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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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Can we please ban unrelated programming questions?
This issue has been discussed in the past: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5695/why-was-a-purely-programming-related-question-not-moved-closed
But I disagree with Andrea Corbellini because I ...
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Questions with too little information
I can understand that its a community as we need to bear with the OPs and support them guiding with the information/solutions, etc. Nevertheless, I'm really fed-up commenting on posts each time ...
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Should Users with only 1 reputation (Or with only 1 question/answer) be deleted after 30 days without a login?
Should Users with only 1 reputation be deleted after 30 days without a login? Because It would keep the site cleaner and There must be hundreds - thousands Of dead users that did use their account ...
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Activate migration paths to Unix and Linux, should we?
First of all, lets remember the golden rule of the migrations:
DO NOT MIGRATE CRAP
That said, why don't we open the migration paths from AU and UL? There has been 10 migrations to UL in the last ...
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If the comment appears to be an answer how should I behave?
I need a bit more extended information on how should I behave in these situations to reduce unanswered amount of questions like:
if the comment appears to be an answer provided by me and the user ...
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Time zone of user in profile as optional field
Some users put their timezone with location. For example India (GMT+5:30). It helps other to understand availability of an user.
Can it be an optional field in user profile?
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Closing the off-topic and duplicate questions with bounty
There are some questions which has bounty, but are clearly off-topic or are duplicates of another question.
e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/411887/unicode-fonts-are-not-displayed-correctly-in-...
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Can the tag suggestion help-text be changed?
At present the tag suggestion help-text is (note the 11.04):
at least one tag such as (11.04 networking command-line), max 5 tags
This is problematic for two reasons:
it encourages people to ...
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Restrictions on setting up the profile picture
Some new users like him setting up some sexy or adultary photos as their profile picture.This SE site was not only viewed by adults but also by the minors.
So my question is that SE provides any ...
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Downvoting answers (or questions) without a reason? [duplicate]
I cannot understand why this even allowed here. I mean, is this a game or something ? I can see everywhere downvoting questions and answers without a specific reason. I would like to see this stopped, ...
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Are the new SE bar's colors able to be modified?
I'm looking at the new SE Bar, and while it is indeed spiffy, its colors clash a little with both meta AND the main site's styles.
Is it possible for the SE bar to have customized color pallets for ...
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Alert sound for new messages
Is it possible to set alert sound for new incomming messages and notifications associated with my Ask Ubuntu account?
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Is there a page which teaches a user how to edit his question?
I need a cool-down after this question.
I wish there was a page which teaches a new user how to add information to his question. I couldn't find anything in the about or help page.
This would allow ...
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is there a inline editor option available?
When am editing a large Q or A, I find it to be extremely annoying to edit something, and then have to browse/find that edit.
Q: Is there a inline editor option available for the 'stack exchange ...
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Can we synonymize clone and cloning?
Can we synonymize clone and cloning?
They are basically the same thing. Both are being used for questions about cloning machines (desktops and servers), or cloning hard drives. clone is the one being ...
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Should Canonical employees have special badges?
I've been reading some questions where the answer was given by an employee of Canonical, the company sponsoring Ubuntu. I thought it would be a good idea if users who are employees of Canonical (or ...
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Where is the number of questions which have an open bounty?
I used to see a number of questions which have an open bounty in FEATURED tab. Now it has disappeared. Why? Again I have to do a patchwork to this site?
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would be possible to change the layout of suggested questions?
I find the layout of the "Questions that may already have your answer" a bit confusing. I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to restyle it a bit.
This is the current layout with my notes:
This ...
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Require obligatory user registration! [duplicate]
Ok, I'm mad... why? because users that need to use Live sessions use the cookie registration, etc... then when that live session is deleted because they restart, reinstall, re... whatever, we get 2, 3,...
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Can we get a notice that questions we answered were merged?
Only by chance I came across a merged question I had answered twice:
What is a "bad quality" package?
This is not really what we want. One answer may be better than the other, or worse, ...
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How to know if the question asker got his query resolved if he doesnt mark it as solved?
Sometimes the question ansker just sees the answer, but doesnt bother to reply or to mark an answer as solved.What should be done in that case?
Is there any way to know whether
an answer that one ...
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Ubuntu Edge Crowd Funding Ad
How can we add an Ad about the Ubuntu Edge Crowd Funding to Askubuntu. It can help the cause in raising the said amount.
Link: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
Something like this (BTW ...
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Are people getting "rep shy"? || About "commentswers"
I keep bumping into questions with perfectly good answers that are not marked as accepted or can't even be marked nor voted because they're in comments. Even if you politely ask the "commentswerer" to ...
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Why aren't there any gold tag badge(s)?
As title says, why aren't there any gold tag badges in this site? I've seen gold tag badge on other SE family sites.
Also in meta site.
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Often used off-topic close reasons, more default reasons for off-topic?
Now that we have new close reasons I noticed that sites have custom off-topic reasons.
The site allready has reasons for bugs and "not Ubuntu".
But, the major one I see missing is End of Life ...
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Add "Minix" tag proposal
I asked a question (Use Minix Filesystem on Ubuntu 13.04 (Kernel 3.8)) concerning the Minix filesystem. Would it be a good idea for someone to add a "Minix" tag, or should we wait for more Minix-...
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Code formatting from new site design changes simply annoys me
The new background for a code sample makes that this to be difficult to distinguish towards a normal text:
Maybe for some screens it's ok, but not for the majority. Many times I have to change the ...
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Should reputation be reduced over time, when a user is inactive?
I'm wondering if reputation decay when a user is inactive, maybe users contribute more? Is this a motivation or not? Will this have the positive results (more contribution) or will have the opposite?
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Is it really useful to feed posts already edited into the review "first posts" queue?
I have been presented with posts in the first posts queue which have already been edited by high rep users (who should know what they are doing :-)).
That is no big problem but seeing that this queue ...
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Should the site get a facelift?
Recently, well, maybe not too recently, we saw the Ubuntu homepage get a new look. Linked here. I'm also throwing an image below comparing the two if you don't want to go through the trouble of ...
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Why don't we improve the design of the link to the about page?
I'm a user of Ask Ubuntu for more than 11 months, and just today I noticed the about page.
To be honest, I didn't think that such great content would be in such a little link.
This page is very ...
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Shouldn't the change of user name be signalled to all people who posted in relation to the former name?
People change their names from X to Y, but their older name is mentioned in answers and comments (like "as X explained in his answer" - while there's no link to the answer that now is signed by Y).
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Allow for more than 2 links for <10 rep [closed]
Links are helpful, I can't be as helpful as I could if I were allowed to post more than 2 links.
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Meta editing-help should mention "paragraph breaks"
If I don't overlook something obvious meta.askubuntu.com/editing-help does not mention paragraph breaks at all. Neither
how they are considered useful instead of wasting space nor
how one creates ...
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Could we get a better example question for the new /about?
As some have already seen, the /about page on main has changed dramatically. It's fancy now with all the moving parts and visual examples, but there is one thing that feels kinda odd about it.
The ...
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Is "internet" a synonym of "internet-connection"?
Well, basically: Their tag wikis say the same, I see no other application for internet than for internet-connection and I don't see why we need to split the whole tag-system around connections into ...
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Who ever reads my custom message when rejecting an edit?
Sometimes we reject an edit for reasons not covered by the list given. Then I always give my reasons in the custom field. However ever since we need two approvals for an edit it happens that other ...
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"Splitting" an answer [closed]
Feature request: It would be nice if some time in the future we could accept multiple answers per question. (You don't need to read the rest)
Recently I asked a question about converting ...
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How to search in the favorite questions in AskUbuntu account?
I m starting to have lot of favorite questions in my AskUbuntu account.
So it takes me some time to search and find a Question in my favorites.
knowing that these questions have tags (like ATI, Wine, ...
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Why is the upvote/downvote count hidden from everybody with <1000
I'm wondering why the upvote/downvote count is hidden from everybody with less than One Thousand Reputation. This seems fairly arbitrary, and is really useless in the end, as scrutiny of the person's ...
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Forcing "leavers" to accept an answer
Something I have noticed a lot is that new users with 1 rep ask a question and never appear on the site again. Good answers are posted, but the question stays "unanswered" forever. Often, these are ...
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Stackoverflow question migration
Growing number of posts on SO are related to installation of IDEs, libraries and programming tools on Ubuntu. Some of them might be a fit for Serverfault but they are usually far too easy to be ...
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AskUbuntu Chat Starring mechanism
I have been quite startled by the people starring messages in the chat without a proper reason and they just remove it a minute later. I want to suggest a mechanism: When actually 2 or 3 (2 makes more ...
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Add Unix and Linux to the off topic menu
Sometimes I come across questions that I believe to be better suited on the Unix and Linux StackExchange site. E.g. How can I set up radius authentication properly? .
When using the flag as off ...
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Should our FAQs be updated to better define 'Ubuntu +1' topicality?
Our FAQs clearly define questions about upcoming releases as off-topic:
This is not the right place for:
Issues with the next version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu+1) (More information about Alpha ...
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Would it make sense to prolong bounty time limit for large bounties?
There are some annoyances that would require more than just a casual google or from the top of the head answer. Some questions and problems require effort in answering, and the bounty system helps ...
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Can we reword the Too Localized close reason?
The close reason for Too Localized currently reads as:
This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an ...
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Does Ask Ubuntu support the unity webapps feature?
I am hoping omgubuntu.co.uk while writing this aricle list of websites that supports unity's webapps feature they simply forgot to put askubuntu on that list.... but just in case
does askubuntu ...
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Would adding a beginners section to this site make it easier to use?
I have been using Ask for a while now, but have noticed a problem, there are many spam questions, if you will.
To clarify my meaning if you search the site for things like "how to burn a live CD" or "...
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