Let me preface this with a run-down of the reputation system:
Users on the site can cast up- and downvotes and accepting, each giving or taking reputation to other users and themselves. An upvote on an answer gives the answerer +10 reputation, an upvote on a
question gives the asker +5 reputati...
The system for closing questions on an SE site is rather simple. There are various types of close reasons and votes, that fit in roughly three categories:
Low Quality Posts
The close reaons "unclear what you're asking", "primarily opinion-based" and "too broad" are intended for questions that, ...
Over the last year in particular, Ask Ubuntu has made a great deal of advancements regarding its standing in the wider Ubuntu community. The prominent integration in the new Canonical topbar, as well as
help texts and install slides telling users about Ask Ubuntu gives us the unique position of ...
@Mateo Well, if I'm not mistaken they're testing how well they work, right now.
But right now it's pretty much "experienced users saying 'Uh-oh, don't go there.'" vs the community upvoting "it's still software, so give us all teh game recs!" ...
one of the main reasons I can't not be in the close queue as before is because I find crappy questions in the flag queues (a crappy answer is a possible indication of a crappy question)
I had a Windows OS earlier and could use Team Viewer to connect to my Samsung phone and execute actions.
However that was not only very slow but also very slow in response.
Is there any other way to sort of open an RDP session to the phone from my Ubuntu 13.10?
well that's when I said that I couldn't understand what I've read. I'm fairly weak on knowledge (and even language to be honest XD) ... so I just need to keep trying! okay thanks :D — Mina Michael8 hours ago
when you can't understand a well through answer, is because you have a banana split, a screw driver and a quantum physics book and try to make spacial science
@searchfgold6789 You may have misunderstood the intention of my meta Qs a bit: These serve as a PSA/Call to Action, rather than posing an actual question. Any input on how to take action and what actions to take, however, is well-appreciated. ;)
Meta can be used to report site bugs, discuss site policy, bring forth issues with the community as a whole, or just simply ask questions about the day-to-day and specific instances.
Yup, it's an A8-5600K. It's currently set to 3.6 GHz.
@searchfgold6789 I'm not terribly knowledgeable when it comes to Radeon GPUs. I spent the last few years with an Nvidia card.
Let me put it this way - suppose I was to spend $100-$150 on a video card. Would something in that price range likely be a problem with only 600-watts?
My A4 with the HD5750 is doing more than swimmingly with a 500. Keep it well cooled and everything and I'd assume 600 is quite comfortable. However I wish I could give you better informed advice, not having run your kind of setup before.
I'm trying to run below puppet manifest to set 'IST' timezone.
class { 'timezone':
timezone => 'IST',
}
When I run puppet apply timezone.pp, it installs properly. But when I check system date, It's same as before. I don't see any change in timezone. Also when I change IST to PST or some othe...
I didn't know how to flag this question and ended up choosing 'other (needs ♦ moderator attention)' and leaving a note as to why I think it should be closed.
This turns out to be the wrong way to go - so which reason would be correct in this case?
P.S I wanted to choose 'This is not about Ubunt...
I wish I can know how profile views are incrementing.
Is it about Me logging in and out?
Or it's about somebody else visiting my profile?
And if so, assuming that he refreshed the page, does it increase?
Or he will have to logout and login again to let it increase?
And what about some robot...
A lot of newer processors have parts of their core dedicated to doing AES instructions. This means the 'cost' of encryption, in terms of power and processor use is less, since these parts do that one job more efficiently and faster. This means its easier to encrypt things, and as such you have be...
I see a lot of users who do the following:
Sign up to askubuntu
Ask a question
And never respond or comment or reply
Can we add a timeout for the activity on the question so that if no body returns back, his question will be deleted
So far most of the reactions to the 2014 candidatures concern user activity here at Meta. Why so? How relevant can it be to the requirements of a moderator?
Please read the whole body before just clicking downvote button.I am sure there are more people who would just vote down without reading whole body.
What is reputation?
According to the help page, Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you
The Issues
Now when...
@AvinashRaj @xiaodongjie the answer that the system looked at your 3 questions, noticed that 2 are closed, and the other has downvotes. It has temporarily blocked your account from asking questions to give you a chance to improve your other questions.
I'm intrigued by the fact of knowing which question/s actually started Ask Ubuntu.
So, what was the first question on Ask Ubuntu?
Please post a link and eventually a screenshot of the question/s, for future readcomers.
On Stack Overflow it was this one, by a sockpuppet created by Jeff Atwood (...
@xiaodongjie html tags/ markdown can be used to improve the clarity of a question or an answer. Like this: This test is bold.This text is italics.This text is enclosed by backtick characters to indicate a code block This text has a link in it.
@xiaodongjie In that case you already know more than many people who ask or answer questions here. Also try not to leave out any necessary information in your question/answer. Many people will give up if they think that you are making them guess about something that you could easily tell them yourself.
This isn't the first time I've seen this, in fact it always seems to result in the same outcome: multiple users appear, one posts a bad post, the other edits it until they've got enough reputation to get in chat, and then "fun" ensues:
Since people can accept edits against their own posts and ...
@AvinashRaj You will get the same questions in the primary phase what you would get in the nomination phase, but you will have less time to write a good reply to them. Also one of the first question will ask: "Why did you wait for the last hour with you nomination?" :)
So I don't think it is useful. If you want to nominate yourself, just go ahead.
LOL. I was wrong. I was just told that there is no more commenting in the primary phase. LOL.
"In the primary phase, all nominees advance to preliminary community voting. Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the primary.
There is no commenting in this phase, only one up or down vote per candidate. The candidate vote scores are all public. Initial voting should provide a rough sense of which candidates are most electable."
We need a java or python application running over Ubuntu (no GUI needed) that will send a stealth SMS to the target cell phone via a USB GSM Modem. Target phone should return at least Location area Code(LAC) and its Cell ID (CID)data and store that information in a mysql database table. NO application to be installed on the target phone. Now what do I do?
@falconer I'm half way. No new comments should be allowed (the drama would be unbearable) but I think the comments should SHOW under the nominations until the start of finals.
Follow up to What's wrong, Ask Ubuntu?: Closures
In the closure queue I just was presented with Gimp too complicated; Pinta/GnuPaint/etc. too simple from May 2012 with 4 answers - supposedly "opinion-based".
I don't see the benefit for the site in such closures, I'd prefer not to have it in the...
I had a Windows OS earlier and could use Team Viewer to connect to my Samsung phone and execute actions.
However that was not only very slow but also very slow in response.
Is there any other way to sort of open an RDP session to the phone from my Ubuntu 13.10?
I'm trying to run below puppet manifest to set 'IST' timezone.
class { 'timezone':
timezone => 'IST',
}
When I run puppet apply timezone.pp, it installs properly. But when I check system date, It's same as before. I don't see any change in timezone. Also when I change IST to PST or some othe...
I wish I can know how profile views are incrementing.
Is it about Me logging in and out?
Or it's about somebody else visiting my profile?
And if so, assuming that he refreshed the page, does it increase?
Or he will have to logout and login again to let it increase?
And what about some robot...
It might be against all rules, but I want to reach out here and ask Seth to nominate himself to be a moderator.
Please say yes Seth!
With respect to aditya-patil request for showing up my flag history in my nomination discussion here, How could i serve such request?
So far most of the reactions to the 2014 candidatures concern user activity here at Meta. Why so? How relevant can it be to the requirements of a moderator?
Please read the whole body before just clicking downvote button.I am sure there are more people who would just vote down without reading whole body.
What is reputation?
According to the help page, Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you
The Issues
Now when...
I'm intrigued by the fact of knowing which question/s actually started Ask Ubuntu.
So, what was the first question on Ask Ubuntu?
Please post a link and eventually a screenshot of the question/s, for future readcomers.
On Stack Overflow it was this one, by a sockpuppet created by Jeff Atwood (...
This isn't the first time I've seen this, in fact it always seems to result in the same outcome: multiple users appear, one posts a bad post, the other edits it until they've got enough reputation to get in chat, and then "fun" ensues:
Since people can accept edits against their own posts and ...
What kind of connection? Internet connection? USB connection? Asdfghjkl connection? It should be blacklisted, I think.
Follow up to What's wrong, Ask Ubuntu?: Closures
In the closure queue I just was presented with Gimp too complicated; Pinta/GnuPaint/etc. too simple from May 2012 with 4 answers - supposedly "opinion-based".
I don't see the benefit for the site in such closures, I'd prefer not to have it in the...
