why the hatred? Only on askubuntu is just about every question down-voted. take this:
failed to start dockerd after installing docker with snap (artful, 17.10)
even when there is a comment, like "what is the environment", generally that's in the question. There's nothing wrong with the question.
Blah.
It's unique to this specific stack overflow site. Sure, I get down-voted questions -- maybe even more than my fair share.
My perception is that, at least recently, most every single question on askubuntu get's an initial downvote. sometimes this is canceled out to a zero, and that's fine.
(For what it's worth, the rep/score isn't my concern, it's more that a down-voted question will garner fewer responses -- presumably.)
It's possible that my perception is off. It just seems that someone(s) following my questions and downvoting them. hey, maybe I annoy them. I dunno.
If it's random and or deserved then so be it. But I notice tha my questions on, particularly, linux stackoverflow, are better received. Maybe I just ask better questions there. But maybe not.
I would expect the standards to be about the same.
lsb_release -a
for example is fine, but it's unclear what you want to say with it. If that's just “I use 17.10.” then why don't you just write this instead of forcing potential answerers to dig through this pile of terminal output and merely guess what exactly you did and want?