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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What hardware recommendations are okay to ask?
I've looked at the original question from a while back. But that is too early to give a definitive answer. I want to know when it's OK to ask about hardware recommendations if it's OK at all.
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Why did you close this question instead of migrating it?
This guy asked about elementary OS. I voted to notify the moderators, I commented letting him know it's off topic. But why didn't you migrate it to superuser or unix.se?
I'm not trying to defend him. ...
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Bug in the audit system?
I believe I've discovered a bug in the audit system.
I was reviewing this answer, which obviously needed some serious work:
So I clicked on the edit link, and it showed me this:
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is penalty-system not old-fashioned?
Sometimes little failures can happen, e.g. in my recent (myself deleted) thread about
virus-scanner and something related to 3.5er Kernel - have simply overseen, that 3.5er Kernels are not on the list ...
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Lots of "Closed as off-topic because it seemingly went away" close votes
I have seen quite a lot of questions (this (1 vote) and this (2 votes) for example) being closed as "off-topic because it seemingly went away" - is this the right thing to do for any questions?
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Do we actually close no-repro bugs reported on meta as no-repro?
Recently, this question was closed as being status-norepro. However, this closure seems odd to me.
Of the 20 questions tagged accordingly, there is only one that was actually closed, which is the one ...
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What's the Best Practice for Questions with obsolete versions?
How does one request tag cleanup for Questions like: I'm stuck at Firefox 20.0?
I'm asking this because karel's answer is correct. Version 10.04 is way out of the supported life-cycle, and according ...
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To work with older account
I have a account already on Ubuntu 12.04.Now I shifted to Ubuntu 15.10.That's why I had to create this account.Can't I work with my older account.I know I should ask it on meta but with this new ...
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What can I do about unwelcome edits?
Another user is repeatedly making edits to some of my posts.
The edits are not outright vandalism or spam, it is more about changing the style of writing to suit a better fit with their own ...
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When the question is about an application & its configuration and in no way related to ubuntu
Consider a very realistic situation:
The poster (who runs Ubuntu) asks a question about configuring an application running on Ubuntu. This application has detailed configuration procedures not ...
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Odd tags... well, rather keyboard keys tags
I've found a couple of odd tags, starting with alt which I believe would have more sense if used keyboard instead (yeah, 101 tags for each key in the keyboard is overkill) but the funny thing is that ...
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Why comment "This is an English only site"? [duplicate]
On occasion people post questions in a language other than English and within 5 minutes there are multiple comments informing them that this is an English only site.
Any user on the site is allowed ...
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Please burninate the "untagged" tag
untagged does not mean anything. Any question should at least belong to one tag, so this is useless. It should be burninated.
Note: I had retagged the questions that had untagged to their ...
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"Can I run X game that is Only-Windows game in Ubuntu?" we need a canonical question?
Latelly I got the felling that we are now the WineHQ site, where people can ask "will X game run in Ubuntu?". I would love make them check the WineHQ, or ask the makers if they have a Linux version ...
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What Is Considered "Extra Noise?"
So what I see a lot of is people who will format a question as follows
Hello i am having an issue with question/problem
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Insert question/issue here
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PLEASE HELP I CANT USE MY COMPUTER....
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Why are questions about packages included in Ubuntu by default but not maintained by Canonical not considered off-topic?
Here is an example question:
Libreoffice 5.1.6.2 “The dictionary is already full.”
It is about LibreOffice, which is a package that is included in the Ubuntu ISO by default, but not made or ...
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Requesting some eyes on this Closed thread
I'm not positive about why this topic was closed as not suitable for the site.
;TL/DR; I'm guessing below that it's being considered a bug report and a dupe of Launchpad content.
It's about Ubuntu
It'...
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Software Recommendation is live tomorrow! What makes us different in our quality standards?
In an ideal world, there should be one SE site for each kind of question. Now, in the practice we are overlapping with at least 2 other sites (3 if we count SF) and that soon that number will grow one ...
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Tag Synonym Request: [scanning] -> [scanner]
Since,
I would argue that these tags have no difference in meaning (this thread has a +9/-1 score),
scanning has no wiki, while scanner does,
the tag synonym suggestion mechanism is fundamentally ...
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Should otherwise obsolete comments sometimes be retained for the community opinion their upvotes express?
Sometimes a comment with lots of upvotes is still obsolete and should be removed. This is usually the case, for example, when it requests information that the OP then provides (and provides in such a ...
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Reminder: Questions on EOL releases are not off-topic simply because they're EOL releases
A question isn't off-topic simply because it's about an EOL release. If the problem is specific to that release, sure, but not otherwise.
Questions like the following are on-topic:
https://askubuntu....
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Bullying as a strategy to force close a question
This question - How to install bully and mdk3 on ubuntu 16.04 - has received at the time this was posted four downvotes as well as three close votes for being unclear, however there is nothing unclear ...
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How do I message another user here?
I'm new here and would like to ask the user of this question Running caffe gives error Check failed: error == cudaSuccess (30 vs. 0) unknown error if they have checked this link http://docs.roguewave....
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Can older questions be closed as duplicates of newer questions in special circumstances on meta?
Here on meta, sometimes issues arise, and then arise again later as circumstances change. Is it appropriate, in such a situation, to close older questions about a topic as duplicates of a newer ...
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Is [tag:bash-history] a synonym for [tag:history]?
bash-history
Refers to the history of commands that have been run previously in Bash.
history
The history command can be used to retrieve commands you have previously typed in a shell.
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Are any of these lenses currently available or is this a case of unreproducable, unlikley to be of use to future users?
I voted to close this question as it appears to be unavailable for currently supported releases and therefor unlikely to be of use. It has no upvoted/accepted answers. I also stumbled across this one ...
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Should rant posts be considered against the "Be Nice" policy ("Rude/Abusive" flaggable)?
This was brought up in another Meta thread about a disagreement over the use of Rude/Abusive flags on rants.
In so much as the link for the Rude/Abusive flag points to the Be Nice policy.
In my ...
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Can someone approve this edit?
This edit was rejected(huh?), can someone approve it? Submitter is an Ubuntu Core Dev and is a fix (installing linux-generic instead of linux-image)
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/...
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Canonical post about "Wi-Fi not working"
It's just unbelievable how many questions are constantly posted about "Wi-Fi not working" issues, due to modules missing after an installation/kernel upgrade or due to faulty configurations in general....
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I was banned for 2 days from reviewing
This question is related to many questions like Why I am banned for reviewing? but not duplicate.
Usually there are testing questions in Review. The system sometimes shows message like "The system ...
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why is my question closed?
I wrote a question before like this "Hi i just installed Ubuntu and it seems like a nice operating system. I just have some questions about the security. How safe is ubuntu? is there no risk ...
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Does time get considered in deciding Duplicate Questions?
A while back HWE for 14.04 was released and people had a bit of trouble upgrading to the new update. Which is fine and all. However, I came on site today to see this question flagged as dup to this ...
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Why downvote new user's questions that will be closed anyway?
It occurs to me that often questions of new users are downvoted for no other reason than to "let OP know he did a bad thing". Many times the question is not bad at all, but simply does not fit in the ...
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How to deal with higher quality duplicate questions?
Occasionally on a stack exchange, one will have a very precise question cited as a duplicate to a very broad question, or one will have a very clear and straight to the point question cited as a ...
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Self fixed issue on own bounty question [duplicate]
I want to ask how should I behave in this situation? I have this question that I asked and put bounty on as I couldn't figure it out what was going on. I was getting help to it but it turned out I ...
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Android application for Ask Ubuntu or Stack Overflow
Is there any official or recommended Android application for Ask Ubuntu or Stack Overflow?
Features wanted:
ask/answer/comment questions
view user profile
notification about reputation changes
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Do we -always- close posts if they are not exclusively about Ubuntu?
I know this is a sensitive subject, and people seem to have a quite absolute opinion about it: posts not strictly and exclusively about Ubuntu.
Would I encourage people using other distros to post ...
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Is it acceptable to replace linux with GNU/Linux ?
is it acceptable to edit and replace Linux with GNU/Linux (when used in the context of the whole os and not the kernel) .
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Tags: is *gnome correct when referring to "the gnome 3 shell"?
A user stated "I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the gnome 3 shell ", what would be the correct tag to use? As I read it *gnome refers to the Standard Ubuntu
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Why is downvoting a question or answer without a explanation acceptable?
My title says it all. Yes, I know this has been asked before.
Allow me to break it down to the basic Ask Ubuntu core values. According to the Tour page, one should:
Improve posts by editing or ...
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A question in Spanish [duplicate]
I've only ever seen questions in English on AU before, so this one caught my eye. Should I translate it to English while editing it?
Or ask the OP to write in English? I can't help thinking that if ...
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why is my Firefox question voted down?
What's wrong with my Firefox question? While I suppose it can happen on Windows, I've only had this problem on Linux, specifically Ubuntu. Is the question somehow stated poorly?
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Tag Synonym Request: [dual-monitor] -> [multiple-monitors]
This is relatively short...
It seems unnecessary to have both dual-monitors AND multiple-monitors. The latter tag should be able to cover every question including the former as it's still more than a ...
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Is it possible to undelete an answer which is deleted by a moderator?
I had a Q&A here which was deleted by a moderator because the source was not included. I have now added the source and edited the answer. Is it possible to undelete it now?
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Is a good practice to quote another answers on mine?
I made a good answer with many methods to do one thing, and it had more than 80 votes, however there are a few AskUbuntu users that answered better methods and had only a few votes. I quoted it's ...
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How can I participate?
I want to participate here at AskUbuntu and am compelled to contribute based on information that is not being found in many of the discussions but because of the absolute strict and high bar set by ...
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Is there a rule which states that all questions and answers have to be in English on this site? [duplicate]
I know that people often tell others that it is a rule here, but I am have never actually seen it written anywhere, so is it a rule that all questions and answers on this site have to be written in ...
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Security against malicious script edits
So upon working on an old Linux system that hadn't been touched in a while, I ran into an issue related to having 32-bit Google Chrome installed. I found this question that the original poster ...
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Can anonymous users post?
I know this is the case on some sites, but is it on this one? Can anonymous users (users who do not have an account) post?
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