You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Is it really useful to feed posts already edited into the review “first posts” queue?
I have been presented with posts in the first posts queue which have already been edited by high rep users (who should know what they are doing :-)).
That is no big problem but seeing that this queue ...
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A Question Regarding Negative Reputation [duplicate]
Some answer to this question Black screen after login with cursor, I gave him down vote & suddenly i loose the 1 point, can any one guide me how it work ?
Given Down Vote To Answer
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Tag Synonym request: [ubuntu10.04] -> [10.04]
This new tag (ubuntu10.04) appear to be exact same to 10.04.
Should we synonimze this?
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Should the site get a facelift?
Recently, well, maybe not too recently, we saw the Ubuntu homepage get a new look. Linked here. I'm also throwing an image below comparing the two if you don't want to go through the trouble of ...
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Upvote questions from the Close review queue when marking as duplicate
When using the review queue, I'd like to be able to upvote the question and/or answer that is the duplicate of the one being closed.
After reviewing the possible duplicate and finding that
it is ...
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How can I find the questions where I posted a comment?
I posted some comments on questions, but I didn't use the star symbol to transfer those questions to my favorites.
Is it still possible to rediscover those questions?
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Can we suggest posting on the forums for too localized?
On the closed as too localized text, we say that the question won't help other people, but we don't suggest where they should go now.
Since Canonical advertises the Ask Ubuntu community (e.g. in ...
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FAQ Update: Add “Chrubuntu” to the list of unsupported derivatives
Since people are naturally lazy, perhaps we should replace this line in the FAQ:
Linux Mint, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04) and ...
with:
Linux Mint, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix ...
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I want to be able to move the “reject dialog” when reviewing suggested edits
The "flag" dialog is moveable (see my question), but the "Reject" dialog is not, which makes it a little harder to provide useful feedback to the suggestor as to why I reject this edit.
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Are spammers attacking the website?
This time two unregistered accounts with successive user numbers are the ones. One posts a question while the others posts seconds later with the spam answer solicited by the off-topic question. ...
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Request deletion of spam account
So this is a blatant spam account. The profile description is spam and the profile pic is that of a pretty girl, probably taken without the consent of the owner. Only post is blatant spam. The issue ...
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Cannot specify other SE groups for transfer
I have noticed that when you mark a question as 'off-topic' the only choice is to send it to the meta site......why not include the UNIX, SuperUser, StackOverflow SE sites as well?
Therefore, my ...
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Is it possible to Ask Ubuntu identify my GMT Time Zone?
I was interested in the Fanatic Badge as I access Ask Ubuntu in a daily basis, so I started accessing it every single day. Although I live in Brazil, and my GMT is -3:00, and some days I can only ...
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Why don't we improve the design of the link to the about page?
I'm a user of Ask Ubuntu for more than 11 months, and just today I noticed the about page.
To be honest, I didn't think that such great content would be in such a little link.
This page is very ...
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Shouldn't the change of user name be signalled to all people who posted in relation to the former name?
People change their names from X to Y, but their older name is mentioned in answers and comments (like "as X explained in his answer" - while there's no link to the answer that now is signed by Y).
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How to search askubuntu.com on the fly (like google search)
In Google search we can see search results on the fly while we type. How to do this in askubuntu.com ??
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1answer
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There should be a way to link from closed-questions to bug-reports
It is somewhat common for a question to be off-topic because it is too bug-report like. This is certainly a legitimate reason for closing a question. One problem, however, is that unless there is a ...
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Please add a new privilege that allows unlimited flagging to help combat spam!
A massive spam attack happened and I am only allowed to flag 9 of them.
I didn't see any privileges that lifts this limit. If, at a certain point, this restriction is lifted, then delete this ...
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Meta Ask Ubuntu search needs to be more intuitive
I recently did a search and didn't get a result. That was because I was searching on Ask Ubuntu Meta and not Stack Exchange Meta. Even though the two overlap.
So instead of Ask Ubuntu Meta returning ...
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Are [vsftp] and [vsftpd] dupes?
I came across the tags vsftp and vsftpd. Both have similar descriptions and are not related to each other. I would propose to alias vsftp to vsftpd (or the other way around). Because I see not reason ...
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Is the off tag really needed?
I suddenly came across a question which had the off tag. The tag itself has no explanation and I asked myself what the purpose of this tag is. From my perspective this tag is somehow confusing. Would ...
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List of most recent questions
Is there a way to browse the list of questions asked, in reverse chronological order? The complete list of questions seems to sort it on number of votes and views. Wouldn't it be a nice option to ...
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Allow for more than 2 links for <10 rep [closed]
Links are helpful, I can't be as helpful as I could if I were allowed to post more than 2 links.
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How should questions about SPDY be tagged?
This web protocal is becoming more and more popular considering its' value, but it's not in the list of tags.
How should a question be tagged since this tag isn't here?
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Is there a way to subscribe to a Q&A and get notified of _all_ activity (in the StackExchange Inbox)?
From other online "forums" (e.g. http://forums.mozillazine.org/ which is "powered by" https://www.phpbb.com/) I'm used to having a feature to subscribe to a thread.
I realize that here you can use ...
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Meta editing-help should mention “paragraph breaks”
If I don't overlook something obvious meta.askubuntu.com/editing-help does not mention paragraph breaks at all. Neither
how they are considered useful instead of wasting space nor
how one creates ...
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Table making bug
Markdown than is on SE doesn't support table making.
Read the Markdown sytax specs page - section Inline HTML.
Example of true table for Markdown (and HTML) is on http://paste.ubuntu.com/1633733/. ...
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Should there be a way to mark an edit as a “minor edit” so it doesn't bump the question?
I very frequently go back to my own old answers and re-edit them, but they are mostly only minor edits:
Fix typos
Improve formatting
Change wording if it's misleading
Make them more up to date
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Can I search for posts by multiple tags?
Questions may have multiple tags, but when searching by tags, can I search by more than one tag?
Trying to enter both (as i am interesting in these tags only when combined together) i get nothing
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How to return immediately to the list of questions after committing an edit/suggest?
After committing the suggest I would like to be able to go "back" to the list of questions immediately - but every "back" action of my browser takes me first back to the edit window, then to the ...
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Colorblind people have a hard time distinguishing red/green answer highlight
I am red/green colorblind and I find it difficult to distinguish between the red and green circles that denote unanswered and answered questions:
Does it make sense to use, for example, a darker ...
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Could we get a better example question for the new /about?
As some have already seen, the /about page on main has changed dramatically. It's fancy now with all the moving parts and visual examples, but there is one thing that feels kinda odd about it.
The ...
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Is “internet” a synonym of “internet-connection”?
Well, basically: Their tag wikis say the same, I see no other application for internet than for internet-connection and I don't see why we need to split the whole tag-system around connections into ...
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Search Option In User Profile QA
I think that search option should be provided in questions and answers in the user profile, which is currently not available. Currently a user can see a list of own asked questions and given answers ...
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Is there an option to put audio in a question?
I want to ask a question with audio. But I want it to either be in the question, or in a link. Can I do this?
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Don't have 2K reputations, so cannot correct a single typo which is bizzare
Before asking this question, I was to the question exact duplicate of this.
I don't have 2K reputation, so every edit I do requires a minimum of 6 characters to be edited. However I came across this ...
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Are Favorite Answers being planned?
Sometimes, there's a question that gets posted. You have that problem, as well, so you take a look at the answers.
Now, let's say that the answer was the most awesome, well-written answer ever, and ...
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Why does meta complain when you downvote a post without commenting first?
If I downvote a post (say I didn't hated hats!) without commenting first, it gives the same old reminder:
This doesn't reflect Meta - here, you can downvote to disagree. This might be misleading ...
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Who ever reads my custom message when rejecting an edit?
Sometimes we reject an edit for reasons not covered by the list given. Then I always give my reasons in the custom field. However ever since we need two approvals for an edit it happens that other ...
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Make the 'main' link more visible
Can we have a significant 'Back to Ask Ubuntu' link in meta? It took me a while to find the tiny little 'main' link.
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Transferring ownership of a question
Often enough, by the time I get a reasonable answer to a question, I've already worked around it or upgraded software far past the problem (e.g. I don't even own this camera anymore.) That puts me in ...
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“Splitting” an answer [closed]
Feature request: It would be nice if some time in the future we could accept multiple answers per question. (You don't need to read the rest)
Recently I asked a question about converting ...
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There is no Shell Tag?
There does not appear to be a "shell" tag! I realize that AskUbuntu is fairly GUI and newbie oriented but having no tag for one of the landmarks of Unix and Linux systems is frankly ridiculous.
I am ...
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How to search in the favorite questions in AskUbuntu account?
I m starting to have lot of favorite questions in my AskUbuntu account.
So it takes me some time to search and find a Question in my favorites.
knowing that these questions have tags (like ATI, ...
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Why is the upvote/downvote count hidden from everybody with <1000
I'm wondering why the upvote/downvote count is hidden from everybody with less than One Thousand Reputation. This seems fairly arbitrary, and is really useless in the end, as scrutiny of the person's ...
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Forcing “leavers” to accept an answer
Something I have noticed a lot is that new users with 1 rep ask a question and never appear on the site again. Good answers are posted, but the question stays "unanswered" forever. Often, these are ...
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Will Ask Ubuntu become a Unity WebApp? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Ask Ubuntu support the unity webapps feature?
One of the new features in Ubuntu 12.10 is WebApp support for certain websites. In this way, sites can be pulled up in ...
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Can people with low rep (<300) at leaste suggest tags without asking someone else to create them?
I noticed that the tag which relates to my question isn't available and I can't create it coz of low rep. So like editing tag wikis, can we have suggesting tags so that we don't have to wait till we ...
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Stackoverflow question migration
Growing number of posts on SO are related to installation of IDEs, libraries and programming tools on Ubuntu. Some of them might be a fit for Serverfault but they are usually far too easy to be ...
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Should the overlay or tooltip text for voting arrows be changed?
Right now, the text that pops up when you hover the pointer over the voting arrows is identical to the main site, like this:
Problem is, the text that pops up when you hover over the vote ...
