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 can we participate in the Ubuntu Global Jam?
Welcome Ubuntu Global Jammers!
Thanks for taking the time to check out tasks for Ask Ubuntu. We've put together a list of things that should help you get started.
and then submit an edit, then it ...
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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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Time to merge the GNOME tags?
I don't know how we ended up with version specific gnome tags but we should probably merge gnome-shell and gnome3 into gnome now.
It's been long enough and all it does is cause confusion, perhaps ...
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Should we have have IF or ELSE type statements in tags?
In this tag wiki, we have the following:
Refers either to Microsoft's Windows operating system(s), or application windows.
emphasis mine
Is that kind of thing "allowed" or not? Or should we have ...
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Regarding "Low Quality" flag
I had a flag declined as: "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention".
The flag that was used was "Low Quality". If these are going to be ...
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Request: Burnination and Blacklisting of [error] tag
One of the most overly used tags in the site is error. In almost every case, there are many other tags which are far more descriptive.
All 303 questions using that tag aside, I believe the tag ...
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Highest voted answer auto-accepted after length of time
I have a suggestion: After a certain set amount of time automatically mark the question with the most upvotes as the accepted answer. Many of us have experienced this: You answer a question posted by ...
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
The following is a "digest" version of the 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town ...
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How should we deal with question 76997?
I'm not sure how to deal with this question:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/76997/which-is-better-staying-with-10-04-lts-until-12-04-comes-out-or-upgrading-to-11
I could categorize it as not ...
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Is [date] a tag that needs some fixing?
I've noticed something about the date tag. It has questions regarding the date/time indicator, getting date/revision info from a file/folder metadata, and has been included on questions regarding "...
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Should the [background] tag be burninated?
Apparently people are using the background tag for two totally different topics. Some refer to their desktop background and others refer to running a process in the background.
It seems rather ...
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Tag synonym request: [asterix] -> [asterisk]
The tag asterix should really be a tag synonym of asterisk.
Just so you understand why.
This guy, is Asterix:
Asterisk on the other hand is an open source PBX software.
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The election banner is not shown on the main site close to the beginning of the election
It is 8 hours until the election begins. Currently no election banner is shown on the main site but the election banner is showing on the meta site.
The main site:
The meta site:
Is this a bug?
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How to deal with "How to fix everything?" questions?
Today I have spotted this question.
It lists a bunch of completely unrelated problems with a huge variety of programs, and asks how to revert everything to default. Is that a case of 'too-localized'? ...
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How should we handle wifi and other connection type questions?
Just doing a quick scan and seemingly we have hundreds of "cannot connect" wifi and other type connection questions.
My question is simple... Should be be treating these as bug-reports and hence ...
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What abilities does a high rep'd user doesn't have that a mod has?
What abilities do a moderator have more than, lets say a 10k or 20k rep'd user?
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How to treat a poor question with a good answer?
Regarding I done what the web said to do and still get this error msg the question is poor enough that it is at -2 (though good enough I found it by searching for my error message). But the one non-up ...
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Should I close or give my own answer on questions that have become moot?
Over time as I've become more familiar with the Stack Exchange way of doing things, I see the value of making sure my questions see resolution. Either that an answer gets accepted, or that the ...
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Social Networks: Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked?
Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked?
For instance:
gwibber (notifications)
facebook, google+ (as new on my wall)
twitter (as tweets)
email (ugh.. all that spam)
rss......
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How should we define "Abandoned" as a close reason?
Assume a question is clear, fully fleshed-out in details, compliant with question policy, and relevant to a large audience... but unanswered. At what point (if ever) does this question because ...
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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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Are bugs necessarily off-topic?
Jorge Castro recently commented on one of my questions that it should be filed as a bug instead. And I've seen here that the general view is that questions about bugs should be considered off-topic ...
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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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How can we refocus on being a Q+A, not a support forum or bug tracker? [closed]
After doing some investigation on issues brought up doing these questions I've found something that I'm embarrassed that we have let get out of control, see these questions for some background.
What ...
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Do we need a linked report to close bug questions?
In a recent question about problems with Ask Ubuntu, the topic of low-quality, incomplete, pseudo-bug-report questions came up. From What to do with questions that describe known bugs?, I was under ...
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How should we handle support requests in the Ask Ubuntu General Room?
In the past few weeks, I've noticed some newish users coming to the general room looking for IRC-style technical support or (perhaps more objectionably) using it as advertising space for their ...
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Where's the off-topic line?
I've seen quite a few questions that ask how to do something with some software that happens to be able to run on Ubuntu, but could equally be answered on any Linux related stackoverflow site. They ...
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What are Ask Ubuntu's current problems, if any, as of early 2012?
The following question was posed to me on my moderator nomination
Is there any concrete issues you would like to focus on as a moderator?
My answer is what amounts to janitorial work, but I'd like ...
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Why is hiding GRUB menu too localized?
As per my brother's request, I want to hide the GRUB menu, on his dual-boot machine, only to have it appear when he presses some key. I Googled and found this question, and a few days later I noticed ...
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By experience, what characteristics should a moderator have?
I have seen the community 2012 moderator opened and I was thinking that maybe I would run for office.. I mean moderator but like anybody that is scared to jump into something bigger than himself I ask,...
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Should comments be flagged for "light" rudeness?
I will give the example of this answer.
It was a bad answer, not much information in it, not really a good work around. A bad answer is a bad answer, we all understand that.
Now, I look at the user ...
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Google Code Prettify support for Ask Ubuntu?
Reading this answer I've realized that we don't have Google Code Prettify support on Ask Ubuntu like we have on Stack Overflow.
Since we agreed that we welcome Ubuntu development questions I think we ...
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Questions about the future is off-topic?
As Ubuntu gets more attention in the general media (which is a very good thing), people get more questions they'd like to get answers to. For instance, HUD is going to attract a lot of curiosity.
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I observed that my reputation decreases when I downvote answers, why?
Why does my reputation decrease when I down-vote answers? Isn't down-voting bad answers a good thing?
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Suggestion for daily-weekly-whatever cleanup sprints
tl;dr: Read the whole thing guys. Please.
As part of an effort to clean up the site (with a focus on closing abandoned questions), jokerdino, Bruno and I have done a few cleanup sprints - wherein we ...
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How should answers which basically equate to "give up and use x instead" be handled?
Let's say we have a question of the form "How can I make X do Y?" and it is a perfectly valid, on-topic question. Now suppose someone then posts an answer which basically says "Forget X and just ...
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How should we tag Dash (the shell)
I went to ask a question about Dash (/bin/sh) in Ubuntu to find that "dash" is being used to describe problems with Unity's Dash interface.
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When does a component of a larger project require its own tag?
When does a component of a larger project require its own tag? Example:
We have unity, dash launcher - dash and launcher are components of Unity, as well as separate packages.
So the question is, do ...
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What is the appropriate way to deal with "Can I do X" questions?
I don't know how better to phrase this, so here are a few examples:
Ubuntu Derivate with Rolling Release? Possible?
Kiosk that is able to transfer videos to a thumb drive
Is there any way a can buy ...
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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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Why do we have an "error" tag?
I note that we have a error tag in the main site and it doesn't mean anything on its own. When last checked, it has over 280+ questions tagged as such. Manually editing them out of all of those ...
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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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Is Ask Ubuntu the place for tutorials?
Let's say I managed to realize something interesting, tricky and not foundable with a simple web search.
Should I post it on Ask Ubuntu, with me asking a question and answering it myself right after?
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What to do with questions that use rude words or expressions?
Not sure about how often it happens but this question started out with a bit rude tone and words. You can also see the same with some answers given on the website.
If I am talking among people that I ...
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Closing abandoned questions is harder than it should be.
I've been doing a bunch of digging around to help solve our accept rate problem. It's probably a multifaceted problem so I thought I'd tackle this one for now. According to meta, our policy is to vote ...
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Use of the tag "Always-Friday-In -Iceland
I came across this question and noticed that it was tagged with 'always-friday-in-iceland, I couldnt catch the reason behind creating that tag and also its Usage/meaning, kindly elucidate.
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Why are the accepted answers always on the top of the answer list?
Currently (from what I can see) the rules for ordering the answers in a question is:
Accepted answer (no matter what votes it has)
Answer with most votes numbers below the accepted answer
Answers ...
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What can we do about high traffic duplicates?
Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04 is a duplicate question, merged with the more general How to Upgrade from a very old release to the latest.
The problem? How to Upgrade has about nine thousand views. ...
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