Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Not receiving answers. What steps can I take?
My previous post: https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/20553/bounty-on-my-question has been closed with the following feedback:
Asking for responses to questions with a bounty on them is NOT the ...
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What is the difference between CW and UW? [duplicate]
Community Wiki answers goes to CW but not to Ubuntu Wiki UW
What is the difference between these two websites?
I'm a bit confused on how Wiki works.
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What is happening to AskUbuntu main site?
Since yesterday, https://askubuntu.com/ is in read only mode most of the times. Any idea about the problem and why it is not resolved yet?
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Tag for questions related to Ubuntu EOL
I posted a question about some specifics about Ubuntu EOL at Ubuntu end of life: will snap applications still receive updates?
I wasn't sure how to tag this because it isn't specific to a single ...
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Edit queue seems permanently blocked
Many Ask Ubuntu posts are in dire need of editing for basic grammar and clarity. I have the time and the ability to do just that for free. Yet for some reason there is a limit to the daily edits. Why? ...
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How to format commands
How do I format any system commands or system messages correctly as in
sudo apt-get update
I see that kind of codes with a grey background and I understood earlier that such things have to be ...
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Are we supposed to ask Linux Mint questions here?
I understand Mint and Ubuntu are different distributions, but I've heard Mint described as Ubuntu based. Where is the best place to ask Mint questions?
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Why does my question get locked by on Askubuntu? No apparant reason other than a bully moderator
I am experiencing this unhelpful behaviour accross this community of forums related to stack exchange and stack overflow
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Can we have an integrated filter to detect AI generated content?
Recently, a user generated 10 answers within 45 minutes, and by the formatting they seemed to be all AI generated.
Incidentally, the user asked a genuine question last month, so this is most likely a ...
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Is there a chatroom or a place where we can send our problems about 24.04?
I do not need the problem to be solved immediately, was thinking about getting more info about which logs, how to get them and where to send em.
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Why is there a cap on the maximum number of questions per day for non newbie users?
Right now, a user cannot ask more than 6 questions per 24 hours. While this is an effective method to prevent spam, can we increase this for users with higher reputation (say, those with more than 50 ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 24.04 (a.k.a. Noble Numbat) is now released. As of "Thu Apr 25 15:20:52 UTC 2024", posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still need to meet the other ...
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What action should be done to questions in different language [duplicate]
While reviewing the questions, I came across questions that are asked in different languages other than English like this. Since AskUbuntu is an English-only platform, we can let the OP know that the ...
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Wonder why I got downvoted?
It is about this post How come Gnome developers consider Ubuntu 22.04 too old to take up bug reports regarding it?, it shows -1 I wonder why and why in my setting it shows -2?
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Why has my upvoted answer about xz been silently deleted?
On 24/03/30, a question was posted, whether the backdoor in xz is affecting Ubuntu:
Is Ubuntu affected by the xz backdoor compromise?
I answered few hours later and received 5 upvotes.
My answer was ...
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UI has been changed?
I have just noticed that the menu has been improved:
Are there other improvements, if any?
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Let's organize some chat workshops
Some of y'all may remember that way back in the mists of time, we celebrated Ask Ubuntu's 10th birthday with some chat-based workshops. That was pretty cool.
The other day Artur Meinild mentioned that ...
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"You have too many pending edits"
I know what this means, but it has been like that for about 24 hours. Only once one of my edits was acknowledged, and then this message again. Are there so many pending edits that people are not being ...
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What does the site look like to a moderator? (2.0)
What does the site look like to a moderator?
Has anything changed from 12 years ago?
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What does this symbol mean?
Really not about Ubuntu, but I have recently noticed some people using this symbol <3 on Ask Ubuntu and Ask Ubuntu Meta. What does it mean? Is it some secret code that only certain people ...
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
What to do when there are two different questions but they can be solved with the same answer (such as "What is 3 + 1" and "What is 2 + 2")?
Look at this question:
Icons from my ...
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When is the next moderator election?
Recently an election took place on Stack Overflow.
When is the next moderator election on Ask Ubuntu scheduled?
What are the intervals between elections?
Where and when can I participate in the ...
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How to bring more attention to a non-duplicate
My question on Ask Ubuntu was flagged as duplicate. The post that was said to be my dupe did not apply to my circumstances, so I edited my question and voted for its reopening.
How many votes do I ...
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Do we support [language-support]?
We have a language-support tag which has the following guidance:
Questions related to the language support provided by Ubuntu.
We also have a language tag which has the following guidance:
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Why can't we edit comments?
I posted a comment, and I can't edit it anymore. Why?
We can edit questions, even after a while.
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About a post in AskUbuntu that received a downvote
Yesterday I posted in Ask Ubuntu a question about dnsmasq, and it was a large post with all important details, what I have tried already, the error messages, and it became really long - more than I ...
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Is this the best place to ask complex questions?
I've somehow fried my pc trying to install ubuntu and have a lot to write to describe symptoms, etc. Is this where people do that kind of thing or is there somewhere less official where people go for ...
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Goodbye Gunnar Hjalmarsson 1958.10.06 - 2023.12.20
The Ask Ubuntu Community has lost a long time contributor from its ranks of esteemed contributors with the recent death of Gunnar Hjalmarsson. Gunnar was a highly valued contributor to Ask Ubuntu for ...
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If I have useful information to add to an answer, why do I need reputation to post it and how do I get it?
I was able to figure out some useful details to a question that was asked about the .epub format...but when I wanted to share what I found (which was not in the answers), I can't because of the ...
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How to see the user's reputation graph?
My browser displays the user reputation in the user's Activity page without a graph:
How can I display the user reputation with a graph, as shown in the image below?
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Do 'Read the man pages...' type comments and answers have a place on Ask Ubuntu?
In consultation with the Ask Ubuntu Community I would like to have some discussion and ideally a firm policy on how we should deal with Answers or Comments that invite people to find their own answers ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Add option to close vote because it is an XY problem?
I recently saw a question where the user asked where to buy "Samsung Magician software" for GNU/Linux. A quick google search shows that it is a software for health checkup and performance ...
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Is it againt the rules
Is it against the rules to post answers that solve problems without using the command line?
I posted an answer here, but apparently solving a problem using Synaptic Package Manager is unacceptable.
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Getting asked for two-step verification code, but I'm not getting notification on my phone or email
I have an account, however, when I go to login, it asks for the two-step verification code and I don't think I ever set that up. If I did, I'm not getting it on my phone or on my email account.
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Should I be able to change my vote if an answer becomes outdated? Or should I take another action?
Some time ago I found an answer which I had found useful and upvoted.
Recently I bumped into the same issue again and, trying to apply the steps from the answer, I found that the solution is now ...
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Why is downvoting a question or answer without a explanation acceptable?
My title says it all. Yes, I know this has been asked before.
Allow me to break it down to the basic Ask Ubuntu core values. According to the Tour page, one should:
Improve posts by editing or ...
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Are we gradually losing our most active members?
This is the maximum year-wise reputation obtained by a user so far.
2011: 31,002 (fossfreedom)
2012: 43,677 (ish)
2013: 27,938 (Radu Rădeanu)
2014: 37,417 (Oli)
2015: 58,133 (A.B.)
2016: 36,112 (...
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How to get an e-mail notification when I get a new answer or comment at my question?
How can I get an e-mail if a question of mine in Ask Ubuntu gets a new answer?
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Notifying users about the policy on AU concerning AI-generated content
We have an opportunity to increase awareness of the Ask Ubuntu prohibition on AI-generated content. Currently we have only two active notification areas:
AI-generated content is not permitted on Ask ...
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Should we put [wallpaper] to the [background] (or vice-versa)?
We have the wallpaper and background tags. The tag excerpt of the first says:
For questions regarding the image displayed on the desktop background.
The tag excerpt of the second says:
Questions ...
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Improvements to Ask Ubuntu or wiki, help
I am constantly frustrated by the amount of out of date information or misleading information given in a question:answer(s) format. I call this "Fubar disinformation" which can lead you ...
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Close votes etiquette
I recently earned the privilege to close and reopen votes. I am ecstatic that I earned this privilege. It is of course, my intention to do all I can to improve AU website. There are some legitimate ...
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Can we remove the [ubuntu22.04] tag?
We already have a 22.04 tag. I guess someone accidentally created the ubuntu22.04 tag. Shall we delete it?
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Can we fix this tag or should we just [uninstall]?
It's been asked about before and asked about again but it seems like the large uninstall tag is still a bit of a miscellany, with the majority of questions in it being about uninstalling software, ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 is now on-topic!
Ubuntu 23.10 (https://releases.ubuntu.com/mantic) is now released and is on topic.
As usual, posts still must meet the normal requirements for being on-topic, though.
Additionally, please refrain from ...
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When was the option "Needs improvement" added to the flag dialog?
It's the first time I see this option:
When was this option added? And do you have any opinion on whether we should prefer this as a "flag" rather than VTC with "Needs detail or ...
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Let's NOT participate in the one-rep voting experiment
On September 19th, 2023, SE announced that a few Stack Exchange sites would be participating in an experiment where one-rep users (with registered accounts) could cast both upvotes and downvotes.
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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 ...
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Do we have a canonical question about custom resolutions with Wayland?
I just saw yet another question about why xrandr isn't working to add a custom resolution after updating the OS, and I think we should have a canonical question about this.
Do we have a comprehensive ...
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