[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer (86): No sound with Ubuntu 20.04 on Asus Zenbook UX533FTC by sridel on askubuntu.com

no longer needed

^^ Not very useful to begin with. What the OP really wants is extracting specific info of interest from the long outputs, not how to concatenate these three commands into a single one.

^ not just how to...

@Nmath Hey, thanks for suggesting edits to fix this situation - I approved your edits, but I declined your flag, for these reasons:

1. The default action in our UI for that flag is to delete the post. It doesn't even show that there is an edit pending. I'm not sure whether the low quality posts queue shows pending edits, but even if it did, a small number in parenthesis probably wouldn't have stopped people clicking the delete button

2. The VLQ flag is supposed to be for posts that cannot be salvaged by editing, and this post was 100% salvaged by your edit

3. When a post flagged VLQ is edited, it automatically gets downvoted. I consider this a bug, but it is by design - the idea is that the person who flagged it should have downvoted it instead (this is indeed a problem in general - I find myself downvoting posts on behalf of people who flagged them instead of downvoting every day hahaha) - but in general this is the last thing you want to happen when editing a post!

^ this is also a reason not to flag link only answers as VLQ - because they are likely to be salvageable by editing

you can flag them as NAA though, because the answer is in another castle

OTOH, flagging this as VLQ might have been better than flagging it as NAA (which it was), since VLQ flags are automatically resolved by editing the post, and if the edits had been applied without resolving the flag, the edited version of the post might still have got deleted. But, since your suggested edits fixed the situation, there seems to have been no need to flag it. But if you had flagged it for mod attention, that would have been fine.

OT Kali

I hope you don't mind me pinging you here Nmath - I could have commented on the post, but then the author would have got pinged. Besides here all the flagging experts can tell me that I am wrong

At least the first reason I mentioned seems somehow bad... "I declined your flag because I would probably have handled it wrongly" - seems unfair haha

@Zanna ... since I appreciate feeling needed even when I'm not XD

@pomsky My 'no longer needed' flag was declined, but I still think this comment is good example of a half answer (and I'm being generous calling it a "half" answer, the comment completely missed the actual issue raised in the question.)

@pomsky yes, sorry, you are right. The comment might have helped to clarify the question (perhaps indirectly) but it is no longer useful

I don't like to delete answery comments before they become answers, but maybe that is wrong of me

But I think the comment is simply obsolete at this point, given the edits. So, my bad, sorry

dupe Ah, a different search found the answer.

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sounds like 'needs details', or a bug. OP claims it happens only under a specific circumstance once someone commented that they couldn't reproduce it. But I couldn't reproduce under that either.

This edit attempts to correct the grammar of a command, turning it from a correct command, which OP used, into an incorrect one, which the OP did not use. I rejected it as no improvement whatsoever, but I should probably have used a custom reason (or clicked Reject and Edit). It needs at least one more review.

@EliahKagan reject-and-edit -ed

[ Natty | Sentinel ] printing Printer problems after installing Ubuntu 20.04 By: M. Mocha 4.0;

@Natty tp

[ Natty | Sentinel ] boot Stuck at GRUB command line By: Ivo Onraedt 4.0;

dupe

[ Natty | Sentinel ] apt How to solve unmetdependency error while installing any package through apt By: Snehal Patel 4.5;

OT Kali

@Natty tp

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 18.04 Why is my Ubuntu 18.04 distribution asking me to upgrade to Pop!_OS 19.10? By: Shah Vipul 3.5;

[ Natty | Sentinel ] drivers 18.04 No sound - Intel sound card snd_hda_intel not working By: Alex Punnen 5.0;

This question is confirmed by the OP as a dupe of askubuntu.com/q/1249849

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (61): Fixing Windows7 Bootmgr by Maryanne on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (61): Fixing Windows7 Bootmgr by Maryanne on askubuntu.com

why did we get two reports for that?

oh, seems a bug, everything is doing it

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): unable to load usb library, no module named PIL K40 whisperer laser install by dogfood on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Potentially bad ns for domain in body (1): unable to load usb library, no module named PIL K40 whisperer laser install by dogfood on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector looks ok, but I can't understand the question due to the formatting, or figure out how to edit it :/

@Zanna I think that happens when multiple SmokeDetector instances are active (i.e., when more than one running SmokeDetector instance is not on standby).

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 16.04 How to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 20.04 (in virtual machine) By: Emoji 4.0;

OT-Zorin

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

@Natty tp

seems dupe

Was that really too-broad?

@Natty report askubuntu.com/a/1263795/816190

[ Natty | FMS ] Link to Post Low Length; No Code Block; Low Rep; 2.5;

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Phone number detected in title (65): E:The repository 'cdrom://Linux Mint 20 _Ulyana_ - Release amd64 20200624 focal Release' does not have a Release file by LAC on askubuntu.com

@Natty Why is that report on FMS?

@Kulfy The NAA Value is 2.5. The explanation for the filters is:

1.0 - Low Length
0.5 - No Code Block
1.0 - Low Rep

OT hardware issue

[ Natty | Sentinel ] donation How can I donate to Ubuntu without PayPal? By: user3555620 4.5;

@EliahKagan oh :)

@Kulfy that post was discussed starting here but the discussion is very dispersed between other messages, so reading backwards from this message may be easier, though probably not less confusing...

[ Natty | Sentinel ] command-line How to mass add file extension? By: Rohit Roy Chowdhury 3.5;

@Zanna I see. Thanks. Still I have voted to reopen.

@Natty fp

@Kulfy :)

[ Natty | Sentinel ] fstab Fstab wont boot while usb drive is plugged in to system By: Danwand N S 4.0;

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OT 19.10

OT no-repro

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OT C programming, Please write all my C code programming for me questions are also off topic at Stack Overflow.

^^^ request for code without a minimal, complete and verifiable example

[ Natty | Sentinel ] video Youtube only buffering in Ubuntu 18.04 By: Soumyanil Biswas 5.0;

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Unclear The link to Boot-Repair Boot Info Summary does not exist.

@Kulfy I think the close-voters mistakenly chose the too-broad/needs-focus reason looking at the scope of the question: it has no specific issue in "focus" and it's bound to attract only long and highly subjective answers (whereas ideally the reason should be chosen when the question contains multiple not-very-related queries). Personally I would've chosen POB.

(or unclear)

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