Questions tagged [discussion]
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Is it a common statistical distribution that 2 of 3 review voters are 2 of 5 close voters?
Just for information:
Is it a common statistical distribution for Stackexchange Unix&Linux, that 2 of 3 review voters for reopening closed questions are 2 of 5 close voters for a question?
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Flag suspected AI generated answer for moderation
I recently stumbled with this answer and some aspects of it raised my suspicion that it is AI generated, albeit with slight modifications made by the poster. The answer in itself is highly technical ...
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"smart" tags being not helpful as they are now
Preparing to ask a question about smartmontools, I tired to filter existing questions using the correct tag(s).
However searching for tags matching "smart" I realized that none of the tags ...
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limit the length of titles to improve readability?
Long titles make posts unreadable. Some people even include long error message in a title which makes a real mess of the post. I often skip posts with long rambling titles altogether.
Should we have ...
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Policy on creation of distribution tags for derivatives
Triggered by the recent (attempted) introduction of two tags for ArchLinux derivatives (EndeavourOS and BlackArch), I wonder whether there is an established policy and/or thresholds for creating tags ...
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#unix-path tag?
We didn't have a #unix-path tag until I just made one. (I hope I haven't made trouble by doing so.) The #PATH tag (all-caps) is specifically about the environment variable, but not what we refer to on ...
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Shell script fixing service?
Users often post questions with their full shell scripts pasted, asking "Why isn't it working"? In many of those cases, there isn't just a single bug in the script but several small issues (...
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Add colour schema to old quesions on main SE sites
This question is inspired by this discussion which is about close the old questions and not display them at all. For me closing questions (old ones) is too much. At the end the idea of SE (by my ...
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Can we please permanently close threads which are longer than 2 year inactive?
Can we please permanently close threads which are longer than 2 years inactive?
I'm getting sick to read old posts about ancient Debian systems, because some moderator decided it would be a good idea ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Editing an existing answer of a closed-duplicate question vs adding a new answer to the duplicated?
I posted an answer to some question prior to that question being (rightfully) closed duplicate.
OP went on commenting my answer eventually asking for more explanations / details which are not provided ...
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U&L Help Center article for our policy on AI-generated content
Minutes after I posted Do we want to enable an "AI-generated content" banner?, the Main Meta question was updated to ask us to fill in the "Learn more" link with our site's policy ...
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Do we want to enable an "AI-generated content" banner?
Given the recent announcement Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content and given our stance in How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?, it ...
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why my question got closed?
I joined the community few days back and used 1 question to ask many. I got dinged ie got -1 from two experts saying i have asked too many. Fair enough, I edited that question to Questions on Linux ...
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Delete question from Ask Ubuntu and post it in U&L
I made a question in Ask Ubuntu trying to solve an issue that I need for my work. I chose Ask Ubuntu because the server I'm working is Ubuntu 22.04 server.
But the question is 4 days old now, has only ...
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