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5:44 AM

@karel I just saw mention of you via LP bug report; interested in (url) ref?

@karel lp 1860307 anyway

6:06 AM

@guiverc I didn't block him for being polite and courteous. I close voted some of his questions for posting it multiple times (3 so far).

guiverc

I'm not worried either way, and blocking him doesn't fit with your actions as I've seen them on here anyway... I just saw lp bug report & as it mentioned you thought you may be interested...

karel

I even think I know what happened. Sometimes the Ubuntu installer throws a message near the end of the installation that it can't install grub in the expected place and asks the user if he wants to abort the installation or continue. So I'm guessing that this guy said OK continue and grub got installed to the USB flash drive that he was using to install Ubuntu. Ordinarily I would have commented to him about it, but this guy is a troll king who's looking for subjects.

guiverc

smart not to comment then :)

guiverc

6:35 AM

@karel I just commened on 1860307; links to other support sites mainly.. (with luck you'll maybe see less returns to here??) just FYI

karel

7:13 AM

@guiverc Thanks for commenting. That really helped me out. Obviously I can't do anything about it myself because he's representing me as a bête noire. When I watched David Bowie's movie "The Labyrinth" it didn't make much sense to me at the time, but it's starting to make sense to me now.

guiverc

7:35 AM

I just responded as I felt appropriate.. It's easy when all I have to say is what I consider truth... (@karel) but thanks :)

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Q: How do I extract a .tar file on Azure File Share on Ubuntu 18.04?

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David

6:56 PM

I think this is the maddest I've seen someone get over a From Review Queue Flag

Eliah Kagan

@David I recommend flagging that comment as "unfriendly or unkind." I have done so.

David

Did so as well

Eliah Kagan

The post does seem to be recommending a specific course of action intended to solve the problem described in the question, though. In no way does that make their comment acceptable; I do not mean to suggest anything like that. However, I don't think any of the automatic comments available for selection in the LQP review queue are correct for that. I may have misunderstood you though, since you don't have an automatic review comment--or any comment--on that post.

In particular, although answers like that can sometimes be deleted on quality grounds, they should not be comments and are considered worse as comments than as answers.

Relatedly, this post is an answer. It should not be flagged or deleted and would not be better as a comment.

This post arguably has serious quality problems (though I think it might be possible to fix it by editing), but either way, the comment there doesn't make sense, since it's not an attempt to critique a post or request clarification from an author. It's giving a procedure intended to solve the problem.

David

7:13 PM

I think if the author had put in more time into typing out more than 3 words as an answer, I would've felt better about skipping it in the queue but a) it felt far too short to be considered a 'good' or constructive answer, and b) none of the options in queue really apply to that point. I probably should've raised a custom flag... I guess next time

Eliah Kagan

If you're referring to that post, I'm not saying it's necessarily wrong to click Recommend Deletion in the LQP review queue. If you believe it is very low in quality and cannot reasonably be fixed by editing, then that review is appropriate. However, you should still not select a comment that says anything you would not be willing to say yourself.

Selecting a comment in review is a way of saying something to the author of a post. It is not a way of voting on what is wrong with the post. I don't think you've been posting redundant review comments, but I nonetheless recommend reading this meta post. If none of the canned comments is appropriate, you don't have to select one.

The default action when recommending deletion in the LQP review queue is to post no comment. You can still go to the post and write a comment to the author yourself, if you feel that there's something useful to say that's either not covered by the canned comments or that's better expressed in a different way.

Anyway, not specifically related to that, but instead to the issue of what's an answer and what's a comment... this post is an answer. It's the OP's self-answer. It doesn't really make sense why installing gdebi, with no further action, would fix the problem described there. But it's not responding to another post. There is no other post there for it to be responding to.

I very much hope I'm not coming across as picking on you here. That is absolutely not my intention. The vast majority of wrong canned review comments I see on the site are not from you.

David

Oh no not at all!

I understand completely, and honestly, I appreciate all the help :)

I guess I went in auto-pilot for a couple minutes yesterday... Need to be more careful

xtrchessreal

Is Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc flavors of that sort no longer allowed to ask questions, are they considered off topic?

Eliah Kagan

Official derivatives of Ubuntu, including Xubuntu and Lubuntu, are on-topic here on Ask Ubuntu.

xtrchessreal

7:28 PM

It may be a completely different reason but question 1201581 was closed and I am not sure why, the stated reason is Off Topic

Eliah Kagan

@EliahKagan In contrast, unofficial derivatives, such as Ubuntu MATE and elementary OS, are off-topic on Ask Ubuntu.

(A question could mention or even involve them in a significant way if it is also substantially about Ubuntu. For example, someone might be trying to install Ubuntu alongside elementary OS and encountering difficulty. That would be on-topic for Ask Ubuntu. This is the same as with any non-Ubuntu OS, such as Windows. But being about an unofficial derivative of Ubuntu is not regarded as a way of being about Ubuntu.)

@xtrchessreal I'll take a look.

The sub-reason of "off-topic" we used in that post, Error when launching gimp, was:

> This describes a problem that can't be reproduced, that seemingly went away on its own or was only relevant to a very specific period of time. It's off-topic as it's unlikely to help future readers.

(I say "we" because I was one of the close voters.)

So that's unrelated to what flavor was used.

Whether or not we were right to close that question for that reason is another matter...

We closed it based on the information in this comment by the OP:

@karel I know how to run it, that's not the problem. When typing the command in terminal it gave the error I mentioned. But somehow it doesn't anymore. I now consider the problem solved, but I don't know how to mark the problem solved. — shadinafs Jan 12 at 19:35

However, even in spite of that, if it turns out that there is enough information to know what caused the problem, then it shouldn't be closed as "no repro."

xtrchessreal

I'm just trying to understand general reasoning is all, no big deal. I am aware the nature of that problem was unusual, I tried to get some expert help from Chat but none responded. Its not reproducible so I guess its an anomaly...no biggie

@EliahKagan Ah, didn't see that comment, I'm all good with the closing of the question. I probably wouldn't have brought it up had I seen that before coming here. Thanks for your help :)

Eliah Kagan

7:46 PM

No problem!

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10:00 PM

Hello I can't create folder on sda2 ssd drive
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