Raiders of the Lost Downboat - 2019-09-19

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[ Natty | Sentinel ] virtualbox Virtual Box Menu Bar not appearing even after using fixes By: Kathy Robin Lieberman 4.0;

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad keyword in body, blacklisted user (71): Mysore To Coorg Taxi by Mysore To Coorg Taxi on askubuntu.com

5:20 AM

looks like a dupe

probably adding the question from oldfred's comment to the list of targets would be useful

5:43 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url-only title, bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body, +9 more (892): www.factforfitness.com/ketoproplusuk/ by humasyina on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] openssl Installing qutebrowser By: Jason Daniel Stone 3.5;

6:18 AM

@pomsky done

6:41 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url-only title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +9 more (989): www.wellness2buy.com/dynamic-fitter-keto/ by MattheHamm on askubuntu.com

6:53 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url-only title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +8 more (890): www.wellness2buy.com/dynamic-fitter-keto/ by JamesWalsion on askubuntu.com

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9:45 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, pattern-matching product name in body, pattern-matching product name in title, +2 more (590): Double X Male Enhancement by Ceciliaintzrow on askubuntu.com

9:58 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, link at end of body, +4 more (592): KetoTrin South Africa *https faqssupplement com/ketotrin-za/* by uhbopkhgasdb on askubuntu.com

10:12 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] wireless Ubuntu Bluetooth Headphones Skipping By: Lele Canfora 4.5;

10:26 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Url-only title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, pattern-matching product name in body, +2 more (589): chopatti.com/forum/topic/httpwellnessoffersdealcomdoublexmaleenhancement by janicmaxko on askubuntu.com

11:15 AM

I don't think this is a helpful answer. I left a comment.

12:13 PM

Would benefit from CW answer. Don't think OP is interested in writing one themselves

@Kulfy downvoted and voted to delete

12:38 PM

@Zanna left a comment. But it's still in CV queue

12:52 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, link at end of answer, potentially bad asn for hostname in answer (154): How to remove the password from a PDF? by Johnson Smith on askubuntu.com

I think that this should be moved to meta

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2:15 PM

unclear, see comments

no response from OP

no longer needed, I think (I removed my comment that it was replying to)

@user3140225 That makes sense but not possible unless some SE employee jumps in.

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A: What is migration and how does it work?

What is migration? Migration allows an off-topic question to be gracefully moved to another site in the Stack Exchange network. It preserves the current revision of the question, all its answers, any comments on any post, as well as most of the votes. When a question is migrated, a new copy of ...

@user3140225 I see no reason to move that to meta.

It's not about Ask Ubuntu.

The broader Ubuntu community, including Ubuntu Forums, is on-topic for the main site. But even if it weren't, questions about Ubuntu Forums that are not also about Ask Ubuntu would still be off-topic for meta.

I thought by Ubuntu forums OP was referring to Ask Ubuntu.

2:43 PM

@EliahKagan Oh, ok. I thought the same as Kulfy, that the OP was referring to Ask Ubuntu.

I think the OP was correctly referring to Ubuntu Forums. The question was about how they couldn't post there, and they were able to post it here; if it had been about Ask Ubuntu, then presumably they would have had some trouble posting it. The CW answer was written (originally, if you look in its revision history) by a user who is very active on Ubuntu Forums (and who I think was a moderator there at the time) but who isn't and hasn't been a moderator on AU.

@EliahKagan You are right. I got confused by the fact that many new users here are referring to Ask Ubuntu as "Ubuntu forums". I saw that the OP had only 12 reputation points, so I thought that this was the case.

Also, the "We do not blacklist IP addresses..." at the beginning of the answer made me think that it's about Ask Ubuntu.

Yeah. The way attribution is given on CW posts obscured it further.

(unrelated) @user3140225 I clicked "Improve" (rather than "Reject and Edit") on this edit because I considered its good formatting improvements to be the most significant change. But proper names, such as the names of programs, companies, brands, and so forth, do not benefit from italics or any other special formatting (though they do often need to be capitalized).

It's rarely valuable to call attention to such terms specifically, and even when it is valuable, the capitalization is usually sufficient. It's sometimes useful to italicize words that refer to elements that appear in a user interface (e.g., File → Open recent document), since it's easy for readers to get confused about what's the exact text of something they see on the screen and what isn't. With proper names, such confusion is unlikely to occur.

3:03 PM

@EliahKagan I think you are right (again). I overdid it with the italics. And thanks for accepting it.

No problem. I judged that the more salient changes were the good parts of the edit (mainly formatting terminal text to make it readable but also removing some text that did not make sense). It was also much easier for me to remove the italics starting from your edit than it would have been for me to make the post readable starting from the previous version, which is an important heuristic in helping to decide whether to click "Improve" or "Reject and Edit."

In general, I'm quite willing to reject edits that aren't good--and if you do get some rejected edits, that's really no big deal--but in this case the edit was mostly good.

3:35 PM

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(though it would benefit from further explanation)

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Is the question a duplicate of something?

^^ @Zanna Some time ago, we found and duped a large number of questions that I think had something to do with that, but I don't remember the details. I'm not sure if that would be a dupe of those or not. Sorry about the vagueness. Do you happen to know?

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^^ Is the question no repro?

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^^ Considering the author's initial comment, it appears to have been intended as a success report on the other answer that gave exactly the same command.

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^^ It's not just a link to an answer somewhere else, it's recommending specific software. It certainly would benefit from expansion though.

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^^ That NAA post is still around (it would've made a good comment but it's not an answer). But I think its author is right and that the question can be closed as a duplicate of the one that has the actual answer.

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^^ But I think it's reasonable for us to delete the post, considering that it hardly explains what to do, gives no reason to believe it would be correct, and the OP has commented indicating that they tried it and it is wrong.

4:05 PM

@EliahKagan I'm still learning how to edit properly and your comments on edits, as well as the conversation here, always help me. Feel free to reject any edit that isn't good enough. No hard feelings!

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@user3140225 :)

@Kulfy The same goes for you. Thank you both for your guidance!

Don't worry, I always feel free to reject edits that I don't think mostly improve a post. Each time you see that I have accepted one of your edits, that means I thought it was good enough to accept; I try to ensure that my suggested edit reviews are never a reflection on who the editor was.

(With that said, it is of course possible for me to misclick or otherwise make a mistake--I've occasionally accepted edits by accident that should have been rejected. I don't think that's happened on any of your edits though.)

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Invalidated the previous feedback on askubuntu.com/a/1174447

^^ It's not really a duplicate answer, because the other answer doesn't say what commands to run, and it does. (Also, Natty doesn't look at other posts, so while I think we can train it to detect cases where something that looks like an answer turns was intended as a success report on another answer, I don't think we can train it on cases where an answer is not very useful because the information it contains is present somewhere else--which, for that post, is not even the case.)

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^^ Because identifying answers that misunderstand the question is outside the scope of what Natty is supposed to do. On most sites, such answers aren't even considered NAA; here, they usually are, and I've cast the third delete vote on the post for that reason.

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4:29 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, link at end of answer, pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (226): MPV player won't quit by vabesox520 on askubuntu.com

Regarding this answer, if I edit this to only keep the last three lines or so (which I think that is the real answer), would it be considered as deviating from the original and thus getting rejected?

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@user3140225 I would put those lines at the top so it's clear what the solution actually was, and also copyedit everything to improve grammar, capitalization, and readability. The material you're considering removing might be considered an explanation of the answer (that is, of why that particular solution was the best available), or it might be considered extraneous information that ought to be removed. I'm not sure how reviewers would review such an edit.

(I have already reviewed 20 suggested edits today, which is currently the maximum number per reviewer per day on Ask Ubuntu, so I would probably not be involved in reviewing the edit, however you choose to do it.)

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^^ Though I agree with deleting the post, since another answer already covered that pretty well.

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^^ Though it was appropriate to delete it (similar to that situation).

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no longer needed (wrong canned comment)

seems unclear (see comments) - or maybe it's a dupe of something general

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@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1175287/22949

5:07 PM

@EliahKagan Post already reported

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5:22 PM

@user3140225 Your welcome :)

Should this post be considered an answer? If so, it should be edited to incorporate information from comments, including the link to the bug that its author was referring to.

@EliahKagan Seems to be

@EliahKagan Yeah including the workaround would be helpful.

Both comments are no longer needed. PS: I have deleted mine which was in between them which stated "@KristopherIves PeteT is also the author of the question. And there is no other answer existing."

5:50 PM

@Kulfy Agreed. I've flagged them as no longer needed.

OT Windows

This is a duplicate of this

6:03 PM

VTC'd.

dupe

seems OT "EOL" (or perhaps it's a duplicate of something general)

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Wow they escaped square brackets that's why there is no link highlights

Maybe they intended that somebody (or some bot?) would do an edit to fix the link or something.

Anyway it's been reported in Charcoal.

Great!!!

[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line Keyboard layout on laptop is messed up after full system update By: Shivam 6.0;

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6:20 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] sound How to switch between headphones and speakers without unplugging headphones By: Biplob SD 4.5;

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6:39 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] router How to configure home router from terminal? By: Daoudi Ibrahim 5.5;

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7:04 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] hardware USB-C to HDMI adapter that works with Ubuntu? By: idan 3.5;

7:30 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 Edit Sudoers file to allow sudo rights to a AD domain group By: Hasan Hasanov 4.0;

8:05 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Unable to install git in Ubuntu 18.04.1 By: user997683 5.0;

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