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Q: One of my flages is marked as "Disputed". What does this mean?

I have flaged one question as "low quality" during a review. Today I saw that the flag was marked as Disputed. What does this mean?

Stefano Palazzo

How do I get to the mobile chat?

Seth

@StefanoPalazzo in the bottom right corner there is a link

directly under the "ask ubuntu" logo

Stefano Palazzo

Ah

Cool

Wild Man

Hello everyone

jokerdino

18:12

hiya

Wild Man

@jokerdino how you doing today?

jokerdino

a lil' bit stressed. New younglings coming in today.

Wild Man

I understand that feeling

jokerdino

I won't be home to welcome them. :(

Wild Man

I am driving today so I am on my tablet, I feel handicapped on it.

Seth

18:19

yeah, I will be away from home too..

I guess @James will have to do it all :P

Wild Man

Sounds like a fun day.

Kaz Wolfe

40 minutes until our new mods!

JonasCz

Are the new mods announced immediately when the election finishes ?

jokerdino

ye

Byte Commander

40 minutes?

1h 40min, I thought...

Oh those time zones... DST does not make them easier.

Android Dev

18:23

Henry WH Hack

@jokerdino yes not ye. ;)

Android Dev

@ByteCommander

Byte Commander

So?

jokerdino

@HenryWHHack ne

Stefano Palazzo

It's 18:24 utc

Election ends at 20:00

Byte Commander

18:23

Is that now 1h +40min or 0h +40min?

Kaz Wolfe

oh, so it is.

false alarm. :P

Android Dev

@ByteCommander You said you thought it was 1:40 until the end.

Byte Commander

@AndroidDev Yes. And that seems to be true.

But the site's label "in 1 hour" is not really helpful to distinguish that.

Android Dev

@ByteCommander Then how come it says 1 hour left?

Byte Commander

Blame rounding.

Nathan Osman

18:26

@Seth ran out of time for George. But I'll be here myself.

So I guess it's a race :)

Everyone get your command-line-fu ready...

Videonauth

@NathanOsman huh ?

Android Dev

@Videonauth My thoughts exactly

Rinzwind

lol

Nathan Osman

What's confusing?

The election ends today.

The results will be provided as an OpenSTV file.

We won't know who won until someone crunches the numbers.

And the fastest way to do that is with the command-line.

Videonauth

ah now it makes sense

Nathan Osman

18:34

:)

Byte Commander

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Q: Make URLs of flair image representing your votes in the final phase HTTPS

I have cast my 3 votes in the final phase of the Ask Ubuntu elections 2016 and now my Firefox browser warns me because of mixed HTTP/HTTPS content. Examining this further, the only HTTP content are the user flair images that appear in the right sidebar to show me for whom I voted, e.g. http://as...

bug election flair ssl combined-flair

@ParanoidPanda You want to support this bug report too, I assume? ^

@NathanOsman And how do we crunch them? The elections page only has links for Windows and OSX tools. They did not realize we're Ask Ubuntu here...

Kaz Wolfe

@ByteCommander ask a question!

Bharadwaj Raju

From drupal.org/project/election_openstv

sudo apt install openstv

Android Dev

@ByteCommander @BharadwajRaju - And do we know how long the crunching takes?

Byte Commander

Time will tell...

Nathan Osman

18:39

Less than a second.

Byte Commander

(in other words - I have no idea)

Nathan Osman

Someone just has to do it.

You can practice with data from the last election.

Byte Commander

Shouldn't the site do that automatically?

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Someone will probably beat me to it anyway.

Kaz Wolfe

@AndroidDev already done.

Nathan Osman

18:41

@ByteCommander no, it shouldn't.

Kaz Wolfe

:P

Android Dev

@KazWolfe But the election hasn't ended yet...

Kaz Wolfe

@AndroidDev but the results are... predetermined

just like the US Political System!

Nathan Osman

It will end in about 80 minutes.

Android Dev

@KazWolfe Unfortunately...

@KazWolfe Then who do you think will win?

Kaz Wolfe

18:44

@AndroidDev I'm fairly confident @ThomasW. will grace us

Byte Commander

And what about this whole bunch of options?

Thomas W.

was pinged

Byte Commander

Thomas W.

reads back

Kaz Wolfe

defautls work just fine

it reads them from the file

Bharadwaj Raju

18:44

@ByteCommander What's that tool?

Byte Commander

openstv

Kaz Wolfe

and i think the other one is either @Pilot6, @Terdon, or @JacobVlijm

Bharadwaj Raju

apt install openstv?

Kaz Wolfe

@BharadwajRaju yep

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Where do you get the old stv file from?

Kaz Wolfe

18:46

@AndroidDev askubuntu.com/election/4

Android Dev

@KazWolfe thx

Thomas W.

@KazWolfe I'd rather wait until the election is over to determine who does/doesn't win

likes to exclude speculation from his analyses

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasW. This is speculation.

Thomas W.

meh

Kaz Wolfe

based on the leaked election results :P

Byte Commander

18:48

leaked?

Bharadwaj Raju

@ByteCommander Obviously that was a joke

Or not?

Kaz Wolfe

@BharadwajRaju it may or may not have been

Thomas W.

Lets assume it's not

and just wait :)

Bharadwaj Raju

I hope not

Byte Commander

Nobody knows. Internet irony is sometimes hard to detect...

Bharadwaj Raju

18:49

At any rate, leaked results aren't going to change anything

Android Dev

@BharadwajRaju So if I practiced correctly, I should have gotten "Winners are Seth and Mitch."

right?

Kaz Wolfe

@AndroidDev Yes.

Android Dev

@KazWolfe So we'll all be spamming F5 in about 70 minutes, eh?

Kaz Wolfe

@AndroidDev Yes.

Byte Commander

And how are the results going to get officially published?

Kaz Wolfe

18:52

@ByteCommander In an STV

And then shog9 will post something officially showing data

about 20 minutes after

Byte Commander

Yes, I meant who is responsible for that.

Thomas W.

Shog9 I think, or one of the SE employees

andrew.46

5 minutes?

Nathan Osman

From now?

andrew.46

For end of the election

Henry WH Hack

18:53

Shog9 ♦, Colorado

101 6 17

discussion support feature-request status-completed review tags editing

Nathan Osman

@andrew.46 No, it ends in about 62 minutes.

Android Dev

@HenryWHHack That guy...

user136984

So what time exactly does the election end?

andrew.46

Cursed time zones

Nathan Osman

@andrew.46 but on the page it says "election ends in 1 hour".

No timezones there :D

edwinksl

18:54

20:00 UTC

andrew.46

My excuse ie that it is very early here and very cold :)

Kaz Wolfe

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A: Why do we need to update applications on our computer even when they work fine?

If it isn't broke, don't fix it. Some well-known commercial enterprises want you to upgrade frequently so they can continue to control you as a source of revenue. To that end they promote a culture of newest is best. Caveat emptor.

wat

Rinzwind

someone that would like to move this to U+L ? askubuntu.com/questions/789861/…

Bharadwaj Raju

> Some well-known commercial enterprises

Android Dev

@Rinzwind I flagged it.

Bharadwaj Raju

18:57

Probably think they're on SuperUser answering something for Windows

Android Dev

I'm going to come back in 50 mins and attempt to be the first one to post the results...

Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind I did it (close)

Nathan Osman

Here's who I voted for:

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Hahaha

andrew.46

:)

Nathan Osman

18:58

Good luck figuring it out :P

Byte Commander

None of them has enough white and red to be me... I'm disappointed :(

Kaz Wolfe

Thomas is #2

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander I changed the colors too.

Byte Commander

;-)

Nathan Osman

@KazWolfe I changed the colors...

Android Dev

18:59

@NathanOsman Oh snap

Byte Commander

So what sense does it make then?

Kaz Wolfe

oh

you are evil

Nathan Osman

That's kind of the point. You have no idea :D

Byte Commander

wow... >.>

edwinksl

what good is it if we have no idea!

Nathan Osman

18:59

No good!

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