Timeline for What can be done to remove obsolete answers?
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| Dec 6, 2016 at 0:57 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | It is my understanding the Wine Team is more concerned with making popular programs work than obscure programs. Everything on the top 25 list is a popular game except Photoshop. I don't think the team would be pleased if you said they can only make simple programs work. (The Libre Office team surely does not think MS office is not complex). | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 0:41 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | There is a difference between Duplicate and Similar, If I have an answer that works for one of the questions and not the other the questions are not Exact Duplicates or even Duplicates. All of the questions are similar as they all refer to Ubuntu. | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 11:40 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | Those are duplicates. One of the answers in the original question even suggests to use VirtualBox. Wine with "obscure" (whatever it means) Windows software? Sure, been there multiple times. It doesn't matter if the program is famous or not, what matters is its complexity. | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 3:10 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | Here is yet another one, starting to seem like "often" to me: askubuntu.com/questions/856388/… vs askubuntu.com/questions/988/… My experience is that the odds are pretty slim that Wine will solve the clients requirements, has anyone here actually had luck with Wine and obscure Windows software? It won't even run AutoCAD, VBox with Windows will. | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 3:05 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @Andrea, I do not recall that asking or answering questions is paid either. When mistakes are made, there are demerits. That should be the case with sloppy work by the reviewers. members with low points don't get to flag duplicates for the mods attention. | |
| Dec 4, 2016 at 12:38 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | Reviewing is volunteering, reviewers are not paid to do it and errors can happen once in a while. Those who abuse the system (but that's not the case here) are already managed by mods. | |
| Dec 4, 2016 at 2:14 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @ Andrea Lazzarotto My opinion is that mislabeling a post as duplicate can do damage not just to a members reputation, but to Linux technology in general. A reviewer that makes a bad call should receive downmarks, just like anyone else. There is a name for those that criticize but can't take criticism themselves. Do unto others... | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 17:03 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | Yes that one seems kinda odd. I will cast a reopen vote. Nevertheless, the fact that some errors out of thousands of questions can happen does not mean people with review privileges should be bashed with snarky nicknames like "duplicate post police" or whatever. Humans sometimes make mistakes. | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 5:08 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @ Andrea Lazzarotto Here is another one or two: askubuntu.com/questions/555648/… vs askubuntu.com/questions/77714/… but that page is listed as duplicate to askubuntu.com/questions/16988/… the Duplicate Post Police don't seem to realize making a Persistent CD is different than making a Persistent USB. Why are they sending the op to a duplicate post that can't be updated? | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 17:08 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | Items 2,3 and 4 from the duplicate question are not answered in the "Duplicated" question. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 16:50 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | You are wrong, The original question has nothing to do with comparison between ubuntu running on flash drive vs laptop hard disk, it concerns the differences between running Ubuntu on a persistent flash drive vs a Full install to flash drive. Ubuntu running on a lappy hard drive should.smoke either pendrive option. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 16:00 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | Those last 2 examples are duplicates because either the respective questions or answers apply in both cases (or are the same altogether). I thought you were trying to prove that these "have nothing to do with the old question". | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 5:03 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | Here is another citation: askubuntu.com/questions/352815/… vs askubuntu.com/questions/156026/… looks like the same squad of Duplicate Post police. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 6:50 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | Dang, there does not seem to be a search for duplicates button. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 2:53 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | askubuntu.com/questions/846784/… vs askubuntu.com/questions/397481/… | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 2:19 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | You asked for a citation, I gave a citation, I am not going to post thousands of citations. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 10:59 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | You said "often" and then posted a single example out of thousand of duplicates. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 7:17 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | askubuntu.com/questions/520163/… vs askubuntu.com/questions/16988/… for example | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 16:30 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | “which often has little to do with the duplicate question” [citation needed] | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 7:30 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | I am not suggesting taking away anyone's points, just cleaning up the site a bit, making the current valid questions and answers more visible. making the progress of technology more efficient. | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 12:46 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 9:01 | answer | added | Jacob Vlijm | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 5:58 | history | edited | edwinksl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2016 at 5:56 | answer | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 16, 2016 at 5:39 | history | migrated | from askubuntu.com (revisions) | ||
| Nov 16, 2016 at 2:34 | history | asked | C.S.Cameron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |