Timeline for Please do not use links as entire answers!
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 30, 2016 at 11:14 | vote | accept | David | ||
| Mar 23, 2016 at 22:29 | answer | added | Fabby | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 14:13 | comment | added | Braiam | The thing is... meta isn´t even shown to new users. | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 14:17 | history | edited | SethMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
sound a little less angry ;)
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| Mar 18, 2016 at 13:52 | history | edited | user364819 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2016 at 2:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/710649697237639168 | ||
| Mar 18, 2016 at 1:42 | comment | added | Aaron | Half tempted to post an answer to this question, with a link back to itself... | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 17:04 | history | edited | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed title and minor grammar mistakes
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| Mar 17, 2016 at 16:17 | comment | added | Daniel | Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers: i42.photobucket.com/albums/e309/uleryrns/Photoshop/Obama/… | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 15:28 | history | edited | SethMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2016 at 15:27 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Also, protection only prevents low rep users from adding answers. Nothing else. They can still be deleted. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 15:27 | comment | added | Seth Mod | This is definitely happening, however the example you use is an answer. "upgrade to kernel 4.1" is the answer. The link is just extra. The quick and easy way to tell if something is link only or not: If you remove the link, does it still attempt to answer the question? If it does, then it's an answer. Downvote or edit it if you feel it isn't a good one. (related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/…) | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 14:43 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | People who have been around for a while on the site know that's not an acceptable practice, so we don't need to be told what new uses do - we know all that. What really needs to happen is a feature request, like Zacharee1 noted. We need some form of notification for users at least bellow 1k that will tell them ( politely but very persuasively ) , hey, don't just use links and don't use what you dont know | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 13:32 | history | edited | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2016 at 13:29 | comment | added | David | @Pilot6 the possibilities of stupidity are endless | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 13:07 | comment | added | TheWanderer | I wholeheartedly agree. I wonder if it would be plausible to put some sort of notification at the top of answers, or over the text box, that tells new users link-only answers are effectively useless. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 13:06 | history | edited | TheWanderer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2016 at 13:02 | comment | added | Oli Mod | I think you need to double-underline, super-emphesise the "just" in "PLEASE do not answer a question with just a link", rather than the "PLEASE". Great answers often aren't books and cite external resources responsibly. I understand what you're getting at but I wouldn't want people to read this and think they shouldn't use any links in answers. They're often necessary. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 12:51 | comment | added | Pilot6 | And also people just copy some commands from other answers that they do not understand and post as their own answers. Like this askubuntu.com/a/747059/167850 This is even worse. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 12:49 | history | asked | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
