@BeastOfCaerbannog Thanks! I also edited some of them. Tags are automatically removed after ~24 hours when they are empty. There is no other easy way to delete them
@Zanna oh.. ok. Creating an own OS sounds like a huge task to me :P
@Zanna OK!
@Zanna I was checking the meaning of shrug.. "to raise your shoulders and then lower them in order to say you do not know or are not interested". So did you mean "you do not know" or something else?
@RandomPerson indeed. I guess we won't know what they meant. Maybe they meant to convey something like "I will make my OS great". It's not that often that I encounter an expression whose intended meaning I'm in doubt about to this extent in Ask Ubuntu posts
@RandomPerson well, I see what you mean - it's higher in 2016 than at any other time, but 2015 seems higher than, say, 2017... What I'm shrugging is I can't really tell for sure. 2016 seems like an anomaly in an overall downward trend
@Zanna Yeah! I saw that, that's why I started editing the rest of them! Mods have all these superpowers but they can't delete a tag? That's strange!
@Zanna I would argue that they don't seem flat from 2019 onwards. This is more obvious in your graph, where the edits are grouped per month rather than per week, as in Catija's.
@Zanna The declining trend seems pretty linear to me. I hope it's not and that the situation will be reversed over the following months.
@BeastOfCaerbannog :) I think the most drastic thing mods can do to posts is merge, and even that can be reversed. Tag deletion is probably irreversible - I mean I don't think there is a way to find posts that formerly had a tag (do deleted tags appear in revision histories?)
if a tag were deleted and it were the only tag on a post, that post would be untagged, which is considered bad. Tag removal can also make it difficult to find posts. The reason I want tag removal to be done as editing work is that the tag provides a rare opportunity to review a slice of posts.
@BeastOfCaerbannog hmm you're right; apart from the summer 2020 spike it does seem declining even since 2019
I also had a look at the number of people that obtained the Copy-editor badge every year, which I think is a good metric to assess the situation of the queue, and things don't look good. I'd say they look rather bad.
Here is the relevant plot I made:
The number of people that get the badge every year steadily decreases since 2016.
@Zanna I did a pseudo-smoothing on your graph. I don't have the actual data, so I couldn't properly smooth them, so I just drew a trend line over them by hand using Inkscape. The real trend line wouldn't be far from it I think.
Apart from the obvious downward trend, another thing is striking: there are periods of higher activity in the queue roughly every two years. And these periods of higher activity coincide with the release of an LTS.
@BeastOfCaerbannog :D what I meant to hint at in those messages was that mods are prone to making mistakes (like other humans) so SE limits our abilities to damage its precious content.
@Zanna Hahaha! Mods are bots. That's common knowledge.
@Zanna I totally understood the reason of why tag deletion works that way. I should have been more clear than "I agree with that.", but I was in a hurry.
BTW, here are the data for the number of users getting the Copy Editor badge versus year:
This question has many comments which should have been posted (preferably more elaborately and in some cases (some deleted) more politely) as answers, and even in their current form go towards answering it much better than the proposed duplicate which contains information that is currently incorrect. Also I fail to see how the question is opinion based. Commenters: please consider using the expert knowledge you have displayed to write answers to the question! — Zanna ♦41 secs ago
@Levente I hope you are a native Slovak speaker. Can you please check if the English text in the post is according to what the OP mentioned in Slovak and also make the post English-only such that all users of Ask Ubuntu can easily understand the post? — Random Person1 min ago
@RandomPerson Not all users agree with the policy about ESM/EOL releases. Until the question gets closed they can help the OP if they wish. If they manage to solve their problem, that's great! Another happy OP. But the question will probably be closed.
@BeastOfCaerbannog thanks! :) I myself voted to leave it open, and the review is completed, but that may be insufficient to prevent it being closed. I hope it won't be...
@Zanna Well, guiverc added an answer, so I suppose their comments, which could be misleading towards an opinion-based question, can be removed. Do you want me to flag them?
@RandomPerson yes, in my view some of the comments expressed derision of the OP's ideas in a way that was impolite - certainly one would not speak to a person like that face to face. I found the post because of an "unkind" comment flag and deleted other comments besides the flagged one
@BeastOfCaerbannog oh, great to see that! Thanks for following up! I'll delete guiverc's comments which have become their answer, and my comment as well I guess
yes, just the dupe suggestion comment and the reply to it remaining - what an improvement there!
@Zanna I think you should leave your comment as a means to prevent the closing of the answer. It already has 4 upvotes, which should signify further its importance.
The path Device Pointer Properties > Settings > Pointing > Sensitivity > Palm Check doesn't look like an Ubuntu one. Are they both questions about Windows?
I am about 90% sure they are about Windows. I googled around and haven't found these settings for Ubuntu. But I suppose we should be certain before closing or deleting perhaps.
@Zanna Oh, OK! Sorry for keeping you up! Have a good night!
