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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Isn't the first step to post a comment rather than vote to close?
Can a question be closed without even a single comment?
I have an example here in which I do understand that several voters close the question without asking for clarification: https://askubuntu.com/...
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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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Please do not flag as low quality for no reason
Please read this question and its answers first:
Regarding "Low Quality" flag
The problem:
I've noticed that a small number of users on this site regularly flag questions as low quality, ...
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Can one user be represented by multiple accounts?
Lately, a few times I ran into situations in which I had the strong impression a single user represented himself in multiple user accounts, for example:
A user asks a question. The question is ...
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Translations/foreign language support for Ask Ubuntu
At UDS-R in Copenhagen during the Ask Ubuntu session one feature that consistently came up was foreign language support. This has been discussed quite heavily since the start of the Ask Ubuntu site ...
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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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Is it ok to comment and see if it works before answer?
Is it ok to comment an answer to the OP because you can't test it, and then you answer if it works? Or should you just answer?
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Terminal vs. Command-Line
What is the difference between terminal and command-line? Is it a big enough difference to make a distinction at all?
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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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Can I ask Kubuntu related questions here as well? [duplicate]
Or Xubuntu as well? Is this *buntu independent?
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Translation service
Posting in other languages, please be friendly but clear
The subject must be as old Santa, but there still seems to be a lot of misunderstanding on the subject:
Every now and then people post in other ...
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Maintaining canonical posts - how can we improve our most popular questions?
Recently, the perennial question of how to keep Ask Ubuntu up-to-date was brought into focus for me by numerous pleas to reopen this question, which had been closed as a duplicate of the canonical ...
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If the answerer answers the question in the comments of their answer, should the OP accept that answer?
Let's say the question is:
How do I open Terminal Quickly?
I have been looking for an easy way or short-cut to open the Terminal quickly, so I don't have to find it in the Dash.
And the answerer ...
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Spam Flag declined.. exactly what *is* the line?
I flagged this answer, and questions by this user on SU, SF, UL and here - he has had a clear pattern of similar posts with minimal content, linking back to the site. This sort of breaks the self ...
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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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Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner
This banner:
could now include the Elementary OS site.
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Should I add another flag as well?
Often times I see on a question a comment like this:
If I feel that is a duplicate, should I also add a flag? Or should I not, since there's already (probably) a flag on the question? Or, should I ...
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What if a duplicate is being voted on as not helpful by anonymous users?
I'm using the review tools to see which questions are being voted on as useful and not useful by anonymous/low-rep users.
how to uninstall unity in ubuntu 11.04, not disable it (-18)
How to remove ...
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What is our site policy on code/command edits?
Does this site have any sort of canonical policy regarding command/code edits?
Or, more exactly, when proposing an edit to code or a command (or just directly editing it as per 2k privileges), where ...
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How to add a question to AskUbuntu's Twitter account?
I followed the Twitter account of AskUbuntu and find interesting question through this channel. However when I try to answer questions I often come across questions which answers are quite good/...
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Clarification on GRUB's on-topic-ness
By definition questions that are on topic are these:
Using and administering official Ubuntu flavors including: Edubuntu,
Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Lubuntu, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu
Studio, ...
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Hyperlinked answers with no content
I've noticed a lot of questions where an individual has linked to external content to answer a question without bringing in the actual information. Some of these questions, the links are dead (even ...
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what I am supposed to do on edits like this?
In the above Image edit was suggested by unknown user. That edit seems to be not spam and related to user Question. But I dont know whether OP has tried this or not because It was posted with unknown ...
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Can I use my Canonical/Ubuntu.com or Launchpad account to post and / or answer questions here as well?
Can I use my Canonical/Ubuntu.com or Launchpad account to post and / or answer questions here as well?
I use the same name on Launchpad.
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What is the policy concerning external deb-packages?
In this question a deb-package was linked without any hint to the potential danger of bypassing Ubuntu's package management. I know that in the Window's world setup.exe are quite common, but common ...
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Re-keying [key] to be more useful
Recently, I discovered the existence of key.
This tag is currently being used for both cryptographic keys (SSH/GPG/RSA/etc.) as well as keys on one's keyboard.
A tag that functions like this has, in ...
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Is it acceptable for users to only gain reputation through a plethora of tiny edits?
To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/3946/is-it-acceptable-to-make-small-...
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Reminder: Don't close old questions as EOL if the release was supported when the question was posted
TL;DR: Don't cast EOL close votes on old questions if the release in question was supported at the time of posting.
Yes, this is a blatant dupe. Actually, it's also a dupe of this.
But... it seems a ...
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Duplicate question note
As regular way I used to, I got interested in a question then I looked for duplicates. 2 other similar questions without answers. I've an answer so to post it, I had checked reputations, last login, ...
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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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Can I award a bounty to an answer that I like?
Let's say I asked an interesting question which got a lot of attention and some really good answers. My problem was solved because of those answers and I've accepted one of them. But I want to also ...
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Should an answer like remove Ubuntu and install (insert distro here) be flagged / downvoted?
The question Should an answer like remove Ubuntu and install Slackware be flagged? arose myself while answering Let's not do “I don't know how to fix your problem, so just reinstall", so I decided to ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Code formatting: backticks or four spaces?
Code segments can be formatted by either starting the line with four spaces or by enclosing the code in backticks.
What is the reason for using one over the other?
The reason I ask is that my ...
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Moderator Pro Tempore [closed]
This community needs to start contributing some names they would like to act as provisional Moderators. Please read this: Moderators Pro Tempore.
Here are some basic guidelines:
Each nomination ...
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What should be posted on Ask Ubuntu's Google+ page?
We've set up +Ask Ubuntu! Now we need your feedback about what to post on it.
Would you like top questions? What criteria? Anything else?
Or can you think of a better way to gather and review posts ...
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Why can there be only one accepted answer?
I read the tour page, and it said
accepted answers aren't always the best, they just mean that it worked
for that user.
Well, it is possible to have two working answers, so why can we only ...
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2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat - Tuesday 7 Feb 21:00 UTC / 4pm EST [closed]
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Has there been any suggestion to encourage AU members to become Ubuntu Members?
I noticed there are a number of dedicated and helpful members on Ask Ubuntu. Has there been any suggestion to encourage such members to become Ubuntu Members as a recognition of their contributions ...
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When are the 2017 elections?
When are the 2017 elections? Is there a way to tell when the next one is? I checked the previous elections, but it didn't tell me when the next one is. Also how long are they?
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Two answers on one question by the same user
What is the correct thing to do when someone posts two different answers to the same question?
Here is my example, I am not trying to say "This user did this wrong!", we have only had a couple of ...
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Should I approve these small edits in the review queue?
I was in the suggested-edits queue and noticed a single user making a large amount of small edits. Things like spelling and grammar (one or two word edits) but also bits of code and keyboard key icons ...
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Tag cleanup list
We still need feedback on these tags!
Esp. the "Not Sure" ones.
I have started a list of tags that need some cleanup per request. Please contribute.
Burniate:
bits
z475 vm-guest-files
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Is it appropriate to contact users offsite to question their site actions on Ask Ubuntu?
I recently had a user contact me outside of SE/AU questioning one of my moderation decisions in the queue.
To be clear, it wasn't hostile, but it seemed a bit odd/off-putting(?).
Over the years, I'...
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Why is Ask Ubuntu on the default installer, and not other support sites?
Is AskUbuntu now the "official" support forum for Ubuntu and Canonical? I am aware of the link between AskUbuntu and Stack Exchange.
In particular, why is Ask Ubuntu on the 11.10 and 12.04 installers,...
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Should we remove the "tag with Ubuntu version" advice from the help center?
There have been many discussions on meta (here and here for example) about using the Ubuntu version tags (12.04 etc). Mostly, they support the position that these tags should be used when the version ...
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What is a Work in Progress Answer?
I've posted a Question about thumbnailers and even found a half baked answer, the answer that doesn't work, and then I updated my question with the half baked answer that I found asking to fix the ...
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What do we do about answers which propose to introduce a blatant security risk?
So, scanning recently edited things, I found an answer to this question here which is accepted but introduces a massive security risk of storing a keyring with no password.
To that end, I have a ...
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Make [recording] a synonym of [record]
We have two tags, one called recording and one called record.
I propose recording become a synonym of record.
recording has a few questions but no description or anything, while record is more ...
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Are hardware recommendations considered off topic?
Fairly straightforward question, I don't want to clutter up the main site if it is.
Edit: More specifically, hardware recommendations as it applies to driver support and the like in Ubuntu. ...