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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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.
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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 ...
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What technologies are being used for StackExchange sites?
My interest is in both backend and frontend technologies.
If possible some idea about hardware is also very interesting for me.
Thanks.
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Is it smart to use threats or insulting language when asking for help?
I've seen many questions where the person asking for help, uses insults as part of their question. As examples, look at these:
How can I get your (bad word here) software to do what I (bad word here)...
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indicator-sound should be a synonym of sound-menu
I did some clean up in VLC today and noticed that these should be synonymed, unfortunately no one I can find in chat has enough rep to vote on the tag:
indicator-sound <- sound-menu
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Don't you find this ridiculous? [closed]
I know that when you have rules then you should abide them and make sure everyone does too. But look at this screenshot and tell me if it doesn't make you laugh.
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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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Keyboard shortcut tags are messy
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keyboard-shortcuts which is weird, as we symlinked keyboard-shortcut to shortcut-keys a while back. This one not only is dupe but ended up with a tag wiki, woo!
key-bindings
keybindings
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scanner/scanning: Duplicate?
Why do the tags scanner and scanning both exist? Are they exact duplicates? If not, the scanning tab could do with a tag wiki to resolve the ambiguity. (The scanner tag already has one.)
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Tallyboard for Clean Up
Should there be added to the Leaderboard a Total for all the clean up efforts?
Total questions cleaned: =
Dupes: =
New Answers: =
Voting: =
Closes: =
Maybe include a header on the main page
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Usability improvements for the FAQ
I believe some parts of the answer for What kind of questions can I ask here should actually be under the What kind of questions should I not ask here?
Specifically, the part about This is not the ...
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Plea to the decentralized sense of opinion - use your vote!
Ask Ubuntu, as any other site in the Stack Exchange sites network, works with the help of a rating system. Sometimes it's hard for people to understand the importance of a single vote but votes are ...
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Can you lose the right to ask a question?
I have a really random question. When somebody starts using Ask Ubuntu, they start with 1 reputation. According to the "privileges" page, you must have at least 1 reputation to create a post. If, for ...
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Precise needs a tag synonym
I can't synonym precise to 12.04, the popup says a moderator is needed to make the synonym.
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"card" tag is too meta, time to kill it?
card makes no sense as a tag, it should be killed as we have video for video stuff and the various wireless tags for wireless.
Perhaps synonyming it to hardware?
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What should we do with an invalid accepted answer?
Specifically with regards to these JAVA questions:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/5567/how-to-install-the-sun-java-jdk
https://askubuntu.com/questions/52154/how-do-i-install-the-latest-version-of-...
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Broadcom tags probably need a once over, help?
This is more of a call for help but we have a bunch of duplicates and stuff in broadcom.
Our most popular questions "feel" correct to me but you can never tell with these cards. I don't own any of ...
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What should we point duplicates of "how to upgrade while skipping in-between releases" to?
I've noticed that there seem to be a lot of questions which basically ask, "how can I upgrade my Ubuntu installation directly from version x to version z, skipping version(s) y in between?"
There ...
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Tag synonyms: startup and boot
Whilst I suppose a distinction could be drawn between startup and boot (boot = grup, startup = everything later), I don't think there is any difference in the way they are being used.
I prefer the ...
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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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Ubuntu website recommends to report bugs on askubuntu.com?
I've just found that on the following page users are recommended to report bugs by filling in bug reports, asking on IRC/mailing list, or asking on askubuntu.com.
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/...
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Why should I close 54422?
Someone has suggested I delete/close Is there a way to disable or limit system xrandr probes? because I am no longer experiencing the bug that prompted me to ask it.
Personally, I think it's still an ...
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Why is "Kinect for Ubuntu users" considered constructive here?
I recently flagged Kinect for Ubuntu users as Not Constructive, and my flag was declined. I'm wondering why — not because I care about the flag at all, but because it seems pretty clear to me ...
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How to improve a question that isn't being answered?
I asked this question (How to reformat/reindent all the source files in a given directory?) which – I admit – at the beginning was not very well defined, but, with the help of the comments left by ...
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Conflicting information on how to treat duplicate questions
When I found a duplicate question recently, I noticed some conflicting information on how new users like myself should handle such.
On Privileges - Cast Close and Reopen Votes it says that:
If ...
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What to do when the OP answers their own question in comments/edits to the question?
With the clean-up in progress, I've come across quite a few questions which have a comment by the OP on how they solved their question or they answer their question in an edit to the question. How do ...
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List of questions with votes to close?
There are a number of old buried questions which I have voted to close as duplicates, too localized, etc... Most of them, I'm the only vote so far. I imagine that there are many other open questions ...
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Another small bug in the oli's cleanup user script
The user Alvar deleted the question
https://askubuntu.com/questions/46280/
It remains on "My Open Allocations"
I can "give up" and remove it, but will leave it for the moment, not sure if you wish ...
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What should we do if an answer contains link rot and there is no other appropriate answer?
I was looking through some questions today and stumbled upon this one: https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1109/what-is-flag-weight
The answer contains link rot so I searched for what to do in that ...
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Question for moderators (Ask Ubuntu Clean UP)
During the Ask Ubuntu Clean UP campaign I have run out of my allotment of flags. Must I wait 24 hrs to receive more? Moderators?
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How can we improve the 'greatest hits' of our site?
I was reading the Stack Overflow blog earlier today regarding the greatest hits of the Stack Exchange sites.
I realize that these posts are what make our site popular across the Internetz and hence, ...
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Small bug in cleanup user scripts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Another small bug in the oli's cleanup user script
I may have run across a small bug in the user script.
These six have been given to me to review, and remain on my list
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More upvotes per day for moderators
I have noticed that the moderators in Ask Ubuntu Genral Room seem to say that they run out of votes for the day each day. And I know from experience that there are more then 40 great posts each day on ...
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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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How to suggest a FAQ?
As a part of the cleanup week I see a FAQ - "How to completely remove a program and it's configuration files?"
As a part of clean up, this question
How to fully remove the eclipse package?
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Ask Ubuntu Clean Up
tl;dr Go to http://cleanup.thepcspy.com and start cleaning!
It only took a year but it's finally here: It's clean up time! But let's step back a bit... What on earth am I talking about?
Well we get a ...
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What's the canonical "how do I downgrade?" question?
Today we got this one:
How to downgrade Ubuntu?
Which I knew was a dupe, but we have a bunch of these:
downgrading ubuntu from 11.10 to 10.04
Downgrade Ubuntu 11.10 to older release (8.10)
This ...
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PSA: 12.04 Launches this week, steel yourselves!
Release is this week, which means that we'll have people who are going to start asking questions here, so we need to stay on our toes, update existing questions (more below), and just generally keep ...
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What is the next step with this user who continues to post biased off-topic comments?
I caught this question which was highlighted on the SE network:
So, what is the advantage of using the terminal?
There's a user Mehrdad who has been posting comments attacking the CLI-oriented linux ...
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Where can I get the Ask Ubuntu speech bubble logo?
Where can I get that speech bubble from Ask Ubuntu in SVG version?
I need it for my presentation.
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Google+ Fan Page Logo Competition
Because our current Google+ logo doesn't exactly fit the trademark guidelines we need a new one!
The good news is, SE have offered to give away one amazing swag package full of Stack Exchange and Ask ...
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Flag a Down Vote
I came across a question this evening which I thought was unfairly down voted. I instinctively up voted to counter the down vote, however this might not have been the correct way of handling this ...
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Bounty transfer in exact dupe?
What If a Bounty'd question is duped?
Like if X question has a bounty of, lets say +100. And Y question does not have a bounty.
X is a exact dupe of Y. A mod closes it as a dupe, what happens to the ...
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PHP, PHP5 tags merge
I know PHP5 is very different from previous versions and that all (its a new version!) but do we need a split between the tags php and php5?
Are not talking about the same thing in the end? Can you ...
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(How) can we encourage question askers to do some research of their own?
Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you will feed him and his family for a lifetime.
When I first started using Ask Ubuntu, I was all over the easy questions, ...
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How can I convert my Ask Ubuntu account?
I'm quitting with Google mail, but I cannot edit my address to my new one (first time I logged in with Google-login).
Just says "oops, there was an error".
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Did you have both Unity and classic Gnome in 11.04?
in 11.04 I remember that we had both the classic desktop and Unity as a pre-installed option of desktop. But in all questions I find there's the Unity ones from 11.04 and the old ones until 10.10.
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Kill the grub-error tag
Why do we need a grub-error tag?
It will not fit both grub and grub2 at the same time and its a useless tag to follow.
Normally if someone is good at solving grub and grub2 issues he will also know ...
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Do we want to burninate the move tag?
I noticed that the move is rather useless, do we want to destroy it? We need to reach a community consensus before Stack Exchange can do it.
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What is the purpose of the ability to bounty a meta question?
I have recently decided to bounty a meta question of mine. This got me thinking about bounties on meta questions.
What is the purpose of them? In my case, only the moderators and high rep'd users ...
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