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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Tone down the grey for formatting code/commands?
This answer is really brutal on the eyes however I think it's key to have filenames and commands with that kind of formatting.
Maybe perhaps toning it down a bit? Similar in shade to the blockquote ...
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What's your opinion of X on Y? Questions
Where X == Distribution && Y == System/Hardware/Device
More and more frequently questions are appearing requesting feedback from users using such and such flavor of Ubuntu on such and such ...
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HTML in questions but not comments?
Why is it that we can use HTML markup and entities in questions but not in comments? Shouldn't they be the same?
Testing markdown here, italic, bold... well, that seems to work.
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When are Debian questions off topic?
I just voted to close this Debian question. There are a bunch of Debian questions that are open though; when is it appropriate to close a Debian question?
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How can we motivate the community to vote more?
Lately I've noticed - we have a steadily growing population of users, but voting trends appear down. How can help educate users of their right - and inherent duty - to vote? How can we help promote ...
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Is Ask Ubuntu using the UbuntuBeta font?
To be completely honest, I think the current font family sequence is dictated by the Ubuntu Identity Guidelines. I still think that, right now, it's kind of silly:
font-family: "Ubuntu Beta",
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'games' or 'gaming' tag?
Is there any reason to have both gaming and games tags?
IMO the games tag should be used instead of gaming. Should we replace all gaming tags with games or vice versa, or use tag synonyms instead?
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The "command-line" tag wiki
I'm very keen on the command-line tag, so I've decided to edit it's tag wiki.
I've tried to give a gentle definition of the term, without sounding condescending to those who know about the command ...
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Migration Paths?
Migration paths allow for questions to be moved from Ask Ubuntu to other sites in the Stack Exchange network. The idea is that rather than simply closing questions as being "off-topic", then the ...
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Why are you only allowed to comment with 50 rep?
Why are you only allowed to comment on other people's posts when you reached 50 reputation? In my opinion comments are a good way to ask people to clarify their questions or add additional information ...
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StackExchange Data Dump Viewer - A Desktop Tool for Viewing the StackExchange Data Dumps
About:
StackExchange Data Dump Viewer is a small Qt-based application that allows you to view the contents of the data dumps. This includes the Ask Ubuntu data dump.
Code:
The application is ...
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Comes ask Ubuntu in different languages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any plans for localized Ask Ubuntu instances?
I am native speaking german. Would be great to have this site in my language.
What should I do?
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Stack Exchange chat via Pidgin, Empathy, etc?
Is there any way to connect to Stack Exchange chat rooms in Pidgin or Empathy or a different chat program?
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Are Linux Mint (and other unofficial derivatives of Ubuntu) questions on topic?
(Inspired by this question about Mint. )
You only have to look at Wikipedia to find a long long list of Ubuntu derivatives - should we allow, or even actively encourage, questions regarding these on ...
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Is it appropriate to Ask question and provide an Answer to topic which is not mentioned?
Hi,
My question is about when somebody have a solution (e.g., specific problem which affect a couple of people), but nobody ask for different reasons. This question is similar as Should we seed the ...
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When should we use Launchpad Answers and when Ask Ubuntu
(I am reposting a question from Ubuntu Launchpad Answers.)
From what I see, in the Ubuntu community we now have 2 official tools for asking questions related to Ubuntu. One is hosted by Launchpad ...
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Allow formatting in tag wiki headers.
(This might be stack generic so this might belong on meta.SO, but then again it might only be interesting to AU so...)
In my never ending quest to get more existing teams in Ubuntu to use Ask I am ...
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Why limit the number of times I can edit a comment? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Comment re-edit time-out is too short.. and Is there a limit on deleting my comments?
I was surprised of this feature. What is it useful for?
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Can I share an Idea about ubuntu here?
I want ask here before share my idea in main ask ubuntu. i think it may be against the website rules.
so is it possible?
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Will 'askubuntu.com' be an alternative for the 'ubuntu forums'?
Hey,
I was wondering how to know the best place for your question? I was browsing the 'questions' section and I came across a numbers of problems that aren't just "questions", the same kind you'd ...
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Twitter question intro too long and wordy
I want to start tweeting the good questions and answers, when I did one the tweet text came out like this:
Stack Exchange Ubuntu Q: Unity crashes when I move the cursor over it. http://t.co/AnkE8RL
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Do we compete with ServerFault?
I just decided to install some snmp daemon on my ubuntu servers. I tried to start with this site, and searched for snmp. No hits. I'm exclusively an Ubuntu Linux admin at this point so I figured I'd ...
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Does upvoting a comment add to the commenter's reputation? How much?
I've noticed some great comments along the way and upvoted them. Will the commenter get any reputation boost from that? (If they do, how many points per vote?) I'm also wondering since I've seen some ...
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What was discussed, and what was the outcome of the Ask Ubuntu UDS-N session?
There was an Ask Ubuntu session at UDS-N on Friday 29th October 2010.
What topics were discussed?
What decisions were made?
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Can moderators mark a question as answered?
Often, principally with new users, it happens that useful or correct answers are not marked as answered. I'm asking if moderators have power to mark answered question by other users. A lot of question ...
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Ask Ubuntu session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
On Friday will be a session where Mr Robert from SE will talk about Ask Ubuntu called How to integrate with Ask Ubuntu , you can connect and chat directly and your questions will be answered, and ...
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Is there a way to directly contact a user? [duplicate]
If I want to directly contact a user, instead of just commenting on a post of his, is there a way a can do that?
This could be useful, for instance, in providing guidance to a new user.
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Tag for questions like "What _____ are available?"?
There are a lot of questions like What native games are available? and What docks are available?. Do you think we should make a tag for them? The first thing that comes to mind is available-software, ...
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Users / Questions ratio.
Based on the figures shown via the Questions and Users links, it seems that there are 2,575 questions, and 4,652 users.
I head Joel Spolsky (co-founder of Stack Overflow) talking about how, in ...
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Do we promote "collection" wikis?
I happened to see the question Widgets for promoting Ubuntu on your website. In the question it states:
This is a collection for promoting Ubuntu on your website. If you have the rep, please enter ...
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Merged / Closed (exact duplicates)
For example this question was "merged", and this one was "closed". What is the difference?
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Help create a great Wikipedia entry for Ask Ubuntu
Please help by making http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AskUbuntu , the Wikipedia entry about AskUbuntu better. You may want to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StackOverflow as a reference on how our page ...
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Ask Ubuntu vs AskUbuntu
What's the name of our site?
AskUbuntu seems to be more popular currently, but that could just be that it gained some initial momentum somewhere. Our FAQ, however, says:
AskUbuntu is a Q&A ...
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'Apps' for Ask Ubuntu
AskUbuntu.com has a powerful API that allows developers to create rich applications to check questions, comments and user data from the site. Those apps can be browser extensions, desktop widgets or ...
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What should I do if I've solved an issue for myself and think it would be good to have out there?
I just spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to easily use the keyboard to split the screen between two windows (turns out I needed the Compiz Grid plugin from compiz-fusion-plugins-extra). I ...
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Are there any plans for localized Ask Ubuntu instances?
Is there a plan to spin off Ask Ubuntu into (community driven) localized versions?
What I mean is something like:
http://interrogerubuntu.fr or http://fr.askubuntu.com/ where people who are more ...
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Best way to search AskUbuntu
I've spotted 3 or 4 questions which amount to "How do I do backups" in the past few days. This got me thinking about how to prevent really obvious dupes. One way might be to make searching the site ...
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Which new-user restrictions do more harm than good?
Are some of the new-user restrictions counter productive? If so, which.
My example: Until I had +50 rep, I could not post comments on answers. Instead, when I had something important to say, I had to ...
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Why do I need 20 reputation to chat even in the feedback channel?
I'm not sure how to answer to a previous answer so I joined the chat and I couldn't ask anyone as I'm lacking repuatation.
Come on guys, this side is supposed to be "easy" and enable an instant ...
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Title editing for googleability
I've been editing the titles to make more sense, for example "How do I do foo on Ubuntu" to "How do I do foo?" since we already know you'll be on Ubuntu (unless you specify otherwise). I've also been ...
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Are we too harsh on this one ?
This question is along the lines of favourite emacs shortcut or best video editor or text editor or php/ror editor for ubuntu. Many of them are lingering along nicely as community wiki's without ...
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How can I increase my reputation on Ask Ubuntu?
I notice some users with very high reputation scores. What is their "trick", and how can I increase my reputation?
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How would Ubuntu Bug #1 be fixed if Ask Ubuntu uses a Windows Platform?
Unless this is a Mono port of stackoverflow and it is running on Ubuntu server.
Please clarify
(Ubuntu's bug #1 is that Microsoft is more popular than Ubuntu - see at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+...
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Lack of revision note and cc-wiki graphic in Ubuntu footer
I noticed today that the Ubuntu site doesn't appear to have the cc-wiki graphic and "revision" note that usually appears in the Stack Exchange footer. I don't want to tag this as a bug, but I was ...
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Are "Has anyone installed Ubuntu (version) on a (Notebook brand/model) successfully" questions allowed?
Well, the title says it all. I have a laptop on which I could't install 9.04 and was wondering if anyone tried 10.10 on one. Are this kind of questions on topic?
I know there used to be a ...
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How should we tackle troubleshooting questions?
Some questions asked are difficult to answer because they require several steps to troubleshoot. What I mean by this is that in order to help the asker, we need to ask them several questions. It seems ...
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Reception of askubuntu.com
Now that this site has officially launched (no longer in beta), I think it'd be interesting to see what people elsewhere (outside the usual Stack Exchange circles) are saying.
Have you noticed ...
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What is the difference between the 'sound' and 'audio' tags?
Is there a technical or functional difference between the sound and audio tags?
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Giving feedback on the design
Thanks to Mat and Jin the new design is live. Here's how to report bugs. If you find a problem with the design that is CSS related, for example something doesn't line up right or look wrong, then Jin ...
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Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
We closed the domain naming thread (click for details).
Instead, let's start with a killer "elevator pitch!" Joel will be blogging about the elevator pitch approach to naming, but to get you ...