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Notifying users about the policy on AU concerning AI-generated content

It has had the featured tag applied for most of this time to give greater prominence. The question itself has 23 positive votes and 1 negative as of January 26th 2024. … Posting AI-generated content will lead to a warning from moderators, and any further infractions can lead to a suspension from the site. …
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Is there any way to block a question to be used as a duplicate

We already implemented tag warnings to make people provide that information: Tag Warning Is Now Live for "Wireless". …
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Notifying users about the policy on AU concerning AI-generated content

Currently we have only two active notification areas: AI-generated content is not permitted on Ask Ubuntu: This is the policy itself which sits in Meta and will usually have a 'featured' tag affixed to … This will entail a warning that will show to users pasting in content to the Answer box, notifying the user about the prohibition on AI-generated content. This could not be missed or overlooked. …
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How should we clean up the [kvm] tag?

This is a discussion about a tag, not an invitation to mass-edit questions containing said tag (at least for now)** We have a kvm tag. … Some initial ideas include: Keep the kvm tag, clean up the wrongly-tagged questions, and request a tag warning for that tag Pros: Less work, Create a kernel-virtual-machine tag, and retag all questions …
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Use of new screening tool from SE

As you can see, any existing custom guidance on "How to ask," "How to tag," or any custom error or warning messages your site may already have in place will still be there, and will still be customizable … The placeholder text in the title field (text only) The warning text shown in the "Review your question" sidebar, regex-based. Tag-related error messages, regex-based. …
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Suggestions to limit the large amount of unanswered questions?

higher and then it should be only the sort of people will never answer with a comment and maybe add an incentive by means of a points deduction, to put people off the malpractice and add this to the warning … People know not to answer in comments, a warning is not going to help that if it was never their intention to do so in the first place. …
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Should [messages] be sent to /dev/null?

Ubuntu is trying to tell me something In the course of removing the warning tag from a few posts I encountered the tag messages, which is currently attached to 62 questions. … and that we might be able to try to restrict this tag to with proper usage guidance and... a lot of vigilance? Is there another reason why this tag is useful? …
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[warning]: questionable tag detected

I would agree that the warning is pointless and while I don't follow specific tags personally I don't see warning as being useful to anyone. … I support the idea of eliminating warning entirely and have managed to edit a few but ran out of time. …
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[warning]: questionable tag detected

We have 57 posts tagged warning. Should they be retagged to remove it? warning is not as bad as the banned error tag. error roughly meant "Something happened!" … Or is there is a reason to keep warning after all? Update: As of now, the warning tag has been removed from all the questions that had it. …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
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How to find posts with html tags like <code>

Warning: it returns 7482 posts. …
Zanna's user avatar
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Give [recovery] the [installation] treatment

Let's talk for a minute about the recovery tag, again. … Furthermore, we add a warning in the usage guidelines, similar to the following: DO NOT USE THIS TAG! …
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Mint "tag warning" proposal

I propose that we create a "tag warning" for mint, because it seems like we are getting a lot of OT questions about Mint. Now you say, this is a dupe! Well yes, sorta, but nothing came out of it. …
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Can we reduce the volume of off topic questions?

For example we can block tags mentioning off-topic OSes like windows, mint, kali unless they are combined with a tag telling us in what way those systems are related to Ubuntu here, e.g. dual-boot, networking … But instead of blocking those tags, we could also just display this red speech-bubble with a warning, like Please remember that this site is about Ubuntu and its official flavours only. …
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Tracking on tag warnings

I'm not 100% sure what his intention for using it was, so I'm just gonna post a screenshot of the current results: Looks like we're discouraging maybe 12% of askers from posting in that tag. … For comparison, here are the stats for every other tag warning currently in the system over this same time period: …
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Tracking on tag warnings

Is there a status update somewhere regarding tag warnings as discussed here and the pilot implemented here? …
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