Any more people want to get their accounts deleted? WOW! I have lost more points over the last two days than I gained over the last week. 😬 It happens! :)
@Kulfy Yeah, I read that part. I am thinking though someone here that likes us and did upvotes because DK and I both lost almost the same amount of points in the same amount of time.
@Terrance so do I but I wouldn't say easy come, easy go. No doubt someone will post in meta and it'll be closed as a dupe and live will go on. Now, to deal with unwashed dishes.
I wrote this line in Terminal :
crunch 6 6 123456789 -o /root/Desktop/timy.txt
and it said this
chunk1: File START could not be opened
The problem is = Permission denied
Suppose that I have a home directory /home/mydir(not have sudo permission),which have some file contain time format (YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS) in filename, when I try to copy or link these files to a nfs directory, it will report an error,something like
cp: cannot stat './2013010206/NARR_3D:2013-01-...
When a user is deleted, reputation of users voted by the deleted user will change.
From https://askubuntu.com/help/user-was-removed I see
This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user had a very high reputation score.
That's i bit vague, is there a limit or does someone ...
@RobotHumans My guess of 10K is because a 10K user with whom I interacted quite a bit in the past left (or whatever because it now shows user47206 instead of cipricus) but my rep was unaffected.
I don't know if it can be done and can't remember what the database explorer app url is, but user* with rep > 100 should give a succinct list of anonymous users who still have rep on site.
SELECT user WHERE username LIKE 'user%' AND reputation > 100; or similar then sort by rep ascending.
Sorry @DKBose - I tried it with ciprus's old account and I couldn't find it with a direct query to that account, so the data is purged. The only way that gets an answer is someone with inside knowledge.
@RobotHumans my thinking is that when cipricus left or "was removed", my rep was unaffected. Since he had just crossed 10K, I thought that that is what is meant by "very high" rep. (Yes, I know there are people with 100K+ reps :) .) The other person who seems to have left and who may have upvoted my questions or answers in user497767. I had to visit archive.org to get some clues.
Makes sense. I just thought I should be able to find it in data-explorer. Turns out, you can't. Thought I'ld make sure you knew so you didn't waste time on it.
There's no such thing as a database cleanup that would affect reputation, because we don't automatically delete profiles that have voted.
One or more users deleted their profiles, and there's really not anything further we can discuss about the topic for privacy reasons.
It's not often we get to reach out and thank someone individually for their contribution to a site, but we wanted to take this time to congratulate you for reaching 100,000 reputation on Ask Ubuntu! To be in the top, top rankings among the millions of Stack Exchange users puts you in some really elite company.
Hitting a milestone like this is a great opportunity to take a step back and remember what the points are really about. It's not just the tens of thousands of community members who took the time to up-vote your posts; it's the uncounted millions of people — yes millions — who have al…
@Pilot6 Quite possibly not. But others did and voted for you, apparently.
@Fabby You know, considering how you behaved at the time, I would strongly urge you not to discuss this. We have been very considerate over the years but I am fed up with you trying to pretend you were a victim. So drop it.
@Pilot6 In many cases, that was certainly true. Unfortunately, a small group of users decided it would be fun to game the system and vote for each other. There was no good way of knowing which votes were honest and which were not, so many votes were removed. Was this perfect? No. But it was the only avenue available that didn't allow fraudulent votes to remain.
That act either works or really backfires. Example, "This is what I was talking about when I said we should have separate tables for each event type in the beginning. No query should take 15 seconds to complete and timeout chrome but work in postman" @Fabby
Have I ever mentioned before how much I hate the downvote system here? I think that before you choose to downvote someone they need to put up a message that states please consider leaving a comment about what you feel is wrong instead of placing a downvote with no explanation. :)
@RobotHumans You should have said: "It's better to throw database redundancy theory completely out of the window because in theory no redundancy is better, but in practice, redundancy increases speed. And in theory practice and theory are equal, but in practice, practice smashes theory up, stomps int into the ground and then shoots it in the head twice and puts the gun in its left hand! (=totally deranged and funny)
@Terrance :50431835 The problem with that is that it would discourage downvotes. We need downvotes, probably more than upvotes. When you leave a comment, it very often results in your being hounded and attacked. I tend to leave comments almost always but I have the armor of high rep and a diamond. I can very well understand why people are reluctant to.
Revenge downvoting can become extremely tiring. As can spending hours trying to explain why the answer is wrong to people who take your technical disagreement as a personal attack.
@terdon I think that people just need to grow up! I find it more discouraging when you have no clue what you did wrong. If you can't take constructive criticism then you shouldn't be posting here anyway.
@terdon Oh, I accept them. I just want to know what I did so that I can correct it, but when you have no clue then you do have to live with it. Which I have done.
I've done tons of sympathy upvoting: (E.G. Why does this question have a downvote? That's not fair! Lemme upvote! or Hey: friend's duplicate answer: lemme read and upvote but never any revenge downvoting!)
@Terrance It's entirely possible you didn't do anything wrong. When I get a downvote, I go look over my answer and fix anything I can find. If I can find nothing, I simply assume the downvoter misunderstood, or is having a bad day, or hates guitar players, or always downvotes any answer posted on a Tuesday or whatever.
@terdon If I win the euromillions lottery, I'll invite all the AU mods into London, pay for their flights, 5 star hotel and want to get drunk with you one night!
Monday is the given suck. I do more on the weekend than I do on Monday. It's Tuesday where you have to pick the pace back up again to be on target for Friday... hence the suck of Tues.
@N0rbert Re: askubuntu.com/questions/1146109/… I copy/pasted the instructions from the same page under the heading which says: Adding this PPA to your system.
I need to know the best strongswan configuration to connect to a vpn server with the following details, I need to access two networks on remote network:
My IP Address (Left example): 111.111.111.111
Server IP: 222.222.222.222
***Phase 1***************************
Authentication Method: Pre-Sh...
@ByteCommander So how did the first week of modding go??? More enthusiastic about AU than ever now?
@Rinzwind Thanks to you, I now remember the reason why I came out of the woodwork of being an anonymous user and registered and started answering questions instead of just looking for support anonymously...
@DKBose Would you mind undeleting your screenshot answer? I think it is certainly valid, even if the dconf way might be preferable. The OP seemed to have gone your way, according to their answer (which is NAA and I'd like to convert it to a comment below your answer if you're fine with that).
I could have undeleted it myself (diamond magic etc ;) ) but I didn't want to impose the decision on you if you might have decided to remove it for other reasons.
@DKBose Upvoted... Tip:For N00bs For myself, I always include the long version for the command I.E. --include-pointer as they will not remember WTF what -p was after 24 hours...
@ByteCommander, no! No other reason than I think that Win's answer was the easier way to go. Of course, sometimes one may not want the pointer but I wouldn't know why/
It's always good to have more than one way to achieve something. Sometimes one may be preferable over others, sometimes the other way round, for whatever reason that may be.
What you want is hidden in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) Accessibility settings.
sudo apt install compizconfig-settings-manager
and then:
Open CCSM
Navigate to Accessibility
Click the checkbox before Show mouse
Click on Show mouse
Click on the first button after Initiate
Press a ...
I think valid answers should never be deleted because there's a subjectively better, different answer. That is to be decided by the community via up/downvotes
IMO, only delete your answer if it is wrong, or if it is a duplicate of another answer to the same question (which is either older or way better explained)
@Fabby I spent three years in Munich but never got a chance to improve my German. People preferred speaking to me in English. Anyway, my German is extremely minimal except for an arsenal of cuss words.
but 18.04 still has unity in its repos anyway, so I'll probably upgrade some time wen I have more time to invest for maintaining my machines (and enjoying the playing around, not just needing it to work again asap)
@ByteCommander there is a common misunderstanding that running, for example, sudo apt purge lubuntu-desktop, would revert back to the original de taking out all the metapackage's "dependencies".
@Fabby I went through 180 of my answers to see if any of the questioners was now inactive and that was the only one that came up. Of course, it's possible that it could be someone who I never directly interacted with: just some "benevolent" upvoter :)
@ByteCommander but then who else has turned inactive recently? Of course, I can't see the past activity directly now but upvoting is a different type of activity as opposed to posting questions.
I do not know. It has been an account with many votes across the whole network apparently, and for some reason I do not know certainly either it seems they qualified not for vote preservation. As terdon said in meta.askubuntu.com/a/18648/367990 that someone requested deletion of their own account, and that's basically all we know and are supposed to share.
I wrote this line in Terminal :
crunch 6 6 123456789 -o /root/Desktop/timy.txt
and it said this
chunk1: File START could not be opened
The problem is = Permission denied
Suppose that I have a home directory /home/mydir(not have sudo permission),which have some file contain time format (YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS) in filename, when I try to copy or link these files to a nfs directory, it will report an error,something like
cp: cannot stat './2013010206/NARR_3D:2013-01-...
When a user is deleted, reputation of users voted by the deleted user will change.
From https://askubuntu.com/help/user-was-removed I see
This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user had a very high reputation score.
That's i bit vague, is there a limit or does someone ...
There's no such thing as a database cleanup that would affect reputation, because we don't automatically delete profiles that have voted.
One or more users deleted their profiles, and there's really not anything further we can discuss about the topic for privacy reasons.
Is there any tidy way to let me know which user was removed? That's a pretty big hit to take from one user's removal. Just curious.
I need to know the best strongswan configuration to connect to a vpn server with the following details, I need to access two networks on remote network:
My IP Address (Left example): 111.111.111.111
Server IP: 222.222.222.222
***Phase 1***************************
Authentication Method: Pre-Sh...
What you want is hidden in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM) Accessibility settings.
sudo apt install compizconfig-settings-manager
and then:
Open CCSM
Navigate to Accessibility
Click the checkbox before Show mouse
Click on Show mouse
Click on the first button after Initiate
Press a ...
