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Notifying users about the policy on AU concerning AI-generated content
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Why has my upvoted answer about xz been silently deleted?
While certainly Thomas lacked leaving a (due in my opinion) comment, I second deleting the answer in the state it was when it was deleted (and in which apparently still is, which is: lacking a GIANT ...
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Why has my upvoted answer about xz been silently deleted?
I strongly disagree both with the mod's decision to delete the post and with the way the post was handled.
In my opinion your suggestion of running the xz --version command is not problematic, since ...
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Why has my upvoted answer about xz been silently deleted?
It is true that mods are not required to leave comments explaining deletions. It is still a good idea to do so though, to avoid precisely the confusion you describe in your question. So as a general ...
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Why has my upvoted answer about xz been silently deleted?
The post in question received a flag for moderator attention, alluding to the insecure approach you wrote of "executing potential malware" on the system in question as your 'solution' to ...
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
Adding as a separate answer since it's a bit orthogonal to the points in my other answer.
@terdon mentions:
Do the answers of the proposed duplicate answer the question?
And I'd take that a step ...
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
tl;dr: Tailor your answer to each question.
I have answered the first question and was about to answer the second but caught myself on the thought that I was basically saying the same thing as in the ...
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
The objective of dupes is to help people find the right answer. If the right answer can be found under another question, then that is where we should go and we should indeed close one of the two as ...
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AI-generated content is not permitted on Ask Ubuntu
This is sensible. Users still have the option to ask ChatGPT or another LLM themselves if they wish to. However, on a platform where every answer has a person's name attached to it, users should be ...
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Let's organize some chat workshops
I could do a session on setting up zigbee2mqtt + homeassistant in Docker if there's any interest in that.
Would be a good and natural follow up to Arthur Meinild's Docker presentation :)
Setting up ...
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UI has been changed?
Whether or not you consider a design choice is an improvement is up to you. That said, see the Stacks GitHub repo* releases section, and specifically the changelog for each release.
That specific ...
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"You have too many pending edits"
I completely agree with @Zanna's answer and rejection reason for your edit (I also rejected the edit for the same reason).
I would like to make clear, though, that the reason why you got the message &...
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What does the site look like to a moderator? (2.0)
To quote my last answer, it's not drastically different. 95%+ of moderator time is the the same old flag queue though.
But the tools accessible through the admin section are slightly better laid out (...
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Let's organize some chat workshops
As @Zanna mentioned, I would like to arrange a session on using Docker Engine (Community Edition) on home servers.
I imagine the following agenda for the session(s):
Introduction to and installing ...
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"You have too many pending edits"
Sorry about that. Suggested edits to be reviewed used to show up much more prominently in the top bar. Grumble grumble, back in my day, etc etc. We keep having this problem. I'm not sure how to solve ...
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