This guy asked about elementary OS. I voted to notify the moderators, I commented letting him know it's off topic. But why didn't you migrate it to superuser or unix.se?
I'm not trying to defend him. I'm trying to follow this rule written under the mint tag, it clearly says:
For questions ab...
new use based raspi project. i want to set up my electric heater as a gas backup, but it plugs in to a standard US 110~120 outlet and has no thermostat. just a how hard do i run of my maximum capacity knob. raspi web or scada interface for a run cycle/off cycle, thermostat reading for temperature, etc so i can leave it on but not on as a just in case.
I went digging further ... 12 now. And I skipped some cobbled-together verbatim copies of multiple articles ...
This is ridiculous.
Seriously, almost every post is either a two-line low-quality post that we can't even check for plagiarism, or an almost completely copied article off another site.
probably. XP was just ignoring smart. ubuntu was listening and refused to install on failing disks. yes time for a new laptop/disk, but not as a ragequit.
@Braiam they started looking for prolific users and sending death threats and we will come to your house via email.
no seriously... they actually did that.
pinged Oli in another room since they mention him by name and pinged support so they know it's going on. i'm not worried about it, i just want the right people to know that it's actually a thing.
@Alvar you are beating a dead horse... dobey didn't agreed with the close, I told him that if he looked at the revision, the close was correct. There's nothing else to discuss.
@Alvar err... read the question again... he doesn't want to boot Ubuntu, he wants to know why only the development version works with his shiny new lappy
@Alvar Well, it's my laptop, so I have to hibernate or suspend frequently ... But since both of those mess up the graphics tie and end up showing me a black screen, I have to fully shut down every time.
@FEichinger yup! you are right,it keeps changing its goals in search of the niche that will make it profitable for Shuttleworth. Debian's stability and consistency are very reassuring after you get tired of being jerked around by Ubuntu's constant changes of direction.
@Braiam google is your friend. askubuntu.com/q/413790/10698 I think there's a list on wikipedia.. but you can't trust that since everyone can edit that site! RIGHT?! RIGHT?!
@user41631 just install another DE instead of a new operating system.. it's much faster..
Can't Upgrade Graphics of Intel via "Intel Graphic installer for Linux". PLease Help! I see this error:
and after that, the 'report' button is unavailable. what to do? help
by the way, i use intel grafics
That explains why the question was rapidly deleted and now @Braiam and @Alvar can know who they were/are dealing with and also know who I was referring to a couple of minutes ago. CRAP!!!!
For that matter, I am quite close to putting quite a bunch of people in this room on ignore, because I really feel like the old guy sitting around and being nostalgic about ye olde times when this room didn't give me a reason to ignore people.
@FEichinger, my problem is this. A particular person has been asking questions under different names and I have committed my time to answering some of them. It upsets me that I don't realise until too late that I'm answering this person.
@FEichinger, I'm somewhat older than you if you're 19 and I have been active here, watching what this particular user has been upto. Both here and in the main section. You may think it's not my concern but I disagree because even it's a couple of minutes, it is time I wasted thinking I was helping someone genuine. I don't know if this explains why I'm upset but that's about it. I hope you understand.
These are the tools you have, you use them, that's it. Whether or not the moderators choose to take what action is a different matter, and something that really shouldn't concern you - for reasons of privacy as well as simple moderation.
As for the questions: It's a question, you have an answer, so post the answer. The user themself should at that point be irrelevant. If you're suspicious of them, repeat the above step: flag if necessary.
So, yes, just because I'm not active in Chat or in the review queue, doesn't mean I'm not doing my bit in Ask Ubuntu. I don't get why you feel "it doesn't concern" me. This is a community-moderated site and you and I are "moderators" to the extent our privileges go.
With the number and a couple personal details, the person could hack into your account with social engineering and empty it. They could do the same if you sent them a physical check, but who uses checks, nowadays?
@FEichinger That's your opinion and whatever you mean by "background checks". Yesterday I ran a "background" check to find out the source of plagiarism before I "flagged" it.
@vasa1 My point is that you don't get to dictate what is to be done about a user, and you cannot make an assessment about accounts possibly belonging to the same person. You can flag, and let the moderators handle it, that's where your - and my - privileges end, with good reason.
@user41631 That still doesn't explain what on Earth you're fearing.
BTW, if you're from India, the police arrest first and ask questions later. Because of certain events over the last decade or so, internet misuse is not being treated lightl. It would be really unfortunate if later it is found out that a person under suspicion has a record of any sort. So my friendly advice is to give up such activity.
@FEichinger, let's not twist things around and use terms like "dictate". I have what I think is a problem and what I think concerns Ask Ubuntu. I'm putting it out there. I'm not dictating.
Frankly, I'll be quite blunt here: I've been here maybe a handful of times in the last couple of months, and every time I ended up witnessing something that was, to be honest, disgusting. These are things that, back when I was active here, would've gotten you shunned within seconds of writing or doing. And with every iteration that got worse. When I come here nowadays, I'm shocked by how far this room - and parts of the site - have fallen.
But there are still some lines that I'll stand up for. And one of those is that there's a reason we have hidden flags instead of public trials. Some things are - with good reason - left to moderators and their council, rather than the community as a whole.
@FEichinger: I'm curious what. This is primarily about one user, and some types of community action are open by default. Hidden flags are designed to protect the flagger, not the person being flagged.
@vasa1 No, you didn't specify the person. You said things like "that user" and "this one person" ... Really charming and does a great job at getting your point across.
@FEichinger: What's the right thing to do if a user has had a history of annoying behaviour, many gentle reminders to the 'right' thing, many names, and gets annoyed when we mention the original name we knew him by? ;p
@JourneymanGeek Heck, I don't even know what exactly is going on, and that's kinda my point: We can't know that. That's to be left for moderators, and that's why it should be flagged instead of publicly called out.
Oh No! I thought you were talking about vasa1 since a couple of minutes! What is the problem of everyone here? Mods are here to handle this! just flag and move on! they knnow the real truth
@user41631 I have no problem defending that this is a matter for moderators, but pretending to have done nothing wrong and the like doesn't help your case at all.
@JourneymanGeek I'm really not talking about you with all of this. I'm mostly talking about all of these faces that I've never seen here.
@user41631 use what's comfortable. it's about using what does what you need. if you want a robe and slippers wear them. if you'ld rather wear flip-flops, do that.
openbox ootb has really weak compositing. like the built-in is just grab wallpaper for background of the composite. no layering or anything. it makes sense in a way, but it's not what i need.
i'ld be interested to see temp and power consumption comparisons between nvidia and amd comparable cards. i know what my user experience tells me ;)
i like right click on the desktop for the menu-system. that's a massive feature. add wallpaper with feh. volume with alsa-mixer. you just don't have an applet dropbox.
@user41631 We caught your Utkarsh/Dew account vote-rigging twice. That's why we suspended you. The reason we're deleting your new accounts is because rather than abstain for a month, you've decided to be a baby about it. Cheaters are not welcome here.
@Oli speaking of cheaters, that guy we flagged repeatedly for stealing content from elsewhere on the internet doesn't appear to have lost the amount of reputation he should have lost from all of the answers that were deleted
This guy asked about elementary OS. I voted to notify the moderators, I commented letting him know it's off topic. But why didn't you migrate it to superuser or unix.se?
I'm not trying to defend him. I'm trying to follow this rule written under the mint tag, it clearly says:
For questions ab...
Can't Upgrade Graphics of Intel via "Intel Graphic installer for Linux". PLease Help! I see this error:
and after that, the 'report' button is unavailable. what to do? help
by the way, i use intel grafics
