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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Swag for the cleanup team
The Ask Ubuntu moderator team with the Stack Exchange community people is happy to announce that your work and efforts to keep the site clean and tidy have been noticed and we are thankful for all ...
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It's time for Clean Up Week!
Following on from Bruno's post I've just added a new event to the clean up system: Clean Up Week 1
When?! The event lasts 7 days, starting at 00:00 on the 30th of March running through the end of the ...
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what to do with questions that are not useful to users anymore?
The question is clear i guess, and i am particularly referring to this
Such questions may be of importance for purely historical reasons, but does that mean we live with them around forever?
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Tag a comment as the correct answer
I ask a question in this forum: Bug report invalid, unupdated packages
And I want to tag as a valid answer the comment of a comment. Is it possible?
The comment is not the answer that I search...but ...
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Is creating a community wiki answer with summary of all posted tiny answers welcome?
At times I see questions with single-line answers, that are perhaps more useful as an aggregate. Can I combine all such answers into one, and mark the answer community wiki?
The particular question ...
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Should there be a question on AU or Meta about question/answer formatting?
A link to a page where it shows pre tags and indents, code tags and backticks, and that type of thing. There's already an AU question floating around about how to make answers more useful, but it ...
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Is this a bug or a question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do with questions that describe bugs?
An user ask this 12.04 after latest update, no unity, no top bar, only wallpaper. Can you help?
And I answer him.
In that case, I ...
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Should we clean up the 12.04 closed questions?
I've noticed that a bunch of closed questions on 12.04 are clogging up the search column on the related questions for each question, and also are generally all alpha/beta stuff anyway.
Should we make ...
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OpenWeek class for Ask Ubuntu?
It would be great if someone could volunteer to hold a class on how to use Ask Ubuntu, tips and tricks, etc. for Ubuntu Open Week. Ping me on chat if you're interested!
See:
http://www.jorgecastro....
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Is it good practice to recommend users install software from third-party app stores?
There is a good amount of Ubuntu software that is not currently in the Software Center, but that users still want to install. When this happens, we usually tell them to do something like:
tar xf ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [script] -> [scripts]?
The tag scripts is just a pluralization of the tag script.
Also, I don't know if these should be synommized with the shell-scripting tag. I suppose there are scripts that aren't shell scripts, ...
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Why was this made CW?
Looking at Q: Pros and cons of hibernating, I wonder why it was made Community Wiki? To me, it doesn't look subjective, nor is it like a poll.
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Moderator seeks testers for short private beta of Clean Up Week
Well after a very long time, I think I have the website for the Clean Up Week ready. It's taken so long because I've had to refactor the plans several times over due to technical restrictions on what ...
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Is there analog of askubuntu on russian? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any plans for localized Ask Ubuntu instances?
I'm looking for good resource similar to Ask Ubuntu on Russian. Does anyone know it?
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How to unassociate my askubuntu account with my email and delete it?
Askubuntu has been amazing with providing me with useful information and I recommended it highly to others I know using Ubuntu. I now have no purpose for this account because I converted my computer ...
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Can I use 'ask Ubuntu' logo as my profile pic?
Is it fine if I use 'Ask Ubuntu' logo as my profile pic (my current profile pic) or is it violation of terms and conditions of this site (if exists)? I love it very much :)
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Some minor cleanup, with a focus on tags
Something that I've noticed lately is that we have some bad tags springing up (nothing "new" there), as well as some tags that are being abused/cluttered.
Do note that this isn't a witch hunt against ...
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What is the right way to answer your own question, giving the original answer full credit?
This happens to me all the time on Ask Ubuntu:
Question from JB: How do I accomplish exactly X on my machine?
[1] Answer by AZ: Here's a tutorial showing you exactly how and even more useful related ...
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Are the tags networking and internet-connection duplicate?
I tried to tag a question and found out that there are two tags which are somewhat similar: internet-connection and networking. In my opinion both are more or less duplicates and should be handled as ...
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Let's tag our questions properly
I'm just posting this as a proxy for jokerdino. He can't post because of internet problems, but we both agree this needs to get out now.
Also, special thanks to N.N for asking jokerdino to write ...
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Is there a limit on how much reputation one can earn in 24 hours?
My account seems to be capped at 305 for today despite additional up votes.
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Should we go ahead and delete out-dated content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should questions about using end-of-life Ubuntu releases be closed?
Boot failure : No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
I think this question should be closed ...
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Is there a procedure for making umbrella questions?
I think there are a lot of related questions that could be turned in to umbrella questions.
One example:
How do I set environment variables for cron/upstart?
It could cover ruby, python, and ...
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Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012
We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, ...
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Ask Ubuntu Unicorn
Is this unicorn on Ask Ubuntu an April Fools' Day joke?
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Encouraging (new) users to accept answers
I guess this might have been already covered somewhere on the Meta, but I have no idea on how to search for it - if so, please point me to that question.
My problem is that I've noticed that since ...
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Should there be a tab in the review pane for 'someone voted to close'
Should there be a tab in the review pane for 'someone voted to close'/'needs close votes'/'partially closed' or something?
It would make finding the partially closed questions a lot easier before ...
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Time Frame of Abandoned/Old Questions
I have checked the following questions:
What to do with abandoned questions?
How should we define "Abandoned" as a close reason?
Changes to how we close abandoned questions
Closing ...
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At what point does an Ask Ubuntu question become a Mac question?
Consider the following opening words to a question:
"I'm using HFS..." (red flag)
"I'm running Ubuntu in a VM on Mac..." (red flag)
"My Mac won't boot Ubuntu..." (red flag)
"Bootcamp..." (red flag)
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Should we have an Ask Ubuntu Beginners event?
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In a chat discussion about the moderator elections on different Stack Exchange sites I've seen a couple of numbers that make me think.
Apparently we have a pretty low reputation per user ...
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how to add keys symbol & and software center package link in askUbuntu answer?
I know this very dumb question in Ask Ubuntu.
I want to know how in this link the key symbols are attached in question
and in this link (in answer section 2 question) how Ubuntu software center open ...
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Is question 115686 too subjective?
In comments to How can one-handed work in Ubuntu be eased? it is argued that it is subjective in that there is no correct answer to it per se. What is your thoughts?
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PSA: 11.10 Release today! (aka. let's get rockin')
I know, I know, I always put out a warning, but release time is usually when more users start using Ubuntu and as a bonus this time Ask Ubuntu is featured in the Ubuntu installer slider show:
Some ...
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Handling questions when the answer is no
Some questions from a literal perspective only have a no answer. I've answered some of these by explaining how one can create a compromise solution that brings them closer to what the OP wants. These ...
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Clean up (re-allotted question)
I have been given (re-allotted) questions that I have previously commented on. Trying to prod the OP to respond. (not flagged)
While waiting these questions are making a second or third round. I also ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [file] -> [files]?
I don't see any difference between file and files.
Alternatively, blacklist? They don't seem particularly descriptive, and I doubt anyone considers themselves an expert on the topic of files and ...
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Closed as exact duplicate -> where is the solution?
Mu question Can I do an install onto a 4GB usb stick which is smaller than the recommended installation size? was closed as exact duplicate with a url to possible duplicate answer.
Currently I have ...
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Why are some questions that were closed as not "real" being edited months later?
Alternative good-looking desktop for Ubuntu [closed] is a recent example. It was closed as not being a real question on Sep 8 '11. I feel that editing closed questions without intending to have them ...
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home-server tag makes no sense
From looking at home-server there's nothing there that can't just go in server
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Moving to Ubuntu Single Sign On
We're planning to replace the Launchpad provider button with the Ubuntu SSO in the near-ish future. This will require a bit of shuffling, including a brief period where neither button is shown on /...
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Plugin should be merged into plugins
plugin should be merged into plugins, there shouldn't be a need for two of them.
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What happens to bounty of closed/deleted question?
I went through the description of bounty and its terms / rules. However, I couldn't find what will happen if I have a bounty on my own question and I decide to close or delete the question.
Any ...
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Too many images!
We have 3 quite similar and somewhat ambiguous tags:
image, images, and image-processing.
Only images contains an ounce of info. But only an ounce:
Questions about opening / editing / saving ...
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STD Tag information
I was doing some tag editing and found the STD tag: https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/std
It only has 1 question associated with but the tag can be many things, for example:
STD - Standard ...
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Why aren't "I compiled X from source or installed from PPA questions" considered off-topic?
It seems to me that a LARGE number of not useful for most users of askubuntu questions come from this area. Other than driver bugs, it seems to be the second most chain-gunned question that clogs up ...
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Tag untagged: He's dead, Jim
It is useless and should not exist in the first place! Kill it please!
Who, oh who has enough time to remove that nasty tag out of all those questions?
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Is there a forum/StackExchange site for discussing Free Software?
I know that this probably isn't a good place to ask this, but I can't really think of another. I have questions about Free Software theory and opinions on how to create SaaS sites which incorporate ...
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Is AskUbuntu owned or operated by Cannonical? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is StackExchange? Is AskUbuntu officially related to Ubuntu or Canonical?
I have a "simple" question that I can't find the answer to anywhere online. Is AskUbuntu owned ...
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Automatic duplicate redirection SOP
According to this question and the link in the answer from Jacob Edwards closed duplicates that have no answers will redirect the user automatically to the main post after the dupe is closed.
This ...
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Wouldn't it make sense to create and promote a 'new-user' tag?
With the upcoming release of Ubuntu 12.04 and the attention ubuntu got on tech blogs lately it's very likely IMO, that ubuntu will get a lot of new users (even if it's just people trying).
Since a ...