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8:22 AM

Sometime I wish I could understand why people abruptly remove there question like this unix.stackexchange.com/questions/447724/…

I just don't understand what is the point

Stephen Kitt

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Q: Users deleting their questions after receiving answer as comment (stop answering in comments)

This is related to Should we discourage people that delete their question after they receive an answer?, and to the AskUbuntu Meta question Please stop posting half answers and dumb advice as comments. It's a combination of the two. This evening I've had two instances of questions being deleted,...

@Kiwy I can think of a few reasons: presumably your comment was sufficient for the OP to figure the answer out (in fact, it could well have been the answer), and the OP might not want to leave a trace of the question — e.g. it’s their job, they’re supposed to know how to do this, etc.

Some of the questions asked here are mind-boggling and could help feed a blacklist of companies to avoid, if one were inclined to figure out where the question authors work...

(Not the question you’re referring to though.)

For example

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Q: Debian System locales corrupt on jessie 8.6

I am Using debian 8.6 and for some reasons i cannot upgrade it, the issue is i want to install some packages for example apache 2.4.29, i used testing repos and to do that and it worked, so now i have a new machine with the same debian distro, and i want to install the same apache version but unf...

apt apache-httpd locale debian-installer

(look at the original version of the question)

Kiwy

Well @StephenKitt I'm not sure it was the answer looked for, but still I used SE in my job quiet often and I first of all once did put something wrong in the question and asked immediatly here to remove this question as the text in qy question could have lead to my company

I don't feel like asking question is bad in any way as long as your learn from the answer given

it happen also a lot that I end up posting my own solution

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy yes, that’s definitely a valid reason if you want to keep things quiet

@Kiwy exactly, but some people don’t think of it that way

Kiwy

@StephenKitt The OP in the question you link here is disturbing here, he sounded like a customer addressing another company to solve a problem :D

I could understand this person ask to a removal :D

Michael Homer

A lot of questions here are plainly from people utterly incompetent for the jobs they're doing, I could see them trying to hide that.

Stephen Kitt

8:36 AM

@Kiwy yes, and I imagine customers realising what the actual level of “support” is, wouldn’t be too happy

Kiwy

@MichaelHomer considering I add 4 different job in 4 different fields of IT/dev/devops/grid computing, I consider myself pretty incompetent at most of my job past and present

I learn quick though

@StephenKitt having done a lot of support in my previous job I can't imagine doing that when customer ask to solve one issue, it ould have been great fun. Hey I'm working for this company and we need apache 2.4 on debian how can we do. My answer here would be to use dotdeb repo I should answer that

Prabhjot Singh

8:51 AM

góðan dag

Kiwy

Bonjour

Prabhjot Singh

Bonjour monsieur

Kiwy

9:57 AM

Heyyyy new icon

Kusalananda

@Kiwy Cute

Kiwy

it's Unikitty from one the most amazing animation movie fo those 10 last years

Kusalananda

10:29 AM

@Kiwy I've fixed this question and voted to reopen it: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/447459/…

(and terdon reopened it)

Kiwy

11:04 AM

@Kusalananda I think that's fair, but the OP should have edited this on its own, though the first time nothing on this site is really straitgh forward

ho Merciful @terdon :P

terdon

11:25 AM

@Kiwy Why?

The objective is to have a useful question, who cares who fixes it?

I regularly fix and then upvote questions.

Kiwy

No it was more a joke @terdon, I should not have ping you like this.
I think both of you have done the right thing.

Kusalananda

@Kiwy in this case I understand why the user did not include a sample from the file themselves. They were completely stumped and did not know whether it was they that did something wrong, if it was something wrong with the file or if there was some peculiarity about ed on macOS. You did the right thing to bring it up on Meta.

Kiwy

11:40 AM

@Kusalananda could I get a badge for that ? Bring usefull question on Meta site that has an impact on main site ?

Anyway I ask the question because it was unclear to me. now it is. It's good that both of you have handle the "problem"

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/65/quorum

and then unix.stackexchange.com/help/badges/66/convention

Kiwy

OK, so I need to ask more question on Meta...
expect me soon enough on Meta to earn a new badge...

or maybe not

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy or post answers, they count too

Kiwy

I could became the Tim of Meta Unix SE

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy lots of SE is poorly documented, or not documented at all, so there’s certainly room for improvement there; but a lot of the questions that come up are already addressed on Meta Stack Exchange (sometimes multiple times, sometimes in multiple variants, only some of which are correct...)

Kiwy

12:04 PM

@StephenKitt I never really understand the aim of meta stackexchange as the limit between site is sometime very blurry with other meta site I feel like it's only a way to give rep to people on meta question

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy meta.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

in particular “Support, feature requests, or bug reports for the core Stack Exchange engine that powers all Stack Exchange websites”

and as a result a lot of features on SE are documented on Meta

Kiwy

ok then my question is well placed as I heard there is pretty significant difference in handling of vote close and general moderating rules from one site to another

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy oh yes definitely, voting and moderation should be discussed on the local meta

Kiwy

@StephenKitt I finally get the joke here

POWER as in powerpc i guess ?

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy nearly, the underlying architecture used on AIX systems is called POWER (it’s related to PowerPC but isn’t the same)

IBM POWER microprocessors

IBM has a series of high performance microprocessors called POWER followed by a number designating generation, i.e. POWER1, POWER2, POWER3 and so forth up to the latest POWER9. These processors have been used by IBM in their RS/6000, AS/400, pSeries, iSeries, System p, System i and Power Systems line of servers and supercomputers. They have also been used in data storage devices by IBM and by other server manufacturers like Bull and Hitachi. The name "POWER" was originally presented as an acronym for "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC". The POWERn family of processors were developed in...

Kiwy

12:10 PM

OK, I knew power pc was a brand of IBM CPU, didn't know the architecture was named POWER. Thanks @StephenKitt

took me only 5 days to figure out the joke
Not bad :D

Stephen Kitt

@Kiwy heh, not bad indeed

What’s with the new trend of putting product names between backticks or in bold? I’ve noticed a few editors doing so recently...

e.g.

unix.stackexchange.com/posts/447532/revisions

Kusalananda

12:37 PM

@StephenKitt Yes. From a typographical point of view, that's awful.