Timeline for New user on askubuntu, would like to help but cannot [duplicate]
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| Oct 20, 2020 at 17:00 | history | closed |
Mark Kirby Kevin Bowen pomsky karel Kulfy |
Duplicate of Why 10 rep for protection?, Why I cannot answer some questions in askubuntu.com/unanswered (no answer-field)? [duplicate] | |
| Oct 19, 2020 at 17:24 | comment | added | plants | We can be heroes, even if it's just for one day | |
| Oct 18, 2020 at 14:55 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I think that posting an up-to-date answer to an old question, in general, is heroic | |
| Oct 15, 2020 at 19:20 | comment | added | plants | Many thanks Mark for your assistance. I now see what you're up against, as a contributor or moderator. Ok, they're technically not trolls, but they are a subspecies; some sort of hobgoblin. As for the vintage of the page, I'm not convinced it makes any difference what version of the OS was at the time. Fundamentally, if a bug or a special case isn't fixed then it remains a continuous problem that transcends time! In my case, using relatively old hardware, vintage answers are more likely to be relevant than new. I completely take your point, of course. Thank you for your time and patience! | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 15:23 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Also I just noticed that question is eight and a half years old, any fix you know for a modern version may simply not work on 12.04 as that is EOL and not supported nor does it even have a repository anymore. If you really want to contribute, you can ask and then answer your own new question based on what ever version of Ubuntu you currently have, that would be a lot more useful than answering that old question. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 15:19 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Here is a list of things you can do to earn that bit of reputation askubuntu.com/help/whats-reputation it won't take long and is a small ask for something that keeps the quality of the site high. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 15:18 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | The issue is not trolls, it is none answers, things like "I have this issue too", eight of which have been deleted (3 today). That is just not what the answer section of this site is for, it is for answers. The protection is used because otherwise users would have to keep manually deleting stuff form the question and that can take a lot of time and there are hundreds of thousands of questions to moderate. All you need is 10 rep on the site (a single upvote on any post you make or five approved edits) to answer that question, the requirements for getting round the protection are very low.. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | plants | Awesome answer. Thank you for your input Thomas. Also thank you Mark for the link, that does shed some light on the situation. The reputation issue may protect the thread from spamming and poor quality answers, but it also prevents external users (directed by search engine) from contributing. Would you agree there ought to be less automation and more moderation; after all only warriors kill trolls, rules just slow them down! | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 15:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 14, 2020 at 14:45 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | Are you trying to add an answer or a comment? If it's not a true solution then it shouldn't be posted as an answer and instead be posted as a comment, however you need 50 rep to get to the point of commenting on threads. And as for adding an answer, well, you need to get past the new user restrictions and contribute first elsewhere - that question has had a HUGE number of not-an-answer posts and has been protected for a long time - it's protecting 'new users' because the vast majority have been poor/non answers and were flagged/deleted. | |
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