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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how come answers and questions are banned without feedback
how come answers and questions are banned without feedback and essential system issues cannot be resolved and re propose again and again (?) Is this question unproperly phrased (?)
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Should this tag be put into [storage]? Or not?
This is a discussion, it is NOT an invitation to start burninating this tag. We must follow the documented procedure here.
We have a tag, storage. I don't think it is a good tag, though. At the same ...
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Can we reopen this question about how to install Ubuntu on a 32 bit mac with 64 bit processor?
I found this question about installing Ubuntu on a 32-bit Mac.
It seems that this Mac has a 64 bit processor, and Ubuntu should support it.
Since this question broadly falls in the range of "How ...
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How should we handle the Imgur TOS change?
Per this page on the Imgur website (under "What are we doing?")
Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive ...
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As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Why does Stack Exchange ask about cookies on every screen? [closed]
Every time I open a page on Stack Exchange it wants me to accept all cookies:
By clicking “Accept all cookies”, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in ...
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Ban ChatGPT and AI-generated answers on Ask Ubuntu?
ChatGPT generated answers have been found across the Stack Exchange network and some examples have also been recently seen and removed from Ask Ubuntu. Our colleagues on Stack Overflow have put a ...
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Should I update/change my answer or submit a new answer to a question?
I would like to submit a different answer to this question: How can I force Ubuntu 22.04 SERVER to use ONLY the DNS servers listed in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf (NOT my router's DNS) AND use DNS-over-...
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) is now released and is no longer off-topic
Ubuntu 23.04 (a.k.a. Lunar Lobster) is now released. As of today (April 20th, 2023), posts about it are no longer off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. As usual, posts still must meet the normal requirements for ...
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Is translating posts using Google Translate acceptable?
I've seen several questions in non-English, where a user (typically high-rep) puts it into Google Translate. Here's an example (Wayback Machine if it gets deleted). I do realize that post had other ...
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Should this ostensible duplicate about dropping privileges be reopened?
I came across What is the command to switch to normal user? and was a bit mystified that the question is closed as a duplicate of a largely unrelated question.
The closed question asks how to switch ...
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Are AI Correction apps (like Grammarly) allowed to be used on the platform?
I was just reading this post and this question popped in my head.
I have used Grammarly for a few months now and I use it to fix grammatical errors in a post or just assist me in writing better ...
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Why were my Tag Wiki edit suggestions rejected (and is it acceptable to copy-paste the Tag Wikis from SO?
I had gone and tried to improve some Tag Wikis here on AU. Here are my suggested edits (all of these tags did not have an existing Wiki). All of these I wrote myself - they weren't copy-pasted from ...
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How to ask and answer Software Recommendation Questions
We get quite a few software-recommendation questions. I'd like to bang out an expected format for these questions to prevent them from melting into too localized or subjective trite.
What are tips ...
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create account with my stackoverflow credentials
I accidentally created my account with a google credential and now do not have any reputation - not even to put this onto meta :-(
Can some moderate please correct and link it to my stackoverflow ...
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A bit confused about the responses to answers to this question
This is a bit of a weird one (or I'm missing something obvious).
This quite-old (and reasonably upvoted) question asks:
Is there a web based terminal/ssh client?
Today, a new answer appeared from a ...
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Let's spin the [wheel] for ideas on how to handle this tag!
On AU, there is a wheel tag, with no usage guidance. From looking at the 14 questions tagged with it, the tag seems to refer to
The wheel group - a group used on some *nix systems to give a user ...
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Suggestions for revising the "on-topic" policy for programming questions
@BeastOfCaerbannog and I were having a chat discussion today debating the role of "general" programming questions here on Ask Ubuntu. The current on-topic help text includes:
Questions you ...
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Excessive down votes for closed question
I recently posted a question that received excessive down votes in addition to being closed.
Are practices of such kind discouraged? Is it necessary that so many different users should express the ...
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How to detect AI-generated answers?
AI generated answers are banned from Ask Ubuntu.
But how can I recognise them?
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How should we clean up the [kvm] tag?
This is a discussion about a tag, not an invitation to mass-edit questions containing said tag (at least for now)**
We have a kvm tag. It is meant to be about Kernel-based Virtual Machines (based on ...
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A user doesn't ask or answer, but only adds tags
I have noticed one particular user's activity is only adding tags to questions, nothing else. I see them almost daily in review queue.
The user adds mostly irrelevant tags. I reject the edits. Others ...
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Is it allowed to ask for software advice?
I've recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu and I don't miss anything except for one program named PhraseExpress. With it, you can create shortcuts for words, or fix spelling mistakes you make often,...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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A user deletes their answer and posts the same question as a new post and self answers
I am not sure whether I should write this on MSE or MAU, but here I go anyway
Context: Couple of months ago, I came across a dearly interesting question related to corrupted desktop environments (...
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What's the proper process for "fixing" a Mod-or-community-deleted answer?
I've been pretty active in community-moderation/curation here for a bit, but I'm honestly still confused about one part of the process.
Let's say that someone, for example, posts a link-only answer. ...
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Why was my question about Ubuntu desktop shortcuts deleted?
I want to know why my question about Ubuntu desktop shortcuts was deleted. I don't see how it can not be an appropriate topic for Ask Ubuntu. And if Ask Ubuntu is not the right place to ask questions ...
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Why was my question closed?
E: Type 'echo' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
The post that was sited as the reason for closing my question, does nothing to help me if I can't ...
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Would it be advised to answer already answered questions - with alternative answers?
Hello,
Clarified question:
Say we have a question, (solved by a answer) which, might be any (but not limited to) of the following:
[x] outdated. (Maybe the Question is about a Python 2 problem/issue -...
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Please remove the restriction "You must have 50 reputation to comment" [duplicate]
Dear administrators of StackExchange/AskUbuntu,
restriction "You must have 50 reputation to comment" blocks many useful comments and tips !!!
I'm not a geek who spends his leisure time here ...
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Ask Ubuntu is getting a logo update
As many of you are aware Canonical recently updated the logo for Ubuntu. With this update came a request from Canonical to update the banner logo as well as the trademark copy in the footer of the ...
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Is ChatGPT considered Ubuntu Third Party Software?
Is ChatGPT considered Ubuntu Third Party Software?
Are questions about using it on Ubuntu on-topic?
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I've been banned from reviewing for some strange reason
I reviewed "First Answers" and selected "Looks OK" for two answers that look really OK to me.
https://askubuntu.com/review/first-answers/1272716
https://askubuntu.com/review/first-...
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What is the policy for dealing with plagiarism?
Over the last couple of weeks there has been a growing number of answers that are unabashed copy/pastes of entire posts from sources around the web. These have generally been pointed out in the ...
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What is the logic behind cocomac's answer?
This post contains a euphemism.
Unfortunately, the gentlemen that made the rules made it so you need reputation to comment and ask not to edit an answer to reply to the author, so I have to ask a ...
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Tips for users to write better questions and avoid negative feedback
This is for all more or less new users that posted questions here and searched for help, but got much negative feedback from the community in form of downvotes and closing their questions.
I want to ...
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What's the "expected" audit response to spam in the LQ posts review queue?
I ran across a clear "spam" question in the low-quality posts review queue today. Link in case it works, but I hate promoting it by even linking it here :-/.
The correct response to spam is ...
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Clear unread inbox messages
I could not find the right area to post this, but I could use some help.
I try to answer all my inbox messages, but it is now impossible.
Is there a way to mark them all as read with just a few clicks?...
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Are we truly "Eager to help"
This question was prompted by this one.
At first glance I agreed that this looked like a horrible question with a lack of detail, then I recalled the initial slideshow when a new user installs ...
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Is Jorge Castro a Robot? [closed]
Before reading see the following links I noticed today
https://askubuntu.com/users/235/jorge-castro
https://askubuntu.com/users?tab=voters&filter=all
http://about.me/jorge.castro
https://...
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Are new users properly introduced to the site when signing up?
Is it only me, or has there been a large influx of new users this year, who seemingly haven't understood what differentiates a SE Q&A site from a forum?
This leads me to think if the mandatory ...
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Why isn't everybody allowed to upvote?
Most often organizations allow voting for everybody it seems, this site shows a message all the time telling that I don't have enough reputation.
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Are Ubuntu Pro support questions off-topic?
AskUbuntu question 1439642 is a support question from a user trying Ubuntu Pro beta.
Are Ubuntu Pro support questions on-topic per https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic ?
Services provided by Ubuntu ...
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Question about deprecated releases in a container
This question (starting container process caused: error loading seccomp filter into kernel: loading seccomp filter: errno 524: unknown) is on-topic, right? The host OS is Ubuntu 20.04, and the ...
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Clearing out Old Questions
Recently in the review queue I have seen a number of questions which had they been asked today would be off topic because they specifically refer to an end of life version of Ubuntu but were on topic ...
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Community bumping on AU
The Community user bumps old, not-well-answered questions regularly.
While that maybe a good fit on most SE sites, I'm not sure of its applicability to AU. We follow a strong and strict release policy....
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Correct action for questions in legal grey area
There was a good point being made in this thread. The OP was trying to virtualize MacOS, which isn't legal following its terms of service.
What is the correct action for this question? I voted to ...
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How to find posts I had flagged?
In previous design of Ask Ubuntu, there was an option to find the posts/comments I had flagged. I cannot find it in the recent design.
How to find the posts I had flagged?
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New user promoting a single service - (subtle) spam?
This user was created today, and the user has written 3 answers, of which 2 has been removed as spam (visible to +10k users):
How to connect to remote desktop, Kali Linux from ubuntu?
Multi-user ...
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Questions about Ubuntu 18, 20, 22 that *really* intend 18.04, 20.04, 22.04
Many questions have inaccurate or misleading version information.
For example, Search missing from Activities in Ubuntu 22
I've upgraded from Ubuntu 20 --> Ubuntu 22
Reading through the question, ...
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