@DKBose Oh well then you can tell him what I just said if you want to stop his bleeding.
The question has problems from the start in the title with "compelled speech". No one makes you speak you have the desire to speak. There is no law against being silent and saying (or typing) nothing.
So when I read the title I stopped reading. Instead of "compelled speech" the author should have used "politically correct phrase" or something like that.
@WinEunuuchs2Unix what I know something about is a drop in the ocean compared to what I don't know, but questions don't tend to occur to me. I'm not good at originating things much, but I am quite good at solving problems, helping to refine ideas of other people and explaining things I understand, I think
@WinEunuuchs2Unix well it's always the money cost and carbon cost. Still haven't visited my brother in Japan after so many years he's been living there :(
Wi-Fi adapter Intel WM3945ABG. Though this info doesn't even appear in output when lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 is run. I have tried rfkill list all and there is no software or hardware block on Bluetooth but doesn't even mention Wi-Fi. When I press hardware switch airplane mode comes on.
@Zanna it's just that if she did address the US Congress, there'd have been quite some coverage, one way or the other but I didn't see any. And I'm quite the news junkie :D
I have a script which basically parses a file.
While executing this script i want to set two flags.
These are my two cases:
I want to set --hello-you as a flag which then takes two mandatory arguments after it: ./script.sh --hello-you <FILE> <PATH>
I want -h or --help to provide help manual....
@DKBose The answer is yes. High-rep users can vote to delete closed questions even when the question and/or its answers have positive score. Usually such questions can even be deleted with three delete votes. If the sum of scores of the question and answers is high enough, more delete votes are required, but the votes can still be cast and enough of them will delete the question.
@DKBose I mean flag the post for mod intervention explaining the situation and why you think it should be deleted. If it's not deleted after flagging ping a mod. Or rather post on meta and see what the community thinks.
How can a post be deleted?
By a user:
The author can typically delete their own posts at will; for exceptions, see When can't I delete my own post? below. To delete a post, just use the delete link below it, on the left (only available from a browser, not the SE/SO app).
Moderators can delete ...
> The system will automatically delete closed, unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no positively scored or accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed for any reason other than duplicate nine or more days ago and haven't been edited in the past nine days. (RemoveAbandonedClosed)
To cast delete votes on a question in the first 48 hours after closure, non-moderators (who are not the post owner) must have 20k rep and the question must have a score of -3 or below.
But after that, I don't think there are question-score based restrictions on whether or not delete votes can be cast.
I've often seen questions with positive score answers and--IIRC--accepted answers and the question has delete votes on it. Often these are duplicates that people shouldn't have tried to delete, so som
> Users with reputation ≥ 20k (more precisely, the trusted-user privilege; 4k on beta sites) are not subject to the 48-hour waiting period for deleting closed questions with a score of −3 or lower. They may also vote to delete answers of score −1 or lower, including accepted answers (unless they are the owner of that answer). It takes three votes to delete an answer.
@EliahKagan Ah, good point. Yes, there are some users (I affectionately refer to them as the delete brigade) that used to go around casting delete votes on all sorts of things.
Thinks to self: Conversation started off good victimizing one mod, then downward spiraled to victimizing three high-rep users - LOL j/k It's actually a good thing a group of high-rep users can perform mod-like functions and lesson burden on small number of mods.
@WinEunuuchs2Unix Well, also, when non-moderators delete a post, the system allows non-moderators to cast undelete votes on it. When a moderator deletes a post (except the Community bot performing automatic deletions) and then the situation changes so it should be undeleted, or if the deletion was mistaken, it becomes necessary to bother mods about it to get it undeleted.
@terdon I think Im part of the delete brigade, if this includes delete votes on NAA posts. :)
However, I am usually quite reluctant to cast delete votes on questions.
Sometimes a duplicate phrases the question and has a title better than the older post. Some of the duplicate answers can be better than original answers too.
"Also, be cautious when deleting questions closed as duplicates; they can serve as a signpost, directing users to useful answers on another question." from askubuntu.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools
@DKBose Yes, and I very much agree with that, though it's the other part about answers that I was thinking of.
> Before voting to delete, please check whether there are any good answers; if so, then the question should be flagged for moderator attention as a potential merge candidate. We don't like to lose great answers!
@terdon Well it could be I got my nicknames mixed up. They were prevalent nightly in 2016/17 when this place was more like a chatroom. Not so much anymore since this is more like a lawyers' lounge. (Not complaining, just observing)
@DKBose Anyway, I don't know if you're thinking of something that's a problem or just the case of a question and answers that aren't contributing much... but if there's a problem that needs to be addressed, but for some reason the situation is sensitive such that you're not comfortable talking about it publicly, I don't think any of the moderators would object to a custom moderator attention on the post describing the situation.
That also has the benefit of not roping in any one moderator; any mod can handle such a flag.
Yes, the Kali ones. No, there's nothing exceptional about the Q&A I came across. The question has some downvotes and was closed as off-topic. The accepted answer has a couple of upvotes. But I noticed there were two delete votes cast. Hence my curiosity.
Yeah, the delete votes could've come in either before or after the acceptance and upvotes. You can look on the timeline pages for the question and its answers--usually that will give enough information to make it possible to tell what order things happened in.
@WinEunuuchs2Unix It depends on the day. AU is the most flag-heavy of the three sites I mod and we get a few dozen flags a day. For instance, today, there have been 26 flags handled (since midnight UTC, I think) and 13 flags pending.
@DKBose When I see OT-closed questions on Ask Ubuntu that are about Kali Linux but not about Ubuntu, I usually vote to delete them. Often (though not always) even before 48 hours have past. Kali is not going to turn into Ubuntu, so it's not feasible for most of those questions to be improved in a way that would make it reasonable to reopen them.
Sometimes there's some ambiguity, so that it seems like maybe Ubuntu is involved in some way (like dual-boot questions with Kali and Ubuntu, where it doesn't seem to relate to anything in Ubuntu, but the OP might potentially edit it in a way that would change that). In those cases I do wait until at least 48 hours have passed before casting a delete vote.
@DKBose Oh wow, no. It is far from being the least calm site, but it certainly isn't the calmest. But yes, I'd say it leans towards the calm side. But we do get drama...
@EliahKagan To clarify the context of what I'm saying about timing: for questions that might be improved, one should usually wait two days to vote to delete them. The help even describes it as, "Questions that have been closed within the past 48 hours cannot be deleted" -- that's how rare the additional 20k deletion powers on questions are expected to be used.
@DKBose depends. I am counting the number of flags handled. Spam flags are often not handled by mods since if there are enough, the post is deleted and the flags are dismissed as helpful. So most spam flags are never even seen by mods.
@DKBose I don't think post which already got 6 spam flags needs to be handled by mod. And I believe there are very less such instances. Am I right @terdon?
@Kulfy Yes. If the post is deleted by multiple spam flags, no mod will see the flags. So I don't think they'll be included in the flag stats we (mods) have. Those just show how many flags were handled and by which mod.
@Kulfy Exactly. I will only see the flag if I happen to visit the post. We get a little icon telling us that a post has been flagged and that remains even after the flag has been handled. So I could still investigate, but the original flag wouldn't have gone into the flag queue that mod see.
@Kulfy Yes, but that's for flags we've actually handled. If you flag a post and it's then deleted, the flag disappears and I would have no way of knowing it existed unless I visited the deleted post.
@DKBose like... 200 mails a day with things like "hey a$$hole". i had filters autodeleting mails that contained cursewords and was told I could not do that _O-
I have a path /home/user/env/ that I want to add to .profile.
So if I do
echo "export PATH=/home/user/env/:$PATH" >> /home/user/.profile
The $PATH is getting expanded. How to add path properly?
I'm thinking of a bash script that takes highlighted text on the screen, invokes cut command, prepends funny characters, appends funny characters, invokes paste command so that "Some Text" becomes Some Text or Some Text depending on formatting option chosen. It's too hard to remember all the funny characters :(
This post looks like long-lived spam. The first link is to the same site given in the post author's profile. At minimum it fails to disclose the author's affiliation.
Although all users can view their own deleted questions (and deleted answers on non-deleted questions), the current behavior of the system is that only 10k users can display and search through all their deleted posts. Regardless of rep, users can view any deleted post they own if they have a link to the post, and there is also a list of recently deleted posts visible to all users on their profile page.
I’ve been honored to serve as a moderator here on Ask Ubuntu for almost six years now, but I’m sorry to announce that I will be resigning that position effective immediately. I’ve lost trust with Stack Exchange Inc. to the point that I feel I can no longer associate myself with the company.
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@Seth It's so sad to see you go. You've helped me many times over the years. I'm sorry you got drowned in all the SE issues they've brought upon themselves.
Wi-Fi adapter Intel WM3945ABG. Though this info doesn't even appear in output when lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 is run. I have tried rfkill list all and there is no software or hardware block on Bluetooth but doesn't even mention Wi-Fi. When I press hardware switch airplane mode comes on.
I have a script which basically parses a file.
While executing this script i want to set two flags.
These are my two cases:
I want to set --hello-you as a flag which then takes two mandatory arguments after it: ./script.sh --hello-you <FILE> <PATH>
I want -h or --help to provide help manual....
I have a path /home/user/env/ that I want to add to .profile.
So if I do
echo "export PATH=/home/user/env/:$PATH" >> /home/user/.profile
The $PATH is getting expanded. How to add path properly?
I’ve been honored to serve as a moderator here on Ask Ubuntu for almost six years now, but I’m sorry to announce that I will be resigning that position effective immediately. I’ve lost trust with Stack Exchange Inc. to the point that I feel I can no longer associate myself with the company.
Rea...
