Oh sure, I frequently just remove the tag from questions without making any comment, because making a comment about it, is just hostile. I also flag people who comment about it.
I do wish we could either remove it or move it down the list somehow. It's infuriating to see people getting responses like this. Especially when they clearly aren't on 14.04.
So very tired of seeing people vote to close 14.04 tagged questions. It's clearly a mistake when people choose 14.04, as it's the first tag that pops up. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1503230/error-while-installing-a-setup-file-in-ubuntu-os
Worth noting that the "14.04" tag, is the very first tag that shows up, when you search for all manner of things. So it's not remotely surprising that people choose it. We really need to stop telling people off for choosing it, and fix the site, remove or de-prioritise the tag.
People are still harrasing new users because they use the 14.04 tag, or because they say "ubuntu 23" instead of "Ubuntu 23.04". It's super irritating to see these unfriendly, unhelpful boilerplate responses.
@Levente You've done it again? You've taken a post that Jorge made about making the data public, and duplicated it into a much longer post which aims to get the same goals, but uses lots more words to get there. Why?
This explains why SE are allowing AI answers, because they're also making the Q&A data private, and going to charge for it to be used by AI vendors. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/…
Don't you hate it when you're in the middle of answering someone's question with a lengthy reply and they realise their mistake and delete the question :D
Question for the group: What someone tells us that their system is catastrophically broken - like boots to black screen (gets past initramfs) what is typically why? Got any concrete examples? Not guesses :)
I do think there's a difference between someone creating a brand new account today then posting a bunch of (or even one) ChatGPT answers, versus someone who has been here even a month, and done a bunch of answers, with one ChatGPT answer posted.
This is why i didn't contest them at the time. Because I figured whoever set the suspension wouldn't be particularly interested in my input, based on the fact they weren't very well implemented themselves.
In the email from the moderators it had this text: "Using AI to generate a large quantity of answers, without regard to if those answers are correct and actually answer the question on which they are posted, is not acceptable."
Indeed, what's even more weird, is the answers were two months ago, not even things said on the day of the suspension. It really felt personal, like someone went out of their way to find things I'd done wrong to give me a slap on the wrist.
I can understand those rules for a new person, for sure. To be clear, I'm not asking for special treatment because I've been around a long while, or contributed a lot. That's not the point I'm making. It's that it's very weird for someone who has been around who posted only two out of hundreds of comments and answers, gets an instant suspension.
@andrew.46 I don't mind it being a public discussion. My feeling was that it was a bit brute force enforcement of The Rules. I get that nobody is above The Law, but it felt a little much to get a 7 day suspension. I didn't click the link to contest it because by the literal definition of the rules, I'd broken them, and fully expected to have someone just push back on me and say "Tough luck, you broke the rules". So I just sucked up 7 day suspension.
I had chatgpt generate two answers - which I amended, because they needed correcting. I used my experience to tweak them. This was before I realised it was banned. I still got a 7 day suspension, no conversation, just banhammer. Over a month after they were posted, with many posts inbetween.
Is it possible, desireable to delete a tag. We had someone ask a debian question, which obviously got voted down. They left a comment suggesting we delete the debian tag. This actually seems sensible to me, given we don't support debian?
I also have an 18.04 server that I can't upgrade, but will have to replace at some point. I'm sure many of us do. There are some exceptional circumstances, for sure, and I'm not suggesting that we should be supporting any outdated release of Ubuntu based on someone coming up with a good "sob story" to justify asking.
My point was that I'm pretty sick (hence my meta post) of seeing the needless nit-picking in the comments from long-standing well-educated and knowledgeable people. Just answer the person's question. Quibbling about when one country started a war on your country seems like the absolutely least tactful way to open a comment from someone genuinely asking or help with a piece of computer software.
This has been bothering me for a while now, and I'm interested in hearing other people's points of view.
Problem
Contributors are very quick to comment with correctional boilerplate messages where a questioner makes a minor mistake.
Why is this a problem
It's unfriendly, and smacks of the "Well, ...
I get that we want accurate questions, but I keep seeing people being berated for using "Ubuntu 20" or "Ubuntu 20.4" or similar. It's really depressing to see these walls of text having a go at a novice user for just using the version number incorrectly. We should do better! askubuntu.com/questions/1472088/…
