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41 questions linked to/from What prewritten Pro-forma (aka AutoReviewComments) userscript comments can we use and share?
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Were the "pre-canned" comments intended to be brusque and condescending? If so, why?
I posted this question recently, and after I answered a comment requesting information with something like "I'll try to do this when I'm home", the same user who had requested the ...
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Please stop posting half answers and bad advice as comments
Ok so I've spent a few days doing hardcore cleaning and we have a problem with comments and people misusing them.
People who are too lazy to write a real answer so they write a half finished one ...
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Post Reviewing Useful Comments [duplicate]
I have seen the same set of comments being used by many reviewers. Can an experienced reviewer please provide a list of those comments? Here's one:
While this link may answer the question, it is ...
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Methods in our madness: Suggesting a consistent reply when HW info is useful but missing
I would like to suggest more consistent methods may help us with some of our questioners seeking help.
Nearly always, we need more info, so I have created a little boilerplate I trot out when folks ...
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Feature request: canned answers
It would be nice to have boiler-plate answers we can post without having to type them out all the time.
Something akin to this: I don't know where to post this
Forgive me for poorly worded ...
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PSA: When reviewing, don't post duplicate (and near-duplicate) comments!
As jrg♦ said (pinned in main chat):
Hey folks who use "canned" comments: If you see one thats already there that expresses the same general idea, don't add another one. Thanks. :)
This has ...
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Query for Basic information
I feel like every second question lacks the basic information about flavour, release and architecture, so I ask myself:
Why don't we just ask the users to give the output of echo $DESKTOP_SESSION, ...
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Pro-forma comments now support remote sources, should we set this up?
Pro-forma comments (the tool that let's us quickly paste precanned comments for common user questions now supports hosting the comments on a remote server:
https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/...
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What is the process to get those pro-forma-comments into the "central script"?
I am referring to the comments suggested in answers to share prewritten pro-forma-userscript comments.
Need they upvoting or do they just need someone to do the work? (that someone could be me, of ...
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Same questions over and over again
When you search question page, on every page there is at least one or two questions like: "My wifi is not working, please help!"
People just state there, that their wifi is not working, without ...
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Suggestion - Add a request for additional hardware information to close votes
Currently when using close votes there are a number of suggestions (as you know).
I would like to suggest a close vote to request hardware information.
For example, Microphone Volume changing ...
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How do I add URLs to comments and what are available aliases like [edit]?
I can't quite get how to add inline links to comments. There are some aliases like[edit] but I see that people add other useful links this way. Where can I find list of these aliases, or add inline ...
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Can we have a post with all "standard" replies to incorrect posts? [duplicate]
We are expected to leave a comment whenever we find(and take action on) a wrong post, let it be
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wrong use of comments and answers
serial editing cases
Off-topic posts
all other cases
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What is AU's stance on profanity?
Personally I don't like to be censored and every now and then I like to curse. It is clear that insults and belittling of others it NOT tolerable. But how about using terms like the system is "fucked ...
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How can we refocus on being a Q+A, not a support forum or bug tracker? [closed]
After doing some investigation on issues brought up doing these questions I've found something that I'm embarrassed that we have let get out of control, see these questions for some background.
What ...
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How can we improve the site's answered rate?
According to this our answered rate (percentage of questions with an upvoted answer) is now 76%. We took a big hit with the number of new questions for 12.04/12.10 and the difficulty of being able to ...
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Is it fine to comment to an answerer or asker to remove his/her answer or question?
Suppose I see a bad question or a bad answer. Instead of outrightly flagging it or down voting it, is it fine to comment in the question or answer to the asker or answerer to remove it?
I ask this ...
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Better handling of marking duplicate questions?
While I realize that dealing with duplicate questions is probably a tedious, time-consuming overhead issue for Moderators, I'm wondering if there can't be a better way of handling them rather than the ...
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Can we improve the "better to include the essential parts" pro-forma comment?
I've seen the following problem a few times.
Alice posts link-only answer.
Bob reviews the answer and posts the following pro-forma comment:
While this link may answer the question, it is better to ...
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How do I flag my question for re-opening?
Sometimes questions get closed as a duplicate, when they might not be one.
A comment should be left by the close-voter for the user explaining how to get their question re-opened if the duplicate ...
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Suggestion: Use pro-forma/"review" comments when flagging certain answers
First of all, thank yous :)
We have many wonderful community watchmen (too bad most of them don't have any super powers) who love to flag (thanks!) wayward answers, such as those that should really ...
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Master Issue list for Reviewers on 13.04?
I see that some issues with 13.04 are starting to unravel and those that are across the issues can quickly reply or divert those questions to the appropriate links.
Are we keeping a master list of ...
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How can I revive the pro-forma script after a failed loading of "remote"?
Following the question about pro-forma comments I installed them and then tried to enable the remote source, which seemingly failed (at least it took a very long time ™ without any noticeable network ...
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Can we have Pro-Forma Comments for Frequently Asked Duplicate Questions?
We already have a very nifty little tool called Pro-Forma Comments. This is a life saver. Can we have a similar one for Duplicate Questions - the ones that are asked too frequently?
When we find a ...
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Why don't we have "required/requested input not provided" close reason for abandoned questions?
While I've just recently acquired the privilege for voting to close questions, I find it hard to find the right close reasons for the following very common scenario. Someone asks a question, but does ...
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If you're not going to review and fix questions, don't use the review queue!
I was sort of happy when I saw that the day after release we had 0 incoming new questions in the review queue! Aww man, nothing for me to do, everyone's taken care of all the incoming questions! Then ...
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PSA: 12.10 Release Day Today (aka: time to rock and roll!)
Some tips for helping when the site gets busy:
Lots of new attention and traffic means it's usually an influx of duplicate questions, especially the easy ones, so keep an eye out for dupes.
Some ...
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What to do with questions that describe bugs?
I always made the link to the bug report an answer, but I've also seen people adding that information as comment to the question. We probably should agree on one way to deal with such questions.
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Ask Ubuntu Review Tasks (beta)
I think that the new Review Tasks is an excellent idea to clean the system of duplicates, dead questions, low quality, etc.
I have noticed while reviewing, that some answers have already been ...
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How to back up and restore customized pro-forma userscript comments?
I have extensively customized my pro-forma userscript comments (with new comments and new wordings/linkifications for default ones). I use Chromium as my browser most of the time, and Firefox ...
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