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-5 votes
3 answers
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What is this ridiculous "reputation" system? [duplicate]

I cannot upvote or comment, makes this entire site worthless... What can I do to fix this?
Craig Cooper's user avatar
2 votes
4 answers
165 views

How do I improve my reputation if I can generally find answers to the questions that I have? [duplicate]

I'm generally pretty self-sufficient, and the Ask Ubuntu database is pretty full. So I can generally find the answers to the questions that I'm looking for. However, I would still like to contribute,...
syserss's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
267 views

How to earn points as an Ubuntu noob? [duplicate]

I've been a member of Ask Ubuntu for over 2.5 years, but because I'm always fighting with Ubuntu, I only ever have questions and never any answers. However, all questions I have are already asked. ...
Mark Jeronimus's user avatar
2 votes
3 answers
222 views

Reputation: How do I get the minimum necessary points in askUbuntu to get started? [duplicate]

This is a sort of catch22 situation, I am not allowed to vote, or do anything, because i need points. In order to comment, i need 50 points. to Vote up, 15 points. I know after this question someone ...
thebugfinder's user avatar
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0 votes
2 answers
60 views

Can't thumb up my favorite answers? [duplicate]

I find lots of good answers on this forum but can't thumb them up because of missing reputation. Comments also are prohibited. Could someone just help me with that so I could reward my HEROES ! So how ...
Anatol Bivol's user avatar
-1 votes
1 answer
119 views

How does one gain reputation on Stack Exchange and similar sites? [duplicate]

If one knows hardly anything and thus cannot answer others' questions, how can one gain reputation? I am new and it seems all of the questions are too advanced for me to answer. Edit: The link you ...
user642832's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
65 views

How to get reputation points so I can comment, vote, answer? [duplicate]

So I love this site. Usually I find an answer right away. But sometimes I do find another solution or simply want to comment on instructions and what I had to do perhaps differently because of my ...
dubfactor's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
73 views

How do I get "reputation" on this site? [duplicate]

Every time I try to do anything on this site I apparently lack the reputation required to do it. (Add a comment, vote up a comment that worked well for me, trying to add a tag to ask this question... ...
Reluctant_Linux_User's user avatar
-8 votes
2 answers
86 views

How do I earn reputation points the fastest? [duplicate]

So I've got 15-ish years of exp on everything webdev/js/ts, but no reputation. I see questions asked where I would really be able to contribute with a good answer but I can't because ... no reputation ...
Ioan Alferaru's user avatar
71 votes
2 answers
8k views

How does Ask Ubuntu work?

We're in an odd situtation as Stack Exchange has long-established communities and so has Ubuntu. We need to ensure that we communicate best practices to the existing Ubuntu teams. How do Ask Ubuntu ...
23 votes
3 answers
519 views

What should I do when I find an answer that damages my system but I don't have enough reputation to comment on it?

I found an answer that not only didn't work for me, but it also removed a whole bunch of unrelated stuff that now I now need to find a way to reinstall. I just want to add a comment under the ...
Paparazio's user avatar
15 votes
3 answers
416 views

Contributing as a new member in this mature StackExchange site

So, I am relatively new to Ubuntu (a couple years) and completely new to this site as a registered user. I have found lots of good information here before, but just now did I find something to ...
O8h7w's user avatar
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1 vote
2 answers
138 views

How can I reply to a user?

I want to ask a question to a user on Ask Ubuntu, but I don't understand how to do it. There is no email, no nothing. Can you tell me how to do it?
Dan Norris's user avatar
-8 votes
2 answers
121 views

remove one question every 20 minutes limit

Please remove the ridiculous 20 minute wait time for each additional question. I often have more than one question and do not see any reason to waste time. You are disrespecting the members of this ...
Mike Peterson's user avatar
8 votes
1 answer
73 views

Who are the people responsible for the direction, decisions and development of AskUbuntu?

Although I'm relatively new to using AskUbuntu, I have, at times, wanted to contact the "leaders" responsible for the direction, decisions and development of AskUbuntu (ie. who decides the "official ...
TJK's user avatar
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3 votes
2 answers
87 views

How to make questions noticeable without bounty?

I have asked 2 questions in askubuntu. I beleive both are genuine enough and are binding to the 'rules' of askubuntu. But the questions are barely getting noticed. I even got the tumbleweed badge for ...
Venkatesh's user avatar
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-1 votes
1 answer
76 views

Answer locked and downvoted?

I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: Hitting arrow keys adds characters in vi editor I edited my post with an suitable answer that instead of the other answers solves the real issue behind the ...
kitingChris's user avatar
-2 votes
1 answer
70 views

Problem of vote restriction

Just wanted, you know that, usually amateur users read answers, not Experts. Amateurs don't post answers so their credit never increase. So those who read and test answers cannot vote for successful ...
M-E-Activist's user avatar