Backstory: I'll start this off by saying my reputation is at 1 for a reason.  Not disputing that.  My main concern is the manner in which this happened.  It's readily apparent that at least two users were involved in deliberately lowering the total number of reputation on my accounts across unrelated questions.  The users in question deliberately down voted several questions/answers of mine which were asked/answered years ago.  This was done across multiple boards on the same day in hours.  Proposal: If the same approach were used with a larger group of people on a member who they wanted to target, would the approach work on a target with significantly higher reputation then the group in total?  Obviously the amount of damage that can be inflicted on the target increases as their number of interactions with the community increases.  Mathematically would this vector of attack be feasible?  And if so how can such an attack be prevented?
I just noticed that I lost a bunch of points from my reputation score, and I used the "reputation" tab on my user profile page to try and track down the cause.  During my investigation, I noticed there was an unusual event of type "reversal". In the normal place of a question title, it says "voting corrected".     What does this mean, and what caused it?  Did I do something wrong? Why did I lose all of that reputation? Is the system punishing me for leaving too many good answers?  Is there any way to earn it back?
Cannot locate Ubuntu Software Center via Firefox to open APT links What is it called when a non-verb is used as a verb? This is in very common use on the internet. I just read this:     "[The] hotel employee walks in, I say "uh, puppy" and she just NOPEd the [heck] out of the room."   This is often done by adding 'd to the word. :     "Food left on plates after eating is   defined as garbage (jutha) because it   has been polluted by the eater’s   saliva. It may be handled in the   family.   Is there an English word for something that is not eatable or usable by others because it has someone's saliva on it? Smart Phone's camera socket I just want ask how the socket in the image is called?   I couldn't really find and the closer I could get is only Raspberry's module. How do I join a Windows Active Directory? We have a "mix-mode" Lab. and we want to migrate to Ubuntu, from Windows.  In this process, how do we add Ubuntu workstations to a Windows Domain / Active Directory ('AD') setup? How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta? I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by design). However, it's been quite a long time, and no official response was ever posted there.  Or, I had an idea for a new feature, but realized it's already requested, either by searching or posting a request myself only to have it closed as a duplicate of the existing one. It's been a while since the original request was filed, but no official response has been made.   I'm aware that staff members are , but either my post isn't about one of the indicated topic areas for which they're accepting escalation requests for that month, or I already flagged to request escalation but it was declined, so the instructions there don't apply for my post.  What can I do to draw attention to meta questions for the SE team, so they can give an official response, and possibly implement the bug fix or feature?  Note: This is different from other general questions which ask for how to get attention for unanswered questions, since the procedures on meta sites are different, and getting an official response isn't necessarily the same as getting a good answer. What do Android application permissions mean? When installing an application, the application lists permissions that it needs to perform its  functions.    I am creating this list of the the system defined permissions and a description of what they mean. It is a community wiki so if new permissions are added in the future they can be added to this list. How to render a background image in 2.8? Why would I want to install a snap if I can install via apt instead? This is not a duplicate of the following questions     because:  My question specifically states that I am interested in end-user experience, not ease or efficiency of development, which is what the other question largely refers to.  As has been noted, development/deployment affects end-user experience, but it is not all there is to it, and neither of the referenced questions address issues that directly impact an end-user's ability to use the application (e.g. trouble accessing data on other partitions, sluggishness, etc.) Maybe &quot;compelling&quot; wasn't the right word to use; my intent was to ask about real-world, experiential consequences, i.e., things that happen or  don't happen, as opposed to theoretical/architectural statements that, while presumably accurate, don't appear to be backed up with any real-world examples to support the statement. I should have stated more directly that my intention was to get answers that consider the balance of &quot;advantages&quot; to snaps against the real-world downsides experienced by end-users. The &quot;duplicate&quot; question is largely theoretical, and doesn't discuss end-user experience at all. The &quot;duplicate&quot; question makes no mention of anything remotely similar to the example I used here, i.e., that there is an end-user downside to snaps (in this case, lack of access to data on other partitions and snap app performance) that isn't discussed in any available documentation that I can find.   While I understand that snap has a big advantage in making apps more widely available, is there any compelling reason to choose snap over apt, if the app is available for my distro/version via an apt package? I am curious because I've been doing some reading about snaps, and all the excitement about the method seems to be about things that are advantageous for app developers, but I've seen virtually nothing on how this makes life easier for end users (aside from the obvious; that they may be able to install apps that aren't otherwise available on their distro/version). I installed snapd and installed a couple of snaps and was really frustrated and disappointed.  The snap apps are slow and it's difficult, if not impossible, to access files on other partitions from within the snap. While I've seen plenty of info that says snaps are &quot;faster,&quot; &quot;easier,&quot; &quot;safer,&quot; etc., I haven't been able to find anything that explains why or how this is actually the case. Being very new to Linux, I am wondering if maybe I'm just missing something obvious? To be clear, I understand why the technology might be useful overall, but I can't find anything that explains whether/why it is a better option even when the app in question is available for install via a more traditional method, and all dependencies are met. Is my mobile AMD card being used? Login with Facebook using Stack Exchange Android App Services Actions Missing in Central Admin I never dealt with Android devices before so I'm completely newbie at it, please comment if something is too simple.  Say I purchase , that has got Android Froyo 2.2 installed in it.  If there is a new version of Android released tomorrow or next month, will I be able to update it (like I will be able to update my iPod Touch 4 to iOS 5)? On every boot up I get this:    For about 10 seconds (or more) before the "normal" Ubuntu Gnome loading screen and the login screen comes up.  I've read some questions and a bug report about this already, but this problem was dismissed as a minor inconvenience or there were no real solutions (that worked for me). For me, this problem leads to an unacceptable slow boot compared to Ubuntu (Unity) or Windows.  Does anybody know how to fix this or is this a "feature" of Ubuntu Gnome and not a bug? Downloading from Play Store gives error 491 When I try to download anything from the Play Store it shows error 491 and can't finish the download. I have a Samsung Galaxy S 7582. How do I fix this? Targeting only Firefox with CSS Immutability of Strings in Java Confidence interval for the p-value estimate when doing Monte Carlo testing The second paragraph of the  section of the Wikipedia article on resampling statistics, the values of a confidence interval for a p-value from a MC sampling is given:     After $N$ random permutations, it is possible to obtain a confidence interval for the p-value based on the Binomial distribution. For example, if after $N = 10000$ random permutations the p-value is estimated to be $\hat{p}=0.05$, then a 99% confidence interval for the true $p$ (the one that would result from trying all possible permutations) is $[0.044, 0.056]$.   What's the formula to calculate it? Call to a member function on a non-object So I'm refactoring my code to implement more OOP.  I set up a class to hold page attributes.  class PageAtrributes  {   private $db_connection;   private $page_title;      public function __construct($db_connection)      {         $this-&gt;db_connection = $db_connection;         $this-&gt;page_title = '';     }      public function get_page_title()     {         return $this-&gt;page_title;     }      public function set_page_title($page_title)     {         $this-&gt;page_title = $page_title;     } }   Later on I call the set_page_title() function like so  function page_properties($objPortal) {         $objPage-&gt;set_page_title($myrow['title']); }   When I do I receive the error message:     Call to a member function set_page_title() on a non-object   So what am I missing? Why are there only derivatives to the first order in the Lagrangian?