Questions tagged [closed-questions]
Questions which have been closed for any of the usual reasons.
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Why exactly was my youtube question closed again?
I noticed with amusement that my youtube question from almost a year ago (!!!) was closed today. Our esteemed Mr. Edwards deemed it offtopic. According to him this should rather be a bug report.
I ...
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Should we clean up the 12.04 closed questions?
I've noticed that a bunch of closed questions on 12.04 are clogging up the search column on the related questions for each question, and also are generally all alpha/beta stuff anyway.
Should we make ...
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Closed as exact duplicate -> where is the solution?
Mu question Can I do an install onto a 4GB usb stick which is smaller than the recommended installation size? was closed as exact duplicate with a url to possible duplicate answer.
Currently I have ...
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Question wrongly closed as duplicate
This question comparing the beta and daily-live builds of Ubuntu+1, was closed as an exact duplicate of this question, which is a much more general question, "Are daily builds of Ubuntu stable enough ...
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What to do with questions related to Gimp usage?
I created a question related to Gimp usage, because a few such questions were under the tag Gimp.
My question was closed.
I asked on askubuntu because I'm Ubuntu user. I know that Gimp is multi-...
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Why is hiding GRUB menu too localized?
As per my brother's request, I want to hide the GRUB menu, on his dual-boot machine, only to have it appear when he presses some key. I Googled and found this question, and a few days later I noticed ...
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question about "download[ing] packages for offline installation" incorrectly closed as duplicate
This question has been closed as a duplicate of this question. But I do not believe they are really asking the same thing. I think that the recent question is asked in a way that is unfortunately not ...
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what to do with questions without an owner? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do with abandoned questions?
what is the guidlines for questions without an owner?
Should they be closed?
should they be maintained by anyone?
what's the deal?
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I asked a specific question - it was marked as closed due to "exact duplicate." It's NOT a duplicate?
Today I asked a question about dual-head video cards for Ubuntu 10.04 or 11.04. It was marked as a duplicate and CLOSED, though the link I was directed to provides absolutely NO information about ...
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Reopening of a closed question?
Hi. Recently a question of mine was closed due to being an exact duplicate of this one. While I always skim-through the questions with similar titles, I hadn't thought to search under "microblogging" ...
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Why was question 4389 closed?
This question.
As I understand it, it's just a fun question, quite like the apt-get-from-2020 one. I really can't understand why we accept and upvote one, but not the other. Sure it should be a ...
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Are we too harsh on this one ?
This question is along the lines of favourite emacs shortcut or best video editor or text editor or php/ror editor for ubuntu. Many of them are lingering along nicely as community wiki's without ...
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