can someone post something on meta.superuser.com for me? I was mistreated by some moderator and my account was suspended.
They stated that I asked many questions. They said that my asking questions was to ask for a tutor. They said that most of my questions are low quality
Besides answers, questions can also benefit many people when they have the same or similar questions in future. Asking questions is also another kind of contribution to the site. Not many people have time to write their questions and just skip their problems.
The Q and A website is for computer users and learners at all levels.
And in some cases quality does matter - you have a ton of fairly theoretical questions closed by the community recently, The main site isn't really a good place for "Explain this thing I read on wikipedia"
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I'd also add, while the suspension was by mod, the closures were by users, so really it was the community that considers the questions low quality
(Also, I'd point out the difference between high rep users and mods proper, but as a 50K user on math, you should know that)
And that's to say, I'd rather deal with it here, than have someone post on your behalf, especially where in a sense, that circumvents the whole 'cooling off' part of the suspension
@Tim Trying to infer the "why" that someone did something on SuperUser is often a fool's errand. If the questions were low quality, but had been humored because some people thought they had a good premise, they could still have been closed for low quality. Too bad that nobody went through them and edited them to improve the quality....
@Tim Just looking at a few of your questions, a number are of legitimately low quality. At the very least, they show a significant shortage of research.
When typing ps aux, what does each column of the output mean? For example
$ ps aux
timothy 29217 0.0 0.0 11916 4560 pts/21 S+ 08:15 0:00 pine
root 29505 0.0 0.0 38196 2728 ? Ss Mar07 0:00 sshd: can [priv]
can 29529 0.0 0.0 38332 1904 ? S Mar07 ...
I am just wondering how I can find out in bash how many CPU cores a user is now using on a Linux Server?
I am submitting a fair amount of background jobs to the server, so I'd like to write a bash script to check before I submit a job if the running jobs (processes) submitted by me are too many,...
I've tried flagging things as "low quality" before, and it continuously backfired. I got rejected and refused retorts to flags because some excessively energetic person was willing to exert the misguided effort of salvaging the post.
I won't be burned ever again using the "low quality" flag. I'll just downvote and move on.
@JourneymanGeek OK, so a high quantity of salvage attempters makes the "low quality" flag even less salvageable.
The flag is dead to me. It shouldn't be. But it is. Too bad really.
I don't have the energy to remedy every bit of junk that occurs. Neither does everybody (combined) else. Just because something [could] be repaired doesn't mean that it [should] be.
"You asked junk. Try again." should not be disregarded as an anti-crap measure.
I think that there's insufficient dictatorial control. The attempt to humor democracy, which is worthy, leads to some serious junk doing iceberg damage to communities.
I wouldn't say the laptop is overpriced. There's two GTX 980M GPUs in SLI on this laptop, about $1,100 in GPUs alone. You're talking about 3072 CUDA cores in 24 SMMs. That is an enormous amount of GPU power. $3000-$3500 is about right for a system of this caliber (extreme gaming-class laptop). — DragonLord18 mins ago
I wouldn't say the laptop is overpriced. There's two GTX 980M GPUs in SLI on this laptop. You're talking about 3072 CUDA cores in 24 SMMs. That is an enormous amount of GPU power. The processor itself costs more than $600. $3000-$3500 is about right for a system of this caliber (extreme gaming-class laptop). — DragonLord9 secs ago
@JourneymanGeek Server Fault is downhill from what I can tell
Big shift away from the professional focus, lower quality content
@killermist Your way of picking my old posts shows your lack of understanding and self-centerness.
I have stopped using Thanks and regards for quite a while. Sometimes Thanks to show show my appreciation, even though I know it is not well received by some. I have my reason to do so
I read some of your posts. It is too long and dificult to undrestand what you are trying to say. Time is precious, why not cut your long post short to let others understand better?
although it seems like I am criticizing you, I don't want to. I have my limitations, and I am not beter than you, just like you aren't than me.
I won't try to write long just for the sake of showing so called "research"
If I write long, that is because it can clarify my questions beter.
If I write short, it is because being concise makes my questions clearer.
If you keep picking, you can always find this and that to throw at me.
But it only shows how superficial and narrow minded you are.
@Oliver Salzburg, one thing to keep in mind is that Windows 7 was designed for spinning rust, not SSDs, and 1-4GB of RAM, not 12. It's not gospel, it should be obvious that there are times when one-size-fits-all defaults don't apply, and the solution isn't to keep advocating to don't think about it and never touch those defaults no matter what when someone wants to more deeply understand an issue. That's fine for noobs, but not for everyone. — SilverbackNet2 hours ago
A Windows 7 machine with 12 GB of RAM? Well, I'll be...
I'm actually currently moving our application stack from our proprietary authentication mechanism to one based on OAuth2. I shouldn't be joking about shitty security :P
Heh, funny stuff. Our internet connection just went down. So I went downstairs to check on our cable modem and was quite surprised that our neighbor was talking to a cable company dude at the door
So, naturally, I asked him if he just fucked with our hookup
Which he didn't and the connection was up a few minutes later
But it's gotta suck real hard if you try to sell your internet service to someone and right at that moment their service goes down :P
@Bob honestly, I'm on a budget for getting something like a flight stick for Star Citizen. I'm going to wait at least until it's well into beta and the optimization and stuff has started, then I'm going to see what other people are using, and look for good value and lowish price
no way in fuck I'm spending $500... my budget might reach $150. MAYBE.
I consider LinkedIn somewhat frustrating. You can't see someone's info unless you are already on linkedin, and you can only see their full profile after you add them. But I suppose imployers only get intereted on someone when they see their info.
@ThatBrazilianGuy I consider LinkedIn somewhat frustrating. You can't see someone's info unless you are already on linkedin, and you can only see their full profile after you add them. But I suppose employers only get intereted on someone when they see their info. (source)
@CanadianLuke If I wanted one myself, I'd test it myself.
Point is, I don't actually need the installation. I just want to know the test results.
(Which I could still do myself, but if someone here has a Win8 VM handy that saves me quite a bit of bother, and wouldn't be too hard for them either.)
Posting this question to answer myself.
I downloaded the MS supplied VirtualPC image for Windows XP / IE6 testing from http://modern.ie and tried to login using the documented credentials of IEUser / Passw0rd! (referenced in the MS supplied release notes):
https://modernievirt.blob.core.windows...
superuser.com/a/871342/98855 <--- sort of funny, when the question is how to determine the "skill" of the user when assisting them with a problem. I knew how to copy paste, i just did not know What The Heck your even saying :-)
Meaning it would probably be easier to understand the skills of the user if there are not language barriers to begin with.
