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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Why does AskUbuntu keep telling me about the video tutorials?
It seems like every page has a header saying:
Is this your first time here? Take a look at our Video Tutorials for using the site.
Does that text ever change? I have more than 200 rep, so I'm not ...
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Clarification on twinview vs dualview tag
I was tagging a multimonitor question and initially chose dualview, although it does not exist currently I have used/seen this often.
I did a little searching and came across this thread so decided ...
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Flag answers that should be comments?
As new users can't comment, they sometimes posts answers that would have been comments if they could. Should we flag them so they can be cleaned up properly, or leave them alone because that's how the ...
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Unanswered questions, what do we do?
Hi. I'm still very new to Askubuntu, and have a question about unanswered questions.
When one goes unanswered for a certain amount of time, what are our options to get the question noticed again?
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Why are the moderators closing posts?
It seems anything argumentative of Unity is being closed. Great work on community support!!! You all know Unity is trash. It was a bad Idea. Now you should let the community fix the problem and the ...
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Is it possible to ask a Question you already know and answer it
After reading this question: Ought one to answer one's own question? what happens in the case that you know several questions that will further help the community but you want to make the question ...
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Is it okay to set these out on our table at LinuxFest Northwest?
I'll be helping out at the Ubuntu Washington LoCo Team table at LinuxFest Northwest this weekend, and I thought it might be a good opportunity to spread the word about Ask Ubuntu. Is it okay to get ...
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How can we make citing AskUbuntu easier?
With Ubuntu redirecting Ubuntu wiki pages to AskUbuntu, we have an issue regarding copyright and attribution. Supposedly AskUbuntu, the Ubuntu wikis, the Ubuntu Manual, and the Ubuntu Desktop Guide ...
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Should we put together a basic, "Intro to Ubuntu" faq?
This question popped up today. Now, it's a terrible question (very unclear), but I think what she's asking is just a basic "I'm new to Ubuntu... how does I use this thing?" Many Ubuntu users are ...
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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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Is there a way in increase Bounty?
I would like to increase the award amount of the bounty that I set a few days ago.
Is that possible?
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Should we modify questions to remove incorrect terminology?
There are lots of questions, especially about Unity that use incorrect terminology. For example, calling the launcher a dock. Should we edit these questions to use the proper terminology?
If we edit ...
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Possible Conference Speaking Sponsorships -- 2011
We're evaluating the feasibility of sponsoring a member of the Ask Ubuntu community to speak at a conference in 2011.
Speaking is a relatively big "ask", so this needs to be planned many months in ...
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[screen] vs [monitor]
What should we do with the screen and monitor tags? Currently, there are 15 questions tagged screen and 39 questions tagged monitor.
If these tags need to be distinct, I would add the next wiki ...
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Is it OK to ask very specific question about Toshiba's ac100 (ARM smartbook)?
I have one of the beautiful Toshiba ac100s. Is it within the scope of askubuntu.com to ask specific questions here? It will be very technical, for example how to get one specific kernel-version for ...
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Navigate the forum
I need to understand how to navigate the page. How do I post a question? where do I go to find the answers? How do I follow a thread...
As you can see, I'm an absolute beginner.
Thanks
[email protected]
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Some merge candidates for Windows 7 and Ubuntu dual-booting questions
This looked a bit unwieldy for flagging, so I'm posting this here instead. I've looked through several of the dual-boot questions, trying to find ones that looked like duplicates. I have found ...
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Should we be updating aptitude answers
There are quite a number of answers telling people to install software using aptitude. However it is not installed by default in 10.10 which may confuse people trying to follow the instructions.
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what's up with duplicate answers?
Have a look at, for instance, this question. Someone asked for a text equivalent to wireshark, and I answered "tshark". Then some time later, someone else comes along and posts a second answer ...
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How do I leave comments on Ask Ubuntu?
How do I leave a comment to an answer on the Ask Ubuntu site?
I posted a question and someone posted an answer. But the answer fails to take into account information posted on the site. How do I ...
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Clean-Up Week - Event planning
We (your moderators) have been mulling over an idea for a good way to deal with old, unanswered and unanswerable posts. We've been in discussion with the StackExchange team and while we're a long way ...
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How do I quickly gain reputation?
What is the simplest way to up your reputation points so that one can use all features offered by this site?
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Tagging for Windows Active Directory questions
For questions that have to do with authentication to a Windows AD (an Active Directory server or infrastructure), what's the best tag to use?
A lot of people were using domain, which seems pretty ...
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Watermarking images in posts
Should this be an accepted practice? It seems more obtrusive and annoying then anything else. Here are examples:
Ubuntu updated and now the option to boot into Windows XP is missing
Recording output ...
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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. ...
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Best way to update old answers when links have changed?
tl;dr : I commented on an old answer to show corrected links. Is there a better way?
This has recently come up for me because of the accepted answer for this question:
Is there a way to autodetect ...
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Request for Community Promotion Ads artwork.
There are some events in the Ubuntu Community that I'd love to run as Community Promotion Ads, but unfortunately I don't have the skill to make nice looking ads, so this is a place where people can ...
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Splitting up the installation tag? [duplicate]
It has always slightly bugged me that installation contains questions both about installing Ubuntu, and about installing applications within Ubuntu.
It seems to me that it might be good to split it ...
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Why the minimum 6 characters limit on edits
I have found an answer with a dangerous mistake in chmod parameters. I did an edit suggestion(since I'm not privileged enough) but I was forced to change at least 6 characters for the system to accept ...
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Could Ask Ubuntu run on Ubuntu + Mono?
Note from Oli: I have split this question in two. It originally asked both the technical ability to migrate and whether or not Ask Ubuntu would move to an Ubuntu platform in the future.
I've left the ...
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What does it mean to "Blacklist" a tag and when should I request it?
More and more I see requests for blacklisting tags. However, I'm not sure what a tag blacklist is - or when it's appropriate to request one. On what cirucmstances should this be requested and how ...
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Blacklist the "command" tag?
command is not a helpful tag. Currently, 3 questions are tagged command.
The subject of these questions looks like "What is the command for ...?". These questions will be fine with the tag shell-...
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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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How do I "accept" an answer?
I was told my accept rate is awful, but I can't find anything to tell me how to do that?
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Can we have a community blog?
Can we also have an AskUbuntu community blog like superuser.com?
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RE: Acceptability of Off-Topic Questions
Name suggestions for Ubuntu 12.04?
About the above linked question/post. I've seen several other name suggestions threads in the history of the AskUbuntu system, however considering that this is a (...
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Keyboard tags could use some love
Some of us have been asking for something nicer for the <kbd> tag.
Jin mentioned maybe polishing them up to make questions like this look nicer, just documenting that here.
(Also note, I love ...
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Isn't Ask Ubuntu targeted towards end-users (GUI) rather than "advanced" command-line users?
recently two of my rejects were rejected on the basis of "removing important information in favour of one-click installs" and "removing content that has value to people who like the command line (...
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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?
TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they ...
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Accessibility and AskUbuntu
I know there was some consideration in the past about making sure Askubuntu was accessible (usable with screenreader software, e.g.). For instance, the UDS-N session in October 2010 included talk ...
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Show asker AND editor
This is a suggestion: when we have the list of questions on screen, we can see below each of them the name of the asker, unless it has been editted by someone, situation in which we can read the name ...
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Losing privilege with points lost in setting bounties
Is it appropriate for users to lose privileges with handing out bounties? I've recently posted a bounty worth 400 points and consequently lost even the simple privilege of commenting everywhere. I ...
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When is it acceptable to link to LMGTFY?
I just ran across a link to LMGTFY on Ask Ubuntu. In the past, I've found it offensive when users have posted LMGTFY links for me.
When, if ever, is it acceptable to link to LMGTFY on Ask Ubuntu?
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Reporting offensive usernames
Can a username be flagged as offensive? Are there guidelines for what would reasonably be considered offensive?
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What can be done with inactive, unanswered questions from 1-rep users?
I have regularly seen inactive questions like OpenVPN fails to start automatically, asked by new users. There are no answers, neither does the author reply.
What should be done with that kind of ...
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Why don't I get my reputation back when I answer the question myself?
I posted this answer to my own question on which I had set a bounty. I lost the rep immediately when I set the bounty = OK, that's expected. I didn't get the bounty back when I added the best answer ...
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Low-hanging fruit for new editors [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Editing tips and tricks
There are about 80 questions containing sudo gedit. As you know, using sudo with graphical applications / tools is discouraged, so I think we should ...
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Answers based on Ubuntu wiki
Quite often there are questions to which there is an answer on http://help.ubuntu.com.
What is the preferred approach to answer such a question? Should one answer the question based on the content of ...
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Merging scripting related tags
It looks like there is no difference between shell-scripting, script and scripts tag. Should we merge those and add tag synonym from script to scripts or vice versa?
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