Raiders of the Lost Downboat

Ok so I've spent a few days doing hardcore cleaning and we have a problem with comments and people misusing them. People who are too lazy to write a real answer so they write a half finished one that doesn't work or is just some commands out of context. This hurts the site because they're usua...

@Algnis yes, if the typo is the cause of the problem

Algnis

Hmmmm...... It looks like I need to look the question again

Oh ! So the problem was that he/she added 1386 architecture instead of i386

My mistake sorry !

Zanna

yes, that seems to be the case... they must have added the architecture 1386 to get those errors

@Algnis no worries :)

Algnis

Hey ! I am happy that the script that run to cross out serial voting , didn't find mine

Zanna

hahah maybe it wasn't serial voting then

like maybe you just happened to get a lot of upvotes that day

from different people

Zanna

10:51 AM

@BeastOfCaerbannog are you sure that the First Questions queue has a Recommend deletion option?

In Late Answers I have a Delete option but in First Questions I don't

First Answers has no items so I can't check

I'll check on U&L

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Zanna Perhaps I'm wrong about that. It has "Share feedback".

Zanna

in U&L I don't see a Recommend deletion option in either of the First queues, and there aren't any Late Answers to review

@BeastOfCaerbannog yeah... my favourite hahaha

BeastOfCaerbannog

Hahaha

Zanna

so, could it be that that option only appear in Late Answers?

I ask because I'm writing a post about it on MSE

BeastOfCaerbannog

It is possible that I didn't pay much attention to these queues and thought "Share feedback" was "Recommend deletion"

I'm probably stupid.

Zanna

10:55 AM

I think there is such an option in the Late Answers queue though

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Zanna It seems so

It's definitely in Late Answers

Zanna

okay, cool

BeastOfCaerbannog

Sorry about that

I found an item in First Answers. It has Share feedback

I don't know how I confused that

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BeastOfCaerbannog

@Natty tp

Zanna

11:02 AM

@BeastOfCaerbannog it's okay, the queues all look the same!

it's still bad in Late Answers

BeastOfCaerbannog

Yeah

Algnis

Hi

BeastOfCaerbannog

11:20 AM

Hello

OT EOL

Zanna

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Q: Remove the "recommend deletion" option from Late Answers queues on smaller sites

Someone pointed out to me that at least some users see a Recommend deletion option in the Late Answers queue. We determined that selecting this option sends the post to the Low Quality Posts queue if it is not already there. We are not sure whether the vote counts towards deletion the way that vo...

discussion feature-request review

Algnis

11:51 AM

Hello @Zanna So should I post that issue releated to trackers (I am confused/doubt that people with laugh at me or I will get a bunch of downvotes saying that it is the policy of site ! I don't wana lose the rep!) Can you tell me that is there any site policy regarding trackers ? Is it like something already there ? Maybe it is my fault (I use only se sites in brave) ... I am told both trackers and ads at once so maybe instead of trackers more advertisements are there ? Can you please help me ?

Zanna

do you have any rep on MSE?

101

oh haha of course

Association bonus

if you draft your post I will be happy to help you with it

Algnis

11:52 AM

How ?

Zanna

I'm busy right now - I'll be back in about 1 hour

Algnis

How Can I draft the post

Zanna

try writing the post in a text editor and post your efforts here

Algnis

Ok

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Zanna Thanks for the post!

Zanna

12:13 PM

thanks for pointing out the problem... apparently it's even worse than I thought - the recommend deletion option basically does nothing

Algnis

Title: Why are there so many trackers on SE (especially Ask ubuntu)

Body: I recently downloaded the [brave](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser) browser (on my android tablet) , It has a really nice feature of blocking advertisements and trackers (if any) .

while I was checking my weekly stats with brave browser , I found that there are 6K + trackers/ads

isn't that something to concern about ?

Why it is showing so many trackers ?

Note - I don't use any other site with brave except Ask ubuntu, all other sites are opened on Google itself.

:59617989 Please suggest changes

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Zanna Yeah, I read that. Totally useless and misleading option.

@Algnis You should direct it more towards SE. I mean this part: "while I was checking my weekly stats with brave browser , I found that there are 6K + trackers/ads "

It's pretty generic

Something like this would be more directed: "While I was checking my weekly stats with brave browser, I found that it has blocked <total_number> trackers/ads, <number> of which are found in Ask Ubuntu, which I mainly use."

Algnis

Ok did the changes , Thanks

Title: Why are there so many trackers on SE (especially Ask ubuntu)

Body: I recently downloaded the [brave](github.com/brave/…) browser (on my android tablet) , It has a really nice feature of blocking advertisements and trackers (if any) .

While I was checking my weekly stats with brave browser, I found that it has blocked 6K+ trackers/ads, 4k+ (I use ask ubuntu more frequently then any other se site) of which are found in Ask Ubuntu, which I mainly use.

isn't that something to concern about ?

BeastOfCaerbannog

12:28 PM

You may also fix the punctuation. A space is needed only after punctuation (commas, full stops, etc.), not before.

An also every sentence should start with a capital letter

Algnis

For more research I reinstalled brave browser to check how many trackers/ads are there for specific ask ubuntu site it showed 150(almost) in just 2 days !

BeastOfCaerbannog

The above are the AU trackers I see with uBlock Origin

Feel free to use this screenshot if you wish

Algnis

@BeastOfCaerbannog I don't understand this ? How many trackers is this showing ?

BeastOfCaerbannog

9

Not sure what kind of trackers these are though, and if they are indeed trackers

Algnis

This is only for 1 day

BeastOfCaerbannog

12:38 PM

Only pagead2.googlesyndication.com and www.google-analytics.com seem to be non-related to AU

Algnis

Or probably it is only for 2 hours

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Algnis The number 385 you see is the accumulated number of trackers. That means that every time you reload a page, the number of trackers is added to the previous. It's not that AU has 385 active trackers

Algnis

I know that ...

Title: Why are there so many trackers on SE (especially Ask ubuntu)

Body: I recently downloaded the [brave](github.com/brave/…) browser (on my android tablet) , It has a really nice feature of blocking advertisements and trackers (if any) .

While I was checking my weekly stats with brave browser, I found that it has blocked 6K+ trackers/ads, 4k+ (I use ask ubuntu more frequently then any other se site) of which are found in Ask Ubuntu, which I mainly use.

Isn't that something to concern about ?

@BeastOfCaerbannog but even for 2 hours is having (even total) 156 total trackers good ?

BeastOfCaerbannog

It depends. How many times did you reload the page in these two hours?

Algnis

On my main account I have 6K + trackers only for 1 week and 4k for SE sites

@BeastOfCaerbannog Not much

Maybe 6 to 7 times (I didn't reload but I did open and close it 6 to 7 times) Also note : I have like 2 - 3 tabs opened for ask ubuntu

BeastOfCaerbannog

12:45 PM

By the title of this metric, it seems that it also counts the ads it blocks

Algnis

Ya , But ask ubuntu isn't filled with too many adds ... Right ?

BeastOfCaerbannog

Also, I suppose that every time you open a post, the number of trackers is added to the sum

Algnis

But (So many) trackers are even there ? (it is more then any other site)

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Algnis

@Natty tp

Zanna

12:50 PM

@BeastOfCaerbannog yes... it could be related to the typical browsing pattern on a site like AU... one tends to briefly visit a large number of pages. Perhaps the same trackers are counted every time

BeastOfCaerbannog

I don't think they are too many. Most of them are related to SE, at least as it's shown in uBlock.

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