@DKBose people are often simply not aware of the concept that something can be both freely available on the net and not licensed for copying. A seven day ban seems fine to me, if the user keeps doing it that's another matter but these are often honest mistakes IMO.
@terdon, IMO, there's a whole bunch of issues with this user. One is the time factor: an answer is provided without a couple of minutes of a question being posted. It can happen once; it can happen if you have the answer prepared and just waiting for a suitable question. But I prefer to think that a sockpuppet account is created so that 15+10 points accrue. If the question is asked and answered by same person, then upvoting would need more participation.
Also keep in mind that we're not talking about just "anybody" but someone with a trackrecord.
This is still happening. Though we've been quiet here on this thread, things have not been quiet at Stack Exchange. We've gotten a lot of the back end prep work finished, written a bunch of guidance to help ease the transition, and are about to start testing the process to make sure we don't brea...
I frankly don't know why this is allowed but to quote from the help center: "Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you; it is earned by convincing your peers that you know what you’re talking about."
@DKBose What do you mean? Google-fu is valid knowledge. As long as you clearly state your sources, a lot of good answers come because you know how to search better than the OP. The time issue you mention and plagiarizing are big no-nos of course.
@terdon I don't see how rehashing blog contents a day after it's published "convinces your peers that you know what you're talking about". But if SE has just the criteria of being "useful" then I have no comment.
@terdon anyone who does research knows that plagiarizing has 50 shades of grey. And so any case in isolation may be given benefit of doubt.
@DKBose It all depends on how it's done. For example, my answer here is 1) copied verbatim from the vbox docs and 2) copied verbatim from my answer to a similar question on Super User. So, in this case, I was just better at searching than the OP. That's still a valid and useful answer.
Actually, if they continue there are harsher measures. Repeat offenders are banned for life and their accounts disabled. This actually happens quite often.
@terdon I could put up a strong case but it would take time. @Braiam you must be knowing who I'm talking about but you are silent otherwise. Working on tags ;)
@DKBose in case it's not clear, I completely agree that what you describe is abusive behavior. All I'm saying is that copying content from other sources is not necessarily bad.
@Braiam also the flag format doesn't allow enough space so I can't give more than one link at a time and so people (mods) think I'm just going on about one thing when there's a repeated pattern.
@HarrisRubin Look at the markdown comparison and the rendered output comparison. It makes it a single numbered list item. You do have some good edits (and some borderline too-minor rejects) but there are a couple of edits where it looks like logic went out the window.
@MadaraUchiha not sure, I was curious and am having a look at the source to see if I can implement this. shutter is just a perl script so it should be easy enough. I'll let you know.
@MadaraUchiha OK, this is not as simple as I assumed because imgur requires you to register for this type of upload access. You would have to "register your app", then modify shutter to use your authentication token as well as your credentials to upload. You'd also need to use a specific URL. This is probably why it's not implemented. It is possible but requires some knowledge of Perl. Sorry, but I don't use this so I don't think I'll be looking into it more than this.
@Dan in that particular case, you should roll it back. The OP had used the correct, immutable form of the link and the edit inserted the one that depends on the question's title
@Dan scratch that, it was actually the other way around,, perfectly valid edit
Before I start asking my question, I would like you to know that I am aware of the "Different linux distros sharing the same /home folder?" question already asked on this website. It did not quite answer my question though, and as it's too broad I don't think it ever will.
Is it possible to sha...
I am making a custom distribution, and have a question about the Ubuntu Logo with 5 dots displayed when booting up.
The Ubuntu-Logo-Script in the /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntutext folder has the word Ubuntu and beneath that 5 progressing 'dots'. Is it possible to remove the progress bar dots, and ...
@hbdgaf It's lengthy, I bet you could put something together that would be simpler - say take sequential images and time them, swap out the images and you have ready made code, just make the images
or even extract frames from a gif, that would be amazing.
@Mateo another app idea. you scratch off the back of your refill card, take a picture, and push the refill button. millions per year must be made on laziness i suppose.
Before I start asking my question, I would like you to know that I am aware of the "Different linux distros sharing the same /home folder?" question already asked on this website. It did not quite answer my question though, and as it's too broad I don't think it ever will.
Is it possible to sha...
