I just deleted it earlier when Byte pinged me to say he had answered it
I don't remember doing that lately, and I'm not saying it's the best way or even a good way but I imagine I was trying help OP to do it themselves as much as possible
like, maybe the comment will be TL;DR, so if I can show what I mean for part of it instead of explaining, it will be easier, and they might not find the revision history, so it may be a little easier if I leave it in the post. I saw someone else do the same thing and I thought it was smart and nice
@Zanna Don't you think that the user asked the question to get an answer in first place rather than getting help how to improve his post to fit the "high" standard of the site ?
he asked me to explain my actions, which I was trying to do
eventually, I would have made the self-answer into a CW myself, but I hadn't got around to checking back on that comment yet (I'm currently on Feb 27th hahaha)
@Zanna yes, you said : "it's trying to show the user what to do rather than explain at length (I'm a teacher...)" ... and IMHO a user asks a question to get an answer in first place rather than getting help how to improve his post.
@Zanna this is a new 1 (one) rep user ... they have no clue how to use AU (in most cases) ... he asked a question and accidentally found the answer which he wrote as an edit into the question.
@jokerdino yeah I agree it's better to leave it in the post and explain. If they don't get it right, we can always edit. I don't think I have removed any answer-edited-into-questions lately except when I am making the answer.
@jokerdino you mean better not to leave the answer-in-the-question for so long?
Because if you edit it out and come back to it several months later, we probably missed out on helping a bunch of other people who were looking for the answer.
@jokerdino yes - of course ! and that's my point : @Zanna deleted the answer part completely and @ByteCommander put it back into the answer section ... do you really think that deleting his answer part would really lead to make him learn what he has to do here ? IMHO users are focused on getting their main problem solved ... and their main problem is not how AU works.
Editing that answer out of the question definitely is the right thing to do. The only reason it was brought up was how it was done (using <> to hide it) and the lack of follow up (not making an answer).
Once again I have doubts about a post in teh reopen review queue. (askubuntu.com/questions/926132/…). The recent edit makes it "unclear what you are asking" instead of "too broad". Should we reopen it, just to close it for another reason?
@jokerdino So, you think that improved the post ? If @Zanna would have removed the answer from the question and at the same time posted it as an answer like @ByteCommander did, then it would have been helpful ... and only then ! Or am I completely wrong here ?
Why is askubuntu.com/q/46833/367990 accumulating delete votes? It is off-topic and correctly closed as such, yes, but I'd say given the vote count and the time it has been on the site, it's worth being kept for historical reasons.
@KazWolfe well, who wants to decide what's useful or not ... think of the many command line posts ... e.g. how to display time in a terminal ? what does that have to do with ubuntu ? But : when we close and delete such things - what will be left ? Who decides ?
@KazWolfe It's OK, it's just that there are a few users (none of whom are in this room) who tend to vote to delete a lot. As though there's any benefit in deleting old, bad (by today's standards) yet popular questions. They're closed, just let them be!
Nah, don't want to name people, but just look at the various posts on meta about all the old list questions that would be closed now and the people who want to delete them.
Does anyone here know something about snaps? I have a snap loop device on my 16.04, but I don't think I still have any snaps installed. How can I check?
@ByteCommander sudo snap remove core --revision <number> is the command ... but the last one cannot be uninstalled with this method ... you have to boot from a live media and delete it from there.
Btw, are all those "Will Ubuntu work on Model XY?" questions on topic here? I personally find them pretty annoying as they either need to be answered with "just try in a live session" or requires extensive research of the components of that device etc.
I know shopping recommendations are off-topic, but I think "Is this hardware compat" or "What hardware is compat" could have a useful answer that links to the Canonical certified hardware page.
A good question would be worded in a general way. A good answer would make it clear that there IS o...
Ooh, I just upgraded old Skype to the newish SkypeForLinux after reading @KazWolfe's answer, and I found a Doctor Who bot playing some kind of interactive adventure game.
@Benny Thanks for bringing that up. Next time though, please also flag it as a duplicate. Mentioning it here in chat is great and helpful, but if you flag it, it also goes into the system.
When I launch nautilus from terminal the following error is printed and nautilus doesn't open up.
(nautilus:25179): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed
(nautilus:25179): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleto...
@Benny Oh, so you did, yes. Sorry, it wasn't there (or, more likely, I didn't see it) when I checked.
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@Benny: You wouldn't be able to help me with something would you? I am just trying to remember in which South Park episode Eric is obsessed with Jews having a little bag of gold round their neck so he sets up this whole thing to get the gold or something like that I don't quite remember. I thought it might be Imaginationland, but I'm not sure, do you know of the episode of which I speak and what it might be called because I can't seem to find it? :)
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If you do have any idea, please ping me, I'm off to bed now!
I was looking at my flagging history because... I don't know why, actually, but anyways: I had flagged this post as rude. It seems to me that my flag was disputed because the profanity had already been nuked by the time the flag was reviewed.
So my feature request: show a little box when reviewi...
How you would configure a Unix Web server to automatically start on reboot?
I know shopping recommendations are off-topic, but I think "Is this hardware compat" or "What hardware is compat" could have a useful answer that links to the Canonical certified hardware page.
A good question would be worded in a general way. A good answer would make it clear that there IS o...
