Recent Questions - Ask Different Meta most recent 30 from apple.meta.stackexchange.com 2024-02-28T12:53:37Z https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4270 1 How can I show my research when posting a question on how to view which meeting participant admitted a guest from the lobby into an MS Teams meeting? Franck Dernoncourt https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/20338 2024-02-15T08:45:14Z 2024-02-15T09:00:03Z <p>I posted a question <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/469242/20338">How can I see which meeting participant admitted a guest from the lobby into the meeting?</a>, which closed with the following close reason (which is one of the <a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3031/20338">default close reasons</a>):</p> <blockquote> <p>Questions must demonstrate a reasonable amount of research &amp; understanding of the problem being solved. Please edit to either a) clearly describe your problem and the research done so far to solve it or b) include attempted solutions plus why they didn't work. In either case, be sure your expected results are clearly presented.</p> </blockquote> <p>I assume the issue is that my question doesn't show research, since the understanding part is obvious. How should I show my research? I had simply Google the question and didn't find any answer.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4267 6 2023: a year in moderation JNat https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/120123 2024-01-24T16:48:59Z 2024-01-24T18:50:59Z <p>It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have <a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion">a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year</a>.</p> <p>As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:</p> <blockquote> <p>We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.<br /> -- <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/">A Theory of Moderation</a></p> </blockquote> <p>That doesn't eliminate the need for having <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/">moderators</a> altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks — folks like you. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference in ensuring Stack Exchange sites remain a valuable source of high-quality content on the web.</p> <p>So as we say goodbye to 2023 (and January 2024… ahem) and move into 2024, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmN7M.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>exciting</em> stats</a>. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Ask Different over the past 12 months:</p> <div class="s-table-container"> <table class="s-table"> <thead> <tr> <th style="text-align: left;">Action</th> <th style="text-align: right;">Moderators</th> <th style="text-align: right;">Community User¹</th> <th style="text-align: right;">Community²</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">All comments on a post moved to chat</td> <td style="text-align: right;">20</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Answer flags handled</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,935</td> <td style="text-align: right;">236</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Answers flagged</td> <td style="text-align: right;">124</td> <td style="text-align: right;">526</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,507</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Bounties canceled</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comment flags handled</td> <td style="text-align: right;">408</td> <td style="text-align: right;">122</td> <td style="text-align: right;">187</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comments deleted⁸</td> <td style="text-align: right;">3,526</td> <td style="text-align: right;">53</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2,301</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comments flagged</td> <td style="text-align: right;">36</td> <td style="text-align: right;">3</td> <td style="text-align: right;">678</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Comments undeleted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">43</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Escalations to the Community Manager team</td> <td style="text-align: right;">3</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts bumped</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">6,453</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts deleted⁷</td> <td style="text-align: right;">979</td> <td style="text-align: right;">2,517</td> <td style="text-align: right;">970</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts locked</td> <td style="text-align: right;">35</td> <td style="text-align: right;">256</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts undeleted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">26</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">101</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Posts unlocked</td> <td style="text-align: right;">5</td> <td style="text-align: right;">24</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Question flags handled⁶</td> <td style="text-align: right;">701</td> <td style="text-align: right;">786</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions closed</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,304</td> <td style="text-align: right;">112</td> <td style="text-align: right;">166</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions flagged⁶</td> <td style="text-align: right;">164</td> <td style="text-align: right;">16</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,053</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions merged</td> <td style="text-align: right;">13</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions migrated</td> <td style="text-align: right;">28</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions protected</td> <td style="text-align: right;">28</td> <td style="text-align: right;">55</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions reopened</td> <td style="text-align: right;">142</td> <td style="text-align: right;">4</td> <td style="text-align: right;">5</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Questions unprotected</td> <td style="text-align: right;">4</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Revisions redacted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">7</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tag highlight language set</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tag synonyms created</td> <td style="text-align: right;">5</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tag synonyms proposed</td> <td style="text-align: right;">5</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tags merged</td> <td style="text-align: right;">166</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;Close votes&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">850</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,128</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;First answers&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">69</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">3,146</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;First questions&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">77</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">3,204</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;Late answers&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">32</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,494</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;Low quality posts&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">63</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,118</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;Reopen votes&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">149</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">258</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;Suggested edits&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">628</td> <td style="text-align: right;">297</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,948</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: &quot;Triage&quot; queue</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">User banned from review</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">User review-bans lifted early</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">User suspensions lifted early</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users contacted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">28</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users deleted</td> <td style="text-align: right;">1</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users destroyed⁴</td> <td style="text-align: right;">37</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;">Users suspended³</td> <td style="text-align: right;">20</td> <td style="text-align: right;">37</td> <td style="text-align: right;">0</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div><h3>Footnotes</h3> <p>¹ This refers to the automated systems otherwise known as <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/-1">user #-1</a>.</p> <p>² This refers to <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/users">the membership of Ask Different</a> <em>without</em> <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators">diamonds next to their names</a>.</p> <p>³ The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.</p> <p>⁴ A &quot;destroyed&quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user">Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.</a></p> <p>⁵ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.</p> <p>⁶ Includes close flags (but <em>not</em> close or reopen votes). The community² can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.</p> <p>⁷ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.</p> <p>⁸ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).</p> <h3>Further reading:</h3> <ul> <li><p>Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: <a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4146/2022-a-year-in-moderation">2022: a year in moderation</a></p> </li> <li><p>You can also check out <a href="https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222023%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22">this report on other sites</a></p> </li> <li><p>Or peruse <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/396299/208518">detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>Wishing everyone a happy 2024! ^_^</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4265 6 Announcement: minor edits to the Ask Different Tour bmike https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5472 2023-12-29T15:58:24Z 2024-01-30T20:53:36Z <p>First off - thanks for doing your parts in an excellent 2023 here in the community of asking for help and learning together while using Apple products and services. Everyone on meta, doing moderation work, showing up and commenting on the main site is very much appreciated.</p> <p>On to the announcement:</p> <ul> <li>I’ve made some minor changes to the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tour">Ask Different Tour</a></li> </ul> <p>Specifically, I cleaned up the “what’s on topic” to be less wordy. The site is about Apple hardware, Apple software, Apple services and third party tools that relate to the three categories of Apple products.</p> <p>Secondly, I reworked the “<strong>These might seem on-topic but are not:</strong>” section based on discussions here on meta, flags the elected moderators discussed and handled as well as comments everyone made from 2023.</p> <p>I moved the “programming” section to the end as it rambles the most and we get the most feedback on that item.</p> <p>I clarified the unlawful / unlicensed wording, but the intent hasn’t changed. Nothing else was intended to change our policy, but I wanted the page to read more easily, have less jargon and reflect the decisions made in the past on what we allow scripting and programming and Xcode-wise.</p> <p>Please answer if you have suggestions / comments or found a typo I have made. Suggestions on clarity of that page are always welcome here or in flags when you run into an interesting question you feel illustrates our guidelines documented on <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tour">tour</a> and in the help section.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4264 3 Can we have [usb-c] as a distinct tag from [usb] rather than a synonym? MacGuffin https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/361325 2023-12-26T10:13:08Z 2023-12-26T11:09:13Z <p>In looking at the tags available for USB I find that [usb] is synonymous with [usb3] and [usb-c] which I find a bit frustrating.</p> <p>If I'm looking for answers on something like DisplayPort or Thunderbolt over USB-C then it would be quite helpful if people could tag questions with [usb-c] as something distinct from [usb] so as to make the question stand out from questions that might be about the USB-C port than the USB protocol. Given the many functions of USB-C outside of just carrying the USB protocol I would think this is helpful, and if there is some disagreement on why this would not be helpful then perhaps that could be explained.</p> <p>Additionally if there is going to be the tag [usb3] then perhaps that should be distinct from [usb] than a synonym since I can think of plenty of reasons to want to make the distinction between USB 2.0 and USB 3.0. Since USB4 is a thing now then perhaps [usb4] should be its own distinct tag as well. I don't know if a [usb2] tag is something people might be looking for but perhaps there could be some kind of discussion on that.</p> <p>Perhaps I'm overloading the question too much but I believe it relevant to also suggest [usb-pd] as a distinct tag. And to push the boundary further I'd suggest [magsafe-3] as something distinct from [magsafe] since there's not much relevant between the old MagSafe 1 and 2 but the name, there's a general resemblance in form and function but there's no adapting between the old MagSafe versions and the new MagSafe 3 (at least nothing official) and this would be sometimes related to USB-PD and sometimes not. People looking for answers on power issues would likely find it helpful if there were [usb-pd] and [magsafe-3] tags to narrow search results to newer Apple products.</p> <h2>Proposal for tag guidance (taken from SuperUser)</h2> <h3><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/usb">usb</a></h3> <p>Universal Serial Bus; an interface standard for connecting computers and electronic devices for communication and charging.</p> <h3><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/usb-2">usb-2</a></h3> <p>USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed) is a USB specification that can transmit data at up to 480 Mbit/s.</p> <h3><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/usb-3">usb-3</a></h3> <p>USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) is a USB specification that can transmit data at up to 5 Gbit/s.</p> <h3><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/usb-c">usb-c</a></h3> <p>USB-C is a symmetrical USB connector system. Use this tag for questions specific to USB-C; for all others, use the generic USB tag.</p> <h3><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/usb-pd">usb-pd</a></h3> <p>For questions related to the USB Power Delivery specification, which allows power greater than the USB standards, when using compliant ports and special cables, for purposes such as charging attached devices. Do not use on questions related to power available in a standard USB connection.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4262 1 Possible Spam Questions sfxedit https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/333666 2023-12-21T20:44:49Z 2023-12-21T21:13:53Z <p>It really looks this question - <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/467585/333666">Developed an addiction. How can I block websites?</a> - is a clever marketing spam post to promote Freedom.to ... it's written in a manner to reject all other reasonable solution already available in macOS / iOS (like screen time) thus inviting &quot;other solutions&quot; where Freedom.to can be promoted. And now SE itself is promoting the question further as a HNQ because of its dramatic copy.</p> <p>Another similar question is <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/454153/333666">How can I block the Twitter website on iPhone?</a> which also specifically says it doesn't want to use screen time, thus inviting &quot;other solutions&quot;.</p> <p>(Yes, I know it is hard to judge whether these are indeed spam, as they don't promote the product directly but invite us to innocently suggest it as an answer. I just thought I'd make a note of it here so that we can be aware of the pattern, and keep an eye for it).</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4261 1 Can we add 'off-site resources' to the list of 'don't ask' questions? Tetsujin https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/85275 2023-12-08T10:08:22Z 2023-12-08T10:08:22Z <p>Following on from <a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3346/what-exactly-are-off-site-resources-from-the-off-topic-close-reason">What exactly are &quot;off-site resources&quot; from the &quot;off-topic&quot; close reason?</a></p> <p>We have this listed in our close reason,</p> <blockquote> <p>Questions asking to recommend or find a Mac, book, tool, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Ask Different as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, edit this question to describe the problem and what research has been done so far to solve it.</p> </blockquote> <p>but even someone carefully reading the help pages wouldn't specifically have been informed that asking for anything from our meta list is also off-topic.</p> <p>The closest we have is</p> <blockquote> <p>Shopping or buying recommendations. Questions that are mainly about price/time/supply constraints are considered &quot;shopping&quot; questions.</p> </blockquote> <p>which isn't quite the same thing.</p> <p>I get the feeling that the close reason was updated after the help/on-topic page. They just need re-synchronising.</p> <p>Case in point that prompted me to raise this - <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/467178/anyone-know-developer-forums-where-one-can-publish-project-proposals-and-seek-a">Anyone know developer forums where one can publish project proposals and seek a team?</a></p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4259 0 How to delete my questions asked on Ask Different Alex Ixeras https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/46045 2023-11-06T11:06:55Z 2023-12-06T13:01:45Z <p>I know how to <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/user-deletion">delete my account</a>, but I haven't found a way to delete the questions I asked. Is there a way to do that?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4257 1 Where is it on topic for Xcode related questions? Graham Leggett https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/256494 2023-11-03T15:31:23Z 2023-11-03T18:46:53Z <p>When searching for the &quot;xcode&quot; tag on Ask Different, the following banner appears:</p> <p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xcode">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xcode</a></p> <pre><code>WARNING: Almost all questions about development or app distribution are off topic here. See the FAQs for details. Xcode is Apple's official software development environment for Mac OS X and iOS </code></pre> <ul> <li><p>Where within the Stack Exchange network are questions about Xcode on topic?</p> </li> <li><p>Where is the FAQ? (A search for the word &quot;FAQ&quot; on the page shows up just the banner above)</p> </li> </ul> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4254 0 How to send a message to a moderator Steve https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/508026 2023-10-20T14:17:52Z 2023-10-21T16:33:49Z <p>I made a post but the post was deleted. I do not know why. How do I send a message to a moderator to find out?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4252 2 Flagged post didn't get re-edited agarza https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/381466 2023-10-02T02:51:39Z 2023-10-02T16:56:50Z <p>While going through my usual reviews of posts, I will also check for accessibility, formatting, grammar, etc. I came across <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/464658/381466">an answer</a> that was quoting a link they provided but the quote was formatted using backticks (`). I proceeded to edit it according to site guidelines.</p> <p>I happened to be looking through the site several an hour later and noticed that the post had been rolled back. This has happened before on another Stack and proceeded to flag the post for the rollback. I checked on the result of the flag and it was marked as &quot;Helpful&quot; and waited to see the edits correct. To my surprise, it has yet to be edited or rolled back.</p> <p>Was my flag accidentally marked as &quot;Helpful&quot;? If it was indeed &quot;Helpful&quot;, why was no edit/rollback done?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4251 3 Should we be slower to close some questions? benwiggy https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/198019 2023-07-15T09:26:52Z 2023-07-15T09:32:14Z <p><em>&quot;Welcome to Stack Exchange. Your question has been closed.&quot;</em></p> <p>So goes the old joke. Here's a classic example of a post from someone who's clearly not very tech savvy, looking for help with a problem.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/462089/osx-version-13-406-128-gb">OSX version 13 (406) 128 GB</a></p> <p>Clearly, no one is going to post an 'answer' that will solve the question, but in the absence of more information, might an 'intermediary answer' actually be a better response -- both for the questioner and the site in general?</p> <p><em>&quot;You need to provide us with the following information, but in the mean time, take a look at these canonical reinstall-the-OS answers / Apple Support docs&quot;.</em></p> <p>This answer could then be re-written or deleted once more information comes along.</p> <p>And if we're closing questions to prevent low-quality answers, then couldn't we just delete the low-quality answers instead?</p> <p>Closing the question immediately seems a bit unkind, and I suspect there are many people who don't return to fix their first question, because they find the 'response' unhelpful, and just assume that SE isn't for them.</p> <p>At the least, perhaps leave a comment asking for more info, but leave it open for a week?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4249 -3 Why can't you re-upvote comments? Thinkr https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/489896 2023-06-18T10:59:05Z 2023-06-18T11:39:53Z <p>Pretty straightforward question:</p> <ul> <li>Why can't we re-upvote comments?</li> </ul> <p>For example, when I accidentally upvote a comment, almost instantly cancel my upvote because it was a mistake and realise after reading the comment that it deserves being upvoted, I can't.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4247 2 Edit an old post Thinkr https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/489896 2023-06-15T19:57:28Z 2023-06-15T20:17:28Z <p>While browsing the main site, I came upon some (very) old posts (questions and answers) that needed editing (formatting/capitalization/typos/etc.) but I was unsure whether to edit them or not according to their age.</p> <p>Should I edit those posts even if they are over 4-5 years old?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4243 -1 Cross-post to Apple Developers forums - what should I do? Thinkr https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/489896 2023-06-07T11:37:13Z 2023-06-07T11:45:04Z <p>I just found a person who posted the exact same question both on Ask Different and on Apple Developers forums. I just asked them if it was them and they said &quot;yes&quot;.</p> <p>What should I do about it?</p> <p>It's not cross-posting across different sites of the SE network so I'm unsure of what to do.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4241 -2 Create a `sonoma` tag Thinkr https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/489896 2023-06-05T19:12:08Z 2023-06-05T19:25:04Z <p>As the new macOS version is announced (macOS 14 Sonoma), I suggest we create a tag for it.</p> <p>Previous macOS versions have their own tags, Sonoma should have its own.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4238 6 Why did the voting buttons change to this horrible design? Thinkr https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/489896 2023-05-30T16:24:29Z 2023-06-09T17:25:28Z <p>I just noticed that in the past hour, some changes were made on voting buttons, it became:</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1BZb0.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1BZb0.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <p><strong>Why were these changed?</strong> The previous ones were really good.</p> <p>Those ones are unaesthetic and aren't even well-made (to me), they're too big and encourage misclicking. Also, they are too visible, the previous ones were discreet and that was great.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4236 6 What do we do with 'useless old questions'? Tetsujin https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/85275 2023-05-29T07:32:39Z 2023-06-08T17:27:30Z <p>What do we do with 'useless old questions'? Ones that never really defined the problem, will never have an answer &amp; no-one would care if they vanished off the face of the earth. They don't provide any searchable resource. Dead weight. Not even perhaps through any fault of their own.</p> <p>I don't want to single out individual questions really, but as I'm tidying up my 'followed' questions, I've come across quite a few that never resolved original issues with the question. Maybe the OP found an answer elsewhere, but whatever the reason, the question itself has just been left to rot.</p> <p>You don't need to be able to read this, just an indication that whilst some questions are deleted over time, because the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/auto-deleted-questions">Community bot has a set of rules</a> as to how it does some of this tidying up itself, it can't handle questions which have multiple comments, which would be a feature of this type of 'useless question'. If we take these multiple comments as an attempt to properly define/hone the question - but without success - then there's no automatic cleanup.</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/buojp.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/buojp.jpg" alt="example of 'following' list" /></a></p> <p>Not all the remaining questions are 'junk', of course. As you can see from the pic, some got answers &amp; were accepted. My 'following' list doesn't only contain 'junk', but really the only time I perform any examination of these is every few months in some downtime, I'll have a look back through the list to see which bore fruit or still hold some kind of interest. That could be the only time anyone looks at some of these ever again.</p> <p>Examples, as I find them… I didn't want to single out any individuals, but in chat was asked for something to 'hang my coat on' as demonstration of the type of question I mean.</p> <p>This - <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/430761/how-to-prevent-finder-from-resetting">How to prevent Finder from resetting?</a> - I never did figure out what the OP was asking. Maybe it's me being thick, but basically it got nowhere &amp; I don't see it as having any future value for searchers.</p> <p>Or this - <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/429158/macbook-pro-13-inch-2016-two-thunderbolt-3-ports-reinstalled-high-sierra-b">MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) - Reinstalled High Sierra but cannot login the iCloud account</a> - though a well-defined issue, comments had some guesswork as to how to handle 2FA, but nothing concrete. Problem 'went away' after upgrading. Maybe this one <em>could</em> have an answer added, if there is a method for dealing with 2FA on High Sierra [which I still don't know] or if the answer is just 'update to Mojave'.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/438942/2017-imac-cant-boot">2017 iMac can&#39;t boot</a> - we have a lot like this, many with actual resolutions. OP basically couldn't connect for Internet Recovery. Comments beneath got hung up on the keyboard &amp; confusing responses from the OP rather than looking to Ethernet or USB boot… but the end result is the question has no real value.</p> <p><sup>[I'm still going through my followed list - I'll add more if I find them]</sup></p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4234 1 How can I add a vertical bar | to a table on the site? Thinkr https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/489896 2023-05-28T13:10:51Z 2023-05-28T18:46:22Z <p>Earlier today, I posted an answer where I needed to add a table. But this table needed to have the vertical line character (|) in one of its cells. But I wasn't able to add it to the cell since it would think that it's supposed to be a part of the table!</p> <p>This is what the table roughly looks like (there's a vertical line in the &quot;Symbol&quot; column) :</p> <div class="s-table-container"> <table class="s-table"> <thead> <tr> <th>Text</th> <th>Symbol</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Vertical bar</td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>This is exactly what is in the Markdown :</p> <pre><code>| Text | Symbol | | -------- | -------- | | Vertical bar | | | </code></pre> <p>And even if I try putting quotes around it :</p> <div class="s-table-container"> <table class="s-table"> <thead> <tr> <th>Text</th> <th>Symbol</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Vertical bar</td> <td>“</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <pre><code>| Text | Symbol | | -------- | -------- | | Vertical bar | “|“ | </code></pre> <p><sub>Other thing weird with the above one : it only shows on of the two quotes (apparently the one before the vertical bar I'm trying to show (boldened here : <strong>“</strong>|“).</sub></p> <hr /> <p>It just seems that there's no way to add a vertical line to a table.</p> <p>Is this possible? Have I done something wrong?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4208 -4 On Ask Different, freebsd is a synonym of unix Vladimir Botka https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/296767 2023-04-26T21:15:03Z 2024-02-20T09:21:16Z <p>Preamble</p> <p>Why do you pull BSD and Linux people into your <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">business</a>?</p> <p>Context</p> <p>The moderators of this site don't understand what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym" rel="nofollow noreferrer">synonym</a> means (<em>&quot;exactly or nearly the same as another word&quot;</em>) and put <em><code>freebsd, bsd, linux, ubuntu</code></em> into the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonyms</a> of <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a>. The related issues are listed below</p> <p>Done</p> <ul> <li>The question <a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4212/synonym-cleanup-sed-and-awk#4212">tag synonym cleanup - sed and awk / unix</a> asks to remove <em><code>sed</code></em> and <em><code>awk</code></em> from the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonyms</a> of the tag <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> on <em>AskDifferent</em>.</li> </ul> <p>Work in progress</p> <ul> <li><p>This question asks to remove <em><code>freebsd</code></em> from the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonyms</a> of the tag <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> on <em>AskDifferent</em>.</p> </li> <li><p>The question <a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2763/separate-linux-tag-from-unix/3647">Separate Linux tag from Unix</a> asks to remove <em><code>linux</code></em> from the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonyms</a> of the tag <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> on <em>AskDifferent</em>.</p> </li> <li><p>The feature-request <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/388727/add-option-exclude-these-sites-in-a-filter-rule">Add option 'exclude these sites' in a filter rule</a>, if implemented, would allow blacklisting sites in <a href="https://stackexchange.com/filters">tag-search</a></p> </li> <li><p>The feature request <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/316399/add-the-ability-to-exclude-sites-in-global-searches#comment1296258_388751">Add the ability to exclude sites in global searches</a>, if implemented, would allow blacklisting sites in <a href="https://stackexchange.com/search">global-search</a>.</p> </li> </ul> <hr> <sup> <ul> <li><p>Simple solution would be renaming the <em>unix</em> tag to <em>unixly</em> (see the answer below).</p> </li> <li><p>This question might be considered either a <code>bug</code> or <code>feature-request</code>. It was changed to <code>discussion</code> by the moderator.</p> </li> </ul> </sup> <hr> <p><strong>Remove <em><code>freebsd</code></em> as a <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonym</a> of the tag <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> on <em>Ask Different</em>, please.</strong></p> <ol> <li><p>In the first place, what is the solid argument for <em><code>freebsd</code></em> being a synonym to <em><code>unix</code></em> on <em><code>AskDifferent</code></em>?</p> </li> <li><p>When I <a href="https://stackexchange.com/filters">filter</a> by the tag <em><code>freebsd</code></em> I'm not interested in questions tagged <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> on <em><code>AskDifferent</code></em></p> </li> <li><p>Mac people use to tag their questions <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> instead of <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;macos&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;macos&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-macos-tooltip-container">macos</a>. For example, <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/459137/how-to-let-clear-command-just-clears-the-current-screen">how to let <code>clear</code> command just clears the current screen</a></p> </li> <li><p>I'd like to avoid answering <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> questions to find out it's about <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;macos&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;macos&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-macos-tooltip-container">macos</a>. For example, to avoid the comments in <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/365838/pipe-to-mv-command">Pipe to mv command</a></p> </li> <li><p>It is not clear whether the questions about using the 3rd party software (FreeBSD, BSD, Linux, Ubuntu) are on-topic here. If they are off-topic (see the answer below) the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonyms</a> <em><code>freebsd, bsd,linux, ubuntu</code></em> should be removed.</p> </li> </ol> <hr> <sup> <p>If you want to improve something put the default first tag <em><code>apple</code></em> to all <em><code>AskDifferent</code></em> questions. The <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">topics</a> says it's monothematic:</p> <ul> <li>Apple HW</li> <li>Apple SW</li> <li>Apple services</li> <li>3rd party ... use with Apple products</li> </ul> <p>Any browser tab label of <em><code>AskDifferent</code></em> should be of the form:</p> <pre><code>apple - &lt;title of the question&gt; </code></pre> <p>The rules are strange at the moment</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/459137/how-to-let-clear-command-just-clears-the-current-screen">How to let <code>clear</code> command just clears the current screen</a>: 1st tag <em><code>macos</code></em> in the label</li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/431807/cant-partition-macintosh-hd-or-increase-free-space-error-shows-the-target-dis">Can't partition Macintosh HD or increase free space</a>: No tag in the label at all</li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/459141/unable-to-access-new-macbook-pro-m2-using-share-disk-mode">Unable to access new Macbook Pro</a>: 2nd tag <em><code>network</code></em> in the label. Why not the 1st tag <em><code>macbook-pro</code></em>? Because <em><code>Mackbook Pro</code></em> is in the title?</li> </ul> </sup> <hr> <p>Answers to some questions from the below comments:</p> <p>Q1: <em><strong>&quot;Are you arguing that each name is important enough to have a unique tag here?&quot;</strong></em></p> <p>A: Yes. The <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonyms</a> <em><code>freebsd, bsd, linux, ubuntu</code></em> of your tag <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> not only pollute the network-wide feeds but also disable proper searching by these synonyms at <em>AskDifferent</em>.</p> <hr> <p>Q2: <em><strong>&quot;Are you saying that all flavors of Unix should have distinct tags, none of which should be synonyms of Unix?&quot;</strong></em></p> <p>A: No. Not all flavors. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unix</a> is a superset of many operating systems. Include them as needed. AskDiferent tag <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms"><em>synonyms for unix</em></a> are: <code>freebsd, bsd, linux, ubuntu</code>. If I search tag <em><code>freebsd</code></em> on <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags">AskDifferent</a> I get the 'Mac branded' description of <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix?tab=Newest"><em>unix</em></a>! This is absurd. You should remove all the synonyms here and add them as tags if needed.</p> <hr> <p>Q3: <em><strong>&quot;'They can add both' is a counterargument to deduplicate them.&quot;</strong></em></p> <p>A: This depends on the description of your tag <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a>. The current description is not sustainable in the long term. The mess resulting from the set of <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">unix synonyms</a>, which are not synonyms even by far, is growing. Take a look at the <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/">Unix</a> site. Among the <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">topics</a> are both:</p> <ul> <li>Using or administering a *nix desktop or server</li> <li>The Unix foundation underlying MacOS</li> </ul> <p>Take a look at the proper set of tags. For example, <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/macos+freebsd">[macos] [freebsd]</a> questions. This is how your tags should look like.</p> <hr> <p>Q4: <em><strong>&quot;That implies some effort to retag questions.&quot;</strong></em></p> <p>A: Yes. Remove the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/unix/synonyms">synonyms</a> and create tags instead. Then, add these tags to the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unix" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;unix&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-unix-tooltip-container">unix</a> questions. There are 1060 of them atm. Nearly half of them can be easily recognized by the title: <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Agnu">gnu</a> (10), <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Afreebsd">freebsd</a> (2), <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Absd">bsd</a> (7), <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Alinux">linux</a> (226), <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Aubuntu">ubuntu</a> (166), <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Ased">sed</a> (12), <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Aawk">awk</a> (3), <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bunix%5D+title%3Aposix">posix</a> (2).</p> <p>Let the users create new tags as needed.</p> <hr> <p>5: Quoting from the <a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4208/on-ask-different-freebsd-is-a-synonym-of-unix#comment9419_4208">comment</a> by the administrator @Monomeeth: &quot;Ask Different is for users of Apple products, be it hardware, software or service - all Apple. And, when it's about a <strong>3rd party hardware, software or service, they're only on topic here if the question is about using them with an Apple product</strong>&quot;</p> <p>A: The answer by another administrator @nohillside contradicts your statement (in bold).</p> <sup> <p>Q: &quot;Not sure I understand the point about the apple tag.&quot;</p> <p>A: Because of the <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic">topics</a> all <em>AskDifferent</em> questions should be tagged <em><code>apple</code></em>. SE concatenates a label in the browser tab from the first tag and the question title. As a result, all <em>AskDifferent</em> questions should have a label of the form <code>apple - &lt;title of the question&gt;</code>. Not in the form <code>unix - &lt;title of the question&gt;</code> if the first tag in the question is <em><code>unix</code></em>.</p> </sup> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4112 4 How to make cookie setting permanent Stumped https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/314974 2022-07-27T19:02:42Z 2023-09-28T03:27:58Z <p>Every time I log in I’m asked to confirm or choose cookie settings. How can I make the site remember my choices so I don’t have to choose every time I log in? Sorry if this is not the right site to ask the question. I did a search and got no hits and got a tip from another user this is where to go for help. It happens on my MacBook Pro with safari. I have cookies allowed - or at least none are blocked. I do not see where to specifically use individual settings. I get the same pop up on my iPhone 13 pro with safari and on Firefox browsers on both devices and on iPad. Still trying to figure out the Firefox setting though. While I have not blocked any on Firefox I can’t even find their setting on the desktop or phone…. Here is the pop up I get when I logon each time. I choose my settings and save them. Have to do it each time. I do not get any error messages.</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTdgk.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTdgk.jpg" alt="pop up" /></a></p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4048 10 Is it wrong to ask a question on Ask Different even if it's easily searchable on the web? stevec https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/290197 2021-10-17T22:20:08Z 2023-06-09T00:28:11Z <p>When googling apple-related queries, like &quot;how do I do x&quot;, there's typically a <em><strong>lot</strong></em> of sites which are search engine optimised appearing toward the top of the results, and a lot of the time, the content is wildly out of date, or worse, not even useful but simply clickbait.</p> <p>For this reason, I wonder how good or bad is it to ask such seemingly easy to answer questions on AD? That is, questions, which are technically answered on the internet many times over, but whose articles are buried between clickbait and worse, and whose articles are festooned with advertisements and other distractions?</p> <p>I think for future people googling, Ask Different offers a far superior experience, being relatively ad-free, typically having answers from more authoritative sources than most other apple sites, and a range of other benefits (like being more likely to be updated, critiqued etc).</p> <h3>Example</h3> <p>Here is an example of an easy-to-google question I had recently:</p> <blockquote> <p>convert heic to png macbook</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dHTBm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dHTBm.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p> <p>Google results differ by user/location, but Ask Different didn't appear even in the top 100 results for me, which was surprising, yet a <em>lot</em> of notable &quot;junk&quot; websites did.</p> <h3>Question</h3> <p>Is there general agreement that asking &quot;basic&quot; questions is good for the apple product users, even if it means the occasional very banal question has to be asked/answered here on Ask Different, or should we refrain from asking/answering questions which are already elsewhere on the web?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4006 2 Community Ads for 2021 JNat https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/120123 2021-06-17T09:44:58Z 2024-01-27T16:04:05Z <p><strong>September update:</strong> Community Ads are now live network-wide. Since none of ad proposals on this site made it past the score thresholds, none will be displayed — go to <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518">the main post on MSE</a> for a list of the ads that are being displayed. And stay tuned for 2022's edition for the next opportunity to submit more ad proposals!</p> <hr /> <p><strong>JUNE NOTE:</strong> This post has now been locked and new submissions are not being accepted. Ad submissions are now undergoing review by the Community Team, and this question will be updated once the ads are live.</p> <hr /> <p>We're almost halfway through 2021, and <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518">in case you missed it</a>, Community Promotion Ads are gonna be a bit different this time! <strong>TL;DR: submit and vote for ad proposals before August 2nd!</strong></p> <h3>What are Community Ads?</h3> <p>Community Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, or on other sites in the network. They can show up in the right sidebar, or in banners in question pages. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be considered by <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99341/208518">the Community Management Team</a> to be displayed.</p> <h3>Why do we have Community Ads?</h3> <p>This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. The goal of this initiative is for future visitors to find out about <em>the stuff your community deems important</em>. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are <em>relevant to your own community's interests</em>, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. You may want to promote external resources, or Meta guidance for newcomers, for instance.</p> <p>This initiative has an added goal of providing your community with <em>an opportunity to showcase exemplary questions from your main site, as well as frequently-linked-to guides from your Meta site</em>. While the latter makes sense to be shown solely on this site, the former can be shown all across the network. These should avoid hot button topics, and instead focus more on evergreen questions that show what your community’s all about.</p> <h3>Why do we reset the ads?</h3> <p>Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. Historically, we've reset the ads every year — since this is the first run of a new format, we'll run the ads collected in this post through the end of 2021 and reassess the rotation cycle then.</p> <p>The community ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a previous exposure.</p> <h3>Are there restrictions to the ads I can post?</h3> <p>All proposed ads need to abide by <a href="/conduct">our Code of Conduct</a>. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/advertising/guidelines">Our ad creative guidelines</a> also generally apply (note that the first 2 bullet points on the “Tracking” section do not apply, and a lot of the guidelines surrounding claims, comparisons, proof, etc., while still applicable, may not be particularly relevant). Finally, ads can not be promoting products nor soliciting programmer time or resources for: knowledge sharing or collaboration tools for technologists, or for sites where ad buyers are primarily targeting technologists.</p> <h3>How does it work?</h3> <p>The answers you post to this question <em>must</em> conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored:</p> <ol> <li><p><strong>Each answer must relate to a single ad submission.</strong> Please do not post multiple ad submissions in the same answer.</p> </li> <li><p>All answers must be in one of the below formats:</p> <ol> <li>If you have an image for the ad you want to display on this site (must be the case for ads to external sources):</li> </ol> <pre><code>[![Image name. Example: &quot;community_ad_name_300x250&quot;][1]][2] [1]: https://image-url [2]: https://clickthrough-url </code></pre> <ol start="2"> <li>If you want to create an ad for a question from your main or meta site, to be advertised on this or other sites in the network (staff will generate a frame for the ad with this site's theme, for brand consistency):</li> </ol> <pre><code>Question title Question URL Ad size (right sidebar or banner ads) Site(s) to be displayed in. Can be: - &quot;self&quot; for ads to be displayed on this site - &quot;all&quot; for ads to be displayed all over the network - a specific subset of sites </code></pre> </li> <li><p>Please <strong>do not add anything else to the body of the post</strong>. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.</p> </li> </ol> <h3>Image requirements</h3> <ul> <li>The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels for right sidebar ads or 728 x 90 pixels for banner ads. Images can be double that if high DPI.</li> <li>Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)</li> <li>Must be GIF, PNG, or JPG</li> <li>No animated GIFs</li> <li>Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB</li> <li>If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.</li> </ul> <h3>Selection process</h3> <p><strong>This post will remain open for ad submissions and voting until August 2nd</strong>. At that point, the question will be closed/locked, and no more ad submissions will be accepted. For ad submissions to be considered for selection by the Community Management Team, they must have <strong>a minimum score of 6 at the time the post was closed/locked for submissions.</strong> Given this is the first run with this new format, we may adjust the score threshold to be a bit lower if we see ads struggling to get to it (especially if the ads are not getting downvotes) by the time submissions and voting are closed.</p> <h3>Reporting statistics</h3> <p>Once this cycle is over, at the end of 2021, the Community Management Team will provide you with reporting statistics, as described in the &quot;reporting&quot; section of <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518">this post</a>.</p> <hr /> <p>Feel free to use the question's comment section to ask for any clarifications.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3920 4 Why was this question closed for being "Off topic"? Django Reinhardt https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/22563 2020-06-29T14:09:59Z 2023-10-05T17:42:34Z <p>Yet another, &quot;why was this question closed?&quot; post. Sorry, but I genuinely don't understand this one.</p> <p>I put posted a <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/05/22/encyclopedia-stack-exchange/">Q&amp;A Format</a> question (ie. I answered it myself to share research and knowledge):</p> <p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/394994/what-are-the-major-differences-between-apple-watch-versions">What are the major differences between Apple Watch versions?</a></p> <p>It was closed for being &quot;Off Topic&quot;, and yet less inclusive questions along the same lines are accepted elsewhere on the site:</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/252528/what-is-the-difference-between-the-original-apple-watch-and-the-2016-announceme?rq=1">What is the difference between the original Apple watch, and the 2016 announcement of &quot;Series 1&quot;</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/176000/whats-the-difference-between-apple-watch-and-apple-watch-sport">What&#39;s the difference between Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sport?</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/266349/is-there-a-difference-regarding-battery-between-apple-watch-38-mm-and-42-mm?rq=1">Is there a difference regarding battery between Apple Watch 38 mm and 42 mm?</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>And they're just three questions to do with the Apple Watch. There are countless other accepted questions asking for feature comparisons between iPhones, iPads, and other Apple hardware.</p> <p>I feel a question that helps people quickly see the major differences between Apple Watches is useful to users and completely on-topic for this SE. Why am I wrong?</p> <hr /> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Just to broaden this outside of Apple Watches. The site is filled with accepted questions asking for tech comparisons. For example, iPhones:</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27840/what-are-the-physical-differences-between-an-iphone-4s-and-an-iphone-4">What are the physical differences between an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 4?</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/252584/what-are-the-under-documented-differences-between-iphone-6s-and-iphone-7?rq=1">What are the under documented differences between iPhone 6s and iPhone 7?</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/304459/what-are-the-under-documented-differences-between-iphone-8-iphone-8-plus-and-ip?rq=1">What are the under-documented differences between iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X?</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/231835/what-are-the-under-documented-differences-between-the-iphone-se-6s-and-6s-plus">What are the under documented differences between the iPhone SE, 6s, and 6s plus?</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/43100/what-are-the-differences-between-an-ipod-touch-and-an-iphone-4s?rq=1">What are the differences between an iPod touch and an iPhone 4S?</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/227241/what-are-the-technical-differences-between-a1387-and-a1431-iphones?rq=1">What are the technical differences between A1387 and A1431 iPhones</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/252046/what-are-the-software-differences-between-a-standard-and-plus-version-of-an-ipho?rq=1">What are the software differences between a standard and plus version of an iPhone? (e.g. 7 vs 7+)</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/280146/is-there-any-difference-between-the-2016-and-2017-iphone-se">Is there any difference between the 2016 and 2017 iPhone SE?</a></p> </li> </ul> <p>I'm not sure why having so many disparate and separate questions is preferable, when <strong>some</strong> of these could be collated into a more generalised &quot;<a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/01/05/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/">canonical wiki</a>&quot;?</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3682 2 Inconsistent thumbnail generation in Finder? Paul N https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/355572 2019-12-08T18:19:35Z 2023-09-28T03:27:39Z <p>Ok, just saying, but this site seems a bit broken. The exact question I want to ask has <em>been</em> addressed, but I can't enter that conversation/thread because I don't have 50 reputation points. So ... I am allowed to create a duplicate and redundant question, but not provide useful information to an existing thread???</p> <p>Relative to the earlier thread ... I've tried every solution proposed there and none of them have worked. Maybe since the last response in that thread someone has come across another approach? Note that SOME of my icons (all .jpg) have thumbnails.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3644 7 Separate script-editor and AppleScript tags from each other anki https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/313842 2019-10-03T19:35:09Z 2024-02-17T23:07:40Z <p>Before this recent question</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/371589/apple-script-editor-error-0-no-error?noredirect=1">Script Editor shows Error: No Error in JavaScript code for sending email</a></li> </ul> <p>taught me that JavaScript can also be used in Script Editor app, I had added AppleScript tag into it. After clarification, I tried to remove it and put the app's name. But both are synonyms. </p> <p><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/script-editor" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;script-editor&#39;" rel="tag">script-editor</a> redirects to <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/applescript" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;applescript&#39;" rel="tag">applescript</a>. </p> <p>Can we have them separated? </p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3446 10 HOWTO Convert video to animated GIF Allan https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/119271 2019-01-05T00:43:41Z 2023-12-07T11:06:50Z <p>Many times, <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/325547/119271">OPs are good enough to link videos</a> to their question(s) so that we can have a view of the problem they are experiencing. The only problem with this is that it links to a video <em>off</em> of Ask Different. The solution (in most cases, there's no audio for example) is to create an animated GIF so that the picture is "in line" with the question and not an external link.</p> <p>There's a <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/556029/how-do-i-convert-a-video-to-gif-using-ffmpeg-with-reasonable-quality">good answer on SuperUser</a> on how to do this. However, I wanted something that could automate this process as the commands are a bit onerous to remember each time. </p> <p>My goal was to do this with as few 3rd party utilities as possible and to automate it so that it provided a good quality animation while respecting the 2MB image limit.</p> <p>You will need <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>ffmpeg</code></a> and the script below. You can call it whatever you like (I used <code>ffmp4gif</code>); and make sure it's in a directory in your path. All operations will be done in the current directory.</p> <p>It takes a single argument, that being the input filename. For example:</p> <pre><code>$ ffmp4gif foobar.mp4 </code></pre> <p>This will create an animated GIF with the name <code>foobar.gif</code> in the same directory.</p> <p>It's a pretty cut and dry script... feel free to make/suggest improvements.</p> <hr> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash # $1 = input file name # User editable variables FS="1900000" #Maximum file size; ffmpeg adds 1K to the file FPS="fps=10" #Max frames per second SCALE="scale=320" #X-Width pixels # Not-so-user-editable varibles PALETTE=`mktemp /tmp/palette.XXXXXX.png` # Creates the palette file FLAGS1="flags=lanczos,palettegen" # Flags for palette generation FLAGS2="flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" # Flags for animated GIF generation # Function Definitions -------------------- function cleanup () { #Cleans up temp files used echo Cleaning up.... rm -f $PALETTE echo Done.... } function trap_ctrlc () { # clean up temp files created echo "Control-C was detected." cleanup exit 2 } # Main Script ---------------------- # Initialzie trap to call tracp_ctrlc function # if/when SIGINT is received trap "trap_ctrlc" 2 # Check if argument was supplied if [ $# -eq 0 ] then echo "No arguments supplied. Exiting" exit 1 fi # Set FILE to passed parameter FILE="${1}" # Check if file exists if [ ! -f "${FILE}" ] then echo "File not found. Exiting" exit 3 fi # Set the Output file name OUTFILE=$(basename "${FILE}") OUTFILE="${OUTFILE%.*}" # Create the palette file echo "Creating Palette" ffmpeg -y -i ${FILE} -vf ${FPS},${SCALE}:-1:${FLAGS1} ${PALETTE} &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 # Create the GIF using the palette file echo "Creating Animated GIF File: ${OUTFILE}.gif" ffmpeg -y -i ${FILE} -i $PALETTE -filter_complex "${FPS},${SCALE}:-1:${FLAGS2}" -fs ${FS} ${OUTFILE}.gif &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 # Cleanup temp files and exit cleanup exit 0 </code></pre> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2508 22 Why we're not customer support for [company X or product Y] bmike https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5472 2015-05-30T15:25:38Z 2023-10-10T16:04:52Z <p>Why do many questions asking for customer support get closed on Ask Different:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/890/">Help! My computer doesn&#39;t work</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/276062/">https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/276062/</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/112033/">How do I do X to my clash of clans village?</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/151177/">I forgot my password for my Apple ID?</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/114567/">Help me unlock this iPhone I just &quot;happened to find&quot;?</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/191179/">My iPad does not work when it's camera time!</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/191872/">I can't create a specific Apple ID</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/281745">I got a problem on my phone can you help me pls</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/295141/">iOS app is rejected as &quot;Spam&quot;</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/436501/">https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/436501/</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/283799/">How to appeal rejection by Apple for Developer Enterprise Account?</a></li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/465217/">Does the phased rollout get halted when I submit a new build for review?</a></li> </ul> <p>Similar questions to mine are open or answered but mine got closed!</p> <p><em>Why?</em></p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2418 35 Where is the list of canonical questions stored for Ask Different? bmike https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5472 2015-03-25T15:37:48Z 2023-09-15T10:35:23Z <p>Where can we store a list of questions that are considered canonical?</p> <p>Canonical means that it's asked frequently enough to warrant an excellent clear and detailed answer that the site edits and maintains so that it's broad, clear and helps many people troubleshoot or solve a common issue or misunderstanding.</p> <p>Rather than blame people for coming and asking the same question over and over, the intent is to organize and realize that this will never and and instead have an efficient manner to link these to canonical answers.</p> <p>That way, if the new asker actually has a different question, it will be easier for them to edit the post and get it reopened. It also will signal to the community that the answers are going to be heavily used and that it's worth it to keep them current, clear, and exemplary so that they can shoulder the burden of answering many questions on the same core topic.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2026 2 What can be done to improve this question? bmike https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5472 2014-03-29T22:41:11Z 2024-02-09T12:08:36Z <p>I've put a hold on this question:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/125358/does-anyone-know-any-good-diagnostic-tools">Does anyone know any good Diagnostic tools?</a></li> </ul> <p>It strikes me as something we want on the site, but as worded, it's far too vague to be searchable IMO. </p> <p>We don't have a specific ban on software-recommendataion questions, but the general advice from Stack Overflow is still helpful to me in deciding when to step in and pause a question:</p> <blockquote> <p>Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.</p> </blockquote> <p>This question could easily be reopened if there is an actual problem being solved. If so, let's edit it to <strong>describe the problem</strong> and then document <strong>what has been done so far to solve it</strong>.</p> <p>If it's meant to be a subjective question, it might need some significant tightening of scope. From our help center:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”</li> <li>your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”</li> <li>there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”</li> <li>you are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?”</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>To relate those words to the post in question. It seems like the following is happening:</p> <ul> <li><em>What's your favorite diagnostic tool for Mac?</em></li> <li>It's not actually stating a tool, but the answers read like what I would expect if someone posted "I use AHT for diagnosing Mac, what do you use?"</li> <li>I think a more precise statement of what problem needs diagnosis, this could be reopened rapidly with an edit and then cleaning the commentary and answers that are now obsolete / not relating to the actual problem</li> </ul> <p>Basically, it seems a community discussion of an open-ended "diagnosis" topic.</p> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1845 0 My suggested edit review didn't count as a review for me grg https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/37797 2013-10-04T19:33:50Z 2024-02-09T14:06:56Z <p>I was going through the Suggested Edits review queue, and <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/39619">this</a> suggested edit came up. I pressed <strong>Improve</strong>, edited the post and submitted it.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/V8VFq.png" alt="Revision History"></p> <p>However, the suggested edit was <strong>only</strong> approved by Community♦…</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vV3Ke.png" width="300"></p> <p>Why (and how) did this happen?</p>
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