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Modify close reason banner and create an "Off-Topic Compass" site on Meta?
I have answered Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner with a proposal which got a positive feedback, so I'm now writing it as separate feature request here:
Make a more flexible and ...
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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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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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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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Can I opt-out from receiving notifications from a particular post?
What are the default text editors in different flavours of Ubuntu?
I asked the above question today, received some great answers, accepted an answer. And it solved the initial problem that I had plus ...
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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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Notifications review optimization
I'm just curious about review feature on Ask Ubuntu. For example when you finish 20 suggested edits then it tells you to come back in 5-8 hours etc. but still keep pushing notifications on available ...
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Should we be able to review 40 close votes when the queue length is less than 1000?
I recently asked this question on Meta
Close Vote review queue 40 or 20?
Regarding why on some days I have been able to review 40 close reviews but on others only 20 and received the answer that ...
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Stack Exchange special links in answers
I've noticed that such quick links as [unix.se] for example work beautifully when posted as comments and when posted in Ask Ubuntu General chat room, but as you can see they don't work in question ...
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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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Show asker AND editor
This is a suggestion: when we have the list of questions on screen, we can see below each of them the name of the asker, unless it has been editted by someone, situation in which we can read the name ...
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Add launchpad quick link
For the comments we have lots of links, such as [se] and [ubuntu.se].
Here is a list of requested redirects, from me and the comments:
[launchpad] goes to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu and shows as ...
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Get notified about AU Twitter bot tweeting my questions - feature request
I was recently reading this and I understand that the AU (I assume that there are either other Twitter bots on other SE sites or that this is not an AU Twitter bot, but rather just a general SE one?) ...
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Should we have a "Culture Tour"?
The Welcome Tour takes new users through the mechanics of the SE sites.
Should we have an additional tour that explains key behaviours that are expected of the AskUbuntu community?
Things like:
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Preformatted text horizontal scrolling - bug or feature?
AskUbuntu help recommend to style pre-formatted text and console output with
#four spaces
But sometimes it results in scrolling text. See this question as an example. The problematic line (as ...
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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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Should bounties expire? How can I promote my bountied question even more?
Why are bounties time bound? Clearly the site doesn't get enough traffic to ensure that in 7 days the appropriate users (who specialize in the domain of the question) would have stopped by Ask Ubuntu ...
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Being able to see deleted answers
I've seen in the past questions on the meta dealing with case specific problems that have been very intriguing, yet to find out that the linked question had been deleted resulting in the "Page not ...
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Why are there a limited amount of close votes for high rep users?
I am a reasonable high rep user and have been around for some time now, and even though both of those are the case I still have a limited amount of close votes I can cast (40), why is this? Surely the ...
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Why can't you vote on a question once you have retracted your vote?
Once you have voted on a question, and then retracted your vote, you are unable to cast another vote, why is this? Because for instance I could VTC something as unclear, but then when they update it I ...
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Review possible improvement
For reviewing I always try to leave a comment if there needs to be improvement, expansion, etc. I have been reviewing a lot of vague (new) posts recently. I do not want to downvote a potentially "good"...
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50 Reputation on comments is too much? Add new function to suggest?
I have low reputation as you see. And the problem i see with this is, that when i try to troubleshoot someone's question that requires some active or continuous communication, or a suggestion like "...
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Why doesn't our chat have easter eggs
Iv'e seen Root Access'es Clippy egg...
I have seen Arquade minigame egg...
I have also seen rm -rf / on Serverfault chat...
BUT WHAT I HAVENT SEEN IS...
ASKUBUNTU EGGS.
Why can't we have a unique ...
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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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