Timeline for Collective "On Topic-ity"
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.askubuntu.com/ with https://meta.askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.askubuntu.com/ with https://meta.askubuntu.com/
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:46 | answer | added | Mark Kirby | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 19:00 | comment | added | You'reAGitForNotUsingGit | ^^^ Yeah, I saw that one earlier as well... | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:34 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Now here is a good example for you askubuntu.com/questions/759452/… | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:22 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | I never insulted you and of course I am going off the example. You made a question and gave me an example, that example was the worst example possible and now you complain I used your example as an example. " but you can't talk about bash vs. Python with me" I just looked through your profile, if that statement is true and you , in your own words "know more about python and bash than most people here", why have you never answered one single bash question? I am done with this, you are just offended because you were wrong about the off topic question. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:16 | comment | added | David | Stop. You're going off the example now. Now you're just plain insulting me, and I really don't appreciate it. I know I might not give the best examples, but you can't talk about bash vs. Python with me. @MarkKirby | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:15 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | " I know more about python and bash than most people here" I am not a dev and I could tell, that was bash right away, even the title says "shell script". As for your example, it is silly, giving a hypothetical of something extreme that may someday happen somewhere is useless, you NEED to get some good examples to back up your claims. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:08 | comment | added | David | You know what? No. I know more about python and bash than most people here and there cannot be a more clear difference. My point is that people could say eventually that "windows controlling a script that would boot to Python which would boot Ubuntu" (Just hypothetical) would be on topic, but my god it isn't!!! @MarkKirby | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:05 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | "Not the best example" To me it was the worst possible example you could of given, it shows it is you that does not understand the difference between a bash script and a python one, rather than some users (in the example muru a 58.7k user) are just answering off topic questions. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:03 | comment | added | David | Not the best example, I admit. As soon as I find a good one I'll leave you another comment @MarkKirby | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:00 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Your example proves why you are wrong, the question is about a shell script and that is on topic. The script is actually a bash script and that measures timings on a python script, I am not a dev but to me the code presented is not python it is bash, this is on topic, if this is your level of example, then you just are not clear on is and is not off topic. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 13:47 | comment | added | David | @MarkKirby Define high rep. users. I see users from anywhere in the 1-7000 range answering these questions, not anyone in specific, but definitely not new users. For the second part to be honest every 1 to 2 hours another question pops up on the page. Most recent example: shell script storing run time with python | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 13:43 | history | edited | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | When you say "people are starting to answer these questions", can you define the "people", for example, is it high rep users or new users doing this? If it is just new users, then this is nothing new, they just don't understand the site as well as us and the just want to help. If the question should be closed but someone answered it, it does not in any way impede your ability to cast a close vote yourself. If it is higher rep users, then, to repeat the other comments, provide examples because I do not see this as something that is becoming an issue here. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 15:33 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | Panther | Ubuntu has always been welcoming to new users and the ubuntu community is large and diverse enough that such questions are accepted here. When in doubt, if it is in the official repositories and runs on Ubuntu (bash, python, apache, etc) it is considered on topic.The determination of off topic for outdated (EOL) versions of ubuntu or 3rd party repos are usually considered on topic here. The general policy is when in doubt leave it open. You are of course free to your opinion and to exercise your close votes which will add the question to the que. If others agree it will be closed, else move on | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @ParanoidPanda it depends if they should, see my answer. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 15:29 | comment | added | user364819 | @JacobVlijm: I'm not talking about those questions, if you just run a search for 14.10 or 15.04 you'll find many open questions asked after those versions went EOL which still aren't closed and there aren't any close votes on them. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 14:55 | answer | added | Jacob Vlijm | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 14:41 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @ParanoidPanda questions which not EOL at the moment they were asked, are not off-topic now. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 14:39 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | I'd like to see some examples. My impression is that in general more questions are marked off-topic incorrectly than the other way around. Also, being marked off-topic incorrectly is a bigger issue then incidentally answering an off-topic question. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 14:38 | comment | added | user364819 | You should see the amount of EOL questions that are still open... And all sorts of other off-topic questions which people have been helping the OPs to solve, but never seemingly close voting them... | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 14:09 | history | asked | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |