Raiders of the Lost Downboat - 2020-11-30

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12:16 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Macbook pro 11,2 poor sound By: Ben Kallsen 7.5;

Autoflagging disabled until restart

[ Natty | Sentinel ] sound Microphone not working, Sennheiser headset HD 4.40 Bluetooth, on Ubuntu 20.04 By: bojack8 3.5;

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5:35 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 10.10 How can I block ping requests with IPTables? By: stuart 4.5;

6:06 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 not updating icons on dock By: jac 4.5;

6:23 AM

@BeastOfCaerbannog SmokeDetector deletes its own message whenever the reported post is deleted within some time frame (2 minutes?). Here most of Smokey's messages were deleted by Smokey itself.

Since past couple of weeks a spammer is posting stuffs full of abusive language and NSFW images. So I guess to moderate the room, those messages were deleted.

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@BeastOfCaerbannog I have replaced my comment and posted a CW answer.

BeastOfCaerbannog

6:43 AM

@Kulfy I suppose the same goes for Natty, right?

@Kulfy Upvoted!

@BeastOfCaerbannog No. Natty's and Smokey's remaining messages were deleted to moderate the room, I believe.

@BeastOfCaerbannog Thanks.

dupe

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Kulfy Ok. Thanks for the info.

@Kulfy No problem.

@Kulfy I also moved the answer out of this question and made it a CW, as you said, since the OP didn't.

Excellent. Thanks.

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Kulfy :)

7:42 AM

OT Mint

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BeastOfCaerbannog

8:48 AM

Should this old question about Ubuntu Touch be closed as off-topic?

9:01 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] networking Troubleshooting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Wifi Problems By: Tmoney 4.5;

@BeastOfCaerbannog I think they got deleted by mistake. Unfortunately I don't think we can undelete them :S

BeastOfCaerbannog

9:26 AM

@Zanna OK, no problem. I was just curious.

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BeastOfCaerbannog

11:23 AM

@Zanna I have added an answer, which I think should work. I haven't tested it though, since I don't have an installation with KDE.

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1:47 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers How to install nvidia driver with secure boot enabled? By: Richard Lepkowicz 4.0;

2:07 PM

This answer doesn't look like an answer: askubuntu.com/a/1293739

Or is it an answer?

2:25 PM

Needs details or clarity: askubuntu.com/q/1295815

Needs details or clarity: askubuntu.com/q/1295595

2:40 PM

Needs details or clarity: askubuntu.com/q/1295862

2:52 PM

Very low quality: askubuntu.com/a/1296381

BeastOfCaerbannog

3:07 PM

@technastic_tc This is not VLQ. It's a NAA (not an answer), since it's a link-only answer. If you've flagged this as VLQ, it will most probably be rejected by a mod. Have a look here about the VLQ flag: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2545/regarding-low-quality-flag

@technastic_tc Indeed this is not an answer and should be flagged. It is a report that the above answer worked for them.

3:38 PM

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@BeastOfCaerbannog The answer no longer exists.

BeastOfCaerbannog

@technastic_tc oh, cool. Maybe the mods have changed their policy regarding these answers.

@BeastOfCaerbannog These flags will make the posts appear in review queues right?

BeastOfCaerbannog

I think so.

3:53 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Using HP Laser 107a with Ubuntu 20.04 By: Ronaldus 5.0;

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Natty tp

@BeastOfCaerbannog awesome, thank you!

@BeastOfCaerbannog if the post gets deleted, the flag is marked helpful automatically, so if one flags an answer that is NAA as VLQ, it gets marked helpful and one never learns that VLQ is the wrong flag to use. Recently I started marking the flag as helpful (it's only fair) and writing a message in the flag saying "link only answer is Not An Answer, not Very Low Quality", but nobody who was wrongly flagging such posts as VLQ has stopped doing so yet :/ cc @technastic_tc

@technastic_tc yes, in the Low Quality Posts queue. But most of the flagged posts get handled by mods at the moment. Other posts go to the Low Quality Posts queue for reasons I don't know!

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Zanna Hmm. I see. Maybe rejecting the flag is more effective then. Worked for me at least!

haha yes, but the guidance on how to handle flags actually says something like if a flag prompts you to do something, it's helpful. Don't be too strict on whether it's exactly the correct flag

BeastOfCaerbannog

4:10 PM

@Zanna Ok then. Could something informing that link-only answers should be flagged as NAA be added at the NAA description of the flagging dialog?

4:22 PM

@Zanna I am sorry for flagging it as very low quality.

But if we try to understand flag reasons in a literal way, very low quality sounds appropriate as it's link only answer. The link can assist the OP so.. it's not exactly "not an answer".

That's the reason why I chose very low quality.

From next time, I'll make sure that I'll flag these kinda link-only answers as not an answer.

@Zanna oh.. ok. Thanks for the info!

@BeastOfCaerbannog maybe I could post something on meta

@technastic_tc no problem at all :)

@technastic_tc yeah, the name of the "very low quality" flag is a bad, bad, terrible name haha

Another thing to note is that nothing is mentioned about link only answers in Not an Answer flag reason FAQ in MSE....

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Q: How do I properly use the "Not an Answer" flag?

What is the "Not an Answer" flag and what is its purpose? When should I use this flag? When should I not use this flag? But I'm still not sure if I'm using the flag correctly... An answer is "Not an Answer", but the flag was declined or disputed! See also: What is an acceptable answer? Return...

support faq flags answers not-an-answer

@Zanna I hope someone might have posted a request about changing the flag-reason name in MSE..

@technastic_tc hmm

Relevant post in MSE:

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Q: Can we get some consensus on what flag to use for link only answers?

Related: Since moderators are just asking users to flag a custom "Link only answer," can we permanently make this a flag option? (not a dupe, that's a feature request and was closed as a dupe of another one) This (old) post does indeed say that Link-only answers can be flagged as NAA, bu...

discussion flags moderation link-only-answers not-an-answer

Another one:

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Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-observ...

discussion link-only-answers not-an-answer

4:40 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] filemanager Possible to add bookmarks in Nemo (Cinnamon)? By: Chris 3.5;

@BeastOfCaerbannog it was me, I was deleting the Natty posts linking to rude spams, but later realized they require feedback.

BeastOfCaerbannog

@technastic_tc Thanks for the links!

@jokerdino No problem. I just saw so many removed comments and it seemed weird.

@Natty ne

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in body (96): My external monitor is not recognized in Ubuntu 20.04 by amn30 on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] apt Issue on install Libra office on Ubuntu 20.04.1 By: It is Wesley dudes 4.5;

@Natty woo I am there

BeastOfCaerbannog

4:55 PM

@Natty Wow.

lucky you are not 10k

BeastOfCaerbannog

@jokerdino Hahaha! I had a glimpse!

it's all archived on Sentinel ;)

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Username similar to website in answer (64): Sounds problems - Ubuntu 18.04 on Asus X205TA by CMBC on askubuntu.com

[ Natty | Sentinel ] openstack Microstack commandline api not working By: Sabbir Ahmed 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 Sounds problems - Ubuntu 18.04 on Asus X205TA By: CMBC 5.0;

BeastOfCaerbannog

5:10 PM

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@Natty tp

@Natty tp

unclear - though self-answered

5:28 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] wireless Bluetooth and Wifi not working simultaneously in Ubuntu 20.04 By: Gandhar Bichkar 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] networking Configured SSH settings on Ubuntu to connect remotely from local Windows 10 OS, for VSCODE. Could I get some verification on the settings I changed? By: Ye do know me dudes 3.5;

BeastOfCaerbannog

@Natty fp

6:00 PM

what are the replies I can send to natty?

tp / fp / ne ??

6:14 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] virtualbox Alternative virtual machine to run Ubuntu on Mac OS? By: Now fuck off dudes 4.0;

@jokerdino those yes

@BeastOfCaerbannog You're welcome :)

6:33 PM

Thank you for solving your problem. Kindly consider adding your comment as an answer instead and accepting it afterwards. — jokerdino ♦ 4 mins ago

I have added the comment asking OP to add answer. Let's give it a week?

Is there a remind me button :/

follow? bookmark?

yeah there are loads of such posts in my bookmarks lol

Were there any answers ever posted?

once or twice

:-\

7:23 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers TP-link TL-WN725N driver for 18.04 version By: Juan Díaz Carrasco 4.0;

7:34 PM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers Printer Drivers for Ubuntu 20.04 By: guest109 5.0;

BeastOfCaerbannog

8:08 PM

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

8:44 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): Difficulty installing a CNC pendant linuxcnc by Nick Gardner on askubuntu.com

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10:00 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): Difficulty installing a CNC pendant linuxcnc by Nick Gardner on askubuntu.com

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11:36 PM

dupe

11:50 PM

^ ^ ^ Confirmed by the OP in a comment below the question.

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