Timeline for Answers that aren't about Ubuntu (explicitly about another distro)
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| Jul 10, 2020 at 8:50 | comment | added | mikewhatever | IMHO, you've got the "disturbing trend" backwards. Answers only tested on other distros are flagged or downvoted as off topic, because they are not "about Ubuntu", according to the same logic that applies to questions. I've not seen an answer downvoted for just a mention of another distro. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 5:59 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Nmath I'd say the case of a first answer is especially one where voting rather than flagging is the right tool. The system considers a question "answered" when it has at least one answer whose score is at least +1 or that the OP has marked as accepted. New answers that haven't been voted on yet, and any answer that doesn't have more upvotes than downvotes, do not cause a question to be considered answered by the system. (Note the descriptive text on the list of "unanswered" questions: "123,161 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers".) | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 4:19 | vote | accept | Nmath | ||
| Jul 9, 2020 at 4:19 | comment | added | Nmath | There's a lot to think about here and I think you've won me over to your side. I agree that it is probably better in most cases to have an answer that might not work, rather than for it to not exist at all. Where I might still feel uncomfortable might be if the answer was a first answer, since unanswered questions have a higher priority. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 1:23 | comment | added | zpangwin | I very much agree with the statement "I see efforts to flag and delete answers that mention they were tested on another operating system as part of a larger trend of using flags and delete votes in place of downvotes" - it should be the community that decides the answer 's worth rather than mods deleting just because grep matched a term. I posted a very organized, technically detailed, & mostly distro-agnostic (Ubuntu-based anyway) answer to this question last night, only to see it deleted for bc I mentioned testing it on another distro. frustrating | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 1:10 | history | edited | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 0:55 | history | answered | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |