Timeline for Please do not delete closed questions with many views and many upvotes
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:16 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/
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| May 18, 2014 at 18:45 | comment | added | Braiam | @terdon what is for you, a good software recommendation? | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:26 | comment | added | Takkat | @Braiam: 99,9% of all questions here can be answered with some Google-Fu. Point is that 1. many people can't find the relevant information as easily as we do, and 2. we want us to appear on the first Google search entries. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:25 | comment | added | terdon | Some of those stand without the quotes, some don't. And to clarify, I am not accusing you of plagiarism. There's absolutely nothing wrong with quoting the man pages in one's answers. Hell, I upvoted most of your answers I mentioned above. All I'm saying is that the presence of a quote is in no way indicative of an answer's quality. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:22 | comment | added | Braiam | @Takkat but at least that they add something. Whatever. That they put they effort behind writing good content and not just dump the same information I can find somewhere else. Both link only answers and full-dumped information-from-somewhere-else are bad answers in my eyes. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | Takkat | @Braiam: we should not tell people to not write link-only answers and at the same time blame them if they quoted what they had linked to. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | Braiam | For whoever else that says that I copy my content: I take something and return it better. Most of answers that I vote to delete do not. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:19 | comment | added | Seth Mod | You're missing the point. The answers to these questions aren't supposed to be more then simple quotes (in general). They aren't very good questions, but they still serve a purpose. Hence the reason they haven't been deleted in before. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:18 | comment | added | Braiam | @terdon simple exercise: delete the quoted documentation and see if the answer holds by themself. I bet you they do. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 18:09 | comment | added | terdon | @Braiam sometimes the best way to explain what a program does is to quote its own documentation. Nothing wrong with that as long as the source of the quote is cited. I don't understand why it bothers you. Especially since you yourself have posted many answers whose content is essentially a direct quote from elsewhere. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 17:53 | comment | added | Braiam | @Seth no, you are missing the point. How are them good answers if they are carbon copies of content found elsewhere? | |
| May 18, 2014 at 16:50 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Quotes aren't plagiarisms, although the geany one isn't quoted. Guess that's what editing is for! Actually, copying (and quoting) content from the projects homepage doesn’t make the answer useless or worthless. The quality goes down somewhat compared to (say the Qt one), but that's it. You are entirely missing the point. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 16:47 | comment | added | Braiam | Darn, I can edit my first comment, it should say "Netbeans and eclipse were took from here" | |
| May 18, 2014 at 16:43 | comment | added | Braiam | BTW, the only original content I found was QT creator. I've saved it in my list of things to do to write a good tag wiki. askubuntu.com/a/48350/169736 | |
| May 18, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | Braiam | Sorry @Seth but you are not demonstrating that you are reading the answers. The IDE question, the 3 most upvoted answers that you call "good answers" are word by word plagiarisms. Netbeans and eclipse were too from here and Geany is a carbon copy of the Geany home page www.geany.org/. I ask you to reconsider your last statement. I'm reading the answers, I really dived into them and they are worthless. Now, I kindly ask you to do the same. You are a moderator now, what will you do when you see plagiarized content? | |
| May 18, 2014 at 16:21 | comment | added | Seth Mod | You don't actually seem to look at the answers, the answers to the IDE question are actually quite good and in the partitioning question the second and third answers contain quite a lot of useful information. The answers to the DE question are also quite good. Obviously answers aren't the main reason you are voting to delete these. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 15:34 | comment | added | Braiam | @Takkat you are still defending the things for the wrong reasons. Answers needs to be future proof. Sadly those answers are not future proof. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 15:32 | comment | added | Takkat | Hamster still works in <= 13.10 - so no need for an edit. However we'd need a valid answer for 14.04 - impossible because it is closed (and protected as well). | |
| May 18, 2014 at 15:26 | comment | added | Braiam | @Takkat how can you edit something that doesn't work any more to fix it? What is your objective in not deleting them? | |
| May 18, 2014 at 15:23 | comment | added | Takkat | Whenever a question gathers more than one answer with similar content (e.g. VLC) it likely is from a merge. One more reason to not delete it. If an answer was outdated we should edit it for an up to date solution rather than delete it. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 15:22 | comment | added | Braiam | The thing that I want to say is: are you really defending those questions by the right reasons? | |
| May 18, 2014 at 15:17 | comment | added | Braiam | @Takkat votes in those cases are like popularity contest. The most upvoted answer in this question for example, is just a bunch of links with names. Those questions you listed are not ordered by "quality" but by "popularity". The hamster one doesn't work anymore and it last update was in 2012, I wouldn't recommend it. Also, the one about music players has VLC listed 3 times, Mplayer (and variants) 6 times, others players appears twice; you think those are really good answers? Votes (in this case) is not a measure of quality but popularity. Be critical. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 14:56 | comment | added | Takkat | See my edit to my question. What you say here certainly does not apply to the example questions I gave. | |
| May 18, 2014 at 12:15 | history | edited | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 18, 2014 at 12:09 | history | answered | Braiam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |