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Clean-Up Week - Event planning
We (your moderators) have been mulling over an idea for a good way to deal with old, unanswered and unanswerable posts. We've been in discussion with the StackExchange team and while we're a long way ...
OliMod
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Shouldn't Stack Exchange build a Question Wizard? (for beginning users)
Proposal to have all users under 30 reputation follow a question wizard.
Some people just don't use google and they ask questions that have been asked before or they ask unclear question, or off-...
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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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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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Migration Paths?
Migration paths allow for questions to be moved from Ask Ubuntu to other sites in the Stack Exchange network. The idea is that rather than simply closing questions as being "off-topic", then the ...
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Sorting out SOLVED for good
I came across this question whilst rapidly browsing earlier - the OP added "SOLVED: " to the title, but did add vaguely how they got the answer but did not accept it.
Searching for other people doing ...
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We should be able to vote to change the close reason
I have seen many times when a question for instance is closed as off-topic, though in fact it should be closed as unclear, and is not off-topic though some may think so, but the change reason stays ...
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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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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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Can we warn new users that questions about Kali Linux, Pop OS and so on are off topic when they attempt to ask a new question?
We get a lot of questions about Linux Mint, Kali Linux, Pop OS, and other distributions. Most likely, new users do not read all the rules in the help center before asking their first question.
Can we ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Question Template in Help Center
Similar to Can we create a "template question", but not exactly the same.
While I do like the idea of having some sort of default "guided question" feature (where the user could switch to ...
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The duplicate question search engine while closing a question is not useful
Whenever I try to close a question as duplicate, a floating window pops up which is a mini search engine to find duplicate question.
But it is never helpful(except in exceptional cases). For example, ...
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Broken links starting with http://%20https://
An edit suggestion like this pretty often appears in the review queue.
These edits are generally fixing http://%20https:// to https://. (%20 means an escaped space in URLs.)
Does anyone know why ...
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Can we have a community blog?
Can we also have an AskUbuntu community blog like superuser.com?
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Should we apturl whenever possible?
It seems that apt: doesn't work here,but there is a proxy for these type of sites
just provide apt.ubuntu.com/p/package_name
Should we use it(easy,fast and user friendly) or the traditional software ...
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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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Can we burninate [hardware-recommendation]?
The help center says:
Questions that you should avoid:
Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04), budgie-remix (16.04 and 16.10) and other Linux distributions (try our ...
ZannaMod
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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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Are the official Ubuntu Base images for ARM on topic in Ask Ubuntu?
Canonical hosts Ubuntu Base images for ARM and other architectures. These are minimal root file system images. After installing them, one can install desktop environments and use GUI with VNC on the ...
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Please disable displaying a tag at the start of page titles
I'm sure many of us have noticed this recent change across all Stack Exchange site, where the most popular tag is displayed at the front of page titles (as displayed in search engines, and in the ...
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Isn't it time to review the algorithm for letting good answers flow to the top?
I'm pretty sure that back in 2008 when Stack Overflow was created it made perfect sense to have an answer be "accepted" as that was the way forums were (and some still are) run: you ask the OP to ...
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Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner
This banner:
could now include the Elementary OS site.
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Should we add the SE network OSS ads?
Stack Overflow offers free, vote based ads for open source projects. They seem to refresh them regularly, here's the latest thread for this iteration.
I tried 2 experiments when they opened this time ...
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Make it possible to retract flags on comments
I have noticed that if I mistakenly flag a comment, I am not able to retract the flag afterwards. I think it would be a good feature to add the possibility to retract flags on comments.
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Would a off-topic tag warning be a good-idea? [duplicate]
Here on Ask Ubuntu we have quite a lot of tags for various Linux distributions/Operating Systems/things that could be off-topic if specific about them:
debian, mint, fedora, crunchbang, windows, ...
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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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Could a suggestion appear when users type a non-question title?
A problem
Looking at titles on the Newest Questions page today, I'm not seeing many questions:
"I have two top panels in Ubuntu for some reason"
"Performance Test Software"
"Feedback for 11.10"
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Should we target Social Media?
Update
This project as been added to GitHub the current planning board is on PivotalTracker
With the recent addition of this question: Gwibber and OAuthcalypse I began realizing an opportunity to ...
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Google Code Prettify support for Ask Ubuntu?
Reading this answer I've realized that we don't have Google Code Prettify support on Ask Ubuntu like we have on Stack Overflow.
Since we agreed that we welcome Ubuntu development questions I think we ...
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Regarding the influx of 16.04 questions
First off, I know that having a rush of questions for a late-development release is nothing new. It's just that I'm somewhat new and only just noticing this.
Recently, I've seen a lot of 16.04 ...
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Suggested edits queue "Reject and Edit" reason
How come I can't give a reason when I select "Reject and Edit"?
I want to give a reason to the user to help them improve. Usually I end up selecting "Reject", going to the post link and separately ...
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Tag synonym request: [library]->[libraries]
library has 15 posts, and libraries also has 15 posts. They should be merged into libraries, as both tags have fairly similar questions about missing libaries.
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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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Stack Exchange chat via Pidgin, Empathy, etc?
Is there any way to connect to Stack Exchange chat rooms in Pidgin or Empathy or a different chat program?
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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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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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Ask Ubuntu Review Tasks (beta)
I think that the new Review Tasks is an excellent idea to clean the system of duplicates, dead questions, low quality, etc.
I have noticed while reviewing, that some answers have already been ...
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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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How to defend against negative incorrect votes
I have received a negative vote today for no apparent reason (Sorry for my English written skill, am from Venezuela) and i was wondering is there some kind of anti vote system that checks or at least ...
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Add a reply option for comments
Don't you think that it is a good idea to add a reply button to comments to questions and answers? Most people forget to type @username when replying which makes the person who made the previous ...
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Suggested improvements to "Markdown help" and formatting help
On Ask Ubuntu we have a lot of questions and answers that include multiple lines of terminal output which is best handled by using code fences. Without formatting, this information is difficult to ...
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LQ Review: Add canned delete comment for link-only within askubuntu.com (should have been flagged as duplicate)
Within the last weeks, I reviewed a growing number of answers from the Low Quality queue (or spotted them directly on the main site) that basically looked like this:
Follow the answers at askubuntu....
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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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