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Why am I banned from answering?
I have contributed NO answers that I know of and the 6 questions I have asked over the past year have ZERO answers.
In reality, you've posted a total of three answers since your account was on Ask ...
Thomas WardMod
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A VLQ flag invalidated by a minor edit
The answer was indeed not helpful since the ~ are absolutely fine, as you pointed out. I have now deleted it.
Next time, if a post requires attention and none of the standard flags fit (or are ...
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Flag declined because OP edited their answer in the meantime and I wasn't notified
Moderators only get "Helpful" or "Declined" for flag states. In this case, I marked it as "declined" because at the time of the flag being reviewed, it was not valid, and I didn't find the flag to be ...
Thomas WardMod
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Disagree with Low Quality review audit
Here were my thoughts on loading the link.
Bloody hell, that's short. Maybe Hugo's onto someth...
Hang on, that's an interesting problem.
This is certainly reflective of my personal interests but ...
OliMod
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What is the difference between "delete" and "recommend deletion" votes?
Supposedly, the low quality review queue allows you to vote to delete (a 20k privilege) 0 scored answers from the review, in hopes this speed up the deletion process. If 3 20ker users vote to delete ...
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How to deal with low quality/duplicate questions which already have comments/answers?
I have no objections at all to people coming here to get help fixing their problem as soon as possible.
I do not think we should expect visitors to
have any prior knowledge about using Ubuntu - they ...
ZannaMod
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How to deal with low quality/duplicate questions which already have comments/answers?
Here is my opinion which has been shaped from Oli's answer to another question:
There are some processes that are pretty daunting to new users. Boot errors, graphics driver foul ups, random crashes. ...
RavexinaMod
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Low quality answer getting upvotes and bonus?
I have a moral problem with the votes and bounty reward on the following question
Speaking of the votes: those are fair.
Why?
Because important details should be edited into the question and not ...
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We should have an anti-spam filter at the 'Ask a question' stage
We already have an unofficial spam detection system.
There's a bot called SmokeDetector which is maintained by some users that checks every new post on all sites using a great load of filters and if ...
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Can we close as bug all the "appstreamcli" related questions?
Just to clarify here, I think there's a difference between AU purposely asking for people to use it as a bug tracker vs. being a useful resource when a high traffic bug/issue is found.
Obviously we ...
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Can we close as bug all the "appstreamcli" related questions?
Not all of them, no.
There does need to be a merge/dupe-fest but the thing you're painting as harmful, pulling in a quote isn't off-topic. We've been through that at least a dozen times or more. It ...
OliMod
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LQ Review: Add canned delete comment for link-only within askubuntu.com (should have been flagged as duplicate)
Great, but there's a corner case that needs to be addressed: many times it happens that two completely different questions have the same answer.
In that case questions can't be closed as duplicates, ...
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Can only flag as "very low quality" if is not in the positive for votes
I disagree.
Flagging as "very low quality" implies recommending the deletion of the post.
For an answer to go into the Very Low Quality queue, not only is needed a "very low quality" flag be casted ...
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Can only flag as "very low quality" if is not in the positive for votes
All >20K users have access to moderation tools and can vote to delete questions (or if really bad I think -3 or -5 we can immediately delete them)
In this case, read all the comments as it's being ...
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Can only flag as "very low quality" if is not in the positive for votes
My opinion, if you REALLY wanted to flag that as low quality, you could just use a custom reason and put "Link only answer".
I'd drop a comment first though, saying something like "Link only answers ...
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Disagree with Low Quality review audit
I am not good at reviewing but if we look at this special case the other way round we have to admit that this question:
is resolved, i.e. has an accepted answer
has many upvotes not only to the ...
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Is it appropriate to remove low-quality/downvoted answer?
You should remove them if, and only if they can not be improved. Deleting answers potentially deprives people of a solution. We (obviously) don't want to do that.
If a post can, at all, be salvaged ...
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Accepted
Is there a way to undo my review?
TL;DR: You can't undo your review but, if appropriate, you can still flag the post.
In General
If your review had removed the post from the queue, but you had manually cast an NAA or VLQ flag on the ...
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Low rep more prone to not providing feedback
Do others have the same impression?
Well, I had quite a few such cases when first-(or-so-)question people were really engaged in either providing and/or requesting further feedbacks, and were ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible