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Add to the tour how to use the post formatting tools

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Why is there a staggering amount of unanswered microphone-related questions using ubuntu 20.04?

discussion unanswered-questions

answered 2 days ago Flimm 33.3k

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Should we have a canon dupe for microphone problems?

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answered 2 days ago Flimm 33.3k

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How to pragmatically deal with down-votes on a good question when you are the author of the questions?

discussion downvoting

modified Jan 13 at 18:02 Zanna♦ 61.2k

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Replace 'zoom' tag with 'magnification' (synonymise + merge)?

discussion status-completed tags retag-request

modified Jan 13 at 17:56 Zanna♦ 61.2k

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Cookie consent banner won't stay away

bug cookies

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How should we handle questions from users asking how to brute force passwords or break encryption?

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Merge [meta:down-votes] and [meta:downvoting]

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asked Jan 12 at 10:03 Dan 9,516

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How can we post more questions on Ask Ubuntu without the 40 minute rule? [duplicate]

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modified Jan 9 at 22:49 Rinzwind 251k

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Maintaining canonical posts - how can we improve our most popular questions?

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answered Jan 9 at 4:20 Nmath 3,393

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I accidentally down-voted an answer that I meant to up-vote, and now I can't change it

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answered Jan 6 at 3:25 muru 166k

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Why are the logos from some ubuntu related sites and askubuntu so similar?

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modified Jan 5 at 3:44 muru 166k

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Should such minor question edits actually count and accepted as edits?

discussion review suggested-edits

answered Jan 4 at 15:02 cyqsimon 101

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Can we tell new users that questions about Linux Mint, Pop OS and so on are off topic when they ask any question?

discussion feature-request

modified Jan 1 at 16:45 Archisman Panigrahi 5,950

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Editing (my own) answer without sending the post to the top of the homepage list?

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modified Dec 30 '20 at 20:47 Levente 418

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Can we reopen this question as a special case?

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answered Dec 30 '20 at 15:23 Thomas Ward♦ 59.2k

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Is there a mechanism to disown my own answer?

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answered Dec 30 '20 at 8:51 Kulfy 14.2k

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A custom filter for excluding posts with specific tags?

support tags

modified Dec 28 '20 at 9:33 Dan 9,516

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What's your Ubuntu story?

discussion community ubuntu-community 10th-anniversary

modified Dec 26 '20 at 17:11 BeastOfCaerbannog 5,305

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Why was a question moved from ask ubuntu to the unix linux site

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answered Dec 18 '20 at 15:36 Zanna♦ 61.2k

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Researching references for common Ubuntu problems

discussion

Dec 18 '20 at 10:09 H2ONaCl 8,181

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Edit suggestion was rejected by OP

discussion suggested-edits

answered Dec 18 '20 at 9:45 karel 86.5k

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Should we close questions posted by new users as “needs details or clarity”?

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modified Dec 18 '20 at 7:52 Archisman Panigrahi 5,950

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Suggestion for OP's who ask a question, then never acknowledge any replies

feature-request

answered Dec 17 '20 at 14:20 Edmund 159

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OP rejected my edit and then copy-pasted it

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modified Dec 15 '20 at 15:03 BeastOfCaerbannog 5,305

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How To Provide Terminal Report

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Dec 13 '20 at 2:38 kamyogi 1,078

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Please don't flag link-only answers as Very Low Quality

discussion editing answers flagging

answered Dec 2 '20 at 12:49 muru 166k

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Can I merge my LaunchPad login to this account?

modified Nov 29 '20 at 20:16 Thomas Ward♦ 59.2k

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The 'Raiders of the Lost Downboat' chat room

discussion chat

modified Nov 29 '20 at 13:48 Zanna♦ 61.2k

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When I try to review First Posts, why does it say “No Action Needed”?

support review

modified Nov 26 '20 at 16:34 Dan 9,516

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Review queue false negatives on the new top bar

bug status-bydesign review top-bar

modified Nov 25 '20 at 14:35 Dan 9,516

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The [groovy] tag became ambiguous

discussion status-completed tags

modified Nov 25 '20 at 6:25 Zanna♦ 61.2k

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Community consensus regarding using backticks or 4 spaces for code

discussion editing community code-formatting

answered Nov 24 '20 at 13:40 Melebius 9,607

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Thank you Stefano Palazzo!

discussion community moderators

asked Nov 18 '20 at 18:20 Random Person 841

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Protecting old questions to possibly mitigate low effort answers?

discussion

modified Nov 16 '20 at 20:39 Lorenz Keel 2,110

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Answering a question using an answer from another post

discussion answers

modified Nov 11 '20 at 11:09 Melebius 9,607

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Scheduling lessons for 10th anniversary celebration classroom

discussion community 10th-anniversary

modified Nov 10 '20 at 12:09 Zanna♦ 61.2k

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It feels like one of the moderators is being overly critical of my posts - what can I do?

discussion

modified Nov 9 '20 at 20:24 Catija♦ 103

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Markdown editing commands don't seem to work

discussion markdown

modified Nov 9 '20 at 8:48 Dan 9,516

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What to do about highly rated and accepted answers that are wrong?

discussion support answer-quality

answered Nov 8 '20 at 17:27 Thomas Ward♦ 59.2k

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Flagged a question before I saw it in First Posts review queue. I cannot click “I'm Done”

discussion support bug flags first-posts

asked Nov 7 '20 at 9:44 Random Person 841

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Thank you for celebrating 10 years of Ask Ubuntu!

discussion community 10th-anniversary

modified Nov 4 '20 at 21:34 Dan 9,516

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Happy 10th anniversary to Ask Ubuntu!

discussion community 10th-anniversary

modified Nov 4 '20 at 5:09 Zanna♦ 61.2k

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Should Elementary OS be added to the flag text “This is not about an official Ubuntu flavor.”?

feature-request status-declined close-reasons

modified Nov 2 '20 at 22:55 Thomas Ward♦ 59.2k

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Are “not only Ubuntu-specific” questions on-topic?

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modified Nov 2 '20 at 12:08 Kulfy 14.2k

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Is there a style guide for these Ask Ubuntu lists? [duplicate]

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Oct 30 '20 at 23:01 Yasha Karant 377

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