the same error. Should I open a new question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/403563/problem-with-cat-my-json-jq-s-my-json&quot;&gt;Problem with `cat my.json | jq -S &amp;gt; my.json`&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16792" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:20:43.963" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:20:43.963" Title="Closed too early" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4662" CreationDate="2017-11-09T17:20:56.840" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reopened your question, you can just edit it to say that you tried the solution mentioned in the other question but it didn't solve your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-11-09T17:20:56.840" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-10T04:17:40.830" Score="13" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Background:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently when reviewing in the close vote queue, I came across a post that I was pretty sure I had seen some weeks prior.  So after a bit of investigation I determined that I had in fact seen the post before.  What I found was that the post had been removed from the close vote queue by a 1 character edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When reviewing in the close queue, editing a post will remove the post from the queue. This is because the post was presumably improved, and no longer needs to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, multiple leave-open votes are required to remove a post from the queue.  But armed with the knowledge of how the system works, it is possible to unilaterally remove the post from the queue with something as small as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151414/does-using-edit-in-the-close-review-queue-count-as-a-do-not-close-vote/151443#151443&quot;&gt;1 character edit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is performing a trivial edit to remove a post from the review queue considered &amp;quot;fair game&amp;quot;, or is this behavior frowned upon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T11:46:31.427" Title="Trivial edits to remove posts from the close queue?" Tags="|discussion|editing|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4664" CreationDate="2017-11-10T11:46:31.427" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Personal thoughts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only yesterday, I discovered similar behaviour after &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/217192&quot;&gt;I edited an answer&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/em&gt; queue. At first, I was surprised to find that the review was immediately marked as &lt;em&gt;completed&lt;/em&gt;. I would have expected it to remain in the queue and to be subsequently judged on its newer merits. After further consideration, I figured this behaviour makes sense as the primary function of the &lt;em&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/em&gt; is to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Identify, then &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; or delete low-quality posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don’t think this behaviour make sense in the Close Votes queue. It doesn’t seem useful that editing a post acts like a super-&lt;em&gt;Leave Open&lt;/em&gt; vote that over-rules all the previous votes to close and immediately de-queues the question. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151414/does-using-edit-in-the-close-review-queue-count-as-a-do-not-close-vote/151443#151443&quot;&gt;linked Stack Exchange Meta answer&lt;/a&gt; seems to imply that previously cast Close votes stay in place if the question is subsequently re-nominated for closure (so the situation is not so bad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mention, this behaviour is likely based on the assumption that an edit sufficiently improves the quality of the post so that it no longer needs to be closed. In my experience, a substantial number of question edits &lt;em&gt;don’t&lt;/em&gt; improve the quality enough to resolve the reason(s) for the close vote(s). Having said that, I’ve found that the quality of the edits on this site to be far better than on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I’d consider it an abuse of the system to game it by making trivial edits for the purpose of removing questions from the &lt;em&gt;Close Votes&lt;/em&gt; queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T11:46:31.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-15T09:16:37.020" Score="2" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/404382/linux-output-into-table&quot;&gt;Linux Output Into Table&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a desktop display it's quite clear that there are two &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; tables. The first has one column and the second has two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using my mobile device (Firefox and Chrome) I see both tables as single lines of code. Initially the question didn't make sense, and it wasn't until I saw an answer referencing the supposed tables that I realised it was a display issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mobile&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IG7C9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IG7C9.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mobile presentation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desktop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qk7Q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qk7Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;Desktop presentation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that the question owner has used a multi-line backtick construct rather than four-character indentation. But this seems to be a fairly common occurrence (where new users even attempt to format code).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the display formatting be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:20:06.680" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:20:06.680" Title="Desktop vs Mobile layout for `code`" Tags="|bug|design|mobile|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4669" CreationDate="2017-11-15T09:22:45.240" Score="0" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Markdown help text says that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#images&quot;&gt;it's possible to embed images&lt;/a&gt; using an HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;...&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; construct. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;definitive guide&lt;/a&gt; (search for &lt;code&gt;img&lt;/code&gt;) also seems imply that percentages are permitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't work for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an embedded image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;↑ Or rather, it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the instruction: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZ.png&quot; width=&quot;20%&quot; height=&quot;20%&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T09:29:00.643" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T11:32:15.053" Title="Markdown images using html img src" Tags="|bug|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4668" CreationDate="2017-11-15T11:19:50.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a high resolution screenshot from my mobile phone and I wanted to constrain the rendered view to 30% while leaving the image intact in case someone needed the detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;code&gt;height&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;width&lt;/code&gt; are the wrong way to go about it, since the user still has to download the large image anyway. What you should use is imgur's built-in thumbnailing facilities. For a given image &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZ.png&lt;/code&gt;, you can get thumbnails of various sizes by tacking on an &lt;code&gt;l&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; before the extension:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZl.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZl.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZm.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZm.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZs.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZs.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you can set a link on the image to the original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZ.png)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lP6tZm.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/277913/270345&quot;&gt;one of my Meta SE posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of possible options, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://thomas.vanhoutte.be/miniblog/imgur-thumbnail-trick/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;s = Small Square (90×90)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;b = Big Square (160×160)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t = Small Thumbnail (160×160)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;m = Medium Thumbnail (320×320)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;l = Large Thumbnail (640×640)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;h = Huge Thumbnail (1024×1024)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T11:32:15.053" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T11:32:15.053" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-15T12:30:02.060" Score="8" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4669/100397&quot;&gt;this answer to another meta question&lt;/a&gt; I have been told about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thomas.vanhoutte.be/miniblog/imgur-thumbnail-trick/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thumbnailing features&lt;/a&gt; available within Imgur. I for one had no idea that these features were even available, and hadn't even considered to look for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Imgur is the default route for enabling users to upload images to questions and answers, could we please have an explanation section linked from either the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#images&quot;&gt;Meta help text for images&lt;/a&gt; or even from the Drag'n'Drop popup that appears when someone clicks on the « [insert image » edit button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T23:39:56.503" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:39:56.503" Title="Knowing about Imgur's thumbnailing abilities" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|help-center|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-15T19:43:35.787" Score="1" ViewCount="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/404824/missing-a-driver-for-a-smb-accessed-printer&quot;&gt;Missing a driver for a SMB-accessed Brother printer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but on second thought - would it be better to ask it on superuser.com or on askubuntu.com ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34868" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:19:29.387" Title="Where should I ask my printer-installation question?" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-16T04:00:52.043" Score="9" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/kde5/info&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;kde5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/plasma5/info&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;plasma5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; mean the same thing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As explained by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags/kde-plasma-5/info&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; equivalent, Plasma 5 is the fifth iteration of KDE's desktop environment (&lt;code&gt;kde5&lt;/code&gt;, on its own, makes no sense).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For this reason I'm in favour of migrating/burninating &lt;code&gt;kde5&lt;/code&gt; to be replaced with &lt;code&gt;plasma5&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, many people don't realise their environment is called &quot;plasma&quot;, someone asking a question may begin to type in &quot;kde&quot; as a tag; it won't auto-suggest &lt;code&gt;plasma5&lt;/code&gt; for them (as &lt;code&gt;kde5&lt;/code&gt; would be).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I solved this on SU by naming the tag &lt;code&gt;kde-plasma-5&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all questions I looked at under either of these tags were tagged with the other also.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Whether we move both, keep plasma, or keep kde, they do need to be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="258056" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T04:00:52.043" Title="Merge [kde5] &amp; [plasma5]" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|retag-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-16T14:14:38.783" Score="16" ViewCount="431" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where on Stack Exchange should Debian specific questions be raised?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two possibilities are here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux, and on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing there isn't an equivalent of AskUbuntu for other Linux flavours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="200231" OwnerDisplayName="Michael Firth" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-11-16T14:40:40.147" LastActivityDate="2017-11-21T16:54:36.637" Title="Which is the best StackExchange site for Debian related questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4673" CreationDate="2017-11-16T14:20:05.097" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we only consider &lt;em&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt;, the best venue for Debian questions is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There aren’t many distribution-specific Stack Exchange sites; I’m only aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;elementary OS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" OwnerDisplayName="Stephen Kitt" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2017-11-20T10:46:37.387" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T10:46:37.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4673" CreationDate="2017-11-16T18:09:04.963" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask outside Stack Exchange there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianResources&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;many other places&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8779" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2017-11-16T18:23:44.117" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T18:23:44.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-19T16:40:05.567" Score="-1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/400905/open-vpn-calling-a-script-unrecognized-option-af-inet&quot;&gt;Open VPN calling a script: Unrecognized option: [AF_INET]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is technically a duplicate of this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/401329/curl-not-receiving-json-in-open-vpn/401597#401597&quot;&gt;curl not receiving JSON in open vpn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Albeit slightly reworded, the question is &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also asked here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&amp;amp;t=25114&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&amp;amp;t=25114&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My ANSWER to the the FIRST Link here has been unreasonably deleted by a moderator.  If the same Question is asked (even if it is reworded) then the same CORRECT Answer applies.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to delete a &lt;strong&gt;duplicate Question&lt;/strong&gt; then please do, but &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; do not delete a &lt;strong&gt;Correct Answer&lt;/strong&gt; to that duplicate Question.  Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Is it &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; necessary to down vote a legitimate question ?&#xA;(Especially when your own support documentation recommended I ask this question on meta-*)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record; I find Stack-Exchange to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;unreasonably heavy handed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; when it comes to dealing with users that don't spend there entire life on one website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have spent time reading the support documentation and have also provided answers to questions and put time and effort into doing things right.  And yet at every possible turn somebody here gets some twisted pleasure out of putting new users down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want my question up voted .. but there is absolutely &lt;em&gt;no positive return&lt;/em&gt; to down voting it just because you want to .. the dictionary would define such actions as &quot;spiteful&quot; ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139265" LastEditorUserId="139265" LastEditDate="2017-11-20T17:58:11.847" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T17:58:11.847" Title="Duplicate answer to duplicate question deleted - Have improved answer - please reconsider" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4678" CreationDate="2017-11-19T18:10:19.770" Score="2" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now I am not trying to say &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/404974/hibernation-randomly-fails-with-black-screen/404984&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; is not too broad to get it unheld, but I am asking what really what makes it too broad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, the question gives some information a Linux expert would need, and gives the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; details of how the issue occurs, and eventually asks how to debug the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done a lot of Googling, made a lot of testing, and checked a lot of logs, and I yielded nothing. I can't possibly know what causes the problem in order to try to solve it, &lt;strong&gt;I am asking how to debug that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that really too broad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204568" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-11-19T18:16:39.993" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T23:21:10.487" Title="In what way my question is actually too broad" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4677" CreationDate="2017-11-19T18:28:42.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the close voters on your question.  Let me respond to a few of the things you have said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am asking how to debug that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word debug does not appear in your question.  In fact there is no question in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...gives the exact details of how the issue occurs...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a list of symptoms that indicate a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; flaky system, I see no way these could be described as &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is that really too broad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way is it &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; too broad?  The broad list of symptoms, combined with no list what-so-ever of HW being used, nor any logs, journal entries or anything that could be constructively used for diagnosis means that I see no way someone could give you an answer on how to fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208146" LastEditorUserId="208146" LastEditDate="2017-11-20T02:42:20.717" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T02:42:20.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4677" CreationDate="2017-11-19T19:27:55.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no specific &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; in your question. It might be interpreted as &quot;&lt;em&gt;How do I fix my problem&lt;/em&gt;&quot; type of question, for which it is too broad as Stephen Rauch explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I voted &quot;&lt;em&gt;unclear what you are asking&lt;/em&gt;&quot; reason but, unless I am mistaken, the close reason only lists the reason with most votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the question to be re-opened, edit the question to include a (specific enough) question. Avoid asking multiple questions at once, you can always ask separate follow-up questions if you need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239817" LastActivityDate="2017-11-19T19:27:55.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4676" CreationDate="2017-11-20T09:47:27.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer was deleted because it was exactly the same as the answer you'd already given elsewhere. We try to avoid repeating information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have since edited the answer so that it isn't the same and adds more information. That's great, and I have undeleted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In future, if you find examples like this, flag the question as a duplicate instead of posting identical answers. The system detects 100% identical answers and automatically flags them for moderator attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T09:47:27.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4677" CreationDate="2017-11-20T23:21:10.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to what Stephen Rauch and jasonwryan already said,&#xA;“Too broad” is the close reason we use when we mean,&#xA;“There are so many things that could possibly have happened,&#xA;it’s infeasible to debug this remotely;&#xA;we’d need to read you a book on troubleshooting. &#xA;If you can’t solve the problem with hands-on access,&#xA;you should consider taking it to a professional.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T23:21:10.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-21T15:17:44.290" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens when you edit a duplicate question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/406036/echo-into-a-file-while-maintaining-escaped-spaces&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; marked duplicate but the linked answer doesn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited my question and title, to try make what I'm asking more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens now will my question go into a queue to be checked again or does something only happen if someone looks by chance and decides to unmark it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16792" LastEditorUserId="22812" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T16:57:11.003" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T16:57:11.003" Title="What happens when duplicate question is edited?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4682" CreationDate="2017-11-21T15:33:29.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the circumstances. In this case, you edited the question within 5 days of it being closed, which pushes it into the reopen review queue (you can see it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/218869&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Since it's your question, you should also be able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;vote to reopen it&lt;/a&gt;, which would also cause it to show up in the review queue if it weren't already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-11-21T15:33:29.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4673" CreationDate="2017-11-21T16:54:36.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;AskUbuntu&lt;/a&gt; is good for anything that is from the perspective of using Ubuntu as a GUI based desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my question relates to command line or is something general across linux distros I will use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;the Unix site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16792" LastActivityDate="2017-11-21T16:54:36.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-11-22T16:28:15.307" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The underlying premise of most objections to Kali questions seems to be that a user should (or must) &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; become adept at coping with bootup troubles from balky graphics cards on a stripped-down Debian, (&lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; Kali Linux), &#xA; &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; they can use this dangerous power tool or maybe they'll break the internet because they can't even set up a graphics card. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hardware graphics and computer networks are separate specialties that employ different skillsets:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A user who's bad at hardware graphics might have a knack for for networking, and might help &lt;em&gt;fix&lt;/em&gt; the internet even though they can't set up a graphics card.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A user skilled at setting up hardware graphics might have no talent for networking, and might be botching things left and right -- &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; playing the role of gatekeeper to boot, locking out people who might be able to help them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165517" LastEditorUserId="165517" LastEditDate="2018-06-17T16:16:03.827" LastActivityDate="2018-06-17T16:16:03.827" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4688" CreationDate="2017-11-22T23:17:50.377" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405351/what-is-the-difference-between-ubuntu-mate-and-linux-mint-mate&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, it was put on hold and asked me to reword the question. I did as such but my question has not reopened. How can I tell if it has already been reviewed and still considered off-topic? Should I delete the question in that case or should I continue to edit it further?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255531" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T04:23:03.443" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T04:23:03.443" Title="How can I tell if my question has been reviewed and left closed?" Tags="|support|specific-question|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4687" CreationDate="2017-11-23T02:45:07.497" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The timeline of the question will include completed review events. You can visit the timeline by noting the question id and going to &lt;code&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/timeline&lt;/code&gt;. The id is the number after &lt;code&gt;questions&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;q&lt;/code&gt; in the URL of the post, so here it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/405351/timeline&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/405351/timeline&lt;/a&gt;, and the review you're looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/218725&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/218725&lt;/a&gt;. Two voted to reopen, the rest to leave closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd have voted to leave closed because I think distro recommendations are offtopic here and asking for CPU/RAM benchmarks is just distro recommendation in another form. The other two could possibly be answered by inspecting &lt;a href=&quot;https://packages.ubuntu.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://packages.ubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.linuxmint.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://packages.linuxmint.com&lt;/a&gt;, but having multiple questions in one make it too broad (you're asking to compare the OOB multimedia experience, which could plausibly be answered by the list of codecs installed, and the presence of ad/spyware, which is totally unrelated to the former).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T02:51:21.273" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T02:51:21.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2017-11-23T17:47:51.990" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stand ready to be flamed for this but here goes........&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all I need to say I agree with @Gilles post &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4640/what-should-we-do-about-kali-linux-questions&quot;&gt;Why is Kali....etc&lt;/a&gt; but I think something is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems true that many of the 'poor quality' Kali questions come from new Linux users who are quite simply out of their depth. They've seen a cool movie or something about 'hacking' and think its as simple as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Install Kali,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type &lt;code&gt;msfconsole&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take over the world.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naive to say the least, but the thing that I get from this is that new (or current Windows) users have been &lt;strong&gt;motivated to try Linux by the apparent potential of the tools bundled with Kali&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I get from some of the (on occasion slightly toxic) reactions I see posted to admittedly poor Kali questions, is that these &lt;strong&gt;potential Linux users are going turn away&lt;/strong&gt; because of a frosty reception and drift back to the Windows herd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mooooooo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these people came to &lt;strong&gt;Linux&lt;/strong&gt; because one of &lt;strong&gt;our&lt;/strong&gt; distros has been made more 'glamorous' by virtue of the potential of the tools it contains then shouldn't &lt;strong&gt;we&lt;/strong&gt; use that to draw them in to our loving community for keeps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth my version of @Gilles post would be short, sweet and  along these lines......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you are inexperienced with Linux and are installing Kali in order to use the tools it contains then you may find it a complex and difficult task with little support for inexperienced users among the relatively small (and mostly professional) Kali user base.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If this applies to you then you will find it easier to install another Debian distribution (such as Ubuntu) and then follow the existing posts, tutorials and queries on the appropriate forums (again, such as Ask Ubuntu) which will help you install and learn to use the main Kali tools (airmon, jtr, crunch, hashcat, nmap/zenmap, metasploit, armitage etc) in an easier to use environment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once you have gained experience in using Linux then you will be in a better position to perform a full Kali install, if you need to.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put them back in their depth, in a place they will find the help they need &lt;strong&gt;but keep the motivation alive&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact of the matter is that &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; of these users will find that using Kali tools to 'hack' is not as easy as they think and will very quickly tire of trying to brute force a 16 random character WPA2 hash to get onto the neighbours' wi-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; give up, old Mr &amp;amp; Mrs Jones next door will be safe again; the NSA can move their van from the street outside; dreams of a server with the new Silk Road site in the spare room have evaporated in the cold light of day; but they will be left with a functional Linux system and opt to stay with &lt;strong&gt;us&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I would like to do with &lt;strong&gt;the people who ask&lt;/strong&gt; poor quality Kali questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217629" LastEditorUserId="217629" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T03:59:16.590" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T03:59:16.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4671" CreationDate="2017-11-24T23:19:29.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is on-topic here, there's no doubt about it. It would also be on-topic on Ask Ubuntu and on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question requires knowledge about a specific piece of hardware, and it's always hard to find someone who has experience of that specific model. But maybe someone can advise on SMB printers in general, or on Brother printers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a way to use the Windows machine as a printer server, people on SU are more likely to know it, since SU has Windows expertise. I'd guess that your chances of getting an answer that doesn't involve knowledge of the Windows server are about the same on AU and on U&amp;amp;L, and lower on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:19:29.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4652" CreationDate="2017-11-24T23:26:33.333" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;“What is the best distribution?” is too broad. There isn't a single best distribution. You are not going to solve this problem once and for all. We have a whole &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/distribution-choice&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; about the topic, it can't be contained in a single question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be a best distribution &lt;em&gt;for a specific use case&lt;/em&gt;. I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336/what-is-required-for-a-question-to-contain-enough-information&quot;&gt;my guidelines about asking for software recommendations&lt;/a&gt;. I've rarely seen a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/distribution-choice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;distribution-choice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;distribution-choice&lt;/a&gt; question, but it's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Beginner” is not a specific use case. What are you going to do with your computer? What are you already familiar with? What do other people around you use? These are important questions and people have very different answers to those, beginner or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:26:33.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4194" CreationDate="2017-11-24T23:35:31.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Linux is the name of a kernel, isn't it?&quot;, new users could think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, because new users think that Linux is an operating system. Only a very few people who already know about the topic are aware that there's a kernel called Linux. And even if someone did know about the Linux kernel, the sentence is explicitly about &lt;em&gt;operating systems&lt;/em&gt;, therefore there is no risk of ambiguity: the word “Linux” in this sentence refers to the operating system. Likewise, “FreeBSD” is both an operating system and a kernel, and in this sentence, the word refers to the operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no confusion here, only a pretense at confusion by people with a political agenda. I'm not unsympathetic to this political agenda, but the time for it was the 1990s. Hurd wasn't available when people wanted a kernel, so Linux won, and Linux it is. Pick your battles. People shrink away from extremists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are perfectly free to use the term “GNU/X11/Apache/Linux/TeX/Perl/Python/FreeCiv” in your answers, but I don't recommend it — that &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; confuse the people who aren't in the know. You are not free to impose your terminology on the 99% of people who don't use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:35:31.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4616" CreationDate="2017-11-24T23:55:47.543" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please go for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically such questions asking for an overview of a topic are mostly useful to serve as references in other answers. If you find yourself explaining the same general principles over and over again, it's convenient to have a reference answer with generic explanations. Then, when someone asks a general question “what is X?”, you can close it as a duplicate of “what is X?”. But most often, people have a specific question “how to I do A”, and you want to answer “use X” — and with the reference answer, you can explain how to apply X in a couple of lines, and refer to the generic “what is X” answer for the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such reference answers are not useful when there is already a Wikipedia article about X. They're useful for more detailed technical topics where you need to go beyond what an encyclopedia has to offer. For example, “what is SELinux” would not be a useful question for this site. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/392833/configure-selinux-to-allow-daemons-to-use-files-in-non-default-locations&quot;&gt;Configure SELinux to allow daemons to use files in non-default locations&lt;/a&gt; is: it's a common problem, and it can both serve as a duplicate of similar question, and as a link to use in answers of the form “your permission problem is caused by SELinux, as explained in [link] you need to allow the foobar daemon to access &lt;code&gt;/somewhere&lt;/code&gt;, run the following command: …”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've written quite a few questions of this type, so I'll show a few examples of mine to serve as examples of what a canonical Q&amp;amp;A can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198590/what-is-a-bind-mount&quot;&gt;What is a bind mount?&lt;/a&gt; — because I found myself explaining what a bind mount is over and over again, and there's no Wikipedia article. (Arguably I should write one, but that would require finding references. And a Wikipedia article would explain the concept, but not how to make it work, which my answer also covers.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters&quot;&gt;Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?&lt;/a&gt; — because it's an extremely common question in one form or another. Sometimes that question is good enough as a duplicate, sometimes there are other problems in the script in the question and the generic question is useful to be able to just write “&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters&quot;&gt;you need double quotes around variable substitutions&lt;/a&gt;” without having to explain what that means and why it's necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116629/how-do-keyboard-input-and-text-output-work&quot;&gt;How do keyboard input and text output work?&lt;/a&gt; — useful as background for explanations when people ask about a concrete problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12956/how-do-i-run-32-bit-programs-on-a-64-bit-debian-ubuntu&quot;&gt;How do I run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt; — I actually wrote that one because I'd needed to do that specific thing, but over the years I've cited it many times when people wanted to run a distribution on top of another.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T23:55:47.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-27T16:10:02.580" Score="5" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxd&lt;/a&gt; seem to be partially overlapping tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while LXC is the acronym for LinuX Containers and names the project as well as the software, there are now three major versions of LXC: 1.x through 3.x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The LXC &gt;=2.x versions are often referred to as LXD (after the &lt;code&gt;lxd&lt;/code&gt; daemon). However, &lt;code&gt;lxd&lt;/code&gt; (the daemon) and &lt;code&gt;lxc&lt;/code&gt; the LXD command line client are two different entities. Yet both belong into the category LXC 2.x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the old LXC 1.x version there was no program called &lt;code&gt;lxc&lt;/code&gt;, instead all the tools were prefixed with &lt;code&gt;lxc-&lt;/code&gt;, such as for example &lt;code&gt;lxc-create&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;lxc-ls&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think we should either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clarify what these tags stand for in particular (e.g. does &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxd&lt;/a&gt; refer to LXC &gt;=2.x in general, &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; its &lt;code&gt;lxc&lt;/code&gt; command line client?), or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;migrate existing LXC 1.x questions to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxc-1.x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxc-1.x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxc-1.x&lt;/a&gt; which would have to be created (and possibly do something similar with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxc-2.x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxc-2.x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxc-2.x&lt;/a&gt;), or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some other means to clarify the intent when using either tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxd&lt;/a&gt;), i.e. your idea here ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, when I want to refer to &quot;client-side&quot; questions (i.e. using the &lt;code&gt;lxc&lt;/code&gt; command line client) about LXD, I was using both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lxd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lxd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lxd&lt;/a&gt;. But I figure it makes more sense to reach some consensus within the community rather than making my own rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5462" LastEditorUserId="5462" LastEditDate="2018-05-14T09:08:53.037" LastActivityDate="2018-05-14T09:08:53.037" Title="tag:lxc and tag:lxd ... clarification required" Tags="|discussion|retag-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4696" CreationDate="2017-11-30T17:50:13.943" Score="65" ViewCount="1216" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/406412/revisions&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; to an answer. I feel the edit is a clear improvement in terms of spelling and format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user sent me an angry email and rolled back the edit.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qUagC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qUagC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was funny, so I made the edit again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does a user have a right to not format and use incorrect spelling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16792" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T23:50:27.503" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T16:44:15.277" Title="User insulted by editing their answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2017-11-30T18:04:38.200" Score="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Every so often we have a new user who thinks they maintain total control over the content they post, but the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is pretty clear about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Editing is important for keeping questions and answers clear, relevant, and up-to-date. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your contributions being collaboratively edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T18:04:38.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2017-11-30T18:47:31.057" Score="-39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing is important for keeping questions and answers clear, relevant, and up-to-date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer was clean, relevant and up to date. There is no need to change nothing if you are not adding useful info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate you correct me if I write bad words, or I can explain better because my english is too bad and I need a correction most of the time { I will learn more with this}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you just added formating while is no need to do because my answer is very readable and the user can see the info he needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are to correct and improve. The user will have no sense between your edits and my original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like your arrogance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought it was funny so I made the edit again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You said two times this site is not for me just because I don't wanna let you do useless things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text is short and readable. It needs CSS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why instead of add formatting aren't you including more info or looking for other texts which really needs your help, and I'm not talking about formatting, I mean wrong words, or explain better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You prefer block my post and don't let me edit it in future time, and let my answer with your changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't have the right to do that because you are acting with arrogance {both}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user261897" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2017-12-01T02:04:57.767" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T02:04:57.767" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-02T19:46:26.867" Score="1" ViewCount="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do know there is a special tag for &lt;code&gt;systemd-journald&lt;/code&gt;, but I believe it to be special case of &lt;code&gt;logging&lt;/code&gt;, synonym of &lt;code&gt;logs&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue being in the definition of &lt;code&gt;logs&lt;/code&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Configuring or analysing log files (&lt;strong&gt;text&lt;/strong&gt; files where programs output error and informational messages, useful for debugging and troubleshooting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;journald actualy saves data in binary form so my question is whether we should ignore this difference, don't use the &lt;code&gt;logs&lt;/code&gt; tag with journald questions or somehow change the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="222464" LastActivityDate="2017-12-02T19:46:26.867" Title="Should journald be part of logs tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-03T01:54:15.230" Score="-3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the code on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/408407/259669&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; is really compact and hard to read, I made &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/220447&quot;&gt;an edit&lt;/a&gt; to improve it.&#xA;However, the author rejected it because this &quot;deviates from the original intent of the post&quot;.&#xA;I do not agree, I did not changed the meaning or behavior of this code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="259669" LastActivityDate="2017-12-03T05:38:20.943" Title="Rejected question edit" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4702" CreationDate="2017-12-03T05:38:20.943" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the diff in the suggestion, you did change random things: &lt;code&gt;n=0&lt;/code&gt; became &lt;code&gt;n=1&lt;/code&gt;, an &lt;code&gt;((n++))&lt;/code&gt; went missing, as did a &lt;code&gt;skip=0&lt;/code&gt; argument, possibly other things. Changing code in a question is risky because it could inadvertently confuse others trying to post an answer or the asker trying to understand answers based on the modified code. The asker wants to see answers based on exactly what they were doing, not based on the new version someone else came up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-12-03T05:38:20.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2017-12-03T23:59:35.063" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to hope that enough of us remember what it was like being new and low on damage points to understand what is happening here more thoroughly than some simplistic FAQ-waving.  For one, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The critique that people edit posts just to gain points is not an uncommon one, and people do encourage people to make such edits substantive ones as much as they can.  Whilst that is not true here, the editor of the question &lt;em&gt;does not help to demonstrate&lt;/em&gt; that it is not true by saying that xe repeated the edit because &quot;I thought it was funny&quot;.  Xe would help more by pointing out that it was a substantive edit that corrected grammatical errors such as mis-spelling the pronoun &quot;I&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the new user's perspective, remember, what happened here was that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a diamond moderator high-handedly stepped in to lock the questioner out of xyr own question, &lt;em&gt;rolling back &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/406412/4&quot;&gt;a spelling correction made by the original questioner&lt;/a&gt; in the process&lt;/em&gt;; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there was no mention from either the diamond moderator or the original editor that the original edit &lt;em&gt;actually was&lt;/em&gt; correcting both spelling and punctuation errors in the question; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;neither the diamond moderator nor the original editor removed or clarified the &quot;xD&quot;; and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the only response from &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; diamond moderators was &lt;em&gt;still not to explain this&lt;/em&gt; but to repeatedly say (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4696/5132&quot;&gt;once&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/user-insulted-by-editing-their-answer/4696#comment8208_4697&quot;&gt;twice&lt;/a&gt;) &quot;you will not be happy here&quot; and to imply that the new user was an outright vandal who was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4695/user-insulted-by-editing-their-answer/4696#comment8208_4697&quot;&gt;&quot;defacing&quot;&lt;/a&gt; the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all have to remember what the process looks like to the people who do not have the accrued damage points that we have; and what our actions look like.  It does not behoove us to call someone a vandal who clearly is not, any more than it behooves us to go around &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4657/&quot;&gt;calling people &quot;noob kali users&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  We know what questioner vandalism &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; looks like, and it is &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; from simply &lt;em&gt;clicking on the &quot;reject this edit&quot; button&lt;/em&gt; that the site gives to authors when their questions have suggested edits, which is what in fact happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not behoove us to explain that we did edits because &quot;I thought it was funny&quot;, and when we use the edit summary &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/406412/2&quot;&gt;&quot;Add formatting&quot;&lt;/a&gt; it should not be &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much of a surprise when people na&amp;iuml;vely take us at our word and think that adding formatting was what we did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it does not help to then inflame the process by mis-characterizing this on Meta as the original author wanting &quot;to not format and use incorrect spelling&quot;, especially when the original author &lt;em&gt;made a spelling correction of xyr own&lt;/em&gt; and so very clearly did not want that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the things that the regular users around here could have done better in this situation after remembering what an opaque system Stack Exchange is to novices, from being aware that people see edit summaries and &quot;reject edit&quot; buttons to not calling someone a vandal for rejecting a suggested edit and telling them in essence to just go away, is also remembering that novices come here with preconceived and wrong ideas based upon how other sites work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They put &quot;SOLVED&quot; into questions.  They put entire answers into questions.  They think that posts should contain &quot;Thank you in advance.&quot;.  They use wacky markup conventions, &lt;em&gt;such as the original questioner here&lt;/em&gt; using curly brackets.  They bring in silly prejudices, that they have learned from decades of people wrongly saying how bad these things are, against &quot;rich text&quot; formatting such as boldface, italics, and monospace.  (This is especially antithetical here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux, given the text processing history of Unix going back to the 1970s, and the fact that we've had things like boldface and italics in our document processing tradition for all of that time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst the original edit was a good one, a lot of subsequent steps, from the edit summary onwards, have been mis-steps.  This is not as vastly one-sided as the votes on answers here might lead one to think.  The votes simply tell us that there have been only two extreme positions expressed until now, one telling us the received wisdom &lt;em&gt;that one can still receive from all over the place today&lt;/em&gt; that formatting in questions is &quot;shit&quot; and one telling a novice to just read the FAQ and go away because &quot;this site is not for you&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest a less extreme position of &lt;em&gt;remembering what it is like&lt;/em&gt; to be a novice, complete with these daft and wrongheaded learned prejudices against any sort of text styling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And far from &quot;this site is not for you&quot; I suggest that this site may well appeal to you, &lt;em&gt;once you un-learn&lt;/em&gt; the unfortunately pervasive but quite wrong received wisdom that you have that one should not use in questions the same simple kinds of text styling for the literal text of commands and output that our operating systems' own manual pages have been using for the past almost half a century.  As well as the idea that sentences end with full stops.  &amp;#9786;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Further reading&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rick Moen and Eric S. Raymond (2001).  &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#formats&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Send questions in accessible, standard formats&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;em&gt;How To Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ben Okopnik (2003-09-12).  &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxgazette.net/faq/ask-the-gang.html#non_text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Send text-only content&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  &lt;em&gt;Asking Questions of The Answer Gang&lt;/em&gt;.  Linux Gazette.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tony Plate (2013).  &quot;Technical details of posting&quot;.  &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Posting Guide: How to ask good questions that prompt useful answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  R Project.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (2004). &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jdebp.eu./FGA/html-message-myths-dispelled.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Some of what is said about HTML messages is wrong.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  Frequently Given Answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (2016). &lt;a href=&quot;http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Italics and colour in manual pages on a nosh user-space virtual terminal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  The nosh package.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;K. Thompson and D. M. Ritchie (1974-11).  &quot;INTRODUCTION TO THIS MANUAL&quot;.  &lt;em&gt;Unix Programmer's Manual&lt;/em&gt;.  4th Edition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2017-12-03T23:59:35.063" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4707" CreationDate="2017-12-06T12:20:38.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently came to know that we can use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language-all: bash --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: bash --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for manually adding syntax highlighting. It is also mentioned in: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/editing-help#syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/editing-help#syntax-highlighting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I feel question using tags like &lt;code&gt;text-processing&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, etc but not &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; could use syntax highlighting by default, instead of manual addition&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Note: It need not be &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; as such, anything suitable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example without syntax highlighting and one with &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt; syntax added&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8yij5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8yij5.png&quot; alt=&quot;with and without syntax highlighting example&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109046" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2017-12-14T22:19:53.727" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T22:19:53.727" Title="Suggestion to use 'bash' as syntax highlighting for text processing related tags" Tags="|feature-request|formatting|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4706" CreationDate="2017-12-06T17:36:32.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For your trivial examples, syntax highlighting looks mildly good because they have short strings in them highlighted as such. But for most text &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; have seen, blanket-wrapping all awk or sed code (especially those that are even mildly complex) as a string is useless. It might as well not be highlighted at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that, most of the actual text given as examples for processing have no meaningful application of bash syntax highlighting at all. In many cases, they just simply highlight random words and add noise to the text, making a visual parsing of it &lt;em&gt;harder&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if highlighting was applied to the entire post because of a tag, at best they're mostly useless, at worst they're actively harming readability. I'd rather not have any syntax highlighting applied of these by default. If you need to highlight a command, highlight it using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: ... --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; code can be syntax highlighted as awk, but not if it's wrapped in quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-awk --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    BEGIN {&#xA;       if ($0 ~ /foo/)&#xA;           print &quot;foo&quot;&#xA;    }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/teedv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/teedv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if anything, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; should be highlighted with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2017-12-06T17:41:51.490" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T17:41:51.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4709" CreationDate="2017-12-06T18:36:15.557" Score="-1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have added a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it was put on hold as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;&#xA;I have Edited my question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please &lt;strong&gt;edit your question&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simplified it and wrote it in correct English&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it still on hold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the question is simple, when I log in with root user in MATE there are no desktop icons.&#xA;how to get them back? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="263996" OwnerDisplayName="MM.Linuxer" LastEditorUserId="263996" LastEditDate="2017-12-07T14:33:00.697" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T15:40:29.600" Title="Why is my Question &quot;on hold&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4708" CreationDate="2017-12-06T18:45:22.140" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing your question does not automatically cause it to reopen. It is put into a review queue, which is tended by other members of the site with a certain threshold of reputation. These members can vote to reopen (if the edit addresses the concerns) or leave closed (if the edit does not). It sometimes takes some time for questions with good edits to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T18:45:22.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-07T21:45:38.530" Score="0" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the question feed right now, it seems dominated by people posting &lt;em&gt;statements&lt;/em&gt; as opposed to &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;. Does anyone else find this a little annoying? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/190674/centos-cannot-ping-default-gateway&quot;&gt;Centos cannot ping default gateway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct answer to this should be along the lines of: &quot;No, that's true, it can't. That's a shame. /hug&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be encouraging people more to ask actual questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose a related question is: &quot;Is it legitimate to edit questions to change the title to a question?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="257802" LastEditorUserId="257802" LastEditDate="2017-12-08T22:06:57.983" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T22:19:10.410" Title="Why are so many people not posting questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4710" CreationDate="2017-12-08T01:48:16.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While that question was posted a couple years ago, and was in the recent feed only because Community bumped it, my opinion on questions like that come down to a decision: is there &quot;enough&quot; &quot;there&quot; to discern The Problem? If so, consider adding whatever relevant edits you think would clarify the situation, and/or answer the question (as you understand it). If not -- if you can't figure out where they got stuck, or what the problem might be, then vote to close as unclear (and optionally leave a comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T01:48:16.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4710" CreationDate="2017-12-08T07:15:09.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;@JeffSchaller. 100%, that's what we can do about the questions, but I don't think that what the questioner meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 'technical community' it is normal practice to 'state' a problem or predicate rather than to pose a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The Role of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Flavouring&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will appear in a technical publication before&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Why does granny's gazpacho soup taste odd and make my teeth freeze?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a poster is from a technical background they will tend to use a 'statement of case' rather than ask a question, so maybe linux people are becoming even &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; techie? If that's possible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out-geeking the geeks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The point being that it is only a question of style and how you are used to expressing things in your day to day or professional life as to whether a poster will state the problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`Cannot ping goggle.com`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or ask a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;'Why can't i ping goggle.com?`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meaning is the same, we all understand what the problem is. Job done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217629" LastEditorUserId="217629" LastEditDate="2017-12-09T04:23:41.970" LastActivityDate="2017-12-09T04:23:41.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4710" CreationDate="2017-12-08T14:41:51.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the question was a bit pedantic, but I was genuinely surprised to see how few questions in the feed are phrased as questions. It must be literally less than 10%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm going to start up-voting any legit questions that I see that are phrased as questions, to try to help encourage it. Also, I guess it creates opportunities for people to gain some easy points by editing the titles, if they are that way inclined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="257802" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T14:41:51.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4710" CreationDate="2017-12-08T16:24:21.370" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a time years ago when Stack Exchange was on a big kick about phrasing titles as questions, but I think it mostly died out. Personally I couldn't care less, &quot;Centos cannot ping default gateway&quot; and &quot;Why can't Centos ping default gateway?&quot; are functionally identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any statement in a question title comes with the implied question &quot;how do I fix this?&quot;; the asker is stating something that's obviously wrong and expects readers to recognize that the situation they're describing isn't the way it should be. If I post a question with the title &quot;Kernel panic on boot&quot;, there's no actual question there, but anyone who might be able to help me knows that a kernel panic on boot isn't a normal situation and so my question is how to make it stop happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T16:24:21.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4716" CreationDate="2017-12-09T14:23:55.070" Score="17" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I happen to come across a answer from which I have judged that the answerer is likely to at least give some advice on one of my own questions, is it OK to post a comment on that answer linking to my question and state that I want to invite the answerer to take a look at my question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The positive side I see is that it will set a signpost for others who are interested in my question, but since the two questions are related, they may have used the wrong keyword Googling and arrived at the other page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The negative side is that some people may deem it as an incorrect (or indecent) way to draw attention to my own question and others may find my link distractive, especially when my question has not yet received a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would like to ask whether there are some rules on this practice or on &quot;invitation&quot;, in general? Or, in practise, is it likely that such a comment will get downvoted? Please point me to the right place if there are. Any help would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="259023" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-12-09T21:22:36.227" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T03:37:36.613" Title="Is it deemed decent practice to post a comment on someone's answer to invite him/her to answer my own question?" Tags="|discussion|comments|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4715" CreationDate="2017-12-09T19:59:28.050" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer that people not do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are already &quot;linked&quot; in that they are, or should be, tagged appropriately. People who are interested in specific topics tend to follow those tags, so will probably be aware of related questions anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commenting on their other answers, and including a link to your question, feels wrong to me for a couple of reasons. One, it duplicates the functionality of tagging. Secondly, it feels spammy. It is yet another notification that has to be addressed and, given the first point about redundancy, feels like an unnecessary drain on the goodwill of people contributing to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, please don't do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2017-12-09T19:59:28.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2017-12-09T21:02:00.383" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit was OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user's angry retort via e-mail was not OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your pointing fingers at the user and actively seeking conflict instead of trying to understand their feelings and resolve this peacefully was not very OK, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackexchange does not look like a wiki. It looks like a more conventional forum, e-mail, or even a science magazine, where every post is &quot;owned&quot; by its creator, and it's understandable newer users may take it very close to heart when someone twists their words without their explicit consent. This striking difference in netiquette may cause a lot of grief to some new users unless it's thoroughly explained (and it usually isn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the least &quot;offensive&quot; way to suggest edits would be either via comments, or by leaving a more thorough explanation why you thought the edit was needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217523" LastActivityDate="2017-12-09T21:02:00.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4715" CreationDate="2017-12-14T03:37:36.613" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it’s OK. &#xA;I’m somewhat able to answer questions about shell scripts, awk and sed&#xA;(among other things), but I don’t always monitor the corresponding tags. &#xA;If somebody sees from one of my answers&#xA;that I’m likely to be able to answer their question,&#xA;I don’t mind having my attention drawn to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems a little unfair,&#xA;and may contribute to the “Stack Exchange hates users” sentiment. &#xA;Suppose Andrew posts a question and Barbara writes a good answer. &#xA;Charlie (who has rep ≥ 50) doesn’t fully understand Barbara’s answer,&#xA;so he posts a follow-up question as a comment under her question,&#xA;and she gets notified. &#xA;(Whether she responds is up to her.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Dave has a question that’s similar to Andrew’s. &#xA;He does the search that leads him to Andrew’s question,&#xA;but they’re not similar enough that Barbara’s answer solves his problem,&#xA;but they are similar enough that she can probably help him. &#xA;So he posts a new question — and he’s not allowed to ping her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if we’re not supposed to invite people to answer questions,&#xA;why does this message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8gZ7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8gZ7.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(Know someone who can answer? &#xA;Share a link to this question&#xA;via email, Google+, Twitter, or Facebook.)&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;appear at the bottom of every unanswered question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that you wait a couple of days after posting your question&#xA;before you invite anybody to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T03:37:36.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4710" CreationDate="2017-12-14T22:19:10.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are confusing &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;titles&lt;/em&gt;. The body of a question post needs to contain a question. On the other hand, the title is the title of the whole page, not just the title of the question, and thus formulating the title as a question looks rather weird when the question is answered. Remember, most people who will read this title are people who are looking for an answer to their own question in search engine results. People who view it as something to answer are a tiny minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that it's always a bad idea to formulate the title as a question. But you should not force it. For example, changing “Centos cannot ping default gateway” to “How can I make CentOS ping the default gateway?” would be a net loss. The additional words convey no information whatsoever and make it harder to find the important parts of the question at a glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/how-do-i-write-a-good-title/10648#10648&quot;&gt;good advice on writing good titles on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;. I draw your attention in particular to this attention map — red is what people pay the most attention to when scanning, blue is what they read only once their interest is hooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NSTjR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;attention map&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the red part only contains “How can I make”, the title is wasted. With “CentOS cannot ping”, it conveys a lot of information about the topic of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T22:19:10.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-15T00:49:09.847" Score="6" ViewCount="439" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on Meta Stack Exchange, I announced &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/304445/1438&quot;&gt;an experiment&lt;/a&gt; that would:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turn on the review queue indicator whenever there's a task available in any queue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All queues with at least one task will be marked with a red dot. There are no grey dots:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Dvps.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Dvps.png&quot; alt=&quot;Inbox Zero indicator&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; mean you'll be notified of outstanding tasks you can't clear.&lt;/strong&gt; We are aware of a problem that people will be notified of queues that they don't have the privilege to access. That's next on the list to fix. The goal is to be more aggressive with the indicator to see if we can clear tasks more quickly. Please let us know if we've gone too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in general, we're interested in any feedback to this change: positive, negative or noncommittal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21281" LastEditorUserId="21281" LastEditDate="2018-01-09T00:01:26.670" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T00:01:26.670" Title="Experiment: More aggressive review queue indicator" Tags="|discussion|status-declined|review|top-bar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4720" CreationDate="2017-12-15T06:17:08.217" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;As in inveterate queue clearer, the behavioural impact is negligible. The cognitive impact, however, is unwelcome. The red dot immediately signals dread: &quot;Oh, there are a &lt;em&gt;heap&lt;/em&gt; of these things to deal with &lt;strong&gt;now&lt;/strong&gt;...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Save the red for when you really need it (ie., when the queue really is backed up: 10 or more, or whatever the old threshold was). Bring back the grey so the site feels less like it is on fire all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="21281" LastEditDate="2017-12-21T20:07:59.810" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T20:07:59.810" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4725" CreationDate="2017-12-15T06:34:45.337" Score="-4" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4640/52236&quot;&gt;Recent discussions&lt;/a&gt; talk about the phenomenon. My this question tries to make clear its reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, this question isn't about, what we have to do with the Kali questions. This question is about &lt;em&gt;what social/psychological/cultural/... phenomenon creates them&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where are they from? Why they've chosen Kali?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What drives so many &quot;young titans&quot; to start to use such a not-for-beginners distribution? I think, likely something misleaded them, and if they've known, what is waiting them, they'd likely remained by some more common, more desktop-tuned, Ubuntu/Suse/anything line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious also to the answers from the &quot;other side&quot;, i.e. people whose Kali questions were closed, probably too quickly on his opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extension: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/70524/muru&quot;&gt;@muru&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4722/what-is-the-cause-of-the-kali-phenomenon?noredirect=1#comment8281_4722&quot;&gt;refers&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4640/what-should-we-do-about-kali-linux-questions?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1#comment8084_4640&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; about a phenomenon, there a search engine effect was suggested. However, the posters have very similar characteristic (for example: bad English, newbie questions, trying to use Kali as a beginner desktop variant and so on). A search engine effect would result much more diverse OPs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastEditorUserId="52236" LastEditDate="2017-12-16T04:30:01.720" LastActivityDate="2017-12-16T04:34:51.897" Title="What is the cause of the Kali phenomenon?" Tags="|discussion|kali|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2017-12-21T13:45:38.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-15T11:29:04.267" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.coreboot.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;coreboot&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://seabios.org/SeaBIOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SeaBIOS&lt;/a&gt; appropriate on this Stack Exchange? If not, which one would be more appropriate? Server Fault? They're kinda mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16287" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-12-15T16:00:52.563" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T16:00:52.563" Title="Are coreboot and/or SeaBIOS questions appropriate here?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4720" CreationDate="2017-12-15T16:39:36.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree the review queue indicator needs to be more aggressive, but it's neither a good idea nor necessary to sacrifice the urgency indication feature just for that. Instead of setting the whole site on fire, how about a yellow-to-red transition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0k3X.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0k3X.png&quot; alt=&quot;first version&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could even think about always having a dot on every queue, maybe green for empty ones – those traffic light colors are quite unambiguous.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cxwdh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cxwdh.png&quot; alt=&quot;second version&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the color of the review button dot should always match the darkest yellow/red, and there should be no dot only if every queue is green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1: “Red” meaning „Stop! Don't add any questions to this queue before you did your review duty!“ ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246819" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T16:39:36.767" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4722" CreationDate="2017-12-15T21:35:15.580" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kali is specifically targetted at &lt;s&gt;h&lt;/s&gt;crackers as the title of their web page states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kali Linux: Penetration testing and ethical hacking Linux Distribution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kali attracts wannabe crackers. Adolescent boys, generally, enthralled by the idea of penetration (&lt;em&gt;paging Dr Freud&lt;/em&gt;). Not only are they clueless about Linux, they have little awareness about anything beyond the realms of their fetid bedrooms and the online communities where they congregate to boast about their leet skillz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, not only are you wrong; you are very wrong. This has nothing to do with ethnicity; the common denominator here is idiocy, an attribute that is evenly distributed amongst all populations. Sadly for us, it just has a vector for expression here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2017-12-16T04:34:51.897" LastActivityDate="2017-12-16T04:34:51.897" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4720" CreationDate="2017-12-15T23:08:40.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoken about review queues, please change/repair the mobile apps so it's finally possible to do those tasks from within the app . I rarely use the website and thus rarely perform review tasks. An indicator no matter how big it is helps in this situation. The same goes for participation in elections, the winterbash and more stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103163" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T23:08:40.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-16T21:57:15.740" Score="5" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing we are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4720/experiment-more-aggressive-review-queue-indicator&quot;&gt;looking at changes to the review queue&lt;/a&gt;, I thought I'd ask about an issue that has bugged me for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of the queues (and don't ask which, because despite using the site for nearly seven years I still am surprised when it is not there) there is a button to vote for deletion, and in other queues there is not, so the only option is to flag the post for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of one of those lab experiments where sinister white coats disorient unwitting subjects to further their insidious ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that there is some well thought out rationale behind this, but for the life of me I cannot divine it, and it is annoying as all get out to go into the queue, find a post that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/222245&quot;&gt;definitely should be deleted&lt;/a&gt; only then to discover, &lt;em&gt;nope: no delete button for you!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I have to flag it for a mod's attention when, clearly, it doesn't deserve flagging, or a mod's time. I have the power to vote to delete; why I am being stymied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2017-12-17T02:30:44.977" LastActivityDate="2017-12-17T02:30:44.977" Title="Inconsistent buttons in review queue" Tags="|bug|review|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2017-12-21T16:44:15.277" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The subtleties of a person's tone and intent generally do not make it through in writing.  That gets exponentially compounded by differences in cultures (and language).  Add to that the knee-jerk responses that online communication cultivates, and emotions can get raw &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with @JdeBP's answer, particularly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;novices come here with preconceived and wrong ideas based upon how other sites work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make it even more confusing, when a novice comes from SE to SE Meta, those wrong ideas are compounded, as the &lt;em&gt;same SE user interface&lt;/em&gt; is used, but the meaning behind the votes is &lt;em&gt;completely different&lt;/em&gt;.  The negative votes against @user261897 in his answer here would have almost certainly alienated him further (let alone some of the comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truly sad thing is that the user (&lt;code&gt;user261897&lt;/code&gt;) has left SE - one who was willing to offer answers and help.  In my opinion, he is &lt;strong&gt;likely owed an apology&lt;/strong&gt;, particularly since you have his email address - perhaps even from a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aside: as a low-rep user, when I come across a post that could use polishing, I occasionally do take the time to clean it up.  Sure, the extra rep points won't hurt, but far more importantly, I do it just for the sake of making it better (on various SE sites).  A few of my edits have been rejected, and admittedly there's a sting to that.  Both sides here have had a sour experience, when each was beginning off with the best of intentions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Now, as I hit &lt;code&gt;Post Your Answer&lt;/code&gt;, I'll go put on my thick skin as everyone prepares to tear my post apart :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65874" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T16:44:15.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-22T14:53:21.703" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I get unix.stackexchange.com to email me on responses/comments on my posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked around in my profile settings and I am continuing to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="265935" OwnerDisplayName="kerplunk" LastActivityDate="2017-12-22T15:12:49.767" Title="How do I get unix.stackexchange.com to email me on responses/comments on my posts" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4720" CreationDate="2017-12-22T18:17:13.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I was curious, I clicked through to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/743789/90th-percentile-pending-review-tasks-by-queue?startDate=getdate()-7&amp;amp;endDate=getdate()&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; to see what U&amp;amp;L's &quot;N&quot; value would be for turning the indicator red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-quoting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/302226/how-does-the-review-needed-indicator-work-exactly&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each queue may be in one of three states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No dot (empty queue)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Grey dot (at least one but fewer than N review tasks)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Red dot (N or more review tasks)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as of today, U&amp;amp;L values are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Name                90% of hourly samples less than this many tasks&#xA;Close Votes         4&#xA;First Post          1&#xA;Low Quality Posts   1&#xA;Late Answer         0&#xA;Reopen Vote         0&#xA;Suggested Edit      0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how the math would turn out for grey or red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the low number of average items in the U&amp;amp;L queue, I'd prefer a grey dot for any non-zero queue (at any time), and a red dot for ... numbers substantially higher than the above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal suggestion for red-dot levels would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Close Votes         10+&#xA;First Post          10+&#xA;Low Quality Posts   10+&#xA;Late Answer         5+&#xA;Reopen Vote         5+&#xA;Suggested Edit      10+&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2017-12-28T23:30:43.383" LastActivityDate="2017-12-28T23:30:43.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-26T06:58:38.793" Score="8" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to post copy/pasted answers from other websites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link to website can be posted in comments instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/413066/224025&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/413066/224025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224025" LastActivityDate="2023-09-02T04:21:54.467" Title="Is it okay to copy paste from other websites?" Tags="|discussion|plagiarism|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4731" CreationDate="2017-12-26T07:14:18.897" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a section on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;plagiarism in the Help Center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no indication that it is&#xA;  not your own - is frowned on by our community, and may result in your&#xA;  answer being down-voted or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer you link to is an egregious example of plagiarism and should be removed. It contains no original content and no effort to adapt or contextualise the copied material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T07:14:18.897" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="344" CreationDate="2017-12-26T17:35:04.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't the &lt;code&gt;/homework&lt;/code&gt; issue simply about providing the &lt;strong&gt;context&lt;/strong&gt; of a question? And isn't context part of what makes a question &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt;? And didn't we &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; read the  FAQ or policies before first-posting? Yeah, right, sure we did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason I refrain from down-voting on poor quality in first posts (which is where I see most &lt;code&gt;/homework&lt;/code&gt; vampires) simply because I can't really criticise them for not reading and applying the same protocols that I didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, now I've been here a while, I understand that the key elements to a good question are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;context, how did this issue arise?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clear expression of the problem to be addressed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;explain what was tried (with any error messages thrown). Even &quot;I don't know where to start&quot; lets you know the poster will need to be led by the hand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these key elements were expressly requested on the posting page (or even presented as default/background text in the question box?) then there is no excuse for a poster not to be aware of them and provide them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-votes or comments regarding deficiencies would be more reasonably made &lt;strong&gt;knowing&lt;/strong&gt; that the poster chose to ignore what we, as a community, expect of them (and indeed of ourselves).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given a free hand I would prefer to confine new posters to a &lt;code&gt;/babypool&lt;/code&gt; until the first question was well enough phrased to be released (under the review process) into the general population. If a questioner persisted in failing to correct their post after help  then I would also propose to hunt them down, raze their house to the ground and plough salt into the scorched earth. But maybe that's just the way I way I was brought up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours lovingly &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;G.Khan. Esq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barbecues a speciality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217629" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T17:35:04.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4735" CreationDate="2017-12-30T12:49:36.770" Score="0" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting this meta due to the responses and down votes received for this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/413740/the-tmux-conf-language/413741#413741&quot;&gt;The .tmux.conf language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments (and am guessing the down votes) are here due to the existence of the man page for the following tool (&lt;code&gt;tmux&lt;/code&gt; in this case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have unskillfully in the initial question added the part &lt;code&gt;I'm can't seem to find a description of the syntax for customizing the config file&lt;/code&gt; which is a fault on my side and was corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having that removed, would ask for your opinion of the question as it currently is. I find that the existence of a documentation doesn't imply an invalid question per se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that StackExchange has grown to be a place where people can get quick pragmatic answers to most common problems, and unless a generically formed question, pointing to a documentation isn't an answer but a form of patronizing. Patronizing is bad because it pushes newcomers from starting to use the open source tool and once they get value from it perhaps even participating in it's development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would expect as an answer for this question would be an explanation of what the three commands actually do and how, for those are the commands often seen at user examples and would be more practical to have them as a reference and a man page for whoever wants to know more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29436" LastActivityDate="2017-12-30T18:55:15.917" Title="Unix&amp;Linux as a platform of pragmatic Linux documentation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4734" CreationDate="2017-12-30T18:55:15.917" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The comments (and am guessing the down votes) are here due to the existence of the man page for the following tool&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the downvotes (or, at least mine) are because your question shows &lt;em&gt;no research effort&lt;/em&gt;. If you mouse over the downvote button, that is the text that appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the tmux settings and commands are quite literal makes your lack of efffort even more egregious; in most cases, you can pretty much just guess what they do, based on the names that Nicholas has given them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Patronizing is bad because it pushes newcomers from starting to use the open source tool and once they get value from it perhaps even participating in it's development. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a specious argument. First, it begs the question. As I have pointed out, the downvotes are &lt;em&gt;not patronising&lt;/em&gt;; they are integral to the way the site and the community works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, in any area of life, you are expected--as an adult, anyway--to be able to think for yourself. Documentation, including &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; pages, is there to assist that. People who are incapable of reading the documentation are unlikely to end up &quot;participating in development&quot; because that requires them to be able to think for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I would expect as an answer for this question would be an explanation of what the three commands actually do and how, for those are the commands often seen at user examples and would be more practical to have them as a reference and a man page for whoever wants to know more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commands are, again, quite litterally self-explanatory. To illustrate that point, let's break one down as a class exercise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;bind-key v split-window -h&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first part (&lt;code&gt;bind-key&lt;/code&gt;): what could that be doing? Perhaps, just guessing now, it would &lt;em&gt;bind the key&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;v&lt;/code&gt; to some command? Stay with me, the next bit is even more demanding. Could that command be &lt;em&gt;split the window horizonatlly&lt;/em&gt;?  I know, it seems a leap, but it makes a certain kind of sense when looked at from just the right angle, doesn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave it as an exercise for you to type &lt;code&gt;man tmux&lt;/code&gt; into a terminal and see how close that explanation actually is. If, that is, you can make as much as an effort opening the terminal as you did to post this meta question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2017-12-30T18:55:15.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4737" CreationDate="2018-01-03T11:14:52.063" Score="4" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer for a user’s question and he indicated he was going to try my solution. After some time he had not indicated whether or not it worked. I commented to ask if it worked or did he encounter a problem. His reply was that he was actually looking for the answer to a different question which he did not post. He also did not edit his original question. Is there any action I can or should take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249809" LastActivityDate="2018-01-30T17:14:09.367" Title="What to do when user says they meant different question after you have answered" Tags="|discussion|questions|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4736" CreationDate="2018-01-03T18:32:11.840" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion for this situation: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment on the question to the effect of &quot;please open a new/separate Question with your actual question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag (or, if you have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;Close Privilege&lt;/a&gt;, Vote to Close) the question as &quot;Off-topic: problem went away on its own&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T18:32:11.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2018-01-05T21:02:38.750" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Compiled list of questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This list is compiled mostly from the answers below and some of my own, and is intended to be a quick reference for these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;shells&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/3052/237982&quot;&gt;where to set environmental variables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/117467/237982&quot;&gt;How to permanently set environmental variables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/186512/237982&quot;&gt;script runs from command line but not cron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/131766/237982&quot;&gt;why you must quote - Gilles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/171346/237982&quot;&gt;why you must quote - Stephane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/351729/237982&quot;&gt;Why the “-” in the “#! /bin/sh -” shebang?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/29608/237982&quot;&gt;#!/usr/bin/env bash vs #!/bin/bash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/5778/237982&quot;&gt;`...` vs $(...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/38175/237982&quot;&gt;Difference between Login Shell and Non-Login Shell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/14270/237982&quot;&gt;Get exit status of process that's piped to another&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/4126/237982&quot;&gt;Difference Between: Terminal, Shell, TTY, and Console&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;sh&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/40786/22222&quot;&gt;shell arithmetic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/111355/22222&quot;&gt;redirecting output&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/347484/237982&quot;&gt;handling filenames with unusual characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/30370/237982&quot;&gt;How to get the pid of the last executed command in shell script?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/146942/237982&quot;&gt;How can I test if a variable is empty or contains only spaces?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/159513/237982&quot;&gt;What are the shell's control and redirection operators?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/23111/237982&quot;&gt;What is the “eval” command in bash?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;bash&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/347039/237982&quot;&gt;how to show bash history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/146942/237982&quot;&gt;How can I test if a variable is empty or contains only spaces?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/26047/237982&quot;&gt;How to correctly add a path to PATH?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/30925/237982&quot;&gt;In Bash, when to alias, when to script, and when to write a function?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/1496/237982&quot;&gt;Why doesn't my Bash script recognize aliases?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/16640/237982&quot;&gt;How can I get the size of a file in a bash script?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;command line&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/17510/22222&quot;&gt;du is different than df&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/85249/237982&quot;&gt;finding the path of an executable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/1136/22222&quot;&gt;batch renaming files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/154803/237982&quot;&gt;getting system hardware info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/30825/237982&quot;&gt;copy and paste on command line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/1519/237982&quot;&gt;Delete a file starting with -&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/4126/237982&quot;&gt;Difference Between: Terminal, Shell, TTY, and Console&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/56444/237982&quot;&gt;How do I set an environment variable on the command line and have it appear in commands?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/185764/237982&quot;&gt;How do I get the size of a directory on the command line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/3568/237982&quot;&gt;How to switch between users on one terminal?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/37313/237982&quot;&gt;grep for multiple patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/6596/237982&quot;&gt;How do I zip/unzip on the unix command line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/11376/237982&quot;&gt;Meaning of --&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/1314/237982&quot;&gt;How to set default file permissions for all folders/files in a directory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/167823/237982&quot;&gt;find - exec rm vs -delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/321697/237982&quot;&gt;Why is looping over find's output bad practice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;searching filesystems&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/60205/4671&quot;&gt;locate vs find: usage, pros and cons of each other&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a 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sed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/26284/237982&quot;&gt;How can I use sed to replace a multi-line string?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/169716/237982&quot;&gt;Why is using a shell loop to process text considered bad practice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/31947/237982&quot;&gt;How to add a newline to the end of a file?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows/DOS text file, ^M, carriage returns: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32001/what-is-m-and-how-do-i-get-rid-of-it&quot;&gt;What is `^M` and how do I get rid of it?&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79702/how-to-test-whether-a-file-uses-crlf-or-lf-without-modifying-it&quot;&gt;How to test whether a file uses CRLF or LF without modifying it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;regex&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/119905/237982&quot;&gt;different types of regex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;history&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/4091/237982&quot;&gt;Is Linux a Unix?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/1262/237982&quot;&gt;Where did the “wheel” group get its name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/11983/237982&quot;&gt;What exactly is POSIX?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;other&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/112157/237982&quot;&gt;installing new software on old OS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/109464/22222&quot;&gt;fixing/reinstalling grub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/75051/22222&quot;&gt;monitoring your server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/77718/237982&quot;&gt;understanding op-mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/103571/237982&quot;&gt;passwordless machine access&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/115620/237982&quot;&gt;installing a custom kernel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/12956/237982&quot;&gt;running 32 bit programs on 64 bit systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/34196/237982&quot;&gt;Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237982" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-04-12T18:15:41.360" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T18:15:41.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4741" CreationDate="2018-01-09T10:51:31.150" Score="3" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem&lt;/strong&gt;: I just noticed that there’s a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/high-avability&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;high-avability&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;high-avability&lt;/a&gt; tag with 1 follower, no tag wiki and no usage guidance. It’s obviously a mis-spelling of &lt;em&gt;high-availability&lt;/em&gt; (which doesn’t exist as a tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested solution&lt;/strong&gt;: Since there are only 16 questions, it wouldn’t be too much work to manually edit each question. However, this would “bump” each question to the top of the active question list so I thought I’d first ask here to check if there’s a better way of fixing this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T13:04:14.270" Title="Tag not available" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4740" CreationDate="2018-01-09T13:04:14.270" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/high-avability&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;high-avability&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;high-avability&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/high-availability&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;high-availability&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;high-availability&lt;/a&gt;. There should now be no questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/high-avability&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;high-avability&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;high-avability&lt;/a&gt; and the tag will be deleted by the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no need to edit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T13:04:14.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4743" CreationDate="2018-01-10T21:50:32.957" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;In clear cases of bot/spam posts such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/416235/what-does-it-take-to-save-a-life-stand-by-me-i-will-survive&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, when the original posting includes what appears to be personally identifiable information (in this case, a name and postal address), is it good form to redact the supposed PII while awaiting the post being marked for deletion by a sufficiently-privileged moderator (as I, in this case have)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20246" LastActivityDate="2018-01-10T22:13:11.357" Title="Should one redact PII from spam?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|flags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4742" CreationDate="2018-01-10T22:13:11.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, as it is not personally identifying information: it is just part of the scam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag it for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2018-01-10T22:13:11.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-11T13:38:53.803" Score="10" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libvirt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libvirt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libvirt&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/libvirtd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;libvirtd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;libvirtd&lt;/a&gt; tags be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28791" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T01:28:41.063" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T01:28:41.063" Title="Merge libvirt and libvirtd tags" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4752" CreationDate="2018-01-12T02:08:28.790" Score="11" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of &amp;quot;tag wikis&amp;quot; that I've always had has been, more or less, just a quick definition of terms, perhaps with a distinction made between the tag under discussion and another similarly named tag with distinct usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly there's no reason I've seen for having tag wikis beyond just a usage description, which can show up in the &amp;quot;tag wiki excerpt&amp;quot; just as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a passage in the description of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;trusted user&amp;quot; privileges&lt;/a&gt; caught my attention (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are tag wikis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag wikis are a general introduction to a topic defined by that tag. They're a place to consolidate and &lt;strong&gt;form a sub-community around a tag.&lt;/strong&gt; They contain, among other things, frequently asked questions in the tag, &lt;strong&gt;top users in the tag,&lt;/strong&gt; and best recent answers in the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't square at all with the idea I had of tag wikis as I described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I realized that on Stack Overflow, where the big wide world of programming is mushed all together on one site, such a thing would be vitally necessary.  Heck, there are a lot of tags on SO that have been the subject of (failed) new site proposals on Area 51!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The disparity of topics available on SO is something like if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;aviation.stackexchange.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mechanics.stackexchange.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bicycles.stackexchange.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;outdoors.stackexchange.com (because it includes boats, climbing, swimming and hiking), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;travel.stackexchange.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;were all combined into a single &amp;quot;transportation&amp;quot; stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So sub-communities are probably much more of a &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot; on SO than elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we actually have any tag wikis on this site that operate as described in the quoted passage above?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we really have sub-communities on U&amp;amp;L?  (It seems to me like we really just have one big community, mostly consisting of people who occasionally pop into chat, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2668/135943&quot;&gt;mentioned here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any areas where we would &lt;em&gt;benefit&lt;/em&gt; from having a sub-community as described above?  (If there weren't an &amp;quot;ask Ubuntu&amp;quot; site already, Ubuntu would be a good candidate.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;And another side question that's really off-topic for this site: does anyone know how to find, on SO, which tags really are the basis for &lt;em&gt;communities&lt;/em&gt; versus those tags that are just used for question categorization?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T19:36:32.270" Title="Are tag wikis mostly just for Stack Overflow?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4745" CreationDate="2018-01-12T06:15:26.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My activity nowadays is pretty much&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; just the review queue and keeping an eye on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pacman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pacman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pacman&lt;/a&gt;. So, I would say, yes, tag wikis can be helpful, although I doubt that I constitute a sub-community...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;1. And answering the odd meta question, obviously.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2018-01-12T06:15:26.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4748" CreationDate="2018-01-16T08:16:37.720" Score="17" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently observe that people inadvertently choose the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine&lt;/a&gt; (an email client) instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine-linux&lt;/a&gt;. See the recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/417405/sshpass-not-functioning-in-alpine-linux&quot;&gt;sshpass not functioning in alpine linux&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to remove the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine&lt;/a&gt; and replace it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine-email-client&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine-email-client&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine-email-client&lt;/a&gt; or another variation. There is a relevant discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4184&quot;&gt;The uphill battle for /alpine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66974" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-01-16T11:29:44.273" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T22:04:20.907" Title="Alpine and Alpine-Linux tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4747" CreationDate="2018-01-16T21:26:06.023" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I moved all existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine&lt;/a&gt; posts into either &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine-linux&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine-mail&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine-mail&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine-mail&lt;/a&gt;. I also put in a request to blacklist the tag since it still exists on Stack Overflow (where it's the distro), Super User (where it's the mail client), and Server Fault (where it's not specified), and all of them migrate to us regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm told that now that the tag is fully deleted, migrations won't recreate it. So &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine&lt;/a&gt; isn't blacklisted, but it will stay gone unless somebody &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;recreates it manually&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-01-16T22:04:20.907" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T22:04:20.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-18T01:51:09.173" Score="0" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that I am not able to see the vote counts on the mobile verstion of U&amp;amp;L SE, while I can do so in the normal web version. Am I missing some otherwise obvious operations, settings etc., or is it a feature to be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help will be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="259023" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T01:51:09.173" Title="Vote count on mobile web version" Tags="|feature-request|mobile|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4744" CreationDate="2018-01-18T16:42:28.557" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;libvirt is an API, libvirtd is a daemon that can be used by the libvirt API? not sure, but I would say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118526" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T16:42:28.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4745" CreationDate="2018-01-18T19:36:32.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That looks more like a mistake in the copy on the privilege description really. This paragraph doesn't describe the &lt;em&gt;tag wiki&lt;/em&gt;, it describes various features available around a tag. Tag wikis do not contain “top users in the tag” or “best recent answers in the tag”. Tag wikis often do contain frequently asked questions, but that happens only if someone has curated a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think “a place to consolidate and form a sub-community around a tag” is a good characterization of a tag wiki. It's a place to consolidate &lt;em&gt;information&lt;/em&gt; about the tag and the topic of the tag. Some typical contents of tag wikis include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A short definition explaining what the tag name means and what the tag is about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A general presentation of the topic of the tag, oriented towards typical users of the site (e.g. usage and installation guidance — this is typically quite different from what you'd find on Wikipedia, which has a different purpose).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;External links to documentation and tutorials about the topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usage guidance indicating when to use the tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mentions of related tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guidance on how to ask questions in that tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A list of frequently asked questions (typically, these are frequent duplicate targets, and not necessarily the questions with the highest vote or view count).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the tag, not all of these may be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why tag wikis would be more useful on Stack Overflow than other sites. Their usefulness has nothing to do with the number of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T19:36:32.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4744" CreationDate="2018-01-18T19:45:17.197" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see a difference in the type of questions that have one tag or the other. People seem to indifferently use one or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &lt;code&gt;libvirt&lt;/code&gt; library and the &lt;code&gt;libvirtd&lt;/code&gt; daemon interact with each other, and there is no alternative implementation of either as far as I know, very few issues involve only the library or only the daemon. Furthermore, “libvirt” is also the name of the project as a whole, including both the library and the daemon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I think the tags should be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone thinks the tags should remain separate, please:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain when one should use one or the other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain how this matches current usage. If it doesn't, explain how to avoid having too many people use the wrong tag in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that some questions about some aspect of libvirt should use different tags, then different tag names may be in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T19:45:17.197" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-19T14:29:38.807" Score="15" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/duplicate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; cover duplicate files, duplicate packages, duplicate lines and many more. Even if restricted to a specific usage, I can't think of any advantage of this tag, so I recommend to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216004" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T23:09:29.427" Title="Remove /duplicate tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-19T20:22:03.440" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu seems to be so relevant, that it has &lt;strong&gt;a dedicated Stack exchange page.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how do I know, &lt;strong&gt;when to post&lt;/strong&gt; at Ask&lt;s&gt;MintSuSEcentOSGentooArchWindowsReactOS&lt;/S&gt;Ubuntu and &lt;strong&gt;when to post at Unix/Linux.StackExchange.com?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter one is probably for more general questions. But I guess, that AskUB.SE would also fit for similar distributions such as LinuxMint or Ubuntu-Studio (which I use at the moment, burned DVD).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270469" LastActivityDate="2018-01-19T20:22:03.440" Title="AskUbuntu vs UnixLinux Stack: Where to post?" Tags="|discussion|support|ubuntu|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T20:26:53.637" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4758" CreationDate="2018-01-20T10:18:23.430" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would root own anything in my personal home directory? That goes&#xA;  against any ethical doctrine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an answer I posted. It stirred some opposing reactions, as it turned out. I also later opened a question concerning the matter. And then &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/418419/roots-property-in-peoples-homes?noredirect=1#comment751558_418419&quot;&gt;Kusulananda suggested&lt;/a&gt; I start a discussion here on Meta if I think it's worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/418383/what-are-the-standard-ownership-settings-for-files-in-the-gnupg-folder&quot;&gt;Here's the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/418385/181255&quot;&gt;Here's my answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/226895&quot;&gt;Here's the answer review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/418419/roots-property-in-peoples-homes&quot;&gt;Here's the new question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the discussion, I consider the answer valid basing on my experience, however small it be. Also a simple check for root-owned files in the home directory on my Debian confirmed my intuitive grasp of this apparently implicit philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two reviewers found the answer valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four reviewer, on the other hand, claim it should be deleted. The arguments on this side are that the answer is low quality and not an answer at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm bringing this here as I'm curious what a bigger forum might say. Possibly some constructive discussion evolves too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastEditorDisplayName="user147505" LastEditDate="2018-01-20T11:00:05.577" LastActivityDate="2018-01-20T11:00:05.577" Title="Some controversy over my answer on root's ownership in a home dir" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4756" CreationDate="2018-01-20T10:25:10.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text you posted as an answer starts with this sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would root own anything in my personal home directory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That... is not an answer. Not to the question presented there: &quot;What are the standard ownership settings for files in the &lt;code&gt;.gnupg&lt;/code&gt; folder?&quot;, and not for anything else. In fact, it's a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; of its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying its a question without merit, you might very well ask for reasonable situations to do that. But a question it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer would be something phrased like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The proper settings for &lt;i&gt;foobar&lt;/i&gt; are &lt;i&gt;baz and barf&lt;/i&gt;, because that makes it easier to &lt;i&gt;frobnicate foobar&lt;/i&gt; and besides, the standard &lt;i&gt;HJKL003&lt;/i&gt; from &lt;i&gt;1962&lt;/i&gt; requires it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2018-01-20T10:25:10.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4756" CreationDate="2018-01-20T10:34:52.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasoning behind my &quot;delete&quot; vote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer consists of a question (&quot;Why would root own anything in my personal home directory?&quot;) along with a personal opinion (&quot;That goes against any ethical doctrine.&quot;). It does not answer the question about what the ownership of the files in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/.gnupg&lt;/code&gt; should be, can be, or might be, and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons why files under &lt;code&gt;$HOME&lt;/code&gt; may be owned by root, including using &lt;code&gt;sudo&lt;/code&gt; to run certain software. In these cases, the answer should IMHO explain this along with some reasoning around the merits of changing or not changing the ownership of those files, and the possible outcome thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2018-01-20T10:34:52.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3892" CreationDate="2018-01-25T11:26:25.263" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can happen - I've had it happen to me on other SE site, even when the Q was clear that there was a request to have something &lt;em&gt;explained&lt;/em&gt;, not a request for &lt;em&gt;learning material&lt;/em&gt;. So it can probably happen here as well, my gut feel says &quot;probably&quot;, and as @terdon says, it's extremely important if the &lt;em&gt;OP&lt;/em&gt; feels the Q was unreasonably closed because that wasn't what they had wanted at all. @jasonwryan is also right, about people adopting canned answers for ease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like these, &lt;strong&gt;changing the wording&lt;/strong&gt; is often very effective as well as minimal effort.  Perhaps it would help to reword the canned reason. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;external learning resources&quot;&lt;/em&gt; rather that the vague sense of &quot;anything that helps you learn&quot;. It's a semantic difference but might help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This appears to be a request to find an answer elsewhere rather than directly from members of the community&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This appears to be a request for assistance in finding help elsewhere. If you have a specific question or issue, please reword the question to ask it directly from members of our community.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This appears to be a request to locate educational material. Questions should focus on a specific point or issue, and not just seek learning materials.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like that might help. It might not be identical to other SE site wording but would be clearer - and much less open to misinterpretation/misuse (by anyone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Semi-tongue in cheek: maybe ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ux.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;UX stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; what they reckon? :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120614" LastEditorUserId="120614" LastEditDate="2018-01-25T11:34:05.230" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T11:34:05.230" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-26T08:14:14.710" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152831/how-does-variable-function-definition-work-in-bash&quot;&gt;How does VARIABLE=() { function definition } work in bash&lt;/a&gt;. It was posted before the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shellshock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shellshock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shellshock&lt;/a&gt; vulnerability. Neither the question, nor the answer, nor any comment in the whole thread mentions anything about Shellshock. There's also no Bash version mentioned anywhere. So in today's reality this Q&amp;amp;A is out of space. Still, historically it's valuable. Now, the question is what to do with such threads? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer it with state of the art details and with a background in history.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Update the question and include the history.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just comment under the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark it somehow - how? A special tag? Title edit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close it with appropriate radio button option - this would be a feature request to SE I guess.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something still different. What?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastActivityDate="2018-01-28T09:05:33.583" Title="How to treat obsolete questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2018-01-26T20:34:13.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;quoting multiple lines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;line1&#xA;line2&#xA;line3&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-11-01T18:04:56.893" LastActivityDate="2018-11-01T18:04:56.893" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-26T20:34:13.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4761" CreationDate="2018-01-27T14:07:07.843" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My instinct would be #3 -- leave a comment under the question, if anything. Stack Exchange posts are timestamped, so visitors could determine the timeline of the question, answers, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/157381/117549&quot;&gt;Shellshock timeline&lt;/a&gt; to see what's relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-01-27T14:07:07.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4761" CreationDate="2018-01-28T09:05:33.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went for #2 and edited the question adding to it this warning at the top:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WARNING - this question is about the Bash before the shellshock&#xA;  vulnerability, due to which it was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the question again: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152831/how-does-variable-function-definition-work-in-bash&quot;&gt;How does VARIABLE=() { function definition } work in bash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastActivityDate="2018-01-28T09:05:33.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-29T05:12:04.400" Score="9" ViewCount="879" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt; for this year now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/4765&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2018-04-10T21:34:10.940" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2018" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-02-07T13:28:33.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-01-29T05:12:04.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1bHcV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T05:12:04.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-01-29T05:21:46.273" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXWI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T05:21:46.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-01-29T23:52:03.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PytX1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sawfish — the extensible window manager&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T23:52:03.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-01-29T23:54:52.797" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/jaguardesignstudio/why-zsh-is-cooler-than-your-shell-16194692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NyFcU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Why zsh is cooler than your shell&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T23:54:52.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-30T05:08:46.277" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/420572/how-to-copy-the-old-disk-data&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; started out as &quot;How do I copy data from an old &lt;code&gt;LVM&lt;/code&gt; installation&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered it by giving the user an appropriate solution, but it turned out that his &lt;code&gt;LVM&lt;/code&gt; installation was actually corrupt. So in chat the user asked me if I could help him recover his data, as I did not know how to do that, I asked the user to create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/420577/how-do-i-recover-a-lost-lvm-volume-group-not-found-by-vgscan-and-lvmdiskscan&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt; with the appropriate details to get an answer for that specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked the user to create a new question because I thought the answer I gave for the original question might help other people in the future that were looking for a solution to &lt;code&gt;mount&lt;/code&gt; and copy data from older &lt;code&gt;LVM&lt;/code&gt; installations, and also to make a more clean question asking for a specific answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have asked him to edit his question to request for help regarding the recovery of the partition or creating a new question was the appropriate thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237568" LastActivityDate="2018-01-30T05:08:46.277" Title="What to do when a user changes their question using details provided by an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-31T05:07:38.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4736" CreationDate="2018-01-30T17:14:09.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4736/80216#4737&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;that the OP should be encouraged to ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP edited the question in such a way that your answer is invalidated,&#xA;see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/43478/195817&quot;&gt;Exit strategies for “chameleon questions”&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/9514/150988&quot;&gt;OP edited question substantially after answer(s) were posted&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;as cited in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4736/80216#comment8363_4736&quot;&gt;the comment by Scott&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if the OP left the question alone,&#xA;and only &lt;em&gt;commented&lt;/em&gt; that they were looking for something else,&#xA;or if they edited the question to &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; qualifying details,&#xA;and you have posted a correct answer to the (original) question,&#xA;it’s not necessarily appropriate&#xA;to flag/close the question as “problem went away”. &#xA;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4770/80216&quot;&gt;What to do when a user changes their question&#xA;using details provided by an answer?&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;which discusses &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/420572/80216&quot; title=&quot;How to copy the old disk data?&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;which does not appear to have gone away on its own. &#xA;(The “Unclear” and “Too broad” options remain.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2018-01-30T17:14:09.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4773" CreationDate="2018-01-30T22:19:27.937" Score="14" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know if there is a particular time to delete - or not delete - an answer that's clearly wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the first revision of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/420788/1&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/420788/1&lt;/a&gt;, which aside from a lack of formatting, contains a fragment of (presumably untested) code. The code attempts to answer the question so it's on topic, but it's incorrect in at least one significant way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ignoring the lack of formatting&lt;/em&gt;, I cannot find a text that explains whether to vote to delete such questions or accept it because it does attempt to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept and move on, knowing the answer is on topic but faulty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote and/or comment, and move on, knowing the answer is on topic but faulty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to delete, to try and clean up &quot;wrong&quot; answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spend the time trying to fix what the author &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have intended (potentially tricky without hitting the prohibition on changing the author's intent)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2018-02-11T05:59:05.390" Title="When to vote to delete an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2018-01-30T22:38:42.280" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it’s on another site’s meta (Stack Overflow),&#xA;but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/287563/3960947&quot;&gt;You're doing it wrong:&#xA;A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;written by a moderator, with over 200 votes and minimal dissent,&#xA;says that wrong answers should be downvoted (ideally with a comment)&#xA;and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; deleted. &#xA;And it is an amplification of&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/271976&quot;&gt;Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;which is on the main Meta, is written by a moderator / community manager,&#xA;and has over 500 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is wrong but very close&#xA;(i.e., a good approach but with a typo),&#xA;it’s probably OK to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2018-01-30T22:38:42.280" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2018-01-30T22:39:18.527" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;When considering whether to delete an answer, I tend to follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;the available deletion reasons&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;commentary on the question or other answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;asking another, different question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“thanks!” or “me too!” responses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;exact duplicates of other answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;barely more than a link to an external site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not even a partial answer to the actual question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note though that the help centre doesn’t present this as an exhaustive list...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, the answer given was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe this will work, curl URL &gt; /path || tar -xvf /path/file.tar.bz or whatever is the extension&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Importantly in my assessment, it had a comment,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;||&lt;/code&gt; is a logical 'or' operator. It will cause the &lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt; command to only be executed if the &lt;code&gt;curl&lt;/code&gt; command returns a failure exit code. I asw your answer only because I offered to help new contributors to this site by offering advice, so I guess the advice would be to try out your answer before posting it. You may have meant to use the logical 'and' operator &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is really just a comment in my book: it’s tentatively suggesting a solution, without much effort. However deleting it would drop the comment, and the writer would be unlikely to learn anything from the exercise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I think the correct reaction to incorrect answers which are actually answers (unlike the one we’re discussing here) is either to edit them and salvage them, or to downvote them, perhaps with a comment, and move on. Trying to delete incorrect answers is tempting, but it’s a slippery slope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T05:20:46.117" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T05:20:46.117" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2018-01-30T23:08:11.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an answer that provides some code or command as a solution should also provide either of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An explanation of what the code does, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An explanation of why the author thinks that code will work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without either of these, an inexperienced visitor to that answer has little hope of correcting or even spotting mistakes in the code. Experienced people could correct the code, but they may not be able to tell the author where they went wrong, which could be in multiple places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have enough sites on the internet filling up with posts that go &quot;maybe try this [one-liner/100-line monstrosity without comments]&quot; without any explanation as to why I should try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-01-30T23:08:11.277" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-02-01T19:23:34.177" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fedoramagazine.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OuRao.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora distro news for users&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T19:23:34.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-02-01T19:24:50.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6W5d.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Fedora Server: The latest technology and a stable foundation for your  apps and services.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T19:24:50.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-02-01T19:26:05.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/workstation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5iLoy.gif&quot; alt=&quot;The Linux workstation you&amp;#39;ve been waiting for&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T19:26:05.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-02-01T19:27:59.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://getfedora.org/atomic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nziWL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Create and run applications in Linux containers.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2511" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T19:27:59.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-03T20:37:56.397" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering what is the best way to handle old questions and/or answers that may be out-of-date, but which I would like an up-to-date answer to? For example, one question I am looking at is about 5 years' old; however, computing can progress quite a lot in 5 years and I feel that some of the answers may be outdated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it considered legit to post a duplicate of an old question, if I think it or its answers are outdated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, perhaps I could suggest an edit of the existing question; adding a note at the bottom to explain why I think it is out-of-date and ask if anyone can find an up-to-date solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example I am looking at is the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68581/how-can-i-prevent-windows-from-overwriting-grub-when-using-a-dual-boot-machine/90752#90752&quot;&gt;How can I prevent Windows from overwriting GRUB when using a dual-boot machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the accepted answer is out-of-date because I have a dual-boot machine with Windows 8/Linux and have disabled automatic Windows updates. However, I swear that it is wiping over GRUB every time I just &lt;em&gt;boot&lt;/em&gt; into Windows (no update occurring). It is possible that more recent Windows updates may be becoming more aggressive towards GNU/Linux, compared to when these answers were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="257802" LastEditorUserId="257802" LastEditDate="2018-02-03T21:38:08.037" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T11:47:39.407" Title="How to request updates to out-of-date questions/answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2018-02-03T21:23:22.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a standard bounty reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ptgvo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ptgvo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're sure that a new answer is likely, offer a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-02-03T21:23:22.497" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2018-02-05T11:47:39.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your question has two possibilities. I would create a new question if you feel like an existing question's parameters are out-of-date -- a different situation may require a different solution. If, on the other hand, you have a new solution for an existing problem, then simply add a new Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T11:47:39.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-02-06T03:23:07.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/97295/devops&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/97295.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117333" LastEditorUserId="117333" LastEditDate="2018-02-06T03:28:26.173" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T03:28:26.173" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-02-06T03:37:00.543" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-02-06T19:51:29.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/unix.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;See all questions with active bounties&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9454" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T19:51:29.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2018-02-11T05:59:05.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll vote to delete a bad answer that comes up in the review queue if it's dangerously wrong and either unfixable or if whoever answered it shows no inclination to fix it.  I probably wouldn't flag it for deletion myself unless it also met one of the other deletion criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unlikely to edit the answer to fix it unless it was a very trivial error, a typo or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm even less likely to edit a command-only answer (whether correct or not) to add an explanation.  The boundary between &quot;helping&quot; and &quot;subverting authorial intent&quot; is far too blurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question or topic was interesting to me (and if none of the existing answers covered ground I thought was important), I'd be more inclined to write my own answer where I could write whatever I liked without having to be concerned about what the original author intended.  If it wasn't interesting, I'd either vote to delete or click on &quot;Skip&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I don't think that even a great comment on a really bad answer is a good enough reason to not delete the answer.  Comments are ephemeral, even highly-upvoted comments, and some readers don't read comments (or explanations) anyway - they just see something easy to cargo-cult into their shell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7696" LastActivityDate="2018-02-11T05:59:05.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4787" CreationDate="2018-02-13T17:23:14.837" Score="27" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to ask questions like &quot;what is the etymology of hdparm command name?&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General topic matches &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;Shell scripting&quot;, &quot;Applications packaged in *nix distributions&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not explicitly rejected by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main problem that I see is that while for some commands there may be some obviously correct answer for others the best answers is &quot;it appears to be unclear&quot; and it is impossible to guess it before asking (except cases of self-answered questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I earlier thought that askubuntu would fit but I was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/17664/349903&quot;&gt;directed here as answers typically would not be Ubuntu specific, though it was suggested that this type of question is rather OK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found some examples of this type of questions that seem to be accepted: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108235/why-bitchx-is-called-bitchx&quot;&gt;Why BitchX is called BitchX?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/76484/why-is-dmesg-called-dmesg&quot;&gt;Why is dmesg called dmesg?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233237/etymology-of-descriptor-in-file-descriptor&quot;&gt;Etymology of &amp;quot;descriptor&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;file descriptor&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/355168/what-does-touch-stand-for&quot;&gt;What does &amp;#39;touch&amp;#39; stand for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;though it is impossible for me to guess to see what is nowadays a typical reaction to this type of this questions (I am unable to see deleted ones, maybe I encountered rare case of not deleted ones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92199" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-02-14T11:12:09.730" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T08:49:44.197" Title="Is it OK to ask question about etymology of command names?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4786" CreationDate="2018-02-14T14:34:25.943" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to post this as an answer, but since this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;, here goes. I can see some value in gathering historic information at U&amp;amp;L, if there are people who know (or know people who know) the answer to such a question. &quot;Why&quot; questions could have evidence behind the answers, or may have an unknown origin. The worst-case scenario is that it gets (and remains) closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-02-14T14:34:25.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-15T17:35:55.057" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, my query generated the following message:  put on hold as too broad ... -specific users listed-.  Is it appropriate for me to contact each of the listed users, stating my reasons for disagreeing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112507" LastActivityDate="2018-02-15T18:18:49.787" Title="what if i disagree with my question being put on hold" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4788" CreationDate="2018-02-15T18:18:49.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate for me to contact each of the listed users, stating my reasons for disagreeing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, please don't do that. If you edit a recently closed post to try and improve it, it's automatically put in a queue to be reviewed and possibly reopened. If that still doesn't work, you can click the &quot;flag&quot; link under the post and choose &quot;in need of moderator intervention&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question seems fine, but was a bit verbose; I shortened it while trying not to remove any relevant information that the people answering it would need. It's reopened now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-02-15T18:18:49.787" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4793" CreationDate="2018-02-16T09:50:04.240" Score="-1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone goes question after question of mine and downvotes, what can be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This manner is extremely unlikely to be natural; It all happened in 10 minutes. What can be done against that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="258010" LastEditorUserId="258010" LastEditDate="2018-02-16T10:15:26.807" LastActivityDate="2018-02-18T21:45:10.247" Title="Someone goes question after question of mine and downvotes, what can be done?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-16T10:12:39.263" Score="2" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;My comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/424412/157411&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt&lt;/a&gt; - Have you consulted the &lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt; man page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that the answer is not in the tar man page, why is it relevant whether &amp;lt;asker&amp;gt; consulted it? Please don't import the “RTFM” or the “if you don't know the answer, you haven't done enough research” culture that you may have found on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Given the facts that, as stated in both answers, the man page provides hints about appending to compressed archives, and tar would throw an error if you try, I regard both &quot;no research&quot; and &quot;no attempt&quot; as valid. The basic problem could've been solved by somebody clever enough to use a command line in general with a bit of autonomous trial&amp;amp;error, which I encourage the asker to apply next time. Merely &amp;lt;answerer&amp;gt;'s insightful hint provides something worthwhile here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this site exists to help people, not to abuse them for failing to know stuff. not everyone is instantly capable of magically extrapolating every possible use-case from a cryptic hint in a man page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teaching how to fish&lt;/em&gt; is usually considered a kind of help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could have downvoted the question and just left, or simply ignored it in the first place. Instead I provided hints about what I think was lacking, without any prospect of gaining reputation out of it. As a result I'm bashed as if being destructive in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's really something wrong with the reactions, accusing me of things I didn't say or hint. Especially I consider the second reaction being abusive on its own, trying to impose its point of view on me with a sledge hammer. And I suspect these are just symptoms of something bigger going on around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is pointing out the shortcomings of a mediocre question seriously considered abusive here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157411" LastEditorUserId="157411" LastEditDate="2018-02-16T11:27:29.257" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T16:24:51.493" Title="&quot;Teaching how to fish&quot; considered abusive?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4791" CreationDate="2018-02-16T12:57:08.347" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that simply dropping a link to idownvotedbecau.se comes across as pretentious and condescending. Compare your comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch, idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt - Have you consulted the tar man page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To a more constructive version of the same thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what you want to do is adequately explained in the manual of tar (see &lt;code&gt;man tar&lt;/code&gt;). We expect users to research their questions before asking here. Please see idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch and idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt for help on asking good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is not teaching someone to fish. It feels more like attacking someone for not knowing how to fish. The second is a better attempt at teaching. Tone is very important, especially in text-based communication where, since there are no physical cues, it is easy to read something as more aggressive than intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, berating someone because they don't know something that's mentioned in the man page of &lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt; is absurd. Tar is notorious for being hard to use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TSEyb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TSEyb.png&quot; alt=&quot;tar xkcd comic&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/1168/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;xkcd:tar comic&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its manual is a whopping 1163 lines on my Arch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ man tar | wc&#xA;   1163    5160   45964&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And man pages in general are not easy to understand. They are completely&#xA;opaque to newbies and even experienced users can have trouble with them. Now, if the question were something as simple as &amp;quot;how can I create a tar archive&amp;quot;, then I could understand downvoting (although not leaving those pretentious comments with nothing but a link to idonvotedbecau.se). But this was a considerably more complex proposition and finding the answer in the &amp;gt;1k line manual isn't trivial. Especially since the actual answer is that tar cannot do it and you need to decompress first and then recompress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary, your comment comes across as rude and condescending. You berate the user for not taking the time to search and yet you didn't even take the time to write anything more than a link and a &amp;quot;did you check the man page&amp;quot;. I get that you were trying to help, but it certainly didn't feel like it. Remember that new users don't know the rules so first you explain the rules and then you can escalate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, you seemed to be treating it as a very simple issue when it was not. So yeah, if you want to use the idownvotededbecau.se links, take care to express yourself clearly and not just dump that link. Looking at your comments page, I see loads and loads of comments consisting of nothing but a link to those idownvotedbecau.se sites! No explanation, no nothing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, no of course teaching people to fish isn't abusive. There's just a difference between teaching people to fish and pushing them into the lake for daring to ask about fishing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-12-21T16:24:51.493" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T16:24:51.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4790" CreationDate="2018-02-16T16:56:09.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only quote the FAQ page I linked to in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What if I think I'm the victim of voting fraud?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the voting fraud is in the progress of happening or just happened recently, don't worry about it. You should wait at least 24 hours after noticing before becoming concerned. The system should detect it and reverse it for you. Please &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; try to get help on this issue on meta or by flagging for a moderator. All they will do is tell you to wait for the voting fraud script to run (they can't run it for you just this once).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the 24 hours has already passed and the suspicious votes have not been reversed, you can then flag one of your own posts and explain what happened so a moderator can look into it. It is generally preferred that you &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; asking about them on a site's meta, since details of the investigation cannot be divulged and you won't actually get any information that will be useful to other members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See also:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/212332/what-should-you-do-if-youre-serial-downvoted-its-not-automatically-reversed/212339&quot;&gt;What should you do if you&amp;#39;re serial downvoted &amp;amp; it isn&amp;#39;t automatically reversed within 24 hours?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-02-16T16:56:09.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4791" CreationDate="2018-02-16T17:34:00.840" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally dislike the comments with links to the &quot;I downvote because&quot; site because they are not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just downvote, and if you feel strongly about it or have a particular reason to downvote that you'd like to share, then write it up in such a way that the person who's asking the question will understand why their particular question is lacking and how they may improve upon it. Or even better, suggest what could be improved, possibly through a counter-question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4792/116858&quot;&gt;like terdon&lt;/a&gt;, I think linking to that site is (or could easily be perceived as) rude and condescending, and also a bit lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently had a argument in a comment section (now deleted) with someone linking to the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/193815/how-do-i-use-man-pages-to-learn-how-to-use-commands&quot;&gt;How do I use man pages to learn how to use commands?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; with no explanation, suggestion or request for clarification. I took it as sarcasm (&quot;patronizing&quot; might have been a better word) while they insisted they were helping and further implied that they were tired of writing the same thing over and over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are tired of helping, then take a step back from the machine and do something else for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is in a manual, then write the answer, showing how to do whatever the user wants to do, possibly pointing out alternative ways of achieving the same goal while mentioning any pitfalls (if there are any), and then also point out what the manual (at least on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; system) says about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the final question: &lt;em&gt;Is pointing out the shortcomings of a mediocre question seriously considered abusive here?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Not if it's done in such a way that it actually leads to a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; formulation or a generally more clear question. Pointing to a manual will not do this, neither will saying &quot;try harder&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix manuals very seldom explain how to do things. They are &lt;em&gt;descriptions of tools&lt;/em&gt;, and do not usually contain tutorials about how to &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; the tools to do particular things under specific circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question, the user wants to do something to &quot;thousands of&quot; compressed &lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt; archives (if that is what a &lt;code&gt;.tbz&lt;/code&gt; file is). The &lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt; manual does simply not say anything about how to go about doing this, no matter how many times one reads it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answering the question, therefore, one may show how to do the needed operation on &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the files, and then how to generalize this into thousands of files. No manual will contain this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-02-19T14:10:06.497" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T14:10:06.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4790" CreationDate="2018-02-18T21:45:10.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should note that several of your posts have multiple down votes. &#xA;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/421633/23408&quot; title=&quot;Too many script declaration lines&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; has six. &#xA;That means that at least six different users are down voting your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in a quick scan of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/273994/user9303970?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=post&quot;&gt;your reputation history&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;I don’t see any clusters of many down votes in a ten-minute period. &#xA;Have they been removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastActivityDate="2018-02-18T21:45:10.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4797" CreationDate="2018-02-18T23:15:38.663" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;sorry if this is the wrong place to post this; but I just got my first computer running linux mint, and have some questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the best place to ask them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="276674" OwnerDisplayName="Ian Rocker" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T09:38:44.890" Title="Best place for Mint Questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4796" CreationDate="2018-02-19T09:38:44.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is a good place to ask questions relating to Linux Mint (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;the main site&lt;/a&gt;, not this Meta site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is related to Linux Mint &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt;, then add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-mint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-mint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-mint&lt;/a&gt; tag to the question along with any other tags that are relevant. If it's not specific to the distribution, but to Linux, then add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag.  Otherwise, depending on what the question is about, just add the appropriate tags (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to parsing text files).  Other users may re-tag your question if appropriate (so don't worry about it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;The Help Center&lt;/a&gt; about asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T09:38:44.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-19T22:48:23.727" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/425245/replicate-an-ubuntu-server-onto-another-ubuntu-server&quot;&gt;Replicate an Ubuntu server onto another ubuntu server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to get better at asking questions on stack exchange websites. I know this question is of poor quality and I am too inexperienced to understand how and what I should change. In the question I was asking how to replicate the contents of the server I have onto a newer and stronger server. This was quickly downvoted indicating this question was either not following community guidelines or unhelpful to the community. I've read the community guidelines again since posting and still have some questions. Could any of you chime in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="276816" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2018-03-03T10:28:24.190" LastActivityDate="2018-03-03T10:39:09.370" Title="How was this question inadequate" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-20T08:06:35.697" Score="21" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not really a question but more of a request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a few questions about compromised servers running malware (usually cryptocurrency miners) but also other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When answering questions like this, I personally believe that it is our responsibility to to point the user to the answers to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/218005/how-do-i-deal-with-a-compromised-server&quot;&gt;How do I deal with a compromised server?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;-question over at ServerFault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be interesting to figure out what the malware is, or what commands a hacker typed in, or any number of similar interesting things, but at the same time, we are dealing with &lt;em&gt;a victim of an ongoing crime&lt;/em&gt;, and they should get the best possible help from us that we can give.  That help should at least include linking to the ServerFault question that I linked to above (unless you're a security expert that can write a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answer than Rob Moir's top answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; assume that the person asking is an hobbyist who just happens to run Linux on his home computer and that the potential fallout is negligible. It may be that they are at a company whose servers just got hacked, or that their home-office machine is being used as a jump host to access others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to answer &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/395284/how-can-i-kill-minerd-malware-on-an-aws-ec2-instance-compromised-server&quot;&gt;How can I kill minerd malware on an AWS EC2 instance? (compromised server)&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to the best of my ability a little while back (and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/425290/need-help-understanding-suspicious-ssh-commands&quot;&gt;Need help understanding suspicious SSH commands&lt;/a&gt;&quot; today), while also noting that as an admin or user of a compromised server, one may be legally obliged to report incidents within a certain time-frame (depending on where in the world one operates).  This is, I believe, not covered by the SeverFault answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a security expert, and odds are that you aren't one either. Read the ServerFault question and the top answers and help users who finds themselves with these kinds of security issues by alerting them to the potential severity and to the advice in the answers (by linking to the question ideally, not by retelling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I can't tell people how to answer questions here, but I just thought I'd mention this anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-02-20T11:32:52.103" LastActivityDate="2018-03-09T11:13:30.053" Title="Questions about malware and compromised or hacked servers" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2018-02-20T09:32:39.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question does not look off-topic to me, but it is certainly quite broad. It says &quot;copy the entire server&quot; which could be divided up into &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;replicating the installed software&quot; (you got an answer relating to this) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;replicating custom software configurations&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;replicating user data&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;testing the new server&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of these require a very different answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in favor for closing the question due to its broadness (I did not vote on it), but I also recognize that it may be difficult to formulate specific enough questions that wouldn't be too broad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule of thumb, trying things out by yourself and then reporting exactly what you have done (a specific task rather than the whole project of replicating the entire server), why it did not work (verbatim error messages etc.) and what you expected to happen, will most likely generate the best answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-02-20T09:46:57.407" LastActivityDate="2018-02-20T09:46:57.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-02-20T20:32:59.517" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W7tsP.gif&quot; alt=&quot;OpenBSD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="261470" LastActivityDate="2018-02-20T20:32:59.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-20T21:27:51.390" Score="-1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to become a better reviewer and I am seeing posts in the 'Low Quality Posts' review queue that are flagged for review 'Because of their length and content'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I see answers there that are flagged for review where the only thing I can see wrong with the answer is this it appears to be incorrect, or the solution didn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples aside (or take the simplest case where there is a clear error or false assumption in the answer), is this a valid reason for recommending deletion or should we leave the 'veracity' of an answer up to the community by voting on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been marking these 'Looks OK' but I want to be sure that I am not missing something here and burning up someone's flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW I am not seeing any gross amount of these scenarios, just a few here and there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42920" LastActivityDate="2018-02-20T22:11:59.527" Title="Should answers be closed because they are wrong?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-02-21T13:08:37.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4802" CreationDate="2018-02-20T22:11:59.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers can't be closed, that's a state that only applies to questions, but I assume you mean deleted. If the answer misunderstood the question and isn't addressing what the question is asking, it should be deleted. If it understood the question but got the answer wrong, it should be downvoted, but we don't delete answers just for being wrong. At one point someone suggested adding a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/202343/145982&quot;&gt;disabled &quot;wrong answer&quot; option&lt;/a&gt; to the flag dialog to help avoid &quot;not an answer&quot; flags in that situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-02-20T22:11:59.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4786" CreationDate="2018-02-21T08:49:44.197" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note that some research effort is expected from people who ask questions here, so simply asking &quot;Why is &lt;code&gt;hdparm&lt;/code&gt; called hdparm?&quot;, you'll likely get downvoted. Don't set your expectations too high because you see that some such questions are well-received: it's a known effect of the HNQ list. General curiosity questions sometimes get there and receive their share of upvotes from people coming from other sites, regardless of quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T08:49:44.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4791" CreationDate="2018-02-25T10:44:27.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, there are two sides in the equation, both users asking questions and the people answering are not exactly automatons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fine line should be drawn between helping people who are making an effort or not, and between low or better quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pointing out shortcomings or clues about the answer should not and cannot be considered abusive, unless being unnecessarily rude; at the end of the day we are volunteering time for free, and often some sensitivities about any kind of critiques are quite wrongly displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP just wants to maximize their investment on time vs an answer, and often in many questions, are not even willing to lose time adding more data or clarifying the question when requested, up to a stretch, it is a perversion to be a burden on our side to invest far much more time on a question than the interested party is willing to invest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst not entirely frequent, we also have people that feel entitled to an answer, and forget we are not getting paid for helping them. The fact I am here helping people does not prevent me from choosing what questions I can consider best for investing my time answering. More serious yet, we often have OPs here telling us to be quiet about comments or otherwise answer. (....) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are people that do not take well that we ask for a minimum of competence in English, and forget this in an English-speaking forum. I often wonder if they do not take well being asked to write proper English, why they do not visit similar forums in their native tongue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, an even more important aspect — much more important — is the quality of the database of questions and answers we are building. If we are more lenient in what passes as a good question or answer, the quality of the database will suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the side of someone who is answering questions, all in all, often the collaborative moderation seems a bit slower for abuses of the system/intentional dupes and abusive people coming here demanding their right to answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst we seem all too much concerned about being PC, this site is often being clearly abused as a quick substitute for Google, or at any remotely competent question for being known as an hangout for some knowledgeable people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we have frequently interesting questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-03-03T12:56:20.890" LastActivityDate="2018-03-03T12:56:20.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-26T02:43:35.367" Score="14" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question earlier today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/426491/how-can-i-prevent-windows-from-overwriting-grub-on-my-dual-boot-machine?noredirect=1#comment769247_426491&quot;&gt;How can I prevent Windows from overwriting GRUB on my dual-boot machine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I was surprised that several people are suggesting it is off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, there is a similar question that was asked 4 years ago, which was received very positively:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68581/how-can-i-prevent-windows-from-overwriting-grub-when-using-a-dual-boot-machine&quot;&gt;How can I prevent Windows from overwriting GRUB when using a dual-boot machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is not a duplicate, because my situation is different (the answers to the older question did not help); however, I linked it in my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, U&amp;amp;L has two separate tags for both 'dual-boot' and 'windows', so why would a question that relates to dual-booting with Windows be off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the policy towards dual-boot questions changed in the 4 years since that earlier question was asked? If so, perhaps the 'dual-boot' and 'windows' tags should be removed, and all dual-boot questions moved to Superuser SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something seems inconsistent here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="257802" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-02-26T19:17:23.803" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T22:50:12.943" Title="Since when are questions about dual-booting off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2018-02-26T03:42:36.703" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows&lt;/a&gt; tag's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/windows/info&quot;&gt;info page&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about Windows itself are off-topic on this site. If Windows knowledge is required to answer your question, you are more likely to reach an appropriate audience at &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, or at &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; if your question is that of a professional system administrator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important part is &quot;If Windows knowledge is required to answer your question&quot;. In the case of the question you linked to, the accepted answer sidestepped the title and explained how to use a Linux live CD to reinstall GRUB. Your question seems to specifically be rejecting that method and asking how to disable a Windows feature. Whatever the solution is, it's going to require Windows knowledge; your Linux install will have nothing to do with it. You're looking for someone with Windows expertise on a site full of people using other OSes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T03:42:36.703" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4809" CreationDate="2018-02-28T15:49:46.383" Score="6" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/426946/47505&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; yesterday as spam. I flagged it because the answer was added to a very old question (from 2011) and praised a commercial solution. The original question was very well answered and has received a LOT of attention (&gt;140k views).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only received the information in my &quot;Flagged Post&quot;-History that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to communicate with the moderator about this? I'd find it perfectly okay if the rules of U&amp;amp;L allowed for posts like this and would like a hint to better judge the next posts like this. Or if the post is not okay with the rules why it wasn't accepted as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47505" LastEditorUserId="47505" LastEditDate="2018-02-28T17:15:58.370" LastActivityDate="2021-11-11T13:18:15.917" Title="How to &quot;communicate&quot; with a moderator about declined spam flags?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|flags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4808" CreationDate="2018-03-01T10:22:56.453" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/117549/jeff-schaller&quot;&gt;Jeff Schaller&lt;/a&gt; when he wrote his comment above, I’m not a moderator...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However to get in touch with a moderator, I think the best way is to @ one of them in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;the main chat room&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22222/terdon&quot;&gt;terdon&lt;/a&gt; is usually quite responsive there, which means he gets to deal with this kind of stuff ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as spam goes, I think the practice here is to allow &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; which “advertise” a tool the answer’s author is involved with, as long as the answer itself is useful. The spam flag description says “Exists only to promote a product or service, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/promotion&quot;&gt;does not disclose the author's affiliation&lt;/a&gt;.”, and the linked page explains what’s considered acceptable in detail; I get the impression the disclosure requirement isn’t strictly upheld by the moderators, which is fine in my opinion as long as the relationship is reasonably obvious and as long as the answer isn’t egregious advertising (which doesn’t help much since it’s subjective...). In this instance, the answer’s author clearly mentions his involvement in his &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/243607/fvidalmolina&quot;&gt;bio&lt;/a&gt;, which I suppose is sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s worth considering that most of the posts which get dealt with as spam here are clearly spam, utterly unrelated to the question they’re posted on or even the site’s purpose altogether (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; face cream adverts etc.). That might “taint” the flag in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had the same question myself a few years ago after flagging a similar answer and seeing the flag declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2019-11-19T12:49:39.293" LastActivityDate="2019-11-19T12:49:39.293" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2018-03-03T10:39:09.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid you were unlucky. The close reason that people picked is wrong: you definitely weren't requesting learning materials. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4800&quot;&gt;Kusalananda argues that your question is too broad&lt;/a&gt;, but I can't agree with that: we've had similar questions before. I'm a bit surprised yours got such a poor reception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that this site is growing up, and moving from small-town habits to large-city habits. It's becoming more like Stack Overflow, with more attention paid to (partially unwritten) rules and less attention paid to the goal of the rules. Here the goal being that “too broad” is for questions that cannot reasonably be answered on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't vote to reopen the question because it would be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2865/moving-linux-install-to-a-new-computer&quot;&gt;Moving linux install to a new computer&lt;/a&gt; . (There may be points that aren't covered by this generic question, but then you'd need to ask a specific question about each of those points.) This question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cloning?sort=votes&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;the second-highest scoring question tagged /cloning&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/migration?sort=votes&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;the highest-scoring question tagged /migration&lt;/a&gt;. On this site it's often a good idea to do a tag-based search. (Admittedly the tag names aren't obvious here, unfortunately there isn't a single well-established term for this concept.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-03-03T10:39:09.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4791" CreationDate="2018-03-03T11:04:06.923" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Teaching how to fish is not considered abusive. Slapping people with a fish is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did not teach the asker how to fish. Your comment consisted solely of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The slap: a pair of links to generic advice which you were too lazy to even put in a proper sentence, let alone customize to the situation at hand. This is quite rude: you're going out of your way to leave a comment (if you wanted to expend a minimum of energy, you could have stuck to voting), but not so much out of your way to address the particular situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add injury to insult, only one of the links is applicable, but it's dubious whether it's relevant. You cannot tell that the asker has done no research: they may well have done research and found nothing (and in this case, finding nothing is the plausible outcome of doing a reasonable amount of research). There is indeed no attempt, but an attempt is not required, does not necessarily make the question easier to answer, and usually leads to less useful answers because the answers have to cover what's wrong with the attempt &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;which may not be on the path to solving the problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A wrong teaching: you asked whether the asker had consulted the man page. Consulting the manual is a good idea, but answers are not always easy to understand, so the fact that the answer is in the manual does not always make the question a bad question. It depends how easy it is to find the answer. But in any case, here, the answer is not in the man page. So if you think you're teaching someone to fish by pointing them to a pond which doesn't host any fish, you're doing it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I could have downvoted the question and just left, or simply ignored it in the first place. Instead I provided hints about what I think was lacking, without any prospect of gaining reputation out of it. As a result I'm bashed as if being destructive in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you didn't have any constructive advice, you should have ignored the question. Some of your generic advice would have been valuable if it had been applicable. If you don't want to spend the time checking whether your advice is applicable, just move on, or at least clearly indicate what you aren't sure of. If you'd left a comment like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tar has options to deal with compressed archives, have you checked the manual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then the most likely outcome would have been a couple of upvotes on your comment, and perhaps a reply like “The manual says that these options don't work when updating or concatenating.”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is pointing out the shortcomings of a mediocre question seriously considered abusive here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly isn't. As long as they're real shortcomings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-03-03T12:58:18.360" LastActivityDate="2018-03-03T12:58:18.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-05T21:07:39.473" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question that was subsequently put on hold.  I agree with the hold-reasons and think that this question should be deleted from the website.  As the original poster, how do I make such a request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112507" LastActivityDate="2018-03-07T16:05:14.397" Title="how do I request that my question be deleted" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4812" CreationDate="2018-03-05T21:26:46.830" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a delete link under your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HvFZg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HvFZg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;delete link for question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do nothing (and the question does not have any up-votes, nor any answers with upvotes), the system will delete it automatically after 9 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/307535&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The system will automatically delete closed (not as a duplicate), unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no positively scored or accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed 9 or more days ago and haven't been edited in the past 9 days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T21:26:46.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4812" CreationDate="2018-03-06T11:35:25.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In cases when a question &lt;em&gt;must be deleted now&lt;/em&gt;, maybe because it contains sensitive information that shouldn't have gone into the text in the first place, flag the question with &quot;in need of moderator intervention&quot; as the reason and explain what has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-03-07T16:05:14.397" LastActivityDate="2018-03-07T16:05:14.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-06T17:03:44.687" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;A cursory search of metaU&amp;amp;L didn't show anything, so I am going to ask freshly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a policy with questions that seem to be looking for assistance with malicious code?  I understand that we are supposed to presume good faith, but when someone is asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/428561/how-to-execute-a-base64-string&quot;&gt;how to obfuscate calls to &lt;code&gt;os.system()&lt;/code&gt; with base64-encoded payloads&lt;/a&gt; and, when asked about it in a comment, replies (in part) &quot;this is for command execution vulnerability&quot;, my presumption of good faith (which was admittedly weak to start with) wanes substantially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should such questions be flagged, ignored, or actually answered in a presumption of good faith?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20246" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T17:03:44.687" Title="How to handle questions with (apparent) malicious intent?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-03-06T18:28:03.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4799" CreationDate="2018-03-09T07:45:21.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As some have pointed out in comments, it may be a good idea to write a canonical Q/A on the topic of &quot;I have been hacked, what do I do?&quot; (or similar) that is specific to U&amp;amp;L (in the same manner as e.g. Gilles' &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;Kali Linux Q/A&lt;/a&gt; or any of Stéphane's many questions).  To be honest I didn't actually think about this as I thought that the ServerFault Q/A seemed to cover the topic nicely, but I do think it would have some merits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We could close questions as duplicates of this new Q/A. Not that we get &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; of these types of questions, but we've had a handful over the last six months, as far as I have seen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could be specific to the most commonly used Unix variants, and/or to common situation (e.g. cloud-hosted VM).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be easier for us to keep it up to date.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that I'm unqualified to write such an answer (I could probably write the question though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if we have anyone here that feel up to the task to write an answer (possibly as a community wiki answer) that would cover most of the aspects of responding to a user that has had a machine compromised or noticed that a machine that they are using are doing highly unusual things, taking into account that we most likely have Unix users of quite varied types (ranging from hobbyists and students to professionals and professional system administrators)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob Moir (who wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/a/218011&quot;&gt;the most upvoted answer at ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;) seems at least somewhat interested, and I would welcome input from him and anybody else who thinks this may be a good idea (or not a good idea, as the case may be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-03-09T11:13:30.053" LastActivityDate="2018-03-09T11:13:30.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4818" CreationDate="2018-03-09T09:33:03.107" Score="8" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was able to solve my problem based on the advice given here - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/429157/imake-not-picking-up-header-files&quot;&gt;Imake and header files&lt;/a&gt; but I would like to know whether I can continue to ask questions on the same topic one question at a time. Is this discouraged and closed or it is on topic at Unix and Linux SE ? By that I mean the software is not compiling and one fix leads to other errors. Can I ask my questions in a series related to compilation of the same product ? I will obviously space it out over time and I try my level best to solve it myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user119034" LastActivityDate="2018-03-22T07:57:40.253" Title="Is asking a series of questions discouraged?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2018-03-09T10:31:35.587" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is not discouraged to ask follow-up questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, avoid asking a series of &lt;em&gt;very similar&lt;/em&gt; questions, and avoid using questions and answers as an interactive chat session to debug a particular thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A section in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; mentions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We like to help as many people at a time as we can. Make it clear how your question is relevant to more people than just you, and more of us will be interested in your question and willing to look into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;along with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question? Sharing your research helps everyone. Tell us what you found and why it didn’t meet your needs. This demonstrates that you’ve taken the time to try to help yourself, it saves us from reiterating obvious answers, and above all, it helps you get a more specific and relevant answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your problem with &lt;code&gt;imake&lt;/code&gt;:  I answered the question to the best of my ability, with the information given in the question.  Had you provided more information about exactly &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; piece of software you tried to build, I would &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; have been able to see for myself, on my own machine, what the issue was and come up with a much more detailed and complete solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible issue with a series of follow-up questions is that the individuals that look at the questions do not know what it is you're &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; want to do.  You say you're wanting to do &quot;X&quot;, but it's actually &quot;Y&quot; that is the main issue that you're trying to solve. It is conceivable that solving &quot;X&quot; might even make it &lt;em&gt;harder&lt;/em&gt; to solve the real problem &quot;Y&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, copying that &lt;code&gt;site.def&lt;/code&gt; file to a new location may solve the immediate problem of it not being found by the build process, but in doing so, it may mess something else up further down the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I initially just left a comment rather than an answer on that particular question. I knew that my &lt;code&gt;imake&lt;/code&gt;-foo was not up to scratch and I wanted to give a workaround that might have worked (but it didn't actually work completely in the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-03-09T10:42:06.773" LastActivityDate="2018-03-09T10:42:06.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4822" CreationDate="2018-03-10T02:28:05.813" Score="7" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to improve the site where I can; one of my many SEDE queries looks for common typos. Ideally, I would fill some smallish amount of time going through those posts and correcting the typos. When I find posts to edit, I do my best to polish them up the best I can (adding formatting and other grammatical improvements for readability). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The side effect I'm asking about here is on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;Active Questions&lt;/a&gt; view/tab on the site. Currently, I &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to limit myself to 3-5 edits per sitting, so as not to flood the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to edit more posts than that per-sitting, if I have time, but I don't want to upset people's view into the site. Sunday mornings are a favorite of mine, mainly because the SEDE data is the freshest then, but I often tackle the edits during the week as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you enjoy the active questions view? How many batch-edited posts in a row would be reasonable for you to see? Are there times of the Stack Exchange day where my batch-editing would more-avoid your ire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-03-10T02:36:05.480" LastActivityDate="2018-03-11T09:04:03.247" Title="Preferences for batch-mode edits?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1245" CreationDate="2018-03-10T14:25:38.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it would be nice to be informed of edits to a post which one has downvoted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a similar thought, and chased it down through &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/272068/307535&quot;&gt;various Metas&lt;/a&gt;, eventually landing at &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/6755/get-a-list-of-posts-youve-voted-on-that-have-been-edited&quot;&gt;Stack Apps: Get a list of posts you've voted on that have been edited&lt;/a&gt; where there's a browser-based userscript that adds a sub-tab to your profile's Votes tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use it occasionally by going to my profile, then to the Votes tab, then to the downvote sub-tab, then clicking on the &quot;edited since voting&quot; sub-tab. Doing things in a different order may result in the userscript searching for other types of votes, and could cause you to hit the rate limiter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's handy because it calls out both Questions and Answers, making it easy to search (within your browser) for either &lt;code&gt;&quot;Q: &quot;&lt;/code&gt; or for &lt;code&gt;&quot;A: &quot;&lt;/code&gt; if you're interested in narrowing your focus for possibly undoing a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot of a random sampling from my profile, complete with amateur masking and freehand circles around the already-browser-highlighted Answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wmrzu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wmrzu.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited since downvoting screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-03-10T14:25:38.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2018-03-11T01:31:17.733" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Integration and cooperation between a Unix/Linux and another system should be obviously on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Banning dual-booting problems, particularly Linux + Windows dual-booting problems would be harmful for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Extension from the far future.) Think about it, which Linux would be better: what &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; dual-boot and integrate with another OS, particularly Windows, or what can't? It not about the other OSes, it is about Linux/Unix.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastEditorUserId="52236" LastEditDate="2019-05-07T22:50:12.943" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T22:50:12.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4819" CreationDate="2018-03-11T08:58:45.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mainly use the Main Page of the site rather than the Active Questions view.  These are similar but the Main Page only has one page of questions on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing multiple questions in batches would potentially push new questions off the Main Page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I notice that someone is going through a batch of questions/answers with edits, I always switch to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;Newest Questions&lt;/a&gt; view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; find it mildly annoying when this happens, but this is definitely balanced with the knowledge that someone cares enough about something to edit questions and answers (which I think is a good thing to do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal view is that you should do as many edits as you think are necessary, especially if the edits are substantial, but maybe not too many &quot;single character typo&quot; edits in batch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how most people who answers questions here use the site. Some may do what I do and look through the Main Page occasionally, and these would have the same &quot;problem&quot; as I have with batch edits.  These users &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; know how to switch to another view to find active questions.  Others may primarily use the alternative views, the system of tags, and/or plain text searches to find interesting questions to answer.  These users would not have the same issue with batch edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users who &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; questions are unlikely to be bothered with batch edits in the same way, if at all.  And people who look for answers and questions with issues similar to their own (these, I think, are the largest group of site users) will likewise probably not be bothered by batch edits at all as they would use the search box or arrive at the site through search engine hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-03-11T09:04:03.247" LastActivityDate="2018-03-11T09:04:03.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4808" CreationDate="2018-03-13T08:57:03.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say there are several additional factors which one should weigh when considering flagging something as spam:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;relation to topic of the site and the question asked.&lt;/strong&gt; If the post contains information with no relation to the topic of the site, it's 100% spam. If the OP asks about &lt;code&gt;/ foo&lt;/code&gt; and the post is about &lt;code&gt;/ bar&lt;/code&gt;, I would assume a honest mistake and downvote or flag as NAA instead, unless &lt;code&gt;/ bar&lt;/code&gt; is clearly some kind of snake oil, like a RAM booster or bloatware. If the answer is spot on &lt;code&gt;/ foo&lt;/code&gt;, there's no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;frequency of posts.&lt;/strong&gt; A single answer about &lt;code&gt;/ foo&lt;/code&gt; suggesting a commercial solution is of no concern, or even several such answers to currently active questions. On the other hand, a user who keeps bumping old questions about &lt;code&gt;/ foo&lt;/code&gt; suggesting the same tool in every case is definitively a spammy behaviour, even if every single answer is fine by itself. Similarly, is the user posts a question which they then self-answer with a promotional material, it's clearly an abusive behaviour, especially if repeated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;overall content provided by the user.&lt;/strong&gt; If the user who wrote a problematic post is only ever writing about &lt;code&gt;/ foo&lt;/code&gt;, I would be more inclined to flag their content as spam. In case they have made useful contributions to the site besides &lt;code&gt;/ foo&lt;/code&gt;, I would certainly consider expressing my concerns in comments before flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;commercial nature&lt;/strong&gt; of posts and the &lt;strong&gt;failure to disclose affiliation&lt;/strong&gt; are important factors indeed, but they aren't in themselves necessary or sufficient. For example, a user who repeatedly promotes their personal blog or a Github project may be just as problematic, even if they disclose their affiliation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, bear in mind that an accepted spam flag has heavy consequences for the concerned user, so make sure you don't issue this flag lightly and don't expect mods to accept it without strong evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2018-03-13T08:57:03.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4827" CreationDate="2018-03-19T10:56:21.277" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I notice something I never see before:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I open the close votes queues and they were a lot of them, so I start vote closing and the queue was very long this morning so I ended up with a message saying something like that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You've reach your daily limit in close vote review&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I though I couldn't vote to close for the all day but in fact I still can directly from any question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is this an intended behaviour to not allow review queue ? or is it a bug and I shouldn't be able to vote close for the day.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In my opinion the second one and it would be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-03-19T11:10:12.910" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T11:10:12.910" Title="Close vote queue limit VS vote close from question" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4826" CreationDate="2018-03-19T11:10:01.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is intended behavior. It is a way of stopping &quot;robo reviewers&quot;, people who go through the queues and just click blindly in order to get a badge (yes, this actually exists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can still close questions when you find them since that isn't something you can do blindly, so it can't be an abuse of the close queues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T11:10:01.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-19T16:33:06.487" Score="3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've see a small bug, I've reviewed 20 vote close today, and though I can't consult the vote close queue, I still have the red notification icon in review queue while I can't consult it, I think it shouldn't advertise you a queue you can't review when it's too long.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFO6Z.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFO6Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;Notification example&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2018-03-20T22:33:11.550" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T22:33:11.550" Title="Red notification when review queue is too long" Tags="|bug|review|user-interface|top-bar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-20T01:00:23.353" Score="1" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me preface with this. With the quality of questions under the &quot;kali-linux&quot; tag, I do understand what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For whatever reason, Kali seems to attract not only newcomers to Linux, but new commers to computing in general. And the questions do show the lack of understanding in general to many aspects of penetration testing, networking, and fundamental computer concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why it attracts these type of people isn't really a mystery to me. It looks cool when you have little understanding, but it's alot like seeing someone who is good at playing guitar before you learn to play. You want to pick it up and jam, but the reality is it's going to take you hours of dedication before you can play twinkle twinkle little star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all this being said, I have a special place in my heart for Linux beginners, and Kali Linux newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my thought for a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have the Unix &amp;amp; Linux community agree on a splash page that comes up when someone chooses the &quot;kali-linux&quot; tag. It would ideally have things like,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's acceptable to post like, Don't ask questions related to apt-get updates or apt-get upgrade on any Kali Linux rolling distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do ask questions related to errors and applications &amp;amp; tools intended to run on the Kali Linux platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the idea is to point a potentially new user to good getting started guides, or fundamental Linux/debian learning material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You then have a captcha style questionnaire at the end of this splash screen to prove that you do have fundamental knowledge, and would only allow users with passing scores to the questionnaire to post their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just food for thought. Feel free to bounce ideas back at me. I'll add anything good you guys comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="280139" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2018-03-20T22:32:42.840" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T22:32:42.840" Title="Splash screen test for kali-linux questions" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|asking-questions|kali|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4829" CreationDate="2018-03-20T13:23:49.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory, we &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4640/what-should-we-do-about-kali-linux-questions&quot;&gt;have one already&lt;/a&gt;, though it sometimes gets misused. A competent Kali could help themselves by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;asking a good question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if their question is &quot;unfairly&quot; closed as a duplicate of &quot;I'm in over my head&quot;, they can do their best to identify how they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in over their heads by editing their Question and hoping for reopen votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that as a reasonable litmus test, and is already established, versus requiring additional functionality in the Stack Exchange system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T13:23:49.737" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2018-03-22T07:57:40.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to @Kusalananda's answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as your question contains a Short, Self-contained, Replicable example, it's fine. It might be a good idea to link the other asked questions for reference; however, each question must be able to stand for itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34039" LastActivityDate="2018-03-22T07:57:40.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4833" CreationDate="2018-03-26T14:45:53.130" Score="19" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this amazing small piece of code in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/24636/53092&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;datediff() {&#xA;   d1=$(date -d &quot;$1&quot; +%s)&#xA;   d2=$(date -d &quot;$2&quot; +%s)&#xA;   echo $(( (d1 - d2) / 86400 )) days&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does being on the site make this content open source and if yes what is the license of it ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In this case this is an answer but I ask myself the same for question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-03-26T18:26:19.743" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T18:26:19.743" Title="What is the license of the code posted on the site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4832" CreationDate="2018-03-26T15:08:58.360" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the footer and various other places indicate, user contributions are licensed &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CC-BY-SA 3.0&lt;/a&gt;. There was an attempt to have code snippets be licensed using the MIT license, but it didn't pan out. &lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/272956/270345&quot;&gt;A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T15:08:58.360" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4836" CreationDate="2018-04-01T22:25:56.707" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the close review queue I sometimes see questions marked with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;bumped to the homepage by Community♦︎ 8 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand none of these statements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-04-04T00:10:29.873" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T00:10:29.873" Title="bumped to the homepage" Tags="|support|questions|review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4834" CreationDate="2018-04-03T23:25:46.420" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quote the relevant points of the ever-useful &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19739/307535&quot; title=&quot;FAQ&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; (useful to me, at least, as it contains explanations for many of Stack Exchange’s workings) regarding the community user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Randomly poke old unanswered questions* every hour so they get some attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; Questions with at least 30 days of no activity, at least one answer scoring zero, and no answers scoring above that. Questions that are locked or closed will not be bumped. The Community User will only bump a maximum of one question per hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was to imagine a good or useful scenario to explain what you saw, it would be a qualifying question (as per above) that came to the attention of someone who read it and believes that the existing answer served no productive purpose (perhaps it was a request for further clarification and should have been an comment?) and this either flagged or directly voted to close it. Perhaps the question as written qualified for one of the existing (or a custom) close type; perhaps not. Vote your conscience while in the review queue; may I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4480/117549&quot;&gt;Learning the art of the review queue&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, for the community-bumped questions, here are the steps I take when looking at them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the existing answer show evidence of answering the question? It won’t be upvoted or accepted, but perhaps the OP left a comment with a clue. It’s likely that the OP is now inactive, or else they would have accepted or upvoted the answer. I would consider upvoting the Answer to get it out of the Community rotation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, does the question seem answerable in its current state? If it fits a close-type, consider a VTC. (Then we’re back where you started!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T23:25:46.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4839" CreationDate="2018-04-10T08:25:44.183" Score="8" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/436505/why-is-bash-history-substitution-still-enabled-by-default&quot;&gt;Why is bash history substitution still enabled by default?&lt;/a&gt; was closed at 2018-04-09-21:59:11Z. Ten minutes later, at 22:09:25Z &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/436634/73093&quot;&gt;a (perfectly reasonable) answer was posted by Jason Goemaat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was this possible? The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/436505/timeline&quot;&gt;question's timeline&lt;/a&gt; also shows the events in this order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FOrId.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FOrId.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of timeline showing the above situation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first saw the answer when it appeared in the active questions list as &quot;posted 7 seconds ago&quot; to an &quot;[on hold]&quot; question. I thought it had been lucky to have barely made it in under the wire, but in fact the question had long been closed by then. I haven't seen this before and it seems either to be either a bug, or that I don't understand how question closure works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T02:24:22.137" Title="How was this answer posted ten minutes after its question was closed?" Tags="|bug|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4765" CreationDate="2018-04-10T21:34:10.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PPKC7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Let&amp;#39;s finally organise the Linux revolution&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2018-04-10T21:34:10.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4837" CreationDate="2018-04-11T02:24:22.137" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the meta posts linked by Jeff suggest, there's a window after the question has been closed where an answer that was already being composed can be submitted. 10 minutes isn't particularly egregious, I have seen 30 minutes, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/edit/838071&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a quick look at Data SE&lt;/a&gt; shows much greater gaps (apologies for the crappy SQL, I haven't touched SQL in ages):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/232898/70524&quot;&gt;177 minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294715/70524&quot;&gt;157 minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/389997&quot;&gt;151 minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can happen when, for example, user composes an answer and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has a crappy network so the question closure is not reflected in their browser, and posts it (very likely on the phone app)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;puts their system to sleep and posts it soon after waking it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T02:24:22.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4841" CreationDate="2018-04-11T12:19:41.807" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer yesterday which earned +10 points, taking me to 41.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The little &quot;Trophy&quot; icon (3rd to left in the top right) is telling me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;You've earned the &quot;comment everywhere&quot; privilege!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Learn more about it in the help center.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the rest of the system says (correctly) I get that at 50.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Trophy icon goes across multiple stackexchanges but the notice is clearly for (and maybe from) Unix &amp;amp; Linux (it's got the &quot;UL&quot;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="190964" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T13:18:12.213" Title="How do I report an incorrect privilege notification" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4840" CreationDate="2018-04-11T13:18:12.213" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff is correct: someone upvoted or accepted one of your posts, and then it was retracted within the grace period. The evidence is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/190964/dark-matter?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;the reputation tab of your activity&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There were no net reputation changes on this day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/129067/270345&quot;&gt;This message&lt;/a&gt; is only seen when some event that would have caused a reputation change and an entry in this tab had happened, but was undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T13:18:12.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-15T05:02:03.447" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/437686/72456&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;Not an Answer&quot; but it was declined.Is that really answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that now the post is deleted but I want to know if I did or use wrong flag or if I was not wrong then why it's rejected because that's the only one of those posts I spending my time to read the question and then read the answer posted and decide it doesn't answer to the question and flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72456" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T22:34:47.910" Title="NAA flag is declined" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4842" CreationDate="2018-04-15T22:34:47.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That one got flagged several times, and I don't really understand why, so maybe I'm the one missing it. The question was how to delete a file with special characters in it, and the answer was to move it into an empty directory and delete the directory. That would work as far as I can tell, although Kusalananda raised a good point in the comments that you'd probably run into the same difficulty moving the file that you had removing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the flags/comments were of the opinion the answer didn't address the question; one even asked if the author had mixed up which question they had answered. It was definitely an answer to that question, but probably not a very helpful one since you'd run into the same issue trying to move the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T22:34:47.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-26T16:31:22.810" Score="16" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two similar tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macos&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt;, and it's confusing which to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be a good idea to make them synonyms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21471" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-06-18T18:41:18.357" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T18:41:18.357" Title="Alias macOS to OS X?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4844" CreationDate="2018-04-27T13:04:31.290" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think they should be synonyms; I’ve added a candidate on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/osx/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonyms page&lt;/a&gt;, feel free to vote it up or down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2018-04-27T13:04:31.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4844" CreationDate="2018-04-28T14:16:40.103" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;These should be synonyms, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macos&lt;/a&gt;, being the currently preferred name of the OS, should be the master, and the other tags synonyms of it. That doesn't match the current suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20805" LastActivityDate="2018-04-28T14:16:40.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4848" CreationDate="2018-05-01T13:09:18.467" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, the use of jsfiddle, or similar, is not allowed as a sole source of code or configuration when asking a question. The code must be within the question itself. I can't find policy for this here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is that the code on a third party site can be changed or go dead and make the question and answers useless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3887" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T17:13:06.770" Title="Is the use of jsfiddle allowed to show config or code?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4847" CreationDate="2018-05-01T14:44:32.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a general policy that posts should be self contained&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. If I need to open another page to understand your question or your answer, then it isn't a good one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there are obvious exceptions such as log files of several thousand lines, but in general we do expect a post to contain all information necessary in order to understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Although it might be an unwritten policy; I can't find anything about it either. If so, consider this the official stance of the moderation team at least.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-05-01T17:13:06.770" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T17:13:06.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4851" CreationDate="2018-05-02T11:15:11.940" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on this site and now I want to move this question to AskUbuntu. Should I ask this same question again there or how to migrate it. I didn't find any option to migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255251" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T11:56:02.933" Title="How to migrate question to askubuntu" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4844" CreationDate="2018-05-02T11:42:56.850" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use darwin, macos-classic, macosx/macos-x/osx. I would prefer macos-x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228168" LastEditorUserId="228168" LastEditDate="2018-05-06T19:35:34.313" LastActivityDate="2018-05-06T19:35:34.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4849" CreationDate="2018-05-02T11:56:02.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no option to migrate. The best solution is to simply delete it here and then post it there. Alternatively, you can flag it for moderator attention and ask for it to be migrated. However, that means that it will keep the date it was posted on, so might not appear as new on the new site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, it's simpler for everyone if you just delete it and repost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T11:56:02.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4852" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-03T17:45:25.080" Score="10" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen some discussions regarding voting to delete wrong/low quality answers and it seems that is the incorrect course of action but instead they should be down-voted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that I wonder why there is no option to vote when reviewing posts in the &lt;em&gt;low quality posts&lt;/em&gt; queue?  I think it would be beneficial to have this option for both answers and questions in the low quality queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related posts I have found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4772/237982&quot;&gt;When to vote to delete an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3122/237982&quot;&gt;Low quality posts from high rep users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4192/237982&quot;&gt;Flagging questions that are “Very Low Quality”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3333/237982&quot;&gt;Help in selecting options for low quality posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in many of these cases, the ability to up or down vote would provide another useful option for these questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the biggest argument against this is that a post will be &quot;hammered with downvotes.&quot;  However, in my opinion, this is exactly the point.  If a post truly is low quality but not a valid reason to flag it, it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be downvoted. In contrast, a post that is flagged as low quality but is actually a valid answer would receive more upvotes, as it should.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237982" LastEditorUserId="237982" LastEditDate="2018-05-11T13:27:26.630" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T13:27:26.630" Title="No vote options on low quality posts queue?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-07T13:27:46.120" Score="12" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re @Prabhjot Singh &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/442064/cant-upgrade-to-fedora-28&quot;&gt;Problem with alsa-plugins-freeworld-lavcrate when upgrading to Fedora 28&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions describing a problem that can't be reproduced and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The claim here is that removing a third party package counts as &quot;when a typo was fixed&quot;.  Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question can be, and was, answered with a simple reference to the upgrade documentation.  It's already pretty helpful.  Such a Q&amp;amp;A would be a valid target for potentially quickly signposting future askers.  I was kind of surprised that I didn't notice such a target in the auto-search sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the doc doesn't treat this as a simple mistake. It's a tradeoff - upgrade to the latest Fedora at this time; lose your third-party packages that haven't updated at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not just a question of reading comprehension either. The &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; that third-party repos would show this error is not automatically obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. it's relevant to see that the official Fedora advice is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; that you  need always to disable all third-party repos first... and then have it be pot-luck to find out whether you can re-install after the upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The documentation also claims that you will want to take care to pass a specific option, so that you're not downloading the entire upgrade and throwing it away if you cancel and look again at this command several times. I have not been affected by this, but if I was, I would not consider it trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To anyone who claims they would always be aware of all documentation every time they do an upgrade, I would respectfully quote this &lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/709201/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;from LWN.net regarding Debian&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;They are usually pretty simple... but the actual upgrade process is really much more complex. If you run into problems with the above commands, you will quickly learn that you should have followed the release notes, a whopping 20,000-word, ten-section document that outlines all the gory details of the release.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fedora is better, sure. But the last time I checked, even they didn't manage to link from the GUI upgrade tool through to the &quot;Common F2X bugs&quot; page for the release).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2018-05-08T13:43:14.643" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T13:43:14.643" Title="Fedora upgrade question closed as &quot;typo&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-07T13:54:07.837" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/441900/revisions&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was updated with the reason &quot;Make title readable.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title was changed from &lt;code&gt;How Can I Output File Size In Bytes AND MB?&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;How may I output file size in both bytes and MB?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it best practice here to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; use Title Case for Titles? (Lets ignore that the original title wasn't proper Title Case anyway!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any difference across StackExchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. because this is Unix &amp;amp; Linux and generally you would use lowercase in a unix/linux context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice in the headers it says &lt;code&gt;/ask question&lt;/code&gt; on Unix &amp;amp; Linux but &lt;code&gt;Ask Question&lt;/code&gt; on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37237" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2018-05-08T12:07:27.627" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T12:21:43.163" Title="Should We Use Title Case for Titles?" Tags="|discussion|formatting|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4854" CreationDate="2018-05-08T06:33:10.477" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated that title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did so because I honestly had difficulties reading it. My brain was doing A Full Stop After Each Word.  I also changed &quot;can&quot; to &quot;may&quot;, but this was purely based on personal opinion about how to express a question like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I would also edit SHOUTING and other&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;attention grabbing&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;typographical details that are irrelevant to the actual question being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have no rules about this, but if I have difficulties reading a question because of typography, I will likely edit it, if it's at all interesting to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-05-08T08:01:31.463" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T08:01:31.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-08T04:56:54.940" Score="2" ViewCount="359" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this question was closed without answer, and getting 4 down voted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to use tcp wrapper to disable ssh remote login from a client on&#xA;  the server. How do I find out if sshd supports tcp wrapper and hence&#xA;  use it to disable ssh login?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246709/how-to-disable-ssh-remote-login-using-tcp-wrapper?rq=1&quot;&gt;How to disable ssh remote login using tcp wrapper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as unclear what you're asking by Tom Hunt, cuonglm, Scott,&#xA;  chaos, Archemar Dec 2 '15 at 8:17&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to&#xA;  highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard&#xA;  to tell exactly what you're asking. See the How to Ask page for help&#xA;  clarifying this question. If this question can be reworded to fit the&#xA;  rules in the help center, please edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to answer it, however since it's already been closed, I can't do that. Anyway, here is the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A TCP wrapped service is one that has been compiled against the libwrap.a library. Use the ldd command to determine whether a network service is linked to libwrap.a. The following example determines the absolute path name of the sshd service, and then lists the shared libraries linked to the sshd service, using the grep command to search for the libwrap library:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[root@localhost ~]# whereis sshd&#xA;sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd /usr/share/man/man8/sshd.8.gz&#xA;[root@localhost ~]# &#xA;&#xA;[root@localhost ~]# ldd /usr/sbin/sshd | grep libwrap&#xA;        libwrap.so.0 =&amp;gt; /lib64/libwrap.so.0 (0x00007f506b6e2000)&#xA;[root@localhost ~]# &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the file is not supported, you won't be able to see &lt;code&gt;libwrap&lt;/code&gt; via &lt;code&gt;ldd&lt;/code&gt; command. Example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[root@localhost ~]# ldd /usr/sbin/sshd | grep libwrap&#xA;[root@localhost ~]# &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, I was able to ssh to this box (10.1.1.1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user@PC02:~$ ssh root@10.1.1.1&#xA;root@10.1.1.1's password: &#xA;[root@PC01 ~]# &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To block SSH access from PC02 (10.1.1.2), just edit &lt;code&gt;/etc/hosts.deny&lt;/code&gt; file on PC01 (10.1.1.1) as follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[root@PC01 ~]# cat /etc/hosts.deny &#xA;sshd : 10.1.1.2&#xA;[root@PC01 ~]# &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, If you try to access it again ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user@PC02:~$ ssh 10.1.1.1&#xA;ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer&#xA;user@PC02:~$ &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answer will help &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/145574/mercy-e&quot;&gt;Mercy E&lt;/a&gt; and other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new here and having the same problem too. E.g. my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/441535/tcl-tcp-wrapper-tcp-wrappers-tcz-installed-but-usr-local-bin-tcpd-file-is-no?rq=1&quot;&gt;post here&lt;/a&gt; was down voted without any explanation, no comment, no answer ... nothing ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's make stackexchange and stackoverflow more welcoming as mentioned by &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/authors/jhanlon/&quot;&gt;Jay Hanlon&lt;/a&gt; in his blog post here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user264359" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2018-05-08T12:29:11.803" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T12:29:11.803" Title="Disable ssh remote login using tcp wrapper" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2018-05-08T12:07:21.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/246709/22812&quot;&gt;that question&lt;/a&gt;, it would seem that the reason it received so many downvotes is that it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/246709/1&quot;&gt;originally very unclear&lt;/a&gt; – and the question was closed for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After it was closed, the OP edited the question so that it’s much clearer and more specific. They then self-answered their question, which is usually fine but in this case, the answer was wrong and did not answer (the post-edited version of) the question (also, going by the comments, the OP still did not seem to be clear about what they were asking about). See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/246709/timeline&quot;&gt;full time-line of activity&lt;/a&gt; for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you’ve posted this meta question, somebody else nominated that old  question (from 2015) to be re-opened and I’ve added my vote to theirs. If three other users with more than 3,000 reputation add their vote, the question will be re-opened. However, I agree with &lt;em&gt;dr01&lt;/em&gt; and think it would be better if you were to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask a brand new question&lt;/a&gt; – and then answer the new question, yourself.  This would be more beneficial to future users who might be interested in the answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it’s worth, I’ve upvoted your own question: not out of sympathy or to compensate for the downvote – but because you’ve clearly shown that you made the effort to research and solve the problem yourself. I can’t think why it would have been down-voted (other than the voter did not consider it to be useful) but less than 20 people had looked at it before I did – and presumably most of the viewers knew as little about Tiny Core Linux as I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T12:07:21.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4854" CreationDate="2018-05-08T12:21:43.163" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we shouldn't use title case in question titles. It hurts readability. Reading title case is unusual, so it's an immediate barrier to quick reading. Titles usually don't contain multiple sentences, but they often contain proper nouns, which title case causes makes it harder to spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Title case is commonly used in print newspapers to make titles stand out more. In print newspapers, titles are located at arbitrary positions on the page. This is generally not the case in online media. It's very uncommon in the online edition of newspapers. In a quick survey, I've only found it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.washingtonpost.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sfchronicle.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;San Francisco Chronicle&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chicagotribune.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theglobeandmail.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Globe and Mail&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thetimes.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Times&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.independent.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Independent&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Telegraph&lt;/a&gt; all use normal case in article titles even on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Title case is also commonly used for book titles. It isn't used for chapter and section titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T12:21:43.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2018-05-08T12:28:53.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an old question, by a user who hasn't visited the site in two years. Its original version was hard to understand, it was closed and then edited to a different question, and it has a single answer which doesn't answer either the original or the edited version. The asker didn't seem to know what they wanted, so it's doubtful what answer would have helped them. At this point, ideally, that thread would have been deleted, and I've now voted to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You, on the other hand, have a clear problem and a clear solution. Please contribute it by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;asking and answering your own question&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-05-08T12:28:53.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-13T06:58:19.900" Score="4" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/440342/error-while-trying-to-run-docker-redis-image-on-alpine-linux-3-7-0&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. It got down-voted for reasons known only to Gandalf. At least I would like to know why I got down-voted and what can I do to improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="287963" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2018-05-17T16:06:26.447" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T16:06:26.447" Title="Why did I get down-voted for the first question that I posted and what can I do to improve" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4861" CreationDate="2018-05-13T10:24:07.000" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are by design anonymous and do not require comments. Some people will leave a comment anyway, out of the kindness of their hearts, but it's not required or expected. However, when you hover over the downvote link, it will tell you the standard reason for downvotes: &quot;&lt;em&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of your question, you &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; made the effort to post a lot of information. But you've missed the most salient point, which is the error message you included and which tells you exactly what the problem is. Your question does not show any attempts to troubleshoot based on that message, not even the basic &quot;does the file actually exist or not&quot;. I would guess that this is the reason for the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21109" LastActivityDate="2018-05-13T10:24:07.000" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-14T13:59:55.350" Score="4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;The GNOME web browser is no longer called &lt;em&gt;Epiphany&lt;/em&gt;, it is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNOME Web&lt;/a&gt;, so the tag should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome-web&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome-web&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome-web&lt;/a&gt;. This follows the example of &lt;code&gt;gnome-keyring&lt;/code&gt; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Epiphany&lt;/em&gt; is still the &quot;code name&quot; so perhaps keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/epiphany&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;epiphany&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;epiphany&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2018-05-17T20:36:43.670" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T20:36:43.670" Title="Update [epiphany] tag to [gnome-web], with [epiphany] as a synonym" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-20T10:58:02.117" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Site members may be aware of the new (as at 2018) &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.planetcom.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gemini PDA&lt;/a&gt;, a keyboarded clamshell device which runs Android by default, but which can also run Linux (a Debian install image is available), Sailfish OS (porting under development), and possibly also others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would questions about installing Linux on this device be more appropriate here on Unix.SE or perhaps on SuperUser instead (as questions are perhaps more likely to relate more to help with support for and installing on this specific hardware, rather than how to do everyday tasks as on any other Linux system (once installed)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216430" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T14:25:58.900" Title="Would questions about installing Linux on the Gemini PDA be more appropriate on Unix or SuperUser?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4865" CreationDate="2018-05-22T14:25:58.900" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I talked it over with a Super User moderator, and the consensus was that the Gemini would likely be off topic on SU. On the other hand, we cover *nix systems, irrespective of hardware, so your questions would be on topic here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't promise we'll be much help if the issues are hardware specific. Always worth a shot though, so go for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T14:25:58.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-23T22:13:23.093" Score="4" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I notice close votes due to posting on several sites I wonder how the one who reported that knew this. There are probably some users who are active on several sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But today I also wondered as the title says: If a question is posted on several sites exactly the same then it should be trivial for the system to detect such postings automatically. And maybe even delete the later ones automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2018-05-25T14:12:01.577" Title="Why are posts to multiple sites not found automatically?" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4867" CreationDate="2018-05-23T22:27:01.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been suggested on the main meta a bunch of times; the original post seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105847/can-we-automate-detection-of-cross-posting&quot;&gt;Can we automate detection of cross-posting?&lt;/a&gt;. There doesn't seem to be any official response, so I don't know if Stack Exchange is opposed to the idea or just hasn't prioritized it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T22:27:01.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4867" CreationDate="2018-05-24T08:59:34.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the time I presume users who are active on more than this site notice the cross-post. This is how I notice cross-posts between SO and U&amp;amp;L (although I'm not even remotely as active there as here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, you can spot copy-paste errors in questions, such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;0&#xA;down vote&#xA;favorite&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where the user has simply copied by dragging across the voting arrows and the favourite button when copying their question from another site.  It's then trivial to look for the original question across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="72456" LastEditDate="2018-05-25T14:12:01.577" LastActivityDate="2018-05-25T14:12:01.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-25T10:07:06.417" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/445838/how-to-link-2-or-more-images-one-after-the-other-having-the-same-dimensions&quot;&gt;how to link 2 or more images one after the other, having the same dimensions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This question might get close because it's only a typo, but I found sometime question on the site where the mention of a typo appears only in the comment way down.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Nothing is explicit about that while you fell having the same question as the OP and it's not because it's only a typo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like the mention &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;or went away when a typo was fixed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on closed question should be emphasis as no one really read small lines and the mention : it's &lt;code&gt;not reproducible&lt;/code&gt; is much broader than just typo IMHO (and Typos are reproducible).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Should we just correct the typo and answer instead and insist on the fact it's only a typo not a real problem ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T07:32:27.443" Title="Should we advertise when vote close as non reproductible when it's only a typo" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2018-05-29T07:32:27.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two main purposes for Stack Exchange sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;help someone solve a specific problem (or more generally, answer a specific question);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;help others with similar problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is captured more ambitiously in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour&lt;/a&gt; as “With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about Unix or Linux.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think of the “problem can’t be reproduced” close reason as useful for questions which only serve the first purpose above (insofar as we can determine that). These questions, typo questions in particular, only need sufficient feedback for the asker to figure out what the typo was; once that’s fixed, there’s nothing further to fix and the answer is unlikely to be useful to anyone else. Keeping these questions (and answers, even if only in comments) only adds to the noise on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the close reason could perhaps be rephrased. When I see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions describing &lt;strong&gt;a problem that can't be reproduced&lt;/strong&gt; and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think of it as two entirely different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;problems which can’t be reproduced (with the possible reason that they went away on their own, which sometimes is nice if only to “save face”) — I get the impression we don’t actually use this all that often, in part I think because it discounts the asker’s experience which we assume is true (even if their account of it is flawed);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;typos, which obviously can be reproduced but are “unlikely to help future readers”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a better phrasing would be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Questions describing a problem that &lt;strong&gt;can’t be reproduced&lt;/strong&gt; (and seemingly went away on its own) or that &lt;strong&gt;can be fixed by correcting a typo&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how to deal with such questions, I think that pointing out the typo in comments is fine, for multiple reasons. The asker will presumably be sufficiently invested in fixing the problem that they’ll take the time to read the comments and find the typo; that addresses your point that “the mention of a typo appears only in the comment way down” (it also helps if people delete their obsolete comments, or flag others’ for moderator intervention). Writing up a proper answer for a typo would be counter-productive, because answers here tend to collect upvotes reasonably quickly if they’re correct, and upvoted answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;prevent questions from being deleted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T07:32:27.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-01T16:24:50.640" Score="15" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;When linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the POSIX standard document&lt;/a&gt;  one may link to a specific edition (as I did here), or &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;to the latest (undated) edition&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking to a specific edition may be preferable when linking to &lt;em&gt;a HTML fragment&lt;/em&gt;, such as, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the text on Tilde Expansion&lt;/a&gt; (the URL has &lt;code&gt;#tag_18_06_01&lt;/code&gt; at the end signifying a HTML fragment which in this case refers to the section on Tilde Expansion in a longer document), as advocated by Stéphane Chazelas &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/356118/how-is-this-command-legal-file1-file2-cat#comment631847_356120&quot;&gt;in a comment to me&lt;/a&gt; regarding this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something to be aware of: when linking to POSIX with HTML fragments, it's better to specify the exact edition (like pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2016edition) &lt;strong&gt;as fragments have been known to change between editions&lt;/strong&gt; of a same revision of the spec (a lot of links in answers on this site including of mine are now wrong as the fragments point in the wrong place after the 2016 edition has been released).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, I can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/447309/not-finding-bash-commands/447323?noredirect=1#comment811429_447323&quot;&gt;schily's point in another more recent comment thread&lt;/a&gt;, where he advocates linking to the most recent (undated) edition of the standard, simply because &lt;em&gt;it's the current standard&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] if you remove the year substring in the POSIX URL, you would always get the latest documents under this URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I resolve these two standpoints? For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do I not link to HTML fragment at all and always use the undated edition (forcing the user to search through the page for the relevant information), or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do I link to a specific edition when referring to a HTML fragment, but to the undated edition when not (which is being inconsistent in behaviour and which I would probably forget to do properly after a time), or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do I continue linking to a specific edition for everything (my answers would be correct for the linked edition, but may eventually be outdated when compared to the most recent edition), or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do I use the undated edition for everything (links to HTML fragments may die after some time)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because it obviously matters to people enough to comment on it, and it would be nice to be able to &quot;do the right thing&quot; (if at all possible), and also because I tend to link to the POSIX documents quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-06-01T16:35:18.590" LastActivityDate="2018-06-05T14:53:10.940" Title="Linking to the POSIX standard text (about editions and HTML fragments)" Tags="|discussion|answers|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3710" CreationDate="2018-06-01T16:53:52.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manuals that are installed on my system document the behaviour of my system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manuals found on a web site does not document the behaviour of my system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I tend to say &quot;see the manual for &lt;code&gt;xxxx&lt;/code&gt; on your system&quot; and then possibly link to the relevant POSIX document if the question is about a POSIX utility or interface and if the POSIX behaviour is relevant to the question (especially if the user does not say what Unix they are using).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's about a non-standard utility, or an extension in a particular implementation of a standard utility, I would still not link to a random manual on the net, but would ask the user to consult their own manual for particular details. That way, the user will not be confused about differences in how their utility is working compared to what the random manual on the Internet says it ought to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The POSIX standard is available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing the bit after the dot at the end will always give you the most recent edition of SuSv4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Utilities are documented under &quot;Shell &amp;amp; Utilities&quot; --&gt; &quot;Utilities&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T16:53:52.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2018-06-02T12:15:31.530" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support using the undated link with a fragment identifier, and using the section heading plus number where possible as the link text or title,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unless talking about a specific edition (for example, discussing changes or addressing a historical situation),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;while trying to keep the quoted text and links updated on a best-effort basis as a community effort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider a visitor who reads your answer, which contains such a link and some quoted text. If they follow the link and see something different, they can immediately see that the answer was outdated. Then they may alert you to the fact or even update the answer themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, all other options add a barrier to the user realising that the answer is outdated. A year-specific link may have an obsolescence notice on top, but it may not be conspicuous and additionally the user would have to find the current latest and check to see if anything changed. A link without a fragment id is just an annoying thing, period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-06-02T12:15:31.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2018-06-03T08:57:40.467" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's automatically a bad thing to use a link with the explicit date (as long as it's current at the time!). The answer written here will probably be based on that particular version anyway, and if the standard changes, the answer itself is going to be wrong too, not just the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than noting any changes, and updating the answers, there's no workaround for this: we can't know in 2018 what a 2023 standard will say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the standard changes in a backward-incompatible way, someone will get confused, but not just because we used a particular link. That may manifest in new questions asking &quot;Why does X work in A but not in B (even though &lt;em&gt;[high-rep user]&lt;/em&gt; said it's standard)?&quot;. That's not an invalid question in those circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, you get the blame for the wrong link only if the standard changes in the particular subject you're linking to. Linking to the newest version with an anchor runs the risk of breaking the link if &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; changes in the same document before the part you link to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, linking to, say some part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/V3_chap02.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shell Command Language&lt;/a&gt; page without an intra-page anchor would just seem... impolite, so I'm going to go on including them, but will try to use the links with the explicit dates from now on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2018-06-03T08:57:40.467" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2018-06-03T12:06:30.057" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the difference between &lt;em&gt;bare unadorned URLs&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;proper citations&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bare URLs suffer from link rot, are often undecipherable from the actual URL path once rotten, and are of no Earthly use to (say) people who actually own a copy of the standard on DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proper citations do not suffer from these problems.  A reader should be able to discount the hyperlink entirely and &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; be able to find the cited doco, from the name of the work, the author, the date, and any necessary chapter and section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is not just true for the SUS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Examples&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/347927/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/347927/5132&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/join.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Utilities: join&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;Shell Command Language&lt;/em&gt;.  Single UNIX Specification.  Issue 7.&#xA;IEEE 1003.1.  2016.  The Open Group.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/413225/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/413225/5132&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pwd.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;code&gt;pwd&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;The Open Group Base Specifications&lt;/em&gt; Issue 7.  IEEE 1003.1:2008.  The Open Group.  2016.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Pathname Resolution&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;The Open Group Base Specifications&lt;/em&gt; Issue 7.  IEEE 1003.1:2008.  The Open Group.  2016.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/441817/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/441817/5132&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (2018). &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-login-database.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Unix login database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  Frequently Given Answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pututxline.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;pututxline&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.   &lt;em&gt;Base Specifications&lt;/em&gt;.  IEEE 1003.1:2017.  The Open Group.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/426870/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/426870/5132&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tagtcjh_28&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ustar header block&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;code&gt;pax&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;Single Unix Specification&lt;/em&gt;.  IEEE 1003.1-2008:2016.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tim Kientzle (2016-12-27).  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&amp;amp;sektion=5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  &amp;sect; 5.  &lt;em&gt;FreeBSD File Formats Manual&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/405780/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/405780/5132&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;George V. Neville-Neil, Marshall Kirk McKusick, and Robert N.M. Watson (2014-09-25). &quot;Process Management&quot;. &lt;em&gt;The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System&lt;/em&gt;.  Addison-Wesley Professional.  ISBN 9780133761832.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Donald Lewine (1991).  &quot;Terminal I/O&quot;.  &lt;em&gt;POSIX Programmers Guide&lt;/em&gt;.  O'Reilly Media, Inc.  ISBN 9780937175736.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati (2005).  &quot;Processes&quot;.  &lt;em&gt;Understanding the Linux Kernel: From I/O Ports to Process Management&lt;/em&gt;. 3rd edition. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 9780596554910.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Definitions&quot;.  &lt;em&gt;The Open Group Base Specifications&lt;/em&gt;.  Issue 7.  2016. IEEE 1003.1:2008.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;General Terminal Interface&quot;.  &lt;em&gt;The Open Group Base Specifications&lt;/em&gt;.  Issue 7.  2016. IEEE 1003.1:2008.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2018-06-03T12:06:30.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4879" CreationDate="2018-06-04T09:10:18.630" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;When in the vote close queue, I never read comments.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But today, on this peculiar question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/246445&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/246445&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I found out that I should have because without comment the question is terrible, but with comment it's starting to make sense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should comments be taken into account (not sure if this formulation English it' a good translation of French at least), or should I just ignore them and consider the OP should have edited its question (while here obviously it's a new comer) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastActivityDate="2018-06-04T10:44:33.917" Title="When voting close should the comment be considered" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4877" CreationDate="2018-06-04T10:27:04.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why ignore it? If you see useful information in the comments, just edit them into the original post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what should be done with useful comments in general, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-06-04T10:27:04.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4877" CreationDate="2018-06-04T10:28:34.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have added a representative sample from the file that the user linked to the text of the actual question.  I should really have done that when I answered it.  Thanks for bringing it up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also voted to reopen the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, comments should be taken into account when reviewing.  In some cases, especially when the close vote is &quot;off-topic: typo&quot;, this may only be evident from comments.  If the question is voted as &quot;unclear&quot;, and is clarified by comments, then ideally, those comments should be moved into the text of the question.  If the user hasn't done so themselves, a reviewer could well do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-06-04T10:44:33.917" LastActivityDate="2018-06-04T10:44:33.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2018-06-05T11:57:43.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First an important note: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/&lt;/a&gt; is the link to ISSUE 7 of the standard. ISSUE 6 is e.g. here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there will be a future standard, this will get a new URL. So there is no reason to assume the content will be changed so that the URL will point to claims that do not match the answer it should backup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What on the other side happens with the generic URL is that bugs in the text are fixed in a way that keeps the section numbers. So there is no reason to assume that a specific section might point to something completely different in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A known bug that has been fixed is e.g. the information about the waitid() call. In 1995, the exit() description correctly mentioned that the exit parameter is the exit code. In the 1997 (ISSUE 2) edition, a bug has been introduced that claimed that only the low 8 bits of the exit code are propagated. The 2016 edition of ISSUE 7 fixed this bug and correctly mentions that &lt;code&gt;wait()&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;waitpid()&lt;/code&gt; limit the available bits from the exit code, but not &lt;code&gt;waitid()&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This definitely was not a change in the standard but a fix of a textual bug in the standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have many real changes that have already been agreed on but these changes are delayed until we publish ISSUE 8 that will then be available under a different base URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there has been a change in numbering in the past, it seems to be a bad idea to post URLs to section numbers. URLs like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_exit.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_exit.html&lt;/a&gt; are still OK as they have a fixed text and a unique content. Posting the URL &lt;a href=&quot;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2013edition/functions/_exit.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2013edition/functions/_exit.html&lt;/a&gt; on the other side keeps the buggy text for &lt;code&gt;_exit()&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120884" LastEditorUserId="120884" LastEditDate="2018-06-05T14:53:10.940" LastActivityDate="2018-06-05T14:53:10.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4882" CreationDate="2018-06-08T09:10:14.573" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/115012/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/115012/revisions&lt;/a&gt; and select the &lt;em&gt;side-by-side markdown&lt;/em&gt; format, you see something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mLy0M.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mLy0M.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See how those 3 highlighted lines in the middle are actually identical. I did copy-paste the source of both into files and run diff on them and saw no difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2018-06-11T07:31:01.860" LastActivityDate="2018-06-11T15:10:02.040" Title="identical lines shown as different in post revision diff" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4881" CreationDate="2018-06-08T15:29:44.337" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Kevin said, there are escape (0x1b) bytes in there that seem to not be rendering on your machine. They show up as arrows on mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GD5Z3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GD5Z3.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T15:29:44.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2018-06-08T18:09:51.637" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I purchased my first computer in 2007. At that time I had no formal knowledge of computers. I used it for regular desktop work for almost 4-5 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started using linux with Linux Mint 2 years back.For regular work it was good.I don't know why people say you can't work on linux if you don't know commands. I used Linux Mint almost 7 months without using any command. Then I switched to CentOS, I don't know why. On CentOS I learnt about basic commands. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A2017 was a bad year for 32-bit linux distributions. As CentOS 7 for 32-bit was discontinued, then I moved to Fedora.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined unix.stackexchange.com because of trivial issues. If I come across some strange thing, I come here to ask it on the main site or in the chat room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the users are helpful, they ask you about greater details or simply answer your question. Sometimes they answer in a comment. Well, an answer is an answer if it solves a problem. The questions and chat room interactions are very useful for any rung of learners.!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user288752" LastEditorDisplayName="user288752" LastEditDate="2019-04-14T17:08:47.497" LastActivityDate="2019-04-14T17:08:47.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-10T16:25:46.453" Score="-8" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do you allow other users to close questions? Obviously, there is a need by someone to have a question answered. As time goes on, programmers just love to change things up. So, let the questions be asked, even if they were asked before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="294844" OwnerDisplayName="John O'Brien" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-06-10T17:53:13.727" LastActivityDate="2018-06-10T19:00:36.793" Title="Closing out questions" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|duplicate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4884" CreationDate="2018-06-10T18:24:38.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions are closed for different reasons, but it sounds like you're specifically asking about duplicate questions. There's no need for duplicate questions because old questions don't expire -- if you have a new answer to a question that was asked years ago, you can still provide it there (and there are even &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; for answering old questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having multiple identical questions with independent answers just leads to the same answers being posted on all the questions, which is unhelpful for people who have that problem later: they'll read one question, try the answers on it, move on to other questions, and just find the same answers again. We want every potential solution to exist exactly once and make it easy to readers to find it, so we close duplicate questions but make them point at the existing question rather than deleting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-06-10T18:24:38.417" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4884" CreationDate="2018-06-10T19:00:36.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you referring to situations where at the time the question was asked the solution X was correct, but a year or several later, solution X is no longer correct, and solution Y is more appropriate? (For example, sysv init vs systemd.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new and more up-to-date answer is always welcomed to an old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the difficulty comes when you are the person asking about the newer situation. You could cross-reference the old answer and explain that it's no longer valid because (named) expected conditions no longer hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2018-06-10T19:00:36.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4881" CreationDate="2018-06-11T15:10:02.040" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the same diff output as you but what’s even odder is that I didn’t consciously modify the question body when I made that edit. However, from viewing the source (before and after), I can clearly see that all the Escape characters were removed by the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s likely that I used the &lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt; key to pass through the &lt;em&gt;body&lt;/em&gt; textarea as I navigated from the &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; input field to the &lt;em&gt;tags&lt;/em&gt; input field but I didn’t stop to change anything (if I did, it would have been to remove the single trailing whitespace). At the time, I was running Firefox 60 on Windows 7 without any unusual extensions – though I’ve only recently installed Tridactyl to try it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2018-06-11T15:10:02.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-15T09:18:53.817" Score="-3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/449766/get-list-of-directories-and-timestamp-in-a-specific-format-in-hp-ux/449951#449951&quot;&gt;Get List of Directories and Timestamp in a specific format in HP-UX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer was short, because it was the answer of an experienced HP-UX administrator (and expert in Posix shell) to an issue about a shell command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, I agree with you, but in that specific case, I believe you might undelete my answer, as I have no access to a HP9000 for the moment, to provide complete solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="295553" OwnerDisplayName="ypouplard" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T09:33:48.647" Title="May I object to the deletion of my post?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4888" CreationDate="2018-06-15T09:33:48.647" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers &lt;em&gt;should be&lt;/em&gt; complete solutions, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;another way might be to use find with -newer, -older and other options. but it is possible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is not an answer, so I nominated it for deletion while reviewing posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T09:33:48.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4892" CreationDate="2018-06-17T14:59:26.777" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are tags for distro-specific questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manjaro&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manjaro&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manjaro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mandriva&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mandriva&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mandriva&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-mint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-mint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-mint&lt;/a&gt;, - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrubuntu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrubuntu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chrubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-mate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ubuntu-mate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ubuntu-mate&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elementary-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elementary-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elementary-os&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fedora&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fedora&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fedora&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/oracle-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;oracle-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scientific-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scientific-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scientific-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alpine-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alpine-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alpine-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/puppy-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;puppy-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;puppy-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/void-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;void-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;void-linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tails-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tails-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tails-os&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/solus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;solus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;solus&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But none is available for &lt;a href=&quot;https://distrowatch.com/clear&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clear Linux&lt;/a&gt; although it was available for years and there are already several questions about it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/395858/44425&quot;&gt;How to install a specific version of a ClearLinux bundle?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/395840/44425&quot;&gt;How to install something in ClearLinux without a bundle?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/450302/44425&quot;&gt;Clear Linux desktop doesn&amp;#39;t start in a virtual machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/401255/44425&quot;&gt;Booting clear linux live image on usb from old non-eufi/efi computer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/425135/44425&quot;&gt;Can&amp;#39;t create a bootable USB/DVD for Clear linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44425" LastEditorUserId="44425" LastEditDate="2018-06-18T06:14:46.573" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T18:58:39.293" Title="New tag for Clear Linux" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2018-06-20T10:40:31.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to run a script before user login on Graphical environment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/450835/how-to-execute-command-before-user-login-on-desktop/450836#450836&quot;&gt;How to execute command before user login on linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-06-20T14:30:41.373" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T14:30:41.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4890" CreationDate="2018-06-20T18:58:39.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clear-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clear-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clear-linux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T18:58:39.293" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-26T08:09:25.800" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question and many people have answered it, however I cannot reply. Am I doing something wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't anything like a reply button/link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link for my post:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/451057/how-to-replace-a-string-by-another-in-a-text-file&quot;&gt;How to Replace a string by another in a text file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296459" OwnerDisplayName="Pedro Cardoso" LastEditorUserId="208146" LastEditDate="2018-06-26T14:05:08.990" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T11:07:42.280" Title="Can't reply to post" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2018-06-26T08:29:41.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can add your reply in the form of comment. There is no 'reply' button&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250201" OwnerDisplayName="Ravi" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T08:29:41.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2018-06-28T11:07:42.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's because, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/451057/how-to-replace-a-string-by-another-in-a-text-file#comment819031_451057&quot;&gt;as I pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, you asked your first question with an unregistered account. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/creating-accounts&quot;&gt;Register that account&lt;/a&gt;, at which point you will be able to edit and comment on your question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/why-register&quot;&gt;among other privileges&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T11:07:42.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-29T07:52:49.213" Score="11" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've written an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/452344/46717&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; that became very long. First, the info in the question was a bit general and I wanted to cover general cases by example. Then, inspired by another answer I extended the answer to be longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the question has been clarified by a screenshot and became a bit more specific, basically rendering my answer as to general (as I feel it). So, as a good citizen of SE, I edit my answer also to be more specific and make it start with the specific answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, I kept the old answer in the bottom, but the total is really long. And I do agree with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.opensuse.org/Help:Style#Keep_it_short_and_concise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;short and concise&lt;/a&gt; principle. (openSUSE wiki style guideline).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Keep it short and concise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When writing, consider how quickly you decide to read on, or not. Poorly &#xA;  written and overly wordy articles will not be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do not add irrelevant or redundant content. People will read short,&#xA;  clear articles that give the information they need. But they will flee&#xA;  those bloated with irrelevant content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Use a consistent, non-cluttered format from top to bottom. No one will &#xA;  read a lengthy article broken into sections by miss-matched&#xA;  layouts or colors. Those just make reading slower and serve to drive&#xA;  away the reader.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To make your article useful and popular, keep it short and concise!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I cleanup the answer? In that case I intent to keep only the &lt;em&gt;Edit 2&lt;/em&gt; section, and maybe 1 or 2 facts from the first version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46717" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2018-07-01T16:51:04.217" LastActivityDate="2018-07-01T16:51:04.217" Title="Should I clean up my answer?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4896" CreationDate="2018-06-29T22:40:42.417" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had similar situations happen to me as well. I've taken a similar approach and kept most or portions of my original answers in the bottom portion of my answer and put a header above it stating as such, and then put the revised, more specific answer/details on the upper portion of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a completely appropriate way to deal with this and if you look across the other SE sites, you'll see a similar thing being done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try and make your answer in both portions as concise as you can but beyond that it's up to you to do as you see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T22:40:42.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4896" CreationDate="2018-06-30T08:13:45.437" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would edit my already submitted answers to fit an update question, if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any part of the old answer is definitely no longer relevant, I would remove it. In some cases, this has lead to removal of bits of answers that I've spent significant time on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any part of the old answer is no longer relevant but if it still may be interesting or affect the solution given slightly different circumstances, then I would fit that into the updated answer in a way that makes it read okay (a reader should be able to follow the text from top to bottom in a natural way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would probably not leave the outdated answer as-is in any case, as it's no longer relevant to the question in that form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The revision history would contain the old submission anyway, and is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/452344/3&quot;&gt;linkable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to keep &quot;EDIT:&quot; and &quot;UPDATED:&quot; tags in the text to a minimum, and instead alert the relevant user in a comment, if they have previously commented on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2018-06-30T08:13:45.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-05T17:38:00.907" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I voted to migrate an &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/1335436/jenkins-private-credentials-for-bitbucket&quot;&gt;off-topic question about Jenkins&lt;/a&gt; to Stack Overflow.  The question was certainly off-topic for U&amp;amp;L, but ultimately it was migrated to Super User instead of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bothers me.  There's a lot of overlap among IT/tech/programming/software SE sites, so there are multiple SE sites where Jenkins questions would be appropriate.  I follow the Jenkins tags on all of them, but &lt;strong&gt;Jenkins questions on Super User receive essentially no attention&lt;/strong&gt; compared to other SE sites that also have a Jenkins tag.  As far as I was concerned, &lt;strong&gt;migrating the question to SU was basically consigning it to a future of zero views, zero votes, and zero answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I maintain my position that SO is a more appropriate place for this question than SU.  &lt;strong&gt;The Jenkins community on SO is far, far more active than the community on SU&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jenkins&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;over 30,000&lt;/strong&gt; questions in the Jenkins tag on SO&lt;/a&gt; compared to &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/jenkins&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;just 148&lt;/strong&gt; on SU&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are hundreds, perhaps thousands (I don't have access to exact metrics) of active users in the Jenkins tag on SO compared to only dozens on SU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There have been &lt;strong&gt;more Jenkins questions and answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/jenkins/topusers&quot;&gt;in the past &lt;em&gt;week&lt;/em&gt; on SO&lt;/a&gt; than there have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/tags/jenkins/topusers&quot;&gt;in the entire history of SU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for migrating the question to SU instead of SO appears to be because the question wasn't directly about programming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a user question, and has nothing to do with programming.  If it’s not specific to Unix&amp;amp;Linux, it belongs on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a valid reason for choosing SU over SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;strong&gt;many existing questions in the Jenkins tag on SO, including the highest-voted non-closed questions of all time (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8072700/how-to-restart-jenkins-manually&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6784463/error-trustanchors-parameter-must-be-non-empty&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8424228/export-import-jobs-in-jenkins&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9693526/how-can-i-set-the-senders-address-in-jenkins&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472645/how-to-schedule-jobs-in-jenkins&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;) have absolutely nothing to do with programming per se&lt;/strong&gt;, so based on existing questions, whether the question is about programming or not doesn't appear to be a good criterion for whether or not the question is appropriate for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, it's explicitly the case that SO isn't only a place for programming questions; it's also a place for questions about tools for programmers and developers.  Even if Jenkins questions don't have much to do with programming, Jenkins is still a software development tool, and &lt;strong&gt;SO's own help pages state that questions about software development tools are still appropriate for SO&lt;/strong&gt;.  From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;SO help topic &quot;What questions can I asked about here?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, questions on the following topic are considered appropriate for SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;software tools commonly used by programmers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of comparison, Git is another better-known software development tool that has a very active community on SO even though many of the questions and answers about Git on SO aren't necessarily about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I would like to point to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27826942/jenkins-use-personal-credentials-for-project&quot;&gt;an existing near-identical question on SO with multiple upvotes and answers&lt;/a&gt; as evidence that the question is appropriate for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in conclusion: &lt;strong&gt;The aforementioned question was more appropriate for SO than for SU, would've received more attention on SO, and should not have been migrated to SU.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that, since the aforementioned question has already been migrated to SU, there's nothing U&amp;amp;L can do to reverse that change.  If that's the case, then this meta U&amp;amp;L question is just about whether to migrate future off-topic questions in the Jenkins tag to SO instead of SU (of course, ultimately these will have to be decided on a case-by-case basis, but my position is that &lt;strong&gt;SU is a really poor destination for Jenkins questions in general&lt;/strong&gt;).  Since the question is &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; on-topic for SU, I suspect it will remain there, even though it's very unlikely to get the attention that it deserves there.  If that's not the case, and we can undo the migration, than this question is also about whether the aforementioned question can be re-migrated to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34505" LastEditorUserId="34505" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T17:52:03.323" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T02:49:42.147" Title="Should off-topic questions in the Jenkins tag be migrated to Stack Overflow intead of Super User?" 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  <row Id="4900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4899" CreationDate="2018-07-06T02:49:42.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO this meta is the wrong place to discuss whether Jenkins is more suited to SU or SO. That is a question for &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; metas. Once discussed there, this meta should simply have an announcement post about the appropriate destination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T02:49:42.147" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-09T18:23:26.023" Score="4" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/ch-ch-ch-changes-left-nav-responsive-design-themes&quot;&gt;mentioned on meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; several months ago, all network sites will be getting updated themes. Unix &amp;amp; Linux is one of the first sites that will be updated. As such, I'm posting the design here so you can see how the new theming will be applied to your site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to acknowledge that this will be a painful change for sites that have rich, custom themes. I want to reinforce that the theme changes are a required step to deliver ongoing value to the sites with as little friction as possible. We released changes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/312180/354333&quot;&gt;tag watching&lt;/a&gt; (aka favorite tags) this week and will be releasing a beta of custom question list functionality soon. The only way to make sure Q&amp;amp;A improvements are quickly available to all Q&amp;amp;A sites is to fix our themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To recap from the original post on themes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every Q&amp;amp;A site has its own theme. But there is great inequality in the level of theming that we support. A few (~10) get &lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Cadillac treatment&lt;/a&gt;, some (&amp;lt;50) are more like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Honda&lt;/a&gt;, while most (~100) are a &lt;a href=&quot;https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Yugo&lt;/a&gt;. The reality is we created a theming system that we didn't have the design resources to fully support, thus the inequity. In addition, as currently defined, our theming gets in the way of releasing new features on the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to deliver the left nav, responsive design and future improvements to all sites we've created a more standardized way to support theming. This will reduce the burden of supporting designs as we make Q&amp;amp;A improvements. The result is that most sites will see an improvement in the level of theming that they can get. While some sites will see a reduction. All of Q&amp;amp;A (Enterprise, Teams, etc) will standardize on this new theming scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/ch-ch-ch-changes-left-nav-responsive-design-themes&quot;&gt;Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, &amp;amp; themes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Next steps&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Schedule&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Early July: Collect and respond to feedback from this post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Late July: Update the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Feedback&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please review the mockups and feel free to provide constructive feedback in answers below. We aren't going to revisit the choices we've made around simplification, so it would be more productive to keep feedback focused on the application of the new theme scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm leaving on vacation later today, but didn't want to delay getting these designs posted. As such, I'll have limited time/ability to respond to feedback and comments until I return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Enough talk, show me the money&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can click on the mockups below to see the image in a larger format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eIBej.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eIBej.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux home page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HpVxq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HpVxq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux question page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T19:34:20.370" Title="New site theme coming soon" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4902" CreationDate="2018-07-10T14:38:12.913" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really dislike having the space on the left-hand side of the page being used up (wasted) for a few navigation links. I usually have my window manager configured so that my web browser uses half the screen size, horizontally. With the current SE theme, this mostly works well (other than working through the review queues).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/369106/how-do-i-hide-the-left-navigation-sidebar&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hide left navigation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; setting in the site preferences which works well for maximising screen real estate for displaying the Questions and Answers. I hope (and presume) that this setting will become available to users of &lt;em&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/em&gt; when this site has its theme updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks for the update and enjoy the vacation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastEditorUserId="208146" LastEditDate="2018-07-11T00:42:02.537" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T00:42:02.537" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4902" CreationDate="2018-07-10T16:59:07.653" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to include the feedback from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4075/icons-of-the-badge-counts&quot;&gt;Icons of the badge counts&lt;/a&gt; and change the icons to represent UNIX &amp;amp; Linux more clearly, as opposed to the barely-visible &lt;code&gt;~&lt;/code&gt; symbol there now? &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/307870/307535&quot;&gt;example here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also second &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312404/307535&quot;&gt;Pandya's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; to keep the forward-slash in the tag names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also mention &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4175/is-it-possible-to-have-the-kbd-for-the-comma-enlarged&quot;&gt;Is it possible to have the &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; for the comma enlarged?&lt;/a&gt; as another &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; that's not completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4216/ask-question-in-the-site-header-should-be-changed-to-ask-question&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;/ask question&amp;quot; in the site header should be changed to &amp;quot;/ ask question&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; will be invalidated with the movement of the top bar to the sidebar. Could we re-instantiate the forward-slashes to the fronts of the side-bar names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/error-image-nominations&quot;&gt;Error image nominations&lt;/a&gt; from 7 years ago -- any possibility of including them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also (unclear from the given screenshot): &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4046/is-expected-that-header-elements-use-different-fonts&quot;&gt;Is expected that header elements use different fonts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was afraid I didn't understand the situation clearly enough, and it appears I didn't. Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/ch-ch-ch-changes-left-nav-responsive-design-themes&quot;&gt;&#xA;Ch-ch-ch-changes meta page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... there are several things that will now be standardized to follow the look and feel on Stack Overflow... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Standardized items will include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Navigation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Fonts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Buttons/Icons &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Newsletter ads &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... which seems (to me) to rule out ... just about everything from the initial list, unless I'm still misunderstanding something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-07-11T15:27:05.347" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T15:27:05.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4902" CreationDate="2018-07-11T08:48:32.253" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it looks like any other beta stack exchange site with a logo.&#xA;I really liked the fact that this site was a bit different specially the centred  title and the blue navigation bar.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I understand the need of theme standardization but don't feel any need for change in the current theme.&#xA;I couldn't agree more than this post :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312370/201346&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312370/201346&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastEditorUserId="53092" LastEditDate="2018-07-12T16:38:00.533" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T16:38:00.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2018-07-20T18:04:28.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usage guidance for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; did not contain any information on when the tag should or should not be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My attempt (pending edit) to improve the excerpt to be more helpful, recommending &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; when it is not clear the topic is closely kernel related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about Linux kernel and Linux kernel related topics eg. implementation details such as system calls, kernel customization, etc. For Linux user space topics which do not involve kernel details, [linux] or distribution tag are more suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239817" LastActivityDate="2018-07-20T18:04:28.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-21T13:51:02.027" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/287114&quot;&gt;Extract creation date and modification time of file in SunOS?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&#xA;was marked as a duplicate of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/287008&quot;&gt;stat command not found&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that in the current state of both, that is not true. The closed question is&#xA;asking about &lt;code&gt;ctime&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mtime&lt;/code&gt;, while the open question is asking about&#xA;&lt;code&gt;atime&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an answer that would apply to the closed question, but not the open one.&#xA;So can we either reopen the closed question or edit the open question to make it&#xA;more generic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17307" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T19:32:24.527" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T19:32:24.527" Title="reopen &quot;stat&quot; question" Tags="|support|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4910" CreationDate="2018-07-22T08:23:11.013" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; tag not allowed while the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag is allowed? While asking questions I noticed that I can tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; but when its time for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt;, you cannot tag Unix, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296413" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2020-03-22T16:58:44.957" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T16:58:44.957" Title="Unix tagging vs linux tagging?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4909" CreationDate="2018-07-22T08:31:24.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; tag but because the entire site is effectively about Unix this tag would get abused and become pointless. Therefore it's restricted to only historical aspects of Unix. There are a few Q&amp;amp;A's that use it (currently 9 Q's).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take a look at the info about the topic it explains its purpose and role:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/info&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In more detail: Stack Exchange developers decided in 2011 that the names of the individual Stack Exchange sites should be blacklisted as tags.  So initially &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; were blacklisted.  People objected to blacklisting &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/565/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/565/5132&lt;/a&gt; and the blacklisting was removed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="5132" LastEditDate="2019-12-24T18:25:09.887" LastActivityDate="2019-12-24T18:25:09.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4912" CreationDate="2018-07-23T11:07:40.463" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/444141/why-are-some-emoji-bw-and-others-too-big&quot;&gt;Why are some emoji B&amp;amp;W and others too big?&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as opinion-based. I don't understand the reasoning. This question asks what technical issue is leading to a reproducible visual glitch. The comments and answer address that question, and provide a practical workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the question and answer were brilliantly worded, so I'm keen to clean them up anyway. Can someone point out the opinion-based or opinion-begging parts so I can address them specifically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T11:42:56.237" Title="How is 444141 opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4911" CreationDate="2018-07-23T11:42:56.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing it as too broad would likely been less confusing, but the closure still seemed fit based on the level of detail available in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You mention some of the icons are appearing gray but in looking over the question multiple times it doesn't jump out which icons. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A comment was left but it was unclear if you had attempted to address it with either an update or a reply.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to the answer, it seems fine, I hadn't realized that this question had this answer when I reviewed it on the merits of the question to close it, therefore I'll reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T11:42:56.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4914" CreationDate="2018-07-23T13:50:05.703" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/457277/230769&quot;&gt;this Question&lt;/a&gt; the Question originally contained an incorrect command (&lt;code&gt;passwd password&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;passwd username&lt;/code&gt;). My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/457278/230769&quot;&gt;first Answer&lt;/a&gt; correctly answers the title (&quot;How to change password in brand new Unix user&quot;) and addresses the question as it originally stood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through edits and comments, the real issue arose - the password didn't meet the requirements. Should a second Answer be posted with an explanation of the message &lt;code&gt;The password contains less than 1 digits&lt;/code&gt;? Should the existing Answer be appended? I think since the original Answer is a useful answer to &quot;How to change password&quot;, so I think the original Answer's content should be preserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="230769" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T14:05:32.517" Title="Should this be a separate answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4913" CreationDate="2018-07-23T14:05:32.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd create 2 sections to your answer and explain why you have 2 sections. Put the correct answer at the top and put the original answer below it in it's own section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Updated Answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, vim ei malis possim quodsi. Ferri contentiones comprehensam ex qui, pro paulo decore ne. Nominati consequuntur mei eu. At possit scribentur vix. Appellantur concludaturque ex pri. No dico meis labitur per. Eu mei legere probatus, ut fuisset adolescens qui.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Original Answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, vim ei malis possim quodsi. Ferri contentiones comprehensam ex qui, pro paulo decore ne. Nominati consequuntur mei eu. At possit scribentur vix. Appellantur concludaturque ex pri. No dico meis labitur per. Eu mei legere probatus, ut fuisset adolescens qui.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T14:05:32.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4916" CreationDate="2018-07-25T06:45:29.223" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I ask in the main site of Unix &amp;amp; Linux I would like know what is the best place for ask this kind of question, specifically if a user wants to know how something works in Linux or what is its use in Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if I'm not sure how this file from Linux (Ubuntu), if I &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; into &lt;code&gt;/dev&lt;/code&gt; (ubuntu) and I see this file: &lt;code&gt;hugepages&lt;/code&gt; and its documentation is hard to understand, should I ask how this file works here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not on this site, where can I direct this type of question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296816" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2018-07-25T06:51:04.607" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T06:59:43.853" Title="Unix &amp; Linux is the best place for ask about how working some thing in Linux or what is the purpose of a file of linux?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4915" CreationDate="2018-07-25T06:59:43.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi and welcome to U&amp;amp;L. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before posting your question it's best to familiarize yourself with our documentation on what types of questions are on topic and which are not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that purely ask for reference or learning material are off-topic. This is the close reason, that we'll typically use for questions that fall into that category:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for learning materials (tutorials, how-tos etc.) are off topic. The only exception is questions about where to find official documentation (e.g. POSIX specifications). See the Help Center and our Community Meta for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's best to be specific and try and ask questions that will result in a absolute answer. A good question should result in 1-2 answers max. There are exceptions but this is a general rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your question about &lt;code&gt;hugepages&lt;/code&gt; that would be a on-topic question, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always try and search before asking a question. We have a pretty extensive collection of questions + answers so it's likely the case that we may already have many of your questions answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find a question where the answers do not make sense or there are specifics that you do not grasp, ask follow-up questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T06:59:43.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-30T13:37:30.873" Score="3" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often feel the need to refer to both systems &quot;Unix and Linux&quot;, with the single word. I am not sure if such word exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157620" OwnerDisplayName="prosti" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T20:56:51.753" Title="Is there a single name for both Unix and Linux?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4917" CreationDate="2018-07-30T13:50:00.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No because they aren't the same. UNIX is a trademarked name that is associated with operating systems that pass qualifications in order to obtain that name. Linux is a work-alike system but not the same thing and was derived from Minix which also isn't UNIX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, perhaps, one cannot call &quot;soft serve dairy deserts&quot; ice cream just because they are smooth frozen deserts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3887" OwnerDisplayName="Rob" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T13:50:00.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4917" CreationDate="2018-07-30T13:51:36.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll typically see Unix &amp;amp; Linux referred to as described in this U&amp;amp;L Q&amp;amp;A titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4091/is-linux-a-unix&quot;&gt;Is Linux a Unix?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times you'll see them combined and referred to as *nix but even this isn't that popular. Linux &amp;amp; Unix aren't the same thing, and so typically they're referred to independently, hence why this site is called Unix &amp;amp; Linux. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This probably covers the topic the best on Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unix-like&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;excerpt&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Open Group owns the UNIX trademark and administers the Single UNIX Specification, with the &quot;UNIX&quot; name being used as a certification mark. They do not approve of the construction &quot;Unix-like&quot;, and consider it a misuse of their trademark. Their guidelines require &quot;UNIX&quot; to be presented in uppercase or otherwise distinguished from the surrounding text, strongly encourage using it as a branding adjective for a generic word such as &quot;system&quot;, and discourage its use in hyphenated phrases.&lt;a href=&quot;http://%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other parties frequently treat &quot;Unix&quot; as a genericized trademark. Some add a wildcard character to the name to make an abbreviation like &quot;Un*x&quot;[2] or &quot;*nix&quot;, since Unix-like systems often have Unix-like names such as AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, Ultrix, Xenix, Xinu, and XNU. These patterns do not literally match many system names, but are still generally recognized to refer to any UNIX descendant or work-alike system, even those with completely dissimilar names such as Darwin/macOS, illumos/Solaris or FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" OwnerDisplayName="slm" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T13:54:25.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4902" CreationDate="2018-08-02T19:34:20.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not mind the design change much, and the new one is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the &lt;strong&gt;UI elements&lt;/strong&gt; lost a bit of individuality (Upvote/Downvote buttons look normal instead of individual for the Unix/Linux Sta.X. network.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270469" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T19:34:20.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:11:10.957" Score="7" ViewCount="631" Body="&lt;p&gt;We rolled out the new site theme for Unix &amp;amp; Linux. It is now live. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What new theme?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're like, &quot;What the heck are you talking about?&quot;, then you should read the Meta Stack Exchange post entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312365/rollout-of-new-network-site-themes&quot;&gt;Rollout of new network site themes&lt;/a&gt;  (and maybe the posts it links to for the full background).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your help needed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are one of the first sites to get a new, unified theme. I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4902/new-site-theme-coming-soon&quot;&gt;previously posted the designs for theme&lt;/a&gt; in meta. The feedback given to that post was considered prior to rolling out the theme. Please help us look for issues/bugs and post the details (including images where needed) as an answer below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have concerns or issues regarding the left nav then &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/310908/live-left-nav-new-theming-and-responsiveness&quot;&gt;this Meta Stack Exchange post&lt;/a&gt; is the right place for feedback. If you have issues with any functionality that is unrelated to the new theme, then please post a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298862" LastActivityDate="2018-09-01T02:30:02.227" Title="Unix &amp; Linux new site theme is live" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4046" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:23:07.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be considered &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; with the new theme rollout. All three header levels use a consistent font setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T15:23:07.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-09T15:39:01.140" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much from saving us from the previous long-standing flickering problem,  particularly on the links of the user pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving this menu list to the left, I see it is clearly an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the long-term, I would suggest to take steps into a fluid design direction (or, at least to adapt to the currently wider desktops).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a little thing: I think, an underline below the hovered links (particularly on the user pages) would look much better. My eye simply flashes if I hover a blue link and I don't get the underline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;On the long-term: I suggest to make steps to the direction of a fluid, or at least partially fluid design. You can make it without losing performance.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastEditorUserId="52236" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T15:44:56.563" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T15:44:56.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-09T16:12:58.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see we kept the badge icons; are those going to remain unique to U&amp;amp;L? How much work would it take to update them, as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4075/icons-of-the-badge-counts&quot;&gt;Icons of the badge counts&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are a question's tags standardized, making Pandya's suggestion to keep the slashes in them (at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312365/rollout-of-new-network-site-themes/312404#312404&quot;&gt;Rollout of new network site themes&lt;/a&gt;) impossible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also pull forward: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4175/is-it-possible-to-have-the-kbd-for-the-comma-enlarged&quot;&gt;Is it possible to have the &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; for the comma enlarged?&lt;/a&gt;, not knowing what work it would entail or what widespread effect it would have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4216/ask-question-in-the-site-header-should-be-changed-to-ask-question&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;/ask question&amp;quot; in the site header should be changed to &amp;quot;/ ask question&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; should now be status-declined or similar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/430/error-image-nominations&quot;&gt;error pages&lt;/a&gt; defined a per-site basis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T16:12:58.983" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-09T20:23:50.353" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The left-hand bar adds noise to the page, which distracts from the main content. &#xA;Yes, there's noise on the right side, but it gets a lot harder to ignore when there's noise on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links there aren't even important enough to be shown constantly, so instead of being visible all the time, they could as well be at the top of the page with the site name (which does hide when you scroll down...). Or let's just say that I've never seen it as a problem to scroll to the top of the page if I wanted to get to unanswered questions, which is rarely (but not never).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if I would think a left-hand link bar would be useful, this one isn't:&#xA;It doesn't give me links that are relevant &lt;em&gt;to me&lt;/em&gt;, e.g. links to my favourite tags, or something I'm able to modify for myself. Instead, it just takes space for five static links, all of which would fit quite nicely to the top of the page, next to the main title. There's a bunch of empty space there right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to top it all, the navbar isn't even immediately hideable, which it should be, given how useless it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T00:31:01.240" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T00:31:01.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-09T21:30:25.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, that Unix&amp;amp;Unix bar should be on the bottom, or not be at all there. The small graphic on it is useless and distracts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top two bar wastes valuable real estate pixels when in a machine with &quot;limited&quot; pixels as my 3 year old corporate notebook, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer The  to be part of the top black bar, on place of the Stack Exchange logo, and for the black bar to be smaller. I also find it unfortunate it does scroll up, and it is permanently there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The navigation fonts are also too big in the area of questions for asking a new question or navigating through the type of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just used ublock origin and edited out  the Unix&amp;amp;Linux bar from the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also find it an odd choice the Home page defaulting to top questions instead of new questions. I would also probably edit out the left bar with ublock origin if it were not for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TLDR Overall the design could be simpler. Too much screen space wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T10:52:25.490" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T10:52:25.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-10T01:37:54.857" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the background image customizable? It doesn’t imply anything U&amp;amp;L to me as-is; could it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unix/img/bg-header.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this image&lt;/a&gt; in the site header.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T01:49:51.007" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T01:49:51.007" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-10T10:19:48.777" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not an HTML expert, I'm just a site user, and I use a regular workstation/desktop, not a phone. And from my perspective, the major visible change for me is a negative one. There is much more whitespace in the left column. The right column seems to be about the same as it was. And this change in the left column is squashing the text between the left and right columns into a smaller space, which impairs readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can post an image if required, but I think the issue is quite obvious. Please comment if clarification is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T10:50:59.443" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T10:50:59.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4937" CreationDate="2018-08-10T13:12:24.420" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question (and answer) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/461570&quot;&gt;How can I run Firefox on an FSDG distribution?&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as &quot;opinion based&quot;. I believe that the question is a technical one (how do I install program X on a distribution that doesn't include it) and that the solution is factual and unbiased (use tool Y or tool Z).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people have strong opinions on: free software, FSDG certification, Snap, Flatpak, Firefox and the organizations behind each of them. Is this why the question was closed? If so, I don't think closing the question is an appropriate action, as that would imply that mere mentions of these are off-topic, which surely isn't the policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am open to feedback. How can I rephrase the question to avoid opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: In the meantime I've updated the answer considerably to provide:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;even-handed examples for Snap and Flatpak&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;suitable forums for finding out &quot;which option is best for me&quot; (which would be opinion-based)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastEditorUserId="269" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T13:40:45.467" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T08:42:59.810" Title="How can I rephrase 461570 to avoid opinion?" Tags="|discussion|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-10T18:56:51.623" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;My recent question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460439/read-address-from-msi-capability-structure&quot;&gt;Read address from MSI Capability Structure&lt;/a&gt;, was first put on hold as unclear then closed. With respect to the question requirements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer to this specific question definitely does not exist somewhere else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is related to driver development for the linux kernel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is very specific. I am asking for a way to determine either the location of the MSI capability structure associated with a particular interrupt or the address located therein.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is related to a general feature of the PCI standard, so it may be relevant to others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even left a comment on the question while it was still on hold asking for clarification while it was still on hold, with no luck. I found the answer I was looking for and want to post it, but with it closed I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone shed some light on any problem(s) with my question and what I should avoid in the future to prevent this from happening again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="303703" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T19:51:07.527" Title="460439 put on hold and then closed without explanation?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-10T19:08:13.267" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always found it &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; difficult to see hyperlinks that are not underlined (I don't have good eyesight or colour vision in general).  With the new theme, I'm finding it even harder to spot links in running text and elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenshots below comes from the current main site and from the current Meta site.  I can only distinguish the links in the text on the main site if I know there's a link there, or accidentally move my mouse across it.  The links on the Meta site, on the other hand, are &lt;em&gt;really good&lt;/em&gt; and visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another positive comment is that the site looks &lt;em&gt;really nice&lt;/em&gt; on mobile devices (at least on my Android phone in Chrome).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W121w.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W121w.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot from main site&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6KICn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6KICn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot from Meta&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="305932" LastEditDate="2018-08-16T22:04:41.343" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T22:04:41.343" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4932" CreationDate="2018-08-10T19:51:07.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question was closed as unclear. Looking at it, probably a more valid reason to close this is simply that it's off-topic on this website. I had to look up MSI not knowing if it was MSI (Microsoft installer related) or something else. Apparently it's the something else, I'm familiar with the PCI spec and to my knowledge we've never answered any question such as this on Unix &amp;amp; Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kind of hard pressed to figure out where I'd direct this question as well. Possibly one of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might fit into one other site, possibly even &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;. But it definitely doesn't seem like it would fit here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, we can migrate it to any of the other sites, let me know and we can move it to whichever site you feel is a better fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T19:51:07.527" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-10T22:48:37.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am, in short, not a fan of the links on the left-hand side having moved to where they are.  Not only does it squeeze the actual meat of the page -- the questions and answers -- into a narrower column, it also causes a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of wasted negative space below the five links.  The same applies to a lesser degree to the more-useful right column.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20246" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T22:48:37.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-11T00:36:19.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the others, the sidebar on the left is just a waste of space, I don't want to devote that much of my screen to those links, either hide them, or put them back on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links are impossible to see now, agree with others on that too. The color on the up/down voting is really hard to see as well on the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over all I'm not liking this new theme at all and would rather having something that approximates what it was previously vs. this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scale of 1 to 10, I'm giving it a 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;UPDATE #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with the left nav bar links option enabled this is still unacceptable the amount of wasted space on either side, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZaSHZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZaSHZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;UPDATE #2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@joeFriend I know I'm not crazy 8-). Here's screenshots of the webapps SE site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RUeiD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RUeiD.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the same browser window, different tab of U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c85fK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c85fK.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a difference, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it, but it doesn't make sense. There is something going on in that webapps screenshot. See how the site branding bar with the webapps logo extends too far down and intersects with the question title? That shouldn't look like that. If I go to the same page I see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/52wH9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/52wH9.png&quot; alt=&quot;webapps question page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T19:03:17.977" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4931" CreationDate="2018-08-11T08:42:59.810" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't get further feedback, but the question was reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T08:42:59.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4941" CreationDate="2018-08-11T08:57:58.427" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see links in the text of questions and answers on the main site. They are simply invisible to me (&quot;invisible&quot; = &quot;indistinguishable from ordinary text&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way I could apply some sort of local stylesheet to make them stand out (possibly by underlining them), preferably while at the same time not modifying the links on the Meta site (which are &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;) or any other unrelated site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently accessing the site through Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but I'm a bit lost when it comes to CSS and graphical interfaces in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: The links on the main site are now underlined by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-08-18T11:52:32.573" LastActivityDate="2018-08-18T11:52:32.573" Title="Is it possible to modify visual rendering of links locally?" Tags="|support|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-11T09:18:27.497" Score="12" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the link colours in posts (questions and answers) quite similar to the colour of regular text -- to the point that I'm not sure if I can tell if there is a link in the text at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could the colours of the links be changed to make them stand out more?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was mentioned under the discussion on the new theme (at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4933/170373&quot;&gt;by Kusalananda&lt;/a&gt;, some others seemed to agree too), but in my eyes, it was an issue on unix.SE even before the new theme. The new theme just made it sufficiently worse that I actually bothered to write this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other sites that seem to be using the new theme, but which have better colors on the links (I looked at math.SE and askubuntu), so it's not &#xA;related to the new theme, and this is better placed as a discussion of its own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kusalananda also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4938/170373&quot;&gt;asked about changing the colors locally&lt;/a&gt;, on client-side. That would of course do as a workaround for the issue, but I think it's bad enough that it should be fixed site-wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really have an opinion on underlining or such decorations. Of course that would make the links stand out quite obviously, but maybe it'd be considered distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenshots to clarify what I mean&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(I put the pics in quote blocks so they don't get mixed with the text of this question. The gray boxes come from that. I also get a dotted underline under the pics, since they're links to imgur, and on meta, links seem to be dotted-underlined.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From math.SE&lt;/strong&gt;, this is quite noticeable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zMkwV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zMkwV.png&quot; alt=&quot;math.SE link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From Askubuntu&lt;/strong&gt;, again, quite noticeable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AzsKi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AzsKi.png&quot; alt=&quot;askubuntu link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From unix.SE&lt;/strong&gt;, almost invisible, though there's context here that hints at the presence of a link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t9ffS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t9ffS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again, from unix.SE&lt;/strong&gt;. This is almost invisible. There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a link in one of the words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YfplS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YfplS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Screenshots are from Chrome on a Mac. I shouldn't have any local stylesheet modifications or such.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-08-12T04:11:46.723" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T04:11:46.723" Title="Could the link colours within post text be made to stand out more from regular text?" Tags="|feature-request|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-11T16:41:53.290" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've put a lot of feedback in one answer. I'll go through and add comments in this manner to try to respond to each one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The good&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally a layout that works with window widths that aren't ridiculously large! Thank you! That alone makes the new theme an improvement, despite its flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The bad&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt; We are working on optimizing the break points. Most view ports have the same or larger line lengths for the main content area. Some are smaller. There is no perfect way around this, but we are looking at ways to make it better. This is complicated by the fact that changes here could significantly impact ad revenue on sites with paid ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the left nav, we are sticking with it and are focused on using this space more effectively. We are adding features there and will be looking at other improvements such as making it easier to hide/show without going to prefs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there's a threshold effect. At a width of 816 pixels, the content is laid out in a reasonable manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FNbwJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FNbwJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;width=816&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But widen the window to 817 pixels, and suddenly there's this huge right-hand column which shrinks the content to a ridiculously small area!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ILpaS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ILpaS.png&quot; alt=&quot;width=817&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The width of the useful content (the post text) has gone from 88% of the window width to 46%! How does this make any sense? &lt;strong&gt;The content should have priority over fluff&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is with the left bar disabled (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/preferences&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/preferences&lt;/a&gt; → “Hide left navigation”). That left bar contains a few mildly useful links, but these links don't need to be visible all the time, just on the page. Most of the left bar is wasted blank space, so the left bar does not make sense as part of the layout. &lt;strong&gt;The left bar should be replaced by a top row of links that scroll away&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm aware that you're planning to put &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312781/custom-question-lists-finding-questions-you-can-answer&quot;&gt;more links to question links there&lt;/a&gt;, but all that stuff still doesn't belong on the page permanently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like this is an old bug. If it hasn't been made dramatically worse with the new theme, then it really should be brought up independently. → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4955/difference-between-foo-and-foo-foo-and-foo-and&quot;&gt;Difference between &amp;quot;foo&amp;quot; and “foo”, &amp;#39;foo&amp;#39; and ‘foo’ —&amp;#160;and -- as well&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A design bug in the old layout was that some punctuation characters are mangled in question titles. Look at this title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWyvo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWyvo.png&quot; alt=&quot;mangled dashes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meaning of a long dash? Ah, no, it's &lt;code&gt;--&lt;/code&gt;, correctly spelled in the title, but mangled in the title, which means that it's mangled in search engine results too. Or look at this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/igYiv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/igYiv.png&quot; alt=&quot;mangled quotes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it won't work if you use &lt;code&gt;“&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;”&lt;/code&gt;: only ASCII characters such as &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; have a special effect. Oh, wait, once again that's just because Stack Exchange mangled the title, so it looks wrong on the site and in search engine results. This bug already existed in the old design, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3429/site-design-updates/3432#comment5263_3432&quot;&gt;your response&lt;/a&gt; was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We looked at the quotes on the last several hundred posts. While a few would be more correct without fancy quotes, the vast majority are correct and would be negatively impacted by such a change. Given that, we want to stick with the net-positive of replacing the quotes globally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, no, that doesn't make sense. Saying that replacing the quotes is “net-positive” doesn't make it so. It's a cosmetic improvement that can be done manually, versus mangling that affects the meaning and can't be bypassed. Can you please &lt;strong&gt;stop mangling punctuation in titles&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt; We are happy to consider alternate ideas for the site header image. I encourage you to start a separate thread to generate ideas/options and we can work with you to make it happen. Or we can remove it completely. → &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4945/what-should-our-sites-header-graphic-be&quot;&gt;What should our site&amp;#39;s header graphic be?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unix/img/bg-header.svg?v=7f5175184339&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;site image&lt;/a&gt; is really bad. Fortunately it's so faint to be almost invisible, but for those who can see it, it gives an awful image of the site. Here it is with a bit more contrast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VZkQp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VZkQp.png&quot; alt=&quot;bg-header.darker&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, when I couldn't really see it due to the poor contrast, I thought it looked like some circuit wiring diagram. Did I stray onto Electronics SE? Upon closer inspection, it contains some vaguely Unixy-things (a couple of punctuation characters that are meaningful in Unix shells), assembled in a way that screams “overly complicated”. The image doesn't need to assemble pieces in a way to make sense, but “overly complicated”? At best that's a designer who didn't do the research, at worst it's pretty offensive. ”Oh, Unix &amp;amp; Linux? Go there if you want to see some needlessly complex, incomprehensible stuff!“ That's a profound &lt;strong&gt;lack of respect of our community&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The ugly&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; We made it very clear from the beginning that we intended to remove this. It wasn't done out of lack of respect at all. It was done in an effort to unify the presentation of several important UX elements across the Q&amp;amp;A sites. After further review we have decided this is an area that we will keep standardized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of lack of respect of our community, one of the few unique design elements of Unix.SE was the appearance of tags and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4216/ask-question-in-the-site-header-should-be-changed-to-ask-question&quot;&gt;some other links&lt;/a&gt; with a leading slash, leading to the habit of writing &lt;code&gt;/foo&lt;/code&gt; to mean the tag foo. This is gone. Seeing as several sites had a somewhat distinctive appearance for tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;{foo}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/foo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://emacs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;'foo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, etc.), you could have kept that one column in the database. Removing that screams “it didn't exist on SO so we don't care”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T00:03:33.363" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4938" CreationDate="2018-08-11T17:34:56.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a user script?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name unix.stackexchange obvious link&#xA;// @version 0.01&#xA;// @include /https?\:\/\/unix.stackexchange\.com\/questions.*&#xA;// @grant none&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;function addCss(cssString) {&#xA;    var newCss = document.createElement('style');&#xA;    newCss.type = &quot;text/css&quot;;&#xA;    newCss.innerHTML = cssString;&#xA;    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(newCss);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;addCss (&#xA;    '.post-text a {text-decoration: underline;}'&#xA;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bulk of this script came from &lt;a href=&quot;https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3362-stackexchange-obvious-followed-link-color/code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an FYI: I use &lt;a href=&quot;https://tampermonkey.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tampermonkey&lt;/a&gt; in Chrome to run user scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks so much for the question.  This has been annoyance for a while, but never to the level of doing something about it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="208146" LastEditorUserId="208146" LastEditDate="2018-08-11T19:07:40.813" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T19:07:40.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-11T23:19:56.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it intentional to have three “hamburger” menus? The left one opens to Home/Questions/Tags/Users/Unanswered, the middle opens to a Stack Exchange advertisement, and the one on the right is the usual, useful one. Why 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7Rsr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7Rsr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-08-11T23:19:56.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-08-12T00:08:51.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old mobile (Safari, here) review page had room for all of the review queues. Now there’s two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5y2d1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5y2d1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we make better use of the whitespace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we drop the icon sizes down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we sort the list by number-of-items, descending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T00:08:51.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="399" CreationDate="2018-08-13T00:11:36.883" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's too late but I just wanted to say a big &lt;strong&gt;THANK YOU&lt;/strong&gt;! Jin, you put a lot of effort in your work, you listened to our feedback and you took it into account. You did some very nice work here and elsewhere on Stack Exchange. Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T00:11:36.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4985" CreationDate="2018-08-16T01:21:34.610" Score="15" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on Joe Friend's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/unix-linux-new-site-theme-is-live/4926?noredirect=1#comment8780_4929&quot;&gt;feedback&lt;/a&gt; on the site's recent theme change, there's a possibility of replacing the current site header image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IlkgJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IlkgJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;bg header&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we replace it with, if anything? The image is currently in a 385 x 101 space, though it appears to me that there'd be more horizontal space available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T16:34:19.633" Title="What should our site's header graphic be?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-16T01:27:41.333" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal preference would be to make it blank or non-existent all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T01:27:41.333" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-16T11:52:43.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea behind the current graphic, at least what I understand of it, is nice: connection. There's a beauty and elegance to a shell pipeline - a &lt;em&gt;connection&lt;/em&gt; of commands - data flowing from one to another, transforming again and again, that's simply mesmerizing. If the graphic could be fixed to be less convoluted and more elegant ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T11:52:43.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-16T11:55:50.373" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No change / &quot;none of the above&quot;. That is, keep the current image presented in the Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2018-08-16T12:40:39.047" LastActivityDate="2018-08-16T12:40:39.047" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-08-16T11:55:50.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4959" CreationDate="2018-08-16T22:26:01.437" Score="10" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; has over 300 questions about “The history of Unix systems and their main components”. There's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historical-unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;historical-unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;historical-unix&lt;/a&gt; which has 24 questions but no usage guidance or tag wiki – which is also being used for the same purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historical-unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;historical-unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;historical-unix&lt;/a&gt; be a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough reputation in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; to propose synonyms for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T21:22:41.593" Title="Make &quot;historical-unix&quot; history!" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-17T10:17:50.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about a banner logo featuring an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;O'Reilly-style animal image&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, this site is part of a network of sites, a hive mind, even: a swarm of monochrome bumble bees, perhaps? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Busy, focussed on carrying out tasks, elegant in their own (but often under-appreciated) way, and sometimes liable to sting if upset? I can see a few parallels there… ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216430" LastEditorUserId="216430" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T10:24:26.933" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T10:24:26.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4950" CreationDate="2018-08-17T14:00:42.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it's a proposed synonym now, though still needs some votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/history/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/history/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T14:00:42.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4954" CreationDate="2018-08-17T16:30:08.463" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to delete specific question version that included my privacy due my mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463210/some-documentation-for-the-ext4-rsv-conver-process&quot;&gt;Some documentation for the &amp;quot;ext4-rsv-conver&amp;quot; process?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I want to delete &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/463210/1&quot;&gt;the version&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="259284" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T16:57:04.003" Title="How to delete specific question version that included my privacy due my mistake?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4953" CreationDate="2018-08-17T16:57:04.003" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started the redaction; it's pending now waiting for another mod to approve it, but it should be done soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this happens again in the future, you can flag the post for mod attention and explain what you need in the flag message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T16:57:04.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5831" CreationDate="2018-08-17T20:39:11.620" Score="37" ViewCount="515" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/457398/can-someone-explain-the-meaning-of-and-in-a-linux-unix-command&quot;&gt;this title&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWyvo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWyvo.png&quot; alt=&quot;mangled dashes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meaning of a long dash? Ah, no, it's &lt;code&gt;--&lt;/code&gt;, correctly spelled in the title, but mangled in the title, which means that it's mangled in search engine results too. Or look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/437965/why-doesnt-alias-foo-echo-this-is-a-quote-work&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/igYiv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/igYiv.png&quot; alt=&quot;mangled quotes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it won't work if you use &lt;code&gt;“&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;”&lt;/code&gt;: only ASCII characters such as &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; have a special effect. Oh, wait, once again that's just because Stack Exchange mangled the title, so it looks wrong on the site and in search engine results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a technical site. We have a lot of questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quoting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quoting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quoting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/options&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;options&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;options&lt;/a&gt;. Exact punctuation is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I raised this a long time ago, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3429/site-design-updates/3432#comment5263_3432&quot;&gt;the response from a Stack Exchange developer&lt;/a&gt; was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We looked at the quotes on the last several hundred posts. While a few would be more correct without fancy quotes, the vast majority are correct and would be negatively impacted by such a change. Given that, we want to stick with the net-positive of replacing the quotes globally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, no, that doesn't make sense. Saying that replacing the quotes is “net-positive” doesn't make it so. It's a cosmetic improvement that can be done manually, versus mangling that affects the meaning and can't be bypassed. Please stop mangling punctuation in titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2021-09-01T10:32:39.323" LastActivityDate="2021-09-01T10:32:39.323" Title="Difference between &quot;foo&quot; and “foo”, 'foo' and ‘foo’ — and -- as well" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-17T20:39:13.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a graphic of a classic shell prompt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$&amp;gt; _&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps not the above prompt exactly, but a shell prompt nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="394" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T20:39:13.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-17T20:48:41.173" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4951&quot;&gt;dave559&lt;/a&gt;'s suggestion of bees. Bees perform a vital function in nature, they're industrious and they all work together as a complicated society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to go a little further and request an image with multiple bees of different species, to symbolize the diversity of the Unix ecosystem. I don't mind the style of the drawing (or photo) as long as it's detailed enough to see that the bees are different species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that this is more work than a simple abstract shape, but this is the first time I've heard a design idea that really evokes Unix to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(My second choice, if it's not bees, is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4946&quot;&gt;no image&lt;/a&gt;. I hate the current image and wish it had never been put up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T20:48:41.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4961" CreationDate="2018-08-17T21:10:44.380" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today I ran across &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463158/random-ext4-fs-errors&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and I've already &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463158/random-ext4-fs-errors?noredirect=1#comment842941_463158&quot;&gt;left a comment&lt;/a&gt; that OP should take a full system backup because it &quot;felt&quot; like a hardware error. (Intuition, old fart here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can we re-open this question ASAHP so that a well-funded answer can be posted? (or a duplicate found?). NRN to this one: if you have the rep, please re-open and leave a comment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(Thank you) &lt;strong&gt;:-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is this site's POV on someone leaving a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463158/random-ext4-fs-errors?noredirect=1#comment842941_463158&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; giving a 90% probability of an answer and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/463219/90054&quot;&gt;someone else&lt;/a&gt; just blatantly plagiarizing said comment and posting it as an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. Let it slide, tough luck?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;b. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463158/random-ext4-fs-errors?noredirect=1#comment843134_463219&quot;&gt;Complain&lt;/a&gt; and post your own answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;c. Refer to your original comment, answer and let the community decide?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;d. Something else entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T21:58:10.203" Title="Imminent drive failure: OP in need of reopening question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4950" CreationDate="2018-08-17T21:22:41.593" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historical-unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;historical-unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;historical-unix&lt;/a&gt; is not a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; at all. It's about Unix as a product, before there were multiple vendors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much any question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historical-unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;historical-unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;historical-unix&lt;/a&gt; would deserve the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;, because it hasn't been a current product for decades. But the converse is not true. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/historical-unix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;historical-unix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;historical-unix&lt;/a&gt; has a distinct meaning and must stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall the tag has mostly been used with its correct meaning. I have retagged a few questions where it was misused&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/286787/who-or-what-compiled-usr-share-dict-words&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/336084/how-should-linux-have-been-designed-if-differently&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/372229/how-do-i-convert-a-relative-to-an-absolute-path-portably-and-robustly&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/373459/how-can-one-verify-the-authenticity-of-getty-running-on-linux&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/419307/is-posix-a-subset-of-single-unix-specification&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/442942/where-can-i-get-the-first-edition-of-minix-os&quot;&gt;6&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and I've written a tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T21:22:41.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-17T21:40:47.370" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about keeping the existing logo but add an O’Reilly bee image, an ampersand and an O'Reilly-style penguin to the right? (and that would allow us to make endless puns about bees, penguins, penguins getting stung by bees, penguins eating bees, refer to the site as Bees&amp;amp;Penguins, ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T21:40:47.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4958" CreationDate="2018-08-17T21:58:10.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kind of baffled as to why that question was closed; I went into the history thinking &quot;it must've been massively edited after it was closed&quot; only to find the closure was the most recent event. Reopened it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the comment: first, I'd avoid phrases like &quot;blatantly plagiarizing&quot;. Once the &lt;code&gt;smartctl&lt;/code&gt; output was posted, it became very obvious what the problem was, so anyone that looked at the question would've thought &quot;oh, I know this&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally in cases where somebody thinks they know the answer but isn't certain, I recommend posting it as an answer. If you're wrong you can always delete it, but when the question gets solved in the comments somebody has to go back and convert that comment thread to an answer. A lot of times that never happens, and a lot of times it does happen but the asker has already moved on and the question sits &quot;unresolved&quot; forever. I see 0-answer questions that have been solved in the comments a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's really no downside to just posting an answer upfront -- discussion about that answer can be in the answer's comments instead of mixed in with the question's comments, the answer can be edited as the problem is better understood, and as soon as the answer is right the asker can skip the &quot;It worked!&quot; comment and just mark the answer correct immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T21:58:10.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-18T01:02:36.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer no graphic at all. I am all for simpler web designs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, how about putting an option like we have in our profile for the left option, for not having that Unix&amp;amp;Linux bar area at all, on the top? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I blocked it with adblocking and it looks so much less clutered. It is after all valuable space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. I also add-blocked the Hot network questions area &lt;em&gt;while&lt;/em&gt; in the Unix questions. Visual clutter &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt; welcome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously at the touch of an icon in the browser I can easily see it all &lt;em&gt;if I want to see it&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2018-08-18T01:15:17.563" LastActivityDate="2018-08-18T01:15:17.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-22T07:11:37.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4956/54675&quot;&gt;user394’s idea&lt;/a&gt; to present the shell prompt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the shell is what connects all Unix &amp;amp; Linux kinds, starting from BusyBox used in embedded devices, across Macs (with all their dissimilarities), to huge Linux servers. A shell works on all of them and behaves much same way. Even if you see it on Windows (using Cygwin, WSL etc.), you know: &lt;em&gt;Now it behaves the Unix way.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d like to present a full featured prompt, showing additional Unix features:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a Bash prompt which is likely the most common one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the root user as a universal administrator of any Unix instance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a hostname meaning you can work with several computers from a single terminal (using SSH, for example)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I’d choose &lt;code&gt;stackexchange&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was &lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/4963/1&quot;&gt;original version&lt;/a&gt; but I want to not be redundant with the command, see below&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the slash representing the single-root directory structure making it so easy to mount and clone anything you like (and creating a hard time for newcomers from Windows :-) )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a command representing getting help on Unix&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; is the standard one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/unix.7.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; manpage speaks about sockets but I find this an easter egg rather than a problem, the important thing is that it indeed works!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the text appearance of the result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stackexchange:/# man unix█&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strike&gt;If you know a good command that could be written in the shell and extend the presented idea, please tell me!&lt;/strike&gt; Preferred option incorporated.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54675" LastEditorUserId="54675" LastEditDate="2018-09-03T11:51:59.977" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T11:51:59.977" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-22T23:22:27.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ll throw a radical idea out there: what about adding text and/or links to help introduce and/or guide users on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pointers to popular tag Info pages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;links to “how to ask smart questions”, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://jdebp.eu/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://jdebp.eu/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://sscce.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sscce.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question guidance ala &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/369682/ask-a-question-wizard-prototype&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/369682/ask-a-question-wizard-prototype&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-08-22T23:22:27.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-24T17:07:06.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly a stylized version of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pdp-7&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pdp-11&lt;/a&gt; since those are the original machines unix ran on? Just a single cabinet, perhaps black and white, with white circles for the tapes, or comic-like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing I thought of was an idealized screenshot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;space travel&lt;/a&gt;, the game that Ken Thompson supposedly developed unix to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;update:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a quick stab at a stylized pdp-7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/loig2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/loig2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="288980" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T17:26:13.383" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-24T13:46:04.000" Score="-2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title implies I got a pop-up onscreen while visiting &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/181503/how-to-install-desktop-environments-on-centos-7&quot;&gt;How to install Desktop Environments on CentOS 7?&lt;/a&gt; a few minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In and of itself it's not concerning. However, the header of the message was &quot;Tehran, Iran&quot; which DOES concern me. I went to screen print the page but accidentally moved the mouse out of focus which, of course, caused the message to lose focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still in that page but I cannot recreate the message. Long story short, this is a heads up to stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user307266" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2018-08-24T17:56:16.343" LastActivityDate="2018-08-25T12:02:36.313" Title="Popup magically appeared onscreen moments ago CentOS 7, GNOME?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4968" CreationDate="2018-08-24T13:52:14.337" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the header of the message was &quot;Tehran, Iran&quot; which DOES concern me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok. Although I fail to see why that in itself should concern you, the most likely explanation is that the question - and answer - stems from esteemed contributor @&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/72456/%CE%B1%D2%93s%D0%BD%CE%B9%CE%B7&quot;&gt;αғsнιη&lt;/a&gt; who happens to be located in Tehran, Iran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You probably clicked, or hovered over this user's icon, and that is why the popup appeared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GROwi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GROwi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stay calm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="anon" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-08-25T12:02:36.313" LastActivityDate="2018-08-25T12:02:36.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4972" CreationDate="2018-08-24T20:43:47.017" Score="6" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago, I asked two questions on U&amp;amp;L. And because I was fairly new to bash (I still am), I mentioned the fact that I was a newbie each time. A bit in the hope to inform any respondents' answers and level of explaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier this week, StackOverflow informed me that two of my questions had been edited. Normally, edits from experienced users are a good thing; they help make posts more readable, by fixing grammar or spelling mistakes, by adding formatting, or tags, or by helping with the wording. I was curious what I had missed, so I checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that the user - who has a lot of reputation points - had changed, certainly with the best intentions, was my reference to being a newbie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't quite understand why, however. After all, my questions had been&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And I had added that information for a reason.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if this were a wiki, I'd not have spent a second thought on this - but this isn't a wiki, and there is my name under those questions. So I feel like it should be me as the original author who sets the tone and style of my question. Which is why I rolled back the changes; In my opinion they only reflected someone's personal preference for a more factual style, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day, the deletes were back.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Somehow, that feels like somebody is not respecting my wishes, and abusing their edit privileges to do it. (In my mind, you can edit other people's posts to help them express themselves better - but from my point of view, I don't think that's what happened. These edits didn't help. In any case, I am - as you can probably tell - a bit annoyed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, long story short, how can I - as someone with hardly any reputation on U&amp;amp;L - respectfully ask someone with lots to please stop making that kind of edits to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/239045/revisions&quot;&gt;my&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/174724/revisions&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;? Is there an &quot;internal message&quot; functionality to get in touch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I missing a community rule that advocates certain styles aren't used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95276" LastActivityDate="2018-08-25T11:57:47.573" Title="My signature, my style. How do I ask an advanced contributor to stop editing my question?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-08-24T22:24:29.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a fan of this header graphic, right in the center:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Q81S.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Q81S.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2018-08-24T22:24:29.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4970" CreationDate="2018-08-25T11:57:47.573" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, thank you for coming here and posting a civil and calm question about it. That is always appreciated. That said, this site &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; actually partly a wiki. The Stack Exchange sites were always aiming to be a cross between a wiki, a blog, a forum and sites like Digg or Reddit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WFg8V.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WFg8V.png&quot; alt=&quot;SE ven diagramm&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.codinghorror.com/stack-overflow-none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one of the first blog posts&lt;/a&gt; announcing the launch of Stack Overflow, the first SE site. So yes, this is indeed at least partly a wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific edits did slightly improve the &quot;signal to noise&quot; ratio. What I mean is that things like &quot;I'm new to this&quot; don't really add anything useful to the question. We can usually tell you're new by seeing what you're asking. More importantly, whether you're new or not isn't really relevant to the technical aspects of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get an answer that isn't clear to you because you lack the knowledge to understand it, then you can ask for clarification in the comments. More importantly, answers should always strive to be clearly understandable by users of any level of knowledge. If an answer can only be understood by someone at the level of expertise of the person who answered, then it's essentially useless since anyone who can understand the answer will already know it and will therefore have no need to read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is to say that we try (albeit not always successfully) to answer in ways that are clear both to a newbie and to an expert. And if that's still too complicated, we will happily add further clarifications upon request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, and coming back to the &quot;wiki&quot; aspect of the site, we don't answer for the person who asked the question alone. We answer for the person who asked &lt;em&gt;and for every other user who might have the same question and will then find this Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/em&gt;. They don't need to know you're new. They just need to know the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We therefore often remove this sort of &quot;noise&quot; (noise being anything not directly related to the question being asked). Things like &quot;I'm new&quot; or even &quot;thanks&quot; or &quot;hello&quot;. We try to keep things as streamlined as possible, giving what is needed to ask and answer and nothing else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have been much better if, after you undid the edits, the high rep user had left a comment explaining why the edits were being made instead of just reapplying them. That would have felt like less of an attack on you and I get why you may have felt bullied. But despite the slightly inelegant way in which they were made, the edits themselves are indeed considered OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-08-25T11:57:47.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-01T02:01:29.657" Score="2" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our current tag for this concept is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cgroups&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cgroups&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cgroups&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#terminology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the official kernel documentation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“cgroup” stands for “control group” and is never capitalized. The singular form is used to designate the whole feature and also as a qualifier as in “cgroup controllers”. When explicitly referring to multiple individual control groups, the plural form “cgroups” is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is explicitly mentioned in the official documentation, I think it would be good to retag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cgroups&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cgroups&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cgroups&lt;/a&gt; questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cgroup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cgroup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cgroup&lt;/a&gt; and add a synonym so future uses of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cgroups&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cgroups&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cgroups&lt;/a&gt; auto-correct to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cgroup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cgroup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cgroup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you can't legislate language usage, but it would be good to have our tag usage correspond to the official documentation (in my opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2018-09-01T02:01:29.657" Title="cgroup versus cgroups in tagging" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|retag-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2018-09-01T02:05:49.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final X in the site logo is a different height to the other letters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xVskm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xVskm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the site logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/efVkz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/efVkz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Larger image of the logo with guides added&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the N is aligned but the main serif isn't. It should probably be the other way, the point of the N going slightly below the baseline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63398" LastEditorUserId="63398" LastEditDate="2018-09-01T02:30:02.227" LastActivityDate="2018-09-01T02:30:02.227" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4976" CreationDate="2018-09-01T06:49:29.070" Score="1" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this question has already been asked, so asking it again would make it a doublon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can not remember how exactly that question was phrased, so I am unable to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about simulating one virtual large file out of many small parts of an image file, without actually creating that file. Linux just acts as if the image file exists as one big file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270469" LastActivityDate="2018-09-01T12:24:35.980" Title="I need help finding this question: How to simulate one large file out of many segments?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4975" CreationDate="2018-09-01T12:24:35.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just ask the question. If it is indeed a duplicate, it will be closed as a duplicate, and will will have one more way of finding it next time someone has the same issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the simplest way of finding it and having your question as well as the existing one will make it easier next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-09-01T12:24:35.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-01T15:47:42.613" Score="16" ViewCount="484" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site logo is using the wrong glyphs for its smallcaps portions. This looks bad. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Elements of Typographical Style&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Bringhurst writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Genuine small caps are not simply shrunken versions of the full caps. They differ from large caps in stroke weight, letterfit, and internal proportions as well as in height. Any good set of small caps is designed as such from the ground up. Thickening, shrinking, and squashing the full caps with digital modification routines will only produce a parody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just look at the logo up at the top of the page right now, you’ll see that the faked small caps don’t look right compared to the fullsized initial cap. Notice how the stroke width of the U is different from that of the N, I, or X:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iqYDk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iqYDk.png&quot; alt=&quot;misshapen logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See how much wider the thick stroke of the U is than that of the I, for example?  It also has the wrong x-height for the smallcaps in the font, and it distorts the proportions of the glyphs so they look all spindly and weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In comparison, here is what it might look like using actual smallcaps available in the font. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UDctT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UDctT.png&quot; alt=&quot;comparison of real vs fake smallcaps&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare the two N’s and the two U’s up there. Notice how the faked ones are all stretched and funny looking compared with the real ones. Those are not smallcaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've set that in Caslon so you can compare like with like of what happens when you switch between faked small caps and real ones. Here's the same with the logo from &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the English Language &amp;amp; Usage site&lt;/a&gt;, which uses real smallcaps in Caslon, not faked ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6QXX7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6QXX7.png&quot; alt=&quot;ELU logo comparison&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current logo is what Bringhurst calls “a parody”; it looks unprofessionally done. This is easy to fix, and should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2649" LastEditorUserId="298862" LastEditDate="2018-10-04T21:51:30.410" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T21:51:30.410" Title="The &quot;Unix &amp; Linux&quot; logo is using faked small caps, which looks bad" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-02T13:08:13.917" Score="12" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is about UNIX, I would expect that the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adb&lt;/a&gt; refers to the &lt;strong&gt;advanced debugger&lt;/strong&gt; written by Stephen Bourne in the mid 1970 as the standard debugger for UNIX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag currently however is misused for a third party program from Google for Android.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid confusion, I propose to rename &lt;code&gt;adb&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;android-adb&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120884" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-09-10T14:43:53.857" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T14:43:53.857" Title="Rename adb to android-adb" Tags="|discussion|bug|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4980" CreationDate="2018-09-03T19:14:38.003" Score="6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really out of my league, and I wouldn't bring it up except that I'd like to understand how things are done here - at &lt;code&gt;unix.se&lt;/code&gt;. That said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While searching, I found a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/246215/how-can-i-list-files-with-their-absolute-path-in-linux&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A that addressed my question perfectly on the SO forum.&lt;/a&gt; As you can see it's quite old, and also classified as &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt;. Fair enough, but it seemed quite relevant here, so I &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/373553/migrating-an-off-topic-question-to-another-forum?noredirect=1#comment627225_373553&quot;&gt;posed a question in SO.meta about migrating it.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got an answer to my question that I felt was credible, but not quite &quot;satisfactory&quot; if you know what I mean. And so, I am posting a question here to ask if there is a different procedure at &lt;code&gt;unix.se&lt;/code&gt; for handling such things, or if there are other suggestions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286615" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T19:36:07.027" Title="&quot;Migration&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4979" CreationDate="2018-09-03T19:36:07.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because new sites get added to stackexchange over time, there is this unfortunate side effect that Q's which previously didn't have a proper home would show up on one of the existing sites. Given SO, SU, and SF are the original 3, they suffer from this the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case it's generally the policy that after 2 months, Q's that have not been migrated, can no longer be migrated. I believe there are ways to request this, but it's generally advisable to leave things where they are, especially on Q's which have 100's of upvotes and 100's, perhaps 1000's of views. Moving things between sites would lead to too much of a disruption to user's on both the sending and receiving sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This topic has been discussed multiple times in the various meta sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151890/disable-migration-for-questions-older-than-60-days&quot;&gt;Disable migration for questions older than 60 days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136537/is-too-old-to-migrate-a-good-reason-not-to-migrate&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;Too old to migrate&amp;quot; a good reason NOT to migrate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/152597/how-to-migrate-old-questions-to-a-new-graduated-site&quot;&gt;How to migrate old questions to a new graduated site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T19:36:07.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4984" CreationDate="2018-09-07T02:15:17.790" Score="-4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that I often want to add some small explanation text that would only be visible as a tooltip ie. when viewer hovers mouse on a word/phrase, because I do not want to clutter the text with extra information that some/most viewers would already know.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if not tooltips, perhaps some other way to have the extra information hidden by default unless opened by a click. (in github there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/ericclemmons/b146fe5da72ca1f706b2ef72a20ac39d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;details&amp;gt; hidden text &amp;lt;/details&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for example - and I think this is html5?)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly I'd actually want tooltips within tooltips, but that's just pushing it :D  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of where I'd use it, I have the following text(but imagine it's unquoted in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/467424/306023&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have tested Sysrq to work(eg. help,sync) even when &lt;code&gt;kernel.sysctl=0&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;  (so it's just as the doc above says), if I add kernel boot argument&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;sysrq_always_enabled&lt;/code&gt; (note: it doesn't have to be&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/309882/306023&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sysrq_always_enabled=1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&#xA;  (to double check, I've also tested Sysrq to NOT work when&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;kernel.sysctl=0&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sysrq_always_enabled&lt;/code&gt; is NOT present in&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;/proc/cmdline&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd hide &lt;code&gt;(eg. help,sync)&lt;/code&gt; on the word &lt;code&gt;work&lt;/code&gt;,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;then hide &lt;code&gt;(so it's just as the doc above says)&lt;/code&gt; on the whole phrase &lt;code&gt;I have tested Sysrq to work(eg. help,sync) even when 'kernel.sysctl=0'&lt;/code&gt; and hopefully it would be visible that the text applies to(ie. is hidden for) that whole phrase.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then I'd hide this:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(note: it doesn't have to be&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/309882/306023&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sysrq_always_enabled=1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the word &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;sysrq_always_enabled&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's just prior to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I'd hide this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(to double check, I've also tested Sysrq to NOT work when&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;kernel.sysctl=0&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sysrq_always_enabled&lt;/code&gt; is NOT present in&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;/proc/cmdline&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the word &lt;code&gt;tested&lt;/code&gt; which is part of the start sentence &lt;code&gt;I have tested Sysrq to work ...&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nesting is allowed, then I'd hide &lt;code&gt;Sysrq+h&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Sysrq+s&lt;/code&gt; on the words &lt;code&gt;help&lt;/code&gt; respectively &lt;code&gt;sync&lt;/code&gt; from the already tooltip-ed(or somehow hidden) phrase &lt;code&gt;(eg. help,sync)&lt;/code&gt; mentioned above.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get the picture.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, if it's a tooltip, I don't want it to go away when user pressed left mouse button, in an attempt to select the text.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; A caveat of all this being implemented would be that any browser wouldn't be able to search/find text within the hidden/tooltip-ed portions unless they are opened/visible.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user306023" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T08:23:19.107" Title="Hey you know what would be cool ? tooltips on text (or some way to hide/show portions of text?)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4983" CreationDate="2018-09-07T08:23:19.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why you would want this. What is the benefit you see? It sounds like it would just make using the page harder for everyone and impossible for mobile users. If you must do something like that, use footnotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, if you want to have a surprise, you can use spoiler markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This text is a surprise!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start a line with &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt;, you get a box like the one above whose contents are hidden until you hover over it (or click on it, on mobile).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T08:23:19.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4945" CreationDate="2018-09-07T16:34:19.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;3 weeks in, the votes as of today lean toward &quot;no graphic at all&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+10 blank/non-existent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+7 for bees, second choice none&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+5 for a &quot;full featured prompt&quot; shell prompt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+4 for a classic shell prompt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+4 for an O'Reilly-style animal (bees)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+3 for a centered &quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+3 current image, but less convoluted and more elegant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+2 a stylized pdp-7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+2 no image or no top bar at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1 introductory links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-2 keep existing, add bee &amp;amp; penguin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-4 keep existing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... which is (now) the current situation, the image having been removed as of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4945/what-should-our-sites-header-graphic-be?answertab=votes#comment8817_4945&quot;&gt;Aug 17 at 20:55&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T16:34:19.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4987" CreationDate="2018-09-07T23:01:08.167" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/467377/306023&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer, I already got a notification for the comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467369/how-to-change-the-line-a-string-is-found-on-with-the-output-of-another-program-t/467377#comment851641_467377&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;@MarcusLinsner - only gnu sed can do that via the e flag... – don_crissti yesterday&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but I got no notification for the comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467369/how-to-change-the-line-a-string-is-found-on-with-the-output-of-another-program-t/467377#comment851658_467377&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;the output from qx(...) includes a trailing newline, and the current line already has one. – glenn jackman yesterday&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at Inbox's &lt;code&gt;all items&lt;/code&gt; (which for me is at this url: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/14170288/marcus-linsner?tab=inbox&quot;&gt;https://stackexchange.com/users/14170288/marcus-linsner?tab=inbox&lt;/a&gt; ). I searched(from Firefox) in all 3 pages for the text &lt;code&gt;the output from&lt;/code&gt; but got no results; I also searched for &lt;code&gt;How to change the line&lt;/code&gt; (which is the beginning of that question's title) and only found two notifications: 1. for the question getting &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/467377/306023&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; and 2. for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467369/how-to-change-the-line-a-string-is-found-on-with-the-output-of-another-program-t/467377#comment851641_467377&quot;&gt;first comment&lt;/a&gt; from don_crissti which I already mentioned above)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I just noticed that there was an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/467377/2&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/467377/306023&quot;&gt;the answer&lt;/a&gt; yesterday, that I got no notification for - but I am unsure if the system does dispense notifications for edited answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened / why? Should I expect this to happen again or was it just a one time fluke?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user306023" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2018-09-08T01:27:00.893" LastActivityDate="2018-09-08T01:27:00.893" Title="I got no Inbox notification for a comment, why?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4986" CreationDate="2018-09-08T01:20:28.390" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first comment replied to you by name using &lt;code&gt;@MarcusLinsner&lt;/code&gt; -- that's not just a convention, the site recognizes it and knows that the reply is for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kEo0j.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a reply doesn't contain a specific &lt;code&gt;@name&lt;/code&gt; target, it's assumed to be a reply to the post's author; in this case since the comment was &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; the post's author, it didn't alert anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a special case where if a post's author comments and there's only one other person in the comment thread at that point, the site assumes the author was replying to the other commenter even if they didn't specify, but it doesn't apply in this case because there was a third person in the thread (don_crissti).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's lots of info on the subtleties of the comment reply system in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43020/145982&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the part about edit notifications, there are notifications for &quot;non-trivial&quot; edits to posts, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/135411/145982&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; defines as at least 10 characters, or 2 characters if within a code block. But those notifications only go to the post author, not everyone that commented on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-09-08T01:20:28.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-09T13:21:16.337" Score="38" ViewCount="1128" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a particularly large number of (sometimes reasonably well asked) questions being downvoted recently. Here are three examples, where I don't think the question has been too badly asked. (I grant that there may not have been much &lt;em&gt;visible&lt;/em&gt; research effort, but I suspect that in some cases people may simply not know the terminology to perform decent searches):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/467848/100397&quot;&gt;Permanent outgoing IP with enabled DHCP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/467779/100397&quot;&gt;samba - permission denied when share in another users home directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/467433/100397&quot;&gt;Ubuntu installation in Windows 10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that we don't need to provide comments to justify votes. I'm also fairly sure that in the review phase there's a recommendation to provide an explanation of what's wrong and to encourage better question writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering out loud how we can help these users better. (Or indeed &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; we should help these users better.) I've carefully avoided included Kali examples because those are addressed elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2018-09-09T19:18:14.640" LastActivityDate="2018-09-22T17:35:03.887" Title="Lots of surprising downvotes to new users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-10T15:09:44.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to inquire and suggest the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- &lt;strong&gt;Inquiry:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, it is weird! There is only an upvote button on the comments! Why downvotes on the comments were not considered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2- &lt;strong&gt;Suggest:&lt;/strong&gt; including a downvote button on the comments is vital! I read many inappropriate comments here and there. Some People just have big ego, others are disrespectful, some users are not cooperative enough with other users (especially the newbies). Including a down voting button on the commanets and link it probably to the total number of reputations (for example every two down votes on a comment would elemnitae 5 reputations from the total score) would improve, significantly, the quality of the comments –scientifically and ethically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that somebody will say that you can &lt;em&gt;flag&lt;/em&gt; a comment. This is correct, but this is not enough to improve the quality of the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user88036" LastEditorDisplayName="user88036" LastEditDate="2018-09-10T15:32:32.343" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T22:57:42.127" Title="Why downvotes on comments are not considered in U&amp;L?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4989" CreationDate="2018-09-10T22:57:42.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest flagging these kinds of comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;inappropriate comments &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;others are disrespectful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and possibly these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;some users are not cooperative enough with other users (especially the newbies).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and this is just unclear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some People just have big ego&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the long history of status-declined for downvoting comments and their second-class citizen status, my suggestion would be flagging, positive comments, or invitations to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T22:57:42.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-11T12:26:14.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been an occasional visitor to this website for a little over a year and I have to say the climate has notably changed for the worse throughout my stay, what with the downvotes with no explanation, close votes with no explanation, and semi-hostile edits expunging politeness from posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4970/my-signature-my-style-how-do-i-ask-an-advanced-contributor-to-stop-editing-my&quot;&gt;without any explanation why&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I think the necessary first step in helping those new users in getting better is to become better and more accepting of &quot;newbies&quot; ourselves, throwing any pretense and egos out of the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One practical way to make people more considerate about making &quot;hostile&quot; votes could be hard limiting the number of &quot;negative&quot; down- and close- votes any user can cast per day, regardless of their reputation. That will encourage people who spend a lot of time on the website to be more thoughtful and try more socially acceptable options first, such as suggesting an edit, writing their own &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answer, or just &quot;minding their own business&quot; and not casting any votes whatsoever if &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; don't happen to like a certain question which at least one other person deemed worthy enough to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217523" LastActivityDate="2018-09-11T12:26:14.163" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2018-09-12T15:43:05.803" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternative: considering the the normal naming of Unix commands and that they're case-sensitive, set the site logo in all-lowercase. Seriously, who names something with a capital letter? That's an extra key to hit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evidence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ unicode --max 0 --format='{category} {category_desc}\n' -s &quot;$(IFS=: ; find $PATH -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm -o+x -printf '%f\n' | cut -c1 | tr -d '\n' )&quot; | sort | uniq -c&#xA;   4364 Ll Letter, Lowercase&#xA;     14 Lu Letter, Uppercase&#xA;     23 Nd Number, Decimal Digit&#xA;      1 Ps Punctuation, Open&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More commands on my system start with a number than start with an uppercase letter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, we should be &lt;code&gt;unix\ \&amp;amp;\ linux&lt;/code&gt; :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think caps-only terminals all long dead, so we need not deal with that complication.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2018-09-12T15:43:05.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-14T15:47:36.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that we don't need to provide comments to justify votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps comments should be required for downvoting posts from new users? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes without comments are very discouraging to new users who don't understand the site rules, or the criteria for limited scope and objectivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because question downvotes are free, it encourages drive by downvoting. Few users take effort and time to justify their downvotes with comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my observation questions with few views have downvotes without comment but when it has been viewed sufficient times (say 100) there are usually a few comments and edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be tested by comparing the view count against votes and comment count of posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the solution here could some combination of following (only applicable to new user's posts):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Limit downvotes on posts from new users until it has had a chance to be viewed by enough users&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Restrict votes until a set time has elapsed (say 2 hours?). This prevents questions that don't reach required view count from sticking around forever&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make such downvotes cost a point&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Necessarily require a comment to be added before downvote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19506" LastEditorUserId="19506" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T14:13:36.403" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T14:13:36.403" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-15T22:36:42.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A downvote should cost one reputation point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: PLUS, most importantly, it should &lt;em&gt;tell&lt;/em&gt; you that you just expended one point to downvote.  If it costs nothing and you are not told that then you do not place any value on that expenditure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117536" LastEditorUserId="117536" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T20:56:40.790" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T20:56:40.790" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-16T02:21:14.277" Score="-1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/468898/using-systemd-can-i-run-a-specific-application-whenever-my-server-worker-exits&quot;&gt;Using systemd can I run a specific application whenever my server/worker exits?&lt;/a&gt; (I told him to read about some documentation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/228452/can-grub-load-a-kernel-from-http&quot;&gt;Can grub load a kernel from HTTP?&lt;/a&gt; (in the comments, he refuses to read any kind of manual)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/469313/how-to-execstartpre-another-systemd-unit&quot;&gt;How to ExecStartPre another systemd unit?&lt;/a&gt; (clearly didn't listen to me because nobody write a service file like that after a little document reading)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can explain to me about that?  Is that attitude welcomed in this stackexchange community as long as it's a properly described and not duplicate question? Does this community even care about such situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I think such questions and comments and even account should be banned for any tech-related Q&amp;amp;A community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301641" LastEditorUserId="301641" LastEditDate="2018-09-16T05:19:38.410" LastActivityDate="2018-09-16T13:49:31.630" Title="What's the attitude towards &quot;Give me answer, I don't RTFD&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4996" CreationDate="2018-09-16T13:49:31.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions on this site can be answered by referring to the relevant documentation. Even questions directly addressed by the documentation can be useful for the next person who is facing the same situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the exact question there might be also other ways to answer the question than only the answer provided by the documentation. When writing an answer to such question you can cite the documentation or provide a link for further information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some low quality questions can be improved by simply removing non-relevant details/information (and possibly some rephrasing to better focus on the exact issue). Having one good question is useful as new questions on same topic can then be marked as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239817" LastActivityDate="2018-09-16T13:49:31.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-16T15:36:31.050" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed downvotes when being new as well. Especially on StackOverflow. This was up to an extend, where I did get scared of posting something, fearing about my reputation. After all, you work hard to get some reputation up here... and getting downvoted a lot, especially when being new and without any reason given, is quite bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I try to avoid StackOverflow up to this day, mainly using the UNIX and Ubuntu parts of StackExchange. And for a long time, I have just been referring to other platforms, when asking questions. Though I have been frequently around when I was looking for answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to have some improvement here platform-wide. At least some comment or advice would be nice.. some questions of course are just bad, but many times the user does not even know what's happening to them. I know that from first hand experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157052" LastActivityDate="2018-09-16T15:36:31.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2018-09-16T18:07:27.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additional background from &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/Unix.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/Unix.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dennis Ritchie says that the ‘UNIX’ spelling originally happened in CACM's 1974 paper The UNIX Time-Sharing System because “we had a new typesetter and troff had just been invented and we were intoxicated by being able to produce small caps.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any modern use of small caps to spell UNIX is a reference to those old troff documents, so that's what we should really be imitating. So we should try to find out: did the ancient typesetter have &quot;real&quot; small caps, or was troff faking it? (Either way, the full-size &quot;U&quot; is probably wrong)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user41515" LastActivityDate="2018-09-16T18:07:27.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5001" CreationDate="2018-09-17T12:27:56.730" Score="8" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/469375/revisions&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; by a &gt;2k-rep user in a way which makes it oddly formatted (code-quoting of brand names) and grammatically incorrect. Is there a way to undo the edit, apart from just making a further edit to correct it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the basic question. I am a fairly experienced user on StackOverflow, but things work a bit differently as a 405-rep beginner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3805" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T12:31:41.630" Title="Undoing an edit by someone else" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5000" CreationDate="2018-09-17T12:31:41.630" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can roll back to a previous version. Click &quot;edited ... (timestamp)&quot; under the post, and then &quot;rollback&quot; next to the version you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T12:31:41.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-18T04:21:52.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Newcomer is even in general life considered vulnerable till he proves himself&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And therefore, in here, prone to (even unexplained) downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only deduce the settled users feel comfortable to downvote without an explanation since they don't have to. I do that sometimes too, but only in cases I feel they are &lt;em&gt;horribly wrong formulated&lt;/em&gt;. And I don't find anything wrong with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What can we do then&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in life we don't enforce the &lt;em&gt;authorities&lt;/em&gt; to explain themselves, it should, in my opinion, cost points here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example model, my proposal&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every downvoter could get a choice. Reason: For one, people love when they have a choice. Well, not everyone, so in settings, the choice could be remembered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To drop some points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For users &gt; 125 &amp;lt;= 1000 points, it could cost -1 point&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For users &gt; 1000 &amp;lt;= 5000 points, it could cost -3 points&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For users &gt; 5000 points, it could cost -10 points&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To explain himself. With a proper explanation length control, we all could get what we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice, that users below 125 cannot vote down, these are out of the scope of my proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126755" LastEditorUserId="126755" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T04:30:17.397" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T04:30:17.397" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-18T12:21:24.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate to say this, but I kind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/311797/294404&quot;&gt;expected&lt;/a&gt; this would happen when the whole &lt;em&gt;new code of conduct&lt;/em&gt; thing started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't misunderstand me, I don't approve of rude comments &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; anonymous downvotes. But haters gonna hate whatever you do, and if you deprive them of one tool to express their anger, they'll find another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encouraging people to explain downvotes &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-downvotes&quot;&gt;has been discussed&lt;/a&gt; in lengths. The gist of the discussion was that there is no meaningful way to make people leave meaningful comments. Some people are also afraid of revenge tit-for-tat downvoting, a fear I don't think is well-founded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps in the new circumstances some of the ideas expressed there should be revisited. My favorite is to make any downvote cost 1 rep, but give that rep back if your comment on a downvoted question or answer has been upvoted. What I'm afraid of is that SO staff won't have time to implement and test such ideas, which become very complicated once you consider all edge cases like questions/answers/comments being deleted or edited and voted on again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="106927" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T12:47:21.963" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T12:47:21.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-18T14:32:00.017" Score="-3" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are answers in this site which use the a term similar to &quot;bourne-like shells&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may raise some natural questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which shells are Bourne-like?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the Bourne shell itself also a Bourne-like shell?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If that last question is true, What is the set of &quot;Bourne-like descendants&quot; but excluding the Bourne shell itself called?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may improve by developing some taxa about shells. Maybe family and specie could be enough. Families: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bourne (only the bourne shell)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;csh (csh,es,rc,akanga)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ksh (ksh,lksh,mksh, bash)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;zsh.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a Posix family as well, that should be up for discussion IMhO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T14:09:50.060" Title="Could be useful that we develop some shell Taxonomy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-18T18:27:40.207" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to this site. My short experience here is that some of this community have  the intention (nowhere evident when a new user joins) that this group be only for experts, whereas others are keeping up the traditional Linux ethos of welcoming all learners as potential future developers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is a great addressing of that problem: people are being downvoted on this site for not being experts, when there is nothing in the description of the group that suggests we shouldn't post if we are just midlevel or new people seeking advice. How were we supposed to know that nonexperts would be downvoted/ put on hold? That needs to go in the description. Why not have one group &quot;Unix and Linux Experts&quot; and another general one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a question last night when I wound up here at random after various Google searches came up empty. I got the answers I needed, which I have come to take for granted because every Linux usergroup I've ever asked a question on was very encouraging and supportive to new users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I was surprised when my question was almost immediately put on hold for being &quot;too broad&quot;. And this was a false pretext. Because the comments told a different story: those who kindly answered me were totally clear on what I was asking, and no one expressed confusion about what I was asking. They merely complained that my level is too basic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is more a fit to security.stackexchange than here. An IT illiterate person would be better off paying a competente professional (expensive) or selling that system and buying an iPad.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The computer won´t run alone and the expectations of taking care of it via Internet boards might be a bit too optimistic.&quot; (Spoiler: Ubuntu does run itself, if you install the updates. It's actually designed to do that. I've been running it like that for years.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Nevertheless, this kind of answers do invite lowering the quality of this forum with very lower quality questions that are not a fit here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This forum is not intended for... end user support.&quot; (Well, actually, everyone who uses Linux is an end user. So this person is saying that it is only intended to support expert end users. And we'll get downvoted or put on hold if we're not experts. And we have no way of knowing that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never had pushback telling me to get out of their online space from any other Linux usergroup. Maybe an occasional surly comment, but a platform never before came to a consensus to put my question on hold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: &#xA;My ex set up my computer and is a little possessive still. I want to make sure they can't monitor my computer usage, access files, etc. I wonder if there is a blanket setting in system preferences or something that I can use to decline/ reset all ssh permissions? I'm concerned they may have installed some kind of back door or something, with all good intentions at first for being able to help me out maybe, and I don't really know what I'm looking for. I'm running Kubuntu, the most updated version, and don't know any of the lingo or jargon. I just want to make sure my computer is closed to the outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My edit: &#xA;I see that this question is now on hold because certain people feel it's &quot;too broad&quot;. I had a number of responses clearly telling me that the only way to be sure of blocking all remote access is to reinstall the system, and no responses that answered a different question. So I'm confident that my phrasing clearly communicated the single, targeted question that I was asking, as well as why I was asking and what language level I needed the responses to be at. My thanks to the multiple users who provided the response I needed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm reading that &quot;too broad&quot; is being used as code for &quot;not advanced enough for our group&quot;. If you don't want requests for basic level help posted on this site, maybe consider renaming it to &quot;Unix and Linux Experts&quot;. Or even create a separate group, because there is clearly a great willingness among among the community to answer questions like the one I asked, in the short time before it was blocked! Props to the helpers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311397" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T18:27:40.207" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2018-09-19T09:27:12.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Generic SELinux topics&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/392833/239817&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I configure SELinux to allow daemons to use files in non-default locations?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/469822/239817&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to troubleshoot SELinux issues?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/418643/239817&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to install SELinux policy manpage?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/472731/239817&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it possible to prevent a change in SELinux status without a reboot?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239817" LastEditorUserId="239817" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T11:38:06.727" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T11:38:06.727" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-09-19T09:27:12.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5004" CreationDate="2018-09-19T14:09:50.060" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I appreciate efforts towards simplification, I think obscuring the actual shell names would lead to &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; confusion, not less. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; think that most of the questions here focus on one shell in particular (whether that's bash or dash or zsh or ...), and adding more tags or wording would not benefit those questions. Questions that specifically include two shells might ask about transferring functionality from one to the other; again, the question and answers would be specific to those shells.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; wonder if you're seeing some answers (Stéphane's come to mind) who have an encyclopedic-level of knowledge and can offer variations in their answer for users of other shells than were directly asked about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To your comment regarding a potential benefit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Help new users with a simpler taxonomy. (easier to say Mammal than to list some of them. Easier to say dinosaur than to say &quot;the older animals that existed before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago almost erased them (except for birds))&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; think it'd be better to say &quot;works in ksh93&quot; or &quot;requires in bash 4+&quot; (if/when it matters) than to say &quot;works in ksh-like shells&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T14:09:50.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5698" CreationDate="2018-09-20T12:31:46.450" Score="3" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you create a side-by-side code box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this but copy &amp;amp; paste-able for each box and nice formatted without empty horizontal lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;1 2 3&lt;/code&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;      &lt;code&gt;a b c&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;4 5 6&lt;/code&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;     &lt;code&gt;d e f&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;7 8 9&lt;/code&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;     &lt;code&gt;g h I&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a feature request for this, please? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72456" LastActivityDate="2020-12-16T18:33:51.017" Title="How to create a side by side code box?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5008" CreationDate="2018-09-20T15:27:33.333" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/169997/72456&quot;&gt;answer you linked&lt;/a&gt;, I would format it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;infile&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1 2 3 4&#xA;a b c d&#xA;# $ @ %&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;outfile&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1 a #&#xA;2 b $&#xA;3 c @&#xA;4 d %&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-09-20T15:27:33.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4988" CreationDate="2018-09-22T17:35:03.887" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like one of those &quot;easy to articulate but difficult to solve&quot; problems (akin to &quot;how do you make everyone happy at a party&quot; or &quot;how do you ensure all students are comfortable when they join a new school&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, it's a balance and generally there are far more new people than there will be people who can give them help they're after (and that's counting those who might know the answer but are unable to deliver it in a &quot;digestible&quot; form). If starting out feels like hazing where the rules are there so people can delight in punishing you then eventually you get no more new experts (or those who do make it are extremely bitter). If you instigate &quot;all barrier-to-entry behaviour directed towards newbies must be fully explained in a transparent manner&quot; you can tire out those who know answers (and once they're gone there's no one around to answer the truly difficult questions from those who made it to intermediate level).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you get someone to ask really great questions? Unless you're lucky you have to teach them, you have to give them feedback and they have to both recognise the need to improve and then act on it (if they never see it as an issue then it's somewhat futile endeavour). The previous mentioned points are hard to do when either side (the learner or the teacher) is impatient for whatever reason. Additionally which groups of people have the most patience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could new folks mentor each other thus pulling each other up their collective bootstraps? Do you need a protected playpen StackExchange where new folks ask and grade each other's question skills until they build up enough velocity and XP such that they can go and ask questions on the permadeath^Wpermarep StackExchange sites? Some sort of horrible cliquey &quot;to join you need to be recommended&quot; and the person recommending you loses half their rep if the person they're mentoring has their questions downvoted to oblivion (and to give an incentive to those &quot;trying to win by not playing&quot; you half someone's rep every month they don't mentor someone)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you keep it fun and useful for everyone all the time? How many people is the current system working for and are their numbers declining?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109111" LastActivityDate="2018-09-22T17:35:03.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5013" CreationDate="2018-09-23T18:33:31.930" Score="20" ViewCount="673" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do answers to questions that didn't come with attempts, and are just like &amp;quot;do my homework&amp;quot;, deserve a downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/470741/72456&quot;&gt;Filtering out numbers that have sequential- consecutive or non-consecutive digits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In just 5 minutes after I posted my answer there I got 3 down votes without any comments, so at first I thought it was maybe because I didn't include an explanation of what my answer does while I was on my way to adding explanation but I'm quite slow since my native language is not English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I finished editing, I only got one down-vote reverted but still 2 were there and I really don't know why people voted down, except maybe it was inappropriate in their opinion to answer to the question which is asked as &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;do my homework&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the reason of downvoting my answer or another answer there, then what is community saying for this kind of questions? Should we really  not answer these questions? If yes then more than half of Q&amp;amp;A in this site are just asked for &amp;quot;do my homework&amp;quot; and we should downvote all then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72456" LastEditorUserId="388654" LastEditDate="2021-01-14T19:09:55.080" LastActivityDate="2021-01-14T19:09:55.080" Title="Downvoting answers to questions asked like &quot;do my homework&quot;" Tags="|discussion|answers|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2018-09-23T21:22:19.120" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description for answer vote reads &quot;&lt;em&gt;this answer is/is not useful&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. If the question isn't great but the answer is clearly useful, the answer should not be down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is too vague, it becomes hard to write useful and meaningful answers. If you find an answer to such question to be not useful, it is the reason down vote is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="239817" LastActivityDate="2018-09-23T21:22:19.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2018-09-24T00:43:38.813" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both questions and answers should be voted on purely on their own merits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone writes a comprehensive answer to a marginally asked question, it's not appropriate to downvote such an answer, IMO. In all cases, the question should be edited if possible to improve it as much as possible and the answer should be voted on based on their own independent quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is even a badge to reinforce this point called the &quot;reversal&quot; which is awarded when someone is able to provide a solid answer to a poor question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/50/reversal&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/50/reversal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's only ever been 2 awarded on this site 8-). I attribute this to our sites willingness to edit poorly written questions so that they never reach the -5 threshold required to trigger this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T00:43:38.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5015" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-27T02:31:53.160" Score="26" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m new to the UNIX &amp;amp; Linux site and I would like to ask a question. There is some guidance in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;, but what are other actions I can take to make my question well-received and improve my chances of getting answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T04:32:05.820" Title="What else can I do to make my question well-received and improve my chances of getting answers?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5015" CreationDate="2018-09-27T02:31:53.160" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to our site! Interesting questions and answers about UNIX &amp;amp; Linux are what this site is all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let’s get some basics out of the way; skip ahead if you’ve already covered these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Register an account&lt;/strong&gt; - New users sometimes skip past the sign-up page and post as a guest. If you register your account, you’ll have an easier time editing your own post with updates and clarifications, commenting on your question, and commenting on Answers to your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take our tour&lt;/strong&gt; - Take a minute and read through our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour page&lt;/a&gt;. It’s a quick introduction to the site (and to Stack Exchange) and it earns you a badge! If you’ve been to other Stack Exchange sites already, it will look familiar. Pay particular attention to the section that’s unique to UNIX &amp;amp; Linux, the &quot;Ask about…&quot; and &quot;Don’t ask about&quot; section.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browse the help pages&lt;/strong&gt; - Right at the end of the tour, there’s a link to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;; there’s a lot to read there, so poke around the links that you find interesting. Since you’re interested in asking a good question, pay particular attention to these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;What does it mean if a question is &quot;closed&quot; or &quot;on hold&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;What are tags, and how should I use them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, see if your question already has an answer. You might have searched this site directly or via a search engine, so skip ahead if you feel confident that you have a unique problem. There are over 100,000 questions on the site, though, so it doesn’t hurt to double-check!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write down the main verbs and nouns from your problem in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask a Question&lt;/a&gt; title box. You have no intention of submitting this as your question, yet. As you start typing, a list of &lt;em&gt;Questions that may already have your answer&lt;/em&gt; will appear directly below the title field.&#xA;Let the search engine automatically show you questions that it thinks are similar. Open any of them separately to see if they pertain to your situation.&#xA;Take note of any questions that look as if they would solve your problem, but do not, for one reason or another; you might refer back to them in your question and explain why they do not solve your problem. This will prevent well-meaning reviewers from finding them and proposing your question as a duplicate of those.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If very few search results came back, look back at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic page&lt;/a&gt; to confirm that your problem fits the on-topic list. If your question is not on-topic for the site, it may be closed for being “off-topic”. On the other hand, you may have a unique situation or combination of technology that hasn’t been asked about yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before we continue, let’s avoid three very common pitfalls that result in questions being closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;opinion-based, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too broad, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you asking for people’s experiences with a certain piece of hardware or software? Are you wondering &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; something will work? Are you looking for guidance, or for opinions on how to proceed? If so, stop and re-think your approach. Questions should have concrete answers; instead of the “best” way to do something, are you actually concerned about limiting memory use, or network traffic? Do you need something that’s cross-platform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you asking for an architectural-level solution? Something a consultant might be paid to spend several weeks on? You should have made some attempt at solving your problem; share those commands and any specific error messages or confusion before asking a question; otherwise, your question risks being closed as “too broad”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, take a step back from your problem and ask yourself: “What would an answer look like?” Your question should give enough guidance about what’s specifically needed and what’s specifically excluded so that you don’t have to constantly guide answerers towards the solution that you &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; need. Think of your question as if you had to explain it to an intelligent friend; even if they didn’t know what “grep” was, could they understand what you were trying to accomplish? If potential answerers (or reviewers) can’t figure out what you mean, and you don’t step in to clarify, your question risks being closed as “unclear what you’re asking”. If you have textual input, don’t provide it in a graphic! That’s a pitfall that’s become common enough to warrant its own &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4086/psa-please-dont-post-images-of-text&quot;&gt;PSA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet another way trap to avoid is to ask what’s known as an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;“XY problem”&lt;/a&gt;. Keep your eyes on the goal; mention the things you tried and the errors you received, but be flexible if your approach isn’t the one that others take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you’re not sure what an objective, specific, and clear question might look like, you could do worse than to browse the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;top-voted questions&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=frequent&quot;&gt;top-viewed questions&lt;/a&gt;. Many of those “top” questions rose there because of their canonical nature, and so generated many views and votes; they may very well be broader in scope than your question. To get a more targeted list of questions, head over to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; page and enter some key words from your question, one at a time. When you find a matching tag, click on it to get a list of questions with that tag, then sort the questions by “Frequent” or by “Votes” to see what well-received questions in that tag look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let’s begin formulating your question. Go to (or stay at) the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; page and take the major nouns from your question and find at least one, but no more than five, tags that relate to your question. Tags are one of the two elements of your question that active users of the site will see first when looking for questions that they want to answer, so choose the ones that appear most pertinent to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now write a first draft of your question, either directly in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask a Question&lt;/a&gt; form or in your favorite editor. Set up each of three sections:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The title: create a sentence from your nouns &amp;amp; verbs that indicate the pertinent software, operating environment, goal, and any errors. You have a limit of 150 characters; this translates to approximately 20-25 average English words.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The body: start with an outline of: a re-worded summary of your goal and operating environment; representative (sample) input and output; any commands that you tried in pursuit of your goal and their output/results.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tags: from the previous step&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now take another look at the body, particularly at the first 200 characters. This can be a third preview of your question beyond the title and tags, depending on the particular “view” a person takes while browsing the site. Rewrite the introduction to put as much of a “hook” as you can into the first 200 characters. This should describe the problem and the surprising result you got instead of the expected result. Think of a person who’s knowledgeable in this area; how would you get them engaged with your problem in one or two sentences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be thorough and pertinent in the body of your question; explain what you think you know, up to the edge of where you were surprised or stumped. Be as clear as you can in describing any translation between input and output. If possible, demonstrate how people can set up similar environments for them to test their potential solutions. &lt;strong&gt;Show the research that you’ve already done&lt;/strong&gt;. As you already saw in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/a&gt;, tell us what you’ve already found and why it didn’t meet your needs. Another method that was experimented with on Stack Overflow is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/363051/ask-a-question-template-v1-experiment-results&quot;&gt;question template&lt;/a&gt;, so if the following questions help you to frame yours, use them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are you trying to accomplish?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is some sample input, if applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would be the desired output, based on that input?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happened instead? Include any errors, verbatim.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take one more look at your question’s title and body. Have you presented the question as well as you can? Before posting the Question, particularly if English is not your strong suit, run a spell checker on the title and body. Many browsers will underline words that they think are misspelled. Capitalize proper nouns such as “I” and “Linux”. Feel free to ask for help in the Unix &amp;amp; Linux chat room or even with a post on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language Learners&lt;/a&gt;. Make sure you have an actual question in your Question! It would end with a question mark and should act as the entry point for any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now – finally – &lt;strong&gt;post your question!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you’re not done! Stay tuned to the site after posting for as long as you can, in case there are immediate requests for clarification. The active users of the site may read your question and enter comments requesting clarification. If they do ask for clarification, respond by editing your question using the “edit” link towards the bottom of your question – assuming you registered your account – DO NOT clarify your question in the comments! Comments do not support all the formatting options and may be deleted or collapsed together, all of which make it harder than it needs to be to piece together the correct question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, while you’re waiting, it’d be a good time to read &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;What should I do when someone answers my question?&lt;/a&gt;. The main point is to up-vote (if you’ve earned that privilege, at 15 reputation points) and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;accept&lt;/a&gt; Answers that solve your problem. Do not feel any pressure to accept an answer immediately; it’s fine to do so, but it’s also OK to leave a question out there for a couple days to see if anyone else has other ideas or approaches to your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-12-25T04:32:05.820" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T04:32:05.820" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5015" CreationDate="2018-09-28T05:21:55.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how can I improve my questions to get more answers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;use interrogatories ( interrogation techniques ), who, when, where,  why and what have you tried&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Views are due to the subject, but the body is what causes down votes usually because it doesn't contain enough information, vague questions are not well understood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user179061" LastEditorDisplayName="user179061" LastEditDate="2018-09-28T05:34:11.133" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T05:34:11.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-28T17:20:59.907" Score="2" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/472120/how-to-stop-running-e4defrag-without-damage-my-data&quot;&gt;How to stop running e4defrag without damage my data?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Some people downvote on that question.&#xA;I can't find out why unclear.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can you-all tell me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="259284" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T17:28:14.183" Title="Is&quot;How to stop running e4defrag without damage my data?&quot; as unclear?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5019" CreationDate="2018-09-28T17:28:14.183" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you've told us absolutely nothing about what you are doing. I suggest you edit your question and add details such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The operating system you are using&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain exactly what you're doing. Are you currently running &lt;code&gt;e4defrag&lt;/code&gt;? What command did you use to launch it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What filesystem are you running it on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How large is the partition you are running it on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more detail you add, the more likely it is that someone will be able to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T17:28:14.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5033" CreationDate="2018-09-29T22:14:50.527" Score="9" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can not erase &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/462084/bash-has-performance-trouble-using-argument-lists&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It has an upvoted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But: It is receiving down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see why it is a &quot;bad question&quot; (down votes), because it is a question about a fact: bash takes a long time under some condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is still receiving down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way in which it can be repaired to become &quot;an useful question&quot; or should I raise a request to erase it, or … just forget about it? Down votes happen … .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastActivityDate="2018-10-05T22:17:56.187" Title="Is there a way to rescue this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2018-10-01T03:58:58.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two distinct issues at play here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it a good question?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yes? Then upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it something I would like to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yes? Then write an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those issues are not equivalent nor exactly related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the good side, a question could be well written and about a good subject. Related to the site goals and writing an answer to it will improve the site. Those questions are worth an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are questions that are so poorly written that are even almost impossible to understand. Those should not be upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions that have a valid subject but not so well written, those may be worth an up-vote, sometimes. But answering this queries may be a one time solution. Something that apply to a particular problem that doesn't have a general solution. Nor will add to the general knowledge of the site. Many of them are not worth an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions that, even if not so well written, have a clear, simple, answer. One that when a reader read them goes: &quot;but of course!&quot;. Those deserve an answer. Those answers are generally well voted. This is generally how knowledge is given, from someone who knows to the rest of us, learners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other questions that contain queries about something that we may want to explore as well. Not knowing before hand the exact nature of what an answer should look like, those might generate complex or difficult answers. But that's how the majority of the answers are generated: something worth exploring. Those answers may get up-votes, sometimes. But that is how knowledge is developed, by contrasting several solutions, by competing to get &quot;the right answer&quot;. Worth reading if one is interested in the general field of the subject in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions that are well written and which clearly define the subject queried, those deserve an upvote. Even if what is being queried is not &quot;liked&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions for which one might have a simple, clear answer, those should probably be upvoted and clearly deserve an answer. Write it, even if you don't upvote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are others that are somewhat fuzzy, not so clear, but which trigger &quot;the &quot;search for knowledge&quot;, upvote those, and answer them if you could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why answer a question not worth your upvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if a question might be unclear, is about a subject worth exploring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those questions will get my answer even if I choose to not up-vote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastActivityDate="2018-10-01T03:58:58.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5021" CreationDate="2018-10-02T09:34:01.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There’s no need to rescue the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can’t think of any reason why the question received 3 downvotes: the question is about shell behaviour that would affect all users of bash – so it’s interesting and &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; for a general audience and not just the specific individual needs of the asker. You’ve also clearly &lt;em&gt;shown the research&lt;/em&gt; you have done in trying to understand this behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, you could probably improve it somewhat because nothing’s ever perfect. However, I wouldn’t sweat it. The downvoters did not provide any comment to explain their reasons (which I’d consider to be good practice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the years, I have noticed there can be bizarre voting on questions, e.g., pure rubbish being upvoted and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4988/22812&quot;&gt;good questions being downvoted&lt;/a&gt;. I would say you were just unlucky to targetted by 3 such users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T09:34:01.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-02T10:47:27.427" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just attempted to post a question on Unix&amp;amp;Linux Stackexchange.  I was prompted with a CAPTCHA with a picture of HAL 9000 and the following text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Human Verification&#xA;  Are you a human being? We apologize for the confusion, but we can't quite tell if you're a person or a script. Please don't take this personally. Bots and scripts can be remarkably lifelike these days!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Check the CAPTCHA box, and we'll be out of your way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;UUID&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no link, no CAPTCHA and no way to actually post the question.  I'm not sure what's going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not surprised that I am being prompted to pass a CAPTCHA, my browser is atypical and so may appear like a bot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does stackexchange use Google for their CAPTCHAS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42008" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T23:55:13.307" Title="Broken CAPTCHA when posting question" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-03T00:28:30.930" Score="11" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two tags that seem to be split with the same meaning,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/syscalls&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;syscalls&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;syscalls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/system-calls&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;system-calls&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;system-calls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the top could become a tag-synonym of the bottom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3285" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T10:35:06.170" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T07:08:09.803" Title="Tag-merge syscalls -&gt; system-calls" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5025" CreationDate="2018-10-03T12:11:02.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve created &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/system-calls/synonyms&quot;&gt;the relevant synonym&lt;/a&gt;, all it needs now is votes. Any user with an answer score of 5 or more on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/system-calls&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;system-calls&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;system-calls&lt;/a&gt; can vote! I had misread the requirements previously, it turns out &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/system-calls/topusers&quot;&gt;there are quite a few users meeting the requirements&lt;/a&gt;. (The answer score is the number of upvotes on answers in the tag, minus the number of downvotes on answers in the tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2018-10-11T07:08:09.803" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T07:08:09.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-03T22:54:52.947" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a feature request, but it could be a usability bug. I wanted U&amp;amp;L chat so I prepended &lt;code&gt;chat&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; which resulted in &lt;code&gt;chat.unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. I was redirected to &lt;code&gt;chat.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; with 47 pages of rooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The redirect was not very helpful because it was not clear which of the 920 rooms I should select. The rooms seem to be listed in random order and it was not clear what to do next. At minimum I would have expected the U&amp;amp;L room, &lt;code&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/code&gt;, to be listed first (or at least on the first page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a redirect should be added that redirects users from &lt;code&gt;chat.unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56041" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T00:05:32.263" Title="Redirect chat.unix.stackexchange.com to a more useful URL" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5027" CreationDate="2018-10-04T00:05:32.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, it couldn't hurt I guess, but in general trying to get somewhere by guessing a subdomain isn't very reliable. The right way to get to U&amp;amp;L's chat is to click the Stack Exchange logo at the top-right and click the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;&quot; link next to the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cEEvs.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're already on chat, you can use the &quot;site&quot; tab at the top to switch to a site-filtered view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T00:05:32.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5032" CreationDate="2018-10-04T13:01:49.337" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The OS: FreeBSD does not use block devices. [See] &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89887/low-level-disk-access-in-freebsd&quot;&gt;Low-level disk access in FreeBSD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/473230/is-a-device-being-a-block-or-character-device-determined-purely-by-hardware#comment864348_473230&quot;&gt;Is a device being a block or character device determined purely by hardware?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are ephemeral.  I want to write an answer.  Suggestions how I can do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T14:34:04.117" Title="Trivial answer converted to comment" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2018-10-04T13:08:42.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes do not upvote if I feel there is a missing detail which should be added to the question.  In particular, I sometimes comment that the question should specify the exact distribution and version it was observed on.  Even though I may have a plausible answer to write as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good point to think about.  So if I don't feel very inclined to give a vote to the question, I aim to ask myself how the question could be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T13:08:42.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-04T13:16:25.900" Score="4" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions with accepted answers have their answer square in green, otherwise it is transparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions matching your watched tags have a red background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system is quite simple once you get the idea - yet there is no help topic explaining it and I consider it missing.&#xA;Being new to the site (and especially when new to linux, where you will be stuck with basic unterstandings of the OS), I assume that one will find answers quicker knowing when a question has an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also call it a matter of principle especially for a UNIX-themed site that there better be a proper documentation....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4lAzw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4lAzw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123460" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T13:16:25.900" Title="Missing help topic: color codes in questions list" Tags="|feature-request|questions|help-center|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2018-10-04T14:34:04.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to write an answer, then flesh it out a little. What you are showing here is indeed a comment. A simple way to do it would be to quote the more relevant parts of the link in your answer itself. That will both make the answer more useful and will ensure it doesn't become useless even if the link breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T14:34:04.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5021" CreationDate="2018-10-05T20:55:45.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how question downvotes are used.  Mostly I agree with Anthony Geoghegan's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sidenote: it would be useful for the question to name a specific version of bash, that behaves like this.  In case a future version of bash manages to fix it :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now I understand this question, it is interesting enough to upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the way the question is asked made it hard for me to understand it.  The text says a function call is a thousand times slower &quot;but only if there are arguments in the parent calling function&quot;.  However, both of the test cases actually use a &lt;em&gt;very large number&lt;/em&gt; of arguments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the question about &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; non-zero number of arguments?  Or is it about a &lt;em&gt;large&lt;/em&gt; number of arguments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the current top answer, the large, thousand-fold slowdown &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; happens if the number of arguments is &quot;large&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, I probably would not upvote if the question was only about a &lt;em&gt;small&lt;/em&gt; slowdown.  Shell scripts are not expected to be fast.  I would not be very interested in learning how to speed up one specific bash script by 2x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are a couple of other things about the question that are combining with this as well.  Seeing such things makes me less likely to spend the time to understand the thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing is that it can be very difficult to deal with questions that are just about &quot;why.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the current version of the question shows that other shells do not have the same problem.  So the question seems to be asking &quot;why hasn't someone already fixed my version of bash?&quot;  The general answer is &quot;there are not enough people who want to use &amp;lt;bash functions with ten thousand arguments&amp;gt;&quot;.  Or, the people that do, do not have any influence on the developers of bash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case - it would mean there are not many people really interested in the question anyway.  In the second case - you're asking about politics, which is more subjective and noisier to answer :-).  Also guessing which of those cases applies is probably very subjective and noisy as well :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, I think the way to avoid this is to answer one level of &quot;why&quot; yourself: Why are you doing this? What is it that you are trying to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This helps show some willingness to be challenged about the reason - it allows comments to ask whether you have considered using approach X to achieve your goal instead.  Avoiding prolonged suffering on both sides, from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/what-is-the-xy-problem-and-why-is-it-bad--cms-21023&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;XY problem&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not find this question interesting if I could not imagine a reason for trying to do this.  There could be several reasons, but the reason I'm imagining is that you are performing some operation on a large number of files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can't imagine a reason to ask the question, it is hard to guess whether &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; will benefit from researching and writing an answer to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2018-10-05T22:17:56.187" LastActivityDate="2018-10-05T22:17:56.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-07T03:38:07.050" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing a question with tag that isn't allowed, the message below is shown which incorrectly uses 'Your answer' instead of 'Your edit':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 'install' tag is not allowed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72456" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-10-08T09:16:02.403" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T09:16:02.403" Title="Wrong prompt when editing questions with disallowed tag" Tags="|bug|tags|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-07T09:26:27.340" Score="3" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a comment to a my question I've been asked to &quot;Please update you question with the something reproducible&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is quite understandable and I would like to comply, but specifics would not be &quot;just a few lines of code&quot;, so I'm unsure about just how to proceed; AFAIK there's no way to upload an &quot;attachment&quot; to a post (correct me if I missed something!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should I post inline (possibly monster-post)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should I point to some off-site location (possibly disappearing in future)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both solutions don't seem right. What's the advised course of action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130498" LastActivityDate="2018-10-09T17:35:36.233" Title="Attaching archive to post" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5037" CreationDate="2018-10-07T22:43:38.320" Score="3" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Originally, this &lt;em&gt;meta-posting&lt;/em&gt; requested help with a posting that had been closed as too broad.  I got the help and revised the posting; the link to the revised posting is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/474055/how-to-play-streaming-video-from-sites-like-hbo-that-require-a-windows-environme&quot;&gt;How to play streaming video from sites like HBO that require a Windows environment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having done its job, this meta-posting has been retained so that G-Man's answer (below) can serve as a &lt;em&gt;somewhat generic&lt;/em&gt; reference for others whose post is also considered too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112507" LastEditorUserId="112507" LastEditDate="2018-10-10T23:19:53.723" LastActivityDate="2018-10-10T23:19:53.723" Title="Need help narrowing a question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5036" CreationDate="2018-10-08T04:17:19.953" Score="9" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You say “Several months ago I explored a variety of methods …” (in a comment)&#xA;and “My understanding is that for at least the last 6 months,&#xA;I could not do this from within any Linux OS.” &#xA;You make it sound you haven’t rechecked recently. &#xA;This might make people believe&#xA;that you haven’t invested enough effort into the question. &#xA;People sometimes call a question “too broad” for this reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And if you &lt;em&gt;haven’t&lt;/em&gt; tried it in several months, do it again now. &#xA;You ask whether anything has changed recently. &#xA;Maybe something has, and it’s just sitting there, waiting for you to discover it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can make the question more narrow by specifying &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what you tried,&#xA;&lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what happened, what possible solutions you are ruling out, and why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might help if you said, broadly, where you are — i.e., what country. &#xA;(I guess you are in the US, but you don’t seem to say.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You say that you posted a question to our site a few months ago, but it was deleted. &#xA;(If it was similar to your current question, it was probably closed;&#xA;and closed questions are automatically deleted under some conditions.) &#xA;Do you still have a copy of that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing is ever really deleted on Stack Exchange. &#xA;Do you still have the URL of your earlier question (i.e., a link to it)? &#xA;Try going &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/recently-deleted-questions/112507&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;If that doesn’t work,&#xA;try going into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/112507/user2661923?tab=questions&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt; and clicking on “deleted recent questions”. &#xA;If you see an entry for your old question, see if you can get to it. &#xA;See if there are any relevant details there&#xA;that you could add to your current question to make it clearer or more focused. &#xA;Post the link in any case;&#xA;some of us have the privilege to see things that have been “deleted”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your question looks like a document that’s covered in yellow sticky notes. &#xA;E.g.,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Extension: I did this because somebody suggested it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Explanation — &lt;em&gt;(and then you repeat the first paragraph, in more detail and clarity.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And then there are more than 25 comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine you wrote a paper for school, or a report for your job,&#xA;and you got it back with a note “Not good enough — try again.” &#xA;Would you resubmit the same paper&#xA;with corrections scribbled in the margins and a pile of yellow sticky notes on it? &#xA;Of course not. &#xA;You would rewrite the entire paper to be coherent,&#xA;with a logical sequence and structure. &#xA;You would include all the information that needs to be there, probably just once,&#xA;at an appropriate level of detail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit your question the same way. &#xA;Don’t expect people to read the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve taken the liberty of drafting a suggested rewrite of your question. &#xA;(I cannot guarantee that it would be received better&#xA;than the current version.) &#xA;Use it, or not; add anything I missed; alter it if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to watch premium video on my computer. &#xA;  For example, hbo.com, cox.com, and many others provide paid video content. &#xA;  I can login to HBO using a browser &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(any browser?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  on a Windows 7 or higher system&#xA;  and stream their movies or watch cable TV. &#xA;  (I have a paid subscription. &#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Is this true?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  I’m not trying to circumvent digital rights or do anything illegal or improper.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As recently as 18 months ago, this worked from Windows and Linux systems. &#xA;  About a year ago, this stopped working for Linux systems;&#xA;  now you can do it only from Windows 7+. &#xA;  Here are things I’ve tried from my Fedora 26 machine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Firefox: __________(error message)__________&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chrome: _________(what happened?)_________&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;(Browser #3): ____________(etc.)____________&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;(Technique/Trick X): __________(etc.)__________&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;(Suggestion by help.vivaldi.com): In my Chrome browser,&#xA;  I was able to play the test page DRM videos, but HBO streaming still doesn’t work. &#xA;  __________(provide details, etc.)__________&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Wine: __________(what happened?)__________&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Running Windows in a VirtualBox VM causes overheating,&#xA;  and causes moderate sound issues as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My machine is dual boot, and so I can boot into Windows to watch video,&#xA;  but this is inconvenient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that HBO programming is also restricted by location,&#xA;  so, if you’re outside the US, you might not see the same interface that I see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I watch premium video content (e.g., that from HBO)&#xA;  on my Linux (Fedora 26) machine without degraded quality or other problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T04:17:19.953" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5035" CreationDate="2018-10-09T17:35:36.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have not missed anything -- there is no way to attach a file to Stack Exchange posts. There is a limit; I could only put my hands on the Answer-body-limit, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/164900/307535&quot;&gt;Complete Rate-Limiting Guide&lt;/a&gt;, under &lt;strong&gt;Answering&lt;/strong&gt;, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maximum of 30000 characters in answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If anyone has a better reference, particularly for Questions, please update this post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your specific situation had a request for clarification on which systems you ran the command on and what commands you typed to encounter the error. Neither of those should push you into a character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you do have a large amount of data (e.g. log files) to post, my suggestions would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;start by pasting all (or as much as you can) of it into the Question box&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;format it appropriately (the curly braces, to format it as &quot;code&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's too large, remove lines that are repeated and insert a command saying &quot;removed repeated lines&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's still too large, scan for messages that do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; contain error strings like &quot;fail&quot;, &quot;warning&quot;, or &quot;error&quot; and consider deleting them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's still too large, post the top 20-50 lines and the bottom 20-50 lines, and extend those arbitrary limits if you see &lt;em&gt;changing&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;errors&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-10-09T17:35:36.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-13T08:18:36.923" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;install&lt;/code&gt; tag has the description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DO NOT USE THIS TAG. Use /software-installation or /system-installation instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this tag should not be used AT ALL, should its questions (63 of them) be retagged and the tag deleted? (I'd be willing to help if rep allows)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which tag should I use for questions about &lt;code&gt;/usr/bin/install&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better to clean out the &lt;code&gt;install&lt;/code&gt; tag for non-&lt;code&gt;/usr/bin/install&lt;/code&gt; questions, and update the tag to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ONLY for questions related to &lt;code&gt;/usr/bin/install&lt;/code&gt;. Use /software-installation or /system-installation otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2532/please-blacklist-the-install-tag&quot;&gt;Please blacklist the /install tag&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143394" LastActivityDate="2018-10-13T08:18:36.923" Title="Tag to use for `/usr/bin/install`" Tags="|discussion|tags|useless-tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5041" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-16T02:04:12.307" Score="-7" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I makes me mad that all the (humbly thankful for their input) gurus on here and they haven't learned that if you think a question deserves an answer it also deserves a upvote...........&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GUYS you should give questions a upvote if it deserves an answer!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how many questions I have without any votes but plenty of answers or help....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36440" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T12:57:27.667" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T12:57:27.667" Title="Voting on questions. When should you give a upvote" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5041" CreationDate="2018-10-16T02:54:14.357" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote button hover text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question shows research effort; it is helpful and clear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that someone answers a question does not, &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt;, make it a good question. Questions may have answers and show zero research effort, or be borderline incomprehensible and people will still answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvotes are the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; signifier of quality.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;Answered, but not upvoted...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T02:54:14.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-18T14:36:23.040" Score="22" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seconds after I received the first answer: was incomplete and did not get the expected results, clearly detailed on the question. Even more: his own posting shows the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poster, also ask if his answer was OK; I was not expecting to turn the question into an interactive session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another answer comes after a short time, complete and working and, after testing, I accepted as answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first poster got upset, posted comments complaining why I did not tell him that his answer was incomplete and a) Downvote my question and b) Magically he starting receiving upvotes!!! (btw his answer was plain vanilla)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer, shows knowledge and experience, complex and well documented, receive less upvotes than the wrong one (and my question... still in the red).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This smell rotten fish. (ref: 475922)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;btw: as a courtesy to other, I removed all my comments from the referenced question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134844" LastEditorUserId="134844" LastEditDate="2018-10-18T16:55:17.667" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T12:16:55.320" Title="Why the wrong and incomplete answer get many votes and the right one not so much?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5044" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-10-20T23:39:38.783" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-10-20T23:39:38.783" LastActivityDate="2018-10-20T23:39:38.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5045" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-10-20T23:39:38.783" Score="0" Body="Use this tag for asking for guidance to help reopening a closed question or requesting a question to be re-opened after a revision." OwnerUserId="270469" LastEditorUserId="270469" LastEditDate="2018-10-24T14:06:42.187" LastActivityDate="2018-10-24T14:06:42.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-21T18:24:34.723" Score="7" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point I had a question about the workings of the bash &lt;code&gt;shift&lt;/code&gt; command. I did not find the question / answer on this website, so I looked up the answer and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/476853/does-bash-shift-command-change-argument-count&quot;&gt;posted my learnings as self answered question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason this question attracts downvotes and I do not understand why. I get it is a question for which it is not hard to find the answer. But it was hard to find the answer on this site, so I tried to remedy that.  As I understand it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;&quot;Down-voting should be reserved for extreme cases&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. So what can I do? Can I improve the question? Should I ask for it's removal? Should I just keep it and accept the bad rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101404" LastActivityDate="2018-10-28T20:20:08.850" Title="need help improving a question" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2018-10-21T19:58:37.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep it and accept the bad reputation &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; good reputation that will come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question would be bad without your answer (because of lack of research effort) but it's at least decent with the answer (where your real research effort is indeed shown). In one of my questions (on Super User) I added a note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note I already know the answer (I think). I'm posting it below. The question is for future reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This disarmed possible downvoters. Users do not always read answers; or they (we) don't always notice if a question is self answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason would be asking a question where the right answer is &quot;too obvious&quot;. I can imagine someone thinks it's obvious &lt;code&gt;$#&lt;/code&gt; behaves the way it does. I personally don't find the answer to your question too obvious; and even if I did, my action would rather be &quot;not to upvote&quot; than &quot;downvote&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108618" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2018-10-28T20:20:08.850" LastActivityDate="2018-10-28T20:20:08.850" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5043" CreationDate="2018-10-23T03:39:19.950" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons that a sub-par answer can garner more attention that a answer that would appear superior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer was first&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer was well timed so that it was seen by more people that a later answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A higher rep'ed user provided 1 answer vs. another&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sockpuppet voting rings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was noticed that a particular user rapidly lost reputation, it's likely they were either an innocent of willing &quot;victim&quot; in illegal voting. StackExchange sites as a whole simply deal with this as it comes up and is one of the more annoying aspects of participating in a community site where voting occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in sockpuppet voting it's been something that SE sites have been dealing with from pretty much their inception and there's some good blog posts about it linked off of this meta Q&amp;amp;A - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35989/how-can-you-detect-if-users-have-created-sock-puppet-accounts&quot;&gt;How can you detect if users have created sock puppet accounts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage you or anyone that suspects something like this to use the flags on questions and answers to bring it to the moderators' attention. SE sites have pretty good mechanisms to detect it and we try to be diligent about catching it, but the authenticity of voting is a cornerstone to making all the SE sites highly valuable content on the internet. Any attempts to &quot;game the system&quot; is an attack on our community and needs to be dealt with for the good of all who participate in making our community a great place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T03:39:19.950" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5043" CreationDate="2018-10-25T12:16:55.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should not care much about what votes other posters get. In the end you asked a question to solve a specific question that you had, eventually you got an acceptable answer and this is all that should matter in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You were right to accept it (a widely neglected virtue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the poster of the first answer questioning your acceptance decisions, you should know (and I mention this not for the first time) that you don't owe anyone any kind of justification. Specifically, you can up- or downvote without providing any reason (a custom that seems to upset particularly newcomers), and for your questions, you may accept whatever answer seems suitable to you. There is no obligation whatsoever to justify your decision (or even giving other posters recommendations on how to improve their answers) or to answer to comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as of suspicious upvotes, if you suspect fraud, flag it and leave it to the moderators. Otherwise just be happy to have received an acceptable answer. Just never let SE become your battle field - it takes the community and the moderators already some effort to keep this place clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T12:16:55.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2018-10-25T13:59:44.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't care too much about votes, especially if they are not accompanied by comments (N.B. negative comments typically correlate with downvotes but don't really imply who actually downvoted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially new users tend to overrate votes and to interpret upvotes as trophies and downvotes as something personal. Simply don't. (I've seen users who were upset by downvotes and &lt;em&gt;demanded&lt;/em&gt; justifications for them - this is not how voting works.). Yes, upvotes give a much better feeling, but be assured, good posts &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; eventually get upvotes. Conversely, a low score on the long run might simply indicate that the according post isn't quite &quot;exciting&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T13:59:44.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-25T22:29:09.203" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mistakenly entered my account name as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;jJames&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone advise me how to change the account name to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;james&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... assuming that 'james' is not already taken, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... or to something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, the easiest solution is to just ask the administrator to delete my account so that I can start again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="317744" OwnerDisplayName="jJames" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T03:36:54.550" Title="How to fix my erroneously entered new account name" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5051" CreationDate="2018-10-26T03:36:54.550" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/317744/jjames?tab=profile&quot;&gt;Profile&lt;/a&gt; page, click &quot;Edit Profile &amp;amp; Settings&quot;, and change the &quot;Display Name&quot; field. There's no requirement that display names be unique, so you should be able to change it to James or whatever else you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T03:36:54.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-26T08:12:46.043" Score="-2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/477844/create-hardlinks-instead-of-copying-files-with-rsync&quot;&gt;Create hardlinks instead of copying files with rsync&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note I cannot comment and I can only answer or Hijack answers because the sites flaws at inception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not only how do I answer but what's a good answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="317620" OwnerDisplayName="openInvent" LastEditorUserId="22812" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T11:57:44.010" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T11:57:44.010" Title="Im trying to answer a question and having difficulty myself?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5053" CreationDate="2018-10-26T10:36:12.013" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Commenting is a privilege that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;you are awarded at 50 &quot;reputation points&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more about what &quot;reputation&quot; is).  Commenting is disabled for users with lower reputation, presumably to help weed out trolls and off-topic discussions etc.  At reputation 50, it is assumed that you've learnt more of how the site works and a bit of what is expected of someone who contributes to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask about what makes a good answer. There's a section in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Pages&lt;/a&gt; entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer?&lt;/a&gt; that tries to answer that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff also wrote a nice Meta question-and-answer about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5015&quot;&gt;how to write a good question&lt;/a&gt;, which is worth reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll disregard the rest of the question, because that looks like a separate issue that you might want to ask a new question about on the main site. Just read Jeff's Meta question about asking questions first and make sure to mention what the issue is that you are trying to solve (I can unfortunately not make out exactly what the issue is from your post above, only that a particular pipeline is not doing what you want it to do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T10:56:23.027" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T10:56:23.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-30T14:52:55.047" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;The specific question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/478108/what-do-acard-ahci-sata-low-level-driver-meaning-what-is-acard&quot;&gt;What do &amp;quot;ACard AHCI SATA low-level driver&amp;quot; meaning? What is &amp;quot;ACard&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;XY problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual problem is &quot;How can I remove all initramfs modules that are not needed for most desktop PCs boot from USB; simply using &lt;code&gt;lsmod&lt;/code&gt; will not work because I need to use my initramfs on most desktop PCs not on my PC only.&quot;, but it seems such a question is too broad by our rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me reword my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/478108/what-do-acard-ahci-sata-low-level-driver-meaning-what-is-acard&quot;&gt;specific question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="259284" LastEditorUserId="259284" LastEditDate="2018-10-31T06:36:51.553" LastActivityDate="2018-10-31T14:20:57.337" Title="How do I handle my posted XY question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5055" CreationDate="2018-10-30T15:10:47.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would that be too broad? Just edit your existing question, add more detail and explain what you need to do and it will be entered in the reopen queue. Then, when 4 users vote for reopening, it can be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T15:10:47.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5059" CreationDate="2018-10-30T21:41:47.153" Score="-1" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/440819/does-duplicity-modify-atime-when-backing-up/478756#478756&quot;&gt;Does Duplicity modify atime when backing up?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to post an answer to the abovementioned question. When posting my answer I got an error page instead, and now I cannot even visit that question, instead I'm redirected to an error page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I was trying to post follows after the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;HR&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's incorrect to say that a software application modifies the &lt;code&gt;atime&lt;/code&gt; of a file. User-mode programs have almost no way to control whether the &lt;code&gt;atime&lt;/code&gt; is updated. That is the responsibility of the operating system, or more specifically, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem&lt;/a&gt; driver.  Furthermore, the current default mount options on Linux will minimize timestamp updates so that they will have little impact on performance or longevity your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ssd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ssd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ssd&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current situation on modern &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; distributions is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using the mount option &lt;code&gt;noatime&lt;/code&gt; completely eliminates &lt;code&gt;atime&lt;/code&gt; updates at the expense whatever utility is provided by maintaining &lt;code&gt;atime&lt;/code&gt; metadata.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The default &lt;code&gt;relatime&lt;/code&gt; option minimizes the issue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A recently-introduced option, &lt;code&gt;lazytime&lt;/code&gt; should completely eliminate any remaining impact on SSD longevity from timestamp updates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114937" LastActivityDate="2018-10-31T06:51:31.950" Title="error submitting an answer" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-10-31T09:08:12.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5057" CreationDate="2018-10-30T22:15:53.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strange. Possibly the site went down for an update; that happens periodically and usually takes under a minute to complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T22:15:53.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5057" CreationDate="2018-10-31T06:51:31.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a bad build that got rolled back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copying &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/317515/241919&quot;&gt;Taryn's answer on MSE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a bad build that was impacting the display &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1057385414770769926&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;of some questions&lt;/a&gt;. The build was rolled back and pages should be loading normally again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're still investigating the bug that caused the problem in the first place, but things should be working fine now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-10-31T06:51:31.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5055" CreationDate="2018-10-31T14:20:57.337" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I didn't vote on your question, it does seem unclear to me in the following ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you've asked multiple distinct questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do “ACard AHCI SATA low-level driver” meaning? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is “ACard”?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this module never used(real loaded) in initramfs for desktop PC?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it never use in desktop PC,I want remove it from my initramfs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want my initramfs work in most desktop PC.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are free and easy, so if you want to know what &quot;ACard&quot; means, ask &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; -- with whatever &lt;em&gt;context&lt;/em&gt; you feel is appropriate, and you'll see it would have been an easy Answer (as sebasth &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/478108/what-do-acard-ahci-sata-low-level-driver-meaning-what-is-acard#comment873928_478108&quot;&gt;commented&lt;/a&gt;). Don't burden that question with other problems to be addressed, just the context: &quot;I'm building an initramfs and came across this (modinfo output here) driver; what does &lt;code&gt;ACard&lt;/code&gt; signify in this description?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When your real question is &quot;How can I remove all initramfs modules that are not needed for most desktop PCs&quot;, consider making that the title and then use the body of the question to explain what you're up to and what the problem(s) are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for all of the answerers (or voters) on the site, but the wording of &quot;most desktop PC's&quot; &lt;em&gt;sounds&lt;/em&gt; broad to me. From a high level, I'd suggest either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;including as &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; modules as you can, in hopes of supporting &quot;most&quot; configurations, and then accepting the slower load time -- or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;minimizing&lt;/em&gt; the included modules and waiting for complaints from users that something in particular didn't work.  What happens if a very important user has a &quot;slow USB storage device&quot; that they &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to use?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-10-31T14:20:57.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5069" CreationDate="2018-11-03T19:44:57.863" Score="12" ViewCount="597" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a very vague memory of a discussion about comments with links to pages of &lt;a href=&quot;http://idownvotedbecau.se&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://idownvotedbecau.se&lt;/a&gt; . It might not even have been about U&amp;L; currently that site appears to only refer to Stack Overflow. My vague memory is that valid criticisms were raised about how this was being used, and the text of those pages at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relatedly, I have an opinion about a link that I've seen used a couple of times here.  I'd like to suggest that starting an otherwise constructive comment with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jdebp.uk/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Put down the chocolate covered banana and step away from the European currency systems&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is more confusing than entertaining.  It seems unfortunate when the reason it is posted is because the situation is already confusing, and there are communication difficulties :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a way to point out an &quot;XY problem&quot; without a citation title with chocolate covered bananas and European currency systems, which (I assume as part of the joke) sounds completely disconnected from whatever the question was?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it preferable to do so?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it reasonable to ask that it be done?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and if so, can we persuade JdeBP of this?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T08:43:47.280" Title="Absurdist humour in comments" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5062" CreationDate="2018-11-03T20:37:30.627" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best explanation of the X-Y problem I have seen is &lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the one on the Wooledge Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The X-Y Problem, as it is sometimes called, is a mental block which&#xA;  leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part&#xA;  of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help. It&#xA;  often goes something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;User wants to do X. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;User doesn't know how to do X, but thinks they can&#xA;  fumble their way to a solution if they can just manage to do Y. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;User doesn't know how to do Y either. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;User asks for help with Y. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Others try&#xA;  to help user with Y, but are confused because Y seems like a strange&#xA;  problem to want to solve. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;After much interaction and wasted time, it&#xA;  finally becomes clear that the user really wants help with X, and that&#xA;  Y wasn't even a suitable solution for X. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem occurs when&#xA;  people get their train of thought stuck on one approach and become&#xA;  unable to take a step back. Remaining open to having a new look at the&#xA;  bigger picture, these people might find their way back to X and&#xA;  continue searching for alternative solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems a much better explanation to me than the banana one because it is a) more succinct and, b) it avoids attempts at humour which can be lost on non-native speakers or those who are unfamiliar with the puckish tradition in Unix history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2018-11-03T20:37:30.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5065" CreationDate="2018-11-04T00:52:19.230" Score="9" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;Multiple users have been removed recently, and just yesterday one account, which connected all of them, was deleted as well. On this occasion other people have been massively un-upvoted. Removed account had over 12k reputation at the peak and about 5k at the time of removal.&#xA;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/user-was-removed&quot;&gt;SE rules&lt;/a&gt; when the removed user has &quot;high score&quot; such situation should be treated specially:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In such cases, the staff use a special deletion that preserves the&#xA;  votes, resulting in no reputation change for those who had been voted&#xA;  on by that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question arise: what is the definition of a high reputation user? Is there any or just someone decides in each case separately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80886" LastEditorUserId="80886" LastEditDate="2018-11-04T20:32:39.450" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T16:40:18.627" Title="What is the definition of a &quot;high-reputation user&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|votes|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5064" CreationDate="2018-11-04T01:18:44.510" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange never disclosed the vote/reputation thresholds they use, except for indicating these threshold &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245995/which-users-getting-removed-dont-cause-rep-changes-lost-1667-rep#comment805249_245995&quot;&gt;have been tweaked&lt;/a&gt; over time. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/246016&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; by an employee gives more information about the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When users are checked before committing a deletion, two things are checked. Well, more than two, but these are two that figure highly into the vote preservation determination. Their reputation level is checked, and also the votes they've cast. The important thing about this latter point, is that it isn't just the raw number of votes checked, but also where those votes have gone. Sometimes people have a large number of votes but haven't even voted for the same person more than twice. Other times, a person has a small number of votes but they all went towards a handful of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;As another rule, and in fact the explanation for this particular incident, we will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; preserve votes on an account that has a history of vote fraud. We're sorry about any loss this incurs on innocent bystanders but preventing fraudulent votes from being practically locked into the system is a higher priority.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I do not see users being &amp;quot;massively un-upvoted&amp;quot;. The most I found was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/4667/glenn-jackman?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;glenn jackman&lt;/a&gt; losing 260 points, which isn't really a very large amount for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T16:40:18.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-04T16:13:47.167" Score="-3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's enough to read my comments to see that another approach than the one Gilles took, can be taken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/479452/main-usages-of-mask&quot;&gt;Main usages of mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user149572" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T20:57:58.427" Title="I am frustrated that this question was putted on hold" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5066" CreationDate="2018-11-04T20:57:58.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted as unclear because I don't know where to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title said, at various points (I'm not sure what it was when I voted on it):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the difference between mask and umask?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understanding the possible difference between mask and umask&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body had hyperlinks to &quot;bit&quot; and &quot;stream&quot; and &quot;bitwise operation&quot; that could have added relevance, but were just definitions (that anyone could look up). IMHO, adding links brings some importance (focus, or important background) to those terms, but here -- IMHO, they're distracting as hyperlinks. Use your own words to describe your understanding of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question then broadens in scope by saying &quot;used ... upon basically any type of code&quot;, which is a tenuous claim, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final (at that point) part of the body asked the Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does a mask differs from umask, if at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... where you haven't demonstrated any part of your understanding of &lt;code&gt;umask&lt;/code&gt; for an answerer to be able to start from. It sounds like you're making a claim that they're the same and then asking for someone to make a counterpoint, but you never provided your definition of &lt;code&gt;umask&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best interpretation of your question is that it asks what the &lt;code&gt;umask&lt;/code&gt; command does, in which case it's a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/287278/117549&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t umask change execute permissions on files?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/211481/117549&quot;&gt;How umask works&lt;/a&gt; or others. If you're unclear on how umask works, my suggestion would be to play with it on some test files, read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/umask&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;umask&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;umask&lt;/a&gt; tagged questions, and then ask about a surprising or confusing result you had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your revised question, after un-doing the graffiti -- please don't deface your own questions, there's a delete link for the question, if you need it -- now reads in the same general, confusing way. You ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any other important use cases of mask streams?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where you seem to make up the phrase &quot;mask stream&quot; by combining &quot;bit stream&quot; with &quot;bitmask&quot; and then asking an open-ended question about what they might be used for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask an answerable question where you lay out what you know and where your knowledge ends (or surprise begins). Questions are free, so focus one Question on one question: if you want to know what how a umask is different from a mask, then define those two to your understanding and ask &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;; if you want to know what &quot;mask streams&quot; are used for, I'm not sure how to help you. It's hard to use someone else's definition and extrapolate it, and this site isn't geared towards open-ended questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T20:57:58.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5064" CreationDate="2018-11-05T02:56:52.810" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been 2 events that I'm aware of that recently took place. Both of these bothered me personally because these individuals were violating the &quot;spirit&quot; of how SE sites are suppose to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally it seemed odd in retrospect in watching these two individuals because they both had many answers with high up-votes which seemed odd to be from my history with interacting with the site. Both appeared to have a higher rate of votes for what I would classify as marginal answers, vs. ones you'd historically see as true canonical answers from someone like Gilles, Stephane, or someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's everyone responsibility to keep an eye out for outliers and to raise a flag if you suspect something's amiss.  Don't become completely paranoid, but also if you see something, don't hesitate to alert the mods via flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some will probably think that it's a somewhat victimless crime with respect to the people that cheat the system and try and game it for votes, but anyone that experiences a lot of lost votes would probably beg to differ, and is why I urge our members to bring it to our attention so that others do not have a similar negative experience with our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's that negative experience that is the most troubling to me personally, since it undermines peoples' sense of contributing their own personal time to help other's in need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T02:56:52.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5062" CreationDate="2018-11-05T08:43:47.280" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to point out an &quot;XY problem&quot; without a citation title with [bananas etc.] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure. One could say, for example: &quot;What are you trying to achieve in the end? Are you sure that this is the best way to do it? I'm asking because this seems like &lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an XY question&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; or something to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a sample comment text you can copy and paste when required:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;What are you trying to achieve in the end? I'm asking because this seems&#xA;like [an XY question](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it preferable to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely. Even if the linked-to page is sensible, the nonsensical link text does absolutely nothing to transmit the information, or even the point of the subject. It only works to confuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it reasonable to ask that it be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely. See above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest flagging and deleting such comments. There's no distinct flag reason for &quot;not useful&quot;, so &quot;Something else&quot; may need to be used. To be honest, a comment like that is even borderline unkind, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm not entirely opposed to absurdist jokes in general, but they only work when there's no actual information to convey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T08:43:47.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5071" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-07T01:30:02.297" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions about kernel buffer caches, including pipe buffers. These are used to store the recently accessed files and/or frequently accessed files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cache&lt;/a&gt; tag instead, or sometimes in combination.  And the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffer&lt;/a&gt; tag is &quot;abused&quot; for questions which are not about kernel buffer caches (and not about pipe buffers either - ?!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is to be expected.  The term &lt;em&gt;buffer cache&lt;/em&gt; has become less widely used.  Modern Unixes implement &lt;a href=&quot;https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnifiedBufferCache&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;unified buffer cache&lt;/a&gt;.  At least Linux developers seem to refer to the &lt;em&gt;page cache&lt;/em&gt; instead.  One poster told me that an OS with a &quot;unified buffer cache&quot; has no buffer cache anymore, only a page cache :-).  (However cached IO is still often referred to as buffered IO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked my recent questions and made sure I'm using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cache&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cache&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cache&lt;/a&gt; tag.  And then it seems redundant to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffer&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we do something about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffer&lt;/a&gt; tag - to make the tag description more consistent with how it is used - or the other way around - or to simply avoid using it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't think we need to start using a specific tag for &quot;page-cache&quot;, though maybe you disagree :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-11-07T09:06:56.433" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T13:02:18.040" Title="Reconsider the &quot;buffer&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5073" CreationDate="2018-11-08T16:27:42.650" Score="6" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my main site, (AU) answers including commercial software are on-topic as long as it's relevant and you're not the owner or you disclose you're the owner and you don't use the platform to SPAM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/480598/90054&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt; an answer referring someone to commercial software (although with a money-back guarantee) just asking if that's allowed here too as some rules seem to be interpreted slightly differently by different mods on different sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I personally own a copy of said software but am not Commercially affiliated with GRC in any way: I'm just a happy user.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T16:59:32.240" Title="Is an answer including commercial software on topic on U&amp;L?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5072" CreationDate="2018-11-08T16:59:32.240" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any rule against mentioning commercial software in an answer; indeed not all Unix variants are open source. I think we'd even be fine with pointing to software you're selling, provided  the relationship is disclosed and most importantly its actually, truly an on-topic answer to the question. What we of course do not tolerate is spam, but if someone asks a question where the answer really is to go buy a given program, that's not spam. And (for if this answer is referenced in future situations) of course this is presuming everything done in good faith; e.g., it wouldn't apply to someone asking—or having a shill ask—a question just so he could promote his program; that'd be spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I'm somewhat confused though — isn't that a Windows program, so not really helpful to someone running a Unix/Unix-like OS? Also, does it have any hope of recovering from a disk that doesn't even report its capacity correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T16:59:32.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-08T18:27:43.850" Score="-6" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/47536611#47536611&quot;&gt;As per chat&lt;/a&gt; here is a little tidbit that I made that can be put below &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/480611/90054&quot;&gt;obvious homework questions&lt;/a&gt; where the author is not asking about specific help at where they're stuck but rather want a &lt;em&gt;Gimme the codez&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hPIPB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hPIPB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Version 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6T2de.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Version 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this would not be welcoming enough according to the CoC, please let me know as well. &lt;strong&gt;0:-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastEditorUserId="90054" LastEditDate="2018-11-08T19:03:49.277" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T19:46:06.847" Title="I will not ask Unix &amp; Linux to do my homework for me" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5074" CreationDate="2018-11-08T19:46:06.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't do this. This is a wiki, not reddit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T19:46:06.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5077" CreationDate="2018-11-10T00:46:05.213" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really miss what's wrong with this question in it's current form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/480582/is-terminal-output-duplicated-or-just-appended-from-stdout-and-stderr-devices&quot;&gt;Is terminal output duplicated or just appended from stdout and stderr devices?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user149572" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T02:26:56.627" Title="What's bad with this short, direct question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5076" CreationDate="2018-11-10T02:26:56.627" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what that question is asking, which is also what the people who closed it indicated. Can you rephrase it somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T02:26:56.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-13T17:37:54.867" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am about to move away from Fedora because of their end-of-life policy.  Although I reviewed the &lt;em&gt;proposed similar questions&lt;/em&gt;, I am confused about whether Unix SE is an appropriate forum for my inquiry.  On the one hand, I do plan to be very specific about my experience and what I am looking for in OS support from the pertinent forums.  On the other hand, I will be asking for &lt;strong&gt;opinions rather than technical analysis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not the right forum for such a linux-generic &lt;em&gt;opinion-question&lt;/em&gt;, can anyone suggest an alternate website?  If such a query is acceptable at Unix SE, should it include a specific tag or include specific wording in the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112507" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T09:32:56.850" Title="Asking for Operating System Recommendations" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5084" CreationDate="2018-11-14T01:01:21.713" Score="9" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've posted an answer that gave me &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/480598/90054&quot;&gt;a +8/-5 score&lt;/a&gt; and the only hint I have is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/480593/recovering-data-from-external-hard-disk-error/480598#comment879344_480598&quot;&gt;sebasth's comment&lt;/a&gt; that SpinRite is snake oil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I own SpinRite and I've seen it recover bad sectors, but I'm willing to improve the answer and am looking for guidance on what to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take out section 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else entirely?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Discussion closed: I took out the reference to SpinRite&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastEditorUserId="90054" LastEditDate="2018-11-16T16:34:59.940" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T16:34:59.940" Title="+8 -5 answer: how to improve?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-14T10:45:58.620" Score="-11" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the third time this happens, and my comments, in all cases&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) did absolutely &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; contain any discriminatory language, personal remarks or ad-hominem attacks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) they were pointing, in a &lt;em&gt;playful and polite&lt;/em&gt; way, serious abuse -- low quality answers being highly upvoted the first time, and bogus, absurdly trivial questions used only to drive traffic and create dandy targets for easy, &quot;great&quot; answers that are (again) upvoted through the roof, the second and third time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regret I didn't take any screenshots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are people out there who could just delete comments they personally find superfluous, even if those comments were &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; violating any policy? And if they have this awesome power, have they really nothing better to do than to abuse it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The history proved me right the first time, and not long time ago, the &quot;pillar of the community&quot; that took umbrage at my comments was unceremoniously kicked out together with their army of sockpuppets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be embarassing for the mods that s/he could do their thing for so long; they better concentrate on that instead of squashing little people like me, which they probably consider expendable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the answer to my question really clarified whatever may have still been in doubt, and removed whatever naive illusions I might've had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not contribute anything else to this site, ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user313992" LastEditorDisplayName="user313992" LastEditDate="2018-11-15T01:52:40.413" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T21:20:55.770" Title="Who is deleting my comments?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5080" CreationDate="2018-11-14T16:15:42.117" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, those people exist: it's us moderators. Comments are ephemeral by design on Stack Exchange. They can and, as you have seen, are deleted without warning. However, we don't just delete comments randomly. We delete them when they aren't providing anything useful. Here is what the Help Center &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;has to say&lt;/a&gt; about when you should and should not comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When should I comment? You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the&#xA;question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; I comment? Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suggesting corrections that don't fundamentally change the meaning of the post; instead, make or suggest an edit;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an&#xA;existing one);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compliments which do not add new information (&amp;quot;+1, great answer!&amp;quot;); instead, up-vote it and pay it forward;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Criticisms which do not add anything constructive (&amp;quot;-1, see previous comments you scallywag!&amp;quot;); instead, down-vote (and provide or up-vote&#xA;a better answer if appropriate);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondary discussion or debating a controversial point; please use chat instead;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discussion of community behavior or site policies; please use meta instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say your comments were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;pointing, in a playful and polite way, serious abuse -- low quality answers being highly upvoted the first time, and bogus, absurdly trivial questions used only to drive traffic and create dandy targets for easy, &amp;quot;great&amp;quot; answers that are (again) upvoted through the roof, the second and third time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of those is a valid reason to post a comment. If you find actual abuse then please flag it for moderator attention. The comment doesn't help. If you consider a post not useful, then downvote it. Again, the comment is not helpful. In other words, the comments you describe were just noise, and didn't provide useful content so they were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have simply misunderstood the point of comments on this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are people out there who could just delete comments they personally find superfluous, even if those comments were NOT violating any policy? And if they have this awesome power, have they really nothing better to do than to abuse it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Superfluous comments &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; in violation of site policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-11-14T16:21:53.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5080" CreationDate="2018-11-15T21:20:55.770" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since @terdon is trying to spin it using mendacious allusions and ridiculous percentages, here is the reality about my comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were 3 incidents, and 5 messages in total. No more, no less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to reproduce them from memory, since I didn't take any screenshots. My comments are in blockquotes. Any suggestions that they were essentially different from this, or there were other &quot;rude&quot; comments of mine are LIES.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think they're noise, I heartily agree with you. But the answers they were attached to were/are much worse. I hope that the spam/sockpuppet voting problem in this &quot;community&quot; will be fixed one day and its enablers removed, but I'm personally too disgusted to continue. This is the last message I post here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;1.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first comment, the one containing the &quot;garbage&quot; outburst, was borne out of frustration, after @goro was peddling for the 4th or 5th time the same non-working &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; script, supposed to parse .json files by setting &lt;code&gt;FS&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is &lt;strong&gt;GARBAGE&lt;/strong&gt;. Even if the json file is pretty printed with each field on a separate line, it will fail lamentably when the key or the value contain themselves a colon. And BTW, how was this answer so highly voted? By using sock-puppet accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was containing another 1 or 2 technical remarks about bugs in the script -- I think to the effect of &quot;you should use &lt;code&gt;-v&lt;/code&gt; to pass a variable to &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, but I don't remember them exactly. The remark at the end was accurate: the answer, though not working (even with the file at hand), had already 12 or 14 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after @goro, instead of fixing their script, notified me that he had reported my comment and I'll have to suffer the consequences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LOL. You're upvoting your comments too. Look: if they kick me out and let you do your shtick, that will only make all too clear how things work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;2.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was a comment to an &quot;answer&quot; of the form &quot;the stdout device may or may be not copied to the terminal. at some point the stdout device will be turned into pixels and copied (as with &lt;code&gt;cp&lt;/code&gt;) but this is an implementation detail&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, and at some point, the panel those pixels are &quot;copied&quot; to will be smashed into pieces and rare metals recovered. Poor pixels! Seriously, is this stuff bot-written?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To a pompous, (highly upvoted) answer to an absurdly trivial question which was asking whether the &lt;code&gt;gsub&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sub&lt;/code&gt; functions from &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; should be &quot;concerned&quot; with records, fields, &lt;code&gt;FS&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;OFS&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But if you use &lt;code&gt;gsub(&quot;.&quot;,&quot;&amp;amp;&amp;amp;&quot;,$1)&lt;/code&gt;, then &lt;code&gt;$0&lt;/code&gt; will be rebuilt too (using the value of &lt;code&gt;OFS&lt;/code&gt;, no less!). So &lt;code&gt;gsub&lt;/code&gt; should be &quot;concerned&quot; about fields, records, and &lt;code&gt;OFS&lt;/code&gt; (In case someone doesn't get it, this is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. Some questions here look like they're right off festoon(6)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, my reply to the mean-spirited reaction to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This kind of question may have uses. To drive traffic, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user313992" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T21:20:55.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5079" CreationDate="2018-11-16T04:32:07.233" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would leave your answer and chalk it up to people have opinions on things and it's their prerogative to disagree with you. I've seen and heard similar gripes about SpinRite but I too purchased it years ago and I've had good success in repairing failed drives. So it clearly works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd just ignore them in this case since there were no clarifying comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T04:32:07.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5079" CreationDate="2018-11-16T13:51:24.480" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think including SpinRite in your answer makes it partly a vote about SpinRite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best, the way it is marketed rubs a lot of people the wrong way.  (Including myself :-).  Less charitably, when you read the old &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.dcom.xdsl/Vm2xVSu6prk/jpfCIyPj7poJ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; that gets linked to, it has been marketed with false claims (just google the quoted tagline).  SpinRite is making no effort to retract them or apologize; the 2018 website is still repeating the same ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of us on this site want to evaluate software by how it works.   The strength of SpinRite as an answer is not really based on that.  It's based on your personal experience - which it sounds was potentially relevant to this case - and how well the money-back process works :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to pre-empt this by recognising it, maybe acknowledging it, trying not to quote in a way that sounds like marketing-fluff, just describing whatever the technical conditions are that you need to run SpinRite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think trying to base this purely on votes doesn't work very well, because they are too capricious :-).  Make an answer that you are satisfied with as being accurate.   Or delete the answer, if you're not able to ignore the votes.  Or... call people out on Meta and see if you get any better explanation :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would avoid mentioning INT 13 i.e. the ancient BIOS API.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H#List_of_INT_13h_services&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;INT 13 functions&lt;/a&gt; are device-independent; they do not allow sending specific SATA commands, or specific commands to PATA drives for that matter, that could be expected to nurse &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; device back into yielding its precious data.  If it was instead the implementations of one of these BIOS functions that knew the magic command - !!! - it would be old news by now. It would be one of the &lt;code&gt;hdparm&lt;/code&gt; options with the nice all-caps warning notices.  Anyway, you don't need to make your answer a vote on whether that exact technical detail makes any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one suggestion, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/a/272557/133475&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com/a/272557/133475&lt;/a&gt;, that your flow of operations is not good. If your data is worth the much higher price of professional hard data recovery, then it could be a bad idea to run the drive for a long time, or at all, using SpinRite. Best to think about that part first.  Of course a lot of people will not or cannot pay that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2018-11-16T16:27:51.137" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T16:27:51.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5079" CreationDate="2018-11-16T15:05:22.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could certainly improve your answer if you could share an experience related to &lt;strong&gt;the problem in the question&lt;/strong&gt;, where the drive not only has bad sectors, but also refuses the &lt;code&gt;lseek&lt;/code&gt; call on the device. The best you could do is to &lt;strong&gt;provide an explanation&lt;/strong&gt; why SpinRite would be able to read the disk where the Linux block device driver fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the only thing I learned from your answer is that you're recommending an ancient DOS-era tool which worked for you in a situation you didn't describe, so I have no idea how similar it was to the question. You mention &lt;code&gt;ddrescue&lt;/code&gt; that the OP tried to use without success, but &lt;strong&gt;there is no comparison&lt;/strong&gt; between &lt;code&gt;ddrescue&lt;/code&gt; and SpinRite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer which is not very convincing, negative feedback about the tool online and the fact that I won't be able to test it myself leave an impression that using it would be a bad advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="106927" LastEditDate="2018-11-16T15:10:47.547" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T15:10:47.547" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5087" CreationDate="2018-11-18T02:56:31.203" Score="13" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/481990/kickstart-netinstall-ignores-kickstart-file-hosted-in-lan-and-proceeds-with-manu&quot;&gt;Kickstart netinstall ignores kickstart file hosted in LAN and proceeds with manual installation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The automatic installation of OS wouldn't work, it turned out that the problem was simply kickstart file not including all necessary options. Should I remove this question or answer it? The problem was very basic .For some reason I just didn't check it even though that should be probably the first thing to do. So I don't think this question will be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313551" LastActivityDate="2018-11-18T15:04:09.090" Title="What to do with a poor question that I already know the answer to" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5086" CreationDate="2018-11-18T14:57:43.797" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be useful to have an answer to this question :-).  I don't see it as a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate when people can write an answer in the expected format, and not leave the question hanging.  It sounds like you are able to answer it without too much additional effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e., I think it could be useful to have your explanation, that when a kickstart is missing some options, you won't see an error, but you will still see a manual install screen.  I can imagine I would be confused by that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question was extremely poor by our standards, you would expect to see at least one close vote or down vote.  And if multiple people have asked the same &quot;simple&quot; question, we are able to mark them as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one other potential issue with the question though.  The question concerns a particular kickstart file, which you have hosted on an external site.  This site might go out of business.  At least on StackOverflow, you are required to copy all your code in to the body of the question.  (You can also upload images to embed in your question or answer and illustrate the point, this will use officially endorsed hosting)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kickstart code isn't obscenely long.  I suggest you just copy it into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2018-11-18T15:04:09.090" LastActivityDate="2018-11-18T15:04:09.090" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5015" CreationDate="2018-11-19T20:11:37.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;s&gt;one dumb user&lt;/s&gt; less experienced user to another:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make your question &lt;em&gt;novel&lt;/em&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;most of the people on this site are wizards and they get bored by questions they've seen 10s or 100s or 1000s of times before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make your question &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ensure that you've googled and binged and tried and failed and &lt;em&gt;only then&lt;/em&gt; ask a question and tell everyone what you've tried already (keep all the links to the other questions here on the site you've tried in a list and post them together with your question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make the question &lt;em&gt;generic &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; specific&lt;/em&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ensure your question is specific enough so that it doesn't get flagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;too broad&lt;/a&gt; and make it generic enough so it's solvable on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, Arch, Debian, ... so everyone can help you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking questions about &lt;a href=&quot;http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/installing-linux-on-a-dead-badger-users-notes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vüdü Linux&lt;/a&gt; that only 3 people in the world are running won't help you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;man command&lt;/code&gt; before you ask.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you can read source code and it's FLOSS: &lt;em&gt;read the source code first&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And for crying out loud: &lt;em&gt;Don't ask Windows questions here!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastEditorUserId="90054" LastEditDate="2018-11-19T21:26:34.150" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T21:26:34.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5015" CreationDate="2018-11-20T10:58:08.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To write a good, welcomed question, I would advise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keeping it on-topic to the main subject of our stack/group;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not addressing several subjects at once, in a single question;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;researching the facts behorehand; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;making an honest effort to understand and solve the question at hand, &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; asking it;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;being brief but comprehensive; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keeping on topic to the question at hand:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Avoid digressing into loosely related background/questions/context.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bringing it in a  professional tone as best as you can achieve;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not talking about things in vague terms:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Add palpable facts and debbuging data to your questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;making an effort to write it in good quality English;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;employing in generous quantities much needed paragraphs;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using an automated spelling checker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problems in not so well received questions, is mainly a lack of investiment in time above anything else. Beware though, that a good answer normally takes &lt;strong&gt;much more&lt;/strong&gt; time to write than a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also does not hurt to lurk for a bit while in our main site, to understand how regulars address questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider creating a permanent user id to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;gain reputation;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment freely on questions/answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be part of the regular users of this community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2018-11-20T12:01:31.513" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T12:01:31.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5071" CreationDate="2018-11-20T13:02:18.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a fundamental difference between &lt;em&gt;buffer&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;cache&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;buffer&lt;/strong&gt; is to assemble smaller portions of data until a specific amount is reached; then the data is processed in some way. Like the write or read buffers &lt;code&gt;fread()&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;fwrite()&lt;/code&gt; use in C. Or like in double-buffering when streaming data to a sound-card, maybe. Or the well-known line-buffer for keyboard input or line-printer output. Classical Ethernet cards had packet buffers, too; either in system RAM or dedicated on board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opposed to that, a (read) &lt;strong&gt;cache&lt;/strong&gt; is some memory that is intended to be re-used often, meaning that the contents are read multiple times. So a &lt;em&gt;write cache&lt;/em&gt; is actually a buffer IMHO. For example the result of a function can be cached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another difference IMHO is that &lt;em&gt;caches&lt;/em&gt; are optional, while &lt;em&gt;buffers&lt;/em&gt; are typically required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;strong&gt;buffer cache&lt;/strong&gt; is a combination of both: Assembling (read) data in a block, and the reading that block buffer multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally historical mis-use of the terms isn't helpful in cleaning up the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="320598" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T13:02:18.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5093" CreationDate="2018-11-22T19:08:39.117" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that I (as everyone else) can flag my own questions.&#xA;There are fewer options (no &lt;em&gt;&quot;spam&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;rude or abusive&quot;&lt;/em&gt; nor &lt;em&gt;&quot;very low quality&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) to choose, but it's still possible to flag your own question as &lt;em&gt;&quot;should be closed&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;duplicate&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand, if that is the case, shouldn't I just delete the question?&#xA;What's the purpose of having this options?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="310237" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T23:41:12.820" Title="Why am I able to flag my own questions?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|flags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5092" CreationDate="2018-11-22T23:41:12.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all duplicates should be deleted. Some are useful as signposts for search: having some differently phrased versions of an important question increases the chances of a search engine finding it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, not all questions &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be deleted by the author. If a question receives an answer with an upvote, or more than one answer, deletion will be blocked. The author can still vote to close in such a case, if they recognize the question to be a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging is useful for other reasons too, for example to ask a moderator to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;migrate the question to another site;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remove a chain of comments spiraling out of control &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;investigate a suspicious voting pattern on the question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90255" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T23:41:12.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2833" CreationDate="2018-11-23T10:10:18.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's wrong of me, but when I come across such link-only answers, I tend to go read the linked content, quote the relevant part(s) and change the link to &lt;code&gt;[source](//link-here)&lt;/code&gt;. If there's nothing relevant, then I'll flag the answer appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61079" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T10:10:18.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5095" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-25T15:58:38.570" Score="7" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/479452/what-is-umask-in-linux?noredirect=1#comment886617_479452&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been edited &lt;em&gt;47&lt;/em&gt; times over a period of 23 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It started just as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the difference between mask and umask?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I know that in *nix, a mask is any bit pattern used in bitwise operations (hence it is often called bitmask).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;How it differs from umask? (user mask? unix mask?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it has many more lines and many imprecisions which have been added progressively by its author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is impossible to hit a moving target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried to answer twice and both answers have been rendered inaccurate by additional modifications to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a limit to the amount of change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Reflection&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that it is very difficult to draw a line in a general sense. Each case is different. But this case should be an extreme example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing a question should, in general, be avoided.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Specially if it is to &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a moderator have block further edits? Maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the user have been told the problem he was generating with a &amp;quot;moving target&amp;quot;? Probably yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should a user do &lt;strong&gt;instead&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provide his own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer should be edited to make it better, by anyone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could be edited as much as needed to correct imprecisions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't invalidate other (previous) answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP could also edit and improve his answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Opinions?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-12-04T18:58:35.887" Title="Should extensive question editing be ruled out?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-25T21:35:59.860" Score="7" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;low quality&quot; and &quot;first post&quot; review queues, I regularly see answers that should have been posted as comments instead.&#xA;In many cases, the poster even acknowledges this and points out that they lack the reputation to be allowed to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to lots of deleted posts, wasted effort, and often useful information being lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the reasoning behind requiring 50 reputation points to allow users to post &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt;, while every new or even anonymous user can post &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; that are far more visible?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can we change this for the better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28235" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T15:48:16.680" Title="Why is there a reputation requirement for comments, but not for answers?" Tags="|discussion|comments|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5078" CreationDate="2018-11-27T19:52:47.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Recommendations&lt;/a&gt; StackExchange in beta right now. Maybe that would be the right place to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="184887" LastActivityDate="2018-11-27T19:52:47.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-29T22:16:13.840" Score="-8" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't help but wonder if there is substantial conflict of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can those who voted to close a post voluntarily avoid reviewing reopening the same post?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or isn't it a cool and great idea to implement a new feature to stop those who closed a post and still desire to deny  reopening the same post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/484499/on-my-local-machine-what-can-screen-bring-which-a-terminal-emulator-or-nohup-d&quot;&gt;On my local machine, what can Screen bring, which a terminal emulator or nohup/disown can&amp;#39;t?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmRhb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmRhb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/271025&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/271025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YJ3Vt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YJ3Vt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2018-11-29T22:26:43.467" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T14:39:29.300" Title="Can those who voted to close a post voluntarily give up reviewing reopening the same post?" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2018-11-29T22:30:28.417" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, again, &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither are a good idea.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, and head off the inevitable complaints about the brevity of my answer, the people that originially voted to close are in fact the most qualified to review as they will be most familiar with the specific efforts &lt;em&gt;made to improve the question&lt;/em&gt;&amp;mdash;which is, of course, the only legitimate reason to vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6761" LastEditorUserId="6761" LastEditDate="2018-11-29T22:34:32.650" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T22:34:32.650" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2018-11-30T14:39:29.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voluntarily? Sure. That's what the &quot;skip&quot; button is for. I'm under no obligation to review the reopening of a post I voted to close; then again, nor I am under any obligation to avoid reviewing those either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T14:39:29.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-02T03:10:21.480" Score="17" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is gonna be &quot;meta&quot; and not have a specific question in mind, but an invitation for discussion. I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that's in-scope for the meta areas...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been a member of this place for &quot;2 years, 7 months&quot; according to my profile.  In all that time I've not asked a single question.   Mostly because I've 30 years of Unix experience and the couple of times I started a question I worked out the answer (&quot;talk to the bear&quot; methodology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I approach this place as someone who wants to answer questions; to help others, and (hopefully) teach along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I look at &quot;newest questions&quot; and if something seems like it's worth writing an answer then I'll go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if there is a way of making that experience better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea is to allow sufficiently reputable people to add answers to closed questions (perhaps with review requirements).  A number of questions get closed &quot;duplicate&quot;, but if you look at the duplicate question then it doesn't fully answer the asked question; there maybe a 80% overlap, so the original questioner may not be satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea is to be able ignore users or tags.  There's one user who is a prolific asker of questions which Pauli would have said &quot;That is not only not right, it is not even wrong!&quot;.  I've tried answering these questions, in the past, and then got frustrated with the comments, which frequently try to extend the scope of the question and demonstrate the original question wasn't what was really intended.  Whenever I see a question by this user I want to close the browser tab, which means that &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; questions don't get a look in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to answer questions (or, sometimes, just to nudge people in comments to allow people to answer it themselves).  In the real world I run a &quot;three strikes&quot; rule; if you ask me a question I'll try and answer it.  If you come back with essentially the same question then I'll assume I didn't do a good job first time and go into more depth.  A third time and I'll explain it in so much detail... you better not ask a fourth time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do other people approach persistent askers of bad questions, to make their &quot;answer question&quot; process smoother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T02:17:40.210" Title="Improving &quot;answerer&quot; experience" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5102" CreationDate="2018-12-02T23:46:30.343" Score="9" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are we twins? &#xA;I've been here 4&amp;frac14; years, and posted 432 answers and 0 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You talk to a bear? &#xA;I talk to a cat&#xA;(or a committee of cats, if I can get them to stay organized). &#xA;And apparently &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/308564/271976&quot; title=&quot;Stack Exchange has been taken over by a rubber duck! (March 31, 2018)&quot;&gt;the Stack Exchange standard is to talk to a duck.&lt;/a&gt;    :-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea about allowing sufficiently reputable people&#xA;to add answers to closed questions. &#xA;You know, of course, that the standard procedure is a combination of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question to clarify that it is different from the &quot;duplicate&quot;,&#xA;and to improve its quality in general.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to reopen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a comment saying&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this question is different from the &quot;duplicate&quot; because ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;please reopen this question;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I have discovered a truly remarkable answer for this question&#xA;which comments are too small to contain.&lt;/a&gt;        :-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post on Meta, saying the above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go into Chat and plead your case.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure we need to circumvent the process,&#xA;but let me think about it for six to eight weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regarding questions as moving targets;&#xA;see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5095/80216&quot;&gt;Should extensive question editing be ruled out?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D'oh!  I just noticed that you've already commented there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2018-12-02T23:46:30.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5078" CreationDate="2018-12-03T09:32:56.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is off-topic on all technical SEs, for one simple reason: it’s not about a specific problem you encountered, it’s about a general problem you believe you may encounter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are questions related to your situation which would be appropriate on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Unix.SE&lt;/a&gt;; for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tried to upgrade from Fedora Core 29 to Fedora Core 30 and ran into &lt;em&gt;this specific problem&lt;/em&gt; (with details). How should I go about fixing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would also be appropriate as a Fedora bug report, and I think it would be more useful as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’m looking for recommendations of operating systems which are upgradable, because I believe I can’t upgrade from Fedora Core 29 to Fedora Core 30, and I’m fed up of re-installing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;isn’t appropriate, because it’s unanswerable: readers can’t guess what the actual concerns you’re trying to address are, so even if this weren’t opinion-based, answerers would have no way of knowing whether their recommendations meets your requirements (because they wouldn’t know why, in your specific circumstances, the upgrade might or might not fail, and therefore whether their recommendation would suffer from the same problem or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is perhaps another variant which might suit your purposes better, and could be on-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I read &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; (with a link) that in &lt;em&gt;these specific circumstances&lt;/em&gt;, upgrading from Fedora Core 22 to 23 fails. Is this still relevant for upgrades from Fedora Core 29 to 30, and if so, is there any way to work around it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T09:32:56.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-03T13:02:09.703" Score="-7" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if automatic deletion of some &quot;low-quality&quot; posts (such as heavily downvoted, without reply, closed, ...) is a configurable feature  on individual stack exchange sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is very subjective. Many &quot;emotional&quot; users  cast their votes (up or down or close or delete) irrationally. Voting is also like an inflectional disease, and many like to follow some lead or majority without adequate judgement. Some &quot;low-quality&quot; posts (many of mine) are in fact victims of malicious or ignorant downvotes and close votes with stereotyping. Some &quot;high-quality&quot; posts (many of mine) are in fact not worth that many upvotes, but may be because of some good replies, or being highly exposed on twitter, or having stayed for a long period, whereas I just need a proper answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether a post is truly low-quality or not,  every post (except extreme cases, such as Unix &amp;amp; Linux unrelated, or offensive posts) deserves their existences, and  visibility  to the public. Their existence have values. Duplicates  can help us to recognize the different appearances of the same or related problems. Victim posts will still have chances to be re-recognized. The posts of a user can be kept tracked of by themselves or others for reducing the possibility of making the same mistakes or asking the same questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I am not sure if SE sites might have some technological difficulty of keeping every post's existence and visibility, but I just can't imagine there is one (limitation on storage, querying processing, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2018-12-03T19:51:47.307" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T19:51:47.307" Title="Can automatic deletion of &quot;low-quality&quot; posts be turned off?" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5105" CreationDate="2018-12-03T13:55:32.473" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but this is a network-wide feature, not something that can be configured for each site. That said, this statement is really problematic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether a post is truly low-quality or not, every post deserves their existence, and visibility to the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am afraid that if that's the way you feel, then Stack Exchange is not a good fit. Deleting low quality posts is essential to the way these sites work. If that is really something that bothers you, then I can only recommend that you find another site that doesn't have SE's strict rules about content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T13:55:32.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5102" CreationDate="2018-12-04T02:52:56.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am also someone who&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;wants to answer questions; to help others, and (hopefully) teach along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a little shocked that I've posted over 1200 answers over the 3 1/2 years I've been here so far. I like to answer questions that have some Venn diagram overlap of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in, or near, my area of knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;demonstrates a misunderstanding on the part of the asker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question is heavy on the first criterion, and I answer it because it's fun to try something new (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/436103/117549&quot;&gt;sorting in sed&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/289363/117549&quot;&gt;in bash&lt;/a&gt;); very often I learn &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/257819/remove-extra-header-lines-from-file-except-for-the-first-line/257821#comment446335_257821&quot;&gt;something new&lt;/a&gt; along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions meeting the second criterion are interesting to me because I like teaching people about UNIX, and it's gratifying to see people learning.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answerer, if I'm curious about a question, I'll open it in a new tab and take a look. If my Venn diagram doesn't light up (because I can't understand the question or don't have the knowledge or I can't tell where the asker's knowledge starts or stops or etc), then I close the tab and move on.  (This is separate from the &quot;reviewer&quot; side of me that would VTC an unclear question, close as duplicate or too broad, etc; and also voting up/down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watching and ignore tags helps to a small degree (obfuscated by the large number of text-processing questions and mis-tagged questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is another reason I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5016/117549&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5016/117549&lt;/a&gt; -- if an asker manages to get the right words into the title and excerpt, it stands a better chance of me opening it up in a new tab to potentially answer it.  If the asker's effort starts and ends with a title like &quot;Need a Linux command for below output&quot;, it's a red flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I concur with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5103/117549&quot;&gt;G-Man's thoughts&lt;/a&gt; on wrongly-closed-as-duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding moving targets, I try to force myself to leave clarifying comments on questions that could go in various different directions. I &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to answer only after it's clear what the problem is and when a solution is possible. At that point, it should be clear that the question is answered, and I'll redirect further (extensive) questions to the &quot;Questions are free!&quot; new-question link. Of course, if the follow-up questions are about understanding the current answer, that's in-scope.  Edits to the question should not invalidate existing answers, which is why it's important to clarify the question (or VTC if there's no follow-up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-12-04T02:52:56.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5095" CreationDate="2018-12-04T18:58:35.887" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a limit to the amount of change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;IMHO, no&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a timing issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, there's a bunch of editing happening before the question is even posted (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5102/improving-answerer-experience#comment9296_5103&quot;&gt;rubber duck debugging&lt;/a&gt;), and then if the posted question isn't clear, there are comments to that effect, to which the question is edited, until the question is answerable (or is otherwise closed).  &lt;strong&gt;Then&lt;/strong&gt; there are answers to the question.  &lt;strong&gt;Then&lt;/strong&gt;, edits to the question should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; invalidate any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the desire to answer questions (quickly); there was one within half an hour of the question being posted which was subsequently deleted, then another 90 minutes later. The question was then closed as &amp;quot;unclear&amp;quot; the next day, until it was reopened about a day and a half later. I would split the responsibility for this situation pretty evenly between the asker and the answerers. The asker, IMHO, needed some help understanding the terminology, much less how it actually worked. As an answerer, you should have a clear idea what is being asked. If I saw a question that was unclear to me &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; being constantly edited &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; I was interested in answering it, I might post some clarifying comments, then bookmark it / favorite it and come back later.  Later, if the question is answerable, maybe answer it. If the question is still moving or has moved away from my interest, un-bookmark/favorite it and move on.  As a voter and reviewer, vote as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;don't agree&lt;/em&gt; that the OP should post and edit their own answer, unless they're intentionally self-answering &lt;strong&gt;a question that's clear&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, I think we need to give Questions a few minutes to &amp;quot;breathe&amp;quot; before voting or answering. Questions (that are good) that have answers will stick around &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot;, so let's make them good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-12-04T18:58:35.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5113" CreationDate="2018-12-04T19:49:17.297" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/891199&quot;&gt;Over here&lt;/a&gt; (10K+ users only) an OP deleted their own question because I flagged it as a duplicate.  I thought the reason for duplicates was to keep a tombstone referring other people to the other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I would be a higher rep user, I'd undelete it and comment that it's better to have a duplicate than a deleted question, but now I'm unsure what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the consensus here on U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I searched for a similar question and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/should-commonly-posted-duplicate-homework-questions-be-flagged-or-filtered-as&quot;&gt;found this one&lt;/a&gt; but there is no answer: only comments...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T20:18:10.443" Title="What to do if OP deletes their own question after being flagged as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5102" CreationDate="2018-12-04T20:36:23.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a nobody here but I came from &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby&quot;&gt;the dark side&lt;/a&gt; or even darker if you go &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/90054/fabby?tab=profile&quot;&gt;back far enough&lt;/a&gt; and what I did on &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; if the user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;posted a comment with an &lt;em&gt;additional question&lt;/em&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;That is an [entirely new question](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask) to which I don't necessarily have the answer, but feel free to ask a new one: We don't charge extra for an additional question!  **;-)**  Feel free to include a link to [this one]() if it provides context.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which renders as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;entirely new question&lt;/a&gt; to which I don't necessarily have the answer, but feel free to ask a new one: We don't charge extra for an additional question!  &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;  Feel free to include a link to this one if it provides context..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;asked me to elaborate: I did, but &lt;em&gt;sadly&lt;/em&gt; only did once and then reverted to the above canned comment, but I like your system better, so I'm going to change my behaviour here on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;;-)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2018-12-04T20:36:23.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-05T13:07:07.300" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the policy of determining a post subject to automatic removal? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the post has no answer, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the post either has pure downvote(s) , or is closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I find a list of my posts that are candidates of automatic removal? For example, by a url with query strings, by search words in the search box, by SE data exploration site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T16:30:23.357" Title="How can I find a list of my posts that are candidates of automatic removal?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5111" CreationDate="2018-12-05T14:15:48.153" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules for when a post will be automatically removed are explained in this FAQ post on the main meta: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/203101&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most relevant portion is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;By the system:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;The system&lt;/a&gt; will automatically delete any post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-rude-or-abusive-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-wor&quot;&gt;flagged&lt;/a&gt; six times as offensive or spam (3 times on &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9809/a-temporary-tweak-to-work-around-abusive-posting-patterns&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp;&#xA;  Usage&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4117/temporary-anti-spam-measures-are-now-in-place&quot;&gt;The Workplace&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006&quot;&gt;automatically delete&lt;/a&gt; closed, unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no positively scored or&#xA;  accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed for any&#xA;  reason other than duplicate nine or more days ago and haven't been&#xA;  edited in the past nine days. (&lt;code&gt;RemoveAbandonedClosed&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006&quot;&gt;automatically delete&lt;/a&gt; rejected migrations (questions created as a result of a question from another site being&#xA;  migrated there, and later closed for any reason other than duplicate)&#xA;  that are at least 30 days old. (&lt;code&gt;RemoveRejectedMigrations&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006&quot;&gt;automatically delete&lt;/a&gt; negatively-scored, unlocked, and unanswered questions that are older than 30 days.&#xA;  (&lt;code&gt;RemoveDeadQuestions&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006&quot;&gt;automatically delete&lt;/a&gt; unlocked, unanswered questions older than 365 days on main (non-meta) sites with score of&#xA;  zero (or one, if the owner's account is deleted), fewer than 1.5 views&#xA;  per day on average, and fewer than two comments.&#xA;  (&lt;code&gt;RemoveAbandonedQuestions&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/199860/a-question-should-not-be-deleted-by-the-user-deletion-algorithm-if-it-has-upvote&quot;&gt;automatically delete&lt;/a&gt; any post with a negative score when its owner's account is deleted, &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/199860/a-question-should-not-be-deleted-by-the-user-deletion-algorithm-if-it-has-upvote/312594#312594&quot;&gt;the post&#xA;  is a question that has at least one positively-scored&#xA;  answer&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  (This doesn't apply on meta sites.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will automatically delete any post, regardless of score or answers to questions, when its owner's account is&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;destroyed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  (only done for spammers and blatant trolls).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The system will automatically delete migration stubs (original site copies of questions migrated to other sites, which haven't been&#xA;  rejected by the destination site) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79051/why-was-my-question-moved-and-why-was-it-then-deleted-off-of-the-original-site/79082#79082&quot;&gt;that are at least 30 days old&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  Questions deleted under this criterion still have their revision&#xA;  histories visible to everyone, and links to them redirect to the new&#xA;  question instead of showing an error page. (&lt;code&gt;RemoveMigrationStubs&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts with zero or negative score that receive six &lt;em&gt;recommend deletion&lt;/em&gt; reviews (four on Stack Overflow) in the low-quality-posts&#xA;  review queue are automatically deleted &quot;from review&quot;. Posts can be&#xA;  kicked into this queue either automatically or with &lt;em&gt;very low quality&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  and &lt;em&gt;not an answer&lt;/em&gt; flags, and can be removed from the queue if enough&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Looks OK&lt;/em&gt; reviews are cast against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;The Community user deleted my question! What gives?&lt;/a&gt; at&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Help Center&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for finding them, I suggest you search &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; for queries about &quot;roomba&quot;. For example, this one looks promising: &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/455567/open-question-roomba&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/455567/open-question-roomba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2018-12-05T16:30:23.357" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T16:30:23.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5109" CreationDate="2018-12-05T20:18:10.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends. If you feel that the question was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/32311/203101&quot;&gt;useful duplicate&lt;/a&gt;, then feel free to flag for mod attention. For instance, I undeleted the post you mention in your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have the rep, you can also just vote to undelete yourself. Alternatively, you can always leave a comment on one of the users other posts suggesting they undelete.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's also not really a big deal if the OP deletes, it's just that sometimes duplicates can be useful if they ask the same question in a different way since if anyone else asks in the same way, they are more likely to find the dupe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T20:18:10.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5115" CreationDate="2018-12-07T14:05:54.880" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should questions on Vagrant, Ansible, Docker and any other virtualization tools migrated to DevOPs SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like these go a bit beyond questions about Linux CLUIs, GUIs and shell scripting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An exception could be say MySQL console, Composer, WP-CLI, Drush and other shell extensions but programs like Vagrant, Ansible, Docker which are virtualization tools, usually more complex, and fall under common definitions of &quot;DevOPs&quot; should maybe migrated to the (still beta) &lt;a href=&quot;https://devops.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;DevOPs SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user149572" LastEditorDisplayName="user149572" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T17:16:32.830" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T19:03:08.927" Title="Should questions on Vagrant, Ansible, Docker and any other virtualization tools migrated to DevOPs SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5114" CreationDate="2018-12-07T14:39:38.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so, no. First because we don't migrate away questions that are on topic. Second because we cannot migrate any question that is older than 60 days, so this would only apply to very few questions anyway. Third because something like docker seems completely on topic here, I don't see why not. We have a lot of *nix sysadmins here, so that should fall under their area of expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a particular question is not a good fit here, then we can always migrate on a case by case basis, but I don't see much point in a blanket migration rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T14:39:38.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5102" CreationDate="2018-12-07T21:45:30.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to a question on MSO about providing the ability to ignore specific users, the powers-that-be said, a few months ago, that they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/309160/238718&quot;&gt;considering&lt;/a&gt; offering some &quot;option to mute interactions in a more granular way.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I primarily use unix.stackexchange.com as an answerer, and my interface is the Questions page, most recent first. What I'd find useful is a way to mute a question that I know I won't be answering, so that I don't keep seeing it again and again when I revisit the Questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49439" LastEditorUserId="49439" LastEditDate="2018-12-09T01:13:05.217" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T01:13:05.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5118" CreationDate="2018-12-09T10:41:35.687" Score="8" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/486910/90054&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; looked like a spammer testing the grounds to me, so I flagged it as SPAM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However,&lt;/em&gt; one second after pushing that flag, I was wondering if I should have used one of the other flags as this doesn't help SmokeDetector at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the right thing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the wrong thing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T15:29:07.883" Title="Flagging as SPAM too harsh?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5117" CreationDate="2018-12-09T14:35:56.740" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best flag to use for nonsense post is actually either &quot;not an answer&quot; or &quot;rude or abusive&quot;. The rationale for which is nicely explained by Shog in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/234035/203101&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is an utter waste of time. There is no meaning to the post! It's&#xA;  VLQ, it's abuse, it's Not An Answer, heck it might even be a spammer,&#xA;  testing the waters... There's no metric you can apply that'll narrow&#xA;  that down, because there is no meaningful content to apply metrics to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So pick the flag that speaks to you. I'm partial to &quot;rude or abusive&quot;,&#xA;  because enough of them immediately delete and lock the post, which is&#xA;  handy in those rare scenarios where someone's flooding the site with a&#xA;  lot of these... But VLQ or NAA work just as well in the vast majority&#xA;  of cases. The important thing to remember here is that when the post&#xA;  clearly means nothing, you shouldn't be wasting too much thought&#xA;  trying to decipher it; flag it and move on with your life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the only difference between spam and R/A (rude or abusive) flags is that R/A flagged posts are never used in review audits. Apart from that, I understand that the system treats both in the same way. However, I personally prefer to limit spam flags for actual &lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt;, cases where someone is trying to promote something, since that tells me as a moderator handling the flag what to look for. So yes, I would prefer you flag that as R/A instead of spam if only to help me get into the right frame of mind to evaluate the flag. But it really doesn't make that much of a difference, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I've written up &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/a/15921/85695&quot;&gt;a guide&lt;/a&gt; for which flag to use where on Ask Ubuntu's meta, and the directions there are also valid for here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="90054" LastEditDate="2018-12-09T15:29:07.883" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T15:29:07.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5114" CreationDate="2018-12-09T19:03:08.927" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a DevOps SE person, yet I use docker and ansible daily.  Tooling, alone, does not make DevOps.  DevOps also requires process and methodology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say that technical questions around how these tools work at a Unix level (&quot;docker doesn't work properly&quot;) would appear to be on-scope, but usage questions in how to make them work at a process layer (&quot;how can I make Jenkins fire up docker containers for testing&quot;) may be better on a DevOps site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastActivityDate="2018-12-09T19:03:08.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5102" CreationDate="2018-12-10T09:01:19.403" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Way back when I mentioned in chat that I'd like to ignore some users, somebody pointed me to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/3360/270345&quot;&gt;Ignore Users Script&lt;/a&gt; ... but that script hasn't been updated since 2009, and didn't work for me. So I threw most of it out and rewrote it. Here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name         SE Ignorer&#xA;// @namespace    https://tampermonkey.net/&#xA;// @version      0.1&#xA;// @description  try to take over the world!&#xA;// @author       Muru&#xA;// @include        *://*.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @include        *://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        *://askubuntu.com/*&#xA;// @include        *://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include        *://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// @grant        none&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;(function (func) {&#xA;    // helper for injecting the script into the page&#xA;    var script = document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);&#xA;    // insert a script element...&#xA;&#xA;    script.type = 'text/javascript';&#xA;    script.appendChild(&#xA;        // with a function which is called on document ready&#xA;        document.createTextNode(&quot;$(&quot; + func + &quot;)&quot;)&#xA;    );&#xA;    // run the script after other scripts&#xA;    document.body.appendChild(script);&#xA;})(function(){&#xA;    'use strict';&#xA;    var userids = [];&#xA;    var qlists = ['#questions', '#question-mini-list', '.search-results', '.js-search-results'];&#xA;    var targetNode = null;&#xA;    for (i = 0; i &amp;lt; qlists.length; i++) {&#xA;        targetNode = $(qlists[i])[0];&#xA;        if (targetNode != null) {&#xA;            break;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    if (targetNode == null) {&#xA;        console.log(&quot;No question lists to filter!&quot;);&#xA;        return;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    // Options for the observer (which mutations to observe)&#xA;    var config = { attributes: true, childList: true, subtree: true };&#xA;&#xA;    // Callback function to execute when mutations are observed&#xA;    var callback = function(mutationsList) {&#xA;        for(var mutation of mutationsList) {&#xA;            if (mutation.type == 'childList') {&#xA;                letsJQuery();&#xA;            }&#xA;        }&#xA;    };&#xA;&#xA;    // Create an observer instance linked to the callback function&#xA;    var observer = new MutationObserver(callback);&#xA;&#xA;    // Start observing the target node for configured mutations&#xA;    observer.observe(targetNode, config);&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;        $.each(userids, function(){&#xA;            $('.user-details a[href*=&quot;/'+this+'/&quot;]').closest('.question-summary').remove();&#xA;            $('.started a[href*=&quot;/'+this+'/&quot;]').closest('.question-summary').remove();&#xA;            $('a.comment-user[href*=&quot;/'+this+'/&quot;]').closest('.comment').remove();&#xA;        });&#xA;    };&#xA;    letsJQuery();&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have to manually fill in the &lt;code&gt;userids&lt;/code&gt; array using the user IDs, not usernames (so that's 70524 for me and not &lt;code&gt;muru&lt;/code&gt;). Check the profile link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/70524/foobar&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/70524/foobar&lt;/a&gt; - it's the number before the username.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It removes entries from the questions page and search results, which were last modified by the listed users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't do much JavaScript, so I don't know how bad it is, so I haven't updated the original.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2018-12-11T02:17:40.210" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T02:17:40.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5127" CreationDate="2018-12-11T12:43:19.617" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate&lt;/a&gt; with 195 questions and the following description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MATE is a desktop environment based on Gnome 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate-desktop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate-desktop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate-desktop&lt;/a&gt; with 5 questions and the following description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;mate-desktop is an alternative desktop environment to traditional GNOME . It uses gtk+ components and has less memory power usage than GNOME uses. Most of the tools are named in spanish for e.g. caja which is supposed to be mean 'box' in Spanish and so on and so forth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, both tags are about one and the same desktop environment, namely the one produced by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mate-desktop.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MATE Team&lt;/a&gt;. For this reason, I suggest that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate-desktop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate-desktop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate-desktop&lt;/a&gt; be turned into a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate&lt;/a&gt;. (The description for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate&lt;/a&gt; can be expanded, but that doesn't require a meta question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158988" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T13:23:16.847" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T13:23:16.847" Title="Merge or synonymize tags 'mate' and 'mate-desktop'" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|merging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5122" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-12-11T15:37:37.727" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-12-11T15:37:37.727" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T15:37:37.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5123" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-12-11T15:37:37.727" Score="0" Body="This tag is for questions about tag synonyms (how they work, who can create them, etc)." OwnerUserId="158988" LastEditorUserId="158988" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T16:15:00.773" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T16:15:00.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3133" CreationDate="2018-12-11T21:22:44.563" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, for upvotes to have a useful meaning, we would all follow a similar standard. The tooltip text is a good indicator of what that standard should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think most people follow this to &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; degree, but often members here interpret &quot;it is useful&quot; as &quot;it is useful &lt;strong&gt;to me&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, rather than &quot;it is useful to the general community&quot;. There is bound to be very little overlap between people who answer and people who upvote using the standard of &quot;useful to me&quot;. I'd argue &quot;useful to me&quot; is not the best standard. If it's important for developers to know the answer, it's a useful question. If it's clear, shows some effort, and is important for developers to know the answer, it should be upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There does seem to be a number of members that use an entirely different standard, upvoting only questions that produces the internal dialogue &quot;Oh! What a good question!&quot;, reserving their upvotes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://guide.michelin.com/us/new-york/to-the-stars-and-beyond-sg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;exceptional questions worth a special journey to read&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think that's helpful to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="278294" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T21:22:44.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5126" CreationDate="2018-12-12T11:54:11.797" Score="10" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today i have voted close this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/487534/34720&quot;&gt;Does Microsoft WLinux has full support for network and devices?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the same logic as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/436/34720&quot;&gt;Cygwin related questions&lt;/a&gt;, shall we mark all stuff related to WSL as off-topic, since even inside that Linux container a Windows product limitation could be the root cause of a problem, or only the ones that are clearly inside the list of features/limitations of this Microsoft product?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user34720" LastActivityDate="2018-12-17T17:57:16.217" Title="Are WSL related questions off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5125" CreationDate="2018-12-12T12:18:38.890" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid we've already decided it's on topic and even had &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4226/22222&quot;&gt;a nice discussion&lt;/a&gt; about what tag to use. And, admittedly, that's the right call. While it is running in a Windows environment, it really is a &lt;del&gt;Linux system&lt;/del&gt; &quot;Linux-like environment&quot; as far as I can tell. By the way, Cygwin is also on topic, that's been decided in the very question you linked to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as you say, by the same logic WSL is also on topic. That said, I migrated that question over to SU since I am assuming more people with WSL experience hang out there than here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2018-12-17T17:57:16.217" LastActivityDate="2018-12-17T17:57:16.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5121" CreationDate="2018-12-12T13:23:02.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good catch, thanks. However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate-desktop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate-desktop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate-desktop&lt;/a&gt; should be the master since that is unambiguous (the word &lt;em&gt;mate&lt;/em&gt; has many meanings). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now made &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mate-desktop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mate-desktop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mate-desktop&lt;/a&gt; and have merged the two so that all questions that were tagged [mate] are now tagged [mate-desktop].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T13:23:02.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-16T01:54:51.737" Score="11" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this isn't about an Emacs key combination!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to catch &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319274/responsive-design-themes-what-can-sites-customize-and-how-can-they-get-changes&quot;&gt;Responsive Design Themes - What can sites customize and how can they get changes implemented?&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange where there was an invitation for each site to discuss their site's design elements in order to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;better reflect their communities and allow them to be different from the rest of the network&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the recent changes announced in &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/unix-linux-new-site-theme-is-live&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux new site theme is live&lt;/a&gt;, I thought I'd post this question here as a &quot;bridge&quot; to start any discussions relating to our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to see a change in any of the below elements (transcribed from the MSE post above), then create a new Meta post, tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt;, relating specifically to that element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site-customizable elements at this point are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;background -- currently a grid of dots (I think)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;header content -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4945/what-should-our-sites-header-graphic-be&quot;&gt;recently decided to be blank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;logo -- currently the &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unix/img/logo.svg?v=eb6eb2b9e73c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UNIX &amp;amp; LINUX graphic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;photo box -- currently none&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;footer -- currently &quot;Linux is a registered trademark...&quot; (I think)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sidebar -- currently stock (I think); &quot;could be light-colored solid, pattern/texture, or fade or even a combination.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the colors of: &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Buttons (voting/accept/favorite/Ask Question/Review’s Leave Open, Skip, etc/, I think?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP indicator boxes (background shading of OP’s name on their comments on their own post)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;link colors (visited/unvisited)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voting arrow colors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag colors (background &amp;amp; text)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question titles (in the questions list, not on question pages)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to clarify any point above, as I have no better insight to the site's design elements than any other user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T12:34:59.700" Title="&quot;Super-Meta&quot; Call for requests for U&amp;L site customizations" Tags="|discussion|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5128" CreationDate="2018-12-16T12:34:59.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I have been bothered by the logo on the app for a while and think it should be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5O03i.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5O03i.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262590" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T12:34:59.700" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-20T01:56:11.503" Score="-17" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;My recent posts have been suffering malicious close votes and downvotes from some users. Some of them are easy to find out from my closed posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please stop bullying! &#xA;Deriving mental pleasure from mistreating other people is a disease against humanity!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not encourage brutality and discrimination! It will destroy others' lives (you never know)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2018-12-24T20:43:47.683" LastActivityDate="2018-12-24T20:43:47.683" Title="Please stop bullying!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5130" CreationDate="2018-12-20T12:40:12.667" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a solution of your issues with downvotes. Just my thoughts on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are asking a lot of questions, so due to that, you would expect to get numerically more downvotes and closures overall than anyone just asking the occasional question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, if your questions were average, but they are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your questions are sometimes &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; similar to each other, with only minor details varying (such as with your most recent server-related questions), and they often try to pin down details that most users would deem uninteresting or unimportant, and sometimes these details are bordering to philosophical ponderings.  Also, you tend to ask questions &lt;em&gt;around&lt;/em&gt; details until (I assume) you feel you understand the whole context (this also applies to your server-related questions of the last 24 hours or so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle, I have no issues with this, but I'm assuming that some users have.  It doesn't help that this is what we, at the same time, suggest to many users.  &quot;If you have additional questions about &lt;em&gt;whatever it is&lt;/em&gt;, ask a new question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, people would not downvote questions that they don't understand the technical details of or read properly, and ideally they don't look at who's asking when deciding to downvote or vote for closures.  But then again, people are people, and each user approach this differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2018-12-20T13:42:03.207" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T13:42:03.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-24T01:06:34.920" Score="16" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a some edits in the review queue that I'm not sure on the best action, so I'm asking for guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general these edits are on answers and they typically add information... but it's not information that's strictly directed at the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take the current example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/181067/how-to-read-dmesg-from-previous-session-dmesg-0/345978#345978&quot;&gt;How to read dmesg from previous session? (dmesg.0)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit added &quot;-p priority Filter by priority output (4 to filter out notice and info).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that's true.  But the question was around &quot;reading the previous dmesg&quot;, not around &quot;useful journalctl options&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think this edit falls within the reject reasons available:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spam or vandalism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no improvement whatsoever&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clearly conflicts with author's intent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;attempt to reply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;causes harm&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment I'm skipping these types of reviews (if I don't know the right thing to do, don't do it!).  What's the recommended action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2018-12-24T15:10:16.450" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T02:20:52.387" Title="Reviewing edits" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5132" CreationDate="2018-12-25T05:00:23.837" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your reluctance around this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given no examples in the answer used that switch, adding it seems superfluous and I would've rejected it with this reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;clearly conflicts with author's intent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reason is usually my go to when someone takes a little bit too much liberties in expanding an answer for really no obvious reason. IMO this is one of those scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T05:00:23.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5132" CreationDate="2018-12-30T02:06:06.450" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don’t know it this is an abuse of the &lt;strong&gt;causes harm&lt;/strong&gt; option but I sometimes treat it as a general purpose method for providing custom feedback to the editor – so that they learn something from the experience and they’re not getting frustrated by trying to figure out what the real reason their edit was rejected if one of the canned options isn’t particularly applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/260824&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/260824&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/263436&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/263436&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of this particular edit suggestion, I would have rejected it with the custom reason of &lt;em&gt;“not directly relevant to this particular question (and could conflict with the author’s intent)”&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastEditorUserId="22812" LastEditDate="2018-12-30T02:20:52.387" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T02:20:52.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-01T02:48:35.400" Score="18" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's New Year's Day in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange land&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges&#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together.&#xA;To that end, here is how the moderation done here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                 Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                  6         28&#xA;Users destroyed                                  58          0&#xA;Users deleted                                    49          0&#xA;Users contacted                                   8          0&#xA;User banned from review                           2          0&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue           297     13,656&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue              240      4,514&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue        106     13,444&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue               41      5,429&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue               188     21,442&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue              560     29,795&#xA;Tags merged                                       3          0&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                             3          7&#xA;Tag synonyms created                              3          2&#xA;Tag highlight language set                        1          0&#xA;Revisions redacted                               12          0&#xA;Questions unprotected                             0          1&#xA;Questions reopened                              134        179&#xA;Questions protected                               6        147&#xA;Questions migrated                               79        175&#xA;Questions merged                                  6          0&#xA;Questions flagged⁴                               23      2,491&#xA;Questions closed                              1,129      7,063&#xA;Question flags handled⁴                         588      1,926&#xA;Posts unlocked                                    8         81&#xA;Posts undeleted                                  50        784&#xA;Posts locked                                      9        504&#xA;Posts deleted⁵                                2,298     13,679&#xA;Posts bumped                                      0      8,727&#xA;Escalations to the CM team                       20          0&#xA;Comments undeleted                              107          0&#xA;Comments flagged                                  6      7,879&#xA;Comments deleted⁶                             6,696     19,621&#xA;Comment flags handled                         3,170      4,715&#xA;Answers flagged                                  53      8,514&#xA;Answer flags handled                          4,932      3,635&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat             35          0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 3 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 3, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T02:48:35.400" Title="2018: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5139" CreationDate="2019-01-07T04:10:19.220" Score="17" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;The image also links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/80277/revisions&quot;&gt;the question itself&lt;/a&gt;.  Is something wrong with including that text?  From my perspective, it helps define the scope of the question to 'I don't need to learn what a user is or why you need them (even 'fake' ones), but this other concept isn't intuitive to me'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried soliciting reasoning in the edit history, but that didn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/80277/revisions&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3WdBR.png&quot; alt=&quot;edit history&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should add that despite my rep on this site, I've been on SE sites for a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time (mostly &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/17423/sean-allred&quot;&gt;TeX.SX&lt;/a&gt;), so I get the general ideology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28980" LastEditorUserId="28980" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T17:27:19.980" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T17:27:19.980" Title="Why is this tidbit in my question being edited out repeatedly?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5138" CreationDate="2019-01-07T09:05:49.193" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is (perhaps overenthusiastic) removal of parts of your question which seem extraneous to the editor (see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Should &amp;#39;Hi&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;thanks&amp;#39;, taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt; for some context).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with “I’m not new to basic UNIX concepts, but I am pretty new to UNIX sysadmin” is that it doesn’t convey much &lt;em&gt;actionable&lt;/em&gt; information. Drawing a line between “UNIX concepts” and “UNIX sysadmin” is difficult, and its position depends on the reader — but here we try to write answers which don’t depend (too much) on the question author’s knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your own clarification, “I don’t need to learn what a user is or why you need them (even ‘fake’ ones), but this other concept isn’t intuitive to me” is much better; I recommend editing that into your question (rephrasing “this other concept”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T09:05:49.193" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5138" CreationDate="2019-01-08T17:25:26.563" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Make it relevant to others&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We like to help as many people at a time as we can. Make it clear how your question is relevant to more people than just you, and more of us will be interested in your question and willing to look into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a note that &amp;quot;I'm not new to [concept]&amp;quot; may look like you're requesting, instead of a full and complete answer, one that omits any details about [concept] and is tailored only to fill a specific gap in your own understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next person who has the same question, and finds yours with a search, won't necessarily have the same level of prior knowledge, so a partial answer would be less helpful to them.  One that includes the necessary background, even when some of that is more than the OP needed, would be more widely useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T17:25:26.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5142" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-01-08T18:04:12.013" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T18:04:12.013" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T18:04:12.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5143" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-01-08T18:04:12.013" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T18:04:12.013" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T18:04:12.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-09T03:43:33.613" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Unix &amp;amp; Linux I stumbled upon an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/21780/revisions&quot;&gt;ancient question&lt;/a&gt; with recent activity. I was trying to figure out why that was. I looked through it and its answers and saw recent edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the revision history there were two new entries that, IHMO, greatly improve the quality of the answer, but which, to my mind, disregard what's said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120576/why-can-any-user-edit-any-other-users-question-or-answer&quot;&gt;&quot;not to do&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24437" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T03:43:33.613" Title="Guidelines for what's acceptable in terms of editing" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5146" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-17T18:04:39.517" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question a few days ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/494433/how-exactly-do-the-linux-display-device-files-work?noredirect=1#comment909183_494433&quot;&gt;How exactly do the Linux display device files work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been put on hold as 'too broad'. However, I made an edit at the end, acknowledging that the question may be too broad and instead asking for a reference to external resources that would help to explain the topic (which I have had trouble finding). Surely the revised question isn't too broad? If so, what can I do to make the question acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="257802" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2019-01-17T19:55:21.383" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T19:55:21.383" Title="Is &quot;How exactly do the Linux display device files work?&quot; too broad?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5146" CreationDate="2019-01-17T19:43:05.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking for external references is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2642/how-do-we-feel-about-requests-for-learning-materials?rq=1&quot;&gt;explicitly off topic&lt;/a&gt;. We even have a dedicated close reason for it. So your edit only makes things worse, I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I can think of improving your question would be to try and break it down to smaller sub-questions. You could probably start by reading through the answers here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/60034/22222&quot;&gt;What are character special and block special files in a unix system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/116629/22222&quot;&gt;How do keyboard input and text output work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then come back and try to ask something &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; specific and then build on that for your next question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T19:43:05.983" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2642" CreationDate="2019-01-17T20:25:48.853" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also strongly disagree that requests for resources should be treated as off-topic. To address the points made in the OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not being able to find a resource or reference for a particular topic is most definitely a specific problem, which can usually be answered concisely. This argument simply holds no water.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the implied rate at which external links would go 'stale' is exaggerated. Besides, how quickly do some of the more technical questions about Unix &amp;amp; Linux go obsolete, given the pace of developing technology? I would also like to point out that &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resource-recommendations&quot;&gt;Physics SE&lt;/a&gt; has a tag explicitly for resource recommendations, which seems to work well and provides concise and helpful answers to many users. Tbh, many of the concerns raised here about such questions seem to be poorly-founded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="257802" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T20:25:48.853" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-18T18:20:34.033" Score="9" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some time today, the background image on U&amp;amp;L has changed to a strange looking grid of gray boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unixmeta/img/site-background-image.svg?v=adf85a88e194&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unixmeta/img/site-background-image.svg?v=adf85a88e194&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7kJPm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7kJPm.png&quot; alt=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unixmeta/img/site-background-image.svg?v=adf85a88e194&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This grid doesn't seem to have been there yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this isn't intentional, as the image just looks wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20805" LastEditorUserId="305932" LastEditDate="2019-01-18T18:55:05.173" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T18:55:05.173" Title="Background image has been replaced with boxes" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5149" CreationDate="2019-01-18T18:40:39.760" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;New Upgrade&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is by-design. This is StackExchange's new theme for the site which is supposed to make it look like feeder-marks and scan-marks on a scantron! The logic here is that Linux and Unix are older, more mechanical, and not cool. And, what could be less cool than a scantron?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully it makes all the neckbeards feel right at home. If not, StackExchange has volunteered to copy over the posh minimalist boxless theme from Apple.StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Brazo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Brazo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3285" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T18:40:39.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5149" CreationDate="2019-01-18T18:44:54.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is amazing, and will be fixed in the next build, coming up very shortly. We moved a ton of theming assets around, and I assumed incorrectly that this SVG background image was sized appropriately. I've added a proper &lt;code&gt;background-size&lt;/code&gt; to the CSS so things'll look right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305932" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T18:44:54.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3907" CreationDate="2019-01-19T18:47:46.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it depends. If question is about how to install kernel, how to load module, how to config swappiness and so on this is definitely for here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it's something like: I wrote process schedules and when compile it get this error&quot; or &quot;how to interact from C program to kernel&quot; the question should be in Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In generally if it include source code should be directed to Stack Overflow (beside shell scripts). From other site I see there a lot of shell scripts and questions which will be more suitable for UNIX &amp;amp; Linux site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101265" LastActivityDate="2019-01-19T18:47:46.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5162" CreationDate="2019-01-22T11:22:30.847" Score="41" ViewCount="924" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am relatively new to this site and I use StackOverflow as well as U&amp;amp;L very sparingly as I find that most of what I want to know is already there. However, one thing that I keep experiencing here which I did not face in StackOverflow is that my questions keep getting downvoted without any proper explanation as to what exactly is wrong with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To date, I have asked two questions on here and have not given any answers (except if you count the one on my own question) and both times my questions have been downvoted without literally anyone pointing out what was wrong with my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no qualms about rephrasing my question if I have been unclear or deleting my question if it is deemed off topic. If I am misinformed about something, I think pointing it out in the comments is a much better solution than downvoting without any explanation and leaving me to guess what I did wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can take the downvotes if I have asked a bad question, however, I was under the impression that someone from the community would at least tell me what I did wrong before doing so. That is at least what used to happen on SO. I have tried asking in the comments of my questions as to what I did wrong, but to no avail. I hope someone here can explain to me where am I going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="310480" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2019-01-22T21:27:01.700" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T11:21:35.507" Title="My questions keep getting downvoted without any proper explanation as to why" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-23T11:54:19.077" Score="11" ViewCount="504" Body="&lt;p&gt;2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5155&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-03-04T11:35:31.793" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T11:35:31.793" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2019" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2020-03-05T10:59:25.367" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2019-01-23T11:54:19.077" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackunix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1bHcV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T11:54:19.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5159" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:01:36.397" Score="6" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/495305/logstash-unrecognized-service-amazon-linux&quot;&gt;this question about Logstash service not being recognized in an Amazon Linux server&lt;/a&gt; in Unix &amp;amp; Linux recently. Please read it carefully before evaluating this question. At the time that I asked the question, I needed a quick fix. After asking the question,I got some helpful answers (as comments to my original question, but technically not as answers). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, none of them provided the fix I initially needed. Eventually, I had to relaunch a new server with Amazon Linux 2 (as the user 'Yaron' has suggested in his comment). It apparently solved my issue and I was able to run Logstash but IMO it's a work-around, as I couldn't run Logstash in the my initial server as I first intended to and I haven't come across any article saying that Logstash cannot be run in Amazon Linux 1.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am scratching my head about what should I do with this question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There's no answer to be accepted as the suggestions were given as comments to the original answer. While it didn't provide me a direct solution, it helped me with doing a workaround. I don't want to delete the question either, as I believe the question and the comments might benefit any other person who would be having a similar kind of issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4150/how-should-we-deal-with-question-answered-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;this question How to deal with questions answered in comments&lt;/a&gt;, but it really does not give the solution I'm seeking for, as in this case comments haven't provided a concrete fix to the original question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298812" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2019-01-24T14:06:25.063" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T14:06:25.063" Title="Deal with a question that doesn't have a proper answer But might help others" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2019-01-23T21:48:22.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My best guess would be that the downvotes may be due to the way the questions are scoped. Rather than ask for the best solution to accomplish the original goal, the questions instead ask how to make a particular solution work.  In both cases, the solution proposed is something that is contrary to industry practice. Some of the comments on the questions discuss some of these concerns, and suggest better ways of achieving the original goal, but the original questions are not being updated accordingly.  This can make it appear that the more standard suggestions are being discarded, which can lead to downvotes; everyone here is a volunteer, and wants to feel like their contributions are worth something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A way to avoid the downvotes might be to edit the original question based on the new information you receive from comments and answers.  What people will often do is add an &quot;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; section at the bottom of the question body.  This allows them to maintain the original text for discussion and context while  acknowledging contributor ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93730" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T21:48:22.327" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5157" CreationDate="2019-01-24T11:48:01.860" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the only fix you found was reinstalling, you can just post an answer saying that and accept it. Or I can close the question as non-reproducible (since a reinstall fixed it, it was probably something very specific to your setup and unlikely to help future users). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And don't worry about &quot;intellectual theft&quot;. Answers belong in the answers and have no business being in the comments. In any case, from what you describe, you took guidance from the comments, not a full answer. So just post your solution and the question can be marked as answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T11:48:01.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2019-01-24T11:52:08.420" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OtHLx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Greg&amp;#39;s (GreyCat&amp;#39;s) Bash Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T11:52:08.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2019-01-24T11:53:19.003" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWlmG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Arch wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T11:53:19.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2019-01-24T13:43:45.287" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also tend to comment when casting down- or close-votes, unless there are already comments that express my concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons why you might have received downvotes. It could be simply that the downvoter was having a bad day and didn't like your question. It could be that the downvoter was quickly scanning through several questions and didn't spare the time to write a comment. There's no way of knowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that it's frustrating to take even a small hit to your reputation, but I think there's 2 main things you can take away from the experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't take it personally: it's not about you. It's possibly not even about your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;take it as an opportunity to be self-critical about the question you wrote, and look for ways to improve it. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow &quot;how to ask&quot;&lt;/a&gt; page is full of good advice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4667" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T13:43:45.287" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2019-01-28T22:07:23.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Yuki.kuroshita, I see nothing which would indicate you're violating forum conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I've noticed there's an erosion of the experience across the Stack Exchange -- so you're not alone.  It's still better here though when compared to that cesspool of misinformation Spiceworks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just keep what you're doing.  Be a part of the community -- both ways:  helping others and getting help yourself.  If someone downvotes you, don't take it personally.  It's their problem and NOT yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="295138" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T22:07:23.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-31T00:04:55.217" Score="31" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like the vast majority of questions here with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anaconda&lt;/a&gt; refer to issues with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anaconda&lt;/a&gt; Python and R Data Science package, yet the formal definition of the &lt;code&gt;anaconda&lt;/code&gt; tag here is &quot;Questions about Anaconda, the kickstart system used by Fedora et al.&quot; In other words, the system installer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folks being folks, our users saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anaconda&lt;/a&gt; and figured it meant the Data Science package instead of what y'all really meant. As of 2019-01-31, there are 62 posts with that tag, and 38 (61%) are about the Python and R Data Science package. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish to suggest two new tags replace &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anaconda&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;anaconda-OS-installer&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;anaconda-kickstarter&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;Anaconda-Python-R&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Anaconda-DataScience&lt;/code&gt;. Really don't care what they're named eventually, but completely removing the misused tag and offering two replacements which clarify the issue at hand seems reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49368" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-09-12T12:45:56.053" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T12:45:56.053" Title="Suggested change of tag definition for Anaconda" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-31T02:28:45.387" Score="11" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reviewing the &quot;vote to close&quot; queue I see a number of &quot;off topic&quot; votes.  When I look at the question, it seems perfectly on-topic.  But when I dig deeper, it's because of a typo or a simple mistake.  And so the question was closed off-topic &quot;Questions describing a problem that can't be reproduced and seemingly went away on its own (or went away when a typo was fixed) are off-topic as they are unlikely to help future readers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm not arguing that this isn't a valid reason to close a question.  Clearly it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm asking is whether this should be made a &lt;em&gt;separate&lt;/em&gt; reason; not 'off topic' but its own reason for closing.  This will make it easier for reviewers to understand the close reason.  Because as it stands, seems a little too broad in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2019-01-31T03:56:15.177" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T03:59:00.847" Title="Make &quot;Offtopic -- problem that can't be reproduced&quot; as separate close reason" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5167" CreationDate="2019-01-31T03:59:00.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. It's also occurred to me that placing non reproducible issues under the off topic hierarchy does not really make sense, because if a problem is not reproducible, that does not make it off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this issue specific to U&amp;amp;L? If not, it should be moved to the main Meta Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T03:59:00.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5170" CreationDate="2019-02-03T15:27:39.717" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today, I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/498440/90054&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which had one downvote by the time I saw it as there is no way to answer that question for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/498449/90054&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; as that's probaly what the user needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is it OK to point beginning users to AU?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeas, I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3761/a-question-which-might-fit-in-ask-ubuntu-here-or-superuser&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; already but that doesn't really answer my question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T19:15:49.927" Title="Is it OK to point beginning users of Ubuntu to Ask Ubuntu?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5169" CreationDate="2019-02-03T19:15:49.927" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course you can point Ubuntu users to Ask Ubuntu, but please don't give the impression that this site is somehow for experts only. It is absolutely not only for experts! We already have a problem with some users downvoting newbie questions, as though they were born with knowledge of *nix arcana and were never newbies themselves! We really don't need more people thinking that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site does have expert questions, yes. But it also has newbie ones. Our the scope is defined only by the operating system, not by the asker's level of expertise. If you find a question that's very Ubuntu specific, then flag for migration or suggest to the OP that AU might be better. Just please don't justify it by saying this site requires a level of knowledge before you can participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T19:15:49.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2019-02-04T21:59:11.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a discussion here on SO meta, about mandating of feedback for downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357436/why-isnt-providing-feedback-mandatory-on-downvotes-and-why-are-ideas-suggestin&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357436/why-isnt-providing-feedback-mandatory-on-downvotes-and-why-are-ideas-suggestin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often you'll find that if you comment on your own question requesting an explanation for a downvote, you'll receive a useful reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204761" LastEditorUserId="204761" LastEditDate="2019-02-04T22:06:40.687" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T22:06:40.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2019-02-06T15:40:39.283" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXWI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-02-06T15:52:28.153" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T15:52:28.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2019-02-06T15:53:41.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/jaguardesignstudio/why-zsh-is-cooler-than-your-shell-16194692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NyFcU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Why zsh is cooler than your shell&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T15:53:41.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2019-02-06T17:07:18.057" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2wg8l.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ed is the standard text editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-02-07T00:28:12.670" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T00:28:12.670" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-06T18:50:24.857" Score="6" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or has the language detection from tags for syntax highlighting been broken lately? I seem to have noticed a couple of times that scripts containing &lt;code&gt;/*&lt;/code&gt; were highlighted as if it that started a comment, like in C, even though the questions had proper-looking shell-related tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/499128/170373&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question tagged both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; looks like this to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CRoUY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CRoUY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: bash --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: shell --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; manually fixes it, but that doesn't scale too well..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2019-02-06T21:26:06.653" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T21:26:06.653" Title="Is there something wrong with tags determining the language for syntax highlighting?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5175" CreationDate="2019-02-06T18:59:23.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; was set to highlight using &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt;. I just changed that so it uses &lt;code&gt;lang-bsh&lt;/code&gt; instead and that seems to have fixed the issue. I don't know if that's because &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt; was broken or because &lt;code&gt;lang-sh&lt;/code&gt; actually refers to some other language and not &lt;code&gt;sh&lt;/code&gt;, but it seems to be OK now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/17SYt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/17SYt.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the same answer but now with correct highlighting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone notices issues or objects to having &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; default to bash-style syntax highlighting, please let me or another mod know, preferably by opening a meta thread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-02-06T19:06:40.983" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T19:06:40.983" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-08T15:25:10.960" Score="-12" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged several times serial downvotes that had not been reversed automatically by the time I became disappointed, but was always declined. (There are also  many smart downvotes paced well enough not to be automatically detected). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every post I make immediately receives one or two downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have raised similar concerns in different scenarios. I was asked  to respect  downvotes as personal choices,  to refrain myself from playing drama, or to contact SE customer services (which is always hard to reach, either doesn't follow up, or asks me to contact site moderators in turn, at which point I always stop trying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either indeed the moderators are  impotent as they claim to be,&#xA;or this site doesn't seem willing to recognize and curb the abusive downvotes (and close votes), and  therefore let them flood, as a way to nurture the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note1: I don't solicit upvotes here. I feel uncomfortable with irrational upvotes, and more importantly I can't withstand irrational downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note2: I don't think my posts are high-quality. More importantly, I don't think them low-quality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z7PJY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z7PJY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iBmCr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iBmCr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T21:22:37.783" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T10:05:05.013" Title="Is this site willing to curb the abusive downvotes (and close votes)?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5180" CreationDate="2019-02-08T16:12:34.130" Score="23" ViewCount="643" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found the main forum an excellent resource for concise, good quality questions and answers, so I do understand the philosophy to remove woolly, off-topic or old (stale) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I run through the review queues recently, I've seem to find many good questions are marked &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;too-broad&lt;/em&gt;, which have been active for less than a day, and feel that some we should at least allow to run for a couple of days. They are usually the difficult ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP may be away, in meetings, other deadline and can't reply to a question, or maybe the person who could answer hasn't seen it yet, because they live in a different timezone and hasn't woken up yet, or just been away from their terminal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we being a little over zealous in trying to keep this forum &lt;em&gt;clean&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;Tks for all your comments, I think I will now choose to close and not feel too bad knowing that it can be edited by OP and then reviewed for re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like @Philip Couling's comment below will adopt to do this when I think it necessary, something like this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am voting to close this question, because it doesn't appear to be answerable and I haven't seen further clarification; however, if you edit your question, it will be sent to the review queue for re-opening.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31760" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T23:36:49.640" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T17:29:47.513" Title="Over zealous desire to close questions" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5177" CreationDate="2019-02-08T16:40:17.900" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I can say is what I've already told you in answer to your flags: moderators have no way of knowing who voted for whom, have no tools that allow us to affect voting (we can't undo a vote) and are therefore simply not capable of doing anything helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have tools that give us a high level overview of voting patterns but there is nothing that indicates anyone has targeted you. We have also asked SE to look into this and they have confirmed that there is no sign of anyone targeting you specifically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am afraid there really isn't anything to be done here and there is nothing malicious going on. It is simply that your questions tend to attract a lot of downvotes, but apparently (as SE tells us) this isn't any one user but a variety of users of the site. In other words, your downvotes are &quot;natural&quot;: people see your questions and decide to downvote them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can do is try not to ask questions that people feel deserve downvotes. Remember that not all your questions get downvoted. Indeed many get multiple upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T16:40:17.900" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5178" CreationDate="2019-02-08T16:51:00.740" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Terdon mentioned in a comment these questions can easily be re-opened after being edited by the OP.  I think it's more beneficial to close them as &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;too-broad&lt;/em&gt; while they are still fresh and before they get buried several pages back and out of sight.  &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; OP comes back to provide clarification (surprisingly rare) the question can then be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237982" LastEditorUserId="63767" LastEditDate="2019-02-14T18:51:50.720" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T18:51:50.720" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5177" CreationDate="2019-02-09T00:14:09.110" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just so that it's not always @terdon having to be the face for the mods here on this particular issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've continuously brought this issue up and want/expect the mods and/or Stack Exchange to take some sort of action regarding this. But in expecting this course of action you're assuming that the votes are without merit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we make a similar judgement/assumption with the ~5k upvotes you've received as well, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/978207/up-and-down-vote-count-for-user?UserId=674&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@terdon's query&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLMqz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLMqz.png&quot; alt=&quot;ss01&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the larger issue that you're ignoring here is that a sizable segment of the users here are trying to signal you and you're ignoring that message because you've concluded that it's an attack or that it's unwarranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've long ago stopped answering your questions because I've found them lacking in effort to solve things for yourself first. I've often thought that you were merely asking these simpleton questions as an approach for amassing rep, which breaks no rules and is a perfectly fine thing to do IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But others, I would assume based on the feedback you're receiving, feel that this violates some notion of fair play in their minds, because it treats their time as less valuable than your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel saying this is somewhat justified because you claim to not care about rep, but are making an awful lot of fuss about it. In addition you've only ever contributed 23 answers to this site, but have asked 1442 (as of 2019-02-08).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try and take what I'm saying as constructive feedback to you. I do not want to drive someone away from the site, but I also feel compelled to say something because your behavior is impacting others on the site, and so as a mod I'm duty bound to look out for both sides of any issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2019-02-09T21:59:11.253" LastActivityDate="2019-02-09T21:59:11.253" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5178" CreationDate="2019-02-09T01:54:55.250" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, too, have found the close-review queue a bit &quot;fuller&quot; lately. I suspect (based on almost no data at all) that someone is VTC'ing many new questions with little attempt to &lt;em&gt;request&lt;/em&gt; clarification. It's not fair, IMHO, to cast a VTC-unclear without comment if there's any glimmer of effort on the OP's part. This is exacerbated if there are other reviewers waiting in the wings and the question is closed quickly. In regards to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;, I'd like to point to my suggestions in the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4489/117549&quot;&gt;Learning the art of the close-vote review queue&lt;/a&gt;, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has the question been edited recently to address concerns in the comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If OP comments would clear it up, leave a comment to suggest editing the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is too broad; VTC. If there's a specific part of the question that makes it too broad, or you have thoughts on how to productively narrow the question down to an answerable level, and there's not already a comment to that effect, consider leaving such a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-02-09T01:54:55.250" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5177" CreationDate="2019-02-09T11:56:03.170" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some of this is based on a misunderstanding you have of how Stack Exchange works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see in your profile you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post without reply and with net downvote(s) or in closed state will be removed automatically. Posts, regardless of their receptions, can serve as references for reducing future mistakes and questions. If you find them useful/interesting, please consider to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvote, reopen and undelete those mistreated posts;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave posts open, and reopen closed posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange explicitly states that downvoting and closing posts that don't fit, are off topic, low value, unclear etc is the right thing to do, so they can be cleared away and removed. They &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; serve as useful references unless they are well formed. So if your posts are gaining down votes, that is the reason, not because anyone is targeting you specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just checked and can see that I have downvoted 4 of your answers - before I even knew who you were from this post. It's because I felt they did not meet the requirements of a well formed, on topic question. I have also upvoted a few of your questions, because they did meet the requirements. That is how this all works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you dislike the way votes are cast, then I'm afraid that is not our problem - Stack Exchange is built to allow anonymous up and down votes. And as you can see from your rep - you have got a lot more up than down, so it obviously works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3046" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-02-09T11:56:03.170" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5155" CreationDate="2019-02-09T15:02:37.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ubuntuhideout.com/?from=unixlinux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hBt3G.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ubuntu Hideout on Discord&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103151" LastEditorUserId="103151" LastEditDate="2019-02-16T22:59:34.180" LastActivityDate="2019-02-16T22:59:34.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5177" CreationDate="2019-02-10T08:35:46.760" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tim, I actually agree that your questions sometimes get an undeserved bad rap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/490805/what-is-a-fatal-signal&quot;&gt;this recent question of yours&lt;/a&gt; is a reasonable question, but when I first saw it, minutes after it was asked, it was -4 already. It's now net +2, and it was net zero yesterday (when I linked to it in the chat), so it seems like the overall perception of it is that it's fine too. Something is off with how those initial votes came in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have answered questions from you. Quite often I found them interesting and an enjoyable exercise to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, frankly, many of your questions &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; low quality as the SE system defines it. The tooltip for the downvote button says &quot;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&quot;. Even with the best will in the world, one or two of those seem like they apply a lot of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You may not like to keep reading, but &lt;strong&gt;please do read the part below the line at the bottom&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are often answered in the very next paragraph of the documentation (or even within the passage you quote), or are questions about standard non-technical meanings of a word, or would be resolved by simply running the command at issue: these don't &lt;em&gt;show&lt;/em&gt; any research effort - whether you made any or not, people aren't seeing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other times, they, for example, quote some documentation, and then ask about something that it doesn't say, or conflate evidently-unrelated elements: these are unclear, although probably VTC-unclear rather than downvote unclear (to me)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Still other times they are about such fine details that a reader could quite reasonably wonder what on earth the point is, and often these come in a tightly-packed sequence: these may be considered &quot;not useful&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; to vote in that way, but it is within the bounds of how the SE model works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for close votes: these seem almost always to be as unclear (addressed earlier) or too broad: both of those can be corrected by edits, which - as you know - put the question immediately back into the reopen queue. Putting a question on hold is not a punishment, it's a reminder to make sure the question is as answerable as possible. The other closures seem largely to be &quot;off topic - can't be reproduced&quot;, which is probably the closest of the radio-button options for &quot;premised on a misunderstanding of standard English word or sentence&quot;. In those cases the question itself does seem to have been answered by pointing out the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is constructive feedback: it's telling you something &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can do to improve how the questions are received. The close reasons offer suggestions of what to resolve. The downvotes don't, other than the tooltip, but those three kinds of issue are still fairly actionable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all that, people &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be voting on the questions themselves, rather than on who's asking them. It's clear from the vote reversals you've seen that that sometimes &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; happening, and that question at the top is quite suspicious to me as well. On the other hand, my estimate would be that &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the downvotes on your questions are deliberate and considered, on questions that the voter genuinely believes not to show any research effort, or to be unclear or not useful, and even more so for the close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that some are annoyed by the pattern of questions you've asked, and perhaps by the response from you to downvotes and closures (e.g. this question itself), and have ended up at best with a bit of a hair trigger and low tolerance for your questions. If they're downvoting on sight, they shouldn't be. Your many positively-scored questions suggest that most aren't doing so, but I do think it's likely that you're experiencing some of it, and probably a bit beyond what the vote-reversal script detects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point you have over 26,000 reputation points and plenty of successful questions; you're well past all the privilege thresholds and passive reputation growth will keep you there. The votes have ceased to have any impact at all on how you can use the site, but I understand that it still hurts when the system tells you that something you've put effort into is bad somehow, all the more so when it's taking something away from you while it does it (even if you know that what you're losing is meaningless). I don't like it when I get them, and I don't expect anyone else to either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been concerned about your recent posts here, and in comments on the site - particularly &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5130/please-stop-bullying&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; from a couple of months back. As it said, you never know what's going on in someone else's life, and I don't know what's in yours (nor, presumably, does anybody else here). I do worry about the pattern I'm seeing and the comments you've made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stepping outside my expertise and anything else about this place, and being uncomfortably presumptuous, &lt;strong&gt;I want to encourage you to seek out some someone outside this site to talk to professionally about what you've been experiencing&lt;/strong&gt; lately here and elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where you are or what sort of situation you're in, but there will be counsellors, therapists, etc available and I think it'd be beneficial to work with one of them. If you are being bullied and discriminated against, they can help to find productive ways of responding to it, and generally provide a non-adversarial sounding board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider it, and take care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T08:35:46.760" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-10T14:53:34.567" Score="-1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty obvious, when you are new here you need to build up your reputation by commenting on unanswered questions. However, when i try to it gives me an error that says Iam not allowed to comment because my reputation is less than 50!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how then does one accumulate reputation points here??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="271996" OwnerDisplayName="badbanana" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T15:34:38.180" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T15:38:59.857" Title="how does one raise his reputation?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2019-02-11T10:55:33.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5186" CreationDate="2019-02-10T15:07:50.830" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have been communicating above in the comments section.  You are required to have at least 50 reputation to make such comments (except for on your own questions as I'm sure you have discovered).  Also note that you will not gain any reputation for making comments, you gain reputation for upvoted questions and &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; (not the same as comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This section that I am responding to you with now is called an &quot;answer&quot; and there are no restrictions to who can post one.  However there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/answering&quot;&gt;Guidelines&lt;/a&gt; for answering that should be followed to ensure you provide a meaningful answer that is not removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increasing your reputation can happen in the following ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question is voted up: +5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer is voted up: +10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer is marked “accepted”: +15 (+2 to acceptor)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;suggested edit is accepted: +2 (up to +1000 total per user)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bounty awarded to your answer: + full bounty amount&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one of your answers is awarded a bounty automatically: + half of the bounty amount&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;site association bonus: +100 on each site (awarded a maximum of one time per site)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all detailed in the help section under &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237982" LastEditorUserId="237982" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T15:16:27.957" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T15:16:27.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5186" CreationDate="2019-02-10T15:25:33.373" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You aren't allowed to post &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt;, but you are allowed to post &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;The way to do that at the very bottom of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V0dnA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V0dnA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You could say it's somewhat hidden, since the &quot;add a comment&quot; link is much closer to the question and the top of the page, especially if there already are some answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an answer, write it there. (And be sure to check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;editing help&lt;/a&gt;, too). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that box looks a lot more serious than the small &quot;add a comment&quot; link, but you probably shouldn't let that matter too much. Even answers without all the details are answers. They just might not get that many votes, but answers that are at least &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; tend to get at least some upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Comments are not the same as answers&lt;/a&gt;, they're mostly meant for asking clarification, constructive criticism or stuff like that. They're not questions or answers by themselves, but are meant as a tool to make the questions and answers &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;. Also, you don't get any reputation from them, and sadly they cannot be voted down on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't see it without having enough rep to comment, but the box for writing comments also says: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid answering questions in comments.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T15:38:59.857" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T15:38:59.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5177" CreationDate="2019-02-10T23:46:27.550" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: My voting pattern isn't about you.  I don't know you, I don't care about you.  My voting pattern is based on what I think is best for the site, and the questions that are asked on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm probably one of the people you think is abusing you.  I'm definitely one of the people who tends to vote down your questions, rather than voting up.  But not because it's &quot;Tim&quot;, but because of the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only joined the site a couple of years ago (I was between jobs, and bored) so pretty much answered all the questions.  It was part of my morning routine; get up, have breakfast, answer a dozen Unix questions, then watch Person of Interest (I'd just found the show and was catching up on Netflix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes questions weren't understandable, so I would comment asking for more details, or sometimes the question was &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; right, so I would answer them trying to take into account all variations of the meaning that I could think of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the question showed some basic misunderstanding of the concept, and so the question wasn't meaningful.  And I'd take that as an opportunity to explain the basics, and how stuff worked.  I'd spend hours on it, with examples, proof of concepts, edge cases... I wanted to create the best answers I could, and I had the spare time ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes, not often, the person writing the question would attack me, and then I'd find the question got edited and rewritten to mean something totally different.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roll forward to the present.  With two years experience under my belt, I notice some common patterns...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious one is people asking for help on their homework.  Oh don't I feel dumb for answering those questions, 2 years earlier.  Now I just ignore them, or maybe downvote.  I can't even be bothered to VTC &quot;duplicate&quot; anymore.  (My girlfriend is a director at an Ivy League college, and she tells me the professors there include using StackExchange to answer schoolwork as &lt;em&gt;cheating&lt;/em&gt;.  Heheheh).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another obvious one is people asking for answers that can be solved with 3 minutes of google.  This is clearly not showing any research effort; they get a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's those where the question is unclear.  If it's only marginal, and I think it can be rescued then I'll comment on it, and maybe downvote.  If I think the question is gonna need rewriting from scratch then I'll VTC &quot;unclear&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally there's the &quot;WTF does this even mean?  When I apple, banana?  Huh??&quot;  These get a downvote and a VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I took a look at the questions you've opened and looked at how I responded to them... and, yes, a lot of them have been downvoted or VTC'd.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not because it was &quot;Tim&quot; asking the question, but because I felt they were bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing so far has been &quot;Tim&quot; related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a personal comment on &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I do leave a comment on your question or try to answer your question, you attack.  You play the victim in these threads, but &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are the biggest bully I see.  You play passive-aggressive (eg your profile comment), you attack people who try to help you, you rewrite questions with nasty remarks in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite that, I do still try to answer your questions when they are something that doesn't take a 50 page essay (VTC &quot;too broad&quot;).  Sometimes you accept them, sometimes you leave comments which make me think you didn't try to understand (e.g. google the concepts mentioned) and just jumped to a &quot;what does XYZ mean?&quot; comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still answer the questions because a goal of SE is to build a library of answers.  Whether you appreciate the work doesn't matter.  I'm just trying to make it the best library I can, within my limited means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing English isn't your first language, and this may not be helping you (picking the wrong words, so people misunderstand you; phrasing things the wrong way, so people take umbrage).  You might want to step away from the keyboard and breathe for 5 minutes before responding; don't say the first thing that comes into your head.  Go to the kitchen, get a glass of water, calm down, assume the other person is trying to do the right thing, engage in a construct manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, see the TL;DR at the front!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T10:05:05.013" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T10:05:05.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5178" CreationDate="2019-02-12T15:26:15.757" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we need a &quot;Postpone a decision for 24 hours&quot; option amongst the buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be happy to re-review questions if they got fixed. (It's not answerable directly, but shouldn't necessarily get stomped on within an hour or two of it having been asked.) Sometimes there a question that could be answerable if the OP added just a little more information. In these situations I hesitate voting one way or another because although it's not necessary answerable immediately, IME it's far harder to get a closed/edited question reopened than to have it left open in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Actually, maybe we need to address the difficulty with which a closed question can get reopened?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is particularly apparent with users in &quot;different&quot; timezones, where you might get them having asked a question, headed off for the day (or night!), and then comes in the following day to find their question closed as unclear. This can be quite demoralising for a newcomer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T15:26:15.757" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5178" CreationDate="2019-02-12T18:55:31.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the closure statistics of the last 90 days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions Closed: 1970&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions Asked: 8021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close percentage: 24.56 % (this is slightly misleading since this isn't the same 90 days period but I didn't notice that these values weren't included in the screen shot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CcAMS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CcAMS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions are closed by unclear, then duplicate and in a far third too broad. Of these, about 15 % gets edited and about 10 % gets reopened. Opinion based, non reproducible and cross posting has the worse reopen rates (it's difficult to reframe those kind of questions), and they are rarely edited after closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones that benefit the most of editing are unclear, for clear reasons. At least 11% of these are reopened after being edited, while only 17% are edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2019-02-13T10:36:52.510" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T10:36:52.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5195" CreationDate="2019-02-15T17:07:39.853" Score="12" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which do we want to keep and which should be synonymed to the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt;, with 118 questions, says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag If your question revolves around determining or utilizing the return status (exit code) of a command. Common syntax involves the $? variable and the &amp;amp;&amp;amp; and || symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-code&lt;/a&gt;, with 31 questions, says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exit-code tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Additional data (as of 2019-02-17):&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22exit+code%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;exit code&amp;quot; is:q&lt;/a&gt; = 345 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22exit+status%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;exit status&amp;quot; is:q&lt;/a&gt; = 277 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22return+code%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;return code&amp;quot; is:q&lt;/a&gt;  = 130 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22return+status%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;return status&amp;quot; is:q&lt;/a&gt;  = 35 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_status&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;exit status&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; with redirections from &amp;quot;exit code&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;result code&amp;quot;; there is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;return code&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; aka &amp;quot;error code&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Exit-Status.html#Exit-Status&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bash manual&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linux.die.net/man/1/zshbuiltins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;zsh manual&lt;/a&gt; both use the term &amp;quot;exit status&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5192/whats-the-return-status-of-the-exit-code#comment9632_5192&quot;&gt;mentioned&lt;/a&gt;, the POSIX standard uses the term &amp;quot;exit status&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's go ahead and rule out &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080926-00/?p=20743&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;%ERRORLEVEL%&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T13:51:03.453" Title="What's the return status of the exit code?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5178" CreationDate="2019-02-17T16:33:23.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a new user of StackExchange in general, I felt very attacked posting questions because I immediately was attacked and shut down with close to no explanation whatsoever. I felt that you could be inclined to overzealously close questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to agree with @Philip Couling &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="336557" LastEditorUserId="336557" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T17:29:47.513" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T17:29:47.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5192" CreationDate="2019-02-17T21:08:09.483" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing the additional data, I'm leaning towards this idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;base tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-status&lt;/a&gt; (a new tag, utilizing the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt; excerpt &amp;amp; wiki)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;synonyms: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-code&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-status&lt;/a&gt; tag and populated it with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt; excerpt and wiki (slightly modified to say &quot;exit status&quot; instead of &quot;return status&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the next steps are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-code&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-status&lt;/a&gt; and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-code&lt;/a&gt; a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-status&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-status&lt;/a&gt; and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-status&lt;/a&gt; a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-status&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-code&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exit-status&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exit-status&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exit-status&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helpful link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/119377/307535&quot;&gt;Moderator cheat sheet for tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T13:47:55.303" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T13:47:55.303" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5197" CreationDate="2019-02-19T17:46:23.207" Score="6" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently studying X11 and trying to implement some applications using the XCB library. I was wondering if questions related to XCB are on topic here. While the problems that I usually face are problems in my code, I think they may be caused by a bad understanding of X11 itself. So, are XCB related question allowed here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224165" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T14:30:08.463" Title="Are questions about using XCB or X11 client implementations in general on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5196" CreationDate="2019-02-19T19:45:55.967" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question; thank you for asking on the Meta site first!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starting from the starting point, our Help Center says, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initial opinion in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/315/117549&quot;&gt;Unix C API calls ontopic?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think questions about the system interfaces (i.e. the C API) should be on-topic here, as long as they're about common unix interfaces (not necessarily POSIX, but excluding very different systems like Cocoa) and essentially language-agnostic. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this answer only applies to questions about issues like signal delivery, terminal modes, sockets, … which are exposed in similar ways in most languages. It can apply to other low-level APIs associated with unix, e.g. &lt;strong&gt;X library calls (that map closely to the X11 protocol)&lt;/strong&gt; or D-Bus communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... with a heuristic at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will the question interest only programmers, or also users and administrators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sysadmin debugging why a server won't start with truss/strace output is on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A programmer debugging why his kernel module is causing an OOPS is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the above answer is from 2010; there are follow-up threads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/868/117549&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s better place for questions about &amp;quot;Linux/Unix programming libraries&amp;quot; - Unix.SE or SO?&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about writing code using Unix or Linux libraries, it should go to Stack Overflow (provided it follows that site's guidelines too). Questions about how common APIs work (say POSIX interfaces) can be on topic on U&amp;amp;L though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1051/117549&quot;&gt;What is the current consensus on programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there seems to be general agreement that programming questions are, with some exceptions, off topic here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Topics for users and administrators: ask here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Topics for programmers: ask on Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I looked up XCB in Wikipedia, I got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X protocol C-language Binding) is a library implementing the client-side of the X11 display server protocol. XCB is written in the C programming language ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion (and I suppose by proxy anyone that votes this up), questions about XCB would more interest programmers and not System Administrators or users. It's one layer below any common interaction with X11. I'd say that &lt;code&gt;problems in my code&lt;/code&gt; are off-topic while an understanding of &lt;code&gt;X11&lt;/code&gt; would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T19:45:55.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5199" CreationDate="2019-02-20T19:07:11.917" Score="9" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well this is simple, from couple of months it shows that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;next badge: Curious 9/5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I already crossed limit of 5 questions, I am having 9, but I am not getting this badge from months and it is stuck here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255251" LastEditorUserId="255251" LastEditDate="2019-02-22T10:12:31.743" LastActivityDate="2019-02-22T10:12:31.743" Title="What is curious badge and why I am not getting it?" Tags="|discussion|bug|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5198" CreationDate="2019-02-20T20:21:48.503" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full badge description is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/234259/145982&quot;&gt;&quot;positive question record&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is defined as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't post the exact number here for privacy, but yours is under 0.5. The problem is if you have a downvoted or closed question that you delete (which I would categorize as a good thing), it actually counts against you more because you still have a downvoted/closed question, but now you also have a deleted question. Not entirely sure why they designed it that way, but it can result in single questions penalizing you up to three times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-02-20T20:21:48.503" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-26T10:06:20.040" Score="12" ViewCount="556" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed something interesting in voting trends.  Quite often the more interesting questions receive early down-votes (fairly quickly) before subsequently receiving 15+ up votes.  This is in contrast to some truly poor questions which are ignored and sit on zero (0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this behaviour intriguing.  It seems that the more precise and narrow people are with their question, the more chance there is of early down votes which is almost the exact opposite of the intended purpose of voting on questions.  I am, personally, very cautious with a down-vote on a question (preferring to comment instead) and very liberal with an up vote.  So it seems odd to me that people down-vote well bounded questions which encapsulate a single point the OP doesn't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only explanations I can come up with are that either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people are a bit arrogant and down-vote &lt;em&gt;&quot;you idiot, why don't you know this?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people freak out when they read a question they feel in unanswerable; not just they don't know the answer but feel that an answer cannot be found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recognise everyone has their reasons for voting, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and we cannot and should not &quot;police&quot; the voting system.  But I do wonder what we can do as a community to be more graceful particularly towards those asking [ultimately well received] questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T19:18:20.720" Title="Why do well received questions often score early down votes?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5200" CreationDate="2019-02-26T11:47:56.347" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just speculating, since of course an actual answer could only come from... a committee of downvoters. And I may be thinking about the wrong examples, since you didn't provide any in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, the kind of questions you are referring to receives at most one or two downvotes. As you note, even if they appear to show some pattern, a few downvotes are probably not significant of a collective attitude or culture, likely being the legitimately free choice of a handful of individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I see plausible reasons for downvoting narrow, well scoped questions: when we feel they don't show research effort, we can be reasonably sure it is actually the effort that is lacking. (Of course I'm referring to the often quoted downvote arrow's tooltip: &quot;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am no big downvoter at all and I agree that commenting should be the preferred way to engage with a question that needs to be improved. But it seems to me that narrow and clear questions are actually a case where downvoting can be useful, because it has some chance to carry a clear message: &quot;You don't seem inexperienced, I feel it would be fair to ask you a bit more of effort when you post a question&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This kind of downvote may be felt by some users as useful to the site: they try to discourage scarcely researched questions in contexts in which it seems to be room for discouraging in a (hopefully) constructive way — that is usually not the case when questions are unclear and seemingly come from inexperienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beside speculating, we can also take a look at some data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following table comes from &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/993929&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;, which selects the number of questions that had a net score of at least 15 on their first day, grouped by year and by the number of downvotes they received on their first day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Columns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;tot(#q)&lt;/code&gt;: total number of questions in the year (15+ score on first day);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;day1 DV:&lt;/code&gt;: downvotes on first day;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#q&lt;/code&gt;: number of questions;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;%q&lt;/code&gt;: percentage of questions over the yearly total;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;avg&lt;/code&gt;: average score on first day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Data retrieved on 2019-03-13.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                |day1 DV: 0         |day1 DV: 1         |day1 DV: 2         |day1 DV: 3         |day1 DV: 4         |day1 DV: 5+&#xA;year    tot(#q) |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg&#xA;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;2010    1       |1  100.00  31.00   |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2011    7       |6  85.71   20.00   |1  14.29   16.00   |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2012    11      |10 90.91   19.60   |1  9.09    41.00   |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2013    23      |17 73.91   23.35   |5  21.74   25.40   |1  4.35    31.00   |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2014    35      |31 88.57   19.45   |2  5.71    18.50   |   0.00            |1  2.86    26.00   |   0.00            |1  2.86    17.00&#xA;2015    23      |20 86.96   19.30   |2  8.70    17.00   |   0.00            |1  4.35    15.00   |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2016    39      |26 66.67   21.23   |6  15.38   20.33   |6  15.38   19.50   |1  2.56    22.00   |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2017    29      |17 58.62   21.06   |8  27.59   20.38   |1  3.45    25.00   |1  3.45    18.00   |2  6.90    16.50   |   0.00    &#xA;2018    35      |25 71.43   20.00   |8  22.86   22.63   |1  2.86    23.00   |1  2.86    18.00   |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2019    11      |7  63.64   19.00   |4  36.36   18.50   |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sample of some tens of questions is probably too small to be significant (or, more precisely, a sample of 1 to 13 early downvoted questions is probably too small).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Hence, here is the same table for questions having a net score of 5 or more on their first day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                |day1 DV: 0             |day1 DV: 1         |day1 DV: 2         |day1 DV: 3         |day1 DV: 4         |day1 DV: 5+&#xA;year    tot(#q) |#q     %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg&#xA;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;2009    1       |1      100.00  7.00    |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2010    73      |72     98.63   6.60    |   0.00            |1  1.37    5.00    |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2011    353     |346    98.02   6.52    |7  1.98    7.71    |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2012    407     |398    97.79   6.63    |9  2.21    10.78   |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2013    510     |482    94.51   7.05    |24 4.71    10.50   |4  0.78    13.25   |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2014    783     |733    93.61   7.08    |45 5.75    7.36    |3  0.38    7.33    |1  0.13    26.00   |   0.00            |1  0.13    17.00&#xA;2015    525     |482    91.81   7.31    |34 6.48    8.00    |7  1.33    7.43    |1  0.19    15.00   |   0.00            |1  0.19    7.00&#xA;2016    523     |432    82.60   7.82    |63 12.05   8.49    |24 4.59    10.63   |3  0.57    11.67   |1  0.19    10.00   |   0.00    &#xA;2017    546     |454    83.15   7.44    |69 12.64   8.81    |17 3.11    8.71    |2  0.37    13.50   |3  0.55    14.33   |1  0.18    13.00&#xA;2018    505     |392    77.62   7.80    |93 18.42   8.49    |12 2.38    8.42    |7  1.39    9.29    |1  0.20    7.00    |   0.00    &#xA;2019    101     |75     74.26   8.04    |23 22.77   9.30    |3  2.97    9.33    |   0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure of what we can infer, though, apart from noting a rising trend in positively received but early downvoted questions. This is probably something we should address, but maybe not so relevant to our current issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, It may be interesting to compare these statistics to those of the whole question base on U&amp;amp;L. In the following table all questions are considered, independently of their score on their first day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                |day1 DV: 0             |day1 DV: 1             |day1 DV: 2             |day1 DV: 3             |day1 DV: 4         |day1 DV: 5+&#xA;year    tot(#q) |#q     %q      avg     |#q     %q      avg     |#q     %q      avg     |#q     %q      avg     |#q %q      avg     |#q %q      avg&#xA;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;2008    5       |5      100.00  1.20    |       0.00            |       0.00            |       0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2009    26      |26     100.00  0.81    |       0.00            |       0.00            |       0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2010    1,521   |1,495  98.29   1.60    |22     1.45    0.41    |4      0.26    0.25    |       0.00            |   0.00            |   0.00    &#xA;2011    7,111   |6,928  97.43   1.67    |155    2.18    0.70    |16     0.23    -0.69   |8      0.11    -2.38   |4  0.06    -3.25   |   0.00    &#xA;2012    9,682   |9,422  97.31   1.59    |200    2.07    0.98    |31     0.32    -0.45   |19     0.20    -2.00   |8  0.08    -3.00   |2  0.02    -4.00&#xA;2013    14,259  |13,612 95.46   1.38    |489    3.43    0.80    |93     0.65    -0.26   |43     0.30    -1.81   |14 0.10    -3.43   |8  0.06    -4.75&#xA;2014    20,204  |18,956 93.82   1.30    |937    4.64    0.73    |198    0.98    -0.71   |61     0.30    -1.41   |30 0.15    -3.20   |22 0.11    -4.50&#xA;2015    24,107  |22,535 93.48   0.95    |1,184  4.91    0.28    |248    1.03    -0.93   |87     0.36    -2.02   |27 0.11    -3.44   |26 0.11    -4.62&#xA;2016    25,396  |23,071 90.85   0.89    |1,644  6.47    0.28    |398    1.57    -0.50   |152    0.60    -1.97   |78 0.31    -3.12   |53 0.21    -5.28&#xA;2017    25,130  |22,732 90.46   0.82    |1,636  6.51    0.34    |451    1.79    -0.95   |169    0.67    -2.25   |86 0.34    -2.93   |56 0.22    -4.55&#xA;2018    24,613  |21,132 85.86   0.63    |2,433  9.89    0.24    |624    2.54    -0.92   |253    1.03    -1.94   |99 0.40    -3.20   |72 0.29    -5.10&#xA;2019    5,221   |4,411  84.49   0.59    |600    11.49   0.13    |139    2.66    -1.06   |46     0.88    -2.11   |15 0.29    -3.67   |10 0.19    -4.50&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, a well received question seems to have roughly twice the chances of being downvoted early than a randomly picked one. But this may be just the predictable effect of being interesting — attract both upvotes and downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we cannot ignore HNQs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5200/why-do-well-received-questions-often-score-early-down-votes#comment9671_5200&quot;&gt;Jeff Schaller noted&lt;/a&gt;, it is uncommon for questions on U&amp;amp;L to quickly receive a high number of votes (where &quot;quickly&quot; refers to the first day and &quot;high number&quot; may be 5, just to arbitrarily set a bar).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Unfortunately, knowing if a question has ever been on the &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; list has become possible only recently, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/325060/410681&quot;&gt;announced on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; on March 11. An event is now added to a question's timeline and edit history when it appears on the HNQ list for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some voluntary projects allow us to know what has been HNQ on some specific time intervals. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/323710/410681&quot;&gt;This answer to How to determine if a question has ever been a “hot network question”?&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange mentions a chat room that lists all the questions that have been picked as HNQ since 2019-02-28.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Considering the net score of questions on their first day (list retrieved with &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/995984&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; on 2019-03-15) and searching for them with that chat room's &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=&amp;amp;room=89485&quot;&gt;built-in search tool&lt;/a&gt;, it turns out that to date 71% (32 out of 45) of those that scored at least 5 have been HNQ (and 75% (15 out of 20) of those that scored at least 10, 77% (10 out of 13) of those that scored at least 15)&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note that, as stated in the linked post, the question list is probably incomplete and thus we may have some false negatives.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting it all together, the most likely answer I can come up with is: we are seeing a relatively small number of likely ordinary questions which get exposed in an uncommon way through the HNQ list and, therefore, have odds of receiving at least one downvote that are higher than, but comparable to, the odds of being downvoted of the average question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I know this is not much exciting, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2019-03-15T19:18:20.720" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T19:18:20.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4754" CreationDate="2019-02-26T23:09:29.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is ambiguous, but not useless. It conveys information which is relevant in searches. &lt;strong&gt;Please do not remove it without replacing it with a more precise tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most uses seem to be about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking for identical or similar files → I just created &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/duplicate-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicate-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicate-files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking for duplicate lines or fields in a file (this should usually be used together with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;, but often isn't)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T23:09:29.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5204" CreationDate="2019-02-27T13:26:50.773" Score="3" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/490338/315749&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on February 25 and now I see my flag has been declined. There is no reason visible in the flagging history on my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I raised that flag because the question appears not to be (effectively) answerable unless the OP provides further information.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Specifically, the behavior described by the OP is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;likely not related to the shown configuration and errors;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possibly intended, depending on how they installed their Desktop Environment. The OP stated they installed &quot;Gnome Desktop&quot;, but they did not include the package name, nor the exact command they used.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clear guidelines to this kind of flagging seem hard to find (among the &quot;should be closed&quot; flags, only &quot;off-topic&quot; has its own guide linked in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;the Help&lt;/a&gt;). Nevertheless, my reasoning was inspired by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the frequently given &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98026/410681&quot;&gt;reasons&lt;/a&gt; for quickly voting to close. In short: inviting the OP to fix their question and preventing low quality answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a few previous flags I raised, e.g. on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/497652/315749&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (now closed as unclear) and on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/486737/315749&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (still open, but flag marked &quot;helpful&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/105395/410681&quot;&gt;aware&lt;/a&gt; that a declined close flag may be the result of some &quot;leave open&quot; votes, but it looks like I have no way to know if that is what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know the useful/declined flag counters of each user are not publicly visible, so there is not much reputation (in a broad sense) problem involved here. But still I'd like to improve my comprehension of how U&amp;amp;L works, both to give the best possible contribution and to avoid wasting time on issues that are not generally seen as such. (Actually I have been tempted to flag other questions for the same reason, but I opted for the prudent approach of not doing it too often).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? Is there something wrong in my reasoning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T09:20:29.633" Title="Why was this &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; flag declined?" Tags="|support|close-reasons|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5203" CreationDate="2019-02-27T14:55:37.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you raise an &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot; flag, that will put the post into the Close Vote review queue. The flag will only be shown to moderators after a delay to give the community the chace to vote. Additionally, mods will often leave those flags to the community since it's something that the community can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/283972&quot;&gt;the post was reviewed by 4 users&lt;/a&gt;, and 3 of them voted to leave it open. Presumably, they felt that the post was indeed answerable. Since the voting was to leave the post open, your flag ended up being rejected. But no moderator was involved in any step of this process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for flag stats, you're right, there's no reason to worry. If you have &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; flags declined, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/175405/203101&quot;&gt;you will get a warning and, eventually, might be banned&lt;/a&gt; from flagging for a short period of time. You only have one declined flag, so it's absolutely nothing to worry about. Just keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-03-04T09:20:29.633" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T09:20:29.633" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5200" CreationDate="2019-02-27T22:32:34.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, I think there's a semi-active user that is exercising their right to vote and is doing so on some criteria that obviously doesn't align with 16+ other voters. It's the disparity of that -1 (or more) followed by the +15 that sticks out, but it's likely that other posts are &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; being voted on but don't make it to +15. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually not sure anything needs to change; as you pointed out, those questions ended up being &quot;well-received&quot; (upvoted).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For another data point, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;top nine questions&lt;/a&gt; (by overall score) here &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; have at least one downvote on them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T22:32:34.833" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5024" CreationDate="2019-02-27T23:55:13.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't speak for Stack Exchange, but according to the accepted answer (by a &quot;Developer on the Stack Overflow team&quot;) at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/153561/307535&quot;&gt;Human verification page not loading in China&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Outside of building our own internal captcha there isn't a whole lot we can do here. We have talked about many various options none of which were very technically appealing. We will continue to listen to those affected by this and will readdress this if it becomes a large scale problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240086/data-explorer-captcha-doesnt-work-with-google-blocked&quot;&gt;Data Explorer CAPTCHA doesn&amp;#39;t work with Google blocked&lt;/a&gt; whose accepted answer (by someone who &quot;work[s] at Stack Overflow&quot;) says, in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We rely on Google to provide reCAPTCHA and also as a login provider for our sites. If you block Google, reCAPTCHA and login via Google will not work. It thus is a requirement of our websites, to some degree, that Google is not blocked. This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T23:55:13.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5200" CreationDate="2019-03-04T09:16:39.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's another hypothesis: Questions that get lots of upvotes have necessarily gotten lots of views. It might happen due to the topic, or due to mysterious algorithms, who knows. But in any crowd there will be a few outliers who will casually downvote for no strong reason, especially when there is no clear trend yet. Once there are 10-15 upvotes, it takes more conviction to vote agaist the trend, so the casual downvotes die down. By comparison, questions with few views are also less likely to accumulate downvotes (unless they deserve them). So you're less likely to see a spate of casual ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the topic is also somewhat controversial, in the sense that people have strong reactions to it for whatever reason, so much the better-- more people are prone to an impulsive downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23344" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T09:16:39.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-04T20:08:48.053" Score="19" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux is scheduled for an election &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;next week, March 11th&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5245/2019-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike the previous election back in 2014, this time the Q&amp;amp;A question collection will be provided one week in advance of the actual elections. This will allow users some extra time to evaluate their decision on whether to nominate, as well as let them provide answers to the questionnaire during the nomination phase itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, March 11th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at currently.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the nomination phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, typically containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="9541" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T20:01:12.487" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T20:01:12.487" Title="2019 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-04T20:08:48.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T20:08:48.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5200" CreationDate="2019-03-05T14:00:27.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't cite any examples, but I suppose many of those are basic questions that receive a few &quot;you idiot, why don't you know this?&quot; downvotes in the beginning, and then hit the Hot Network Questions list where most viewers can only upvote, so they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that basic questions should be closed as duplicates rather than silently downvoted, but unfortunately this is rarely happening. I feel that has to do with the attitude of users who threat close votes as a personal insults, and the fact that dupe search is a thankless job of promoting someone else's answers with no rep gain. So instead of spending time finding duplicates, people prefer either downvote (hurting the user's morale), or repeat the same answers over and over again (hurting the overall quality of the site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="106927" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T14:19:13.027" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T14:19:13.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5196" CreationDate="2019-03-05T14:30:08.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see you're not registered to StackOverflow yet, and I advise you to do so. They have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xcb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xcb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xcb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xorg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xorg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xorg&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt; tags which you will likely be interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remember that people on SO prefer to talk code, not concepts, so questions are much better received there when you have a sample of code demonstrating the problem you're asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T14:30:08.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-05T18:48:12.090" Score="-15" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much do  you consider yourself &quot;democratic&quot;, &quot;liberal&quot;, or &quot;conservative&quot;, as far as the &quot;politics&quot; on this SE site is concerned? For examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much do you recognize the differences between users in learning ability,   accessibility to learning resources, and other background?&#xA;How much do you think it is okay to think of others as &quot;stupidheads&quot;, and get annoyed thereof? (I have never contacted any other user including moderator using personal emails.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much do you think there exists overly/wrongfully downvoting, closing and deleting proper posts and comments and suspending users on this site, and, if possible,   &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;https://www.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;? How much do you think it is important to protect the right of non-offending non-irrelvant speech of every user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much do you think it is okay to daemonize users who only ask  questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T20:06:13.137" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:06:13.137" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-05T18:53:39.950" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, there is no official Stack Exchange policy about this, so this seems like a reasonable question to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common issue with volunteer posts like moderators is for the volunteer to simply not have enough time to devote to his or her mod duties. In that case, there are at least a couple of ways to go. (I can't think of any other alternatives, but there might be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do nothing. Carry on being a mod to the extent of ones diminished capacity&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resign, citing lack of time, other commitments, whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what is the better choice, (1) or (2), and if (2), what is the level of threshold activity that would make you think that it was time to give up the post? I don't know how one would quantify activity, so I will leave that open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a theoretical question. It's not restricted to SE, either. It's a common issue with volunteer work. And I've seen situations in SE (and indeed elsewhere) where most of the work fell to a subset of moderators/volunteers because the remaining ones were not very active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T05:22:18.793" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T05:22:18.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-05T21:39:30.463" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a scale of 0-10, where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0 = &amp;quot;none&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 = &amp;quot;I could be a professional!&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your sense of humour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;:-)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T21:39:30.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-06T08:32:04.057" Score="33" ViewCount="587" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12349/62424&quot;&gt;this SF&amp;amp;F meta question&lt;/a&gt;, and given &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;the upcoming moderator election&lt;/a&gt;, I thought it would be interesting to ask &lt;strong&gt;current and past moderators&lt;/strong&gt; what it’s like to moderate U&amp;amp;L. (Blatant copying and pasting follows. All credit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/44108/snow&quot;&gt;Snow&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/users/325/monica-cellio&quot;&gt;Monica Cellio&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be absolutely clear, this is about moderators’ perception of their own role, not what they’d like to see in moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your “just plain user” time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What’s on your “moderator wish list”, and why is it important? By “wish list”, I mean things you would like to do as a moderator, but haven’t got round to yet (as opposed to qualities you would like to see in moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren’t?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you balance your “moderator time” with “regular user time”? Do you still feel like participating as a regular user after performing your moderator tasks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T10:51:36.800" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T22:26:08.893" Title="What’s it like being a Unix &amp; Linux moderator?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5218" CreationDate="2019-03-06T16:53:12.747" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it quite enjoyable being a moderator. The other 2 mods are fantastic&#xA;people and I only wish I could know them in the real world but gladly accept&#xA;knowing them at least online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with any job there are ups and downs. From a pros side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'd say the most meaningful and rewarding aspect to the job is still being able&#xA;to help nurture others as they're either coming into U&amp;amp;L or are coming into new&#xA;areas. within either of these spaces.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exposure to more of the backside of how the SE sites function.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Further insights into the meta aspects of helping a social community online&#xA;function.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Learning from both SE staff and other moderators how to successfully steward a&#xA;thriving online community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being a moderator has helped recruit more real world people to the SE platform as&#xA;well as U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of&#xA;  time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks&#xA;  (not counting your “just plain user” time like asking and answering&#xA;  questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical day is probably 30 mins to 3 hours of site + moderator type work. For eg. if I've been using the site for 1 hour, mod work is typically 20-25% of that time on a given day. Some days it's higher but other days it can be lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Types of Mod Tasks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Going through queues and also dealing with flags and meta site questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking through mod dashboards, investigating anything that appears to be &#xA;a potentially inappropriate use of the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deal with any abusive comments or flair ups in comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sock puppet and/or inappropriate use investigation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Following up with upstream SE staff &amp;amp; directly interacting with users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merging &amp;amp; protecting Q's and A'ers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing&#xA;  privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and&#xA;  collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest issue(s) in the last few years have been in the sock puppet category IMO. This has become a growing area that pretty much didn't exist on our site when I first became a user &amp;amp; then a mod. This is a growing issue across all of SE and so there are ways that it's dealt with, but some of that relies squarely on the mods diligence in protecting the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other area is in dealing with personalities. Being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux site we have that in spades 8-). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But so what, whether online or real world, people learning to co-exist has always been a problem and trying to navigate that can be both rewarding and frustrating at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What’s on your “moderator wish list”, and why is it important? By “wish list”,&#xA;  I mean things you would like to do as a moderator, but haven’t got round to&#xA;  yet (as opposed to qualities you would like to see in moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;item #1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our site is fairly tame when you start to talk about it vs. some of the other SE sites. Our site has struggled with how best to deal with new users to U&amp;amp;L. I'd like us to come up with a much more polished policy around this so that we can all agree on it and then refer new users to it vs. what many new user's have been encountering when they first interact with our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a critical item to get a handle on since this is the primary way our site cultivates new users to contribute. Our continued push back in this area has hurt our site IMO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;item #2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our site has done a poor job of advertising itself in the outside world. I'd like to see it more actively partner with Red Hat and other companies to make its presence known to the rest of the U&amp;amp;L community. Too many times I've been to various conferences and encountered a &quot;What's that?&quot; type of response to U&amp;amp;L as a &quot;thing&quot; on the Internet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair, this a common problem outside of Stackoverflow for SE as a whole, but this is something that many of us who hold status in the real world in the U&amp;amp;L community can help to facilitate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the&#xA;  questions people should be asking but aren’t?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage anyone that frequents the U&amp;amp;L site to consider being a moderator.&#xA;People that work the queues and generally care about the welfare of U&amp;amp;L as a valuable resource on the Internet would find immense joy in being a mod, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you balance your “moderator time” with “regular user time”? Do you&#xA;  still feel like participating as a regular user after performing your&#xA;  moderator tasks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably the biggest challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After dealing with mod issues for the last couple of years my energy to answer Q's has been used toward this endeavor more so vs. answering Q's. I would say that I've gotten much more out of being a mod because it's helped me to work on &quot;meta&quot; skills in learning how to see multiple sides of an issue, and learning how to see the world from other people's perspectives. These skills have been hugely helpful in growing in my day job as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of this comes with age, but I like to think that some of that came from being a mod as well 8-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Resources&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12349/whats-it-like-being-a-science-fiction-fantasy-moderator&quot;&gt;What's it like being a Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy moderator?&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271267/a-guide-to-moderating-chat&quot;&gt;A guide to moderating chat&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119111/moderator-cheat-sheet&quot;&gt;moderator cheatsheet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/teams&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow Moderators Team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T17:12:21.077" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T17:12:21.077" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-06T19:31:04.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What changes do you propose to encourage more participation and greater retention of those who do answer?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49368" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T19:31:04.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-06T19:34:17.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; to be changed in this community?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49368" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T19:34:17.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T01:38:06.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have any visions or plans to enhance the U&amp;amp;L community? Specifically around community guidelines such as welcoming new users, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5219/117549&quot;&gt;slm commented in their answer at &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be around voting or tags or any other area where you see room for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-03-09T15:13:40.353" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T15:13:40.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T01:47:43.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it says on the tin, at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog: A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, that the moderators should do as little as possible, we're having an election because the site has &quot;grown and it would be nice to have a larger team&quot; (paraphrasing terdon from chat), so I assume that there'll be moderator tasks for you to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you plan on spending about the same amount of time on U&amp;amp;L, what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L activities (such as Asking, Answering, Editing, or Reviewing) that you currently do today do you see yourself doing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of when as a moderator?  Valid answers include &quot;spending more time on U&amp;amp;L&quot;, of course!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-03-09T15:08:58.627" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T15:08:58.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5218" CreationDate="2019-03-07T02:57:57.397" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it's mostly about being able to fix things. Most reputation-based privileges on Stack Exchange are about unlocking the ability to cleanup new classes of problems -- being able to edit or even rewrite posts by yourself, then closing them, deleting them. Being a mod is mostly just another step that lets you handle new things, like cleaning up old comments on a post, dealing with comments that are posted as answers, redacting information from posts, merging accounts, dealing with sockpuppets and other types of vote fraud, and helping users with specific one-off problems they ask about. Also I get a lot of use out of the company yacht.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your “just plain user” time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I check flags first thing every time I open the site, but it's usually no more than 10 minutes to get through them. The worst type of flag is probably excessive comments (posts are automatically flagged after 20 comments), because trying to figure out which comments are still useful, which have already been incorporated into the post and can be deleted, and which are just noise usually takes multiple passes of reading the entire thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am easily frustrated by, to put it bluntly, stupidheads. As discussed above, I got into this to cleanup the content on the site. Deleting useless comments and non-answers brings me peace, and deleted comments rarely look up my personal e-mail address to send me hate mail about how I deleted all their sockpuppets and how are they supposed to get upvotes now and don't I have anything better to do? Fortunately &lt;s&gt;jackasses&lt;/s&gt; stupidheads are relatively uncommon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren’t?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You really need to be interested in cleaning up content, that's pretty much the entire job. Most flags are either &quot;this comment isn't a comment&quot; or &quot;this answer isn't an answer&quot;, and you read it, probably read the question, determine if the flag is true, and possibly delete stuff. Repeat forever. Fortunately our flag volume is pretty low and there's already three of us, so if you don't feel like dealing with a particular flag you can just pretend you never saw it and wait for terdon to handle it.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you balance your “moderator time” with “regular user time”? Do you still feel like participating as a regular user after performing your moderator tasks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uh...not well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5EkBS.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly active in asking/answering anymore, but that holds true across all of Stack Exchange unless I happen to stumble on something that I know the answer to that hasn't already been covered. It's rare to see good questions here that don't get good answers quickly, so I don't generally need to post anything, and I'm happy to let other people cover things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; There is no yacht.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; I have never done this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T02:57:57.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T09:15:17.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that a diamond moderator can close a question with a single vote, how will you be construing the &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; closure reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(We already know the view of one current diamond moderator, per answers to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3892/&quot;&gt;Are we abusing &amp;quot;Request for learning materials&amp;quot; as a reason to close?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T09:15:17.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T09:20:24.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, it is routine practice to protect questions that come up on the Hot Network Questions list (a list that is, to put it mildly, controversial).  Given that diamond moderators can protect a question with a single vote, will you be doing this for Hot Network Questions here?  Please give your reasons for whatever your answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T09:20:24.477" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T09:46:17.797" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, question comments and answer comments are regularly deleted by diamond moderators for straying from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of clarifying/improving the relevant question or answer&lt;/a&gt;.  On Politics, for example, diamond moderators regularly step in when comments are abused to argue people's personal political opinions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38651/#comment148687_38654&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  Does this WWW site have an analogous problem needing diamond moderators to do the same, in your view?  Where would the line be drawn, if there is a line at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T09:46:17.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T09:50:20.707" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever identified questions from people attempting to cheat on school/university tests or coursework?  What actions did you take?  What actions do you think &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be taken?  How would having the extra voting weight of being a diamond moderator influence your actions in such circumstances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Context&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/&quot;&gt;Should commonly posted duplicate homework questions be flagged (or filtered) as spam?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&quot;&gt;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T09:50:20.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T10:58:02.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose a user expresses disagreement with you over a closed/deleted question or an edit to their post that you've made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle it? Do you think you always need to explain your moderation decisions to ordinary users and if not, where would you draw the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217523" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T10:58:02.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-07T12:23:01.283" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have the ability to understand questions and answer them to the point, do you think it is worth to sacrifice the passion and energy in exchange for moderation duties (as &quot;equally sacred&quot;, but as abilities not equally common)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T11:39:09.727" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T11:39:09.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-07T20:30:22.093" Score="15" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4640/what-should-we-do-about-kali-linux-questions&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably the most common Kali Linux question is &quot;I'm running Kali in a VM.  Why doesn't my wireless adapter act wireless?&quot;  Would it be worthwhile to have a canonical question-and-answer pair that we can close these as duplicates of, rather than closing them as duplicates of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62988" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T17:35:38.523" Title="Canonical Kali 'wireless in a VM' question?" Tags="|discussion|canonical-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5210" CreationDate="2019-03-08T04:05:49.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much time do you think you'll spend here? (Daily, weekly, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T04:05:49.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5233" CreationDate="2019-03-08T12:41:36.603" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we had a positive resource to point people at, that showed an alternative to installing Kali on bare metal.  I think installing Kali on bare metal tends to give users the wrong idea.  And then we get questions about e.g. botched updates and broken sound output (!) for Kali; lots of questions that we're not really interested in.  (Either to answer it, or to solicit enough clarification to make a &quot;good question&quot;, that includes enough specific details).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on this site it would be limited, because the most relevant approach is off-topic.  If someone is starting from a Windows 10 PC, and is interested in trying Kali?  &quot;Step 1: install Ubuntu&quot; is not what they asked for.  &quot;Step 1: Virtualization on Windows&quot; is off-topic for this site.  (I do not want to see this fudged by describing VirtualBox on Linux, and just hoping that using VirtualBox on Linux works exactly the same :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess one workaround is people were willing to provide that resource on superuser.com.  Then answers here - like the general Kali one - could funnel people towards that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question Rui points to, has a Youtube link that covers Virtualbox on Windows, USB pass-through, and a supported USB device.  I'm glad that's there, but we're relying on a video link, and the link is inside a comment, not a real answer.  The sole and upvoted answer on that question seems to overlook the implications of Kali Linux + USB wi-fi, and recommends disabling USB pass-through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this all assumes someone steps forward to write it up :-).  In that spirit, thanks to Rui for writing the &quot;Kali Unofficial FAQ&quot;.  It is an impressive effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T16:40:23.677" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T16:40:23.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5218" CreationDate="2019-03-08T22:15:21.213" Score="22" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually enjoy cleaning up. I have no idea why, and anyone who has ever lived with me would be very quick to tell you this isn't a general feature of my character, but I am proud of this resource we're all building together and it is rewarding to do my bit to help it along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, being a mod gives you considerable insight into the workings of the community and of SE as a whole and that is really an interesting perspective. Whatever your opinion on SE as a company, I think that it's clear that they've managed to build a great tool here and I like being a part of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your “just plain user” time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really know how much time I spend on moderation tasks, to be honest. I currently have 11 SE tabs pinned in my default browser session. On a regular day, I will have work stuff on one workspace and SE stuff on another. So whenever I need a break from work I'll just swing over to the other workspace and see what SE has to offer. But it's really hard for me to quantify how much time I give to each part of my activity here since they tend to be very intertwined. I may handle a flag one minute and then post an answer in the next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roughly speaking, however, mod tasks on this site don't take that much time. We rarely have very many flags (I don't think I've even seen 20 at one time), so dealing with those doesn't usually take too long. Dealing with the occasional drama can take much, much longer, but that isn't too common. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest challenge for me has been dealing with specific users who for a variety of reasons haven't been happy with the site, with other users or with me. I have spent &lt;em&gt;hours&lt;/em&gt; in private chat rooms trying to sort out the various problems that inevitably arise when you get a bunch of opinionated nerds like ourselves in one place. This has at times been very frustrating, but it has also been very rewarding. Those times when I have managed to convince a user that we're not actually so bad, and have gotten them to understand what was going wrong are priceless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What’s on your “moderator wish list”, and why is it important? By “wish list”, I mean things you would like to do as a moderator, but haven’t got round to yet (as opposed to qualities you would like to see in moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've long toyed with the idea of having contests. Say see who can answer the most old unanswered questions in a week or something. SE has been known to offer site swag for things like that and it would be nice to improve our answer to question ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back when I was first elected, I also thought it would be nice to highlight users who've had a particularly meteoric rise in rep. For example, the user who gained the most rep in a month (but only counting things posted &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; month, else Gilles would always win). Then we could &lt;del&gt;give them a cookie&lt;/del&gt; congratulate them on meta. I was thinking this might be a nice thing for new users who've gotten invested in the site. Sort of a user of the month thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I really need to find the time to do is open a meta discussion about what we really want to do with Kali questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren’t?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be ready to handle complaints. Be patient and fair but remember that you will make mistakes. When you do, own up to them, fix them as best you can and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for questions, I think most of the &quot;important&quot; ones are included in the election questionnaire boilerplate SE posted. I think mod candidates should be aware that the primary responsibility is janitorial. We really don't have as much &lt;em&gt;POWAH&lt;/em&gt; as some users seem to think. We have some, sure, and we have access to some information not publicly available, but we are also limited in what we can do. Our main job is to keep things running smoothly, so if you're in it for glory, look elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you balance your “moderator time” with “regular user time”? Do you still feel like participating as a regular user after performing your moderator tasks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely post fewer answers since becoming a mod. Moderating does take up some of the time I would otherwise have devoted to answers. I was the third user by rep not so long ago, and have now been overtaken by a couple of users who used to be yapping at my heels! At least they both know a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more about *nix than I do, so it's not all bad :). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I haven't stopped altogether (stats are from 2019-02-08 to 2019-03-08):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jbzBk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jbzBk.png&quot; alt=&quot;terdon&amp;#39;s stats&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I have greatly enjoyed being a mod here. I am very proud of this community and moderating it has been a very rewarding experience. Although I now also moderate two other sites, U&amp;amp;L will always be special to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T22:26:08.893" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T22:26:08.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5233" CreationDate="2019-03-09T16:32:10.050" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure the problem of dealing directly/doing passthrough of USB Wifi dongles is quite specific to Kali, it affects any kind of VM; nonetheless, we do indeed get a lot of Kali questions on trying to use external WiFi devices on Kali VMs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in Kali, OPs are more interested in using a specific external WiFi chipset for hacking, and those questions stem from that want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are the multiple questions about the specific chipsets, not understanding that  all brands of WiFI are not capable of monitoring, and even less brands do packet injection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if such question is opened for Kali, it has to take in consideration several angles, and it might not be a complete answer of a question on it's own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TLDR Such question might be useful per se for the kind of OPs that do not distinguish between having a real and a virtualised machine, but I would not restrict it to the Kali tag. It might be useful leaving it open for any kind of Unix/Linux VMs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2019-03-09T17:35:38.523" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T17:35:38.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-11T00:50:17.547" Score="4" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I ask a question, on the right side jumps out a pink block 'How to Format', which tells me 'indent code by 4 spaces'. I tried putting four spaces before my code, but it never makes any difference - there's still no indentation after my question was posted and my code was still in plain text. What's wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="339837" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T04:28:33.197" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T01:09:18.790" Title="4-space indentation never works" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|questions|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5238" CreationDate="2019-03-11T00:58:52.783" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you leave an empty line before the code? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Test line&#xA;    line 1 indented by four spaces&#xA;    line 2 indented by four spaces&#xA;&#xA;Test line 2&#xA;&#xA;    line 3 indented by four spaces&#xA;    line 4 indented by four spaces&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows up as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Test line&#xA;    line 1 indented by four spaces&#xA;    line 2 indented by four spaces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Test line 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;line 3 indented by four spaces&#xA;line 4 indented by four spaces&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260978" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T00:58:52.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5238" CreationDate="2019-03-11T01:16:23.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me have a go    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code    &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yes it works! I left a blank line before it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So the 'How to Format' should have told us about this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="339837" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T01:16:23.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-11T16:01:12.070" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am unable to type quickly. I spent about 20 minutes trying to type a clear and specific question about a Linux related question. After completing the question I was asked to create an account: login via Google, login via Facebook. I chose Facebook. For some reason the login failed. When I tried to return to the question that I had typed, everything I had typed was gone. I was left with the option to retype everything or give up and move on. It would have been nice to have had the ability to return to what I had already typed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="341233" OwnerDisplayName="Jeff Smith" LastEditorUserId="73" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T16:27:59.483" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T16:27:59.483" Title="Lost question text when creating an account before posting" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5238" CreationDate="2019-03-11T18:54:43.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;But when you want to put that grey thingy onto something in the same line as your plain text, the blank line isn't applicable.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This website simply never tells you what you need to do to have this visual effect. Time to change!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="336387" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T18:54:43.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-11T20:00:01.957" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T20:00:01.957" Title="2019 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-03-11T20:00:01.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-11T20:00:44.133" Score="22" ViewCount="819" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5210/2019-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/d7b90237-6262-465d-8416-b65ff5e1f827/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;. Please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written, and also including a link to your answer on your nomination post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh, and when you've completed your answer, please provide a link to it after this blurb here, before that set of three dashes. Please leave the list of links in the order of submission.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save scrolling here are links to the submissions from each candidate (in order of submission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5246/117549&quot;&gt;Jeff Schaller's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5247/116858&quot;&gt;Kusalananda's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5249/116858&quot;&gt;Arcabard's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5254/41892&quot;&gt;John WH Smith's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5255/170373&quot;&gt;ilkkachu's answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A common issue with volunteer posts like moderators is for the volunteer to simply not have enough time to devote to his or her mod duties. This isn't a theoretical question. It's not restricted to SE, either. It's a common issue with volunteer work. And I've seen situations in SE (and indeed elsewhere) where most of the work fell to a subset of moderators/volunteers because the remaining ones were not very active. In this situation, there are at least a couple of ways to go. (I can't think of any other alternatives, but there might be.) [A] Do nothing. Carry on being a mod to the extent of ones diminished capacity [B] Resign, citing lack of time, other commitments, whatever. In your opinion, what is the better choice, [A] or [B], and if [B], what is the level of threshold activity that would make you think that it was time to give up the post? How would you quantify activity for this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While it says on the tin, at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog: A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, that the moderators should do as little as possible, we're having an election because the site has &quot;grown and it would be nice to have a larger team&quot; (paraphrasing terdon from chat), so I assume that there'll be moderator tasks for you to do. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you plan on spending about the same amount of time on U&amp;amp;L, what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L activities (such as Asking, Answering, Editing, or Reviewing) that you currently do today do you see yourself doing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of when as a moderator? How much time do you think you'll spend here at U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any visions or plans to enhance the U&amp;amp;L community? Specifically around community guidelines such as welcoming new users, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5219/117549&quot;&gt;slm commented in their answer at &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be around voting or tags or any other area where you see room for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever identified questions from people attempting to cheat on school/university tests or coursework? What actions did you take? What actions do you think should be taken? How would having the extra voting weight of being a diamond moderator influence your actions in such circumstances? (See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given that a diamond moderator can close a question with a single vote, how will you be construing the &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; closure reason?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, question comments and answer comments are regularly deleted by diamond moderators for straying from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of clarifying/improving the relevant question or answer&lt;/a&gt;.  On Politics, for example, diamond moderators regularly step in when comments are abused to argue people's personal political opinions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38651/#comment148687_38654&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  Does this WWW site have an analogous problem needing diamond moderators to do the same, in your view?  Where would the line be drawn, if there is a line at all?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suppose a user expresses disagreement with you over a closed/deleted question or an edit to their post that you've made. How would you handle it? Do you think you always need to explain your moderation decisions to ordinary users and if not, where would you draw the line?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, it is routine practice to protect questions that come up on the Hot Network Questions list (a list that is, to put it mildly, controversial). Given that diamond moderators can protect a question with a single vote, will you be doing this for Hot Network Questions here? Please give your reasons for whatever your answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-03-27T20:36:07.893" LastActivityDate="2019-03-27T20:36:07.893" Title="2019 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5245" CreationDate="2019-03-13T03:22:36.483" Score="26" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Jeff Schaller&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A common issue with volunteer posts like moderators is for the volunteer to simply not have enough time to devote to his or her mod duties. This isn't a theoretical question. It's not restricted to SE, either. It's a common issue with volunteer work. And I've seen situations in SE (and indeed elsewhere) where most of the work fell to a subset of moderators/volunteers because the remaining ones were not very active. In this situation, there are at least a couple of ways to go. (I can't think of any other alternatives, but there might be.) [A] Do nothing. Carry on being a mod to the extent of ones diminished capacity [B] Resign, citing lack of time, other commitments, whatever. In your opinion, what is the better choice, [A] or [B], and if [B], what is the level of threshold activity that would make you think that it was time to give up the post? How would you quantify activity for this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven’t seen this happen often enough to know what’s right. If there was a temporary “qualifying life event” that would take priority over moderation, but to where I expected to be able to return, I’d let the mod team know. If I burn out, I expect it’ll happen slowly enough to muster a new election for augmenting or replacing me, as needed. If I’m no longer interested in the duties, I would want to resign, but not before an election could form; that way, I could help with the on-boarding &amp;amp; cross-training, so that we always had enough “hands are at the pump” to handle the workload to protect the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;While it says on the tin, at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog: A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, that the moderators should do as little as possible, we're having an election because the site has &quot;grown and it would be nice to have a larger team&quot; (paraphrasing terdon from chat), so I assume that there'll be moderator tasks for you to do. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you plan on spending about the same amount of time on U&amp;amp;L, what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L activities (such as Asking, Answering, Editing, or Reviewing) that you currently do today do you see yourself doing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of when as a moderator? How much time do you think you'll spend here at U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect to spend a similar amount of time on the site in the near future. If elected, I imagine the following adjustments from a user level:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;much less time Answering; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;less time in the review queues (the LQP will probably be the last to &quot;go&quot;); &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and probably less overall editing, likely concentrated on the top-rated posts and the Sunday batch editing; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with only 3 Questions in 3 years, I won’t be missed at all as an Asker!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have any visions or plans to enhance the U&amp;amp;L community? Specifically around community guidelines such as welcoming new users, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5219/117549&quot;&gt;slm commented in their answer at &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be around voting or tags or any other area where you see room for improvement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing solid at this point. One of K7AAY’s moderator questions did trigger an idea, though. The markdown/editing of posts is something that many new users struggle with. (Cue the perfectly-timed Meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5238/117549&quot;&gt;&quot;4-space indentation never works&quot;&lt;/a&gt;!) Having their first question show up as a jumbled mess starts them off on the wrong foot twice: they can hardly read their own post and get frustrated; and the other users of the site can hardly read their post, possibly downvoting it! I wonder how easy it would be to add a section at the end of the Tour where there’s a sandbox pre-filled with a mini-tutorial for formatting code and bullet points, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever identified questions from people attempting to cheat on school/university tests or coursework? What actions did you take? What actions do you think should be taken? How would having the extra voting weight of being a diamond moderator influence your actions in such circumstances? (See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve recognized only a couple classic “homework” questions before JdeBP did. I wrote down a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4436/117549&quot;&gt;list of them back in 2017&lt;/a&gt;, though those particular ones haven't resurfaced since then. My initial urge is to VTC those as duplicates of an original version of the Q, but it’s often hard to find such a Q with an upvoted or accepted Answer. While I despise the idea of laziness or cheating on coursework, I’m not sure it’s Stack Exchange’s (“our”) responsibility to enforce those Universities’ codes of conduct. Homework questions are pretty easily identifiable in their made-up requirements, so my best idea is to engage with the questioner in comments along the lines of “why &lt;em&gt;can’t&lt;/em&gt; you use grep?” and “what did you learn in class recently that might apply?” and/or “what about your efforts didn’t work?” because then -- if they respond -- I have something I can work with. I’m in the camp of leaving such comments and then casting a VTC. If the user is intent on learning something at U&amp;amp;L, then they will respond to the comments and edit the question and it may become something answerable that can/will be left Open. Otherwise, the dead-end question is on its path through the Close review queue and will be cleaned up in time.  If I was a moderator while making such comments, I would hope that my comments made it clear (to everyone) that the goal of the site is to encourage answerable questions and that &quot;dumped&quot; homework questions don't indicate any sort of starting point for the asker's understanding, thus bypassing the benefit they should be receiving from their education and making their question &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect to build up some personal guidelines for recognizing what I deem acceptable comments vs unacceptable ones, so I would handle such flags as “normal” until I saw a different pattern emerge. I can imagine, for example, two users who tend to bump heads over some technology and do so in comments on each other’s posts. I imagine, in that scenario, attempting to reinforce the standards for comments as being &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;temporary &quot;Post-It&quot; notes&lt;/a&gt; meant to be clarifying mechanisms and not as a discussion board. SE has made it clear with recent efforts that they'd like to see a certain &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;code of conduct&lt;/a&gt;, so if arguments are happening, people may need to be reminded of the policy, no matter their current reputation level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try my hardest not to notice -- that is, I don't plan on going around looking for chances to second-guess other moderators’ actions. Ideally, in that sense, an involved user would flag it for further attention. I would remind myself that U&amp;amp;L is not a life or death environment; that posts are easily deleted and undeleted; I’d take a deep breath and find a way to carve out some time (in the mod chat room?) to bounce it off the other mod(s). I freely admit that my grasp on the entire SE workings is less than 100%, but I delight in that, since it reminds me to go back to the official guidance, the FAQ’s, and the U&amp;amp;L meta discussions to see what the community’s direction is. I feel like the U&amp;amp;L community is pretty strongly run by its &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;trusted users&lt;/a&gt;, and moderator-level deletions &amp;amp; comment-conversions happen only after the post has been through a review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Given that a diamond moderator can close a question with a single vote, how will you be construing the &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; closure reason?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging from my time in the Close review queue, &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of these are pretty cut &amp;amp; dried for me. The first gray area that comes to mind is where the user wants to know how to configure something complex -- from top to bottom. These often smell like RLM’s (“what's a tutorial for…?”)  but IMHO are, instead, often too broad.  If I’m understanding the moderator situation correctly, I won’t be casting votes on these myself very often, but instead weighing in if there’s a Meta discussion/disagreement about the voting results on a particular question. I’d like to be able to keep that discussion focused on the details and weigh out the interpretations against what we claim in the help/on-topic page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find myself in general agreement with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3900/117549&quot;&gt;terdon's recent summary on Meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(an) important objective of closing is to educate our users about the sort of questions we want/accept. When we close with the wrong close message, we fail that objective.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, question comments and answer comments are regularly deleted by diamond moderators for straying from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of clarifying/improving the relevant question or answer&lt;/a&gt;.  On Politics, for example, diamond moderators regularly step in when comments are abused to argue people's personal political opinions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38651/#comment148687_38654&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  Does this WWW site have an analogous problem needing diamond moderators to do the same, in your view?  Where would the line be drawn, if there is a line at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we have a mild version of this problem, yes. Best case, the comments clarify the question (which is edited as a result), obviating the need for the comments. One suboptimal case is where answers are provided in the comments (and the OP “goes away happy”, leaving an unanswered or unaccepted Question); another suboptimal case is where comments “stall” the question, such as questioning an assumption or pointing out an XY problem. I haven’t personally witnessed a large number of comment strings that strayed wildly off-topic, thus requiring a moderator to clean them up (thinking of the “this conversation has been moved to chat”); it’s possible that I’m happily ignorant of the frequency these situations, though. I like the automatic chat-room suggestion that shows up, allowing the involved users to self-create a room. If a comment string grows and the involved users choose to continue in comments, and the comments are on-topic, and I’m made aware of it -- that’s where I would draw the line and move the comments to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Suppose a user expresses disagreement with you over a closed/deleted question or an edit to their post that you've made. How would you handle it? Do you think you always need to explain your moderation decisions to ordinary users and if not, where would you draw the line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would take note of their objection and try to understand where the surprise occurred. If it’s not an obvious/simple misunderstanding, I’d open a chat room to invite the discussion to take place off to the side. If it sounds like a valid discussion for the greater U&amp;amp;L community to have, I’d encourage (or post myself) a Meta discussion on the topic. As a user, I’ve been a frequent editor and I review (via a SEDE query) posts that had rollbacks to see if my edits were involved -- they rarely are. I’ve also publicly defended my close votes on Meta, when there’s confusion in that realm. I’m happy to explain the reasons for my decisions so that everyone understands what the community guidelines are. If I’ve turned out to have misunderstood the guidelines for a situation, then I’m happy to have explained my (now-mistaken) reasons; I’ve learned another aspect of the site; and the action can usually be undone easily, and life goes on!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, it is routine practice to protect questions that come up on the Hot Network Questions list (a list that is, to put it mildly, controversial). Given that diamond moderators can protect a question with a single vote, will you be doing this for Hot Network Questions here? Please give your reasons for whatever your answer is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the HNQ is, IMHO, a wild ride for rarely a good reason, I don’t see it as damaging enough to require (pro)active protection. I can’t think of a single U&amp;amp;L question that has been protected just because it was on the HNQ. Ok, maybe the “Gimme gimme man” one, but I think even that one was protected by a high-rep user after some low-quality answers -- not much direct moderator involvement there. No, I do not imagine myself needing to protect HNQ’s as a standard additional practice.   I do, however, see some merit in each site filtering a list of candidates up to the HNQ algorithm, so that we see valuable and/or interesting questions being highlighted, versus ones that happen to be active and voted-enough to hitch a ride on the HNQ train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What timing! Hot off the presses, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/325060/updating-the-hot-network-questions-list-now-with-a-bit-more-network-and-a-litt&quot;&gt;some changes to the HNQ&lt;/a&gt;, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators have the ability to remove questions from the HNQ List.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, I'm not sure how useful / powerful this will be for U&amp;amp;L. I, for one, don't imagine myself policing the HNQ on a regular basis in order to remove questions; I would suggest the U&amp;amp;L chat room as a reasonable place to discuss such take-downs. Meta seems too permanent and comments/flags on the question itself seems too drastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-03-13T19:08:55.693" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T19:08:55.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5245" CreationDate="2019-03-13T08:31:35.900" Score="24" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Kusalananda&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A common issue with volunteer posts like moderators is for the volunteer to simply not have enough time to devote to his or her mod duties. This isn't a theoretical question. It's not restricted to SE, either. It's a common issue with volunteer work. And I've seen situations in SE (and indeed elsewhere) where most of the work fell to a subset of moderators/volunteers because the remaining ones were not very active. In this situation, there are at least a couple of ways to go. (I can't think of any other alternatives, but there might be.) [A] Do nothing. Carry on being a mod to the extent of ones diminished capacity [B] Resign, citing lack of time, other commitments, whatever. In your opinion, what is the better choice, [A] or [B], and if [B], what is the level of threshold activity that would make you think that it was time to give up the post? How would you quantify activity for this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this moment in time, and for the last few years, I do not volunteer&#xA;any significant amounts of my time to any other project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If circumstances change in such a way that I (or others) feel that my&#xA;effectiveness as a U&amp;amp;L moderator starts to suffer severely, then I would&#xA;consult with the other moderators in the team to see whether it would&#xA;be better if I resigned (option B) or whether they thought it would be&#xA;okay for me to carry on (option A) with the view that circumstances may&#xA;change again later.  At that point, it would presumably depend on the&#xA;general health of the U&amp;amp;L community and the workload on the moderator&#xA;team (and on how much hassle it would be to replace me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;While it says on the tin, at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog: A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, that the moderators should do as little as possible, we're having an election because the site has &quot;grown and it would be nice to have a larger team&quot; (paraphrasing terdon from chat), so I assume that there'll be moderator tasks for you to do. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you plan on spending about the same amount of time on U&amp;amp;L, what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L activities (such as Asking, Answering, Editing, or Reviewing) that you currently do today do you see yourself doing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of when as a moderator? How much time do you think you'll spend here at U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm likely to spend about the same amount of time on the site as before&#xA;(this varies from day to day, but I will be available almost every day; I currently have a 436 consecutive days on the site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My time here has been mostly been taken up by looking for interesting&#xA;questions to answer, answering them, and reading other people's answers&#xA;and questions.  If elected, I would answer less questions, and I would have to look at topics that usually does not interest me.  I'm hoping&#xA;that I would let the moderation tasks take the time they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been a bit caught up in the excitement of finding interesting new&#xA;questions and answering them quickly, but I want to move towards a more&#xA;relaxed approach.  This may mean improving existing answers, and answering fewer questions myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have any visions or plans to enhance the U&amp;amp;L community? Specifically around community guidelines such as welcoming new users, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5219/117549&quot;&gt;slm commented in their answer at &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be around voting or tags or any other area where you see room for improvement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;slm &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49437892#49437892&quot;&gt;clarified&lt;/a&gt; his &quot;item #1&quot; as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My comment around new users was more in people that are new to Unix &amp;amp;&#xA;  Linux technologies, not so much to our site. But there's def. room for&#xA;  improvement in how we as a site deal w/ people that are new to all of&#xA;  this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to look for information in manuals and on-line, and having&#xA;the ability to (more or less) formulate what in effect constitutes a bug report (an U&amp;amp;L question),&#xA;are things that new users to the site and users of Unix in general would&#xA;be helped by having or learning.  I've asked 30 questions on U&amp;amp;L, and&#xA;answered over 4000.  Part of the reason for that discrepancy is that I&#xA;seem to be good at finding answers (which means I usually resolve my own&#xA;issues).  Some of my actual questions have later turned into bug reports&#xA;for utilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that guides or helps a user to ask good questions would&#xA;be nice to have, and I'd go as far as saying that this would be&#xA;good even if that makes it &quot;harder&quot; to ask questions (it signals&#xA;the level of engagement that we expect from someone who asks a&#xA;question).  StackOverflow have, for example, tested &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/363051&quot;&gt;question&#xA;templates&lt;/a&gt;, and some&#xA;variation of this may be interesting to try, or at least discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simply want to raise the quality of questions, so that we get less of&#xA;the type of questions that says &quot;I did something, but &lt;em&gt;it didn't work&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I never said anything about &lt;em&gt;simple&lt;/em&gt; questions.  In fact, I&#xA;&lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; some of the simpler questions, because once you start looking at&#xA;the failure conditions (the assumptions that you need to make), you'll&#xA;notice that it may not be so simple after all.  They also usually make&#xA;it easy to explain both fundamental and tricky concepts, which helps&#xA;everyone, including oneself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also want to do &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; about &quot;silent downvotes&quot;.  In my&#xA;mind, a downvote on a question or answer should ideally be followed up&#xA;with a comment, especially if it's clear that &lt;em&gt;some effort&lt;/em&gt; went into&#xA;the question or answer.  I don't really know what to do about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever identified questions from people attempting to cheat on school/university tests or coursework? What actions did you take? What actions do you think should be taken? How would having the extra voting weight of being a diamond moderator influence your actions in such circumstances? (See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, a few times.  I'm not consistent in my response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, sometimes these questions are &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt;.  The&#xA;professor (or whatever) sometimes obviously want them to solve the&#xA;question using a particular set of tools.  These tools are sometimes&#xA;obviously the &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; tools (e.g. &quot;use &lt;code&gt;ls&lt;/code&gt; to identify the five newest&#xA;directories and print their names out&quot;).  I would answer these questions&#xA;as if a professional had asked it and as if it would be implemented on a live&#xA;production system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes ask with a comment what the issue is that they &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;need help with (see my answer above about wanting to improve question&#xA;quality), and if they don't return, I would downvote and/or vote to&#xA;close as &quot;unclear&quot; (I've done this to non-homework questions too when&#xA;the user don't give enough info, and doesn't seem to care).  I believe&#xA;that I've given, not a complete script, but all the separate components&#xA;of a script (all the pieces they should need to complete the puzzle), as&#xA;an answer at some point. I personally think this is okay as it should be&#xA;available in their course work already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I've answered homework questions as if they were any&#xA;other question too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates gets closed as duplicates, as any other duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely don't want to ban homework questions on the site.  What I&#xA;would want to see is a careful handling of these, possibly through being&#xA;stricter with the formulations of the questions (&quot;use your own words&quot;,&#xA;&quot;tell us what issue you have with this assignment&quot;).  That would enable&#xA;&lt;em&gt;a totally different type of answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I'd like to also somehow discourage &quot;Try this:&quot;-answers&#xA;(not just on homework-like questions; &quot;Try this&quot; implies &quot;I haven't&#xA;really spent enough time on this to know whether it would work or not,&#xA;and I don't know under what conditions it would fail.&quot;).  The point of&#xA;a homework assignment is to learn something (or to prove that one has&#xA;learnt something), &lt;em&gt;and we should be able to help with this&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would that mean for me if I was a moderator?  Hmm... I would&#xA;probably be more interested in the formulation of the question, of what&#xA;the person has difficulty understanding, and what the answers to the&#xA;question looks like.  I would possibly still answer the first type of&#xA;questions mentioned above (the wrong tool for the job questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a brand new moderator, I would talk to the other moderators&#xA;about it first.  They would give their opinions, and I would go with&#xA;something like what they propose I'd do.  Honestly, that's the most&#xA;likely scenario the first time this happens.  Or I'll let one of them&#xA;handle it!  Yeah, that's the non-conflict way out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what might they suggest?  If it's a comment thread that gone&#xA;haywire, delete it if it doesn't result in an improvement of the&#xA;answer or question, or at least clean it up by deleting the useless&#xA;argumentation.  That has happened a few times.  Call the user(s) into a&#xA;private chat to talk about it?  I could do that if the user was willing&#xA;to.  As a moderator I would be able to suspend a user temporarily.  That&#xA;would rather unfortunate I think, but if they kept on being extremely&#xA;toxic it may hurt the community more than what their answers would &quot;make&#xA;up for&quot;.  I really hope I have to wait a long time before suspending&#xA;anyone, and I would never do that without the support of the other&#xA;moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know really... I would just learn on the job I guess. I also&#xA;suspect that every case would be different.  There is no &quot;user&quot;, there's&#xA;&quot;bob&quot; and he's having issues with having his facts questioned, or with&#xA;having his answers edited, or whatever it may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm... How to resolve conflicts within the team of moderators?  Why&#xA;would you want to know about that?  Oh, the old moderators are voting,&#xA;aren't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have to assume that I somehow felt strongly about this&#xA;particular question.  Or maybe it was something else, like the&#xA;suspension of &quot;bob&quot; from the previous question (which I felt was&#xA;unfair)?  Or the fact that homework questions suddenly starts being&#xA;closed as &quot;off-topic&quot; by some moderators as soon as they appear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I've seen, the existing moderators are both mature and&#xA;reasonable.  There are bound to be difference of opinions, and these&#xA;may be discussed if needed.  I would not undo the actions of another&#xA;moderator (if that was possible) just because I would have handled it&#xA;differently.  If it was something I felt strongly about, I would talk to&#xA;them about it.  This would go for things that may have been errors too.&#xA;If something can and should be undone, it's better if it's undone by the&#xA;person who did it, depending on the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Given that a diamond moderator can close a question with a single vote, how will you be construing the &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; closure reason?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full reason is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for learning materials (tutorials, how-tos etc.) are&#xA;  off topic. The only exception is questions about where to find&#xA;  official documentation (e.g. POSIX specifications). See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help&#xA;  Center&lt;/a&gt; and our&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2642/&quot;&gt;Community Meta&lt;/a&gt; for more&#xA;  information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had a few flags declined in the past when I've used this reason&#xA;the wrong way.  Each time, terdon has pointed to the literal wording of&#xA;the close reason to me (in the chat).  I now think I've learnt it and I&#xA;find that I don't use it very often at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm unclear on how to handle these, I will ask the other moderators,&#xA;until such time that I don't need to any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, question comments and answer comments are regularly deleted by diamond moderators for straying from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of clarifying/improving the relevant question or answer&lt;/a&gt;.  On Politics, for example, diamond moderators regularly step in when comments are abused to argue people's personal political opinions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38651/#comment148687_38654&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  Does this WWW site have an analogous problem needing diamond moderators to do the same, in your view?  Where would the line be drawn, if there is a line at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; we have too much of the opinion-arguing type of comments&#xA;on U&amp;amp;L.  What we do have is occasional long threads with users asking&#xA;follow-up questions or doing the &quot;it doesn't work&quot; thing.  I tend to try&#xA;to halt these with a request for a new question as soon as I discover&#xA;that the user is trying to do a &quot;tutorial session&quot; with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do use the &quot;no longer needed&quot; flag on comments.  It's a good addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have the-answer-is-in-the-comments issues, and I fully&#xA;understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we have that.  Our questions can sometimes be&#xA;answered with short pieces of code, or some terse advice.  I've&#xA;done this myself, even though I did complain about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4626&quot;&gt;this exact&#xA;thing&lt;/a&gt; on Meta&#xA;a while back.  This comes back to having high quality answers.  I&#xA;sometimes see other users pick up on such comments and turn them into&#xA;answers.  This is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Suppose a user expresses disagreement with you over a closed/deleted question or an edit to their post that you've made. How would you handle it? Do you think you always need to explain your moderation decisions to ordinary users and if not, where would you draw the line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I do think that I should explain my decisions to users, especially&#xA;when removing something that a user spent time and effort on, and when&#xA;there are disagreements.  Dialogue is important in these cases and if&#xA;I've done something wrong I need to fix it.  If a comment (in whatever&#xA;form) is not enough, a private chat will do.  Again, this will be&#xA;dependent on situation and the people involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, it is routine practice to protect questions that come up on the Hot Network Questions list (a list that is, to put it mildly, controversial). Given that diamond moderators can protect a question with a single vote, will you be doing this for Hot Network Questions here? Please give your reasons for whatever your answer is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I've seen a real issue with HNQs on U&amp;amp;L.  Moderators&#xA;can nowadays remove questions from the HNQ list, which is nice, but I&#xA;suspect that would be rarely needed on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would probably protect questions that start to gather an unusual&#xA;amount of very low-quality answers, regardless of the reason this is&#xA;happening (it sometimes also happens for very popular questions, or when&#xA;a question has been tweeted or in some other way been advertised).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-03-17T09:10:18.580" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T09:10:18.580" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5238" CreationDate="2019-03-13T12:43:07.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The behavior you are seeing is a design feature: in Markdown you need a blank line to signal the and of a paragraph. Spaces or tabs at the beginning of a line are not enough to make it a different block from the preceding (non blank) line(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is documented both in Help Center &gt; Our Model &gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;How do I format my posts using Markdown or HTML?&lt;/a&gt; (briefly, under &quot;Linebreaks&quot;) and in the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Markup documentation&lt;/a&gt;, which the Help Center links to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a blank line — a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered blank.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree, though, that it is not intuitive to infer that a blank line is required to trigger proper formatting of code blocks (or, similarly, of lists). It would probably be useful to have a brief notice in the &quot;How to format&quot; help box on the right of the question/answer boxes and/or in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/formatting&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; and/or in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;advanced help&lt;/a&gt; page that we can reach by clicking the question mark in the top right corner of the question/answer boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a preceding blank line is not required if you use the &quot;code fences&quot; style of formatting for code blocks (whose &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/322000/410681&quot;&gt;introduction&lt;/a&gt;, as far as I can tell, to date has been reflected in the help pages only partly (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown help&lt;/a&gt;, expanding &quot;Code and Preformatted Text&quot;)), which also removes the need for the 4-spaces indentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2019-03-13T19:05:11.397" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T19:05:11.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5245" CreationDate="2019-03-13T17:55:13.220" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARCABARD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A common issue with volunteer posts like moderators is for the volunteer to simply not have enough time to devote to his or her mod duties. This isn't a theoretical question. It's not restricted to SE, either. It's a common issue with volunteer work. And I've seen situations in SE (and indeed elsewhere) where most of the work fell to a subset of moderators/volunteers because the remaining ones were not very active. In this situation, there are at least a couple of ways to go. (I can't think of any other alternatives, but there might be.) [A] Do nothing. Carry on being a mod to the extent of ones diminished capacity [B] Resign, citing lack of time, other commitments, whatever. In your opinion, what is the better choice, [A] or [B], and if [B], what is the level of threshold activity that would make you think that it was time to give up the post? How would you quantify activity for this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that A is the best way to do it. Removing people from the role would just leave an empty spot that needs to be filled. Allowing people to stay though with diminished capacity at least keeps a roster of people to try and pull from. It is also very possible the people without the time to commit do not have the time because they are skilled and their time is more valuable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasonably the best thing I can think of is having a system where inactive volunteers ( as determined by time spent working on the site ) had to select members from the community to maintain the positions duties. The original elect would be responsible for the deputies they chose. I could go on forever with the way I imagine a system like that could work but I think the general idea comes across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;While it says on the tin, at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog: A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, that the moderators should do as little as possible, we're having an election because the site has &quot;grown and it would be nice to have a larger team&quot; (paraphrasing terdon from chat), so I assume that there'll be moderator tasks for you to do. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you plan on spending about the same amount of time on U&amp;amp;L, what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L activities (such as Asking, Answering, Editing, or Reviewing) that you currently do today do you see yourself doing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of when as a moderator? How much time do you think you'll spend here at U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am an oddball case. As it stands I don`t do much of anything on U&amp;amp;L. I would be coming into this with ~10 hours a week I can volunteer. That's how much time I have set aside to volunteer to a programming community whether it is for U&amp;amp;L, IRL meetups, or some volunteer teaching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have any visions or plans to enhance the U&amp;amp;L community? Specifically around community guidelines such as welcoming new users, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5219/117549&quot;&gt;slm commented in their answer at &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be around voting or tags or any other area where you see room for improvement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a dislike of the way duplicate questions work. From a community standpoint it has turned the network into a bit of an oligarchy. The way the site works now tends to push new users out of the interactive and human parts of it. I`m not sure what the answer to the problem is but it should definitely be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever identified questions from people attempting to cheat on school/university tests or coursework? What actions did you take? What actions do you think should be taken? How would having the extra voting weight of being a diamond moderator influence your actions in such circumstances? (See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, and I have not put that much thought into the topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not that hard though to tell the difference between someone looking for help with homework and out right trying to cheat. Certainly Exchange exists to help people with their homework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is about dealing with someone who is contributing positively dealing with negative reaction. I would start by writing a list of reasons I suspect they are experiencing this situation. My first suspicion would be that they have attracted the attention of some kind of automation whether it be bot or social. This could be wrong but I would be more interested in the downvoters then the posters initially. How are these downvoters getting to this post are these down voters down voting multiple posters? Does it make sense the down voters would naturally come across these posts along  a logic trail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the moderators are pretty consistent about what they close/delete/etc and the conversation should really be more about the philosophy of why they are choosing those actions then the specific questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Given that a diamond moderator can close a question with a single vote, how will you be construing the &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; closure reason?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Question Overly Broad example lacks understanding&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thinking is that the lacks understanding part addresses people who are asking for the solution to problems and not for help with specific problems in their implementation of a solution. In general I imagine the issue is not with students seeking help but seeking shortcuts. Though I may not entirely understand what is meant by the question, as I am familiarizing myself with the issue as I go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, question comments and answer comments are regularly deleted by diamond moderators for straying from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of clarifying/improving the relevant question or answer&lt;/a&gt;.  On Politics, for example, diamond moderators regularly step in when comments are abused to argue people's personal political opinions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38651/#comment148687_38654&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  Does this WWW site have an analogous problem needing diamond moderators to do the same, in your view?  Where would the line be drawn, if there is a line at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that comments pushing people back on track are far more useful then deleting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your wrong is always less useful then this is why I am correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Suppose a user expresses disagreement with you over a closed/deleted question or an edit to their post that you've made. How would you handle it? Do you think you always need to explain your moderation decisions to ordinary users and if not, where would you draw the line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think a moderator should always explain their reasoning. Every once in a while though someone may be seeking genuine clarity and understanding and more time can be given to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of lines but mine is, the moment someone compares their question or situation etc to another`s that had a different outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, it is routine practice to protect questions that come up on the Hot Network Questions list (a list that is, to put it mildly, controversial). Given that diamond moderators can protect a question with a single vote, will you be doing this for Hot Network Questions here? Please give your reasons for whatever your answer is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not automatically protect. Going into questions that are having problems, protecting it, and cleaning it up is what moderators exist for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On some of the more active sites though if it seemed like moderation was falling behind and these questions where turning into a time burdon  it might make sense to protect them outright but I highly doubt that is the case on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9110" LastEditorUserId="9110" LastEditDate="2019-03-18T21:31:09.790" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T21:31:09.790" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5238" CreationDate="2019-03-14T01:09:18.790" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another syntax for code blocks which is mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#code&quot;&gt;advanced formatting help&lt;/a&gt;. Surround the code by &lt;strong&gt;three backticks on a line of their own&lt;/strong&gt;. The backticks have to be on their own line but don't need a blank line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```&#xA;#!/bin/sh&#xA;echo Hello, world.&#xA;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is rendered as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/sh&#xA;echo Hello, world.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This syntax also makes it easy to request syntax highlighting: add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/what-is-syntax-highlighting-and-how-does-it-work/184109#184109&quot;&gt;syntax code&lt;/a&gt; after the opening backticks. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```lang-sh&#xA;#!/bin/sh&#xA;echo Hello, world.&#xA;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is rendered as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/sh&#xA;echo Hello, world.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's no syntax highlighting on meta, but there is on the main site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For the old-timers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/125148/implement-style-fenced-markdown-code-blocks/322000#322000&quot;&gt;this was implemented in January 2019&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T01:09:18.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2019-03-15T20:50:07.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/7951471/christophe-strobbe?tab=top&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/flair/7951471.png&quot; alt=&quot;my network profile&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I studied linguistics and literature at university before I got into IT. My first exposure to Linux was during an exercise that involved installing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Hat Linux&lt;/a&gt; (presumably version 6.x) on a desktop PC. It was a very long-winded process. I don't think I had ever installed an operating system before that; my experience with PCs was mainly based on DOS 5 (with Windows 3.1 on top) and, later, Windows 98.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second time came much later, in 2012, when trying out a few things in Ubuntu running in VirtualBox on Windows. Soon after that I became the &quot;accidental (co-)administrator&quot; of a Debian server. A few years later, I also inherited an Ubuntu server. By that time, I had gathered some experience installing Fedora and other packages in order to prepare a few PCs for user tests (i.e. installing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/GPII&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GPII real-time framework&lt;/a&gt;). Since these PCs weren't in use most of the time, I also used them to learn how to set up a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and Fedora (we ran user tests on both Windows 7 and Fedora, anyway). After that, I started dual-booting (i.e. Windows 7 and Fedora) on my work laptop. But I still didn't transition to Linux, even though I had wanted to do this for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I needed to replace my laptop, Windows 10 had become available, which I did not want to use for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#Privacy_and_data_collection&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;privacy reasons&lt;/a&gt;. That is when I started looking for a suitable replacement and I chose Manjaro with Gnome. Why Gnome? I work in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;digital accessibility&lt;/a&gt; and Gnome is the Linux desktop environment where accessibility support was most developed. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Magnification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;magnification&lt;/a&gt;, the  &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orca screen reader&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-osk.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gnome on-screen keyboard&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.gnome.org/atk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ATK accessibility toolkit&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universal access guide&lt;/a&gt;. Much of that accessibility support existed before Gnome 3 and is also part of Mate.) Manjaro scored very well in a comparative review of five Gnome-based distros in &lt;em&gt;Linux Format&lt;/em&gt;, so that's what I ended up installing and using as my default OS. I now dual boot with Windows 10 because I can't do some of my accessibility-related work without (occasionally) booting into Windows. Among users with disabilities, Windows is the most frequently used desktop OS. In addition, when teaching about accessible authoring practices, you simply can't ignore Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the main reason for my activity on this site is related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;accessibility&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;accessibility&lt;/a&gt;. (Accessibility also has tags on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot;&gt;User Experience SE&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot;&gt;Software Engineering SE&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accessibility&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, this question inspired me to post a &lt;a href=&quot;https://languagelearning.meta.stackexchange.com/q/647/800&quot;&gt;similar one on Language Learning Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158988" LastEditorUserId="158988" LastEditDate="2019-03-19T11:03:45.693" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T11:03:45.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-16T12:14:53.273" Score="11" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of starting a hefty bounty (on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/254377/34868&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;), since I haven't gotten an actual answer that works yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, a bounty lasts for a week; but it is likely to have the most visibility during the day, and then during the first few hours, after it's announced. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, which time of the week is best to attract the attention of bounty-hunters here on Unix.SX ? Would it be when the work-week starts in the US, i.e. Monday morning? Myabe towards the end of working hours on Monday? Or maybe the weekend is better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34868" LastEditorUserId="34868" LastEditDate="2019-03-16T19:15:29.470" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T19:15:29.470" Title="When is the best time to start a bounty?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5252" CreationDate="2019-03-16T18:19:34.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll offer three perspectives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't usually chase bountied questions, but if I wanted to, I would specifically pull up that tab of the Questions page (no matter what day or time of day I was on the site).  Our bountied/featured questions tab is &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; less than one page, so I don't think there'd be any better or worse time to post the bounty from that perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Judging from the site analytics, Fridays and Saturdays are typically lower in overall activity -- Questions, Answers, Votes, and page views/visits.  From that perspective, I would avoid posting a bounty on Friday or Saturday because you'd minimize the amount of attention it would receive, historically speaking (the analytics go back about three months).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I whipped up a &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/1007200/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quick hack of a SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; that summarizes bounty placement per day of week. Of the 1269 bounties recorded so far, most bounties are placed on Mondays and Tuesdays, followed by Thursday then Wednesday. The fewest bounties have (historically) been placed on Saturdays and Sundays.  This doesn't tell you how effective the bounties were, just when they have been placed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kVmJp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kVmJp.png&quot; alt=&quot;bounties per day of week&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T18:19:34.300" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5245" CreationDate="2019-03-17T22:10:19.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;John WH Smith&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good evening everyone, and here is my modest attempt at this questionnaire following my nomination tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A common issue with volunteer posts like moderators is for the volunteer to simply not have enough time to devote to his or her mod duties. This isn't a theoretical question. It's not restricted to SE, either. It's a common issue with volunteer work. And I've seen situations in SE (and indeed elsewhere) where most of the work fell to a subset of moderators/volunteers because the remaining ones were not very active. In this situation, there are at least a couple of ways to go. (I can't think of any other alternatives, but there might be.) [A] Do nothing. Carry on being a mod to the extent of ones diminished capacity [B] Resign, citing lack of time, other commitments, whatever. In your opinion, what is the better choice, [A] or [B], and if [B], what is the level of threshold activity that would make you think that it was time to give up the post? How would you quantify activity for this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To begin with, having now read the various posts and FAQs related to SE moderation work, it appears to me that the system we have in place is designed with such situations in mind, as unpleasant as they may be. I am of course not (yet) well-versed in the art of U&amp;amp;L/SE moderation, and with that in mind, would be more than willing to step down should my fellow moderators consider my activity insufficient. Taking the issue on a less personal level, I would be inclined to go with option B, which in my opinion is better aligned with the communication-heavy process the moderators are encouraged to go for. As for a threshold, I'm afraid I cannot quantify it using SE metrics such as flag handling counts. It is my belief that our moderators are elected on the assumption that they will be able to address such situations on a case-by-case basis through discussion with the moderator(s) involved. Should this be impossible, there remains the moderator removal procedure which also follows a similar path and encourages discussion when possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;While it says on the tin, at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog: A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, that the moderators should do as little as possible, we're having an election because the site has &quot;grown and it would be nice to have a larger team&quot; (paraphrasing terdon from chat), so I assume that there'll be moderator tasks for you to do. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you plan on spending about the same amount of time on U&amp;amp;L, what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L activities (such as Asking, Answering, Editing, or Reviewing) that you currently do today do you see yourself doing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of when as a moderator? How much time do you think you'll spend here at U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have admittedly been less active on the site lately, mostly due to changes in my personal and professional lives. I do still find a lot of interest in writing (sometimes too verbose...) answers to questions which interest me and I do hope I will be able to come back to this in the near future. So I guess my answer to this question is &lt;em&gt;&quot;I cannot really do much less than I have been doing in the past few months or so.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I do feel capable of committing more rigourously to moderation tasks, which would fit better in my schedule, however I can see how this could be a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have any visions or plans to enhance the U&amp;amp;L community? Specifically around community guidelines such as welcoming new users, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5219/117549&quot;&gt;slm commented in their answer at &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be around voting or tags or any other area where you see room for improvement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a user, I have actually been mostly satisfied with the way things are done here. I do not think I have ever been unsatisfied with community/moderator decisions. I have seen a few reviews being processed a little too quickly and ending in rather debatable decisions, but I know these can always be discussed and rolled back, something which I have also seen happen here and there. If I had to pick a few things which have tickled me over the years though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The restricted list of sites available for question migration. I am certain there is a reason behind this, but I have here and there found myself giving vague flags/reviews to what I believe were movable questions, simply because my only option was Stack Overflow. Then again, I am not very aware of why this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I may be mistaken, but I believe the same thing can be said of duplicate flags, which can only reference certain network sites?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the user side of things though, I have never been bothered with any of the features and inner-workings on the SE framework on U&amp;amp;L. Regarding new users, that is definitely something I have seen changes for during my time here, however I have not (yet) given enough thought on the subject to provide valuable insight. As far as I am concerned, I do find U&amp;amp;L rather welcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever identified questions from people attempting to cheat on school/university tests or coursework? What actions did you take? What actions do you think should be taken? How would having the extra voting weight of being a diamond moderator influence your actions in such circumstances? (See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a member of academia myself, I have always been quick to pull out the &quot;we won't do your homework&quot; card and flag/review the question as such. I haven't given that much thought to this matter so far, but given the additional weight given to moderator votes, I would try my best to consider alternatives when the question isn't a clear copy/paste from a homework sheet. Such an alternative would be the one found on our two mathematics sites, where users are encouraged to give hints and put the poster on the right track without actually giving a full fledged answer. As a matter of fact, I believe several of the answers I have given on this site begin with such an approach (although these questions were not homework assignments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh. That was definitely, absolutely, me. Back when I had just arrived on SO and U&amp;amp;L. Minus the steady stream of valuable answers. I do not recall starting too many arguments, but I do have a few of my comments in mind which led to rather unnecessary discussion... I have been redirected to chat a few times and I believe that would also be my go-to move as a moderator. Should the issue be more about the poor quality of the comments or their tendency to go against our community guidelines, I might also try reaching out to the user via email as I have done once or twice, mostly to clarify the situation without loading a comments section with small and rather useless public contributions. Beyond that, the situation would, in my opinion, have to be treated as any other violation of our guidelines, regardless of the quality of the user's answers. Here again, I would first be inclined to ask more experienced moderators for their opinion, especially on the first few occasions when this may arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not really see any answer to this other than &quot;discussion.&quot; This is what our chat room is for, and I would be inclined to extend a first chat with the moderator by involving users (and the poster) when possible. If the poster understands and agrees with the decision (as I have several times as a user) then I would most likely follow. Should there be any debate, I would expect the moderator to not hesitate and reach out to the rest of the team. I will admit I have myself made some quick decisions in the review queues and the only reason why this is hardly ever an issue is because I am not the only one deciding. While moderators do have the option to expedite the process, we do still have the option to discuss it amongst ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Given that a diamond moderator can close a question with a single vote, how will you be construing the &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; closure reason?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this reason is often used for homework-related questions. As I have stated in a previous question, I have been, as a user, very inclined to have these questions taken down. I would most probably still go this way on blatantly obvious &quot;do my homework&quot; questions (especially if I can find the coursework with a quick Google search...) Again, for the other cases, I would be more likely to &quot;suggest&quot; an answer rather than take vote/flag action immediately. When in doubt, I would also consider the option of letting others vote, working from the assumption that if 5 users agree on the flag, then it is (more) likely justified. I find that most people who actually post homework and get closed tend to not discuss it. Should they do so, we do still have the option to reopen the question if we are satisfied with the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions aimed at finding good references (books, tutorials, and so on) are of course a bit different but can be seen as good wiki contributions in my opinion. I would therefore be tempted not to use a vote there. I understand that this may not be a common approach on U&amp;amp;L but I believe these questions can be extremely useful when properly reorganised into a wiki contribution. I have found myself googling for such things and arriving on U&amp;amp;L or another SE website, and the contents were usually spot on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, question comments and answer comments are regularly deleted by diamond moderators for straying from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of clarifying/improving the relevant question or answer&lt;/a&gt;.  On Politics, for example, diamond moderators regularly step in when comments are abused to argue people's personal political opinions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38651/#comment148687_38654&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  Does this WWW site have an analogous problem needing diamond moderators to do the same, in your view?  Where would the line be drawn, if there is a line at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing which would make me take such actions is the length of the comments section, which I believe should never go over a reasonable (yet undefined?) threshold. I do not think this feature is suited for discussion, and we do have a chat room meant for such things. I see the comments section as a good way to help users write better questions, or to extend answers with additional information which does not deserve an answer of its own. Whenever a long debate looms or happens, I believe a redirection to &lt;code&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/code&gt; is best. If the users involved are willing, it can also be a good idea to summarise what happened in chat in a final comment, in which case the moderators could clean up more thoroughly to make room and leave the section centered on the actual conclusion of the debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Suppose a user expresses disagreement with you over a closed/deleted question or an edit to their post that you've made. How would you handle it? Do you think you always need to explain your moderation decisions to ordinary users and if not, where would you draw the line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would actually be more than happy to accompany any decision I make with a note explaining it. As a moderator, I would do my best to make myself easily reachable, be it on chat or via email. As I have said before, my goto process would be to (1) review my own decision after it has been discussed with the user (2) ask fellow moderators for their opinion and (3) go from there. I would also consider passing the case over to another moderator should they see more room for discussion on the matter. I have made several questionable decisions with votes, flags, reviews as a user, and understand that this may happen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, it is routine practice to protect questions that come up on the Hot Network Questions list (a list that is, to put it mildly, controversial). Given that diamond moderators can protect a question with a single vote, will you be doing this for Hot Network Questions here? Please give your reasons for whatever your answer is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will admit I have never really given thought to this list and so my answer to this will most likely be thin. To begin, I would argue that the 10-rep threshold for action on a protected question is still reasonably low and therefore leaves little room for risk. Unless someone registers to answer a very specific question because they have the very specific bit of knowledge to do so, I do not see too much risk in protecting a question a little prematurely. Regarding the Hot Questions list, I do not see myself protecting questions simply because I have found them there. I would be more likely to base such actions on flags and other reports, and therefore wait for community feedback rather than to hunt down the questions in the list myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41892" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T22:10:19.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5245" CreationDate="2019-03-18T14:39:17.203" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;ilkkachu&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A common issue with volunteer posts like moderators is for the volunteer to simply not have enough time to devote to his or her mod duties. This isn't a theoretical question. It's not restricted to SE, either. It's a common issue with volunteer work. And I've seen situations in SE (and indeed elsewhere) where most of the work fell to a subset of moderators/volunteers because the remaining ones were not very active. In this situation, there are at least a couple of ways to go. (I can't think of any other alternatives, but there might be.) [A] Do nothing. Carry on being a mod to the extent of ones diminished capacity [B] Resign, citing lack of time, other commitments, whatever. In your opinion, what is the better choice, [A] or [B], and if [B], what is the level of threshold activity that would make you think that it was time to give up the post? How would you quantify activity for this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends. This is really something that has to be decided on a case-by-case basis, since we can't really set any fixed requirements for work done/time spent &quot;on-duty&quot; -- that doesn't work well in a volunteer position. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also depends on how the organization as a whole is doing: if all is well, and the workload for other volunteers isn't excessive, there's nothing to be lost by someone keeping their position while being inactive. It's not like volunteers who already know the job cost very much and if there's a chance of them coming back, it's only a potential net gain. In a system like this, the number of moderator positions also isn't fixed, so an old one resigning isn't strictly necessary for new blood to be brought in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional problem here is that one has to notice their decreased activity level to even consider resigning. In other contexts, I've thought fixed-length terms useful in that the end of a term is a natural point to consider how much one has been involved and how much one is capable and willing to be involved in the future. Also, not standing for re-election may be an easier way to stand down than having to explicitly choose to resign. With permanent positions, having regular-ish check-ups on everyone's activity level might work similarly as a tool for that. (I understand from some meta discussions that moderators do actually have some sort of activity statistics, so that might work.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how to quantify activity here, either. Counting distinct actions (handled flags or whatever) fails since not all issues demand an equal amount of work. The only objective measure would be time spent, and even that doesn't work the same way for all: someone might spend time here as way of taking a break from Real Life, while someone might consider it their Duty, duly put on the calendar and done on schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;While it says on the tin, at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog: A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, that the moderators should do as little as possible, we're having an election because the site has &quot;grown and it would be nice to have a larger team&quot; (paraphrasing terdon from chat), so I assume that there'll be moderator tasks for you to do. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you plan on spending about the same amount of time on U&amp;amp;L, what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L activities (such as Asking, Answering, Editing, or Reviewing) that you currently do today do you see yourself doing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of when as a moderator? How much time do you think you'll spend here at U&amp;amp;L?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of my time spent here now is on answering questions, that would have to take a secondary role in favor of moderator tasks and other janitorial work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say in numbers how much time I will spend here, since I haven't even really measured how much time I spend here &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;. I do visit the site every day(*), and have at least some tab on the site constantly open, (which isn't always good for the other things I should be doing, &lt;em&gt;ahem&lt;/em&gt;). I don't expect my amount of time spent here would change so dramatically n the near future that I couldn't perform my duties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(* As of Sunday, my profile page shows me &quot;visited 936 days, 82 consecutive&quot;. 82 days ago was December 25th, which I suppose will have to be a somewhat acceptable reason for a break.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do you have any visions or plans to enhance the U&amp;amp;L community? Specifically around community guidelines such as welcoming new users, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5219/117549&quot;&gt;slm commented in their answer at &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be around voting or tags or any other area where you see room for improvement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not any grand ones to present here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever identified questions from people attempting to cheat on school/university tests or coursework? What actions did you take? What actions do you think should be taken? How would having the extra voting weight of being a diamond moderator influence your actions in such circumstances? (See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4206/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/108136/65097&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I've seen too many of those, but there may have been some where the whole text of a question looked like a copy-pasted assignment. Those clearly don't show any research effort, and we already require the askers to make at least some research effort before posting questions. That should apply regardless of if the question is homework or not, so questions posted without any work shown should be downvoted and closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we can't really know for a fact if a question is about homework or not -- or rather, we can't&#xA;detect all questions that are related to homework. The really obvious ones may perhaps be recognized, but if someone wants to cheat, there's nothing stopping them from asking a proper question about the subject of their homework. We also can't stop them from cheating in other ways, so we should probably just focus on what we can see, the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, if they were aggressive/abusive/otherwise behaving badly towards other users, they should be dealt with as usual, with deletions, warnings and possibly suspension. Producing valuable answers mustn't be an excuse for bad behaviour. For one, that wouldn't be &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt;, and also getting a reputation as an abusive environment might drive users away, which would decrease the amount of people reading those answers, and hence their value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, someone capable of posting a steady stream of valuable answers would hopefully be also capable of learning to change their behaviour if the issues were brought up to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's some gray area between questions that are fine, and questions that definitely should be closed. In questions falling there, I probably wouldn't second-guess the choices of others. Not those made&#xA;directly by moderators, or regular users through the usual voting mechanism. If I disagreed strongly, I'd probably start by asking the mod in question (privately) if there was something to their decision that I'd missed and then work from there to get a consensus decision. In the (unlikely) case of a serious standoff, I'd hope a third moderator would provide a &quot;tie-breaking&quot; opinion. Really high-profile cases should be discussed in meta by the community at large, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Given that a diamond moderator can close a question with a single vote, how will you be construing the &quot;Request for learning materials&quot; closure reason?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's a rather mis-used close reason. Most of the time I see it applied somewhere, it seems to be on really trivial questions, where e.g. the answer is right there in the manual, but the asker has seemingly not read the whole manual. Those aren't actual requests for learning materials, though should perhaps be downvoted and ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, question comments and answer comments are regularly deleted by diamond moderators for straying from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the purpose of clarifying/improving the relevant question or answer&lt;/a&gt;.  On Politics, for example, diamond moderators regularly step in when comments are abused to argue people's personal political opinions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38651/#comment148687_38654&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  Does this WWW site have an analogous problem needing diamond moderators to do the same, in your view?  Where would the line be drawn, if there is a line at all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I've noticed, the moderators here very seldom move messages to chat, and I haven't &lt;em&gt;seen&lt;/em&gt; that many cases of deleted comments either. (But then, I wouldn't be able to see them post-facto.) It seems that the site doesn't have much of a problem with extra chatter in comments, but comments mostly seem to be mostly technical clarifications or otherwise related notes. Compared to something like Politics, that doesn't seem really surprising since the subject of the site is different enough. The questions are more clear-cut and don't invite as much emotional response. (*)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, as far as I've &lt;em&gt;seen&lt;/em&gt;, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem, and I wouldn't feel the need to tighten the screw on comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(* Well, at least as long as no-one starts an argument over which editor or software license is the one All Should Use.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Suppose a user expresses disagreement with you over a closed/deleted question or an edit to their post that you've made. How would you handle it? Do you think you always need to explain your moderation decisions to ordinary users and if not, where would you draw the line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd at least try to explain my decisions, as I've tried to do with regular close-votes etc. even without prompting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On some other StackExchange WWW sites, it is routine practice to protect questions that come up on the Hot Network Questions list (a list that is, to put it mildly, controversial). Given that diamond moderators can protect a question with a single vote, will you be doing this for Hot Network Questions here? Please give your reasons for whatever your answer is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I've seen, the questions from unix.SE that have been on the HNQ haven't seemed to attract that many problematic answers. If I would have seen excessive low-quality answers, I would have protected the questions even without the diamond; I don't see how that would change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as far as I understand, even moderators don't get notification for questions entering the HNQ list, so it wouldn't even be that easy to systematically go protecting them. On the other hand, if someone proposed having the SE software automatically protect questions added on the HNQ, I might not oppose it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions that weren't in the official list, but which I think were interesting enough to answer anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;N+1. A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I've said (written) anything too inappropriate, or anything that would reflect badly on the site even with a diamond next to it. If I have, I would hope to be notified of such mishaps, moderator or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;N+2. Would you favor a pop-up which suggests questioners use {edit} instead of Comments when they start to respond with a Comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5210/2019-moderator-election-qa-question-collection?cb=1#comment9730_5221&quot;&gt;terdon's comment&lt;/a&gt;. There's already the gray placeholder guideline including the phrase &quot;If you're adding new information, edit your post instead of commenting&quot; when you open the comment box, it's just not very visible and disappears the moment you start typing... We already have the &quot;N.N. is a new contributor, be nice to them&quot; banner that appears for others; promoting the instructions for the asker in the same way would seem like a good idea. But that's not something moderators can do directly, we'd have to petition for it on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Z. What's your favourite editor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I have one? I know it's not vi, or any of the variants, I never really learned how to use it...&#xA;The one I most often launch is &lt;code&gt;jmacs&lt;/code&gt; on systems that have it, it works well enough for all the small tasks I usually do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2019-03-23T12:18:04.780" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T12:18:04.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4264" CreationDate="2019-03-19T00:20:31.983" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to respectfully write a counter opinion on moderation :-).  I.e. that this post &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; deserve moderator attention and hence flagging.  Although perhaps we need to use the &quot;other&quot; flag, to include specific reasoning.  For such a case where the guidelines are being abraded, as opposed to being smashed through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is good to include dog-whistle attacks on individuals (&quot;the best thing since pulseaudio&quot;), which would be a huge de-rail if one tried to discuss it on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find &quot;wunderkinder&quot; suspicious.  It's not the more common loan-word &quot;wunderkind&quot; (wonder-child).  It's not the &lt;a href=&quot;http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/basics/capitalization-and-punctuation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;German orthography&lt;/a&gt; either.  It would actually be the plural form, which makes the sentence ungrammatical.  In the context above, I give it -0.5 for looking like a second veiled personal reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am happy to score on points and make an ad-hoc judgement, and I think this post crosses the line for being personal and inflammatory.  And the fact that that a topic is known to attract inflammatory personal attacks should make us more careful about it, not less.  I do not think we should propagate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same context, I'm not keen on saying that RHEL 7 is &quot;tainted&quot; because it uses &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt;.  You can convey similar sentiments without needing to label one side of an argument by analogy to rotten food.  E.g. &quot;(We have other reasons to avoid &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt; as well)&quot;, or &quot;I think this option will still work if you ever manage to escape &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some level of technical ranting is inevitable, and I accept that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this question, criticizing RHEL as a (commercial) product was relatively on-topic.  RedHat are the biggest OSS company; they can probably survive a little snark.  I don't agree that the adoption of &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt; is just about who employs the developers.  But arguably a factor - fine.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technical history implied by the answer is a bit odd.  RHEL 6 already used &lt;a href=&quot;https://access.redhat.com/discussions/916973&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;biosdevname&lt;/a&gt;, this would equally rename &lt;code&gt;eth0&lt;/code&gt;.  I think the difference is that biosdevname was designed only for server systems with BIOS support, whereas systemd uses so-called &quot;predictable&quot; device names for all PCI network devices.  (I understand PCI device order may vary between boots if your motherboard plays silly beggars though).  But I would only score this a small fraction.  The answer is otherwise professional enough I would interpret this as genuine annoyance, as opposed to someone bringing in emotional baggage from unrelated issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-03-19T00:32:31.823" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T00:32:31.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5259" CreationDate="2019-03-19T17:39:21.307" Score="25" ViewCount="1603" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that I'll probably be down-voted to oblivion, but every time I see a Kali question on this site, it gets marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/399626/330104&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, even when it has nothing to do with that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is Kali so hated? This is supposed to be a place where you can ask and answer questions about Linux, and Kali is a Linux distro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And are there any ways that we can improve this system so that this happens less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about making the question that people are redirected to more helpful or less condescending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: this relates to the Unix &amp;amp; Linux Meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5316/why-i-closed-the-why-is-kali-so-hard-question&quot;&gt;Why I closed the “Why is Kali so hard” question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="330104" LastEditorUserId="330104" LastEditDate="2020-05-12T20:11:13.283" LastActivityDate="2020-05-12T20:11:13.283" Title="Why are Kali questions hated so much?" Tags="|discussion|kali|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5257" CreationDate="2019-03-19T20:40:15.783" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue with Kali Linux is many of the questions have hardly anything to do with Kali specifically but are issues with using a tool or completing a task in Linux. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As user Michael Mrozek points out, there was a meta-thread that was created to address this problem. Largely, the solution developed in that post works. Some users are quick to close questions using the provided duplicate question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?&lt;/a&gt;, to the detriment of some Kali Linux questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By associating a sometimes rather basic and/or poorly researched Linux question with Kali, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kali.org/introduction/should-i-use-kali-linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a distribution for cyber security professionals who have Linux expertise&lt;/a&gt;, people get the impression that the post is not worth their time. They down vote, vote to close, or otherwise ignore these questions. There is further discussions &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4725/276845&quot;&gt;as pointed out here&lt;/a&gt;, that show that Kali Linux attracts the wrong kind of crowd as well. We do not want to be assisting potential criminals or people who otherwise do not respect the community here on the Unix and Linux Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;To get to the point&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions about Kali Linux posted to this site are typically low effort, not Kali Linux related, and poorly thought out. They are by newer users usually. They abandon the post relatively quickly, rarely responding to questions for clarification and sometimes are dog-piled by users who either do not like Kali Linux or think they are following the guidelines of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;. I say many of them are not Kali Linux related as they pertain solely to the use of a tool, involve a standard Linux task not specific to Kali such as driver installation, or the fact that the issue is on a Kali Linux system is inconsequential to the solution. If you need examples, just spend an extended period of time following the Kali Linux tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may appear on the surface that this site is hostile to Kali Linux, however that is not truly the case. This site is &quot;hostile&quot; to low effort, poorly researched questions. We, collectively can improve our &quot;behavior&quot; to these questions and should be encouraging people to improve how to engage with the site. However, you need to actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;read the duplicate question&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;meta-post&lt;/a&gt; before you dismiss them as not duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question is meant as a tool to point people in the right direction. They need to learn how to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;properly research their questions and how to better post to this site&lt;/a&gt;. And potentially realize that if their goal is learning Linux there is easier methods or if their goal is learning penetration testing there is far more information that they need to have a basic grasp of before they can even begin to use Kali.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;In Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community we should come up with a better way of dealing with not only Kali Linux questions but all types of questions that are of lower quality. I agree that your question was likely unfairly closed but a new solution may not have prevented this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there exists the need for a well formatted post that low-quality posts can be linked to that explains the need for additional context and how to better use the site, ask better questions, etc. How we go about that should be up to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="276845" LastEditorUserId="276845" LastEditDate="2019-03-22T14:47:09.367" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T14:47:09.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5257" CreationDate="2019-03-19T23:18:55.883" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many, probably most, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; questions on this site are extremely low quality. They show no effort, lack any useful detail, are often extremely basic, frequently trying to do things the distribution is unsuitable for, and from users who have no interest in learning or aiding others to help them learn, or some combination of those traits. That is &lt;strong&gt;the answer to your title question: negative associations from a number of low-quality questions&lt;/strong&gt; from often-belligerent querents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That has led to a general distaste for questions about it that taints even the fair questions from users who mention that they are using it. Those questions get lumped into the same bucket as soon as the tag or a hint of the distribution appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question &lt;em&gt;was not a duplicate&lt;/em&gt; of the supposed duplicate target, and nor are almost all of the other questions closed as a duplicate of it. That question is wilfully, cartoonishly, and insultingly caricatured. It is, frankly, not a positive element of the site at this point, let alone as something to tell someone is the same as what they asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closing questions as a duplicate of that question is abusive&lt;/strong&gt;. Voting to close as a duplicate like that is just a way of saying something that wouldn't be allowed in a comment&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, mediated by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are virtually never &quot;why is it hard&quot;, they are &quot;how do I X?&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;The questions might be unclear, they might be too broad, and they're often legitimate duplicates of on-topic questions &lt;em&gt;with actual answers&lt;/em&gt;, but they're not duplicates of that&lt;/strong&gt;. Votes that suggest otherwise are not good-faith acts&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. At best, it's a helpful see-also, and not a duplicate; at worst, it's just people getting off on the superiority they feel from belittling people they think are beneath them. Kali questions ought to be edited, voted upon, closed, and reopened in the same manner as other questions are (which is still likely going to result in most, but not all, of them being legitimately downvoted and closed on current form).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally questions closed in this way don't get reopened and the users disappear. For many of the questions, that was probably always going to be the case. On the other hand, it is also hardly strange that upon receiving that sort of welcome the asker doesn't go on to edit their question to add details such that it ends up in the reopen queue. They are driven off and the site preserves its reputation as hostile, elitist, and unwelcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kali questions and question from people using Kali are in general on-topic here&lt;/strong&gt;, though in many ways it would be preferable that they were categorically off-topic to the current situation. Regardless, each question ought to be addressed on its own merits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is likely that for many of the questions that are both about appropriate uses of Kali and from users who have made reasonable effort, this community doesn't have the most suitable expertise. For example, questions about using wireless hardware in non-standard ways using Linux tools are on-topic, but not something that general sysadmins and users are likely to have experience with. Those questions may languish regardless. It's not always clear which questions are in which camp and it's not unreasonable for someone to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;Why is Kali Linux so hard?&quot; question is a problem in itself. Another formulation of it might be able to convey useful information, but as-is it is just an attractive nuisance and I don't think that's repairable. It certainly shouldn't be put forth as duplicate to other questions, and even less so to yours that &lt;em&gt;already had an answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I will bowdlerise that comment as &quot;go away, unintelligent person&quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Users who have reached the close-vote threshold, let alone realms far beyond, are well aware that the new question does not duplicate the old and does not have the same answer, and so we know that they are not suggesting in good faith that it does. We could believe that they merely thought it would be useful related reading and used the close-vote mechanism as a way to convey the link, but as that is not the role of a close vote the action was not offered in good faith. They could have a range of motivations within that.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2019-04-03T05:47:58.880" LastActivityDate="2019-04-03T05:47:58.880" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5257" CreationDate="2019-03-20T00:56:09.757" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what else can be extolled about Kali questions. There was a extensive discussion about them back when @Gilles created the meta + an attempt to create a reference question to close against for questions that fit a specific type. This was that meta discussion titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4641/7453&quot;&gt;What should we do about Kali Linux questions?&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Gilles answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that I do not propose systematically closing Kali questions! Each&#xA;  question should be judged on its merit. But when people are clearly in&#xA;  way over their head and they've asked a question with the usual novice&#xA;  problems (unclear because they didn't explain what they were doing,&#xA;  they didn't copy-paste error messages, they didn't provide relevant&#xA;  information about their system, etc.), we could close it as a&#xA;  duplicate of this advice-giving question rather than letting the&#xA;  question rot with zero answers and zero comments or closing it as&#xA;  unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This stated what has effectively been our policy. People adhering to it is another matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire problem with this approach has been it's left up to the discretion of the many individuals that frequent our site to try and policy this in a consistent way. Some try and deal with it as each question comes, while others see it a binary and close anything that makes the mere mention of Kali within it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back when we took this tact, I felt this was the best approach we could provide without completely banning Kali questions outright. There's a core group of users on this site and the toil of helping every lost soul that is trying to work through every aspect of becoming acquainted with Kali + low effort Linux question simultaneously would relegate this site to a pure help desk scenario and drive away our more adherent users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I welcome a revisiting to this approach but it was looked at from a variety of ways then and there was really no easy solution/fix to how we opted to approach it. Perhaps a discussion may help to reinforce what the original idea/approach was trying to accomplish might help to take some of the over zealous closures?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T00:56:09.757" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5257" CreationDate="2019-03-20T12:26:26.720" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Mr Google's fault !&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to ask &lt;kbd&gt;google&lt;/kbd&gt; a kali question, &lt;code&gt;superuser&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/code&gt; (and maybe &lt;code&gt;serverfault&lt;/code&gt;) will come as first link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you scroll down google's list a little more, you'll find link like &lt;code&gt;doc.kali.org&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;forum.kali.org&lt;/code&gt; where you'll find many FAQs about booting/installing USB/external disk/whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who really want to install kali will navigate past first google's link, find their way to *.kali.org and follow detailed instructions given there by kali's natives. If installation goes well, or not so well, they stay in *.kali.org galaxy to ask there question and should the question be well asked there, we don't ear about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilles's generic answer is a good thing. But I agree that some are too eager to close questions as a duplicate when they shouldn't. I have no stats, but I would says 5% to 10% are wrongly closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means 90% of kali questions are not good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we don't hate kali per se, it's Mr Google fault for sending the wannabes kali users here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-03-27T00:41:57.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4264" CreationDate="2019-03-20T14:32:43.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to partially agree with both terdon and sourcejedi above: The post wasn't that blatantly rude or offensive (not at anyone's face, anyway), but I don't think the personal attacks really have a place here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever someone thinks about a certain productive gentleman from Germany or his creations, we could at least try to concentrate on commenting the code, not the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll mention here the same I did as a comment to that post: I think everyone's entitled to voicing their opinion (and everyone else is entitled to downvoting if they want to), but the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/224846/revisions&quot;&gt;was a bit too over the top&lt;/a&gt; on some points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I took the liberty of editing it, though much less heavy-handedly as the first edit mentioned in the Q here. I honestly think I didn't misrepresent their intent too much with that edit. Given that they also rolled back only a part of my edit, it doesn't appear they disagreed completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T15:05:10.983" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T15:05:10.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5257" CreationDate="2019-03-20T15:15:39.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose a solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about editing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?&lt;/a&gt; question, to show how to properly write a question, some general help/advice, and some links to sites that would possibly be more helpful? Before now, (and before actually looking at the &quot;why&quot; question), it wasn't clear that that was a question set up to help people. Maybe the question could be edited to go something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Title: How to format your question better, and some general help &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I couldn't think of a better title, but I think that the title &lt;code&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?&lt;/code&gt; should definitely be changed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Content: You have been directed here because of several possible reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1: Your question wasn't very clear or wasn't written well (was a low quality post)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Suggestions or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;links&lt;/a&gt; of what to do to make it a better or clearer post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2: You have a problem, and am not sure what it is or how to explain it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Below this question is some general Kali advice that may help you with any questions/problems that you have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3: You have a question/questions that won't/can't be properly answered on Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Here are some links to official Kali Linux forums/FAQs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.kali.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;docs.kali.org&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://forums.kali.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;forums.kali.org&lt;/a&gt;; any other useful/dedicated Kali links&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this would greatly benefit people compared to the current redirection question of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've installed Kali Linux, or I'm trying to install it. Why is it so hard? Why doesn't it recognize my hardware? Why do I need to set up so many things manually? Why can't I install the applications I want to use? Why don't tutorials written for other distributions work? Help! Why won't people help me? Why is Linux so hard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your opinions on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="330104" LastEditorUserId="330104" LastEditDate="2019-05-03T23:21:08.620" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T23:21:08.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2019-03-21T01:44:31.707" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Who am I, outside of technology?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m married, with three children. Two of them have special needs; the third is “typical”; a fourth survived only a day. Outside of the usual work, sleep, family &amp;amp; school functions, and kids’ extracurricular classes, the only other major focus of my life is jogging. It’s a “bucket list” item for me to complete a marathon (or longer!) distance. It’s simple,and I hope it keeps me healthy. Oddball interests that no longer get many time slices include: geocaching -- mainly puzzle solving and CITO (Cache-In, Trash Out) events, bicycling, reading, (indoor) rock climbing, ping-pong, soccer, motorcycling, and artificial intelligence (in game playing). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Who am I, relative to technology?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Theme: I like to solve problems with computers.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Grade School&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My very first computer experiences were in early grade school with Macintoshes (Turtle Logo) and a Commodore 64, on which we could &lt;code&gt;SAVE&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;LOAD&lt;/code&gt; programs to an external cassette tape. I remember going over to a friend’s house and writing my first program:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;10 PRINT &quot;JEFF &quot;&#xA;20 GOTO 10&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;… and seeing my name scroll across the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vInGu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vInGu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;IBM PC Convertible&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In late grade school, my Dad was able to check out an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Convertible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IBM PC Convertible&lt;/a&gt; from the school library, ostensibly to write coursework. I quickly “took over”, asking him to check it out as frequently as possible. He ended up going back to the trusty manual typewriter, using carbon paper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hX09N.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hX09N.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Family Computing magazine&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I subscribed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Family Computing magazine&lt;/a&gt; and taught myself to touch-type by hand-entering programs from the appendices into the IBM PC, complete with column after column of hex data statements for the corresponding graphics and sounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ylkZD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ylkZD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sopwith&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That PC had a simple side-scrolling fighter-plane game called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_(video_game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sopwith&lt;/a&gt; that I enjoyed -- particularly after I discovered that the enemy planes would regenerate in a predictable place and time, allowing me to rack up an infinite score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before high school, my Mom helped me purchase my very first PC, a 286, from a local college professor. It had … a &lt;em&gt;hard drive&lt;/em&gt;! Twenty MEGABYTES! Oh, you could see forever on that kind of disk! I bought caseloads of floppies from the massive &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Shopper_(US_magazine)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Computer Shopper Magazine&lt;/a&gt;. I still remember labelling disk after disk for multi-part ZIP and later ARJ archives. Those were the BBS days; when I wasn’t writing BASIC programs to play the theme song from Dallas, I spent time in games like Castle Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem, Lemmings, and Chess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;High School&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xG1Po.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xG1Po.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Slackware floppies&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/83mO7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/83mO7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Slackware installation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High school introduced me to several new cultures and friends, one of whom had his Dad’s university UNIX login credentials. This brought me the ability to download Slackware images over the Internet and &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt; them to floppy disks on the SunOS systems, one after the other after the other after the other … and then installing them back at home. Why did X11 have to be TWELVE floppies?!? Thus began my Linux experiences! I also have vivid memories of challenging classmates to see who could write the longer science class reports. I would stay up late typing in passages from every science book from the library; then anxiously listen to the dot-matrix printer chewing back and forth just before the school bus arrived. The magic of the Internet also exposed me to Usenet (comp.sys.sun.admin and the problems/summaries there), to the Lynx browser, to Netrek and to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MUD&lt;/a&gt; called OverDrive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zjAMM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zjAMM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Netrek&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0O967.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0O967.png&quot; alt=&quot;Overdrive MUD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netrek and OverDrive were both addictive -- in general because they were Internet-connected multi-player games and for their programming aspects. I used to play along with a built-in robot in Netrek, testing its behavior. I learned about the ability to program in your own ‘bot, but never made it as far as actually writing one. OverDrive was a fun place to explore the D&amp;amp;D realm, though I was never a “real” D&amp;amp;D player. It was more fun for me to learn how the system worked, and I was quickly drawn to a programmable telnet client called tinyfugue. From simple combination macros to trigger-based event handling, I expanded my client-side arsenal to include an automatic room-mapping algorithm and functions that computed “live” game statistics that were interesting to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High school provided a Pascal class, which was fun. I had no trouble with the exercises until the teacher started requiring pseudocode before submitting our actual programs. That was sufficiently annoying that I wrote -- in Pascal! -- a pseudocode filter. Then I could resume writing the assignment’s programs directly and then pass them through the filter to fulfill the pseudocode requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DlHso.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DlHso.png&quot; alt=&quot;CROBOTS&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About this time, I also discovered PROBOTS (Pascal Robots) and CROBOTS (C Robots), which were frameworks for robot battles, with a limited arena and command-set. I spent many hours considering and experimenting with different algorithms!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;College&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once in college, I discovered a computer lab that offered paid part-time work, so I signed up. It was easy work, but more importantly, got me exposure to SunOS as well as to a friendly sysadmin that showed me the ropes (and some after-hours LAN games of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(1995_video_game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Descent&lt;/a&gt;).  I continued to use Linux on my computer back at the dorm, connecting to OverDrive occasionally, but otherwise playing around with FORTRAN, assembly, and Scheme.  I actually subscribed to the Linux-Kernel mailing list for a few months, until I realized that I couldn’t keep up.  The PC I purchased in college came bundled with an Epson Laserjet 1500 that I kept and used for the next 20+ years! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJ0VJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJ0VJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Epson Laserjet 1500&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A professor threw out an ad-hoc question one Friday: “how many different ways are there to make change for a dollar?”, which resulted in a weekend writing and refining a recursive C program and learning a bit more about US currency -- thousand-dollar bills, anyone? Another part-time job was in the math department, for the Math 100 and 101 courses. I started off grading exams, but that quickly turned into C programming on the VAX there; the program would generate randomized tests -- all with the same structure but with different coefficients or numerical values, to prevent cheating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of college, the time I spent on OverDrive developed into some frequent chats with one particular player that I recognized from days playing in high school. After many late-night chats, mailing photographs back &amp;amp; forth, phone calls, and bus &amp;amp; plane visits, I would eventually marry her :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Post-graduation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all of my UNIX background, it bothered me that every recruiting firm wanted my resume “in Microsoft Word format”, so I wrote my resume in LaTeX and then collected utilities to convert that into over 20 various formats -- none of which were Word. Yes, there was a Makefile! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;FILES = resume.pdf \&#xA;        resume.ps \&#xA;        resume.dvi \&#xA;        resume_html1 \&#xA;        resume_html2 \&#xA;        resume.rtf \&#xA;        resume.mpx \&#xA;        resume.txt \&#xA;        resume.b64 \&#xA;        resume.uue \&#xA;        resume_braille.html \&#xA;        resume.1 \&#xA;        resume_rot13.txt \&#xA;        resume_b1ff.txt \&#xA;        resume_chef.txt \&#xA;        resume_cockney.txt \&#xA;        resume_eleet.txt \&#xA;        resume_jive.txt \&#xA;        resume_kraut.txt \&#xA;        resume_ky00te.txt \&#xA;        resume_newspeak.txt \&#xA;        resume_nyc.txt&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had my eyes on Artificial Intelligence (namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistello&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Logistello&lt;/a&gt;) and cluster computing, so I began collecting 386’s from various surplus auctions, with the hopes of creating my own Beowulf cluster (boot off 3.5” floppy, register with a master node, and receive your slice of the AI puzzle to work on). I then did some math and realized that the power supplies were going to be a strong limiting factor, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t have a bunch of coax-connected computers strung through my apartment at one point!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s been a UNIX journey ever since -- including bouts of HP-UX, Irix, SunOS, Debian, Solaris, AIX, and RHEL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why Unix &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But first, Stack Exchange.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first (official) Stack Exchange experience came when I was trying to solve a particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC217NE_to-market-to-market-through-the-good-grass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Geocaching puzzle&lt;/a&gt; with Prolog. I had run into a problem that I couldn’t solve, so I asked: How do I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30553022/make-a-predicate-reversible&quot;&gt;make a predicate reversible?&lt;/a&gt; and was quickly overwhelmed with the quality of the answers; it took me several weeks to digest them and finally accept one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first official Unix &amp;amp; Linux activity was on June 1 2015 -- an answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/206684/how-to-know-during-system-start-when-system-time-becomes-correct-from-ntp/206738#206738&quot;&gt;question about NTP&lt;/a&gt;. My first &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer on U&amp;amp;L came the next day, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/206938/117549&quot;&gt;How to turn Diff command into bash script with prompt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve certainly learned quite a bit from U&amp;amp;L, from being more careful about using the shell to wrangle text, to being careful with filenames, to the variations in implementations of various utilities. I enjoy answering questions where I can not only solve someone’s particular problem but also maybe teach them a little bit about how the solution worked, so they can integrate that knowledge the next time a similar problem comes up. As in the past, I enjoy making computers do weird things, so I’ve tried &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/436103/117549&quot;&gt;sorting in sed&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/482429/117549&quot;&gt;sorting in bash&lt;/a&gt;. I particularly enjoyed seeing someone &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/36959/117549&quot;&gt;adding in sed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time goes on, I find pleasure in dusting the fixtures and polishing the handles -- namely, coming up with SEDE queries that look for typos or grammatical errors in highly-voted posts or in reviewing recent high-rated posts. I try to get my arms around the tag universe so that we have a sane set of choices for people to assign to their questions and for answerers to follow. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the review queues, and have earned all six steward badges (1,000+ reviews in each).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T01:44:31.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-21T02:58:35.887" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/507078/what-is-the-accepted-way-to-maintain-a-patched-version-of-a-package-for-unprivil?noredirect=1#comment936934_507078&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about maintaining a external software package with custom patches. Similar questions have been asked before, but mine is a bit more specific since it focuses on maintaining packages for unprivileged installation (i.e. in a user's home directory).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I've been researching this I have come across some information which I may eventually want to record as an answer to the aforementioned question. However, it has been labeled as &quot;opinion-based&quot; so I won't be able to do this. I wonder if there is a SE site that I can have it migrated to where it won't get this label, or if indeed the label is valid here. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118662" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2019-04-04T22:44:32.803" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T22:44:32.803" Title="How/where do I ask how to maintain a package with separate patches?" Tags="|support|specific-question|closed-questions|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5265" CreationDate="2019-03-21T09:52:34.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can’t answer for the users who voted to close that question; however I think at least part of the problem comes from the way you’ve framed the question, which doesn’t quite match what you’re saying here. A question about “how to maintain a package with separate patches?” would be fine from my point of view; while it wouldn’t necessarily receive an obviously-best answer, it could well receive a few answers showing various approaches to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you framed the question as looking for “the accepted way”. I think &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is opinion-based, or rather that there is no accepted way and whichever way is best would be opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if you change the title of your question to match what you’re saying here, and drop the “or agreed upon” part from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to see what others have done or agreed upon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would consider the question to be a valid candidate for re-opening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T09:52:34.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5257" CreationDate="2019-03-21T11:15:37.910" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To begin with, Kali questions aren't hated more than questions on other topics, it is just that for some unexplainable reason many novice users pick Kali as a desktop distribution, despite the fact that Kali is a special purpose distribution (built on top of Debian). Yes, you can use Kali as a regular desktop distro; for instance, I do that - &lt;em&gt;without the slightest trace of a problem&lt;/em&gt; - because I am too lazy to launch another Kali VM whenever I need the pentest related tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let me counter-ask: Why is the current handling of Kali-questions a problem? I agree, this is not the nicest way to deal with this and probably not in line with the &lt;em&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/em&gt; which asks for answers that are inclusive, welcoming, don't make anybody feel bad etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, since the days of Usenet it is known that (a) no matter how much effort you put in it, no matter to which detail you explain, no matter how polite and patient you are, there will be always someone who will not be satisfied, and this trait seems to get worse - some kind of users seem to believe that SE entitles them to unlimited free consulting services - and (b) as was pointed out by other posters, Kali questions are empirically quite likely to have abysmal quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: What added value should an &quot;improved&quot; treatment of Kali-related questions show? In the end, you will have no more than a nicer version of &lt;em&gt;do your homework, go read the docs and leave us alone until you have proved to have some competence&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree, though, that a reference to the official Kali docs would be very adequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64248" LastEditorUserId="64248" LastEditDate="2019-03-21T12:41:41.133" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T12:41:41.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-21T16:30:26.170" Score="8" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this question possibly on-topic for the Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange?&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55270381/what-does-segment-starttext-segment-0x400000-represent&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55270381/what-does-segment-starttext-segment-0x400000-represent&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not exactly a programming question per se, I suppose it's slightly Linux-related because it may have to do with how the OS places executables in memory. &lt;strike&gt;It hasn't gotten any comments or answers over at Stack Overflow&lt;/strike&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: This question was ultimately answered over at Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214773" LastEditorUserId="214773" LastEditDate="2019-03-22T19:54:46.000" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T19:54:46.000" Title="Is question about executable memory layout on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5268" CreationDate="2019-03-21T17:04:42.790" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's probably on topic here, let me explain — you actually seem to be asking several things, and really ought to focus on one thing per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You state a goal of reducing executable size by refactoring. That's really a Stack Overflow thing. That is outside our scope here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You ask to confirm your understanding of linker scripts. This doesn't really seem related to the above (where it seems you only should care about the size of the text segment, not the location). But anyway, expertise about this is mostly on Stack Overflow, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You ask a third question: “if I were to run two instances of my compiled a.out executable in parallel, they couldn't both simultaneously occupy the space at 0x400000, right?”. This you could ask here — except I think you'll find it already has been. You probably are having a hard time finding it though, because you seem unaware that userspace programs hardly ever use physical addresses. Each program can have a 0x4000000 because they use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=virtual+address&quot;&gt;virtual addresses&lt;/a&gt; (that link is to a search of this site).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you spend some time reading about virtual memory, then you'll be able to ask much more focused questions — and I think those will be more likely to get good, useful answers on any site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="977" LastEditorUserId="977" LastEditDate="2019-03-21T17:35:33.790" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T17:35:33.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5272" CreationDate="2019-03-22T13:16:24.210" Score="8" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered my own question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/507815/153578&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/507815/153578&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mention in there, I only posted that answer since another user deleted their own, previously-posted answer which I thought was useful. That user un-deleted their answer; should I now delete mine? Are there any repercussions for my doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153578" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T09:20:07.173" Title="Should I delete my own, now-duplicate answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5270" CreationDate="2019-03-23T03:51:52.440" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no issue with your copied version of @Stephen's original answer. I'd leave yours now since it varies enough from his that it can stand on its own now. Also @Stephane edited yours which pushed it even further away from the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T03:51:52.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5270" CreationDate="2019-03-25T09:20:07.173" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please leave it, it’s useful as-is. I originally deleted my answer because I thought the others were better (since they look for numbers to extract, rather than removing characters we don’t care about — explicitly codifying what you’re looking for is often better than trying to list everything you don’t want), and then undeleted it when I saw that you thought it was useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Unfortunately we don’t have a nice way of dealing with deleted content which is still deemed to be useful, apart from trying to get enough 10k+ users to vote to undelete it, but that’s hard for most &amp;lt;10k users to do since they don’t even see the deleted content in the first place. My “clean-up” tendencies sometimes end up being counter-productive.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T09:20:07.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5274" CreationDate="2019-03-26T13:10:07.493" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/508718/cannot-open-file-no-such-file-or-directory#508718&quot;&gt;Cannot open file&amp;#39;*&amp;#39; no such file or directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any recollection of voting to close as not reproducible issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because someone use my comment as a vote close reason ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53092" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T13:43:34.963" Title="Did I vote close this question?" Tags="|support|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5273" CreationDate="2019-03-26T13:32:00.433" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the close reason is the majority of the type chosen by the close-voters; those voters are spelled out at the end of the notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kusalananda, jimmij, mosvy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so I would assume that those people voted as &quot;non-reproducible&quot; while you and glenn voted to close it with some &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; reason (which isn't listed on the notice and which was also appeared to be directly from the question, as I don't see those other two votes in the close-review queue -- just mosvy's).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T13:32:00.433" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5273" CreationDate="2019-03-26T13:43:34.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;another funny fact, you can't close your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, if you do it is  &lt;code&gt;Community♦&lt;/code&gt;, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/383398/unable-to-remotly-query-rpm&quot;&gt;unable to remotly query rpm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T13:43:34.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-26T20:00:39.450" Score="28" ViewCount="451" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;third moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/116858/kusalananda&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/116858.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kusalananda&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/117549/jeff-schaller&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/flair/117549.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jeff Schaller&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly&amp;mdash;please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/6012664968904704/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21281" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-04-26T10:28:31.280" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T10:28:31.280" Title="2019 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2019-03-26T20:07:28.653" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome aboard guys! I only hope you won't regret it! &gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T20:07:28.653" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5276" CreationDate="2019-03-27T01:00:23.773" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you to everyone that considered nominating themselves, as well to Arcabard, cnst, ilkkachu, and Kusalananda who decided to actually put themselves up for consideration. I said it in the chat for this election -- and I believe it in general -- that having a variety of choices leads to a better outcome. Special congratulations to Kusalananda who (deservedly) won nearly twice as many votes as I did, and so I look forward to doing half as much work as he does ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A special thank you to Stephen Kitt for his question &quot;What’s it like being a Unix &amp;amp; Linux moderator?&quot; and to terdon, slm, and Michael Mrozek for taking time to answer it. It was a huge help to me to learn about the benefits and challenges of being a moderator while I was deciding whether to nominate myself or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you to Jon Ericson and Grace Note their help in this election, in particular for putting out the Question Collection and follow-up Questionnaire, and to everyone who submitted questions for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Faheem Mitha&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JdeBP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;K7AAY&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tim&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tomasz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undercat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and yes, even Fabby :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think threads like these are important because they call out what the community feels is important -- both for site and in a moderator. An open discussion thread like that is a great place for nominees to be able to expand on their ideas and for the community to get a better sense for how the nominees would perform the moderation tasks. Thank you also to JNat for opening up the separate Election chat room so that the community could haven even more discussion around the election and the candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, personal thanks to everyone who expressed support for me, both on the nomination page and in the chat rooms. Seeing comments on (all of) the nominations tells me that people care enough about the site to consider the nominees carefully. It was rewarding to see the comments that were directly supportive of the work I’ve done. I look forward to learning &lt;em&gt;even more&lt;/em&gt; about how the site works, and to helping keep the site clean, positive, and moving forward together!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-03-27T01:00:23.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-27T08:17:25.893" Score="40" ViewCount="778" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we welcome our new &lt;del&gt;rulers&lt;/del&gt;moderators (congratulations!), and they discover the ropes of moderation, it seems to me the ideal time to ask this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do moderators wish the users of Unix &amp;amp; Linux knew?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I mean users of the Stack Exchange web site, here, not general users of Unix-style operating systems.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By extension, what would moderators like the users to do more, or less, of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m thinking of features such as flagging: to new (and apparently many not-so-new) users, this feels like invoking Zeus — surely the moderators are busy, and have better things to do than take care of this trifling issue? And yet, flagging can be very helpful, when done correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, old moderators, as you explain things to the newbies, here’s your chance to also explain them to everyone. New moderators, here’s your chance to communicate the surprising features and/or behaviours you discover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2019-06-05T17:30:29.133" Title="What do moderators wish the users of Unix &amp; Linux (.SE) knew?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5283" CreationDate="2019-03-29T21:30:43.457" Score="5" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/477911&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which in my browser is rendered as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O4TCH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O4TCH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Answer, code formatted as inline&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e. code blocks are rendered as if they were enclosed in &lt;code&gt;``&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I try to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/477911/edit&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; it, what I see is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/05D3w.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/05D3w.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit view, code formatted as expected&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code blocks are already enclosed in handlebars and the preview is rendered as expected.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I checked with both Chrome and Firefox, it doesn't look like a browser-related issue.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Since I cannot directly edit the post, I did not try to change something and save it (to check whether it is some kind of caching issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="53522" LastEditDate="2019-04-04T19:52:06.473" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T21:44:18.840" Title="Incorrectly rendered code blocks look fine in edit view" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2019-03-29T22:09:25.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code block formatting test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code goes&#xA;here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;more &#xA;here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From problematic answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ip,time,name,_random&#xA;1.1.1.1,2018-08-31 11:12:32,python,65536&#xA;1.1.1.1,2018-08-31 11:12:32,python,42&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ip,time,name,_seq&#xA;1.1.1.1,2018-08-31 11:12:32,python,1&#xA;1.1.1.1,2018-08-31 11:12:32,python,2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, you can not use too many numbers for the same tag. Influx by default sets max-tag-per-value to 100000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2019-03-29T22:09:25.300" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2019-03-29T22:09:25.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2019-03-29T22:12:32.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know what happened to that formatting.  I tested the exact same markup in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5281/116858&quot;&gt;the sandbox&lt;/a&gt; and it rendered ok.  I then added a single newline to the answer text and saved it, which seems to have fixed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was the newline that I added that fixed it, but just the act of submitting it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, that was the way that this sort of code block &lt;em&gt;used to&lt;/em&gt; be rendered, up until recently (when code blocks &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/381254/has-the-padding-on-code-blocks-been-increased&quot;&gt;were made ever so slightly &quot;fatter&quot;/more padded&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-03-29T22:19:44.380" LastActivityDate="2019-03-29T22:19:44.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2019-03-29T23:21:45.390" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code blocks delimited with &lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt; (&quot;fences&quot;) were implemented just this January (see this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/322000/496262&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt;). Before that, three backticks was equivalent to one backtick, resulting in inline code formatting, as your screenshot shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the post had syntax that would be rendered differently now, that only happens when it's edited, this is also noted in the linked post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As always when we make markdown changes, the question &amp;amp; answer view is not going to be impacted by this unless the post is edited, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it indeed was a kind of a caching issue. The appearance of the post was as it had been since the last edit, but the edit preview showed what it would be had the edit been saved. When &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5282/170373&quot;&gt;Kusalananda actually edited&lt;/a&gt; it, the appearance was updated to match the current formatting rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2019-03-29T23:21:45.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5265" CreationDate="2019-03-31T22:59:16.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I VTC'd is because there is no one way.  There's no accepted way.  There's not even (IMHO) any universal &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; way... there's just things that are trade offs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not even an accepted way of dealing with OS level packages (see the old flame wars between dpkg/apt and rpm/yum... let alone the old SysV way of pkg files, and let's not forget AIX and HPUX).  Add in different community solutions (pip, npm, golang, CPAN, etc) and there's even more diversity in how packages should be managed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past 30 years I've probably written 5 different solutions, that were custom and unique to the corporate requirements and constraints I had to live under (e.g. signoff, promotion, validation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hadn't put in the opinion based questions then I'd have likely VTC'd &quot;too broad&quot; just because the answer is a 100 page book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastActivityDate="2019-03-31T22:59:16.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-01T00:24:49.440" Score="8" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reviewing the queue I've noticed a lot of questions from 4 or 5 years ago being VTC'd &quot;unclear&quot;.  The odd thing about these is that a number of them have an accepted answer so clearly(!) they're not unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are others seeing this pattern, or am I just noticing normal behaviour and this is &quot;noise&quot; in the close pattern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T11:45:35.123" Title="Lots of ancient questions being VTCd" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-01T17:01:13.323" Score="19" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like fairly regularly I'll be running a Google search to assist with a minor problem and the result that I get from a &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; site is extremely high quality. It answers my question quickly and accurately. Sounds like just what we want from StackExchange, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are these questions often marked closed or otherwise flagged as low quality? Should Google ignore these results in favor of better quality ones? Should we instead improve these low quality (but commonly viewed) questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While my question is very general (hence its appearance on Meta), in order to provide an example, the specific query that brought this to mind was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=redhat+view+json&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google search for &lt;code&gt;redhat view json&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time this was written, the top non-&lt;code&gt;redhat.com&lt;/code&gt; hit was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/210514/is-there-a-cli-tool-that-would-prettify-a-json-string&quot;&gt;Is there a CLI tool that would prettify a JSON string&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it contains a perfect answer (&lt;code&gt;jq&lt;/code&gt; and/or &lt;code&gt;json_pp&lt;/code&gt;) the question itself was closed as &quot;too broad.&quot; This classification by StackExchange standards seems correct. However, when Google indexes questions like that so highly (for whatever mysterious reasons) should we take the hint and provide a higher quality search result?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible way to improve the quality of that specific response would be a redirect to this (very similar) question which also appears (lower) on the Google search results above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-can-i-pretty-print-json-in-a-shell-script&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-can-i-pretty-print-json-in-a-shell-script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This whole issue seems to tie in with a semi-common issue on StackExchange-- should we provide information about relatively basic and broad topics, such as what someone might type into Google as a starting point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/02/22/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/02/22/are-some-questions-too-simple/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer seems to be no, but we quickly get into a circular situation if we tell users to &quot;Just Google it&quot; and &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; shows a low quality question as the result of following that advice. This issue was discussed indirectly at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/534/people-who-dont-use-google&quot;&gt;people who don't use Google&lt;/a&gt; but I'm starting a new post since the specific question of managing responses in terms of overall view volume (implied by Google search rankings) seems to warrant its own discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/210514/is-there-a-cli-tool-that-would-prettify-a-json-string&quot;&gt;above specific question&lt;/a&gt; is a top Google hit (and presumably sees more view volume as a result), would it be worthwhile to cultivate the answer and improve it over time instead of keeping it closed? Would it be useful to identify other closed/flagged pages which are common Google destinations/high volume views and also improve those?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, should we take steps to discourage Google from indexing these closed/flagged answers as top hits? What steps can we reasonably take to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39092" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T22:27:58.883" Title="Should we improve posts that are common Google results?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|closed-questions|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5289" CreationDate="2019-04-01T23:35:27.703" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the consequences of this? Would it provide any value? My guess is that user's would be more likely to answer questions rather than ask them if some form of reputation were involved as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139546" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T01:18:22.903" Title="Should we display a user's question/answer ratio?" Tags="|discussion|questions|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5288" CreationDate="2019-04-02T01:18:22.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you search thru meta for &quot;ratio&quot; you'll find various Q&amp;amp;A and proposals around all kinds of ratios. The consensus is that they all kind of don't do what ppl want and just become a distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting&quot;&gt;Should we have a policy about &amp;quot;too much downvoting&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52315/healthy-ratios-for-askinganswering-and-updown-voting&quot;&gt;Healthy ratios for asking:answering and up:down voting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90741/add-a-question-answer-ratio-below-the-accepted-stats-on-questions-for-the-aske&quot;&gt;Add a question/answer ratio below the % accepted stats on questions for the asker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can go on but basically from what I've seen around this is that ratios can be found out using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; if you're really interested in finding out things like this but in general the opinion of Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky and others have come to the conclusion that ratios don't really offer anything positive to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was part of the reason that they removed the ratio of accepted answers from the UI a few years ago as case in point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73250/is-having-a-bad-accept-ratio-necessarily-a-bad-thing&quot;&gt;Is having a &amp;#39;bad&amp;#39; accept ratio necessarily a bad thing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136951/lets-stop-displaying-a-users-accept-rate&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s stop displaying a user&amp;#39;s accept rate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last link is the proposal to remove the accepted answer ratio BTW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2019-04-02T01:18:22.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-02T09:23:54.653" Score="22" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Windows questions are NOT on topic here.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Now that's out of the way, lets discuss damage done by a Linux distribution's installer.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two topics I regularly see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(how to roll back)&lt;/strong&gt; how to reverse damage done by a linux installer. &lt;em&gt;(the answer could be about what the installer does and therefore how to undo it)&lt;/em&gt;  In particular discussion Legacy boot sector and UEFI entries along with a mention of BIOS being able to select between UEFI entries.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(how to fix forward)&lt;/strong&gt; how to persuade grub or other boot loaders to find windows &lt;em&gt;(where nix boot loaders could be considered on topic)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest arguments for having stock answers to this on unix.stackexchange.com is &amp;quot;if not here then where&amp;quot;.  Most Windows questions we would still bounce to Superuser.com.  But given the damage has usually been done by a Linux installer, it feels inappropriate to expect Window's experts to know what a linux installer has done.  That knowledge is more likely to be found here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking a question as duplicate is much more helpful than simply downvoting and closing.  It's also a lot less unfriendly which is a common discussion point of stackexchange at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a few stock answers for questions like this might be useful: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/510013/cant-boot-to-windows-after-installing-ubuntu-in-uefi&quot;&gt;Can&amp;#39;t boot to windows after installing Ubuntu in UEFI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions typically have too little information to answer categorically.&#xA;That's frequently because people who need to ask already know too little to include the right information.  These are typically newby questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when you consider the questions I believe it should simple enough to come up with a &amp;quot;blind&amp;quot; checklist of things to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find out legacy or EFI then try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If legacy then try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If EFI then try&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all this fails then this is a windows question so try searching on Superuser.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes some grace to apply this well.  I note some users are averse to re-framing another OP's question in order to bring it on topic, even where the meaning is not changed.  The question I reference above is framed as a Windows question, but could &lt;em&gt;arguably&lt;/em&gt; be described as matching either &amp;quot;how to reverse out grub&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;how to fix grub&amp;quot;.  My own view is that we should look at the inference of the question rather than playing buzzword bingo to determine whether it is on or off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T21:59:03.887" Title="Should we have a stock answer for broken Windows boot?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-03T20:42:34.503" Score="-5" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the posters picture goe up but why do we havew someone who merely edits posts finding it necessary to get his picture out front big noting himself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats a bit overboard from a moderator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344969" OwnerDisplayName="April" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-04-03T20:55:35.037" LastActivityDate="2020-04-18T14:24:31.207" Title="Jeff Schaller-Why do you put your picture up on every edit?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5291" CreationDate="2019-04-03T20:53:08.513" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The profile picture (including the username and reputation points etc.) of the most recent user editing a post, whether moderator or not, is attached to the post together with information about when the edit was made.  This is not in any way special to Jeff's edits, moderator edits or edits made by other people.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone else subsequently edits the post, the profile image is updated; if the original poster edits the post, the indicator reduces to a timestamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This applies to both questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing that may be relevant to know is that moderators may possibly (but not necessarily) do a bit &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; editing than other users. This means that you may be more likely to see our profile pictures crop up here and there.  This is, after all, part of what a moderator does. Apart from us, you are also more likely to see users with high &quot;reputation&quot; do more edits than others. The ability to edit other people's post &lt;em&gt;without review&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;is a privilege&lt;/a&gt; that users with above 2k reputation points have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how this site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21788/how-does-editing-work&quot;&gt;How does editing work?&lt;/a&gt; (FAQ on the main Meta site).  The thing you are wondering about is called an &quot;Edit indicator&quot; there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-04-03T21:41:20.923" LastActivityDate="2019-04-03T21:41:20.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2019-04-04T21:44:18.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As already noted, this is because the post was made before triple-backtick code blocks were supported, and hasn't been edited since &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/322000&quot;&gt;support was added&lt;/a&gt;. A post's rendering is cached until the post is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to flex your edit muscles, &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/1023600/old-posts-with-unrendered-fences&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; looks for posts that look like they contain triple-backtick that isn't rendered properly. The query is far from perfect, it finds many posts where interpreting the triple-backticks as inline markup is fine, so please use your judgement and don't just blindly edit everything. As usual, if you go and edit posts that have a specific problem, please take the time to fix any other obvious problem such as other formatting issues, spelling, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The database copy is updated only once a week, so posts that were fixed in the last few days will still show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T21:44:18.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2019-04-04T21:59:03.887" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, if there's an issue that comes up often, it's good to have a reference question with a detailed answer that handles the topic in a didactic and generic way. On Stack Exchange we usually call those &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canonical&quot;&gt;canonical questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By all means, if the issue warrants it, you know the topic well, and there isn't already a usable question on the topic, please write a question and an answer. A few tips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's generally better to ask a new question than to repurpose an existing one. Actual questions asked by someone facing the problem often have a lot of additional details that distract from the main topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A canonical question should have a detailed answer that addresses all the common concerns, provides solutions, and includes links for more information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A canonical question is useful duplicate target when people ask specifically about that particular issue. But in many cases, it takes a bit of analysis to relate the specific question to the issue, or a bit of extra work is needed to fix the problem. In such cases, write a short answer and link to the canonical question for the detailed explanation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link the question from the relevant tag wiki(s). That's the easiest way to find it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few canonical questions that I wrote and which I think are good examples of what a canonical question should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116629/how-do-keyboard-input-and-text-output-work&quot;&gt;How do keyboard input and text output work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120311/why-are-there-so-many-different-ways-to-measure-disk-usage&quot;&gt;Why are there so many different ways to measure disk usage?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119905/why-does-my-regular-expression-work-in-x-but-not-in-y&quot;&gt;Why does my regular expression work in X but not in Y?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12956/how-do-i-run-32-bit-programs-on-a-64-bit-debian-ubuntu&quot;&gt;How do I run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters&quot;&gt;Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198590/what-is-a-bind-mount&quot;&gt;What is a bind mount?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won&amp;#39;t people help me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T21:59:03.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5287" CreationDate="2019-04-04T22:27:58.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, closure (apart from duplicates) should be a temporary state. A question should either be open or deleted. If a question is closed, it means that we aren't confident that we can provide quality answers, so we shouldn't expose those answers to the world. And a question that has no answers and no means to add one is not useful either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if a question has a useful answer which is on-topic for the site, but the question itself is not fit for the site, then &lt;strong&gt;please edit the question to match the answer&lt;/strong&gt;. In a bit more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; then it's probably not fit for the site. Even if an off-topic question gets a good answer, this site isn't a good place for it because voters on this site can't be expected to be good judges of off-topic answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is &lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/em&gt; but someone managed to write a good answer, this means that the question isn't so broad and opinion-based. The question may need to be edited to be more focused or less subjective, but the proof of the pudding is in the answering. In particular, having a comprehensive answer disproves “too broad”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is unclear but someone managed to write a useful but perhaps partial answer, then the question should be edited to match this answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problematic case is when there are multiple good answers that interpret the question is different ways. In this case the thread is usually not salvageable (this is why it's best to close unclear questions as quickly as possible), but it may be useful to preserve the answers by copying them to two or more new (or old) questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do note that when a question is asked, it belongs to its asker, and other people should always respect the asker — if the question isn't asking what you want, post your own question. But this ownership degrades over time. Once a question gets good answers, it no longer belongs solely to the question: the community as a whole has a share in it, because the question conditions the answers. Preserving the value of a good answer trumps preserving the asker's wishes. For example, we don't allow askers to rescind their question once it's been answered¹. And if the question is closed and answered, then it's even more important to edit it, even in a drastic way, to allow the question to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are too many closed questions to salvage all of them. But if a closed question is a top Google hit for a popular search, it's in the top priority tier for salvaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, if you're working the close review queue, please check whether the question has good answers. &lt;strong&gt;If there are good answers, prioritize editing over closing, even if that means putting words in the asker's mouth&lt;/strong&gt;. If there aren't any good answers and the question can't be saved without a drastic edit then the question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; With one exception: if there's a single answer that hasn't proven its worth by getting an upvote. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T22:27:58.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5286" CreationDate="2019-04-04T22:32:54.150" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't paid attention recently, but on the topic of closing questions with useful answers, I'll repeat some of what I wrote on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5287/should-we-improve-posts-that-are-common-google-results/5295#5295&quot;&gt;another meta question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're working the close review queue, please check whether the question has good answers. &lt;strong&gt;If there are good answers, prioritize editing over closing, even if that means putting words in the asker's mouth&lt;/strong&gt;. If there aren't any good answers and the question can't be saved without a drastic edit then the question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, closure (apart from duplicates) should be a temporary state. A question should either be open or deleted. If a question is closed, it means that we aren't confident that we can provide quality answers, so we shouldn't expose those answers to the world. And a question that has no answers and no means to add one is not useful either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if a question has a useful answer which is on-topic for the site, but the question itself is not fit for the site, then please edit the question to match the answer. In a bit more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is off-topic then it's probably not fit for the site. Even if an off-topic question gets a good answer, this site isn't a good place for it because voters on this site can't be expected to be good judges of off-topic answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is too broad or primarily opinion-based but someone managed to write a good answer, this means that the question isn't so broad and opinion-based. The question may need to be edited to be more focused or less subjective, but the proof of the pudding is in the answering. In particular, having a comprehensive answer disproves “too broad”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is unclear but someone managed to write a useful but perhaps partial answer, then the question should be edited to match this answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problematic case is when there are multiple good answers that interpret the question is different ways. In this case the thread is usually not salvageable (this is why it's best to close unclear questions as quickly as possible), but it may be useful to preserve the answers by copying them to two or more new (or old) questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;em&gt;accepted answer&lt;/em&gt; isn't synonymous with &lt;em&gt;useful answer&lt;/em&gt;. Sometimes askers accept the first answer even if it's completely broken. And an answer can be accepted, but trivial and therefore not useful (e.g. if the question is essentially an RTFM case). Use your own judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T11:45:35.123" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T11:45:35.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5265" CreationDate="2019-04-04T22:44:13.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is &lt;em&gt;on-topic&lt;/em&gt; here, and this is the most appropriate site for it. The problem with it is that there isn't enough information to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most distributions' packages are not meant for unprivileged installation. Why do you want to use a distribution package rather than compile the upstream source, if you aren't going to do a system-wide installation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although your question isn't exactly a software recommendation, I strongly recommend reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/a/352&quot;&gt;the question quality guidelines for Software Recommendations Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; (disclaimer: I wrote that). Your question has some requirements related to using system-level package management tools, and a sort of user story about managing packages for unprivileged installation, but that user story doesn't match the requirements. This discrepancy makes it hard to figure out what you really want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is unclear as it is, and I voted to close as such. As it stands now, any answer would have to focus on one part of the question and would be highly likely to contradict some other part. But you can salvage the question! You just need to explain more clearly what you want to do, why you've made the choices you've made so far, and whether those choices are definitive or not (there may be an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;xy problem&lt;/a&gt; here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T22:44:13.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5299" CreationDate="2019-04-05T13:10:21.037" Score="19" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;We often get questions, usually text-parsing ones, from people working in Bioinformatics. Since I am a bioinformatician and a &lt;em&gt;pro tempore&lt;/em&gt; moderator on &lt;a href=&quot;https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Bioinformatics SE&lt;/a&gt;, I will often leave a comment under such questions informing the OP that there is such a site as Bioinformatics Stack Exchange. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/510709/replacing-matching-entries-in-one-column-of-a-file-by-another-column-from-a-diff#comment944124_510709&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It looks like you might also be interested in our sister site: Bioinformatics. – terdon♦ 8 mins ago    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/372917/how-to-add-a-string-to-a-txt-file-in-all-rows-excluding-few-characters-using-se#comment663178_372917&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question is on topic and welcome here, but you might be interested in our new Bioinformatics site. – terdon♦ Jun 23 '17 at 9:25&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last thing I want to do is deprive this site of useful questions, but the Bioinformatics site is indeed better suited for some of these issues since it can often be helpful to be familiar with the file formats involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how does the community feel about this? Is it OK for me to do this? Does anyone object? Should I, as a mod of Unix &amp;amp; Linux, not leave comments advertising another site? Or does nobody really care?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T15:49:46.877" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T15:56:53.070" Title="Is promoting another Stack Exchange site OK?" Tags="|discussion|comments|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2019-04-05T14:00:21.383" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no issues with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this myself, especially if a user has asked bioinformatics-related questions in the past.  This was a question about parsing and reformatting a Fastq file from a user with a number of bioinformatics-related questions on our site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RmDRr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RmDRr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of comment making a user aware of bioinfo site&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was definitely on-topic here but I wanted them to just be aware of the bioinfo site as they weren't associated with that yet.  I noticed that they immediately created an account there afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way the user has two venues for asking questions and can choose the one that they feel more closely fit their needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, many over here might not know that there may exist tools for performing certain common bioinformatics tasks and will instead &quot;cobble together&quot; a script that may work for the specific data shown (only), but that does not properly handle &quot;quirky real data&quot; (biology is messy). The user leaves not knowing the limitations and are confused when trying to apply the same thing to another seemingly similar data set and fails. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4sgA3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4sgA3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of comment where a sub-par tool is used for bioinfo task&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from the user's perspective, it's a good thing to be made aware of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Bioinformatics SE site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also, obviously, benefit the bioinfo site to have more users, and by having more users on an SE site in general, further people (colleagues, friends etc.) are made aware of the resources available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some text-processing tasks that bioinformaticians want to perform on their data are sometimes somewhat dull.  It's &quot;get &lt;em&gt;these&lt;/em&gt; lines if &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; value is positive&quot;.  And then there's another similar question, but on another set of data, possibly in another well known format (in bioinfo circles), but with essentially the same formulation...  The solution may be interesting in the ways it performs the task, but it would not in other ways benefit a non-bioinformatician Unix user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not &lt;em&gt;migrate&lt;/em&gt; bioinformatics questions to the bioinfo site unless they were explicitly about the specific use of bioinformatics software, or asked about bioinformatics methodology etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would similarly not see any issues with pointing out the existence of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://vi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Vi and Vim site&lt;/a&gt;, or any other SE site, to users that may benefit from having access other users with special interests/expertise (although I would honestly not think pointing out the Vi site in particular would need to happen &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; often).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T17:24:50.443" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T17:24:50.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2019-04-05T14:22:52.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but not in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is how I do it, with sites like the vi one for example, for what it is worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the questioner is lost, and was apparently unsure where to come in the first place, then I point to the other Stack Exchange WWW site if it is a better fit. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is a question, or better yet a full question and answer, on the other WWW site, I point to those &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt;, not as a wave in the general direction of the other WWW site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On occasion, I will point to a tag on the other site, as a way of indicating that &lt;em&gt;a whole load&lt;/em&gt; of questions and answers already exist on the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is superior to a wishy-washy boilerplate &quot;you might like&quot; approach.  We have that sort of thing down the right hand side of the page already, with the site advertisements, network questions, and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the best thing that you can do is write up good questions and answers on that site &lt;em&gt;to be pointed to&lt;/em&gt;.  Surely you can do better than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/510538/5132&quot;&gt;How do I download a public dataset from the internet to linux?&lt;/a&gt; , for example.  &amp;#9786;  (As an aside: It's absurd how pointlessly difficult those people have made the task of archiving some directories into a ZIP file and then downloading it with HTTP.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Further reading&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bioinformatics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144/&quot;&gt;https://bioinformatics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5172&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5172&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastEditorUserId="5132" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T16:05:30.573" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T16:05:30.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5166" CreationDate="2019-04-05T14:24:09.057" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll propose a solution to Answer this; please indicate (with voting) if this is a direction you like or not! These differ from the proposal in the Question mainly in swapping the nouns around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new tag: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installer-anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installer-anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installer-anaconda&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new tag: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/datascience-anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;datascience-anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;datascience-anaconda&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed &quot;kickstart&quot; from my initial comment regarding the &quot;installer&quot; one because while it's closely related, it seems independent-enough to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data science &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anaconda describes itself&lt;/a&gt; as a &quot;distribution for data science; a package manager, an environment manager, a Python/R data science distribution, and a collection of over 1,500+ open source packages&quot; -- which is a little longer than the 35 character limit. I went with &quot;data science&quot; from the sub-header and one of the features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We would also want to blacklist &quot;anaconda&quot; as ambiguous, in order to force a choice between one of the new tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-04-19T20:44:01.370" LastActivityDate="2019-04-19T20:44:01.370" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5303" CreationDate="2019-04-06T00:09:02.643" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/510616/when-is-begin-required-in-awk&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; for which I have two good answers. I've up-voted both answers, but not yet designated one as the &quot;correct&quot; answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the answers have been posted, I've realized I made a mistake in my question: I incorrectly asserted that two similar commands gave the same output, when in fact they do not. I don't know how I managed to screw that up, but I did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2657/286615&quot;&gt;answer with advice on a similar situation&lt;/a&gt;, but it's a bit different situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what to do about my screwed-up question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286615" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T03:14:46.343" Title="I have screwed up a question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5302" CreationDate="2019-04-06T01:11:14.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2657/117549&quot;&gt;slm's answer there&lt;/a&gt; applies here, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core question you've asked -- in both the title and in the only question in your question -- is about the &lt;code&gt;BEGIN&lt;/code&gt; statement in &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, which is what at least one answer has addressed. I would leave this question alone, apart from accepting any answer that you find useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are free, so if you have a separate concern about the two commands, ask that separately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a major impediment to your question by leaving the misunderstanding; I might even go so far as to edit the Q (or leave a comment on it) indicating that your original assumption was incorrect, in order to focus any future answers on your core question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2019-04-06T03:14:46.343" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T03:14:46.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-06T16:34:39.513" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt; questions be migrated en-masse to &lt;a href=&quot;http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;? That site was created because software recommendations were seen as too subjective and therefore not a good fit for most other SE sites. I have been surprised to find such questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="176171" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T12:00:16.257" Title="Should software-rec tag be migrated to softwarerecs.SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2019-04-06T18:17:52.520" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they shouldn't, for a variety of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old questions cannot be migrated. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10250/203101&quot;&gt;We can only migrate questions&lt;/a&gt; that are less than 60 days old. So in most cases, we don't even have the option of migrating.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, we don't migrate away questions that are on topic where they were asked. Since software requests can be on topic here, there is no reason to migrate them away. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Software Recommendations site has &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/q/336/281&quot;&gt;very specific guidelines&lt;/a&gt; for what makes a good, on topic question. The vast majority of the questions posted here as software requests would not fit those guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider that we have significant overlap with many other sites. For example, I don't think there is a single question here that wouldn't also be on topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://superser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. Many of our questions are about Ubuntu, so they'd also be on topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. The various &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;perl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;perl&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/python&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;python&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; etc. questions we have would all be on topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. We also have questions here that would be on topic on  &lt;a href=&quot;https://askdifferent.com&quot;&gt;Ask Different&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://elementary.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elementary SE&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Raspberry Pi SE&lt;/a&gt;. So the fact that a question might be on topic elsewhere is not a sufficient reason for migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you see a new questions which you believe would be better suited to another site (any other site), you can always leave a comment letting the OP know about that site's existence. Take care not to suggest that they cross-post, though. If they want to ask there, they should delete the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-04-06T18:25:32.100" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T18:25:32.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2019-04-06T18:27:30.373" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not looked closely on the 318 questions that are currently tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt; on this site (but I do notice that more than 200 of them have been upvoted here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; software recommendations should only be migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Recommendations&lt;/a&gt; if they&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are on topic there (we don't want to migrate poor question), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are not on topic here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the most basic rules for &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; migration.  Topics between sites often overlap, and if a question could have been posted on any of the two sites, we don't migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about &quot;Applications packaged in *nix distributions&quot; are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;explicitly on-topic here&lt;/a&gt; and therefore I feel that questions that can be answered objectively with a pointer to such software should remain on the U&amp;amp;L site, if the question itself is on-topic or has good answers that makes the overall Q/A topical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is highly unlikely that we bulk migrate old questions (we can't) or that we semi-automatically migrate new software recommendation questions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285467/a-proposed-philosophy-of-question-migration&quot;&gt;A proposed philosophy of question migration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-04-13T12:00:16.257" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T12:00:16.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2019-04-07T15:56:53.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;suggesting an SE network site to the user is common and acceptable: we see &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; , etc Usually that comes up in case of off-topic questions, where the phrasing is &quot;This question might be more suitable for [insert your favorite site here]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Promoting non-SE network site is typically considered spam, which is not the case with Bioinformatics site since it is within SE network&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Phrasing could be altered. &quot;[Y]ou might also be interested in our sister site: Bioinformatics.&quot; Sister site may be unfamiliar concept to the user, who might not even be aware that there's whole network of related sites to Unix&amp;amp;Linux. Consider adding extra info: &quot;[Y]ou might also be interested in our sister site: Bioinformatics, together with Unix&amp;amp;Linux Stackexchange it is part of StackExchange network.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Promoting also could be done via answers: link a question from that site and specifically mention the name of the site. &quot;For further reading on the topic, see this post on Bioinformatics SE: [some link here] &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85039" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T15:56:53.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-07T21:46:22.703" Score="7" ViewCount="442" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have some link on tutorials on how to post on this site.&#xA;Whenever I post something &lt;em&gt;containing code&lt;/em&gt; someone else (possibly moderator)&#xA;is re-editing and re-formatting my post. Where can I find guidelines describing how to post on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="316579" OwnerDisplayName="user2901196" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-12-15T21:10:10.037" LastActivityDate="2022-05-22T13:49:23.600" Title="tutorials/guidelines on posting" Tags="|support|editing|formatting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5308" CreationDate="2019-04-07T22:06:49.707" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators could well do editing, but there's only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;a few of us&lt;/a&gt;, and there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Editors&amp;amp;filter=month&quot;&gt;a lot of &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; users that edit questions too&lt;/a&gt;.  Editing is done to correct formatting issues that otherwise would potentially make a question (or answer) challenging to read, and sometimes we correct spelling mistakes and grammar, or we move clarifications from comments into the main body of the question or answer, or correct typos in code (if appropriate), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our (the community of users') intention is to provide questions and answers that are easy to read and understand, and we hope you don't take offence from any edits made to your contributions. A question that is easy to read and understand is more likely to be answered and more likely to be of use to others with the same or similar issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information about that, see our article about editing in the Help Center: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a toolbar with formatting tools at the top of the editing window when editing your question or answer.  The tool you'd want to use for formatting &lt;em&gt;code&lt;/em&gt; or other preformatted text is the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; icon. Select a piece of text that is code, and click the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9VI1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9VI1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing some formatted code&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also manually quote your inline code fragments using backticks (&lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;), indent your multi-line code by four spaces, or surround it with triple-backticks (&lt;code&gt;```&lt;/code&gt;).  The triple-backticks should be on lines of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    this is a&#xA;    code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```&#xA;this is a&#xA;code block&#xA;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;That is inline code: `This is inline code`.  That was inline code.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a question mark in a circle in the top right corner of the editing window.  Clicking this will make the toolbar slightly bigger, revealing some headings that will give you short help texts on different topics if you click on them.   It will also give you a link saying &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;advanced help&lt;/a&gt;.  The page that this link takes you to should provide most, if not all, the information you would even need for adequately formatting your posts on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJ3VI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJ3VI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing the help toolbar&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For information about posting on this site (asking and answering) and about the site in general, see the other articles in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't done so already, you may also want to take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2022-05-22T13:49:23.600" LastActivityDate="2022-05-22T13:49:23.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5308" CreationDate="2019-04-08T17:37:39.163" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Partly echoing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5309/315749&quot;&gt;Kusalananda's words&lt;/a&gt;, I would add a couple of remarks I hope can be of help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, don't take edits personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange platform aims to be unique&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRDuf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRDufb.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This design choice works well in producing both high quality content and initially puzzled users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, your questions belong to you and, yes, answers should try to solve the issues you are asking for help with. But to some extent they also belong to the community&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. Stack Exchange's wiki part wants questions and answers to be useful to the public. Thus, users &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120576/why-can-any-user-edit-any-other-users-question-or-answer&quot;&gt;take a collective effort&lt;/a&gt; to improve posts' accuracy, readability and clarity. This is an important asset of the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please don't take edits to your posts as indications that you did something &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;. They are often both an enforcement of guidelines and a relatively subjective attempt to improve posts in light of the above.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Make sure you read the resources listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5309/315749&quot;&gt;Kusalananda's exhaustive answer&lt;/a&gt;, but note that no tutorial will guarantee that your posts will not be edited. The best way to learn how to write effectively is probably to read around on Unix &amp;amp; Linux, especially looking at edits by other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, overzealous edits sometimes just happen. They are likely a small friction this system needs to work well. Getting used to live with them is probably the best idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional resources (many are linked from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;FAQ on Meta SE&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/how-do-i-write-a-good-title&quot;&gt;How do I write a good title?&lt;/a&gt;: lots of questions on U&amp;amp;L could be better titled (this is a general point, I'm not referring to yours).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About formatting code: some more details on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-format-my-code-blocks&quot;&gt;formatting code blocks&lt;/a&gt;; the recently introduced &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/322000/410681&quot;&gt;code fences&lt;/a&gt;; how &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/what-is-syntax-highlighting-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt; works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1 &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This used to be the image shown on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt;/about page of each site on the SE network; and it is still there, just... hidden.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2 &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;As a practical example, you cannot delete a question you posted if it has an accepted answer or an upvoted answer or more than one answer; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;see this FAQ on Meta SE&lt;/a&gt; for the full details.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-02-25T20:41:15.240" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T20:41:15.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5312" CreationDate="2019-04-09T12:52:12.773" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I list all my posts both deleted and nondeleted?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the search box of main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:674 deleted:yes&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;only shows deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:674 deleted:yes deleted:no&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;doesn't list both deleted posts and non-deleted posts, but only non-deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does SE deliberately make reasonable operations involving  deleted posts hard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-04-09T13:03:00.427" LastActivityDate="2019-04-09T14:01:05.333" Title="How can I list all my posts both deleted and nondeleted?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5311" CreationDate="2019-04-09T12:57:42.413" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; syntax for doing searches with &lt;code&gt;deleted:&lt;/code&gt;, but putting &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; string after &lt;code&gt;deleted:&lt;/code&gt; which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;yes&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;no&lt;/code&gt; seems to work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:674 deleted:*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any deliberate attempt at obfuscation involved here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm at this very moment not 100% sure that deleted posts stay around forever.  Someone with more knowledge than me will supply that information, I'm sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2019-04-09T12:57:42.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5311" CreationDate="2019-04-09T13:31:59.557" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look in the help the full list of search operators is covered there. The page is titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;help/searching&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deleted Posts (requires 10,000 reputation) When you earn the Access to&#xA;  Moderator Tools privilege, you may search your own deleted posts by&#xA;  using the deleted: operator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;deleted:1 searches only your deleted posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;deleted:all searches both deleted and not-deleted posts that you've authored&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;deleted:0 searches only not-deleted posts that you've authored (effectively the same as user:me)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately this operator appears to be limited to users with 10k rep or higher for searching amongst all the deleted posts. User's can however see their own deleted posts, they just cannot search for them using the &lt;code&gt;deleted:&lt;/code&gt; operator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;References&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/145060/enable-searching-with-deleted1-for-10k-users&quot;&gt;Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted&quot;&gt;Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2019-04-09T14:01:05.333" LastActivityDate="2019-04-09T14:01:05.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2019-04-13T10:07:57.843" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-rec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-rec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-rec&lt;/a&gt; questions should not be migrated from Unix &amp;amp; Linux to Software Recommendations. The Software Recommendations site was created because &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange sites ban software recommendation questions. Since Unix &amp;amp; Linux allows such questions, they are on-topic here and should not be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Software Recommendations does not accept more subjective questions than the rest of the network. If a question is too subjective for Stack Overflow or Super User or Unix &amp;amp; Linux, it's too subjective for Software Recommendations as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the existence of SR.SE is not that software recommendation questions are harder to answer on other site, but because many Stack Exchange sites are bad at moderating software recommendation questions, and just close them regardless of whether they're answerable or not. Unix &amp;amp; Linux does not have this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A major downside of relegating software recommendation questions to a specialized site is that this site is not good at answering them. Answers on Software Recommendations are generally good (partly because bad answers are moderated more heavily than on other sites), but almost half the questions are unanswered, the worst track record of all Stack Exchange. Software Recommendations is good at moderation but has an expertise problem. It's better to have questions under the eyes of experts, and when it comes to Unix software, the experts are here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Software Recommendations, on Unix &amp;amp; Linux and elsewhere, questions asking for software recommendations should follow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/q/336&quot;&gt;Software Recommendations guidelines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: I largely wrote the SR guidelines based on my experience on U&amp;amp;L and other Stack Exchange sites and on the advice of many others, and I moderated SR.SE for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T10:07:57.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5321" CreationDate="2019-04-13T15:06:08.290" Score="63" ViewCount="4195" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: The question is now here on meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5360/why-is-kali-linux-so-hard-to-set-up-why-wont-people-help-me&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won&amp;#39;t people help me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the regulars will know, there seem to be many people out there who think that Kali is a good way of starting with Linux. As a result, we get quite  a few questions from newbies trying, and failing, to do basic things with Kali. The community is understandably tired of these since it's sort of like   having someone trying to learn how to drive and getting a Formula 1 car to practice in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/399626/22222&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?&lt;/a&gt; post &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4640/22222&quot;&gt;was created to be a dupe target&lt;/a&gt; that we can use when people who are obviously out of their depth come here and ask for help using Kali while they are clearly newbie Linux users and have no business using Kali in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've long felt that we've been abusing the Why is Kali Hard question (WKHQ). It is being used to close pretty much any question that mentions Kali. This has been discussed a few times already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5257/22222&quot;&gt;Why are Kali questions hated so much?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4657/22222&quot;&gt;Systematically closing Kali questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the vast majority of cases, the questions have other problems. Most often, they are either unclear or too broad. Well, &lt;em&gt;we can close them for that reason&lt;/em&gt; then. The original intent of the WKHQ was to give users an explanation of why they shouldn't be using Kali. And that is a laudable goal. However, closing a question as a &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; suggests that the question will have an answer in the dupe. The WKHQ provides no answer to any technical issue, it only explains what Kali is for. It is a great answer to link to, but not a good dupe target. And it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4641/22222&quot;&gt;never supposed to be&lt;/a&gt; a catch-all for Kali questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that I do not propose systematically closing Kali questions! Each question should be judged on its merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a catch-all is what it has become. I think Michael Homer put it very well in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5259/22222&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At best, it's a helpful see-also, and not a duplicate; at worst, it's just people getting off on the superiority they feel from belittling people they think are beneath them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5257/why-are-kali-questions-hated-so-much/5259#comment9867_5259&quot;&gt;My comment&lt;/a&gt; under that answer currently has 6 upvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@slm I am becoming more and more convinced that we should close the &quot;Kali is hard&quot; question so it can no longer be used as a dupe target. It was a good idea, but I agree 100% with Michael that it is being abused. – &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, after seeing yet another (bad, but not duplicate) question getting a close vote as duplicate of the WKHQ, I made an executive decision and closed the WKHQ which, I hope, will encourage people to stop using it as a dupe target. Instead, I left &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/512255/how-install-program-shodan#comment947364_512255&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; under the question (the link goes to the WKHQ):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/399626/22222&quot;&gt;Kali is a tool designed for experts&lt;/a&gt;. It is not a normal operating system and should not be used as one. The error you are getting is quite clear: you don't have easy_install. But if you don't know how to correct that, I would strongly urge you to use a different operating system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am posting here first to let everyone know what I did and why, and to give the community a chance to voice their disagreement (or support), and also to open a discussion about how to proceed. If we really, really feel so strongly against Kali questions, then maybe we should make it off topic. But I don't see how we could justify that: Kali is most certainly a *nix system. We could perhaps make only &quot;expert&quot; level questions on topic but then who would be the judge of what constitutes an expert question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I instead suggest that we treat Kali questions like any other on topic question. We close when the question is unclear, but &lt;em&gt;because it is unclear&lt;/em&gt;. We close when it is too broad &lt;em&gt;but because it is too broad&lt;/em&gt;. We can leave comments pointing the OP to the WKHQ, as a way of explaining why Kali might not be the best choice for them, but unless there's a clear consensus to the contrary, I vote for keeping the WKHQ closed and no longer using it as a catch-all duplicate for bad Kali questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2020-06-03T13:19:46.253" LastActivityDate="2020-06-03T13:19:46.253" Title="Why I closed the &quot;Why is Kali so hard&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|kali|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5316" CreationDate="2019-04-13T15:31:12.687" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to write an answer because I disagree with how you formatted the main points; let me try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h1&gt;We close when the question is unclear, but because it is unclear.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h1&gt;We close when it is too broad but because it is too broad.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4644/117549&quot;&gt;said when the Kali dupe was proposed&lt;/a&gt; that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should treat them just like questions for any other distribution, perhaps with extra warnings in the tag excerpt and wiki. Just a quick reminder that we voted to allow Kali questions as on-topic here (pushed over from Ask Ubuntu), given that they applied the Kali tag. I try to re-tag questions that &amp;quot;forget&amp;quot; to include the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's maintain the StackExchange mechanisms for what they're intended to be.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-duplicate-questions-be-handled&quot;&gt;How should duplicate questions be handled?&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asking about the same aspect of the same concept, but with different examples, may or may not be considered duplicates. It depends how easy it is to figure out one example from the other. If it's only a matter of changing some numerical values or some variable names, they're duplicates. &lt;strong&gt;If understanding why the questions are at all related requires a detailed explanation, the questions aren't duplicates, merely related.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T15:31:12.687" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-13T15:43:26.257" Score="11" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following on from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5257/117549&quot;&gt;Why are Kali questions hated so much?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5316/117549&quot;&gt;Why I closed the &amp;quot;Why is Kali so hard&amp;quot; question&lt;/a&gt;, and in the spirit of making things better, let's do something about the tag excerpt; here's the current one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag should be used if your question involves Kali Linux, a Linux distribution based on Debian. Question regarding Kali Linux should not be related to specific setup (installing specific driver, modifying sources.list...) but oriented toward usage of Kali Linux tools. Kali is often used for security testing and comes with a huge set of tools for that. It is not a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing &lt;em&gt;false&lt;/em&gt; about that excerpt, but that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be the only thing a person &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; see before posting a Kali question. Should we give them some helpful advice up-front?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibilities include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;higher expectations for technical detail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;demonstration of Linux expertise &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an exhortation to look at the Kali-Linux tag wiki, which could spell this all out in more detail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T14:32:59.543" Title="What can the Kali-Linux tag excerpt say to help those askers?" Tags="|discussion|tags|kali|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-13T17:10:25.417" Score="28" ViewCount="597" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't make &lt;em&gt;trivial&lt;/em&gt; edits to questions that were recently put &quot;on hold&quot;. Doing any editing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196074/lots-of-questions-in-the-reopen-queue/196078#196078&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;within the first five days&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of being put on hold pushes them into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161390/what-are-the-review-queues-and-how-do-they-work/161391#161391&quot;&gt;&quot;reopen&quot; review queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your edit is merely a correction of grammatical errors or a cleanup of the question's markup, without addressing the actual reason the question was put on hold, then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question will likely not be reopened in review, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when the original author fixes whatever the actual issue is with the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237214/can-multiple-edits-send-an-on-hold-question-to-reopen-queue-more-than-once/239443#239443&quot;&gt;it will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be put back into the review queue&lt;/a&gt;, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as a consequence, the user will be denied the opportunity to have their question &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt; pushed into the reopen review queue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question was put on hold, there is &lt;em&gt;no need&lt;/em&gt; to edit it, especially not to just remove a couple of lines of &quot;Thank you&quot; or &quot;I'm a noob&quot;, or to fix markup or spelling (unless this contributed to the question being put on hold, which would be sad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that you can actually &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; the state of the question &lt;strong&gt;in such a way that it would be worth reopening&lt;/strong&gt;, then by all means edit it, and then vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been mentioned in discussion before, but I felt that it's worth pointing out again.  For old discussions, please see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3464&quot;&gt;improving closed questions without reopening&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3370&quot;&gt;Show reopen prospects when editing closed questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-12-15T11:17:05.727" LastActivityDate="2019-12-15T11:17:05.727" Title="Editing questions recently put on hold (don't do trivial edits on recently closed questions)" Tags="|discussion|editing|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-13T21:30:30.570" Score="5" ViewCount="766" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if there's a suggested way to format a terminal command and its output for posting on the site. For example, the Markdown code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;```&lt;br&gt;&#xA;user@host:~$ date&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Sat Apr 13 12:50:49 PDT 2019&lt;br&gt;&#xA;```&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;produces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user@host:~$ date&#xA;Sat Apr 13 12:50:49 PDT 2019&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This code block doesn't have any colorization or syntax highlighting, which are things often used in terminals to distinguish the prompt, command and output. So I'm wondering if there's a better or more preferred way to format something like this. I've also tried using the following language identifiers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;```shell&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;```bash&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;```console&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but they don't seem to change the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a similar note, I'm wondering if there's a preferred way to denote the prompt. In my example, I used &lt;code&gt;user@host:~$ date&lt;/code&gt;, but I could also use &lt;code&gt;$ date&lt;/code&gt; or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="294686" LastEditorUserId="294686" LastEditDate="2019-04-13T21:51:19.813" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T22:52:41.590" Title="proper way to format a terminal command and its output for posting on the site" Tags="|support|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5316" CreationDate="2019-04-13T22:38:46.230" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;In retrospect, I agree that the WIKSH thread isn't working out as intended. I do think that the WIKSH thread is useful, but it doesn't work as a duplicate target. It guides people towards solving their problem — by telling them to use a different distribution — but it doesn't answer their actual question: instead, it explains why their question isn't getting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;it should be on meta&lt;/strong&gt;. It's useful, so it shouldn't be deleted. It could get new useful answers and the existing answers could be improved, so it shouldn't be closed or locked. Even the title of the question is a meta title — “why won't people help me” is a meta question. The content is more main-site content, but it works as a meta answer too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can't migrate the question because of an age restriction, but staff can. Please migrate this question to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T22:38:46.230" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2019-04-13T22:52:41.590" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184108/what-is-syntax-highlighting-and-how-does-it-work/184109#184109&quot;&gt;syntax coloring&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;scripts&lt;/em&gt; by starting the code block with something like &lt;code&gt;```lang-sh&lt;/code&gt;. There's no syntax coloring that would detect prompts in a terminal session, and it would be difficult to make one due to the diversity of prompts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no way to use color except via syntax coloring for the supported languages. You can get bold and italics in code blocks if you use HTML markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Ordinary text, &lt;em&gt;emphasized,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;bold,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strike&gt;struck out&lt;/strike&gt;&#xA;Note that &amp;amp;, &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; need to be entered as HTML entities.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was typeset with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;Ordinary text, &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;emphasized,&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;bold,&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;struck out&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&#xA;Note that &amp;amp;amp;, &amp;amp;lt; and &amp;amp;gt; need to be entered as HTML entities.&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the prompt is part of the question, I recommend to avoid fancy prompts. If there's no other context, stick to a minimalistic prompt to minimize confusion: &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt; for ordinary users in an sh shell, &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; for root, &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; for zsh, &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for csh. In the context of a specific distribution, it might be preferable to use the default prompt on that distribution, but that can be confusing if it includes a hostname or username that isn't recognizable as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-13T22:52:41.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5318" CreationDate="2019-04-16T14:09:49.217" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;As about Kali Linux, a Linux distribution based on Debian that is specifically intended for use by security specialists, not as a general-purpose operating system.  Please read the information for Kali Linux questions and answers that is linked-to in the corner of this box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kali Linux is a security-related Linux-based operating system, derived from Debian Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Its default out-of-the-box installation includes many professional tools for security analysis and penetration testing of computer systems and networks, and conversely &lt;em&gt;does not&lt;/em&gt; include things that one would expect in a general-purpose operating system for desktop and server machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When asking questions, please ensure that you are not mis-using Kali Linux as &lt;em&gt;entirely the wrong tool for the job&lt;/em&gt; that you want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The developers of Kali Linux &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.kali.org/introduction/should-i-use-kali-linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;themselves state&lt;/a&gt; that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional penetration testers and security specialists, and given its unique nature, it is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When answering, please remember that Kali Linux &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on-topic here, and that question closure reasons are the same as for any other question: too broad, unclear, et cetera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For further explanations of why Kali Linux might not be the tool for the job, see the several answers to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/399626/22812&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Related links&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kali.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.kali.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kali&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Distrowatch listing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T14:09:49.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5318" CreationDate="2019-04-17T09:39:04.630" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are barking up the wrong tree. We can put whatever we want in the excerpt and the wiki, and it won't make any difference to any but a vanishingly small proportion of askers. What we should do is ask SE for a tag warning, a la &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/14270/158442&quot;&gt;this warning implemented in Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. I think the feature is still buggy (IIRC if you post the question right after adding the tag, the warning is ineffective), but this has a much higher chance of being seen compared to excerpts and wikis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T09:39:04.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5316" CreationDate="2019-04-17T13:17:32.327" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the WIKSH question is linked in the tag info. This isn't visible when asking the question. If something along those lines was also in the excerpt, that might help a bit too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An other alternative could be to add an info pop-up with a message when users add the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; to a question, similar to how BiologySE and several others have on their identification tags. This could then be used to either point the user to the WIKSH question or at least warn them about the beast they are dealing with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="263326" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T13:17:32.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5316" CreationDate="2019-04-18T13:13:44.940" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had misgivings about the use of this question for a while and feel the need to vent.  @terdon thankyou for taking this action and offering a good place to discuss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How we answer XY problems&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kali linux questions are an excellent example of common XY problems.  The majority of Kali questions we see may try to ask something specific, but the real problem is that new users are using Kali when they shouldn't.  The way we give answers to XY questions is critically important.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/269222/206656&quot;&gt;I've written elsewhere on this subject&lt;/a&gt;.  In all cases we should make some effort to answer a clear concise narrow question.  A big problem with marking duplicate of this is that we cannot tailor the response to the question being asked.  To my mind, WIKSH should be used as a warning comment of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please be aware that Kali questions often receive no good answers.  This is discussed here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This at least makes it clear that we are &lt;em&gt;trying to help&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Excessive use&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen too many Kali questions closed which are clear, concise and reproducible.  Comments with these duplicates are getting dangerously close to &quot;&lt;em&gt;if you have to ask, you'll never know&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.  This painfully reminds me of &quot;the bad old days&quot; of *nix forums where newbys were regularly shunned for no greater crime than being new.  The Linux reputation of being impossible to use for all but a handful of lifeless nerds is a reputation that belongs in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does take an expert to use Kali Lunux.  It does take a Linux expert to know if Linux is behaving normally or truly oddly.  By this logic, it does take someone capable of (preferably experienced with) using Kali to know if a question really is a newby error or evidence of something much more involved.  Unfortunately I feel a few users have picked up on the trend and are closing Kali questions without any understanding of what is being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tone of the question title&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no doubt that this question was written in good faith.  The content, both question and answers, is of very high quality.  Unfortunately the question title can be taken out of context and &lt;em&gt;misread&lt;/em&gt; as a bully pretending to cry. &lt;em&gt;&quot;why won't people help me, why, why... waaaar&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  I know that wasn't intended.  But when combined with comments that have sometimes accompanied duplicate close votes it has sent a very unfriendly message to some new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T13:13:44.940" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5316" CreationDate="2019-04-21T11:16:46.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, that the problem isn't that &lt;em&gt;Kali Linux isn't for beginners&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;the temptation&lt;/strong&gt; to close Kali questions as dupes for the sake of closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my observations, many SE communities have a tendency to close questions when there's a reason to, even if the question should probably &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed. I once asked a question on Ask Ubuntu about a general issue on an EOL release, and the AU community quickly closed my question for that reason (EOL). I ended up asking a moderator in chat and he reopened my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That says, &lt;em&gt;the existence&lt;/em&gt; of this WKHQ gives people the temptation to close K questions as dupe to that one. Imagine the following scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;apt-get some index files failed to download on Ubuntu (outcome: answered or closed as dupe as another one with a working solution on Ubuntu/Debian)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;apt-get some index files failed to download on Fedora (outcome: closed as whatever reason)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;apt-get some index files failed to download on Kali &lt;strong&gt;(outcome: closed as dupe of the WKHQ)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it makes its own sense, it's not all that friendly and productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to sum up, I'm all in for closing the WKHQ. Maybe lock it for historical significance as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211239" LastActivityDate="2019-04-21T11:16:46.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5330" CreationDate="2019-04-22T01:54:51.060" Score="0" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I should've posted this on the first day of April, but I forgot about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know, the trademark Unix isn't solely for the operating systems, other products are allowed to use that trademark if they're of different category and won't cause ambiguity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UNIX Electronics (a Korean company manufacturing home appliances, such as hair dryers) is one such company, so what should we do when we encounter people asking Unix questions that isn't about the operating systems? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186590" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-04-22T07:05:54.577" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T07:05:54.577" Title="How do we deal with Unix hair dryer questions when we encounter them?" Tags="|discussion|fun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2019-04-22T02:10:17.060" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close them as not about Unix &amp;amp; Linux within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unix and Linux Stack Exchange is for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and specifically questions about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying OS X (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Shell scripting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being cross-platform does not disqualify)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions about hair dryers running Unix-like systems may be included under the third bullet point, but otherwise are not within scope. There is little expertise here for expanding the site into other trademark domains, but the questions might fit on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;one of the other network sites&lt;/a&gt; and could be migrated by a moderator after being flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73093" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T02:10:17.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5319" CreationDate="2019-04-24T11:20:24.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reason why this specific edit is undesirable &lt;strong&gt;is because how the system works.&lt;/strong&gt; The edit itself isn't undesirable. Stack Exchange sites want to be a FAQ, and FAQ's don't include anything but the question and the answer. Instead of trying to get people not to improve posts removing irrelevant words that makes questions harder to find, instead change the system in a way that actually makes sense: only author edits should put the question in the reopen queue (or at least, that third party edits and author edits aren't not throw in the same bag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question wasn't closed, nobody would bat an eye that this is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, while those 6 to 8 weeks come this is a more sensible guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't edit questions with on hold status, unless you make the question suitable for answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange, in general, lacks editors. There's not many to make sure questions are always in the highest value possible. &lt;strong&gt;Please, do not discourage edits.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T11:20:24.650" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5336" CreationDate="2019-04-25T15:39:33.473" Score="24" ViewCount="768" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[paraphrased position 1]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Generally, if people abstained from doing edits that are &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; removing &quot;thanks&quot; and context phrasing (without doing any other improvements), that would be great. I perfectly understand the point of not cluttering questions with useless verbiage, but having someone actively enforcing the &quot;no-thanks policy&quot; on sight is incredibly rude -- and culturally insensitive to the point of becoming discriminatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The consensus has always been not to edit them out unless you're already editing the post, and then to take them out along with the other changes. That doesn't solve any of the interpersonal issues, in line with SE's usual practice, it just keeps pointless edits down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;v.s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[paraphrased position 2] Reviewers should approve any edit that improves the post. ANY. Removing thanks improves the post, and should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1498/is-this-behaviour-adequate-shouldnt-edits-add-content&quot;&gt;earlier&lt;/a&gt; discussions, I saw  &quot;consensus&quot; that edits that only remove &quot;thanks&quot; or &quot;hi&quot; were fine.  At most, I remember (but cannot find) an answer from someone saying they would not make such an edit themselves, but did not see any harm in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we mark the current feeling of Unix &amp;amp; Linux SE here, in a dedicated post?  The above discussions occurred on a question about something &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5319/editing-questions-recently-put-on-hold-dont-do-trivial-edits&quot;&gt;different&lt;/a&gt;, even if there was some overlap.  If nothing else, it should be easier to find here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;terdon&amp;nbsp;♦ (a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75189/who-are-the-diamond-moderators-and-what-is-their-role&quot;&gt;diamond moderator&lt;/a&gt;) was advocating against this type of edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not cultured enough myself to give evidence for all the statements in position 1.  If you feel confident enough to contradict them, or you feel this is insulting you, please start from an assumption of good faith.  I have posted my own argument as an answer, so you could respond to that argument if you find it preferable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2019-04-25T20:45:50.357" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T20:00:04.507" Title="Editing other people's posts to remove &quot;thanks&quot;" Tags="|discussion|questions|editing|new-users|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5332" CreationDate="2019-04-25T15:39:33.473" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree more with position 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is extremely surprising for a user, to learn that some readers consider &quot;thanks&quot; harmful enough, that they will edit purely to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a similar edit on a question marked as being from a new user.  I cannot see enforcing this on new users as being &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.metafilter.com/173846/Stack-Overflow-Isnt-Very-Welcoming-Its-Time-for-That-to-Change&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;welcoming&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  If the poster works out what's going on, it feels like a rebuke: &quot;don't do this again&quot;.  Editors often don't take the time to provide an edit reason, that explains why it is considered an improvement.  And the amount of effort required for the poster to try and work out what's going on seems disproportionate.  That applies to removing either &quot;thanks&quot; or &quot;hi&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange already has significant surprises.  E.g. the use of editing (plus the way comments interact with this) seems unfamiliar from nearly any other form of human discussion.  At minimum, I would wait until I could see someone was in a comfortable position, before I tried to teach them about a &quot;no thanks policy&quot;.  By default, while you are asking a question, you are in a fairly exposed position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know exactly how to promote this position.  I'm not sure that I feel much better if an edit fixes the spelling of a word (technical jargon or otherwise) at the same time as removing &quot;thanks&quot;.  And I am sceptical that editors would remember to write an edit reason, linking to the Meta explaining that StackExchange prefers questions without &quot;thanks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit I highly enjoy reading posts without &quot;hi&quot; and &quot;thanks&quot; at either end.  But I don't understand how policing this through edits can be worth the cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having less clutter gives it a better chance of being read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't &quot;get&quot; this.  I can imagine it being true statistically, and a contributing factor if the rest of the question is a challenge to read.  I struggle to imagine that the increase in probability is significant from the point of view of the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if a rule is not that important, don't try to teach the rule&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree the aim is not to teach posters every detail of how write a perfect question &quot;for next time&quot;.  We don't need edit descriptions to include an itemized list of references for spelling and grammar.  My problem is that removing &quot;thanks&quot; is &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; being idiosyncratic.  It then takes effort for posters e.g. to distinguish this from vandalism by a rogue user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that argument is not as relevant if you can tell the overall edit is clearly being helpful - i.e. removing &quot;thanks&quot; is combined with changes that are easy to understand as improving the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're seeing the community helping you progress towards an answer, I think changes like &quot;i&quot; -&gt; &quot;I&quot; are different from &quot;thanks&quot; -&gt; &quot;&quot;.  In some contexts people do use lowercase because they like the style, but IMO you have to be very laconic to make that work well.  When you've written several sentences, it's likely there are some other possible cleanups for readability (or for search keywords, or making the title a good summary...).  Lowercase &quot;i&quot; is pretty idiosyncratic, to expect editors to try to preserve that style when they're improving readability.  I think people understand that, and I don't remember it causing drama.  Editors removing &quot;thanks&quot; that you put in is harder to understand.  (Unless it feels like they rewrote the question as a whole, perhaps.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-04-26T00:02:49.453" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T00:02:49.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5332" CreationDate="2019-04-25T20:45:36.767" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The most important thing for a new user asking a question is to get answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone's first contact with the site is to ask a question, that's usually because they have a problem to solve, not because they want to join a community. Joining a community comes later, if the community has proven to be useful or interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when evaluating questions from new users, don't focus exclusively on your perception of what's rude and what isn't. Not only because your perception might not match that person's at all, but also because it often isn't the most important factor. Note that I'm not saying that you should be rude, of course, or even that it's ok to be rude. It isn't. But if you refrain from certain actions just because it might possibly be interpreted as rude, you're missing the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the effect of an edit that removes “thanks”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Objectively, it improves the chances for the post to get answered. Having less clutter gives it a better chance of being read. Editing the post bumps it, giving it another go on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjectively, however, there are downsides. When an asker sees some interaction with their post, but that interaction doesn't solve their problem, that often creates a backlash. “Yeah, you did something, but why didn't you help me?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this reason, &lt;strong&gt;I recommend against making minor edits to a recent, unanswered questions&lt;/strong&gt;. By “minor edit”, I mean one that doesn't make a real difference to the readability of the post: fixing trivial spelling mistakes like “i” → “I”, removing “Thanks in advance” at the end of the post. Spelling errors in potential search keywords, retags, title improvements, formatting multiline code fragments as code, and so on are significant improvements and should be done no matter what. And if these include the removal of “thanks”, that's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if a rule is not that important, don't try to teach the rule. “Don't put thanks at the end of posts” or “‘I’ is always capitalized” is not that important. If you start educating a newcomer who's still waiting for an answer, expect them to be angry that you're wasting their time. Do teach the rule if there is a clear link between following the rule and getting an answer or if it requires an action from the poster, for example if the question contains screenshots of text, or if the question is missing some information. If it's a reason to close the question, absolutely do teach the rule. If not, then probably the rule isn't that important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-04-25T20:45:36.767" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5318" CreationDate="2019-04-26T14:29:58.023" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Evidently there's a surplus of interest in &lt;em&gt;Kali Linux&lt;/em&gt;.  Perhaps it would make more sense to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get rid of the &lt;em&gt;Kali&lt;/em&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have a new stack exchange be created just for &lt;em&gt;Kali Linux&lt;/em&gt; questions, where the bulk of such questions would actually be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165517" LastEditorUserId="165517" LastEditDate="2019-04-26T14:32:59.543" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T14:32:59.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5332" CreationDate="2019-04-28T13:08:11.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I feel that any edit is worth making. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's just the removal of &quot;Thanks&quot; or the OP's name from the post this is fine. Putting questions into their best possible light is only a win, and it also demonstrates to the OP that someone is here already attempting to provide &quot;some&quot; assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage that all edits be made if you're attempting to edit, and not just the &quot;Thanks&quot; when there's more typos to be fixed. I've seen this behavior from time to time here and that behavior is probably what most would find off putting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, make the questions shine and look both aesthetically pleasing as well as grammatically correct as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2019-04-28T13:08:11.383" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5332" CreationDate="2019-05-07T20:00:04.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer also depends on whether the changes from the user doing the edit need to be reviewed by other users, or if they have enough reputation for the edits to go into effect immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been told that, as long as one’s edits need to be reviewed, they should keep to the important things, such as an overhaul of verbiage in order to be understood, or correcting formatting (e.g. for code), changing broken links, or somesuch. (When such an edit is done, the other things can be improved, but only then.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And once the reputation is above the threshold, that minor edits to slightly improve legibility or so can also be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea here was, IIRC, that, while increasing the quality of posts (questions and answers alike) is good, overburdening the reviewers isn’t.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43720" LastActivityDate="2019-05-07T20:00:04.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5339" CreationDate="2019-05-09T15:51:28.860" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/518000/2&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Side note: (hopefully I don't get flak for this) Mint is not a distribution. It is built on top of Ubuntu. This is not a very good practice. Other projects are flavors of Ubuntu, but mint tries to be a new distribution built on top of it. This is prone to providing various bad experiences, and mint has a history of security issues due to the nature of the project. I suggest abandoning mint for a real distribution (one that is actually in charge of what is happening to it) Debian, Fedora, Arch, and Void are all great Linux distributions. Thank you for indulging me;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and tried to leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/425418/linux-mint-cinnamon-high-ram-usage/518000#comment957100_518000&quot;&gt;a welcoming comment&lt;/a&gt; and the OP did edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/518000/90054&quot;&gt;their answer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; it's till too opinionated &lt;em&gt;in my humble opinion&lt;/em&gt; and doesn't have enough body to make it a real answer, so asking the more experienced users here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What should I do about this answer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90054" LastEditorUserId="90054" LastEditDate="2019-05-09T16:00:34.983" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T18:07:04.837" Title="How do we stand on allowing opinions in answers?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5338" CreationDate="2019-05-09T18:07:04.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just downvote it. You feel this answer isn't useful, that's exactly what downvotes are for. It already has a delete vote and will probably be deleted soon since, as you point out, it doesn't give an answer to the question and instead only an opinion on a pretty much unrelated subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the general answer to &quot;what do I do if I consider an answer bad but not flaggable&quot; is: downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-05-09T18:07:04.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-09T18:26:28.177" Score="8" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reviewing existing tags (I was looking for Incident Response/Investigation related subjects) I came across the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-expansion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-expansion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-expansion&lt;/a&gt; tag. Without a wiki definition I had to look at questions already tagged and assume it refers to expansion of the shell history, which will vary greatly depending on WHICH shell is the focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there value having a tag to distinguish this subject from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/command-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;command-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;command-history&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62481" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2019-05-23T01:03:07.797" LastActivityDate="2019-10-20T02:01:15.590" Title="What is the [history-expansion] tag for, and does it add any value?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5340" CreationDate="2019-05-10T16:46:37.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of good discussion and clarification of the idea(s) in the comments. I suppose that makes this a &quot;successful&quot; post for Meta-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point I believe there IS a distinct subject this tag addresses that provides value. The cause of the ambiguity for me was the lack of a concise description or wiki entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be happy to author one myself, but with my limited experience in this topic it is probably best for someone else to provide guidance on what &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-expansion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-expansion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-expansion&lt;/a&gt; represents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62481" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T16:46:37.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5343" CreationDate="2019-05-10T20:46:26.330" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to order users ranking by country? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this a good option to have in Stack Exchange? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I using the right site to ask that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170792" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2019-05-11T04:53:14.593" LastActivityDate="2019-05-11T04:53:14.593" Title="Order users by country? Feature Request" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5342" CreationDate="2019-05-10T21:30:25.947" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no option currently on the site for that, but there are a bunch of &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/queries?order_by=popular&amp;amp;q=country&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer queries&lt;/a&gt; that might work depending on what you're trying to do. It's a little tricky because the &quot;Location&quot; field on a user's profile is freeform, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/53058/top-users-by-country&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; lets you search by country, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/42162/which-country-are-the-users-from&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; counts up the number of users from each country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T21:30:25.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5345" CreationDate="2019-05-24T10:24:48.673" Score="7" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to contribute effectively to the community, but I am not clear on when to &lt;em&gt;Comment&lt;/em&gt; and when to &lt;em&gt;Answer&lt;/em&gt; a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see many 'answers' in &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; and I am not sure why they chose not to answer instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="279203" OwnerDisplayName="infinitquest" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-05-24T17:59:55.447" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T18:55:53.060" Title="When to &quot;Comment&quot;, and when to &quot;Answer&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|answers|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5344" CreationDate="2019-05-24T11:14:40.453" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll refer to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Help Center's section on the &quot;Comment&quot; privilege&lt;/a&gt;, in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; I comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;shouldn't&lt;/strong&gt; I comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering a question&lt;/strong&gt; or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has come up before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4626/users-deleting-their-questions-after-receiving-answer-as-comment-stop-answering&quot;&gt;Users deleting their questions after receiving answer as comment (stop answering in comments)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1331/is-ok-to-flag-comments-as-answers&quot;&gt;Is OK to flag comments as answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4150/how-should-we-deal-with-question-answered-in-the-comments&quot;&gt;How should we deal with question answered in the comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-05-24T19:14:50.960" LastActivityDate="2019-05-24T19:14:50.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5344" CreationDate="2019-05-24T15:35:37.053" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;...when to Comment and when to Answer a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the response is not a complete answer, then it's a Comment. If you have not provided all the information needed for the Original Poster to solve the problem, but have something constructive for them (i.e., 'relevant but minor or transient information'), that's a good comment; for example, if you remember &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of a solution, but not the entire solution, that's a useful comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49368" LastEditorUserId="49368" LastEditDate="2019-05-29T18:55:53.060" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T18:55:53.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-25T08:36:27.850" Score="20" ViewCount="811" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;No&quot; is a valid answer to &quot;is this possible?&quot;.  Sometimes it can be quite useful.  A recent example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/516588/how-to-ban-all-connections-to-se-and-ru-in-the-hosts-deny-file/516594#516594&quot;&gt;How to ban all connections to .se and .ru in the hosts.deny file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/srostedt/status/1132009918444318721&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/srostedt/status/1132009918444318721&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/512503/change-format-of-syscall-event-trace-output-to-ftrace/&quot;&gt;Change format of syscall event trace output to ftrace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In the two links above, you can currently see a &quot;no&quot; answer which was deleted, and converted into a comment.  But looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5344/when-to-comment-and-when-to-answer&quot;&gt;When to &amp;quot;Comment&amp;quot;, and when to &amp;quot;Answer&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; , I would think it fits better as an answer, and does not fit well as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This type of answer might be most useful when worded &quot;It is not possible in version 42. The current features (or architecture) are exhaustively documented &amp;lt;here&gt;, and none of them will let you do this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is no written rule that requires that wording.  I can imagine a moderator wanting to avoid the &quot;this answer is not useful&quot; scoring process etc, for an inexperienced StackExchange user.  But I am not convinced this is the best approach.  As an example of an alternative, I saw another short, new answer today, which received a comment response &quot;Do you have any references for this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, an edit like &quot;citation: I am the first name listed in the &lt;code&gt;MAINTAINERS&lt;/code&gt; document for this code&quot; could make the answer more useful.  The author has since attempted to provide this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is not simply a pedantic mis-understanding of a common idiom.  It would still apply when question posts are worded &quot;I want to do X, and I need to do it using tool Y &lt;em&gt;because reason Z&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.   The correct answer may be &quot;tool Y cannot do X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The caveat here is that when you cannot tell what reason Z is, it can be unclear what the intended question is.  Does the asker require answers to use tool Y, or did they just assume that tool Y would have a good way to do X?  That is what we have question comments for.  And ultimately, the ability to put a question on hold.  I.e. if a post is not a good fit for this site's definition of a question: a post that can have a definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T18:42:57.457" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T18:42:57.457" Title="&quot;That is not possible&quot; is a valid answer" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5349" CreationDate="2019-05-25T10:45:35.950" Score="1" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;What has triggered the massive number of user removals shown in  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/674/tim?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/674/tim?tab=reputation&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it related to my account?Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for being sensitive. It happened at this moment when  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/385434/being-bullied-by-some-users-and-moderators&quot;&gt;I am   not recovered from the repetitive &quot;abuse&quot; by some super powerful and privileged users and moderators at the infamous stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T20:54:57.480" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T20:54:57.480" Title="What has triggered the massive number of user removals?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5348" CreationDate="2019-05-25T11:27:42.893" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this has nothing at all to do with your account. How could it? It also has nothing to do with the moderation team here. We didn't remove this user, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/328644/203101&quot;&gt;someone from SE did&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, as a mod, I don't even have any way of knowing what user was removed or why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just to set your mind at ease, you are not alone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/885/gilles?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Gilles lost 549 reputation points.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22565/st%C3%A9phane-chazelas?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Stéphane Chazelas lost 280 reputation points.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/7453/slm?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;slm lost 65 reputation points.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/86440/stephen-kitt?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Stephen Kitt lost 240 reputation points.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/116858/kusalananda?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Kusalananda lost 366 reputation points.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22222/terdon?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;I lost 230 reputation points.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T20:15:32.757" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T20:15:32.757" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5347" CreationDate="2019-05-25T16:18:59.630" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you. &quot;You can't&quot; is a valid answer -- and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A117549+%22not+possible%22&quot;&gt;one that I've used&lt;/a&gt;! I agree also that such a claim should be backed up by evidence of some kind (a demonstration,  documentation, or as in this case, the author of the software) that indicates the current limits. Thank you, sourcejedi, for doing the right thing and bringing the situation up here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I converted the Answer when I saw it while going through the Late Answer review queue (&quot;late answers from new users&quot;). At that time, the Answer lacked the attribution claim, which was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/520693/revisions&quot;&gt;added about a day later&lt;/a&gt;, so the text I was judging read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there is currently not a way to do this. But perhaps in the future I may add it, if I can figure out a sane interface and implementation to do such a thing. Maybe I will add a trigger that will make the output show differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... which read to me less like an Answer and more like a wish. It invoked the &quot;I'm having this problem, too&quot; reaction from me, which isn't fair in this case, given what we've now learned about the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to apologize to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/354480/nevets&quot;&gt;nevets&lt;/a&gt; for my reaction to their post and would like to welcome them to join the U&amp;amp;L Stack Exchange. As I've learned, it's a great community with a lot of features and functionality -- and great users! The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; is an easy place to start. I will reverse the deletion so that it can show the current state of the Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T16:25:33.567" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T16:25:33.567" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5347" CreationDate="2019-05-28T18:02:23.663" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course it is a valid answer. Not everything is possible to do. If the person wants to know how to do something, but that thing is impossible, they're better off knowing that it's impossible so they can confidently abandon their approach and look for an alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there is a difference between &quot;impossible&quot; and &quot;impossible as far as I know&quot;. So I suspect that only in a minority of cases will be possible to give a quality &quot;impossible&quot; answer, one which is actually backed up by argument and evidence. In other cases the question is better left unanswered so that a more knowledgeable person can later come along and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also &quot;possible, but very impractical, so it might as well be possible&quot;. Technically the correct answer in such situations is to see how to do the thing being asked. But if the solution is impractical, readers are unlikely to implement it. The main object becomes not to provide a solution but to convince the reader that it is indeed impractical. Alternatively you could simply ask &quot;is it possible to do this &lt;em&gt;easily&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, but then you get the nag message about subjective questions. In any case, we still have the issue that just because you don't see how its possible, doesn't mean it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly there is &quot;possible, but only a tiny number of people know this topic well enough to say how&quot;. In this case, the correct answer may be of dubious value. If working with such an obscure setup that you cannot easily get help, it is likely that solving the one problem will not be enough. There will be many more problems and for those it may take even longer to find someone who knows a solution. Rather than persisting in stubbornly fighting this obscure system, the asker is arguably better advised to abandon it and find a more practical alternative. Unlike saying for sure that something is impossible, I think it is more constructive to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am moderately knowledgeable in this topic, and if there is a way to do this it then it is not easy to find. However, you could instead try this alternative approach, which does not have the problems you suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217968" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T18:02:23.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5354" CreationDate="2019-05-30T19:36:11.110" Score="7" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long explanation ahead to understand the issue before making the decision.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to recall how to open a random RAR file using p7zip command-line tool on Linux. After looking at some dated discussions on forum thread (lost citation due to private browsing), I managed to recall how I used p7zip to open RAR file last time. Problem solved, except for one misleading answer on Unix SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier, I found this post on Unix SE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/246535/125388&quot;&gt;How to open rar file in linux?&lt;/a&gt; There are 9 answers posted under the question to this date, but most answers noted &lt;code&gt;unrar&lt;/code&gt; in different ways and only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/407630/125388&quot;&gt;this answer mentioned about p7zip&lt;/a&gt;. Despite the answer had +5/-0 votes and one comment noted &quot;it worked&quot;, the answer is actually misleading as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get install p7zip&#xA;7zr x myfile.rar&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Windows I rely on 7zip for rar and every other archive file, and it works on Linux, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two apparent issues in the quoted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First&lt;/strong&gt;: The APT command to install &lt;code&gt;p7zip&lt;/code&gt; package on Debian/Ubuntu does not include the required package to successfully open a RAR file. &lt;code&gt;p7zip&lt;/code&gt; will suggest &lt;code&gt;p7zip-full&lt;/code&gt;, which will finally suggest the required package &lt;code&gt;p7zip-rar&lt;/code&gt;. Then again, suggested packages &lt;em&gt;will not be installed&lt;/em&gt; unless using &lt;code&gt;--install-suggests&lt;/code&gt; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The manual page &lt;a href=&quot;https://man.cx/7z(1)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;7z(1)&lt;/a&gt; has noted the requirement, as per added &lt;strong&gt;bold text&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7-Zip is a file archiver supporting 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm featuring very high compression ratio), LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, &lt;strong&gt;RAR (if the non-free p7zip-rar package is installed)&lt;/strong&gt;, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second&lt;/strong&gt;: The subsequent command &lt;code&gt;7zr&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;code&gt;p7zip&lt;/code&gt; package does not work with a RAR file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the sibling manual page &lt;a href=&quot;https://man.cx/7zr(1)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;7zr(1)&lt;/a&gt;, as per added &lt;strong&gt;bold text&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7zr is a stand-alone executable. 7zr is a &quot;light-version&quot; of 7za(1). 7zr handles password-less archives in the &lt;strong&gt;7z, LZMA2, and XZ formats only&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/P7zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;p7zip on ArchWiki&lt;/a&gt;, the difference between 7z, 7za and 7zr binaries has been noted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The package includes three binaries, &lt;code&gt;/usr/bin/7z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;/usr/bin/7za&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;/usr/bin/7zr&lt;/code&gt;. Their manual pages explain the differences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;7z(1)&lt;/code&gt; uses plugins to handle archives.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;7za(1)&lt;/code&gt; is a stand-alone executable that handles fewer archive formats than 7z.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;7zr(1)&lt;/code&gt; is a stand-alone executable. It is a &quot;light-version&quot; of 7za that only handles 7z archives. In contrast to 7za, it cannot handle encrypted archives.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the only command that works with RAR files is &lt;code&gt;7z&lt;/code&gt; and neither of other two. That is indeed true and I have tested by myself. &lt;strong&gt;But that is not all and there is a third, hidden issue.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hidden issue&lt;/strong&gt;: RAR format has version compatibility issue, in which the RAR tool version and the RAR file version must be matching or supported. For example, if the RAR file was created by a newer RAR tool version 5, then the created RAR file &lt;em&gt;can not be opened&lt;/em&gt; by the older RAR tool version 3. This issue can be reproduced with the newer and older versions of p7zip similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the long explanation above, I thought of writing a new answer that will explain to install the correct package, to use the correct command, and to use the correct version and perhaps with actual command output as proof. That seems easier to do without having to worry whether the suggested edit is appropriate or not, since that will result in much different answer from the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, there are already 9 answers posted under the question and a new answer will increase that to a two-digit number. That may give a false impression that there are too many similar answers and I may be seen adding more noise under the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, here is my meta question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I write a new answer for p7zip to open RAR file, or should I just downvote the answer and leave a comment so that more experienced user can do something about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: By the time I finish put information in order and wrote this meta question, it was late hour and lately I am lacking sleep. I will follow up this again after few days or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user125388" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T10:39:19.627" Title="Should I write a new answer for p7zip to open RAR file?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5353" CreationDate="2019-05-31T00:17:15.813" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you have a question that's slightly more specific than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246535/how-to-open-rar-file-in-linux&quot;&gt;How to open rar file in linux?&lt;/a&gt;, my suggestion would be open your own Question with a self-Answer. You could provide a link back to the general &quot;rar&quot; question if you thought it'd be helpful. In your own question, explain what you're trying to do and what the initial problem(s) were.  Then Answer your question with the (excellent!) research you've done. I'd recommend using both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rar&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/p7zip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;p7zip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;p7zip&lt;/a&gt; tags for your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new answer on the existing question would be second-best, in my opinion. You would show the extra steps required to use p7zip to do the job; it would be acceptable, in my opinion, as an Answer to that question, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar option would be to edit the existing p7zip answer to include the steps that you needed to take. Do take note of the 5 up-votes and one &quot;this worked for me&quot; comment, so I would take care not to clobber the existing answer, but rather append something like &quot;if you run into &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;, do &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not recommend downvoting an answer just because it didn't work for &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; situation; I would only downvote an answer that wasn't useful &lt;em&gt;for the question it addressed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T10:39:19.627" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T10:39:19.627" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5356" CreationDate="2019-05-31T16:13:27.703" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/521174/interpret-variables-from-read-in-string-with-shell-script&quot;&gt;Interpret variables from read in string with shell script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question how I asked it (I tried to break it down to the relevant point) didn't mentioned that in my input-text-file are shell-Commands. But one of the answers mentioned this may be a problem and already gave a working solution to this problem.&#xA;How do i proceed with my question? I can edit and clarify my question, but do I mention that I clarified it? &#xA;And because my original question wasn't specific enough, one answer I got also includes a non relevant part (but it also contains the working solution). How do i proceed with this? Leave a comment that the original poster edits his/her answer suitable for my clarified question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third but minor point: As I understood this, one does not say thanks here (instead vote etc.). This is kind of strange to ask a question and don't end it with any complimentary close. So the question just has to end with the &quot;questionmark&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="354864" LastEditorUserId="354864" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T16:31:18.323" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T16:36:38.143" Title="My question wasn't specific enough, but got I got the right answer anyway. How should I proceed?" Tags="|discussion|questions|editing|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5355" CreationDate="2019-05-31T16:36:38.143" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The linked duplicates and the existing answers addressed the question that you wrote. That'd be enough, in my opinion, to open a separate question. If there was confusion amongst the commenters or answerers about what you wanted, then I would recommend editing your original question. Above and beyond the existing answers, you've also accepted one of them, which implies that you consider your problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As-is, it sounds like you have a new, separate question. Because it's similar to your previous question, I would make it clear how it's different, perhaps even linking to your previous question. That way, people don't accidentally suggest the existing questions as duplicates again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your third point, &quot;thanks&quot; are generally considered extraneous in Stack Exchange posts. There's been &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5332/editing-other-peoples-posts-to-remove-thanks&quot;&gt;some discussion here on Meta&lt;/a&gt; about the issue and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5319/editing-questions-recently-put-on-hold-dont-do-trivial-edits&quot;&gt;when not to do such edits&lt;/a&gt;. My recommendation would be to keep the post focused on the technical aspects; the point of this site is to gather Questions and Answers; I take the assumption that if you got a good Answer, you appreciate it: by accepting it and possibly voting it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T16:36:38.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5279" CreationDate="2019-06-05T17:30:29.133" Score="9" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ed -s Answer&#xA;a&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As one of the newer moderators, I’ll weigh in on two very particular aspects of flagging. I’m happy to report that while we’re one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;top 10 Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; (whether by questions, answers, users, traffic, etc), the number of flags I see crossing the moderator’s virtual desk are fairly small. That said, there have been a few &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/declined-flags&quot;&gt;flags that I have declined&lt;/a&gt;, so I’d like to help avoid that little bit of extra work for everyone involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When flagging a post, &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of the choices in that subsequent pop-up put that post into a review queue. Questions can be flagged as a duplicate or as off-topic in some way; answers can be flagged as “not an answer”. The reviewing community -- not just the moderators! -- can then decide what to do with those posts. I’d like to address two &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; specific categories of flags: “in need of moderator intervention” and “not an answer”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The custom flag “in need of moderator intervention” should only be used when one of the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; flag categories can’t be used. Said another way, if the community can vote to close a Question as unclear or as a duplicate, then please do NOT use the “moderator intervention” flag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The “not an answer” flag option has been used a couple times on Answers that were, indeed, “Answers”. Most of the time, I think “we” get it right -- Answers that consist only of “thanks (author of another answer)!” or “did you ever solve this problem, I’m having it, too!” are caught and deleted as being not-Answers. The flags that I declined were on Answers that were honest attempts at answering the question. My advice here would be to take an extra moment to make sure you understand what was written; don’t get thrown off by a stray “thank you” lead-in or “I was having this problem, too” that is then followed by their own solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.&#xA;wq&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-06-05T17:30:29.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-05T19:21:34.047" Score="13" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a problem wherein I tried to get fancy with prompts, using ANSI colors. It works beautifully using 8/16 color palette ANSI sequences in tcsh and bash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works even more beautifully using 256 color palette ANSI sequences in tcsh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It goes all out of whack using 256 color palette ANSI sequences in bash. All on RedHat linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;So, what's the best site to post this kind of question on?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow? (which has a bunch of programming questions on ANSI colors)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Serverfault? (seems way wrong based on my limited knowledge of that site's scope)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superuser? (seems best for bash stuff?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unix and Linux?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5448" LastActivityDate="2019-06-06T04:45:13.687" Title="What's the best site to post a question about weird bash prompt behavior when using ANSI colors?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5358" CreationDate="2019-06-06T04:45:13.687" Score="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;StackOverflow? (which has a bunch of programming questions on ANSI colors)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, since &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is not a programming question, but a question about general computing software. It might be tolerated depending on who sees it, but I'd lean towards it being off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Serverfault? (seems way wrong based on my limited knowledge of that site's scope)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, since this has nothing to do with professional system administration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be on-topic on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(if on Ubuntu, which you aren't) Ask Ubuntu&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say there are plenty of people here on U&amp;amp;L who know the intricacies of bash prompts and ANSI control codes, so U&amp;amp;L is as good a place to post this as any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2019-06-06T04:45:13.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5360" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-21T23:54:02.607" Score="372" ViewCount="51982" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've installed Kali Linux, or I'm trying to install it. Why is it so hard? Why doesn't it recognize my hardware? Why do I need to set up so many things manually? Why can't I install the applications I want to use? Why don't tutorials written for other distributions work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help! Why won't people help me? Why is Linux so hard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Before you answer: There is a Meta question that complements this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4640/what-should-we-do-about-kali-linux-questions&quot;&gt;What should we do about Kali Linux questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" OwnerDisplayName="Gilles" LastActivityDate="2023-12-08T11:43:40.580" Title="Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2017-10-21T23:54:02.607" Score="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linux isn't hard, &lt;em&gt;but Kali is!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;If you need to ask, then Kali Linux is not the right distribution for you.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kali Linux is a distribution for professional penetration testers who are already very familiar with Linux. It is meant to be used from a USB dongle for penetration testing. It can be installed, but it is not really meant to be. It is not meant for general use (even by professional penetration testers) such as Internet browsing, word processing, gaming, development, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you aren't already a Linux pro, don't use Kali. Use a distribution for ordinary people, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, elementary OS, Linux Mint, etc.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you want to learn penetration testing, you need to learn the basics first! Do this on a “normal” distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the official Kali Linux documentation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.kali.org/introduction/should-i-use-kali-linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Should I Use Kali Linux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(…) Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional penetration testers and security specialists, and given its unique nature, it is &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc. (…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even for experienced Linux users, Kali can pose some challenges. (…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Kali Linux is architected to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.kali.org/development/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;highly customizable&lt;/a&gt;, don’t expect to be able to add random unrelated packages and repositories that are “out of band” of the regular Kali software sources and have it &lt;strong&gt;Just Work.&lt;/strong&gt; In particular, there is absolutely no support whatsoever for the &lt;code&gt;apt-add-repository&lt;/code&gt; command, LaunchPad, or PPAs. Trying to install Steam on your Kali Linux desktop is an experiment that will not end well. Even getting a package as mainstream as NodeJS onto a Kali Linux installation can take &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acme-dot.com/stupid-problems-deserve-stupid-solutions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a little extra effort and tinkering&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are unfamiliar with Linux generally, if you do not have at least a basic level of competence in administering a system, if you are looking for a Linux distribution to use as a learning tool to get to know your way around Linux, or if you want a distro that you can use as a general purpose desktop installation, Kali Linux is probably not what you are looking for. (…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for a Linux distribution to learn the basics of Linux and need a good starting point, Kali Linux is &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the ideal distribution for you. You may want to begin with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linuxmint.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mint&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; instead. If you’re interested in getting hands-on with the internals of Linux, take a look the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Linux From Scratch”&lt;/a&gt; project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;But why won't people help me?!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Kali is for experts, if you ask about Kali, people assume that you're an expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a beginner question about Kali, many people will ignore you. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beginners&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Kali&lt;/em&gt; are not compatible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What should I use then?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Which distribution is best for beginners?” is an endless debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a distribution that is designed to be easy for beginners and where beginners can find a lot of help, use &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. You can ask for help on our sister site &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; or on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ubuntuforums.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ubuntu forums&lt;/a&gt;. (Do NOT ask for help on Ask Ubuntu or the Ubuntu forums if you're using a distribution that is based on Ubuntu, but is not &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/flavours&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one of the official variants&lt;/a&gt; of Ubuntu!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://elementary.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elementary OS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is another Linux distribution designed to be easy to install and to use for people with no Linux experience. It also has &lt;a href=&quot;https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;a Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With any distribution, even distributions targeted for beginners, you can learn by looking under the hood. The difference is that with easy-to-use distributions, you can install first, and then explore to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" OwnerDisplayName="Gilles" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2018-08-19T18:18:17.510" CommentCount="26" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2017-10-22T07:11:26.307" Score="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kali Linux is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; meant as a general purpose OS. It's meant to be a standardised platform for deploying specific scripts to do various tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-propelled_vehicle&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NnKq7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screw propelled vehicle, Russian&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very good at what it does. Just not what you need when you want to go grocery shopping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kali Linux has a few quirks – being designed as a platform for launching tools, it's not really set up to be a general purpose OS, or as well-tested as other OSes. It sets you up with a root account (which most mainstream distributions &lt;em&gt;discourage&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kali is a fairly focused distro designed for penetration testing. It does have a few unique packages, but it's also set up in a somewhat strange way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Using Kali does not make you a hacker!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Too many people think so and are completely out of their depth, being unable to do basic tasks in some cases. If you wish to learn the &lt;em&gt;fundamentals&lt;/em&gt; the right way, forget about Kali at first. Kali's a Debian fork, and a modern version of Ubuntu or Debian has better hardware support. You might also be able to find repositories with the same tools Kali does for these distros. That's for later though. Work through something like Linux the hard way or LFS101. Understand the basics. Learn Linux before you get yourself delusions of grandeur. You make yourself a hacker, not the distro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kali is a somewhat overrated distro that's specialised, attracts skiddies, and doesn't have anything special to offer to the &lt;em&gt;newbie&lt;/em&gt; Linux user. You'll find that with a certain degree of hacking skill, you'd probably end up customizing your own environment anyway. Kali's really designed for the middle ground where one has basic-good skills but needs a standard, fairly substantial set of tools available. It is &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; a terrible distro for someone who isn't used to bash or the Linux environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, if you're a new user, getting used to Linux, people discourage you because it's the &lt;em&gt;wrong choice&lt;/em&gt;, and do not wish to help you load your gun and shoot yourself in the foot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Significant portions of this answer have been derived from answers posted by this account on Super User – large portions are based off &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/1050484/why-dont-you-use-root-for-browsing-the-internet/1050554#1050554&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/906425/what-makes-kali-linux-different-from-other-linux-distros-for-it-to-be-used-exclu/1040849#1040849&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="256748" OwnerDisplayName="Aibobot" LastActivityDate="2018-08-19T21:29:01.807" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2017-10-23T09:12:59.550" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the other posts have stated, Kali is a distribution with a very specific use case. It a toolbox with lots of tool that you will probably never use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to learn it, learn it in a virtual machine like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;VirtualBox&lt;/a&gt;, VMware, or use some &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;KVM&lt;/a&gt; front end like gnomeboxes or libvert manager. Your hardware will not be an issue with a virtual machine. It will have diminished power when compared to installing it on your hard disk drive, but with snap shots you can restore it to the last known working configuration in about 2 seconds when you screw up... You will screw up. Look at the relatively new documentation from Offensive Security, the new book &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kali.org/download-kali-linux-revealed-book/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kali Linux Revealed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is a decent resource to get started with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="201441" OwnerDisplayName="Blake" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T00:16:54.390" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2017-10-24T02:54:21.447" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kali and BackTrack are each more of a utility distro, like the GPARTED .iso,  or Rescatux.  You need to have a need to be using these. I'm not saying you are up to no good, but maybe later or with a mentor perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are an absolute beginner, and you have had some experience with Windows, then I suggest you try a number of distributions. It is very likely you will be installing any number of them any number of times. Indeed this is the upgrade path for many of them. The ones that may be easiest to cope with may not be the coolest. Zorin OS is friendly to Windows users, but it is Ubuntu underneath. Mint also has Ubuntu under the hood and also tries to have everything work out of the box, but can be quirky when it doesn't. CentOS is &quot;Enterprise Strength&quot; but may lag behind the bleeding edge, a plus is the Gnome desktop. And then there is Ubuntu/Kubuntu, lots of support but Unity desktop and Plasma respectively. Debian is a good choice, and relatively cool due to being upstream for the .deb distros and because people see Etch Raspbian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these have some issues, and generally for installation it boils down to the package maintainer's lack of care. If you don't stray from the path too much you should be OK. Hardened professionals can spend a whole day wrestling with MariaDB and PHP7 say because the dependencies never seem to be quite right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Kali, keep it on a stick and get back to it. Assume you've been penetrated anyway or will be eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70134" OwnerDisplayName="mckenzm" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T02:54:21.447" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2018-02-17T08:49:40.147" Score="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kali Unofficial FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you as an OP are trying to deal with Kali:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are using Kali to learn/develop/use it as a desktop/notebook environment, select a &lt;strong&gt;more stable&lt;/strong&gt; and user friendly distribution. Please take the time to have a look at the other answers on this thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if you are unable to connect to the repositories/install Kali/install a package : Kali is a rolling release, and it gets signature updates frequently;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/421821/invalid-signature-for-kali-linux-repositories-the-following-signatures-were-i&quot;&gt;Invalid signature for Kali Linux repositories : &amp;quot;The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG ED444FF07D8D0BF6 Kali Linux Repository&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kali also has a lot more services stopped by default than other distributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;These together with it being a rolling release drinking from Debian testing and mixing random packages from Debian unstable means you will get stranger problems than using another distribution when using it as a production system/desktop;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not forget that before installing/upgrading packages, in Debian based systems such as Kali, you need to do &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get update&lt;/code&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Due to the nature/instability of Kali, and being it a rolling release often it may make more sense reinstalling the latest version from scratch than upgrading/investing time into fixing it when you face update problems - and facing problems in updates is more the norm than the exception;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are trying to setup an Wifi adapter in a VM, the adapter is in the physical machine and not in the VM machine, and as such has to configured as passthrough/captured by the hypervisor/Virtualbox/VMWare see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/147075/how-to-use-wireless-network-in-virtualbox&quot;&gt;How to use Wireless Network in Virtualbox?&lt;/a&gt; e.g. you can only configure it once, either in the host or in a VM;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you intend to place a wifi adapter in Monitor mode, you have got to have a primary network/Internet connection, either an ethernet adapter or another Wifi stick for both Internet access and not losing remote control of the VM/raspberry being it remote;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beware also that not all brand/models of wifi adapters support Monitor mode, and there is even less support for packet injection - see this thread for &lt;em&gt;why you should not buy realtek&lt;/em&gt;, and for more general wifi advice &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252210/wi-fi-problems-using-asus-usb-n13-adapter/252215;&quot;&gt;Wi-Fi problems using ASUS USB-N13 adapter (realtek)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wifi drivers in source code might be outdated, and often only play well/are for specific versions of the kernel and/or hostapd;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After having a successful setup of firmware/wifi interface, you need to setup it for it to appear in the &lt;code&gt;ifconfig&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;ip&lt;/code&gt; command;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The official package for Firefox is &lt;code&gt;firefox-esr&lt;/code&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If having problems of kernel vs headers - see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/370911/install-headers-on-kali&quot;&gt;Install Headers on Kali&lt;/a&gt; ;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If installing Kali in an ARM/Raspberry pi, you have to expand/grow the last partition to use up all the SD card. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/46520/expand-file-system-kali-linux-on-sd-card-of-16gb&quot;&gt;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/46520/expand-file-system-kali-linux-on-sd-card-of-16gb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you've read this far and you still need Kali:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Try it first onto a fast USB stick and boot of that&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, beware of following blindly online tutorials or compiling random things &lt;em&gt;without understanding them&lt;/em&gt;. They might be outdated or have errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you absolutely insist in using Kali:  Kali also has a forum with several groups for their users at &lt;a href=&quot;https://forums.kali.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://forums.kali.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://kali.training/downloads/Kali-Linux-Revealed-1st-edition.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Free PDF Book - Kali Linux Revealed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adenda:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from official kali &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.kali.org/introduction/should-i-use-kali-linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;documentation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many new Kali users are tempted to add additional repositories to&#xA;their sources.list, but doing so runs a very serious risk of breaking&#xA;your Kali Linux installation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kali is a Linux distribution specifically geared towards professional&#xA;penetration testers and security specialists, and given its unique&#xA;nature, it is NOT a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with&#xA;Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution&#xA;for development, web design, gaming, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even for experienced Linux users, Kali can pose some challenges. (...)&#xA;Adding repositories to your software sources which have not been&#xA;tested by the Kali Linux development team is a good way to cause&#xA;problems on your system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Kali Linux is architected to be highly customizable, don’t&#xA;expect to be able to add random unrelated packages and repositories&#xA;that are “out of band” of the regular Kali software sources and have&#xA;it Just Work. In particular, there is absolutely no support whatsoever&#xA;for the apt-add-repository command, LaunchPad, or PPAs. Trying to&#xA;install Steam on your Kali Linux desktop is an experiment that will&#xA;not end well. Even getting a package as mainstream as NodeJS onto a&#xA;Kali Linux installation can take a little extra effort and tinkering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are unfamiliar with Linux generally, if you do not have at least&#xA;a basic level of competence in administering a system, if you are&#xA;looking for a Linux distribution to use as a learning tool to get to&#xA;know your way around Linux, or if you want a distro that you can use&#xA;as a general purpose desktop installation, &lt;em&gt;Kali Linux is probably not&#xA;what you are looking for&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for a Linux distribution to learn the basics of&#xA;Linux and need a good starting point, Kali Linux is not the ideal&#xA;distribution for you. You may want to begin with Ubuntu, Mint, or&#xA;Debian instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138261" OwnerDisplayName="Rui F Ribeiro" LastEditorUserId="138261" LastEditDate="2021-08-09T13:01:06.313" LastActivityDate="2021-08-09T13:01:06.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2019-06-07T12:30:44.960" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why won't people help me?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it's boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking as someone who has responded to a fair few questions on setting up or using &lt;code&gt;kali&lt;/code&gt; I have given up responding because the answers to most questions can be found somewhere already. A little web research will resolve most issues and questions like this one indicate to me that the poster has perhaps been a bit lazy in that respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that others answer questions on forums like this for the same reason I do, not just to &lt;em&gt;show off&lt;/em&gt;, but because of the intellectual challenge involved. Figuring out the answer to good/awkward and above all &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; questions is &lt;strong&gt;fun&lt;/strong&gt; and you usually end up learning something yourself. On the other hand, doing the same old web searches and pointing people to the same old links is just plain &lt;strong&gt;boring&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, root cause analysis? &lt;strong&gt;No fun for an answerer = no answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, Mr Robot isn't cool because he uses &lt;code&gt;kali&lt;/code&gt;, he is just cool. Period. He would be equally cool hacking the world from an &lt;code&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;debian&lt;/code&gt; install with the same tools installed. If this single piece of advice was taken by posters then &lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt; would be having much more fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For OP interest almost all of the tools in &lt;code&gt;kali&lt;/code&gt; are easily available in &lt;code&gt;archlinux&lt;/code&gt;. Simply add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-add-the-blackarch-pentesting-repository-to-arch-linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blackarch&lt;/a&gt; repository.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217629" LastEditorUserId="217629" LastEditDate="2019-06-07T14:08:57.883" LastActivityDate="2019-06-07T14:08:57.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-08T11:13:38.180" Score="-19" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/523428/how-can-i-fix-the-font-problem-of-this-pdf-file&quot;&gt;How can I fix the font problem of this pdf file?&lt;/a&gt;, I have a pdf file which can be rendered correctly by evince, but the text can't be correctly searched or copied. My intuition is that since the pdf file can be rendered correctly,it is  possible to find out the font that evince uses to render the file, and then fix the font problem from there. So &lt;strong&gt;I believe the problem can probably be solved based on the symptom  alone, without the need for other information .&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first two comments, I was accused of trying to hack a file with copyright protection, and I said no, and I created the file from another which doesn't have the problem. I was then urged to explain how I created the file.  I didn't think information beyond the sympton is necessary to solve the problem, and moreover, &lt;strong&gt;it is not easy and could take a while without guarantee to remember exactly what programs and scripts that I applied to create the file, and to  narrow down to a specific step.&lt;/strong&gt; So I left a comment to say so. Then a user who is now a moderator intervened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tim, consider someone who wants to help. You're saying: &quot;I have an original file that works correctly. I do some combination of steps, combine it with other files, do some conversions, and now it's corrupted.&quot; How much effort do you expect Answerers to undergo, when you could certainly narrow the range considerably? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I don't believe how I created my file is necessarily relevant to solve my problem, and although it is not easy and no guarantee to find out how I created the file,I didn't want to have anything directly to do with the particular user, so  &lt;strong&gt;I took time to test many possible programs that I used to created the file and finally narrowed down the problem to &lt;code&gt;gs&lt;/code&gt; command, so I updated my post with my new findings.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then that user posted a second comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm no PDF expert, but is it possible to provide the original (&quot;correct&quot;) PDF so that Answerers can re-run your commands in order to reproduce the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;strong&gt;he is not an expert&lt;/strong&gt;, now look back at his first comment, what makes him think  how I created the file is necessary to solve the font problem of my pdf file?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, &lt;strong&gt;AFTER I bent myself to his first comment, and made my final update to my post&lt;/strong&gt;,  what does this question in that user's second comment want me to do really: &quot;is it possible to provide the original (&quot;correct&quot;) PDF so that Answerers can re-run your commands in order to reproduce the issue&quot;? What kind of image did that user want to paint me, by pretending not seeing my update? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, &lt;strong&gt;my post has been continuously receiving close votes and downvotes&lt;/strong&gt;, which came  from other users triggered by the comments, and which are out of context, and very likely out of personal attacks or discrimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author of the last two comments, since long before becoming a moderator, has been &lt;strong&gt;belittling and picking on question posters and their posts including those he has limited knowledge about&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;closing (deleting, and downvoting)  posts (and provoking other users to do so)&lt;/strong&gt;. When he receives disagreements, he often &lt;strong&gt;accuses question posters for not following the site policies and threatens them to leave the site and find somewhere else&lt;/strong&gt;. His behaviours have &lt;strong&gt;obstructed discussions on many valid posts, and triggered other users with similar mindsets to do so.&lt;/strong&gt; These contradict the mission of a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is based on not only my numerous encounters (I could provide the evidences if not yet deleted, if I know how to search for them efficiently, and if my life allows me to spend a lot of time to do so), but also on my observations, for example, not not long ago, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5347/that-is-not-possible-is-a-valid-answer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;That is not possible&amp;quot; is a valid answer&lt;/a&gt;. he had to apologize after being called out  politely by more than one users, but the damage from the obstruction has already been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-06-09T13:21:25.553" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T13:21:25.553" Title="Obstructions on valid posts" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5367" CreationDate="2019-06-08T13:27:10.347" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, nobody accused you of anything at all! I have no idea where you got that from. The comment was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how do you know that the pdf file requires repairing? .... perhaps it is some form of copy protection&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not an accusation, it is simply suggesting that maybe the problem is that the file is copy protected and that's why the text cannot be copied. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next comments are, again, trying to be helpful. We have no way of answering your question if you can't show us the PDF file. And no way of knowing what step of the many you have taken created the problem if you don't tell us those steps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not wizards and cannot magically deduce what command went wrong. If you show us your original file, the problematic file and the commands you ran to create it, then we can try and reproduce your issue and maybe even find a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of complaining about people trying to get enough information to be able to help you, why don't you just give the information those helpful souls are asking for and maybe get an answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, now that you have added all the information requested, I could test your command and reproduce it and I have posted an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/523713/22222&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;. It isn't a very useful one, but it might point you in the right direction, at least. That wasn't possible before you gave the command you ran and the original file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-06-08T13:56:46.883" LastActivityDate="2019-06-08T13:56:46.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4744" CreationDate="2019-06-17T20:13:02.747" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Writing an Answer to put this post into the Active Question list of Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created a synonym between the two and am prepared to merge them. Merging: &quot;retags all questions tagged with another tag – which is not automatically done when a synonym is created. As merging is not (easily) reversible, it should be done with caution&quot;. As the question and the top answer both specifically used the word &quot;merge&quot;, I'll proceed with the merge in a few days, barring objections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-06-17T20:13:02.747" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-18T02:56:46.040" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to 'Sign Up' to use this site and ask questions. Put in a user name and password. The next option was 'Sign In'. It came back with a blank 'Sign In'. Keeps doing the same thing. I think I can post this as a guest. Can I post questions indefinitely as a guest? Where are the instructions for signing up? Should be simple and would be if it worked. What does '300 reputation' mean? Can someone help with tags for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="358369" OwnerDisplayName="johnonlakeerie" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2019-06-18T06:25:24.863" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T06:53:16.013" Title="I tried to sign up for this site but" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5371" CreationDate="2019-06-18T06:53:16.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was probably a bug that you couldn't sign up. I sometimes have this on my mobile phone where it prevents me from logging in. But normally it works when I come back a couple hours later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post indefinitely as a guest as long as your questions / answers are not deemed to be spam or always very low quality. Your profile tracks the questions / answers / comments / ... you post and the system will send you a message when someone replies, for example by answering a question of yours. You will lose this feature if the cookie you are using as a guest is lost because you won't be able to login again. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/68524/352819&quot;&gt;What does it mean when someone's an Unregistered User?&lt;/a&gt; for more information. You can ask the staff via the contact link at the bottom to merge your accounts once you created a full account though. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/18232/352819&quot;&gt;How can one link / merge / combine / associate two accounts / users? (Anonymous / unregistered / cookie, or Google / Facebook / registered)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get reputation for asking and answering questions when people upvote the stuff you post. There are a few other ways, such as suggesting an edit while you have less than 2,000 reputation, accepting an answer, having an answer of yours accepted, ... Reputation allows you to interact with the site in more ways. 5 reputation is normally the minimum to post on the meta site for example and 50 reputation allows you to comment. It's a measure of how much you have contributed to the site and how much the system trusts you that you can use the tools given to you responsibly. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7237/352819&quot;&gt;How does “Reputation” work?&lt;/a&gt; for more information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211476" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T06:53:16.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-22T09:25:17.173" Score="1" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran into this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105325&quot;&gt;Can the empty spaces/background in a terminal be replaced with a random(but pretty) pattern of ASCII characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while I thought it a very interesting question, I questioned whether or not it belonged under &quot;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&quot;, and even gave feed back about how displaying random characters around real information can make things hard or near impossible to read and wondered what they were trying to accomplish, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the question goes into using bash to generate and/or maintain a background of an unrelated image and interspersing it around content text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they go into using bash's prompt vars to aid in generating this, as well as asking about how this output is generated or comes from a &quot;VT subsystem&quot; (a primitive vt102 emulator that runs on the console for purposes of using the console with curses-type programs when one would like more than a simple line-oriented interface during system repair).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is talk about how bash makes use of the terminfo database capabilities by including them in the prompt vars (PS1, et al), which is a misleading statement/point of view, as bash doesn't make use of that database and shouldn't -- though a user might they might do better to store output of 'tput' for various actions rather than hardcoding some terminal specific terminal codes -- though they do use tput later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep wondering what the question was -- where would this be used, but it seems clear it has little to do with bash, more than other posix compatible shells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I knew what the question was, I might think it better on a computer-art forum or something else, but it's hard to see how this is a unix/linux question as I tried to answer how it's not the best way to communicate information as dynamically generated background around content, but somehow that got translated by him into my thinking it doesn't belong on any SE sites, which I wasn't saying though in thinking about it, it doesn't really seem to fit the Q/A format and might better belong on some QA's wiki, but not having much experience w/that, I can't say.  Anyway, he was then justifying how the Q getting 22 points justified its inclusion on the unix.sa site, and saying if it wasn't allowed, he wouldn't have done 116 other contributions &quot;&lt;em&gt;which stands well above ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶s [&lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; contribution count] at this point in time&lt;/em&gt;&quot; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, I don't know what to do if anything, but hoped to bring it to the attention of those with more experience who might be able to do the right thing (if doing anything at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding to a comment by @sim, &#xA;You said it belongs here.  Do you mean here in meta? Or that it is a question &#xA;about Unix or Linux and belongs in the original forum.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify why I had a question about its current location being appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at what the forum is about (from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1)  Ask questions, get answers, no distractions&#xA;  This site is all about getting answers. It's not a discussion forum. There's no chit-chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) Get answers to practical, detailed questions&#xA;  Focus on questions about an actual problem you have faced. Include details about what you have tried and exactly what you are trying to do.&#xA;  Topics to ask about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Shell scripting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being cross-platform does not disqualify)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;---- I'm not sure ascii art in the background of normal foreground TTY traffic really fits...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions that don't work:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions work well in our format. Avoid questions that are &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;, or that are likely to &lt;strong&gt;generate discussion&lt;/strong&gt; rather than answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;*Don't ask about...&#xA;      1) Anything not directly related to Unix or Linux&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(How is this question directly about either?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions that are primarily opinion-based&#xA;     Questions with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(um...how is this question not leading to extremely long answers?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said -- it is interesting, just not sure that it belongs under the Unix/Linux site, nor after thinking about it, am I sure that it fits the format&#xA;of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37521" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T08:01:40.630" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T11:20:04.680" Title="Where should this go, assuming it is right format for stackexchange sites" Tags="|discussion|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5375" CreationDate="2019-06-25T11:09:02.553" Score="24" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag can be used for questions regarding the X Window System. For X Version 11 you can use the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess people know they are running X, but they are less confident about the exact version.  I think this tag description is misleading: it will always be &quot;X Version 11&quot;.[*]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that asks about different versions of X11 is probably a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; question about how &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt; came to be.  Or a question about some successor to X.  These uses don't seem important enough, to justify preserving the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked about this on Chat.  Jeff Schaller suggested a Meta question to gather consensus.  Stephen Kitt noted that there is a site privilege that allows you to propose tag synonyms, but that this particular case is only allowed to be handled by a moderator.  (The system detects &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x11&lt;/a&gt; as a &quot;version-specific synonym&quot; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please up-vote, down-vote, comment or answer accordingly :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[*] See &lt;a href=&quot;https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/3055/whats-the-story-behind-the-name-x11/3056#3056&quot;&gt;&quot;Why do we never hear of X10 or X12?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, answered by the very same Stephen Kitt on Retrocomputing StackExchange.  (I was told my original explanation of why was misleading, due to omission of essential details).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the link, X11 has been used since 1987.  And there will probably not be an X12.  In the unlikely event that X12 does appear, I expect we can easily sort out any resulting problem when it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-07-05T18:15:19.743" LastActivityDate="2019-07-05T18:15:19.743" Title="The [X] tag should be aliased to [X11]. (Agree / disagree?)" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5374" CreationDate="2019-06-25T15:40:04.997" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a bit of a moot point. I skimmed through the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;, and the vast majority are Linux systems (so running X11), with the rare exceptions for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/496653/whats-the-relationship-between-x-and-vnc&quot;&gt;X11 on&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/420110/what-is-the-x-command-on-a-mac&quot;&gt;macOS&lt;/a&gt;. There's no question here that's about X but using something other than X11, so the very existence of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;  can't be justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T15:40:04.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-25T17:44:31.857" Score="15" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not infrequent to see controversial reviews of specific kinds of answers in the Low Quality Posts review queue. Those answers are often short, made at most of a few commands or links with few to none words of explanation; they usually fail to provide a solution to the asker's problem (e.g. propose a tool not suitable for the job) and/or are not just slightly wrong (e.g. cannot be corrected by changing an option to a command).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I'm not referring to the (many) answers reviewed in the LQP queue that are easily identified as variants of &quot;not an answer&quot;: gibberish, link-only, &quot;thank you&quot;, comments, new questions, &quot;I have this problem too&quot;, details from the asker that should be added to the question, question bumping&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These categories are collectively defined and addressed, among other places, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155538/what-are-the-guidelines-for-reviewing/180029#180029&quot;&gt;guidelines for reviewing on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/265553/10488700&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; (with nice examples) and as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/290699/410681&quot;&gt;the &quot;recommend deletion&quot; canned comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. The prescribed action is quite unambiguously to delete or recommend deletion, there is not much disagreement around them and their review usually doesn't pose much of a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, apparently there is strong consensus that we should avoid deleting poor and wrong answers, as stated on Meta Stack Exchange (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155538/what-are-the-guidelines-for-reviewing/180029#180029&quot;&gt;Guidelines for reviewing low-quality posts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/310370/410681&quot;&gt;How to handle low quality answers in LQP queue?&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;What are the criteria for deletion?&quot; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/410681&quot;&gt;FAQ article about deletion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/163733/410681&quot;&gt;When should I delete an answer?&lt;/a&gt;) and Meta Stack Overflow (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/287563/10488700&quot;&gt;You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along the same lines is also the accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4772/315749&quot;&gt;When to vote to delete an answer?&lt;/a&gt; on Meta U&amp;amp;L, which this question looks tightly related to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, many posts seem to somehow advocate deleting &quot;low quality answers&quot;, and some users in our LQP review queue show a similar sentiment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155538/what-are-the-guidelines-for-reviewing/180029#180029&quot;&gt;guidelines for reviewing low quality posts&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[A] &lt;strong&gt;Answers that fail to address the question&lt;/strong&gt;: If you evaluate the answer such, first check carefully whether there is a lack of clarity in the question that you and the answer’s author may have interpreted differently. Otherwise recommend deletion. Leave an explaining comment in both cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/410681&quot;&gt;Shog9's words&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does that mean these answers should forever hang around the site? No, not necessarily - if it turns out they're just not that useful, they should probably still be removed - or at very least, down-voted so that they rank below other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/287563/10488700&quot;&gt;Undo's words&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Only if you can't plausibly imagine anyone putting in the work to fix the post should you opt to delete these kinds of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the answers to that question outline some reasons for deleting certain kinds of answers that are &quot;low quality&quot; without being &quot;not an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/264294/410681&quot;&gt;Adam Lear's words&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Wrong&quot; as in &quot;completely unrelated to the question&quot;? Go ahead and delete those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this outlines a grey area, which stretches between deleting only those answers that cannot be &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; as an attempt to provide a solution, no matter how useful, and deleting anything that unsalvageably fails to convey &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What criteria do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; follow when reviewing low quality answers? Are there answers you think should be deleted despite not being &quot;not an answer&quot;? Is the LQP review queue a suitable place for such a cleanup work? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to agree on some specific guidelines for our site would be beneficial to reviewers (less work for them in the queue), to answerers (a more clear message on what they did right/wrong) and to all users trying to learn the art of reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt; As an aside, Meta U&amp;amp;L has discussed code-only answers, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4170/315749&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3122/315749&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. They are not &quot;not an answer&quot;, nor are problematic in the scope of this question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Link-only answers have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2833/315749&quot;&gt;addressed on Meta U&amp;amp;L&lt;/a&gt;, too.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2019-07-08T11:20:37.590" LastActivityDate="2019-07-17T19:44:26.600" Title="How to tackle the gray area in reviewing low-quality answers?" Tags="|discussion|review|answer-quality|low-quality-posts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5376" CreationDate="2019-06-27T07:17:08.710" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me the line in the grey area is drawn depending on the effort a user puts into their answer. If the answer is (1) clearly factually wrong or misinterprets the question &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; (2) it's a one-liner, I don't feel there's a point in keeping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the one-line answer &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; wrong but you're not 100% certain, comment, downvote, but click on &quot;Looks OK&quot;. Give people who know the topic a chance to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is clearly wrong but the user has put some effort into it, comment, downvote, but click on &quot;Looks OK&quot;. Give the user a chance to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand the position of people who insist that everything that qualifies as an answer should stay, no matter how bad or wrong it is. But I respectfully disagree: reviewers who choose to downvote obvious garbage are punished by losing reputation points, so if we insist that garbage answers should not be deleted, many of those answers will simply stay there with zero score forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T07:17:08.710" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5373" CreationDate="2019-06-27T22:00:08.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It belongs here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I read your now-deleted answer, and I see what you're driving at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are questions on this site sometimes that ask the &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; question.  We call this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66377/307622&quot;&gt;the X Y problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see someone (especially a beginner) asking the &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; question, when they have a real actual problem they are trying to solve but are going about it completely the wrong way, there is some justification for giving them the answer they need rather than the answer they asked for.  It's almost always better to do &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, when someone is simply trying to learn more about their system and the underpinnings which hold it together, there is little use in pointing out how difficult they are making things for themselves.  That is the case with this question, as has been pointed out to you in numerous comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distinguishing factor is: &lt;strong&gt;What is the asker actually trying to accomplish?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are trying to accomplish a &lt;em&gt;task&lt;/em&gt;, then they most likely want the most straightforward way to accomplish that task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are trying to accomplish a &lt;em&gt;depth of learning&lt;/em&gt;, it won't help them accomplish that to question the premise of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as the question is on-topic (i.e. it's about Unix and Linux) and it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be answered, there is no reason to push it elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T22:00:08.770" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5380" CreationDate="2019-06-28T07:19:21.183" Score="5" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to ask a question in this site. While doing so, I get this warning message that says &quot;You can only post once every 40 minutes.&quot;. However I have not asked any questions in the past five months. I asked a question on another network and that too was 2 days ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="333826" LastActivityDate="2019-06-28T09:30:57.113" Title="Post new question cooldown timer is showing wrong warning" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5379" CreationDate="2019-06-28T09:30:57.113" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely someone on your network asked a question somewhere on the network and doesn't have a lot of reputation so far. See for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/297570/352819&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/297568/352819&quot;&gt;Potential privacy breach due to question rate limit from IP addresses&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post only in 40 minutes in the network sites in which you have a low rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If from anyone in your office with low rep, asked a question in any network site, that should be the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a network wide limit for low rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211476" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-06-28T09:30:57.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5373" CreationDate="2019-06-29T11:20:04.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question seems completely on topic to me. At the end of the day, any question that asks &quot;how can I do X on a *nix system?&quot; is on topic here. The question you link to is indeed extremely detailed (possibly too detailed, yes) but that's normally a good thing not a problem. The main question is clearly stated in the title: &lt;em&gt;Can the empty spaces/background in a terminal be replaced with a random(but pretty) pattern of ASCII characters?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I quite agree with what you say here and in your (now deleted) answer, this sounds like an absolutely horrible idea, but that's besides the point. As a wise geek once said, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/terry-lambert-quote-it-is-not-unixs-job-to-stop-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;it is not UNIX’s job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so [sic], then it is UNIX’s job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. So whether or not we feel what the OP is trying to do is a good idea is irrelevant to whether or not the question itself is on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this isn't even borderline. It is a question about manipulating shells and terminals, the very backbone of the site and probably the most common general topic we have. Very few things here are more on topic than shells and terminals. You mention that you feel the question has more to do with POSIX compatible shells than with bash. That may be true, but those are 100% on topic anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the OP's complaint about how their contributions are more than yours, however, is completely out of line. You have every right to bring this here to meta and thank you for doing so! And new users have as much of a voice as established veterans. I don't care if you have posted 1000 times or once, you're still a member of the community and you have every right to have your voice heard! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to also explain why I deleted your answer. This had nothing to do with whether or not I agreed with what it was saying (I did agree, as I said above) but with the simple fact that it wasn't actually answering the question. Here's a screenshot of the answer for those who can't see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAUss.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dAUss.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your entire post is making valid points about why what the OP wants is a bad idea. OK, great, but that isn't actually answering the question. If you feel the question itself isn't useful, then you should downvote it. Posting an answer that doesn't provide an answer and instead only argues for why the question's objective is not useful or why the question doesn't belong on the site isn't considered an answer and deleting it is standard operating procedure across all SE sites. You'll note that your answer was already sitting at -3 without a single upvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some cases where an answer like that would actually be considered useful, but I can only think of cases where what the question is asking for is actively dangerous (security risks, breaking the system etc). In such cases, an answer explaining why this is a dangerous idea would indeed be useful. But even then we might expect the warning and explanation to be followed by a solution. After all, if the OP wants to shoot themselves in the foot, then it's not our job to stop them. Breaking systems (preferably VMs) can be a useful educational tool, after all. But in this case, there is no danger, the worst case scenario is a probable loss of legibility in a terminal emulator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's why I deleted it. Nothing emotional about it, just regular every-day SE rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T11:20:04.680" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2019-06-29T17:31:45.500" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not have the ability for the comment to be marked as an answer if it answers the original question?  It could be promoted to being an &quot;Answer&quot; for purposes of further comments/voting, but still marked as being an Answer coming from a promoted comment.  Of course, at that point, I wouldn't see any reason to prevent the original commenter from editing or updating the answer if they so chose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forcing a commenter to repost their comment into the acceptable form somewhat reminds me of Jeopardy:  Please repost your comment in the form for an Answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37521" LastEditorUserId="37521" LastEditDate="2019-06-29T17:52:42.990" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T17:52:42.990" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5376" CreationDate="2019-07-08T16:16:25.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;apparently there is strong consensus that we should avoid deleting poor and wrong answers, as stated on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to address this point specifically. The &quot;consensus&quot; doesn't exist. The network, as it works (and you can ask users that use several sites) will delete those answers. That specific post had been heavily edited by Stack Overflow users. And only a small portion if them to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it's more useful for our purposes to have our version of that post and establish explicitly that we don't fully agree with all the recommendations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2019-07-08T16:16:25.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-18T10:49:33.287" Score="-14" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I described here have happened multiple times from users with particular powerful privileges, though not recently. Inspired by that &quot;Leave and go back to your country if you don't like this place&quot; is so hateful, how do you think about &quot;Leave this site and find some other place if you don't follow the rules&quot; which might well be individual interpretations? Last but not least,  that has been said to   user who has been around since much earlier historically.  If you can think of this site as your home, others can  think the same and could have thought so much earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2019-07-18T10:54:45.067" LastActivityDate="2019-07-18T12:45:23.137" Title="Watch out for hateful languages?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5386" CreationDate="2019-07-18T12:45:23.137" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine a hotel that only offers beds made of nails. It is targeting people who like sleeping on nails, and bills this as their main feature: &quot;Come test out our beds of nails! The most uncomfortable beds you've ever slept in at the cheapest prices!&quot;. Now, obviously, this isn't a hotel for everyone. I certainly wouldn't go there! But if I did choose to go there, perhaps out of curiosity, it would be ridiculous for me to then complain to the management because my bed was made of nails and I couldn't sleep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a scenario, it makes perfect sense to for the management to tell me to go find another place that is more to my liking. To take a slightly less extreme example, consider a bar called &quot;Heavy Metal Central&quot; that always plays heavy metal music. It would be patently absurd if I were to go and complain because they don't play jazz. The only reasonable answer management could give me is &quot;Go find a bar that plays Jazz, we do Metal here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you don't like the rules of a place &lt;em&gt;which you choose freely to go to and is only one of many available places&lt;/em&gt;, then yes, you should find another place. One whose rules are closer to what you want. It is perfectly reasonable for people to tell you to go find another site when you take issue with the very things that define the site you are using. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5130/22222&quot;&gt;downvoting or closing questions abusive&lt;/a&gt;, for example. The concepts of voting and closing are integral to the Stack Exchange model. They are fundamental aspects of the site's mechanics; the very things that make the site work and make it different to all the other sites and forums where you can ask questions about Unix and Linux. So if you consider these things abuse, then the only reasonable thing anyone can tell you is to find another place, one that is closer to your vision of how such a site should be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, equating telling someone to leave the country they were born and/or raised in because they object to the direction their country's political establishment is taking to telling a user of an internet site to find another site instead is as insensitive as it is absurd. Come on!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-07-18T12:45:23.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5389" CreationDate="2019-07-19T23:59:03.873" Score="10" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just checked my profile page and was wondering quite a bit that my approximate impact dropped from 97k to 55k. How is this possible if none of the posts have been deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240990" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-07-22T16:27:05.230" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T16:27:05.230" Title="Impact dropped to almost half, without post being deleted" Tags="|bug|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5388" CreationDate="2019-07-21T14:23:46.527" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is indeed surprising behavior! I just learned about the formula in researching your question. Based on the algorithm at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/251662/307535&quot;&gt;What happened to the other people? My Impact (people reached) just dropped&lt;/a&gt;, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's how we got to the current method, which counts views on the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt; - Views of the parent question for answers that are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Non-deleted AND&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Score &gt; 0 AND&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Also meets one or more of the following criteria:&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the top 3 answers OR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is the Accepted Answer OR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Score &gt;= 5 OR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Has at least 20% of the total vote count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what happened was that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/420286/117549&quot;&gt;this answer of yours&lt;/a&gt; to a highly-viewed question (41,499 views as of today) fell off the &quot;top 3 answers&quot; list when &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/404740/117549&quot;&gt;this other answer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/404740/timeline&quot;&gt;got an upvote&lt;/a&gt; from 1 to 2 on 2019-07-19, taking 3rd place for itself from what was previously a five-way tie for 3rd.  That de-listing of your answer from a ~42k view question seems to account for your &quot;missing&quot; impact numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-07-21T14:23:46.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-21T19:57:16.573" Score="16" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should add a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trackpad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trackpad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trackpad&lt;/a&gt; - as a &lt;i&gt;tag synonym&lt;/i&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/touchpad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;touchpad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;touchpad&lt;/a&gt;.  &quot;Trackpad&quot; is in common usage, &lt;a href=&quot;https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204895&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;partly due to Apple&lt;/a&gt;.  But we only have a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/touchpad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;touchpad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;touchpad&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed there were &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bmouse%5D+trackpad&quot;&gt;over 20 questions&lt;/a&gt; which include the word &quot;trackpad&quot;, but are tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mouse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mouse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mouse&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;Use of this tag should be limited to questions pertaining to the peripheral input device known as a &quot;mouse&quot;).  I suspect some people might try to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trackpad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trackpad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trackpad&lt;/a&gt;, notice the tag does not exist, and use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mouse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mouse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mouse&lt;/a&gt; instead.  This seems undesirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/touchpad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;touchpad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;touchpad&lt;/a&gt;, and then &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/touchpad/synonyms&quot;&gt;Synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with more than 2500 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can suggest tag synonyms. Users with a total answer score (total upvotes minus total downvotes) of 5 or more on the tag, can vote for tag synonyms. Suggestions will be automatically approved when they reach a score of 4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't vote there because I don't have &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; points in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/touchpad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;touchpad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;touchpad&lt;/a&gt; :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a broad consensus, but we still don't have enough possible voters, it is also possible to ask an elected moderator to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia article: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackpad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A touchpad or trackpad&lt;/a&gt; is a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor [...]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-07-25T13:17:17.850" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T13:17:17.850" Title="Should we add a [trackpad] tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5392" CreationDate="2019-07-28T22:20:46.147" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what the statistics stand for that are shown on my main profile page related to the &amp;quot;Top tags&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Score [NN] Posts [NN] Posts % [NN]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;N = number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am especially curious about the Score one, if that's how I understand the other ones mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts = number of posts using this tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;% = percentage of tag occurrence from overall posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/240990/nath?tab=profile&quot;&gt;profile page&lt;/a&gt; shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5y9G6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5y9G6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240990" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-07-29T15:04:19.210" Title="Tag statistics - what does 'Score [NN] Posts [NN] Posts % [NN] mean?" Tags="|support|tags|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5391" CreationDate="2019-07-29T06:30:05.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They refer to the number of posts you have in the corresponding tag, as well as the score you got with answers to questions that use that tag. For example looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/240990/nath&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt; right now shows: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;debian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;debian&lt;/a&gt; score: 17 posts: 14 posts: %18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; score: 16 posts: 17&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see only the first one, which is the tag you invested the most time into, shows the percentage of posts you have written with that tag compared to your total amount of posts. 14 posts are 18 percent of 77 posts, which is the total you get when adding the amount of answers you have posted and the amount of questions you have posted. Those are at the top right corner of your profile, which I linked to above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to further illustrate: you can find &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A240990++%5Bdebian%5D&quot;&gt;all posts from you that are related to the tag &quot;debian&quot;&lt;/a&gt; with a search, which gives you 14 results. Of those &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A240990++%5Bdebian%5D+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;10 are questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A240990++%5Bdebian%5D+is%3Aanswer&quot;&gt;4 are answers&lt;/a&gt;, so it also takes into account answers you have written to questions that use that tag, not just questions you have asked with that tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at my own profile it looks like it only ever shows the biggest one with percentage and only once you have written posts with a handful of tags so that they can't be displayed properly anymore, so only when under the tag lists you can find the entry &quot;View all tags&quot;, which would take you to [your personal complete list of &quot;score in tag&quot; &quot;tag name&quot; &quot;x amount of of posts in this tag&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also see that the score only takes into account the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; you have written, not the question scores, even if the questions are included in the &quot;Posts&quot; and &quot;Posts %&quot; statistics. You only have four answers, which makes it easy to check that those scores add up to &quot;17&quot;, while questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/394438/linux-display-or-upgrade-security-updates-only-using-apt&quot;&gt;Linux - display or upgrade security updates only using apt&lt;/a&gt; with a score of &quot;11&quot; are not included. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/117549/jeff-schaller&quot;&gt;Jeff Schaller&lt;/a&gt; for pointing out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5391/tag-statistics-what-does-score-nn-posts-nn-posts-nn-mean/5392?noredirect=1#comment10372_5392&quot;&gt;his comment&lt;/a&gt; that there is more information available when hovering over the grey block that contains the tag and the information asked about in this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's also more information in the hover text (&quot;Gave X non-wiki answers with a total score of Y&quot;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows that the score and &quot;amount of posts&quot; only refers to non-wiki answers / questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211476" LastEditorUserId="211476" LastEditDate="2019-07-29T15:04:19.210" LastActivityDate="2019-07-29T15:04:19.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5394" CreationDate="2019-07-30T13:36:00.090" Score="14" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about generic hardware questions (e.g. how Linux names a disk device), I'm talking about the handling of very specific hardware details and interactions&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem I see is that the level of knowledge required to answer these questions is the same of somebody &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; an LKM, or directly the kernel, to control said hardware details and interactions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this community accepts such questions as on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; To contextualise, I'm willing to ask a question about MMIO remapping for the devices behind a node's local PCIe interface on a NUMA system. Particularly the interactions with Source Address Decoders, the SRAT ACPI table and Linux behaviour for cross-node IO requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="364692" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-12-15T16:08:06.147" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T16:08:06.147" Title="Are questions about how Linux handles specific hardware details on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5393" CreationDate="2019-07-30T14:28:06.897" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to suggest that &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; questions are in-scope at Stack Overflow. It seems to me that you're &quot;below&quot; the level of the API, which was covered a few years ago in:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1051/what-is-the-current-consensus-on-programming-questions&quot;&gt;What is the current consensus on programming questions?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happily, there are several Linux kernel MMIO questions there already, indicating some (potentially larger) community there than here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Blinux-kernel%5D+MMIO+&amp;amp;mixed=0&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Blinux-kernel%5D+MMIO+&amp;amp;mixed=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a Meta Stack Overflow post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343113/are-questions-about-the-internals-of-the-linux-kernel-on-topic-for-stack-overflo&quot;&gt;Are questions about the internals of the Linux kernel on-topic for Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt; whose question quotes the linux-kernel tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions about the internals of the Linux kernel itself - particularly about writing code that runs within the context of the kernel (like kernel modules or drivers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and whose upvoted and accepted Answer says, in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it take a programmer to understand answers to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &quot;yes&quot; means on-topic at Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-07-30T14:28:06.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-31T23:48:59.203" Score="22" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently suggested a fellow answerer provide some explanation of their &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/533013&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IMO an explanation of the code is essential for a full answer… a clear explanation not only educates on the specific details of the code, but can also clarify how to approach about the problem. In addition, rather than mindlessly using some opaque code, it can help users learn small, digestible, relevant parts of the solution for future use. I mostly learnt how to code this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this was roundly rejected by the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IMO an explanation of basic code is far less useful than a glance at the man pages for anyone who doesn't understand it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost always explain my code in detail, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/529941&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think explanations are essential, and I tend to only upvote answers with explanations (unless the code is very simple). The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;site help&lt;/a&gt; isn't clear on this point. In the comments, another user (cas) also supported the idea of including explanations. However, the (rather aggressive) answerer has &gt;100k on SO, which made me doubt my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wasting my time writing detailed explanations? I see both strategies employed on U/L, and both receive upvotes. Is there a consensus on U/L or SE on whether explanations are essential, or even important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18887" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T22:52:28.050" Title="Is there a consensus on whether answers should contain explanations of code?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5395" CreationDate="2019-08-01T00:19:11.710" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers here are not just for the OP, but for future visitors who come here with similar problems. Of course, for an answer to be useful to such visitors, for them to adapt it to their purposes, they should be able to understand it. That means providing some explanation of any code. Maybe not a full description of the syntax, but at least an explanation of the key parts of it, and how the code achieves those key parts. Even the OP might have to adapt the code, if their example input is structured differently from their actual input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;IMO an explanation of basic code is far less useful than a glance at the man pages for anyone who doesn't understand it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why even write any code then? Just put RTFM in the answer. Oh wait, that's not allowed. What's &quot;basic&quot; to one isn't necessarily basic to others. Even something as trivial as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;awk 1 ./*.txt&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;needs &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/345548/how-to-cat-files-together-adding-missing-newlines-at-end-of-some-files/420622?r=SearchResults#comment823222_420622&quot;&gt;explanation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T00:19:11.710" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5398" CreationDate="2019-08-01T06:53:28.263" Score="7" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;My four top rated answers at Unix &amp;amp; Linux got downvoted, apparently within minutes of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2RVvG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2RVvG.png&quot; alt=&quot;4 downvotes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really mind it, as it doesn't practically affect my reputation... But I wonder if this is an user who has an axe to grind, for some reason. Also, I wonder whether the same user has downvoted other users' answers in the same pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the site have some form of auto-detection of this situation, identifying these kinds of patterns (downvoting top answers of a same user, etc.) and having the user flagged for review by moderators or staff? (Perhaps this happened already, just wasn't acted upon.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="281844" LastActivityDate="2019-08-03T04:21:03.700" Title="Top answers downvoted at the same time. Someone with an axe to grind?" Tags="|support|reputation|down-votes|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5397" CreationDate="2019-08-02T06:31:25.430" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was fixed within 24 hours. There is an automated script to detect this kind of abuse and revert the actions of serial voter accounts such as this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No moderator intervention is needed, unless the problem is not corrected within 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks @n8te, @muru and @slm for the comments!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; @RuiFRibeiro (who also had downvoted answers) traced this to someone trying to &quot;punish&quot; people who voted to close questions on that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's likely what happened, since on that day I went through the &quot;Close&quot; queue, which I normally don't since I use the site most of the time on the phone (where the review queues are not really visible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="281844" LastEditorUserId="281844" LastEditDate="2019-08-03T04:21:03.700" LastActivityDate="2019-08-03T04:21:03.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5393" CreationDate="2019-08-02T20:06:11.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s been established that a question can be on-topic&#xA;on multiple Stack Exchange sites simultaneously. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5393/80216#5394&quot;&gt;Jeff’s answer here&lt;/a&gt; focuses on whether certain questions are&#xA;on-topic at Stack Overflow, which is not what this question asks. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1051/80216#1054&quot;&gt;Gilles’s answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1051/80216&quot;&gt;What is the current consensus&#xA;on programming questions?&lt;/a&gt; does not, in my interpretation,&#xA;really support Jeff’s answer here. &#xA;Gilles says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power users tend to have a working knowledge of some low-level interfaces&#xA;  (through strace, by reading source code that they half-understand&#xA;  to understand why a program is behaving [sic], …),&#xA;  so questions involving these are also ok here. &#xA;  Questions requiring serious knowledge of an “advanced” programming language&#xA;  (pointers in C, objects in Perl, etc.) are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt; (meta-)question (i.e., Margaret Bloom’s question)&#xA;mentions “a question about MMIO remapping for the devices&#xA;behind a node’s local PCIe interface on a NUMA system.” &#xA;This seems to fall under Gilles’s category of “reading source code …&#xA;to understand … a program …”&#xA;and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; “serious knowledge of an ‘advanced’ programming language&#xA;(pointers in C, …)”. &#xA;Therefore, I believe that the answer to Margaret Bloom’s question is&#xA;“yes, questions about the behavior / functionality of Linux&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on-topic at U&amp;amp;L.” &#xA;And I believe that Gilles’s answer supports this position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I had this exchange with bwDraco four years ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a SE site on the Linux Kernel? &#xA;  Do questions about the Linux kernel get answered on Stack Overflow? – G-Man&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@G-Man: Unix &amp;amp; Linux – bwDraco&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can’t see it now, because it’s been deleted,&#xA;but I had the foresight &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/968133/why-is-exit-used-in-kernel-module-programming&quot;&gt;to bookmark it&lt;/a&gt; and keep a copy. &#xA;10K users (on Super User) should be able to verify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve been bothered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/343113/3960947#343114&quot;&gt;Tim Post’s answer&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/343113/3960947&quot;&gt;Are questions about the internals of the Linux kernel&#xA;on-topic for Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(again, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not the same&lt;/strong&gt; as&lt;/em&gt; what Margaret Bloom is asking)&#xA;ever since I first saw it. &#xA;Sure, “Would it take a programmer to understand answers to this?”&#xA;(or even to understand the question itself) is highly relevant. &#xA;But imagine this hypothetical dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have cataracts and need eye surgery. &#xA;  Who should I get to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, a surgeon, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, if your choices are an auto mechanic, a surgeon,&#xA;and a &lt;s&gt;taxi&lt;/s&gt; Uber driver, you should choose the surgeon. &#xA;But, if your choices include a brain surgeon, an eye surgeon&#xA;(ophthalmologist), and a heart surgeon, you should pick the eye surgeon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, “Would it take a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unix system&lt;/strong&gt; programmer&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;to address this question?” is equally or more important. &#xA;I don’t spend a lot of time at SO, but a glance at &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;their tags page&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;shows a concentration in Java, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Python and HTML&#xA;— and, yes, C++ and C#. &#xA;C comes in as the 16th tag. &#xA;I don’t know how many SO users are going to be able&#xA;to understand a question about a device driver, memory-mapped I/O,&#xA;or other kernel code, but it seems like there are going to be&#xA;a lot of people there who will be unable to answer such a question. &#xA;Logically, we should have the highest concentration of Unix experts&#xA;here at U&amp;amp;L, and so I believe that&#xA;questions about details of how Unix behaves are on-topic at U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And,&#xA;if we don’t have the highest concentration of Unix experts here at U&amp;amp;L,&#xA;that may be because they feel like they’re not wanted here,&#xA;because questions in their wheelhouse keep getting kicked out. &#xA;And, IMHO, that would be a shame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Stack Overflow has lots of &lt;em&gt;Unix system&lt;/em&gt; programmers, that’s great. &#xA;But we should encourage such experts to spend time in U&amp;amp;L&#xA;by allowing questions &lt;em&gt;about the &lt;strong&gt;behavior / functionality&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;of Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/em&gt; on the U&amp;amp;L site, no matter how low-level they are. &#xA;(Of course questions that are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;about programming&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;like  “What’s the difference between &lt;code&gt;i++&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;++i&lt;/code&gt;?”, are off-topic here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T20:06:11.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-04T12:26:44.547" Score="7" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a question I think the community of unix.SE would be able to provide an answer to, and which is related to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and seeks information about some historic background (i.e. &quot;what was the technical background/reason that caused tha 7bit encoding limitation&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I have seen both tags &lt;code&gt;smtp&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;history&lt;/code&gt; used for questions that related to the question I feel unsure if this is an permitted on topic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect the question to be answerable with reference to some limitations with regards to stop characters and transmission channels used during the time SMTP was used. With that respect the question would imho not be opinion based, but might have some factual background, I am simply not aware of and could not find adequate information yet, hence the desire to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be great also, to receive an information if there is a different SE community that would be more related to the question. Yet I think that a big percentag of MTA systems are rooted in the unix/linux world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24394" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2019-08-05T21:03:44.187" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T21:46:35.420" Title="Are questions about the SMTP protocol on topic?" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5401" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5402" CreationDate="2019-08-04T21:56:56.770" Score="12" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been wondering if questions that have the character of a bug report or lets say questions about locating, fixing or working around bugs of certain packages in certain environments are welcome to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently posted one of those questions myself that can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/533729/debian-testing-bullseye-logs-out-user-while-in-sleepmode&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and works as en example of what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240990" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2019-08-05T21:03:34.067" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T09:32:41.503" Title="Are 'bug report' kind of questions welcome to Unix &amp; Linux?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5401" CreationDate="2019-08-05T08:34:09.907" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why not. Of course, this site shouldn't be used to actually &lt;em&gt;report&lt;/em&gt; bugs. Those should be reported using whatever bug tracking system the relevant project uses, but asking for a workaround is fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, it's often hard to know if what you're facing is a bug or a misconfigured system. Perhaps your issue with your user being logged out on suspend can be fixed by toggling a setting and isn't actually a bug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So asking such questions seems fine to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T08:34:09.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5401" CreationDate="2019-08-05T16:34:47.153" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not see why they would not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it is hard to be sure you are facing a bug, reported or not, or another glitch involving something else (hardware, firmware, etc.). Not to mention that if it becomes clear that you are facing a bug, the community can advice and help you, to actually report the bug if it is not known, or to know that you are facing a reported one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, when facing a reported bug, there are not always a solution being proposed by your distribution or, on the other side, too many &quot;not-so-serious&quot;/alleged solutions which could, in the worst case scenario, break your system. You can see the latter even in simple answers to simple questions on this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as far as I understand and I am concerned, this community is here to help users and promotes educational answers, which is, coincidentally, usually what happens where there are (serious) bugs reported to &lt;a href=&quot;https://cve.mitre.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CVE&lt;/a&gt; website for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, asking such questions seems totally aligned with U&amp;amp;L StackExchange policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159254" LastEditorUserId="159254" LastEditDate="2019-08-05T18:50:20.370" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T18:50:20.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5401" CreationDate="2019-08-05T21:03:28.820" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off-topic: “When I do X, Y happens. It shouldn't. Fix it.” (Even if you happen to know that the maintainer hangs around here, this is not a bug tracker.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off-topic: “When I do X, Y happens. It shouldn't. How can I fix the offending program?” (This is not a programming site, and even on a programming site, this is only ok if the bug has been narrowed down to a small piece of code that is included in the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off-topic: “When I do X, Y happens. It shouldn't. Has this bug been reported yet?” (This is not a search engine. That being said, it can be hard to find where to report a bug, but chat is more appropriate if you need help there, because it isn't easily transferable to other people.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic: “When I do X, Y happens. This is surprising because I expected Z. Why does Y happen?” (And if Y turns out to be a bug, so be it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic: “When I do X, Y happens. This is obviously a bug [e.g. because it's a crash]. Given …, how can I work around it to do Z?” (The question should of course make it obvious why “upgrade to a version with the fix” is not a valid answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic: “When I do X, Y happens. This is obviously a bug [e.g. because it's a crash], but I don't have enough information to make a bug report/avoid running into it. How can I find out …?” (Where answers might be thing like “look at /this/log/file” or “activate this trace mode”.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic, but do check official channels first: “What's the impact of bug B on a system where …?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic, but do check official channels first: “How does this security exploit work?” (While Stack Exchange isn't really the place for this, we've had a few great answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="885" LastEditDate="2019-08-06T08:32:49.500" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T08:32:49.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5400" CreationDate="2019-08-05T21:46:35.420" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Protocols tend to fall between the gaps between Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; are fine for questions about configuring software to support a protocol, but questions about the protocol itself are usually off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; accepts architecture questions that SU and SF would reject. Questions about protocols fit under this umbrella, but the protocol has to have strong ties to Unix, and the question has to stay closer to user-level than programmer-level.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; is fine for questions about writing software to support a protocol, but questions about the protocol itself are usually off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Engineering&lt;/a&gt; might be ok for questions about designing a new protocol, but I don't think protocol history would fare well there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://electronics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Electrical Engineering&lt;/a&gt; is a fine place for questions about protocols at the electrical level, but not much above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://engineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Engineering&lt;/a&gt; pretty much excludes software engineering.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Network Engineering&lt;/a&gt; does accept questions about network protocols, but they have to be sufficiently advanced: NE is for professionals, or at least people who can talk to professionals on an equal basis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://crypto.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Cryptography&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Security&lt;/a&gt; are good places to ask about the cryptography and security aspects of a protocol, but not for other aspects.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The more theoretical aspects of how to design a protocol are on-topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Computer Science&lt;/a&gt;, but concrete questions about a specific protocols are right out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Retrocomputing&lt;/a&gt; is a fine place for questions about a (version of a) protocol that's no longer used in production (or only on some rare legacy systems), but not for anything that's still industrially relevant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, I think Retrocomputing would be the best place. NE might be a contender for current versions of a protocol, but not for history. U&amp;amp;L would be ok if the answer was likely to reference Unix systems, but in this case I suspect it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T21:46:35.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5401" CreationDate="2019-08-06T09:25:42.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I agree with Gilles, but here is my reaction to the specific example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since some resent upgrades of my Debian testing/bullseye distribution, my user gets logged out while in sleep-mode (lid closed) [... name and version of desktop used, etc ...] &lt;b&gt;Does anyone know&lt;/b&gt; how to fix this or which package is responsible for this behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The version information is pretty good, thanks. You didn't give an exact package version apart from the kernel, but you're not sure which package triggered the problem anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the question and left a comment, effectively suggesting to add certain additional information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the described symptoms match a crash of gnome-shell (from sad experience). IMO there is a deficiency in &lt;em&gt;this version&lt;/em&gt; of the question, in that it does not even show which program crashed, or that you have looked for crash information but found nothing.  The problem is there could potentially be several different crashes with the same symptom during this development cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Strictly&lt;/em&gt; speaking, I think this shows a flaw in the phrasing in this version of the question.  You would legitimately like to know which package is responsible for the problem.  I think the real question is how you can try to narrow down the problem, to find out more about the cause, and which package is responsible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's a useful way to understand StackExchange.  I don't think it means your question is wrong.  I think we should aim to engage with questions to try to reach a conclusion, not to nitpick them to death.  IMO the question already shows some effort/thoughtfulness, and we're not currently in danger of being overwhelmed by such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you're wrong to include the possibility that someone else already has a more detailed report, with the same symptoms as yours.  On the other hand, if they saw your post then I expect they would make a comment anyway, even if you don't explicitly ask them to :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-08-06T09:32:41.503" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T09:32:41.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-09T00:31:31.247" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Firefox with Dark theme enabled (it is available in the browser out of the box), this site's favicon is mostly unreadable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5D5PF.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The letters could have less transparency and more white in them so that it would fix the look on dark backgrounds while leaving the appearance on white unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="310076" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-08-09T00:39:43.287" LastActivityDate="2019-08-09T00:39:43.287" Title="U&amp;L favicon on dark background is barely readable" Tags="|bug|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5395" CreationDate="2019-08-12T16:31:50.507" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I think this is my first post on meta, please excuse me while I proudly step on other people's toes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Am I wasting my time writing detailed explanations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to say no, since explanations are obviously a good thing in general and I like to believe that I usually explain things in great detail as well... but I also understand the other side, that sometimes, maybe it's just too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow me to elaborate a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see shrubbery like &lt;code&gt;&quot;\&quot;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; or spaceship like &lt;code&gt;/,&quot;,\&lt;/code&gt;, then yes, it takes me a bit to parse that, despite knowing what &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; mean. The lack of syntax highlighting doesn't help much either, it's all a single shell string in the end — someone please come up with a way to highlight such encapsulated codes anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, this may be a little difficult to understand at a glance. Some explanation would probably be nice. But is it mandatory? And which level of detail would be appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How deep down the rabbit hole do you go when trying to explain every little thing? Do you have to explain that &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; matches any character every single time you do anything remotely related to regular expressions? I think that might be what Ed Morton was referring to with the &lt;code&gt;$1+1&lt;/code&gt; example. If you even explain that &lt;code&gt;$1&lt;/code&gt; is the first field, you might just be overdoing it a little. By the way, you forgot to explain why the &lt;code&gt;,&lt;/code&gt; had to be added back - of course, it's because the &lt;code&gt;-F,&lt;/code&gt; ate it. Although it's great to explain such things down to the smallest detail, just where does it end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an explanation, the general idea should be enough (and too much detail might even distract from it). Quote the first argument (&lt;code&gt;$1=&quot;\&quot;&quot;$1&quot;\&quot;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;), quote each letter of the second argument (&lt;code&gt;gsub(/./,&quot;,\&quot;&amp;amp;\&quot;&quot;,$2)&lt;/code&gt;). End of story. No need to be long-winded and probably no one cares about how exactly it does that anyway (and they could research, or ask a dedicated question about it, where rabbit-hole level of detail is expected).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All answers here are given for free and you can't force other people to change their style to yours. I see the answer got downvoted already and I think it's a bit unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given a choice between a good answer with no explanation whatsoever, and no good answer at all, I'll take the good answer and thank you very much. Demonstrating input and output is already very good, and is also part of documentation - some of the others didn't even do that. Additional explanation would be the cherry on top, sure, but in the context of this question it's not mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people started adding things to my answers (in a way that does not agree with my own style, and the way I explain and demonstrate things), I might feel inclined to remove it as well and feel in my rights to do so. You can always post your own answer, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30851" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T16:31:50.507" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-15T13:57:46.950" Score="11" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user asks a question along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to do X with Y. How can I make Y do this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is it appropriate to answer with an alternative or more straightforward way to do X, even if it doesn't directly answer the &quot;How can Y do this?&quot; part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see how it falls into any of the criteria for deletion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;commentary on the question or other answers ✘&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  asking another, different question ✘&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “thanks!” or “me too!” responses ✘&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  exact duplicates of other answers ✘&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  barely more than a link to an external site ✘&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  not even a partial answer to the actual question ?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see a bit of a grey area for the final one. Is it an exact answer? No. Does it partially answer the question? Yes. It's just another form of the XY problem, and if it can help the user asking the original question (or users finding the question later), I feel it's a useful addition to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Full disclosure, I had such an answer deleted, I'm sure I'll get over it but for future reference I'm interested in whether these answers are discouraged and if so, why?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I am happy with my answer being deleted and this is in no way a plea for it to be restored, I'm just looking for clarification for the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68934" LastEditorUserId="68934" LastEditDate="2019-08-15T14:06:42.017" LastActivityDate="2019-08-28T16:27:34.303" Title="Does an answer to the problem instead of the question count as an answer?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5409" CreationDate="2019-08-15T14:03:55.013" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted your answer as not-an-answer because the question said, in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To save time and typing, I would like to store the names of the subdirectories to be searched in a file and use that when I run the find command next time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while your answer said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While not an answer to the exact question, if you can reverse this to have a list of files not to search ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;XY problem&lt;/a&gt; exists, but you've done something different: you've changed the assumption of the question altogether. I think you noticed that in the preface to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T14:03:55.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5409" CreationDate="2019-08-15T14:05:11.163" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, if the OP is using the &quot;wrong&quot; approach, giving the &quot;right&quot; approach is absolutely fine. Also, if the OP happens to mention one tool and you answer with another tool, that's also fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that's not really what you did. You answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/535634/how-can-i-find-files-in-directories-listed-in-a-file&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in which the OP had a list of target directories and wanted to limit &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; to search in those directories only. Your answer was saying that if the OP had a list of things to exclude instead of to include, they could use &lt;code&gt;grep --exclude-from-file&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the same question at all. If your answer had &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; included a way of converting a list-to-include into a list-to-exclude, then it would have been answering the question. As it was, however, you weren't simply suggesting a different tool, you were giving a solution to a different problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since your answer, therefore, wasn't providing a solution to the question asked, a moderator deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-08-19T16:27:24.380" LastActivityDate="2019-08-19T16:27:24.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5409" CreationDate="2019-08-21T12:10:43.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no expert, but I believe that the answer is no, for the reasons cited here and elsewhere.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However -- what I would do is work with the OP to clarify the question.  This falls squarely into the role of comments on the OP in order to improve the question.&#xA;This way, if the OP does not concur, you've given it a good try in public.  Unseen to you, this is likely to influence others who come to the same question -- if it isn't closed.  And if it isn't closed, perhaps it was alright was it was.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the question alluded to here.  Just answering for the general case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user263355" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T12:10:43.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5414" CreationDate="2019-08-27T14:00:57.197" Score="6" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/306537&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; edit: I understand that &lt;code&gt;voilà&lt;/code&gt; is only 5 characters long. Or does &lt;code&gt;à&lt;/code&gt; count as two characters? Or do removed characters count towards the limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106927" LastEditorUserId="41104" LastEditDate="2019-09-01T17:09:35.890" LastActivityDate="2019-09-01T17:09:35.890" Title="How did this edit got around the minimum 6 character limit?" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5413" CreationDate="2019-08-27T14:23:47.170" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just my perspective on it; I don't know exactly how the SE code calculates the changes (apart from having just learned that the differences are calculated after applying Markdown).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Meta SE post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/76284/307535&quot;&gt;How do suggested edits work?&lt;/a&gt;, in the section &lt;strong&gt;Is there a minimum change threshold for a suggested edit?&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all suggested edits that modify the body in any way must change at least six characters in the post body. Each character added or removed counts as one towards this check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently SE calculated the removal of &quot;wallah&quot; as six characters, despite one of the &lt;code&gt;l&lt;/code&gt;'s as being unchanged if you overlaid the texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-08-27T14:23:47.170" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5409" CreationDate="2019-08-27T19:38:51.237" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a strong response of &quot;No.&quot;  In fact, the situation you describe is one of the things I hate most about using this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a rigorous method for solving problems.  When I ask a question in pursuit of a solution, I put work into making sure that question is well-defined and &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; the question that I want an answer to.  When someone responds by questioning my premises or trying to answer the question they assume I mean to ask instead of what I am asking, it's maddening.  It's noise, and it makes it harder for me to find the information I'm looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind being asked to clarify something or provide more information, but as a rule, I would rather users refrain from responding at all if they can't provide information that addresses my question &lt;em&gt;as asked&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="247900" LastActivityDate="2019-08-27T19:38:51.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5409" CreationDate="2019-08-28T16:27:34.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides the actual case already discussed here, I'd like to drop two more thoughts on the general subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First thought&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm trying to do X with Y.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to do X and want/need to use Y for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case, the OP is likely to be happy when learning that this is easier to be done with approach Z.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second case, especially with a reasonable argument for choosing approach Y, the Z answer won't be of any use to him. This often happens if a complex task is reduced to an example, which could be done the Z way, but the whole problem requires Y. It's up to the OP to make that clear, but unfortunally some people don't seem to read such a disclaimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, giving a useless answer doesn't cause much harm. &lt;strong&gt;Worse is closing such a question as duplicate of a question answered with Z.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your example wording&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to do X with Y. How can I make Y do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is could be first or second case, but more like the first one, because no reason for choosing Y seems to be given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second thought&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the OP clearly states, that the Y approach is required for some reason, it may be useful to give a Z answer, because this is a Q&amp;amp;A site. People without the Y restriction will find the page via some web search and follow the Y path for no reason, if no Z answer was given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment on the question is not sufficient, I usually start such answers with a phrase like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are not restricted to using Y, you should better ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP can stop reading at this point, but future readers may find this useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216004" LastActivityDate="2019-08-28T16:27:34.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-28T18:47:02.047" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why my question was put on hold. I also replied to an email you sent earlier two days ago, but I have not received any response as yet. It did not allow me to attach a file even its size only 1.7mb. Please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you,&#xA;Loc Le&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="368437" OwnerDisplayName="user368437" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-08-28T20:17:20.610" LastActivityDate="2019-09-08T15:54:12.323" Title="Why my question was put on hold?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|reopen-closed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5417" CreationDate="2019-08-28T19:15:27.037" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/537116/linux-securities&quot;&gt;The question&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold as &quot;unclear&quot; (and later automatically deleted as it was never updated).  It is unclear because you failed to include information about the message that you saw on screen.  We generally don't like images in questions, but we recognise that it's sometimes difficult to transcribe text that can't easily be copied and pasted into questions (see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4086&quot;&gt;PSA: Please don&amp;#39;t post images of text&lt;/a&gt; for a discussion about this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seemed to have had difficulties actually inserting the image in you question though, and the original version of the question only contains a path to a compressed &lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt; archive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To insert an image, press the image button in the user interface when editing the question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AfaCQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AfaCQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(that's the button to the right of the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; button in this screenshot, indicated by the added arrow) Then browse for the image on your system and add it with the controls provided by the website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you must use an image file, not a compressed &lt;code&gt;tar&lt;/code&gt; archive.  If the image is big or shows things that are irrelevant for the question, consider cropping it in some type of image editing software before uploading it. Also consider that people (like myself) often find it very difficult to read small text in screenshots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-09-08T15:54:12.323" LastActivityDate="2019-09-08T15:54:12.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-10T09:18:00.640" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read a post about 2 months ago, maybe less, that Stephen Kitt commented on or answered about best recovery software. I have searched under his posts, but am unable to find it. Should I ask the question myself? Is there anyway to make sure he sees the question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356799" LastActivityDate="2019-09-11T20:18:16.923" Title="Can you help me locate the post Stephen Kitt answered / commented on in last 2 months about the best recovery software - he listed 2 options?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5420" CreationDate="2019-09-10T09:29:11.963" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no way of making sure a specific user reads your post. You could leave a comment under one of Stephen's posts and ask them to check but that can be considered rude and a bit pushy. This isn't a social networking site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while Stephen is indeed extremely knowledgeable and helpful, he isn't the only expert on the site, and it's very unlikely he'll be the only user who can answer. He also spends a lot of time here, so it's very likely he'll see your post if you ask it anyway. So sure, ask your question and see what you get. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you don't need to ask a question but only find an existing one, I suggest you search in &lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aunix.stackexchange.com%20foo&amp;amp;ia=web&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DuckDuckGo&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=site%3Aunix.stackexchange.com%20foo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; or whatever search engine you prefer using &lt;code&gt;site:unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; to limit the results to here. The local search isn't very good, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="4671" LastEditDate="2019-09-10T10:40:13.517" LastActivityDate="2019-09-10T10:40:13.517" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5420" CreationDate="2019-09-11T20:18:16.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I've run across this situation, here are two methods I've used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, one you've already tried: searching through a user's answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the Activity tab of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/86440/stephen-kitt?tab=summary&quot;&gt;Stephen's profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the search box at the top (which is prefilled with &quot;user:86440&quot;) and adding &quot;is:A recover&quot; to search for Answers (is:A) containing the text &quot;recover&quot;. Search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the resulting page, sort the results by &quot;Newest&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is this URL: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=user%3a86440%20is%3aA%20recover&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=user%3a86440%20is%3aA%20recover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best choice from that list looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/535396/117549&quot;&gt;Restore a removed file when still in use&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, because Stack Exchange views comments as second-class citizens (there only to support the post they're attached to), there's currently no direct, on-site search method for them. Next-best is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE)&lt;/a&gt; (that's the UNIX &amp;amp; Linux flavored link). The SEDE data is only refreshed weekly. There, you can construct SQL to query the data you're after. One example might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/1103627/user-comments?needle=%25recover%25&amp;amp;UserId=86440&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/1103627/user-comments?needle=%25recover%25&amp;amp;UserId=86440&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which corresponds to this SQL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT &#xA;    Comments.CreationDate,&#xA;    Comments.Id as [Comment Link]&#xA;FROM &#xA;    Comments &#xA;WHERE &#xA;    Comments.UserId = ##UserId##&#xA;AND Comments.Text LIKE ##needle:string##&#xA;ORDER BY &#xA;    Comments.CreationDate DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply plug in the userID (seen above from their profile page) and the words you're looking for. SQL uses &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; for wildcard text, so a query string for a comment containing &quot;recover&quot; would be &lt;code&gt;%recover%&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That query pulls up &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/535712/did-i-make-data-recovery-from-my-usb-flash-drive-less-likely/535716#comment992921_535716&quot;&gt;this comment from 2019-08-15&lt;/a&gt; as the only match within the last two months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-09-11T20:18:16.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5424" CreationDate="2019-09-17T15:04:16.347" Score="4" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've changed today my email to one, which was associated with an account I used before this one and some strange things have happened. The both accounts somehow got merged with a weird result, eg. points on different forums added up, the length of my account here got extended by 8 months, all my tag points here disappeared. This is somehow unexpected... To make things complicated, I was &quot;cleaning up&quot; my different accounts around SE or rather removing all but U&amp;amp;L. Then I changed the email... In the effect I had to remove some of them again. These extra details might help you in tracing back the root cause if you do. This is not really a question, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different badges are coming back slowly. Maybe the tags will come back at the day break or whenever they're counted up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user147505" LastEditorUserId="79749" LastEditDate="2019-09-23T19:55:19.370" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T19:58:07.587" Title="Unexpected (?) things after changing my account mail address" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5423" CreationDate="2019-09-23T19:58:07.587" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When accounts get merged, sometimes the profile with lesser activity also ends up being the new account. The merge process itself instantly transfer all your posts, which updates a lot of things for you, then performs an immediate reputation recalculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; transfer badges and tag scores, among some other things. If you still qualify for any badges, they will be automatically awarded the next time the cycle for each badge runs. You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; lose some this way (for example, a question that had 10 score and got you the badge but has since been downvoted will not re-award the Nice Question badge). Tag scores are updated once a day at 03:00 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79749" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T19:58:07.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5427" CreationDate="2019-10-04T00:20:26.877" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious what happens to bountied questions from users that appear to have stopped using this platform. I recently answered a question (along with 2 others) from a user that hasn't logged in since July. Is there a definitive rule on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="363044" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T07:06:35.723" Title="Do bountied questions automatically expire?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5426" CreationDate="2019-10-04T01:24:19.997" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The relevant portion of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with a minimum score of 2 will be awarded half the bounty amount (or the full amount, if the answer is also accepted). If two or more eligible answers have the same score (their scores are tied), the oldest answer is chosen. If there's no answer meeting those criteria, no bounty is awarded to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="112566" LastEditDate="2019-10-10T07:06:35.723" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T07:06:35.723" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-11T08:48:00.443" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged a post &quot;decode this and get the answer&quot; which only contained gibberish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged the post as OFFTOPIC, because I believed it to be some sort of crypto-puzzle that should go to puzzling.stackexchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag was declined and is now mistakenly referencing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41929/what-is-the-concept-of-refresh-in-linux-if-there-is-so/546121#546121&quot;&gt;What is the concept of Refresh in Linux, if there is so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did NOT flag the latter post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the declined flag is hanging in the air, I will not be able to raise new flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do i get rid of the declined flag that is hanging in the empty now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="364705" LastEditorUserId="364705" LastEditDate="2019-10-11T09:36:51.887" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T08:25:09.657" Title="Declined flag for a post that I did NOT Flag" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5428" CreationDate="2019-10-11T09:00:01.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what you see when you see when you click through there, but if it is just the question, that's because the answer you flagged was deleted from there.  Deleted answers remain visible if you have enough rep.  The last version of that one was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer was marked as spam or rude or abusive and is therefore not shown - you can see the revision history for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;locked by Community♦ 19 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;deleted as spam or offensive 19 hours ago&#xA;  by Community♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the revision history, it certainly fits your description (although I do not think it would be appropriate to puzzling or anywhere else, it looks like just an intentional garbage post from an account that also should have been deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why your flag was declined I can't say, possibly if the post was deleted before it was handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastActivityDate="2019-10-11T09:00:01.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5428" CreationDate="2019-10-11T09:00:40.230" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, the link that you provided goes directly to a deleted answer containing the gibberish &quot;decode this and get the answer&quot; text. This is the answer that you flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you have less than 10k reputation, you can not see the deleted answer, so you're taken to the associated question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why your flag was declined, I'm not 100% sure as I don't think I was involved.  The post was however deleted as spam/offensive, which was not what you flagged it with.  My guess is (and I'm doing vigorous hand-waving here) that a moderator looked at it, and flagged it as spam/offensive themselves, which in turn automatically declined your flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag is not &quot;hanging in the air&quot;. It was handled (declined) and you should not currently be banned from flagging other posts, although you may receive a warning saying that your most recent flag was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-10-13T08:25:09.657" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T08:25:09.657" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5433" CreationDate="2019-10-11T14:53:50.543" Score="8" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking a question, I just noticed there are two seemingly identical tags (which aren't aliases at the time of this writing): &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source-code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no strong opinion about which one should be the &quot;leading&quot; tag here, but I think it'd make sense to merge them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source-code&lt;/a&gt; suggested as a synonym, but lack the reputation to vote myself. So please consider that a nudge, everyone &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; high enough reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5462" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T06:18:08.737" Title="What's the purpose of source vs. source-code tags?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5431" CreationDate="2019-10-14T12:24:40.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it makes sense to have a tag for the shell builtin &lt;code&gt;source&lt;/code&gt; specifically. It's not that special a feature that it wouldn't just fit under &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;, which is what most of those are tagged with anyway). Besides, &lt;code&gt;source&lt;/code&gt; isn't even a standard command. &lt;a href=&quot;https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/V3_chap02.html#dot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;For POSIX-compatibility&lt;/a&gt;, it should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dot-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dot-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dot-command&lt;/a&gt; instead. Though &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source-command&lt;/a&gt; already exists, it's only been used by Jeff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably be best to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source-code&lt;/a&gt; the main tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; an alias to make it more clear what it's about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or just remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; altogether if both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source-code&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/source-command&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;source-command&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;source-command&lt;/a&gt; exist (are kept)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2019-10-15T06:18:08.737" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T06:18:08.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5436" CreationDate="2019-10-17T20:30:33.297" Score="21" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed when I flag a question as off-topic that there is an option to flag the post for migration to another site. However, there is only the option to migrate questions from Unix &amp;amp; Linux to unix.meta.stackexchange.com and stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions asked here would be better served on other sister sites such as Serverfault, Information Security, Superuser, and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there already an established convention that one should take if they feel a post should be migrated to a site not listed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, this topic has lead me to a couple of points I feel should be discussed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are these not options to migrate to when you are flagging a post as off-topic? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can moderators or us as a community decide what are appropriate sites for posts to be migrated to, or is this left to stack exchange administrators only?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="276845" LastEditorUserId="276845" LastEditDate="2019-11-18T13:33:41.973" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T13:33:41.973" Title="When flagging a question to be migrated, why are some Stack Exchange sites excluded?" Tags="|discussion|migration|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5435" CreationDate="2019-10-17T21:03:18.160" Score="20" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why are these not options to migrate to when you are flagging a post as off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites are only allowed so many migration paths, and we have to demonstrate that we regularly have a need to migrate somewhere before they'll add one. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203318/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-restricting-the-number-of-migration-paths&quot;&gt;What is the reasoning behind restricting the number of migration paths?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can moderators or us as a community decide what are appropriate sites for posts to be migrated to, or is this left to stack exchange administrators only?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately admins control the list of migration paths, but we can certainly request new ones if there's a need. It's come up before (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/971/can-the-list-of-targets-for-does-not-belong-here-be-expanded&quot;&gt;Can the list of targets for &amp;quot;does not belong here&amp;quot; be expanded?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136/migrating-to-other-se-sites&quot;&gt;Migrating to other SE sites?&lt;/a&gt;), but the only site we've had enough migrations to to warrant adding a path so far is Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that moderators can migrate anywhere, so if you come across a post that belongs on a site we don't have a path to, you can still flag it, which will get it on the right site plus help demonstrate that we might need a path to that site. In the last 90 days, we've sent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 post to Ask Ubuntu&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 post to Reverse Engineering&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 post to Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 post to Ask Different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2019-10-17T21:03:18.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-23T02:55:52.660" Score="12" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a suggested edit to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint&lt;/a&gt; wiki defining it as the biometric fingerprint. But the actual use is rather mixed: there are several questions talking about key fingerprints (~1/3rd of the questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we tag the key fingerprint questions with something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2019-10-27T22:33:24.043" Title="How should we use [fingerprint]s?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5437" CreationDate="2019-10-27T17:31:01.503" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that we should split it up into two clearer tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint-authentication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint-authentication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint-authentication&lt;/a&gt;, for biometric fingerprinting, and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/key-fingerprint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;key-fingerprint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;key-fingerprint&lt;/a&gt;, for key fingerprints&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would then retag all questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint&lt;/a&gt; to use one of these two tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might also create a synonym from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint-reader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint-reader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint-reader&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint-authentication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint-authentication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint-authentication&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suggested tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint&lt;/a&gt; after the change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about biometric fingerprinting or fingerprint readers, please tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint-authentication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint-authentication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint-authentication&lt;/a&gt;. For questions about key fingerprints in relation to cryptography, please tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/key-fingerprint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;key-fingerprint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;key-fingerprint&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="327020" LastEditorUserId="327020" LastEditDate="2019-10-27T17:36:00.517" LastActivityDate="2019-10-27T17:36:00.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5437" CreationDate="2019-10-27T22:33:24.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we live in the real world, even on a technical site real-world scenarios feel more common-sense (and less likely to be mistagged in the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if I were looking for an appropriate tag, I'd feel that &quot;fingerprint&quot; (being a common term amongst non-technical people) is more intuitive than &quot;biometric&quot;. For example, many laptops and phones now come with a &quot;fingerprint reader&quot;, and far less often marketed as a &quot;biometric device&quot; (although I have seen it once or twice when selling security systems in particular). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd therefore argue that dividing it into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint-biometric&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint-biometric&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint-biometric&lt;/a&gt; for biometric devices designed to read fingers; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fingerprint-cryptographic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fingerprint-cryptographic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fingerprint-cryptographic&lt;/a&gt; for cryptographic routines that &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would be more likely to guide taggers to the right tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I'd say &quot;concept-industry&quot; would be a good tag scheme in this case, however I also see that there's an overlap.  For example, understanding the cryptography in fingerprint readers (to prevent MITM attacks) would fall under either (or both) tags.  So there isn't a perfect answer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18910" LastActivityDate="2019-10-27T22:33:24.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5442" CreationDate="2019-10-31T19:08:52.127" Score="3" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why it's not possible to delete an answer completely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm embarrassed of some of them, sometimes for being hasty about answering and after seconds or minutes I realize that I'm (very) wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that moderators and high rep users can see these answers, and I would prefer they don't. Am I overreacting in this matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-10-31T22:29:27.880" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T22:29:27.880" Title="Delete answers completely" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5441" CreationDate="2019-10-31T19:41:02.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the reasoning behind it; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/307535&quot;&gt;What does deletion mean for a post?&lt;/a&gt; simply mentions the nuts and bolts of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deleted posts are usually not physically deleted (that is, removed from the system); they're just hidden (AKA soft-deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is generic Stack Exchange functionality, you'd probably have to ask on Meta.SE to get the reasoning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you understand that high-rep users &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; see deleted posts, so take a moment before you post anything that you might not want to stand behind. I don't know how much you're reacting, but consider this: the fact that you deleted the answer is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; visible, and should be taken into consideration when viewing the answer. Simply being wrong about an answer is no big deal, and deleting your answer is (IMHO) the correct thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Random factoid: there are ~256,000 (non-deleted) answers and ~40,000 deleted answers on the U&amp;amp;L site right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T19:41:02.520" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5443" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-03T15:28:40.793" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I sort the questions by vote, and ask to get the questions with not accepted answer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=MostVotes&amp;amp;filters=NoAcceptedAnswer&quot;&gt;I get&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rcl5i.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rcl5i.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/214273/101324&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (that I happened to ask) has 30 votes and no accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it not showing up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101324" LastActivityDate="2019-11-03T15:28:40.793" Title="Is sorting broken?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-10T00:34:20.240" Score="4" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macos&lt;/a&gt; tag is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt;,  however OS X ended in 2015 and Apple's operating system has been called macOS since.  I think the tags should be reversed so that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/osx&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;osx&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;osx&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;macos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macos&lt;/a&gt; rather than the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237982" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-11-10T08:16:58.113" LastActivityDate="2019-11-10T08:16:58.113" Title="Change macos/osx tag synonym" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2019-11-10T20:38:04.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-18T19:34:37.243" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing some questions lately pertaining to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22git+bash%22&quot;&gt;&quot;git bash&quot;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=gitbash&quot;&gt;&quot;gitbash&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and had to go look to see if this was something different from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows-subsystem-for-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows-subsystem-for-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows-subsystem-for-linux&lt;/a&gt;, and it seems that it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; different. I learned more about it from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-bash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Atlassian Git bash tutorial&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitforwindows.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Git for Windows&lt;/a&gt; page. It's summarized as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Git Bash is a package that installs Bash, some common bash utilities, and Git on a Windows operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming we consider them on-topic (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/436/cygwin-on-topic&quot;&gt;previously: Cygwin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5125/are-wsl-related-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;previously: WSL&lt;/a&gt;), is there a need for a new tag? If so, what should it be called, and what should the excerpt &amp;amp; wiki say about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T08:59:14.050" Title="Do we need to git a new tag for Git Bash questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5446" CreationDate="2019-11-19T00:14:02.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we don't. Git Bash is just &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/The-difference-between-MINGW-and-MSYS2#git-for-windows-2x-mingw-and-msys2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a redistribution of MSYS2/MinGW&lt;/a&gt;. We already have tags for those, so we should just make a synonym for one of these. I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/msys&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;msys&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;msys&lt;/a&gt;, since that's where the tools come from. I'd imagine that the non-MSYS, non-git-cli parts of Git Bash would be off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2019-11-20T08:59:14.050" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T08:59:14.050" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4808" CreationDate="2019-11-19T14:26:49.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to communicate with the moderator about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/4809/3&quot;&gt;a recently-elected moderator&lt;/a&gt;, let me say that I appreciate your concern for keeping the site clean and in trying to understand the rules/guidelines for it! I will echo what &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4809/117549&quot;&gt;not-yet moderator Stephen said&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the site's main chat room&lt;/a&gt;, currently named &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;/dev/chat&lt;/a&gt;, is a decent place to catch one of the moderators, and that posting here on Meta is also an excellent idea -- primarily because it's easier to search &amp;amp; find -- but that you could &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; raise a custom flag on the post to say that it is &amp;quot;in need of moderator intervention&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think the moderator simply mis-clicked or mis-understood a very clear situation, I would point you towards the custom flag, since that's a simple, direct solution to the problem. If the moderator who picks up that second flag is paying attention -- &lt;em&gt;this time&lt;/em&gt; -- then hopefully they'll make the &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; decision, or at least hand it off to a different moderator for a second opinion. If the post is clearly spam, then that moderator can take care of it with a single spam flag. Note that this is best in situations where the case is clear; flag comments &amp;amp; responses are limited in length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most other situations, I would encourage a Meta post to air out the misunderstandings. That helps the moderators, you, and future users all understand what the current guidelines are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third-best all around would be the chat room, IMHO. I do my best to keep up with it, but it can get busy, and even a chat-ping there could get drowned out by other site notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-11-11T13:18:15.917" LastActivityDate="2021-11-11T13:18:15.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-21T05:35:28.310" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The value of an up-vote on questions have recently been changed on Stackoverflow.com, here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/13/were-rewarding-the-question-askers/&quot;&gt;acticle&lt;/a&gt; with the details (now an up-vote on a question have the same rep value as an up-vote on an answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this policy coming to unix.stackexchange.com and other sites ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120919" LastEditorUserId="120919" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T05:40:45.903" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T06:49:20.147" Title="Is the new question's up-vote policy on SO coming to unix.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|questions|votes|policy|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5449" CreationDate="2019-11-21T06:49:20.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That change was made network-wide, not just on SO. It's not obvious from the blog post, but there is a hint (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’re recalculating reputation for every Stack Overflow &lt;em&gt;and Stack&#xA;  Exchange&lt;/em&gt; individual based on this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One obvious indication of it being network-wide was the sudden awarding of a number of &quot;Yearling&quot; badges (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/338168/270345&quot;&gt;Why am I getting so many &amp;quot;yearling&amp;quot; badges today?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Except maybe Area 51, because that's an older code base - see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/338243/270345&quot;&gt;Does the question reputation increase apply to Area 51?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T06:49:20.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5452" CreationDate="2019-11-23T08:13:46.010" Score="5" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I have less than 15 reputation the following notification is shown every time I click to an upvote &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QquHu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QquHu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose this recorded information is used for community statistics and most-important sort of questions and answer. &lt;em&gt;However it would be nice to give my vote contribution for those who taken my doubts out.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this privilege is earned the already-given votes are also counted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="364080" LastActivityDate="2019-11-23T16:33:08.103" Title="Will my previous votes increase the publicly displayed post score after I achieve 15 reputation?" Tags="|support|voting|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5451" CreationDate="2019-11-23T16:33:08.103" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you would have to cast the vote again after you reach 15 rep, since your vote wasn't actually a full/normal vote. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/285181/307535&quot;&gt;Once I reach 15 reputation, will my old votes be taken into account?&lt;/a&gt; for more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion at this point would be to &quot;favorite&quot; (star) the corresponding question(s) to make it easier to rediscover them when you can vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2019-11-23T16:33:08.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5454" CreationDate="2019-11-30T14:44:07.250" Score="13" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I work as a technician, often I need to install Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use my own method to create a multiboot USB using GRUB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have managed to create a USB (16GB) with three Windows (Windows 7 BIOS, Windows 10 32 bits BIOS, Windows 10 64 bits EFI).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to share this with the community, creating a question and answering it myself, having in mind that maybe lots of users share my type of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the method involves installing GRUB to a USB, and it's not really a Windows &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; (IMHO) I was wondering if this would be considered on topic, or rather would be better suited to &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;, and if it's a good idea to self-answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2019-11-30T14:55:35.247" LastActivityDate="2019-11-30T15:24:16.483" Title="Windows installer using GRUB - is on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|self-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5453" CreationDate="2019-11-30T15:24:16.483" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first instinct is that it wouldn't really be on topic, no. GRUB isn't a *nix thing, as such, it acts before the operating system so isn't really a part of any OS. Yes, it is a tool more commonly found in the *nix world, but using GRUB to install Windows systems doesn't seem to be something that would fall within the scope of this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would, however, be very much on topic on Super User, yes. So I think it would be better to post it there. Also, self-answering is absolutely fine. More than fine, it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/132887/203101&quot;&gt;actively encouraged&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my vote is for posting it on Super User. But please don't take this as The Law, I'm just giving my opinion as a user, not laying down the Word of Mod. If the community decides differently, that's fine by me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-11-30T15:24:16.483" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-09T22:16:03.577" Score="-6" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a post was declared a &quot;duplicate&quot; it is effectively killed, &lt;strong&gt;wasting&lt;/strong&gt; the time of the original poster, if one uses only the initial link, which is being tacitly redirected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is not made aware of this in the popup-windows or in my case by the &quot;admins&quot; or whomever. I ask to reopen my original post, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/556196/a-stop-job-is-running-garbles-the-systemd-debug-shell-on-alt-f9&quot;&gt;fix dreaded &amp;quot;A stop job is running&amp;quot; cylon-animation garbling systemd.debug_shell on Alt-F9&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which is now redirected to a related post about the issue but with different solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is unfair treatment of the original posters. Quite offending actually. What is the point of actually suppressing additional solutions in this non-transparent way? Maybe it is the &quot;closing&quot; [as duplicate]... No one understands how this site really works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="263494" LastEditorUserId="263494" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T12:29:01.540" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T12:29:01.540" Title="so–called &quot;duplicates&quot; are effectively killed from view from initial link - why not make that clear?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|reopen-closed|exact-duplicates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="66" CreationDate="2019-12-09T22:37:55.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;the question was: &quot;Why not?&quot; which there seems to be hesitance to answer this. If people could retract votes, which technically is possible, they could have themselves represented better, but they may not know best themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="263494" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T22:37:55.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5395" CreationDate="2019-12-09T22:52:28.050" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contributors who found a working solution in code do make a &lt;strong&gt;valueable&lt;/strong&gt; effort which will help others. If you think that is &lt;em&gt;not good enough&lt;/em&gt;, why not throw  in a few extra hours and improve the post yourselves? The original contributor already gave you most of what you need! Do not suppress their posts! That kind of antagonism will make the site utterly unpopular, and people have quite enough &lt;strong&gt;antagonism&lt;/strong&gt; at the workplace already, let me tell you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="263494" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T22:52:28.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-09T23:44:55.140" Score="-11" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overly zealous high-rankers – for lack of a better term – seem to treat expressions of gratitude by readers directed at contributors like Ebola-carrying hosts or something like that. They get weeded out in no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this really considerate? Is that so bad a content that every hour on-screen is seen as a crime almost? That sort of policy does not seem overly attractive to some, one might presume. I fully understand when people decide to quit this platform and never look back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="263494" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T02:44:37.323" Title="Is it really necessary to treat expressions of gratitude like plague and pestilence on this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5459" CreationDate="2019-12-10T02:44:37.323" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it really necessary to treat expressions of gratitude like plague and pestilence on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Assuming&lt;/em&gt; they are really treated like plague: necessary? no; useful? yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When having a problem I seek good answers that help. Votes are indicators and there's no need to duplicate their functionality. I find sole &quot;expressions of gratitude by readers directed at contributors&quot; just noise. I welcome comments that maybe say &quot;thank you&quot; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; add something useful (e.g. point out why the answer is better than other answers). I don't think these get deleted mindlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One needs 50 reputation to comment but only 15 to vote up. If a reader can comment to express their gratitude then certainly they can cast an upvote (or/and accept the answer, if they are the original poster).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few times I received a &quot;thank you&quot; comment without any upvote (or formal acceptance). I strongly prefer the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[expressions of gratitude] get weeded out in no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least some of them disappear &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; they served their purpose. I have flagged comments that say &quot;thanks&quot; under my answers (not necessarily here, I contribute mostly to Super User). If a comment says &quot;thank you&quot; to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; and I've read it, then it's no longer needed &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;. I've also edited few answers that mentioned me (e.g. &quot;Thanks to Kamil's helpful comments I was able to solve…&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if such expressions of gratitude got deleted without my intervention, I wouldn't mind. In my opinion the more technical U&amp;amp;L SE is, the better. I would hate it as a &lt;em&gt;social&lt;/em&gt; network. I want to gain knowledge, share knowledge, solve problems. I really don't care who is grateful to whom, especially if I'm not the addressee. I care if questions are interesting and if answers are helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case of expressed gratitude all readers but one are not the addressee. Why should hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of readers have their time wasted by presenting them &quot;thank you&quot; addressed to someone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this really considerate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Considerate to these hundreds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108618" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T02:44:37.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5455" CreationDate="2019-12-10T11:06:02.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I can see why you're frustrated about this.  Now I notice how the site behaved, I am really weirded out by it.  But I don't think that means we should undo this specific duplicate.  It is a good fit for the rest of the duplicate features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who write the site features don't necessarily read questions here, on Unix &amp;amp; Linux Meta.  On the overall StackExchange Meta, there are some very old questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127432/on-redirected-duplicates-show-linkback-to-original&quot;&gt;On redirected duplicates, show linkback to original&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/125220/automatically-redirect-anonymous-user-from-unanswered-duplicate-question-to-corr&quot;&gt;Automatically redirect anonymous user from unanswered duplicate question to corresponding answered version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to mint a link to your post, you can add &lt;code&gt;?noredirect=1&lt;/code&gt; to the end. Compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/556196/a-stop-job-is-running-garbles-the-systemd-debug-shell-on-alt-f9&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/556196/a-stop-job-is-running-garbles-the-systemd-debug-shell-on-alt-f9&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/556196/a-stop-job-is-running-garbles-the-systemd-debug-shell-on-alt-f9?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/556196/a-stop-job-is-running-garbles-the-systemd-debug-shell-on-alt-f9?noredirect=1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In case someone doesn't know what the problem is, try logging out first.  Then you will see the difference :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the page you are redirected to, there is a column on the right hand side.  You can scroll down to the heading &lt;b&gt;Linked&lt;/b&gt;.  You can see your question linked there, using a &lt;code&gt;?noredirect=1&lt;/code&gt; link.  That might be useful if you're struggling to find your way back to a &quot;duplicate&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T12:03:36.000" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T12:03:36.000" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5464" CreationDate="2019-12-12T06:51:04.380" Score="4" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to suggest a similar question when we find a possible duplicate, or when it is answered in another thread, as show in the following dialog? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWiDy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWiDy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Similar question suggested dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a privilege associated with this action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="364080" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2019-12-12T15:06:55.763" LastActivityDate="2019-12-12T15:06:55.763" Title="How to suggest a similar question" Tags="|support|questions|duplicate|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5463" CreationDate="2019-12-12T09:43:59.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is a privilege, called &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;flagging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, granted in this site at 15 rep. You flag a post as a &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; if you feel it has been already answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Flag posts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Privilege type: Moderation privilege&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Awarded at: 15 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;What is flagging?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flagging is a way of bringing inappropriate content to the attention&#xA;  of the community. The currently implemented flag types are the&#xA;  following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Flag to close (questions only)&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Duplicate question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need one more upvote to get this privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2019-12-12T09:43:59.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5466" CreationDate="2019-12-13T03:48:08.980" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just got 1000 clicks in one hour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/86CKUl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/86CKUl.png&quot; alt=&quot;click bot2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hardly get badges, but on U&amp;amp;L tonight, in an hour, a robot is creating like six of them. I appreciate the new hat but it is distracting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WQOSfl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WQOSfl.png&quot; alt=&quot;click bot.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make matters worse, whilst typing this question I got a &quot;yearling&quot; badge which might really be valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="200094" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-12-15T11:14:15.333" LastActivityDate="2019-12-15T11:14:15.333" Title="I'm being attacked by a Click Robot cycling addresses" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5465" CreationDate="2019-12-13T08:38:45.743" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened to a number of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &quot;Announcer&quot; badge:  A bug was fixed.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340292/suddenly-getting-announcer-badges-every-few-minutes&quot;&gt;Suddenly getting &amp;quot;Announcer&amp;quot; badges every few minutes?&lt;/a&gt; (and then &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/339664/missing-publicist-badge&quot;&gt;Missing publicist badge?&lt;/a&gt;) on the main Meta site. You can't give badges back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the hats: No, you can't unfortunately keep the hats that you earn in the &quot;Winter Bash&quot; past January 1. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://winterbash2019.stackexchange.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Winter bash 2019 FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above also addresses &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5465/im-being-attacked-by-a-click-robot-cycling-addresses#comment10595_5465&quot;&gt;your comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2019-12-14T11:17:01.647" LastActivityDate="2019-12-14T11:17:01.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-20T10:21:17.620" Score="-1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of insta-deleting my 1h effort, you could:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;just give me the vote and let me do the work of deleting my question and moving the answer over to the other question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;close and give me a chance to improve the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you have the (moderator) power, move it over yourself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/558200/aws-ec2-sftp-access-with-root-permissions-winscp&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/558200/aws-ec2-sftp-access-with-root-permissions-winscp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RpDj6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RpDj6.png&quot; alt=&quot;deleted question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109380" LastActivityDate="2019-12-20T10:30:30.357" Title="New contributor experience on unix &amp; linux" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5467" CreationDate="2019-12-20T10:30:30.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid mods cannot convert a question into an answer. Because you posted it as a question, the only choice I had was to delete. I couldn't close it since, beacuse it isn't a question at all, I don't see how you could possibly edit it to fix it. If you did, it would end up as a duplicate of the question you are trying to answer so, again, not useful to have around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that couldn't be upvoted: it wasn't a question. And even if it were upvoted, if you then deleted it to go and post it as an answer, you would lose the reputation from the upvote. You would only keep the reputation if it had a score &gt;3 and was older than 60 days. But we can't really allow something that isn't a question to hang around &lt;em&gt;for 60 days&lt;/em&gt; and get 3 upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if I had not deleted it, that would just have gotten you downvotes since it wasn't a question. So the choice was between deleting it directly, or waiting for the community to close it. While it waited, I can guarantee that it would be attracting a steady stream of downvotes. So by the time it was closed, and then automaticaly deleted by the system, you would have ended up with even less rep than you currently have. The post had already attracted a downvote by the time I deleted it (that vote wasn't mine). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I realize you had the best of intentions, but I am afraid that post was really not helpful the way it was made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2019-12-20T10:30:30.357" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-20T19:58:30.333" Score="29" ViewCount="1970" Body="&lt;p&gt;When should the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag be used? Should it be added to any question when the OP is using Linux? Should it only be used when the question is about the Linux kernel or GNU/Linux operating systems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some people use it to indicate that they are running Linux, although the question isn't actually about Linux. So when should we use this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-12-21T16:54:52.490" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T07:44:17.133" Title="What is the Linux tag for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5469" CreationDate="2019-12-20T19:58:30.333" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this tag should only be used for cases where a question is asking about how a Linux OS works. Not when the OP just happens to be using Linux, and not as a way of stating that the OP is using Linux. Tags should describe the question and help guide experts to questions they can answer. So the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag should only be used when the question is asking about some aspect of a Linux system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I would tag these (hypothetical) questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do all Linux systems default to having home directories in &lt;code&gt;/home&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does the &lt;code&gt;/proc&lt;/code&gt; filesystem work on Linux?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When is the &lt;code&gt;/tmp&lt;/code&gt; directory created on a Linux system?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there Linux systems without GNU tools?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, questions that are generally about Linux, the operating system should have the tag. Conversely, questions that are not about how Linux works but are simply asked in the context of a Linux system, shouldn't have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag and instead they should just mention Linux in the body of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I would not tag the following questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I replace &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; with sed on Ubuntu?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I find all executable files on a Linux machine?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is my Gnome so slow on Slackware?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I create a new user on RHEL?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are asked by people using Linux but they aren't actually &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Linux as such. They are about doing specific things on a Linux system, but not about how the OS works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, I suggest we only use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; for questions that are about the actual system and not about performing actions on the system. The tag should be used for broader questions that need an overview of how the OS works. If we just use it as a way of indicating that the OP is running Linux, then considering how many questions we get from Linux users, the tag is essentially useless and could be applied to &gt;70% of all questions on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T07:44:17.133" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T07:44:17.133" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5469" CreationDate="2019-12-21T05:52:58.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;[all this is of course just my opinion]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are used by people to &lt;strong&gt;define the scope of their questions&lt;/strong&gt;, and they should keep being useful that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag should be used when the OP only cares about information and solutions that apply to a typical GNU/Linux system, and doesn't want their question hijacked into a portability and system comparison discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; when they absolutely don't care about  portable shell scripts, and are perfectly fine with using features like arrays, process substitutions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to micro-manage tags and turn them into a curated ontology completely destroys their utility. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag should only be force-added to another user's question when it's absolutely clear that any relevant answers could only apply to Linux-based system, not when they just mentioned (or it could be guessed) that they're using a Linux system, and should not be force-removed unless it's clear that the user is confused and they're not using Linux in any way or form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in case it wasn't clear enough, I reject any pretension of &quot;consensus&quot; for blacklisting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag -- as long as you're not going to ask all the people who already tagged &lt;strong&gt;their own questions&lt;/strong&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag in the way I've described it, and you absolutely don't care about its effect on new users asking questions, I'll consider this just a way to enforce the groupthink of some close-knit club of users. Or worse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag could only make sense if GNU/Linux is assumed as the &quot;default&quot; system -- it that's the purpose of this, better be crystal clear about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user313992" LastEditorDisplayName="user313992" LastEditDate="2019-12-24T01:31:54.800" LastActivityDate="2019-12-24T01:31:54.800" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-22T17:46:38.893" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Formally macOS has a Unix certification, but in practice it might differ significantly from ordinary Unix derivatives. While questions about AppleScript like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327448/applescript-dialog-and-repeated-say-command-not-working-in-os-x-cronjob&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; have little interest for the general Linux/Unix community, Apple SE site reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We do encourage AppleScript, Automator, and UNIX shell scripting questions as well as how to use tools like Xcode for non-language specific tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefit of Unix SE is its narrowed scope:  if you read here an answer related to, say, Firefox or cURL, it will most likely apply to your system, while, if you find it on superuser.com, it can typically apply to Windows or macOS.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insofar as macOS conforms to its Unix certification, ordinary Unix/Linux tags apply and there seems to be no need for the specific &lt;code&gt;macos&lt;/code&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For cases when macOS chooses its very personal non-Unix path, e.g. Apple Script, should it be addressed to apple.SE or here (possibly creating duplicates)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44919" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-12-22T18:13:47.443" LastActivityDate="2019-12-22T18:13:47.443" Title="What is the difference from macos tag here and the Apple SE community?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5474" CreationDate="2019-12-23T15:01:59.613" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Issuing the following commands returns the displayed results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ ping -c 4 freebsd.stackexchange.com&#xA;&#xA;Pinging freebsd.stackexchange.com [151.101.129.69] with 32 bytes of data:&#xA;Reply from 151.101.129.69: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56&#xA;Reply from 151.101.129.69: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56&#xA;Reply from 151.101.129.69: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56&#xA;Reply from 151.101.129.69: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56&#xA;&#xA;Ping statistics for 151.101.129.69:&#xA;    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),&#xA;Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:&#xA;    Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 15ms&#xA;&#xA;$ curl -X HEAD -I https://freebsd.stackexchange.com&#xA;HTTP/2 404&#xA;x-request-guid: 91d4d75c-cf9c-45dc-aea0-a5ffdb1061b7&#xA;accept-ranges: bytes&#xA;date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 14:55:35 GMT&#xA;via: 1.1 varnish&#xA;x-served-by: cache-mad22044-MAD&#xA;x-cache: MISS&#xA;x-cache-hits: 0&#xA;x-timer: S1577112935.892355,VS0,VE110&#xA;vary: Fastly-SSL&#xA;x-dns-prefetch-control: off&#xA;set-cookie: prov=f1b9e1bc-4bf3-d056-52fe-6c343fdd9f7e; domain=.stackexchange.com; expires=Fri, 01-Jan-2055 00:00:00 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly&#xA;content-length: 3850&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I try to open the the link in a browser a page is displayed with the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Couldn't find freebsd.stackexchange.com&#xA;The Q&amp;amp;A site freebsd.stackexchange.com doesn't seem to exist…yet&#xA;...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can that be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40484" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T16:05:02.650" Title="Site not found: freebsd.stackexchange.com" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5473" CreationDate="2019-12-23T16:05:02.650" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;foo.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; names are subdomains, they all go to the same actual IP. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ for i in unix ubuntu apple workplace english french; do ping -c 1 $i.stackexchange.com | grep PING; done&#xA;PING unix.stackexchange.com (151.101.65.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING ubuntu.stackexchange.com (151.101.65.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING apple.stackexchange.com (151.101.65.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING workplace.stackexchange.com (151.101.193.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING english.stackexchange.com (151.101.129.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING french.stackexchange.com (151.101.65.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get the exact same response no matter what you put in front of the &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ for i in snotty snooty smelly grimy; do ping -c 1 $i.stackexchange.com | grep PING; done&#xA;PING snotty.stackexchange.com (151.101.193.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING snooty.stackexchange.com (151.101.193.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING smelly.stackexchange.com (151.101.1.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;PING grimy.stackexchange.com (151.101.1.69) 56(84) bytes of data.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no FreeBSD site on the stackexchange network, so you can't actually visit any site using the freebsd.stackexchange.com. Instead, you are taken to a landing page on the stackexchange.com parent domain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ahfcL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ahfcL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a very common pattern. Most hosting providers, if not all, will give you multiple (even unlimited for higher end plans) &lt;code&gt;foo.yoursite.com&lt;/code&gt; subdomains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T16:05:02.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5469" CreationDate="2019-12-23T19:01:40.267" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can discuss anything we want, but without the effort to actually enforce a meaning for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;, we are wasting our time. If anyone wants a definitive solution, that is, one that will not be a continuous effort for anyone, that is just blacklisting and burning the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is so, because &quot;Linux&quot; is an overloaded term, it implies many things to many people. If we try to define it by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot;&gt;current usage&lt;/a&gt;, it would be so broad that it is meaningless. If we try to narrow it, then we get ourselves into a battle against the tide trying to enforce it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux-kernel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux-kernel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux-kernel&lt;/a&gt; tag, and other linux-* related tags. Lets just do what it is usually done when SE sites are created and blacklist the tag which is also part of the topic and name of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2019-12-23T20:30:26.050" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T20:30:26.050" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5477" CreationDate="2019-12-30T10:07:23.350" Score="17" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/321129&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/559407/what-is-a-convenient-way-to-run-long-list-of-commands-and-show-a-message-if-som/559470#559470&quot;&gt;recent answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author of the answer provided a nice solution to the question, but it looks like he didn't have the time to debug it, so his script ended up with some typos, that would prevent someone to use it directly. Namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was a quoted string that wasn't terminated, so the script couldn't be executed at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The script used &lt;code&gt;&quot;$*&quot;&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;&quot;$@&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, which would cause problems if one of the commands had an argument with spaces in it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The script was using the 'exit code of the last command' variable &lt;code&gt;$?&lt;/code&gt;, but its value was overwritten by an &lt;code&gt;if&lt;/code&gt; statement between issuing the command and using the exit code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other that that the answer was very good, innovative, and provided a viable solution to the problem, that hadn't been proposed before in that thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suggested an edit that fixed all these problems, and also upvoted the answer, which already had been downvoted by someone due to the above typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to my surprise, the edit was rejected, and both reviewers used this justification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this seems nonsensical. I was absolutely NOT addressing the author of the post. I am pretty sure he understands all these issues, but simply didn't notice them, because he didn't test the script (maybe he was on mobile?). It was intended for all the &lt;strong&gt;future&lt;/strong&gt; viewers, that would try to run the script, and possibly be confused if they had less experience in bash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the edit,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was not appropriate as a comment, since newline characters are not available in comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was not appropriate as a new answer. Posting as a new answer would be plagiarism, since the idea behind the script had already be posted, and the new answer would just be typo fixes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is was the suggested edit rejected in error? Or is there a policy on unix.SE, that slightly flawed answers shouldn't be fixed, and all the future readers should spend time debugging around the typos?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the reviewers aren't confident enough to evaluate the given answer, shouldn't they skip the reviews, rather than letting scripts with typos stay in answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that both reviewers seem to be &quot;mass-rejectors&quot;, in the sense that they have both rejected 55% - 65% percent of their approved suggested edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77928" LastEditorUserId="77928" LastEditDate="2019-12-30T10:16:37.057" LastActivityDate="2020-01-02T06:05:22.353" Title="&quot;Suggestion should be comment&quot;, but it really shouldn't" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5476" CreationDate="2019-12-30T11:32:52.030" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your edit was indeed helpful. Your changes were absolutely improving the answer and, as you said, it wouldn't even run without the missing quote. Most importantly, you fixed the &lt;code&gt;(( failed )) || return&lt;/code&gt; which had to be &lt;code&gt;(( failed )) &amp;amp;&amp;amp; return&lt;/code&gt; for the script to work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking over your edit, I was confused by your change of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if ! &quot;$*&quot; &#xA;then&#xA;  failed=$?&#xA;  echo &quot;failed($failed): $*  &amp;gt;&amp;amp;2&#xA;fi&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;$@&quot; &#xA;ec=$?&#xA;if (( ec ))&#xA;then&#xA;  failed=$ec&#xA;  echo &quot;failed($failed): $*&quot; &amp;gt;&amp;amp;2&#xA;fi&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't noticed that the value of &lt;code&gt;$failed&lt;/code&gt; was being printed and I had thought that you believed the &lt;code&gt;if&lt;/code&gt; would fail unless you rewrote it to use the stored value of &lt;code&gt;$?&lt;/code&gt;. On first reading, it looked like you had thought that &lt;code&gt;if command; then&lt;/code&gt; wouldn't work and you &lt;em&gt;needed&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;command; ec=$?; if (( $? )); then&lt;/code&gt;. Maybe that confused the reviewers as well? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe they just weren't paying close enough attention, we all make mistakes and it's especially easy when reviewing multiple posts. In any case, you are quite right, that edit should have been approved and there is no policy about leaving imperfect answers alone. On the contrary, we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; these kinds of edits, so I have now approved your original suggestion. Thanks for bringing this up, thank you for the edit, sorry it turned out this way and keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2020-01-02T06:05:22.353" LastActivityDate="2020-01-02T06:05:22.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-01T02:52:37.210" Score="9" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's New Year's Day in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange land&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges &#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together. &#xA;And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? &#xA;So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Unix &amp;amp; Linux over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                  Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;----------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                  13         38&#xA;Users destroyed³                                  70          0&#xA;Users deleted                                     11          0&#xA;Users contacted                                   22          0&#xA;User suspensions lifted early                      1          0&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue            685     11,520&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue               154      2,223&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue       1,546      7,072&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue               190      4,407&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue                156     19,612&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue               779     16,226&#xA;Tags merged                                        4          0&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                              7          3&#xA;Tag synonyms created                               6          5&#xA;Tag highlight language set                         4          0&#xA;Revisions redacted                                17          0&#xA;Questions unprotected                              3          0&#xA;Questions reopened                               109         79&#xA;Questions protected                               11        156&#xA;Questions migrated                                77         94&#xA;Questions merged                                   2          0&#xA;Questions flagged⁵                                35      1,837&#xA;Questions closed                               1,651      3,426&#xA;Question flags handled⁵                          654      1,212&#xA;Posts unlocked                                     1         44&#xA;Posts undeleted                                   87        675&#xA;Posts locked                                       3        358&#xA;Posts deleted⁶                                 2,612     14,227&#xA;Posts bumped                                       0      8,612&#xA;Escalations to the Community Manager team         14          0&#xA;Comments undeleted                                60          0&#xA;Comments flagged                                  70      7,400&#xA;Comments deleted⁷                              6,142     20,037&#xA;Comment flags handled                          2,245      5,226&#xA;Answers flagged                                  231      6,504&#xA;Answer flags handled                           5,095      1,639&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat              37          0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &quot;Community&quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &quot;destroyed&quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5137/2018-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2018: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222019%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/341507/2019-a-year-in-closing&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastEditorUserId="5973" LastEditDate="2020-01-03T02:22:27.993" LastActivityDate="2020-01-03T11:43:44.413" Title="2019: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5479" CreationDate="2020-01-01T08:27:28.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the numbers for this year (with Shog9's very slight late adjustments not taken into account), compared to the numbers for last year (because why not?).  The last two columns are the differences from last year's &quot;Moderators&quot; and &quot;Community&quot; numbers.  A value less than zero indicates a decrease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Action                                     Moderators  Community&#xA;-----------------------------------------  ----------  ----------&#xA;Users suspended                            13          38          7     10&#xA;Users destroyed                            70          0           12    0&#xA;Users deleted                              11          0           -38   0&#xA;Users contacted                            22          0           14    0&#xA;User suspensions lifted early              1           0           -1    0&#xA;Tasks reviewed: Suggested Edit queue       685         11,520      388   -2136&#xA;Tasks reviewed: Reopen Vote queue          154         2,223       -86   -2291&#xA;Tasks reviewed: Low Quality Posts queue    1,546       7,072       1440  -6372&#xA;Tasks reviewed: Late Answer queue          190         4,407       149   -1022&#xA;Tasks reviewed: First Post queue           156         19,612      -32   -1830&#xA;Tasks reviewed: Close Votes queue          779         16,226      219   -13569&#xA;Tags merged                                4           0           1     0&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                      7           3           4     -4&#xA;Tag synonyms created                       6           5           3     3&#xA;Tag highlight language set                 4           0           3     0&#xA;Revisions redacted                         17          0           5     0&#xA;Questions unprotected                      3           0           3     -1&#xA;Questions reopened                         109         79          -25   -100&#xA;Questions protected                        11          156         5     9&#xA;Questions migrated                         77          94          -2    -81&#xA;Questions merged                           2           0           -4    0&#xA;Questions flagged                          35          1,837       12    -654&#xA;Questions closed                           1,651       3,426       522   -3637&#xA;Question flags handled                     654         1,218       66    -708&#xA;Posts unlocked                             1           44          -7    -37&#xA;Posts undeleted                            87          675         37    -109&#xA;Posts locked                               3           358         -6    -146&#xA;Posts deleted                              2,612       14,227      314   548&#xA;Posts bumped                               0           8,612       0     -115&#xA;Escalations to the Community Manager team  14          0           -6    0&#xA;Comments undeleted                         60          0           -47   0&#xA;Comments flagged                           70          7,400       64    -479&#xA;Comments deleted                           6,142       20,037      -554  416&#xA;Comment flags handled                      2,244       5,226       -926  511&#xA;Answers flagged                            231         6,504       178   -2010&#xA;Answer flags handled                       5,094       1,641       162   -1994&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat       37          0           2     0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is obviously clear that &quot;Community&quot; has been less active in moderation-related activities under 2019 than under 2018, especially when it comes to looking after the review queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-01-03T11:43:44.413" LastActivityDate="2020-01-03T11:43:44.413" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-02T01:05:23.263" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/559863/how-to-get-stacking-layout-in-regolith-linux&quot;&gt;How to get stacking layout in Regolith Linux?&lt;/a&gt; I felt my tagging options were insufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;ubuntu&lt;/code&gt; tag requests that you only use it if the question is about Ubuntu. Well, kind of? Regolith is an unofficial Ubuntu flavour.  But it's unlikely to be relevant to most Ubuntu users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I just tag it &lt;code&gt;i3&lt;/code&gt;, the WM in Regolith which the question is about, there is a similar problem.  Most users of i3 will not be familiar with the customisations made by Regolith, and it is definitely those that I'm interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that mean there should be a specific flag for Regolith?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I'm not well-versed enough in meta on StackExchange sites, I won't try to create the tag myself.  I'll just say for the record that if there had been a &lt;code&gt;ubuntu-regolith&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;regolith&lt;/code&gt; tag, I could have tagged my question more specifically and with less hesitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219378" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2020-01-02T06:13:04.527" LastActivityDate="2021-02-02T17:07:36.120" Title="Should there be a ubuntu-regolith or regolith tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5476" CreationDate="2020-01-02T05:59:51.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree that the first version of the answer was severely flawed&#xA;— I’m the one who down voted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree that it’s OK for edits to fix technical errors in answers. &#xA;Reviewers often reject such edits&#xA;with the “clearly conflicts with author's intent” reason. &#xA;It seems to me that this argument says that the author intended to post&#xA;a technically flawed answer, which is not nice.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might &lt;em&gt;occasionally&lt;/em&gt; be OK to fix technical errors in a question,&#xA;but you have to be very careful not to invalidate the question&#xA;by removing the problem that it is asking about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I’m less supportive of &lt;em&gt;suggested&lt;/em&gt; edits that make technical changes,&#xA;because (IMHO) the reviewers are obligated to verify&#xA;the technical correctness of the edit in order to adjudicate it.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, what’s the big deal? &#xA;There’s a “Skip” button. &#xA;If you (a reviewer) can’t determine whether a suggested edit is correct,&#xA;you should skip it. &#xA;This is really true for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; kinds of suggested edits. &#xA;If an edit suggests punctuation changes,&#xA;and you don’t know the rules for punctuation in English,&#xA;you should skip the review.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moderator on Super User &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/12239/354511#12240&quot;&gt;has stated that&#xA;suggested edits should be rejected if the &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; is wrong.&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;I’m inclined to agree. &#xA;And your edit comment wasn’t very good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You said “Use &quot;$@&quot; instead of &quot;$*&quot; incase argument has spaces”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s not the reason. &#xA;The reason is that &lt;code&gt;&quot;$*&quot;&lt;/code&gt; fails &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;if there are two or more arguments&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; &#xA;For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;try ls -ld&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gets&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-bash: ls -ld: command not found&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. “in case”, in the context of your comment, is two words. &#xA;Some dictionaries recognize “incase”&#xA;as an alternative spelling for “encase”; i.e., to enclose in a case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You said “get exit status immediately,&#xA;otherwise it will by overwritten by the if's exit status”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s not the reason. &#xA;Given&lt;pre&gt;if &lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;then&#xA;    &lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;101&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;    &lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;102&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;    &lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;103&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;        ︙&#xA;else&#xA;    &lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;201&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;    &lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;202&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;    &lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;203&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;        ︙&#xA;fi&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;101&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;and &lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;201&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt; both “see” (in &lt;code&gt;$?&lt;/code&gt;)&#xA;the exit status from &lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt;. &#xA;Of course, &lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;statement&lt;sub&gt;101&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt; always sees &lt;code&gt;$?&lt;/code&gt; = 0. &#xA;The problem is that &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; inverts the exit status,&#xA;so, if the command fails, &lt;code&gt;! &quot;$@&quot;&lt;/code&gt; sets &lt;code&gt;$?&lt;/code&gt; to 0.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You said “reverse login in first failed test”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that this (maybe) refers to changing &lt;code&gt;||&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;but I don’t quite understand what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, wait — did you mean “logging in the first &lt;code&gt;failed&lt;/code&gt; test”?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2020-01-02T05:59:51.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-05T18:06:21.403" Score="13" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we vote to close as off topic, we can select one of a couple of sites to forward the question to such as stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised that superuser.com isn't listed as an option.  Is there a reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mentioning because it seems that a pretty good proportion of questions to be closed as off topic would belong there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-01-05T18:41:19.423" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T14:52:32.620" Title="Why can we not vote to migrate a question to superuser.com?" Tags="|discussion|review|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-08T05:45:45.643" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can be migrated at Closing&gt;Off-Topic&gt;Migration,&#xA;but only to the targets &quot;Unix and Linux Meta&quot; and &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;, but not &quot;Ask Ubuntu&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask Ubuntu is a very probable target, simply because there are questions that are not technically wrong here, but much better suited for Ask Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63775" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-01-09T14:54:36.387" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T15:15:23.660" Title="The migration target Askubuntu should be available" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5483" CreationDate="2020-01-09T14:52:32.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Standing on the shoulders of giants, I'll mention: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5435/117549&quot;&gt;When flagging a question to be migrated, why are some Stack Exchange sites excluded?&lt;/a&gt; (with its link to some good reading at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203318/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-restricting-the-number-of-migration-paths&quot;&gt;What is the reasoning behind restricting the number of migration paths?&lt;/a&gt;). Shog9's answer on Meta.SE regarding close-vote migration paths raises concerns over whether the OP has (or even wants) an account on the target site and whether the OP -- and the 5 close-voters here! -- are familiar with the target site's scope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous Meta answers here refer to demonstrating a need. Looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/stats&quot;&gt;migrated stats link&lt;/a&gt; (via Gilles' answer at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3274/117549&quot;&gt;Yearly Revisit of List of Sites to Migrate&lt;/a&gt;), in the past 90 days, we've migrated &lt;em&gt;away&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stackoverflow.com × 16 (6% rejected)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;superuser.com × 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unix.meta.stackexchange.com × 1 (100% rejected)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;android.stackexchange.com × 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;apple.stackexchange.com × 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which doesn't (to me) look like a substantially different ratio than previously, so if history is any indicator, SE staff would not support adding a close-vote migration path to SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T14:52:32.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5484" CreationDate="2020-01-09T15:15:23.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Above and beyond &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5483/why-can-we-not-vote-to-migrate-a-question-to-superuser-com?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Why can we not vote to migrate a question to superuser.com?&lt;/a&gt;, there's some previous history here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2010) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/72734/307535&quot;&gt;How did Unix/Linux survive Area51?&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Eventually there was a vote about merging, with Unix voting for merging, Ubuntu voting not to ... the sites ended up deciding to only migrate from Ubuntu to Unix if the question doesn't apply to Ubuntu, and only from Unix to Ubuntu if the question doesn't apply to any distro but Ubuntu&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2010) - Bonus reading: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/14/unix-and-ubuntu-why-both/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Blog: &quot;Unix and Ubuntu: Why Both?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2011) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/389/117549&quot;&gt;Migrate Ubuntu-specific questions to AskUbuntu?&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;So I'd only migrate questions where the question is extremely and unavoidably Ubuntu-centric, and &lt;strong&gt;cannot be generalized to other *nixes in any meaningful way&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2013) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1326/ubuntu-specific-questions&quot;&gt;Ubuntu specific questions&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I think would be risky, because we get an awful lot of &quot;belongs on Ask Ubuntu&quot; flags because the asker happens to be using Ubuntu, even if the question has nothing to do with Ubuntu specifically; I think we'd end up migrating a lot of generic Linux posts over there.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(2014) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2927/117549&quot;&gt;How to identify which questions belong to which site?&lt;/a&gt;: (see the picture there)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time we migrated a question to Ask Ubuntu from here was on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/535731/nvidia-settings-only-opens-a-small-blank-window?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;August 15th of 2019&lt;/a&gt; after the post was flagged by its author. It remains open and upvoted on Ask Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have the Help Center post, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; which says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;Ubuntu posts are a special case&lt;/strong&gt;. If your question applies to Ubuntu only, or you're looking for answers that are Ubuntu-specific, you should post it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; Stack Exchange site. If your question applies to other distros or you welcome more generic solutions, you're in the right place here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T15:15:23.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5481" CreationDate="2020-01-09T15:41:13.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would consider creating a tag when there's a topic that's sufficiently large to have a community that's using that technology and would search specifically for it. Tags are one way of organizing and distributing questions on the site. There is a maximum of five tags per question, so we shouldn't have a tag for every noun in existence. We should consider a tag when there are people who would &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/interesting-topics&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;watch&amp;quot; (&amp;quot;favorite&amp;quot;) or &amp;quot;ignore&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; questions with that tag. Short of that, a plain-text search will find posts with that term in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are almost to 300 reputation points, at which &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;new tags can be created&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, note that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on some sites, new tags will be automatically culled and removed from the system if they are not used by at least 1 other question in a 6 month period.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta tags, tags that cannot stand alone as the only tag on a question, are not allowed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please create new tags responsibly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T15:41:13.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5490" CreationDate="2020-01-10T15:49:03.043" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was fiddling trying to get uMatrix working and accidentally posted what should have been a comment to another answer, but was actually posted as an answer.  It was noticed by a reviewer and deleted as a &quot;low quality&quot; answer (which it certainly was).  Now I want to permanently delete it, but can't figure out how to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42620" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T16:02:43.573" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T16:52:28.867" Title="How can I delete an answer which I posted in error, which has already been deleted by a reviewer?" Tags="|support|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5489" CreationDate="2020-01-10T16:52:28.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is already permanently deleted. You can just still see it because you are the post's owner, but other users cannot see it. &quot;Deleted&quot; content on these sites isn't really deleted, it is simply not shown to users unless they have at least 10,000 reputation or, as in this case, if they are the post's author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't worry about it, it is deleted, it isn't bothering anyone and there's nothing wrong with leaving it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T16:52:28.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-12T15:26:15.313" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;iproute2&lt;/code&gt; is the package name for the utility &lt;code&gt;/sbin/ip&lt;/code&gt; and its peripherals. &lt;code&gt;iproute&lt;/code&gt; OTOH leans strongly towards the &lt;code&gt;ip route&lt;/code&gt; subcommand. While I admit that &lt;code&gt;ip route&lt;/code&gt; is probably the most used subcommand of &lt;code&gt;/sbin/ip&lt;/code&gt;, I would still like to see &lt;code&gt;iproute2&lt;/code&gt; as the canonical name being used for the tag, rather than &lt;code&gt;iproute&lt;/code&gt;. Shall we rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iproute&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iproute&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iproute&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iproute2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iproute2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iproute2&lt;/a&gt;? (Probably retaining &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iproute&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iproute&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iproute&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211239" LastActivityDate="2020-01-12T15:26:15.313" Title="Rename [iproute] to [iproute2]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retag-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-15T10:51:37.107" Score="3" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about the Linux kernel but not sure where would be the right place to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also afraid that my question may be seen as much too general or generic and I will be banned even more strictly, however (just in case) I will post it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read around about the Linux kernel but not found the answer of the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the different kernel versions have different numbers of parameters or the number of kernel-parameters in all kernel versions is one and the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that the number of kernel-parameters in the different kernel versions is different, at least because a support for new devices is added and because new patches are being added too, but not sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And: is it true that a non-kernel-developer user can define and add his own parameter/s to the kernel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="358141" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2020-01-15T17:57:38.443" LastActivityDate="2021-06-10T01:05:55.903" Title="question about linux kernel parameters" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-16T11:16:59.037" Score="-8" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had edited an answer, based on my search and experience.&#xA;Like this one. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmhqJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmhqJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenhot-rejected&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if the peer reviewer understood the question, and then my answer. &#xA;If these are the reviewers, then this document : &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2017/cmsc818O/papers/get-where-look.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack* based developrs write more vulnerable code than others !&lt;/a&gt; is very much valid !! ??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/10351/390742&quot;&gt;Link to the question&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/323152&quot;&gt;Link to the review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="390742" OwnerDisplayName="Pramod_PK" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-01-17T08:34:26.467" LastActivityDate="2020-01-17T08:34:26.467" Title="Why does reviewers not accept? Reject the edits without understanding" Tags="|discussion|answers|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5494" CreationDate="2020-01-16T12:33:56.270" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote to reject your edit for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the first part of your edit doesn’t add any substantive content, it’s a variation on the existing &lt;code&gt;last -x | less&lt;/code&gt; command and an example;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the second part of your edit is incorrect: the X server error message doesn’t give any clue regarding the reason of the shutdown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not saying the post you edited can’t be improved; in particular, the link at the end isn’t useful, and should either be expanded upon or removed IMO. However there are other answers to the question which provide similar information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T12:33:56.270" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5494" CreationDate="2020-01-16T14:37:44.260" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if your edit is correct, if it fundamentally changes the answer it should not be an edit but a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than you found it. Common reasons for edits include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To fix grammar and spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (&lt;strong&gt;without changing that meaning&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the information relevant to the post is contained in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To correct &lt;strong&gt;minor&lt;/strong&gt; mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237982" LastEditorUserId="237982" LastEditDate="2020-01-16T14:44:15.443" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T14:44:15.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5493" CreationDate="2020-01-16T23:14:07.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The big question here is what you mean by &quot;kernel parameters.&quot;  Linux is unusual among operating systems in general, and Unix in particular, in that it can accept a vector (list) of parameters which are passed to it by its bootloader (LILO, Syslinux, GRUB, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kernel parses these and uses their values to over-ride certain compile time defaults.  But it also preserves and exposes that parameter list through the &lt;em&gt;/proc/cmdline&lt;/em&gt; node. You can read it with the &lt;em&gt;cat&lt;/em&gt; command as if it were a regular file; but, as with the rest of the contents of &lt;em&gt;/proc&lt;/em&gt;, it's a pseudo-file with contents dynamically returned by the kernel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a typical Linux kernel command line:  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-96-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8 quiet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see it's mostly a suite of KEY=VALUE pairs, similar to your shell environment.  Ultimately some of these parameters are only used by the initrd/initramfs init, or the system init process, or by scripts and programs started by init (&lt;em&gt;systemd&lt;/em&gt; on most common Linux systems today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;strong&gt;ro&lt;/strong&gt; indicates that the root filesystem should be initially mounted in &quot;read-only&quot; mode.  The actual mounting of the root filesystem (as specified by the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;root=&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; parameter) is performed by the kernel.  But the common case there is for an initial RAM filesystem (ramdisk) to be created, mounted on root, and populated (initramfs images are a compressed &lt;em&gt;cpio&lt;/em&gt; compatible file).  An executable named &lt;em&gt;init&lt;/em&gt; in the root directory of that RAM disk image can then load modules, activate LVM volume groups, attach network storage systems such as from a SAN (storage area network), or do other things before mounting the (real) root filesystem and performing a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;pivot_root&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;pivot_root&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the kernel will search for the &lt;em&gt;init&lt;/em&gt; executable (normally a component of &lt;em&gt;systemd&lt;/em&gt; under most modern Linux distributions) and execute it with KEY=VALUE parameters in the init environment an any remaining kernel parameters (such as an old SysV runlevel number or indicated like &quot;S&quot; for single user mode) or the &quot;quiet&quot; seen in my example, passed as command line arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words the Linux boot process, and its handling of dynamically (bootloader) provided parameters is complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more canonical documentation on this here: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of particular note is that the dynamic loading of Linux kernel modules (using the &lt;strong&gt;modprobe&lt;/strong&gt;, but which is often triggered by events in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;udev&lt;/em&gt; ... user-space device management ... subsystem ... this loading mechanism scans the kernel command line and relays those parameters to modules as they are loaded.  Thus any parameters for modules can be established at boot time (but possibly over-ridden at load time, and, in some cases, they can be modified by operations on their own nodes under the *&lt;/strong&gt;/sys*** filesystem (which is a kernel interface abstraction similar &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;/proc&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the meta question; I think it should be fine in the Unix &amp;amp; Linux StackExchange.  Feel free to relay my answer over there or wherever is deemed to be appropriate for the question and its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1036" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T23:14:07.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5469" CreationDate="2020-01-17T15:37:15.897" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag adds information. Maybe poor information, but information even an unexperienced user actually provides. Very often I saw a question about how to solve some problem, but with very poor border conditions given. Only after I saw the linux tag, I was able to guess a lot of things like the OP probably uses the GNU version of the described tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I grew up with HP-UX, Solaris, NetBSD, later MacOSX, so &quot;linux&quot; is not my default thinking, while for most people on the site it seems to be. They don't write &quot;btw, it's a ubuntu 16.04.6 amd64 machine&quot;, but at least they use the &quot;linux&quot; tag. Not much, but enough to sometimes skip two times asking back in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More experienced users can replace the tag with &quot;linux-something&quot; to make filtering more useful, but you don't lose anything by allowing the linux tag. I doubt you can tame it to be used more specificly by the majority of users, so don't have too high expectations on a redefinition. And removing it won't help, but it will even kill the tiny contribution it did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216004" LastActivityDate="2020-01-17T15:37:15.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-24T19:17:40.557" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I review a question and want to close it as off topic, I run into a dead end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the question is about Android, with no explicit or implicit relation to Unix or Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no problem, I have to mark it as plain &quot;off topic&quot; or as &quot;off topic but belongs to Android&quot;. All is perfectly fine until I run into the list of sites I may indicate it belongs to. There are only two sites listed, and there is no &quot;others&quot; field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do at that point?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why is it like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63775" LastActivityDate="2020-01-24T19:17:40.557" Title="How to mark something that is off topic including for Meta and StackOveflow?" Tags="|discussion|off-topic|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-29T09:28:04.630" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it allowed to answer a questions, but for comments 50 reputation is needed. Isn't an answer much higher weighted than a comment, where you can point out something to the questioner without having to give an answer directly. Sometimes more information is needed to answer the question and user with less than 50 rep aren't able to ask for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="391272" LastActivityDate="2020-01-29T09:28:04.630" Title="Why is commenting restricted to 50 rep?" Tags="|discussion|answers|comments|reputation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2020-01-30T14:02:35.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5096" CreationDate="2020-01-30T14:02:27.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The UNIX &amp;amp; Linux site is part of a larger Stack Exchange network, and as such uses many of the same settings &amp;amp; processes. There is a Meta Stack Exchange post, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214173/why-do-i-need-50-reputation-to-comment-what-can-i-do-instead&quot;&gt;Why do I need 50 reputation to comment? What can I do instead?&lt;/a&gt;, that describes the reasoning behind requiring 50 reputation points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We realize that new users may have valuable comments, and that we may lose some of those contributions by requiring 50 reputation points to unlock the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, history and experience have shown that the downsides of allowing &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; to comment are far greater than a few useful comments lost:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are big problems with spam. Automated filters cannot catch all of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even among the real comments, most would either say &amp;quot;I have the same problem&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I agree&amp;quot;. Such comments do not add any value, and have to be manually removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments are very painful to moderate. Stack Exchange sites have a process of community moderation (voting, flagging, review queues) that works great for questions and answers, but not so much for comments. Comments cannot be downvoted or closevoted, nor searched (nor do we want that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments are second class citizens on the Stack Exchange network, not designed to hold information for all eternity. They may get cleaned up at any time. Generally, &lt;strong&gt;truly important information should be incorporated into an answer anyway&lt;/strong&gt; (either by posting a new answer, if the information answers the question at least partially, or by editing an existing answer, if the information is a minor complement or clarification of that answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same post also provides guidance if you want to provide an Answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers don't have to be exhaustive or infallible, they just need to &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to answer the question. It's perfectly fine to post an answer saying, for example, &amp;quot;I'm not sure what the cause of your problem is, but if it's &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;, you can solve it by doing &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;. If that doesn't help, try &lt;em&gt;Z&lt;/em&gt; and let me know what it says.&amp;quot;  Also, if further information does become available, you can edit your answer later to make it more precise. This is a good habit to get into &lt;em&gt;even if you &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; comment!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On busier sites, if you cannot even &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to answer without asking for clarification, then &lt;strong&gt;move on to another question&lt;/strong&gt;. Many new questions are asked every minute, and there are many unanswered questions still waiting for your help. You might feel bad about abandoning the question, but it is the absolute responsibility of the asker to include all relevant information, presented in a clear manner. Failure to do so at any level decreases their chances to find a good answer to their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add my own perspective to this last section: this site has enough visitors with enough reputation, so requests for clarification usually come along shortly. If you have a concern about the question, someone else likely will, too. I suggest staging an answer (possibly offline) based on some reasonable assumptions; &amp;quot;starring&amp;quot; the question as a Favorite to make it easy to rediscover; and then moving on to other questions. Revisit the original question at your leisure to see if it has been edited with updates and consider posting your own Answer. As the Meta post also says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking good questions and providing good answers will get you 50 rep points in no time. Alternatively, you can suggest edits that improve existing questions and answers. Each of those will gain you 2 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and you won't have to worry about the reputation limit for very long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T15:48:16.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-01T23:14:54.923" Score="-1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I undo this issue? I know I wrote sucky or idiotic questions at some point or another... I would like to re-enable this ability, as I didn't really care to ask a question on super-user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120695" LastActivityDate="2020-02-04T21:20:22.490" Title="I am post-blocked on the Unix &amp; Linux forum" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5504" CreationDate="2020-02-04T18:29:56.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, sorry to hear about your health! I hope you can recover quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best advice I can point you to is the &quot;&lt;em&gt;How long do I have to wait before I can post again? What can I do to release the ban? How can I reactivate my account?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; section of the Meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/86997/307535&quot;&gt;What can I do when getting &amp;quot;We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of high points from that post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not delete your posts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're unable to improve your existing posts, you'll get the chance to post one new question or answer 6 months after your last question/answer. If that post is positively received, you may be able to continue posting questions/answers; if not, the ban will be reinstated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The U&amp;amp;L site also has &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/question-bans&quot;&gt;a page in the Help Center&lt;/a&gt; that is similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some advice above and beyond that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your most recent U&amp;amp;L question is one that I'd consider borderline low-quality. Show the research (effort) you've taken to this point. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;&quot;learning materials&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is off-topic here (excepting pointers to &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; documentation). &quot;Good&quot; documentation would be subjective. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Punctuation helps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the body of your post to set up your environment, efforts so far, and any relevant requirements. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I may, please refer to a Meta Q&amp;amp;A I posted earlier: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5015/what-else-can-i-do-to-make-my-question-well-received-and-improve-my-chances-of-g&quot;&gt;What else can I do to make my question well-received and improve my chances of getting answers?&lt;/a&gt;. I noticed that while you have several StackExchange accounts, you haven't made your way through the U&amp;amp;L tour page for the &quot;Informed&quot; badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-02-04T21:20:22.490" LastActivityDate="2020-02-04T21:20:22.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-05T05:00:02.327" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but as a new member (or just user? I guess I'm just a user) I don't know any better ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question:  Is it possible to see somewhere who upvoted a post or is it -- for understandable reasons -- not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392484" LastActivityDate="2020-02-05T05:00:02.327" Title="See who upvoted a post?" Tags="|support|up-votes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-05T23:29:33.210" Score="-1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot answer any stackexchange answers as a few of my (first) posts were flagged and downgraded by a single user with loads of points. help suggests I post more useful replies to get me more points, but as no one else has read or upgraded any answers I have posted, I am -ve and cant post. is that OK for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388175" OwnerDisplayName="robert" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T01:16:03.793" Title="can an account be blocked by one highly rated user" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5507" CreationDate="2020-02-06T01:16:03.793" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of the helpful flags on your posts were by different users, and the amount of reputation the person flagging your post has doesn't actually affect anything. The good news is it looks like you're no longer blocked as of about an hour ago, so you should be fine as long as you post high-quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T01:16:03.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5509" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-06T14:08:38.697" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this just for ease of implementation of the site or is there some philosophical reason that comments should be stuck with a typo, mis-wording, or negative tone? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98726" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2020-02-06T20:14:51.130" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T20:14:51.130" Title="Why are questions and answers editable forever but comments get locked in?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-10T11:57:30.963" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about UEFI network stack and Linux. Where is the right place to put it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="358141" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-02-10T22:37:15.263" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T22:37:15.263" Title="A question about UEFI network stack" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-20T16:55:17.753" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;'If you're unable to improve your existing questions, you'll get the chance to ask a new one 6 months after your last question. If that question is positively received, you may be able to continue asking questions; if not, then the ban will be reinstated.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know when exactly I will have the possibility to ask a ban-lifting question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what period of time I will have this possibility and from what time point to what time point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="358141" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T17:21:48.383" Title="A chance to lift the question ban" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5513" CreationDate="2020-02-20T17:09:02.613" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks as though your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/537342/117549&quot;&gt;most recent question&lt;/a&gt; on the main site was asked at Aug 25 '19 , so 6 months after that would be approx Feb 25 '20. You can see your questions on your profile (select that tab), then sort them by newest -- that's what I did to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-02-20T17:21:48.383" LastActivityDate="2020-02-20T17:21:48.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-22T21:01:44.057" Score="3" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I... well... we could say that not twitter is the most liked global content provider by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, for me it is important in the question histories, if they were shared on the twitter. And it is also a way for the site, to get a lot of visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/StackUnix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;current state&lt;/a&gt; of the site twitter account shows a big block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20200114175715/https://twitter.com/StackUnix/status/1211572774994661378&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;last snapshot&lt;/a&gt; I could dig out from the archive.org, shows that it worked yet in 2020-01-14.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What has happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastEditorUserId="52236" LastEditDate="2020-02-24T13:18:02.813" LastActivityDate="2020-02-24T13:18:02.813" Title="What has happened to the twitter account of the site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-29T18:35:19.787" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491289/how-to-prevent-squashfs-cache-decompressed-data-and-only-keep-compressed-data-in&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/491289/how-to-prevent-squashfs-cache-decompressed-data-and-only-keep-compressed-data-in&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/491289/timeline&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/491289/timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="259284" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2020-03-02T00:57:57.860" LastActivityDate="2020-03-02T00:57:57.860" Title="Should I undelete my question that deleted due &quot;RemoveAbandonedQuestions&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5516" CreationDate="2020-02-29T19:56:05.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to follow the existing StackExchange advice, link to via the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;deleted&lt;/a&gt; link on your question, which describes the conditions under which questions are roomba'd. That page further says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe your question can still be answered (by you or anyone else), see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309526/what-should-i-do-if-i-find-the-answer-to-an-old-question-of-mine-that-was-automa/310266#310266&quot;&gt;What should I do if I find the answer to an old question of mine that was automatically deleted as abandoned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which points to a couple answers that should be helpful. The high points to me are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/309533/307535&quot;&gt;Monica's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that I talked about fixing the problems that led to the deletion. If your question was deleted as abandoned, then not only was it unanswered but it also wasn't upvoted. Maybe that's because it's a super-obscure topic and few people even read it -- or maybe it means there is room for improvement in the question. The best course of action, then, is to edit to improve it and then request undeletion from users with the undelete privilege. On the sites I frequent, this is usually done via a request on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/310266/307535&quot;&gt;Shog9's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica's advice on fixing the question is solid - anything you can do to correct whatever caused it to not get the necessary attention the first time around is worth doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, take this opportunity to add what you've learned in the time since you first asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then... Just re-ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion would be to ask it anew, including whatever you've tried or learned in the year-plus interim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2020-02-29T19:56:05.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-03T14:45:30.063" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep a text file record of my points earned in various SE QA forums.&#xA;The points icon just showed up in the Unix &amp;amp; Linux header telling me I earned 10 more. But my total points is 20 greater than the last time I recorded it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is certainly not a problem, I don't see any way to figure out where the other 10 points came from. The rest of the entries for points don't seem to show anything about when they were earned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has happened to me a number of times across several SE QAs although I think I have recorded my points earned every time I have seen a points earned icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way to get a list of points earned in chronological order so I can see what I have missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I get points, especially for an old answer, I often revisit it and see if it needs updating, so this is not purely a vanity request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10292" LastActivityDate="2020-03-16T14:15:16.630" Title="chronological list of points earned" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5518" CreationDate="2020-03-03T15:38:17.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's this link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;, which, despite appearing to be a generic link, uses your current credentials to show your reputation changes. To help understand the format, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;How do I audit my reputation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-03-16T14:15:16.630" LastActivityDate="2020-03-16T14:15:16.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5522" CreationDate="2020-03-05T01:37:00.537" Score="9" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm making a series of manuals about how to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://clonezilla.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clonezilla&lt;/a&gt;, for my own use, in case I forget something, and for my colleagues. I format them in markdown, so I just have to copy and paste to post them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okey to post a series of self answered questions, sharing these manuals? I know self answered questions are encouraged, but a &lt;em&gt;series&lt;/em&gt; may be too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T13:08:37.607" Title="Post a series of self answered questions" Tags="|discussion|self-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5521" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-05T10:59:05.323" Score="12" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting unix and linux related open source apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script packs or power tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool events or conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here are the  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5155/community-promotion-ads-2019&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads — 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5521&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-03-05T16:19:09.087" LastActivityDate="2020-06-07T04:01:53.530" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2020" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2021-06-17T10:07:33.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5520" CreationDate="2020-03-05T12:42:20.247" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Self-answered questions are ok in general, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the Stack Exchange format is not the best for &quot;blog&quot;-type posts. Questions should be questions that have answers. If you can imagine more than one solution to each of your manuals, then they might be appropriate for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please also note that learning materials are &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; here, so answers that are in a tutorial format tell me that you might be wandering into an off-topic area.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5520/post-a-series-of-self-answered-questions/5522?noredirect=1#comment10751_5522&quot;&gt;sounds like&lt;/a&gt; you have a goal of making a &quot;canonical&quot; Q/A, which is great, but consider it in the context of &quot;frequently-asked questions that center around a common element&quot;. An answer would be a thorough explanation of some particular scenario, such that anyone else with that scenario could be directed to that Q/A. A canonical Q/A is useful if several people are having the same problem, so the phrasing of your question is critical. Also keep in mind maintenance of the Q/A across software versions, if those updates change features/functionality -- either specify the versions that the Q/A is valid for, or update it as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-03-05T13:08:37.607" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T13:08:37.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-03-05T13:21:34.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ubuntuhideout.com/?from=askubuntu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hBt3G.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ubuntu Hideout on Discord&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103151" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T13:21:34.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-03-05T16:20:58.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2wg8l.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ed is the standard text editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T16:20:58.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-03-05T16:21:59.947" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/jaguardesignstudio/why-zsh-is-cooler-than-your-shell-16194692&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NyFcU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Why zsh is cooler than your shell&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T16:21:59.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-03-05T22:17:47.113" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://discord.gg/EVVtPpw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rtmGL.png&quot; alt=&quot;We also serve Minty tea!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103151" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T22:17:47.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-03-07T13:47:42.553" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i3wm.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qnE8S.png&quot; alt=&quot;i3 – improved tiling window manager&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246819" LastActivityDate="2020-03-07T13:47:42.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-03-07T13:48:12.943" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://vi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXWI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vi and Vim Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246819" LastActivityDate="2020-03-07T13:48:12.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-03-07T13:48:36.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://vivaldi.com?pk_campaign=Banners&amp;amp;pk_kwd=300x250_dark_bg_alt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F0ClE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vivaldi – Browse your way&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246819" LastActivityDate="2020-03-07T13:48:36.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-16T10:43:42.097" Score="3" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if we are making a subtle mistake in the way we direct users away from Kali.  I frequently see comments such as &quot;Kali is for Linux experts&quot; and even &quot;you don't learn to drive by jumping in an F1 car&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with the intent of these comments.  But I don't think we should be suggesting Kali is the pinnacle of Linux distributions (&quot;professional grade&quot;... &quot;like an F1 car&quot;).  I think it sends the wrong message entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm blunt about &lt;em&gt;my own opinion&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kali is broken.  It has some shiny tools useful to a few penetration testers. But it is frequently broken right after a fresh install.  Its default configuration is/was designed to be hidden on a network, and not easily usable.  Unless you have professional grade skills with Linux, it's basically useless.  And even when you do posses those skills you will probably never want to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now with that opinion off my chest... I do feel that telling someone &quot;Kali is for experts, try Debian&quot; &lt;em&gt;sounds like&lt;/em&gt; &quot;Kali is for experts, here's the Kiddy version, it's called Debian.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my part I'm going to be a little more blunt with my opinions in future on this topic.  I know that's considered taboo here.  As noted in comments, this is to direct people away from Kali when it is not appropriate for the User's task or situation.  I'm not suggesting that, as a community, we should try to make everyone stop using it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...  I wonder if we can find a way, as a community, to direct people away from Kali without telling them &quot;Kali is great!&quot; and without requiring such opinionated responses.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2020-03-18T13:10:29.810" LastActivityDate="2020-03-18T13:10:29.810" Title="Yet another Kali Discussion (Working Title)" Tags="|discussion|kali|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5530" CreationDate="2020-03-16T11:39:26.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While opinions are free, comments are temporary and are meant to improve the post they're attached to. Saying &quot;don't do the thing you're doing&quot; isn't the most helpful advice. My advice would be to angle the comments towards something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Kali users are expected to have a high level of knowledge; here's what's missing from your post that we need in order to answer it: (1) the output of &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;, (2) the model of your (y), (3) etc&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and then cast a vote-to-close if you feel it's warranted. Let the Stack Exchange process (ask, clarify, close or answer) work as intended. Adding opinions in comments doesn't drive the process forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-03-16T11:39:26.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5530" CreationDate="2020-03-18T12:56:03.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are times when the opinion &quot;I believe you've picked the wrong tool for the job&quot; is an appropriate response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have answered your own question.  This does not imply that Kali is either zenith or nadir.  Nor does it imply anything about the questioner.  And it is in the same vein as saying &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/65803/5132&quot;&gt;to use &lt;code&gt;printf&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;echo -e&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or saying &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/85249/5132&quot;&gt;to use &lt;code&gt;command -v&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;type&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;which&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or saying that not everything is a &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; problem, or saying not to begin with van Smoorenburg &lt;code&gt;rc&lt;/code&gt; scripts when starting a service definition from scratch on a systemd/upstart/runit/nosh operating system, or one of the many other wrong-tool-for-the-job cases that happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General notes for the several sides of the issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't conflate &lt;em&gt;more specialized&lt;/em&gt; (for penetration testers) with &lt;em&gt;more advanced&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;more functional&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't attempt to systematically direct people away from Kali on general principles, as that led, the last time that people tried it, to the sort of abuses discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4657/5132&quot;&gt;Systematically closing Kali questions&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't treat this WWW site as a one-to-one personal helpdesk, where you are entitled to the help of complete strangers volunteering their efforts whose telepathy is on the blink today.  Questions&amp;amp;Answers are supposed to be useful to other people, in the future.  And Questions are supposed to be answerable, objectively, in a way that can be determined as right or wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't put answers into &lt;em&gt;question comments&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Much&lt;/em&gt; more at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5257/5132&quot;&gt;Why are Kali questions hated so much?&lt;/a&gt; and the rest, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2020-03-18T12:56:03.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-22T20:05:49.247" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/574277/145774&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/smLxS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/smLxS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary to what the moderator wrote, &lt;strong&gt;without&lt;/strong&gt; any intention of critiquing or requesting clarification, I wrote that answer because &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93012/bash-syntax-error-near-unexpected-token?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt; was marked as a duplicate of that question. And none of the answers in the dup or the original question provided an answer for my situation. My answer provided a different solution for that error &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been using stackoverflow.com for about 5 years now, and I've never had my question deleted like this. Worst case scenario is that the answer was left there to be downvoted. This was too quick and too harsh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145774" LastEditorUserId="145774" LastEditDate="2020-03-22T20:14:02.630" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T21:48:48.807" Title="Why was my answer deleted?" Tags="|discussion|support|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5533" CreationDate="2020-03-22T20:29:02.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to me as if &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; specific issue was quite different from the issue in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the code and the error message in the question is different from what you had, so I'm not quite sure how your answer is relevant to the question as it doesn't actually provide a solution to it. Note that similar error messages can have very different causes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question at hand contained a number of errors, which is probably why it wasn't closed as &quot;off topic (typo)&quot;. There was a bit more explanation needed to resolve it than just saying &quot;you forgot to insert a semi colon&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, your answer did not address the code given in the question at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplicate, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93012&quot;&gt;-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, is a duplicate, not because of the error message (which is different), but on account of doing the exact same things wrong.  These are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No space immediately inside &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No semi colon before &lt;code&gt;then&lt;/code&gt; or before &lt;code&gt;fi&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your issue, on the other hand, would be a duplicate of the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92226/why-isnt-a-semicolon-accepted-after-then&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t a semicolon accepted after then?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, not of the question that you answered, since the cause of &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; error is putting a semi colon after &lt;code&gt;then&lt;/code&gt; (a shell keyword).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-03-22T21:48:48.807" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T21:48:48.807" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-24T09:06:49.367" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5166/70524&quot;&gt;Suggested change of tag definition for Anaconda&lt;/a&gt;, we got &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installer-anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installer-anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installer-anaconda&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/datascience-anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;datascience-anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;datascience-anaconda&lt;/a&gt;. Since that time, we have had &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Binstaller-anaconda%5D%20is%3Aq%20created%3A2019-04-19..&quot;&gt;10 non-deleted questions in &lt;code&gt;installer-anaconda&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, of which 6 are actually about the other Anaconda. For comparison, in that time we have had &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bdatascience-anaconda%5D%20is%3Aq%20created%3A2019-04-22..&quot;&gt;9 &lt;code&gt;datascience-anaconda&lt;/code&gt; questions&lt;/a&gt; and I corrected the tags of some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The split didn't work out well. Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/datascience-anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;datascience-anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;datascience-anaconda&lt;/a&gt; be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conda-anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conda-anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conda-anaconda&lt;/a&gt; or something? The problem might be that Conda is also used for installing software, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/installer-anaconda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;installer-anaconda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;installer-anaconda&lt;/a&gt;, despite the tag excerpt, sounds like a match at first glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-03-25T09:09:31.000" LastActivityDate="2020-03-25T09:09:31.000" Title="datascience-anaconda env isn't being loaded - a better name might be needed" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3938" CreationDate="2020-03-30T17:18:19.190" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Yes, it is possible now!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/345661/260388&quot;&gt;The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UhEs5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UhEs5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can follow any question and answer (not posted by self) and you'll get notifications in your inbox upon addition of new answers, revisions and comments etc. activities (excluding activities done by self).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T17:18:19.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5539" CreationDate="2020-03-31T09:45:34.447" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a problem with my computer (Ubuntu), but I don't know if this is the best forum for that, because I don't know if this is a tecnichal problem, or a problem of ubuntu, or a problem little specific. I have other doubts about, in this case, could i repost it in other forums? What is the exact forum for this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is the issue: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/576627/329018&quot;&gt; Constantly I have to use &lt;code&gt;fsck&lt;/code&gt; to fix my PC &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="329018" LastActivityDate="2020-03-31T10:22:37.673" Title="Is &quot;Unix &amp; Linux&quot; the best forum for this issue?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5538" CreationDate="2020-03-31T09:55:05.787" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question seems fine to me. It is on topic here and welcome to stay. It would also be on topic on other SE sites&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, but if you want to post it there, please delete the one you posted here first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we handle pretty much any problem that relates to using a *nix (including Linux) machine. So your question is welcome here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt; Note that these sites are not forums, but question and answer sites. They don't work like forums, we have no discussion, and some people really hate it if you call them forums.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2020-03-31T10:22:37.673" LastActivityDate="2020-03-31T10:22:37.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5541" CreationDate="2020-04-04T15:26:44.613" Score="3" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently Stack Overflow introduced &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/395949/dark-mode-beta-help-us-root-out-low-contrast-and-un-converted-bits&quot;&gt;dark mode&lt;/a&gt; preference option, but it isn't available here, at &lt;em&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How it works for it be provided at the other forums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="364080" LastEditorUserId="364080" LastEditDate="2020-04-04T17:07:14.200" LastActivityDate="2020-04-04T17:31:07.127" Title="How features are integrated in between Stack Exchange forums?" Tags="|support|feature-request|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5540" CreationDate="2020-04-04T17:31:07.127" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/345886&quot;&gt;How do I enable dark mode on other sites in the network?&lt;/a&gt;, it is not yet available outside of Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dark mode is currently in beta and only available on Stack Overflow. You cannot enable it anywhere else at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-04-04T17:31:07.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-05T08:44:16.133" Score="1" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have more than 5 questions record and running &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/202517/asking-record?UseIds=1438&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; on my id (in Unix) says that I have well over 0.5 of &quot;positive question record&quot;. But the badge has not been awarded anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastEditorDisplayName="user232326" LastEditDate="2020-04-08T05:44:24.713" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T05:44:24.713" Title="Why am I not being awarded the curious badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5542" CreationDate="2020-04-05T13:51:09.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're missing the deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5199/117549&quot;&gt;Michael&lt;/a&gt; did previously, I took the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/234259/asking-days-badges&quot;&gt;apparent formula&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and plugged in your numbers (according to my interpretation, which counted duplicates as also being closed) and came up with a number less than 0.5. I based my &quot;duplicate&quot; decision on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5198/what-is-curious-badge-and-why-i-am-not-getting-it#comment9668_5199&quot;&gt;Jon Ericson's comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@PRY: I considered making an exception for duplicate questions, but decided that worked against the spirit of the badges. Duplicates sometimes help people find the information they are looking for, but the goal of the badge is to encourage new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that badges are awarded on a daily basis, so if my assumptions are wrong, it's also possible that you simply need to wait 24 hours for the next cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forgot to mention: the query in SEDE may have misled you because it doesn't include deleted posts (e.g. questions), thus hiding some of the factors in the calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-04-05T13:51:09.743" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-06T09:09:38.207" Score="7" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number 0 is looking like the letter o.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone already drew attention to this almost 10 years ago, but nothing has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend to change the font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/716/question-title-font-renders-0-number-zero-much-like-o-lower-case-letter&quot;&gt;Question title font renders 0 (number zero) much like o (lower-case letter)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124191" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2020-07-27T15:10:45.360" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T15:10:45.360" Title="Zero (&quot;0&quot;) is looking like a lower case letter &quot;o&quot; in titles: o0O0o" Tags="|feature-request|design|fonts|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5547" CreationDate="2020-04-13T21:03:29.380" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a question, and it got down voted.&#xA;I'm not arguing, or upset, but I would like to understand what I did wrong, so that I will write better questions in the future (and increase their chance of getting answered).&#xA;Is it a legitimate question for meta, to post a link to a question and ask for constructive criticism? Also, are there other ways to get some proof reading/advice/mentoring etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="200087" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-04-14T07:14:14.920" LastActivityDate="2020-04-14T07:14:14.920" Title="Is asking for constructive criticism on a question a legitimate meta question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5546" CreationDate="2020-04-14T00:40:15.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say yes, this is an appropriate use of meta, so long as you focus on how to make your questions more on point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; where you can float rough questions around to other users of the site prior to asking them on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7453" LastActivityDate="2020-04-14T00:40:15.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-14T06:56:12.263" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/579853/what-is-the-difference-between-chroot-and-pivot-root&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It was down voted. I'm not upset and am not here to argue. My question here is what can I learn from this, for this or future questions? Is there something inherently wrong with the question that I should have thought about? How can I make this question better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="200087" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-04-14T07:13:52.107" LastActivityDate="2020-04-20T10:45:38.107" Title="Requesting constructive criticism for a question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5548" CreationDate="2020-04-17T07:55:14.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the one down voting your question doesn't leave a comment why (s)he did that, then, as there is nothing to be learned out of it, IMHO all you can do is ignore it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="394779" LastActivityDate="2020-04-17T07:55:14.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5548" CreationDate="2020-04-17T23:22:48.003" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is, of course, my personal opinion. I didn't vote on any of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main issue I see is that you seem to be asking why a person is using two specific commands in a 50+ minutes YouTube video. This is likely not to be well received:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As it has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5548/requesting-constructive-criticism-for-a-question#comment10816_5548&quot; title=&quot;Comment to the question&quot;&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, questions should be self-contained.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That video is lengthy; it would take a non-negligible amount of time to locate the relevant part and properly understand it: what exactly is that person trying to illustrate? How do &lt;code&gt;pivot_root&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;chroot&lt;/code&gt; fit into that? And answers would then likely refer to things that are not stated in your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, while the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/579853/2&quot; title=&quot;Revision 2&quot;&gt;revised question&lt;/a&gt; shows your effort to make it more self-contained, you don't seem to be asking about specific points from the quoted text you added. Your main question still seems to be in (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... I still do not understand why you would pick one over the other &lt;em&gt;in those situations&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again pointing to the video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How you can improve your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show that you are not asking others to digest video material for you: providing a link to it is fine, but you should reduce its content to a complete and concise example. If the snippet from &lt;code&gt;pivot_root(8)&lt;/code&gt; is a suitable example to you, then simply state what you find unclear in it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The difference between &lt;code&gt;pivot_root&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;chroot&lt;/code&gt; isn't a well defined concept by itself. They are distinct tools, how different they can be said to be depends on the context in which they are evaluated. Thus,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please explain the differences, an example could be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should probably be limited to a specific context: is it meant to be that of Docker containers? (If so, refer to my previous point). The startup process of some Linux distribution? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Especially in relation to your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/579853/2&quot; title=&quot;Revision 2&quot;&gt;revised question&lt;/a&gt;: keep it simple. Include every definition (with quotes&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;) needed to make sure your readers will be aligned with you, but no more than that. Make it clear how the external material integrates with the main point you are asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;Since you mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/579997/315749&quot; title=&quot;What are Linux Kernel primitives?&quot;&gt;a second question of yours&lt;/a&gt; in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5548/requesting-constructive-criticism-for-a-question#comment10818_5549&quot; title=&quot;the last two questions I posted&quot;&gt;comment to another answer&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I read that ...&quot; sounds vague. You should quote some source, with a strong preference for a primary one.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-04-20T10:45:38.107" LastActivityDate="2020-04-20T10:45:38.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-26T18:12:26.887" Score="-4" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having prepared a post on uncommented downvotes I was directed to previous discussion (thanks for the pointer @jeffschaller), but having read through a selection of these I was left with an even larger void in my comprehension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We upvote because we see value in someone's work. That is obvious. It's there for all to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We comment when we see something wrong, or maybe can give some small improvement that does not justify a &lt;code&gt;copycat&lt;/code&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we plagiarise an answer then there is usually some attribution (a link or an acknowledgement) in the post recognising this. Credit where credit is due.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we see how an answer that can be significantly improved, or we have an alternative, then we post it to the benefit of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can agree; we can help; and if we disagree we can just post to show the right way. All very constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where is there any constructive value in a downvote? It just seems to say &quot;&lt;em&gt;this post is wrong, but I can't be bothered to tell you &lt;strong&gt;or anyone else who sees this post&lt;/strong&gt; why it is wrong&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can't be to express preference for another answer on the same topic. Just upvote the other answer. Job done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why do we have downvotes at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@jeffschaller I like your reference. It makes exactly the point about lost/absent information that I have tried to make but from the other side of the fence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@fra-san I read these references yesterday and they deal with uncommented downvotes. That wasn't the point I was trying to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@muru Your link refers to downvoting on &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; and these are also subject to explicit moderation in review, even removal. I would agree that as users we benefit from this feedback that our questions need clarification but I would also say that I see few downvoted questions without a comment explaining why, or a pointer to the guidelines. Constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217629" LastEditorUserId="217629" LastEditDate="2020-04-27T14:21:54.370" LastActivityDate="2020-05-15T12:29:19.237" Title="Why do we have downvotes?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5552" CreationDate="2020-04-27T01:32:29.347" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would answer your question with your own words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We downvote because we don't see any value in someone's contribution. That is obvious. It's there for all to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, votes are for rating. Rating allow us to separate the signal from the noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2020-04-27T01:32:29.347" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5552" CreationDate="2020-04-27T15:18:17.943" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I post I must express my thanks to @braiam for giving me this clarity, a true &lt;em&gt;lightbulb&lt;/em&gt; moment, and I hope i have understood the post correctly. These thanks are, of course, in addition to the upvote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do I see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; have value to the questioner and downvotes relate to the quality of the question in either enabling a constructive answer, or relevance to the scope of the site; upvotes to an interest, or even a stake, in the question posed. Fair enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers are valued by the questioner simply by the fact of acceptance, that they solve the questioner's issue. Their problem was solved and that's the help they asked for. (+15)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvotes to answers by others than the questioner seem to be given where someone has gained something, perhaps insight or knowledge, from seeing a particular solution. (+10)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is not really possible to damage someone by posting an answer, to take insight or knowledge away. Brain surgery is not involved so a downvote can never have the same weight as an upvote. (-1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the &lt;strong&gt;number&lt;/strong&gt; of votes either way is just an opinion poll, no more, no less. The weighting in rep attached to the votes then seems to reflect the real value change that can accrue to anyone who reads them. They may gain something but can never really lose anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes perfect sense now, to me at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217629" LastEditorUserId="217629" LastEditDate="2020-04-27T15:25:39.693" LastActivityDate="2020-04-27T15:25:39.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-28T02:54:35.937" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/1546095/altshift-not-working-getting-altiso-next-group-instead&quot;&gt;asked a question on superuser&lt;/a&gt; about a keyboard issue with linux. I didn't get any helpful replies. It occured to me that people on U&amp;amp;L might be better equiped to help me with this problem. Is it okay if I repost it there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133028" LastEditorUserId="133028" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T03:00:01.320" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T13:10:35.813" Title="If I Ask a Question On Superuser and Decide its Better Suited for U&amp;L can I Repost it Here?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5556" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is used by staff when sharing concepts in the Discovery phase relating to product or configuration changes. In most cases a direction and/or goal has been established, and there has likely been some amount of time invested into discovery work and research. The post is being presented to the Community for feedback to be taken into consideration. Where possible, the post includes specific questions to help guide Community feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5557" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the post shares product or configuration change concepts during the Discovery phase. Open to receiving feedback from the Community preceding implementation." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Title="product-discovery" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5555" CreationDate="2020-04-28T13:10:35.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's fine. Just make sure you don't ask on both sites at once. If you want to move a question here, delete the one on Super User and then come and repost it here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T13:10:35.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5552" CreationDate="2020-04-30T13:24:06.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anything, downvotes on answers are more important than upvotes. Downvotes are the only way we have of indicating that an answer is bad. &quot;Bad&quot; could mean anything from inelegant, through not actually working and all the way to actively dangerous. Without downvotes, we would have no way of pushing such bad answers down, without downvotes, upvotes would be pointless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address a couple of the points you raised in your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Accepted answers are valued by the questioner simply by the fact of acceptance, that they solve the questioner's issue. Their problem was solved and that's the help they asked for. (+15)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users often accept answers that are really bad. They often don't even do what the question asks for! They might work for the OP, but we don't answer for the OP, we answers for the millions of users who visit these sites and who might have the same issue. So an accepted answer that doesn't do exactly what the question asks for is a very bad thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it is not really possible to damage someone by posting an answer, to take insight or knowledge away. Brain surgery is not involved so a downvote can never have the same weight as an upvote. (-1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is absolutely possible for an answer to cause damage! Either because it is actively harmful (it can cause data loss, or it's a fork bomb or any of a myriad other possible dangers), or because it is not a good solution or because it isn't even &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; solution: it doesn't solve the problem at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to be able to downvote such things so that it is clear that they are not good solutions. I don't see why you would say that downvotes don't have the same weight. As I said in the beginning, if anything, they are more important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it comes down to is that the entire system of Stack Exchange is based on voting. We use voting as a way of helping good content rise to the top and bad content fall to the bottom. So if we can only vote in one direction, if we can only vote up, the whole system is pointless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-04-30T13:24:06.067" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5552" CreationDate="2020-05-02T03:04:35.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A point, that @terdon (+1) alludes to, but that doesn't across clear enough: Down-votes are essential to make some answers &lt;strong&gt;disappear&lt;/strong&gt;, (imho)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially among the older questions there are some &lt;strong&gt;really terrible&lt;/strong&gt; answers, with consequences ranging from wasted time (already bad) to actual data loss (very bad). Granted, the really super-destructive answers get either down-voted into oblivion quick enough, or comments point out the pitfalls, if it's only &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; destructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regularly stumble upon, or have to glance over ancient (3+ years) answers, that are just plainly a waste of everybody's time and bandwidth. I have enough rep to see the vote-count on posts, and it's clear that here on stack-exchange, many people often up-vote answers with an authoritative or asserting tone, but hardly anybody down-votes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why the old crap stays around. Within 10 minutes everybody can find at least as many examples of unmaintained-thus-now-incorrect, plain-false, or just time-wasting examples by authors in the 20000+ range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate answers I view similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a gold badge, that you get for every 400 down-votes given!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The down-votes are the foxes of the internet, they get rid of the old and sick, and keep the rest of stack-exchange &lt;strong&gt;healthy&lt;/strong&gt;! (At least, if the ecosystem still functions correctly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127903" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2020-05-06T11:38:33.243" LastActivityDate="2020-05-06T11:38:33.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-02T17:37:08.023" Score="8" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens to me, at least in this site, that sometimes when I press &quot;follow&quot; it glitches to &quot;You’re no longer following this question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to refresh the page to get the expected behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dA5TA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dA5TA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="392914" LastEditDate="2020-05-26T08:39:31.307" LastActivityDate="2020-06-04T16:29:35.003" Title="&quot;follow&quot; link glitches to &quot;You’re no longer following this question&quot;" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-04T21:33:05.220" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent post I changed my answer completely, so I edited it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I thought that, being a &quot;new&quot; answer, it should be a separate one, so I posted a new answer. (I just let the previous one edited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be here the accepted course of action, edit the answer, or post a new  one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/584532/338177&quot;&gt;This is the original answer&lt;/a&gt; (I deleted it) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/584467/3&quot;&gt;and the previous version&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/584467/338177&quot;&gt;This is the new answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2020-05-05T15:00:18.347" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T15:00:18.347" Title="Completely changed answer: edit or new answer?" Tags="|discussion|editing|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-05T12:30:27.137" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do stack exchange sites prohibit cross posting  outside stack exchange? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it  allowed to not indicate  identical posting on stack exchange?   ( One benefit is to receive independent responses, and the other is for account  privacy.)&#xA;Some sites encourage sharing posts of stack exchange sites with  them, although I am not concerned about &quot;sharing&quot;, but identical independent posts, and the order of posting might   matter (where posting happens first: SE  or  other sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate that a user on stack exchange accuses another user of doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not specific to U&amp;amp;L. I don't ask on meta.stackexchange.com, because they have been too &quot;friendly&quot; to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-05-05T13:06:44.590" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T13:22:43.327" Title="Do stack exchange sites prohibit cross posting on other sites outside stack exchange?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5563" CreationDate="2020-05-05T12:47:06.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, all content on Stack Exchange is licensed as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing&quot;&gt;CC BY SA&lt;/a&gt;, version &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/344491/295232&quot;&gt;3.0 or 4.0&lt;/a&gt;, and that means you're free to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Share&lt;/strong&gt; — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adapt&lt;/strong&gt; — remix, transform, and build upon the material&#xA;  for any purpose, even commercially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously includes posting questions outside the Stack Exchange network. However, you &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; provide proper attribution while doing so (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/89377/295232&quot;&gt;unless you wrote the question yourself&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution&lt;/strong&gt; — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate that a user on stack exchange accuses another user of doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends how you define 'accusation', but it could very well be against the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; and thus worth flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastEditorUserId="111051" LastEditDate="2020-05-05T13:17:04.177" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T13:17:04.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5563" CreationDate="2020-05-05T13:22:43.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a question of opinion. Some users feel very strongly that asking the same question in two places, even if the second is not part of the SE network, should not be allowed. As I understand it, their position is that you are asking people to duplicate the work since you ask in different locations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking for myself, I don't see how we (SE users) could possibly insist on this. We do not own the internet and if you want to ask on another site, then you have every right to do so. Speaking as a moderator, we can only impose rules about &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; network of sites. So yes, there is a rule against cross-posting the same question on multiple SE sites, but there is no rule that says you cannot post on Reddit, for example, if you have posted here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, although there is no such rule since we do not own the internet, it is considered polite to also include a link to your other question. So, if you ask on Reddit and then ask the same question here, it would be nice to include a link to your Reddit post so that the two questions can be linked and information shared between them. It would be even nicer if you repost any useful answers from Reddit as answers to your question here (with proper attribution, of course). However, these are &quot;nice to have&quot; things, not strict rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T13:22:43.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5562" CreationDate="2020-05-05T14:08:34.293" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your existing answer had received votes (up- or down-), I would restrict edits to improvements on that answer. If it had not yet received any votes, I say go ahead and change it completely if you want to. I believe that edits within the first few minutes of posting are absorbed into the &quot;initial&quot; version of the posting. After that, there's an edit history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a strong opinion on multiple, separate, answers by the same person -- versus one consolidated answer with many variations. I've seen both here. The all-in-one model can showcase your encyclopedic knowledge as well as point out pros &amp;amp; cons between them. Often, a multi-answer post will be community wiki so that others can add their ideas.  The separate-ideas as separate-posts model lets the community vote on ideas that they prefer (for or against).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T14:08:34.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-11T17:48:03.047" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to paste shortened urls (e.g. those modified by tinyurl) in posts on stackexchange? I found &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/113658/no-url-shorteners&quot;&gt;No URL Shorteners?&lt;/a&gt;, which doesn't say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are benefits of using tinyurl. One of them is making  a post have less exposure because of not directly  containing the original url, under the assumption that the owner of the original url doesn't prevent it from being linked   either directly or indirectly via a shorten url. (Why would a post want less exposure? When a post asks about if someone's claim  published on a website is correct, and some people don't take it well when they are challenged.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-05-11T21:13:24.543" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T21:13:24.543" Title="Is it acceptable to paste shortened urls in posts on stackexchange?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5567" CreationDate="2020-05-11T18:05:27.443" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a rather old Meta post; five years later, in 2016, URL shorteners were &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/313621/4751173&quot;&gt;banned&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow. I'm not sure why this hasn't been made a networkwide policy, maybe because of a lower post volume and hence URL shorteners not being used that much, but the same reasons apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they can break without leaving any useful artifact&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they are often used to obscure spam or malicious links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some shorteners show interstitial pages with advertisements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some shorteners even reuse old links, misdirecting innocent visitors to sites of ... questionable nature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;shortening the URL is not necessary at all since 1) it takes time and 2) you can use no less than 30,000 characters in a post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T18:05:27.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-12T16:12:26.713" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m guessing I either had answers deleted a long time ago to the point of me not being able to pull them up &amp;amp; not knowing I might be able to revise them &amp;amp; not have them count against me. Also I did not know a deleted answer can hurt me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it’s possible that my answers could have been seen as too self promoting as I have explicitly answered questions that relate to a project/app that I’ve spent several months, if not a few years, creating. (Despite that unless my project directly answers the question I don’t spam this forum or any other - still I assume the algorithms used to keep the site clean have very low tolerances for reasons.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="393552" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-05-12T18:19:03.990" LastActivityDate="2020-05-12T18:19:03.990" Title="Can someone explain why I can’t post?" Tags="|support|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5569" CreationDate="2020-05-12T18:18:41.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds to me like you've hit &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/answer-bans&quot;&gt;Why are answers no longer being accepted from my account?&lt;/a&gt;, so I would recommend following its advice.  Looking at your account, I do see evidence that a couple of your answers were flagged as spam, since they linked to a project without much more explanation or claim of affiliation; an excerpt from the Help Center's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/promotion&quot;&gt;How to not be a spammer&lt;/a&gt;, which I recommend you read in full:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, you must disclose your affiliation in your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While looking at your account, I would recommend earning an easy badge (&quot;Informed&quot;) by hitting &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;our site's tour page&lt;/a&gt;, just to make sure you're familiar with the site's recommendations and policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-05-12T18:18:41.440" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5552" CreationDate="2020-05-15T12:29:19.237" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are to be taken constructively that we need to improve to make a mark in others' minds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes also help in keeping untrained people like me not to post any unnecessary messages and to take out more time to learn &amp;amp; observe the community in such a way that my answers will be of value to the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I was also very depressed with some downvoting, eventually i learned that those downvotes are the stepping stones to success. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point should also be that Unix and Linux community encourage the &lt;strong&gt;answer posting people&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;upvotes&lt;/strong&gt;. So let's see both sides of the coin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="412078" LastActivityDate="2020-05-15T12:29:19.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-05-18T10:16:36.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NbhtZ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Unix-like operating system that is free software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastActivityDate="2020-05-18T10:16:36.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-20T12:18:48.660" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;When type in either the body or the title of a new post, it is nice that the site suggests similar posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is also annoying that the suggestions appear between title and body, which pushes the body down out of the screen,  interrupting viewing and writing  the post, and forces the cursor back to the title (imagine when I am adding tags). Is it a design problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-05-20T14:23:32.500" LastActivityDate="2020-05-20T14:23:32.500" Title="Why do suggested similar posts appear between title and body of a post under creation?" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5573" CreationDate="2020-05-20T12:51:54.647" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that's the intended effect. You &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; look at those posts and see if any of those are what you're going to ask, and so they should be shown at the first available place where enough information has been gathered to start showing them: where the title has been entered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2020-05-20T12:51:54.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-25T00:42:59.303" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/588738/246621&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; an hour ago and My achievements section shows activity “yesterday” and then activity “today”. Is this a bug? I understand someone in a diff timezone my have left feedback but I wouldn’t expect the time stamp to say yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eWqMm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eWqMml.png&quot; alt=&quot;my achievements in iOS app&quot; title=&quot;Click for full size&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fully aware I can’t up-vote my own question, I did so anyway when I saw someone Down-voted it without leaving any feedback. I got a pop up saying I can’t up-vote my own question. I’m not sure if this has any impact on said achievements behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="246621" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-05-26T00:13:50.637" LastActivityDate="2020-05-26T00:13:50.637" Title="Activity in achievements feed time-stamped as “yesterday” when I posted the question 1.5 hrs ago PST" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|user-interface|recent-activity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5575" CreationDate="2020-05-25T11:13:30.157" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/27199/410681&quot; title=&quot;Meta SE, FAQ: What is an SE “day”? When does each day start?&quot;&gt;&quot;day&quot; on Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; starts at 00:00 UTC time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe &quot;Achievements&quot; are shown in absolute UTC days to keep them consistent to the way time spans for caps (to daily reputation, votes...), badges and possibly other things are calculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been requests for that definition to be changed, or for the displayed times to be made more consistent to the user's local time. For instance, on the main Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/40119/410681&quot;&gt;Change the definition of a &amp;quot;day&amp;quot; to be localized for users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1359/410681&quot;&gt;Make recent activity &amp;quot;today&amp;quot; etc. buttons based on user&amp;#39;s time zone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/13435/410681&quot;&gt;Use user&amp;#39;s timezone for vote limit, reputation cap, badges, etc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They all have been declined, and others have been closed as duplicates of them. I could not find any official statement but, based on some of the answers to those questions, it seemingly happened out of concerns about implementation complexity, the chances to game the system that a localized definition of &quot;day&quot; would open up and the amount of work reasonably needed to mitigate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that relative times (e.g. &quot;yesterday&quot;) that are not relevant to achievements, such as those shown at the bottom of posts in place of timestamps, are not relative to the UTC date: &quot;yesterday&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/127668/410681&quot; title=&quot;Meta SE: “Yesterday” time specification shown when it was actually the day before yesterday&quot;&gt;defined as&lt;/a&gt; &quot;more than 24 and less than 48 hours ago&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastActivityDate="2020-05-25T11:13:30.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5561" CreationDate="2020-05-26T08:39:34.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't repro this, and as only one user is reporting this issue, I can't justify the opportunity cost on spending more time on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I am kind of baffled as to how this is happening, so will explain some of the code logic, and maybe you will see something on your client side that could help to debug this (or force a repro).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the follow button is clicked, a function runs on the client side that does (among other things):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disable the button to prevent double-submissions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Identify the &lt;code&gt;PostId&lt;/code&gt; of the question/answer on which it is being run&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Determine what is the current state (following or not) based on the &lt;code&gt;aria-pressed&lt;/code&gt; attribute on the [Follow] button. &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is &lt;code&gt;true&lt;/code&gt; then it means that you are currently following &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is &lt;code&gt;false&lt;/code&gt; then it means that you are not yet following&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reverse this value (current value) to get the new value for after you submit. Saved in variable &lt;code&gt;newIsFollowing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Submit the actual ajax query. On success:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (newIsFollowing)&lt;/code&gt; (ie: if you are trying to follow something that you weren't following before) then display the &quot;you are now following&quot; popover.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;else&lt;/code&gt; (ie: you were following, and now you are no longer following) then display the toast info message&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So based on what you are writing, you are submitting a request to follow (5.1) and getting the feedback notice from a request to unfollow (5.2). So I am just completely stumped as to how this is happening. I would normally blame a double-submission, but that is hard to do with the button being disabled (unless there is something in your browser that is not observing the &lt;code&gt;disabled&lt;/code&gt; prop on the button), and even so - if you double-submitted and reloaded the page, you would no longer be following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be good to know the value of &lt;code&gt;aria-pressed&lt;/code&gt; on your follow button before you clicked on it, and also to see your network tab to make sure that there is only one ajax call being made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But like I said, I can't spend more time on this now. Please let me know if something comes up to make the issue more evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392914" LastActivityDate="2020-05-26T08:39:34.497" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-28T13:32:53.117" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; and the individual sites has significant delay in data synchronization. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/140200/stephen-kitt&quot;&gt;Stephen Kitt's chat account&lt;/a&gt; shows 997 bronze medals (and it was 996 yesterday), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8kiK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8kiK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/5117622/stephen-kitt&quot;&gt;his  network account&lt;/a&gt; has shown 999 since yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kbLQ2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kbLQ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the delay happen, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/86440/stephen-kitt&quot;&gt;the individual sites&lt;/a&gt; don't have visible delay between themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ojis9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ojis9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is an implementation that can avoid the delay  too expensive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am interested in  data engineering, so I would like to hear data engineering side of the story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2020-05-28T13:32:53.117" Title="How does the delay in data synchronization between chat and network sites happen?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5580" CreationDate="2020-05-29T07:34:57.430" Score="7" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice there are (at least) 3 different SE sites that a Linux-related question could get asked: here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. There could be others too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where is best to ask my questions regarding Linux? I don't really know what the differences between Ubuntu, Unix and Linux are (I've only recently started using Linux), nor why they have dedicated SE sites...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="414846" LastEditorUserId="414846" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T07:40:25.447" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T09:50:27.357" Title="Where is best to ask my Linux-related question?" Tags="|discussion|support|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5579" CreationDate="2020-05-29T07:49:56.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a slight overlap between the sites, most so between U&amp;amp;L and AskUbuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question is primarily about programming (not shell scripting) or if it requires specialist programming knowledge to solve, then use StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question is primarily about Ubuntu and if the issue is &lt;em&gt;exclusive&lt;/em&gt; to Ubuntu (i.e., it would not apply to &lt;em&gt;any other&lt;/em&gt; Linux distribution) or if it requires an Ubuntu specialist to solve, then use AskUbuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise (or if you're unsure whether it's a specific Ubuntu issue), please feel free to ask here on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about text-processing with &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, how to use &lt;code&gt;join&lt;/code&gt; or any other standard or common Unix command line tool, Unix file permissions, shell scripting in general, etc., are best asked here on U&amp;amp;L. We also take questions regarding the POSIX standard, which includes the system interfaces, which are C library functions.  It depends on the framing of the question whether these are best asked here on U&amp;amp;L or on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about C code, C++ programming, using libraries in your own programs, implementation of programming algorithms in general, etc. are best asked on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about how to set up your Ubuntu system, services provided for Ubuntu by the company Canonical, or anything not related to the use or administration of any other Linux but Ubuntu, you may take to AskUbuntu.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2927/how-to-identify-which-questions-belong-to-which-site&quot;&gt;How to identify which questions belong to which site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301/the-scope-of-this-site&quot;&gt;The Scope of This Site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1167/is-it-considered-proper-normal-to-post-the-same-question-on-askubuntu-and-at-t&quot;&gt;Is it considered proper (normal) to post the same question on askubuntu and at the same time on Unix&amp;amp;Linux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also the relevant help pages on each site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AskUbuntu: &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;U&amp;amp;L: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T09:50:27.357" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T09:50:27.357" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-30T15:57:34.510" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just rejected a tag edit for &quot;volume&quot;. Obviously this term is ambigeous so the tag should get a description now but a look at the questions with this tag showed me that most questions use it in the sense of &lt;code&gt;filesystem volume&lt;/code&gt;, not in the sense of &lt;code&gt;sound volume&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I suggest to use it for filesystems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there should be an additional tag for sound volume. But as I am not a native speaker I do not create that myself now but ask more qualified people to make suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastActivityDate="2020-05-30T16:47:58.110" Title="Volume tag description" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5581" CreationDate="2020-05-30T16:37:11.607" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;volume&lt;/a&gt; is a textbook example of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tag&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the tag commonly means different things to different people, it’s probably a meta-tag. In a cruel, ironic twist, the meaning of the tag [subjective] itself … is actually subjective. Ditto for [best-practices] and [beginner]. Best practices to whom? Beginner by what criteria? These tags are impossible to define by anything remotely resembling an objective metric. In comparison, the the meaning of tags like [java], [c#], and [javascript] are crystal clear to all but the nuttiest of nutbags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can mean different things to different people and I can't imagine how it could help experts find questions. Surely nobody is an expert on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;volume&lt;/a&gt; who isn't an expert on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;. And the multiple meanings of &lt;em&gt;volume&lt;/em&gt; make it impossible to know if the tag would refer to a filesystem volume or audio volume or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would therefore suggest burminating &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;volume&lt;/a&gt; and replacing it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filesystem-volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filesystem-volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;filesystem-volume&lt;/a&gt; and, if needed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio-volume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio-volume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio-volume&lt;/a&gt; although I think the latter is better served with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T12:04:03.437" LastActivityDate="2020-05-30T16:47:58.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5561" CreationDate="2020-05-31T14:13:31.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has just happened to me on this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62117063/how-to-hide-the-div-with-the-form-and-post-data-to-database-and-show-a-hidden-di&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62117063/how-to-hide-the-div-with-the-form-and-post-data-to-database-and-show-a-hidden-di&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it has something to do with the button &quot;Load new answers&quot;. When you have the page open and someone adds a new question then the button appears. Once you dynamically load the new answers the &quot;follow&quot; button seems to glitch. Maybe. It could also be caused by dynamically loaded comments under the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post continues in meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/348704/follow-button-glitches-when-a-new-answer-is-loaded-up-via-ajax&quot;&gt;Follow button glitches when a new answer is loaded up via AJAX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9oB6K.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9oB6K.png&quot; alt=&quot;Dom tree for the button&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66452" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T16:29:35.003" LastActivityDate="2020-06-04T16:29:35.003" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-05T23:37:37.197" Score="-4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;This occurred on my very first day of trying to help people on StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user had a problem with the reported host name of their system, and wondered how it could have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/590950/fedora-changed-hostname/590955#590955&quot;&gt;Fedora changed hostname&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offered how they might set the host name that they wished to see, qualifying it with the statement that I didn't have an explanation of why the problem happened. My answer was down-voted. There was no explanation, and apparently no way to even know who the down-vote came from. There was no comment or response from the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering why&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Evidently, down-votes can be anonymous, thereby there is no&#xA;responsibility associated with them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No explanation to down-vote is&#xA;required, allowing a down-vote to be entirely subjective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no&#xA;appeal to a down-vote, or perhaps moderators are not systematically&#xA;reviewing them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only offered a suggestion to the user, which might have satisfied them, and lost a point. Since the suggestion would have been easy to try and would have caused no harm, I can only conclude that there is something else going on other than the technical issue, that is responsible for the down-vote. Perhaps there is some subjective standard of &quot;quality&quot; at play here, but I can unequivocally tell you that, as a new participant that potentially has a lot to offer here, it is a real turn-off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any insights would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="416236" LastActivityDate="2020-06-07T17:47:16.390" Title="Why are anonymous downvotes allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-06T00:18:56.413" Score="-3" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;This occurred on my very first day of trying to help people on StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user had a problem with a mount failing on their system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/590888/rebooting-caused-mount-wrong-fs-type-bad-option-bad-superblock&quot;&gt;Rebooting caused &amp;quot;mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offered a suggestion for trouble-shooting a problem with the mount. Though the suggestion was reasonable, would have caused no harm, and would have been very easy to do, I was down-voted by a very experienced StackExchange participant. At least an explanation was given, along the lines of &quot;according to theory, this could not possibly be the cause&quot;. Definitely &quot;famous last words&quot; in any trouble-shooting situation. I then offered a reasonable &quot;why not try&quot; response, but the person that down-voted me did not respond, nor did the user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While StackExchange does give vague admonitions to &quot;be gentle&quot;, perhaps they should be strengthened such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When it is reasonable for a response to made, then respond.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you do not wish to follow a particular response, have the courtesy to at least thank the responder for the suggestion, and possibly explain why you went another way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall, be cautious with down-voting. People here are trying to help. It should be made clear that down-voting should only be used to prevent truly going in the wrong direction, not to demonstrate superior knowledge with regards to the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be courteous. With every letter you type, be courteous.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice that as a result, responders tend to answer in comments, in order to avoid being down-voted in an Answer. I am sure that this is not the pattern that StackExchange intends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange would do well to emphasize quality of experience for all, rather than just quality of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="416236" LastActivityDate="2020-06-07T17:37:18.617" Title="Standards of courtesy in regards to trouble-shooting scenarios" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5584" CreationDate="2020-06-06T13:37:32.520" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'm sorry you had an unpleasant experience, I know the rules here can be daunting to new users. However, there are good reasons why the system works this way. The issue of anonymous downvotes has been discussed at very great length before, both here (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5552/why-do-we-have-downvotes&quot;&gt;Why do we have downvotes?&lt;/a&gt; ) and on the main meta site of the network (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/95603/203101&quot;&gt;Why are votes anonymous? Let&amp;#39;s make with the transparency and have them publicly attributed&lt;/a&gt; or the many examples listed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/793/22222&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). I will repeat some of the main points here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, voting is the backbone of the entire Stack Exchange (SE) system. The idea is that good posts rise to the top and bad ones go down. Without voting, both up &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; down, the system collapses and becomes just another forum. All of us who participate here, do so precisely because we don't want that. After all, if we did, we'd be using the multitude of forums out there that cover the same topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that voting is so essential, we want to make it as easy as possible for people to vote. Downvotes do carry a minor negative penalty (it costs you reputation points to cast a down vote on an Answer) which acts as a slight deterrent for people  voting out of spite, but we want them to vote and we want them to vote often. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, people being people, they often take downvotes personally. Kind of like you did here. Which is understandable, they see it as an attack on themselves instead of as a commentary on the quality of their answer. So they will try and guess who downvoted and try and get their revenge. We see retaliatory downvoting, where the user starts downvoting the posts of whoever they thing downvoted theirs. We see abusive comments, with the person downvoted hunting the assumed downvoter across the network and leaving aggressive, rude, and downright abusive comments. This is not a rare occurrence, sadly it happens very, very often if someone is decent enough to leave a comment explaining a downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the main reasons votes are anonymous are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To remove a possible barrier to voting and make it as easy as possible for folks to cast their vote as they feel it should be cast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To protect voters from attack.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On to the specific question, which was (edited for brevity):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the hostname, has changed and the new hostname is the same as the one set for the Windows OS. [...] I am lost on why this happened and how the two systems could have communicated in such an unexpected way [...] is this a known bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which you answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am not sure of the cause, but you can try fixing it by writing the desired host name as a single line in the file /etc/hostname and rebooting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is asking &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; this change could have happened. Not, how to fix it, the OP most probably knows this already, but &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; and whether it is a known bug. Therefore, your answer wasn't actually answering the question asked and that's most likely why it was downvoted. Note that of the 24 people who have seen your answer (as of today), only 2 downvoted, so it isn't like everyone attacked your answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, your suggestion isn't the recommended way of changing a hostname in Fedora, which is another reason why folks may have downvoted it. The recommended ways are given &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/set-hostname-linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on redhat.com, and that article has this to say about manually editing the &lt;code&gt;/etc/hostname&lt;/code&gt; file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Editing this file manually is not necessarily recommended, because it doesn’t update all the other hostname values the way hostnamectl does. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ sudo echo &quot;galapagos&quot; &amp;gt; /etc/hostname &#xA;$ hostnamectl&#xA;   Static hostname: galapagos&#xA;   Pretty hostname: rockhopper computer&#xA;   Transient hostname: rockhopper-computer&#xA;   [...]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that their example is flawed since &lt;code&gt;sudo echo &quot;galapagos&quot; &amp;gt; /etc/hostname&lt;/code&gt; will fail anyway, you would need something like &lt;code&gt;echo galapagos | sudo tee /etc/hostname&lt;/code&gt; for it to work, but their main point stands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary, your answer wasn't really answering the question asked and it wasn't giving a very good suggestion for changing the hostname in general either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2020-06-07T17:47:16.390" LastActivityDate="2020-06-07T17:47:16.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5585" CreationDate="2020-06-06T13:39:14.867" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gave you the general rationale for why downvotes are anonymous in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5586/22222&quot;&gt;my answer to your other question&lt;/a&gt;. I should also point out that neither moderators nor anyone else can review downvotes since we do not know who cast them. Mods have no access to this information, no more than you do. As for the specific answer you mention here, you were answering a question about this error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;mount: /backups: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You might check under &lt;code&gt;/dev&lt;/code&gt; if there is still an &lt;code&gt;sda1&lt;/code&gt; entry. If not&#xA;  you can create one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cd /dev&#xA;ls -l sda* &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid the downvotes you received were perfectly reasonable. First of all, the SE sites are not forums. This is a bit of an obsession around these parts: we are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a forum, we are a Q&amp;amp;A site. This means that every post &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be either a question or an answer. Suggestions for troubleshooting aren't providing an answer. The right place to post those is as a comment to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I completely understand that that might feel like a catch-22 situation for a new user since we also have a minimum reputation requirement for posting comments, and you can't post a comment if you have less than 50 rep. This is to avoid spam comments (and yes, those would be a big problem, we get a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of spam). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting 50 rep, however, is just a matter of getting 5 upvotes on a question or answer. It's a pretty low bar and one you can reach very quickly if you just participate on the site for a bit. So, until you have that, please only post answers on questions where you can provide a full, working solution. Once you have 50 rep, then you can leave comments with troubleshooting tips that can give you the information you need to post a complete answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, leaving a comment asking whether &lt;code&gt;/dev/sda1&lt;/code&gt; exists might have been understandable, but then we already know it doesn't exist. That's what the error message is telling us. The problem would never be about whether &lt;code&gt;/dev/sda1&lt;/code&gt; exists on the filesystem, the question provides us with a wealth of information that clearly shows there is an issue with the disk. So really looking at &lt;code&gt;/dev/sda1&lt;/code&gt; on the filesystem is just completely irrelevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there are a few stylistic issues too since you don't need to &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; into &lt;code&gt;/dev&lt;/code&gt; to see if there is a &lt;code&gt;/dev/sda1&lt;/code&gt; file, you can just do &lt;code&gt;ls /dev/sda1&lt;/code&gt; and running &lt;code&gt;ls sda*&lt;/code&gt; will show you all filenames starting with &lt;code&gt;sda&lt;/code&gt;, not the specific one we're looking for. But OK, those are minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, your answer ignored most of the information provided in the question and gave a mostly irrelevant command that wouldn't help anyone who is trying to solve this problem. So the downvotes here are exactly what you ask for: they are being used to &quot;prevent truly going in the wrong direction&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mention rudeness, but I don't see any evidence of that whatsoever. These are the comments under your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4YwS9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4YwS9.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of comments section&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of those are remotely rude. On the contrary, I see two users who took the time to point out issues with your answer, exactly what you are asking for! As for people not responding, that's because they never knew you answered. You need to ping the user with &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; in order for them to be notified. Your comments did not, so the people you were answering had no idea you had answered them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, you completely ignored the points the comments raised. You didn't include an example or flesh out your answer and you didn't address the complete absence of any command or even rationale one could use to create &lt;code&gt;/dev/sda1&lt;/code&gt;, which is what your answer is suggesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, you really shouldn't take downvotes personally. They're not about you, they're about your answer. Our objective here is to build a library of useful questions and answers that can still be useful years from now when someone else has the same problem. Everything that happens on SE sites should be seen through that lens. It is not about the users, it's about the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2020-06-07T17:37:18.617" LastActivityDate="2020-06-07T17:37:18.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5521" CreationDate="2020-06-07T04:01:53.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://debian.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gtJwP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66803" LastActivityDate="2020-06-07T04:01:53.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-10T16:43:02.313" Score="16" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a note for people who might not have paid attention to the Meta Stack Exchange posts, but do pay attention to our meta: the migration to using CommonMark for Markdown syntax for our corner of Stack Exchange &lt;strike&gt;is scheduled for&lt;/strike&gt; took place on June 11, 2020. We should keep a closer eye on formatting for the next few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348746/270345&quot;&gt;We&amp;#39;re switching to CommonMark&lt;/a&gt; (also the place to post bug reports)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/348750/270345&quot;&gt;Migration Schedule&lt;/a&gt; (answer posted to the above)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/348750/24&quot;&gt;Edit marking our migration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2020-06-11T15:24:56.217" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T07:49:13.030" Title="Our site has been migrated to CommonMark" Tags="|discussion|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2020-06-17T21:55:48.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Testing embedded HTML (after the switch to CommonMark; because of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/593519/3&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/593519/3&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Bold text&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;hr&gt;  &#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;some code&#xA;&#xA;more code&#xA;&#xA;more code&#xA;&#xA;more code  &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;more code&#xA;&#xA;more code&#xA;&#xA;more code   &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bold text&lt;/b&gt;&lt;hr&gt;  &#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bold quote &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bold text&lt;/b&gt;&lt;hr&gt;  &#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  code   &#xA;&#xA;  code   &#xA;&#xA;  code   &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-06-17T22:11:34.857" LastActivityDate="2020-06-17T22:11:34.857" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-06-17T21:55:48.837" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-18T07:05:53.780" Score="9" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems it's a bug that at leat I'm not able to Unfollow a deleted question (maybe it's true for deleted answer too) either from the Unfollow link under the question itself (not exist) or from the &amp;quot;following&amp;quot; tab in profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfollowing from &amp;quot;following&amp;quot; tab says this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post has been deleted; deleted posts can't be voted on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;per reply in comment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/346423/703623&quot;&gt;there is same question asked on main Meta site&lt;/a&gt; already, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and now &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/352886/703623&quot;&gt;has answered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72456" LastEditorUserId="72456" LastEditDate="2020-08-10T16:35:52.703" LastActivityDate="2020-08-10T16:35:52.703" Title="Unable to Unfollow deleted questions" Tags="|discussion|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5589" CreationDate="2020-06-28T10:47:48.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll just mention a significant consequence of that here as I was just hit by it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, articles that were last edited before the transition are still rendered the old way, so you don't need to edit your posts to convert them to the new syntax, &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt;, if you edit an old article, whether it's yours or someone else's, then it needs to be in the new syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you edit an article just to change the text, you have to bear in mind that it might break the formatting and you need to convert it to the new syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody edits one of your articles, you may also want to double check that it doesn't break the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That struck me when editing an article of mine that had a list with two levels, written as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- item1&#xA; - subitem2&#xA; - subitem2&#xA;- item2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That used to be rendered as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item1&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subitem2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subitem2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after an edit that was only changing some wording, it got rendered as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subitem2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subitem2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which completely changed the meaning and I had to change it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- item1&#xA;  - subitem2&#xA;  - subitem2&#xA;- item2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2020-06-29T07:49:13.030" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T07:49:13.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5595" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-29T21:55:49.153" Score="7" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would we close questions (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/343371&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/343371&lt;/a&gt;) if the question itself does lack information but that information has already been made available in the comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32191" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-06-29T23:48:11.437" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T23:48:11.437" Title="Close questions as &quot;Needs details or clarity&quot;" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5595" CreationDate="2020-06-29T23:47:43.340" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Technically&lt;/em&gt;, yes, as comments are temporary and could be deleted. &lt;em&gt;Ideally&lt;/em&gt;, a close reviewer could see that situation (not easy from the review queue!), and edit the clarifications into the question, flag the comments as no longer needed, then vote to leave the question open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T23:47:43.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5598" CreationDate="2020-07-01T13:09:09.390" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a problem related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5595/377345&quot;&gt;@Hauke Lagings question on closing policy&lt;/a&gt;, what to do with questions voted for closing as &amp;quot;Needs details or clarity&amp;quot; when none of the reviewers seemed to have informed the OP on &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; details are missing in the question to make it useful (i.e. there are close votes, but no comments asking for the required clarification)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I tend to vote &amp;quot;leave open&amp;quot; as the OP cannot improve the question in the desired manner without that information (which may be obvious to an experienced reviewer, but need not be for the OP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastActivityDate="2020-07-01T20:54:34.533" Title="Closing questions as &quot;Needs details or clarity&quot; when the required details are not communicated to the asker" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5597" CreationDate="2020-07-01T13:34:26.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question does need details and people have been too lazy to explain what details are missing, then instead of voting to leave open, please comment and explain what's needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, in many cases it really is quite obvious what's needed. Too many questions are &amp;quot;this doesn't work&amp;quot;, without showing what &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; is, how &amp;quot;work&amp;quot; would be defined or what actually fails. I do think people are by and large clever enough to understand that something more is needed, so even the simple closure with the &amp;quot;needs more details&amp;quot; message can be enough since &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; detail added would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the ideal situation is to always leave a comment explaining what kind of details you want. No argument there. But I wouldn't take the absence of such comments as an indication the question should remain open either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-07-01T13:46:49.533" LastActivityDate="2020-07-01T13:46:49.533" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5597" CreationDate="2020-07-01T13:56:10.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that happen to be unclear or lack focus are primarily closed to prevent users from posting answers that would unlikely be useful or that would be hard/impossible to rate or that would likely be wrong-footed by subsequent edits to the question (and, sure, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5597/closing-questions-as-needs-details-or-clarity-when-the-required-details-are-no/5599#comment10948_5598&quot;&gt;as terdon says&lt;/a&gt;, also to signal the asker that some improvement is needed; though, in my opinion, leaving a comment would then be much better than voting to close).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make much difference whether a vote to close is cast before or after a user has been told what is missing from their question. And the purpose of closing is not to only close a question after the asker has (insufficiently) cleared it up. It instead makes a difference to close a question before it is answered ineffectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the option to only do part of the job is generally a feature here: it is OK if a user is willing to vote to close an unclear question but doesn't feel confident enough to (or can't, for any reason) leave a comment. And it is OK if a user leaves a comment to explain what is unclear in that question but doesn't also take the time to vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-07-01T20:54:34.533" LastActivityDate="2020-07-01T20:54:34.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-02T17:27:05.550" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens quite often that questions are posted, which are on-topic on U&amp;amp;L but have good answers on another suitable Stackexchange Site (askubuntu, stackoverflow...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/596293/getting-square-boxes-instead-of-text-in-chromium-save-as-menu&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389/migrate-ubuntu-specific-questions-to-askubuntu&quot;&gt;I would consider on-topic&lt;/a&gt;, as it may be a Gnome and not a Ubuntu issue.  It has answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/1224125/font-characters-displayed-as-squares-in-ubuntu-18-04&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/1103560/only-squares-instead-of-letters-and-numbers-are-displayed-in-my-calculator-and-o&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. But I rather want to know in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do with questions like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1391/236063&quot;&gt;Duplicate (or let OP duplicate) the original working answer to improve U&amp;amp;L SE&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Migrate to the other SE site and mark as duplicate there ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close the question as off-topic (as it suits other sites and has answers there ) ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="236063" LastActivityDate="2020-07-09T13:12:03.117" Title="What to do with questions having good answers on another SE site?" Tags="|discussion|questions|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2020-07-09T13:11:46.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5602" CreationDate="2020-07-08T14:36:13.990" Score="4" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know whether answers like the following one, should get deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, it does provide relevant information on the problem, but on the other hand, it doesn't solve the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they fall in to the &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; flag criteria? What's the best reaction in situations like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Since terdon converted that answer to a comment, here is the post for future reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not an answer per say, but worth reading for anyone reading this page&#xA;or considering doing this:&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BOTH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  PartImage &amp;amp; FSArchiver&lt;/strong&gt;   (I've used them both &amp;amp; read about both extensively)  are &lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt; certified for use for NTFS, in fact&#xA;it's considered &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Experimental&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; ; They do work fine for FAT 32, but&#xA;otherwise should be considered &amp;quot;OFF-LIMITS&amp;quot; for any windows backups,&#xA;System or otherwise.   Linux &amp;amp; Win don't play well together---the best&#xA;&amp;quot;common ground&amp;quot;  is FAT 32  (I have a dual boot sys with just a&#xA;partition I use frequently!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/444019/how-can-i-clone-backup-restore-windows-10-from-linux&quot;&gt;The question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="360892" LastEditorUserId="360892" LastEditDate="2020-07-08T19:58:31.453" LastActivityDate="2020-07-08T19:58:31.453" Title="Answers that add information but don't solve the problem" Tags="|discussion|answers|flagging|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5601" CreationDate="2020-07-08T15:20:35.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Answers that don't answer the question should be flagged as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; (or spam/rude/etc as appropriate). They'll then go to a queue for further review. Users with higher-level moderation privileges can then cast votes for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easier when the answer starts with &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Not an answer per say [sic]&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes such not-an-answer Answers are comments that the author can't post as comments because they don't have enough reputation yet -- Answers have a lower bar. If the information is a useful addition or clarification to a post, then it should be suggested as an edit. Anecdotal data could possibly be left as a comment, but only if it applies directly to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-07-08T15:20:35.187" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5609" CreationDate="2020-07-10T11:29:33.117" Score="16" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last few days a user (G-Man) is rejecting some of my edits. Obviously, I have nothing against him (you can’t always agree with everyone) and I only wish to understand why and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of allow me to say that I love improving content, whatever that is. Which is one of the reasons I really enjoy editing posts and answers. I like to believe am doing what’s best for the posts and for the people reading them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving on to the actual suggested edits. Here are 3 examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/345048&quot;&gt;first one&lt;/a&gt; is what I consider to be the cleanest and most straight-forward edit I can possibly think of. G-Man obviously disagrees, but since his standard comment doesn’t apply to this edit (at least I think it doesn’t), I’m left wondering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/344455&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. Here, the truth is, I could have done better, but still I look at it as an improvement over the original post. In this situation he rejected it, but, went on correcting it, to what he thought was suitable. I agree with his changes, but I also think that having both of them would have been better. Maybe am wrong, I don’t know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The third and last example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/345093&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. It’s another basic edit that I considered to be fine. I added a few newlines, syntax highlighting and corrected a spelling mistake. Like I said in my comment, minor improvements. In this case I think he considers the edit to be superfluous. I’m not going to argue that it’s not, that’s for the reader to decide, but my ocd (metaphorically speaking) wouldn’t let me press “No Action Needed”. I also consider syntax highlighting a pretty compelling reason to edit a post, but, to be fair, in this case it doesn’t improve readability all that match, if at all, since it’s just one plain color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This post doesn’t refer to G-Man alone. He just happens to be the example that I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If am over-analyzing this, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If I am offending G-Man in any way, that’s NOT my intention, as am only here to learn. He has accepted a couple of my edits and also rejected some others that I considered to be fair and actually helped me understand the system better.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Am only posting this because it’s becoming a habit and I want to sort this out now rather than later. After all the system predicts that, which is why it requires 2 people to agree/disagree for an edit to get published or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question&lt;/strong&gt;: What’s the course of action when you think someone is being unjust?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general the way I see it it’s to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept different opinions (or human mistakes, for that matter) and move on&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;understand what went wrong so you won't repeat the same mistakes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="360892" LastEditorUserId="360892" LastEditDate="2020-07-12T21:04:01.863" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T21:04:01.863" Title="What’s the course of action when you think someone is being unjust?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-11T05:11:01.747" Score="1" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Last words&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What remains to be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a reasonable world: merge the two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an utopia world: Join all answers in only one question, and select the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not, we are not in that utopia world, not even in that reasonable world.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;We are in stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both answers have been modified. Probably better now.&#xA;A lot of misleading comments have been removed (well, some, others were put aside).&#xA;But getting here from there included an edit war, a lot of commenting (a lot of which got erased by high rep users), Many interventions of the mods, strong arm twisting and a discussion on the chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of that would have been avoided if the better (newer) question and answer had been selected as the one to keep, simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that fair with the questioner and the answer ? Of course it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Original&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/597257/awk-operator-precedence-of-a0&quot;&gt;awk operator precedence of `!a[$0]++`&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A perfectly valid question, well written and specific to the issue to solve, got classified as a duplicate of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159695/how-does-awk-a0-work&quot;&gt;How does awk &amp;#39;!a[$0]++&amp;#39; work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, on a first look seems like an (also) reasonable question of a quite similar concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, looking a bit deeper, it happens that both answers in that second question have troubling (and incorrect) issues and very conflicting comments about the order of evaluation of the &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first answer (Archemar) claims that the negation &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; is applied first and then the &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gilles claims that that error is actually correct:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the incrementation is indeed applied after the value of the expression is calculated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;G-Man reinforces that interpretation under the cuonglm answer (the second answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; operator is applied to the value of &lt;code&gt;a[$0]&lt;/code&gt; before it is incremented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And Gilles re-iterate the same in plain words:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is wrong. The incrementation happens after the result of the ! operator is calculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, without taking any side, both answers result in confusion and noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody has taken the time to address the problem and to make the answers clear, but yet, we are directing new questions to such conflicting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure: I do have a position. I believe that both G-man and Gilles are wrong. The only possible (valid) description is that the operator &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; is (as it must) be applied first to a lvalue and, ... later ... the &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; operator is applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the real issue to discuss here is: should we naively direct people to older answers that look (on first sight) the same but are fundamentally conflicting and confusing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this question has been written looking at what those answers look like &lt;strong&gt;NOW&lt;/strong&gt;, they will probably be edited and changed. I, for one, will add another answer to try and address the (several) errors. Of course, after some time has passed to discuss this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hold that we should keep to higher standards than (&amp;quot;first look&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;apparently similar&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastEditorDisplayName="user232326" LastEditDate="2020-07-15T15:58:08.880" LastActivityDate="2020-07-15T15:58:08.880" Title="Should we keep with older questions just because &quot;they are already there&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5604" CreationDate="2020-07-11T14:37:47.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the main question: the age of a post is irrelevant. We always want to use the best post (the one with the most clearly written question, best explained answers etc.) as the dupe target. We shouldn't care which one is older, we simply want the best. That doesn't mean we will always get it right, of course, and this sort of post on meta is always welcome when you find something you think hasn't been handled in the best way by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, we don't keep older questions by default. If a new question is better written and/or gets better answers, then that should become the new canonical and we can close older ones as dupes of the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, given that the two questions are indeed asking the same thing, the closure seems reasonable to me. If you feel that the existing answers in the dupe are lacking, then the best course of action is to post a new, better answer on that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the specific issues you raise, I think we're getting lost in the minor details. But then, I am a biologist, not a programmer, and I don't claim to understand the internals of how any programming language works. So I don't doubt that there is indeed a valid technical point being raised here. However, I would argue that in the context of a site about Unix and Linux, one where most of us are closer to &amp;quot;sysadmin&amp;quot; than &amp;quot;computer scientist&amp;quot;, the internals might be less important than the effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;effect&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;code&gt;!a[$0]++&lt;/code&gt;, is that it will evaluate to false if &lt;code&gt;$0&lt;/code&gt; has not been seen before. So no matter which operation is applied first behind the scenes, and although &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; has two outputs and not one, the final result is that it &lt;em&gt;acts&lt;/em&gt; as though the increment occurs after the &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; is evaluated. So from the point of view of someone who just needs to understand whether &lt;code&gt;!a[$0]++&lt;/code&gt; will return false or true the first time this value of &lt;code&gt;$0&lt;/code&gt; is seen, the &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; is evaluated after the &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt;. I don't doubt that you are right and internally, the &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; is applied first but the &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; returns the old value, but I would argue that isn't really relevant to the user of the language and only important if someone is trying to understand the internals of the awk interpreter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this to say that I don't actually think that the two answers are contradicting each other. They both say that the expression &lt;code&gt;!a[$0]++&lt;/code&gt; will result in &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; printing the current line if it hasn't been seen before, and that is the core question. Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/159734/22222&quot;&gt;cuonglm's&lt;/a&gt; answer goes into more detail and explains the internals, but the essence of the two answers is the same: this expression will print the current line if it hasn't been seen before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-07-11T14:37:47.273" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5608" CreationDate="2020-07-11T15:09:59.507" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few hours ago, I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/597883/360892&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer as “In need of moderator intervention”. What I should have done and what I want it to do was flag it as “not an answer”. Plus, I knew there was a chance this flag will get declined. And understandably it did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So why did I do it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer provides information to “speed up the process” of executing the other answers. To be clear, I consider the “tip” to be utterly superfluous. But still, at that moment, I thought that it should be a comment in an answer. So instead of flagging it as “not an answer” I flagged it as “In need of moderator intervention” with this side note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't answer the question. It should be a comment in one of the already posted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The only reason I did this, is because I had no other way of telling the moderator that this post should be converted in to a comment of an answer. I imagine it’s hard to see that through the review queue.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember reading a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5357/360892&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff Schaller saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The custom flag “in need of moderator intervention” should only be used when one of the other flag categories can’t be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so I was not surprised to see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;declined - Using standard flags helps us prioritize problems and resolve them faster. Please familiarize yourself with the list of standard flags: see What is Flagging?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; What should I do when dealing with that kind of situations? What's the best way to inform the moderator of the rational behind the flag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Perhaps a side note functionality would come in handy, when dealing with situations like this.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="360892" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T16:22:48.107" Title="How to make flags more informative?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5604" CreationDate="2020-07-12T14:57:09.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Should the new question be closed as a duplicate?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feels wrong to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplicate is not necessary to provide an answer where we didn't already have one.  ilkkachu wrote a perfectly great answer to the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;duplicate&amp;quot; is different: the new post is a more narrow question.  I thought we liked questions that we can answer very specifically :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Isaac pointed out, the result looks really strange.  The accepted answer on the old page does not attempt to address the narrow question. Because the old question does not explicitly ask the narrow question.  In fact, reading the old answer tends to confuse and suggest the opposite of the correct answer to the narrow question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;extended ranting which is not relevant to the above&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am frustrated by the older page.  StackExchange tradition argues this can be addressed by a couple of approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem 1: one considers the accepted answer to be &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me: it is a question about a programming language.  (One which is on-topic for Unix.SE).  The expression &lt;code&gt;!x++&lt;/code&gt; is evaluated as &lt;code&gt;!(x++)&lt;/code&gt;.  To answer the old question &amp;quot;exactly&amp;quot;, as it requests, this can be broken down into &lt;code&gt;x++&lt;/code&gt; first, then the &lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt; operator.  It is a mistake to break it down into &lt;code&gt;!x&lt;/code&gt;, followed by the &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; operator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/24322/what-should-be-done-with-accepted-yet-wrong-answers&quot;&gt;What should be done with accepted, yet wrong, answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the approaches is &amp;quot;provide a correct answer [...] You can also add a comment to point out what's wrong with the answer.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the accepted answer will remain unchanged.  This is a longstanding annoyance (search &amp;quot;accepted wrong answer&amp;quot; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;).  But we don't want mods to work around it and judge lots of complex cases.  I don't want mods to have to delete accepted answers or allow special edits, unless there is quite an obvious justification (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/394080/799204&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).  You could set more site-specific standards.  But I'd like moderators who manage people problems, not who pretend they know everything about Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem 2: comment chaos&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tradition says &amp;quot;comments are not for extended discussion&amp;quot;.  If a comment has not convinced the answerer to edit, the solution is to write an alternative answer.  (In this case, this has already been done).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When necessary, use a short comment to criticize the answer.  It would be most convenient to link to the alternative answer.  Though if I see a clear critique, I'm probably going to scroll down to look for the alternatives anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The traditional answer to comment chaos is &amp;quot;comments are transient&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, shouldn't we lean towards cleaning up by removing the following comment? Since @Gnouc deleted their comment, it is hard to work out what the reply to @Gnouc means :-).  I.e. nominate the comment for deletion, by flagging it as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; (&amp;quot;this comment is outdated&amp;quot;).  If the comment is deleted, it will be easier to read and understand the comments.  The critique will be easier to see, so it will be clearer that one should look at the alternative answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Gnouc I don't see any serious error in this answer. If that is what you're referring to, the incrementation is indeed applied after the value of the expression is calculated. It's true that the incrementation happens before the printing, but that's a minor imprecision which doesn't affect the basic explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that feel like exploiting the system?  I concede it devalues the comment-writer and their effort... but isn't the system &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to hold comments as lower value? and this comment-writer is surely experienced enough to expect it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastEditorUserId="29483" LastEditDate="2020-07-12T16:02:03.167" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T16:02:03.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5606" CreationDate="2020-07-12T16:22:48.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that Jeff Schaller guy! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to decline that flag, with the thinking &amp;quot;if it's not an Answer, flag it as such&amp;quot;, so we're on the same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've cast a flag that you want to change or retract, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/281010/307535&quot;&gt;retract your flag&lt;/a&gt; by clicking on the same 'flag' link again. If you then cast a &amp;quot;not an answer flag&amp;quot;, it would go to the LQP queue, where user-moderators can choose what to do with it. If an elected moderator sees it before it's deleted, they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; choose to convert the answer to a comment if they think there's enough value in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, it seems to me that the OP is already aware of the ability to have &lt;code&gt;nmcli&lt;/code&gt; list the connections with their UUIDS and names, so I would recommend deleting that answer altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think something should really be a comment, consider leaving that comment yourself -- you could pick and choose the most valuable parts of the &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; and use those as a comment; that answer could then be flagged appropriately.  I would encourage you (and everyone) to consider whether your comment should be an edit to the post or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T16:22:48.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5603" CreationDate="2020-07-12T16:51:58.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to give a little feedback; I (obviously?) don't speak for G-Man or anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First: thank you for helping to improve the site! I still remember &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3941/117549&quot;&gt;the days&lt;/a&gt; of getting +2 reputation from finding and improving a post.  Between those edits and your well-received answers, you're well on your way to 2k reputation, where you won't need approvals for the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested edit summaries can be a tough place to explain your reasons for changing a post, but as someone under 2k reputation, I'd encourage you to go the extra mile there, since the next two reviewers see that note and you can help frame your edit positively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, since your (&amp;lt;2k) reviews have to go through a review process, consider approaching questions that you can &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; (or substantially) improve. Perhaps bookmark (or follow) the other posts for when you get past the 2k mark. That way, there's less frustration on everyone's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, I'd like to thank you for your careful, even-keeled response on Meta here. That's the best thing you can do in your situation, since it's not easy to communicate back to the reviewers.  Some of those reviewers visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;/dev/chat chat room&lt;/a&gt;, so that's one more possibility. It's good that you're able to step back and look at the bigger picture and ask how you should proceed forward. A Meta post that asks for help is a great way to get everyone's (*) opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Everyone that visits Meta and decides to Answer, that is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you're on the right track with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept different opinions (or human mistakes, for that matter) and move on&#xA;and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;understand what went wrong so you want repeat the same mistakes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't dive into the details of the specific reviews with this answer, but I will repeat my comment for reviewers: if the initial edit is in the right direction, &amp;quot;approve and edit&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;reject and edit&amp;quot; so that it sends the right message back to the initial editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T16:51:58.387" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5604" CreationDate="2020-07-13T15:56:49.213" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I &amp;quot;fixed&amp;quot; my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159695/how-does-awk-a0-work/159697#159697&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; on old question about &lt;code&gt;a[$0]&lt;/code&gt; not &amp;quot;defined&amp;quot;.&lt;/s&gt;my &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159695/how-does-awk-a0-work/159697#159697&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;'s got a life of its own now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;about: ++&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As I mention in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/110549/discussion-on-answer-by-archemar-how-does-awk-a0-work&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, one shouldn't use &lt;code&gt;a+=a++*a++&lt;/code&gt; and expecting to know result.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; is to be used in &lt;code&gt;a = foo + i++&lt;/code&gt; or  &lt;code&gt;a = foo[i++]&lt;/code&gt; like operations, whatever language, unless you are competiting in codegolf.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;last I had to implement &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; operator was at university, my work is gone with my &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_2000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;computer of that time&lt;/a&gt; (that was about 2**5 years ago). To be hosnest I didn't remember any form of &amp;quot;forking&amp;quot; (setting value and evaluation of expression).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;about answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;at the time of first post, I was merely happy to explain this little trick, altough I was confused by Cuonglm's comment and Cuonglm's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(nowdays) I was about to came here and asked my answer to be deleted, however not all user came here with perfect knowledge on how does &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; compile in pseudo-code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am sorry to have offended thoses who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79818" LastActivityDate="2020-07-13T15:56:49.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5604" CreationDate="2020-07-15T00:04:15.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though it was done in the question above, I'm not really one of those beings that appear when you chant their name three times in a row...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also did get this meta post linked to me, so I took a look at the posts it was about, and ended up editing two answers from the 2014 Q -- the top two ones. One of them seemed ok, but I felt it could be phrased a bit more clearly. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/159734/revisions&quot;&gt;I don't know if I succeeded in that&lt;/a&gt;, feel free to revert if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the other, the edit wasn't that light, and I was also &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5610/170373&quot;&gt;indirectly called for it&lt;/a&gt;, so perhaps I should answer for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/159697/8&quot;&gt;way the answer stood when I saw it&lt;/a&gt;, after all the edits made to it lately, it honestly was just confusing to read. In particular, the last two lines put two very different things side-to-side as equals: the printing of the line, which is conditional on the value of the expression; and the effect of the post-increment, which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; conditional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/159697/4&quot;&gt;earlier version of the answer&lt;/a&gt; seemed better in that it made it clearer that only the printing is conditional on the prior status of &lt;code&gt;a[$0]&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;Though even here, what happens when the next identical line comes is only brushed upon. That, I think is a rather important part of how the program works, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/159695/170373&quot;&gt;question also did ask &amp;quot;how exactly this notation is interpreted&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which does all for some detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Though to be honest, the question is somewhat difficult to answer. In the title it just asks how the program works; and later in the post itself, it mentions that the basic idea is already known, but question is in fact about details...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I do admit that my edit ended up rather more invasive than the intention was. But faced with a +40 accepted answer, the alternative of just downvoting and walking away didn't seem very useful for any future readers either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2020-07-15T00:04:15.070" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-25T01:11:38.593" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year, people were posting about the same problem and it was reported to be fixed.     But I'm having the problem with another post today.    The problem seems to be that I'm supposed to first review my question but there's no button for reviewing the question.    Here's a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1acH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1acH.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50080" OwnerDisplayName="Leo Simon" LastActivityDate="2020-07-25T09:01:15.207" Title="Post your question still grayed out" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5613" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:13:00.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug report with this tag is neither declined nor destined for implementation/fix. When such a decision has been made, the tag will be changed accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple factors that may leave a report under review. There could be consideration of whether the proposed feature or bugfix is feasible or useful. There could be investigations on the complexity of the necessary solution. There could be insufficient information in the feature or bug report as presented. Site developers may provide additional comments to request more information or to provide status updates as appropriate to the status of the review, until such time as the decision for approval or decline is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by staff and ♦ moderators; the latter will only use this tag as part of the escalation process described here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348642/295232&quot;&gt;What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Copied from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastEditorUserId="111051" LastEditDate="2020-07-26T19:08:45.213" LastActivityDate="2020-07-26T19:08:45.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5614" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:13:00.087" Score="0" Body="Indicates that a change in functionality is currently under consideration, or needs further investigation." OwnerUserId="111051" LastEditorUserId="111051" LastEditDate="2020-07-26T19:08:48.280" LastActivityDate="2020-07-26T19:08:48.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-26T17:38:34.447" Score="-8" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site has serious issues, core issues. Some of them could be solved. I wonder if the community is developed enough to correctly deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second issue is that we should have a rule like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No Regrets ™&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Everyone should be the owner of what they said, everyone should be able to regret what was said and remove it, no limits.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone should be able to remove their comments at any time (as it is now).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone should be able to remove chat posts (what comments become when pushed aside) at any time. Presently it is only allowed after asking a moderator and when he agrees to do it (most of the time they don't).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone should be able to erase questions and answers. If the content of questions and answers can not be directly erased, make the question/answer an orphan. Any one could later &amp;quot;adopt&amp;quot; the orphaned question/answer and modify it as needed. No-one will be stuck with UN-wanted content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-07-27T00:29:10.873" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T09:25:40.323" Title="2 Implement: Remove your own content" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-26T17:59:20.620" Score="-12" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site has serious issues, core issues. Some of them could be solved. I wonder if the community is developed enough to correctly deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As comments have become a hold place for (permanent) opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first issue is that we should have a rule like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No (long-term) comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214173/why-do-i-need-50-reputation-to-comment-what-can-i-do-instead&quot;&gt;explained in this meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comments are second class citizens on the Stack Exchange network, not designed to hold information for all eternity. They may get cleaned up at any time. Generally, truly important information should be incorporated into an answer anyway (either by posting a new answer, if the information answers the question at least partially, or by editing an existing answer, if the information is a minor complement or clarification of that answer).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;second class citizens&lt;/strong&gt;: So, question and answer content should override comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hold information for all eternity&lt;/strong&gt;: So, they should expire: When? In three months?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;may get cleaned up at any time&lt;/strong&gt;: Then, do clean them, no problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;truly important information should be incorporated into an answer&lt;/strong&gt;: Great idea, let's enforce it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments should be incorporated to question/answers or will be removed in 3 months.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question/answer doesn't incorporate a comment, other users are invited to edit the question/answer to incorporate them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After 3 months any comment will be erased.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-07-27T00:29:23.843" LastActivityDate="2020-07-30T11:21:57.627" Title="1 Implement: Zero Comments" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-26T20:54:32.060" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today was a big day for me on Unix &amp;amp; Linux:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I got a &amp;quot;Yearling&amp;quot; badge on the main site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I got a &amp;quot;Yearling&amp;quot; badge on the meta site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I earned the &amp;quot;create gallery chat rooms&amp;quot; privilege&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I earned the &amp;quot;established user&amp;quot; privilege&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when click on the Achievements icon/menu, the list only shows the badges, not the privileges I earned. This is different than other SE sites where I see the new privileges awarded along with the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a bug on the Unix &amp;amp; Linux site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17945" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T07:33:57.927" Title="Privilege awards did not show up in achievements list" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5616" CreationDate="2020-07-27T00:18:47.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments can be difficult, in my opinion. Some people use them to educate the owner of a post about something that the owner missed or possibly doesn't know, in the hopes that the owner learns and improves the post on their own. Others here simply edit the post directly to make actual improvements -- for robustness (standards) or safety (quoting), for examples. Still others use comments to make positive or negative statements about the post, all of which have varying degrees of value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is to say, comments are a mixed bag and I have trouble seeing success with a rule that simply says &amp;quot;delete all comments after (X) time&amp;quot;. Stack Exchange has developed some measures to handle a variety of comments. Useful information can be edited -- by anyone -- into a post. Useless (or now-outdated) comments can be flagged as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; by those with 15 or more reputation points. Comments that are in between these -- ancedotes, additional perspectives, etc -- tend to stick around. On 187,000+ Questions and 278,000+ Answers, there are currently 767,000+ comments. Are &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of those comments utterly useless? I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully support the idea behind the other two points, that (useful) comments should be incorporated into questions &amp;amp; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T00:18:47.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5617" CreationDate="2020-07-27T07:33:57.927" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're a veteran Stack Exchange user (not just because of your nickname) and that means &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/151679/295232&quot;&gt;some of the privilege notifications are not shown anymore&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, all privileges with a threshold of 1,000 and less, and 'Approve or reject tag wiki edits' at 5,000 (presumably because you'll notice them in the Suggested Edit review queue which you already have access to). So this is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T07:33:57.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5616" CreationDate="2020-07-27T09:02:05.093" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think comments are a problem on unix.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that they're deleted less aggressively here than on other sites, which IMO is just a good thing. There's nothing inherently wrong with clarifications, anecdotes, additional perspectives, or even mild jokes sticking around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think they should always be incorporated in posts or deleted. I've had comments under my posts clarifying some issue, in which case I'm happy to edit the information in. But I've also had comments, which while not wrong, would take the answer somewhere I don't intend to go. Either by making the post unnecessarily complicated, when I wanted to keep it simple (lies for children); or by presenting a viewpoint I don't agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases, I'm not happy to include the comments with my name, and would be irked if someone tried to force that. But I also don't want to prevent anyone from presenting an alternate or opposing view, especially when they think I'm wrong. And with the system we have, comments are the only way for that. Having to write an answer just to say &amp;quot;ilkkachu's answer is wrong&amp;quot; would be worse, for various reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2020-07-27T10:59:48.150" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T10:59:48.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2020-07-27T09:25:40.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone should be able to remove chat posts (what comments become when pushed aside) at any time. Presently it is only allowed after asking a moderator and when he agrees to do it (most of the time they don't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for this, I do agree in that it should be possible to remove chat posts that used to be comments, in exactly the same way as it was possible to remove them when they still were comments. The fact that comments can get turned into something non-removable contradicts badly with how they're vocally advertised as volatile and &amp;quot;removable at any time&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's hardly specific to unix.SE, and probably can't be achieved here, if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have no comment on chat messages originally posted as chat messages.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T09:25:40.323" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5625" CreationDate="2020-07-30T09:24:33.443" Score="17" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This isn't a site for asking programming questions&lt;/strong&gt;.  It's well understood that pure programming questions should be moved to stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There does seem to be an exception for bash, even where those questions are purely about bash (eg: bash syntax) and not the *nix shell at large (eg: interaction between other commands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asking questions, it's clear enough that questions about &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; are accepted as appropriate on unix.stackexchange.com.  I'd personally vote-off-topic any pure &lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt; or C question if they weren't about interaction with the wider OS.  But I wouldn't be so sure about &lt;a href=&quot;https://linux.die.net/man/1/perl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;perl&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://linux.die.net/man/1/expect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;expect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when giving answers I'm even less certain.  For example I see occasional how-to questions which (IMO) are ridiculously complex in &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, etc. but trivial in python, (&amp;lt;10 lines, no non-standard libraries).  On such questions I &lt;em&gt;wait and see&lt;/em&gt; if other answers are forthcoming.  But if they get no answers, I'm not sure if I should give my 10 lines of python or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any list of which languages / tools we should stick to when offering answers.  And, if bash questions are on topic, which other languages should we regard as on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This isn't a site for asking programming questions&lt;/strong&gt;.  Yet we have made exceptions for a (fuzzy?) set of programming languages.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;scope page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is a programming question, requiring knowledge of programming languages other than Unix shell scripting languages, ask on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even our scope page implies these are programming questions &lt;em&gt;(which they are)&lt;/em&gt;.  In practice I don't know a competent Linux user who doesn't know a little programming.  And specifically shell scripting is largely mandatory for all but the casual user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where this starts to come unstuck is with tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;, where there are many questions asking how to perform some programming task &amp;quot;in a shell script&amp;quot;.  I don't think this was the intended purpose of including shell-script-programming questions in our scope.  This doesn't feel in keeping with the purpose of the site.  It seems to have wedged open our scope further.  Yet I see no easy fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My purpose for asking the question was to flag that (I feel) stuck between three options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Acknowledge programmer questions for what they are&lt;/em&gt; and vote to close / migrate them even if they were about shell scripting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Acknowledge programmer questions for what they are&lt;/em&gt;  and wede the scope further by offering a programmer's answer.  One written in a proper programming language. &lt;em&gt;Trollish tone NOT intended&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write an answer that's not as good as I'd give a colleague, but is written in &lt;code&gt;bash&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-12-15T16:10:53.757" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T16:10:53.757" Title="Which programming languages are appropriate here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|programming|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5616" CreationDate="2020-07-30T11:11:57.053" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a terrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are the only sane way to warn others of a dangerously bad answer where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Others haven't spotted the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP refuses to accept there is a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well up-voted answers are sometimes wrong.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/51131242/453851&quot;&gt;Provably and dangerously wrong&lt;/a&gt;.  When you find a wrong answer you are explicitly disagreeing with the OP.  If the OP refuses to accept they are wrong, then  what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer can be wrong even if there is no &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; answer, so simply posting a new answer isn't always possible.  Sometimes too many others really don't spot the problem so a simple down-vote isn't enough.  Explaining &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/38916121/453851&quot;&gt;why an answer which works is bad&lt;/a&gt; is vital for future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't let individuals who disagree with the content edit it.  As Wikipedia found, that results in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;edit wars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution that stack exchange has come up with is &lt;em&gt;the best&lt;/em&gt; I've seen anywhere.  That is leave incorrect content up and let the community vote on it, including voting on which comments are important... and keep the discussions describing the reasons for voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has serious issues, core issues. Some of them could be solved. I wonder if the community is developed enough to correctly deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Professional] disagreements happen; this is both normal and healthy.  Long standing disagreements also happen; people are not required to agree with one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't fix that with technology.  All we can do is offer the community technology that will present future readers with a sort of collective community opinion; attempting to present more important information first and less important information after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2020-07-30T11:21:57.627" LastActivityDate="2020-07-30T11:21:57.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5622" CreationDate="2020-07-30T21:47:05.033" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange does not divide up by topic, it divides up by &lt;em&gt;readership&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;This is something that people stumble over, but if you look at all of the site descriptions in the drop-down list of &amp;quot;Stack Exchange communities&amp;quot; at the top of this very page you'll see that all of the communities are described in terms of &lt;em&gt;the people&lt;/em&gt; that read and write the questions and answers, not in terms of the subject matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes a while to spot this, especially if one has a background in the likes of CompuServe, Fidonet, Usenet, I-Link, and so forth, which did divide up by topic, and whose FAQ documents did as well.&#xA;But it is how things are structured by the company that runs the sites, and is the methodology that one can see all the way back to 2009 (where &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/07/26/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot;&gt;the question was &amp;quot;Which community do you consider yourself a part of?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;) if one goes and looks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This WWW site is &amp;quot;for users&amp;quot; of Unices and Linux-based operating systems.&#xA;Stack Overflow is &amp;quot;for programmers&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the correct approach is to consider the readership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is aimed at a &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; of the operating system, then it is appropriate.&#xA;It seems to be surely the case that one-liners in many of the interpreted languages that one can commonly (and even as standard in some cases) find on Unices and Linux-based operating systems, are usable by users.&#xA;Conversely, a question or an answer that is &lt;em&gt;for programmers&lt;/em&gt; is better on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one would object to any notion that everything outwith &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; was outwith the scope of using these operating systems.&#xA;It is both narrowminded and blinkered, and definitely not in accord with &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; experience as a user.&#xA;Indeed, a lot of the history of Unices has been the expansion to include &lt;em&gt;all sorts&lt;/em&gt; of useful tools that users can employ, from &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt; through &lt;code&gt;rs&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;jq&lt;/code&gt; to Miller.&#xA;This is, moreover, a process that is ongoing today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your question is ill-founded to an extent.&#xA;It is not the case that there is a set of on-topic and off-topic programming languages.&#xA;It is, rather, whether a question and an answer is appropriate &lt;em&gt;for a readership of users&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an observable widespread tendency to give an &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; answer to almost everything, but that should not be inferred as a rule to be followed, and if there's (say) a Python answer that involves &lt;em&gt;less programming&lt;/em&gt; then surely that is quite on point as an answer &lt;em&gt;for a readership of users&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went against the grain, applying &lt;em&gt;other tools&lt;/em&gt; that people have written over the years to directly perform the job at hand which &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; involve &lt;em&gt;entering a program&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; or a shell to run, with answers like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/574309/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/574309/5132&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/578242/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/578242/5132&lt;/a&gt; .&#xA;Others have done similar.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/584274/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/584274/5132&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/569600/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/569600/5132&lt;/a&gt; are (for examples) answers that show alternative tools to answers employing shell script and (yet again) &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; programs, namely John A. Kunze's &lt;code&gt;jot&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;rs&lt;/code&gt; (reshape), which have been around since 4.2BSD for goodness' sake!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, it's not about which section number a library function has assigned to it.&#xA;It's about whether the Q&amp;amp;A is for programmers or for users.&#xA;Knowing that there's wacky semantics to the (Linux) &lt;code&gt;settimeofday()&lt;/code&gt; system call that make the system time jump around at bootstrap is something that concerns users, especially when it affects things like filesystem checks (c.f. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/600490/5132&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/600490/5132&lt;/a&gt;).&#xA;But whether one can pass a &lt;code&gt;time_t&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;settimeofday()&lt;/code&gt; is a question for programmers (c.f. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/3374659/340790&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/q/3374659/340790&lt;/a&gt;).&#xA;It's the same system call, but two different readerships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastEditorUserId="5132" LastEditDate="2020-08-01T10:09:22.350" LastActivityDate="2020-08-01T10:09:22.350" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5622" CreationDate="2020-07-31T16:13:47.457" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Addressing specifically the scope of answers, I note that the scope of the site is defined in terms of &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, it doesn’t limit answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when answering, I would say that anything that’s helpful to answer the question is fine. I’ve written quite a few C programs to answer questions here, and in some cases I’ve even &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/184350/86440&quot;&gt;explained the process&lt;/a&gt;. If you have a better solution to a text-processing problem (or any other question) in Python, R, etc. than existing answers using shell or AWK, that solution certainly has its place here in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to phrase this in terms of scope compared to Stack Overflow, I’d consider things as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions about how to write a program to do something are a better fit Stack Overflow (except when the question author specifically asks about a language which is accepted here);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions about how to do something on a Unix-like system are fine here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the system’s behaviour are also fine here, and they can often involve digging into source code, often in C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that Unix’s forte (or not, depending on your point of view) has always been that it’s a self-hosted operating system designed to make it easy to develop itself, and the result is (still) that advanced system administration often ends up being programming in one way or another. In such a context, exposure to better tools and techniques is good for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Looking at it from another angle, I often think it would be helpful to write more GUI-based answers, but it’s a lot more effort than copy-pasting commands...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2020-07-31T16:17:16.483" LastActivityDate="2020-07-31T16:17:16.483" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5622" CreationDate="2020-08-03T07:22:07.307" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a site for Unix/Linux questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are about programming, then so is it. The requirement is that it has to be Unix/Linux related. There is no requirement about any language/platform, but also none of them is forbidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple script languages identified commonly with the Unix world (bash, awk, sed, etc) are imho per definitionem on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also per definitionem on-topic if a question is about a Posix APIs (or the system APIs provided by any Unix-related system). These questions are most likely asked in C, but it does not make any specific privilege to the C language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the most common programming questions asked on the StackOverflow are today all in highly platform-independent languages: Java, Javascript, Python. These questions are obviously off-topic, except if they are very clearly about some Unix/Linux-specific thing (for example, OP wants to distribute signals to a multi-threaded python process). This happens very rarely, because the practical problems happening about them are mostly not relate to any OS et al. Thus, these questions are very rare here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastActivityDate="2020-08-03T07:22:07.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-15T02:57:40.403" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/604526/323121&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;, I see three choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dangerous answers — &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/604549/323121&quot;&gt;Remove system python&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer buried in comments — This is a widely known &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/604526/blocked-from-using-pip3#comment1128232_604526&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Convert 2 above to an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3a. Left as is it becomes a &lt;em&gt;link-only&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;3b. Padding with unnecessary explanation – seems gratuitous and superfluous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323121" LastEditorUserId="323121" LastEditDate="2020-08-15T08:47:09.037" LastActivityDate="2020-08-15T16:09:20.500" Title="Link only answers Vs dangerous answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5628" CreationDate="2020-08-15T14:44:20.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted the dangerous answer. Thanks for pointing it out. Next time, it would be better to flag the answer with a custom mod flag, explaining what the issue is. Dangerous answers should be removed and flagging is thee fastest way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for fearing the link only answer, the main thing about such answers is that if the link doesn't work, they become useless. So if you simply copy the relevant information from the bug's page, so that the answer can stand alone without the link, then you'll be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2020-08-15T16:09:20.500" LastActivityDate="2020-08-15T16:09:20.500" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5631" CreationDate="2020-08-16T19:29:15.503" Score="10" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago I edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/562538/pass-easiest-way-to-synchronize-the-password-store-between-multiple-machines/575152#575152&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer to include a brief description of the link. As I understand it, answers that are just links aren't recommended as the link could break or the contents could change. I noticed that the edit was rolled back today by the original author of the answer. What did I do wrong with the edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user304684" LastActivityDate="2020-08-16T20:57:42.163" Title="Why was this edit rolled back?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2020-08-16T20:57:42.163" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did absolutely nothing wrong. Quite the opposite, your edit was useful and made the post into an actual answer. Without your edit, that wasn't a valid answer for this site. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now re-applied your edit, keep them coming!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-08-16T20:57:42.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-19T01:09:04.953" Score="1" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious why a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/605111/260833&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; advocating &lt;strong&gt;against the reuse of old hardware&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know why developers don't spend months and years of their life saving you from paying $10 for a new wifi adaptor... that's the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which also contains pretty much nothing but an opinion &lt;em&gt;based&lt;/em&gt; on another person's opinion (no matter how right or wrong, intelligent or famous the other person is - it's &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; just an opinion) and also &lt;em&gt;disparages&lt;/em&gt; the person asking the question is now considered an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lack of stable APIs/ABIs in the Linux kernel is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/why-isnt-your-old-phone-getting-nougat-theres-blame-enough-to-go-around/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;well-known reason&lt;/a&gt; why Android OEMs do not support their devices for longer than three years because Qualcomm/Mediatek/Samsung, major SoC producers, refuse to keep their drivers up-to-date and compatible with new major Android releases which usually come with &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.stackexchange.com/a/51656&quot;&gt;new kernel releases&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile another stackexchange user pretty much on the same day &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/605100/260833&quot;&gt;asks&lt;/a&gt; a question how he can use a device whose drivers haven't ever been mainlined thus he's unable to use it with new kernel releases which further indicates that a lack of stable APIs/ABIs for the kernel causes issues for users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the wrong place to ask such a question, please move it where it fits best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260833" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2021-02-24T22:28:44.367" LastActivityDate="2021-02-24T22:28:44.367" Title="Is it OK to accept as an answer a controversial opinion which also humiliates the person asking the question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5635" CreationDate="2020-08-19T05:41:51.207" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/605084/why-linux-module-api-isnt-backward-compatible/605111?noredirect=1#comment1129348_605111&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about Linux's unstable API yesterday. Two users &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/260833/artem-s-tashkinov&quot;&gt;Artem S. Tashkinov&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/20140/philip-couling&quot;&gt;Philip Couling&lt;/a&gt; answered that question. Artem S. Tashkinov answered with just a link. After some time that answer disappeared and Philip Couling gave another answer with more details. Then Artem S. Tashkinov and Philip Couling started to debate. Artem S. Tashkinov claimed that Philip Couling's answer is not an answer but an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Tour page, &lt;em&gt;It's not a discussion forum. There's no chit-chat.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to debate like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="364840" LastActivityDate="2020-08-19T17:34:02.397" Title="Is it OK to debate in comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5632" CreationDate="2020-08-19T08:55:09.177" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the big rules of SE is that the author of a question gets to decide whether to accept an answer, and which answer to accept. You’ll find questions here where the accepted answer was correct, but then became incorrect as software changed (and the question isn’t framed in a specific context); you’ll also find questions where the accepted answer is utterly incorrect, and always was; in some cases there are even accepted answers which are dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, I don’t read&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know why developers don't spend months and years of their life saving you from paying $10 for a new wifi adaptor... that's the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as humiliating the person asking the question, or even advocating against hardware re-use; it describes some of the economic aspects involved, that’s all. It could be rephrased to avoid the possible underlying assumption that paying $10 isn’t onerous, yes; but I don’t think it’s as grievous as you suggest. In any frame of reference, $10 is much less than the cost of maintaining the drivers; whether that’s acceptable to the parties involved is another issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(With regard to the wider debate, I also find it unfortunate that hardware can’t be used as long as it remains materially viable, and I think the cost to society is much more than $10; but until everything has a cost commensurate with its real impact, this will be difficult to fix.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2020-08-19T09:00:36.647" LastActivityDate="2020-08-19T09:00:36.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5633" CreationDate="2020-08-19T17:34:02.397" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, comments are not for extended discussion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is all about getting answers. It's not a discussion forum. There's no chit-chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Help Center on the Comment privilege&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should I comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the&#xA;question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When shouldn't I comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Secondary discussion or debating a controversial point; please use chat instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I converted all of those particular comments to a chat room a few hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-08-19T17:34:02.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5637" CreationDate="2020-08-20T00:41:49.927" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there's a great distinction between the problem handling approach in new and old hardware. By old I mean those of the early 2000's, with 2GB of RAM or less, 32bit, etc. Shouldn't we have a tag for problems with Linux running in old computers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a broad tag and in fact, it is. I think a lot of users turn to Linux due to it's lightness when it comes to bring old computers back to life, and a lot of problems happens there, also, there are people specialized in working with computers with less resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like I'm talking about a hardware issue, but in fact there's a lot of problems that rise from software compatibility on old machines. There's also an ambiguity I see when defining the focus of some issues like: suppose you have an old computer running an OS, you are having trouble with the low RAM resources, but you could take measures in the OS to lower the RAM consumption. Is this a hardware or software problem? Or both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At last, I don't think that retrocomputing SE is the place for such problems, as they state in the &amp;quot;questions to avoid&amp;quot; topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about modern, currently supported computers are off-topic. This includes questions about earlier versions of a current machine or OS.`&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, a lot of OS's coming out today to help old computers get back to life wouldn't fit in the requirements there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388949" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2020-08-20T07:33:03.117" LastActivityDate="2020-08-20T12:58:45.937" Title="Should we have a tag for problems in old computers?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5636" CreationDate="2020-08-20T12:58:45.937" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a number of problems with such a tag; in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;a meta-tag&lt;/a&gt; — “If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as you mention, it would be very broad, and therefore not a particularly good filter for users looking to follow such questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The variety of possible questions makes it difficult to categorise such questions in the first place. For example...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a question about a Linux system with a 2.6-vintage kernel an “old computer” question? RHEL 5 systems are still supported and run 2.6.18 (with extensions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a question about a computer with limited memory an “old computer” question? Many embedded systems have limited memory, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/605128/86440&quot;&gt;questions about small-memory setups&lt;/a&gt; aren’t necessarily about old computers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a question about an old piece of software an “old computer” question? It could be about running it on current systems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also consider that today’s questions about current systems are tomorrow’s questions about old systems; and yesterday’s questions about then-current systems are today’s questions about old systems. A lot of existing content here is useful for old computers, but that doesn’t mean it should be re-tagged, which goes against the usefulness of the tag in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar in some ways to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3102/86440&quot;&gt;previous discussions about version-specific distribution tags&lt;/a&gt;: questions involving old setups should describe the setup in the question, without necessarily trying to reflect all the details in their tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2020-08-20T12:58:45.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5639" CreationDate="2020-08-22T06:36:47.070" Score="9" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reviewing new answers, I came across one in Spanish. I assume that English is the only allowed language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that I can't find that written anywhere. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; has some guidance for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/asking&quot;&gt;asking&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/answering&quot;&gt;answering&lt;/a&gt; questions, but none of these posts describe any rules about language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is our rule about posting &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; text instead of terminal screenshots.  I know it's a rule because I've seen senior members enforcing it, but I can't find that in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem right to enforce rules that we only assume exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="272848" LastActivityDate="2020-08-22T11:00:08.247" Title="Do we have a list of rules?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5638" CreationDate="2020-08-22T07:19:06.590" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the rules aren't in the Help Center. There could be several reasons for that, e.g. the rule that answers may not be in Spanish does not apply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://spanish.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Spanish Language Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; but it has the same Help Center articles as all other sites in the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most rules, including the reasons why they are as they are, can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. The ones you're looking for are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/13676/295232&quot;&gt;Do posts have to be in English on Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/320052/295232&quot;&gt;Why are images of text, code and mathematical expressions discouraged?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these rules have their own post on Unix &amp;amp; Linux Meta as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3224/111051&quot;&gt;Are (original) posts expected to be in English?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4086/23408&quot;&gt;PSA: Please don&amp;#39;t post images of text&lt;/a&gt; (thanks @Scott)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastEditorUserId="111051" LastEditDate="2020-08-22T11:00:08.247" LastActivityDate="2020-08-22T11:00:08.247" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-23T10:33:26.567" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;style&amp;gt;&#xA;@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { &#xA;    body, pre, a.question-hyperlink, #content {&#xA;        background: black;&#xA;        color: white;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&amp;lt;/style&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;be added to unix.stackexchange.com ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105120" LastEditorUserId="105120" LastEditDate="2020-08-24T13:17:59.843" LastActivityDate="2020-08-24T13:17:59.843" Title="Please add prefers-color-scheme CSS" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5640" CreationDate="2020-08-23T12:42:43.033" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/395949/4751173&quot;&gt;the announcement of Dark Mode on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Future releases&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the focus of Dark Mode is on Stack Overflow and we’ll eventually bring it to MSO. While the retheming we did across the network two years ago makes updating our LESS easier, creating dark versions of all of our sites, particularly the custom-designed ones, is going to be a huge challenge we’re not able to contemplate at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they've &lt;em&gt;considered&lt;/em&gt; a dark theme for Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange sites and other sites in the network, but they aren't going to do it in the near future, so I expect your feature request to be &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nobody will stop you from using a custom stylesheet (through a browser extension) from rolling your own dark theme. Or use existing plugins; a couple of solutions are mentioned in the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/111399/295232&quot;&gt;Dark Mode for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastActivityDate="2020-08-23T12:42:43.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-24T23:44:43.963" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I am correct, a &lt;strong&gt;regular&lt;/strong&gt; user  is only allowed to list and see their  questions  that were deleted in the last 60 days, but &lt;strong&gt;not all&lt;/strong&gt; their questions that have been deleted.&#xA;By &amp;quot;regular&amp;quot;, I mean reputations under a high threshold (10k?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting a reputation threshold is not only unnecessary but also discriminatory in nature. (Not to mention that it is very difficult for regular users to   accumulate enough reputations,  under the current toxic and harassment-encouraging  environment across the stack exchange network.)&#xA;Can I request that any user  should   be able to list and see &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; their own questions that have been deleted, &lt;strong&gt;regardless of their reputations&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s.  My reputations here have gained me the privilege, so I made the request for all  the regular accounts here and across the stack exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-08-25T14:16:56.897" LastActivityDate="2020-08-25T14:16:56.897" Title="Should a user be able to list and see all their own questions that have been deleted, regardless of reputations?" Tags="|feature-request|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5644" CreationDate="2020-08-25T08:10:49.370" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under my account I remember I could edit my profile under &amp;quot;settings&amp;quot;. But now I don't find the feature there. Has it been moved somewhere? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2020-08-25T09:27:22.567" Title="Where is the editing profile feature?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5643" CreationDate="2020-08-25T09:27:22.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your Meta profile has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/current&quot;&gt;settings page&lt;/a&gt; but it does not allow you to edit your profile (about me etc.), because it's automatically synchronized from the main site. As @n8te says, use the main site for this, e.g. by going to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/edit/current&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/edit/current&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gYaDi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gYaDi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the main site; the 'Edit profile' link is missing on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bt0Tn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bt0Tn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastActivityDate="2020-08-25T09:27:22.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5648" CreationDate="2020-09-02T04:47:49.173" Score="5" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of BeOS conforms to POSIX (probably an older edition). Would any question on certain aspect of BeOS be on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186590" LastActivityDate="2020-09-02T05:37:03.253" Title="Are questions about BeOS on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5647" CreationDate="2020-09-02T05:37:03.253" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the same rules we apply for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;macOS and Android&lt;/a&gt; could apply to BeOS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying OS X (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conforming parts would be on-topic, the more exotic parts wouldn't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It might be completely on topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Retrocomputing&lt;/a&gt;, but a quick search didn't show (m)any questions about BeOS specifically.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2020-09-02T05:37:03.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-02T16:08:05.717" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where's the best place to ask questions about networking under Ubuntu using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It seems like candidates are here, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The question relates to a work-from-home situation, not a professionally-managed environment, so Network Engineering is probably off the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214773" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2020-09-02T22:27:11.177" LastActivityDate="2020-09-02T22:27:11.177" Title="Best place for Ubuntu using WSL?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-02T16:50:37.097" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/606142/22653&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/606142/22653&lt;/a&gt; contained some unnecessarily unkind responses which I flagged as unkind.  One was a blatantly rude response to a legitimate query that an acronym be expanded as it was not easily determined through web search.  The other was a backlash to the original rude comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, I notice that my flags are rejected.  This is astonishing, because by any reasonable interpretation of &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot;, they were... completely off-topic and disrespectful with no relevance to the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I see the two comments were removed, because, I presume, someone was actually able to properly categorize them as inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it seems kind of weird that people would reject this flag, the flagger gets pinged, and then later activity justifies the original flag to the point the comment is removed, but the rejectee remains pinged, and, I'm guessing, the rejecter probably walks away with nothing to help them refine their own efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that in any online forum, there will always be trolls and anti-trolls, and that at some point one has to remain somewhat calloused to avoid over-reacting and contributing to the problem, but the &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; flag is, well, not at all worded to discourage soft-selling combative or rude comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps someone should be able to respond to rejects of this nature.  I know, who wants the extra work?  But on the other hand, I really don't care to flag if this is how its going to go down when   people don't want to have to call something for what it is, or when the wording of the flag reason is unclear, or over-broad, and promotes this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make the point that I'm not objecting to rejects as a whole, I also felt the answer violated a policy of requiring an answer author to disclose affiliations with their response and did flag as such.  This flag was rejected also.  On that reject, I took a hint that not everyone felt it was a self-promotion (though one could see in the comments that I documented how it appeared to be).  I then followed advice to use other means to address the situation by editing to add a disclosure, and, to echo the reserve of others, used a down vote (for various reasons addressed in other's comments; not just the disclosure issue).  I took this as a &amp;quot;learning experience&amp;quot;.  On the other two though, the thing I learned was that rejects seem too sticky when they were later proven to be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also remark that a couple other rejects on the question aren't being contested because they are more likely to be related to action/reaction to other comment activity more close to being personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to elaborate with detail on what constitutes &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; even though &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct#unfriendly-language&quot;&gt;the COC: unfriendly-language&lt;/a&gt; is hardly unclear.  Perhaps additional thoughts could be a constructive response to a situation of this nature.  I've searched Meta a bit, but don't really find anything that does more than echo my own confusion about how these terms are hard to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also feel free to address the problem of dealing with moderators that do not enforce clear policy that has little room for misunderstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have reviewed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105391/why-does-flag-marking-as-helpful-declined-not-always-correlate-with-moderator-ac&quot;&gt;Why does flag marking as helpful/declined not always correlate with moderator action?&lt;/a&gt; FAQ, but it does not address the accumulation of rejects even though the action that should have occurred finally did occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re: Jeff Schaller's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary takeaway is apparently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The flag option one must select to effectively enforce the CoC without declines does not link to the CoC!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a new flagger with 1 &amp;quot;helpful&amp;quot;, 4 &amp;quot;declined&amp;quot;, and 1 &amp;quot;pending&amp;quot;. 3 &amp;quot;declined&amp;quot; flags are for actual inappropriate comments. 1 pending likely will devolve to a &amp;quot;decline&amp;quot; (maybe its border line?) but due to proximity to actual confessed snark, probably was also actually unkind. I never intended to challenge the &amp;quot;spam&amp;quot; decline. Basically, 66% of the flags are &amp;quot;declined&amp;quot; but are legitimate attempts to enforce CoC.  [ I have since retracted the &amp;quot;maybe borderline&amp;quot; tag.  Its just not worth the hassle. ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is really hard to swallow the explanation that &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; really means &amp;quot;rude or abusive&amp;quot;.  Those comments WERE &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; by a traditional meaning of the words, and the &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; link to the CoC certainly doesn't mince words about whether &amp;quot;subtle putdowns&amp;quot; are allowed or not.  All I really get from this is that someone didn't want to remove/edit flagged content, and that I suffer the consequence despite the fact that I actually was attempting to support the CoC [as linked].  The flags should been rewarded; instead, demerits were assigned!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This discourages flagging. That snarky comments are not &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; but are rather are &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; is somewhat mind blowing.  Is it not inevitable that other people will continue to call snark unkind/unfriendly based on the CoC wording, and principles of least astonishment, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears the effect is that someone who flags &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; is actually being punished as if they themselvers were &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; as an accumulation of these declines can actually result in a ban!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of technical nuances behind ranking &amp;quot;unkind or unfriendly&amp;quot; as harsher rudeness or blatant abuse, snark IS worse than &amp;quot;no longer useful&amp;quot;, and should get deleted or edited away. (Comments can't be edited, so there is no alternative to deletion, and besides, mods routinely defend comment deletion by saying that they are always considered transient, or some such.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should not be the case that someone who names snark/unkindness/unfriendliness for what it is, accumulates declines that contribute toward eventual banning. (Perhaps seriousness of this is mitigated in that declines may be transient. i.e. time elapse may diminish the potential to result in a ban).  The referenced article even contains a &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-rude-or-abusive-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-wor/58035#58035&quot;&gt;When are these flags removed?&lt;/a&gt; paragraph that points to the related concern behind this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(declining the flag would penalize the flagger).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer may help &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; avoid declines via semantics, but others will have declines happen without seeing this explanation and also find themselves discouraged from flagging.  The system is surely broken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the effort taken to answer, and I appreciate that it can be helpful.  I get that at some level the tools are challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, the answer really doesn't address accumulating declines, but rather tries to offer a workaround that dodges the problem by altering user behavior, and does not help advocate for improvement of the system.  (It is granted that the author has no power to change the system and that this in itself is undoubtedly frustrating).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22653" LastEditorUserId="22653" LastEditDate="2020-09-03T08:41:50.467" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T13:42:01.673" Title="Unfriendly or unkind flag rejects stick even after flagged comments are deleted" Tags="|discussion|comments|review|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5650" CreationDate="2020-09-03T01:55:21.903" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've raised several discussion points in your question, so I'll try to tackle the ones I noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice that my flags are rejected. This is astonishing, because by any reasonable interpretation of &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot;, they were... completely off-topic and disrespectful with no relevance to the question or answer. Now I see the two comments were removed, because, I presume, someone was actually able to properly categorize them as inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked at the comments you flagged as &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; (the flagging pop-up window adds &amp;quot;This comment is rude or condescending.&amp;quot;). When a comment gets flagged, a moderator has a limited set of responses, boiling down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;delete&amp;quot; the comment (and mark flag as helpful)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;edit&amp;quot; the comment (which I think also marks the flag as helpful)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;decline&amp;quot; the flag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you flag something for moderator attention, you get the attention of (usually) one moderator -- at least, only one will handle any particular flag. As a result, there's only two humans involved in the judgement: you (deciding to cast the flag) and the handling moderator. This is distinguished from the typical community moderation such as close votes, reopen votes, and up/down votes, where multiple individuals are involved. If a moderator disagrees with your judgement call and wishes to provide that feedback to you, the only choice is to decline the flag. If they, or other flagging users, or other moderators see the comment(s) as unnecessary, then the comments may eventually disappear. An &amp;quot;unnecessary&amp;quot; comment can span the range from &amp;quot;+1 awesome answer!&amp;quot; to shades of unkind, to harassment, bigotry, or abuse. Comments that are simply &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; or that add nothing to the post can be flagged as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; versus &amp;quot;rude/abusive&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You found comments that you felt were unkind; the moderator that handled them didn't agree, but the comments were in the end found to be unnecessary for the post. As a moderator, I appreciate that you're looking out for the site! Keeping the conversations civil is important; if you can't say it nicely, don't say it. The moderators can and will suspend those who violate the CoC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also felt the answer violated a policy of requiring an answer author to disclose affiliations with their response and did flag as such. This flag was rejected also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I declined your spam flag on the Answer. The spam flag is slightly magical in that it has a feedback loop to the StackExchange system that may end up blocking the author from future posts. The wording on the flag dialog is slightly tricky here: &amp;quot;Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.&amp;quot; -- you've picked up on the &amp;quot;affiliation&amp;quot; aspect of the Answer (thanks to your strong sleuthing skills!) but I did not find the answer to be spam in the sense of &amp;quot;exists only to promote a product or service&amp;quot;. You don't often see them for very long around here, but think of spam emails you may have seen that promote pills or other &amp;quot;quick fixes&amp;quot;, all for some fee. Spam flags exist to get rid of those posts quickly and block future spam efforts by that user. You did the right thing afterwards by incorporating the missing information in an edit to the Answer; thank you for digging that up and including it in an attempt to improve the answer! It is unfortunate that the author of the Answer didn't do that originally, which made the initial answer nearly useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a couple other rejects on the question aren't being contested&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't figure out what this meant. There are no downvotes on the Question at this time; there are no flags (handled or pending) on the Question, nor are there any deleted comments on the Question at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to elaborate with detail on what constitutes &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; even though the COC: unfriendly-language is hardly unclear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, clarity is in the eye of the beholder. Stack Exchange has taken steps recently to clarify and encourage good behavior. I would encourage you to stay on the lookout for rude behavior and flag it when you see it. I did find some additional guidance on Meta Stack Exchange that I'd like to echo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-rude-or-abusive-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-wor/58035#58035&quot;&gt;What are the “spam” and “rude or abusive” (offensive) flags, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post should be marked as rude or abusive (formerly known as offensive) if it contains hate speech, obscenities, abuse against people, or abuse of the community or system&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addressing your last point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;feel free to address the problem of dealing with moderators that do not enforce clear policy that has little room for misunderstanding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are ranges of behavior on this site (as everywhere) and different people may disagree on where a comment stops &amp;quot;being nice&amp;quot; and starts being &amp;quot;rude or abusive&amp;quot;. I sincerely hope that none of us ever sees a comment that is blatantly rude or abusive, but I'm an eternal optimist. If you see such a comment, please flag it. If you see a comment that simply isn't contributing anything to the attached post, consider flagging it as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; -- again, keeping in mind that you're sending this flag to another human who will use their judgement to keep the comment or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answer helps as part of a discussion; I don't think I can possibly spell out a clear line for every variation of a &amp;quot;rude or abusive&amp;quot; comment except to say that one moderator thinks that the bar is higher than you did in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incorporating a comment that I originally added to the Question, in response to the OP's frustration with the flagging system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange system is pretty complicated, and I can hardly keep up with how it all works. I think the flag bans are there to curb &lt;em&gt;abuse&lt;/em&gt; of the flagging system, not well-intentioned usage. My latest understanding is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17364/how-does-comment-voting-and-flagging-work/17365#17365&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;A declined comment flag will not count toward a flag ban, but it does count toward one's net helpful flags and can reduce the flagger's daily flag allowance.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I think there's a rolling calculation of declined flags to warn you, which is probably what you're seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-09-07T13:42:01.673" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T13:42:01.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-03T19:03:24.607" Score="19" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; all awk variant tags have now been defined to be synonyms for the one tag, &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, so the below discussion is now only retained by request for historical purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really looking for an answer, just to get the attention of people who look at awk questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are questions being posted that are general to awk but only tagged with gawk, mawk, or nawk depending on which awk variant the OP &lt;strong&gt;thinks&lt;/strong&gt; they are using (in which case people who could help them don't see the question as they're looking at awk tags, not just gawk tags), and there are others which are tagged with all 4 of awk, gawk, mawk, and nawk or various subsets thereof (which is just a waste of time). We don't have tags for some other awk variants (e.g. BSD awk) nor do we have tags for GNU or BSD sed variants, or various other tools variants, and we simply don't need all those awk tags since they aren't used consistently or accurately and on those rare occasions where someone specifically needs an answer for 1 specific variant they can just say that in  the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few years ago &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/awk/synonyms&quot;&gt;on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; we got all of the awk variants listed as synonyms for &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; so now we only have to look at the &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; tag to find all awk questions - please go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/awk/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/awk/synonyms&lt;/a&gt; and upvote the 3 listed synonyms so we can get the same result here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133219" OwnerDisplayName="Ed Morton" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-09-06T00:09:49.237" LastActivityDate="2020-09-06T00:09:49.237" Title="Lets combine all the awk tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5654" CreationDate="2020-09-09T21:29:41.830" Score="8" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a newly created tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mitigation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mitigation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mitigation&lt;/a&gt; created just a short while ago. It seems to me that it's got far too narrow a scope (kernel exploits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't see anywhere to flag the tag itself for (re)consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2020-09-09T22:01:16.163" LastActivityDate="2020-09-13T07:54:56.420" Title="Poorly defined tag, &quot;mitigation&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|useless-tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5653" CreationDate="2020-09-13T07:54:56.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest this procedure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the tag is used on sufficiently few&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; questions, then&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are sufficiently sure&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;that the tag doesn’t belong on our site,&#xA;simply edit all the questions where it is used, and remove it. &#xA;(If possible, replace it with a more appropriate tag.) &#xA;This will cause the tag to be deleted if it is not used again&#xA;within six to eight croptings&#xA;(where a cropting&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; is approximately 3½ hours).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are sufficiently sure&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;that the tag belongs on our site, but is defined incorrectly, then&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the tag to improve its definition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the tag is not used on any question where it is appropriate,&#xA;based on its new definition (written by you),&#xA;find at least one such question and add the tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove the tag from all questions where it is inappropriately used.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the above doesn’t resolve the problem, post to Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;____________&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Yes, these are subjective determinations.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Nonsense word generated by &lt;a href=&quot;http://soybomb.com/tricks/words/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://soybomb.com/tricks/words/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastActivityDate="2020-09-13T07:54:56.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-15T09:00:57.143" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I don't have enough reputation, someone else coud do it: add a tag for questions regarding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.remirepo.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;remi repository&lt;/a&gt;. I would name the tag 'remi'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I search for remi, I get 135 results. So IMO it has some relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79043" LastActivityDate="2020-09-15T09:00:57.143" Title="Can anyone add a 'remi' tag" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5658" CreationDate="2020-09-16T12:35:07.067" Score="4" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most actively developed fork of Compton (used by most distros) has been renamed Picom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/222&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/222&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we adjust the tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compton&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compton&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compton&lt;/a&gt;) accordingly or at least add a Picom tag to most Compton questions as they'll be relevant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="182606" LastEditorUserId="182606" LastEditDate="2020-09-17T11:38:26.430" LastActivityDate="2020-09-17T11:38:26.430" Title="Compton to Picom Retag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5656" CreationDate="2020-09-17T11:33:35.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following the same pattern as what we ended up doing for macOS (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5445/86440&quot;&gt;Change macos/osx tag synonym&lt;/a&gt;), I think the best approach should result in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picom&lt;/a&gt; as the main tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compton&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compton&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compton&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym. As I understand it, these would be the steps involved (without moderator intervention):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picom&lt;/a&gt; to existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compton&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compton&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compton&lt;/a&gt; questions;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make sure any relevant information from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compton&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compton&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compton&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki is copied to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picom&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/compton&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;compton&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;compton&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/picom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;picom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;picom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2020-09-17T11:33:35.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-25T01:20:33.493" Score="3" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to give a shout, this is my question and answer here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/400231/how-do-i-upgrade-all-of-my-installed-packages-in-openwrt&quot;&gt;How do I upgrade all of my installed packages in OpenWRT?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it interesting this guy is script-copying this site, creating videos, and spamming youtube without attributing any of these questions or answers to their author&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVHIa7ybd88&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVHIa7ybd88&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3285" LastActivityDate="2020-09-25T01:20:33.493" Title="Mass copyright infringement of Unix.SE authors" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5661" CreationDate="2020-09-28T14:05:48.617" Score="11" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm developing my own FOSS application. Its code will be publicly hosted in gitlab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to recommend it in the comments, in a context where a user needs what my application provides?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, there are some details I need to take into consideration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastActivityDate="2020-09-28T14:25:21.180" Title="Recommend own FOSS application in comments, when appropriate" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5660" CreationDate="2020-09-28T14:25:21.180" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's absolutely fine. You can also post it as an answer. You just need to make sure of two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your tool can be used to do what the question is asking for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You clearly mention that you are the author of the tool.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2nd is really, really important if you don't want to be taken for a spammer. You can read some more details here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/promotion&quot;&gt;How not to be a spammer&lt;/a&gt;. For example, this would be a bad, spammy answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This FOSS tool is great and does exactly what you need!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this one would be OK:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have written this FOSS tool which is great and does exactly what you need!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, simply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This FOSS tool is great and does exactly what you need!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I am the author of this tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, as long as you &lt;em&gt;clearly disclose your affiliation&lt;/em&gt;, posting answers &lt;em&gt;to questions which your tool can answer&lt;/em&gt; absolutely fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-09-28T14:25:21.180" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-08T20:37:06.850" Score="-15" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am reporting attack and harassment. This is today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RMSIj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RMSIj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a few days ago, which has only been partially reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uU45Z.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uU45Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replies  to my questions have also been downvoted (by the same user(s)) together with my posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/614163/timeline?filter=WithVoteSummaries&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/614163/timeline?filter=WithVoteSummaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/611540/timeline?filter=WithVoteSummaries&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/611540/timeline?filter=WithVoteSummaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts under my other stackexchange accounts have also been attacked (possibly by the same user(s) or like mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this site allow threatening me and other users who   answered my questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-10-13T11:25:10.023" LastActivityDate="2020-10-14T07:45:11.827" Title="Does this site allow threatening me and other users who answered my questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5662" CreationDate="2020-10-14T07:45:11.827" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Threats against other users are not acceptable. If you ever see any such threats, please let the mod team know by flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-10-14T07:45:11.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-16T15:53:39.257" Score="12" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to link to a gmane article in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/614823&quot;&gt;that answer&lt;/a&gt;, but none of the:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[message](news://news.gmane.io:119/4DC939FC.2040407@redhat.com)&#xA;[message](nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/4151)&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/4151&amp;quot;&amp;gt;message&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;news://news.gmane.io:119/4DC939FC.2040407@redhat.com&amp;quot;&amp;gt;message&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;URLs seem to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That just gives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;message&#xA;message&#xA;message&#xA;message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5538&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RFC5538 URLs&lt;/a&gt; that have been supported by &lt;code&gt;lynx&lt;/code&gt; for instance for decades (&lt;code&gt;news://news.gmane.io/4DC939FC.2040407@redhat.com&lt;/code&gt; URLs also still work in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SeaMonkey&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the Unix history is documented on usenet (which predates the world wide web), and gmane which contains archives of a lot of Unix-related mailing lists (including the POSIX working group's whose earlier posts can only be found publicly there) is nowadays only available over NNTP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usenet is or at least was core to the Unix culture. Unix.SE is to some extent a bit of the continuation of &lt;code&gt;comp.unix.*&lt;/code&gt; / &lt;code&gt;comp.os.linux.*&lt;/code&gt;. I recognise a few names from there here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to allow those links at least on the unix.SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-10-07T07:34:52.683" LastActivityDate="2020-10-17T07:14:20.450" Title="add support for news/nntp URLs" Tags="|feature-request|markdown|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4626" CreationDate="2020-10-22T11:06:34.477" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who cares.. Be positive... Educate others, if they want to hide let them be a bad mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="438143" LastActivityDate="2020-10-22T11:06:34.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-03T11:43:17.783" Score="9" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder which SE community is best suited and accepting of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qemu&quot;&gt;QEMU&lt;/a&gt; questions.&#xA;Indeed I would think that &lt;code&gt;superuser&lt;/code&gt; could be another option.&#xA;Probably it must depend about how much related to unix/linux the qemu question is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383594" LastActivityDate="2020-11-03T12:16:23.517" Title="Are questions about qemu acceptable on unix.se?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5667" CreationDate="2020-11-03T12:16:23.517" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, exactly: it depends on how &amp;quot;UNIXy&amp;quot; the question is. A question asking about running Windows ME as a guest with Windows 10 as host would be off topic. As a general rule, if the question is about something Unix or Linux, then it is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if either your guest or your host OS is a Unix or Linux &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and the question is about the Unix or Linux side of things&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, then it should be on topic. By that I mean that if your question only requires *nix knowledge to answer, it should be on topic. If your question requires changing settings or configuring a non-nix OS (be that the guest or the host) then Super User is probably a better choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-11-03T12:16:23.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-04T05:19:07.853" Score="1" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an experience to share as a new contributor to unix.stackexchange.com where I sensed some slight undercurrents of prejudice.  It would be great to receive a response from the users mentioned here but any input, technical or otherwise, from others is welcome.  I was not able to respond in situ with my thoughts so pardon me for creating a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observation 1: New contributors cannot comment on their own posts [Resolved]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I attempted to contact a contributor via a minor edit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/278463/439154&quot;&gt;muru's lowest rated answer to question 278443&lt;/a&gt; regarding the &amp;quot;mangled code&amp;quot;, where he responded &amp;quot;you can always address editors to your post by commenting with @username&amp;quot;.  I couldn't comment, only edit, my posts.  The resultant URL after clicking &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot; was: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278443/whats-the-posix-way-to-read-an-exact-number-of-bytes-from-a-file/617134?noredirect=1#&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the POSIX way to read an exact number of bytes from a file?&lt;/a&gt; where the query is &lt;code&gt;noredirect=1#&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observation 2: A possibly valid edit by a new user is ignored&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Incidentally, I found a possible error in muru's answer to question 278443 where he said that the command &lt;code&gt;dd bs=1 count=1000000&lt;/code&gt; &amp;quot;will be horrendously slow&amp;quot;.  This involved processing only 1 million bytes which would not be slow.  A test on my dual-core took 1.8 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$dd if=/dev/urandom of=~/tmp1 ibs=1 count=1000000&#xA;1000000+0 records in&#xA;1953+1 records out&#xA;1000000 bytes transferred in 1.844224 secs (542233 bytes/sec)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;code&gt;bs=1&lt;/code&gt; for large amounts such as 1TB then, yes, it would be much slower in comparison to &lt;code&gt;bs=64M&lt;/code&gt;, which is probably what he had in mind.  Though I believe my reasoning was sound my edit request was rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observation 3: Logical reasoning is not always required by high-rep users, only statements&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In my first draft of the edit to muru's answer I realised that I had altered it too much and decided to post &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/617134/439154&quot;&gt;my own answer to question 278443&lt;/a&gt;.  I said &amp;quot;a partial read by &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;ibs=1&lt;/code&gt; would be unlikely&amp;quot;.  A high-rep user &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/86440/stephen-kitt&quot;&gt;Stephen Kitt&lt;/a&gt; commented that &amp;quot;it is impossible&amp;quot;.  That comment has since been deleted but how is it impossible?  For raw data without a multiple of 8 bits i.e. 0&amp;lt; n mod 8 &amp;lt;8  and &lt;code&gt;ibs=1&lt;/code&gt; where the block size is 1 byte or 8 bits how does &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt; deal with a read of, say, 3 bits?  I do not know, particularly with older media such as tape and older versions of &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt;.  My knowledge on &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt; is limited here.  If Stephen Kitt had the time to explain or point to a relevant post on this topic then this would fill in the gaps.  I have not yet found any further information to support his statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observation 4: Plausible solutions by new users are disparaged&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278443/whats-the-posix-way-to-read-an-exact-number-of-bytes-from-a-file/617134?noredirect=1#&quot;&gt;Question 278443&lt;/a&gt; is &amp;quot;What's the POSIX way to read an exact number of bytes from a file?&amp;quot;.  I then added an option using the &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; command, stating that there are limitations after testing a few successful examples.  I received a comment recently from Stephen Kitt saying &amp;quot;POSIX read is very limited, so in the context of this question, your read approach doesn’t work&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;Limited&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;doesn't work&amp;quot; are mutually exclusive mathematical probabilities.  In the context of the question, &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; is a built-in command of POSIX that can be successfully used to read an exact number of bytes as long as certain conditions are met.  There are limitations, as stated in my answer, but the OP did not require a failsafe or limitless option.  Even so, if Stephen Kitt can briefly explain these limitations then I can understand why my answer doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observation 5: Self-deletion of a post by a new user is not possible [Resolved]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Seeing that my answer, described in Observation 4, was not beneficial I then attempted to delete it by clicking on the &amp;quot;delete&amp;quot; button at the bottom of the post: &amp;quot;share&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;edit&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;delete&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;flag&amp;quot;.  However, I was not able to do so.  The result is a client-side redirection to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278443/whats-the-posix-way-to-read-an-exact-number-of-bytes-from-a-file/617134?noredirect=1#&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the POSIX way to read an exact number of bytes from a file?&lt;/a&gt; where the query is &lt;code&gt;noredirect=1#&lt;/code&gt;, which only goes to the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observation 6: Prejudice favouring long-standing users&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I noted that muru's post on the same question (278443) possessed similar, if not, less merit than my answer, yet apparently received no critique from reviewers.  His post had a score of &amp;quot;-1&amp;quot; prior to my posted answer and &amp;quot;0&amp;quot; afterwards which indicates to me that it was probably upvoted by Stephen Kitt.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Observation 7: High-rep users can edit and approve at will, even if incorrect&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A few days ago I posted an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/616581/439154&quot;&gt;answer to a Vim question&lt;/a&gt; at unix.stackexchange.com and a high-rep user &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/70524/muru&quot;&gt;muru&lt;/a&gt; edited it in kind, but inadvertently introduced errors into the code.  It was a by-product of format conversion and I rectified it, but it appeared muru's edit wasn't reviewed by a third party because of certain privileges/status because the error was not noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Discussion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;As I have only spent a few days on the unix.stackexchange.com site it is too early to make conclusions.  I don't believe the aforementioned contributors are making any begrudging or personal attacks but I am of the impression that there is a hierarchical culture where there is bias between new and long-standing members.  I understand that moderators will need to politicise their responses, but is this true?  Is there a &lt;i&gt;pecking order&lt;/i&gt; here or is this community on a level field of information sharing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;My system (05-Nov-2020):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iMac 2006, Mac OS X 10.6.8.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrome 49.0.2623.112 (64-bit) (unsupported).  Chrome settings: Javascript enabled, Images enabled, Cookies enabled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can navigate to &lt;a href=&quot;https://googleapis.github.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://googleapis.github.io/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/&lt;/a&gt; pages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="439154" LastEditorUserId="439154" LastEditDate="2023-03-14T20:39:49.407" LastActivityDate="2023-03-14T20:39:49.407" Title="Are new users subjected to prejudicial or intensified scrutiny by reviewers?" Tags="|discussion|review|moderators|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5669" CreationDate="2020-11-04T11:45:29.793" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, thank you for coming here to Meta with a polite, calm question as you have done. I know how confusing the rules can be to new users, and it is always appreciated when people ask instead of ranting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, I want to point out that none of the users you mention are moderators. Moderators are elected by the community and have a &lt;code&gt;♦&lt;/code&gt; after their names. You can see the list of moderators here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people you mention are high-rep users. This means they have enough reputation to be able to perform certain actions on the site. For more on the various reputation thresholds, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On to your observations!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 1: New contributors cannot comment on their own posts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users can comment on their posts. They can't comment on other people's posts (you need 50 rep for that, which is essential to block spammers from commenting). If you really couldn't comment on your post, then that's a bug. Could you please try again and confirm it so we can report it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 2: A possibly valid edit by a new user is ignored&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your edit can be seen here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/356718&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/356718&lt;/a&gt;. You are removing the &amp;quot;horrendously slow&amp;quot; but you don't actually give any arguments to support it. Also, the message you used to explain the edit was your attempt to contact Muru. So Muru probably thought the whole edit was only to contact him (you need a minimum number of changes to suggest an edit, so he may have thought you just removed the phrase only to get the edit through). If you really feel that &amp;quot;horrendously slow&amp;quot; is worth editing out, you can try submitting a new edit but this time give your reasons for removing it so that the post's author can understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 3: Logical reasoning is not required by moderators, only statements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really understand the problem here. First, as I said in the beginning, the user who commented is not a moderator. Second, if a comment has been deleted, why are we still discussing it? Perhaps the author of the comment made a mistake, realized it and then deleted it. In any case, comments are free, you can say what you want in them (you shouldn't, ideally you should only comment about the question, but you're free to write what you like).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278443/whats-the-posix-way-to-read-an-exact-number-of-bytes-from-a-file/617134#comment1155462_617134&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; there now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;POSIX read is very limited, so in the context of this question, your read approach doesn’t work :-/. – Stephen Kitt&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment is explaining that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/read.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;POSIX implementation of &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is limited. Specifically, I assume Stephen meant that POSIX &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; doesn't support &lt;code&gt;-d&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;-n&lt;/code&gt;, but only &lt;code&gt;-r&lt;/code&gt;. This means that your answer won't work with POSIX &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt;. Yes, Stephen could have made that a little bit clearer, but next time just answer the comment and ask for clarifications (always assuming there's no bug that stops you from commenting on your own posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all, I just don't see any problem here nor any reason to think this has something to do with your being a new user. I've been a user for several years now, I'm in the top 10 users by reputation and an elected mod and I still get comments pointing out errors in my answers. This is a good thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 4: Plausible solutions by new users are disparaged&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be the same as the point above. As explained, your answer doesn't work for POSIX read since it doesn't support the &lt;code&gt;-n&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;-d&lt;/code&gt; options, and the question was asking specifically about POSIX read. Therefore, your answer doesn't work for the question. Again, this has nothing to do with your being a new user. Also, the only thing that happened is that a helpful user explained what the problem was. I don't understand what made you feel your answer was &amp;quot;disparaged&amp;quot;. There's no disparagement here, only a polite comment pointing out a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 5: Self-deletion of a post by a new user is not possible&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can delete your own answer unless it has been accepted. Just click on the &amp;quot;delete&amp;quot; button under the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tR3oS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tR3oS.png&quot; alt=&quot;delete button&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if you couldn't, there's a bug so please try again and let us know. Make sure you are using the same account to log in. Could you perhaps have tried to delete it when not logged in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 6: Prejudice to moderators and long-standing users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, no mods were involved. And Muru's post doesn't use &lt;code&gt;read -n&lt;/code&gt; so it doesn't have the issue that Stephen helpfully pointed out about your answer. Why, then, should that answer have the same critique? As for who voted, you have no way of knowing that (not even moderators have access to voting data), so I would urge you not to make assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But no matter who voted, people are free to vote as they like. Nobody has voted on  your post (although I would understand it if they had downvoted since one of the solutions you offer doesn't work with POSIX &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt;). Two people have voted on Muru's answer, one person found it good and upvoted and one found it bad and downvoted. So if anything, it is Muru,  an established, high-rep user who is facing &amp;quot;prejudice&amp;quot; since it is he who got a downvote. Now I don't think that's prejudice at all, I am just pointing out that he's the only one who got a downvote, not you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the SE sites try to be egalitarian. However, because there is the rep system, it is indeed true that sometimes people with more rep are listened to more. This isn't encouraged, and shouldn't be the case, but we're all humans so some people do react differently to high rep users. I'm afraid nobody can do anything about that though since it is down to how each individual reacts. Reputation on this site is supposed to represent the level of trust the community places in a user. Therefore, the more rep you have, the more trusted you are and the more trusted you are the more weight your statements may have for some people. This is just human nature though and is not under any circumstances the official stance of the community or the moderator team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, every user is supposed to be treated equally. In practice, this sometimes does fail but when it does, if you feel someone is being rude or dismissive of you because you're new, please flag the rudeness or come here and open a discussion on Meta. No system is perfect, and having reputation can indeed breed a feeling of elitism, but we do try and avoid that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2020-11-21T14:21:12.690" LastActivityDate="2020-11-21T14:21:12.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5669" CreationDate="2020-11-04T13:09:50.693" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;terdon has already addressed most of your points, but your question includes some issues that I think only I can address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I’m not a moderator, and even though I have a lot of fake Internet points, I don’t have all that many special powers as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, it is quite possible that new users are subjected to more scrutiny than others, because their posts show up for review in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts&quot;&gt;the first posts review queue&lt;/a&gt; or in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers&quot;&gt;the late answers review queue&lt;/a&gt;; you can see my review from the latter &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/356719&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I actually hadn’t realised until just now that the late answers queue only includes new users’ answers! My review wasn’t related to your being new; it was related to your answer being a late answer. I expect these to add relevant information which isn’t present in existing answers; I commented as such on your answer, since the &lt;code&gt;ibs=1&lt;/code&gt; approach had already been described elsewhere, but I didn’t take further action (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; suggesting that your answer should be deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to assume that people interested in a question have read all the surrounding material (in the question, comments, answers, and linked questions), which is perhaps unfair. The impossibility of partial reads when the input block size is 1, as far as &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt; is concerned at least, is explained &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/278465/86440&quot;&gt;in this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests a solution: &lt;strong&gt;use an input block size of 1&lt;/strong&gt;. No matter how the input is produced, there's no way for &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt; to read a partial block if the input block size is 1. (This is not completely obvious: &lt;code&gt;dd&lt;/code&gt; could read a block of size 0 if it's interrupted by a signal — but if it's interrupted by a signal, the &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; system call returns -1. A &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; returning 0 is only possible if the file is opened in non-blocking mode, and in that case a &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; had better not be considered to have been performed at all. In blocking mode, &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; only returns 0 at the end of the file.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I wrote “POSIX &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; is very limited”, I was only saying that: &lt;a href=&quot;https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/read.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as defined by POSIX, doesn’t have much in the way of options, and is pretty much limited to handling newline-delimited input as full lines. As a result of that, “in the context of your question, your &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; approach doesn’t work”. The two statements don’t qualify the same thing: the first qualifies POSIX &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt;, the second qualifies your use of &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt;. Because the question specifies POSIX only, you can’t use extensions to &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; as implemented in Bash for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the question, &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; is a built-in command of POSIX that can be successfully used to read an exact number of bytes as long as certain conditions are met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as POSIX is concerned, &lt;code&gt;read&lt;/code&gt; is a utility (traditionally a shell built-in, but the specification doesn’t require that), and as defined by POSIX it can’t be used to read an exact number of bytes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observation 6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t know who upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/278463/86440&quot;&gt;muru’s answer&lt;/a&gt;, but it wasn’t me. If there’s one thing to always bear in mind regarding votes, it’s that you can never assume anything about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s proof:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isY4c.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isY4c.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of muru’s answer with votes expanded&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of the arrows are highlighted, which means I haven’t voted either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2020-11-04T13:21:15.587" LastActivityDate="2020-11-04T13:21:15.587" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-07T19:49:34.677" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I suggest a tag deletion? I guess this is some privilege after some rep points. But in general, is there a process for any user to suggest a new tag or the deletion of an existing tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, I suggest a tag deletion with this post. I see that there is a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fd&lt;/a&gt; (with zero watchers) which is just an alias to the &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; command for some people maybe. Not universal, not standard, when you see that you think of &amp;quot;floppy disk&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;file descriptor&amp;quot;, obviously this is confusing and if it was useful, it would have some watchers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a program named &lt;code&gt;fd&lt;/code&gt;, its description says it is &amp;quot;a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sharkdp/fd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are 7 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fd&lt;/a&gt; as of today, 3 of them intentionally used this tag to match this program, while 4 of them used it to mean &amp;quot;file descriptors&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216907" LastEditorUserId="216907" LastEditDate="2020-11-08T11:36:22.640" LastActivityDate="2020-11-09T14:42:43.833" Title="Suggest tag deletion" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5672" CreationDate="2020-11-09T14:42:43.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of my understanding, to suggest a tag addition / deletion / modification, we can post a question here, tagging with some of the &lt;code&gt;tag*&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this specific case, I don't think that it is necessary to remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fd&lt;/a&gt; tag, if even a few users find it is useful for them, then it's ok for me. Also I see this program is available though repos like packman, so it fits here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also few are the people confused by this tag, so I will edit these old questions to change their tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/file-descriptor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;file-descriptor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;file-descriptor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216907" LastActivityDate="2020-11-09T14:42:43.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-12T16:42:06.997" Score="-8" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user has been temporarily suspended by a moderator and cannot chat for 59 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I suspended for 60 days on StackExchange chat?&#xA;Which site/room's moderator did it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, on the receiving end, have used &amp;quot;brutality&amp;quot; and other words  accurately to refer to the   behaviors of moderators and elites who have been unhinged in harassing, abusing, and retaliating numerous users, while indulging their own violations, without being punished. As long as no justice is served, I won't be quiet, and neither should you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-11-15T13:05:18.017" LastActivityDate="2020-11-15T13:05:18.017" Title="Why am I suspended for 60 days on StackExchange chat?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5675" CreationDate="2020-11-12T17:50:08.530" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was the U&amp;amp;L moderation team. &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/53285228#53285228&quot;&gt;You&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=55864462#55864462&quot;&gt;have&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55857369#55857369&quot;&gt;been&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=54552470#54552470&quot;&gt;told&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55857655#55857655&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=51198386#51198386&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=51198013#51198013&quot;&gt;times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=55985020#55985020&quot;&gt;over&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/26?m=53240920#53240920&quot;&gt;a period&lt;/a&gt; of several &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt; not to use our chat room to complain about other sites, their communities or moderation practices. You have also been specifically asked to stop using over the top language (examples from the past include your calling closing questions &amp;quot;rape&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;abuse&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;brutality&amp;quot; etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite all of these warnings, you insist on coming back and doing the same thing again. Since you have ignored our attempts to get you to stop, we moved on to the only other tool available to us and suspended your chat account. Please note that this does not affect your ability to use the SE sites, it only blocks you from using the chat rooms for 59 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really hope you will take this time to try and understand why we asked you to stop and change your behavior. We will be very happy to welcome you back if you no longer act that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2020-11-12T18:14:32.343" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T18:14:32.343" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5678" CreationDate="2020-11-18T13:03:19.673" Score="20" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across multiple questions, where the original poster found a solution and edited the question to add that solution to the question instead of posting the solution as an answer. For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/605745/423679&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/498205/423679&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/590221/423679&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;. I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/267439/14114987&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on SO Meta, which suggests a course of actions on how to deal with that, but I found no similar advice here on U&amp;amp;L Meta. It seems reasonable to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment under the question asking the original poster to post their solution as an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is no reaction for a few days, to edit out the solution from the question and post it as a community wiki with a reference to the original poster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original poster decides to post their answer separately, the community wiki answer can be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this correct? Can a moderator post the answer under the original poster's name instead? Should I flag the question for moderators' attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423679" LastEditorUserId="423679" LastEditDate="2020-11-20T13:33:04.480" LastActivityDate="2020-11-20T13:33:04.480" Title="How to deal with solutions edited into the question itself?" Tags="|discussion|questions|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5677" CreationDate="2020-11-18T13:48:20.100" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, what you describe (comment asking the OP to post an answer and post one yourself if they don't) is the best thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, mods cannot post under another user's name, so there's no point in flagging for moderator attention, we can't do anything you can't already do, I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, go with the SO approach, that seems reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-11-18T13:48:20.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-22T14:40:57.073" Score="20" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 2am this morning (local time), I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/620897/442612&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/323582&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; (not mine) that had also been bugging me for years. I had &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; figured out how to resolve it, and wanted to share it with the OP (@Stephen_Schrauger).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I went to bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I got up and dealt with my family, I saw a 20-minute-old comment (by moderator @Kusalananda) that said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not an answer, just a plug for your private project. To&#xA;make it an answer, show how to use your code to actually solve the&#xA;given issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to which I immediately responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my own solution to my own same problem. Please give me the rest of the day to 'pretty up' this answer, it was 2 in the morning&#xA;when I posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have since been busy, but was just now sitting down to type up a little installation guide. I was not very pleased to see that my answer had been deleted (by moderator @slm) and he had written a comment in my name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in all politeness, I ask: &lt;strong&gt;wasn't that too rash?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the reputation to do much of anything about it, but I would hope that reaching out here gives me at least an explanation, if not an un-deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, it's true that this is &amp;quot;just a plug for your private project&amp;quot; -- although I submit that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I contend that this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a useful answer to the stated problem. That's why I made it in the first place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is no more &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; than any other open source project. It's hosted at github and has a permissive license. Calling this &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; comes across (to me) as disdainful or disparaging.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This project addresses &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; the problem being stated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't have a lot of reputation; I still have the &amp;quot;New contributor&amp;quot; flag that suggests to &amp;quot;Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.&amp;quot; Does this not apply to moderators?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I clearly had communication and stated intent of improving the matter within hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question was four years old, with no other answers in the meantime. Is it really that harmful to pitch in with &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; at that point, that it warrants deletion?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to post this meta question, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5669&quot;&gt;top question&lt;/a&gt; (at the time) was titled &amp;quot;Are new users subjected to prejudicial or intensified scrutiny by moderators?&amp;quot;, asked by a user with a reputation of 11 -- so apparently also a very new user. Although the subject was entirely different, it saddens me to see the exact same sentiment experienced by others as well. Is this the general experience you wish for new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="442612" LastEditorUserId="442612" LastEditDate="2020-12-02T23:47:55.457" LastActivityDate="2020-12-02T23:47:55.457" Title="Moderator deleted my answer -- too rashly?" Tags="|discussion|review|moderators|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5680" CreationDate="2020-11-22T14:50:36.863" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for asking here and doing so calmly and politely, that is always appreciated! Now, what happened was that slm converted your answer to a comment. He didn't write a comment in your name, he simply used a mod-only tool we have that copies and answer and posts it as a comment by the author of the answer. This was because your answer, as posted, wasn't actually providing an answer, but slm considered it useful so instead of deleting, he converted to a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually the right thing to do. Your original answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stephen, I'm ashamed for how long I've been putting up with the same&#xA;annoyance before I figured out how dead simple it really was...!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Noughtnaut/noughty-autorandr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;little project&lt;/a&gt;, which I think you might want to try&#xA;out. Please let me know either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't an answer, it doesn't explain how your tool would help nor how to use it. In fact, it kind of looks like you were just spamming your tool. I realize you were not, but believe me, we get many cases of spammers posting things that look exactly like that, so I can completely understand why slm deleted it. I would have done the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should only be posted when they are full answers. If you don't have time to post a full answer, then just don't post anything and wait until you do have time. I see now that you've edited your answer so that it is, in fact, providing a solution. Thanks! I see that another mod has already undeleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next time, you can just post a new answer. There is no need to wait for or ask a mod to undelete an old one, you can always post a new one. But we do expect all answers to be actual answers and not placeholders, so do please try to avoid posting incomplete answers in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-11-22T14:50:36.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5680" CreationDate="2020-11-22T14:50:44.090" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for getting back to your answer to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if my choice of words seemed too unfriendly, that was not my intention, but your initial answer more or less only said &amp;quot;check out my project, it will help you&amp;quot;, which may be true, but which in itself really isn't much of an answer.  What the initial answer was lacking was something that actually showed how to go about addressing the issue in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left a comment and a down-vote to signal the fact that the answer, at that time, was rather low quality.  I did so in the hope that you would improve on it.  I was happy to see your comment that you were going to do so at some later time, and it seems like you actually did so too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point meanwhile, slm converted your answer into a comment, which I think was an okay thing to do as it preserved what you had written (which might possibly be helpful or interesting to someone) but not as an answer (because it wasn't one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your much improved text reads more like a proper answer now, so I have undeleted it, removed the associated comments (they were no longer relevant), and removed my personal down-vote too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, thanks for getting back to your answer to improve it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-11-22T16:20:10.350" LastActivityDate="2020-11-22T16:20:10.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-29T11:42:32.740" Score="-4" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/576982/what-is-the-scope-of-a-public-key-added-by-apt-key&quot;&gt;What is the scope of a public key added by apt-key?&lt;/a&gt; closed? Please clarify the stated reason. (see my comments to the reply below for more information)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2020-11-29T12:33:41.257" LastActivityDate="2020-11-29T12:33:41.257" Title="Why is my post closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5685" CreationDate="2020-11-29T11:57:20.190" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed your question because it was brought to my attention, by another user, that the question has been cross posted on AskUbuntu: &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/1222590/what-is-the-scope-of-a-public-key-added-by-apt-key&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com/questions/1222590/what-is-the-scope-of-a-public-key-added-by-apt-key&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cross-posting is generally not permitted, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu&quot;&gt;Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2020-11-29T11:57:20.190" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5688" CreationDate="2020-11-29T15:31:43.673" Score="9" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked a question, good or bad, but very concise and objective. This is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/622061/390930&quot;&gt;answers I got&lt;/a&gt;. Where the user is attacking me instead of answering a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only in the question but also in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's a fair treat, and ask this answer be removed or at least modified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user390930" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-11-29T15:45:20.873" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T02:51:09.520" Title="Disrespectful answer from a user" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5687" CreationDate="2020-11-30T02:51:09.520" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;We expect all contributors at U&amp;amp;L to abide by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;. If you see a post or a comment that you believe falls outside those guidelines, then please flag it. Doing so will bring it to the attention of the site's moderation team, who can then deal with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T02:51:09.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-01T05:50:42.157" Score="8" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, there are only 2 choices (Meta and SO), following this flag menu:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; A community-specific reason -&amp;gt; This question belongs on another site in the SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These choices are among the most frequent, but there are more cases where the question fits exactly ServerFault, SuperUser, Math, Softwareengineering, and others, or the same question exists already there (with or without being relative to Unix/Linux).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to add more choices. Or one more choice, like &amp;quot;some other site&amp;quot;, with the option to specify it (For SO a similar option exists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216907" LastEditorUserId="216907" LastEditDate="2022-04-29T12:44:06.383" LastActivityDate="2022-04-29T12:44:06.383" Title="Add new choice for questions belong on different sites in SE" Tags="|feature-request|flagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5691" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5693" CreationDate="2020-12-06T16:22:45.720" Score="9" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Few days ago I answered a question. It had been downvoted. So, I just deleted it. However, today I am feeling curious (so I undeleted it). Can anyone please check and let me know what is wrong with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/620368/1&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (original revision, updated answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/620368/206574&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206574" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-12-06T20:49:12.593" LastActivityDate="2020-12-06T20:49:12.593" Title="How can I improve my answer?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2020-12-06T17:04:11.643" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A downvote does not mean the answer is wrong.  It just means someone was willing to spend a few reputation points to give it a lower priority, for whatever reason. (On the flip side of that is that an upvoted answer does not need to be correct, but that's another story).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the answer: You just show a command an its output. What is &lt;code&gt;inxi&lt;/code&gt;? Where can one find it? Is it only for Linux (what distributions?) or does it work on BSD systems and other Unices too? (the question mentions &amp;quot;Unix/Linux&amp;quot;, possibly indicating that they are interested in non-Linux systems too)  Is it likely that it is installed, or can easily be installed, on a random client's system that the user in the question is accessing?  Why do you suggest the &lt;code&gt;-S&lt;/code&gt; option specifically?  Is the output that you show self explanatory, or does it need a bit of explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are just a few things you could address to make it a fuller answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as this is an old question with a very upvoted accepted answer, you may want to address the benefits of your approach over the approach in the accepted answer (if there were none, why answer?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-12-06T17:36:12.243" LastActivityDate="2020-12-06T17:36:12.243" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5691" CreationDate="2020-12-06T17:05:56.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, consider the fact that only one person downvoted. As a general rule, you shouldn't read too much into solitary downvotes. That said, I can see some problems with your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is just a command. There is no explanation of what this is, or what it is supposed to be doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;inxi&lt;/code&gt; isn't installed by default, so it is very likely not to be present in the target machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, &lt;code&gt;inxi&lt;/code&gt; is a Linux thing (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/smxi/inxi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there seems to be&lt;/a&gt; some limited BSD support as well), so it isn't very portable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the above limitations of &lt;code&gt;inxi&lt;/code&gt;, the only thing that &lt;code&gt;inxi -S&lt;/code&gt; would give that isn't already provided by the &lt;code&gt;uname -a&lt;/code&gt; command mentioned in the top answer is the name of the Desktop environment, which is very unlikely to be relevant given that the question was about sshing to a new machine. So even in the case where &lt;code&gt;inxi&lt;/code&gt; is available, there's very little benefit over the very portable &lt;code&gt;uname -a&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2020-12-06T17:05:56.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-07T13:55:46.353" Score="4" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65077/is-it-possible-to-see-cp-speed-and-percent-copied&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; I (and someone else) have approved an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/65222/5&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; into the most upvoted answer, which was suggested by comment at 2017, but later I saw that this edit (&lt;code&gt;--progress&lt;/code&gt;) exists already in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/65087/2&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; from 2013 and this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/107490/216907&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; from 2014. Should this be reverted as it copies an existing answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216907" LastEditorUserId="216907" LastEditDate="2020-12-08T06:57:23.810" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T13:30:16.067" Title="Confirm or rollback this edit" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5694" CreationDate="2020-12-08T18:20:31.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine. After all, the end result here is that the accepted answer (which will be shown first since it is accepted) is now more correct. Nobody copied anyone else and what we really care about is that the next user who has this question will find a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, since the edit makes the answer better and is actually necessary (without it, the answer is wrong as there's no &lt;code&gt;progress2&lt;/code&gt; option), I don't see any problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="216907" LastEditDate="2020-12-30T13:30:16.067" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T13:30:16.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5694" CreationDate="2020-12-09T03:13:03.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that posts can do with a further edit explaining the difference between &lt;code&gt;--progress&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;--info=progress2&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;--info=progress&lt;/code&gt;. All three are valid, and all three show different sets of information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% mkdir foo; touch foo/{a..c}      &#xA;% rsync --progress -a foo bar      &#xA;sending incremental file list&#xA;created directory bar&#xA;foo/&#xA;foo/a&#xA;              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=2/4)&#xA;foo/b&#xA;              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#2, to-chk=1/4)&#xA;foo/c&#xA;              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#3, to-chk=0/4)&#xA;% rm -r bar&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% rsync --info=progress -a foo bar&#xA;              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=2/4)&#xA;              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#2, to-chk=1/4)&#xA;              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#3, to-chk=0/4)&#xA;% rm -r bar                       &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that &lt;code&gt;--progress&lt;/code&gt; is actually something like &lt;code&gt;--info=flist,name,progress&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;% rsync --info=progress2 -a foo bar&#xA;              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#3, to-chk=0/4)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some might be interested in the first form, but often enough I'm just interested in overall progress (the third form).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="216907" LastEditDate="2020-12-26T16:38:01.700" LastActivityDate="2020-12-26T16:38:01.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5008" CreationDate="2020-12-16T17:53:38.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/356997/703623&quot;&gt;The table feature is now developed.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;&lt;pre&gt;1 2 3&lt;br/&gt;4 5 6&lt;br/&gt;7 8 9&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;&lt;pre&gt;a b c&lt;br/&gt;d e f&lt;br/&gt;g h i&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="72456" LastEditorUserId="72456" LastEditDate="2020-12-16T18:33:51.017" LastActivityDate="2020-12-16T18:33:51.017" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-19T17:12:27.383" Score="2" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there some kind of paid service on StackExchange Websites where one can ask a question which will cost him some money, but he will receive an answer no matter how general or basic the question is? And of course this service/answer should be private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="358141" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T22:50:14.223" Title="Are there StackExchange paid-answers services?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-20T17:33:36.367" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noted a problem. I made a heavy testing and I discovered a fundamental discrepancy between theory and practical realization. I spent an extra time to write a short report, and I tried to posted it &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/625307/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. But I got a comment saying it is an off-topic. Well, if you agree, do I have to delete that post. (?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="256238" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T21:56:59.647" Title="Is here a place for report - without a question?" Tags="|discussion|off-topic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2020-12-20T17:33:36.367" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me say my opinion, based on the offer to: &lt;em&gt;Answer your own question – share your knowledge&lt;/em&gt;. What I did: I posted me a question, I did a testing, and even I did not solved the problem, I have identified deeper system issues that only project and kernel developers can solve. Hence I vote to accept my post, because I share my knowledge throu it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="256238" LastActivityDate="2020-12-20T17:33:36.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2020-12-21T13:02:50.340" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the title of your question: no, SE's format does not support Questions in the form of &amp;quot;reports&amp;quot;. Each Question should have a problem that has a solution (Answer). Self-answers are completely acceptable, too, if you've found an interesting problem &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; have found a solution to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said on your question, if you're trying to understand the discrepancy you've found, ask that. You've done a great job describing the results (along with excellent ASCII diagrams!), but when you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not expect any solving of this problem, but your experience and opinions are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... that leads your question directly off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your existing Meta Answer here: while you've done great research, SE is also not a bug report forum, nor a way to alert project or kernel developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sharing knowledge is a big part of SE; the format simply demands a Question with a question in it, followed by one or more Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've had a U&amp;amp;L account for a couple years now, and have provided other valuable Questions and Answers. It does take some time to get used to the way things work around here, so I'd encourage you to take a moment to reflect on your RAID question and see whether there's &lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt; problem that someone in this community can answer. If, instead, it's ongoing research or part of a bug report, consider tracking down the developers who are responsible for that code and approach them with your results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T13:40:52.677" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T13:40:52.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5699" CreationDate="2020-12-21T13:54:46.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not currently aware of one, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/116858/kusalananda&quot;&gt;Kusalananda&lt;/a&gt; pointed to a couple posts on the main discussion site, Meta Stack Exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/303637/se-paid-membership-with-payout-to-users-who-answer-questions&quot;&gt;SE paid membership with payout to users who answer questions&lt;/a&gt; - asked in 2017 and which was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/229225/would-it-better-the-community-if-we-got-compensated-for-posts-even-with-minuscu&quot;&gt;Would it better the community if we got compensated for posts? Even with minuscule alt coins?&lt;/a&gt; from 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25615/offering-actual-money-as-a-bounty&quot;&gt;Offering actual money as a bounty?&lt;/a&gt; - asked in 2009 and officially declined in 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several answers worth reading in those threads. The votes and discussion there indicate a negative reception to the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at U&amp;amp;L, I found some previous discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/944/how-to-deal-with-paid-help-questions&quot;&gt;How to deal with &amp;#39;paid help&amp;#39; questions?&lt;/a&gt; - asked in 2012.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3402/i-would-be-happy-to-pay-real-money-for-succesful-solution-to-my-question&quot;&gt;I would be happy to pay real money for succesful solution to my question&lt;/a&gt; - asked in 2015.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... both of which echo the &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; sentiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T13:54:46.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5699" CreationDate="2020-12-21T16:18:46.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is to my knowledge no such service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my issues with this is that involving money may give the idea that the quality of answers somehow is magically increased. In actuality, I believe that it &lt;em&gt;decreases&lt;/em&gt; as more people would want to answer purely to get at the money, assuming the idea was to pay people to answer.  Getting paid does not make your Unix knowledge better or sharper. Paying for an answer does not make the answer better.  If everything additionally is done in private, then this totally short-circuits any corrective peer review process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to ask questions without paying.  If you ask a simple question, chances are that it has been addressed before, in which case the question can be marked a duplicate.  If the question is too general, then it's an issue with the question, and no amount of money would make it easier to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2020-12-21T22:50:14.223" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T22:50:14.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5707" CreationDate="2020-12-29T10:40:14.823" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if a particular user (from another, non stackexchange site, for e.g twitter) has an account here. Searching with &lt;code&gt;user:&amp;lt;username&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; gave a (400 000+ items) list of results. When I clicked on first result, the question page had no mention of  (&lt;code&gt;ctrl-f &amp;lt;username&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, even after expanding comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22046" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T10:06:10.963" Title="How to search for a user profile?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5706" CreationDate="2020-12-29T19:27:53.797" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The drop-down menu in the upper left of the main site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ots5x.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ots5x.png&quot; alt=&quot;Main pages's drop-down menu&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choosing &amp;quot;Users&amp;quot; here takes you to a page where you may search for users by name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0pWtu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0pWtu.png&quot; alt=&quot;User search interface&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The direct link to that page is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;code&gt;user:username&lt;/code&gt; in the search box on the main page is unfortunately not supported.  You can however use &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; to find all your own posts and &lt;code&gt;user:id&lt;/code&gt;, where &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; is a user's numerical ID, to find all posts relating to that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to find all posts that I (Kusalananda) have written, which contains the phrase &amp;quot;for fun&amp;quot;, search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A116858%20%22for%20fun%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:116858 &amp;quot;for fun&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2020-12-30T10:06:10.963" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T10:06:10.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2020-12-30T20:44:46.630" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I work as a process supporter (client operation service, 2nd level) for a service company with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Service_Manager_software&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a service manager software ITIL framework based&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The job is good regarding the IT environment: Everyday new topics coming from first level problems, a lot of (third level) guys involved but I do not have to be on top of the details. There is the third level that knows the details, and I need to know what problems are hot, have multiple tickets and need to put these problems in a process chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admire people working in a remote, Unix Environment knowing that people there are &amp;quot;technical&amp;quot; intelligent and creative. Am I this person? Or am I the chilled 8 to 5 worker who likes &amp;quot;IT&amp;quot;?&#xA;Anyway, the more difficult the problems you can solve, the more job freedom you gain.&#xA;As an experienced guy with many IT projects behind me I know it.. anyway let's move back:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was a child and a teenager, computers never were important for me. I did not have any patience for playing computer games or programming.&#xA;But since I can think I always had a computer at home, as my father was interested in hardware. But me not. I even did not play &lt;code&gt;Lego&lt;/code&gt; nor watched &lt;code&gt;Star Wars&lt;/code&gt; and the like.&#xA;But I always admired games like &lt;code&gt;Pirates&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Populous&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time passed and as a young adult, from one day to the other, I was not happy anymore with the client based MS Access database and server-side html homepage  my mother had, updated by me with Macromedia Dreamweaver and MS Access. She represented artists and I wanted to have a php and mysql database solution with one template loading artists on a website, throwing away &lt;code&gt;Access&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I contracted my friend and he did a php site without javascript.&#xA;I was envious of his skills and wanted to learn this as well and started with copy and paste JS and PHP code from the Internet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... a dilemma which took quite long to understand that it is not ok for my learning. Just copying code and understanding nothing is not at all fruitful to make money with IT. Even if you use the top of art tech stack which back then was Jquery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first IT job was at a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.electronicsales.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;webshop company&lt;/a&gt; in the &amp;quot;Oberpfalz&amp;quot; in Bavaria, Germany, back in 2012.&#xA;I was in my younger thirties and was eager copy and pasting Php/JS code and run Mysql databases.&#xA;I was so eager copying that I even realized a CRUD Web App from scratch with Jquery and Php. It should have resulted in a steep learning curve, but in my case: not that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this time, I got a Laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then changed from Php to Python/Django (using the built-in Django Admin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2015 I wanted to learn more IT and looked into university IT courses, such as FernUni Hagen, Germany. I also got the chance to leverage my &lt;code&gt;Github&lt;/code&gt; know how especially with &lt;code&gt;oh-my-zsh&lt;/code&gt;. I took some free time and spent it with my Ubuntu Laptop, Git, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cygwin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cygwin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://termux.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Termux&lt;/a&gt;. I did a lot of research regarding &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;regex&lt;/code&gt; and came by here quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that I did several projects, most of them giving service as Windows System and Apple Mobile Devices &lt;code&gt;Admin first and second level&lt;/code&gt;. I could learn &lt;code&gt;Powershell&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;VBA&lt;/code&gt; which both are great languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My visits here are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;learning about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92461/capturing-screenshot-of-terminal-application-via-shell-script/585149#comment1175976_585149&quot;&gt;scraping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20370/is-there-a-simple-linux-command-that-will-tell-me-what-my-display-manager-is/&quot;&gt;Display Manager&lt;/a&gt; Definition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105569/bash-replace-space-with-new-line/105581#comment1173683_105581&quot;&gt;Sed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72988" LastEditorUserId="72988" LastEditDate="2021-06-21T19:09:20.877" LastActivityDate="2021-06-21T19:09:20.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2020-12-30T21:56:59.647" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appreciate your attempt to defend your position, Jeff and the others, but let me explain my point of view: Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;allowed type of question&lt;/a&gt; and carefuly read the final paragraph. I also edited and expanded my post with new measurement and knowledge.&#xA;I respect your fear of endless discussions and even flames, but I did not start any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your careful judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="256238" LastActivityDate="2020-12-30T21:56:59.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-03T18:58:07.730" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a few occasion, I've seen code blocks such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#! /bin/zsh -&#xA;&#xA;echo foo/*&#xA;echo this is not part of a C comment.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being highlighted as C code even though the Q&amp;amp;A had a zsh tag and the shebang made it explicit what language the code is written in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like it should be relatively easy for the syntax highlighting code to detect this kind of situation and select the &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; syntax highlighter automatically here based on the shebang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, that's not limited to &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; just happens to be the language I use in most of my posts here. It would be useful for code blocks starting with &lt;code&gt;#! /bin/bash -&lt;/code&gt; / &lt;code&gt;#! /usr/bin/perl --&lt;/code&gt;, etc as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2021-01-04T06:37:07.940" LastActivityDate="2021-01-04T06:37:07.940" Title="Improve syntax detection based on shebang" Tags="|feature-request|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5710" CreationDate="2021-01-03T19:09:19.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; the question is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zsh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zsh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zsh&lt;/a&gt;, it will already apply syntax highlighting 'shell style'. You can see that by checking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/zsh/info&quot;&gt;Tag Info&lt;/a&gt;; at the bottom there's a little message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code Language (used for &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt;): lang-bsh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, ♦ moderators are able to change this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange highlighting isn't smart enough to parse shebangs, but we can help it by applying the correct tags to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastActivityDate="2021-01-03T19:09:19.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5713" CreationDate="2021-01-05T08:40:16.307" Score="3" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I &amp;quot;mention&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;tag&amp;quot; a specific user in a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to respond/reply to a comment from a specific user and to draw that user's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember being able to type &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; for this but that doesn't (always?) work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/627492/how-to-add-x-forwarded-for-header-in-reverse-proxy-with-ssl-passthrough?noredirect=1#comment1174290_627492&quot;&gt;How to add X-Forwarded-for header in reverse proxy with SSL passthrough&lt;/a&gt; I want to reply to Steffen Ulrich's comment.&#xA;Then I type &lt;code&gt;@stef&lt;/code&gt; a pop-up dialog is shown with &lt;code&gt;SteffenUlrich&lt;/code&gt; and I can click that pop-up to complete the username.&#xA;Yet when I do I don't see any indication that this is a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to add a dash between &lt;code&gt;Steffen&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Ulrich&lt;/code&gt; because the user's profile URL contains a dash but that does not work either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17830" LastActivityDate="2021-01-05T09:40:27.360" Title="How to @ mention a user in a comment (to reply to a user's comment)" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5712" CreationDate="2021-01-05T09:34:58.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a link, but the 'ping' works. As @AdminBee notes in the comments, only the first three characters matter. That the space disappears when you click his name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A4Z56.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A4Z56.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is expected behaviour. What might surprise you is that you do not even need to mention his name to ping him; since you're the only two users in that comment thread, he is automatically notified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Help Center article&lt;/a&gt; or the FAQ on Meta Stack Exchange: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/43019/295232&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastEditorUserId="111051" LastEditDate="2021-01-05T09:40:27.360" LastActivityDate="2021-01-05T09:40:27.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5718" CreationDate="2021-01-08T10:58:09.070" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been recent effort by a new community member to tag (in particular old) questions related to software installation with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-installation&lt;/a&gt; tag. Since this also includes questions already tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/363822&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt;), I wonder how much these tags overlap and in what situations it is reasonable to have both present on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T12:50:09.883" Title="Overlap between &quot;software-installation&quot; and &quot;package-management&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5720" CreationDate="2021-01-08T12:42:32.407" Score="9" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the canned messages to reject a suggested edit is &lt;em&gt;no improvement whatsoever&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read,&#xA;easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are&#xA;either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite an unfriendly message, if not rude, as has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/243466&quot;&gt;already been discussed elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;I propose that we, reviewers, refrain from using it whenever there is good faith on the suggested&#xA;edit, and instead write a more kind message to reject the edit, say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although your suggestion does not harm the post, I fail to see any substantial improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or maybe, for rewording and reformatting attempts,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is dubious whether the proposed formatting/rewording substantially improves this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, you can compose your own and just copy-paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good faith edits&lt;/strong&gt; that at least partially improve the post, yet have &amp;quot;no improvement whatsoever&amp;quot; rejection votes,&#xA;and whose true rejection reason I am guessing in the labels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/360967&quot;&gt;Changes &amp;quot;How can I&amp;quot; into &amp;quot;How to&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/363973&quot;&gt;Too minor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/356541&quot;&gt;Too minor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/360141&quot;&gt;Also harms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/363680&quot;&gt;Too minor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/362734&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good faith edit&lt;/strong&gt;, rejected, but Muru has written the reason why&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;This is the behavior I'm trying to encourage, namely, to give a proper reason when rejecting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definetly bad edits&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/362347&quot;&gt;Bad faith&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/339190&quot;&gt;Inattentive, though probably not ill-intended&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Thus the suggestion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reserve &amp;quot;no improvement whatsoever&amp;quot;&#xA;for the bad edits, that really deserve it. Otherwise, do not respond so harshly to a volunteered, good faith attempt of improvement, especially to new users. If in doubt, assume good faith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388654" LastEditorUserId="388654" LastEditDate="2021-01-10T21:48:21.283" LastActivityDate="2021-01-10T21:48:21.283" Title="Reconsider &quot;no improvement whatsoever&quot; rejection" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5716" CreationDate="2021-01-08T12:50:09.883" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw those edits today, and wondered the same thing -- thank you for bringing it up on Meta for discussion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; covers both the &lt;em&gt;installation&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;removal&lt;/em&gt; aspects (besides updates and searching &amp;amp; etc). Unfortunately, I think it would be a bit of a stretch to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; for tarball-type installs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/software-installation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;software-installation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;software-installation&lt;/a&gt; exclusively for &amp;quot;manual&amp;quot; installation (via &lt;code&gt;make install&lt;/code&gt;, for example) and using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/package-management&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;package-management&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;package-management&lt;/a&gt; when there's a higher-level program involved (&lt;code&gt;yum&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;apt&lt;/code&gt;, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T12:50:09.883" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-08T13:35:44.917" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;When writing a question, tags can be completed just by starting to write a word.&#xA;However when searching for questions with specific tags, input like &amp;quot;[bla&amp;quot; does not complete.&#xA;I wonder how difficult an implementation would be, meaning: I'd consider such completion being very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="320598" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T13:35:44.917" Title="Is it possible to complete tags when searching questions?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5717" CreationDate="2021-01-08T14:29:21.520" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may have a point in general, but I fear your example is a bad one. That edit was absolutely harmful! It changed a correct grammatical question (&amp;quot;How can I?&amp;quot;) into something that is grammatically wrong: &amp;quot;How to?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How to&amp;quot; is not a question, it is a declaration. So &amp;quot;How to boil pasta&amp;quot; is a fine title for an article explaining how pasta should be boiled. However, &amp;quot;How to boil pasta?&amp;quot; is not a grammatically valid question. So the edit you mention, which only changed the title of the question from this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I use bash's if test and find commands together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to use &amp;quot;if&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;test&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;find&amp;quot; commands together in a bash script?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T14:29:21.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-10T13:56:02.833" Score="-10" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the following scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;posts are harassed by prominent members' comments, and are downvoted, closed and deleted by a group of prominent members after   their abuses are exposed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;flags are ignored&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;meta posts are deleted and threatened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;contacting community managers receives no response&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what other ways are left for victims? Is it like what some &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;respectful&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; moderator repeatedly claimed: stack exchange has no freedom of speech and the only way is to leave the platform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are justice and humanity played out, when the moderators suspend the victims, who have no choice but to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;exercise their voting rights on the offenders? (and are suspended for meritless votes and retaliation, while the voting rights of the abusers are fully protected and their abuses  are condoned.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;expose injustice in their posts? (and are suspended for defacing their own posts, while   there is no channel to ask for justice.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the rules  not applicable to  the prominent members?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there people who can understand the problem here, and where the anger and even hatred came from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2021-01-10T14:59:31.867" LastActivityDate="2021-02-10T22:16:29.743" Title="What methods can a user use to protect themselves?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5717" CreationDate="2021-01-10T19:48:39.163" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the reviewer side, there's a meaningful difference between the current message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post &lt;strong&gt;even a little bit&lt;/strong&gt; easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And your proposed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although your suggestion does not harm the post, I fail to see any &lt;strong&gt;substantial&lt;/strong&gt; improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[or]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is dubious whether the proposed formatting/rewording &lt;strong&gt;substantially&lt;/strong&gt; improves this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Emphasis mine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current message hints to the reviewer that that flag reason is only appropriate for edits that are truly, completely devoid of benefit. For example, it makes it clear to me that I &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; use it to reject an edit that I think is good, but not good enough to be worthwhile. It indicates that even the tiniest improvement is still an improvement worth accepting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposed rewrite, on the other hand, says that the improvement has to be &amp;quot;substantial.&amp;quot; That raises the bar for what an edit has to accomplish in order for it to pass review—and that's harmful, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the editor side, I agree that the message comes off as rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the editor side use a different phrasing than the reviewer side?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7421" LastActivityDate="2021-01-10T19:48:39.163" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-14T07:15:37.210" Score="8" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just close-voted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/629095/how-can-i-detect-new-files-and-add-random-number-end-of-the-file&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with reason &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Needs details or clarity&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, I saw, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24952/script-to-monitor-folder-for-new-files%20fits&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; fits very well, and I would like to change my vote to &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Duplicate of ...&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. But I cannot change my close reason, only retract it. But then I'm not allowed to close-vote again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sMKDO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sMKDO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Are you sure?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Why is close-voting disallowed after retracting?&lt;/strong&gt; or&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Should we implement the ability to change the close-vote reason?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we seek to help people in the best possible way, wouldn't it be good to change your close-vote reason to the one that fits better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, I don't want to discuss the close-voting for this specific question, it serves only as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="236063" LastActivityDate="2021-01-14T07:15:37.210" Title="Why can't I change my close-vote reason or not close-vote anymore after retracting?" Tags="|feature-request|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-14T14:25:22.717" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qr-code&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;qr-code&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;qr-code&lt;/a&gt; has recently been created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted &amp;quot;reject&amp;quot; in the &amp;quot;suggested edit&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/364265&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; as I felt it was not a good idea to have a tag describing a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; machine-readable code, considering that there are so many types of them. I would think it more reasonable to have only one &amp;quot;barcode&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;code reading&amp;quot; tag that applies to all problems concerning generation and interpretation of such codes, given that the scope of site is &amp;quot;Unix/Linux&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;Machine Vision&amp;quot;. (There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5652/377345&quot;&gt;similar discussion&lt;/a&gt; that led to the merging of all &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; tags some months ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question which I would like to put up for discussion is whether that tag should be abandoned in favor of/changed to a general &amp;quot;code reading&amp;quot; tag. We could still have tags for individual programs used to read or generate such codes, if and when such programs are seen to cause problems frequently enough to warrant a tag of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastActivityDate="2021-01-14T14:25:22.717" Title="Should we have specific tags for individual machine-readable code types?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-14T22:39:05.973" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer here &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/472384/170373&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/472384/170373&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;contains this code block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;grep -vE '0.*1|1.*[02]|2.*[13]|3.*[24]|4.*[35]|5.*[46]|6.*[57]|7.*[68]|8.*[79]|9.*8'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that particular answer, the parts between asterisks are presented in italics, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIQXz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIQXz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has tags text-processing, awk, sed, grep, perl. I don't think any of those language would warrant asterisks within a single-quoted string to be presented in italics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In chat, it was noticed that all three code blocks in the answer get different CSS tags: &amp;quot;markdown&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;dart&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;perl&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jJT5A.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jJT5A.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An annoying thing about this issue is that if the answer is opened for editing, the &lt;em&gt;italics don't appear&lt;/em&gt;. They only seem to appear in the edit view, if you happen to modify the code block itself and wait a moment for the syntax highlighter to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="392914" LastEditDate="2021-02-09T14:45:32.267" LastActivityDate="2021-02-09T14:45:32.267" Title="Broken italics in code block" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|syntax-highlighting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-15T19:27:39.537" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/629329/native-packet-dropping-on-chromeos&quot;&gt;Native Packet Dropping on ChromeOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been having a look at the ChromeOS tag and it seems to be doing poorly. Questions are rarely answered and asked (the last answered question was July 2020). Is there a better place to answer these type of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="439953" LastActivityDate="2021-01-15T19:27:39.537" Title="Whats going on with the ChromeOS tag?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-19T17:19:48.490" Score="7" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we welcome 2021, and in keeping with tradition, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pU1Al.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Unix &amp;amp; Linux over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;89&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;617&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11,819&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;76&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;718&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,080&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,524&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;256&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,247&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;98&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18,709&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;89&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,629&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tags merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms proposed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms created&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Revisions redacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions unprotected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions reopened&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;51&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;38&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions protected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;170&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions migrated&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;62&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;84&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;31&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,505&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;955&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,342&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;566&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;971&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;59&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;65&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;658&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;350&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,640&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11,384&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,585&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;101&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;227&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,837&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,718&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,233&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,615&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;449&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;217&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,303&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,712&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;807&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;62&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5479/2019-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2019: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222020%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/359735/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big thank you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/620/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; for writing the queries and script to facilitate fetching and posting this data to all the sites in the network, and to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/459488/brian-nickel&quot;&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt; for the subsequent work making the whole thing more user friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2021!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-01-19T17:57:58.243" LastActivityDate="2021-01-19T17:57:58.243" Title="2020: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5731" CreationDate="2021-01-22T10:20:01.913" Score="4" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/627521/206574&quot;&gt;pause youtube-dl when network is disconnected and resume when it is connected again&lt;/a&gt; (which currently has an open bounty). Yesterday it had 3 upvotes. Today, I checked and it has 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone please check what is wrong with this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206574" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-01-22T11:38:50.000" LastActivityDate="2021-01-22T12:18:56.263" Title="My question had three upvotes, suddenly it is zero. What is going on?" Tags="|discussion|support|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5730" CreationDate="2021-01-22T11:01:58.487" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question still has 2 upvotes. One upvote was removed and two downvotes were added which brings the total score to 0. Once you reach 1000 reputation, you become an &amp;quot;established user&amp;quot; which brings the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-user&quot;&gt;ability to see vote counts&lt;/a&gt;. On your question, this looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j0ziH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j0ziH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing the +2 and -2 vote count of the question&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, if you check &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/206574/blueray&quot;&gt;your own profile page&lt;/a&gt; and click on the &amp;quot;Activity&amp;quot; tab and then the &amp;quot;Reputation&amp;quot; tab, you will see an &amp;quot;unupvote&amp;quot;; someone removed their upvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cls3Q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cls3Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the OP's reputation tab showing the removed upvote&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary, one vote was removed but the other two are still there, just not so easily visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what's wrong with your question, I am afraid only the two people who downvoted can answer that. I don't see any obvious issues myself, and I just upvoted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2021-01-22T12:18:56.263" LastActivityDate="2021-01-22T12:18:56.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5744" CreationDate="2021-01-23T08:59:11.457" Score="-2" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/629522/posix-shell-language-advantage-of-using-test-command-square-brackets-compared-t&quot;&gt;Original.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it's very irrational to abuse the &lt;code&gt;test&lt;/code&gt; statement rather than using a &lt;code&gt;case&lt;/code&gt; statement for string comparison in a shell script, in viewpoint of portability and performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user451199" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-02-16T15:40:41.753" LastActivityDate="2021-02-16T15:40:41.753" Title="Why was my post closed as &quot;opinion-based&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5734" CreationDate="2021-02-01T07:25:08.003" Score="6" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that two days ago, I was &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/138/steward?userid=377345&quot;&gt;awarded the &amp;quot;Steward&amp;quot; badge&lt;/a&gt; for the &amp;quot;First Post&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Close Votes&amp;quot; queues, although I received them in May and July of last year already. Might this be a bug in the algorithm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it a change of policy? The &amp;quot;tooltip stats box&amp;quot; in the review queues state &amp;quot;These badges can only be earned once&amp;quot;, although I noticed that the help-center text (now?) says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review type. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is indeed a policy change, it might be helpful to omit the &amp;quot;at least&amp;quot; from the sentence &amp;quot;Complete at least 1,000 review tasks.&amp;quot;, as that may seem to contradict the &amp;quot;awarded multiple times per review queue&amp;quot; statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-02-01T07:40:21.713" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T08:08:58.237" Title="Bug in review badge award algorithm?" Tags="|bug|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5733" CreationDate="2021-02-01T08:08:58.237" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, Steward can now be awarded multiple times: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/360279/295232&quot;&gt;Steward badge can now be awarded multiple times -- backfill details&lt;/a&gt;. This is rolled-out in parallel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/360198/295232&quot;&gt;Visual design changes to the review queues&lt;/a&gt; which will get rid of the wrong tooltip &amp;quot;These badges can only be earned once&amp;quot;; it is going to look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uEbEM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uEbEM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the moment, this is a bit confusing, but it's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/360198/visual-design-changes-to-the-review-queues?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1#comment1202029_360204&quot;&gt;deliberate choice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111051" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T08:08:58.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-03T20:50:18.973" Score="17" ViewCount="4135" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're excited to announce that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ibm.com/us-en?ar=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IBM&lt;/a&gt; will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307861/site-sponsorships-bringing-resources-back-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;sponsoring&lt;/a&gt; Unix &amp;amp; Linux for the next quarter (maybe more) beginning tomorrow! These types of partnerships that help us bring more resources to our communities would not be possible without your hard work and dedication and we're extremely thankful for and proud of everything that you've done and continue to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got questions about what this means, we're sure - and we're here to answer 'em! We've anticipated a few which we'll explore below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How will the sponsorship be displayed?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good question! The sponsorship will be shown in top right of the header of the site in a manner that's similar to the mockup below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/65drU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/65drU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What else changes?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's easy: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;absolutely nothing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the MSE post linked in the introduction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First — sponsors do not own these Q&amp;amp;A sites. Sponsors work alongside our communities who ultimately build these sites. Communities ask the questions; communities create the tags; communities conduct elections as they do now, and we are not renaming our current sites like a garish sport stadium to the highest bidder. Any ads a sponsor submits still have go through our crazy-strict ad editorial process… as it has always been. Companies do not have access to personal data, and all Q&amp;amp;A content remains irrevocably licensed under Creative Commons for sharing and attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sponsorships are a tool that our clients can use to let folks who would be interested in their products know about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;I think I found a design glitch / bug.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please report it as a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com//questions/tagged/bug&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;. Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;I have another question or concern.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave an answer below (I know it might seem odd to leave a question as an answer) and we'll do our best to answer you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you again, everyone! Again, this would not have been possible without the huge amount of work you've all put into making Unix &amp;amp; Linux so successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="431992" LastEditorUserId="488802" LastEditDate="2022-02-23T17:58:34.310" LastActivityDate="2022-02-23T17:58:34.310" Title="IBM will soon be sponsoring Unix &amp; Linux!" Tags="|discussion|site-sponsorship|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5735" CreationDate="2021-02-04T00:27:05.150" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will the sponsorship mean that some resources might be dedicated to fixing bugs that particularly impact this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2021-02-04T00:27:05.150" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-04T08:36:10.527" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange has had an option for a while now that allows users to use the dark mode theme on the website. I've noticed that all the stack exchange sites I use, are in dark mode, yet this one is not... Is there a specific reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="398034" OwnerDisplayName="AlienDrew" LastActivityDate="2021-02-04T08:45:08.767" Title="Why is unix.stackexchange.com not using dark mode?" Tags="|discussion|meta|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2021-02-04T09:06:09.270" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5735" CreationDate="2021-02-04T09:36:42.220" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Putting aside my opinion of IBM and the state of support for U&amp;amp;L, I think that such static banners are much better than the usual ads, especially those that rely on sharing personal data with Google/DoubleClick or other similar AdTech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope StackExchange got a good deal out of IBM both for itself and for the community. If this goes on for a while, it might be worth checking whether people start thinking this is a support site for AIX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More in detail: the banner loads just fine without Google's JavaScript or other resources, because it's a simple SVG hosted locally. However it also tries to load a tracking pixel and the link goes to DoubleClick, which is silly. Just handle the click counting directly with IBM if you need to. (Are clicks really the point?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hJnRi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hJnRi.png&quot; alt=&quot;uMatrix and IBM banner still visible&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;grid--cell&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/trackclk/N1114924.1948300STACKOVERFLOW/B25058705.294197466;dc_trk_aid=487473321;dc_trk_cid=142595284;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;tfua=;gdpr=${GDPR};gdpr_consent=${GDPR_CONSENT_755}&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                            &amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/unix/Img/LogoSponsored.svg?v=91aca5556ef3&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;Sponsored logo&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                                &amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/trackimp/N1114924.1948300STACKOVERFLOW/B25058705.294197466;dc_trk_aid=487473321;dc_trk_cid=142595284;ord=[timestamp];dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;tfua=;gdpr=${GDPR};gdpr_consent=${GDPR_CONSENT_755}?&amp;quot; border=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; height=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;1&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;display: none !important;&amp;quot; hidden=&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                        &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditDate="2021-02-05T18:43:04.173" LastActivityDate="2021-02-05T18:43:04.173" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5735" CreationDate="2021-02-04T16:09:13.570" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it an ad? I hadn't even realized this had started since my adblocker hides the logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7D7oz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7D7oz.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot showing how my adblocker blocks the IBM logo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is probably safe to assume that many (most?) visitors to a site like this will be techies and will likely have an addblocker, so it seems strange to run the risk of using an ad instead of a static image. Is it so that IBM can see that they're actually getting clicks from here which would presumably justify the commercial arrangement between IBM and SE? Is having a tracker embedded on all of our pages really the best way for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2021-02-04T16:09:13.570" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-08T11:07:34.443" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I delete a comment tagging a user, and for some reason or other, I delete the comment seconds or minutes after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the recipient receive the notification and can see (at least part of) the comment in the &amp;quot;Recent Inbox messages&amp;quot; after it was deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastActivityDate="2021-03-10T12:01:05.663" Title="Is a deleted comment received by the tagged user?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5740" CreationDate="2021-02-08T11:27:55.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends. I don't know the details, but from experience, I can tell you that you can sometimes get a notification and that it disappears when the comment is deleted. So yes, they will receive the notification, but it will go away when you delete the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2021-02-08T11:27:55.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5721" CreationDate="2021-02-10T14:34:48.533" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has no freedom of speech. User probably tried to explain that you are an anonymous user using their public service, they can ban or delete anybody for anything (except not for being black or so-named &amp;quot;non-binary&amp;quot; and similars). But they can ban/delete anybody even without saying a reason. They can also suspend you for identifying yourself as &amp;quot;ultra-conservative&amp;quot;. But if you would identify yourself as black, they could still suspend or delete you - if they do not say the reason, or if they do not say the true reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what the company can do on the U.S. law, but they only rarely interact with the communities so directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens more often that harassment happens on many, seemingly unrelated channels, but not directly from the company. These root obviously from the same source, but we have no way to say for sure, exactly where from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best what you can do: mods and the others can do, what the company allows to them, and it is unlikely that the company would interact with you so directly. The system is a big pyramide of power, and all the levels in this pyramide are bound by the rules given by the upper levels to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understand these rules, and defend yourself, using them. For example, it was imho a complete mishap to attack a unix se mod for a chat suspension for which he said that not he did it. Imho, he actually helped you by giving the info that not they were the suspenders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could get the list of your account and I see where are you banned. Among these 4 sites, I would first check the meta.stackexchange.com mods, but note: it is only an educated estimate and I have no way to say anything for sure about it. Side note: meta.stackexchange.com mods can chat-ban you only on the chat.meta.stackexchange.com, but not on the chat.stackexchange.com, however there are MSE mods being mods also on other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you defend yourself, while you keep the rules, then the system will clearly help the perpetrators, &lt;em&gt;but no so far that it would break the rules binding even them&lt;/em&gt;. So, if you get a harassing comment, then flag it as harassment. The mod can decline the flag, but can not delete the flag, and it leaves a trace, that he treated you unfairly. If you estimate revenge downs, flag it - the mod will decline it, but also this leaves a trace. If you are insulted, flag it as insult - no mod will leave a trace that he allowed insults on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My experience is that if power users harass you, they stop it in some weeks. The power user harassment is typically bound to a single site. If you leave, and then later come back, they will start it again. Here the important thing is: there is a major cultural difference between us and them. For them, it is an ordinary way of the fight. For us... in a normal world, we never would do that, not only because it is disgusting, but also because &lt;em&gt;it does not come in our mind&lt;/em&gt;. If someone says mostly evil, then we attack the most what he says, &lt;em&gt;but not all&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing is, that these power user circles are doing this &amp;quot;community harassment&amp;quot; because it is okay for them. &lt;em&gt;This also means that it is actually not so evil for them, as for us.&lt;/em&gt; If you've fought a lot, you learn each others' mind and behaviors, not only you learn them, but also they learn you. And while you are in still unfriendly relation, on a deeper level they accept you as one of them. You won't be a member of the inner circle, but you will be someone for them who has a name. The sad thing is, that in some sense, you really become one of them. :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If mods seem hunting for you (for example, by suddenly honoring minor &amp;quot;heated arguments&amp;quot; by suspension), then my experience is that they stop it in some months. These hunts are typically cross-site ones. Maybe someone said to them in their chat room, that you are allocating too much mod/reviewer effort. Or attracted their attention that you are an &amp;quot;ultra-conservative&amp;quot;. You can expect mod hunt if the previously tolerated nuances (like using the &amp;quot;braindamaged&amp;quot; word in a meta comment, or talking about the suspension of another user in the chat) get suddenly enforced with full power, and this happens simultanously on multiple sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other type of the mod hunt if you get multiple suspensions without a reason, or with a crap reason, on the same site. These are typically following the usual 1 week, 1 month, 1 year structure. The mods probably want to defend themselves by doing everything &amp;quot;as usual&amp;quot;. If you got the 1 week, followed closely by the 1 month, you can be sure: the goal is the 1yr, and you will likely get it for anything the mod can find. Be extremely careful for some months. These hunts are probably the own initiatives of a single mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The worst what you can do if you flee. With it, you feed them. If you got a revenge down for your meta post, then write yet another meta post. If you got a suspension for an &amp;quot;insult&amp;quot;, then next time be twice so active, but without &amp;quot;insults&amp;quot;. Another bad idea is to delete your account. Why? You get exactly the same if you simply don't use the site - but without giving up forever that you once come back and use your votes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I nearly never got any useful answer on the /contact form, but also this leaves a trace. The possibility, that yes, you can contact the system any time if there is a mod power misuse, creates enough motivation for the mods to not go too far. Note also, &lt;em&gt;even if the upper level (mod/CMs) decline your request, it is quite possible that they note it.&lt;/em&gt; You have no way to know, what else did they do, so the expected outcome is still more than nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I got a serial revenge down on another SE site. I flagged it. The mod rejected the flag, saying that they can not do anything. A week later, I've seen a young meta site member, with whom we mutually disliked each other (although there were no major conflicts), being suspended for &amp;quot;voting irregularities&amp;quot;. &lt;em&gt;The mod was not allowed to explain to me, what he did&lt;/em&gt;, and I have no way to know, if he was suspended for serial downing me, but I think yes, it was the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastEditorUserId="52236" LastEditDate="2021-02-10T22:16:29.743" LastActivityDate="2021-02-10T22:16:29.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5732" CreationDate="2021-02-12T03:51:37.303" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if your view of writing for &amp;quot;performance and portability&amp;quot; doesn't match the goal? What if you're writing scripts to be understood by next summer's intern? Scripts whose runtime is so short that performance doesn't count? (what do you gain by a 99% reduction in a .001 second script's runtime?) Scripts for my special hardware/software environment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many different philosophies of development. The determination of &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; for each environment is a Matter of Opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you don't offer any data about performance (&amp;quot;Here's how long 100000 executions of each syntax took&amp;quot;) or about portability (&amp;quot;Here's a survey of how many systems don't support each syntax&amp;quot;), all you're left with is opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11135" LastActivityDate="2021-02-12T03:51:37.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5735" CreationDate="2021-02-15T01:54:54.383" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If only that would mean more Red Hat (remember, IBM bought Red Hat) and mostly Gnome, Freedesktop.org, etc (or anything that is controlled close or far by them) guys would come here and help people sorting out their own software bugs since a lot of the very begged bug reports are mostly &amp;quot;wont-fixed&amp;quot; because &amp;quot;it's no fun to my ego doing this&amp;quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88282" LastEditorUserId="88282" LastEditDate="2021-02-15T03:05:00.150" LastActivityDate="2021-02-15T03:05:00.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5749" CreationDate="2021-02-21T18:04:11.520" Score="19" ViewCount="832" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll admit, I'm writing this question out of frustration and that's never a good start.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've spent some time away from U&amp;amp;L partly for personal reasons, and partly because a user launched a tirade of baseless and frankly libellous personal attacks against me&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; leaving me a bit shaken.  When I came back months later I began to notice that the atmosphere here feels much less friendly than I remember.  Maybe I changed maybe U&amp;amp;L has a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides the rise in bizarre close votes&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, I'm particularly concerned at an apparent rise in in personal remarks (personal attacks).  One in particular has stood out to me as totally uncalled for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, there's [technology] but it's far beyond your capabilities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes&lt;/em&gt; this may not have been intended as a personal attack, but the wording reeks of elitist &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;if you have to ask you'll never know&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  It constitutes baseless&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; attack and is &lt;strong&gt;really rude&lt;/strong&gt;, especially to a new user.   What's worse is that it not only attacks the OP of the question but any future reader who happens to come along with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It bugs me that the same &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt; could easily have been worded without attacking the OP: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;OK, there's [technology] but it's far beyond most common users&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  With no knowledge of the OP's background, and no supporting comment as to the complexity of [technology] the statement unjustly implies incompetence.  &lt;em&gt;It's rude!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've ended up writing this post after the flag I raised for &amp;quot;rude or abusive behaviour&amp;quot; was rejected &lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;.  &lt;strike&gt;That decision sends me a worrying message that personal attacks &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; acceptable.&lt;/strike&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5747/20140&quot;&gt;explained&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than trying to rant about one specific incident, what concerns me the most is that without careful moderation forums inevitably slide into &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clicky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;clicky&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cliquey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cliquey&lt;/a&gt;) elitist behaviour.  Right now I feel that U&amp;amp;L is headed down that path an we are getting a bit too comfortable with rude behaviour&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Untrue statements such as &amp;quot;You've only worked on one software project&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;you've never done [xyz] development&amp;quot;, ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm still waiting for anyone to tell me how &amp;quot;are Linux drivers available for [specific hardware]&amp;quot; is &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The new user's question, and others they had made gave no picture of their capability as a software engineer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rarely a good reason to start a meta post, yet here I am&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's not my intent to blame moderators new and old, but to call out a particular concern about the state of U&amp;amp;L as I see it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2021-02-22T09:34:33.297" LastActivityDate="2021-03-03T14:16:13.830" Title="Is making personal attacks ever justified?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="36" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5746" CreationDate="2021-02-22T05:30:08.623" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the moderator that declined that flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I misread &amp;quot;it's far beyond your capabilities&amp;quot; as &amp;quot;it's far beyond our capabilities&amp;quot;, and I interpreted it as &amp;quot;it's something beyond the scope of this site&amp;quot;. I did this even though I read the text several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I declined the flag because I couldn't see how saying &amp;quot;describing this technology is beyond the scope of what this site is for&amp;quot; was abusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not perfect, and I agree with you that certain personalities don't always end up being very helpful when what they want to do is to show off rather than help. It's also unfortunate that many users tend to prefer writing short snappy answers rather than longer answers that would allow them to be more nuanced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We (users on this site) can never be the judges of &lt;em&gt;someone else's&lt;/em&gt; intellect or ability to understand.  To say that something's beyond someone's capability to comprehend is not in line with the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for my handling of this flag and for the fact that declining this flag in error triggered your meta post, which I'm largely agreeing with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2021-02-22T16:39:05.540" LastActivityDate="2021-02-22T16:39:05.540" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5746" CreationDate="2021-02-23T12:48:15.893" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the stated question, no, personal attacks are never justified. Specifically on Stack Exchange, they are explicitly forbidden by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;the Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No name-calling or personal attacks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Focus on the content, not the person. This includes terms that feel personal even when they're applied to content (e.g. “lazy”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CoC is broader than that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No subtle put-downs or unfriendly language.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you don’t intend it, this can have a negative impact on others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even toning down the comment that was directed at you wouldn’t make it acceptable, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in general that many situations would benefit from the advice given at the start of the CoC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be inclusive and respectful.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid sarcasm and be careful with jokes — tone is hard to decipher online. Prefer gender-neutral language when uncertain. If a situation makes it hard to be friendly, stop participating and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last sentence in particular — not for you specifically, Philip, but in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it’s also worth bearing in mind the purpose of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; here, &lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; to help improve &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt;, not to host discussion, let alone attacks. Just like a good project is defined with its demise in mind, a good comment on Stack Exchange is written with a clear path to its deletion in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2021-02-23T12:48:15.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5746" CreationDate="2021-02-23T20:46:42.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. I think, is disgusting in this form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it happens quite often on some other sites, that arguments are falsely labeled as personal attack. This is a way to attack people for their unpleasant, but true sayings. So, in general, be careful about the &amp;quot;personal attack&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;insult&amp;quot;, etc. labels. Unix SE is not flame-ish in this sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your example, I give some chance that the actual intent of the subject was not insulting, only he has chosen an unlucky wording. The post must be even in this case, fixed (or the comment deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52236" LastEditorUserId="52236" LastEditDate="2021-02-24T12:06:17.827" LastActivityDate="2021-02-24T12:06:17.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5746" CreationDate="2021-02-28T14:54:00.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that I should even enunciate the answer to your question. In any &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt; community, the answer may obviously only be negative. On the other extreme, if Unix.SE were a gang with established initiation rituals, I would hesitate. But my belief is that Unix.SE &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a community of professionals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there are formal rules, there are moderators, but on many SE sites this number under your username, called, in a weird twist of language, “reputation” (would you call someone's income “reputation”? Looks similar) plays an oversized role. I can relate to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I edited out a personal insult out of otherwise a good and detailed answer by someone with this so called “reputation” exceeding 30,000:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If after reading that wikipedia page your question is &amp;quot;why would I ever use [filesystem hard links]&amp;quot; then you don't understand what hard links are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement is not only unhelpful, as it conveys zero information (it's quite obvious that if the OP understood the answer from reading the mentioned article, they would not turn for help to the community for an answer and an insult), but also deliberately insulting, and its the only purpose (“I'm smarter than you, but I'll gracefully deign to answer your dumbhead's question”). I removed that single meaningless introductory paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposed edit was accepted by someone (I'm &lt;em&gt;disreputable&lt;/em&gt; on Unix.SE, so I can only propose edits). The person who wrote the answer immediately reverted my edit. I flagged the answer as a personal attack. The flag was reset. Then I'm like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: this says something about the person who started their answer with an insult, the moderator's attitude, and Unix.SE in general, but it is what it is, and we are who we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that Unix.SE is by far not the worst in this regard. The only community that I know of where this random number is not considered meaningful is Physics.SE, but there may be other positive examples. Unfortunately, these are rare. It's way too easy to equate someone's qualities, all the way from the knowledge of the subject and all the way to the level of disdain the person deserves, with a single integer number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, in a sense, who we are, and how we think, or “think.” There is a reason Kahneman won a Nobel prize for the discovery of stark patterns in the human thinking (in relation to logical and monetary decisions, but the phenomenon certainly extends to many aspects of interpersonal relationships) identifying what he termed the System 1 and System 2. In my opinion, we can only accept that. Everyone's mental hygiene is in their own hands, and the only person whose one I can improve is myself. Otherwise, I'm limited to observation. Everyone who thinks of themselves as a rational person is deeply mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense, the fact that we know only this “reputation” number of each other, but not skin color, income, gender, sexual orientation, religion, the home neighborhood, political sympathies and whether we graduated from Yale or a community college is a very, very positive thing. You can imagine, it could have been much worse than knowing a single and, in the grand scheme of human relationships, meaningless toy number...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting thought that just crossed my mind is that if this answer of mine will receive over 9000 up-votes, I won't be surprised. If, on the other extreme, I'll be banned from Unix.SE for life for it, it wouldn't surprise me either. When you've been on SE for a while, nothing that happens here surprises you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103076" LastEditorUserId="103076" LastEditDate="2021-02-28T16:51:10.493" LastActivityDate="2021-02-28T16:51:10.493" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5746" CreationDate="2021-02-28T16:42:19.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When somebody is not nice, invites others to not be nice too. Then the comment sections can be a battlefield of insults and personal attacks. Answers with personal references. Editing wars. Flags being raised. People angry and hurt. Moderators have to intervene. And then it all can be quickly go to hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CoCs&lt;/em&gt; and moderators are there to avoid this kind of scenario. &lt;em&gt;Being nice&lt;/em&gt; is not because it's the right thing to do, or to pretend to be well intentioned, or because nowadays anybody can be a &amp;quot;snowflake&amp;quot;. It's a strategy for sites like SE to work well and not become youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Social interactions are very complex, we depend on gestures, voice tone and general body language to guess the intention of our interlocutors. This is absent in the virtual world, making more difficult to interpret the real intentions of what is being said. Because of this, the inevitable second guessing in this kind of forum is a waste of time to everybody, since it's up to discussion, negative emotions and the need of third parties to intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave personal references, attacks, and insults to personal relations and youtube. It shouldn't be that difficult. If somebody can't control their temper &lt;em&gt;is their problem&lt;/em&gt; and no one elses. SE is not the place to deal with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SE is&lt;/strong&gt; (or should be) &lt;strong&gt;for people seeking help and people who want/likes to provide it. Niceness is the right tool to make this interaction work properly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2021-02-28T18:34:42.693" LastActivityDate="2021-02-28T18:34:42.693" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5754" CreationDate="2021-03-01T21:54:42.350" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here in Unix and Linux Stack Exchange I used the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtualization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtualization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtualization&lt;/a&gt; tag and it was changed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtual-machine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtual-machine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtual-machine&lt;/a&gt; automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A virtual computing machine is a machine, a virtual operating system is a VIRTUAL-VIRTUAL machine, a virtual keyboard is a machine and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is virtualization always a virtual machine?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Perhaps a better question would be - what might be virtual and is not a machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="458602" OwnerDisplayName="timesharer" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2021-03-02T11:54:18.393" LastActivityDate="2021-05-23T02:28:56.120" Title="Is virtualization always a virtual machine?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5753" CreationDate="2021-03-02T00:18:43.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Linux/Unix community I find people use the terms interchangeably when people talk about virtualization they are normally talking about virtualization of complete machines ie. (vm's) there are for sure things that are virtual that are not machines ie. virtual hdd, virtual networks, virtual gpu (vGPU) and others but most people use the terms interchangeably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="457240" OwnerDisplayName="Jason Croyle" LastActivityDate="2021-03-02T00:18:43.823" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5746" CreationDate="2021-03-02T16:28:02.173" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mistake an objective statement for a subjective one then, don't take this the wrong way, you're taking it the wrong way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone calls themselves out as a neophyte, implicitly or explicitly, there's no harm in saying this is far beyond your [present] capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;St. Paul makes the point pretty clearly when he wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 Cor 3:2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody said, oh, St. Paul, you're being mean, in fact, he said that for their own good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take another point, if someone hands me Frank Zappa's Jazz from Hell and says &amp;quot;play&amp;quot;, are they helping me to be a better pianist?  No, that's far beyond my capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of it, how do you know the person's not talking about a computer's capabilities.  Do we lump our personalities with our machines?  If I'm K8S on a RaspberryPi and someone says um.. &amp;quot;don't try putting nextcloud on that, it's far beyond your capabilities&amp;quot; is that person being mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acknowledging that we're different and we can offer concrete answers as experts is the first step to not confusing people, which at a minimum is what effective Q&amp;amp;A entails.  I want to know if something is beyond my capabilities. It will save time. It goes beyond niceness into something better called &lt;em&gt;kindness&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the modern sense of niceness objects to the &amp;quot;far beyond&amp;quot; part so much as it objects to the word &amp;quot;is&amp;quot;.  If you carry out this plan to its logical extents, one would nuke every sentence written in the imperative sense as it implies how foolish one is who fails to RTFM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4330" LastEditorUserId="4330" LastEditDate="2021-03-03T14:16:13.830" LastActivityDate="2021-03-03T14:16:13.830" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-04T14:57:56.623" Score="3" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see lots of questions being asked for which a simple Google query which includes just the title of the question is enough to answer it, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/637589/mounting-ntfs-bitlocker-in-linux&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO they'd better be deleted/hidden from view because they pollute the Internet and Google search index with redundant data and make finding answers harder because Google cannot decide which of them deserve to be ranked higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this? Sometimes I feel like the SE form for asking a question not only should include similar previously asked questions but also Google results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260833" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2021-03-06T13:48:57.513" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T08:46:39.270" Title="What do you think about questions for which answers could be trivially Googled?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5756" CreationDate="2021-03-04T22:23:30.713" Score="18" Body="&lt;h3&gt;No.  Because...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to deny that some people who come here are pretty lazy.  This is true of any forum and probably the main reason why &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How to Ask Questions the Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; was written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I don't generally agree with closing questions just because I can find answers on Google.  This is for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Filter-Bubbles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:  More than once, I've suggested someone google &amp;quot;x y z&amp;quot; and choose the first result... Then found that the first result for me wasn't even on the first page for them!  Google personalises searches in a way that's really easy to miss.   Even when you think you just started using a &amp;quot;clean&amp;quot; device, Google will start a new profile for that device and &lt;em&gt;really rapidly&lt;/em&gt; figure out that the profile belongs to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Top rated Google results are not automatically authoritative or even &lt;strong&gt;correct&lt;/strong&gt;. How-to articles and blogs are frequently not peer reviewed frequently contain severe flaws which can mislead readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes users will choose to disregard the top results from Google because they can't be sure they are correct / safe.  On the other hand SE answers are usually read by many people and who vote and comment.  This offers a level of peer review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I've added an example to the end of this to demonstrate this point&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Knowing which words to punch into Google is a learned skill, not something we're born with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/637589/mounting-ntfs-bitlocker-in-linux#comment1194603_637589&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; was a helpful one because the link contained the search terms you used as well as a link to a useful article.  This helps the user know what to search for next time.  For extra credit you can add the search terms into the comment body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SE questions and answers have a life independent of the rest of the web.  How-to articles and blogs come and go.  So SE answers help pin knowledge in a more permanent way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes users miss an obvious step.  They can wonder about something, google it, leave it for months or years, google it again, leave it again and then finally ask &lt;em&gt;forgetting to google right before they ask&lt;/em&gt;.  By the time they ask, their search would have yielded more helpful results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You linked a page &amp;lt; 1 year old and the subject matter (Windows 10) is 5 years old.  It's unclear from this question when they first wanted this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are frequently (not always) less lazy than they appear and again the transience of blogs and how-to articles makes me feel these questions should be answered not closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Google thrives on redundancy&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO they'd better be deleted/hidden from view because they pollute the Internet and Google search index with redundant data and make finding answers harder because Google cannot decide which of them deserve to be ranked higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a misunderstanding of how Google works. Redundancy helps Google not hinders it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google still uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PageRank&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(or some secretive proprietary form of it)&lt;/em&gt;.  Linking to a page increases the &amp;quot;importance&amp;quot; of that page raises it list of search results.  SE use &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;nofollow&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to prevent the site being abused by spammers; but it still remains true that &amp;quot;rubbish&amp;quot; questions and answers will draw few links in and sink to the bottom of search results, where well written and authoritative answers will draw many links in and rise to the top.  Simply writing about a topic will never put you top of the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... this is why Wikipedia is ranked so highly despite ONLY being redundant and banning original research. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;citation needed&lt;/a&gt;): people link to Wikipedia a lot...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By discussing the content of that page, they inform Google of other synonyms on the same subject.  One primitive algorithm for this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LSA&lt;/a&gt;, though I believe Google uses something much more sophisticated.  By discussing and paraphrasing the content of another page and providing a link to it you help Google identify other relevant search terms and phrases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Top rated Google results can give really bad answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while ago I was setting up an NFS server so typed into Google the terms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;setting up nfs server&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top result was this dangerously wrong article: &lt;a href=&quot;https://vitux.com/install-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://vitux.com/install-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article suggests this:  &lt;strong&gt;(WARNING DO NOT DO THIS)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo chown nobody:nogroup /mnt/sharedfolder&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The users &lt;code&gt;nobody&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;nogroup&lt;/code&gt; are &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/a/329716/39039&quot;&gt;supposed to be unprivileged with access to nothing&lt;/a&gt;.  But the article suggest giving &lt;code&gt;nobody&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;nogroup&lt;/code&gt; access to your entire NFS share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a really good example of a situation where an &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; is easily available on Google and yet very wrong indeed.  How can a user know the difference between this situation and one where the answer they are reading is correct... U&amp;amp;L ultimately becomes more authoritative in many cases than Google results with conflicting view points presented on the same page and discussions about their correctness there for all to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2021-03-06T13:49:34.240" LastActivityDate="2021-03-06T13:49:34.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5756" CreationDate="2021-03-05T22:21:02.913" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A relevant issue I see is that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for which answers could be trivially Googled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is hard to define and harder to make universal enough. As others have pointed out, both here and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5280/410681&quot;&gt;on the main Meta&lt;/a&gt;, the search engine I use may be unavailable to the OP, or &lt;em&gt;to other readers&lt;/em&gt;; the results they get may be different from the results I get; the results may change in the future; some of the top results may contain bad advice; the material in most search results is not reviewed. Other points could probably be added to this list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second point concerns the scope of Stack Exchange: as stated on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour page&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about &lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;site topic&amp;gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not being unable to find any primary source, but &amp;quot;library&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;every&amp;quot; have apparently been part of Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange's mission since the beginning. Meaning that on-topic, answerable questions are welcome here, regardless of the answers they have elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some discussion on the subject &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/207/315749&quot;&gt;has happened on U&amp;amp;L Meta&lt;/a&gt;, too. Michael Mrozek's answer, positively received, states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All questions are welcome, even if they're easily googled, since future searchers will find us instead of whatever's on Google now, and hopefully our answer is more helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A special case may be the questions that happen to simply be really trivial, which are likely a subset of the questions search engines find lots of answers to. A &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot; close reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/86043/410681&quot;&gt;was proposed&lt;/a&gt;, but the idea was abandoned out of a too high potential for abuse. Regardless of whether we consider trivial questions an issue, it seems unlikely that new features will be introduced to address it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a personal note, among the results search engines show me, other things equal, I tend to prefer those that point to Stack Exchange sites. On average, they are less likely to exist solely for making money from advertising, they tend to have more useful comments and warnings and, despite the scoring system being far from perfect, they have a score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2021-03-06T15:23:56.710" LastActivityDate="2021-03-06T15:23:56.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-09T10:46:34.043" Score="2" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to discuss whether or not there is a difference between querying historic design decisions and asking for opinions.  The difference is subtle enough... &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;why should I ...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; can often be opinion based.  &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Why did ... happen&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is often a matter of documented fact(?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own feeling on the matter is that historic decision logic was, at the time, a matter of &lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt; of authors and software venders.  Yet this decision logic is often well documented, particularly where a significant change occurs after first release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;why did ... change to ...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is commonly going to be documented somewhere such as the software's issues database or release notes.  This makes the final decision a matter of historic fact, not opinion.  IE: the documented opinion at the time becomes historic fact.  It can be answered in a factual way not a historic way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278474/why-is-netstat-deprecated&quot;&gt;Why is netstat deprecated?&lt;/a&gt; is something a little borderline yet the fact netstat has not been maintained appears to be clean enough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/605084/why-linux-module-api-isnt-backward-compatible/605111#605111&quot;&gt;Why Linux module API isn&amp;#39;t backward compatible?&lt;/a&gt; This appears to be a decision plainly &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/stable-api-nonsense.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;documented&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Greg Kroah-Hartman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side I note that the definition of &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is subtly different from saying that fact-based answers are possible.  Frustratingly, deciding which questions are likely to draw opinion over fact feels very much a matter of opinion.  Unless a question has begun to draw opinion based answers it seems a very subjective categorisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2021-03-11T14:03:24.740" LastActivityDate="2021-03-12T06:39:29.210" Title="Is historic reasoning by really opinion based?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5760" CreationDate="2021-03-11T12:44:07.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own feeling on the matter is that historic decision logic was, at the time, a matter of opinion of authors and software venders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may have been based on the opinion of the author at the time. Worse, it may be that the author decided on a whim, or didn't even consider alternatives. Or there might have been real practical arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which ever it is, for historic cases, the answer often is something like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Because this guy made it so in the 70's&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which is based on fact, not opinion. A more useful answer would continue with &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;...because at the time, these constraints made that the sensible choice, and they've said that in public [link].&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;...but I've looked at these and these records and can't find why they chose that.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But historic facts are still facts, and can be supported with evidence in the form of design documents, archived emails or other sorts of statements from the original author. They're not something that is based on the opinion of whoever presents those facts or answers questions on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(That applies even if the person answering the question is the person who made the original choice based on their personal opinion. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;It's like that because I felt like it was a nice way to do it back then&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is still a factual statement. An addition to the tone of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;...but on retrospect, I think that was a mistake&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, would appear to be somewhat opinion-based, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if there are no facts or supporting evidence to be found, any answers other than &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;It seems we don't know&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; are likely to be somewhat weak, based on conjectures and interpretation of the person writing the answer. (And people sometimes do have a tendency to guess when there are not enough facts available.) But it's not really the question's or questioner's fault if an answer can not be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2021-03-11T12:58:31.097" LastActivityDate="2021-03-11T12:58:31.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5760" CreationDate="2021-03-12T06:39:29.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless we diligently remove all answers which are effectively non-authoritative opinion, such posts will devolve into people guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the first example - the netstat question. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/278474/why-is-netstat-deprecated#comment484212_278481&quot;&gt;OP has clarified&lt;/a&gt; that they want know why the developers deprecated it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted, highly-upvoted answer is garbage in that respect. Its main source is a blog post from a certain Doug Vitale. But! That blog post does not say anything about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;netstat&lt;/code&gt; is deprecated. (Also: Who is Doug Vitale? What authority do they have for speaking about &lt;code&gt;netstat&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;) The other source in that answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/questions/458628/should-i-quit-using-ifconfig&quot;&gt;the Server Fault post&lt;/a&gt; mentioned at the very end. Nothing about the maintainers' opinions there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have two equally useless answers, both of which have been upvoted, one of which has been accepted, despite &lt;em&gt;not answering the question&lt;/em&gt;. How is that an acceptable situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, every now and then we might have the odd &amp;quot;why did they do X&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;why didn't they do Y&amp;quot; question for which an authoritative source can be found. Sometimes the authority themselves post the answer. But I contend that's not the general case, so I am in favour of keeping such questions closed until someone can prove that such a source exists, at which point of course we can re-open the question and have that posted as an answer. Why allow garbage to accumulate, when we can gate the post until an acceptable answer arrives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I might be able to find out if I wanted to, but that's something the answer should include in the first place.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2021-03-12T06:39:29.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-12T20:25:08.350" Score="11" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several users are associating the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exec&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exec&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exec&lt;/a&gt; tag (244 questions) with Find's &lt;code&gt;-exec&lt;/code&gt; option. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bexec%5D+and+%5Bfind%5D&quot;&gt;Find &amp;amp;&amp;amp; Exec&lt;/a&gt; tagged questions amounts to almost the half of that value (105 questions). The tag's description, however, does not include that meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exec() family of functions replaces the current process image with a new process image, retaining the pid and pipes of the old process. This tag is also used for the shell built-in which can be used to replace the current shell with a program or various redirection-related stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we remove the tag where its usage is inappropriate or would it be preferable to include that meaning to the tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388654" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2021-03-15T21:46:56.070" LastActivityDate="2021-03-24T21:57:11.873" Title="Exec tag being used for Find questions" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5765" CreationDate="2021-03-17T11:47:27.423" Score="12" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I read the meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1172/are-answers-using-alternative-tools-not-welcome&quot;&gt;Are answers using alternative tools not welcome?&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm not sure if my question has nuances that the other doesn't. I have no issues if you consider this is a duplicate.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/639703/338177&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/639687/problems-iterating-over-several-bash-arrays-in-one-loop/639709#639709&quot;&gt;Problems iterating over several Bash arrays in one loop&lt;/a&gt; with an alternative solution that doesn't address the specific question, i.e. &lt;strong&gt;using arrays&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;. I purposefully used logic and tools not far away of OP's needs: bash and a loop, &lt;em&gt;ruling out arrays&lt;/em&gt;. It's not like I proposed a solution with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer aims to solve the underlying goal of OP, wich may be helpful if they didn't think of using different means to solve said goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I started to doubt if this is appropriate and if is fit to the site's answering policy. Would be this welcomed, encouraged maybe, or should I refrain to do this kind of thing in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastActivityDate="2021-03-27T23:41:58.663" Title="Answer with alternative solution not addressing the question directly" Tags="|discussion|questions|answers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2021-03-17T14:44:39.830" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise is that Stack's goal is to build a library of high-quality answers,&#xA;thus in general I think alternative answers are welcome, as long as they fit the site's scope — here, they should employ tools typical of a Unix system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your particular case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question at hand nicely asks &amp;quot;Some ideas?&amp;quot; at the end, complying with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;keep an open mind&lt;/a&gt; guideline.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bash, the tool you proposed, is a consolidated Unix tool, obviously.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which is in fact the very same tool the asker is using.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it cannot possibly be reproved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, some questions are framed as &amp;quot;Why doesn't X work&amp;quot;. I don't think it is fine to jump to an alternative approach without explaining why X doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/19907&quot;&gt;What makes grep consider a file to be binary?&lt;/a&gt; has a bunch of answers that do not explain what makes Grep consider a file as binary. The accepted answer merely touches the subject without fully addressing it. The only answer that fully explains it is sitting down there in 4th place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388654" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2021-03-17T15:18:23.573" LastActivityDate="2021-03-17T15:18:23.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2021-03-20T20:02:32.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackexchange has the problem that it tries, at the same time, to be a platform for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;compiling useful information in one place, so that it's useful if found by others later, possibly through a search engine; and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;providing answers and useful solutions to the particular cases of the individual askers. This also splits into&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2a. actually answering the question as asked; and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2b. providing a useful solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, these are not all the same thing: goal (2b) can be at odds with goal (1), since a question of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How to do X in situation S&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; can well be answered with &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;In that case, don't; do Y instead&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which isn't very useful for someone who comes later and actually needs to know about X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When faced with contradicting goals, the only option is to pick the one you feel is best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if one is interested in helping the asker, they should, IMO, do just that, even if it means throwing away some parts of the question as presented. On the other hand, if one wants to collect answers to questions, without regard to their context, they should answer the question as presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there's also the possibility of doing both, but that's more work.&#xA;In the case where there already are answers filling one goal, providing an answer that fills the other goal would be one choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2021-03-20T20:02:32.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2021-03-21T07:44:40.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer aims to solve the underlying goal of OP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer does this, then it is in fact an answer, and therefore we could argue that it is acceptable. Good answers should always start by addressing the OP’s attempt; in this case, other answers have already done this, so we could argue that it is still acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, your answer would be more than acceptable – it would be &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt; – &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; it was worded better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From actually reading the start of your answer, it is not clear how any of the issues above have been addressed: your answer lacks &lt;em&gt;context&lt;/em&gt;. Its first paragraph is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of dealing with arrays, I would use a file, which IMO has the advantage of keeping the data apart from the program. Easier to write and maintain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be clearer if it included an explanation at the start:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answers have addressed why your attempt with arrays does not work. This answer shows an alternative method to to perform the original task (printing the second and third elements).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This method still uses Bash and loops, but replaces arrays with files. This separates code and data, which makes it easier to write and maintain the code, and easier to change the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it perfectly clear that your post is actually an answer, and explains how it fits in with both the OP’s attempt and other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="438965" LastActivityDate="2021-03-21T07:44:40.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4917" CreationDate="2021-03-22T20:56:51.753" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have heard the tea &amp;quot;POSIX&amp;quot; be used to describe Unix and Linux. However, strictly speaking, that is not what POSIX means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;POSIX is a standard that most flavors of Unix and Linux comply with. Windows can be compliant via third party software (e.g. Cygwin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were making a dictionary, I would put &amp;quot;Unix or Linux&amp;quot; as a definition, but I do not recommend using it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;POSIX's Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; it says &amp;quot;Not to be confused with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unix-like&lt;/a&gt; which slm talks about in another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="462003" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T20:56:51.753" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-03-22T20:56:51.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5763" CreationDate="2021-03-24T21:57:11.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my mind, the &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; tag should be for questions with regard to the &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; command and its invocations (including the &lt;code&gt;-exec&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;-execdir&lt;/code&gt; arguments), uses, permutations, idiosyncracies, and foibles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, the &lt;code&gt;exec&lt;/code&gt; tag (as currently defined) should be for questions specifically about the system call, its uses, invocations, permutations, and foibles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we expand the scope of the tag meant for discussing the &lt;code&gt;exec()&lt;/code&gt; system call to include things which just happen to as a consequence of their use &lt;em&gt;invoke&lt;/em&gt; the system call, then tagging the system call itself is devoid of all meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I would be inclined to remove the &lt;code&gt;exec&lt;/code&gt; tags from such questions where it is present, and add the &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt; tag where it is absent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20246" LastActivityDate="2021-03-24T21:57:11.873" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2021-03-25T23:42:51.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often I'm looking for an answer and find, as one of the top Google hits, a StackOverflow or other StackExchange site question very similar to mine. And if none of the answers fit my particular situation, and I'm eventually able to solve my own problem, I'll add my answer to that question that's was high up on the Google search results, for the next guy, with an appropriate disclaimer that it wasn't exactly applicable to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hope that that's a valid use for SO and related sites, and I'd encourage you to continue as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2769" LastActivityDate="2021-03-25T23:42:51.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2021-03-27T23:07:09.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On most StackExchange sites, starting from StackOverflow and Unix &amp;amp; Linux, I usually read all answers until the end. Even the ones that are not upvoted, and also the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They often contain alternative solutions, advice, remarks, reminders, or best practices, and &amp;quot;you have not thought about this&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which make me feel it is totally appropriate to provide another solution: but you may have to give an explanation why you think it is the / a good or better answer to the OP question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may happen that the OP is forced by some untold reason not to use certain tools. However the ones coming after googling, with a similar question to solve, may not have the same constraints as the OP. In which case, alternative solutions are a real plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't count how many times I have not followed the accepted answer, but an alternative solution that fitted better. A LOT of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4175" LastEditorUserId="4175" LastEditDate="2021-03-27T23:41:58.663" LastActivityDate="2021-03-27T23:41:58.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-29T01:48:18.560" Score="-2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions for how to log out of this site once logged in, would be much appreciated.&#xA;Thanks for any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user463997" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2021-03-29T09:55:58.833" LastActivityDate="2021-03-29T09:55:58.833" Title="How to log out of Unix &amp; Linux" Tags="|support|login|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5772" CreationDate="2021-03-29T01:50:35.523" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should have a chat bubble that looks like the stack exchange logo you can click and then hit logout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dk2a8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dk2a8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174383" OwnerDisplayName="Zachary Brady" LastActivityDate="2021-03-29T01:50:35.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-01T14:10:35.703" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the classes of cookies after clicking Customize Settings used for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it doesn't proceed after clicking Customize Settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How may I close the small window for cookies, without making any choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QguAT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QguAT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="464517" LastActivityDate="2021-04-01T14:10:35.703" Title="How may I close the small window for cookies, without making any choice?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5783" CreationDate="2021-04-20T06:49:23.383" Score="-4" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I earlier using Kali Linux. I asked lot of questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt; tag. I had read &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5361/449077&quot;&gt;the answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linux isn't hard but, kali is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that I could use Kali more smoothly. When I was trying to install &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt;. I notice that it is very hard to install &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt;. So, why people says that &lt;code&gt;Kali is hard&lt;/code&gt;? While I get &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kali-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kali-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kali-linux&lt;/a&gt;  very smooth. I had only 10% knowledge of Linux that's why I had to ask very beginner type questions. Even, I left &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt; in a day cause, it was very harder. As I said I don't have much more knowledge of Linux that's why I am writing the question. While &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arch-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arch-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arch-linux&lt;/a&gt; is harder than why peoples are responding to arch questions not Kali's? So, arch is also for professionals. Most of users are ignoring Kali's questions but, not Arch's why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user449077" LastEditorDisplayName="user449077" LastEditDate="2021-04-20T11:53:42.303" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T14:34:56.613" Title="Arch Linux vs Kali Linux" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5777" CreationDate="2021-04-22T08:11:09.630" Score="7" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;During investigating question &amp;quot;why in screen session things display incorrectly&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/646177/9689&quot;&gt;symbols display wrong in `screen` - ascii or utf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found answer what is the reason (i.e. &lt;code&gt;export LC_PAPER=a4&lt;/code&gt;),&#xA;whoever I would love to figure out if there is a way to make this &amp;quot;reason&amp;quot; (i.e. &lt;code&gt;export LC_PAPER=a4&lt;/code&gt;) work correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I rewrite original question or make new question and link them to each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9689" LastActivityDate="2021-04-23T17:45:53.497" Title="Shall I edit question to new question or just make new question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5776" CreationDate="2021-04-22T09:52:45.483" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I would write a new question: significantly changing an existing one is likely confusing to users that have interacted with it and it feels wrong as soon as it is voted on or it has answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in this case it makes no big difference — there is currently one vote on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/646177/315749&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and no votes on the only answer (a community wiki with you as the only contributor). Nevertheless, I feel both the question and the answer can be useful as they currently stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am unable to think of any compelling reason to ever prefer significantly changing an existing question over posting a new one. Questions that turn out to be useless can be closed as off-topic. Edits that significantly change the meaning of posts make their history needlessly harder to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastActivityDate="2021-04-22T09:52:45.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5776" CreationDate="2021-04-23T17:45:53.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5777/117549&quot;&gt;fra-san&lt;/a&gt; that changing an existing question has risks. In this particular case, there are no other answers, and the existing answer is a self-answer, so I don't see any harm in editing the existing question to refine it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are free, however, so it'd also be reasonable to leave the existing Q&amp;amp;A (checking the box to accept it when you can), then linking a new question with the new goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-04-23T17:45:53.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-02T07:30:06.883" Score="7" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on Ask Ubuntu, we had &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/19467/158442&quot;&gt;a discussion&lt;/a&gt; somewhat recently due to the  frequent mistagging of &lt;code&gt;zoom&lt;/code&gt; (for the functionality of zooming in/out) vs &lt;code&gt;zoom-meeting&lt;/code&gt; (our tag for the Zoom video conferencing app).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zoom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zoom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zoom&lt;/a&gt; is rearing its head here as well, so, given AU's experience, I wonder if we should nip that problem in the bud by using a clearer tag name for the video conferencing app right from the start. I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zoom-meeting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zoom-meeting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zoom-meeting&lt;/a&gt; like on AU, but I'd welcome anything that's clearer than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zoom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zoom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zoom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2021-05-02T07:30:06.883" Title="Should the tag for the Zoom video conferencing app be [zoom] or [zoom-meeting] or something else?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5782" CreationDate="2021-05-03T17:06:50.663" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have tried to add the &lt;code&gt;bashrc&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;bash-profile&lt;/code&gt; tags to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/635893/how-to-fix-infinite-bash-loop-bashrc-bash-profile-when-ssh-ing-into-an-ec2-s/635895#635895&quot;&gt;How to fix infinite bash loop (bashrc + bash_profile) when ssh-ing into an ec2 server?&lt;/a&gt; but after clicking &amp;quot;save tag edits&amp;quot; the tags are not applied. I then tried adding the tags together with editing the question body via a normal edit, and even though the body was changed, the tags were not. My browser is Firefox 78.10.0esr, and since it also fails in safe-mode (with add-ons disabled), I'm wondering if it's a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally weird is that I can edit tags normally for other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388654" LastEditorUserId="388654" LastEditDate="2021-05-03T17:22:40.597" LastActivityDate="2021-05-03T17:22:40.597" Title="Cannot change tags of a particular question" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5781" CreationDate="2021-05-03T17:16:45.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the central issue here is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bashrc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bashrc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bashrc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash-profile&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash-profile&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash-profile&lt;/a&gt; are synonyms to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; tag, and the Question already has the bash tag, so you don't see any change. See the Synonyms section of: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/bash/info&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/bash/info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-05-03T17:16:45.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5775" CreationDate="2021-05-03T18:03:35.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to post this as an Answer, because I don't have any direct experience with Kali (or with Arch Linux, for that matter), so I'm not the target audience here. That won't stop me from speculating a bit, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond fra-san's point in the comment about the unanswered percentages being similar (I see ranges from ~28% for Debian, to ~35% for both Kali and Arch, to ~36% for Ubuntu), I think Kali users had a rough start at Stack Exchange. In 2015, when we &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3602/117549&quot;&gt;accepted their redirection from Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, there were already worrying signs: &amp;quot;so we can add them to our ignored tag list&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I don't entirely understand all the terrible Kali questions we've been seeing lately&amp;quot;. I see there are nearly twice as many deleted Kali questions than deleted Arch questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story continued, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5360/117549&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won&amp;#39;t people help me?&lt;/a&gt;, saying &amp;quot;Kali Linux is a distribution for professional penetration testers who are already very familiar with Linux&amp;quot; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4640/117549&quot;&gt;What should we do about Kali Linux questions?&lt;/a&gt;, saying &amp;quot;It's well-known that we have a quality problem in the kali-linux tag&amp;quot; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4829/splash-screen-test-for-kali-linux-questions&quot;&gt;Splash screen test for kali-linux questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5257/why-are-kali-questions-hated-so-much&quot;&gt;Why are Kali questions hated so much?&lt;/a&gt;, and finally with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5530/117549&quot;&gt;Yet another Kali Discussion (Working Title)&lt;/a&gt; saying &amp;quot;I wonder if we can find a way, as a community, to direct people away from Kali without telling them &amp;quot;Kali is great!&amp;quot; and without requiring such opinionated responses&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what happened is that we got an influx of poorly-asked questions which then got downvoted, closed, and/or deleted, and also (I suspect) caused many users (potential Answerers) to ignore the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-05-03T18:03:35.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-06T13:49:04.537" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am thinking about asking Linux questions that run with Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL). Can I ask questions that can apply to WSL and the &amp;quot;raw&amp;quot; distro?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="435523" LastActivityDate="2021-05-06T13:49:04.537" Title="Can questions about Windows subsystem for linux be asked here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2021-05-07T14:51:50.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-12T10:16:21.187" Score="21" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or has reviewing become harder with the changed interface? It now takes two clicks where I'm sure it used to take only one. Not a lot of difference perhaps, but enough to put me off. I've tried it but the new process does nothing for me, and I've now pretty much abandoned review queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A button for each of &amp;quot;I'm done&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;No action needed&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Skip&amp;quot; would be most efficient. Oh, though wasn't that how it used to be, so perhaps someone will point me to the reasons behind the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2021-05-12T12:17:47.043" LastActivityDate="2021-05-12T12:17:47.043" Title="Reviewing has become harder" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|review|user-interface|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-19T16:05:17.707" Score="4" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;After logging on this morning, I noticed that my fonts (using Brave) had all switched back to whatever SE was using before. Is it just me or was the Ubuntu font removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="363044" LastActivityDate="2021-05-19T16:05:17.707" Title="Site fonts on Linux" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-28T14:14:56.673" Score="22" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering why so many people recently are putting their question in the title, and only supporting information in the body text. (It used to be that the question itself belonged in the body, and the title was used as a summary, or hook, to draw people to the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've discovered - by asking my own question recently - that the prompts seem to have changed. Now people are prompted,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Title: &amp;quot;Be specific and imagine you’re asking a question to another person&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Body: &amp;quot;Include all the information someone would need to answer your question&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this expected? Is this right? And if not can we have it changed so that people are encouraged to summarise in the title and put their question in the question body? Or is it just me that finds a question placed at the end of a body of text more helpful that lost in the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure that even our moderators are necessarily aware of this. For example from today, &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Please edit your question and […] ask a question […]&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, where the question is nicely phrased in the title (but not in the body). It's not the first one of these I've seen in the last few days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2021-05-28T16:09:03.893" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T13:25:05.887" Title="Why has the title been usurped as the question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5788" CreationDate="2021-06-02T00:27:19.487" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware of this shift and I admit I found the change a little unexpected and jarring at first.  But I don't really agree with the thrust of this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one thing the question isn't &amp;quot;hidden&amp;quot; in that big bold block of large-print text at the top of the page.  Yes, when viewed like an email, it is slightly odd.  But once you know about it, it's easy to adjust to... so I see no actual problem with this form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do feel it's had a positive impact in another way though.  I've lost count of the number of &amp;quot;questions&amp;quot; written as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; ... and &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; happened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Yes, obviously it did, that's what it's supposed to do, now what were you expecting, or what were you trying to do, or otherwise why are you here asking your &amp;quot;question&amp;quot;.  Incidentally it does help to ask a question when you ask a question&amp;quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean to say is this:  Prompting people to package their actual question into a short succinct one-liner as prompted them to tell us what their question really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it's also reducing the number of &amp;quot;Please help!!!&amp;quot; title's I've seen.  It's reduced the number of times I've been wholly disappointed by a question.  I really hate clickbait.  The correlation between question and title was previously pretty poor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary I don't think we should push for the prompts to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as writing questions myself, or advice to others...  Yes, it's not a bad idea to copy-paste your question title to the very last line and ensure the rest of the question nicely builds to it and the wording still makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would advise everyone to do this as it's a great check that your title is meaningful in context of everything else you've written.  It also scans more freely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2021-06-03T13:25:05.887" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T13:25:05.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5792" CreationDate="2021-06-03T11:36:34.243" Score="13" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm opening this post in reference to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/652370/access-ext4-disk-that-lost-superblock-and-its-backups/652381&quot;&gt;Access ext4 disk that lost superblock and its backups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only person who answered seem to be a a highly regarded member of this community, not just by his rep but checking his profile too.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I am new to Unix SE but not new to SE, despite the fact the sum of all the rep i have on the various SE communities is still far lower than his, but I have been an avid SE reader way before making an account.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This said, my issue with this situation is that i feel like we started with the wrong foot and I want to know if i acted correctly or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments he asks some things that i thought were clear from the question, but I'm always up for improvements and clarifications so i answered properly. He then proceeds to answer my question with what seems to be a series of tips rather than an answer (at least, that's what it looks like to me) all of which I had done already, when i clarify that i had already done what he was suggesting (in particular that i was using copies of the image i made from the disk) he tells me he can't find in my answer where i wrote that i was working in images and not on the disk.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I copy the part of text where I said that, but i also wrote that it was not explicit and that i was implying it from the fact i made a duplicate of the image to test on. I then edited my answer to make it clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this he answered by linking the edit history and pointing out that previously it didn't mention it at all, and this is what baffled me because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I copied the previous text in my comment, so it's not like i was trying to hide something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I admitted I was implying it and it was not explicitly written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged the answer as not an answer and asked the answerer to be more thorough in reading what i write. I now see that the flag was declined, therefore i must ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was I wrong in flagging it as not an answer? Or better, why was i wrong to flag it as not an answer?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I want to make it clear i did not flag it as not an answer out of spite, but I don't think that can be considered a proper answer when none of the suggestions is a solution, just tips on how to attempt data rescue. He mentions &lt;code&gt;mkfs -S /dev/sda3&lt;/code&gt; but as i said when i do that the partition is working again but it's empty. To me it seems like that answer belonged in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This said, was my behavior correct in general?&#xA;I want to make it absolutely clear (i feel like i'm overusing this word in this post but...) I do not want to &amp;quot;wage war&amp;quot; on someone, I always respect people who try to help and in particular i see this person has always been very helpful in the community and i don't want a misunderstanding to make me be on bad terms with someone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262038" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-06-03T11:59:21.927" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T13:11:39.003" Title="Was my behavior correct in this situation?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answers|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5791" CreationDate="2021-06-03T13:56:14.143" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, thank you for taking the discussion to Meta instead of in comments! This is the right place to hash out &amp;quot;meta&amp;quot; level discussions like this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, sorry to hear about your troubles with the disk!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tackle your questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was I wrong in flagging it as not an answer? Or better, why was i wrong to flag it as not an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that you saw it more as &amp;quot;tips&amp;quot; than a step-by-step recovery procedure. It gets to be a judgement call as to when an Answer is not an Answer. When I was learning the review queues, I was pointed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/your-answer-is-in-another-castle-when-is-an-answer-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?&lt;/a&gt; where the &amp;quot;apple&amp;quot; analogy stuck with me. In my personal opinion, the answer has enough &amp;quot;there&amp;quot; there to qualify it as an Answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possibly confusing the disk /dev/sda with the partition /dev/sda3 in some actions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a suggestion to restore the partition table before retrying a mkfs command&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your votes are yours to cast, but this is a situation where I might recommend a downvote -- if you think that the answer isn't helpful to your situation. Of course, a clarifying comment or two -- like you did -- can point out the misunderstandings or things you've already tried. I know I've answered questions where it turned out I had missed the point, or mis-read the question, or they had already tried it, or an obviously-better answer turns up. (I have 121 deleted answers? oh my!) Sometimes answers are helpful to the situation, and sometimes they're not. Some authors will delete posts that don't turn out to be helpful; others will leave them around in case they're helpful to someone else -- there's a fine balance between solving the one specific problem that's asked about and being generally helpful to the next few thousand people that see it in their search for a solution to a similar scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was my behavior correct in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can see, yes. You were desperately trying to find a solution to your problem and found an Answer that didn't seem helpful and so you tried to point out the parts that were missed or wrong. My only constructive criticism here would be to remind you that you're on a site of volunteers, so if you feel like they're not &amp;quot;getting&amp;quot; your Question, disengage and take whatever value you can from the answer. Following it up with a Meta question to double-check your behavior tells me that you care about the community and its standards, so I certainly appreciate that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T13:56:14.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5791" CreationDate="2021-06-03T14:18:08.830" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was I wrong in flagging it as not an answer? Or better, why was i wrong to flag it as not an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; flag is incorrect in this context.  The answer is a direct response to your question intended to help you and others in  your situation.  I would use the &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; flag more for situations where someone has posted a follow up question as an answer, or if they are so totally off topic that the presence of their answer could be considered destructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, if you feel an &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; was really not answering your question and significantly missed the topic, then down-votes are much more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was my behavior correct in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any real area of concern there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Generally&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd always be cautious about taking high rep as meaningful in this context.  &lt;strong&gt;I infer nothing about the specific high-rep user in question&lt;/strong&gt;.  High rep can be achieved through sustained high activity and doesn't necessarily show a person's knowledge of a particular topic.  So as a general rule, if you feel a high rep person has completely missed the point, don't let that &amp;quot;magic k&amp;quot; on their rep intimidate you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tone is very hard to guess, so I can't tell what impact you feel this has had on you.  But wherever possible you should avoid such interactions bothering you and &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Keep Cool&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.  People make mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Defining &amp;quot;being helpful&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say someone calls out &amp;quot;throw me a float&amp;quot;, and you see no floats around, but you think the person could be drowning.  You do see a rope tied to a tree, so you pick up the other end and throw it to them.  That's &amp;quot;being helpful&amp;quot;, even if you're not 100% certain the person was drowning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly on StackExchange, where future readers are expected, this not only helps the person reading, but even if not, it can help future readers who really are drowning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously offering them two-for-one on new shoes, or shouting out &amp;quot;has anyone else having this problem?&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; classed as helpful in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's say you find a question asking for &amp;quot;float&amp;quot; and an answer offering &amp;quot;rope&amp;quot;.  The two things are intrinsically very different and you can't see any connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly fine to down-vote it: your opinion matters. Indeed it might be your own specific technical knowledge that lets you make that judgement call.  Others might know something you don't and put their own up-vote against your down-vote.  That's fine too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators should not delete it:  It's unfair to expect a moderator to know every possible technial subject and to know the specifics of when a &amp;quot;float&amp;quot; can be replaced by a &amp;quot;rope&amp;quot;.  If they were to delete it, then they could be destroying a very useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2021-06-17T13:11:39.003" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T13:11:39.003" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5756" CreationDate="2021-06-04T08:46:39.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;tldr; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often these Stackexchange pages are ranked amongst the highest results by search engines, so any questions who's answer may have been easily found in a google search should be welcomed here with open arms. Often times the actual answer is displayed in the results page of a google search, so that is a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real issue is that we should be concerned about is the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quality of the answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. After all, this is a learning environment, and there truly are dumb questions in learning environments, but there are an abundance of dumb answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255139" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T08:46:39.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-17T10:07:25.227" Score="8" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September update:&lt;/strong&gt; Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from the CM Team explaining why it wasn't selected). Go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;the main post on MSE&lt;/a&gt; for a list of the ads that are being displayed. And stay tuned for 2022's edition for the next opportunity to submit more ad proposals!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AUGUST NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; This post has now been locked and new submissions are not being accepted. Ad submissions are now undergoing review by the Community Team, and this question will be updated once the ads are live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're almost halfway through 2021, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;in case you missed it&lt;/a&gt;, Community Promotion Ads are gonna be a bit different this time! &lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: submit and vote for ad proposals before August 2nd!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, or on other sites in the network. They can show up in the right sidebar, or in banners in question pages. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be considered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99341/208518&quot;&gt;the Community Management Team&lt;/a&gt; to be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. The goal of this initiative is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. You may want to promote external resources, or Meta guidance for newcomers, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This initiative has an added goal of providing your community with &lt;em&gt;an opportunity to showcase exemplary questions from your main site, as well as frequently-linked-to guides from your Meta site&lt;/em&gt;. While the latter makes sense to be shown solely on this site, the former can be shown all across the network. These should avoid hot button topics, and instead focus more on evergreen questions that show what your community’s all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. Historically, we've reset the ads every year — since this is the first run of a new format, we'll run the ads collected in this post through the end of 2021 and reassess the rotation cycle then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a previous exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Are there restrictions to the ads I can post?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All proposed ads need to abide by &lt;a href=&quot;/conduct&quot;&gt;our Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/advertising/guidelines&quot;&gt;Our ad creative guidelines&lt;/a&gt; also generally apply (note that the first 2 bullet points on the “Tracking” section do not apply, and a lot of the guidelines surrounding claims, comparisons, proof, etc., while still applicable, may not be particularly relevant). Finally, ads can not be promoting products nor soliciting programmer time or resources for: knowledge sharing or collaboration tools for technologists, or for sites where ad buyers are primarily targeting technologists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Each answer must relate to a single ad submission.&lt;/strong&gt; Please do not post multiple ad submissions in the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers must be in one of the below formats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have an image for the ad you want to display on this site (must be the case for ads to external sources):&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Image name. Example: &amp;quot;community_ad_name_300x250&amp;quot;][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: https://image-url&#xA;  [2]: https://clickthrough-url&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to create an ad for a question from your main or meta site, to be advertised on this or other sites in the network (staff will generate a frame for the ad with this site's theme, for brand consistency):&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Question title  &#xA;Question URL&#xA;Ad size (right sidebar or banner ads)&#xA;Site(s) to be displayed in. Can be:&#xA;  - &amp;quot;self&amp;quot; for ads to be displayed on this site&#xA;  - &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; for ads to be displayed all over the network&#xA;  - a specific subset of sites&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels for right sidebar ads or 728 x 90 pixels for banner ads. Images can be double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF, PNG, or JPG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Selection process&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This post will remain open for ad submissions and voting until August 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;. At that point, the question will be closed/locked, and no more ad submissions will be accepted. For ad submissions to be considered for selection by the Community Management Team, they must have &lt;strong&gt;a minimum score of 6 at the time the post was closed/locked for submissions.&lt;/strong&gt; Given this is the first run with this new format, we may adjust the score threshold to be a bit lower if we see ads struggling to get to it (especially if the ads are not getting downvotes) by the time submissions and voting are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reporting statistics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once this cycle is over, at the end of 2021, the Community Management Team will provide you with reporting statistics, as described in the &amp;quot;reporting&amp;quot; section of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to use the question's comment section to ask for any clarifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastEditorUserId="93139" LastEditDate="2021-09-09T11:28:52.397" LastActivityDate="2021-09-09T11:28:52.397" Title="Community Ads for 2021" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5795" CreationDate="2021-06-17T23:46:00.447" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mattermodeling.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1LCZs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Common topics on Matter Modeling Stack Exchange&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78288" LastEditorUserId="93139" LastEditDate="2021-08-12T10:59:37.560" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T10:59:37.560" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-17T23:46:00.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-24T05:26:16.430" Score="15" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mangling code or tab separated data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This    is  tab delimited   data&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rendering of code blocks break tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is bad for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for code that require tabs (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC1040&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for posts where users paste &lt;code&gt;tab&lt;/code&gt; delimited data.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;and in general ... rude :P&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When respondents copy the data or code from a question they get spaces instead of tabs, even if questioner has used tabs. If one click edit the tabs are present, but not in the HTML rendering. Code snippets also get a four space indentation where tab is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;code&gt;tab&lt;/code&gt;s be preserved or at least be an opt out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CSS has &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/tab-size&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tab-size&lt;/a&gt; which can be used as a optional configuration for those who want 1 or 32 spaces per tab or what ever :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://caniuse.com/?search=tab-size&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://caniuse.com/?search=tab-size&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140633" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2021-06-26T13:46:46.490" LastActivityDate="2021-06-26T13:46:46.490" Title="TAB not preserved in code blocks" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|bug|status-review|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-21T15:41:29.310" Score="12" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple question in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not (yet) advocating to any side. Maybe after reading some well formuled thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6030" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2021-07-31T10:12:47.810" LastActivityDate="2021-07-31T10:23:52.520" Title="Should we allow PowerShell questions and answers on unix.SE?" Tags="|discussion|linux|community|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5800" CreationDate="2021-07-21T16:15:06.337" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any shell that can be installed and run on *nix systems is on topic here as long as it is being run on *nix. So, &amp;quot;how can I use PowerShell to do foo on Linux?&amp;quot; is fine since PowerShell is actually available for Linux. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-core-on-linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Installing PowerShell on Linux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if people are using this on *nix, then their questions should be on topic here. And if someone is asking a general &amp;quot;how can I do this&amp;quot; question, then an answer using PowerShell should be fine, as long as the answer would actually work on a *nix system and isn't depending on any Windows-specific resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5125/22222&quot;&gt;we have decided that WSL is on topic&lt;/a&gt; and I would imagine WSL users are even more likely to use PowerShell (I guess). With all this in mind, I don't really see any reason to make PowerShell off topic. It's a shell that can be used on *nix, so how is it different to any other non-standard shell like &lt;code&gt;fish&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;zsh&lt;/code&gt; or anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, note that this site isn't dedicated to free/libre software. UNIX is very much non-free and a lot of our content and scope is about that. The fact that something is owned by a private company is not a relevant piece of information when deciding if it is on topic here. Nor is whether or not something is open sourced or free software. Yes, most of us here have a strong liking for the free software movement but it isn't an integral part of what this site does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I vote for allowing PowerShell as long as it is being used on a *nix system, just like we do for any other tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2021-07-23T12:42:50.740" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T12:42:50.740" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5800" CreationDate="2021-07-27T12:12:03.550" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions about scripting or programming are on-topic for U&amp;amp;L, especially if they're relatively simple text- or data-processing tasks.   Commonly shell, sed, awk, Perl and Python.  C, C++, Java, and many others too...but any except the simplest questions get referred to Stack Overflow - as would many Perl or Python questions (like writing a web app in Mojolicious or Django)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Powershell is only available for one unix-like system (Linux), is well-suited to Windows scripting tasks, but not well-suited to *nix scripting tasks, nor is it a language that many here will have much expertise in[1].   *nix systems can run .BAT or .CMD scripts with &lt;code&gt;command.com&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;cmd.exe&lt;/code&gt; via DOS emulators or WINE, but that doesn't mean questions about batch-file scripting are appropriate for U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Powershell questions are, IMO, more appropriate for &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;https://superuser.com/&lt;/a&gt; or perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; (or in rare instances, &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com/&lt;/a&gt;).   And Powershell questions will get better answers on those sites because there are more people on them who use it regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] I predict that the most common answer to any &amp;quot;How do I do X in powershell&amp;quot; questions will be &amp;quot;Why are you using powershell for that?  Use bash/zsh/awk/sed/grep/perl/python instead&amp;quot;. And then it will turn out that the OP isn't even using any kind of *nix, they're using Windows.  We already get lots of questions from people trying to do things in bash that they should use a text-processing tool or language for, but at least they're on-topic because they're doing it on some kind of *nix or using *nix tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7696" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2021-07-31T10:23:52.520" LastActivityDate="2021-07-31T10:23:52.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-29T11:49:28.307" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since a couple of days I noted that reputation changes points message is not showing or disappearing swiftly (I'm not sure yet wich is it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only see that the number is higher or lower, without any message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me (my internet connection is quite unreliable), or is a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="456781" LastEditDate="2021-07-29T14:11:19.203" LastActivityDate="2021-07-29T14:11:19.203" Title="Reputation changes points message not showing or disappearing swiftly" Tags="|discussion|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5800" CreationDate="2021-07-31T10:22:37.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question initially mentioned only Powershell &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, not questions. I'm not sure if that's what was meant, but I see a distinction there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see why questions about Powershell &lt;em&gt;on Unix-likes&lt;/em&gt; would be off-topic. Then again, I have no idea if anyone here has any expertise in answering them, so anyone asking about Powershell in general might get better answers on superuser.com or where-ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers using Powershell to general questions about how to do something on Unix-likes, without specifying any tools, would also seem to be equally on-topic exactly the same way answers using e.g. Ruby would be. That said, I might consider downvoting them because most Unix-likes probably don't have Powershell, giving such answers a rather limited usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2021-07-31T10:22:37.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-02T13:03:56.860" Score="10" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;The GNOME project adopted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-versioning-scheme/4235&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;new versioning scheme&lt;/a&gt; last year because with GTK 4 they found it inappropriate to continue having the major number tied to GTK version. The next version following GNOME 3.38 became GNOME 40.0 instead of GNOME 3.40. They released GNOME 41.alpha in July this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this change, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome3&lt;/a&gt; appears literally applicable only to GNOME 3.x. This year, 46 questions were asked with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome3&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;strong&gt;Is having a separate tag for GNOME 3.x still appropriate?&lt;/strong&gt; Shouldn't the change in versioning be reflected and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome3&lt;/a&gt; tag dropped altogether by making it a tag synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 41 watchers of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome3&lt;/a&gt; tag in comparison to 114 watchers of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome&lt;/a&gt; tag. Considering that the tags practically stand for the same for new questions, this unreasonably punishes the poster of the question for choosing a more precise tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome3&lt;/a&gt; stands for &amp;quot;GNOME after GNOME 2&amp;quot;, merging &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome3&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome&lt;/a&gt; allows to prevent confusion under the new versioning scheme. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome2&lt;/a&gt; tag still allows to mark questions relevant to GNOME 2, so this should not be an issue. Anyway, there were no questions related to GNOME 2 this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I was trying to avoid hoarding multiple questions in one, but the issue of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome2&lt;/a&gt; tag is related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 was a &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-versioning-scheme/4235&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rewrite the world event&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, which GNOME intends to avoid in the future. Tweaking and troubleshooting GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 was different experience. The change caused MATE and Cinnamon into existence. In GNOME 3, there is GNOME Flashback (former GNOME Fallback) session, which is still different as it &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tries to follow the current GNOME development&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many old questions about GNOME 2, starting as early as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/363/423679&quot;&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt;. However, original authors of questions used the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gnome2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gnome2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gnome2&lt;/a&gt; tag for the first time in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/108075/423679&quot;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt; and for the last time in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/371192/423679&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;. It was used by the original authors only 6 times. In the rest 14 cases, the questions were re-tagged by someone else, in most cases long after the question was asked. &lt;strong&gt;Should we go on with such re-tagging?&lt;/strong&gt; The latest question was asked 5 years ago and there are no watchers of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be fair to differentiate between GNOME 2 and GNOME 3, but such differentiation hardly exists in questions by now, other then by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the version specified in the question and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;by the time of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423679" LastEditorUserId="423679" LastEditDate="2021-08-03T09:51:29.840" LastActivityDate="2021-08-10T17:53:16.990" Title="Should version specific tags for [gnome] be abandoned now that GNOME changed versioning?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-03T14:26:50.350" Score="16" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;h4&gt;Should keys represented with &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; tags be always uppercase?&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/4416/revisions&quot;&gt;this edit to &amp;quot;Delete from cursor to end of line in &lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;d&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;$&lt;/kbd&gt; was changed into &lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;$&lt;/kbd&gt;. I thought the answer was incorrect since &lt;code&gt;d&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;D&lt;/code&gt; commands are different in Vi; I had to read the edit note by AdminBee to understand the reason for the change, namely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keys are labelled uppercase, so &amp;quot;uppercase D&amp;quot; should be &amp;quot;Shift&amp;quot;-&amp;quot;D&amp;quot; in  tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it makes sense, I think it does more harm than good. I want to roll it back, but first I'd like to invite more opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388654" LastEditorUserId="388654" LastEditDate="2021-08-03T23:39:58.657" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T08:25:08.380" Title="Should keys represented with &lt;kbd&gt; tags be always uppercase?" Tags="|discussion|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5809" CreationDate="2021-08-03T15:22:50.410" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should keys represented with &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; tags be always uppercase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No — they should probably represent the exact case that is needed for the function. Where it could be confusing (&lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt; vs &lt;kbd&gt;I&lt;/kbd&gt; vs &lt;kbd&gt;l&lt;/kbd&gt; vs &lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;o&lt;/kbd&gt; vs &lt;kbd&gt;O&lt;/kbd&gt; vs &lt;kbd&gt;0&lt;/kbd&gt;), it might be worth a parenthetical to spell out the letter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2021-08-05T11:51:45.617" LastActivityDate="2021-08-05T11:51:45.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5809" CreationDate="2021-08-04T08:12:53.177" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, definitely no. In particular, showing a command as &lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;W&lt;/kbd&gt; is misleading; &lt;code&gt;D&lt;/code&gt; already does something different than &lt;code&gt;dw&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, vi is a terminal program, it doesn't see keypresses as such, only &lt;em&gt;characters&lt;/em&gt;. It doesn't care if you use Caps Lock instead of Shift to get the uppercase &lt;code&gt;D&lt;/code&gt;, so presenting the command as &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt; is beside the point too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took the liberty of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/4416/revisions&quot;&gt;editing the answer&lt;/a&gt;. The original didn't have the &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; tags either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I would write &lt;code&gt;^D&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;Ctrl-D&lt;/code&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+D&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt; and such with an uppercase D, because uppercase letters are somewhat easier to tell apart, and I think it's commonly understood that something like that doesn't involve Shift.&#xA;Also I'm pretty sure Caps Lock doesn't usually affect that use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Of course someone could make weirder changes to their keymap, as in arrange for &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;A&lt;/kbd&gt; to send a &lt;code&gt;^Z&lt;/code&gt; instead, but that's likely to be rather unusual.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2021-08-05T11:52:33.590" LastActivityDate="2021-08-05T11:52:33.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5809" CreationDate="2021-08-04T15:32:24.470" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5811/377345&quot;&gt;@ilkkachu's answer&lt;/a&gt; that in this case, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/4416/2&quot;&gt;original typesetting&lt;/a&gt; of the answer using &amp;quot;code&amp;quot; formatting rather than &amp;quot;keystrokes&amp;quot; makes more sense, and my edit should probably have been to revert to that typesetting. Still, we need to find a consistent style on how to represent keystrokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the impression (but cannot back it up with statistical evidence) that a widely accepted convention - which in particular novices will have often seen - is that a key combination statement written as &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; means to press the &amp;quot;Control&amp;quot; key and then the &amp;quot;c&amp;quot; key &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; shift, and if a &amp;quot;Shift&amp;quot; key were needed, write this as &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt;, and that this is the case because on many keyboards, the keys &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; labelled upper-case. So, I would vote in favor of this representation &lt;em&gt;when expressing key combinations as used in keyboard shortcuts&lt;/em&gt;, but not when it comes to entering commands on text entry prompts as in &lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;less&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar problem is the representation of &amp;quot;key strokes&amp;quot; vs. &amp;quot;key chords&amp;quot;, i.e. how to distinguish a key combination where the keys have to be pressed simultaneously (or the later ones at least while the former ones are still down) from a combination where one of the keys has to be released before the later keys are pressed. One could think about using &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;X&lt;/kbd&gt; to mean one thing and &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;X&lt;/kbd&gt; to mean the other thing, but again a consensus is needed for which means which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, we could opt to remove the keystroke typesetting altogether and adopt the notation used in the Emacs documentation (although - as also noted by @Quasimodo in a comment - it is not easy to understand for people inexperienced with Emacs, which likely make up a majority of possible readers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-09-16T08:25:08.380" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T08:25:08.380" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-04T16:13:02.860" Score="2" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, let me get this straight. Posting links is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; against SE rules. However suddenly and it's the first time I hear this: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;posting a link to a Google search could most certainly be considered &lt;strong&gt;rude&lt;/strong&gt; by many users&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've got a lot of experience of dealing with users (as a support manager, as a systems administrator, as a frequent user of various help related forums, as a person who helps his acquaintances and family) and I've never ever got any indication that people were offended when being showed a Google search which resolved their issue. The only reaction which I got was &amp;quot;Wow, it's that simple!&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, someone has &lt;strong&gt;personally&lt;/strong&gt; decided what users of this website may consider &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; or not, which sounds a little bit hypocritical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, in a number of cases when I posted links to appropriate Google searches (when they were not momentarily deleted) I was thanked and the questions were resolved automatically without &lt;strong&gt;reposting the information already available on the Internet here on SE&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wonder:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why am I being threatened with a ban for posting links to google.com despite no rule on SE forbidding it implicitly or explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who and based on what actually decides what constitutes &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; and for how &amp;quot;many users&amp;quot; by posting such links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People often post lmgtfy.com links on forums as a sort of mild mocking (it's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; mocking per se, it's just a reminder that Google still works and does help too often than not). No one has ever called such posters &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; or any similar words. Last time I checked &lt;strong&gt;it's not bad to teach people how to search the web&lt;/strong&gt;. I see no reason to copy the contents of the web to SE just for the sake of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: people continue to ask questions related to NVIDIA GPUs under Linux and in 99% of cases they get zero help, because NVIDIA has its own Linux related forums. Is redirecting them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux/148&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux/148&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot;? Maybe instead we should leave them high and dry and get no answers at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: people here do ask questions for which we have no one to resolve them in any capacity, yet a simple Google search &lt;strong&gt;would have solved the problem for them&lt;/strong&gt;. I presume the consensus here will be to remain &amp;quot;polite&amp;quot; instead of being &amp;quot;helpful&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot;, correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm appalled. A URL makes me a &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260833" LastActivityDate="2023-04-09T16:22:32.203" Title="&quot;Posting a link to a Google search could most certainly be considered rude by many users&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5813" CreationDate="2021-08-04T17:34:19.330" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for posting this Artem because there seems to be a serious misunderstanding. We discussed this with the other mods when you first mentioned a &amp;quot;ban&amp;quot; and we haven't been able to understand what you are referring to. If any of us said something that made you feel you were being &amp;quot;threatened with a ban&amp;quot;, then we must have not expressed ourselves clearly. As far as we can tell, none of us ever &lt;em&gt;knowingly&lt;/em&gt; threatened you with any ban nor was a ban ever in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the problem isn't leaving a link &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, there are various issues here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leaving a Google Search link is pointless: Google will tailor the results to the user, so the results you see won't be the results the OP sees. And, since you are a *nix geek, you have probably trained your Google well over the years to show you relevant stuff. It is entirely possible that the search will be far less useful to the OP than you expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leaving a link to google with no explanation can feel like you're telling the user &amp;quot;just search, you lazy idiot&amp;quot;. I understand this may not be the intention, but it can come across that way. In other words, this would be fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find many articles explaining this if you try searching for &amp;quot;foo&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;bar&amp;quot;. Please have a look and ask a new question if it is still not clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, however, is at best curt and at worst can be received as rude:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=foo+bar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/search?q=foo+bar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Believe me, I completely understand the frustration of dealing with users who don't even bother to run a basic search before asking. However, if you are not willing to put in the effort to write out an explanatory comment (which is more than understandable!), then the best thing to do is just ignore the question. Leaving a Google link   is just not very pleasant for anyone involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You mentioned LMGTFY links. Those are actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/15650/203101&quot;&gt;explicitly banned on the Stack Exchange network&lt;/a&gt;, so yes, please never use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you also mentioned leaving a link suggesting a different resource such as the NVIDIA forums. As far as I am concerned, at least, that's absolutely fine! I would ask you to actually write a message instead of just dumping a link, however. So, instead of just&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Write something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NVIDIA has its own Linux related forums so you are likely to get better answers there: forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, even better, make it clear that there is nothing wrong with the question, the OP didn't break any rule and the question is on topic here (assuming it is), but they simply could also use a different resource:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is perfectly on topic and welcome here, but you might also want to try over at the NVIDIA forums since they will have more expertise on this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just something so the OP doesn't feel that we're kicking them out and they understand that you are actually trying to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another issue with link comments: when you leave a link to somewhere else, and that other place has the answer, then you have basically removed the incentive of anyone to post an answer, leaving us with an unanswered question and no increase in the net amount of information on the site. The entire point of the SE network is to provide answers &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. Yes, that does sometimes mean repeating information, but frankly we often improve on the quality of what is available elsewhere. For example, someone with your knowledge and experience would be able to distill the information from the external link and make it more accessible to the OP and the next few dozen or thousand users with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, we far, far prefer that you repeat the information (especially if you improve on it) and provide an answer rather than a link which is a signpost indicating where an answer might be found. Plus, links rot and break and are not always available. We want to build a library of answers &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; not a collection of links that might not work a month from now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, what constitutes &amp;quot;rude&amp;quot; is a very hard question to answer and one that nobody has ever been able to give a general answer to. What is rude for you might not be rude for me and what is rude in my culture might be polite in yours etc. That is indeed a problem and there is no good solution. The best solution we've come up with is to have people who are elected moderators and act as &amp;quot;human exception handlers&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What usually happens is that another user flags something as rude, and then we have a look. We will discuss such things between us and if we all agree something is rude, then we call it rude. We don't go around searching for these things, we see what users flag for our attention and what we happen to come across as users of the site ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, we won't always be &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; (whatever that means in this context) and we won't be 100% impartial, but we try our best and ask for the opinion of the other mods to be sure that we avoid ever having one person deciding on this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that isn't a perfect system but it's the best we have. When you feel that we've acted wrongly, please do exactly as you did now and open a discussion on Meta! We will explain our point of view and if it turns out that the community disagrees, well then the community's opinion will always overrule the mods'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary, you were not threatened with a ban or certainly not intentionally and my apologies if you felt you were. Posting links is not a problem, posting certain links and in certain ways (with no context) is the problem. And LMGTFY links are not allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2023-04-01T17:14:39.353" LastActivityDate="2023-04-01T17:14:39.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5813" CreationDate="2021-08-04T17:57:32.680" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, thank you for bringing up your concerns on Meta!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond what &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5814/117549&quot;&gt;terdon wrote&lt;/a&gt;, I'll add my two cents on this point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, in a number of cases when I posted links to appropriate Google searches (when they were not momentarily deleted) I was thanked and the questions were resolved automatically without reposting the information already available on the Internet here on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mission of SE, as written in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;U&amp;amp;L tour page&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about Unix or Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments that point elsewhere for an answer do not support SE's mission. Comments can add information, clarify corner cases, provide supporting documentation, etc., -- but they should not take the place of Answers. When you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when I posted links to appropriate Google searches ... the questions were resolved automatically&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... the questions were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; resolved automatically. The OP may have found a solution and moved on, but future visitors to the site will find an unanswered (or deleted) question instead of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T17:57:32.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5813" CreationDate="2021-08-04T22:21:58.487" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi and thanks for bringing this to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me start by saying that I recognize the quoted phrase as my own,&#xA;which means I will first address a fact that terdon already mentioned&#xA;in his answer:  Moderators are notified by users flagging questions,&#xA;answers, or comments as &amp;quot;rude or abusive&amp;quot; (questions and answers) or&#xA;as &amp;quot;unfriendly or unkind&amp;quot; (comments).  It is the users of the site&#xA;that decide that they think a comment etc. is rude or unfriendly and&#xA;initially flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When that happens, the flag appears in a moderation queue for us to look&#xA;at.  I tend to read the text and try to imagine whether I too would possibly be&#xA;offended in some way if I was in the position of the user who flagged&#xA;it (taking into account that the user that flagged it presumably &lt;em&gt;was&#xA;offended&lt;/em&gt; in some way).  Sometimes it's clear cut, yes or no.  Sometimes&#xA;we may well have to talk it over in the group of moderators, like terdon&#xA;said.  Sometimes we get it wrong, but most of the time I hope we get it&#xA;right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am well aware that none of us can &lt;em&gt;decide what's objectively&#xA;unfriendly or rude&lt;/em&gt;.  We can however look at what others feel offended&#xA;by and try to work out whether their flagging was warranted or not (in fact, this is one of the things that moderators are expected to do and I'm not aware of &lt;em&gt;any other way&lt;/em&gt; to do it).&#xA;Also remember that we are users of this site too, as much as anybody&#xA;else.  As a user, I too get offended and annoyed by certain behaviors,&#xA;just like any other user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still stand by my statement that it would be rude to be pointed to&#xA;a Google search as a comment-only &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot;, because that is one type&#xA;of comment that I see people flag as unfriendly, and because that's&#xA;what &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; would think of similar comments on my own questions.  To me&#xA;it signals two things: 1) you have decided that I haven't researched my&#xA;problem, and 2) my question is not worth your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such comments are also &lt;em&gt;lazy&lt;/em&gt;, which I believe I said in my interaction&#xA;with you from which you took the title for this Meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know of an answer, then please write it up in your own words,&#xA;possibly pointing to online resources as support for your text or for further information.  If you&#xA;don't have the time to do so, or feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of&#xA;people wanting help with various things, then consider that there are&#xA;other users of this site that may well answer the &amp;quot;simpler&amp;quot; questions,&#xA;and that you instead could concentrate on the questions that really&#xA;interest you and that better fit your area of expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting fire-and-forget links to other forums in&#xA;&lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; also short-circuits the&#xA;purpose of this site, which is to give well formulated and peer reviewed&#xA;answers to question relating to the use and administration of Unix and&#xA;Linux systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This aspect is discussed in two questions on the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; Meta site, with&#xA;the general conclusion that &lt;em&gt;this site&lt;/em&gt; is the site to which Google&#xA;searches about the use and administration of Unix and Linux systems&#xA;should point.  To say that in other words:  &lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; should ideally write&#xA;the answer that &amp;quot;the obvious Google search&amp;quot; will point to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5280/embrace-the-non-googlers&quot;&gt;Embrace the non-Googlers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8724/how-should-we-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;How should we deal with Google questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are absolutely welcome to refer people to external special-topic&#xA;forums.  However, do so while at the same time answering the specific&#xA;question that the user is asking.  This means writing an actual answer,&#xA;which means spending some time being helpful by putting your experiences&#xA;and thoughts into words for someone with a problem that needs solving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2021-08-07T08:14:49.737" LastActivityDate="2021-08-07T08:14:49.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5807" CreationDate="2021-08-10T17:53:16.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be worth considering the merit of a &lt;code&gt;gnome-legacy&lt;/code&gt; tag to catch GNOME 1.x / 2.x cases, and a &lt;code&gt;gnome&lt;/code&gt; tag for all versions in the new paradigm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20246" LastActivityDate="2021-08-10T17:53:16.990" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-19T21:27:41.227" Score="-9" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which rules (if any) make this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/665367/232326&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/665367/232326&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Invalid, or, at least, wrong ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just shocked to get 3 downvotes so quickly for a perfectly correct (IMO) answer. If anything is wrong, please show me what !!! Thanks if you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe, just maybe, this is just an example of this site (very) biased reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments (which will probably be erased) say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is not incorrect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;well, since you ask, this answer seems like it pretty much &lt;strong&gt;only copies solutions from earlier answers&lt;/strong&gt;, without attribution, at worst identically and at best with minimal changes. Now, I'm not sure if doing that's forbidden as such, but at least it doesn't seem too useful. That might explain some of the downvotes. (Or it might not, it's hard to tell what people think.) – ilkkachu&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer &lt;strong&gt;only copy&lt;/strong&gt; other answers, and those answer were upvoted, the copies are valid answers, not wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were new solutions included:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The xxd solution (the main reason to post) is mentioned nowhere else. For the ordering I decided to use that went to the middle of the list.&#xA;Hmmm: the alternative with \u is also new and finding for which versions of the shell each solution works demands research. Is that also &amp;quot;a copy&amp;quot;. I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The selected answer started with just one simple command &lt;code&gt;echo $'\x40'&lt;/code&gt;. If just one solution makes an answer valid, mine, which added at least &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; new solutions should make the answer valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But the problem is not with the validity of what was said, or with any mistake. It is just the result of a subjective value judgement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;no, I don't like answers that don't bring anything new. I won't say the P-word, but it did come to mind. Don't mince my words, there's enough reason in what I actually said. (Someone else seems to agree too.) The one with '\u40' goes into the &amp;quot;minimal changes&amp;quot; category, and doesn't seem to have any upsides compared to \100. The xxd one wasn't there before, I'll give you that. Not that I see any upsides to that one either. But the first, fourth, and seventh ones, plus man ascii are pretty much literally from earlier answers, so that's what, half of this answer? – ilkkachu&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: &lt;strong&gt;I don't like&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That pretty much proves the point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; this site shows (very) biased reactions&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastEditorDisplayName="user232326" LastEditDate="2021-08-20T15:05:33.940" LastActivityDate="2021-08-25T09:16:12.510" Title="What's wrong with this answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5822" CreationDate="2021-08-20T16:09:02.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for others, but there were some points that struck my eye in that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In itself, there wouldn't be anything wrong in that answer. But answers aren't posted in a vacuum, and that answer was posted to a question that already had three or four answers, and it duplicated solutions given in at least three of the already-existing answers. Without attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I come from, copying without attribution is called plagiarism, and people tend to take a dim view of it. Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the CC BY-SA 4.0 license&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing&quot;&gt;SE contributions are licensed under&lt;/a&gt; explicitly says (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; give appropriate credit, [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we could of course discuss if the existing solutions to such a straightforward problem are creative enough to be protected by copyright anyway, but that doesn't make unattributed copying &lt;em&gt;morally&lt;/em&gt; any less wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't know what the SE policy for that actually is, but I think it's a rather cheap way to collect rep. And, honestly, in my opinion, that sort of plagiarism should be enough to not just get downvotes, but to have the answer deleted by the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the fact that the answer didn't bring much new to the table either. Most solutions presented in it either existed already in earlier answers, or consisted of minor changes to such. (e.g. using hex vs. octal with &lt;code&gt;printf&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you noted that the reason to post the answer was the solution using &lt;code&gt;xxd&lt;/code&gt;, and you're right, that one didn't exist before. If the answer had contained only that answer, it wouldn't have been nearly as bad. (It still wouldn't have been too useful since a POSIX-compatible solution was already given, but at least it wouldn't have been plagiarizing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, Stéphane noted that &lt;code&gt;\u0040&lt;/code&gt; might also work on a non-ASCII system, which is also a valid point (for the minority that uses such systems). But if EBCDIC-support was your point, it would have been well to actually &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; that in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you noted that you dug up the shell versions where the various features used were introduced, which is also fine and all, but not very useful when a widely-supported POSIX-compatible solution was already presented...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2021-08-20T16:20:28.320" LastActivityDate="2021-08-20T16:20:28.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5822" CreationDate="2021-08-21T15:15:59.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reckon the answer would be totally fine had it not reproduced previous answers. Was &lt;code&gt;\u40&lt;/code&gt; still not mentioned? Go ahead and add it as an answer. But omit the half of it that was already present in other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding for which versions of the shell each solution works demands research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, but in this case I would edit the existing answer to include that additional information instead of adding it in a new answer, since it is not critical. A positive consequence of such procedure is: No duplication of content, less time wasted by readers trying to filter unique content and decide which to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, that becomes a problem if you apply the principle of universalizability. Look at what happens if several visitors use a considerable part of previous answers in their answers, but also add some alternatives or extra information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UserA's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;echo $'\x40'&#xA;printf '\100'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UserB's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;echo $'\x40'    #Version 9180 of Bash&#xA;printf '\100\n' #Add a newline for style&#xA;man ascii&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UserC's answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;echo $'\x40'&#xA;printf '\100\n'&#xA;man 7 ascii     #If you have the Plan9 ascii program you need the 7&#xA;sed --version |grep bug-sed|cut -d : -f2|cut -d d -f2|cut -d g -f1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Matryoshka doll&lt;/a&gt; effect is definitely something to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388654" LastEditorUserId="388654" LastEditDate="2021-08-23T02:54:49.243" LastActivityDate="2021-08-23T02:54:49.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5827" CreationDate="2021-08-24T16:49:53.833" Score="13" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there is room for a new tag that could be applied to question relating to TOML (&lt;a href=&quot;https://toml.io/en/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tom's Obvious Minimal Language&lt;/a&gt;), a structured document format similar to YAML and JSON, mainly used for configuration files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TOML typically looks similar to what some people would call &amp;quot;INI files&amp;quot; (there is to my knowledge no tag for &amp;quot;INI files&amp;quot;, and I don't think one is desperately needed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[location]&#xA;source_directories = [ &amp;quot;/home&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;/etc&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;/var/log/syslog*&amp;quot;,]&#xA;repositories = [ &amp;quot;user@backupserver:sourcehostname.borg&amp;quot;,]&#xA;&#xA;[retention]&#xA;keep_daily = 7&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are command line parsers for TOML (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tomlq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sclevine/yj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;yj&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 17 hits for the search term &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=toml&quot;&gt;toml&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; on the main site.  This is not very many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative would possibly be to introduce a more generic &amp;quot;structured-document-format&amp;quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main concern is that questions relating to TOML (and to other minor structured document formats, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HCL&lt;/a&gt;) ends up being tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; and similar tags, even though there are obvious issues relating to the parsing or creation of such files by line-oriented tools, and even though there exists tools specifically designed for working with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2021-08-24T20:39:02.507" LastActivityDate="2021-08-25T08:42:39.907" Title="Suggestion for new tag: toml (or structured-document-format)" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-24T21:58:33.290" Score="5" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/665967/146102&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt;, and someone made two comments which in fact answered my question; since the answer was in the comments, I wrote an answer and made it community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the commenter has deleted his comments; another person edited the answer, in fact providing another solution, not an answer to my question; and a third person provided another solution, which I promptly upvoted, because it taught me something new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'd like to provide credit to the person who in fact answered my question, and upvote the edit which provided another solution, but as a proper, alternative answer. I guess I did something weird by answering my own question and making it community wiki right away, messing the whole thing up. Thus the question I'm making in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146102" LastEditorUserId="146102" LastEditDate="2021-08-26T22:10:28.480" LastActivityDate="2021-09-07T08:08:38.897" Title="when to make an answer community" Tags="|discussion|answers|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5825" CreationDate="2021-08-25T08:42:39.907" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have format-specific tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yaml&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yaml&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yaml&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/json&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;json&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;json&lt;/a&gt;, so I think it would make sense to create &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toml&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toml&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toml&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One advantage I see to having a format-specific tag, rather than a generic tag for all structured document formats, is that it will separate the format-specific &lt;em&gt;tools&lt;/em&gt; as well. Instead of having a lengthy catalog of formats and tools in a generic tag wiki, we can have detailed information in each format-specific tag wiki (even if few people read it...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2021-08-25T08:42:39.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5826" CreationDate="2021-08-30T16:08:00.183" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Answers-in-comments are not a good use-case for a community-wiki Answer. I would give the commenter an opportunity to answer on their own, perhaps by asking them directly to answer; if they decline or don't respond within a reasonable period of time (24 hours?), then please feel free to create your own Answer. Take the feeling of goodwill and pay it forward by voting on other Questions and Answers. If the commenter had wanted &amp;quot;credit&amp;quot; (reputation), they would-have should-have posted a proper Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-08-30T16:08:00.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4955" CreationDate="2021-09-01T10:10:57.060" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have now disabled all &lt;a href=&quot;https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smarty&lt;/a&gt;-like modifications text in titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From now on, the title text saved for the post is the title text that will be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If folks want em-dashes (&lt;code&gt;ALT-0151&lt;/code&gt;) and fancy quotes (&lt;code&gt;ALT-0145&lt;/code&gt; through &lt;code&gt;-0148&lt;/code&gt;) to appear in titles, they are welcome to add them. But we won’t convert it automatically any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we’re no longer the&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;smarty-pants who makes changes&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;to typography&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392914" LastActivityDate="2021-09-01T10:10:57.060" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-03T15:55:41.740" Score="-3" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/667503/isnt-fedoras-dnf-a-failure&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; was based on experience but is closed under another reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="487583" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-09-03T16:38:27.313" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T21:01:16.010" Title="My question was based on experience but is closed under another reason" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5832" CreationDate="2021-09-03T18:09:56.740" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question asks, &amp;quot;Isn't Fedora's DNF a failure?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quote from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/helpcenter/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;and possibly removed&lt;/a&gt;, avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is a rant in disguise.  The community, therefore, voted to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have some content that could be interesting to look further at (some issue with &lt;code&gt;dnf autoremove&lt;/code&gt;?). Still, you provide no information about this that gives us any handle on the issue, like error messages, configuration details etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your general sense of &lt;code&gt;dnf&lt;/code&gt; being &amp;quot;slow&amp;quot; could also be presented more objectively and later possibly properly debugged.  However, there is no information to go on in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as a whole is opinion-based, and when disregarding the rant, it is unclear (lacking enough details) and unfocused (more than a single issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question has accumulated several downvotes, I would suggest asking new and separate questions about your issues with &lt;code&gt;dnf&lt;/code&gt; if you want help resolving them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2021-09-20T21:01:16.010" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T21:01:16.010" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5826" CreationDate="2021-09-06T08:59:47.833" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use a Community Wiki when someone has answered their own question but not created an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the original asker treats StackExchange like a forum and updates their question to provide their answer, and despite prompts for them to create their own answer and not leave the answer in the question, nothing is forthcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally it's a throwaway comment, and I've got nothing of value to add to the solution proposed. However, seeing as an answer in comments is not an answer, this is really fair game for anyone to take and create as their own answer. If you've taken the time to write up a comment as a full answer then take the credit for it (referencing the original comment as your source of inspiration).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that all contributions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing&quot;&gt;cc-by-sa&lt;/a&gt; so reuse is acceptable with a reference&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2021-09-07T08:08:38.897" LastActivityDate="2021-09-07T08:08:38.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-08T21:24:54.770" Score="17" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been made aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/369568/unpinning-the-accepted-answer-from-the-top-of-the-list-of-answers&quot;&gt;Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers&lt;/a&gt; where it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently we are planning to move forward with one of two scenarios,&#xA;based on your feedback:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unpin the accepted answer on all SE sites by default and pin it back on a few sites that ask us to do so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the accepted answer pinned on all SE sites by default and unpin it on a few sites that ask us to do so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the linked post to voice your thoughts. Feedback on that post is requested by the end of September 19th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave an answer here if you'd like to see accepted answers pinned or unpinned for U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-09-20T10:41:22.323" LastActivityDate="2021-09-20T10:41:22.323" Title="Would you like to have the accepted answer pinned or unpinned on UNIX &amp; Linux?" Tags="|discussion|answers|user-interface|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5835" CreationDate="2021-09-09T09:13:42.413" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be best to have accepted answers unpinned on U&amp;amp;L. I see no reason to treat accepted answers specially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4671" LastActivityDate="2021-09-09T09:13:42.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5835" CreationDate="2021-09-12T10:32:41.443" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that unpinning is the better behaviour. Two situations come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is answered by a quick&amp;amp;dirty solution, that may work for the OP, and may therefore be accepted. If a more robust, less error prone or just more elegant solution is posted later, that will (probably) be upvoted, pushing the inferior, but accepted, solution downward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, things change a bit. For example, an answer on how to configure networks on Ubuntu may have a pre-systemd answer as accepted. If a new, systemd-compliant answer is given, that could be up-voted to replace the accepted, but obsolete, answer at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237080" LastActivityDate="2021-09-12T10:32:41.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5841" CreationDate="2021-09-15T15:31:18.977" Score="12" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is a follow-up to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3551/how-to-use-the-text-processing-tag-effectively&quot;&gt;How to use the text-processing tag effectively?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/669077/377345&quot;&gt;question on text processing&lt;/a&gt; was tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shell-script&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shell-script&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shell-script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grep&lt;/a&gt;. The question itself didn't mention any tool the OP needed to use/had problems using to achieve the task. Given that &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; actually wasn't even suitable for the purpose, I interpreted this as the user being &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;not sure which tool to use&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; in the sense of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki - which I considered the consensus on the usage of these tags - in which case the usage guideline is to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since no other specific tool was asked for in the question text, and one of the tool-specific tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grep&lt;/a&gt;) was clearly misplaced, I felt the question did not fall in the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;If your question is about multiple tools, include this tag and the tags for the other tools.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; use case, so I removed the tool-specific tags (in addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt; tag) from the question and replaced them with the generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has prompted a discussion on the use of tags, in which one argument against this kind of re-tagging is that users looking (e.g.) for &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;-based solutions will have a harder time finding this question and related answers. I tend to disagree with this view since that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would warrant putting &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; text-processing-tool-related tags onto such question, defeating the purpose of the five-tag-limit, and it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would mean applying tags in an attempt to characterize the (possible) answers, rather than the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Request for discussion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should tool-specific tags be used on questions that do not explicitly ask for how to do this with a specific tool, or that do not describe problems arising from the (incorrect) use of a specific tool to perform the described text-processing task?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the answer to the above is &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;, does this warrant removing tool-specific tags on such questions in favor of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; tag? &lt;em&gt;Of course, asking the OP whether they unintentionally used an assortment of tool-specific tags when the text-processing tag would have been more appropriate is probably the first step here; my bad for not thinking about that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What can be done to ensure visibility of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; for generic text-processing tasks for future readers that look for solutions using a specific tool (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Procedure suggestion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can post their proposal for handling such situations in an answer. We may then choose to accept the highest-voted answer as community consensus (but maybe there is a better, established way on how to &amp;quot;decide&amp;quot; such issues?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-09-16T11:34:59.767" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T14:06:21.043" Title="Re-tagging text-processing questions" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5838" CreationDate="2021-09-16T10:48:49.083" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should tool-specific tags be used on questions that do not explicitly ask&#xA;for how to do this with a specific tool, or that do not describe problems&#xA;arising from the (incorrect) use of a specific tool to perform the described&#xA;text-processing task?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that would warrant putting all text-processing-tool-related tags onto such&#xA;question, defeating the purpose of the five-tag-limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this warrant removing tool-specific tags on such questions in favor&#xA;of the text-processing tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can be done to ensure visibility of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;for generic text-processing tasks for future readers that look for solutions&#xA;using a specific tool (such as awk)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, nothing, I fear. If we could tag answers, probably that&#xA;would be a solution. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282281&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;At Codidact there is a proposal to allow tagging answers&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to be honest I think what you describe rarely occurs.&#xA;Since most visitors of Unix &amp;amp; Linux are on a mostly POSIX system,&#xA;I reckon they don't care much if the solution to their problem is Grep or Sed or Awk,&#xA;so I see that as a smaller issue than tag flooding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some example questions for discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why does this Sed fail to do X and how can I do X?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; fit —&#xA;the first part of the question is clearly about Sed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can I do X? I tried this Grep but it fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the wording, answers are allowed not to address the&#xA;failed Grep.  It is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/text-processing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;text-processing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;text-processing&lt;/a&gt; question, but, is it a&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grep&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on whether the task is doable with&#xA;Grep such that one can point how the asker could fix his attempt.&#xA;This case may be admittedly ambiguous; I'd not dwell on it if&#xA;someone strongly disagreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Difference between &lt;code&gt;-F ,&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;BEGIN{FS=&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;}&lt;/code&gt; in Awk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no text processing task to solve.&#xA;As an abstract question, it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388654" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T10:48:49.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2021-09-16T13:11:40.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;table test&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;A header&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Another header&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;First&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;row&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Second&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;row&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T13:11:40.910" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-09-16T13:11:40.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5838" CreationDate="2021-09-16T14:06:21.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is that users looking (e.g.) for awk-based solutions will have a harder time finding this question and related answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to challenge this because is a common yet misguided argument. If people search for awk based solution, they would include that in their search keywords and any useful search engine would scan the entire page and index all the content. If any answer mentions awk, it would include it, tag or not. Even SE own search engine (which depending the kind of search can be crappy or passable) is like this, which is why searching for &amp;quot;word&amp;quot; yields more results than [word].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are meant to be consumed by potential answerers, searching is basically a secondary effect of the first. Which is supported by the excellent points that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5839/41104&quot;&gt;this other answer exposes on&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T14:06:21.043" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-18T12:34:57.307" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of people provide next to zero information about the issues they are having which makes helping them impossible and also wastes everyone's time because such questions need to be clarified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/669549/not-recognized-screen&quot;&gt;Not recognized screen&lt;/a&gt; - there's zero information in it. &amp;quot;I have this problem&amp;quot; - that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people here think of having our own version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&lt;/a&gt; which will be shown to everyone who attempts to ask a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another issue I have with particularly unix.SE is that lost of people avoid attaching pertinent logs because &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;For dmesg and Xorg logs, it's way too long, I've to wait for it to happen to cut precise moment where it happened&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about having our own alternative of e.g. pastebin.com or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, lots of people have issues with particular applications/deamons/services or their entire systems. It would be great to have some sort of community updateable document where we teach/show people how to extract logs, e.g. by using &lt;code&gt;dmesg&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;journalctl&lt;/code&gt;, files in &lt;code&gt;/var/log/&lt;/code&gt; or using utilities like &lt;code&gt;top&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;free&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;vmstat&lt;/code&gt;, etc. It's maddening to see all the posts about someone's system being unstable/crashing/freezing and asking each time to post the relevant log files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a question per se. It's a call for action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260833" LastActivityDate="2021-09-18T12:34:57.307" Title="Proper questions and proper information" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5844" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2021-09-21T11:47:20.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every question on a Stack site can have up to five &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; designed to categorize it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes a user uses tags that are unrelated to the question, or that - according to the tag wiki - shouldn't be applied to that particular question. In that case, it may be appropriate to remove tags while &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, sometimes a question may benefit from having a particular tag attached to it, which the original author may not have known about. In that case, a user with edit privilege may choose to add that particular tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, respect the intention of the original author when editing, and check the Meta site for the community consensus on editing and tagging practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-09-23T10:21:40.667" LastActivityDate="2021-09-23T10:21:40.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5845" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2021-09-21T11:47:20.213" Score="0" Body="Use when the question is about when it is appropriate to add or remove tags while editing a question." OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-09-23T10:21:52.577" LastActivityDate="2021-09-23T10:21:52.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-23T16:11:30.383" Score="11" ViewCount="1821" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're excited to announce that &lt;a href=&quot;https://aws.amazon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AWS&lt;/a&gt; will be sponsoring Unix &amp;amp; Linux beginning September 27, 2021 through December 31, 2022. We wanted to give you a heads up and walk you through what it will look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How and where will the sponsorship be displayed?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sponsorship will be shown in the top right header of the site in a manner that's similar to the mockup below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IwmhV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IwmhV.png&quot; alt=&quot;unixlinushomepage&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What else changes?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing! Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307861/site-sponsorships-bringing-resources-back-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;the original MSE announcement on sponsorships&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First — sponsors do not own these Q&amp;amp;A sites. Sponsors work alongside&#xA;our communities who ultimately build these sites. Communities ask the&#xA;questions; communities create the tags; communities conduct elections&#xA;as they do now, and we are not renaming our current sites like a&#xA;garish sport stadium to the highest bidder. Any ads a sponsor submits&#xA;still have go through our crazy-strict ad editorial process… as it has&#xA;always been. Companies do not have access to personal data, and all&#xA;Q&amp;amp;A content remains irrevocably licensed under Creative Commons for&#xA;sharing and attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sponsorships are a tool that our clients can use to let folks who would be interested in their products know about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What if I think I've found a design glitch/bug?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something looks off please report it as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;. so we can investigate and squash it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it. If you have any other questions or concerns please leave them as answers below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, thank you. These types of partnerships help us bring more resources to our communities and they wouldn't be possible without the work you've put into making Unix &amp;amp; Linux successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="456781" LastEditorUserId="456781" LastEditDate="2022-06-22T13:55:09.787" LastActivityDate="2022-06-22T13:55:09.787" Title="AWS will soon be sponsoring Unix &amp; Linux" Tags="|discussion|site-sponsorship|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-23T19:11:56.883" Score="9" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;In answering many of the frequently asked questions on Unix&amp;amp; and on AskUbuntu, I use canned answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have written answers that, while generic, will usually solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this contrary to The Way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have answers on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;cron&lt;/code&gt; job execution context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WiFi slowness (MTU).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Device (or other) access via groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;System &amp;quot;freezes&amp;quot; (swap)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several on using &lt;code&gt;journalctl&lt;/code&gt; to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I improve these answers as I can, but would accept help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have recieved a complaint about use of &amp;quot;duplicate&amp;quot; answers (but they were the same problem, misstated differently).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the use of prewritten answers for constantly recurring problems discouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11135" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2021-09-24T10:39:36.843" LastActivityDate="2021-10-03T22:21:56.213" Title="I use pre-written answers to frequently asked Qs. Is this wrong?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-24T07:48:44.437" Score="-9" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is this user allowed (and encouraged) to make comments like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/670307/how-to-transliterate-characters-with-a-wildcard/670313?noredirect=1#comment1263986_670313&quot;&gt;wtf, you're copying answers again?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An unsubstantiated claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is an unsubstantiated claim just because he is only interested in getting upvotes.  That is all he cares about. To that end he raise any complaint he can to mud the waters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the moderators do nothing, they even promote such activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question that I am pretty sure that I will regret making:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is in my answer that is identical to ilkkachu answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: Nothing!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, the &lt;em&gt;Repeat SET1 characters.&lt;/em&gt; may look similar. Sure you will argue that a missing 26 number is an small change, and that that is exactly what he wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not saying that that only works in GNU &lt;code&gt;tr&lt;/code&gt; and that there is no need for the 26 (even in POSIX) is no improvement ? Isn't that a helpful addition ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, my answer is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a copy, it is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinions, that is the only thing remaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Result:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the user got what he wanted: some upvotes on his answer, some downvotes on mine. Great team work! Keep it up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;To Terdon&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he claims that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will add that it seems odd that you are complaining about unsubstantiated allegations in a post that makes two such unsubstantiated (and false) allegations: no user is &amp;quot;encouraged&amp;quot; to post rude comments in any way, and the mod team most certainly doesn't &amp;quot;promote such activity&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@terdon Let's review some facts. Before ilkkachu posted his comment we had the same upvotes in our answers. Very quickly after I raised a flag on that comment, the votes went to 6 for ilkkachu and 3 for me. Someone downvoted my answer. The ilkkachu answer got downvoted &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; up-voted. Who comes &lt;em&gt;very quickly&lt;/em&gt; to review answers after they are flagged? Answer: Mods. So, it stand to reason that mods up-voted the answer of he who used an aggressive comment and downvoted the answer of who received such comment. In short: mods encouraged such behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user232326" LastEditorDisplayName="user232326" LastEditDate="2021-09-24T11:28:16.340" LastActivityDate="2021-09-24T16:10:31.653" Title="Aggressive comments" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5847" CreationDate="2021-09-24T09:03:39.507" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not acceptable to post identical answers to multiple questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been brought up on the main StackExchange Meta site as a FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104227/is-it-acceptable-to-add-a-duplicate-answer-to-several-questions&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to add a duplicate answer to several questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reply to that question is &amp;quot;No&amp;quot;.  This is an established policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copying and pasting the same answer to multiple questions can cause different reactions depending on what answer you're pasting. The acceptableness of this behavior ranges from &amp;quot;highly frowned upon&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;completely unacceptable&amp;quot;. (Note that it never reaches the &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot; end of that spectrum.) If you catch yourself or someone else doing this, please evaluate the answer and see if there is a more correct thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that solve over-generalized problems are not as useful to questions — they should be tailored to address the specific needs that each question has outlined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer on the Meta site is longer than this. Please read it in full at the link above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2021-09-24T09:14:17.933" LastActivityDate="2021-09-24T09:14:17.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5848" CreationDate="2021-09-24T16:10:31.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Andrew T said, if you see a comment that's against the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;, please flag it. If you see constructive criticism in a comment, do your best to provide a technical response: either as an edit to the post followed by flagging that comment as no longer needed, or as another comment. Responding with words like &amp;quot;pick a fight&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;persecution&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;bullying&amp;quot; is only going to escalate the situation to no good end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separately, both of you have enough rep to be unconcerned with 3 votes this way or that way. Since the question hit the HNQ, expect the voting to be swayed &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt;. That's &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the Meta viewers see this and visit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone: Please keep your focus on providing high-quality content and abiding by the site's rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-09-24T16:10:31.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5855" CreationDate="2021-09-24T17:03:13.630" Score="7" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/670307/how-can-i-transliterate-some-characters-1-to-1-leave-some-unchanged-and-replac&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the user who asked has it's account deleted or removed or another possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is that the post won't have an accepted answer since there's no user to accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, can't the community provide a mechanism to accept an answer so future viewers can look for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking for a new feature, just sharing my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastActivityDate="2021-10-10T10:01:57.770" Title="Gone user, answer accepted by the community" Tags="|discussion|questions|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5847" CreationDate="2021-09-25T06:24:21.297" Score="12" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's a dupe, flag it as a dupe (i.e. Vote To Close).  In many cases, this will also apply to trivial or minor variations of previously asked questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's an extremely common FAQ (like whitespace issues in sh or parsing ls), flag it as a dupe to one of the canonical Q&amp;amp;As (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128985/why-not-parse-ls-and-what-to-do-instead&quot;&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; parse &lt;code&gt;ls&lt;/code&gt; (and what to do instead)?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters&quot;&gt;Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's not a dupe, adapt your pre-written answer so that it is specific to the question.  Or rewrite it from scratch.   Sometimes this is appropriate for an FAQ if you feel it's useful or necessary to tailor the advice in the canonical Q&amp;amp;A to the specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When appropriate, add links to related/relevant questions (in your answer, or comments, or both).  I keep a text file with a list of links to common answers like these, in the markdown &lt;code&gt;[title](url)&lt;/code&gt; format for easy copy-pasting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're closing a question because you think it's a dupe or FAQ, add a comment explaining why that is so....especially if the fact that it's a dupe may not be obvious to a novice or newbie. The goal is to help them, not to be a jerk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7696" LastEditorUserId="7696" LastEditDate="2021-10-03T22:21:56.213" LastActivityDate="2021-10-03T22:21:56.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5847" CreationDate="2021-09-25T08:13:53.130" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO: If you take the trouble to collect canned answers to post, you could instead take the trouble of collecting links to earlier questions about the same thing, and vote to close as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(of course, that's easier to say if you have the gold badge in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt;, since it lets you single-handedly close a disproportionate amount of Qs on the site, but hey, that's how the site works.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the nature of the site, it's totally natural that certain things get asked and answered over and over again. (Heck, there's probably some subjects I've written an answer on five separate times myself...) But repeating the same answers identically is not such a good idea: Closing as duplicate would allow collecting the answers in one place, so if there's need to review that answer, it only needs to be edited once. Also other users can post their own answer in the same place, should they come up with new solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While writing an answer on the same subject from scratch is not optimal,&#xA;a new answer at least has the advantage that it can be personalized to the question, and not just present the general concepts. Canned answers can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2021-09-25T08:13:53.130" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5847" CreationDate="2021-09-26T08:23:13.503" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user posts identical answers to different questions, the system raises an automatic moderator flag. That is already a pretty strong hint that this behavior isn't welcome. Also, in the more than 7 years I've been a mod, I believe I have seen exactly one example where the questions were indeed substantially different and yet the same exact answer did apply. In all other cases, either the questions were duplicates or the answer needed to be tweaked, at least a little, to fit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, please don't do this. It creates a lot of work for moderators and it is almost always unhelpful. Far better to close the question as a dupe in most cases or, in those few cases where the questions really aren't duplicates, at least take the time to put in the minimal effort to adapt the answer to the specific details of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2021-09-26T08:23:13.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5851" CreationDate="2021-09-26T09:18:49.110" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, many people misconstrue the meaning of the accepted answer and think it is some sort of indication of quality. It isn't. The accepted answer is just and only the answer that the OP decided worked best &lt;em&gt;for them&lt;/em&gt;. However, the OP is very often not an expert and can end up choosing a poor answer to accept. This is a well known issue that has been a problem on SE for many years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, in fact, we are finally getting a change that will improve that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/369568/203101&quot;&gt;Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has already stopped pinning the accepted answer to the top, and other sites are following suit (here's the relevant post for us: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5835/22222&quot;&gt;Would you like to have the accepted answer pinned or unpinned on UNIX &amp;amp; Linux?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is to say that there is no benefit in having the community add a fake &amp;quot;Accept&amp;quot; mark. We already have a way for the community to mark the answer they consider best: upvotes. So instead of looking for the accepted answer, just look for the one with the most upvotes. This is, of course, also not guaranteed to be the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; answer, but it is slightly more likely than just relying on one person's (the OP's) opinion which is all that accepted answers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2021-10-10T10:01:57.770" LastActivityDate="2021-10-10T10:01:57.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-28T07:36:25.520" Score="8" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is different from questions for software suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are questions for scripting in the answer, almost like a &lt;em&gt;commission&lt;/em&gt; to have someone write a shell script or use some other scripting language to do a little text processing, or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've come across a great many of those sorts of questions lately, and I was wondering if we could have a pre-made text-chunk for reviewing questions. I usually use my own little copy-paste text that this website isn't for commissions, and you should at least try to solve the problem, etc. I also sometimes point to other SE websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just be using my copy-paste approach, or should I do something else? And if it's the correct way, could we have a one-click solution for that when making reviews? Or am I doing something wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1290" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T07:36:25.520" Title="Quick answer for &quot;I need someone to make me a script that does &lt;x&gt;&quot;" Tags="|discussion|review|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5859" CreationDate="2021-10-03T15:26:40.213" Score="10" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to investigate when I find a question that is interesting to me, mainly navigating the man pages, since part of my journey in this site is learning. I can reach, after such investigation process, a certain understanding of what is needed to answer the question, but as I'm not an expert, I can issue an incomplete answer or a plain wrong one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this type of questions may have no answers at all. The result is that no information is registered in the site, specially if the topic is lacking users expert enough in the subject (allegedly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meta question arised when I bumped into this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/671652/is-my-firewall-configured-ok&quot;&gt;Is my firewall configured OK?&lt;/a&gt;. The question is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/systemd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;systemd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;systemd&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/systemctl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;systemctl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;systemctl&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to me that are topics that usually don't have answers, at least when they are complicated enough (TBD if that's a fair assesment). I searched about the subject and I glimpsed a possible answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, taking into account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Q is possibly not getting answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Future readers won't have any information about the subject.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can give an answer, but it can be wrong and/or lacking expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer I give can provide some useful information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the point of view of the community about such answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2021-10-03T15:58:03.867" LastActivityDate="2021-10-06T11:32:57.723" Title="Answer question not expertly but with gathered information if Q has no answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5857" CreationDate="2021-10-03T15:53:56.103" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have taken the time and effort to produce a sourced answer, then it is an answer.  It should be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your research may well be better than anything the OP achieved before asking.  After all, if they had found a solution they may well not have asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are not simply posting a LMGTFY response that may go to the VLQ list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel your answer isn't of the highest quality, no matter.  It is still an answer, it may stimulate someone else to produce a better one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, you are helping the OP and the community at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="447031" LastActivityDate="2021-10-03T15:53:56.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5857" CreationDate="2021-10-04T21:24:26.287" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are perhaps being a little hard on yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even as an expert, sometimes the most useful thing you can provide is the knowledge of what to type into google and which sources of information to piece together.  Searching and filtering information are learned skills and often require a lot of personal experience to get right.  Often having good Linux experience is enough to give you a head start on knowing where to look for the right information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to be confused with &amp;quot;let me google that for you&amp;quot; responses where you can pretty much copy-paste the question title into google and give them back the first result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line here is if you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer a question then please &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are concerned that the your answer isn't authoritative enough, then you can of course say in your answer what you're unsure about.  For example if you've not managed to test a solution yourself then you can say so.  If you've had to guess at something then make it clear what points your guessing and what points you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've learned things from manuals, blogs, or other documentation then cite your sources.  Stating how you know what you've learned doesn't make you look like a cheap hack, it makes you look like a talented researcher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally if all you can give is a partial answer and there's nothing else available then it may still be the leg up the OP and future readers need to figure out the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't fear someone else coming along after with a full solution and their's will get accepted over yours.  *If your partial answer led to them finding the full solution, people often (not always) thank you for your work and up-vote your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2021-10-06T11:32:57.723" LastActivityDate="2021-10-06T11:32:57.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-11T03:47:33.080" Score="8" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered a question about &lt;code&gt;getopt&lt;/code&gt; and then edited it to remove some irrelevant tags.  I also wanted to add a &lt;code&gt;getopt&lt;/code&gt; tag but it wouldn't let me because it's too similar to &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;getopt&lt;/code&gt; is not the same as &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt;.   &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt; is a shell built-in.  &lt;code&gt;getopt&lt;/code&gt; is a standalone executable in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;util-linux&lt;/a&gt; package.  It's not compatible with &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt; and adds several features that &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt; doesn't have (like &lt;code&gt;--long&lt;/code&gt; option support, and argument re-ordering).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the error message suggested that I post here to ask if it should be created.  So I have.  IMO there should be such a tag, for the same reason that, e.g., we have separate &lt;code&gt;apache-httpd&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;nginx&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;lighttpd&lt;/code&gt; etc tags - they might all do basically the same job, but they're completely different programs with incompatible configurations.   The &lt;code&gt;getopt&lt;/code&gt; tag's description should clearly state that it's for the external program, not the shell built-in (the &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt; tag states it's for the shell built-in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: There is a generic &lt;code&gt;options&lt;/code&gt; tag.  I think merging &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt; into that would be a bad idea because it's probably not what people would search for with questions about &lt;code&gt;getopts&lt;/code&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;getopt&lt;/code&gt;, for that matter)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7696" LastEditorUserId="7696" LastEditDate="2021-10-12T09:25:01.717" LastActivityDate="2021-10-12T09:25:01.717" Title="should there be a getopt tag?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-12T12:42:58.603" Score="97" ViewCount="781" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-October/024523.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a post on the Unix Heritage Society mailing list&lt;/a&gt;, prominent FOSS developer and Unix enthusiast, Jörg Schilling passed away on Sunday, 10th October 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/120884/schily&quot;&gt;active member of this site&lt;/a&gt; and was generous in sharing his extensive knowledge of Unix and computer systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had strong opinions (loved Solaris, passionate about portability and POSIX, didn’t seem to like GNU or Linux) and wasn’t afraid to express them in a forthright manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the long-time developer of &lt;code&gt;cdrecord&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mkisofs&lt;/code&gt;, anyone who has ever copied or burned a CD or DVD on a Unix-like OS has benefited from his work and commitment to quality. Others may also remember his work on developing software for SCSI systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Condolences to his loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22812" LastActivityDate="2021-10-12T12:42:58.603" Title="RIP schily (Jörg Schilling)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5863" CreationDate="2021-10-20T14:32:24.187" Score="5" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hardly active on UL SE at all so I was very surprised to see a &amp;quot;serial voting reversed&amp;quot; message removing 10 reputation from my score yesterday.  I am even more baffled because it appears someone made one upvote to a question ( +10 but this is now not visible) the day before (I guess from my reputation graph on my profile, although I did not see this before the reversal) but this means just &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; upvote was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does one vote constitute a &amp;quot;serial&amp;quot; pattern ?  Is there a bug on the system ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249403" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T14:38:46.843" Title="Serial voting reversed (-10) but only one upvote made (+10)?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5862" CreationDate="2021-10-20T15:06:59.557" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that this sort of invalidation isn't in any way a comment on you and doesn't depend on how active you are. The details of the vote invalidation algorithm are not known to us, but we do know that it depends on the pattern of votes cast and not on the person who receives them as such. So you can be completely inactive and still have votes on your posts invalidated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this wouldn't have been just one vote cast by that user. The likeliest scenario is that some user was randomly upvoting people to get a badge and happened to include one of your posts in their voting rampage. So when this user's votes were invalidated, you had one upvote removed which means you saw -10 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, one vote does not constitute a pattern, it's just that only one vote affected you so that's all the system shows you. The pattern will only be visible in the voting of whoever's votes were invalidated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2022-01-07T14:38:46.843" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T14:38:46.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5867" CreationDate="2021-10-22T08:28:07.583" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I found an &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/392223&quot;&gt;edit suggestion&lt;/a&gt; in my review queue where the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/674303/377345&quot;&gt;question that was to be edited&lt;/a&gt; had already been deleted. It looks like a moot point to keep such items in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug, or was this still somehow intended behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastActivityDate="2021-10-22T13:22:29.303" Title="Unintuitive behavior of &quot;Suggested Edits&quot; review queue" Tags="|bug|review|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5865" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2021-10-22T08:53:31.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way in which the Stack Exchange user community participates in the moderation of content is via the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/reviews-intro&quot;&gt;review queues&lt;/a&gt; in which experienced users assess posts of new users to help them understand the way this site works, and vote whether certain content should be removed due to quality issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for Meta questions where&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a reviewer wishes to invite community opinion on how to decide certain edge cases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a user disagrees with a review decision regarding one of their contributions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or when buggy/strange/counter-intuitive behavior of the review queue mechanism and interface have been observed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-10-22T17:45:02.117" LastActivityDate="2021-10-22T17:45:02.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5866" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2021-10-22T08:53:31.210" Score="0" Body="Use for questions that discuss the proper way of reviewing items in the review queue, or the review queue mechanism itself." OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2021-10-22T17:45:07.460" LastActivityDate="2021-10-22T17:45:07.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5864" CreationDate="2021-10-22T13:22:29.303" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like intended behavior. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/359913/307535&quot;&gt;Reject or approve suggested edits on deleted post?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our reviewing FAQ on handling suggested edits outlines why you would approve or reject a suggested edit and, you may notice, that it makes no mention of deleted posts - because it just isn't a consideration treat them the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another MSE post on the topic, which isn't Answered by staff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/337667/307535&quot;&gt;What happens to a pending suggested edit when a post is deleted?&lt;/a&gt; which says, in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sits in the queue for the next reviewer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-10-22T13:22:29.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-28T01:52:47.217" Score="-4" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title sums up my question. I am having an issue that I cannot FOR THE LIFE OF ME figure out, I have even gone through system logs to try and figure out the issue and have googled everything that even closely relates to my issue and tried it with no solution that works. I would like to put a bounty on it, but I don't have enough reputation on this, nor do I have the linux skills to gain reputation. Is there any way I could use my stack overflow reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="341306" OwnerDisplayName="James E" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-10-30T18:16:12.377" LastActivityDate="2021-11-03T11:40:09.403" Title="Can I put a bounty on a question using reputation from stack overflow?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5868" CreationDate="2021-10-28T01:58:33.797" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must have a minimum of 75 reputation on this site to set a bounty. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&lt;/a&gt; details this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="341306" OwnerDisplayName="James E" LastActivityDate="2021-10-28T01:58:33.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5868" CreationDate="2021-10-30T00:33:13.220" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is: no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;theory&lt;/em&gt; you could &lt;em&gt;start&lt;/em&gt; with a profile on another site, accumulate 200 reputation points, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; create a Unix &amp;amp; Linux profile, which would be awarded a 100-point association bonus, which would be above the 75-point privilege level for awarding bounties. Setting a 50-point bounty would immediately set you back below the privilege level, but it would accomplish the goal of assigning a bounty. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/141648/what-is-the-association-bonus-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;What is the association bonus, and how does it work?&lt;/a&gt; for more about the association bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, your U&amp;amp;L profile appears to be older than your SO profile, so you cannot use that method. You'll need to get above the 75-point privilege level with your U&amp;amp;L profile before you can set a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple pages here on Meta that I'd point you to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/528/whats-the-best-way-to-get-more-points&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the best way to get more points?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3484/how-to-get-reputation-here-on-unix-linux-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;How to get reputation here on Unix &amp;amp; Linux stack exchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-11-03T11:40:09.403" LastActivityDate="2021-11-03T11:40:09.403" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-13T17:36:39.393" Score="15" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the guidance for flagging answers? When should I flag? When should I not flag? What is the right flag in different situations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2021-11-13T22:29:45.123" Title="How does flagging answers work?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|flags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5872" CreationDate="2021-11-13T17:36:39.393" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following are some guidelines for flagging on Unix &amp;amp; Linux. I have basically copied these verbatim from a post I had written for Ask Ubuntu's Meta when I was a mod there, but the same guidance applies here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, a few general points about flagging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, if the problem you see with a post can be fixed by editing, then edit and fix it instead of flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flags are handled by humans, not machines. This means that similar flags might not always be handled in the same way. While the mod team tries to be consistent, we are still a collection of separate individuals. Your flags can also be handled by any of a dozen or so Stack Exchange employees (yes, SE staff sometimes handle mod flags). This means that your flag could theoretically have been handled by around a dozen different people, although in the vast, vast majority of cases here on U&amp;amp;L it will have been handled by one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;local moderators&lt;/a&gt;. That still means that any of the current 4 mods could have handled it though, so some inconsistency is unavoidable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flags don't provide you with any reputation. There is no penalty for having a flag rejected. At worst, and only if a significant percentage of your total flags has been rejected, you might get banned from casting flags for a short time. That ban will expire quickly and then you're back to flagging just as before. There is no mark on your record, you can't get banned from the site for mistaken flags and there really, really isn't any reason to get worked up about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on to the specific flags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;1. Not an answer (NaA)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This flag should only be used for answers that are not even attempting to answer the question. The Official SE Policy® on this has been explained very clearly by Shog9 in the main meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/203101&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and is summarized very nicely in this image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAUaw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAUaw.png&quot; alt=&quot;when is an answer not an answer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Briefly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP is asking how to do &lt;em&gt;foo&lt;/em&gt; and an answer explains how to do &lt;em&gt;bar&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;flag as NaA&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the answer contains &lt;strong&gt;no valuable information&lt;/strong&gt; and, instead, only has a link pointing to where an answer can be found, then it is not actually an answer so you should &lt;strong&gt;flag as NaA&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an answer is a &amp;quot;I'm having this problem too&amp;quot; post, or is otherwise not even attempting to answer the question: &lt;strong&gt;flag as NaA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, NaA flags should &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be used if the post is not even trying to answer the question. NaA flags should not be used if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is an honest attempt at answering, but is flat out wrong. In such cases, &lt;strong&gt;do not flag&lt;/strong&gt; at all. That's what downvotes are for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is asking how to do something with one tool and the answer explains how to do it with another tool. This is still answering the basic question (&lt;em&gt;How can I do X?&lt;/em&gt;), it is simply providing an alternative approach. Such cases should not be flagged at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2. Very Low Quality (VLQ)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description of the VLQ flag is actually quite clear (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer has severe formatting or content problems. &lt;strong&gt;This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing&lt;/strong&gt;, and might need to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VLQ should only be used for things that are so hopelessly awful, they can't be fixed. When thinking about whether you should flag something as VLQ, ask yourself this question: &lt;em&gt;If I could, would I just delete this immediately, or can it be fixed?&lt;/em&gt;. If the answer to the question is &lt;em&gt;yes, I would delete this and no it is impossible to fix&lt;/em&gt;, then you might want to cast a VLQ flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, the post could conceivably be fixed and might contain some useful information, then &lt;strong&gt;please do not flag it&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead, either fix it yourself or, if that's not an option, downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post is just a wrong answer, or isn't using the formatting tools correctly, or has bad grammar or other such fixable issues, please don't flag. Such posts should either be edited into shape or downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, please don't use VLQ flags as an alternative to downvotes. If the post is &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; bad it can't be salvaged, then it should also be downvoted since that helps the community delete it (users with 20k rep can vote to delete posts with a negative score). Remember that this flag is for things that are utterly hopeless, so if they're so bad, they should also be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;3. Spam&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in the flag's description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer (or a question) is being used to sell us something, it should be flagged as spam. 6 spam flags cast on a post will cause the post to be deleted. &lt;strong&gt;Spam posts should not be downvoted&lt;/strong&gt; since that will eventually remove them from the front page and this might prevent enough spam flags being cast to trigger the post's deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also important to only use this flag for things that are actually spam. A rant against systemd is not spam. A rude answer is also not spam. If there is no product or service being peddled, the post is not spam and should not be flagged as such. This is important because the spam flags carry automatic downvotes and can also result in the offending user being automatically banned. Also, the posts that are flagged in this way are used to train Stack Exchange's spam filters. So wrong spam flags are actively harmful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;4. Rude or Abusive&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one should be pretty clear. If a post contains rude or offensive language, that's the flag to use. However, these should also be used with care since they, like the spam flags, can lead to automatic bans of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post that is attacking your favorite software or opinion is not necessarily rude or offensive. This flag should only be used for the truly egregious cases; for posts that contain offensive language, racism, sexism or any other horrible &lt;em&gt;-ism&lt;/em&gt;. Not for posts that simply defend a position you happen to disagree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if a post contains a couple of bad words but is otherwise fine, just edit the words out instead of flagging. It is much simpler for everyone that way and that’s probably what the mods would have done anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if a post is nonsense, then it should be flagged as abusive even if the nonsense is not actually offensive. A post containing nothing but &lt;code&gt;blah blah&lt;/code&gt; is still basically rude and abusive in that it is clearly trolling us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;5. &amp;quot;In need of moderator intervention&amp;quot;, custom flags.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel the need to flag a post which doesn't fit into any of the categories above, this is the flag to use. However, please make sure to follow the guidelines below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please don't use this flag if one of the others fits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are sure none of the default reasons applies, take the time to write an informative message explaining what the issue is. For example, if an answer is just repeating information already provided by another answer, please make sure to include this in your message and also include what answer is being duplicated. Custom mod flags along the lines of &amp;quot;this is bad, it should be deleted&amp;quot; are worse than useless since they don't explain why you feel that way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2021-11-13T22:29:45.123" LastActivityDate="2021-11-13T22:29:45.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5876" CreationDate="2021-11-21T11:53:39.897" Score="6" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;As discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/678478/cant-move-or-rename-folder-in-git-repo-permission-denied-despite-being-drwxr?noredirect=1#comment1281523_678478&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, aliasing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wsl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wsl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wsl&lt;/a&gt; would make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should and could someone with enough reputation make that alias?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106650" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-11-21T23:59:33.547" LastActivityDate="2021-11-23T12:39:45.400" Title="Can we have a [wsl]-&gt;[windows-subsystem-for-linux] synonym?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5875" CreationDate="2021-11-23T12:39:45.400" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/windows-subsystem-for-linux/synonyms&quot;&gt;proposed the wsl alias&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows-subsystem-for-linux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows-subsystem-for-linux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows-subsystem-for-linux&lt;/a&gt; tag. Looks like there's only &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/windows-subsystem-for-linux/topusers&quot;&gt;13 users that qualify&lt;/a&gt; for voting on the alias at the moment (myself &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; included), so we'll need to get lucky or be patient :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2021-11-23T12:39:45.400" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-03T12:14:10.020" Score="6" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question I would like to ask that applies to mostly all Linux distributions (and maybe even BSD), but the answer will probably vary depending on what Linux distribution it is due to varying package managers, init systems, service managers, and so on. Is it in this case better to ask one question and expect multiple answers for different distributions, or ask multiple questions that ask the same thing but how to do it on a specific distribution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324625" LastActivityDate="2022-01-11T13:03:06.720" Title="In the case of a question that applies to many Linux OS:es, is it better to ask one question and expect mutiple answers, or ask one specific question?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5878" CreationDate="2021-12-09T13:59:36.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems contradictory. Either the question &amp;quot;applies to mostly all Linux distributions (and maybe even BSD)&amp;quot; OR &amp;quot;[it will] vary depending on what Linux distribution it is due to varying package managers, init systems, service managers, and so on&amp;quot;. It can't be both. I see three options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question's answer depends on the system used; phrase the question in terms of portability: I need to do &lt;em&gt;foo&lt;/em&gt;, how can I ensure this will work on any *nix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question's answer depends on the system used; choose the system you are interested in: How can I do &lt;em&gt;foo&lt;/em&gt; in BSD? And then ask multiple questions for different systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is actually applicable to multiple systems; just ask the question in its general form: How can I do &lt;em&gt;foo&lt;/em&gt; in *nix systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2021-12-09T13:59:36.823" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5878" CreationDate="2021-12-12T22:40:49.793" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would be easy to ask a single question in this way, yet I'm also not convinced that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; breaking it into multiple questions would fix the problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Too Broad&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question should be answerable in its entirety so deliberately asking a question that &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; answering multiple times for different systems would (to my mind) be &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular you would be asking for answers derived from multiple separate skill sets so if you wanted answers for Linux-Debian, Linux-Redhat, OpenBSD, MacOS, ... then it's unlikely that any one individual would be able to answer for all systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result of this is your question will most likely be closed as &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Too little effort&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not strictly a rule but many users dislike seeing questions where the OP clearly didn't bother to research an answer before writing their question.  Note the reference to &amp;quot;Search and Research&amp;quot; here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major problem with questions similar to the one you describe in your question is that you've almost certainly put no effort in to research it for each system yourself.  I say that because it would be unlikely to research each system and get stuck on exactly the same problem for each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were to break your question into multiple (near identical) questions each about a different system, it would irritate other users and draw in the down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What to do instead&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you should generally do in this situation is take some time to research an answer yourself first.  If you get stuck on one then ask a question for that system.  It may be that understanding from answers to that will help you with other systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fine if you get stuck on multiple systems, but try to space out your questions and avoid spamming near identical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2021-12-13T15:17:19.443" LastActivityDate="2021-12-13T15:17:19.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-15T07:13:04.417" Score="6" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trivial thing. Why there's the option to vote your own post if it's not allowed? There's some rationale behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nkKJv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nkKJv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a UX point of view it seems to me that the function should be just disabled, instead of letting you click it and then show a message that you can't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastActivityDate="2021-12-15T09:33:58.000" Title="Vote your own post disabled" Tags="|discussion|votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5882" CreationDate="2021-12-15T09:33:58.000" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; a decade ago on Meta SE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/12599/270345&quot;&gt;Remove vote UI elements beside own question and answer posts&lt;/a&gt;. It might be worth it to try flagging for it to be reviewed (following &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348642/270345&quot;&gt;What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2021-12-15T09:33:58.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-20T09:42:54.773" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lists are nice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because they help bringing order and readability into a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They may also be titles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which helps with quickly skimming answers, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intendation is also needed for code blocks - but this block here was&#xA;intendated with CTRL+k, which does not automatically adjust for the need for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;7 spaces before being formatted as code block, i.e. I added 3 more spaces here.&#xA;One may break the need for 7 spaces with a horizontal line&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;but this interrupts the numbered item/ bullet point and it is unclear&#xA;whether the code is part of the bullet point or not.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Backtics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;do not work as they  disregard linebreaks (this block has two of them).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So the question is:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a more elegant way to break out of the intendation for lists when introducing a code block?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer having any code block not intendated despite being part of a list but ensure that it is clear that the code block is part of the current list item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123460" LastActivityDate="2021-12-20T20:58:46.463" Title="Markdown help: escaping intendation in lists for code blocks" Tags="|support|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5884" CreationDate="2021-12-20T11:34:13.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code blocks not intended in the following cases:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prepending, non-intended text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This text is not intended and thus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;neither is this code block.&#xA;It is lead by 4 spaces&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A prepending, invisible HTML-comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This code block is prepended by &amp;lt;!-- --&amp;gt;&#xA;and this works with 4 spaces and no previous text.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As taken form the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3327/99637#99637&quot;&gt;meta-SO reference&lt;/a&gt; kindly pointed out by @fra-san.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code blocks need 7-space indentation, and are intended themselves, in the following cases:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No previous text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;intended code block with&#xA;7 leading spaces&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previous text is intended&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4-space intended text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;followed by a 7-space intended&#xA;code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;k&lt;/kbd&gt; is not smart when it comes to automatically adjust to the need of 7 spaces for intended code blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123460" LastActivityDate="2021-12-20T11:34:13.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5884" CreationDate="2021-12-20T20:49:18.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I do indented code blocks in lists using the triple backtick syntax, and then I use &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+K&lt;/kbd&gt; on them to do the indentation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, first write the code block this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;* Some list item showing a way of writing a particular loop:&#xA;```sh&#xA;unset -v err&#xA;for name do&#xA;    [ ! -f &quot;$name&quot; ] &amp;&amp; err=true&#xA;fi&#xA;&quot;${err-false}&quot; &amp;&amp; exit 1&#xA;```&#xA;```shell&#xA;$ ./myscript argument&#xA;```&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then use &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+K&lt;/kbd&gt; on the code block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;* Some list item showing a way of writing a particular loop:&#xA;    ```sh&#xA;    unset -v err&#xA;    for name do&#xA;        [ ! -f &quot;$name&quot; ] &amp;&amp; err=true&#xA;    fi&#xA;    &quot;${err-false}&quot; &amp;&amp; exit 1&#xA;    ```&#xA;    ```shell&#xA;    $ ./myscript argument&#xA;    ```&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some list item showing a way of writing a particular loop:&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;unset -v err&#xA;for name do&#xA;    [ ! -f &amp;quot;$name&amp;quot; ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; err=true&#xA;fi&#xA;&amp;quot;${err-false}&amp;quot; &amp;amp;&amp;amp; exit 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ ./myscript argument&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I treat &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+K&lt;/kbd&gt; as &amp;quot;indent by 4 spaces&amp;quot; rather than as &amp;quot;format as code block&amp;quot;.  Using the triple backtick way of doing the code blocks and &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+K&lt;/kbd&gt; for doing indentation by four spaces seems to do the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I formatted the dotted list item at the end there as a sub-item of the &lt;code&gt;3.&lt;/code&gt; by marking the dotted item and the already indented code blocks, and pressing &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+K&lt;/kbd&gt; once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2021-12-20T20:58:46.463" LastActivityDate="2021-12-20T20:58:46.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5889" CreationDate="2021-12-29T21:47:28.123" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more of a query. I do know that one can use for e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&lt;/a&gt; to see the highest voted questions ever, but I'm more interested to know what kind of interesting questions were asked say within the last week or two and if votes were 5 or more. I am sure there is a way to do it, just don't know, looking forward to knowing. And if it's not, maybe as a feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many a time I do come across some intriguing questions but due to lack of time or something else, I forget the whole thing and don't even remember the context of what was the appealing question. And the questions are usually unique, something that I had not thought about in one way or other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastActivityDate="2021-12-30T04:30:34.400" Title="upvoted questions but with time-frames" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2021-12-30T01:03:13.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm no security expert, not even a security beginner, you have to understand why Kali was made and for what reason. Of the above, Rui's answer seem to be close to a perfect answer. To be more pragmatic, you have to think why it was made the way it is made. As you have heard from other users, it is a collection of tools to pentest a machine. Now think from either a hacker or a security company. Now you are supposed to compromise a machine without compromising yourself. And anybody who knows anything about security would tell you there is always a compromise between having a feature and occupying memory space. So the idea is have and leave minimum memory footprint (even temporarily) while at the same time detecting if the system has been compromised or compromising it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when you get back to your own home/organization etc. you do not any worm/virus etc. to infect your systems. While one can argue one way or the other, there have enough examples even in mainstream media that showed how viruses/worm jumped from one system to the other even though they were directly not connected. And in this, you actually put a usb disk in so from a threat perspective, it is even higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this goes without saying that those who are in the security business and whatnot have to have a healthy dose of paranoia but even that is sometimes is not sufficient. As always 'better safe than sorry' is probably a good mantra to live by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to note, I do use Debian testing and have used it for about a decade now, while once a while it can land you up in the middle of a black hole, most times it works wonderfully. I have found it interesting to work on it and on occasion also report bugs and get them fixed but that's probably a different thing altogether. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50490" LastActivityDate="2021-12-30T01:03:13.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5887" CreationDate="2021-12-30T04:23:46.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;interesting questions were asked say within the last week or two and if votes were 5 or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. I would use these &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=Is%3Aq+score%3A5..+created%3A14d..&quot;&gt;search criteria&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Is:q score:5.. created:14d..&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is scored 5 or higher&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was created less than 15 days ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often refer to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search help page&lt;/a&gt; that's linked from the advanced search tips within the search function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do come across some intriguing questions but due to lack of time or something else, I forget the whole thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/53585/how-do-question-bookmarks-work&quot;&gt;bookmarking&lt;/a&gt; the question or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/345661/the-follow-questions-and-answers-feature-is-now-live-across-the-network&quot;&gt;following&lt;/a&gt; it so that it's easier to find again later. Of course, you could also use your browser's bookmark feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2021-12-30T04:30:34.400" LastActivityDate="2021-12-30T04:30:34.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5891" CreationDate="2022-01-06T12:15:43.833" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both ElementaryOS(&lt;a href=&quot;https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;) and Ubuntu(&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;https://askubuntu.com/&lt;/a&gt;) have their own stackexchange sites. This made me wonder why questions under the tags &lt;code&gt;ubuntu&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;elementary-os&lt;/code&gt; are considered on topic when they have dedicated stackexchange sites for themeselves. Is there some reason for this because to me it seems unnecessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="482007" LastEditorUserId="482007" LastEditDate="2022-01-06T12:52:06.703" LastActivityDate="2022-01-06T13:10:47.343" Title="Why do we have Ubuntu and ElementaryOS tags?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5890" CreationDate="2022-01-06T13:10:47.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our scope includes anything to do with Unix or Linux. Whether or not other sites also cover parts of our scope isn't relevant to whether something is on topic for us. Yes, Elementary OS and Ubuntu have their own sites, but that's a very small part of it. To take a simple example, bash questions are on topic at least the following sites, and probably more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Different&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Elementary OS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Raspberry Pi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have questions about emacs, despite the existence of &lt;a href=&quot;https://emacs.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://emacs.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, about vim, despite the existence of &lt;a href=&quot;https://vim.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://vim.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, we have questions about configuring servers, despite the existence of &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt;, the list goes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there are several dozen (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;almost two hundred, actually&lt;/a&gt;) sites on the Stack Exchange network and many of them have overlapping scopes. As long as something is on topic here, the fact that it may also be on topic elsewhere is immaterial. Just like the fact that we exist shouldn't stop Stack Overflow from giving answers about shell scripts. We all coexist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2022-01-06T13:10:47.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-07T11:35:08.260" Score="-7" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the domain be moved from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;code&gt;linux.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linux as a term is way better known in the public compared to &amp;quot;Unix&amp;quot; by now. It fits the contents of the site far better, albeit the operating systems are &lt;em&gt;GNU/Linux&lt;/em&gt; and Linux is &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; only the kernel (but it also refers to the operating systems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;apple.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; for questions about macOS and iOS - these aren't posed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the site also hosts questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unix-like&lt;/a&gt; operating systems like FreeBSD, as of 7. January 2022 there are only 1,598 questions tagged &amp;quot;freebsd&amp;quot; but 34,028 questions tagged &amp;quot;linux&amp;quot; even though many (possibly even most) Linux-related questions don't have that tag (but e.g. the name of a specific distribution). Also note that the subdomain is &amp;quot;unix&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;unix-like&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, such questions/tags could also be split out into a separate site if that's preferred to adjust &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the scope of the site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;em&gt;an option&lt;/em&gt; that could be done along with the domain-change (but this wouldn't be necessary, the scope could also remain the same). This would make the site more focused (smaller scope, less redundancy with other stackexchange sites and increased efficiency due to better discoverability of questions) and make the domain-name more accurate. This also includes questions about Cygwin which could for example be migrated &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/cygwin&quot;&gt;to superuser.exchange&lt;/a&gt;. Note that graphical visualizations of scopes and their overlapping could help here. The entire minority fraction of posts about *nix that aren't about GNU/Linux or also within its scope could be split out but I don't think that this would be &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; for changing the primary subdomain. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; this is done, questions concerning &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bash&lt;/a&gt; could be in-scope here (with this being the primary or sole SE site to ask about them) and out-of-scope only if related to Unix or Solaris/... in specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, reasons for and benefits of changing the subdomain include that it would make the domain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clearer (widely understood well and easily with clear distinction/s) - in these years, Linux is far better known than &amp;quot;Unix&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;attracting and motivating more signed-up active contributors; having linux in the subdomain could also increase identification with the site (including community-building and attracting more people of the large community of the GNU/Linux ecosystem which currently doesn't have any other modern problem-solving website)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;less confusing for general public (nowadays most somewhat sophisticated computer users roughly know what Linux means, while most of those probably haven't even heard of Unix and if they have they don't really know what it means and how it's different from Linux)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the same reasons for why sites usually aren't named after a small fraction of content on it which non-GNU/Linux Unix-specific questions are (and GNU stands for &amp;quot;GNU's Not Unix&amp;quot;) Sources for &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; being more popular include the number of questions here (see above and the answer below), reddit subscribers to r/Linux (717k) vs r/unix (18k), &lt;a href=&quot;https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2017-12-07%202022-01-07&amp;amp;q=unix,linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google trends&lt;/a&gt; (note that the decline may be due to Linux people starting to use alternative search engines) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&amp;amp;platform=all-access&amp;amp;agent=user&amp;amp;redirects=0&amp;amp;start=2020-12-17&amp;amp;end=2022-01-06&amp;amp;pages=Unix%7CLinux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia pageviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;better describe the actual (majority of) content&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prevents confusion what the site is about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the title is largely ill-descriptive of the site's contents as it's not called unixlike.SE or like the topic-domain of the majority of contents here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this a high-level meta post with substantial implications/requirements and I may not have elaborated it sufficiently so maybe it would be good if it was possible to ask about it again if this question leads nowhere and I may edit the question over time (potentially based on critical comments). A survey (sticky) of the site's users (provided with relevant info to this decision which we could aggregate and discuss here) with most weight given to the site's most constructive contributors may (or may not) be a good or better approach than this question or a good complementary thing to do before implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: downvoters may have misunderstood this question to be about changing the scope of the site, however this was only proposed as an option to do along with (or after) changing the subdomain, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a necessity (the scope could remain exactly the same; this could be discussed separately even after a subdomain-change got decided).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there are good reasons to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; change the domain except potentially technical/meta/non-principle issues such as search engine indexing(?) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/271/233262&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a Q&amp;amp;A about why the site has the current domain. It suggests that both users &amp;quot;didn't have any say in that&amp;quot; and that it seems like not a lot of thought has been put into which domain was chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;linux.stackexchange.com currently only redirects to unix.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="233262" LastEditorUserId="233262" LastEditDate="2022-01-07T13:57:49.950" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T13:57:49.950" Title="Could the site's subdomain be changed to linux.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|stackexchange|domain|linux|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5892" CreationDate="2022-01-07T12:00:26.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unix is very much on topic here and always has been. Yes, we get fewer questions about Unix than we do about Linux, but we certainly get questions about both. We also get questions about macOS and Cygwin, both of which are on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, tags are not the primary way of indicating what OS a question is about, that is often found in the body of the question. Ideally, you would only tag with an OS if the question is somehow 100% specific to that OS and not applicable elsewhere. If you're just asking a bash question, for example, there is no need to tag with your OS and you should just mention what OS you are on in the question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=macos&quot;&gt;3,373 results for macOS.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=cygwin&quot;&gt;1,606 results for CygWin.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=solaris&quot;&gt;4,798 results for Solaris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=AIX&quot;&gt;2,281 results for AIX.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=BSD&quot;&gt;3,925 results for BSD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22linux%22&quot;&gt;77,362 results for &amp;quot;linux&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; but the rest are not exactly rare either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that &lt;a href=&quot;https://linux.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://linux.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; works and takes you to this site, and given that non-Linux *nix systems are and always have been very much on topic, I don't see any reason to do anything. I mean sure, we could have linux.stackexchange.com be the main domain name, but is that really worth the effort? What would the benefits be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T12:00:26.927" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5897" CreationDate="2022-01-09T03:40:05.173" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they should be made synonyms. They refer to the exact same thing even. Here's the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resolv.conf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resolv.conf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resolv.conf&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The resolv.conf file contains information that is read by the resolver (a set of C library routines that provide access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resolvconf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resolvconf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resolvconf&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Synonym to resolv.conf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly someone thinks they are synonyms.  But, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/resolvconf/synonyms&quot;&gt;they aren't tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt;. I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resolv.conf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resolv.conf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resolv.conf&lt;/a&gt; should be the main one, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resolvconf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resolvconf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resolvconf&lt;/a&gt; should be merged into that, given that &lt;code&gt;resolv.conf&lt;/code&gt; is the filename (located in &lt;code&gt;/etc/&lt;/code&gt;), not &lt;code&gt;resolvconf&lt;/code&gt;. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="495409" LastActivityDate="2022-01-12T19:10:10.487" Title="Can [resolvconf] be made a synonym of the [resolv.conf] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5895" CreationDate="2022-01-09T15:37:59.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5897/22222&quot;&gt;Unfortunately, I was too hasty.&lt;/a&gt; I have now deleted the synonym I created and have recreated the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resolvconf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resolvconf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resolvconf&lt;/a&gt; tag. I have now gone through all questions that had the  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/resolv.conf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resolv.conf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resolv.conf&lt;/a&gt; tag and which contained the string &lt;code&gt;resolvconf&lt;/code&gt; and have retagged as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;This seems like an open and shut case, they clearly should be synonyms so I went ahead and made them synonyms. &lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/resolvconf/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/resolvconf/synonyms&lt;/a&gt; page should now show them as synonyms. Any questions with the old &lt;code&gt;resolvconf&lt;/code&gt; tag now have the &lt;code&gt;resolv.conf&lt;/code&gt; one instead.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Thanks!&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-01-12T19:10:10.487" LastActivityDate="2022-01-12T19:10:10.487" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5895" CreationDate="2022-01-11T10:58:54.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not synonyms. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolvconf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;resolvconf&lt;/a&gt; is a software utility that manages &lt;code&gt;/etc/resolv.conf&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do a bit more research than blindly trusting tag wikis. Unfortunately, tag wiki quality tends to be pretty bad. At the very least check Wikipedia and do a web search!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2022-01-11T10:58:54.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5878" CreationDate="2022-01-11T13:03:06.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you aren't sure what answers will depend on, include all the information that's potentially relevant in your question, and let people who do know what is relevant edit the title and tags to reflect what is actually relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastActivityDate="2022-01-11T13:03:06.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-12T14:56:20.947" Score="13" ViewCount="119" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2021, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KZntT.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Unix &amp;amp; Linux over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;76&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User suspensions lifted early&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User banned from review&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;346&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,990&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;27&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;499&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,698&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,373&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;232&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,432&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First questions queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,752&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;117&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9,427&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First answers queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,245&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,573&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms proposed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag highlight language set&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Revisions redacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;35&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions unprotected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions reopened&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;36&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;36&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions protected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;196&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions migrated&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;27&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;73&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;44&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,102&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;745&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,801&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;406&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;726&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;63&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;620&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;257&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,235&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11,403&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,246&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Escalations to the Community Manager team&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;44&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;509&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,417&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,487&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;13,667&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,118&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;808&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Bounties canceled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;227&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,112&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,597&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;739&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;45&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5729/2020-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2020: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222021%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/374784/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2022! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastActivityDate="2022-01-12T14:56:20.947" Title="2021: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-19T17:27:21.637" Score="14" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the &amp;quot;learning&amp;quot; tag which only has &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/learning&quot;&gt;5 questions&lt;/a&gt; at the time of writing. However, as I checked none of these questions are suitable to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; when knowing that asking for learning materials is off-topic; Can we request for deletion of this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/learning&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;learning&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;learning&lt;/a&gt; tag alongside deleting those questions too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72456" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-01-19T19:09:51.277" LastActivityDate="2022-01-19T19:09:51.277" Title="remove &quot;learning&quot; tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-20T05:30:24.813" Score="3" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Background info : All the existing answers to soneone's post about printing out high-bit bytes were along the lines of :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;It's a locale setting problem, and you must go to &lt;code&gt;LC_ALL=C/POSIX&lt;/code&gt; to get around it&amp;quot; (variations of the same motif)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offered a clean solution that is completely agnostic to locale settings, showcasing how one could print any byte even in &lt;code&gt;UTF-8&lt;/code&gt; locale, or vice versa, print any UTF-8 character even in &lt;code&gt;POSIX/C/byte-mode&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And my reward for sharing that tidbit of information was having my reputation dinged for some minor and inconsequential typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've even seen answers to questions with factually false statements (easily provable with just Unix one-liners), while that answer got the most up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;So what exactly do people value here? &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English isn't my mother tongue, so if grammar spelling and punctation is valued above all else, I simply have to resign to that fact while also picturing others in a similar boat where their actual efforts were being completely overlooked, and become increasingly reluctant to even speak up, comment, or offer any solutions, out of concern, or even fear, to protect their reputation value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have much of a reputation value to begin with, since I'm a rather new joiner, and I already feel this way — imagine how the more seasoned ones would feel when no good deed goes unpunished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="458145" LastActivityDate="2022-01-20T15:02:59.553" Title="exactly what do people value here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5901" CreationDate="2022-01-20T14:00:56.943" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you haven't linked to the specific post you are referring to, it's hard to be very specific, but in any case, looking at all of your answers, I can see you have received exactly two downvotes. This just means that two people (or even just one person who voted on both posts) out of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/leagues/106/week/unix/2022-01-16?sort=totalreputation&quot;&gt;more than 16 thousand&lt;/a&gt; users with enough rep to downvote, chose to cast a downvote on two of your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of us can know who did this and only the person who did it can know why. I can tell you that as a general rule, I don't think people here tend to downvote for typos, so I really doubt your interpretation is correct. People vote for personal reasons and it's impossible to know what was in every random downvoter's mind at the time they chose to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, I am going to guess that you are referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/686792/22222&quot;&gt;your answer&lt;/a&gt; here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/525654/22222&quot;&gt;Why does awk&amp;#39;s printf interpret character values greater than 127 as multi-byte characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained above, we cannot know why the person who voted chose to downvote,  but I have to say it is really strange that you undid a helpful edit. I have now redone it because the edit was a clear improvement, fixed various minor language issues and didn't take anything away from your answer. Please don't undo such good edits. This is a collaborative site and if you are not comfortable with others editing your posts, especially if you object to such clearly helpful edits, then you really will not enjoy your time here since this sort of collaborative editing is a very major part of how we do things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I really doubt the downvote was in any way related to your typos or to the fact that you rolled back a useful edit. I would instead guess that the downvote is simply because your answer is not answering the question. It seems quite correct and interesting, but it isn't answering the question asked. The post asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of 0xc280, and why does awk output that character instead of 0x80?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer doesn't address this at all. Instead, it gives ways for awk to print out an arbitrary byte. Which is interesting and can be useful, &lt;em&gt;but isn't an answer to the question asked&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sites have their own set of rules which can be surprising and confusing to new users. One of the more important ones is that, unlike traditional forums, we are very strict about everything posted being either a question or an answer to the specific question. Useful and interesting discussions that are not providing a direct answer are not wanted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer your main question: we value correct information that provides a solution to the problem or question posed in the Question. We also value clear writing, and encourage everyone to edit each other's posts so we can ensure high quality and up to date answers as much as possible. We do not, however, welcome discussions or tangential posts no matter how true or interesting they may be. This is just not the right place for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-01-20T15:02:59.553" LastActivityDate="2022-01-20T15:02:59.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5903" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-27T12:46:23.923" Score="10" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few times I've wondered about things which are not strictly related to Unix or Linux as software, but about the social and corporate eco system which supports it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One such example might be to ask &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Are developers with no prior experience as a package maintainer allowed to publish their own software through Debian?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is whether questions about the &lt;strong&gt;organisation&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Debian&amp;quot; are on-topic or not?  And what, if any, is the boundary when questions spill over into topics of organisation and culture related to Unix and Linux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="7453" LastEditDate="2022-01-31T01:42:15.647" LastActivityDate="2022-01-31T01:42:15.647" Title="Are questions about other Linux communities and, for example distributors, on topic on U&amp;L?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5903" CreationDate="2022-01-28T09:13:22.263" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As two of our esteemed moderators have said, I think questions explicitly about processes are off-topic here. As you mention yourself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://opensource.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Open Source&lt;/a&gt; might be a better fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are questions here about &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;whether&lt;/em&gt;; for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/416142/86440&quot;&gt;How to add a package to all Debian distros?&lt;/a&gt; These are perhaps borderline but they’ve never drawn negative reactions in my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2022-01-28T09:13:22.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-11T16:44:20.983" Score="-7" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the level of professionalism here, but why is the reputation required to answer a question enormously high at 50 ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a professionally experienced expert and because of the threshold to comment is so enormously high &amp;gt; 50 , I am just sitting on valuable comments that would save your users a lot of time and trouble, not to mention better security. So why so high ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426437" OwnerDisplayName="Marc Cox" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-02-11T21:58:37.607" LastActivityDate="2022-02-21T12:19:43.670" Title="Why is the reputation required to answer a question enormously high at 50?" Tags="|discussion|comments|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2022-02-11T16:52:18.650" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No reputation is required to answer a question; from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;list of privileges&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 &lt;strong&gt;create posts&lt;/strong&gt; Ask a question or contribute an answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And you presumably know this, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/users/792234/marc-cox&quot;&gt;you’ve answered questions on other Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;50 reputation points are required to comment, and the reasons are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/214173/285232&quot;&gt;explained on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We look forward to your answers, and once you start answering, it won’t take long before you can comment everywhere!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" OwnerDisplayName="Stephen Kitt" LastActivityDate="2022-02-11T17:29:14.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5905" CreationDate="2022-02-21T12:19:43.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To get a reputation higher than 50, all you need is five more up votes than down votes on answers given, or four and at least one accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/426437/marc-cox&quot;&gt;your user page on unix.se&lt;/a&gt;, you currently have &lt;em&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; posted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are as full of valuable answers and comments as you claim to be, providing a couple of good, useful answers to questions on the unix.stackexchange.com site shouldn't be hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4949" LastActivityDate="2022-02-21T12:19:43.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-04T18:02:03.857" Score="7" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently joined StackExchange after using it as a resource for many years.  Therefore I don't have a high reputation (26), and so cannot use the comments field.  Is there any way to PM a user with a partial solution?  I got told off for posting a short outline in the Answer section earlier today, so I don't want to put anything there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user516667" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-03-04T20:33:29.653" LastActivityDate="2022-03-04T20:34:35.840" Title="How to help others when you don't have a complete solution?" Tags="|support|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5908" CreationDate="2022-03-04T20:34:35.840" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to U&amp;amp;L as a contributor! I (barely) remember the day I joined the sites and I definitely remember the learning curve involved. Your concern is very valid; there are lots of similar questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22partial+answer%22&quot;&gt;here on U&amp;amp;L Meta&lt;/a&gt; as well as on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22partial+answer%22&quot;&gt;Main Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your specific question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to PM a user with a partial solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's easy: no.  Stack Exchange intends to be a public collection of Questions and Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have a partial answer of the form &amp;quot;use awk; I'll post a full answer later&amp;quot;, I'd recommend staying pat. Write up your thoughts locally; test it later when you have a chance, and then take the time to answer.  You may find that there are some eager answerers here and questions that are clear enough to answer often garner several answers pretty quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you find a thorny question with no answers after several days, and you think you can solve part of the problem, then feel free to post an answer that demonstrates the partial solution and clearly outlines the shortcomings. It may inspire someone else to finish the job, or you may find inspiration later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've done exactly the right thing in trying to understand what happened, both in the comments on your answer and by posting here on Meta. Thank you for trying to learn more about how Stack Exchange works, and I hope you find the rest of the learning curve to be smooth! Feel free to reach out here on Meta or &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat&quot;&gt;in our chat room&lt;/a&gt; if you have more questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-03-04T20:34:35.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-07T12:19:09.027" Score="7" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the amount of Quickbooks SPAM hurtling it's way around the system, I find I can only flag so many of them as SPAM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post has been deleted, does the system really, not hand back the flag to be reused? And if not, should it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="433674" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-03-07T12:47:35.147" LastActivityDate="2022-03-09T10:41:42.373" Title="SPAM &amp; flag count not being reset" Tags="|support|feature-request|flagging|flags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5910" CreationDate="2022-03-07T15:22:22.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's correct; the system does not let you reuse flags. Your consolation prize is that your flag was marked helpful, which counts towards increasing your future quota of flags. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/164900/307535&quot;&gt;The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide&lt;/a&gt; has much more information; for this situation, search/scroll down to &amp;quot;Flagging&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that there are good reasons for wanting flags to get rid of spam; I haven't thought through the mechanics of how a reuse mechanism would work overall. A quick search on Meta.SE didn't pull up anything pertinent, so if you're interested in such a change, I'd encourage you to think it through and post a feature-request on Meta. My only caution, coming from my personal limitations, is that the Stack Exchange codebase has grown (IMHO) fairly complex over the years and there are probably corner cases to think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-03-09T01:20:01.170" LastActivityDate="2022-03-09T01:20:01.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5913" CreationDate="2022-03-08T10:54:10.840" Score="24" ViewCount="582" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn’t a question as such, but a public service announcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From time to time, and sometimes in waves like the current spam campaigns, the main site gets posts (both questions and answers) which are obviously spam — they are blatant attempts to get visitors to go to a site the spammer presumably cares about, or more recently, call a phone number. Most of the time these posts are quickly removed, but I have noticed some instances of well-meaning users commenting on the posts or voting to close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done about such posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-04-04T15:32:12.293" LastActivityDate="2022-04-04T15:32:12.293" Title="How to deal with spam" Tags="|support|faq|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5912" CreationDate="2022-03-08T10:54:10.840" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is only one correct way of dealing with spam on SE&lt;/strong&gt;, and that is to &lt;strong&gt;flag the post as spam&lt;/strong&gt;, and only that (in particular, do not downvote it):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZT1X7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZT1X7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flagging a post as spam&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging a post in this manner doesn’t necessarily end up adding work for the site’s moderators: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035/285232&quot;&gt;once six such flags are raised&lt;/a&gt;, the post will automatically be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every single spam flag also results in a downvote (and in the case of answers, this doesn’t cost the flagger any reputation). Additional downvotes &lt;strong&gt;are not helpful&lt;/strong&gt;, in fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/193917/285232&quot;&gt;they can help spam survive longer&lt;/a&gt; by removing it from the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if you see a spam post that hasn’t been deleted some time after it was posted (say, ten minutes), that means it hasn’t been detected by &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SmokeDetector&lt;/a&gt;. Such posts should be reported to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11540/charcoal-hq&quot;&gt;Charcoal HQ&lt;/a&gt;, ideally before they are deleted; doing so allows the people involved with Charcoal to adapt the detections such that future instances of similar spam are detected and reported, which tends to result in the spam more rapidly accumulating spam flags and, thus, being deleted faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is but a small part of Stack Exchange’s spam handling; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/06/25/how-does-spam-protection-work-on-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;How does spam protection work on Stack Exchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastEditorUserId="86440" LastEditDate="2022-03-09T08:16:22.397" LastActivityDate="2022-03-09T08:16:22.397" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-08T15:36:31.740" Score="4" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had my Unix&amp;amp;Linux (and Meta) access suspended for a week (although my U&amp;amp;L Meta rep is still 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an information source I missed that would have explained why? Was I unacceptably rude? Did I post too many identical answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that a suspension is SE's way of saying &amp;quot;Don't do that&amp;quot;, but unless I know what &amp;quot;that&amp;quot; is, it's hard to behave better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I correct my behavior to avoid another suspension?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11135" LastActivityDate="2022-03-08T15:36:31.740" Title="Why was I suspended for a week?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5910" CreationDate="2022-03-09T10:41:42.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll post the primary sentiment of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5910/spam-flag-count-not-being-reset#comment12059_5910&quot;&gt;fra-san's reference&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/216825/410681&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).  I think it's particularly important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you need is a set of sockpuppets or voting ring with flagging privileges to make anything disappear from the site, simply by flagging it as spam. With additional spam flags, you can do a lot of damage this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As annoying as spam is, the more content that needs deleting, the more people need to be involved in deleting it... otherwise bad things will happen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(We can't have nice things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2022-03-09T10:41:42.373" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-03-09T10:41:42.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5919" CreationDate="2022-03-19T12:33:54.260" Score="21" ViewCount="804" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, users will post questions in a language other than English. What should we do about such posts? Should we try and translate with automatic translators? Should we close as unclear? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Please note that this is a &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt; post. This isn't a new policy, at least not yet. Mods don't get to decide policy, the community does. So if people disagree with my answer below, by all means downvote it and please post your own, competing answers arguing your position.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-04-12T17:31:09.487" LastActivityDate="2022-04-12T17:31:09.487" Title="Should we translate non-English questions?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2022-03-19T12:33:54.260" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't just dump non-English posts into Google Translate (or equivalent) and hope for the best. If you can understand the language in question well enough to confirm that the translation makes sense, and the post is really worth keeping, then feel free to translate it, but don't just use an automatic translator and hope for the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions posted in a language other than English on an English language site are unclear by definition and should be closed. We expect users to put at least the minimal amount of effort into their questions. That's one of the main reasons for downvoting and is what makes Stack Exchange so much better than the noise-filled forums that abound everywhere else on the internet. A user who simply posts their question in another language on an English-language site and can't even be bothered to i) attempt to write in English or, if they speak no English at all, ii) pass their question through Google Translate is failing to put any effort at all into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand a few languages which means I am unfortunate enough to be able to understand many of the non-English questions posted on the site. Sadly, in almost all cases, the different language is the least of the post's problems. As can be expected, if a user can't even be bothered to notice that they're on an English language site, they also can't be bothered to write anything resembling a clear, on topic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can recall, every time I translated a post, I also had to leave a comment requesting basic information from the OP. Frankly, posting non-English questions on an English language site is usually a good indication that the question itself is a poor fit for the site, irrespective of the language it happened to have been posted in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, let's imagine you find a question whose only problem is the language and translate it. Now what? If the OP can't ask in English, chances are they also can't understand the answer. Conversely, if they can understand the answer, then they should have asked in English in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux isn't the one and only stop for *nix-related support and information on the internet. It is one of the top spots for English support and information, but there are dozens if not hundreds of helpful sites in other languages. Our target audience is not the world, but the portion of the world that uses *nix and can understand English well enough to ask questions in that language. It would never occur to me to go to an Urdu Ubuntu forum and post a question in English. I would consider that to be inconsiderate (&amp;quot;I don't care what language y'all speak, I'll just ignore that and post in mine&amp;quot;) and rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should make every effort to help people whose English is limited by editing and doing our best to understand what they are saying. Writing in a foreign language is &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; and I have a lot of respect for people who post here despite not speaking fluent English. But if they are so inconsiderate as to just dump their question with no effort, then I don't think we should encourage that by translating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, automatic translations are bad. They rarely make much sense so when you do this, when you auto-translate a question, you have just added yet another bad question to the site. What's worse, it's a bad question that's very unlikely to be improved since the OP has already shown they're not willing or able to. This isn't helping anyone and is actively harming the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for me, the only case where translating a question would be worthwhile is when &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can do the translation yourself, and the question is really good and clear and can stand on its own with no further clarification needed. For every other case, I would argue that translating is actively harmful and automatically translating is doubly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposed policy&lt;/strong&gt;: Never use automatic translators to translate someone else's post. Avoid translating in general, except in exceptional cases where you can do the translation &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the question is clear and good enough to stand alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-03-22T13:00:45.433" LastActivityDate="2022-03-22T13:00:45.433" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2022-03-22T10:51:58.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of options available to us here. Here are three:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The least friendly but least effort approach is to close the question as unclear. This by itself doesn't help a poster whose first (and perhaps only) language isn't English. If you're going to take this as site policy then I would strongly urge you to explain to the poster why their question is unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Encourage the poster to use automatic translation into English. This can lead to incomprehensible (or at least ambiguous) questions where machine translation simply cannot cope with a technical question. It also avoids closure due to lack of clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allow other site members to translate the question, possibly using machine translation, to the best of their technical ability. Such people might be bilingual and happy to invest their time in making a question understandable in English. (I understand that it's almost always easier to translate into one's native language than from it to another.) There is no point simply pasting the question into a machine translator and dropping the result into the question; it's about ensuring that the translation reflects the meaning &lt;em&gt;and intent&lt;/em&gt; of the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, #3 would be prohibited by the proposed site policy. I don't really see how it differs from someone editing a question to make it clearer, except in magnitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal preference would be to take these in reverse order. Don't stop people translating a question providing it's done well. While being very happy to reject non-English language questions on an English-language site, I would be averse to a site policy that simply closed non-English questions as unclear without any flexibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2022-03-22T10:51:58.613" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2022-03-22T12:55:29.447" Score="14" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Proposed policy:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the edited question is a good question and in English then there should be no justification for closing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Machine translations made by anyone other than the OP should be treated as vandalism and reverted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are in a position to clarify the wording of a question then please do (translations included)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IE it's acceptable to revert a third party machine translation and then vote to close.  It's also acceptable to translate a question if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure this is a change in existing policy so much as a clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rationale&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why not immediately close the edited question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should never care about previous versions when voting on a question or voting to close.  A basic principle of why SE has the edit option in the first place is that improvements are encouraged.  The only exception may be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43478/exit-strategies-for-chameleon-questions&quot;&gt;chameleon questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quality of english we get here sometimes is pretty awful and there have been times when questions use only english words but are still not &amp;quot;english&amp;quot;.  I see no good reason why cleaning up such questions would be any different to &lt;strong&gt;accurately&lt;/strong&gt; translating a non-english question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why not allow machine translations?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are usually bad english and very unreliable.  If you knew what my father in law accidentally said to me before the wedding you'd never trust one again!  &lt;em&gt;I've still not had the courage to explain to him what that little electronic voice really said.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Machine translations should be discouraged if you cannot verify the translation has preserved the original meaning.  If you can confirm the original meaning has been preserved then why did you use the machine translator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translating a question from its original wording and leaving it in bad english isn't an improvement!  Translating a question without personally understanding what the OP was trying to ask should always be treated as a bad edit.  The classification of &amp;quot;vandalism&amp;quot; might be a bit harsh here, but reverting it should be the right action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why an exception for OP's translating their own question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP chooses to use a machine translation that's a different matter.  They &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have enough english knowledge to understand the translation was close enough without enough english grammar to correct it.  OP's are the only ones who really understand the nuances of what they are trying to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why allow translation at all?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of us just want to be helpful.  That's why we're here.  Sure we should be careful to make things better and not worse. We shouldn't deter genuine help where it's offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd hate for a situation where those making genuine translations are told off for their actions and I fear that a &amp;quot;no translations&amp;quot; policy would lead to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality there are few good opportunities to offer translation.  Once or twice I've offered translations to questions in Chinese by first machine translating it, discovering the result was enough to pique my interest; then cleaning up the grammar and asking my Chinese wife to help correct the translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's so much effort that I've done this only twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But non-english questions show no effort and are almost always rubbish?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are Kali Questions (usually).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read a question that's rubbish and in another language then you've got two reasons to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you happen to find a really good one and you can easily translate it, then surely translation is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2022-03-22T14:25:07.800" LastActivityDate="2022-03-22T14:25:07.800" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2022-03-30T12:25:27.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;multi-paragraph quoting test&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system. The name is an acronym for the ‘Bourne-Again SHell’, a pun on Stephen Bourne, the author of the direct ancestor of the current Unix shell sh, which appeared in the Seventh Edition Bell Labs Research version of Unix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bash is largely compatible with sh and incorporates useful features from the Korn shell ksh and the C shell csh. It is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools portion of the IEEE POSIX specification (IEEE Standard 1003.1). It offers functional improvements over sh for both interactive and programming use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the GNU operating system provides other shells, including a version of csh, Bash is the default shell. Like other GNU software, Bash is quite portable. It currently runs on nearly every version of Unix and a few other operating systems - independently-supported ports exist for MS-DOS, OS/2, and Windows platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-03-30T12:25:27.573" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-03-30T12:25:27.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5921" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-06T22:19:56.280" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DmTM9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DmTM9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I have just earned the &amp;quot;Yearling&amp;quot; badge although I did not do anything on meta, I did not even vote on a meta question or comment or even open it at all. I did indeed earn &amp;gt; 200 reputation in a year but that does not make me a meta user. The meta membership is attached to the main platform like on any other Stack Exchange, that is clear, but without any activity, I did not think to get any badges at all. Now it is &amp;gt;250 on the main platform, with the last rep a week ago, that cannot be the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="442338" LastEditorUserId="442338" LastEditDate="2022-04-06T22:44:45.133" LastActivityDate="2022-04-06T22:44:45.133" Title="&quot;Yearling&quot; badge on Unix&amp;Linux meta without any activity and reputation points only from a week before the badge" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-14T16:12:20.053" Score="2" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3924?phase=definition&quot;&gt;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3924?phase=definition&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I can see who proposed it and a few other details but I cannot find the original proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It this available somewhere I've missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current site definition is given by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I assume it has not changed significantly over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The roots of unix&amp;amp;linux are hinted from some of the links below as being&#xA;because superuser was attracting poor answers to unix type questions.&#xA;Is that true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I asking?&#xA;Mostly historical interest but like others I occasionally get caught out for posting in the wrong place.&#xA;I am first and foremost a software developer and with this role I find myself mostly on stackoverflow. My various roles have required me to write software in all kinds of programming languages and more rarely system admin. This is not uncommon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is considerable overlap between stackoverflow and unix particularly in the areas of APIs and script so I'm particularly curious about why APIs and scripting were explicitly included&#xA;when those could easily have been left on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shell scripting is a special kind of programming but so are many kinds of language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the argument was &amp;quot;programs, pipes and filters&amp;quot; was a pattern unique to unix.&#xA;Though this is doable in some 'proper' programming languages as well these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a sort of answer to the API question here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314/unix-c-api-calls-ontopic&quot;&gt;Unix C API calls ontopic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A whole other can of worms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An argument for using separate sites rather than just tags is to do with moderation and curation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a fully formed opinion on this subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have say C++.stackexchange or Cfamily.stackexchange because a tag is generally sufficient for those cases. Why wasn't a tag on stackoverflow sufficient in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is a whole other can of worms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/374416/1569204&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/374416/1569204&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/374408/why-not-combine-server-fault-and-super-user-into-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/374408/why-not-combine-server-fault-and-super-user-into-stack-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/322468/how-has-the-scope-of-stack-overflow-changed&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/322468/how-has-the-scope-of-stack-overflow-changed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23726/why-did-you-guys-branch-off-superuser-serverfault-etc&quot;&gt;Why did you guys branch off superuser, serverfault, etc?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6133/why-do-serverfault-com-and-superuser-com-even-meta-stackoverflow-exist/6184&quot;&gt;Why do serverfault.com and superuser.com even meta.stackoverflow exist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/02/fork-it/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/02/fork-it/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162453" LastActivityDate="2022-04-14T16:12:20.053" Title="Why was unix &amp; linux originally created / split from stackoverflow?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5926" CreationDate="2022-04-25T15:52:22.607" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question is an exact duplicate of an older one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new answer into the new post has a suggestion based on a new feature introduced, this answer does not exist into the old post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep it open? Close it and move the answer to old post? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="216907" LastActivityDate="2022-04-26T10:30:08.373" Title="Duplicated question, new answer" Tags="|discussion|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5925" CreationDate="2022-04-26T10:30:08.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just close the old question as a duplicate of the new one. Age is not really relevant when deciding which should be closed and which should be the dupe target: you just pick the best question, or the one with the best answers and use that one as the dupe target no matter which was posted first. It's absolutely fine to close old questions as duplicates of newer ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of dupe closure is to ensure that users find the answer. So whichever Q&amp;amp;A is better, that is the one that should be kept as the dupe target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2022-04-26T10:30:08.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-26T12:23:51.180" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not have enough reputation to create a new tag on this site, therefore I propose to add the tag here. Hope this is the right (or at least not very wrong) approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) feature provides inline block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning for storage. You can manage VDO as a type of LVM logical volumes (LVs), similar to LVM thinly provisioned volumes. -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9-beta/html/deduplicating_and_compressing_logical_volumes_on_rhel/introduction-to-vdo-on-lvm_deduplicating-and-compressing-logical-volumes-on-rhel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Hat docs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3556" LastActivityDate="2022-04-26T17:38:32.203" Title="Add new tag &quot;vdo&quot;?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5927" CreationDate="2022-04-26T17:38:32.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As this is a new feature of RHEL, I'm in support of this idea. terdon's comment has the right sequence, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask question (with existing tags)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ensure question(s) don't get deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add vdo tag to questions as appropriate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be a good time to think about what the vdo tag excerpt and wiki would say on U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-04-26T17:38:32.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5931" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-25T09:39:39.060" Score="1" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a user about a previous question they have posted. Either PM or add a query to an existing post.&#xA;Apparently this is not available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They asked a question similar to the one I have. 'Apparently' they didn't get any productive, obvious responses. Would like to find out if they solved the issue - which, I am sure would be handy for multiple users, but I can't ask the question, either by adding to an existing query, or by PMing the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added a question to the original post, but this has been hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="523359" OwnerDisplayName="hornetster" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2022-05-26T03:41:21.693" LastActivityDate="2022-06-14T13:17:01.040" Title="Querying previous users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5931" CreationDate="2022-05-25T14:15:06.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand your frustration but this site, like all Stack Exchange network sites, is not a forum. This is a Q&amp;amp;A site, and we don't want to have discussions between users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/979/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trying to get that user to help you&lt;/a&gt;, just post a new question. Not as an answer to the existing question, as you did, but as a new question. You can link to the original question, and show that the attempts there didn't solve your problem, and then add any new things you may have tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot guarantee it will not be closed as a duplicate, but that's your best chance. If you can make your question different somehow (specify your hardware is different for example), that will also help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-06-12T14:06:14.607" LastActivityDate="2022-06-12T14:06:14.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5933" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:47:52.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something&#xA;that will be implemented or fixed in an upcoming release. &#xA;However, there may be ongoing investigation&#xA;on the methods to implement the proposal,&#xA;or there may be other active projects that are ahead of it in priority. &#xA;Or maybe the proposal has already been implemented&#xA;in a build hasn't been rolled out to production yet. &#xA;Ideally, this tag indicates that&#xA;the proposal is intended to be implemented in the near term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;in which the feature is of lower priority and may be re-evaluated&#xA;on feasibility at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can be applied only by ♦ moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-05-31T03:58:12.943" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T03:58:12.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5934" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:47:52.933" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug is something that is intended to be implemented or fixed, ideally in the near term." OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="20189" LastEditDate="2022-06-19T16:25:36.477" LastActivityDate="2022-06-19T16:25:36.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5935" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:48:32.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is used to ask a question about or request help with&#xA;the use of the site's existing features. Examples include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking how a certain feature works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking why a feature works a certain way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're not sure whether a certain system behavior is a bug&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking for a concrete interpretation of site policy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please check the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; first,&#xA;as your support problem may have been covered there already. &#xA;If not, try &lt;a href=&quot;/search&quot;&gt;searching&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;Check different ways of phrasing your question,&#xA;to avoid asking a question that has already been asked. &#xA;If your question &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; specifically about &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site (Unix &amp;amp; Linux),&#xA;check Meta Stack Exchange (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt;) also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, post your support question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; is one of the four &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/47634/how-does-meta-stack-overflow-work/47640#47640&quot;&gt;mandatory tags&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;The other mandatory tags are &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-05-31T04:00:33.690" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T04:00:33.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5936" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:48:32.800" Score="0" Body="Use this tag for requests for assistance with tools and other features on this site. &#xD;&#xA;This includes understanding how features work and why they work that way,&#xD;&#xA;or how to better use them. " OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-05-31T03:59:08.673" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T03:59:08.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5937" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:49:13.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something that has been evaluated as positive on potential,&#xA;but it is not in the current work schedule. &#xA;It is not guaranteed to be implemented – when it resurfaces,&#xA;the proposal may be re-evaluated and a new decision may be made,&#xA;depending on how the situation has changed since initial posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;in which a feature is something that the site developers have&#xA;definitively approved for implementation, but the timing is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can be applied only by ♦ moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-05-31T03:56:44.203" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T03:56:44.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5938" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-28T15:49:13.850" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug has merit to consider,&#xD;&#xA;but will not be implemented or fixed in the near term." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-05-31T03:54:56.267" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T03:54:56.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5939" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-31T05:44:47.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A reported bug or problem is considered not reproducible&#xA;if it is a bug that the site developers&#xA;would fix, but cannot, due to an inability to recreate the problematic behavior in&#xA;spite of attempts to do so. &#xA;Reports that are not reproducible typically represent issues&#xA;that are inadequately described / documented.&#xA;Alternatively, the bug did exist at the time the report was filed&#xA;but was subsequently fixed by an unrelated change to code or configuration. &#xA;Or the incident was a transient issue&#xA;caused by sunspots or other activity entirely unrelated to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The development team will not attempt to reproduce bugs&#xA;that occur only when using unsupported browsers or environments. &#xA;These will be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the reporter of a bug that receives this tag, it may indicate&#xA;that the bug was intermittent, or merely that you didn't thoroughly explain&#xA;the circumstances under which you encountered it. First, verify that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;can still cause the bug to appear, and (if you can) then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe in detail what you were doing when it happened. Include links to any relevant pages / posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;List the steps you took to encounter the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe your environment: browser make and version, OS, add-ons, userscripts (if applicable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include screenshots if applicable. &#xA;Use hand-drawn circles to highlight key portions of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can be applied only by ♦ moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-06-01T02:31:34.527" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T02:31:34.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5940" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-31T05:44:47.410" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were not able to replicate the reported behavior." OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-06-01T02:30:23.467" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T02:30:23.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5941" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-31T05:45:24.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered reproduced&#xA;only if the site developers have successfully reproduced the bug. &#xA;This tag should be applied only if&#xA;the site developers cannot immediately address the bug,&#xA;such as if it requires further investigation into solutions&#xA;or if the implementation of a fix would be stalled&#xA;for other reasons. When a fix is eventually implemented,&#xA;the tag should become &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can be applied only by ♦ moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-06-01T02:33:42.477" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T02:33:42.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5942" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-31T05:45:24.607" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were able to replicate the reported behavior,&#xD;&#xA;but cannot address its cause at this time." OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-06-01T02:32:44.367" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T02:32:44.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5944" CreationDate="2022-05-31T12:47:01.287" Score="12" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm going to edit a Q/A, often I find that command tools such as &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; are not highlighted or formatted in any way, even from high rep users (which could be just that they missed it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they are written capitalized, for example 'Sed', sometimes, as I did above, and the most common, as code: &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/704400/338177&quot;&gt;In this answer&lt;/a&gt; the user formatted the command as a tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; (which I really like).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have several formats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SED (which I'm not sure I've seen, at least for &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, maybe for &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a preferred format, or is it upon the user to choose one? Once I edited an answer from a high rep user formatting the command (Sed, capitalizad) as code, and they reverted that edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to impose my way, so I would like to know what the community thinks about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastEditorUserId="338177" LastEditDate="2022-06-01T13:33:45.253" LastActivityDate="2022-06-13T15:18:04.887" Title="Editing: command tools format" Tags="|discussion|editing|formatting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2022-05-31T18:42:37.867" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a great, relevant quote in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/290934/11810933&quot;&gt;this Meta SO answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such a user gives one of my posts a terminal case of Lyme disease by adding twenty back-ticks then, bam, a quick rollback is all it takes to restore health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key point (behind the great play on words) being, of course, that excessive backticks can make a post &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; readable.  I'm probably guilty of this in some of my answers, and I've started looking for areas where I should avoid using backticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm not proposing &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; using inline code fences when they are warranted, but they definitely shouldn't be used in all of the cases you mention in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/215472/902710&quot;&gt;the answers in this Meta SO answer&lt;/a&gt; for guiding when to use inline code-fencing for a command:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any string that can be &lt;em&gt;recognized or generated by&lt;/em&gt; a computer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the other answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if something will at some point get parsed somehow (like commands, URLs, file names etc.) it is code-like in most contexts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;: When used as a command.  E.g. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Run the above &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; command once for each ...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;sed: When talking about the application in a general sense.  E.g. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The sed manual mentions ...&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;sed 's/foo/bar/g'&lt;/code&gt;:  The typical usage of code-fences to indicate an inline command-line (i.e. command + arguments).  E.g. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;You can replace every instance of foo with bar by using &lt;code&gt;sed 's/foo/bar/g'&lt;/code&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side-note:  I am almost always in favor of edits that add code-fencing around inline command-lines as it almost always increases readability.  However, once the command-line reaches a certain length, it should often be split off to a separate code-&lt;em&gt;block&lt;/em&gt; with triple-backticks or by indenting 4 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sed:  According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#sed-script-overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU sed manual&lt;/a&gt;, never correct, since the &amp;quot;proper noun&amp;quot; form isn't capitalized.  It is intentionally lower-cased, apparently, and used that way even at the beginning of a sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt;:  The tag format should only be used when discussing the &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt; or other questions related to the &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt;, not when discussing the command itself, IMHO.  E.g.  &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I looked through other related &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; questions, but ... &amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AWK:  When discussing the application in a general sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;:  When referring to the actual command that would be entered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;AWK&lt;/code&gt;:  Never -- Since it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; computer-generated or parsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432493" LastEditorUserId="432493" LastEditDate="2022-06-03T22:27:10.097" LastActivityDate="2022-06-03T22:27:10.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2022-06-01T12:20:05.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1#What%27s-the-difference-between-%22perl%22-and-%22Perl%22%3f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Perl documentation (&lt;code&gt;perlfaq1&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the difference between &amp;quot;perl&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Perl&amp;quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Perl&amp;quot; is the name of&#xA;the language. Only the &amp;quot;P&amp;quot; is capitalized. The name of the interpreter&#xA;(the program which runs the Perl script) is &amp;quot;perl&amp;quot; with a lowercase&#xA;&amp;quot;p&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may or may not choose to follow this usage. But never write&#xA;&amp;quot;PERL&amp;quot;, because perl is not an acronym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me, but I find this distinction between the language and the program useful. It might be even more useful in the case of language where there's multiple implementations, you'd still talk about the Foo language, but the implementations &lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;foox&lt;/code&gt; could be somewhat different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went a step further from what the Perl FAQ says, and used code formatting  for the program names, on purpose. The name of the program is also a filename on the system, a computer-readable string, so &amp;quot;code&amp;quot;. Using code formatting makes the distinction between the program name and some common English word clearer, useful when you're talking about finding files with &lt;code&gt;find&lt;/code&gt;, or cutting text files with &lt;code&gt;cut&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for other programs and languages, they seem to differ in how the names are written. AWK is an acronym, and e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia consistently writes it fully capitalized, as &amp;quot;AWK&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, except when talking about the program, which they write in monospace font, a bit like code formatting here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When written in all lowercase letters, as &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, it refers to the Unix or Plan 9 program that runs scripts written in the AWK programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;manual for the GNU version of the AWK language&lt;/a&gt; is titled &amp;quot;The GNU Awk User’s Guide&amp;quot; with just the A capitalized, but they mostly use &lt;code&gt;gawk&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; in the text, to the point of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Language-History.html#Language-History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;discussing &amp;quot;The evolution of the &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; language&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, missing the language/implementation difference mentioned before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU sed is written in lowercase on the GNU pages&lt;/a&gt;, even at the start of a sentence. The manual does use &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; or &amp;quot;GNU &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;&amp;quot; in the main text, though. I don't think I've ever seen &amp;quot;Sed&amp;quot;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;sed is commonly used to filter text, i.e., it takes text input, performs some operation [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &amp;quot;newer&amp;quot; stuff like Python and Ruby are written capitalized, and e.g. Bash's documentation consistently talks about Bash. On the other hand zsh seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://zsh.sourceforge.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;written in lowercase on their web site&lt;/a&gt;, but the manual has mentions of the capitalized Zsh at some parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does all this mean for the post author? At least that the style isn't consistent in other texts either, so it's hard to be totally wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I write Perl, Python and Bash for the languages, and would suggest to that others too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to have a harder time keeping the difference in cases like sed vs. &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; where both are in lowercase, and I don't think I can write AWK/Awk/awk consistently even now. I don't really like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awk&lt;/a&gt; style, as I find it hard to write, and the default font for tags is much lighter than other text, so it's harder to read, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's easy to write a hard recommendation though, since the customs do vary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170373" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T12:20:05.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5949" CreationDate="2022-06-05T07:43:27.493" Score="4" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I commented twice on this Question : &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/704710/text-disappearing-and-reappearing&quot;&gt;Text disappearing and reappearing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twice, the OP responded to my comments, but did not put in &amp;quot;@Prem&amp;quot;, which would generally not have notified me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I got notified twice !!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that ? Is StackExchange trying out some guess-work on whom to notify , when new users do not include @username ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54246" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2022-06-05T09:04:35.697" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T11:23:53.753" Title="Why was I notified on comments where I was not mentioned?" Tags="|discussion|comments|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5948" CreationDate="2022-06-05T08:51:34.957" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/43019/410681&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt; on the main Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if a user comments on their own post and there is only one other person who has previously commented on that post, then that person is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/82134/410681&quot;&gt;also notified&lt;/a&gt;, even if @name is not used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as far as I can see, only you and the OP posted comments on the question you linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315749" LastEditorUserId="315749" LastEditDate="2022-06-05T11:23:53.753" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T11:23:53.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5950" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-06-05T11:48:44.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered “by design” if,&#xA;after review of the detailed erroneous behavior,&#xA;it is determined that the behavior is desirable to keep in place rather than fix. &#xA;This is independent of whether or not the behavior was known to the site developers&#xA;prior to the time of the report – the important thing is that the behavior&#xA;will not be altered because the current behavior is preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used only on questions&#xA;reporting what is purported to be erroneous behavior&#xA;and suggesting that it be fixed / reversed. &#xA;For a &lt;em&gt;feature request&lt;/em&gt; that addresses a behavior&#xA;that the asker believes to be erroneous, but is intentional,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can be applied only by ♦ moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Copied from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-bydesign/info&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-bydesign/info&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and other sites.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-06-05T18:01:32.853" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T18:01:32.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5951" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-06-05T11:48:44.857" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change." OwnerUserId="20189" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-06-05T18:00:46.220" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T18:00:46.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2022-06-13T15:18:04.887" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of those bikeshed problems. As I said before on several ocasions, only use it when you expect the user to copy and paste verbatim something non-trivial. So, no &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, definitively not &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sed&lt;/a&gt; (unless you are linking the user to the site sed tag) and prefer lower-casing whenever possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2022-06-13T15:18:04.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5931" CreationDate="2022-06-14T13:02:37.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a similar impression in the beginning, but I also had an opportunity to test it. While it is hidden from new users, it is technically possible to post comments requesting an update on the question. However, when I tried that, I was mostly ignored or politely answered that the solution is still not found or already forgotten. I also had a taste of the same from the other side: some people tried to contact me directly via the contact details in my profile. I found it rather annoying that I was distracted with random questions. Many technical questions require quite specific knowledge. It made me realize that the Q&amp;amp;A system here is more efficient: it is possible to actively look for the questions to answer when you are ready to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you did not post your question here yet, then you do not know whether the community here can answer, unless you found the same exact question asked already and not answered. If you find an answer elsewhere, may be in a subject-focused forum or Internet-chat where they love to hear and discuss the matter, then please come back here and post the answer! It appears from your post that it is what you expected the author of the question to do. This is the right thing to do here, but no one can force anybody to do this. There might be different reasons why they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community here is focused on finding solutions to problems, not discussion. Please note that the comments under the posts are intended for refining the questions and answers respectively, not for discussion, so don't repeat my mistakes by asking for an update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423679" LastEditorUserId="423679" LastEditDate="2022-06-14T13:17:01.040" LastActivityDate="2022-06-14T13:17:01.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5957" CreationDate="2022-06-24T12:51:01.180" Score="14" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, a user started to submit a series of edit suggestions that change the TLD &lt;code&gt;.com&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;.example&lt;/code&gt; in generic URLs used in console command examples (see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/416339&quot;&gt;this edit suggestion&lt;/a&gt;). In many cases, this was the only (visible) change to the original post, so the &amp;quot;edit volume&amp;quot; seems to be even lower than in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3704/377345&quot;&gt;this related question on &amp;quot;minor mass edits&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any consensus on how to handle this kind of edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Just to be clear - I do not want to imply that I consider the user to be out for cheap reputation-hunting, there are enough examples of edits that make clear improvements to posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2022-06-27T08:38:56.290" LastActivityDate="2022-06-27T16:11:38.897" Title="Mass editing to change generic example URLs" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5956" CreationDate="2022-06-24T13:07:22.203" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Changing &lt;code&gt;.com&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;.example&lt;/code&gt; seems like, at best, a neutral change and at worst a bad one since it is changing a standard and immediately recognizable domain to one that is not even easily recognizable. Changing &lt;code&gt;foo.com&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;example.com&lt;/code&gt; might make sense, but I feel that changing &lt;code&gt;foo.com&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;foo.example&lt;/code&gt; is just confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; change, I would reject the edit. However, I had a quick look at some of the other pending edits of this user and they often also include other fixes so in those cases, you may choose to &amp;quot;accept and improve&amp;quot; and just undo the &lt;code&gt;.com&lt;/code&gt; =&amp;gt; &lt;code&gt;.example&lt;/code&gt; change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-06-27T16:11:38.897" LastActivityDate="2022-06-27T16:11:38.897" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5956" CreationDate="2022-06-25T16:10:18.653" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;code&gt;example.com&lt;/code&gt; and the entire top level &lt;code&gt;.example&lt;/code&gt; domain are officially approved for example usage.  See the following RFCs and Wikipedia entries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;example.com&lt;/code&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606#section-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RFC 2606, section 3&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;.example&lt;/code&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606#section-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RFC 2606, section 2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever an example domain is used, it should be one of these reserved example domains.  Using a real domain name is not desired because it can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bestow unwarranted SEO benefit to the domain, especially when linked, but possibly even just through a mention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cause problems for the domain when it gets unwanted requests from code that uses it as an example or when web crawlers find and hit the bogus URLs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Stack Exchange sites actually prohibit new and edited posts from containing many incorrectly used example domains such as &amp;quot;mysite&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;domain&amp;quot; with a real top level domain suffix. This regular expression prevents a post from being submitted if the regular expression matches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;https?://(www\.)?(domain|xxx|xyz|abc|site|mysite|mydomain)\.(com|org|net)(?![a-z0-9\-]+|\.[a-z0-9]+)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator could check that Unix &amp;amp; Linux actually has this rule by visiting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/admin/blocklist&quot;&gt;user input blocklist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I acknowledge the feedback that &lt;code&gt;example.com&lt;/code&gt; is more recognizable than &lt;code&gt;some-domain.example&lt;/code&gt; and I'll prefer to use it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are some cases in which &lt;code&gt;example.com&lt;/code&gt; isn't sufficient.  When you need to compare two domains, or when a specific keyword is needed in the domain name, &lt;code&gt;.example&lt;/code&gt; domains work better.  For example, cases in which a post uses multiple domains like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;siteA.example&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;siteB.example&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;myserver.example&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;myhost.example&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;mydns.example&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31848" LastEditorUserId="31848" LastEditDate="2022-06-26T10:32:51.733" LastActivityDate="2022-06-26T10:32:51.733" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-26T12:47:45.063" Score="-8" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we call this the Gnu stack exchange and not call it the linux or unix stack exchange? We aren't here to ask questions or talk about the kernel, we are here talking about the gigantic suite of free programs designed to allow people to use computers, and interact with computers with ethical applications, that aren't inherently deceptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be seen as the ultimate irony that Linux is the common name, but for something completely different, GNU, which is the basis of &amp;quot;linux&amp;quot; computing in reality, whereas the kernel is really small in comparison. It's more like a suite of drivers that your real, gnu based software utilizes in order to provide us with a complete operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might seem trivial of course, it's the commonly used term to call it Linux, and they both work together regardless along similar lines to achieve a similar goal, but I think it's more important to use language that is in the first place, honest, and directly related to the significant information in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been starting to study computer science more frequently, and have found throughout the programmatic world, a kind of systematic misappropriation of language to describe all sorts of concepts, which then makes it much more difficult to understand more complex subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that fundamentally the ethics of this operating system we all use, are absolutely a part of its programming, and that that is extremely important to emphasize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="531478" OwnerDisplayName="User_guest" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-06-26T12:58:32.887" LastActivityDate="2022-07-12T21:51:44.783" Title="Shouldn't we say Gnu stack exchange not linux or unix" Tags="|discussion|linux|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5959" CreationDate="2022-06-26T13:40:12.727" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first misunderstanding you seem to have here is that this is a site about GNU/Linux. It isn't, it is a site about any *nix operating system, including but certainly not limited to GNU/Linux. We have many questions here about the BSDs, AIX, Solaris, MacOS, and various others which have nothing to do with the GNU ecosystem. So renaming us to &amp;quot;GNU Stack Exchange&amp;quot; would be a huge reduction and limitation of the site's scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even within the narrow scope of Linux, we absolutely do support questions about the kernel itself so again, we wouldn't want to limit the site to only GNU-related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, for the larger Linux vs GNU/Linux debate, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/it-linux-or-gnulinux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I am afraid this has largely been resolved&lt;/a&gt;. The vast, vast majority of people who use GNU/Linux refer to it as Linux, and the term &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot; has come to mean both &amp;quot;the Linux kernel&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot;the operating system built using the GNU tools and the Linux kernel&amp;quot;. While there are still some who object to this, most of the Linux world considers the issue closed. We all know the FSF's position on the name, and they aren't wrong, but the simple fact is that &amp;quot;GNU/Linux&amp;quot; is a mouthful and cumbersome and just isn't what actual people who use the system call it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to summarize, the reasons we aren't called &amp;quot;GNU/Linux Stack Exchange&amp;quot; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we are about much more than just the GNU tools.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Linux kernel itself is absolutely on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Non-Linux as well as non-GNU systems are absolutely on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone, with very few exceptions, calls it &amp;quot;Linux&amp;quot;, this is a non-issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-06-26T14:03:11.570" LastActivityDate="2022-06-26T14:03:11.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5959" CreationDate="2022-06-26T14:03:19.617" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if this was to cover linux only, calling it gnu/linux is still wrong.  While a lot of the operating system surrounding the (not even all of it) use the GPL license, the Free Software Foundation does not own the copyright for most of these pieces, did not write them, and was not responsible for getting them written, and making it GPL licensed doesn't make it GNU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calling it GNU/Linux is really RMS's attempt to claim credit for all of linux because his own attempt at creating an open source Unix clone largely failed.  While he did create large pieces (as the article in the other answer lists), even when this argument was hot, less than 1/3 of the Linux operating system was GNU (at the time, X11 was larger, and MIT licensed).  Now, even more code has been added (again, listed by the article above) that may be GPL licensed but is not GNU owned or even GNU sponsored, and a lot of it is not even GPL licensed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="447908" LastEditorUserId="447908" LastEditDate="2022-07-12T21:51:44.783" LastActivityDate="2022-07-12T21:51:44.783" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5959" CreationDate="2022-06-26T14:15:45.577" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you will look at the timeline by clicking the link below (it can't be shown directly I am afraid), UNIX is the ancestor of a wide panel of OS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Unix_timeline.en.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Unix_timeline.en.svg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33297" LastActivityDate="2022-06-26T14:15:45.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-30T11:00:22.767" Score="12" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to customise the &amp;quot;Ask a Public Question&amp;quot; page to add some text and a link to discourage posting images of or links to images of text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often copy-paste a comment like the following on such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Please don't post images of text](http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4086/psa-please-dont-post-images-of-text).  Copy and paste the text itself **into your question** and format it as code by selecting it and pressing Ctrl-K or by using the editor's `{}` icon.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could probably be worded better, but it would be good if the images-of-text problem was pointed out to people &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; they post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7696" LastActivityDate="2022-06-30T20:08:18.113" Title="discourage images of text on /questions/ask?" Tags="|feature-request|question-quality|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5963" CreationDate="2022-06-30T19:59:49.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/267491/902710&quot;&gt;already implemented&lt;/a&gt; to some degree for &lt;em&gt;new users&lt;/em&gt;.  It's just that at 15 rep, the warning message goes away so that more experienced users don't see it any longer.  New users that insert text-as-images are usually just ignoring the warning.  And that, in my experience, is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a new user starts to insert an image, they will see this warning in yellow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Images are useful in a post, but make sure the post is still clear without them. If you post images of code or error messages, copy and paste or type the actual code or message into the post directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/egcDy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/egcDy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the warning &amp;quot;trigger&amp;quot; could be based on length of time since the user's last question was posted (maybe 6 months?) rather than rep.  That could serve as a &amp;quot;reminder&amp;quot; in case they forgot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not something that we're going to get changed here on meta.unix.stackexchange.com, though.  If you have a suggestion for how the warning might be enhanced or changed, I'd suggest that we need to ask for this to be migrated to the top level Stack Exchange Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432493" LastEditorUserId="432493" LastEditDate="2022-06-30T20:08:18.113" LastActivityDate="2022-06-30T20:08:18.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5967" CreationDate="2022-07-21T19:47:16.960" Score="-6" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just happened to me, that someone resurrected a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/659418/why-does-xorg-conf-produce-an-incorrect-monitor-order/710760&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and I answered it, before realizing that it's 12 months old and the user who asked it (who doesn't have any recent activity), won't ever read the answer. Things like that are a waste of time for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that it would be an improvement to show a warning message, when someone resurrects an old question (by a user without recent activity) and let the community moderators vote, if it really should be resurrected, before showing it to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="530729" LastEditorUserId="530729" LastEditDate="2022-07-21T19:58:22.873" LastActivityDate="2022-07-22T17:51:55.980" Title="Ask &quot;Do you really want to resurrect this question?&quot;, and let the mods vote whenever someone answers a question that's older than 6 months" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5966" CreationDate="2022-07-21T20:45:44.763" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do realize that it can be frustrating when you spend time answering a question only to then realize that it's due to a NATO (new answer to old question).  But keep in mind that the site isn't here &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; to answer question for the OP (original poster), but also for anyone else that comes along and finds that question later when searching for a similar issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the comments, Stack Exchange actually has mechanisms to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; old, unanswered questions to get solicit new answers.  Every hour, the Community Bot &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/48579/902710&quot;&gt;selects&lt;/a&gt; a question to bump given certain criteria.  Again, this doesn't seem to be the reason why this particular one was surfaced, but it does point to the fact that Stack &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; this to happen, for the benefit not only of the OP, but potentially those other readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it doesn't necessarily change the &lt;em&gt;default&lt;/em&gt; view, if you'd like to view questions so that only &amp;quot;Newest&amp;quot; appear, you can create a &lt;em&gt;Custom Filter&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Look over on the right hand side of the screen for the &lt;em&gt;Custom Filter&lt;/em&gt; block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Create a Custom Filter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Select &lt;em&gt;Sorted by&lt;/em&gt; -&amp;gt; &lt;em&gt;Newest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click the &lt;em&gt;Save custom filter&lt;/em&gt; button and provide a name such as &amp;quot;Newest Questions Only&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bookmark that view, or simply select the filter when returning to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432493" LastEditorUserId="432493" LastEditDate="2022-07-21T21:25:23.717" LastActivityDate="2022-07-21T21:25:23.717" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-22T15:54:28.597" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching the web for an answer to some question, google, sometimes, shows with a high ranking (&amp;lt;5) a link to some stackexchange thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question shows a high number of upvotes (&amp;gt;100), gets a couple of well redacted answers displaying a high number of upvotes (&amp;gt;100).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this thread is marked closed duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the link to duplicate threads, you might find an actually similar question having few upvotes and answers, while not incorrect, will be far less detailed and getting much fewer votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I of course understand that SE is not responsible for google rankings and also understand that the thread was closed duplicate before reaching its reputation and &lt;strong&gt;irrespective of the value per se&lt;/strong&gt; of the existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that sort of situation, couldn't we have some automatic mechanism which inverts the original / duplicate status. (or at least only remove the &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; status)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example I just find right now illustrating what I mean, searching google for &amp;quot;linux filesystem type detection&amp;quot; suggests &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53313/how-to-show-the-filesystem-type-via-the-terminal&quot;&gt;How to show the filesystem type via the terminal?&lt;/a&gt; ranked #3, the very first link to U&amp;amp;LSE. I just voted to reopen.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;First answer in that thread gets 174 upvotes; second link offered as reference is irrelevant and first link offered as reference leads to an older (indeed relevant though) question with best answer showing 27 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-07-24T08:21:58.523" LastActivityDate="2022-07-24T08:21:58.523" Title="Mechanism for inverting closed / duplicate questions" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5966" CreationDate="2022-07-22T16:24:38.393" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would go even further than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5967/22222&quot;&gt;NotTheDr01ds&lt;/a&gt; and say that the person asking the question is only tangentially relevant. If the question can stand on its own and doesn't need clarification, then the job of the OP (original poster, the person who asked) is done and they are not needed any more. They don't need to accept, they don't need to ever come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how many times I have been helped by random solutions I have found online years after they were originally posted as answers to someone else's problem. We don't answer for the person who asked, we answer for the thousands of users who will be seeing the question and its answers in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for accepting, again that isn't really relevant. Sure, it's a nice little rep boost and a nice little ego boost, we all enjoy having our answers accepted, but that's all it is: a minor perk. The accepted answer isn't always the best one (indeed, it is very often not the best one), and a question doesn't need an accepted answer in order to be counted as &amp;quot;answered&amp;quot;. It just needs an upvoted answer. So accept marks are really unimportant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this to say that of course we should still answer old questions, you never know who will find them useful and the fact that our answer might never be accepted shouldn't even be taken into consideration. It just isn't relevant. We answer questions to collect a useful library of answers that can help all visitors to the site, both present and future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-07-22T17:51:55.980" LastActivityDate="2022-07-22T17:51:55.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5971" CreationDate="2022-07-24T11:21:05.783" Score="-1" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's have an example taken from now :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This thread ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/592135/no-wifi-adapter-found-hp-laptop-ubuntu-18-04-4-lts&quot;&gt;No Wifi adapter found - HP Laptop - Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS&lt;/a&gt; ) is being popped up by the community bot asserted modified some minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the thread, I just cannot view any sort of re-edit or modification from the community bot. (or any other sort of modification in the question / answer / comments by other &amp;quot;honest&amp;quot; U&amp;amp;L SE contributor for years)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that is definitely a undue up! (since there has not been any added value to the thread) that I would like to avoid messing the TOP QUESTIONS order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt; Jeff's suggestion to prefer WEEK / MONTH lists in comments actually &amp;amp; appropriately answers this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-07-25T16:55:21.483" LastActivityDate="2022-07-25T16:55:21.483" Title="How to prevent &quot;Community bot&quot; fiddlings from (uselessly) messing the TOP QUESTIONS order?" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5970" CreationDate="2022-07-25T16:17:59.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in your title is mostly answered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48578/what-can-cause-a-question-to-be-bumped&quot;&gt;What can cause a question to be bumped?&lt;/a&gt; over on Meta.SE -- it's desired behavior on the part of Stack Exchange in order to get more questions answered by putting unanswered questions in front of visitors. I wasn't sure how effective that mechanism was on our site, so I dug around on &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; and found this query: &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/dba/query/634223/how-effective-are-community-bumps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/dba/query/634223/how-effective-are-community-bumps&lt;/a&gt; and threw a few sites at it. This is the output from that today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;site&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;number of bumps&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;percent effective&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;voted after bumped&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;answered after bumped&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;U&amp;amp;L&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;8284&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;5.4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;371&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;91&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;DBA&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;8239&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4.7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;327&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;72&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;SF&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;16566&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;425&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;85&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;SU&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;16549&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2.9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;387&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;102&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;AU&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;8279&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2.4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;160&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;41&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;SO&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;33225&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2.3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;615&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;190&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me, based on that query &amp;amp; data, that the bumping on U&amp;amp;L is among the most effective among those sites at getting questions answered &amp;amp; getting those answers voted on. I suspect there'd be some resistance to disabling the Community bump limits in the face of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I'd recommend changing your view into the site by going to one of these other links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;Questions view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the Top Questions of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=week&quot;&gt;week&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/?tab=month&quot;&gt;month&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the Questions view might be what you're expecting -- where it's simply the newest questions that have been asked, in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm here, I'll mention a feature that I discovered recently: the Filter button on the Questions view; in particular, there's an option there to select questions that are tagged with &amp;quot;My watched tags&amp;quot;; from there, you can decide whether you want to include questions that don't have any answer or that don't have an &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer, etc. When questions are tagged appropriately, people then have an easier time finding questions they'd like to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-07-25T16:54:41.397" LastActivityDate="2022-07-25T16:54:41.397" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-28T04:34:49.300" Score="6" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombie-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombie-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombie-process&lt;/a&gt; has zero watchers and 36 questions in 11 years. Yesterday a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/defunct&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;defunct&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;defunct&lt;/a&gt; was created for defunct processes (no watchers). I don't see what value these tags add if nobody's watching them and they have so few questions asked each year. Since nobody's watching them, their only utility is in searching, and even then the terms aren't common enough that simple text searches couldn't serve the same purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if we do need a tag for defunct processes, should it be &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/defunct-process&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;defunct-process&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;defunct-process&lt;/a&gt; instead, similar to the one for zombie processes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2022-07-28T04:43:05.330" LastActivityDate="2023-12-20T15:04:30.547" Title="Do we need tags for zombie or defunct processes?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5972" CreationDate="2022-07-28T10:36:03.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is a discussion, I presume my opinion can be worded as part of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wholeheartedly support your suggestion. Adding to your objective arguments that :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP has got enough knowledge to realize that their question is significantly &lt;em&gt;zombie-process&lt;/em&gt; related then they get the knowledge needed in order to answer their own question (or at least to eliminate what, in the question is depending on this). (since what is needed to get even a deep technical understanding of the whole zombie thing would happily fit into half of a A4 page.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If OP does not get that knowledge, they do not know the word or its meaning in context anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find tags only useful when categorizing &lt;strong&gt;discrete&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;amp; important parts of knowledge that only a few can master in full.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a global perspective, there are indeed far too many tags. Simply consider the incredible number of tags matching zero.0.0 question. Adding to the fact that, when tagging my own questions, I often initially exceed the max number of allowed tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-07-28T11:43:18.323" LastActivityDate="2022-07-28T11:43:18.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5975" CreationDate="2022-07-31T13:26:26.607" Score="2" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;After careful reading of the following paragraph read as part of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;What is a bounty?&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if you offer multiple bounties on the same question, the&#xA;minimum spend doubles with each subsequent bounty (50 reputation on&#xA;the first bounty, 100 reputation on the second, 200 on the third, and&#xA;so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am left with two questions :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have already (in the past) offered a 50 bounty, on a &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; of my own and, because the question received no answer, that bounty was not awarded (even the half of its value) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;If I want to reoffer a new bounty on that same question, will the minimum amount be doubled ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to offer a bounty in order to reward an existing &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; on a question (from another user) for which a bounty had been explicitly awarded in the past (by the other user), will my own new bounty need to be two times the amount of the preceding one ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT : Following muru's answer, I add the &lt;em&gt;feature-request&lt;/em&gt; tag :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the reason for offering a bounty (rewarding existing answer vs others) should be taken into account when deciding on the doubling feature. &lt;strong&gt;Amount offered should be free of whatever consideration when rewarding an existing answer !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the (more than realistic since it is happening to me) case I have offered (in the past) a bounty on one question of mine and awarded a bounty on one answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Well after that, another user posts some indeed valuable answer. I do would like to reward this work BUT, as I understand, needing to double the amount. This would just be unfair (compared to the other credited answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT after fra-san's valuable objection :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect abusing to the expense of one's own credit to be the fact of a very limited amount of &lt;em&gt;strange&lt;/em&gt; users. This will anyway &amp;amp; in any case &amp;amp; necessarily come, at some point to, some mathematically predictable &amp;amp; definitive end.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Definitive end… unless the user keeps earning credits… this meaning that the user contribution is valuable for the whole community… In which case… who can condemn the way that (valuable) user spends its credit ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Moreover believing that sort of &lt;em&gt;abuse&lt;/em&gt; rare, I think it could just easily be handled by some basic bot of the like of the one capable to detect abuses in downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That does not, IMHO, pay for possible unfairness, (in the particular case of rewarding an existing answer) At least will I stand with ancient latin adage : &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abusus non tollit usum.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-07-31T22:56:48.820" LastActivityDate="2022-07-31T22:56:48.820" Title="Bounties : Does min = prec X 2 still apply if previous bounty was not awarded even in half?" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5974" CreationDate="2022-07-31T15:59:02.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the first question, note that when it comes to repeated bounties, neither the quoted section nor &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/16067/270345&quot;&gt;the FAQ entry for bounties&lt;/a&gt; talk about the amount &lt;em&gt;awarded&lt;/em&gt; - they talk about the amount &lt;em&gt;offered&lt;/em&gt;. So, no, what amount was actually awarded (if any) does not affect what you'll have to pony up for your next bounty on the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second question, the FAQ entry linked above addresses this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doubling applies only to bounties by the same user on the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2022-07-31T15:59:02.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5978" CreationDate="2022-08-13T14:50:07.257" Score="4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for an exchange on the main site from about two years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was I think a short comment from Terdon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question asked for some text processing usage.&#xA;A number of people (maybe including Terdon) gave short one line answers, some using standard *nix text-processing tools like awk, maybe some less known newer tools also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One answer gave a longish Python answer -- 30 lines or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terdon asked &amp;quot;Why on earth would you do this when the simple one-liners exist?&amp;quot;&#xA;(Obviously I dont remember the exact wording he used!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer-er replied: Because I like Python (And by implication dont like other things...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Context&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a teacher of programming and started (with learning) Fortran... Pascal in the early 80s.  As a teacher I've probably learnt and taught dozens of languages.&#xA;Started using Python in the early 2000s. At that time I found it neat and sweet.&#xA;But of late I am finding that while that may be so, the culture &lt;em&gt;around&lt;/em&gt; Python is not very conducive for a well-rounded CS education.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to collect data on this though&#xA;I guess this question is a bit of &amp;quot;Please help me find a needle in a haystack&amp;quot;.  So even if finding the exact exchange is very hard I was wondering if people here may be able to come up with nifty SEDE queries that reduce the haystack somewhat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="323121" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T20:10:27.583" Title="Looking for an exchange on the main site" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5976" CreationDate="2022-08-13T17:09:54.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's what you want but, &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/secemp9/stackdump2txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is the tool I made (the one I mentioned in the comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone who didn't look into the comments, this is a tool that converts the stack data dump from &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;archive.org&lt;/a&gt; to plaintext (with some minor formatting, details in the readme)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's horribly written but it works (the main cons besides syntax/language semantic is the time it takes, but it's really fast for unix.SE, so that's fine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you can then (based on the formatting decision I made) decide to use grep, or any other tools, or strategy and some beverage/snacks of your choice to wait for when it finish. Good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="409852" LastEditorUserId="409852" LastEditDate="2022-08-13T20:10:27.583" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T20:10:27.583" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5976" CreationDate="2022-08-13T17:49:56.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/1626992/find-comment-with-text-by-user?searchString1=python&amp;amp;searchString2=why&amp;amp;searchString3=would&amp;amp;UserId=22222&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; that searches comments posted by a given user ID (you can find a user's user ID by clicking on their profile; for instance, mine is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22222/terdon&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/22222/terdon&lt;/a&gt; so my UID is 22222) and containing three strings. I then searched with my user ID and the string &lt;code&gt;why&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;would&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt; which returned only 4 hits, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/112023/how-can-i-replace-a-string-in-a-files/404867#comment727345_404867&quot;&gt;one of which&lt;/a&gt; may well be the one you were thinking of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why you would make something this complex. For recursion, use either bash's (or your shell's equivalent) globstar option and ** globs or find. For a dry run, just use sed. Unless you use the -i option, it won't make any changes. For a backup use sed -i.bak (or perl -i .bak); for files that don't match, use grep PATTERN file || echo file. And why in the world would you have python expand the glob instead of letting the shell do it? Why script.py --glob=foo* instead of just script.py foo*? –&#xA;terdon ♦ Nov 23, 2017 at 9:34&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T17:49:56.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5980" CreationDate="2022-08-22T22:14:06.220" Score="1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;As being the most recent occurrence of the (not so accute ;-) ) problem I'm facing is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/714372/using-the-command-sudo-chrt-r-99-for-a-video-encoding-benchmark-i-always-get/714375?noredirect=1#comment1353646_714375&quot;&gt;that precise thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After precisely answering OP's question (as worded), read &amp;amp; wrote n+1 comments, I (in the linked case I understand we are two contributors sharing the same understanding) realize that OP's real problem is &lt;strong&gt;in no way&lt;/strong&gt; related to the question as worded. (and, BTW, even less with the title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example given, OPs is asking about performance impact of RT scheduling when, in practice, we can discover that OP's real problem is with benchmarking in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question just cannot be edited… (would need to change every word)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It surely should be closed in order for other honest members of the community to avoid wasting their time answering to the question as worded BUT, amongst the reasons offered for closing, I feel just incapable of selecting the most appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to say that, for actually closing, this would need 4 other voters… who would need to carefully read multiple answers &amp;amp; n+1 comments in order to acknowledge the pertinence of the close request…&lt;br&gt; I wouldn't myself do that in whatever thread I would not have been myself implied…&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt; trolling &amp;gt;Hmmm… this being debatable at the price of terdon's 58 gold badges added to Kusalananda's knowledge of bash&amp;lt; /trolling &amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So… what is the appropriate action I should undertake ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-08-22T23:29:09.840" LastActivityDate="2022-08-29T09:00:38.450" Title="Appropriate action to undertake when the real problem is not related to the question" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5979" CreationDate="2022-08-29T09:00:38.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;amongst the reasons offered for closing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You always have the option of adding your own close reason: select “A community-specific reason”, then “Other - add a comment”:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gho54.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gho54.png&quot; alt=&quot;The community-specific “Close” dialog, with the “Other” entry selected&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You then have 458 characters to describe exactly why you think the question should be closed (or slightly more, if you delete the template “I’m voting to close this question because”). Whatever you enter here will be added as a comment on the post, and will be visible to reviewers looking at the question in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2022-08-29T09:00:38.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-04T06:38:37.713" Score="-4" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/715975/529738&quot;&gt;Remove multiple header from csv file&lt;/a&gt; I have been informed that I should go to Meta (Here I am!) by a moderator in the comments (hope that they don't get erased).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wonder: why is the problem that generated such request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="529738" LastActivityDate="2022-09-18T13:36:50.147" Title="What is the problem here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5981" CreationDate="2022-09-04T09:30:40.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You weren't informed you &amp;quot;should&amp;quot; go to Meta, nor were you in any way requested to. You were told that you have multiple options when you disagree with moderator action and one of them is taking it to Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel you have been ill-treated by me and if you, like you insinuate, believe that I have broken the code of conduct, then do not hesitate to contact a community manager, or bring it up in a post on our Meta site. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/61928377#61928377&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, bringing it here is a perfectly fine option, so here goes. The problem here was that you added your own example data to the OP's question that did not actually match what the OP really had. This resulted in people wasting their time on data that don't represent what the OP was working on. This is what we had from the OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FIpsh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FIpsh.png&quot; alt=&quot;original image of data from OP&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is what you added, based on what you imagined the OP's data would actually be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;date,edate,c1,c2,c3 s date1,e date1,c11,c22,c33&#xA;26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3&#xA;26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 s date,edate,c1,c2,c3 s date1,e&#xA;date1,c11,c22,c33 26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3&#xA;26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Desired output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ cat outfile s date  edate   c1  c2  c3 s date,edate,c1,c2,c3&#xA;26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3&#xA;26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3&#xA;26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 26-12-2022,26-12-2022,1,2,3 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is one possible way in which the OP's data might have been provided, but it is equally possible that the actual file was never an ASCII csv file but was a complex xml excel one. Or it could simply be that the fields were quoted. Or, as you yourself suggested in a comment, it could be a live connection to a database:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@roaima Yes, it seems to me that what the OP is seeing in Excel is a data connection to some database, not a text file, not even a plain worksheet. To change the data that such file presents, the database needs changing. That is not a simple task IMO, nor awk, sed or even perl or phyton will help. That is a task for someone that knows what an SQL query is. –&#xA;QuartzCristal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, your adding your own version of the OP's data is not helpful and resulted in various people, including yourself, wasting their time trying to parse data that weren't actually what the OP had. Or, at best, data that we cannot be sure were what the OP had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, given that the OP later included another image, calling it &amp;quot;Actual file headers :&amp;quot;, we can be pretty sure that your text version was not even close to what the OP had:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VURoM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VURoM.png&quot; alt=&quot;original headers&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which also explains why your answer naturally didn't work for them: they had very different data. This is why it is important to not try and put words into the OP's mouth. We try to never change the original data in a question since, unlike answers, we cannot be sure if this is actually what the OP has. Just like we might fix say indentation of a script in a question but would never correct the script's logic or fix any bugs since those could be relevant to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in future, please don't change questions unless you are actually sure that you are correct. In cases where we need more data, it is better to wait until said data have been provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-09-04T10:42:29.180" LastActivityDate="2022-09-04T10:42:29.180" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5988" CreationDate="2022-09-07T09:21:22.450" Score="11" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/715826/cant-move-a-directory-into-other-one?noredirect=1#comment1357460_715826&quot;&gt;asked a question author&lt;/a&gt; to add information from answers (posted as comments) to &amp;quot;request for clarification&amp;quot;-type comments  also into the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The negative feedback to this comment made me wonder if we have ever &amp;quot;formally&amp;quot; established that the comment section should not be used to add this kind of clarification replies. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/asking&quot;&gt;Help center section on how to ask a question&lt;/a&gt; does not mention how to reply to requests for clarification, nor does the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;page on the comment function&lt;/a&gt; state that clarifying details concerning the original question should not (or at least not solely) be added as a comment. I also have not yet found a canonical meta Q&amp;amp;A that clarifies this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - is there a StackExchange online resource to which we can refer users so they understand the expected way to address clarification requests?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2022-09-07T10:22:15.543" LastActivityDate="2022-09-12T20:28:42.043" Title="Has it ever been officially stated that question authors shouldn't answer to requests for clarification in the comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5984" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-09-07T09:38:39.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange sites provide a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment function&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;which can be used to provide feedback to questions and answers, e.g.,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;requesting more details to be added to a post, or the clarification of ambiguous aspects of the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adding references to related questions and answers that may be helpful in solving the problem, or that may already contain the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pointing out possible errors in, or possible improvements to, an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hinting a user at the expected behavior or code of conduct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can be created by users with the required reputation, or automatically when users perform various &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/reviews-intro&quot;&gt;review actions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for questions regarding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when it is appropriate to use the comment function, as opposed to posting a new question/answer or editing an existing one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior when using the comment function&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;technical functions of, or feature requests concerning, the comment function&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43019/how-do-comment-replies-work&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252133/why-do-we-need-50-reputation-to-make-comments&quot;&gt;Why do we need 50 reputation to make comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2022-09-12T00:06:10.953" LastActivityDate="2022-09-12T00:06:10.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5985" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-09-07T09:38:39.590" Score="0" Body="Use for questions regarding the scope and proper use of the comment section, the comment section etiquette, or technical questions specifically concerning the comment function." OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2022-09-23T20:48:07.720" LastActivityDate="2022-09-23T20:48:07.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5983" CreationDate="2022-09-07T17:55:34.840" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A :&lt;/strong&gt; HOW can anyone &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;understand&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; whatever expected way&amp;quot; reading whatever &amp;quot;formally established&amp;quot; document &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;officially stating that authors &lt;strong&gt;shouldn't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; use one in particular ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can accept, comply, obey... or any other verb of that lexical field but... understand ? Well ! Surely not !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B :&lt;/strong&gt; Why should such a constraint be enforced by whatever official document ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If evidence (such as the one that could produce the necessity to benefit from advanced editing facilities) is not enough to convince the author to re-edit the question then there is no reason for a priori &amp;amp; arbitrarily depriving this author (AND the commentator being replied to as well) from the unique advantage commenting offers :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Having the commentator being replied to advised that some message is awaiting in its inbox.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must personally acknowledge that when I ask for more information about a question, I appreciate being advised when some answer (to my comment) has been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C :&lt;/strong&gt; We could also mention &lt;em&gt;consequency&lt;/em&gt;. Because official statements must preserve consequency.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If, for some somber reason I ignore (and regret as much), anyone on SE needs more credit for commenting than for asking some question, it must consequently mean that... comments are more creditable than questions !&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then why &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; anyone resort to less creditable ways for answering ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this last argument is purely rhetorical. But it should be understood in the context of official documents.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You find it just absurd ? (me too) but... it is only logic. If what I wrote sounds absurd (like sounding absurd...;-) ) it must mean the first proposition (needing more credits to comment than to question) is absurd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D :&lt;/strong&gt; Ultimately, why &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; we need any additional arbitrary rule telling us what we &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; do ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can't we just expect contributors to learn by themself from their own experience how they can optimize their questions/answers ratio. (provided they care of course)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provide tools, not policy !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-09-08T21:07:48.437" LastActivityDate="2022-09-08T21:07:48.437" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5981" CreationDate="2022-09-08T20:33:00.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question here is &amp;quot;why have I been asked to come here?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@QuartzCristal @Kusalananda @terdon -- Is it possible that there's been a horrible miscommunication here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cutting out some of the (possibly) &amp;quot;extraneous&amp;quot; text from the chat, is there a chance (albeit small) that the following exchange was misunderstood by everyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@QuartzCristal: Are you assuming bad faith here ? Bad faith on my part for giving some data that (hopefully) would be useful to someone else....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Kusalananda: If you feel you have been ill-treated by me and if you, like you insinuate, believe that I have broken the code of conduct, then ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read through both the chat as well as the image that @terdon provided of the deleted comments, and I don't see anything that you (QuartzCristal) said that indicated you believed @Kusalananda broke the Code of Conduct. It's clear that you were agitated/frustrated with the edit rollback, as well as the deletion of comments, but nothing ever, that I can see, approached the level of saying (or even insinuating) that there was a Code of Conduct violation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't know how common, worldwide the phrase (idiom), &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;assuming bad faith&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is.  If @Kusalananda wanted to confirm its meaning and happened to type that into Google, the first result that comes up is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The malicious intention to be dishonest or to violate the law ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That could be taken to read your statement as, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Are you maliciously intending to be dishonest?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that's a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; Google result, IMHO, because that's the definition of &amp;quot;bad faith&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;assuming bad faith&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it was read that way, even out of context, then that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; explain the &amp;quot;escalation&amp;quot; asking you you to bring a discussion of @Kusalananda's actions here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the topic that was being discussed in the comments, perhaps I can provide a different perspective, and as simply a community member here that wasn't involved in the changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO (and this runs counters to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4447/432493&quot;&gt;the current community consensus&lt;/a&gt;) edits to a question should never include &amp;quot;image to text&amp;quot; conversion/translation -- I believe the OP should include the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; data whenever possible as copy/paste.  Retyping can introduce errors and/or make assumptions about the data that aren't valid (as appears to be the case here).  Stack Overflow even uses edits like this as an audit mechanism.  There have been multiple people who have posted in MSO after their edit-review-queue privileges were suspended for approving an edit like yours!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, with that said, that's Stack Overflow policy; not U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it seems that it was opinion of the Mod team that your transcription &lt;em&gt;may not have been&lt;/em&gt; faithful to the original data.  Edits that change the &lt;em&gt;meaning&lt;/em&gt; of a post are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;not allowed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP's subsequent edit was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; IMHO any implicit &amp;quot;acceptance&amp;quot; of your edit.  As @Kusalananda mentioned, it could have been that the OP just needed to get your edit out of the way in order to make their next edit.  Regardless, the right course of action was to revert your edit back to the image.  This is what @Kusalananda did once aware that you were the source of the text-data (rather than the OP) and that your edit made assumptions about the data that may or may not have been the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for whatever reason you didn't like my comments, so, they got removed. That part is completely clear to me. What is amazing is the reasoning used to explain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, you do seem to be approaching the point of accusing the Mods of some level of wrongdoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes, once that rollback was taken care of it's completely normal for Mods to clean up the comments which refer to &amp;quot;completed actions.&amp;quot;  I see no malicious intent there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432493" LastEditorUserId="432493" LastEditDate="2022-09-18T13:36:50.147" LastActivityDate="2022-09-18T13:36:50.147" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5983" CreationDate="2022-09-09T16:39:59.710" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have not yet found a canonical meta Q&amp;amp;A that clarifies this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Based on @V2Blast's comment below, I've updated the Community &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/902710&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt; FAQ to add an explicit statement that clarifies this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I have to agree with you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even in the canonical &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/902710&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt; FAQ there's no (direct) mention of this.  The closest is from the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;When should comments be deleted?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &amp;quot;Post-It&amp;quot; notes left on a question or answer. You should not expect them to be around forever. Once a clarification has been made, an edit added to the post to include new information, or the issue in the comment is otherwise resolved, it can be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems to me to be an &lt;em&gt;implicit&lt;/em&gt; statement, at least, that edits should be made to the post to include the new information.  But it's not &lt;em&gt;explicit&lt;/em&gt;, and it's buried in the &amp;quot;deletion&amp;quot; section ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nor is there a separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7931/902710&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; that I can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nor is there even a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq-proposed+comments&quot;&gt;faq-proposed&lt;/a&gt;, unless it is missing the comments tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only question I've even found on MSE addressing this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/298658/where-how-to-reply-to-comments&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/298658/902710&lt;/a&gt;, which is (oddly, IMHO) closed (and downvoted) as a duplicate of the canonical &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/how-do-comments-work&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt; FAQ, even though it &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; address that particular question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it seems to be so universally accepted as fact that I see questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(MSO) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/412831/11810933&quot;&gt;Should you comment after you edit your question in response to comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(MSE) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/273507/902710&quot;&gt;Warn new users to edit important information into the question upon their first attempt to comment on a question of theirs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(MSE) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/266828/902710&quot;&gt;Nudge low rep users to edit comment answers into their question text as well&lt;/a&gt;.  Note that while a staff member marked this &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt; (for other reasons), they did say, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I see the merit in ensuring new users learn to edit clarifications into their questions&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, which I would take as an explicit statement on a representative of Stack Exchange that this is the correct action to take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(MSE) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/318571/902710&quot;&gt;is it acceptable to update a question with content added in comments?&lt;/a&gt; includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, comments are meant as temporary notes to the question. Any information in there which is necessary to answer the question should be in the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But also not what I would consider &amp;quot;canonical&amp;quot;, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Possible approach&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a StackExchange online resource to which we can refer users so they understand the expected way to address clarification requests?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we (the community) are in agreement that such a resource doesn't exist today in acceptable form, then perhaps the right question is, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Should there be ...?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/how-do-comments-work&quot;&gt;Comment FAQ&lt;/a&gt; updated to be more explicit.  Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question author to provide additional information&lt;/strong&gt; which may be needed to formulate an answer.  Important information from the original author should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/21789/377214&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; into the question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggesting corrections&lt;/strong&gt; that don't fundamentally change the meaning of the post; instead, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/21789/377214&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; the post or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/76251&quot;&gt;suggest an edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering a question&lt;/strong&gt; or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit an existing one)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compliments or criticisms&lt;/strong&gt; which do not add any new information to the post (e.g. &amp;quot;great answer&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;this is bad&amp;quot;, etc.); instead, upvote or downvote (and provide or upvote a better answer if appropriate)&#xA;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I feel a bit weird actually editing that into the Community Wiki myself.  I'm just not sure how that works - I know it needs review, at least.  Maybe a pointed in the edit comment to point back to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432493" LastEditorUserId="432493" LastEditDate="2022-09-12T20:28:42.043" LastActivityDate="2022-09-12T20:28:42.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-10T14:32:31.203" Score="-1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm left surprised by some answer presented in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/423102&quot;&gt;late answers review queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering &lt;em&gt;Kusalananda&lt;/em&gt; (it could have been whatever other moderator) commented that answer 16 hours ago without taking any sort of additional action (apart from possibly downvoting) I must assume that the answer just &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;looks ok&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; to the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, why should I think differently ? (within that precise context of review tasks) hence :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that answer still presented in the review queue (getting everyday longer and longer) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT after misc. comments : Other example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also many times read some moderator commenting some question when some member of the community asked for closing the question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can't we just assume that if some moderator comments a question already asked to be closed and does not close the question then the moderation team does not think this question should be closed ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2022-09-10T17:01:12.593" LastActivityDate="2022-09-11T15:18:27.430" Title="Remove answers already commented by some moderator from review queues" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|review|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5989" CreationDate="2022-09-10T16:09:48.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't we just assume that if some moderator comments a question already asked to be closed and does not close the question then the moderation team does not think this question should be closed ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. That is not a conclusion that you can draw.  Partially because we don't act as a team when it comes to that sort of reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/site-moderators&quot;&gt;Who are the site moderators, and what is their role here?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are human exception handlers, there to deal with those exceptional conditions that could otherwise disrupt the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewing quality in questions and answers is not a primary moderator activity.  Commenting on low-quality posts is not &amp;quot;dealing with an exceptional condition&amp;quot;, so the fact that a &lt;em&gt;moderator&lt;/em&gt; says something about a post says absolutely &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; about whether that post should be deleted or some other particular action should be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a comment left by a moderator (or a high-rep user for that matter), it should not stop you from using your own head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we need to delete a post because it is &lt;em&gt;exceptional in some way&lt;/em&gt; (spam, abuse, etc.), then we will not just leave a comment on that post.  Ideally, you will never have a chance to see it in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I prefer giving a user a heads-up about their post rather than just deleting it.  It seems friendlier that way.  Others may prefer to vote to delete answers that miss the mark, and I happily leave that decision to them.  (Unfortunately, as a moderator, I can't &lt;em&gt;vote&lt;/em&gt; to delete. I can only comment, or delete.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another personal note: I seriously wish there was some setting in my site preferences that would turn off the &amp;quot;moderator diamond&amp;quot; and all special moderator privileges, so that these could be activated only when actually needed. That way, on good days, a moderator could quietly take part in the ordinary activities of the community, just like anybody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2022-09-10T16:29:13.397" LastActivityDate="2022-09-10T16:29:13.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5989" CreationDate="2022-09-11T15:18:27.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm happy that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5990/117549&quot;&gt;Kusalananda answered separately&lt;/a&gt; regarding comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a comment left by a moderator (or a high-rep user for that matter), it should not stop you from using your own head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add two separate points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first echoes a comment by both terdon and Kusalananda: that mods don't have a &amp;quot;community&amp;quot; vote -- it's a one-touch, gold hammer, vote to Close or Delete. If the moderator (or gold badge holder) isn't sure &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; about that decision, they might silently abandon the post (close the tab; skip the review) or they might leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In situations &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/423102&quot;&gt;like these&lt;/a&gt; where the author appears to be attempting to answer the question (it's not spam; it's not a further question or &amp;quot;I'm having this problem too&amp;quot;; it's not completely irrelevant to the question, etc), it's a judgement call. I see this particular case as similar to an &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt; answer to a &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; question. It doesn't answer the literal question at-hand, but it might be helpful to someone else who's in the same situation (perhaps they believe the other browser won't crash). I've added comments to similar posts asking the author to more closely address the question. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I trust the community reviewers to decide once they see it in the queue. It turns out OK either way: if the answer stays, it has some comments asking how it can apply, and maybe the answer helps and maybe it doesn't; if the answer is deleted, the author got a notification (the comment) and has a chance to learn about the expectations here. I believe there's also a technical wrinkle here where &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/307535&quot;&gt;a mod-deleted post can't be undeleted by the author&lt;/a&gt;, so if that post was negatively-scored, it could affect their future ability to write answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separately, specifically for this case, Kusalananda may not have been viewing that post in the review queues. An actual &lt;em&gt;review&lt;/em&gt; from the queue would end up with one of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looks OK (and I believe the post would exit that queue)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit (ditto)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete (with an accompanying stock comment, such as &amp;quot;This does not...&amp;quot; - &lt;strong&gt;From Review&lt;/strong&gt; - $author $date)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Separately-posted comment and &amp;quot;Other Action&amp;quot; (I'm not sure what this does to the queue).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skip (leaves the post in the queue)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you found the post in the review queue about 17 hours after Kusalananda's comment, it would be safer to assume that they either found the post independently or &lt;em&gt;made no decision in the review queue&lt;/em&gt;. I don't think you should &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;assume that the answer just looks OK&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Additionally, if it's still in the queue, then feel free to review it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a healthy community such as this one means that we have users such as yourself who take the time to curate the posts that might need extra attention. I think these review queues do a decent job of (mechanically) finding posts that might need extra help. Sometimes these posts are easier to take care (deleting spam, deleting NAA's, etc), but other times these are newer users who haven't yet climbed the learning curve of Stack Exchange. I think it's good to give them some guidance and some time to learn. This becomes a timing issue where a well-intended comment can become a confusing landmark. Use your judgement in the review queues! If the author hasn't responded in a &amp;quot;reasonable&amp;quot; amount of time and the answer still does not meet the site standards, then vote to delete. If you feel strongly enough about the post but it's only been a few hours, maybe revisit the review item later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One-off responses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some mod actually reviews an answer it should no longer show in the review queue. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5989/remove-answers-already-commented-by-some-moderator-from-review-queues#comment12369_5989&quot;&gt;from your comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, if that review action was something concrete like &amp;quot;Looks OK&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Delete&amp;quot;. This is the &amp;quot;Stack Exchange&amp;quot; definition of &amp;quot;review&amp;quot;. Perhaps this is being confused with the English definition of &amp;quot;to go over or examine critically or deliberately&amp;quot;, which is what Kusalananda did and it's what each reviewer should do -- but that's distinct from an actual Review Action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't we just assume that if some moderator comments a question already asked to be closed and does not close the question then the moderation team does not think this question should be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from your updated question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, no! Best-case, that person has seen the potential issues with the question and is giving guidance to the author for how to rephrase the question to keep it on-topic and open. If the author does not update the question, of course it should be closed. I believe the SE team is working to improve the guidance that's given when a question is closed, but that's yet another learning curve for new users. Free-form comments can be much more specific to the post and its problems, giving the author a much better chance of success. There are too many other cases to consider, such as a comment that says &amp;quot;I think this should be left open&amp;quot; or other variations. Of course, a moderator (or any other user!) may think the question should be left open -- they may even answer the question! -- but I think I can speak for the current moderation team when I say that we consider our one-touch voting privileges very carefully, and it's our preference that the community does the voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-09-11T15:18:27.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2022-09-18T13:17:13.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;From @terdon's &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4448/432493&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing a post to convert a non-editable image into malleable text is very helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it interesting just how &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; the policy here on U&amp;amp;L is from that of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/415040/11810933&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.  And based on the kerfuffle in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/715975/remove-multiple-header-from-csv-file&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (now deleted - &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5981/432493&quot;&gt;Meta post here&lt;/a&gt;), I'm wondering if this is really such a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While simple error messages can typically be accurately transcribed (to aid in searchability), the above &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/415040/11810933&quot;&gt;SO Meta post&lt;/a&gt; goes into reasons why its a bad idea for other users to transcribe data/code images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main takeaways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transcription can introduce errors (or even correct errors that were present in the original data).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transcription can make assumptions about the data that may not be valid (e.g. in the question that sparked this, transcribing a grid image to a CSV file).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow community feels so strongly about this that several of the audit questions for the Edit review queue are image-transcription-edits.  I've seen multiple meta-posts from users who have been suspended from the edit queue for a period of time for approving a transcription!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I fall on the side of the Stack Overflow community consensus -- Ask the OP to provide the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; data.  They can best copy it as text and paste an accurate representation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that new users (less than 20 rep, I believe), receive a warning message when inserting an image into their question through the toolbar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPje5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPje5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image warning&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Images are useful in a post, but &lt;strong&gt;make sure the post is still clear without them&lt;/strong&gt;. If you post images of code or error messages, copy and paste or type the actual code or message into the post directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually try to be quite sympathetic to issues in users' posts (and correct them as I can), but when they willfully ignore this warning and post an image-only (when text is available), I believe we should ask them to fix the issue before providing an answer.  It's the best way to ensure that the text is an accurate and faithful representation of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side-note regarding @terdon's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing a post to convert a non-editable image into malleable text is very helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, I'd recommend appending something like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;as long as the edit accurately reproduces the original text, code, or data&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  However, I don't feel that I can make that edit myself as it changes the meaning of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432493" LastActivityDate="2022-09-18T13:17:13.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-21T15:54:38.337" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just surprised today regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/718026/lprm-cancel-both-fail-to-cancel-print-jobs&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for which I found and just posted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the answer perfectly &amp;amp; logically… answers my question, I tried to accept it (in order for the community not to bother any longer with the question) and was rejected, told to wait for tomorrow. (the same delay I would have faced for offering a bounty)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this latency enforced ? (why are these latencies (including the delay for offering a bounty) enforced ?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastActivityDate="2022-09-21T16:07:25.537" Title="Why is there a delay to accept one's own answer to one's own question?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5994" CreationDate="2022-09-21T16:07:25.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer essentially means &amp;quot;Yes, this is the solution I was looking for&amp;quot;. I believe the thinking here is that since this is your question, you should give others the chance to answer before accepting because some people may see an accepted answer and then not bother answering with their own solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is hinted at in the Help Center page about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;self answers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also accept your own answer, but you must wait 48 hours to do so. After all, someone else may come along with an even better solution to your problem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty delay is different. I think the idea there is to avoid spamming the system by bountying a question before it's had a chance to work its way through the regular process of people seeing it and answering it. Not 100% sure about this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2022-09-21T16:07:25.537" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-25T12:34:09.120" Score="5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to monitor a specific tag and would like to be informed when question with that tag arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can create an RSS/Atom feed based on a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I need it as email. Is it possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136851" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-09-25T13:58:33.927" LastActivityDate="2022-09-25T13:58:33.927" Title="Mail alert for specific tags" Tags="|support|tags|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5996" CreationDate="2022-09-25T13:58:08.603" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the email piece was recently removed from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/interesting-topics&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;How do I use tags to find topics I'm interested in?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; Help Center page. One of its links is to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19177/307535&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;What do &amp;quot;watched tags&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;ignored tags&amp;quot; do?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; page on Meta Stack Exchange, whose answer was edited on August 18th to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can no longer choose to receive emails about new activity within a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of today, I believe you can still get emails via your network account. I think the steps are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/filters/&quot;&gt;https://stackexchange.com/filters/&lt;/a&gt;, which will redirect to https://stackexchange.com/filters/(your network account id)/my-filter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &amp;quot;New filter&amp;quot; button, if that page doesn't already come up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Toggle section #1 to select just the tag you're interested in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Still in section #1, choose &amp;quot;All sites&amp;quot; or a particular list of sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &amp;quot;Add rule&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Name the filter in section #2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Importantly for you, enter your email address in section #3, tick the box for &amp;quot;Yes send email&amp;quot;, and select the frequency you want.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preview and/or Save the Changes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While searching Meta Stack Exchange for this issue, I found several posts where emails stopped working for one reason or another. Given the August 18th change, I'm uncertain whether Stack Exchange will continue supporting the network profile-based email subscriptions, but the one I have is still working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-09-25T13:58:08.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5999" CreationDate="2022-09-30T08:30:23.470" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rule (I find just absurd) forbidding any user to comment if its credit is lower than some_value_I_do_not_remember leads to some inconvenience at least in one particular case we can discover in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/717923/how-to-install-matching-version-of-nvidia-cuda-toolkit&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;user &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/321024/foobar&quot;&gt;Foobar&lt;/a&gt; offers a bounty on another user's question, incidentally bringing their credit under the commenting privilege threshold and consequently depriving them from any possibility to interact with the authors of the question / answers. (apart from posting answers that are not answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid that asking for dropping the condition for commenting is just a lost cause… so, could, at least, an exception be made, to the benefit of the user having offered a bounty for the time the bounty is opened ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT after acknowledging terdon's arguments :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limiting the value offered for the bounty to user_reputation - commenting_privilege_threshold could most probably be simpler to implement than an exception while preventing users to inadvertently deprive themself from an important privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-09-30T11:04:51.240" LastActivityDate="2022-09-30T11:04:51.240" Title="Users having offered a bounty on a question should be allowed to comment irrespective of their credit" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5998" CreationDate="2022-09-30T10:03:02.053" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep threshold for commenting is super important to avoid spammers flooding the site with comments advertising viagra or whatever. This is one of the rules that have a very clear, very important reason. We get absurd levels of spam (most of it is caught by the wonderful &lt;a href=&quot;https://charcoal-se.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Charcoal&lt;/a&gt; team, so you might not see it, but believe me it is there). It is also very, very low: 50 rep points which can be achieved through just five upvotes on your posts. It really is a low bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for adding an exception, as far as I know there simply is no way of doing that. Presumably, an SE developer might be able to but there is no existing infrastructure for such exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, in this particular, extreme edge case, the person who gave the bounty cannot comment. It does make sense to ask for a new feature where the user with an active bounty is allowed to comment on the bountied question and its answers even when their rep is too low, but that would have to be a new feature request. And I really don't know if it's worth it, this isn't a very common occurrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the user who offered the bounty posted an answer and a mod converted the answer to a comment. Mods are, first and foremost, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/site-moderators&quot;&gt;human exception handlers&lt;/a&gt;. This, a user who offered a bounty and yet cannot comment, is very much an exception and it was handled so maybe we don't really need anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2022-09-30T10:03:02.053" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-05T17:31:16.140" Score="-3" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;No reason to delete answers unless they are in extreme violation of the rules. Just because you don't think my answer is very good shouldn't warrant deletion or censorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please undelete my answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/625388/353848&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/625388/353848&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353848" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2022-10-05T18:15:21.710" LastActivityDate="2022-10-05T19:34:55.057" Title="Why did you delete my answer? It's not spam or anything crazy" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6000" CreationDate="2022-10-05T18:05:03.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi and thank you for bringing this to the Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You answered a question that asked about why a certain script could use &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; successfully to create a file, while another script seemed to not be able to use &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; in the same way to create the same file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case we had a &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; bash alias function defined as &lt;code&gt;touch -a &amp;quot;$@&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; which was only updating the access time instead of (in addition to) the modification time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; will update both of these times, but our bash function was overriding that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linfo.org/touch.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Simply changing&lt;/a&gt; the function to &lt;code&gt;touch -am &amp;quot;$@&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; fixed the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, to me, although it's good that you solved an issue relating to &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt;, does not answer the given question.  It does not because the user in the question can show that a similar, stripped-down script &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; create a file.  Also, the issue had nothing to do with timestamps but with actually &lt;em&gt;creating a file&lt;/em&gt;. Their code additionally shows no function (or alias) overloading the &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; utility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I deleted it with the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be unrelated to the issue at hand. The current issue is regarding &lt;code&gt;touch&lt;/code&gt; seemingly not creating a particular file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if the answer remains deleted and you feel that you want to share your answer some other way, then I would suggest that you either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rewrite the answer so that it answers the question, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;find a fitting question to which your answer is a precise solution, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;write your own question to which your answer fits better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing a question to which you post a &amp;quot;self-answer&amp;quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;a fully acceptable&lt;/a&gt; way to share your experience, assuming the question is not a duplicate of some already existing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After discussions back and forth amongst the moderators, we've decided to undelete the answer to let it instead go through the ordinary review queues. As it would be me flagging the answer, I will not personally be able to review it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think the answer needs some updating to make it relevant to the question.  In its current form, I would still prefer it to be attached to a more relevant question.  My three points of action above are still very much relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2022-10-05T19:34:55.057" LastActivityDate="2022-10-05T19:34:55.057" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-09T23:30:04.780" Score="2" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the &lt;code&gt;all actions / comments&lt;/code&gt; list (on the user's profile: &lt;code&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/$userId/$userName?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=comments&lt;/code&gt;) useful since one is not necessarily notified personally when other comments are added to some post one has commented in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is just an easy way for me to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OKOK, I know that I could just bookmark the question however… it just (frequently) happens that I am not that much interested in the post I commented but much more in the comments it might triggered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that many clever contributors use comments for questioning. And this just opens my mind much more than whatever question/answer would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens that the number of comments increases too quickly for my sample rate… so much that, all of a sudden, they'll all be versed into the obscure darkness of some lost anonymous chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an immediate consequence of this, any trace of my comment as part of the &lt;code&gt;all actions/comments&lt;/code&gt; list will just vanish. Too bad! I'll have to resort to the search engine keying  apropxitamteliy what I could vaguely remember about OP's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt; kidding &amp;gt; Not to say that all commenters, not to say me in particular, will have incidentally &amp;amp; almost certainly lost an occasion to get that very rare &lt;em&gt;pundit&lt;/em&gt; badge. &amp;lt; /kidding &amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would therefore suggest that, in case of comments moved into some chatroom, the all &lt;code&gt;actions / comments&lt;/code&gt; list keeps track of them with an http link to the chatroom all comments went moved to. Keeping the first words of the comment as a label would be great but changing it to the label of the chatroom would be just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-10-10T12:47:38.570" LastActivityDate="2022-10-10T12:47:38.570" Title="all actions / comments should keep track of comments versed into chat" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-15T16:29:29.617" Score="-3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to edit my previous question(s). How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For help formulating a clear, useful question, see: How do I ask a good question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, edit your previous questions to improve formatting and clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please tell me HOW....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="344494" OwnerDisplayName="anne" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-10-15T23:08:15.060" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T23:08:15.060" Title="How do I find my own questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-15T17:14:15.603" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;On trying to find some code that contains a (with the quotes included) &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; I did a search for &lt;code&gt;code:&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; but that just search for a simple &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; as it takes the double quotes as some quoting mechanism (for which I can not find the description/rules/Howto).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I tried &lt;code&gt;code:'&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;'&lt;/code&gt; for which I get backa page that states that the search term was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Search options: code '&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;', not deleted&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no results. Then I though: Could it be outside of code sections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I searched for &lt;code&gt;'&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;'&lt;/code&gt;. And the reply was that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;We couldn't find anything for '' &amp;quot;}&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I though: Why are the single quotes outside the quoted string? So, I tried: &lt;code&gt;/Hello&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;World/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reply was a list of some &lt;code&gt;Hello World&lt;/code&gt; answers (yes, with the space). And the search reply had this: &lt;code&gt;Results for /helloworld/ &amp;quot;}&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; at the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I though: Could it be better to quote the search? So I tried `&amp;quot;/Hello&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;World/&amp;quot; but the reply said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Results for &amp;quot;/Hello&amp;quot; &amp;quot;World/&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; got erased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: How could I search for the literal string &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;}&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; (with the quotes, yes) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="529738" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T23:07:48.277" Title="The search box sure needs some improvement" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6004" CreationDate="2022-10-15T22:41:37.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A (generic) link to your main account's questions is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/current/?tab=questions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/current/?tab=questions&lt;/a&gt; (adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/332251/307535&quot;&gt;Glorfindel's &amp;quot;/users/current&amp;quot; answer here&lt;/a&gt;). There should be a link at the bottom of that page that would show you any of your deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, your links would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your current questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/344494/anne?tab=questions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/344494/anne?tab=questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your deleted questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/deleted-questions/344494&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/deleted-questions/344494&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T22:41:37.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6005" CreationDate="2022-10-15T23:07:48.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, but I have some pointers to more information that was a bit too much for a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;terdon mentioned an external search engine &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57386299#57386299&quot;&gt;in /dev/chat&lt;/a&gt; called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.symbolhound.com/;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.symbolhound.com/;&lt;/a&gt; I've never used it, but it might be worth a try.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/279945/quotes-break-the-search&quot;&gt;Quotes break the search&lt;/a&gt; that is from 2016 which is marked as fixed, but has several linked threads that talk about quoted searches.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most recent discussion seems to be on Meta SO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/368516/search-for-special-characters-isnt-working-as-advertised&quot;&gt;Search for special characters isn't working as advertised&lt;/a&gt; where Shog9 says &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;apparently this is something we broke in one of the Elastic upgrades, so it'll probably take some work to get it back&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that search is a core feature of the Stack Exchange software (nothing specific to U&amp;amp;L), so you may get better (more current, more informed) responses on Meta Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T23:07:48.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-17T09:14:42.060" Score="3" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, users post multiple answers to the same question. (Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/690552/34039&quot;&gt;Boot taking forever with a 106 JBOD attached. - WARNING: Device /dev/xxx not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/630719/34039&quot;&gt;Is dnf supported on Centos 7?&lt;/a&gt;) I think this is unnecessary and makes it more difficult to choose a solution, but perhaps it's just my pet peeve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the most egregious cases, an user posted up to 4 answers to their own questions. The answers are one-liners, low-quality, or similar to each other. (Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/720333/34039&quot;&gt;How to do a transparent compression of a folder on Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint?&lt;/a&gt; and another question from the same user that has now been deleted.) It seems to me that an user doing so is just fishing for reputation, since each answer can be upvoted individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases downvoting all answers is considered serial voting and thus reversed, so I flagged the answers for a moderator to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: is it considered appropriate/respectful to clean up the question by editing multiple answers of another user to condense them into a single answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34039" LastEditorUserId="34039" LastEditDate="2022-10-17T12:32:07.070" LastActivityDate="2022-10-17T12:32:07.070" Title="Is it considered appropriate to edit multiple answers of another user into a single answer?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6010" CreationDate="2022-10-27T10:12:59.247" Score="16" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some days ago I tried answering a question but it appeared the user asked multiple questions. But due to context, they still seem to connect to the same problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator deleted my answer with: &amp;quot;I think this is answering another answer. Please only post answers to answer the main question asked&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/716416/reinstalling-windows-11-after-lfs-11-2-has-been-built&quot;&gt;Reinstalling Windows 11 after LFS 11.2 has been built&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand answers should match the question, but deletion? Ask for a more clear answer, or interact with me. This feels discouraging and I feel hurt. seriously consider a person might try out to give answers and hopes with feedback to both improve giving answers and improve their english. I tried even to help answer the main question within the subquestion they had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Id like to know if this is the behaviour I can expect from other common stackoverflow communities and their mods. because I dont like to spend time on answering questions for them to be deleted instead of encouraged to improve them. Or am I supposed to read from this to just improve it and submit again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70511" LastActivityDate="2022-10-27T14:43:22.967" Title="How can I ask a moderator why he deleted my answer?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6009" CreationDate="2022-10-27T10:43:25.380" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, the mod was me. First of all, thank you for coming here and posting such a calm and constructive question. And I'm sorry, I certainly didn't intend to discourage you from participating! However, I am afraid that yes, deleting was indeed the right course of action. I know this can be confusing to new users (I remember how confusing I found it at first), but these sites don't work in the same way as traditional online forums. We don't do discussion and everything posted as an &amp;quot;Answer&amp;quot; needs to be a direct, preferably complete, answer to the question asked in the &amp;quot;Question&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the person who posted the question (the &amp;quot;OP&amp;quot;, original poster) who is also new and so didn't know the rules, posted a second question as an answer to their original post. This is really something we want to avoid. The whole point of the Stack Exchange (SE) system is to have direct Questions and Answers. No discussions, no &amp;quot;noise&amp;quot;, each post is a single question with one or more answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, we really don't want people to be answering questions that were posted as answers and deleting is the standard course of action in such cases because we want to keep the site streamlined and to the point. As you spend more time on the various SE sites, and I hope you will despite the unpleasant first experience, you will see there is a general policy of aggressive deletion. Anything that isn't on topic or isn't directly answering the question asked will indeed be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can think of these sites as having one main objective: to build a collection of useful Q&amp;amp;As that can then be used by others as a reference. So we want everything to be nice and clean and to the point so that if someone comes to a question two years down the line, they will just find a clear question and a clear answer and don't need to wade through several pages of discussion to find the one nugget of information they need as is often the case in traditional forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely understand how this can be surprising to new users, but this kind of strictness is a very important part of what makes these sites and this model work for us. Your answer was actually really good, it was just not an Answer to the Question of that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-10-27T14:43:22.967" LastActivityDate="2022-10-27T14:43:22.967" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-09T16:37:08.813" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though my browser (Vivaldi) is set to display web pages in dark mode, when it comes to unix.stackexchange.com it just displays in bright white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to turn the Dark Mode On on unix.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="548566" OwnerDisplayName="Agron Aerco" LastActivityDate="2022-11-09T21:12:56.717" Title="How do you turn on Dark Mode on this unix.stackexchange.com web site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2022-11-10T19:42:28.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6015" CreationDate="2022-11-10T09:25:49.443" Score="11" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is to guide me to select an &lt;code&gt;init&lt;/code&gt; for a system without &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt; (runit, openrc, s6, dinit...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is a discussion question about personal opinions, but I honestly consider that it can be an interesting question for this place and that it can shed light for other users looking for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also understand that since there is probably no correct answer, since it is based on the subjectivity of each one, there might be no way to formulate it for this place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question would be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I find myself migrating my computers from &lt;code&gt;archlinux&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;artix&lt;/code&gt; (a fork of &lt;code&gt;archlinux&lt;/code&gt; but without &lt;code&gt;systemd&lt;/code&gt;) for various reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm an advanced user of &lt;code&gt;archlinux&lt;/code&gt; for years, with knowledge in computing and engineering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure which init to use instead. Can you tell me about your choices (runit, openrc, s6, dinit...) and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are mainly looking for is simplicity of use?, UNIX philosophy? Simplicity to create, start or stop services?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if, as is likely the case, it is not a suitable question for &lt;strong&gt;Unix&amp;amp;Linux&lt;/strong&gt;; would there be a place where I could ask it in &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373893" LastActivityDate="2022-11-17T10:56:55.563" Title="How should I approach a discussion question about a specific Unix&amp;Linux software?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2022-11-10T09:29:30.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it stands, I am afraid that question wouldn't belong anywhere on Stack Exchange since, as you point out yourself, it is asking for opinions and discussion. You could try asking on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://bbs.archlinux.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arch Forums&lt;/a&gt;, I guess, but not here, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can change your question to make it something that can have an objective answer, then it would be on topic but you would have to ask about specific technical aspects of the various init systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2022-11-10T09:29:30.677" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6013" CreationDate="2022-11-17T10:56:55.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6014/20140&quot;&gt;As indicated by Terdon&lt;/a&gt;, this question would need significant refactoring and rethinking to be acceptable on stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting questions don't always make good questions.&#xA;Your question might be interesting to discuss, however stack exchange largely tries to avoid discussion and especially avoid back-and-forth debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What makes a good question?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Either: An Interesting problem described well&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As presented here on meta, question describes one problem: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;help, I'm inexperienced and don't know which direction next&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  That's not generally considered an interesting problem. It has one simple and brutal answer: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;pick any direction then try it and see; there's no shortcuts to experience&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you might want to rethink what you are asking and try to pick a &lt;em&gt;solvable&lt;/em&gt; problem that others may have faced or, even better, others might be interested in solving for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a way to determine the relative popularity of tools such as &lt;code&gt;runit&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;openrc&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;s6&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;dinit&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to chose between these and would like to base part of my decision on popularity, if this information is available.  Is there a simple way to determine how popular particular packages are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not you regard this as a great question, a good answer to this would put you much further forward.  At the same time it is presents a &lt;strong&gt;problem&lt;/strong&gt; which can be investigated.  It's not really a discussion topic and does not invite opinion based answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Or: Point to a specific piece of missing knowledge&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you can even ask a question without a problem, but just searching for information. This type of question is tricky because &lt;strong&gt;it does need to be specific&lt;/strong&gt;.  It's rarely easy to specify what you don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are times where you can.  For example by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/552964/how-can-you-determine-the-hostname-associated-with-an-ip-on-the-network&quot;&gt;pointing to something exhibiting behaviour you don't understand&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question you give us no clue on what it is you don't know.  We are willing to assume you have done some reading on those tools prior to asking... &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/261592/how-much-research-effort-is-expected-of-stack-overflow-users&quot;&gt;its generally expected&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can describe some things you've read and explain where &amp;quot;the missing link&amp;quot; should go, then maybe we can help fill in that missing link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Give your requirements&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6013/how-should-i-approach-a-discussion-question-about-a-specific-unixlinux-software?cb=1#comment12460_6013&quot;&gt;Stephen Kitt pointed out&lt;/a&gt; that you hid some of your driving requirements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I find myself migrating my computers from archlinux to artix (a fork of archlinux but without systemd) for various reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unclear from this phrasing if getting rid of systemd is your intention for making the switch, or just a side effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If getting rid of systemd was actually your intent then you might be able to factor an acceptable question over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Software Recommendations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You really need to be able to express what &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; want from a systemd replacement though.  Asking others why they want it will most likely not go well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Ask about just one tool&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please don't split your one question into 4, one for each tool, that won't help&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever your question is, you should bear in mind that many engineers have a sort of tool box of knowledge.  When an engineer discovers a tool that does what they need, they learn how to use it.  Now that have that tool they don't have much need for others so they don't bother learning others unless some new need arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you ask an engineer why they use one tool over another, the honest answer is often &amp;quot;because I've learned that one, not the other&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask for side by side comparisons of common tools almost universally fail.  They require those answering to have good working knowledge of overlapping tools and usually end up with nothing but people talking about their favourite tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words side comparison questions very commonly degrade into religious like opinion.  They rarely result in pragmatic comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2022-11-17T10:56:55.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6017" CreationDate="2022-11-18T09:34:53.920" Score="5" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it seems similar, it is a different case from &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126/ambiguous-tags-file&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question goes on the other hand; and is that reviewing several questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rxvt-unicode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rxvt-unicode&lt;/a&gt;, I have found that there are times that the label indicated is &lt;code&gt;urxvt&lt;/code&gt; and other times &lt;code&gt;rxvt&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/enHK9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/enHK9.png&quot; alt=&quot;tags image&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep in mind that &lt;code&gt;urxvt&lt;/code&gt; is a fork of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;rxvt&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, so there may be the difference. However, in all the cases I am seeing they refer to &lt;code&gt;urxvt&lt;/code&gt; (as it is more logical that it is used today by most).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if there are cases similar to this with other ambiguous labels. But this makes dealing with the categories that reference these software a bit messy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be interesting to unify the two, perhaps in &lt;code&gt;rxvt&lt;/code&gt; as a generalization? What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373893" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-11-18T11:16:26.587" LastActivityDate="2022-11-18T13:46:28.630" Title="What to do when finding a case of ambiguity between two tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6016" CreationDate="2022-11-18T13:46:28.630" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be interesting to unify the two, perhaps in rxvt as a generalization?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, and that's exactly the case now. Note how the suggestion says &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rxvt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rxvt-container&quot;&gt;rxvt&lt;/a&gt; with the subtext &amp;quot;also: urxvt&amp;quot;? That's because &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/urxvt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urxvt&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urxvt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;urxvt-container&quot;&gt;urxvt&lt;/a&gt; is already &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/rxvt/synonyms&quot;&gt;a &lt;em&gt;synonym&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rxvt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rxvt-container&quot;&gt;rxvt&lt;/a&gt; (since 2015). You can't actually add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/urxvt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urxvt&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urxvt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;urxvt-container&quot;&gt;urxvt&lt;/a&gt; tag to a question now - if you do, the system will automatically convert it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rxvt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rxvt-container&quot;&gt;rxvt&lt;/a&gt; when you save the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also listed separately with 33 posts because posts which were tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/urxvt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urxvt&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urxvt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;urxvt-container&quot;&gt;urxvt&lt;/a&gt; before the tag synonymization was completed aren't automatically converted to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rxvt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rxvt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rxvt-container&quot;&gt;rxvt&lt;/a&gt; tag, and so still belong to the synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2022-11-18T13:46:28.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6020" CreationDate="2022-12-02T21:50:09.687" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I have seen a couple of posts that I think were supposed to be migrated to SO, but weren't. Community locks them like it would for migrated questions and then almost immediately unlocks them. One example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/727041/revisions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/727041/revisions&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/away&quot;&gt;10k tools&lt;/a&gt; doesn't show anything odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2022-12-06T17:17:57.453" Title="Is migration to Stack Overflow blocked?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6018" CreationDate="2022-12-06T17:17:57.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most likely cause, IMHO, is that the OP's are/were question-blocked on SO. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10250/307535&quot;&gt;The FAQ on migration&lt;/a&gt; says, in part, regarding blocked migrations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What causes a migration to be blocked and what happens after?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user is question-banned or suspended on the destination site, or is rate-limited due to question quality and the migration would cause them to exceed the rate limit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question does not use any tags that exist on the destination site, with three exceptions ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question was cross-posted onto the other site (unless a moderator migrates)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/727041/i-want-to-compile-this-libelfin-library-file-under-windows-so-that-i-can-develop&quot;&gt;Question 1&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;had tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/linux&quot;&gt;linux&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/windows&quot;&gt;windows&lt;/a&gt; -- both available on SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not appear to have been cross-posted (at this point, and that's visible to me)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user does not appear to be suspended on SO (at this time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user only has one question on SO from Nov 17th, making a rate-limit unlikely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... making a question-ban the most likely reason for this migration failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/726935/why-this-program-can-not-read-text-file-in-struct&quot;&gt;Question 2&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;had tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/tags/c&quot;&gt;c&lt;/a&gt;, read -- of which &amp;quot;c&amp;quot; is available on SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not appear to have been cross-posted (at this point, and that's visible to me)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user does not appear to be suspended on SO (at this time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/19475575/anup-adhikari?tab=questions&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;user's newest SO post&lt;/a&gt; was over 4 months ago, making a rate-limit unlikely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... making a question-ban the most likely reason for this migration failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say definitively, since I can't see how many deleted questions each user has, so this is just my best guess with what I can see. There may be other rate-limiting activities going on that I can't see, or cross-posted questions that are now deleted, that could also explain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-12-06T17:17:57.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6024" CreationDate="2022-12-06T17:43:40.167" Score="25" ViewCount="1962" Body="&lt;p&gt;New software has been released recently named ChatGPT that is causing quite a stir around the network:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384355/could-chatgpt-be-a-viable-way-to-answer-peoples-questions&quot;&gt;Could ChatGPT be a viable way to answer people's questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/421831/4957508&quot;&gt;Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/384396/307535&quot;&gt;Ban ChatGPT network-wide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slate, a Stack Exchange Community Manager, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384396/ban-chatgpt-network-wide#comment1282259_384396&quot;&gt;posted a comment&lt;/a&gt; on the Meta.SE link above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have begun internal discussions to identify options for addressing this issue. We’re also reading what folks write about the topic on their individual sites, as one piece of assessing the overall impact. While we evaluate, we hope that folks on network sites feel comfortable establishing per-site policies responsive to their communities’ needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is fairly new territory, so I'm interested in gathering the UNIX &amp;amp; Linux community's thoughts on AI-generated answers. There are several key points that have been raised already, so I'll seed the discussion with some of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must attribute the answers to the source (sources: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/384429/307535&quot;&gt;Machavity's answer&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/421856/4957508&quot;&gt;Makoto's answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Generated answers may not be correct (sources: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/421846/4957508&quot;&gt;Nineberry's answer&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/384407/307535&quot;&gt;Journeyman Geek's answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to prohibit AI-generated answers? Do we allow them, with attribution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-12-18T19:06:34.627" LastActivityDate="2023-01-21T07:16:45.643" Title="How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2022-12-07T08:28:28.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The worst of all is well worded by the OP of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned&quot;&gt;the meta-stackoverflow link you suggested&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary problem is that while the answers which ChatGPT produces&#xA;have a high rate of being incorrect, they typically look like they&#xA;might be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my letter to Santa… I asked for… a bottle of wine. I would not really mind if getting vinegar in return. But… I would hate if the vinegar was packed into a bottle of &lt;em&gt;premier cru&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would certainly not only mislead the author of the question but also discourage members of the community to contribute and provide their own true knowledge based on their own true experience.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The latter point being in contradiction with the philosophy I understand in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5994/why-is-there-a-delay-to-accept-ones-own-answer-to-ones-own-question#comment12396_5995&quot;&gt;comment from &lt;em&gt;terdon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is we'd rather have more answers than one, accepted&#xA;one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I acknowledge that AI-generated answers could be good at answering those questions from students asking the community to do their homework.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But do we really want that sort of questions here ? I don't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would strongly support the idea of a bot pushing an IA-generated answer on old &amp;amp;&amp;amp; unanswered questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This would necessarily provide more value than &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5970/how-to-prevent-community-bot-fiddlings-from-uselessly-messing-the-top-questi&quot;&gt;the disgraceful bump of the community bot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastActivityDate="2022-12-07T08:28:28.187" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2022-12-07T09:57:56.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion about this is that I'd like to see correct and well-written answers. If an entity can explain the underlying issue that gives rise to the problem, show with examples that the given solution solves the problem for the user in question, reason about assumptions made, respond to comments in a helpful way, and cite necessary sources, then, if they are an AI or not does not matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is clear from what we've seen on the site so far that AIs are not yet at that point though.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I've removed most of the following paragraph as I no longer think we should allow generated answers at all, not even as attributed wiki answers.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strike&gt;Answers written using ChatGPT or any other AI software should be community wiki answers and disclose that they were provided by a bot (no matter if the bot wrote it all or just helped with the technical bits). This is partly so that the answer can be appropriately reviewed by a human for the correctness and partly so that the reputation from votes on the site goes to users who use their own brains to solve issues.&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Failing to attribute the source of text that is taken from elsewhere is already not allowed on the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Artificially inflating one's reputation using an AI tool is a form of deception. This becomes extra serious when users use their reputation on this site to leverage influence in other places (which may well happen in workplaces or other social situations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ChatGPT or other software should be allowed to help with the grammar of the natural language used in answers, provided the user proofreads the text before it is posted.  This is akin to using tools like Grammarly, which I see nothing wrong with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discourage AI-generated answers unless the AI is so good it's indistinguishable from a human (able to respond and correct their answers etc.)  There is currently no AI that is that good. If there were, we would not detect them, so it would be pointless to disallow them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &amp;quot;discourage&amp;quot; could well mean &amp;quot;suspending users using AI&amp;quot;. If they have posted a clearly identifiably AI-generated answer as a community wiki answer, they should not be suspended and the answer should instead be reviewed by humans.  The threshold for deleting these answers would be severely lower than ordinarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Material from external sources (which IMHO includes AI) must be attributed.  This is already a site-wide requirement, see e.g.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160077/users-are-calling-me-a-plagiarist-what-do-i-do&quot;&gt;Users are calling me a plagiarist. What do I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of Stack Exchange sites, any copying and pasting of any amount of text or code that wasn't written by you is plagiarism if you try, explicitly or implicitly, to pass it off as your own work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, you still have to write an actual answer, in your own words.&#xA;A post that consists only of copied text, even when attributed, is not&#xA;your work either. Use quotes sparingly, to support your own words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring this would normally result in a suspension, and possibly a network-wide suspension for repeat offenders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Artificially inflating one's reputation by means of AI should not be allowed.  It is already not allowed to artificially inflate one's reputation (or other metrics, such as the &amp;quot;people reached&amp;quot; count).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, suspending users who do this is not uncommon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-01-21T07:16:45.643" LastActivityDate="2023-01-21T07:16:45.643" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2022-12-09T19:45:12.227" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think such answers should be banned entirely, and anyone posting ChatGPT answers without attribution should be banned with prejudice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the asker wants an answer from an AI, they can go to ChatGPT directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't think that even ChatGPT answers &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; attribution should be allowed, but I am willing to compromise on this point providing the attribution is provided up front (not at the end of the answer and certainly NOT in an edit after the answer is first posted), and providing the entire ChatGPT text is in a block quote so nobody can mistake it for a directly written human answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this raises some questions, &amp;quot;What about people using ChatGPT for grammar and spelling?  What about if the answer poster carefully checks the ChatGPT answer before posting?&amp;quot;  My answer to both is, that's only fine if the answerer then &lt;em&gt;writes or re-writes the answer themselves in their own words&lt;/em&gt; and takes responsibility for every word of it being what THEY actually want to say.  This is in alignment with the ChatGPT terms and conditions, and with how we handle any other sort of source of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I think we should handle ChatGPT answers the same as we would handle copy-paste from other websites without attribution, but with added prejudice because of: wasting everybody's time, the difficulty of detection, and the need to dissuade other people from the easy &amp;quot;rep-farming&amp;quot; that will occur if we hold a tolerant stance on ChatGPT answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2022-12-09T19:45:12.227" CommentCount="43" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2022-12-13T08:30:06.490" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly believe we should ban answers generated by ChatGPT -- or any other AI, for that matter. I actually think (concerning U&amp;amp;L topics) that these answers are &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt;, except when the question is a very easy one. These answers might look good at a first sight, but are often generic, miss the point, and lack the real-world knowledge and experience of all the intricacies in doing real Linux sysadmin work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has now &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy&quot;&gt;empowered moderators to ban users up to 30 days that post ChatGPT-generated content&lt;/a&gt;, and added a banner on their site. We should perhaps do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34039" LastActivityDate="2022-12-13T08:30:06.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2022-12-14T02:44:36.530" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is really important to understand the thing that we are banning or not banning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm aware ChatGPT and all other successful AI in this space &lt;strong&gt;are NOT doing original research to produce an answer&lt;/strong&gt;.  Eg: they are not running Linux commands they suggest, or writing a proof of concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These models are trying to crack the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Turing Test&lt;/a&gt; with ever higher success rate&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  What's really interesting is the extent to which the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chinese Room argument&lt;/a&gt; has proven more meaningful than it first appeared:  &lt;strong&gt;There is a very large gap between convincing humans that an AI understands something and the AI actually understanding it&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information provided by ChatGPT is &lt;em&gt;very intelligently&lt;/em&gt; collated information from across the internet.  But this sets its position in the world similar to that of Wikipedia and Google Search.  These are very fine tools, but they should &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; be considered authoritative sources of information&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike Wikipedia, ChatGPT answers are very hard to trace.  With copy-paste answers from Wikipedia, we can not only trace the origin of bad answers, but actually go and correct it at source!&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;.  As far as I know, ChatGPT has no such capability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned&quot;&gt;sheer volumes that have been seen&lt;/a&gt; make them a real problem that needs to be dealt with firmly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/108618/kamil-maciorowski&quot;&gt;Kamil Maciorowski&lt;/a&gt; for this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://ai.stackexchange.com/a/38272&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; is true then it's very relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That answer nails it.  Discussing with those I know in the field, I believe that answer is very true.  These AIs are super smart at word play.  Really very smart. But they are not conscious.  Not yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g: The last time I heard &amp;quot;entity linking&amp;quot; across many unconnected sources remains a bit of an unsolved problem.  If you see a name &amp;quot;Mickey Mouse&amp;quot; in a document then it's hard to be sure if the document was discussing the Disney character or using it as a euphemism like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Mickey Mouse operation&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; to mean silly or poorly run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, AI has made some amazing advances in recent years with various &amp;quot;models&amp;quot; for various specific tasks: image recognition, image generation, text generation.  And logical reasoning has long been relatively trivial in AI.  But one thing that remains frustratingly out of reach is a good way to connect these different models into a single system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short people should not hold their breath waiting for a really great language model to be connected to a really great logical reasoning engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, the idea of allowing AI answers onto SE must wait until AI can take a questions, read some manuals, and then run some tests to prove the solution worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e.: AI answers must wait until the AI actually understands what it is talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;The next frontier is fooling people with subject matter expertise&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;My own experience with interviewing tech candidates for a role is that even some humans can pass the Turing Test but ultimate show zero understanding of the real subject matter when presented with our trivial tech tests.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wikipedia even has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ban on original research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;My only ever wikipedia update came from just this case.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2022-12-18T13:35:18.983" LastActivityDate="2022-12-18T13:35:18.983" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-18T23:38:09.217" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;To this my former question you requested that I should send screenshots. Here are three:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yw166.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yw166.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ve2Fo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ve2Fo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vgTmb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vgTmb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="468501" LastEditorUserId="70524" LastEditDate="2022-12-19T02:30:49.493" LastActivityDate="2022-12-19T02:30:49.493" Title="What do the +-numbers at LHS of my question mean?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6027" CreationDate="2022-12-19T01:47:02.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those 0, -1, -1, 0, and 4 numbers next to your questions in that screenshot are the current scores for those questions: the upvotes minus the downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;Voting&lt;/a&gt; is a central feature of the Stack Exchange system; users with the upvote and downvote &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; help sort good content above lower quality content so that the best answers to each question become apparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't yet, you'll want to take our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; to get an overview of Stack Exchange's model and then browse the sections of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; to learn more about asking, answering, voting, and more!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-12-19T01:47:02.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-19T07:12:01.903" Score="7" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone tell me why &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/232657/delete-till-first-occurrence-of-colon-using-sed/728534#728534&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; was downvoted? All I can see is that it was reviewed and the reviewer said &amp;quot;looks ok&amp;quot; but I have a downvote on it. How can I see why it was downvoted, or by who? What is wrong with the answer? Also I cannot see other posts by people asking why their answer was downvoted - how is this question usually asked? How are people supposed to improve or fix problems without any context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isYhd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isYhd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432846" LastActivityDate="2023-01-01T15:19:14.130" Title="Why was my answer downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6029" CreationDate="2022-12-19T08:17:43.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the down voter leaves a comment, there is no way to figure out who they were or their intention with their vote. Voting is private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely everyone who spends time asking or answering questions here will get their fair share of up and downvotes. The reason questions regarding why someone may have downvoted an answer relatively seldom appear here is because there is no definite answer to that question.  A more interesting question is &amp;quot;How can I improve this answer?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should generally answer the question as it has been posed.  In this case, the question is &amp;quot;Does parens for pattern matching need to be escaped inside sed regex-es?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to improve your answer may be to address the user's issue with the parentheses (that is to say, explain how parentheses are used in regular expressions in &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;).  You may then recognise that the user is using the wrong &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; command (&lt;code&gt;d&lt;/code&gt; rather than &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt;), explain why, and then suggest what they should do instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes your text read more like an answer to the question instead of a comment on another answer or an expansion of somebody else's comment. We like specific answers to specific questions, not a discussion that moves from answers into comments into new answers based on ideas or follow-up questions in comments, etc.  (these things are ok, but the resulting answer should still be an answer to the original question, at a minimum).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also avoid &amp;quot;This worked for me when solving a different issue and here's my code for that&amp;quot;-type of answers.  If you are enthusiastic about a specific solution that you have come up with for your own problem, it is better to post a separate question that you immediately self-answer (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;this is allowed and encouraged&lt;/a&gt; as long as the question is not a duplicate of existing questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also noticing now that your suggested &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; command is identical to the &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; command in the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could you have done differently? Well, given that the point of your answer was to remove the anchoring of the regular expression and the &lt;code&gt;g&lt;/code&gt; flag at the end, you could have suggested this as an edit to the accepted answer.  As it happens, this was instead an edit that I made (along with adding extra text), prompted by reading the accepted answer, prompted by the question bubbling up on our front page due to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional edit that could possibly be made to the accepted answer is to address the user's issue with parentheses or at least say why parentheses aren't needed or wanted in the suggested command.  This is probably not enough to warrant its own answer though, as the second part of that answer would invariably have to duplicate the &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; command from the accepted answer again unless a novel and better approach is provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2022-12-19T08:58:11.567" LastActivityDate="2022-12-19T08:58:11.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-19T12:33:37.557" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that you generally seem to be unhappy with my questions. I also read that &amp;quot;Stack Overflow&amp;quot; may be a proper place for questions of such kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I turn to Stack Overflow for future questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps even for the past: should you and I transfer some of my existing questions from U&amp;amp;L to Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="468501" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2022-12-19T13:53:12.137" LastActivityDate="2022-12-20T00:42:54.537" Title="maybe my questions are not in the right place" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6029" CreationDate="2022-12-19T13:37:09.677" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kusalananda &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6030/117549&quot;&gt;already covered several aspects&lt;/a&gt;; I'd like to add a couple more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I see why it was downvoted...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main (&amp;quot;Meta&amp;quot;) discussion board for the Stack Exchange system has discussed this several times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/135/307535&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain downvotes&lt;/a&gt;, ended (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-completed-container&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;) in 2009 with &amp;quot;After the first downvote, we can't say we didn't remind them, and honestly that's as good as it gets. Forcing a comment will end in even worse results.&amp;quot; I'll add a counterpoint that I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/2268/307535&quot;&gt;from Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;If no-one has stated why it's wrong/misleading (at least in terms of what you see as the problem with it) I think it's definitely helpful to leave a comment alongside the downvote. If someone else has already left an appropriate comment, then upvoting the comment is indication enough, IMO: the poster certainly has something to work on.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/325416/307535&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such negatively received?&lt;/a&gt; from circa 2019 lists several additional reasons why the community doesn't want to require additional feedback alongside voting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see other posts by people asking why their answer was downvoted - how is this question usually asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly like you did, by asking here on Meta! Many have done so previously:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5552/why-do-we-have-downvotes&quot;&gt;Why do we have downvotes?&lt;/a&gt; (general question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5153/117549&quot;&gt;My questions keep getting downvoted without any proper explanation as to why&lt;/a&gt; (2019)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5046/117549&quot;&gt;need help improving a question&lt;/a&gt; (2018)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5019/117549&quot;&gt;Is&amp;quot;How to stop running e4defrag without damage my data?&amp;quot; as unclear?&lt;/a&gt; (2018)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4460/117549&quot;&gt;Question downvoted with no comments as to why&lt;/a&gt; (2017)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3468/117549&quot;&gt;why is my question downvoted?&lt;/a&gt; (2015)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3115/117549&quot;&gt;Can someone explain why my question may have been downvoted?&lt;/a&gt; (2014)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2515/117549&quot;&gt;Why was this question closed and downvoted?&lt;/a&gt; (2013)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took me quite some time to get used to how Stack Exchange works; I still search our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;Meta FAQ pages&lt;/a&gt; regularly. I remember trying to answer questions that were on their way to be closed, and seeing different kinds of answers get upvotes or downvotes. The culture of each SE site is a little different, I think, but each revolves around the same central system. Hopefully you can take the feedback you've received so far and find a good niche for your expertise -- in Questions, Answers, or both!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-12-19T13:37:09.677" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6031" CreationDate="2022-12-19T13:51:50.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer one part of this question: where should you write your questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the first place to look is each site's Help Center:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;UNIX &amp;amp; Linux: What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using or administering a *nix desktop or server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying OS X (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The underlying *nix OS on an embedded system or handheld device (e.g. an Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shell scripting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being cross-platform does not disqualify)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UNIX C API and System Interfaces ( within reason )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a specific programming problem, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a software algorithm, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;software tools commonly used by programmers; and is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a practical, answerable problem that is unique to software development&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some overlap in scope (you'll see lots of UNIX scripting and tool questions on SO; you'll see larger scripts and &amp;quot;algorithm&amp;quot;-type questions here at U&amp;amp;L), so if it's not yet clear which site you think is appropriate, you could search each site for similar questions. If there are none, reconsider whether the question is on-topic; you could ask here on Meta for additional guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separately, I would not recommend migrating existing questions, even if they are downvoted. If you decide that you'd rather post them elsewhere, please delete them (if you can) before re-asking on the new site; that way, there's no duplication of effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2022-12-19T13:51:50.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6031" CreationDate="2022-12-19T23:14:43.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I have noticed that you generally seem to be unhappy with my questions&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can feel &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; concerned :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For having honestly tried to answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/728430/in-less-how-to-enter-as-search-pattern/728433#728433&quot;&gt;one of your questions&lt;/a&gt;, I must admit having downvoted it &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; reading the comments you made on my answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/728430/in-less-how-to-enter-as-search-pattern/728433#comment1382008_728433&quot;&gt;comment #3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Your editor…&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; ???&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Not to say &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/728430/in-less-how-to-enter-as-search-pattern/728433#comment1382089_728433&quot;&gt;comment #6&lt;/a&gt; that just made me wonder : &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;How the hell can they think anyone can help ?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I do believe you are an honest contributer here, I would not want you to misunderstand my downvote :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I do not mean that I feel &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;unhappy&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; with your question (Would I have feel so that I would not have taken care to answer it (*1)) I even less mean that your question would better fit somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simply meant that from your comments, you were definitely not helping anyone to… help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore… rather than believing that your questions would better fit elsewhere, please :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Document your questions more,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interact with answers in a more detailed/rational way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And… everybody will just be happy with your questions… that I personally could even… upvote! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well… in short : Try harder ! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW never deduce from the votes that your question do not fit on U&amp;amp;L_SE… I personally very rarely score &amp;gt;0 on my own questions… but… still… asking… ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 :&lt;/strong&gt; You can even notice that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/86440/stephen-kitt&quot;&gt;Stephen kitt&lt;/a&gt; edited my answer and that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/70524/muru&quot;&gt;muru&lt;/a&gt; edited you question. Both are top contributors in U&amp;amp;L_SE… I am sure they would not have cared if &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;being unhappy&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; with your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-12-20T00:42:54.537" LastActivityDate="2022-12-20T00:42:54.537" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-25T15:47:40.890" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've answered 9 questions here in December and all but one are at zero score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zero score with no comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/722171&quot;&gt;Why ping results varied with the CPU load&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/728594&quot;&gt;e2fsck deletes many inodes, recovers too little data from a disk image. Are there better methods?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/729536&quot;&gt;Slow boot time, and sometimes slow disk retrieval&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/729537&quot;&gt;what target flag should I set to cross compile arm 32 bit code in gcc?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/729576&quot;&gt;How to copy files from one machine to another using ssh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/729579&quot;&gt;How can I monitor disk io?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zero score with some comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/729541&quot;&gt;ZFS pool free space discrepancy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/729573&quot;&gt;Adding missing zeroes in the begining of each line where is less than 4 signs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Score of 1 with no comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/726955&quot;&gt;Special char in password for smb mount&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I step away from answering and learn a bit more about how to answer better here?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is it related to increased/decreased traffic from Winter Bash?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="539604" LastActivityDate="2022-12-25T15:47:40.890" Title="Are my answers just meh or are they being overlooked by Winter Bash excitement?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-27T15:44:42.143" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have frequently &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/727535/razer-keyboard-use-keyboard-as-mouse-under-x&quot;&gt;long questions&lt;/a&gt; that I try to make shorter by populating footnotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is rather uncomfortable for the reader to never stop scrolling forward and backward, I expected I could make use of named anchors and links to named anchors.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I tried something like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Lorem ipsum and all that sort of things&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;#NB1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Jump to Nota Bene1&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;And could think of many other dolor&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;Blah Blah&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a name=&amp;quot;NB1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Nota Bene 1 Start&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;Nota Bene 1 Text&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;without any success. How is it achievable ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 1 : Testing suboptimal workaround &lt;a href=&quot;//unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6036#:%7E:text=42653960361&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Testing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workaround&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Obviously non functionnal&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 :&lt;/strong&gt; 42653960361 : found this idea suggested in answer of some related question in meta_SE.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Caution : Its inventor qualifies it &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;pretty fragile&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2022-12-27T23:01:38.290" LastActivityDate="2022-12-27T23:01:38.290" Title="How is it possible to link to some named anchor?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2022-12-27T17:23:35.927" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's important to separate Artificial &lt;em&gt;Intelligence&lt;/em&gt; from Machine Learning. ChatGPT is firmly the later, it doesn't do anything we expect from a intelligent creature, but seems intelligent from the emergency properties of the system. Like an ant hill, it's smart in the way it respond to stimuli based on &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; rules. Given this, it obviously has limitations and do pretty stupid things, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;like other systems&lt;/a&gt;*, which is something that is not unheard of humans doing, yet it tends to be more successful in a specific set of scenarios, either by context or because it has better information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interactions with ChatGPT is that it can generate incredibly long response to tasks that I can then refine by hand, consult about circular references and implement algorithms without errors (which is something I usually do not consider myself capable of). And yet, it annoys me to no end that it gets the same things wrong about stuff that most humans get wrong: economic theories and concepts, history, philosophy, etc. The model is, after all, a popularity contest, and no amount of vetting will ever find them all, just the most popular ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of any &amp;quot;banning&amp;quot; we should ask SE to actually implement ChatGPT as a pre-ask option for askers. If the askers are satisfied with the results, then we could review that by actual experts and post that as a pair of Q&amp;amp;A. Basically, embrace the thing, since it has the potential to offload much work that we do that we shouldn't have to otherwise, and only focus on verify the information. After all, it's easier to spot a wrong answer than to generate a right one*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* And despite of this, human players preferred to work with it due precisely lacking those same human characteristics, like pettiness, vengeance, or feeling the blues.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;** This is basically the &amp;quot;easier said than done&amp;quot; but adapted to the context&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41104" LastActivityDate="2022-12-27T17:23:35.927" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2022-12-29T05:30:01.650" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Machine-generated content (vice (artificial) intelligence-generated content) is certainly useful as a tool, but machines are fundamentally unable to understand the full context of the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Machines are only as good as their programming, and they are unable to defend or justify their results beyond the fact that their algorithm created it. With machine learning/neural network models, the results can even be stochastic vice deterministic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The value of forums such as StackExchange is the exchange of ideas and the challenging of assumptions or beliefs. Machine-generated content cannot question its own algorithms or neural network training to justify its output, or more importantly, to adapt or update its output when presented with problems or flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ChatGPT and other machine learning/neural network tools are just that--tools. Until a machine can participate in a discourse about a topic and grow from intellectual challenges, it must remain a tool in the hands of a human.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171409" LastActivityDate="2022-12-29T05:30:01.650" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6029" CreationDate="2023-01-01T15:19:14.130" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers to that question were faulty or lacking at the time the OP posted a correct and better answer, therefore the OP was wrongfully downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the OP's correct answer downvoted? People make mistakes, people are ignorant, and some people are arrogant or malicious. Take your pick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please accept my upvote, and have a happy new year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39281" LastActivityDate="2023-01-01T15:19:14.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6021" CreationDate="2023-01-03T10:23:43.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for a blanket ban on AI-generated answers, just like Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary problem for AI-gen'd answers, as is the case on SO, is their high rate of inaccuracy disguised in a good-looking form. This goes against SE's target as a repository of &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; knowledge. We want treasure, not elegant garbage. This is not something AI can reliably generate for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attribution is not even the second problem. What comes next about AI answers is the human incentive behind that. We are expecting users to provide quality answers, or at least, have an &lt;em&gt;intention&lt;/em&gt; to add quality answers. Users coming with verbatim copy-paste from AI output are unlikely willing to contribute positively, especially when posting in volumes. They're only coming for rep farming or what have you, and they're more likely to add moderation workload than valuable content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this respect, users utilizing AI to &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; their answers pose minimal problems to us, if any. These answers are in essence human-composed content, &lt;em&gt;decorated&lt;/em&gt; with AI-aided language &amp;amp; expression. This does not violate the &lt;em&gt;intention&lt;/em&gt; requirement as described in the previous paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally talking about attribution. More often, lack of attribution alone is a minor issue if it is one after all. If a decent answer lacks proper attribution, we ask for clarification in the comments and fix it up if needed. If it's a bad answer, we're not even concerned whether it's properly attributed. Attribution alone has minimal influence on the &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211239" LastActivityDate="2023-01-03T10:23:43.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6043" CreationDate="2023-01-12T20:28:57.223" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Mac OS is a unix-based OS, I'm wondering what kind of questions should be asked in askdifferent vs. the UNIX StackExchange? Is it as simple as &amp;quot;if you are asking about something while using Mac OS, then you should use askdifferent&amp;quot;? Or would you say that askdifferent is reserved for less code-heavy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The borderline case I have in mind is a question about how to do something using the command line (terminal). This is a technical question and the answer will most likely be the same in UNIX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my sense that the folks frequenting the UNIX stack are more tech-savvy (and there are more of them), so the chances of getting a command-line question answered in a satisfactory way is higher there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="397512" LastActivityDate="2023-01-12T20:41:32.283" Title="What questions should go here vs. ask different?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6042" CreationDate="2023-01-12T20:41:32.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your main description is quite accurate: my impression is that the community here is more knowledgeable about the command line than the community at Ask Different. Which doesn't mean that the folks at Ask Different don't know their stuff, many of them do! Only that there are more users here with command line knowledge than there are there. So if I had a question about the shell and I was using macOS, I would probably ask here. That said, such questions are also on topic there so it really is up to you and where you might feel more comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there is a question of scope. While Ask Different and Unix &amp;amp; Linux have significant overlap there are also many things that wouldn't be on topic here at all. If you check our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;on topic&amp;quot; page&lt;/a&gt;, you will find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix and Linux Stack Exchange is for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[. . . ] &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not&#xA;frontend application questions) &lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[. . . ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, questions about the GUI of MacOS are not on topic here and should instead be asked on Ask Different. However, questions that are about the Unix underbelly of the system are perfectly welcome here. Just be aware that if the issue is something that is mac-specific, we might not be aware of it although there are quite a few regulars here who are macOS users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-01-12T20:41:32.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-22T05:48:09.570" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;newbie here !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pasted a text with my question  and several parts of code and tried  to mark them, and posted it but when I edited it to correct a typo the marking was distorted and several codes became a one long code. When I tried to sort it out my text got several lines in Bold with larger fonts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited again deleted the whole thing  and pasted a fresh clip but it showed the some distortions that had appeared in the first version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then deleted the whole thing and wrote a short message explaining that I would try again in a new 'uncontaminated' post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I asked a new question the title of the old question was already there, and the  same problems with fonts occurred even when I pasted a different text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then edited the old question to change its title   so that a new post would not be 'contaminated'. But it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post with a new title and no code looks alright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What must I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="557471" OwnerDisplayName="fredmyra" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-01-22T08:23:53.597" LastActivityDate="2023-01-22T08:23:53.597" Title="I tried to post a question but the preview became garbled" Tags="|discussion|formatting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-22T09:07:18.870" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am posting my fist question here and  have made many mistakes so far so I have ended up with more than one post (I don't really understand how many) about the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to delete 'duplicates' and would like to keep the last posted version which is&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/732641/how-to-figure-out-the-necessary-boot-parameters-to-boot-an-iso-file-from-a-multi&quot;&gt;How to figure out the necessary boot parameters to boot an iso file from a multiboot usb driver?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excuse me for causing trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="557471" OwnerDisplayName="fredmyra" LastActivityDate="2023-01-22T13:40:33.917" Title="Problem with publishing my first post properly" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6049" CreationDate="2023-01-23T18:08:52.463" Score="9" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not have enough points on either tag to suggest a synonym properly, but anyone here who does should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/container&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;container&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;container&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;container-container&quot;&gt;container&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/containers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;containers&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;containers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;containers-container&quot;&gt;containers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25985" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2023-01-30T08:48:12.413" LastActivityDate="2023-01-30T08:48:12.413" Title="Tag Synonym: &quot;Container&quot; and &quot;Containers&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6048" CreationDate="2023-01-24T14:41:40.187" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve created &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/container/synonyms&quot;&gt;the corresponding suggestion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2023-01-24T14:41:40.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6050" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-26T15:06:19.093" Score="10" ViewCount="118" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2022 (and where did January go, right?) and dive head first into 2023, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V0TPg.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Unix &amp;amp; Linux over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;40&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,761&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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right;&quot;&gt;44&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;830&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,438&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;700&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,308&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;134&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,158&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag highlight language set&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tags merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Close votes&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;76&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,535&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;First answers&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;101&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,871&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;First questions&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;83&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,866&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Late answers&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;35&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,072&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Low quality posts&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,336&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,117&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Reopen votes&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;278&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: &amp;quot;Suggested edits&amp;quot; queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;314&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,008&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User suspensions lifted early&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;349&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;67&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). Community can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5899/2021-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2021: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222022%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/386090/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2023! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastEditorUserId="93139" LastEditDate="2023-01-26T18:05:44.423" LastActivityDate="2023-01-26T18:05:44.423" Title="2022: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6054" CreationDate="2023-01-30T09:09:00.773" Score="10" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have stumbled across two tags which seem to cover exactly the same thing yet only differ by one letter: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/non-root-user&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;non-root-user-container&quot;&gt;non-root-user&lt;/a&gt; (42 questions) vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/not-root-user&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;not-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;not-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;not-root-user-container&quot;&gt;not-root-user&lt;/a&gt; (371 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/non-root-user/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonym proposal&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/non-root-user&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;non-root-user-container&quot;&gt;non-root-user&lt;/a&gt; because this is where I have the necessary score, but the question would probably be which of the two ones should &amp;quot;survive&amp;quot;. &lt;em&gt;non-root-user&lt;/em&gt; sounds better that &lt;em&gt;not-root-user&lt;/em&gt; to my ears, but the latter has more questions tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastActivityDate="2023-02-02T06:51:24.850" Title="Tag &quot;not-root-user&quot; as synonym for &quot;non-root-user&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6051" CreationDate="2023-01-30T20:02:43.463" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this and would prefer to see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/non-root-user&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;non-root-user&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;non-root-user-container&quot;&gt;non-root-user&lt;/a&gt; as the primary tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(posted for voting purposes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2023-01-30T20:02:43.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6051" CreationDate="2023-01-30T23:18:24.923" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Facts :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To date : 227,373 questions on U&amp;amp;L_SE&lt;br&gt;&#xA;100*(42+371)/227373=&lt;strong&gt;.18%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6051/tag-not-root-user-as-synonym-for-non-root-user#comment12608_6051&quot;&gt;Stephen's pertinent observation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so few users with enough reputation to vote here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why bother ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too many categories kill the interest of categorizing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Categorizing out of the possible interaction of possible interested end-users is just : useless (to users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore : Burn! Burn! Burn!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Which one ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;BOTH!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to tell my personal opinion that as soon as, about a purely technical matter, whatever question turns to be what ? Lexical ? Syntactical ? Rhetorical ? matter… Well… please… blame me if I sound vulgar : FTS!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2023-01-31T00:04:48.973" LastActivityDate="2023-01-31T00:04:48.973" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6051" CreationDate="2023-02-02T06:51:24.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;code&gt;not-root-user&lt;/code&gt; is now a synonym for &lt;code&gt;non-root-user&lt;/code&gt;, and existing questions with the synonym have been remapped with the target tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2023-02-02T06:51:24.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6056" CreationDate="2023-02-05T23:17:18.813" Score="0" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find old questions with perfectly reasonable answers with none of them checked as solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example I found today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/494410/how-can-i-get-neovim-to-load-my-init-vim-file-when-in-sudo-mode&quot;&gt;How can I get neovim to load my init.vim file when in sudo mode?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is 4 years old, the OP is 31xp, it has 3k views, it has 4 good answers (two of them better), but still, it is sitting there with none of the answers marked with a green check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if such cases could not be open for mods to intervene and mark an answer on behalf of the newbie that got lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your input on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6030" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-02-06T08:44:59.367" LastActivityDate="2023-02-06T08:44:59.367" Title="Moderators accepting answer on behalf of lost users" Tags="|discussion|moderation|voting|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6055" CreationDate="2023-02-06T06:50:17.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators cannot accept or unaccept answers on behalf of other users, no matter if that other user is registered or unregistered, a &amp;quot;newbie&amp;quot; or a &amp;quot;veteran&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons for a question to end up with perfectly good non-accepted answers.  The opposite is also true, with questions sometimes having accepted answers that are not the most up-voted answer, or accepted or highly up-voted answers that have proven to be less than ideal or perpetuate bad habits (in some cases, editors may insert disclaimers into accepted or highly-upvoted &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; answers, and in extreme cases, a moderator may delete an accepted answer, but this has only happened one or two times in the last few years).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The votes attached to a question or an answer, including the accept vote on an answer, measure to what degree other people have found the text interesting, useful, or &amp;quot;good&amp;quot;. In some cases, it may also measure other things, like how witty the text is, how well-written it is, or just the fact that some particular person wrote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, readers of the site will have to apply their own judgement and make use of the information that is most relevant to their own situation. An accept vote on an answer only means that the user that provided the question found that particular answer the &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; at that moment in time, according to whatever private metric they decided to apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise: Voting is private, and a moderator can not vote, including accepting an answer, on behalf of anybody else. The reason for voting up or down, or for accepting or not accepting an answer, is left to the discretion of the individual user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-02-06T07:43:25.813" LastActivityDate="2023-02-06T07:43:25.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-06T18:39:53.197" Score="24" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would just like to write a very large &amp;quot;Thank you&amp;quot; to our moderators here, past and present.  Things I've recently discovered on other sites across SE have brought into sharp focus the way U&amp;amp;L runs so smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been a forum addict since long before the days of Stackoverflow and I've always been aware how important good moderators are to a community.  Without them forums of any kind (even Stack exchange ones) become cliquey, sour, and eventually die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a great credit to all the moderators here, past and present, that U&amp;amp;L remains a largely healthy community where technical discussion (even debate sometimes) is encouraged.  I wholly believe that they have been even handed, tolerant, polite, and above all respectful to the wishes of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know in the past I may have been [quite vocally] opposed to an occasional decision here.  I now wholly regret not taking the opportunity at the time to express how well I believe our moderators are doing generally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah... Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2023-02-09T10:29:58.403" LastActivityDate="2023-02-20T11:28:37.133" Title="Is it okay to post, here on meta, a simple Thank You to our moderators?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6057" CreationDate="2023-02-09T17:13:22.017" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is a Q&amp;amp;&lt;em&gt;A&lt;/em&gt; site, this calls for an answer, and since I’m not a moderator I don’t have the same qualms as terdon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is OK, and in fact fits quite well &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;under&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is for &lt;strong&gt;Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange users to communicate with each other&lt;/strong&gt; about Unix &amp;amp; Linux Stack Exchange (asking questions about how the websites work, or about policies and community decisions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s not “asking a question” as such but it is communicating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And thank you to the moderators, and to all the non-moderators who contribute to the general atmosphere here!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2023-02-09T17:13:22.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6057" CreationDate="2023-02-11T12:07:05.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a general standpoint, I believe that whatever topic supported by the community has full rights to stand where it stands.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sole sake of niggling, I might suggest that it could eventually have found an even better place as an answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6050/2022-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2022: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt; thread which just suggests the deserved thanks OP mentions but… not only, since it outlines the help from :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;the non-moderators who contribute to the general atmosphere here!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; as Stephen rightly added to the list,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some community-manager(s) that were directly involved at least twice, should'nt we be thankful to them as well ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let' niggle even more : I personally find hard to be thankful to abstractions and &lt;em&gt;moderators&lt;/em&gt; is an abstraction. As &lt;em&gt;schrodingerscatcuriosity&lt;/em&gt; wrote it in a comment, they are individual human beings and I find it more meaningful to thank them individually, therefore :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many thanks &lt;em&gt;Jeff Schaller&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Kusalananda&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;slm&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;terdon&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Many thanks to &lt;em&gt;anonymous_community-manager&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Many thanks to &lt;em&gt;Philip&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Stephen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;schrodingerscatcuriosity&lt;/em&gt; (list made that short only for staying… on topîc… ;-P)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastActivityDate="2023-02-11T12:07:05.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-14T16:29:34.300" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that many questions about &lt;code&gt;tun&lt;/code&gt; network interfaces are tagged with the &lt;code&gt;[tunneling]&lt;/code&gt; tag.  This doesn't seem appropriate since, as I understand things, such an interface doesn't provide tunneling per se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong on this or is there a better tag that should be used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543770" LastActivityDate="2023-02-14T16:29:34.300" Title="Proper tag for discussing tun interfaces" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6062" CreationDate="2023-02-14T21:15:06.040" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to propose a tag synonym from &lt;code&gt;rsyslogd&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;rsyslog&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3285" LastActivityDate="2023-02-15T10:29:14.987" Title="Tag synonym rsyslogd -&gt; rsyslog" Tags="|support|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6061" CreationDate="2023-02-15T10:29:14.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/rsyslog/synonyms&quot;&gt;created the synonym suggestion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2023-02-15T10:29:14.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6065" CreationDate="2023-03-01T15:02:59.467" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that under certain circumstances the &amp;quot;It's no longer needed&amp;quot; flag acts immediately on comments and they are straightaway deleted. Yet at other times this is recorded as having been marked for moderator attention and it's a little while before the comments are removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming I'm not seeing an &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; rapid response from one or more of the moderators (!), what is the logic around immediate removal of comments vs flagging them for moderator attention? (i.e. how can I know when to expect one type of action or the other?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2023-03-01T15:12:01.837" LastActivityDate="2023-03-01T21:15:22.357" Title="When does the &quot;It's no longer needed&quot; flag become an immediate action?" Tags="|support|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6064" CreationDate="2023-03-01T21:15:22.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/315749/fra-san&quot;&gt;fra-san&lt;/a&gt;'s comment explains it. I think there's probably some sort of regex in the SE code that one-shots comments when they're flagged; tchrist has a list started at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/238837/307535&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/238837/307535&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it does occasionally happen that I (or other mods) visit the mod dashboard to handle flags and there are ... fresh ... comment flags that get handled. We're probably not there within milliseconds though, so if the comment disappears immediately, I'd assume that you hit a magic phrase in the code for immediate comment deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2023-03-01T21:15:22.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-02T12:13:40.520" Score="2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I commented on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/738385/i-can-run-playbook-on-user-but-not-on-crontab#738385&quot;&gt;I can run playbook on user but not on crontab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment: &amp;quot;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://ansible-runner-role.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example1-cron.html#example-1-run-ansible-playbooks-in-cron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Run Ansible playbooks in cron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The potential answer to the question is very complex and is out of scope here. I was surprised by finding that my comment was deleted without any notification. I would like to know why. Also to avoid this in the future if this is my fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117721" OwnerDisplayName="Vladimir Botka" LastEditorUserId="117721" LastEditDate="2023-03-02T12:39:10.687" LastActivityDate="2023-03-02T14:06:30.370" Title="The comment with a link to an example removed (by the moderator, I assume)" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7064" CreationDate="2023-03-02T14:06:30.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your comment wasn't deleted. The &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; was deleted by the person who posted it, and since you had left the comment under the answer, the deletion of the answer also removed your comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEdST.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEdST.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the deleted answer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you should always expect comments to be deleted. They are supposed to be ephemeral and, ideally, ask for clarifications or provide new info that can be integrated into the answer/question. So if you want something to stay, post a full answer, not a comment. For more details, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &amp;quot;Post-It&amp;quot; notes left on a question or answer. They can be upvoted (but not downvoted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-03-02T14:06:30.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-04T11:51:47.300" Score="-4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facts :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of posts, here (on meta), from contributors wording their misunderstanding about the reasons that motivated the closure of their question for the reason that :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts&#xA;and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based&#xA;answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When reviewing the &lt;em&gt;close votes&lt;/em&gt; queue, I am often left undecided and just skip.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;While agreeing that the question should be closed because it just cannot expect collecting any valuable answer, I just cannot find the appropriate reason for that and certainly not the opinion based one.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/738539/recommended-kernel-parameters-for-zswap&quot;&gt;The most recent example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sort of question is IMHO no more no less likely to trigger opinion based answers than (as an obvious example) text processing questions for which numerous good answers will be posted, each one based on it's author preferred text processing utility. (no disrespect meant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make no doubt that this sort of questions should be closed for the reason that no good answer can be made because :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers would necessarily be &lt;strong&gt;workload dependent&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And this is an absolute reality that, apart from some very basic cases already well documented in RHEL / ORACLE / IBM… publications, no other member of the community will ever run the same workload in the same conditions with the same demands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore suggest to :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Either create a new item in the list of closing requests reasons of the like : &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Workload dependent&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or, if easier, extend the existing &lt;em&gt;opinion based&lt;/em&gt; reason to &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;opinion based or workload dependent&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course happy to leave the precise wording to english natives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastActivityDate="2023-03-12T03:43:47.907" Title="Add one additional reason for closing or reword the &quot;opinion based&quot; reason" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|close-reasons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7066" CreationDate="2023-03-12T03:43:47.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few thing s to unpick here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that a &amp;quot;workload specific&amp;quot; reason for closing would be wrong. There's no good reason why we should close workload specific questions in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP can narrow down which characteristics make their worklod unique.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or there is a short (2 or 3) discrete list of options and the question is factually answerable for all. A single answer might be offered covering all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So more appropriate would be &amp;quot;needs details or clarity&amp;quot;, where the OP needs to narrow things down a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are just unanswerable.  For example performance tuning kernel parameters for an unknown task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those I'd go with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5980/20140&quot;&gt;Stephen Kitt's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; and write in a custom reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In effect these would be questions that do not supply enough detail, but in truth you believe it is impossible to supply enough detail because of the nature oft the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Discussion on opinion based&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the most tricky reasons to understand.  All other close reasons we moderate the question not the answer.  Yet for opinion based questions we (sort of) moderate based on potential answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are clearly trollish opinion seeking questions (&amp;quot;is mac better than windows&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more commonly opinion based questions are only identified based on personal expertise.  People with the right experience just know that some specific topics are rife with opinions and too few hard facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;why was the linked question opinion based?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked question arguably lacks focus by asking about a bunch of different parameters in one question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; problem with it is there is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too many possible right answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insufficient detail to know the &amp;quot;right answer&amp;quot; for this OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no good detail the OP could supply to narrow it down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too many say-admins who'd be ready to argue their way is the best&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably the OP did nothing wrong asking here, but unfortunately there's no way to answer this without basically saying &amp;quot;I like these options&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2023-03-12T03:43:47.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-18T22:34:44.827" Score="-5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;URL link needed for the Android site for these questions same as Linux. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="565859" OwnerDisplayName="Candice Lindquist" LastActivityDate="2023-03-19T08:57:51.030" Title="What is the link to the android site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7068" CreationDate="2023-03-18T22:49:45.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://android.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104877" OwnerDisplayName="steve" LastActivityDate="2023-03-18T22:49:45.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7068" CreationDate="2023-03-19T08:29:30.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site really doesn't need that link. There's the &amp;quot;stack exchange&amp;quot; logo button on the top right. Tapping/clicking on it and entering &amp;quot;Android&amp;quot; will take users to the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be worth considering adding explicit migration target sites to the close reasons. Stack Exchange admins are typically a bit shy towards that. I think that's for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we're migrating basically negligible amounts of questions. When you flag a question for attention, mods can still do it manually, no matter whether the target site is listed under &amp;quot;should be migrated to...&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sending bad questions around to be someone else's problem doubles the overall community effort, with the effect that the target site might still close the question, which then just prolongs the process of telling op to please improve their question, without being specific at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;migration-initiating voters should be somewhat familiar with the voting rules and spirit of both sites. That's rare enough to come by that it's a fair assumption that most individual votes will not really be qualified&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;feeling like the dumping ground for another site's bad question (and be clear here: someone asking a question on the wrong site correlates with not having done enough research) will create inter-community friction that might actually give a bad environment for questions that we migrate manually when we see &amp;quot;oh that's a good question, but that is an Android-specific API that we aren't as familiar with, and we can see that you've done good research&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For previous discussions, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5435/when-flagging-a-question-to-be-migrated-why-are-some-stack-exchange-sites-exclu&quot;&gt;When flagging a question to be migrated, why are some Stack Exchange sites excluded?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106650" LastEditorUserId="106650" LastEditDate="2023-03-19T08:57:51.030" LastActivityDate="2023-03-19T08:57:51.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7071" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-19T16:03:27.907" Score="22" ViewCount="469" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to publish this question but I can't as the body is marked with &amp;quot;This looks like spam.&amp;quot;. Any idea how I can fix my post? Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TjIBM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TjIBM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="528635" OwnerDisplayName="akirender" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2023-03-20T11:21:33.367" LastActivityDate="2023-03-29T18:22:11.823" Title="can't publish a question &quot;This looks like spam.&quot;" Tags="|discussion|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7071" CreationDate="2023-03-29T18:22:11.823" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My blind guess for a google service would be:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The url fragments and keywords collect too many negative point. Basically what Wildcard commented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackexchange seems to use a similar system.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It physically hurts me to say this but:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Try posting the stuff in code tags as an image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="318722" LastActivityDate="2023-03-29T18:22:11.823" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7073" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-01T15:23:56.673" Score="10" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked my first question over on a different SE site recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After an initial false start I was advised by a mod that when I edit my question to deal with comments, I can / should flag the comments as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not come across this advice before. I've generally just left it to the commenter to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this advice ubiquitous to SE, and is it welcome here on U&amp;amp;L?   Or is this something mods here might see as a waste of their time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2023-04-01T15:28:57.463" LastActivityDate="2023-04-04T08:53:10.600" Title="Should we flag comments after making an edit?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7073" CreationDate="2023-04-01T16:02:43.253" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that is helpful, or at the very least not harmful. Ideally, comments that have been addressed should be deleted but it is very hard to remember to come back and do it yourself as a user, so sure flag them as obsolete and we'll get rid of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-04-01T16:02:43.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7073" CreationDate="2023-04-04T08:53:10.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, please flag comments that are truly no longer needed as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot;. These are fairly quick to process, so they shouldn't generate too much extra work for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, don't use that flag to get rid of a comment just because you don't want to see it any longer (this is sometimes the case when a question/answer owner flags comments on their own question or answer).  In those cases, you may possibly flag the problematic comment with another flag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to let flagged comments linger for a bit if the comments themselves are very new or if it requires me to read through a whole discussion to figure out whether the comment is really &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagged &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; comments are easy to process, as they are almost always no longer needed (either the answer or question has incorporated it, or it wasn't significant enough to incorporate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2023-04-04T08:53:10.600" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7078" CreationDate="2023-04-19T12:06:25.070" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;After i earned the &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;close and reopen votes&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; i can't do a normal flag only close flag is this normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I select flag for a question and than select&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs improvement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question needs updates from the author in order to be answered well or belongs on another Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after I select that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should include more details and clarify the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see only the &lt;strong&gt;Vote to close&lt;/strong&gt; no longer &lt;strong&gt;Flag question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this they way i have to flag now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="496558" LastActivityDate="2023-04-19T12:58:54.407" Title="After earned &quot;close and reopen votes&quot; i can't do a normal flag?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7077" CreationDate="2023-04-19T12:58:54.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is normal. You now have the right to directly vote, so there is no need to flag, the flag just says &amp;quot;I would vote, but I can't, so please check this out for me&amp;quot;. You are now trusted enough to be able to vote directly and there is no longer a need to flag, so please go ahead and vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-04-19T12:58:54.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-24T13:18:17.637" Score="26" ViewCount="909" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just become aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/388556/imgur-tos-change-on-may-15th-could-cause-the-loss-of-thousands-of-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!&lt;/a&gt;, which quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/424280/4957508&quot;&gt;a corporate version of Imgur&lt;/a&gt;, whose links include &lt;code&gt;i.stack.imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;, leaving open the possibility that images which are  hosted on Imgur &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of that URL could be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=url%3ahttps%3a%2f%2fimgur.com%20score%3a1&amp;amp;searchOn=3&quot;&gt;this search for url &lt;code&gt;https://imgur.com&lt;/code&gt; and score&amp;gt;= 1&lt;/a&gt; on U&amp;amp;L, there are currently 109 posts (with a score above zero) that include links to &lt;code&gt;https://imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we address this potential change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T20:07:51.237" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:24:11.147" Title="Potential U&amp;L impact from TOS change on Imgur" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-27T06:05:26.897" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking at a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/744191/raid6-won-t-load#comment1415082_74419&quot;&gt;recently asked question&lt;/a&gt;, where the asker was clearly out of their depth with an issue. The gist was essentially &amp;quot;I've got this problem, help please, because I've no idea how to fix this&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than simply VTC as lacking details &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/744191/raid6-won-t-load#comment1415052_744191&quot;&gt;I suggested&lt;/a&gt; they look at questions and answers for similarly tagged questions to see what commands need to be run and added to the question to provide enough information for it to be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Issue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's possible to filter the tagged question list by &amp;quot;unanswered&amp;quot;, there are no options &lt;em&gt;in the drop-down Filter&lt;/em&gt; to search for questions with decent answers. The closest is &amp;quot;Has bounty&amp;quot;, but even that is no guarantee of a decent answer. (There are options for knowledgeable people to use in the search query, but I'm talking about the Filter button/drop-down.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raid&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raid&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raid&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-raid-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;raid&lt;/a&gt; - how do you really find useful questions that have answers, or even accepted answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Request&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add additional drop-down filter options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions with answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions with upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions with an accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-04-28T20:10:43.097" LastActivityDate="2023-04-28T20:10:43.097" Title="Filters for finding useful answers" Tags="|feature-request|tags|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7079" CreationDate="2023-05-04T16:42:42.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Barring any better ideas, I'm going to suggest that any interested editors (preferably those &amp;gt;= 2k to ease the suggested edit barrier) tackle the affected posts. Please refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/388726/307535&quot;&gt;Glorfindel's answer&lt;/a&gt; that contains the results of an automated upload of existing images. Edits can use the Replacement URL for the affected posts, sparing a download and upload cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since time is running (relatively) short, I'd suggest tackling the highest-scoring posts first. Live search links follow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=url%3ahttps%3a%2f%2fi.imgur.com%20score%3a1&amp;amp;searchOn=3&quot;&gt;Posts with links to &lt;code&gt;https://i.imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;, score &amp;gt;= 1, sorted by score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=url%3ahttps%3a%2f%2fimgur.com%20score%3a1&amp;amp;searchOn=3&quot;&gt;Posts with links to &lt;code&gt;https://imgur.com&lt;/code&gt;, score &amp;gt;= 1, sorted by score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're motivated, I see no reason to curb your enthusiasm in order to keep the home page clean; it appears to turn over within 6-7 hours, so edit to your heart's content!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T20:24:11.147" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T20:24:11.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7084" CreationDate="2023-05-11T07:13:41.507" Score="16" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;This still seems to be a very common topic. Over time, and I guess that's a sign of how the tools matured, our answers and comments to all of these end up being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very nice that you want to use &lt;code&gt;${text tool}&lt;/code&gt; on your structured data, but that's not a good choice because &lt;code&gt;${variation of the same explanation that regular expressions don't do the format justice or become exceedingly complex for quoted strings}&lt;/code&gt;. Instead, you should try using &lt;code&gt;{xmlstarlet,jq,yq,mlr}&lt;/code&gt; or try to use your favorite scripting language's (e.g., &lt;code&gt;{Python|perl}&lt;/code&gt;) libraries to deal with the data in a syntax-aware manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're really dedicating a lot of work to reproducing these recommendation. Is there a good standard Q&amp;amp;A where we answered that in a sufficiently friendly and generic way, which we could agree to canonically set &amp;quot;duplicate of&amp;quot; to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NB: title is meant to be sarcastic; nobody argues that you can't parse a CSV with only integer columns safely with &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;. The questions we get asked are typically something like &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;I have a CSV with URLs and unrestricted remarks in various non-ascii encodings, and my &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt; one-liner from the depths of the interwebs can't deal with it&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, and the amount of work qualifiedly answering these questions reliably exceeds the effort put into the question so solidly that I think avoiding duplicating the work would be a good idea.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106650" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T11:17:27.123" Title="Do we have a go-to reference Q&amp;A for &quot;I want to do {grep,sed,awk} on {xml,json,yaml,csv with text}, how do I shoot myself in the foot?&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|duplicate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7083" CreationDate="2023-05-14T11:00:57.217" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary of long answer:&lt;/strong&gt; I suggest that a canonical question+answer about using dedicated tools to process structured documents may not be useful for avoiding duplicates because the actual issues presented in questions are often unique. Rather than pointing to a duplicate question+answer, users should be helped directly with their individual issues and referred to a Meta question that describes the limitations of standard Unix tools for processing structured documents, and possible alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a tangentially related rant at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that if there were one such canonical question+answer, it would be the duplicate of very few questions, as the only thing that would be &amp;quot;duplicated&amp;quot; is the explanation of why it may be better to use dedicated tools to process structured documents.  The actual &lt;em&gt;issue&lt;/em&gt; that any one question may present would likely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a duplicate of that canonical question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5360&quot;&gt;Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won&amp;#39;t people help me?&lt;/a&gt; question all over again, i.e. a question that can't be used as a duplicate as its answer doesn't answer any real-life questions.  Instead, we should try to help those people, or close their questions as unclear or as dupes of other real questions, whichever is more appropriate.  When answering these questions, we may use the potentially misguided choice of tools, making sure the restrictions, conditions, and potential issues are clear, or we could do as I usually do and &lt;em&gt;ignore&lt;/em&gt; the user's pick of tools.  Or you do both of the above, which &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; become tedious in the long run if you tend to answer many of these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the issue with Kali Linux, the &amp;quot;Why won't people help me?&amp;quot; question still serves a purpose.  Not as a question that we close dupes against, but as a reference that we can point to when the topic of why it may be a good idea to try another Linux distribution in place of Kali arises (because a user is either in too deep water with Kali or are trying to use the distribution to do things it &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; not designed to do).  We still help the user, but we can &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; provide a hint that they may want to consider another platform for their work, and why.  Such a hint can be provided by linking the Kali question on our Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, (and I think this would be a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good idea) we could potentially have a Meta question asking, &amp;quot;Why am I told not to parse structured document formats with line-oriented tools?&amp;quot; (or &amp;quot;Why won't people help me &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;-uce my JSON docs?&amp;quot; something even more &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;-wardly catchy), with appropriate answers that describe the basic issues with using the standard Unix line-based text processing tools, when these tools are perfectly fine to use (because they are sometimes the correct choice if we know enough about the input), and what the alternatives are, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tangent, no longer really an answer to the Meta-question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the issues I personally have with text-processing &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; in general, is that they are sometimes written as one-off answers, i.e., &amp;quot;Run this one-liner and it will do what you need!&amp;quot;.  Even though answers like these may answer the specific question in the form that it happened to be posed, we have no clue &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; the code will be used or what changes will be retro-fitted to it, or what input some random future user will try to pass through it may look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is, therefore, vital that we point out the limitations on answers that try to parse e.g. YAML or XML with tools like &lt;code&gt;grep&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, as a way of educating users about the fragility and proper use of these standard Unix tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want any medical practitioner to use journal systems based on parsing XML with &lt;code&gt;awk&lt;/code&gt;, or a car manufacturer filtering JSON equipment test data with &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt;, just because some lazy programmer lifted a one-liner throwaway solution from a &amp;quot;peer reviewed&amp;quot; Unix site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users who don't think the code in their answers here on U&amp;amp;L will be used in production systems must think again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-05-14T11:17:27.123" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T11:17:27.123" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-26T10:39:49.643" Score="3" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chromebook/chrome-os/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ChromeOS&lt;/a&gt; is the Linux-based operating system that is found on Chromebooks, made by Google. It uses the Google Chrome browser as the main interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ChromeOS Flex&lt;/a&gt; is the same operating system meant for installation on PCs and Apple computers, and is provided for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ChromeOS is not considered a typical GNU/Linux distribution like Debian or Fedora, because the main interface is just the Chrome browser. So my question is: are questions about using ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex on-topic here at Unix &amp;amp; Linux StackExchange? If they are not on-topic here, which StackExchange website would they be a good fit for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chrome-os&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome-os&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chrome-os&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-chrome-os-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;chrome-os&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9041" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-05-26T10:45:13.403" LastActivityDate="2023-06-04T08:39:42.743" Title="Are ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7087" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-29T23:25:20.827" Score="17" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to the recent low-quality posts on U&amp;amp;L, I've asked the Community Managers to disable unregistered participation on our site. They have recently enacted that change. Hopefully this encourages positive participation and isn't too much of a hurdle for earnest participants in our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update on 2023-07-07: this change (enacted May 29th) has prevented further low-quality posts, and -- at a glance -- has not seemed to create much of a hurdle to participation. I grabbed a screenshot of the site analytics for the past 2+ months; here's the chart of posts (questions + answers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CHgiL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CHgiL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;site analytics&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-07-08T03:01:00.780" LastActivityDate="2023-07-08T03:01:00.780" Title="Temporary blockade on unregistered participation" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|user-accounts|users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7086" CreationDate="2023-05-29T23:38:10.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it's worth drawing a hard and fast line; chromeos crosses the line between Linux and Chrome.  It might be simple to say that anything done in crosh might be suitable, but that's hard to put into a rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastActivityDate="2023-05-29T23:38:10.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-29T22:57:58.853" Score="-6" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone asks a question why do people have a hard time just giving the simple answer? There is always some alternative answer that sometimes has nothing to do with the sought after information. Even worse is when some one gets on here and answers by flat out refusing to answer...whats the point in that? I get &amp;quot;ask google, or try something else&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;if you don't know your not trying&amp;quot;. Its just very frustrating when you ask simple questions and can not get simple answers. If you do not want to answer question, then do not comment. Its that simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="447199" OwnerDisplayName="jayram1408" LastActivityDate="2023-05-30T00:04:00.470" Title="Why is it if anyone asks a question, no one can ever just give the answer for the question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7089" CreationDate="2023-05-30T00:04:00.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few quick points from me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;alternative answer that sometimes has nothing to do with the sought after information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment and/or downvote would be appropriate here. Perhaps the answerer misunderstood the question, which means other potential answerers might as well, so an edit to the question might be in order. Or, it's a simple misunderstanding on their part, and they self-delete after realizing it via a comment or downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answers by flat out refusing to answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume you mean &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; here, because otherwise it's an &lt;em&gt;Answer&lt;/em&gt; and can be voted on and commented on. As I wrote initially in a comment on your question here, comments that are rude or simply non-constructive (e.g. &amp;quot;go google it&amp;quot;) can be flagged as -- at least -- no longer needed, or rude/abusive as needed. Don't engage in drawn out disagreements in the comments; take the parts that are useful for improving your posts and ignore the rest (again, flagging as needed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separately, we're all volunteers here; if you simply don't get an answer, perhaps no one has an answer, or the one person who could answer it hasn't seen it yet, etc etc. My best suggestions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be patient&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;supply as much useful detail as you can that would help other people replicate your situation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;gain reputation in other ways and then attract attention to your question with a bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2023-05-30T00:04:00.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7091" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-01T02:25:40.613" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a company (e.g. a bank) changes their Terms and Conditions then they typically provide a high level summary of the changes, and then link to the complete T&amp;amp;C.  This is because it's not expected for everyone to remember every single line and read and accept the whole document from scratch; having a delta is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/conduct&quot;&gt;new CoC&lt;/a&gt; would kinda fall into the same space.  Not that I ever expect to fall foul (I will have seriously gone wrong if I do!) but having a summary of changes would be good.  Otherwise people will just glaze over the wall of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If there is a summary and I didn't see it from the banner link then please let me know and I'll delete this!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168757" LastEditorUserId="22565" LastEditDate="2023-06-01T15:13:23.813" LastActivityDate="2023-06-01T15:13:23.813" Title="Is there a summary of Code of Conduct changes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-02T19:09:33.330" Score="37" ViewCount="736" Body="&lt;p&gt;Open letter here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://openletter.mousetail.nl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://openletter.mousetail.nl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't decided what I think about this yet.&#xA;It seemed fairly apparent months ago that technical support was a prime target for ChatGPT et al., and this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a technical support WWW site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of whether this will affect this WWW site, that I &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; going to post, has already been answered; as the signatures list on the letter grew as I was writing this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this point this is more of a public service announcement than a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a whole lot more at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389742/167145&quot;&gt;Sustainability of new AI generated content policy&lt;/a&gt; and a fair number of other meta places, too, for the curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5132" LastActivityDate="2023-08-11T22:02:48.877" Title="General moderators' strike" Tags="|discussion|moderators|psa|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-02T20:05:24.890" Score="33" ViewCount="1855" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago, Stack Exchange Inc., the company running these sites, announced a new policy for handling AI content.&#xA;This policy goes against our own, local policy on how to deal with AI content, where the U&amp;amp;L community made it &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; clear that such content was not welcome: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6021/22222/&quot;&gt;How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am writing this post to make sure that the U&amp;amp;L community is aware of this new network-wide policy and to provide a place where we can discuss it and maybe decide how to handle it. The full text of the new policy can be read below, but I urge you to visit (and vote on) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389582/203101&quot;&gt;the original on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We recently performed a set of analyses on the current approach to&#xA;AI-generated content moderation. The conclusions of these analyses&#xA;strongly indicate to us that AI-generated content is not being&#xA;properly identified across the network, and that the potential for&#xA;false-positives is very high. Through no fault of moderators' own, we&#xA;also suspect that there have been biases for or against residents of&#xA;specific countries as a potential result of the heuristics being&#xA;applied to these posts. Finally, internal evidence strongly suggests&#xA;that the overapplication of suspensions for AI-generated content may&#xA;be turning away a large number of legitimate contributors to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to help mitigate the issue, we've asked moderators to apply a&#xA;very strict standard of evidence to determining whether a post is&#xA;AI-authored when deciding to suspend a user. This standard of evidence&#xA;excludes the use of moderators' best guesses based on users' writing&#xA;styles and behavioral indicators, because we could not validate that&#xA;these indicators are actually successfully identifying AI-generated&#xA;posts when they are written. This standard would exclude most&#xA;suspensions issued to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also identified that current GPT detectors have an unacceptably&#xA;high false positive rate for content on our network and should not be&#xA;regarded as reliable indicators of GPT authorship. While these aren't&#xA;the sole tools that moderators rely upon to identify AI-generated&#xA;content, some of the heuristics used have been developed with their&#xA;assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've reminded moderators that suspensions (and typically mod messages&#xA;as well) are for real, verifiable malfeasance only, and should not be&#xA;enacted on the basis of hunches, guesses, intuition, or unverified&#xA;heuristics. Therefore, we are not confident that either GPT detectors&#xA;or best-guess heuristics can be used to definitively identify&#xA;suspicious content for the purposes of suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, moderators who identify that a user has a problematic&#xA;pattern of low-quality posts should continue to act on such users as&#xA;they otherwise would. Indicators moderators currently use to determine&#xA;that a post was authored with the help of AI can in some cases form a&#xA;reliable set of indicators that the content quality may be poor, and&#xA;moderators should feel free to review posts as such. If someone is&#xA;repeatedly contributing low-quality content, we already have policies&#xA;in place to help handle it, including a suspension reason that can, in&#xA;those cases, be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2023-06-02T22:59:41.600" LastActivityDate="2023-07-04T07:09:32.173" Title="PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. have announced a network-wide policy for AI content" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7086" CreationDate="2023-06-04T08:39:42.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not designed to expose much of a Unix OS.  I think superuser.com will be the best match in many cases.  It has tags for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/chromebook&quot;&gt;chromebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome-os&quot;&gt;chrome-os&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome-os-flex&quot;&gt;chrome-os-flex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hit a limitation with the system for running &amp;quot;Linux apps&amp;quot;, maybe you'd get some lucky guesses on U&amp;amp;L, but maybe more along the lines of &amp;quot;why might this not work&amp;quot; than &amp;quot;how can I reasonably achieve my goal here&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29483" LastActivityDate="2023-06-04T08:39:42.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7093" CreationDate="2023-06-06T16:24:31.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I start by thanking you for bringing this to the community's attention.  This is a very serious matter that concerns us all.  We are all very worried about the extremely detrimental effect that AI content could have in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally am worried about the issue generally after I stumbled on a website for a supposed &amp;quot;School&amp;quot; containing thousands of articles which I believe might have been largely generated through AI content for the sake of one or perhaps a few people's CV.  This does not bode well for the future of knowledge sites like U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But Keep your powder dry...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May I urge our moderators here to exercise caution and restraint&lt;/strong&gt; on this topic. Keep your heads cool as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I acknowledge the current &amp;quot;general strike&amp;quot; happening over this matter and I realise our own moderators might have chosen to take part.  &lt;strong&gt;I would urge you not to take part in future action until, at least, some more has been made clear:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Give SE opportunity to fail&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this teaching one of the most excruciating to follow as a mentor, but it is invaluable.  Until the real impact of this policy can be directly seen combined with the [lack of] tooling SE have chosen to adopt, none of us really know the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE have asked moderators not to take action and there is open discussion that they have set a strict policy that general user base is not privy too.  What that does is to put the issue squarely in the hands of SE.  SE might well have good reason for keeping even more hidden from moderators to prevent leaks to the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be really painful to watch them fail at this, but this is really a topic where we MUST let them try [and fail] rather than not even letting them try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SE are not wrong in the [publicised] justification for this&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/6057&quot;&gt;I think our moderators here are ace!&lt;/a&gt; Really some of the best on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE have highlighted two particularly thorny issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a worryingly high number of false positives&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a real concern about racial bias&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody is calling anybody racist!  The problem is that people have used writing style as an indicator of ChatGPT content and this is absolutely prone to false positives.  ChatGPT was trained from real language after all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's really worrying about this is the idea that people who were educated by particular schools or who learned English through a particular educational system are more prone to having their content falsely flagged as AI generated... leading to a really pernicious racial bias that cannot be easily identified or controlled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The extent of this problem is not yet well understood, but at this time it's of sufficient concern that it could genuinely get big organisations sued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;There are better tools than people for this&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE have not publicised, nor are they likely to publicise, the tools they engage to begin catching AI content.  But theoretically technology is likely to be better than people at this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, we have great moderators.  But I want our moderators to spend their time moderating &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; content, not chasing down bots and those who copy-paste from ChatGPT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many features of cheats that become so much easier to spot with technology and with data that is not available even to moderators.  E.g. ChatGPT does not commonly spend time writing its posts and forming saved drafts as they go.  Click-through time between reading a question and posting sizeable answers is much lower.  The relationship between which questions appeared on screen and how many immediately got answered by that user is wholly different.  The time spent browsing questions is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Strike action hurts us all&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a gentle reminder, those who get hurt by this strike most are the user base.  Historically strike action is as likely to anger customers as much as change the minds of management... and that anger, historically, gets directed at those striking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really think our mods here on U&amp;amp;L are great.  I am genuinely worried that further action could create &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;friction&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; between users and moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't to say anyone should put up with poor treatment.  But where strikes have such a poor success rate and high collateral cost, I'd advise anyone to exhaust as many possible alternatives as you can find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;And finally&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final solution to this hellish nightmare MUST NOT be asking moderators to clean up a flood using a mop and bucket.  I really do empathise with moderators who feel so very let down by SE right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of using this strike action to demand back your shiny mod hammer, consider demanding that SE do more to implement better tools themselves that will prevent it even getting to your inbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You guys are AWESOME! Hope to see you back here soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="112566" LastEditDate="2023-07-04T07:09:32.173" LastActivityDate="2023-07-04T07:09:32.173" CommentCount="32" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7093" CreationDate="2023-06-12T02:06:48.500" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I consider the previous policy as both appropriate and existentially necessary for the future of the community. I support and encourage any moderators here in joining the general strike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I respect the right of each person to choose for themselves, I'm looking for the exit. I just don't see that there is much meaningful room for compromise here on the community side. None of us are interested in spending our time competing with, much less refining, garbage generated output - for others to claim both the credit and the profit. From what I gather that sentiment applies to the mods as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still watching for now, but I'm&#xA;already starting to move over to Codidact and see how I can contribute there. As a result, I now care more about the data dumps, so this is doubly bad timing for SE. In order for me to resume meaningfully contributing here as well, I would need to know my effort will be equally available to all in the dumps going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, because of this AI debacle, I trust SE significantly less than before. Because I trust them less, the dumps are more vital consideration for my participation than ever before. Thus unless they reverse course on both issues, I will probably, finally, fade away from here entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, best of luck to all those working to resolve the situation with SE, and I remain grateful to everyone who has contributed to this wonderful community resource over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160045" LastEditorUserId="160045" LastEditDate="2023-06-12T02:18:02.533" LastActivityDate="2023-06-12T02:18:02.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-14T08:53:00.243" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I'm using MacOS I cannot ask about front-end applications (&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend application questions)&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I'm using Linux/UNIX then I can ask about them (&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions (note: being cross-platform does not disqualify)&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming I've read and understood it correctly, why the differentiation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can ask about LibreOffice and Firefox, even if the question is not specifically relevant to the UNIX/Linux port, but only if I'm running in on UNIX/Linux (specifically not on MacOS).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I cannot ask about using Facetime or Garageband.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it simply because there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;AskDifferent&lt;/a&gt; and MacOS questions should be pushed that way? And if so, perhaps it could/should be referenced from the FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2023-06-20T08:39:35.113" Title="Applications are off topic for MacOS but ontopic for UNIX" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7097" CreationDate="2023-06-17T18:55:23.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The page in question says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; frontend application questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[…]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Applications packaged in *nix distributions &lt;em&gt;(note: being &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/97/29&quot;&gt;cross-platform does not disqualify&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t read this quite as strictly as you: to me, it seems that any application packaged in *nix distributions is a valid topic, regardless of the platform, within the limits set in the first sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix and Linux Stack Exchange is for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a question on LibreOffice, asked by a macOS user, could be on-topic: it is asked by a user of a Un*x-like operating system, about an application which is packaged in *nix distributions. As far as I’m concerned, it would only be off-topic if it was about macOS-specific aspects of LibreOffice (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt; “Why don’t my LibreOffice files open in LibreOffice on macOS?”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you surmise, the likelihood that a given question will find an answer probably plays a part in the “on-topic” lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most macOS “frontend” applications are platform-specific, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_(API)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cocoa&lt;/a&gt; applications, and are unlikely to be familiar to users of other Unix-like systems. As you mention, Stack Exchange has another site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Different&lt;/a&gt;, where such questions are more likely to find useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to Android: while it’s based on the Linux kernel, its applications are mostly quite different from those found on typical Unix-like desktops. Stack Exchange has yet another site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://android.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Android Enthusiasts&lt;/a&gt;, where such questions are more likely to find useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, questions specifically about Ubuntu, for example questions about the upgrade process from one release to another, are better off asked on &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;; but that’s a special case, explicitly addressed in the help page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all this, it does seem useful to point users directly to the relevant sites in the help page. (I do note however that there doesn’t seem to be much confusion; at least, it’s unusual for a question to be migrated to Android.SE, and even more so to Ask Different.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2023-06-17T18:55:23.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7097" CreationDate="2023-06-20T08:39:35.113" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it simply because there is AskDifferent and MacOS questions should be pushed that way? And if so, perhaps it could/should be referenced from the FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might not be a bad idea to reference AskDifferent in the FAQ but I don't believe that's the primary reason. I've read elsewhere on meta.stackexchange.com multiple times that sites generally should not define their scope based on the scope of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, it's much easier to explain in terms of communities or readership. That is the scope is based on &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; U&amp;amp;L is for than &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; it's for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unix and linux distributions have a very large set of overlapping software, and consequently their users have a very large overlap in skills and knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An experienced user of Ubuntu is likely to be able to jump onto a Centos server, or a FreeBSD laptop, or even an AIX server and get things done.  They are close enough and many / most differences are a short google search away.  So asking questions around any of those OS are likely to fall cleanly within the knowledge and interest of the readership here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's largely based on those distributions comprising of a similar set of open source tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this leads to two major exceptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Android (Linux)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MacOS (BSD)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these lean heavily on the same set of open source tools, not just the respective kernels.  So you may well get a good answer asking about a ZSH on MacOS question or an OpenOffice question here because the U&amp;amp;L community have experience in those tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However both Android and MacOS have their own individual platform  built on-top of the open source tools.  Amongst other things the platform includes the GUI and heavily customised configuration.  So the U&amp;amp;L community are much less likely to have specialist knowledge of those aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2023-06-20T08:39:35.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7103" CreationDate="2023-06-20T11:57:15.633" Score="7" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/431362&quot;&gt;this edit suggestion&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/294805/kali-linux-inverted-scroll-direction&quot;&gt;link to Q/A&lt;/a&gt;) and removed the trailing question &amp;quot;Could anybody help me?&amp;quot; as I thought it improved the quality of the question a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did find &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3018/318461&quot;&gt;this guidance on the meta site&lt;/a&gt; and more on the main SO meta, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/302193/what-should-i-put-in-the-edit-summary-when-removing-noise&quot;&gt;has some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260776/should-i-remove-fluff-when-editing-questions&quot;&gt;references&lt;/a&gt; which include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely remove [fluff].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that is not relevant to the question/post is noise and should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That includes salutations, signatures, 'thanks' and the kind of content you have highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supposing, that this also applies to U&amp;amp;L, it should have been correct to remove (or else I would expect to get &amp;quot;edit was not helpful&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now two experienced reviewers both concluded&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does it change the real content/intent (so the question)? I would not even consider my edit drastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is the review just inaccurate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="318461" LastEditorUserId="318461" LastEditDate="2023-06-26T06:21:21.080" LastActivityDate="2023-06-26T06:21:21.080" Title="Is it noise to ask &quot;Could anybody help me?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|editing|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7100" CreationDate="2023-06-20T14:34:36.903" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly believe any post published as a question should contain an actual explicit question. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5788/108618#comment11634_5788&quot;&gt;Personally I prefer it in the body&lt;/a&gt;, but if it's only in the title then it's not that bad either. Having no question at all is bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO removing the only question from a question (from a post, i.e. body+title) makes the question (i.e. the entire post) worse. I acknowledge that &amp;quot;could anybody help me?&amp;quot; is an awful question to ask as the only question. The answer is either &amp;quot;yes, somebody can&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;no, nobody can&amp;quot;, not constructive. I don't think these are answers the OP hoped for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If in the post there was a better question along this awful one, then I would totally support removing the awful one because it's indeed fluff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since it's the only question in the post, removing it would turn the post from a question into a story. This is a Q&amp;amp;A site, we want questions to be questions. Several times I commented under various &amp;quot;questions&amp;quot; like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your &amp;quot;question&amp;quot; is just a story, not a question. Please edit and ask an explicit question. It may be &amp;quot;…?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;…?&amp;quot;, they are not equivalent and demand different answers; or it may be something else. Don't let us guess what your question is, ask explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your edit was accepted and I saw the result, I might be tempted to post a similar comment. It would be unfair to the owner of the question, because he or she &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; originally ask a question; an awful one, but still. The &amp;quot;question&amp;quot; not containing a question would be your fault, not the owner's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing &amp;quot;could anybody help me?&amp;quot; I may ask the owner to formulate a better question. This is fair because the awfulness of the original question is the owner's fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I think your edit would not &amp;quot;preserve the goals of the post's owner&amp;quot;, it would make the post worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post should be improved by &lt;em&gt;replacing&lt;/em&gt; this &amp;quot;could anybody help me?&amp;quot; fluff with a substantial, technical, specific, explicit question, &lt;em&gt;not just by removing it&lt;/em&gt;. Ideally the owner should do this, but if you think you know what the owner's unwritten explicit question is, and if you think it's obvious enough so reviewers will agree with you, then you can replace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it won't be just &amp;quot;removing noise&amp;quot; (with a side effect of turning the question into a story, so making it worse); it will be &amp;quot;improving the explicit question&amp;quot; from a cliché to a specific one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the reviewers who rejected your edit did this because they think like me. My answer to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it noise to ask &amp;quot;Could anybody help me?&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is: yes, usually; but not always fully. The content is noise, but the form may be something that matters. In some cases removing it may make the post worse. I believe this was such case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always try to improve a post as a whole. Any question or answer should &amp;quot;sound&amp;quot; neat as a whole. A phrase that is usually noise should get your attention as a candidate for removal, but do not remove it blindly, consider a broader picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108618" LastEditorUserId="108618" LastEditDate="2023-06-20T15:16:12.930" LastActivityDate="2023-06-20T15:16:12.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-20T18:15:03.293" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to find out why I don't get the &lt;code&gt;Curious&lt;/code&gt; badge on &lt;code&gt;U&amp;amp;L&lt;/code&gt; with asking a question on 13 of 5 days needed (according to the text in the &amp;quot;badge text field&amp;quot;). It seems to depend on the &amp;quot;maintained a positive question record&amp;quot; part in my case.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I'd like to see how far I'm away from this positive record. Is there a way to get to know about my own statistics of the site, specifically where to find this record?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154403" LastEditorUserId="154403" LastEditDate="2023-06-20T19:03:41.830" LastActivityDate="2023-06-23T13:52:24.753" Title="Where to find the user's statistics of one's own?" Tags="|support|badges|statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7100" CreationDate="2023-06-20T20:02:32.967" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it very hard to read &amp;quot;can anyone help me&amp;quot; as anything but noise. I just don't see that it adds any value or justifies the post's existence in any way. As a request it's implied by simply posting a &amp;quot;question&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a long standing convention in &amp;quot;hacker&amp;quot; circles predating stackoverflow, which suggests &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#prune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;such requests should be removed&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?” or “Is there an answer?” First: if you've written your problem description halfway competently, such tacked-on questions are at best superfluous. Second: because they are superfluous, hackers find them annoying — and are likely to return logically impeccable but dismissive answers like “Yes, you can be helped” and “No, there is no help for you.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I count myself as one of those who find such &amp;quot;semantically-null questions&amp;quot; annoying, but I try to hold back because I fear making those edits can sometimes conflict with StackExchange's &amp;quot;Be Kind&amp;quot; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not in the game of second guessing other reviewers so I can't comment on their decision making here, but personally I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have allowed this edit through if I'd seen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was the one making the edit I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have have chosen to replace it with an actual question, mostly for the aesthetics of finishing a &amp;quot;question&amp;quot; post with the actual question. Though I'd be on the fence over exact wording because I'm not sure &amp;quot;uninvert&amp;quot; is a real word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding other another answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly believe any post published as a question should contain an actual explicit question. Personally I prefer it in the body, but if it's only in the title then it's not that bad either. Having no question at all is bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually disagree with the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;application&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of this statement here.  To me the correct requirement is that a post published as a question must make clear the desired outcome of the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts just stating &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;my screen is blank&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; would rightly draw comments that a question was required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But otherwise a statement of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;no matter what I try, I can't get anything on my screen, it's just blank&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; makes the desired outcome very clear. Asking a user to add a question to that would, IMHO, just be somewhat trollish pedantry that's not really helping anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I acknowledge that &amp;quot;could anybody help me?&amp;quot; is an awful question to ask as the only question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not just awful it's off-topic.  The user's ability to help is most definitely not within the scope of U&amp;amp;L and, as a question, would be better placed on unix.meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the question to remain on-topic we must we must accept that it's not actually a question at all. It's a plea for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2023-06-21T22:49:03.540" LastActivityDate="2023-06-21T22:49:03.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-21T15:15:27.773" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found out that there are badges, e. g. the &lt;code&gt;Autobiographer&lt;/code&gt; which can be awarded for a site if the condition for it was fulfilled on another SE site.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Every time I join a new SE site, I directly get some reputation because &amp;quot;You've earned a bonus of 100 reputation because we trust you on other sites in the network&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Are there other badges or sources of reputation a user can get on one SE site because he did something on another SE site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154403" LastActivityDate="2023-06-21T17:44:14.677" Title="To what extent the badges or reputation are transmitted from one SE site to another?" Tags="|support|reputation|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7104" CreationDate="2023-06-21T17:44:14.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, only the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;association bonus&lt;/a&gt; has a cross-site effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are an experienced Stack Exchange network user with 200 or more reputation on at least one site, you will receive a starting +100 reputation bonus to get you past basic new user restrictions. This will happen automatically on all current Stack Exchange sites where you have an account, and on any other Stack Exchange sites at the time you log in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that if you have 200 rep on one site, then you know the basic rules about how the sites work and shouldn't need to get 50rep on the new site to be able to comment, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;Badges&lt;/a&gt; are completely separate and are per-site only. You can get the same badge on multiple sites, but you'll need to meet the badge's criteria on each site to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-06-21T17:44:14.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7102" CreationDate="2023-06-23T13:52:24.753" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see how far I'm away from this positive record. Is there a way to get to know about my own statistics of the site, specifically where to find this record?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of today, that statistic is not listed explicitly on your profile. You can compute the number yourself, based on the formula given in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/234259/asking-days-badges&quot;&gt;Asking days badges&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &amp;gt;= 0.5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use this link to get to your (main U&amp;amp;L, not Meta) profile:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=questions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=questions&lt;/a&gt; and then count up the corresponding negatively-scored, closed, and deleted (link at the bottom) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2023-06-23T13:52:24.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-03T15:57:51.113" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just registered and tried to find a search feature so I would not ask a duplicate question but did not find such a feature. I went to the help feature but it only searched in help and the create question feature did list some possible questions but I am asking if there is a full featured search for already created questions on particular subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="577918" OwnerDisplayName="rick stag" LastActivityDate="2023-07-03T16:22:38.143" Title="Does the Unix &amp; Linux Stack Exchange have a search feature to look for previous questions on a subject" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2023-07-03T16:00:16.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the top of the screen, there’s a big text field which says “Search on Unix &amp;amp; Linux…”: type your search query there, and press &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBoC6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBoC6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of this question, showing the search field&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" OwnerDisplayName="Stephen Kitt" LastActivityDate="2023-07-03T16:00:16.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-18T13:39:42.193" Score="0" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would upload a pic showing the problem.  But I can't.  Seems like I have never been able to.&#xA;When I try to, I get &lt;strong&gt;An error occurred when uploading the image: Forbidden&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;What's the deal, is it forbidden in all around if so why offer it, or is it just me that's forbidden if so why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154426" LastActivityDate="2023-09-03T16:49:22.983" Title="why can't I include a picture, why do I an error occurred. forbidden?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7113" CreationDate="2023-07-23T16:26:06.313" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the &amp;quot;Middle Sidebar Advertising&amp;quot; page removed? Please undelete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any valid reason to delete it, but if there is one please enlighten me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7081/middle-sidebar-advertising&quot;&gt;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7081/middle-sidebar-advertising&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The archive.org version is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20230602052007/https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7081/middle-sidebar-advertising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://web.archive.org/web/20230602052007/https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7081/middle-sidebar-advertising&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user569706" LastActivityDate="2023-07-24T23:43:28.867" Title="Why was the &quot;Middle Sidebar Advertising&quot; page removed? Please undelete it" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7112" CreationDate="2023-07-24T23:43:28.867" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Believe it or not, it was deleted by SE, not us. They have a clean-up script which deletes poorly received posts with no recent activity, and that's what acted here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mO5Lw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mO5Lw.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is hidden. It was automatically &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/help/auto-deleted-questions&quot;&gt;deleted&lt;/a&gt; last month by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; (Bot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2023-07-24T23:43:28.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-03T04:06:57.267" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often encounter the following problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1wxXe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1wxXe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link under &amp;quot;Retry Using Another Source&amp;quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/home/get-jquery-fallback-cookie&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/home/get-jquery-fallback-cookie&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;That solves the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;after a few days without visiting the website, I encounter the same problem again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The setting isn't set for all the sites of StackExchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there solutions to the above two problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2023-08-03T09:59:24.730" Title="Permanent and SE-wide solutions to &quot;Retry Using Another Source&quot;?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-04T10:00:40.660" Score="4" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early times I had not enough reputation to have my questions going through directly, I remember having been very grateful to those who had took time to review them, this enabling my questions to go through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holidays ? Moderators on strike ? Else ? Nevermind.&#xA;I tried my best these two last days and discovered that some were waiting for 5 days and the span of my skills is not large enough for me to juge all. Not to say that my contribution is only worth for a fifth of the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, please, remember our beginnings and kindly review a couple of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastActivityDate="2023-08-04T10:00:40.660" Title="Kind &amp;Humble request to all : Please don't forget reviewing &quot;First questions&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-05T20:50:02.143" Score="0" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to omit venting my frustration with the entire SE-verse here and just ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a question.  The only responses to it were from people that had not read the question.  Decided the annoyance of the notifications outweighed the value to me in keeping the question around.  Tried to delete it.  System says that it cannot be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I suppose that's fair, but I should be allowed to ignore it and stop being notified.  Is that possible?  If not, why not?  Do I just have to delete my account in order to disassociate myself from the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72132" LastActivityDate="2023-08-05T20:50:02.143" Title="How to stop being notified by my un-deletable question" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-08T22:29:28.180" Score="19" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the usability on the voting buttons has gone down since the new round buttons were put in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to upvote a question today and was told I'd already done so. Looking again it's clear there's a difference between the buttons. But that first glance, to someone not so familiar with the site layout, could use some work IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2WeMW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2WeMWt.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the offending buttons&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with the same UI on Meta, where it's immediately obvious a vote has been cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QGaqm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QGaqmt.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of a more obvious button&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it needs to go that far, but lightly filling in the circle would be an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not tagging this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-bug-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; because it's a subjective thing, maybe I'm wrong. ‍♂️&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how much leeway the sites have with the new design rules either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73390" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2023-08-12T18:45:40.787" LastActivityDate="2023-08-12T18:45:40.787" Title="Low contrast between voted-on and not-voted-on buttons" Tags="|discussion|bug|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7092" CreationDate="2023-08-11T22:02:48.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This strike effort seems to have come to an end: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/392032/moderation-strike-conclusion-and-the-way-forward&quot;&gt;Moderation strike: Conclusion and the way forward&lt;/a&gt;, which points out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, each individual will have to decide for themselves if the result is satisfactory enough to stop striking on an individual level; the coordinated call to strike has ended, but nobody involved has the authority to bind any individual into striking or not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2023-08-11T22:02:48.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7117" CreationDate="2023-08-12T08:32:24.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389359/we-are-graduating-the-updated-button-styling-for-vote-arrows&quot;&gt;was discussed on the stackexchange meta&lt;/a&gt;, and it was generally agreed that the new design is less accessible, due to low contrast among other reasons. However, the design will stay this way, apparently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can use a user stylesheet to revert it back: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389568/655681&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389568/655681&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="279643" LastActivityDate="2023-08-12T08:32:24.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-16T11:10:44.670" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to post in chatroom without entering? For example, by sending some requests using web api? Some javascript library required for logging into the chatroom has not been loadable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2023-08-16T13:06:50.793" LastActivityDate="2023-08-28T18:51:52.617" Title="Is it possible to post in chatroom without entering?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2023-08-16T12:03:10.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't expect chat to work without being logged in, based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat&quot;&gt;requirement to have 20 reputation points&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re: your update of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;by sending some requests using web api&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, I have looked at only one (Java-based) SE chat API client, and it required a login, but that particular one uses a plain text file, so that might avoid your JavaScript issue. I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it was from &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Tunaki/chatexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://github.com/Tunaki/chatexchange&lt;/a&gt; but I don't have a way of confirming at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-08-17T18:07:41.223" LastActivityDate="2023-08-17T18:07:41.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7126" CreationDate="2023-08-24T09:41:01.573" Score="9" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to start writing a tag wiki for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lock&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-lock-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;lock&lt;/a&gt; tag in the sense of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(computer_science)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mechanism to prevent concurrent access to resources or to synchronize threads&lt;/a&gt; when I realized that the tag usage has now proliferated to cover questions concerning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;preventing concurrent access to a shared resource, e.g. via lockfiles and the like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;locking access to an unattended computer (where &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen-lock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen-lock&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen-lock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-screen-lock-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;screen-lock&lt;/a&gt; seems more appropriate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;situation in which a computer or program becomes unresponsive (where &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freeze&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freeze&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freeze&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-freeze-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;freeze&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hang&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hang&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hang&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-hang-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;hang&lt;/a&gt; seem more appropriate - and I actually propose to consider these two synonyms of each other)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question is: what should we do about this tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the following options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enforcing use for one of the three most common uses, where the meaning of access serialization or thread synchronization seems to be the most appropriate. Questions that use the tag in a different way need to be re-tagged when encountered. This is the cleanest, but also the most tedious.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Defining the scope of the tag to apply to all of the disjoint subjects mentioned above, and leave the questions as they are. This is the easiest (since &amp;quot;nothing&amp;quot; needs to be done), but doesn't help in categorizing questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A hybrid approach, where the scope of the tag encompasses the two most common use-cases. All other uses are discouraged, and those questions that still fall outside need to be re-tagged if found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="377345" LastEditorUserId="377345" LastEditDate="2023-09-04T12:23:43.960" LastActivityDate="2023-09-05T21:12:22.410" Title="Harmonizing use of locking-related tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7110" CreationDate="2023-08-27T13:39:25.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;remembered to try and post a pic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4oXxT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4oXxT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;works on my home pc, firefox 116.0.3&#xA;gotta be some restriction at work.&#xA;you can close this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154426" LastActivityDate="2023-08-27T13:39:25.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2023-08-28T18:51:52.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Stack Exchange requires logins for the ability to use our chat rooms.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat doesn't allow for anonymous participation. To make posts in the chat room you must enter the room itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="537852" LastActivityDate="2023-08-28T18:51:52.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4731" CreationDate="2023-08-31T13:45:34.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to expand on &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4732/20140&quot;&gt;Jasonwryan's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always make it absolutely clear what was written by you and what was copy pasted. It's a very good idea to do all of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;put copy paste content in a quote block&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;include a link to the original. Consider using a perma-link if the website supports it (like GitHub and Wikipedia)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include a short text description of the origin (eg: &amp;quot;from acme corp's blog on date...&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is absolutely fine to use source material as the body of your answer. I've seen a small but significant number of well received answers be little more than a copy paste.  But these are rare because the question and topic of the original content are so rarely identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, such answers also should come with at least a few sentences from the answerer on why the passage relates to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote this in part because the other thing you should generally not do is mention sources with a link but not explain them or mention their content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is it is &lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt; to copy paste some content from cited sources into quote blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The danger is the link will go bad, the blog gets deleted etc. and so the answer becomes worthless. If it includes salient quotes from the linked material, then the answer can survive the loss of the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2023-09-02T04:21:54.467" LastActivityDate="2023-09-02T04:21:54.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7122" CreationDate="2023-08-31T17:47:38.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions using &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lock&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-lock-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;lock&lt;/a&gt; to mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/freeze&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freeze&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;freeze&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-freeze-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;freeze&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hang&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hang&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hang&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-hang-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;hang&lt;/a&gt; should just be retagged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ditto for use cases where &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen-lock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen-lock&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen-lock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-screen-lock-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;screen-lock&lt;/a&gt; would work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write your usage guidance the way you were originally planning; that does seem to be by far the most common usage for this tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a handful of questions about locking as in preventing access, which can probably fit under &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lock&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-lock-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;lock&lt;/a&gt; as I can't think of a better tag.  E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/78182/135943&quot;&gt;How to lock users after 5 unsuccessful login tries?&lt;/a&gt;. This isn't about screen locks and isn't about freezes or hangs, so I think locks is fine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible tag usage guidance: Preventing concurrent access to resources, synchronizing threads, or preventing any access to a resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135943" LastActivityDate="2023-08-31T17:47:38.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7127" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-02T04:08:11.727" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm rather tired of barking at users not to post text as images.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4086/psa-please-dont-post-images-of-text&quot;&gt;We all know the reasons why not to do this.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the community minded spirit, I wonder if anyone knows a reliable OCR tool that could be used to transcribe screenshots, if not photos as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally I like the approach of Stack Exchange of letting us edit someone else's question so the we can fix the problem instead of moaning at new users all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, the most dedicated users kindly do this manually, but it would be nice if it wasn't so time consuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually this would make a pretty good feature request,&#xA;but I doubt SE will have any appetite to implement it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one of the more tricky issues here is finding an OCR tool designed for technical use that understands fixed width spacing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an ideal world this should be able to maintain indentation, which many OCR tools are not designed to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2023-09-06T02:45:29.763" LastActivityDate="2023-09-11T03:43:26.737" Title="Does anyone know a good OCR tool online that we can use for screenshots?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-02T16:37:33.897" Score="2" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been reviewing more close votes recently.  There's been certain trend of a few questions being impossible to review correctly to my mind, and I wanted to ask if there's a community view on how to handle them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I call them &amp;quot;impossible to review correctly&amp;quot; because the decision to close them very much depends on knowing the correct answer and the reason for closure is &amp;quot;doesn't belong on this site&amp;quot; meaning I very likely don't!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They all involve Linux and MS Windows interacting in some way.  Depending on the answer, the question might be about something in MS Windows, or it might be about something in Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example 1&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/754895/pinging-ipv4-addresses-works-while-ipv6-doesnt-kali-linux&quot;&gt;Pinging ipv4 addresses works while ipv6 doesn&amp;#39;t - Kali Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is about packet loss on a Linux guest Virtual Machine on a Windows 11 Host.  Networking is &amp;quot;bridge mode&amp;quot; meaning the host hypervisor &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt; emits packets from the VM with it's own mac address and IP and identifies incoming packets, routing them into the VM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/754895/pinging-ipv4-addresses-works-while-ipv6-doesnt-kali-linux#comment1437233_754895&quot;&gt;Tom Yan's Comment&lt;/a&gt; is very pertinent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that WiFi client is not designed to support to be bridged. It could be that VirtualBox only implemented workaround for IPv4 to work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no knowledge if this is true or not, frankly I'm skeptical, but as a reviewer I couldn't be sure.  What's more, this would be a detail about how Virtualbox Bridge networking behaves on MS Windows.  That's totally outside my sphere of knowledge and way off topic for this site.  So while there might hypothetically be someone here who could answer it, it's not reasonable for us to expect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;FYI I voted to close because I think it needs a lot more detail to be sure of an answer if it is a Linux problem.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example 2&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/755531/linux-groups-administration-tables&quot;&gt;Linux Groups - administration tables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is about linux behaviour on the face of it.  But it's Linux interacting with a remote Active Directory server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/755531/linux-groups-administration-tables#comment1438899_755531&quot;&gt;Stephen Harris wrote&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're using VAS which is an AD bridge solution and it can (and will) cache results. What you're seeing is how VAS works. Talk to the software vendor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's not totally clear is the extent to which this is about the behaviour of software running on Linux vs the behaviour of a Windows server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On balance I voted to leave open and leave a vague enough answer based on what I understand might help the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So what to do?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find myself stuck between:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Either we leave questions open because there is &amp;quot;reasonable doubt&amp;quot; that they might still be about software running on Linux.  This might be seen by some as &amp;quot;cluttering up&amp;quot; U&amp;amp;L with non-Linux questions.  But at least it doesn't ask people to review questions based on details well outside their sphere of expertise.  It keeps the review focussed on the question and not potential answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We slam closed questions because we suspect the might not be about linux, but we can't be sure.  Personally I don't like this idea, I don't see it as actually positive.  But it might sooth some people's OCD.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We skip any question we're not sure about for such grounds, in which case such questions may remain open because there's simply nobody who knows the answer and so not 5 people to close the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly I'm not quite sure how to proceed with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2023-10-26T13:36:50.357" Title="Should we close questions because they only MIGHT be caused by MS Windows?" Tags="|discussion|close-reasons|vote-to-close|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7110" CreationDate="2023-09-03T16:49:22.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the network you are using is blocking Imgur. This is pretty common with &amp;quot;category/tag-based&amp;quot; site filters (I'm not sure what the proper term is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According a few &amp;quot;URL Category Checkers&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cyren.com/security-center/url-category-check-gate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cyren&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://tools.zvelo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;zveloLIVE&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://urlfiltering.paloaltonetworks.com/query/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paloalto&lt;/a&gt;) I found Imgur is categorized as &amp;quot;Image Sharing&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Photo Sharing&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Online-Storage-and-Backup&amp;quot; respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be several reasons why these categories are blocked. Some may include wanting to block the sharing of files, or these categories being a subset of &amp;quot;Social Media&amp;quot;. The latter reason is kind of half-true because Imgur can be used that way despite mostly being used for image hosting, though I don't know what anyone would want to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, that seems to be the most likely reason since you are able to access StackExchange but not upload pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="462014" LastActivityDate="2023-09-03T16:49:22.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7128" CreationDate="2023-09-04T10:24:27.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rule of thumb is: if in doubt, skip. So if you are not sure it is off topic, just skip it. That's absolutely fine. Only vote to close if you are sure that the question is off topic. If you are not sure, just skip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, we should err on the side of keeping questions, not closing them. Our objective is to answer questions, so we should only close when we know for sure that the question isn't a good fit for the site. Yes, this could leave &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; questions on the site, but keeping a &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; question is better than losing a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-09-04T10:24:27.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7122" CreationDate="2023-09-05T21:12:22.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to consider is that regardless of 100% perfect cleanup now, &lt;code&gt;lock&lt;/code&gt; is such a generic term that if there continues to exist a tag named just &lt;code&gt;lock&lt;/code&gt; the current situation is guaranteed to re-appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe lock the current &lt;code&gt;lock&lt;/code&gt; tag to prevent new questions tagged with this (if this is possible?) and re-tag &lt;code&gt;resource-lock&lt;/code&gt; for the first bullet point cases. That way it will be simple to review not yet reviewed cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4422" LastActivityDate="2023-09-05T21:12:22.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-06T01:09:45.173" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm finding it pretty hard to see at a glance, whether I've voted here or not.  On other sites, it's not so bad, but the dark blue theme color for &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; is especially close to the dark grey of not having voted.  That leaves only a very thing, 1px wide circle as an indicator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been a member here for over 8 years and on SE network even longer and never had the current issue of continually clicking to vote, only to be told that I've done so already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please get a theme tweak or something on this site to help with the button contrast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102202" LastActivityDate="2023-09-06T01:09:45.173" Title="Voting button contrast" Tags="|feature-request|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-17T07:45:33.837" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The options under a post are all various reasons to close a post. Is there no option to not close a post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the review queue the only place to cast a vote to not close a post? Is there no way to find a post in the review queue, and is it possible that the post may not even appear in the queue for reviewing, which makes it impossible to cast a vote to not close it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can casting a vote to not close a specific post be made as easy as to close it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2023-09-19T13:31:28.673" Title="Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it?" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7134" CreationDate="2023-09-19T13:31:28.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there no way to find a post in the review queue[?]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This used to be possible from the post timeline, but now the review item only appears in the timeline after it's completed. I think this was done to combat close/reopen wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the review queue the only place to cast a vote to not close a post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current mechanism is that &amp;quot;voting to leave open&amp;quot; only has one effect: if there are a sufficient number of such votes, the post is removed from the close review queue. That's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the post is removed from the queue, it can end up closed if a sufficient number do so from the post itself. A vote to leave open does not negate somebody else's vote to close. (I think making it cancel out a vote to close is a declined feature request somewhere on Meta Stack Exchange, but I'm too lazy to look it up now.) As such, the only place where it makes sense to be available is in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2023-09-19T13:31:28.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-09-22T15:06:42.693" Score="8" ViewCount="553" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of you may have seen the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/64436335#64436335&quot;&gt;Meta feed message in /dev/chat&lt;/a&gt;, but for those who haven't: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/393127/if-more-users-could-vote-would-they-engage-more-testing-1-reputation-voting-on&quot;&gt;If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not in a position to summarize the pros &amp;amp; cons of this change, so I'd encourage you to read the linked post for a better understanding. It sounds like this would be a &amp;quot;permanent&amp;quot; change, unless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... we see evidence they're causing negative impacts that we can't address quickly by making changes to tooling or automations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting here to get this community's feedback because I think we're an &amp;quot;established, larger site&amp;quot; and so we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be a good candidate; however, SE has not reached out to us directly, so I might be mistaken!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For background, the current requirements are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;Vote up&lt;/a&gt;: 15 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;Vote down&lt;/a&gt;: 125 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your &amp;quot;yea&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;nay&amp;quot; perspectives on this change as Answers below; thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-10-03T18:40:58.797" LastActivityDate="2023-10-08T11:51:24.933" Title="Should U&amp;L participate in the &quot;1 reputation voting&quot; change?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2023-09-22T15:43:05.480" Score="20" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think this is a horrible idea, one that will not help increase participation but that will instead increase vote fraud and decrease the value of the votes we have. My vote is that no, we do not want to be the guinea pigs for this, I cannot see any way that it would be beneficial and I can see many ways that it would be harmful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Please note that I am posting this in my capacity as a regular user of U&amp;amp;L, not as a moderator. If people disagree, have different opinions, please post an answer!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-09-22T15:43:05.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2023-09-22T17:21:18.000" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because I can remember &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/602551/what-is-the-point-of-the-kernel-reserving-config-x86-reserve-low-memory-for-the&quot;&gt;the first question I have asked here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I had received what I considered being a great answer and was just &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/602551/what-is-the-point-of-the-kernel-reserving-config-x86-reserve-low-memory-for-the#comment1124248_602556&quot;&gt;feeling sad not being capable to reward its author because of my, at that time, close to null reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because I have the opinion that the capability of voting should not be based on reputation :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As a matter of fact, everybody agrees on the fact that some reputation earned on whatever SE site is (rightly) not transferable on another SE site.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;v.g : if I get enough reputation to vote on U&amp;amp;L_SE Q&amp;amp;As, this capability is (rightly) not transferable anywhere else.&#xA;In these conditions why would X Kudos earned by any contributor by answering only to bash related questions (no disrespect meant) enable this contributor to vote on kernel related questions ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is this actually coherent ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because if being able to vote sooner would at the end of the day not have increased my motivation to participate here, it possibly could decrease the willingness of some Kudos-addict (no disrespect meant) to answer questions from OPs displaying not enough reputation to vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2023-09-22T20:42:49.920" LastActivityDate="2023-09-22T20:42:49.920" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2023-09-22T18:56:25.537" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is a privilege that is earned by &lt;em&gt;positive contribution&lt;/em&gt; to the site through posing well-written and interesting questions, through writing clear and well-supported answers, or by helping out by editing questions and answers in such a way that they become &amp;quot;better&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By removing the threshold to voting, I believe that we would see many more instances of &lt;em&gt;voting fraud&lt;/em&gt; (sock-puppet voting, voting rings). Users who have earned an amount of reputation are more likely to understand the importance of fair and unbiased voting, as they've likely received both up and down votes themselves. Maintaining a reputation threshold helps in preventing gaming of the voting system, while removing the threshold may lead to &lt;em&gt;instability and conflict&lt;/em&gt;, and to much more work for the moderation team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also strongly believe that a user that earns the privilege to vote is more aware of the &lt;em&gt;responsibility&lt;/em&gt; that this privilege brings (they have been on the receiving end of both up and down votes), than a user that is much newer to the site. They are more likely to vote responsibly, considering the quality and relevance of content. Removing the threshold might lead to more &lt;em&gt;casual or uninformed voting&lt;/em&gt;, which could affect the &lt;em&gt;overall quality&lt;/em&gt; of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2023-09-23T12:01:54.533" LastActivityDate="2023-09-23T12:01:54.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2023-09-25T11:06:11.377" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The form this is being suggested in wouldn't be good here. I've already seen too much evidence of sock-puppet voting as it is, opening it up so that people can create many sock puppet's too easily would be destructive.  Smart people can already dodge the detection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Iff SE cannot catch the ChatGPT answers themselves, without moderator intervention, then they've got no chance of developing a dashboard that can help moderators catch sock-puppet voting under a +1 rep voting system.  The latter &lt;strong&gt;much&lt;/strong&gt; harder to achieve computationally with much less information available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's only one way I'd consider seeing this would be if the +1 rep user score was a wholly separate score from the main score.  Hypothetically this could show some interesting information about answers and questions in parallel to the way &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt; has both a &amp;quot;Critic's Score&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Audience Score&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But +1 rep users shouldn't be handing out rep to other users.  Nor should their input be changing the order of answers presented on a page.  Either of those things would be a recipe for disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastActivityDate="2023-09-25T11:06:11.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2023-09-28T12:25:10.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not directly, no&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to work at an organisation where IT staff regularly benefitted from the expertise on the Stack websites (including this one, U&amp;amp;L). However, the staff generally didn't log in - and may have not even had accounts, I don't know. As a result there was no trivially easy opportunity for them to say thanks for useful solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having read other answers to this question my overall feeling is that two approaches could be better than that now being offered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Require users to log in to see answers. There are various ways of implementing this, such as giving one or two answers a week/month without authentication but then locking down. However, although this approach is taken by some subscription sites, I don't believe this is wanted by the community or the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provide two different vote values. Community members get the same voting privileges as now (it's easy to vote up but you need a little more time before you can vote down). People who have not logged in, or those who have logged in but without a sufficient score, can vote up a different score value. (This display value would be shown alongside but separate to the main score.) Create a &amp;quot;Did you find this useful [Yes] [No]&amp;quot; banner at the bottom of each question and answer that allows someone to respond trivially without needing to scroll back up to the existing voting buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? I'm curious to know how many people find (my) answers helpful. I have answers with X-thousand views but only three or four votes. Is the answer wrong or is the barrier to saying &amp;quot;thanks&amp;quot; too big? I don't believe either, but it would surely be interesting to provide a &lt;em&gt;really easy&lt;/em&gt; way for someone to acknowledge an answer was helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2023-09-28T12:25:10.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2023-10-05T04:34:29.503" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I think this is a bad idea. I used Stack Exchange for a while without even a user account and was perfectly happy with being unable to vote. Even if it doesn't result in mayhem, it wouldn't be particularly useful in my opinion, and more than likely it's going to result in at least trouble, maybe big trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One concern I've not seen raised is that, the fact that SE announced publicly that they wanted to test 1-reputation voting means that every spammer and their brother is going to be ready to wreak havoc the day the change goes into effect. This would have been better IMO if it had been revealed only to moderators, not the whole entire Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="535873" LastActivityDate="2023-10-05T04:34:29.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-08T00:37:10.253" Score="-10" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a question shut down because someone doesn't like people to have a discussion.  Anyone else encounter such a poor attitude here ?  Is this indicative of the atmosphere one might expect here ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="587908" OwnerDisplayName="CCM" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-10-08T08:15:35.463" LastActivityDate="2023-10-08T10:31:29.337" Title="Are all the mods on Unix&amp;Linux such dictators?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2023-10-08T08:14:49.163" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for bringing up your issue on the Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have located the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; that you wrote.  It was posted containing a question about one of the other answers to the same question (unsure which one), and since it wasn't attempting to answer the question at hand, it was flagged by a user as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; within an hour.  After another hour with some back and forth in the answer's comments, a moderator stepped in and removed the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewing the answer and the timeline of actions, I believe the user who flagged the message as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; did the right thing and that the moderator who finally acted on the flag did the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like these, when you have a similar issue as someone who asked a question, but you can't get any (or a particular) answer to work for you, you have two choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may comment on the specific answer you don't understand or can't get to work, asking the author to explain their reasoning further or to consider whatever context may make your attempts fail.  This may be an alternative if you have the &amp;quot;reputation&amp;quot; to leave comments. It may be a dead-end approach if the question and/or answers are many years old.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Note that the author has no obligation to respond and that both of you should avoid creating a long comment thread that does not result in &lt;em&gt;an improvement to the answer&lt;/em&gt;. When the discussion is over, the comments should ideally be deleted by yourselves or by flagging for moderator attention. See also the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; Meta post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/how-do-comments-work&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may ask a new question: &amp;quot;I'm having &lt;em&gt;this issue&lt;/em&gt;, which is similar to the issue in &lt;em&gt;this other question&lt;/em&gt;.  I tried &lt;em&gt;this answer to the other question&lt;/em&gt;, but I can't get it to work properly.  &lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt; is my context, &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is exactly what I'm trying to do, &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is exactly what I expect to happen, and &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is exactly what actually happens when I try the approach that I found or came up with.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussions are &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;, but StackExchange sites, including U&amp;amp;L, are not forums for discussion.  There are other sites for that. This is not about attitude but about trying to focus on the main task of the site, which is to be an encyclopedia of questions with informed answers.  This is brought up in this post to the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; Meta site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92107/are-stack-exchange-sites-forums&quot;&gt;Are Stack Exchange sites forums?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, about being &amp;quot;dictators&amp;quot;: A &amp;quot;dictator&amp;quot; is someone &amp;quot;holding complete autocratic control: a person with unlimited governmental power&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;one ruling in an absolute and often oppressive way&amp;quot; (def. from Merriam Webster).  These definitions are true in a &lt;em&gt;technical&lt;/em&gt; sense in that our &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt; are overriding and that we have more buttons to press on the website (allowing us to do things non-moderators can not do). It is &lt;em&gt;not true&lt;/em&gt; in the sense that we can do what we want without caring about what others think.  In particular, we listen to input from users, we ask for help when assessing technically tricky cases, and we attempt to own and fix our own mistakes (something I'm getting better at and something terdon, who is the moderator who deleted your answer, is particularly good at, IMHO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As moderators, we are bound by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;Moderator Agreement&lt;/a&gt;, which includes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public&quot;&gt;Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/privacy-policy&quot;&gt;Privacy Policy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe a moderator made the wrong decision, bring it up here on Meta for review.  If it's a &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; case of obviously breaking the Moderator Agreement, you may also contact the support team with a &amp;quot;Trust and Safety&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Other&amp;quot; issue (see link at the bottom of every page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-10-08T10:31:29.337" LastActivityDate="2023-10-08T10:31:29.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2023-10-08T11:51:24.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because this (about upvotes) may make a lot of people to use proxies and fake mails to upvote own posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same about downvotes - people may want &amp;quot;revenge/punishment&amp;quot; about someone they do not like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101265" LastActivityDate="2023-10-08T11:51:24.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-15T22:37:24.933" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember some of the comments following post &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/758758/how-can-i-sort-the-lines-in-this-text-file&quot;&gt;How can I sort the lines in this text file?&lt;/a&gt; seem helpful about usage of &lt;code&gt;sort&lt;/code&gt; and about sorting algorithm. Now they are gone. Can they be recovered? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastActivityDate="2023-10-16T11:15:08.617" Title="Can moderated comments be recovered?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7147" CreationDate="2023-10-16T11:15:08.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There really wasn't much that seems particularly useful, but here's a screenshot of the possibly relevant deleted comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ghAx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ghAx.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of deleted comments&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-10-16T11:15:08.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-21T13:07:04.903" Score="-5" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is this question that was closed for not being clear:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/582717/use-grep-to-find-files-containing-regex-patterns&quot;&gt;Use grep to find files containing regex patterns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found it while searching for a similar issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not given what is needed to make it clearer. There is no comment towards that.  Disappointed it has no real answer (only answer given does not give a resolution), plus closed, I made an edit hoping it would make more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit is accepted by reviewers, but reverted in just few hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@muru now uses this sentence in comments: &amp;quot;the question is definitely not clear enough by any means&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the question is clear as day for me, yet he is telling me this is &amp;quot;shoehorning my interpretation&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/149230/discussion-on-question-by-clayton-dukes-use-grep-to-find-files-containing-regex&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/149230/discussion-on-question-by-clayton-dukes-use-grep-to-find-files-containing-regex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear I am talking to a wall now, and you can tell everything I may say now feel offended to him just because he rose to a position earlier than me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What now? Should I just shut up and behave and wait until grumpies leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="525602" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-10-30T12:05:40.927" LastActivityDate="2024-03-12T15:28:19.597" Title="so, any grumpy person rising in the ranks is free whatever they want?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7149" CreationDate="2023-10-21T14:08:12.810" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite what you and Kusalananda say, the question is clear as mud to me. Here are a few questions to determine what you think you understand from that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;code&gt;abc&lt;/code&gt; a regex? Why or why not?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt; (the empty string) a regex? Why or why not?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt; regular expressions? Why or why not?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to these questions is yes, why is &lt;code&gt;.*&lt;/code&gt; not the regex that matches strings that are regexes? (While we're at it: let's make a stronger claim: it's the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; regex to match all regexes.) If the answer to these questions is no, then what do you mean by &amp;quot;regex&amp;quot; (or &amp;quot;regular expression&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;pattern&amp;quot; or whatever you chose to call it)? And whatever be the answer to that, how do you know that's what the OP of that question meant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2023-10-21T14:08:12.810" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-26T02:14:00.547" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nixos.org/community/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://nixos.org/community/&lt;/a&gt; says the NixOS community is active on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are NixOS questions about programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they more suitable at SO or Unix StackExchange? If latter,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can those policing at SO tolerate that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could someone reach out to the NixOS community and the SO community to let them know that this site would be a more suitable choice? Thanks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="674" LastEditDate="2023-10-28T03:00:31.427" LastActivityDate="2023-10-30T13:35:51.677" Title="Are NixOS questions more suitable at SO or Unix StackExchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7128" CreationDate="2023-10-26T13:36:50.357" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I leave questions open unless I know for sure that they should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'll put a reason for recommending closure so that others who are asked to vote have the possibility of seeing a reason for jumping one way or the other. (It might be a wrong reason, but if I leave one it's usually a considered opinion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also encountered questions that are flagged for closure - and indeed, sometimes closed - because the subject matter is a strange &lt;em&gt;but relevant&lt;/em&gt; corner of knowledge. It's a fine line between voting to close because the question seems unclear and skipping because the question has (very) specialist subject matter about which a voter knows nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastActivityDate="2023-10-26T13:36:50.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7151" CreationDate="2023-10-30T13:04:44.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether a NixOS question is more suitable for StackOverflow or Unix &amp;amp; Linux depends on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's unclear, a user should consult the help center pages for the sites to see whether their NixOS question is more suitable for one or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant help center pages are here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; (Unix &amp;amp; Linux)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; (StackOverflow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-10-30T13:35:51.677" LastActivityDate="2023-10-30T13:35:51.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7155" CreationDate="2023-10-31T09:50:41.827" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I discovered that the HTML markup language declarations for code blocks no longer work. They are still described in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/editing-help#syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;advanced markup help&lt;/a&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug in the documentation or the implementation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Triple backticks. Using a language tag here does work (but not on Meta). Literal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;```bash&#xA;#!/bin/bash&#xA;[ -d '.' ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo &amp;quot;My directory is $PWD&amp;quot;&#xA;```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the corresponding rendered text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash&#xA;[ -d '.' ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo &amp;quot;My directory is $PWD&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Older style HTML comment. Also doesn't work on Meta, used to work on U&amp;amp;L but does no longer. Literal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!--language: lang-bash--&amp;gt;&#xA;    #!/bin/bash&#xA;    [ -d '.' ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo &amp;quot;My directory is $PWD&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the corresponding rendered text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash&#xA;[ -d '.' ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo &amp;quot;My directory is $PWD&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot from U&amp;amp;L to illustrate the rendering behaviour&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KVsXQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KVsXQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Text rendered as on Unix&amp;amp;Linux&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100397" LastEditorUserId="100397" LastEditDate="2023-11-01T10:55:20.350" LastActivityDate="2023-11-01T10:55:20.350" Title="Older style code language declarations no longer work" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7154" CreationDate="2023-10-31T13:47:11.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're just missing a couple of spaces. It should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-bash --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    #!/bin/bash&#xA;    [ -d '.' ] &amp;amp;&amp;amp; echo &amp;quot;My directory is $PWD&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mJB7P.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mJB7P.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the documentation does have spaces after &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!--&lt;/code&gt; and before &lt;code&gt;--&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2023-10-31T13:47:11.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-04T16:58:49.153" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked about something on U&amp;amp;L some time ago.  How do I search for my own question, based on a word in the subject line?  For the search - I only want results with questions from me.  Can that be done, if so how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154426" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-11-05T06:28:26.183" LastActivityDate="2023-11-06T21:20:22.587" Title="How do I search for a question I posted?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7156" CreationDate="2023-11-04T17:26:22.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not too bad, once you know where to look!  The way I usually do it is to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go to the profile, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/117549/jeff-schaller&quot;&gt;mine&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/current&quot;&gt;yours (&amp;quot;current&amp;quot; magic link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the search box near the top will have inserted text, such as &lt;code&gt;user:117549&lt;/code&gt;. Add to that: &lt;code&gt;is:q title:word-to-search-for&lt;/code&gt;, such as &lt;code&gt;is:q title:systemd&lt;/code&gt;; the resulting search will be limited to questions that you asked that have the given word in the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/searching&lt;/a&gt; for more search operators. Hat tip to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/327976/307535&quot;&gt;Glorfindel's answer&lt;/a&gt; for the /current link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kusalananda points out a shorter version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the search box, enter: &lt;code&gt;user:me is:q title:word-to-search-for&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no step 2! :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-11-06T21:20:22.587" LastActivityDate="2023-11-06T21:20:22.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7159" CreationDate="2023-11-07T15:54:51.607" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently on a crusade regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/758306/counting-matches-with-grep-when-multiple-matches-per-line-are-possible?&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. The edits that I made were reverted with a comment saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't change your question after receiving answers. You can clarify, but not completely change so that the answers are no longer relevant. I have rolled back your edits to the last version that seems to match the answers you have been given. If you have more questions, please ask them separately, as new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am really angry with this. Please look again at my latest edit to the question. In my edit I ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be some examples of the number of lines matching the pattern in a file and the number of matches in the same file, but counting each match but counting each match individually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing answer mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: The number of lines matching the pattern &lt;code&gt;G&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;file&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: The number of matches in the same file, but counting each match individually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the existing answer is still relevant. Also, I have asked this question on October 6th, 2023 when the UNIX site has been the today's featured site, so I cannot ask a new question now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="516227" LastEditorUserId="516227" LastEditDate="2023-11-07T16:39:08.047" LastActivityDate="2023-11-07T17:00:29.970" Title="Example: The number of lines matching the pattern G in file and Example: The number of matches in the same file, but counting each match individually" Tags="|discussion|support|specific-question|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7158" CreationDate="2023-11-07T17:00:29.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for posting here, this is the right way of bringing this sort of thing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, your &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/758306/1&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt;, posted on Oct 6th asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic design philosophy of UNIX is to provide simple, powerful tools that can be combined to perform complex tasks. It features a command-line interface that allows users to interact with the system through a series of commands, rather than through a graphical user interface (GUI). How does the command-line interface work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was then &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/758306/4&quot;&gt;completely changed&lt;/a&gt; on October 6th, the same day, to ask (after the question was edited to remove unnecessary detail):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to count the number of occurrences of a pattern using the grep command?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already, this is an entirely different question. One user posted an answer to this question on October 6th. This answer mentioned the idea of counting the matches individually. Perhaps this is what prompted your next edit, on October 9th, which changed the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The standard usage of grep is to return lines that match a pattern. If a line can contain several matches of the pattern, how can I count count each match individually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this is a different question. But still close enough to the original to be a reasonable change. However, next, on November 6th, yesterday, you changed the question to ask for examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/758306/examples-of-the-number-of-lines-matching-the-pattern-in-a-file-and-the-number-of&quot;&gt;Examples of the number of lines matching the pattern in a file and the number of matches in the same file, but counting each match individually&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Courtsey link: Count total number of occurrences using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;grep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;grep's -o will only output the matches, ignoring lines; wc can count&#xA;them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;grep -o 'needle' file | wc -l&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will also match 'needles' or 'multineedle'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To match only single words use one of the following commands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;grep -ow 'needle' file | wc -l grep -o '\bneedle\b' file | wc -l grep&#xA;-o '' file | wc -l&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked answer states that grep's -o will only output the matches,&#xA;ignoring the lines, and wc can count them. The standard usage of grep&#xA;is to return lines that match a pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be some examples of the number of lines matching the&#xA;pattern in a file and the number of matches in the same file, but&#xA;counting each match individually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now a completely different question: you are no longer asking how to count matches or even how to count individual matches, you know how to do that, and even mention it in the question, and are now asking for examples. This is a completely different question and renders al existing answers obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if this is what you want to ask, please post a new question, you can always link back to this one, and ask that there. That said, I don't really think this would be on topic here. It is a very open-ended question that cannot have one, correct answer, so it would come under the &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot; off-topic reason. Asking for examples means that every answer will be equally valid. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed,&#xA;avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[. . .]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary, while editing your question to clarify it is absolutely welcome, please don't make edits that change the question too much from the original version if you already have answers since that makes the answers obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a separate note, I don't understand what you mean by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked this question on October 6th, 2023 when the UNIX site has been the today's featured site, so I cannot ask a new question now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Featured site? Featured where? Do you mean the &amp;quot;featured site&amp;quot; in the sidebar of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;? That... really doesn't mean anything other than that's the site some algorithm picked to display. It is only a way to advertise a given site, it doesn't change anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, you can always ask a new question! There is no need for this site to be &amp;quot;featured&amp;quot; whatever that means, the site is always open and you are always welcome to ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastActivityDate="2023-11-07T17:00:29.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-09T14:43:29.750" Score="-1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think about the possibility of an AI doing web scraping of the contents of Stack Overflow, of Unix stackexchange for example and after understanding the questions applying the best answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it revolutionize system administration/other work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="416555" OwnerDisplayName="Matteo S." LastActivityDate="2023-11-09T15:04:26.383" Title="Stack Web scraping from AI" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2023-11-09T15:08:07.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7160" CreationDate="2023-11-09T14:56:49.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is explicitly against policy, but I thought it would be interesting given the question. I pasted your question into ChatGPT and got the following response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using AI to scrape and understand content from websites like Stack Overflow and Unix Stack Exchange to provide solutions to questions or problems in the field of system administration or other work could have both positive and negative implications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential Benefits:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Efficiency:&lt;/strong&gt; AI-driven web scraping and answer generation could significantly speed up the process of finding solutions to common problems. System administrators and other professionals could save time by quickly accessing relevant information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Availability:&lt;/strong&gt; AI can work around the clock, making it possible to provide assistance at any time, even when human experts are unavailable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scalability:&lt;/strong&gt; AI can potentially scale to cover a wide range of topics and respond to a large number of queries simultaneously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consistency:&lt;/strong&gt; AI can provide consistent answers and solutions, reducing variability in problem-solving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential Challenges and Concerns:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality and Reliability:&lt;/strong&gt; The quality of AI-generated answers depends on the quality of data it has learned from. Stack Overflow and similar sites may contain incorrect or outdated information. Relying solely on AI-generated answers without human validation could lead to errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Understanding Context:&lt;/strong&gt; AI might struggle with understanding the full context and nuances of a question or problem. Human experts often provide solutions that take into account specific details and constraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lack of Creativity:&lt;/strong&gt; AI solutions might be limited to patterns and knowledge present in its training data, which could hinder creative problem-solving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ethical and Legal Issues:&lt;/strong&gt; Scraping websites without permission, particularly if it involves user-contributed content, can raise ethical and legal concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community and Human Interaction:&lt;/strong&gt; Part of the value of sites like Stack Overflow is the community of experts who engage in discussions and provide explanations. An AI-only approach could potentially disrupt this dynamic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, while using AI for web scraping and providing answers has the potential to improve efficiency and availability of solutions, it should be used with caution. A hybrid approach, where AI is used to assist human experts, could be a more balanced approach, combining the speed and scalability of AI with the critical thinking and nuanced understanding of human experts. This might be a more effective way to revolutionize system administration and other fields while maintaining the quality and reliability of solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a rather lucid answer, but not to your specific question, which is in itself a kind of answer to your question. Would you trust a large language model to apply the “best” answer to a specific problem? We get quite a few questions here from &lt;em&gt;humans&lt;/em&gt; not applying answers properly, I doubt it would be much better with an LLM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" OwnerDisplayName="Stephen Kitt" LastActivityDate="2023-11-09T14:56:49.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-16T01:47:19.083" Score="0" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;What will happen when reputation reaches 100k? Nothing or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-11-16T14:35:11.237" LastActivityDate="2023-11-16T14:35:11.237" Title="Will something happen when reputation reaches 100k?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2023-11-16T02:48:59.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Used to be that you would get some swag, but that seems to be on hold: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/358195/swag-is-coming-back-indefinitely-paused&quot;&gt;Swag is coming back! (indefinitely paused)&lt;/a&gt;. Other than that there were no changes when I reached 100k on Ask Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2023-11-16T02:48:59.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2023-11-16T14:25:15.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've quadrupled our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;maximum privilege level&lt;/a&gt;, so I'm not aware of any other change -- being rather short of it myself :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/64726335#64726335&quot;&gt;offer this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to Tim, who has just topped 100k reputation points on&#xA;U&amp;amp;L!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your curiosity has gotten you far!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2023-11-16T14:25:15.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7166" CreationDate="2023-11-17T12:38:14.183" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find radical changes in users' &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;display name&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; (because of user's own will or accounts merging or else) rather confusing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Particularly when reading comments because when the link to the commenter profile page is updated accordingly, comments including the @user_display_name are kept unmodified.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In case of old posts with many comments from many users, understanding what comment is addressing what other comment becomes a hassle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could some bot also update these @user_display_name in the comments when the display name of some commenter is changed ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, is there a possibility for the standard user to access some sort of history of display name changes ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, what should I do when some comment of mine appears to me just unrelated because addressing some comment from @old_user_name  I just cannot find ? Simply delete it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-11-17T14:45:32.670" LastActivityDate="2023-11-17T14:45:32.670" Title="Make Users &quot;display name&quot; changes less confusing" Tags="|support|feature-request|user-accounts|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7165" CreationDate="2023-11-17T13:39:24.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, unfortunately. This has been requested on the main meta, and it is far more serious than the simple issue of someone getting confused by a name change (I feel you, it confuses me too!), there are strong safety and legal reasons for this. For instance, people who have transitioned and changed name want to remove mention of their deadname, and also, people who request deletion of their data under GDPR should have &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of their data, including such comments deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, SE have made it clear that this is not technically feasible, or at least, not feasible with the resources the company is willing to use for such a project. And, to be fair, it really is not a simple thing (just think of duplicate user names and how one would be able to distinguish between them). Please see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/31851/203101&quot;&gt;Change all @username references in comments when a user changes their name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/336000/203101&quot;&gt;Users need to be able to remove themselves and all their data from the site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the final question, if you think a comment of yours isn't useful anymore, yes, please delete it! And if it isn't yours, flag it as obsolete and we'll delete it for you. Comments are supposed to be ephemeral, temporary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2023-11-17T14:08:52.907" LastActivityDate="2023-11-17T14:08:52.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-19T22:34:25.187" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to protect users' privacy by not showing their activities on all the StackExchange sites under their network profiles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can users hide their network profiles, or links to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="674" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-11-20T18:38:10.880" LastActivityDate="2023-11-20T18:38:10.880" Title="Can users hide their activities on StackExchange under their network profile?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7167" CreationDate="2023-11-20T18:37:50.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm far from up-to-date on these kinds of things, but I found some information on Meta.SE that suggests that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/276930/307535&quot;&gt;you can hide the network profile on individual profiles&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was further asked: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What about network profile activity?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; to which the response was: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Probably not going to change anytime soon.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016: a request to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/279150/307535&quot;&gt;hide activities from hidden networks&lt;/a&gt; -- seems to be the &amp;quot;source&amp;quot; duplicate for a few similar questions (linked to that post)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/260253/what-is-the-purpose-of-hiding-communities-if-they-are-visible-anyway&quot;&gt;What is the purpose of hiding communities if they are visible anyway?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... so to answer your questions, to the best of my knowledge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to protect users' privacy by not showing their activities on all the StackExchange sites under their network profiles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe this is possible right now; it seems to me like the &amp;quot;top&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;activity&amp;quot; tabs include activity even from hidden profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can users hide their network profiles, or links to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, I believe a &amp;quot;hidden&amp;quot; profile (as MC68020 said, profile -- settings -- site settings -- hide communities) will not show a link back to the parent network profile &amp;quot;for everyone but the user and site moderators&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2023-11-20T18:37:50.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-24T21:22:49.027" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've taken a screenshot of what I am referring to, but this occurs on both the machines I have installed Debian Bullseye on, so I'm naturally curious as to why this would occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have guessed it could be some kind of mitm injection attack of sorts, but that just seems silly, why would they put it the http link they want me to click on in that separate little window, and have it identical to the first search result all but the missing s in https. That just seems to be counter productive if the objective was to be tricky. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UgFwT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UgFwT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following unusual verbose output from the browser also occurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.&#xA;Sandbox: Unexpected EOF, op 0 flags 00 path /proc/cpuinfo&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="336683" OwnerDisplayName="Adam Ledger" LastActivityDate="2023-11-25T07:39:14.360" Title="Why is a http version of stack exchange websites appearing in my browser search results?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="22" ClosedDate="2023-11-25T12:30:38.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-29T11:40:42.433" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having, a long time ago, registered under Stack Overflow using &lt;code&gt;some_email_address&lt;/code&gt;,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then, under some site of the SE network using the same identity, SE site under which I earned some credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then registered under U&amp;amp;L_SE using another identity : &lt;code&gt;another_email_address&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, &lt;code&gt;another_email_address&lt;/code&gt; being no longer valid, I removed it and added the original &lt;code&gt;some_email_address&lt;/code&gt; to the list of logins as found under my U&amp;amp;L_SE profile settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was then notified in my U&amp;amp;L_SE Recent Achievements drop down list that :&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UL +100 You've earned a bonus of 100 because we trust you on other&#xA;sites of the network&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;100 credits which, as a matter of fact have not been credited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note : If it needed to be asserted : I am not complaining against the fact that my U&amp;amp;L_SE credit has not been increased. I do not even care reading the conditions in which this credit is due.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm only reporting some inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastActivityDate="2023-11-29T11:40:42.433" Title="Bug report : Invalid &quot;You've earned a bonus of 100 because we trust you on other sites of the network&quot; notification" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7172" CreationDate="2023-11-29T14:08:49.840" Score="6" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in May, I asked the CMs to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7087/temporary-blockade-on-unregistered-participation&quot;&gt;require registration to participate on U&amp;amp;L&lt;/a&gt;, due to a rash of low-quality posts from unregistered accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/391847/307535&quot;&gt;moderation strike is over&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/11540?m=64130740#64130740&quot;&gt;Charcoal has resumed operations&lt;/a&gt;, so I'm proposing that we revert this temporary change. Please post an Answer if you think we should &lt;em&gt;keep&lt;/em&gt; this registration requirement -- either longer or permanently -- or &lt;em&gt;drop&lt;/em&gt; this requirement (revert the earlier change).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll gather the community's consensus and update this post with any action(s) taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 2024-01-05, the voting on the two answers tilts towards keeping the registration requirement, so that's what we'll do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2024-01-05T21:15:50.927" LastActivityDate="2024-01-05T21:15:50.927" Title="Revert the temporary blockade on unregistered participation?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|user-accounts|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7171" CreationDate="2023-11-29T14:20:56.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the benefit from lowering the barrier by removing the requirement to register? As far as I can tell, unregistered participation only seems to cause trouble - we have all seen quite a few users end up making multiple accounts while trying to edit their posts. And over on AU I still see and flag AI-generated posts once or twice a week. Unless there's some clear benefit to be had, I don't think we should lift this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastEditorUserId="117549" LastEditDate="2023-12-01T17:01:57.907" LastActivityDate="2023-12-01T17:01:57.907" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7171" CreationDate="2023-12-01T15:20:37.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should allow unregistered users to ask questions, the way was until a few months ago. First, for me, it's a matter of principle: we shouldn't force people to give us emails or go through hoops in order to ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I want it to be as easy as possible to ask given that everything else about the SE system is so very complicated and we have such a steep learning curve for new users. We, the entire network, are already in decline with far less participation than we used to have, so adding more barriers to entry seems counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this might mean a few more bad questions but frankly, being registered doesn't mean you ask good questions. I am not convinced there is any direct link between quality and registration. I admit I don't have data on this, this is just my impression, but that is the impression I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the whole, I would prefer to remove the requirement for registration and so lower the barrier of entry to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2023-12-08T10:53:10.937" LastActivityDate="2023-12-08T10:53:10.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2023-12-08T11:43:40.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For most simple penetration tests done by the occasional user, Kali is not even necessary. Back when I was a teen, I used to mess with the computers in my high school and get past the various restrictions on them, and since they ran on Windows, I had to write and test software using Visual Studio on Windows, sometimes using various Windows VMs to replicate the environment. I also once had to write a MAC address spoofer for my classmates, but that had to be done on macOS, since that was the operating system they used. I also used a mix of WSL and Ubuntu to mess with various things. Kali isn't a magical solution for all your &amp;quot;hacking&amp;quot; needs, although the media portrayal of Kali in shows like &lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt; has made it look like so. Your needs will highly depend on the system you are targeting, especially if you need to debug and test things that are supposed to work on Windows. However, Kali may be suitable if you use the tools in them often and want to save time installing, such as in a CTF contest, but for most other Linux-y tasks, Ubuntu should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="589859" LastActivityDate="2023-12-08T11:43:40.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7183" CreationDate="2023-12-09T00:40:14.837" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/763322/how-to-cancel-several-jobs-based-on-the-job-name&quot;&gt;Latest example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question A (most reasonably) gets an answer as part of question B.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;However, question B 's answer is neither accepted nor upvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My close duplicate request cannot be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote question B's answer and close duplicate (request) question A ? (Being said that, while judging the answer perfectly reasonable, I do not get here &amp;amp; now the means to test the solution) ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a comment as I did and let it be ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt; The situation reoccurred in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/765395/how-do-you-type-special-characters-in-the-logging-prompt&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This one being even less obvious since the suggested answer had not been working in several cases.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In both case we can observe that Stephen authoritatively closed duplicate after (having ? / the answer of the duplicated being ?) upvoted.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This suggesting an additional alternative :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave that to hammer holders ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this leading incidentally to another ? (Or is it the real ?) question :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it actually pertinent to submit a close duplicate request to the condition of the duplicated having an upvoted or accepted answer ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2023-12-22T19:31:13.647" LastActivityDate="2023-12-24T15:14:15.757" Title="How duplicates should be handled when duplicated gets a neither accepted nor upvoted answer?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7177" CreationDate="2023-12-11T13:09:15.437" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/1495254/ubuntu-server-22-04-postfix-dovecot-error-postfix-smtpd-fatal-no-sasl-authenti&quot;&gt;I made a question in Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; trying to solve an issue that I need for my work. I chose Ask Ubuntu because the server I'm working is Ubuntu 22.04 server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the question is 4 days old now, has only 19 views and zero interactions (comments, edits, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how is Ask Ubuntu participation rate, mainly veteran and savvy users that are the most probable to be able to help me with my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still trying to solve the issue, and I was thinking to delete the question in Ask Ubuntu and post it here in U&amp;amp;L, where I &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have better chances to receive some responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK then to delete a question in some SE site and post it in another? And specifically from Ask Ubuntu to U&amp;amp;L, given that there's an overlapping scope that can be addressed in both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338177" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T13:39:56.373" Title="Delete question from Ask Ubuntu and post it in U&amp;L" Tags="|discussion|questions|cross-posting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7176" CreationDate="2023-12-11T13:39:56.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly fine to move a question from one StackExchange site to another, given that the question is on-topic on the site it is being moved to, and that the question only is &amp;quot;live&amp;quot; on a single site at any point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can do this in two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Request migration of the question by flagging it for moderator attention.  The problem with this is that it may possibly take some time before a moderator sees the flag.  It's also possible that the moderator disagrees with you and decides not to migrate the question.  A migrated question will retain its creation date on the destination site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delete the question on the first site and create it anew on the second site.  An issue with this is that if you have any answer to your question, this action counts towards a question ban (a ban that exists to prevent users from asking questions and then immediately deleting their questions at the moment someone answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, ensure that the question does not exist on more than one site at any point in time and that it is on-topic on the site where it is &amp;quot;live&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T13:39:56.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7149" CreationDate="2023-12-12T23:53:54.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at this I'd like to make some observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's generally a good idea to avoid inferring any emotion in any response on forums and StackExchange especially.  There's a really great discussion of this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How To Ask Questions The Smart Way: Dealing with Rudeness&lt;/a&gt;.  The short version is that it's incredibly easy to misinterpret terse, direct responses as rude or &amp;quot;grumpy&amp;quot; when they're simply not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some questions, such as the one you asked, have the correct answer: &amp;quot;That's impossible&amp;quot;.  Invariably the OP is unlikely to be happy at receiving this response. So some are slow to come right out and say it as it can spark more tiresome battles than you might expect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's common enough, that a little more probing will narrow such a question into something that's solvable.  Particularly in the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;XY questions&lt;/a&gt;.  So some people chose to probe a little more about the what and why before offering up an opinion.  In doing so, it can can really come across as if the OP is being unclear or &lt;strong&gt;leaving out important detail.&lt;/strong&gt; Especially when they are disinclined to discuss the question of &amp;quot;why they need this&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally preach responding to such questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/269222/206656&quot;&gt;in three parts&lt;/a&gt;, where the first part would invariably answer directly... &amp;quot;that's impossible&amp;quot;.  But sadly it's not a commonly followed pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone was being grumpy or rude, but they could have communicated more quickly and clearly that it was [mathematically] impossible to solve in it's current form, and given it's nature, unlikely to be useful to any future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does that mean it should have been closed?  Err.  Not sure.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2024-03-12T15:28:19.597" LastActivityDate="2024-03-12T15:28:19.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-12-18T23:02:30.440" Score="5" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined the community few days back and used 1 question to ask many. I got dinged ie got -1 from two experts saying i have asked too many. Fair enough, I edited that question to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/764988/questions-on-linux-network-driver-and-user-mode-driver&quot;&gt;Questions on Linux network driver and user mode driver&lt;/a&gt; which has 1 question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did I get a third -1 and on top of it, its closed saying its not clear. Want to understand what is not clear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Appreciate the help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="596490" LastActivityDate="2023-12-21T08:46:29.750" Title="why my question got closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7179" CreationDate="2023-12-19T09:23:42.240" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for asking for input about your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When your question was closed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/764988/1&quot;&gt;it contained five separate questions&lt;/a&gt;, each of an in-depth technical nature.  It was therefore closed as &amp;quot;unfocused&amp;quot;.  Closing the question allows you to correct the issues that caused it to get closed. Editing a closed question puts it in the &amp;quot;re-open review queue&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You edited the text by deleting the four initial questions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/764988/2&quot;&gt;leaving only one&lt;/a&gt;.  However, this one question asks &amp;quot;IS NUMA awareness important? Yes/No why?&amp;quot;.  This question has a few issues that prevent me (and presumably other reviewers too) from re-opening it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is subjective.  I.e., it depends on what you personally mean by &amp;quot;important&amp;quot;.   What is important to you may not be important to me.  Something can also be important for stability, correctness, etc., possibly under certain circumstances, and it's unclear what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; mean by the word and what your expectations may be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is open-ended.  Since it's subjective, an answer would have to take many different setups and scenarios into account and evaluate the pros and cons of each. It would be difficult to put boundaries to the scope of the issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is unclear.  The question does not explain the issue with the resources you have previously found, making it harder to pinpoint the details you need help with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will not comment on why someone may have voted in any particular way on the question, as votes are private, and if they had wanted to leave a comment explaining their reasoning, they would have done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I don't know anything about Linux-specific network or driver development etc. I can't unfortunately suggest how to rephrase the question suitably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2023-12-21T08:46:29.750" LastActivityDate="2023-12-21T08:46:29.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-12-21T01:07:18.920" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag in question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/cd-command&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/cd-command&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incorrect search I performed: &lt;code&gt;[windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct search: &lt;code&gt;[windows-subsystem-for-linux] [cd-command]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching unix.meta tells me the &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; tag has caused a lot of problems here so &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3350/rename-cd-to-cd-command&quot;&gt;it was renamed to &lt;code&gt;[cd-command]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If you try to create a question using the &lt;code&gt;cd&lt;/code&gt; tag, it will give you this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e8jkI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e8jkI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to request analogous information when you include &lt;code&gt;[cd]&lt;/code&gt; in a &lt;code&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&lt;/code&gt; search. Maybe the result page could provide the same information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be honest, this cost me less than a minute of time to discover I should have used &lt;code&gt;[cd-command]&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;[cd]&lt;/code&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3356/101311&quot;&gt;it cost me 15+ minutes to learn &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this command was renamed&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe someday this feature will save someone else 15 minutes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a huge win if implemented. As such, I won't be offended if this is downvoted to oblivion, but I do think it would provide a modicum of value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101311" LastActivityDate="2023-12-21T01:07:18.920" Title="Searching for [cd] should inform the user to disambiguate the search instead of returning 0 results" Tags="|feature-request|tag-synonyms|search|cd-command|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7175" CreationDate="2023-12-24T15:14:15.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let’s start with your last question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it actually pertinent to submit a close duplicate request to the condition of the duplicated having an upvoted or accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is, as long as the existing voting system works. Usually, a useful answer should attract upvotes, and thus become usable when suggesting a duplicate. The general assumption is that a post with no upvotes isn’t useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously starts failing when fewer people vote, as is the case now, or for niche questions where few people are able to upvote meaningfully (including the question’s author, who may not have enough reputation to upvote and may not understand the benefits of accepting an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting to your initial question then, in such circumstances I think both approaches you suggest are valid, if you follow the expected practice. If you can meaningfully upvote question B’s answer, then do so, and suggest it as an answer for question A. If you can’t, then leave a comment pointing to it — that way, question A’s author might get an answer (which is the main purpose of the site, really), and they might upvote it themselves if they can. The comment might also attract other readers’ attention to the potential answer, which they may not have noticed before but may be qualified to upvote too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2023-12-24T15:14:15.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-05T13:44:15.503" Score="9" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the recent announcement &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/395881/sites-can-now-request-to-enable-a-banner-to-warn-about-their-policy-on-ai-genera&quot;&gt;Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content&lt;/a&gt; and given our stance in &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6021/how-do-we-want-to-handle-ai-generated-answers&quot;&gt;How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?&lt;/a&gt;, it seems likely to me that we'd appreciate &amp;quot;a reduction in posts flagged for AI-generated content&amp;quot;.  (Happily, we haven't &lt;strong&gt;yet&lt;/strong&gt; seen a large number of such posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll put two &amp;quot;voting&amp;quot; posts as Answers, one for each of the &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot; options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;**Reminder**: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on [Site Name]. Learn more&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;**Reminder**: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools must be cited on [Site Name]. Learn more&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but please add a separate Answer if you disagree with this idea for any reason!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Follow-up discussion on the &amp;quot;Learn more&amp;quot; Help Center page contents here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7187/ul-help-center-article-for-our-policy-on-ai-generated-content?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;U&amp;amp;L Help Center article for our policy on AI-generated content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="560118" LastEditDate="2024-03-14T18:44:11.377" LastActivityDate="2024-03-14T18:44:11.377" Title="Do we want to enable an &quot;AI-generated content&quot; banner?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2024-01-05T13:44:15.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2024-01-05T13:44:15.503" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should have this banner added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reminder&lt;/strong&gt;: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on [Site Name]. Learn more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2024-01-09T10:08:30.113" LastActivityDate="2024-01-09T10:08:30.113" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2024-01-05T13:44:15.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2024-01-05T13:45:04.117" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools must be cited&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should have this banner added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reminder&lt;/strong&gt;: Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools must be cited on [Site Name]. Learn more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2024-01-09T10:08:38.040" LastActivityDate="2024-01-09T10:08:38.040" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2024-01-05T13:45:04.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-08T17:51:39.637" Score="15" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Minutes&lt;/em&gt; after I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7184/do-we-want-to-enable-an-ai-generated-content-banner&quot;&gt;Do we want to enable an &amp;quot;AI-generated content&amp;quot; banner?&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/395881/revisions&quot;&gt;Main Meta question&lt;/a&gt; was updated to ask us to fill in the &amp;quot;Learn more&amp;quot; link with our site's policy on AI-generated content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish I had been a little slower to post our question, and/or more careful to notice that there was a dead &amp;quot;Learn more&amp;quot; link that obviously needed something behind it, and so I apologize for the Meta spam here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we good with using a copy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/ai-policy&quot;&gt;SO's &amp;quot;Why can't I use Artificial Intelligence tools to generate answers?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; page here? It starts with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. GPT, LLM, generative AI, genAI) tools may not be used to generate answers for Stack Overflow. The answers you provide must either be your own original work, or the properly cited work of others. If your answers are determined to have been written by AI, they will likely be deleted, along with any reputation earned from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... which sounds to me like it captures the idea behind our &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6021/how-do-we-want-to-handle-ai-generated-answers&quot;&gt;previous discussion on AI&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep things simpler for this round, please upvote this Question if you agree with this idea; downvote and/or discuss if you disagree. Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2024-01-08T17:51:39.637" Title="U&amp;L Help Center article for our policy on AI-generated content" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7206" CreationDate="2024-01-13T17:17:50.663" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reviewing some post as part of the &lt;em&gt;Suggested Edits&lt;/em&gt; queue, I, most generally, get 4 choices (Approve / Improve edit / Reject and edit / Reject).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I, sometimes, albeit not often, get only 2 choices offered: Approve / Reject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I alone with this (browser version dependent? / user history dependent?) &#xA;Are there conditions commanding the actions left to the reviewer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2024-03-10T06:32:07.217" LastActivityDate="2024-04-04T18:18:08.540" Title="Review queues / Suggested Edits: Differences in set of possible actions" Tags="|support|suggested-edits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7201" CreationDate="2024-01-17T16:04:59.317" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seen at: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/34012/3&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/34012/3&lt;/a&gt; with Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&#xA;text `code` **bold**&#xA;&#xA;more text&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Renders as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Imf55.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Imf55.png&quot; alt=&quot;bogus formatting&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JffTK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JffTK.png&quot; alt=&quot;expected formatting&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The generated HTML is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&#xA;text `code` **bold**&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;more text&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;text &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;code&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;bold&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;more text&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently in your browser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;text `code` **bold**&#xA;&lt;p&gt;more text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't happen if the line above the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is not blank or there are non-blanks around &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; as in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;text&#xA;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&#xA;test&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;text&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example in your browser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;text &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;more text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22565" LastEditorUserId="93139" LastEditDate="2024-02-02T12:24:50.473" LastActivityDate="2024-02-02T12:24:50.473" Title="Bogus rendering when &lt;br/&gt; or &lt;br&gt; tags are preceded and followed by newlines" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-20T15:46:29.467" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer to some question prior to that question being (rightfully) closed duplicate.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;OP went on commenting my answer eventually asking for more explanations / details which are not provided as part of any answer of the duplicated thread.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(The required explanation cannot be a simple comment since it needs going down to the source code)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be considered best practice ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A/ Edit my answer as part of the closed thread ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;B/ Post a new answer as part of the duplicated ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C/ Edit the (already accepted) answer of the duplicated ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;D/ Edit the question of the duplicated filling it with a copy/paste  of the comment + Edit my answer + Request for re-opening… (Being lazy… I'd dislike this one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2024-01-20T15:52:03.620" LastActivityDate="2024-01-20T15:52:03.620" Title="Editing an existing answer of a closed-duplicate question vs adding a new answer to the duplicated?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-24T16:45:56.563" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks — folks like you. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference in ensuring Stack Exchange sites remain a valuable source of high-quality content on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2023 (and January 2024… ahem) and move into 2024, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmN7M.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Unix &amp;amp; Linux over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community User¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community²&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;32&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags 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right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User review-bans lifted early&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User suspensions lifted early&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;31&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;34&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed⁴&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;302&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;82&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ This refers to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² This refers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Unix &amp;amp; Linux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). The community² can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁸ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6050/2022-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2022: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222023%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/396299/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2024! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastEditorUserId="93139" LastEditDate="2024-01-24T18:47:57.487" LastActivityDate="2024-01-24T18:47:57.487" Title="2023: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-28T02:19:54.037" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/767862/do-these-hardware-specs-support-linux-working-system#comment1465413_767872&quot;&gt;Comment to check&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not spelling out details for obvious safety reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="596938" LastActivityDate="2024-01-28T23:32:29.027" Title="could someone please look at this? it doesn't seem quite right" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7192" CreationDate="2024-01-28T13:39:38.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;dedicated way&lt;/a&gt; to solicit those who can actually decide whether things are quite right or not (iow the elected keepers of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/conduct#unfriendly-language&quot;&gt;code of conduct&lt;/a&gt;) consists in flag-ing the comment (clic on the flag at the immediate left of the comment) labeled &lt;em&gt;Flag this comment for serious problems or moderator's attention&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the particular ocurrence you mention, I can only observe that the (quite high-rep and respected) contributor who could (rightfully) read some disgraceful personal attack &lt;strong&gt;did not flag that comment himself&lt;/strong&gt; and, as part of some following comment, even explains why he did not.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[EDIT : reading from comments, I am wrong, he had actually reported.]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion about this particular occurrence then stands in two parts :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who would I be as a third party non involved to arbitrarily decide differently ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If anyone else flags this comment and this comment is actually removed and since nobody (apart from mods) can tell who is responsible for the flag, wouldn't the original and a-priori sincere intention of the &lt;em&gt;victim&lt;/em&gt; be somehow betrayed ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, answers to personal attacks in comments are generally removed together with the inappropriate comment, this incidentally ruining any attempt from the &lt;em&gt;victim&lt;/em&gt; to handle the situation according to… their own idiom… ;-)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This certainly contributes to stop flame-wars early but this should imho be adjusted when the personally attacked contributor is not known for fueling that sort of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2024-01-28T23:32:29.027" LastActivityDate="2024-01-28T23:32:29.027" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7192" CreationDate="2024-01-28T14:31:01.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for calling out the inappropriate comment! Those comments have been removed. Such comments are not welcome here at U&amp;amp;L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging the comment would be slightly better for these situations, as it leaves a &amp;quot;paper&amp;quot; trail (the flags) closer to the actual issue. One of the options there is: &amp;quot;It contains harassment, bigotry, or abuse.&amp;quot;, which I think would have been appropriate. If you're not sure among the comment flag options, you can always choose the &amp;quot;Something else&amp;quot; option and describe the issue in the textbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you again for bringing this to the community's attention!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117549" LastActivityDate="2024-01-28T14:31:01.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-29T14:20:00.860" Score="-9" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we please permanently close threads which are longer than 2 years inactive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting sick to read old posts about ancient Debian systems, because some moderator decided it would be a good idea to correct some typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone want's to add something to an old thread, he should create a new thread and link to the old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this forum bot, which pushes ancient threads to the top, it's just wasting my time, please delete this bot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this might be the wrong place to ask this question, but I don't know where to ask else. So if you know a better place, please feel free to move this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take that thread (question) for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/245829/a-stop-job-is-running-for-lvm&quot;&gt;A stop job is running for LVM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asked 8 years, 2 months ago Modified today Viewed 4k times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I DON'T CARE!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This stupid bot has pushed this old nonsense thread to the top of the home page. For what reason? Look how many clicks this posts has got, how many valuable human life time has been wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please fix it! If you can't or don't want to fix it, delete or deactivate it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480743" OwnerDisplayName="paladin" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T15:08:21.347" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T17:26:05.930" Title="Can we please permanently close threads which are longer than 2 year inactive?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7195" CreationDate="2024-01-29T14:32:33.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can be closed, but that will not prevent them from showing up in search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the default list you can sort on &amp;quot;newest&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145426" LastEditorUserId="170373" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T15:01:37.593" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T15:01:37.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7195" CreationDate="2024-01-29T15:49:28.460" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. That's quite a bit of attitude you've brought to the discussion. Setting that aside, while &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; might not want it, this is actually one of the best and most central features of the system. The whole point of these sites is to avoid duplicates, so asking the same question again is exactly what we are trying to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really find it so unpleasant, I fear these might not be the sites for you. What you can do, is if you see things that you know are no longer relevant (it is very likely that old questions are still relevant, especially command line things), if you know for a fact this was an issue that has been fixed on newer systems, you can vote to close as non-reproducible. However, remember that there are many legacy systems around which are still running old versions. Some of these cannot be updated, so you never know what old question might be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, remember that the objective of these sites is not to answer people's questions. It is to collect a useful library of questions and answers. Whether the OP has left or not is completely irrelevant. Answering old questions is actively encouraged, and everyone can still vote on them. The person who asked, the OP, is just one out of the hundreds of thousands or millions who might read a post and its answers. We don't really care if they are still around or are still interested in an answer, unless the question is very specific to their particular case. If so, then we vote to close as non-reproducible as I suggested above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have very, very often found old posts useful. If you don't, if you only want to see new ones, then just use the Questions page (&amp;quot;Questions&amp;quot; link in the side bar, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;) which shows questions sorted by time of posting. The home page, &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, is specifically designed to show posts by recent activity, so editing will bump them. This is a feature, not a bug, but if you don't like it, just don't use the page that is specifically designed to work the way you don't like and use the page that is specifically designed to work the way you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22222" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T16:05:33.133" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T16:05:33.133" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7195" CreationDate="2024-01-29T16:47:28.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over at &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;AskUbuntu&lt;/a&gt; the community has to close questions for versions that are no longer supported.  I'm sure that could be implemented here.  The issue is that this Exchange supports multiple distributions not just one, so is it worth a moderator's time and effort to go through all the OS tags and determine if the version is supported when we don't have version tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think so.  I came to this site 9 years and a few months ago because at that time the distribution I use was having a fight on its forums regarding whether SystemD was better or worse than init.  I posted moderately there if I had an issue, but it got to the point that nearly every question and answer turned into a flame war, and I couldn't get any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I frequently edit old questions (when I have time) with new code snippets or updated phrasing because a reader took the time to contribute something that actually works even on older OS'es.  Using the OP's thought process, we'd have to tell users who possibly still use that old OS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel this question is valid because your OS isn't supported&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when the problem isn't the OS.  Most of the time it's a configuration or package problem, and most users of any linux know whether their version is supported or not, but have no choice in the matter as to whether to upgrade or not.  Granted, upgrading may or may not solve the issue, but if the OS is being used in such a way that it can't be upgraded easily, i.e a webserver, proxy, etc. where a user only has normal SSH access then that user is stuck, which makes all these old questions valid.  Those users come her to this Exchange to find those answers because they realize that if they went to the OS'es support forum/site they'd always get the canned answer I quoted.  We shouldn't leave those users no recourse, and by doing as the OP suggests, we would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64157" LastEditorUserId="22222" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T17:26:05.930" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T17:26:05.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-29T17:17:58.840" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7195/101265&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; discussion which is about close the old questions and not display them at all. For me closing questions (old ones) is too much. At the end the idea of SE (by my understanding) is to collect and make available solutions in form of question/answer(s)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of closing/not displaying at all the old questions maybe SE devs can just add different colour schema for such old questions. This will help distinguish them, decrease the frustration of visitors, reading/commenting/answering quite old questions and leave only visitors which are happy to answer such question (even if they do not get much visibility and votes for this act).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I do not expect to see such question in negative colour view but just slight darker (for example) colour. Devs for sure will keep in mind the differences must be distinguishable for colour blind people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one line summary: &lt;strong&gt;what is your opinion of &amp;quot;colouring&amp;quot;old questions on main page of each SE site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101265" LastEditorUserId="101265" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T17:27:54.427" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T17:27:54.427" Title="Add colour schema to old quesions on main SE sites" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-31T17:42:20.273" Score="13" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users often post questions with their full shell scripts pasted, asking &amp;quot;Why isn't it working&amp;quot;? In many of those cases, there isn't just a single bug in the script but several small issues (&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/768077/273579&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). Most of the bugs in their scripts could be considered as &amp;quot;duplicates&amp;quot; since there are already specific similar questions for each issue, but the users don't know there are different problems. From his perspective there is one problem - the script doesn't run as expected. Again, see my comments for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/768077/273579&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. Also, we cannot flag it with multiple duplicates (different users could flag with different duplicates, but one person cannot flag with multiple duplicates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, sometimes &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; of those small issues in the script actually doesn't have a specific duplicate, but still the other problems in the script are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user is lucky, someone would write down a detailed answer with all of the bugs, syntax errors and possible corner cases in their scripts. But usually those questions have no benefit for the site - just for the person who posted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some might argue that maybe those questions should be closed based on &amp;quot;lack of focus&amp;quot;, but I think it will just confuse the users that posted the questions that won't know how to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is our approach for those questions? My thought is, ideally there will be some guidelines for submitting those types of questions, that would explain first how they should start debugging and troubleshooting their scripts themselves (instead of turning to this site as a &amp;quot;scripts troubleshooting service&amp;quot;). For instance (just from the top of my head):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.shellcheck.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shellcheck&lt;/a&gt; first&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Run script with &lt;code&gt;-x&lt;/code&gt; to see which commands run&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to isolate the problem and find the exact place where the script fails&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Split long single command lines to shorter one to isolate possible issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add &lt;code&gt;echo&lt;/code&gt; lines before specific lines to check the values of different variables&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe some &amp;quot;common pitfalls&amp;quot; for bash scripting such as double/single quotes, word splitting etc. Maybe even add links to few questions that are &amp;quot;top hitters&amp;quot; that have good answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any I'm sure there are others. But that's just one idea. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273579" LastActivityDate="2024-02-05T11:02:44.660" Title="Shell script fixing service?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7189" CreationDate="2024-02-02T12:24:42.903" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the expected behavior according to the Commonmark spec (&lt;a href=&quot;https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/?text=%0A%3Cbr%2F%3E%0Atext%20%60code%60%20**bold**%0A%0Amore%20text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link against the reference implementation&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; constitutes opening an HTML block , which (for most start conditions) is only terminated by &lt;code&gt;a blank line&lt;/code&gt;. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#html-block&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Commonmark reference spec for HTML block&lt;/a&gt;, the appropriate condition here is number 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93139" LastActivityDate="2024-02-02T12:24:42.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7200" CreationDate="2024-02-05T10:57:36.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two things strike me with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I find it hard to help those who won't help themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a Q&amp;amp;A, not a generic forum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I always try to be helpful to an individual who come's seeking help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My response to such questions would usually fall into one of two categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is asking a specific question about a specific bug in their code and that bug can be traced to a couple of mistakes then just get on and answer the question.  Maybe make a note that there are other mistakes in their code, but not deliberately try to fix every bug, just the one questioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is just saying &amp;quot;this doesn't work&amp;quot; and fixing it means fixing multiple errors (4 or more?) then offer some &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt; suggesting they break it down, direct them to documentation on debugging, refer them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://sscce.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sscce.org&lt;/a&gt;, or even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;how to ask questions the smart way&lt;/a&gt;.  But also let them know they are not really asking a question.  It's better to give them a very good description of why they're not getting the help they wanted than just slam close the question with no feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be very cautious about a vote to close for this, but this is perhaps a good use of a custom reason.  The &amp;quot;lack of focus&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot; reasons are unlikely to let them know why the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20140" LastEditorUserId="20140" LastEditDate="2024-02-05T11:02:44.660" LastActivityDate="2024-02-05T11:02:44.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-08T16:34:22.057" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/460534&quot;&gt;On Feb 2, within the &lt;em&gt;late answers&lt;/em&gt; review queue, I had recommended deletion of some answer.&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;This incidentally triggering some automated comment from my user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How comes that yesterday (Feb 7) &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/460840&quot;&gt;I get the very same answer to review as part of the &lt;em&gt;Low quality posts&lt;/em&gt; review queue&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WTF ? I already had my say about it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;OK… Nevermind !… it's not the same queue… I possibly had forgotten something, not scrupulously followed the procedure, whatever, I reiterate my reco !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This incidentally leading to… duplicating the comment the system had made in my name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When realizing the indeed disgraceful duplicate of some comment of mine, I incidentally browsed the QA and deleted the duplicated comment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Isn't that work overkill with regards to what is actually, since the very beginning nothing but a low quality post ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There must be a bug somewhere. To be handled in some way or another.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Are review queues so easy to empty that whatever post should be reviewed twice (by the same user) ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(131 first questions &amp;amp; 37 first answers remaining todate for the record)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, whatever post I already reviewed in some queue should not be presented to me as part of another queue (this frequently happens with regards to (late answers / first answers queues) &amp;amp; (close votes / first questions)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case this would require too hard rework then either ensure that no automated comment can be posted twice or… at the very minimum, automated comments should be credited to whatever (already-known-disgraceful ^^) &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; user.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't tolerate that my left hand ignores what my right hand achieves… I can accept this from the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; user though :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly OT : How comes I just cannot &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;start a bounty&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; in this meta? (As I would be able to on meta_SE). For the sole sake of staying  on topic, let's restrict to this topic in particular.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If find that honestly and scrupulously reviewing queues is a hard work. I'd be just happy spending my credit if it could just contribute to ease that work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="426539" LastEditDate="2024-02-10T00:15:32.977" LastActivityDate="2024-02-12T16:16:59.683" Title="Review queues : redundantly duplicating… at least… the automated comment" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7203" CreationDate="2024-02-12T16:16:59.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can’t do anything about the appearance of the same post in multiple queues, so I’ll ignore that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as duplicating comments goes, you can avoid that by choosing the first option in the available comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v0OWp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v0OWp.png&quot; alt=&quot;The “Add a comment for the author?” dialog with “No comment needed” selected&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use this in a number of circumstances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if someone else (including perhaps myself in a previous review in another queue) has already left an appropriate comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if I have left a different comment, entered manually&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;perhaps controversially, if I’m voting to delete the post and I have serious doubts as to the usefulness of any comment I will leave&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is in part influenced by the fact that some of the canned comments don’t work all that well, and I haven’t bothered building up my own set of canned comments. (Typically, “This does not really answer the question” when it doesn’t answer the question &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s perhaps also worth pointing out that whenever a post in review bothers you — you can’t decide what the appropriate course of action is, or you’ve already reviewed it and don’t want to review it again — you can always skip it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rmxDy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rmxDy.png&quot; alt=&quot;The “Submit” and “Skip” buttons&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, regarding your last question about bonuses, this is probably a side-effect of the fact that voting actions on meta sites (other than &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;MSE&lt;/a&gt; itself) don’t have any effect on reputation. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/231215/285232&quot;&gt;Bounty-like feature on metas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86440" LastActivityDate="2024-02-12T16:16:59.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7188" CreationDate="2024-03-10T01:14:20.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have ≥ 5000 rep (as &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; do),&#xA;you get to see pending &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tag&lt;/strong&gt; (wiki)&lt;/em&gt; edits&#xA;in the “Suggested edits” queue (and vote to approve or reject them). &#xA;However, if you have &amp;lt; 20000 rep (as &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; do),&#xA;you do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; get the “Improve edit” and “Reject and edit” options&#xA;for tag (wiki) edits,&#xA;because you don't have the privilege&#xA;to edit tag wikis without needing approval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;privilege to approve tag wiki edits&lt;/a&gt; (5,000)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;“trusted users” are allowed to perform trusted actions,&#xA;including … editing tag wikis without needing approval&lt;/a&gt; (20,000)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80216" LastEditorUserId="80216" LastEditDate="2024-04-04T18:18:08.540" LastActivityDate="2024-04-04T18:18:08.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-13T21:33:36.613" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;We didn't have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix-path&quot;&gt;#unix-path&lt;/a&gt; tag until I just made one. (I hope I haven't made trouble by doing so.) The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/path/info&quot;&gt;#PATH&lt;/a&gt; tag (all-caps) is specifically about the environment variable, but not what we refer to on a day-to-day basis, such as the &lt;em&gt;path&lt;/em&gt; to a file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, there are many questions about the &lt;em&gt;paths&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77451/&quot;&gt;Canonical paths: why are they needed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/109380/&quot;&gt;Why does sshd requires an absolute path?&lt;/a&gt; (improperly tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/path/info&quot;&gt;#PATH&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/530396/&quot;&gt;Find the size of file from absolute path&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See just one massive list of possible posts that could benefit from such a tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=absolute+relative+paths&quot;&gt;https://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=absolute+relative+paths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Searching for existing answers with such a tag sure would be helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we have one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would be a meta question related to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would the definition and scope be?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It should probably include canonical, relative, and absolute, right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It should probably exclude &lt;code&gt;$PATH&lt;/code&gt; from the already-existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/path/info&quot;&gt;#PATH&lt;/a&gt; tag, right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should it be called?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix-path&quot;&gt;#unix-path&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#posix-path&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;#paths&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't need one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why not, even with so many posts about the specific concept?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seriously asking, how would it be problematic for our site to unify related questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="315069" LastActivityDate="2024-03-14T01:23:09.943" Title="#unix-path tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7207" CreationDate="2024-03-14T01:23:09.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/filenames&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filenames&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;filenames&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-filenames-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;filenames&lt;/a&gt; tag's excerpt says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;File name is a name used to identify a file uniquely on given file system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To uniquely identity something in a filesystem, the full path is required, so I think this &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt; encompasses paths. At any rate, I don't see a need for separate tags for names vs paths (the only distinction between the two in a Unix system is, after all, that while both can't contain the &lt;code&gt;\0&lt;/code&gt; character, names in addition can't contain &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt;), so if a new tag is made, they should be synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions would be better served by adding tags related to the context in which the path or filename becomes a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70524" LastActivityDate="2024-03-14T01:23:09.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7211" CreationDate="2024-03-20T20:40:39.560" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comments to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/772460/42620&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, @MC68020 addresses a comment to @ilkkachu, thanking them for something.  Yet I do not see a comment by @ilkkachu nor any activity for them.  There must have been something to trigger @MC68020's comment.  Where did it go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comments can be deleted (by moderators?) without any trace, then here's a feature request:  make them stick around, at least in the activity log or some secondary location.  They are of interest to future readers, whatever their content and/or reason for deletion.  I.e. make them move from &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot; status to &amp;quot;historical footnote&amp;quot; status (whatever that might be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42620" OwnerDisplayName="jrw32982" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2024-03-20T22:09:37.473" LastActivityDate="2024-03-22T18:50:57.027" Title="Where is the disappearing comment/activity?" Tags="|support|feature-request|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7209" CreationDate="2024-03-20T20:44:06.277" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the author of the answer has already addressed the comment, it's not unreasonable for it to have been deleted. Similarly, given MC68020's comment is transient, meaning only relevant for a brief moment of time, and that the comment it is targeting is gone, it's reasonable for that comment to be deleted as well. This is what the no longer needed flag exists for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason for these comments to remain visible somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91328" OwnerDisplayName="Kevin B" LastActivityDate="2024-03-20T20:44:06.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7209" CreationDate="2024-03-20T22:00:37.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ilkkachu deleted their comment after receiving a reply in a comment from MC68020, leaving the reply comment dangling.  The dangling reply was subsequently (appropriately) flagged by a user as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot;. I decided to delete &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; comments to the answer as further comments either addressed them, or because the answer had been modified to address the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the current full set of deleted comments on the answer you refer to:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zGiHW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zGiHW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of deleted comments&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are transient. The main reason for comments is to ask for clarification from the author or to point out issues with a text. Once such comments have served their purpose, they should ideally be removed. Sometimes, comments contain interesting tidbits that may not be important or directly relevant to the text, and those kinds of comments could potentially be left as they are unless the author decides to incorporate them into their text, or they could be deleted as their existence is of minor importance to the issue at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19756/how-do-comments-work&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt; on the man StackExchange Meta site and our own help text about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the comment privilege&lt;/a&gt; (awarded at 50 reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last month, I have deleted 129 comments (our moderator's &amp;quot;dashboard&amp;quot; tells me; many of these would have been flagged by users for various reasons), and last year we all (including you guys) deleted just over 13k comments (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7191/2023-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2023: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116858" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2024-03-21T07:54:16.547" LastActivityDate="2024-03-21T07:54:16.547" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7209" CreationDate="2024-03-22T00:16:36.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want first to offer my sincere apologizes to jrw32982 and Kusalananda for any disturbance my own mishandling of this precise situation might have caused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, I fully support OP's feature request. Answers… answer (or not), &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6003/all-actions-comments-should-keep-track-of-comments-versed-into-chat&quot;&gt;comments help me to understand and think by myself&lt;/a&gt;. Not to say that &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7165/make-users-display-name-changes-less-confusing&quot;&gt;I am often lost because of misc. fiddlings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the precise case you mention, mods rightly deleted it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;My comment was just not standing at the right place.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had initially answered the question in some way.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then ilkkachu rightly criticistes it in comments,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then acknowledging the pertinence of their comment, I quasi-entirely rewrite my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then… I comment in order to (apart from thanking ilkkachu) explain to OP &amp;amp; other initial commentators/readers why I had rewritten my answer (by reference to ilkkachu's comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ilkkachu (correctly) deletes their comment that had become obsolete following my re-edit, mine stands consequently nonsensical and rightly entitled to mod's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that &lt;strong&gt;I had better filled the &amp;quot;Edit Summary&amp;quot; field when re-editing my answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My bad then, apologizes to all once again, but… anyway… +1 for your feature request… in general ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="426539" LastEditorUserId="116858" LastEditDate="2024-03-22T18:50:57.027" LastActivityDate="2024-03-22T18:50:57.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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