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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 ...
andrew.46Mod
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Please revert merging amd-graphics tag into ati
there was a post a few months ago about the tag synonym and I just got reminded of if today.
The AMD ATI merger was almost 10 years ago (in 2006) and Wikipedia says AMD stopped using the ATI brand in ...
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Please undo tag synonymizing: gnome-shell -> gnome
GNOME Shell is, ultimately, just one component in the GNOME DE. I can use it without many of the other trappings of GNOME, like GDM or Nautilus. It seems very weird that gnome-panel - a thing of ...
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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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Let's refine and clarify our off-topic close reasons
Recently I have noticed, both as a user and a moderator, a good number of questions either being closed as end-of-life or as a development release when they probably don’t need to be.
Just a few ...
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I need some [help] getting rid of this tag from Ask Ubuntu Meta!
This tag is fully useless IMO. We don't need it.
So... we have a help tag on Meta Ask Ubuntu (NOT the main site). IMO, it is useless. Let's go through the criteria to get rid of it:
Does it describe ...
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Can we *please* blacklist the error tag?
The tag has reappeared two more times again.
The error has reappeared after at lease 2 purges. Can we please blacklist this tag?
Reasons for this have been discussed several times already:
The '...
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Is it okay to set these out on our table at LinuxFest Northwest?
I'll be helping out at the Ubuntu Washington LoCo Team table at LinuxFest Northwest this weekend, and I thought it might be a good opportunity to spread the word about Ask Ubuntu. Is it okay to get ...
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Can we burninate shared?
shared is useless. Just completely and utterly useless.
It doesn't refer to anything currently, is used all over the place (shared folders/shared libraries/shared memory), and has no definition for ...
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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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Merge [resolution] into [something-resolution]
This was a mistake. Resolution should have never been the main tag for all screen/display/monitor resolution issues. This is more evident when you get exactly 4 tags for all these issues, created by ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Do you really need "burning", "dvd-burning", "cd-burning" tag?
I have seen that we have several tags on the burning CD/DVD topic. One tag burn has wiki, but there are three more tags on the same topic. These are burning, dvd-burning , cd-burning.
Do we really ...
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Do we want heavily-downvoted questions to appear on the Meta AU homepage?
MSE was changed so all posts with score exceeding -9999 would show on the home page (formerly, the minimum score to appear on the home page was -8). Per-site Metas were given the option to opt-in to ...
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The [groovy] tag became ambiguous
Ask Ubuntu has a groovy tag that is dedicated to “a dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine”.
However, Groovy (Gorilla) is the name of Ubuntu 20.10 and users started to (mis)use the tag for ...
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Should we take [pictures] and [images] out of the picture?
There's images tag, which has as description:
Questions about opening / editing / saving images using image-editing applications.
And then there's pictures with no description.
IMHO:
As far as ...
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Can we remove this [virtual]ly useless tag?
The tag virtual covers so many rather unrelated things:
Questions related to virtualization, virtual devices, virtual terminal emulators, etc.
It's of little use for searching or following. Can we ...
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The 'error' tag should be blacklisted
The error tag:
is general
is ambiguous
describes over half of the questions on Ask Ubuntu
is misleading
could mean boot errors, graphical errors, errors seen in the terminal, etc.
If the error tag is ...
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imgur.com is deleting images
I've seen a few questions and answers with images like:
The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available.
Obviously, that's not good for the use of this website.
What's wrong ...
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Someone made a meta tag [review-audits] - is that a better name than [audits]?
Yesterday I removed the recently created tag review-audits from a post here on meta. We have a preexisting tag audits for that subject, so to keep all the audit-related questions together they should ...
ZannaMod
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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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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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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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These two tags could get [compressed]
Currently we have both:
compression × 185 (19 asked this year)
the process in which a file or folder's size is reduced by using an algorithm to encode the same information using fewer bits.
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Tag synonym request: [gksudo] -> [gksu]
While they can behave differently (mostly on non-Ubuntu systems), gksu and gksudo are not really separate topics. They're provided by the same package (gksu). They're even the same executable (which ...
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Merge squid and squid3 tags
Should we merge squid3 and squid, and make squid3 an alias of squid?
Currently there's 74 questions tagged squid3, and 117 tagged squid. Of those tagged squid, a large portion appears to be tagged ...
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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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Get rid of the Windows-application tag?
Why I think that the windows-application tag should be deleted:
It's about Windows software, but this site is for Ubuntu. The only circumstances I could see it
relating to Ubuntu would be if the OP ...
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Tag synonyms for [window-buttons]
I found two similar tags for referring to the "close, minimize, and maximize buttons".
window-buttons with 106 posts (6 asked this year). Tag info:
Window Buttons are the buttons at the top of the ...
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Need a few >2k people to help with the merge of the Recovery tag
I would like to merge recovery into data-recovery.
A good ~90% (at a glance) of the ~500 questions tagged recovery are about data-recovery.
The other ~10% are about things like password-recovery or ...
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Need a canonical answer for repository versions
We need a canonical answer for "Why do the repositories not have the latest versions of software".
Anyone who can write one (if one does not already exist) will be rewarded with a +100 Rep bonus ...
Thomas WardMod
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Synonymize tags related to partitioning
I discovered recently that apart from the well-known tag partitioning (10,271 questions currently), there is also the tag partitions with 771 questions.
Even funnier thing is that the tag partition ...
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Applications, application and software tags must die!
Originally discussed here:
The future of the applications/software tag(s)
Needs to be discussed again as an effort to ban the tags permanently
applications, application and software are useless - ...
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Merging codenames with versions
Should we merge all codename tags with the version tags? Already there are tags like lucid and 10.04 which are identical.
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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 ...
Thomas WardMod
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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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Make the on-topic section more explicit
Since there is often confusion on this site as to which Ubuntu derivatives are actually on topic, why not explicitly list them on the Help page? Instead of:
We welcome questions about:
Using and ...
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Can the [charset] and [character-set] tags be made synonyms?
The charset tag and the character-set refer to the same thing. One is simply the abbreviation. I don't see any reason for them to be seperate. Can they be made synonyms, please?
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Is emulator emulating emulation?
We have two tags emulator and emulation, each with around 130 questions. The questions seem to me to be covering the same range of topics.
Should one be a synonym of the other (I prefer emulation ...
ZannaMod
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Rename "blogs" tag to "blog"
I have no idea why we need the blogs tag to be plural.
We have terminal, not terminals.
We have shell, not shells.
We have scanner, not scanners.
For consistency's sake, can we please make the tag ...
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What tags should we use for tablets?
Which tags should we use for the upcoming tablet releases? We didn't really talk about the classification when the phone was announced which led to some confusion, so I figured I would ask early.
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Maybe [hdpi] is not high enough, add [hidpi] as a synonym?
I have seen posts tagged with hidpi twice or thrice in the past, and each time I replaced it with hdpi, whose tag info reads:
High DPI (dots per inch) screen resolutions, e.g. 4k/UHD/QHD screens
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What to do with black-screen tag?
I just came across the black-screen tag that has about 81 questions tagged against it. A quick look at the questions seem to suggest that they are either graphic problems or boot error. I am not sure ...
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Can a moderator please symlink x11 to xorg?
x11 has a number in it, so the system assumes it's a version number and won't let me submit it as a proposed synonym.
Can someone make it a synonym of xorg?
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Can we merge distro, distribution, distributions and linux-distro tags?
I think they are inherently the same thing and don't deserve multiple tags.
Breakdown of the tags:
distro x 15
distribution x 40
distributions x 3
linux-distro x 14
jokerdinoMod
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Why do we have an "error" tag?
I note that we have a error tag in the main site and it doesn't mean anything on its own. When last checked, it has over 280+ questions tagged as such. Manually editing them out of all of those ...
jokerdinoMod
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Can these VMWares be un-merged?
In 2012, a question was asked about the installation of VMWare player. Some months later, fossfreedom merged that question into How do I install VMware Player?. But in the latter one, the questioner ...
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Replace 'zoom' tag with 'magnification' (synonymise + merge)?
Six months ago, SurvivalMachine asked Should “zoom” tag also apply to the videoconferencing software? At the time, it seemed that relatively few questions about the Zoom meeting app used the zoom tag. ...
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Blacklist the ubuntu-desktop tag?
Is it possible to blacklist that tag? I don't see it go away without a little extra help.
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This closed question just got 10k views, we should fix it
This looks like it's getting a bunch of views since it's probably a common problem for people with Optimus cards.
Nvidia driver cannot be installed with jockey for old hardware
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