Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. have announced a network-wide policy for AI content
A couple of days ago, Stack Exchange Inc., the company running these sites, announced a new policy for handling AI content.
This policy goes against our own, local policy on how to deal with AI ...
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General moderators' strike
Open letter here: https://openletter.mousetail.nl
I haven't decided what I think about this yet.
It seemed fairly apparent months ago that technical support was a prime target for ChatGPT et al., and ...
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Is there a summary of Code of Conduct changes?
When a company (e.g. a bank) changes their Terms and Conditions then they typically provide a high level summary of the changes, and then link to the complete T&C. This is because it's not ...
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Temporary blockade on unregistered participation
Due to the recent low-quality posts on U&L, I've asked the Community Managers to disable unregistered participation on our site. They have recently enacted that change. Hopefully this encourages ...
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Why is it if anyone asks a question, no one can ever just give the answer for the question?
If someone asks a question why do people have a hard time just giving the simple answer? There is always some alternative answer that sometimes has nothing to do with the sought after information. ...
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Are ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex questions on-topic?
ChromeOS is the Linux-based operating system that is found on Chromebooks, made by Google. It uses the Google Chrome browser as the main interface.
ChromeOS Flex is the same operating system meant for ...
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Do we have a go-to reference Q&A for "I want to do {grep,sed,awk} on {xml,json,yaml,csv with text}, how do I shoot myself in the foot?" questions?
This still seems to be a very common topic. Over time, and I guess that's a sign of how the tools matured, our answers and comments to all of these end up being:
It's very nice that you want to use ${...
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Potential U&L impact from TOS change on Imgur
I've just become aware of Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!, which quotes:
We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content ...
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Should we flag comments after making an edit?
I asked my first question over on a different SE site recently.
After an initial false start I was advised by a mod that when I edit my question to deal with comments, I can / should flag the comments ...
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can't publish a question "This looks like spam."
I'm trying to publish this question but I can't as the body is marked with "This looks like spam.". Any idea how I can fix my post? Thanks
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What is the link to the android site?
URL link needed for the Android site for these questions same as Linux. Thank you.
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Add one additional reason for closing or reword the "opinion based" reason
Facts :
There are a couple of posts, here (on meta), from contributors wording their misunderstanding about the reasons that motivated the closure of their question for the reason that :
This ...
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The comment with a link to an example removed (by the moderator, I assume)
I commented on I can run playbook on user but not on crontab
My comment: "See Run Ansible playbooks in cron
The potential answer to the question is very complex and is out of scope here. I was ...
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Proper tag for discussing tun interfaces
I've noticed that many questions about tun network interfaces are tagged with the [tunneling] tag. This doesn't seem appropriate since, as I understand things, such an interface doesn't provide ...
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Is it okay to post, here on meta, a simple Thank You to our moderators?
I would just like to write a very large "Thank you" to our moderators here, past and present. Things I've recently discovered on other sites across SE have brought into sharp focus the way ...
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Moderators accepting answer on behalf of lost users
Sometimes I find old questions with perfectly reasonable answers with none of them checked as solved.
An example I found today:
How can I get neovim to load my init.vim file when in sudo mode?
It is 4 ...
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Tag "not-root-user" as synonym for "non-root-user"
I have stumbled across two tags which seem to cover exactly the same thing yet only differ by one letter: non-root-user (42 questions) vs. not-root-user (371 questions).
I have created a synonym ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Tag Synonym: "Container" and "Containers"
I do not have enough points on either tag to suggest a synonym properly, but anyone here who does should:
container
containers
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Problem with publishing my first post properly
I am posting my fist question here and have made many mistakes so far so I have ended up with more than one post (I don't really understand how many) about the same question.
I don't know how to ...
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I tried to post a question but the preview became garbled
newbie here !
I pasted a text with my question and several parts of code and tried to mark them, and posted it but when I edited it to correct a typo the marking was distorted and several codes ...
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What questions should go here vs. ask different?
Since Mac OS is a unix-based OS, I'm wondering what kind of questions should be asked in askdifferent vs. the UNIX StackExchange? Is it as simple as "if you are asking about something while using ...
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Are my answers just meh or are they being overlooked by Winter Bash excitement?
I've answered 9 questions here in December and all but one are at zero score.
Zero score with no comments:
Why ping results varied with the CPU load
e2fsck deletes many inodes, recovers too little ...
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maybe my questions are not in the right place
I have noticed that you generally seem to be unhappy with my questions. I also read that "Stack Overflow" may be a proper place for questions of such kind.
Should I turn to Stack Overflow ...
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Why was my answer downvoted?
Can someone tell me why my answer was downvoted? All I can see is that it was reviewed and the reviewer said "looks ok" but I have a downvote on it. How can I see why it was downvoted, or by ...
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How do we want to handle AI-generated answers?
New software has been released recently named ChatGPT that is causing quite a stir around the network:
Could ChatGPT be a viable way to answer people's questions?
Temporary policy: ChatGPT is banned
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Is migration to Stack Overflow blocked?
Recently, I have seen a couple of posts that I think were supposed to be migrated to SO, but weren't. Community locks them like it would for migrated questions and then almost immediately unlocks them....
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What to do when finding a case of ambiguity between two tags?
Although it seems similar, it is a different case from this one.
My question goes on the other hand; and is that reviewing several questions about rxvt-unicode, I have found that there are times that ...
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How should I approach a discussion question about a specific Unix&Linux software?
The question is to guide me to select an init for a system without systemd (runit, openrc, s6, dinit...).
I understand that this is a discussion question about personal opinions, but I honestly ...
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How do you turn on Dark Mode on this unix.stackexchange.com web site? [duplicate]
Even though my browser (Vivaldi) is set to display web pages in dark mode, when it comes to unix.stackexchange.com it just displays in bright white.
Is there a way to turn the Dark Mode On on unix....
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How can I ask a moderator why he deleted my answer?
Some days ago I tried answering a question but it appeared the user asked multiple questions. But due to context, they still seem to connect to the same problem
A moderator deleted my answer with: &...
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Is it considered appropriate to edit multiple answers of another user into a single answer?
Sometimes, users post multiple answers to the same question. (Examples: Boot taking forever with a 106 JBOD attached. - WARNING: Device /dev/xxx not initialized in udev database even after waiting ...
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The search box sure needs some improvement
On trying to find some code that contains a (with the quotes included) "}" I did a search for code:"}" but that just search for a simple } as it takes the double quotes as some ...
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How do I find my own questions?
I would like to edit my previous question(s). How?
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.
For help formulating a ...
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all actions / comments should keep track of comments versed into chat
I find the all actions / comments list (on the user's profile: https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/$userId/$userName?tab=activity&sort=comments) useful since one is not necessarily notified ...
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Why did you delete my answer? It's not spam or anything crazy
No reason to delete answers unless they are in extreme violation of the rules. Just because you don't think my answer is very good shouldn't warrant deletion or censorship.
Please undelete my answer: ...
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Users having offered a bounty on a question should be allowed to comment irrespective of their credit
The rule (I find just absurd) forbidding any user to comment if its credit is lower than some_value_I_do_not_remember leads to some inconvenience at least in one particular case we can discover in ...
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Why is there a delay to accept one's own answer to one's own question?
Just surprised today regarding this question for which I found and just posted an answer.
Since the answer perfectly & logically… answers my question, I tried to accept it (in order for the ...
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Remove answers already commented by some moderator from review queues
I'm left surprised by some answer presented in the late answers review queue.
Considering Kusalananda (it could have been whatever other moderator) commented that answer 16 hours ago without taking ...
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Has it ever been officially stated that question authors shouldn't answer to requests for clarification in the comments?
I recently asked a question author to add information from answers (posted as comments) to "request for clarification"-type comments also into the original question.
The negative feedback ...
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What is the problem here?
In this question Remove multiple header from csv file I have been informed that I should go to Meta (Here I am!) by a moderator in the comments (hope that they don't get erased).
So, I wonder: why is ...
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Appropriate action to undertake when the real problem is not related to the question
As being the most recent occurrence of the (not so accute ;-) ) problem I'm facing is that precise thread.
After precisely answering OP's question (as worded), read & wrote n+1 comments, I (in the ...
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Do we need tags for zombie or defunct processes?
The zombie-process has zero watchers and 36 questions in 11 years. Yesterday a new tag defunct was created for defunct processes (no watchers). I don't see what value these tags add if nobody's ...
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How to prevent "Community bot" fiddlings from (uselessly) messing the TOP QUESTIONS order?
Let's have an example taken from now :
This thread ( No Wifi adapter found - HP Laptop - Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS ) is being popped up by the community bot asserted modified some minutes ago.
Looking at the ...
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Shouldn't we say Gnu stack exchange not linux or unix
Shouldn't we call this the Gnu stack exchange and not call it the linux or unix stack exchange? We aren't here to ask questions or talk about the kernel, we are here talking about the gigantic suite ...
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Mass editing to change generic example URLs
Recently, a user started to submit a series of edit suggestions that change the TLD .com to .example in generic URLs used in console command examples (see e.g. this edit suggestion). In many cases, ...
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Why was I notified on comments where I was not mentioned?
I commented twice on this Question : Text disappearing and reappearing
Twice, the OP responded to my comments, but did not put in "@Prem", which would generally not have notified me.
Still, ...
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Editing: command tools format
When I'm going to edit a Q/A, often I find that command tools such as awk, grep, sed are not highlighted or formatted in any way, even from high rep users (which could be just that they missed it).
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Querying previous users
I would like to ask a user about a previous question they have posted. Either PM or add a query to an existing post.
Apparently this is not available.
They asked a question similar to the one I have. '...
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Duplicated question, new answer
A question is an exact duplicate of an older one.
A new answer into the new post has a suggestion based on a new feature introduced, this answer does not exist into the old post.
What should be done?
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