Timeline for Answers that aren't about Ubuntu (explicitly about another distro)
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 2:09 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | If people wish to downvote for such reasons, that is not unreasonable. Downvoting is the appropriate action in any case where you think there is some technical problem with the post. (However, requesting features is certainly welcome if you think they would make anything better - you can post feature requests here on meta) | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 19:32 | comment | added | zpangwin | ^ To clarify on the above, I mean to suggest the feature for both users and mods, not strictly one or the other. In the example of my previous post, I would have been happy to tag it correctly as something of a RFC (Request for Comment) / Unverified answer and in fact I did try to call it out as such. But perhaps tagging/banners could do very simply and with more visual attention than a user simply typing into a text box current fails to do. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 19:16 | comment | added | zpangwin | Forgive me if I am speaking out of place/am ignorant of things here but would it be possible to request new technical features that might allow some sort of middle ground? It occurs to me that deleting and downvoting mechanisms are really designed with other purposes in mind. And while perhaps they can be used in place of a missing feature that having something like a banner or tags appearing on the top of answers that say things like UNTESTED / NON-UBUNTU / VERIFIED / etc might be potentially a better option for everyone involved. Thoughts? | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 15:37 | comment | added | mikewhatever | Hi everyone, that particular answer was downvoted not because something unmentionable was mentioned, but because it clearly stated that it has not been tested on Ubuntu. The OP, zpangwin, expressed confidence that the answer would also work on Ubuntu, but that confidence seemed groundless to me. Generally, if an answer says it's been tested on XYZ OSs + Ubuntu, I accept it, but I rarely see reasons to accept answers only tested on Zorin, Elementary, Popos, Debian, Mint, Kali, etc. I'd be glad to retract the downvote, and upvote the answer if and when the steps are tested on Ubuntu. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 3:02 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | FYI, all users with >= 10k reputation can see deleted posts. One benefit of this is that such users can identify posts that were wrongly deleted :) | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 1:54 | comment | added | zpangwin | Also, to be completely fair / transparent, I was a little touchy about being flagged in this way and was not entirely civil when I disputed the rules (tone more so than language). I'll own that and admit I was in the wrong there but I still dispute that my post should have even been considered as a rules violation in the first place. I am of the mind that mentioning a thing does not constitute the conversation being about that thing. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 1:53 | comment | added | zpangwin | @ Eliah Kagan, sure post was in response to this question but I assume only moderators can see it now. FWIW, I have tried to edit it to remove all references to the "unmentionables" but when I click the undelete link it says "Vote to undelete this post? (5 votes remaining)" followed by "A moderator has deleted this post and it cannot be undeleted" so that sounds like it is is probably not coming back. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 1:24 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | I'm sorry to hear you've had well-documented answers deleted because they mentioned not being tested on Ubuntu, especially considering how so many answers aren't tested at all. Even under the policy articulated there, it seems to me that what you're describing is not something that should have happened. Would you be willing to provide links to the questions where the answers you're talking about were deleted? Or, if you can't find them, are you willing to describe them, and/or okay with it if a moderator looks them up (if there's a mod willing to do so)? | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 0:19 | history | edited | zpangwin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 0:10 | history | answered | zpangwin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |