I have a cron job that opens an AskUbuntu window every day at noon with the goal of earning the "Fanatic" badge... would you guys consider this cheating or.... ahem... genius?
Just out of curiosity, if I flag a post for mod attention and somehow the post is deleted, are you people still able to see/handle those flags? Or they just show "helpful" in my flag history or magically disappears from mod's side?
High-rep non-moderators never see custom moderator-attention flags.
I believe moderator attention flags on posts survive post deletions and still have to be handled by a moderator. I don't think they get marked helpful automatically. I'm not sure about corner cases like the user account being destroyed by a moderator after the flag is raised, but I think that, even then, they stick around in the moderator flag queue.
But comment flags with custom flagging messages don't necessarily get reviewed by moderators. Some number of flags will cause a comment to be deleted without moderator action; the number varies depending on the length and content of the comment. When a comment is deleted (by any mechanism, not necessarily flagging), flags on it are marked helpful automatically.
The same happens if the flag was raised on a comment on a post that wasn't deleted, and then the post is deleted. In that case, the comment flag is marked helpful automatically but the comment is not deleted (though it's not visible to most people because the post is deleted). Users who can see deleted posts can flag comments on them; those flags don't instantly get marked helpful, but go into the mod flag queue for comment flags.
Well I know that mod flags are for mods only but I still want to know about the latter one. Since one of my flag was marked as helpful and I'm not sure if mod actually saw that since flag wasn't for the post but for the user.
Currently, when users are putting a custom flag on a post, there is a chance that this flag will be dismissed before a moderator could see it.
For example, if it was a close flag, and the question got closed, all flags about the question are getting removed. Including custom ones. This was repor...
At some point long ago, apparently custom flags were marked helpful (or otherwise cleared from the mod queue) automatically when a post was deleted. As I understand that, this is no longer done -- your flag will be (eventually) reviewed by a moderator.
@NathanTuggy This has been fixed for years, the question just never got updated. Custom flags can never be dismissed by non-moderator action. — animuson ♦Oct 8 '15 at 22:39
Though that makes it sound like even custom comment flags always have to be handled by a moderator, which I don't think is the case.
@Kulfy I think Eliah did a grat job of explaining. I also think (but don't really know) that deleting a post will get rid of most flags (dismiss as helpful) but maybe not a custom one.
I don't really know though since if the flag is dismissed, I never see it.
@Kulfy Yes, but that's for flags we've actually handled. If you flag a post and it's then deleted, the flag disappears and I would have no way of knowing it existed unless I visited the deleted post.
@Kulfy See it how? I don't see it in the flag queue, but there is an indicator on all posts showing any flags that were ever raised against them, so I can see that.
@terdon You said that, " I would have no way of knowing it existed unless I visited the deleted post.". The above link was to the question. I raised the flag against the answer.
We have an indicator of active flags. That flag has been dealt with so it is no longer active. Therefore, I don't see it in the list of pending flags. But when you gave me the link, I could see that there had been a flag against that post.
@JoshuaBesneatte Not everyone is a help vampire. This is a N00b that doesn't get any guidance to put all of the information in the question itself so it stands all by itself without needing to read all the comments...
Note: This was originally posted on AskUbuntu. However, since it got little traction, I chose to also post it here. I hope you don't mind it much. It's related to X11 anyway, so I think it will not be only applicable to Ubuntu.
As far as I know, Ubuntu's Key Bindings are all exposed on the f...
i want to install a specific version of Ubuntu or Debian, In ubuntu i want to debootstrap the specific version 16.04.0, and i'm using this code:
debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=buildd xenial "/home/ubuntu/Documents/myrootfilesystemdir" http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
But unfortunately, af...
Do you need to run another instance of the program as the same user at the same time with your regular profile? If not, you should be able just to rename the directory that contains your gnucash profile, do your testing, then rename it back.
According to gnucash(1), that directory is the .gnucash subdirectory of your home directory.
If you're going to do it in a graphical file browser, I would cut and paste (rather than copy and paste), which will perform a move. Besides that, though, yes. You should do it when .gnucash is not running. If you decide to do from the terminal, you can use the command:
mv ~/.gnucash{,.bak}
(But doing it from a graphical file browser really is fine. If you can't see the directory, press Ctrl+H in the file browser, which toggles whether or not hidden files are shown.)
more like mv ~/.gnucash ~/.gnucash_old, start gnucash and do your testing, then rm ~/.gnucash to remove the test’s config dir and mv ~/.gnucash_old ~/.gnucash to move it back
I must say upgrading 16.04 directly to 19.04 with no interim upgrades in between was relatively painless (after figuring out apt error messages). I'm so surprised everything works and rather pleased with the desktop performance. It's running kernel 5.0.0-23-generic but I'm rather stumped why 5.2.6 won't boot. Must be nvidia isn't supporting yet.
After a preseed installation of ubuntu (or any linux dist) I want to display a message/warning for the user that some installation or configuration is happening during the first boot. Unfortunately anything related to x11 isn't going to work due to security restrictions (root cannot display for a...
Note: This was originally posted on AskUbuntu. However, since it got little traction, I chose to also post it here. I hope you don't mind it much. It's related to X11 anyway, so I think it will not be only applicable to Ubuntu.
As far as I know, Ubuntu's Key Bindings are all exposed on the f...
i want to install a specific version of Ubuntu or Debian, In ubuntu i want to debootstrap the specific version 16.04.0, and i'm using this code:
debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=buildd xenial "/home/ubuntu/Documents/myrootfilesystemdir" http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
But unfortunately, af...
