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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Is the abcde tag helpful to spammers?
See this (possibly now deleted) question:
Inpage Installation
The user just threw abcde in the tags list, and thus saved themselves from entering a tag.
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How can i change my username? [duplicate]
How can i change my username? Tried something here and there off course but nope. It is now just user 60656 something. PS How can i ever qualify these quality standards for posting a question?
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Why answered questions reappear on the main page
I always wondered why are the answered questions reappear over the main page. I do know that we can filter question with given options, but this question was always on my mind. Example;
How do I ...
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Necessity of suffrage and vox populi badges
Many new users will simply close their eyes and go on upvoting regardless of why they are or for what they are upvoting. It is because that they want the badges. So why do these two badges exist?
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Multiple answers saying the same thing
Often, I see people posting duplicate answers to the same question. Example scenario. Is this a problem? Should I flag them?
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Completely off-topic, promoting!
In the past hour, I have seen two off-topic question promoting a service. Both were marked as spam. I am not even on that much, so if there is two this hour, and there is on average one a hour, 24 a ...
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How to correctly use *blockquotes* in questions/answers?
It seems I can't manage to use blockquotes correctly in my answers. There's always an extra empty row in the blockquote. I thank the editors for their patience and perseverance in correcting my ...
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How come some questions I can't edit? [duplicate]
On some questions the edit button is greyed out and I can't edit them. Why is this, and does it happen to other people. Example: "open in terminal" command in ubuntu 16.04, doesn't open ...
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Incorrectly declined flag
I flagged this post as "Low quality + not an answer"
However, it was denied (huh?)
The comment was:
declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to
support it
Huh?
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Should I approve edits like this?
I was shown this edit to review.
It's a nice edit, sure. But it also adds a ton of stuff the OP don't put in.
Should I approve or reject such edits?
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Whats the right way to request details for helping to solve a problem
Because some of you have such detailed ideas how to help OPs (and especially how not) and some of you like to express this by waves of downvotes (even if th OP accepted the answer) I want to ask you ...
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Why does remastersys.com go to some other retailer site?
I click a link in another question and it instead went to a retailer site, not a package to remix the system.
This is the post: Creating a Live CD with Gnome-Classic as default environment?
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Option to add questions to reading list/subscribe to them?
I have some questions I feel like saying "Me Too!!!" to and some that are interesting enough so that I would like to keep myself posted on developments like this and this.
Would be awesome if I didn'...
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Why 'Meta'? Why not 'Bobcat'?
I understand what the Meta sites are, their purpose in life, and their importance, however I do not understand fully why they have the name 'Meta'? I mean, why not 'Bobcat'? Could some please explain?
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Why are only mods allowed to vote to migrate a question to another site (not including the site's Meta site)?
As far as I currently understand it, there are no users other than mods who can vote to migrate a question. Why isn't this ability granted to at least higher rep users, or at least to give users the ...
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Why this question has 6 downvotes? How is it off topic
How is this question off-topic ? Isn't grep a utility of Ubuntu and grep uses regex. Why -6 to this question?
using grep or any of its variations
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Add "Please" and "I'm sorry" to standard/canned/pro forma/flag answers
The "standard" comments on all of the "flag" and "close" answers are a tiny bit harsh for first-time users. Couldn't we make them a bit more gentle?
E.g.:
This question has been asked before and ...
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"Possible duplicate" on both end?
There's a question Why is Ubuntu named Ubuntu? which has a possible duplicate banner. It's a possible duplicate of the question What does "Ubuntu" mean?, which itself is a duplicate of the first ...
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Best way to raise reputation without spamming questions?
I would like to be able to post a photo to my question, how can I work to raise my reputation so I can do this?
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New guidelines for reviewing suggested edits
I was back reviewing suggested edits after a long time when I noticed that the reasons provided for rejecting a edit have all changed.
So are there some new guidelines as to what I am supposed to do?
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Why this question is off-topic?
Why this question: Script Bash - Comparison on two directories [on hold] is off-topic? It is a question on bash. Rather it may be a duplicate of Script Bash - Comparison on two directories
There are ...
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What to do if a question looks potentially dangerous? [duplicate]
For example, this question might be a great example of someone wanted to break into a system but masking the question as a "problem". In this case, assuming I can provide an answer, should I refrain ...
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Should I flag pure shell command answers as "link only answer"?
There are answers that consist of only shell commands, with no comments, showing up in the low quality review; Is it right to flag them as "link only" answer?
To me, an answer that consists only of ...
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How to suggest an editing only changing one character? [duplicate]
Looking at this post. I think
in stead of
should be
instead of
When I try to save, it prompts:
Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to
improve in this post?
How ...
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How much rep does a veteran have?
So occasionally around the place (on Meta) I see "Since you are a veteran" or "Veterans have this privilege".
For example, here.
How much rep does a user have to have to be considered a veteran?
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There doesn't seem to be a question about "The disk drive for tmp is not ready yet"
This is an error which I have seen many times, and yet while there are multiple questions about it (here and here), none of them are up voted. Is this because there is no answer, or I can't search and ...
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Was I wrong improving the tag wiki for drivers?
I really need to know why was my edit rolled back. Because nobody asked me nor took the issue up to me. Don't get me wrong, I think No Time has done a well job updating them I felt that this time he ...
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Question about off-topic flagging
I'd like to know if the question asked by own OP has been solved by himself and it doesn't contain any other answers from users either, is it considered as: off-topic>This describes a problem that can'...
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is it OK to just change a tag on a question?
There's one user that removes installation and replaces it with system-installation or software-installation.
Most of the questions are good questions with plus 15 votes. Should these edits be ...
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Better handling of marking duplicate questions?
While I realize that dealing with duplicate questions is probably a tedious, time-consuming overhead issue for Moderators, I'm wondering if there can't be a better way of handling them rather than the ...
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STOP! Look and Listen
Dear moderators this message is for you. Some weeks ago there was a hike in the number of audits conducted in the review queue. Unfortunately it has created more problems than it solved, more ...
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Can we delete question 12796?
This Q was recently locked even trough my best wishes of delete it. I mean, who cares about some petition for firms someone did several years ago and even so failed? This shouldn't be the kind of ...
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Do we need(or is it even possible) to prevent suggested edits from anonymous users?
In the last several days I have come across at least 2 edits that were attempting to vandalize a post. I don't mean attempting to edit there own problem into the question or answer, these were ...
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Are we making overly extensive answers, that could somehow make afraid the users?
I've seen questions lately that only ask about how to upgrade from one version to the next (not LTS, not skipping releases) that are even getting upvoted (for godness sake). I don't see where is the ...
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Namespace pollution
I am surprised that nicks are not unique in SO.
Should nicks be unique? What if tomorrow we get oli's, jorge's and luis alvadaros' all over the place? :)
[JFYI] Due to name space pollution, I ...
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Protect EOL questions (or at least this question)
I've read some ilustratives questions about why questions should be protected and why "not" they should be protected, and after all of that I should say that at very least: protect EOL questions, from ...
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Do users have to lose their sense of humour to answer questions on the AskUbuntu Site?
I just answered one of my own questions, which I opened a bounty on just this morning.
Rather than just lose the 50 points, I offered it open to the most humorous or correct answer, and that person ...
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different hardware - different solutions despite of one topic like e.g. nvidia
e.g. with this nvidia-post I got voted up or voted down, because this solution only works for CUDA optimus cards of nvidia - when bumblebee is added as repo.
( https://askubuntu.com/questions/297030/...
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Why aren't there any gold tag badge(s)?
As title says, why aren't there any gold tag badges in this site? I've seen gold tag badge on other SE family sites.
Also in meta site.
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Criteria for considering new tags
Where can I find information about what would make a beneficial tag on Ask Ubuntu or any other Stack Exchange site? What conditions must be satisfied before a new tag should be proposed/made? For ...
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Is that possible if my reputation drops to zero (0)?
Just curious enough, so is that possible if my reputation drops to zero?
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Why?
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What is the differences between Ask ubuntu Meta and Ask Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I see no differences with them but the coloring is that it? Meta is mostly black and white.
And when I ask a question on here it doesn't show up on AskUbuntu, Why?
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Is there a query application?
I was wondering if there was any single query application which could take in the question of the person then send it to all open source help related sites like askubuntu.com, stackoverflow.com, ...
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Tag synonym request [boot-failure]->[boot]
I don't have the necessary score to propose boot-failure->boot, so could someone with the necessary score please propose it? Thanks!
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Shouldn't users be asked to give more info, especially on their their desktop environment, when asking questions?
People using Gnome/Unity usually post their questions without bothering to mention this fact. Also, most users assume that when talking about folders or file browser we should assume they are talking ...
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Should a second, short edit be awarded with reputation points?
See this answer.
I edited an answer. This edit was accepted, and I was granted 2 reputation points. Thirty minutes later, I realized that I made a small mistake. So I re-edited the question. This ...
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Chat bot to annoy us with questions from SU
This is a proposal. We have chat bots that annoy us in feed AUGR with new questions tagged ubuntu from U&L. Why not have one that feeds from SU.
I noticed some useful questions on SU tagged ...
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Why this question is locked?
Why is this question closed?
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What does this symbol mean?
Really not about Ubuntu, but I have recently noticed some people using this symbol <3 on Ask Ubuntu and Ask Ubuntu Meta. What does it mean? Is it some secret code that only certain people ...
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Should I ask my question on Ask Ubuntu, on Unix & Linux or on both? [duplicate]
Let's say I have a question which concerns all Ubuntu users, but not only them. (e.g. about apt and aptitude). On which Stack Exchange site should I ask it, depending on if my distribution is Ubuntu ...