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What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific
I don't exactly know why this is the case anyway, but I have quite often seen new questions with the above title ('What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific') as the person asking the question cannot ...
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Detecting the language a question is written in
It would be great if the system could detect the language of a question, and pop up a little notice:
Please note that this site is in English only
Your question will be flagged for moderator ...
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Can we create a "template question"
Some users (especially first time users) ask completely rubbish questions, such as https://askubuntu.com/questions/486830/wi-fi-on-ubuntu-14-04-hp-g70-laptop, they say "unfortunately wi-fi is not ...
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Deny cross-posting, but enable site-sharing?
I know cross-posting (writing the same question on more than one SE site) is discouraged and should not be done. I also see the reason for this and agree, but sometimes it is indeed not clear where a ...
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Can the barriers to posting be shown before the human verification?
It's quite frustrating to prove I'm a human right before being told that I'm not allowed to post for x and y reasons.. why not wait to check that I'm a human until after verifying it's ok to post?
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Can we require that questions contain a question mark to nudge users to ask explicit questions?
During review I come across “question” posts that don't actually contain a question. In some cases the question is implied in a statement. In either case it would be better to have an explicit ...
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Comes ask Ubuntu in different languages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any plans for localized Ask Ubuntu instances?
I am native speaking german. Would be great to have this site in my language.
What should I do?
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Could we add on the 'about' page that questions should be edited to provide more information?
On both the about page it is explained how the site works. To my eyes, this should include that a user asking question should edit his post to improve it if some other users are asking clarification ...
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Give users a hint not to ask multiple questions at once
I've seen a couple of questions which actually were multiple questions at once. It's not only hard to answer if you don't know the answers to all of them, but also difficult for the questioner to ...
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Why I am asked if I am a human being each time to be told that it has not been 20 minutes yet?
Sometime, I would like to create questions for a few issues. Since I don't have enough reputation, when I submit the second question, I am told to wait 20 minutes. The page does not tell up when ...
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Automated prompt for system details
Could there be a system that, for certain tags, like freeze, or crash, gives a friendly prompt to the user to give details like the output of lspci or the Xorg logs before the question is posted, but ...
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ask for system specifications when asking a questions
I thought it might improve the question quality when you ask a question below the question form there is a form asking for your systems specifications. For example version of Ubuntu running, laptop ...
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We should have an anti-spam filter at the 'Ask a question' stage
We have about 20 to 40 spam posts a day. Why shouldn't there be a feature to prevent this?
Some ideas as to how we can do this:
Search for words, and if post matches... (I've found the most common ...
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Query for Basic information
I feel like every second question lacks the basic information about flavour, release and architecture, so I ask myself:
Why don't we just ask the users to give the output of echo $DESKTOP_SESSION, ...
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Why not moderate questions from new users before making them visible on site?
I had suggested before also that questions from new users should not be posted directly on the site rather they should be moderated first and they should be visible to only users with high reputation (...
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