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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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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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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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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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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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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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2014 [duplicate]
It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013 [duplicate]
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
Well... we apparently missed 2H 2011. Whoops. Well, time waits for no one, so we start 2012 of Community Promotion Ads!
What in the Wide, Wide ...
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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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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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"Posting a link to a Google search could most certainly be considered rude by many users"
So, let me get this straight. Posting links is not against SE rules. However suddenly and it's the first time I hear this: "posting a link to a Google search could most certainly be considered ...
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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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Remove useless-uses-of-cat or not?
Sometimes I come across superfluous uses of cat, e.g.:
$ cat file | grep pattern
instead of:
$ grep pattern file
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$ cat file | somecommand options
instead of:
$ somecommand options < file
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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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Are new users subjected to prejudicial or intensified scrutiny by reviewers?
I have an experience to share as a new contributor to unix.stackexchange.com where I sensed some slight undercurrents of prejudice. It would be great to receive a response from the users mentioned ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How should we deal with question answered in the comments?
I recently found this: Is it possible to convert audio to midi with the shell?
As you can see, the person actually leading to the answer used the comments section to provide his answer instead of ...
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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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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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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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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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"Teaching how to fish" considered abusive?
My comment on this question:
idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch, idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt - Have you consulted the tar man page?
Reaction:
Given that the answer is not in the tar man page, why ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it acceptable to transcribe images?
More often than I'd like, I see screenshots of terminal emulators while browsing through the newest questions and the "First Posts" review queue. If, given the context of the post, it is clear that ...
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