Timeline for Can we reduce the volume of off topic questions?
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| Jun 22, 2016 at 8:17 | comment | added | user423626 | @Elric You see, the part which we support — the file association and .desktop files — were the parts you said are working perfectly. What we do not support, however, is the question of getting a Qt app to open and handle something passed as an argument. | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 22:38 | comment | added | eri0o | why is this off-topic? I couldn't find any info before doing this myself. I am stating that I am targeting uniquely and solely Ubuntu, if I go to stackoverflow people will tell me Windows, Arch, OSX, any stuff. I asked about Ubuntu and Nautilus and Python. I still haven't solved how to make icons for file types show up, but I can't ask about this anymore, because you guys consider not Ubuntu. wthf??? askubuntu.com/questions/786654/… | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 17:46 | answer | added | Braiam | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 7:42 | comment | added | fosslinux | I agree with all of you. Yes this needs to be fixed. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 10:38 | answer | added | muru | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 14, 2016 at 20:21 | answer | added | proprocastinator | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 22:12 | answer | added | Byte CommanderMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 22:05 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | TheWanderer | @edwinksl yes, definitely. In all seriousness, though, I think there should be some sort of rep thing. Below a certain point, you see it. Above, it's gone. | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | edwinksl | @Zacharee1 Make everyone with only 1 rep triple-confirm they want to submit a question. ;) | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:44 | comment | added | TheWanderer | @edwinksl WELL, ARE YOU? HUH? | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:44 | comment | added | edwinksl | We can just bold the text too, which isn't too obnoxious and serves as a useful reminder of "ARE YOU SURE YOU REALLY WANT TO DO THIS?!?!?!". | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:42 | comment | added | TheWanderer | @edwinksl we'd have to say something like "Only official Ubuntu derivatives are supported. READ THE HELP CENTER." | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:41 | comment | added | Tim | @edwinksl That sounds good - better than the text in the title box, because that won't disappear when you type. | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:40 | comment | added | edwinksl | Can we include some text below the "Title" box that says "Please make sure your question is related to Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux."? | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:38 | comment | added | TheWanderer | My suggestion (or at least the thing I like the most) is some sort of banner or confirmation dialog that pops up for new users, until a certain amount of rep has been reached. It could be a bright red pop-up on the homepage saying something like PLEASE READ THE HELP CENTER. MINT AND DEBIAN ARE NOT ON-TOPIC. ONLY UBUNTU AND ITS OFFICIAL DERIVATIVES ARE WELCOME. Or, a confirmation dialog before asking a question if the question includes the keywords, saying pretty much the same thing. | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:36 | comment | added | TheWanderer | I wish there was something where, if the question includes certain keywords like Mint, Windows, Android, Mac, etc, that question would be blocked and kept for review, like @Serg said. I think, though, that people are generally against this, as it would add yet another review queue that no one uses, leaving many questions just mentioning something off-topic in limbo. Maybe if the question included the keywords but also included Ubuntu and its mispellings it would be allowed through? We'd still get OT stuff, but there would be less of it. | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | Tim |
@Serg Yes, I had a thought that you could detect Linux Mint in a question and send them off for review. Perhaps we need the Triage that Stack Overflow has.
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:32 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:30 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | I have a suggestion: let's have a bot that blocks these questions till they are reviewed by community/high rep users/mods/whoever and check that they really belong here. Win10 may be shady area with inclusion of bash there, but we can certainly use a bot to nuke other questions | |
| Jun 12, 2016 at 21:25 | history | asked | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |