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 python 3.5 an Ubuntu Third Party App?
Ref: how can I create a program with python 3.5
This is a question in Ask Ubuntu about creating a program with python3.5.
The Question was closed as being off-topic.
"Help Center > Asking, What ...
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Why do we used byte instead of octet as data size unit?
I would like to understand why we seem to prefer to use the byte unit instead of octet unit (because I used more commonly the octet unit at work, at home, ...).
What are the reasons for describing ...
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Not receiving answers. What steps can I take?
My previous post: https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/20553/bounty-on-my-question has been closed with the following feedback:
Asking for responses to questions with a bounty on them is NOT the ...
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Proper use of Bold and Italic text in posts?
I would like to make this post to specify "proper" methods of bolding/italicizing text in questions and answers to keep the site clean and easy-to-read.
Partially based off of my other question on ...
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Splitting tag libreoffice into libreoffice-writer and others?
1,284 questions have been tagged with libreoffice which covers a range of different software.
Is it potentially beneficial to introduce the following tags to better filter answers for the respective ...
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Could we modify the pop-up of the downvote icon of questions?
Reading the answers and comments that I got on this question "Could we add a delay before being able to downvote a question?"
I changed my mind:
An answer needs to be upvoted or downvoted, it is ...
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Can we delete/migrate 425730 question that is about Mint?
Ok, is a good information, but it is off topic. The problem is that with the amount of votes that both Question and Answer have, we would need 4-5 10kers to delete it, but sadly we don't have that ...
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How do you ask OP to reconsider accepted answer and award yours?
I was a little late to the part posting an answer to this question: How to get a substring from bash command
We are all proud parents of our posted answers so I'm probably biased but I think my ...
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How often do questions get answered?
To all those newbies of Ubuntu, does your query get solved in most easy steps?
Most of the time, I have seen questions are either left unanswered or are linked to duplicate questions in comments. ...
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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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A user only asks questions
I seem to remember reading this somewhere, but I can't find it on this meta at least...
A saw a user who has 530+ rep but has only asked questions - 53:9 q:a. So he has quite a lot of privileges, ...
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Editor Privilege?
Speaking from experience, waiting for a suggested edit to be approved (before 2000 rep.) can be tiring and annoying. So what I want to know is if you guys think the following is a good idea. For those ...
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How to remove account from ask ubuntu?
The https://askubuntu.com/help/deleting-account shows wrong information. I am looking for a real way to remove my account from this site.
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Was I wrong to down vote this answer?
I down voted and answer on this question, you can read the comments as too why.
This user proceeded to trawl through my history and try to find ways to get me to change my vote based on another ...
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Is there something wrong with Ask Ubuntu?
I don't understand, why Ask Ubuntu is like this. out of every 10 to 20 questions only 1 is answered. And the Ubuntu website is advertising it as it's main Q&A web site! Don't you think something ...
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It feels like one of the moderators is being overly critical of my posts - what can I do?
A moderator seems to be shadowing me, down voting me within minutes of my posting an answer, and making inappropriate comments, and actions that are totally harassing me. Yeah, I'm pissed off.
I ...
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Should Users with only 1 reputation (Or with only 1 question/answer) be deleted after 30 days without a login?
Should Users with only 1 reputation be deleted after 30 days without a login? Because It would keep the site cleaner and There must be hundreds - thousands Of dead users that did use their account ...
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Standard of expanding the abbreviations for questions [closed]
In a recent question of mine posted on the AskUbuntu site I was ordered that M$ has to be expanded to stand for Microsoft (probably to allow for indirect advertising of the company). Is indirect ...
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ordered list format feature request -- subtopic numbering
Introduction:
While writing a response to a question, I came to a situation where making a sublist improved readability of the post.
This works:
topic
subtopic
subsubtopic
subtopic
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Why is Ask Ubuntu set up to discourage users from participating?
For a while now I have noticed Ask Ubuntu has a system of PFO in place. The system I have experienced does not allow me to post or answer questions unless I have 50 reputation points. The system ...
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fitbit tag axe request
I would like to suggest removing the fitbit tag...
Reasons:
-It doesn't have any relation to Ubuntu,
-Fitbit is a company and should be kept off-topic here
Please remove it. feel free to leave ...
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How to clean up the site if 80% of the users don't follow the rules
In my country, the gov tried to make it illegal to drive without using the safety belt, they tried to fine everyone who doesn't follow the law. There's another law that forbids smoking in closed ...
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Are questions in other language other than English accepted in AU? (accepting other languages in AU) [duplicate]
So we know the term language barrier but.. Ubuntu lets anyone install the system in different languages.
So in the support channel Forum or AU we get problems maybe prolonged by Image based technical ...
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Allow for more than 2 links for <10 rep [closed]
Links are helpful, I can't be as helpful as I could if I were allowed to post more than 2 links.
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Edit queue seems permanently blocked
Many Ask Ubuntu posts are in dire need of editing for basic grammar and clarity. I have the time and the ability to do just that for free. Yet for some reason there is a limit to the daily edits. Why? ...
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Proposed new tag: Atomic Pi
I just asked a question about an Atomic Pi, and thought I could create the tag for it, but I am lacking sufficient rep here to make it. Can someone make the tag on these questions? Please/thanks.
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I feel like I have NOT been well filtered :-(
I answered a question about a mouse scrolling problem.
mouse auto scrolling problem
The very first and most important part of my answer was :
"There seems to be an incompatibility that has been ...
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Making a 'master thread' for bugs and workarounds for Ubuntu 15.04 issues and bugs?
What does everyone think if we get a single thread going for bugs and workarounds for people with issues relating to 15.04 install. Maybe a wiki type thread. I'm sure a lot of people are coming here ...
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Conspiracies defense for AU
What if an X company set a team against Ubuntu in it's more simple form, a cozy Q&A site to spam it and attack members in the rise to become valuable members?
With a clones attack of "new" users ...
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How far an explanation should go / does it legitimate double posts / answers?
Often questions are very easy to answer if the asker would search a few minutes in the internet and has the right search terms handy.
The latter one is the key, the askers often didn't know what to ...
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Why does voting down decrement Reputation
if an answer is wrong , then we can vote it and the wrong answer goes down the list,but why decrementing the hard-earned reputation??
we need to bring a change to that policy.
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Tag change: [watch-command] -> [watch]
The tag watch-command should be called watch. Many other commands, including cp, mv are not with the suffix -command.
Please could we have watch-command changed to watch.
Firstly, all the questions ...
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Why are new users allowed to post links?
Although you may argue that they are limited to one link per post, they are actually able to post more than one link by enclosing it with ``s (and other ways), so making it so that they are not ...
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How does this works?
I have "earned " some popularity badge AND STILL GETTING this.
It is forum owner privilege to administer the forum to his / her liking. Somehow it seems very difficult for owners to realize that ...
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Marking outdated posts/info etc. to be archived
Old posts with outdated info, which are irrelevant to the currently supported versions, should be excluded by the search engine bots. Perhaps, they should be marked and archived (i.e.: Internet ...
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There isn't a more responsable moderator on AskUbuntu? Just Mitch?
Tried to solve a problem I had with my Ubuntu based OS and Wine, but Mitch pretending is some sort of god decided to put it on hold and close it after I hurt his feelings, maybe.
This problem is even ...
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Answer unfairly blocked
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: ubuntu 22.04 app black screen and laggy
To start, this was my first answer on this site although I’ve used for years. I’ve posted answers on many sites for ...
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Why is it that perfectly good answers get deleted?
Why is it that certain perfectly good answers get deleted by a few, because they point out Ubuntu's problems? One answer that was deleted is even given in Ubuntu's manual. Another that was deleted was ...
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Proposal to Change Procedure to Flag Duplicate Answers
This is a proposal on changing this procedure... We'll see where it gets. ;-)
Instead of adding a comment mentioning it's a duplicate, answer the question by referring the user to the duplicate ...
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LMGTFY -is it allowed
If someone is asking a dumb question that could easily be figured out by googling it are we allow to send them a lmgtfy.com link? Assuming we provide an explination for why the question is not ...
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Lets get rid of the localhost tag
The localhost has been on the burner for some time now. Users that know the term, will know that it is the name of the system itself, a network loopback. In the last 30 days, nobody answered any of ...
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Loyal ubuntu member
I have been using Ubuntu sense Ubuntu 6 .I was a helping member of the first Ubuntu.
com . I have been a member here sense day one and now i have to get 50 points before i can reply to help some one ....
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Suggestion for changing the vote/accept icons
I'm not sure that most (new) users know how to properly use the vote and accept icons that appear in answers. I know that I didn't for quite some time.
I'd like to propose a minor change in the vote ...
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Should there be more privileges for users who have more than 20,000 Reputation points
I was looking at https://askubuntu.com/help/privileges/set-bounties and https://askubuntu.com/help/privileges. I know some users on here have more than 20,000 bounties and any more than 20,000 ...
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Why the "Low Quality" answers reason looks like tyranny of the user? [closed]
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I am try to add my decisive solution to the existing answers without of any concurrency to differentiate answer set I mean.
Should to say it feels look alike some tyranny from the community and ...
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Flagging as off topic describes Super User as being about Windows
When flagging a question as off-topic: not about Ubuntu (through this path: should be closed ..., off-topic because ...), the following text is displayed as an option (emphasis added)
This is not ...
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How to deal with nonconstructive comments?
I read some kind of rule on SO or some sub site that were like this (very vague)
You should not question the purposes, the if's and how's of why a
particular person wan't to do a particular ...
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Bad admin choices regarding a compound question
There is a compound question asked; a question that solicits a CLI method, and a GUI method.
I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable ...
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Formal policy on duplicate/similar answers for similar questions on Ask Ubuntu?
I've been taking some flak recently for posting duplicate/similar answers to questions that are similar, rather than noting that a duplicate answer may exist, and vtc.
I've reviewed some of the 642 ...
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Some users downgrade votes and not give an answer
I think, if AskUbuntu born to help all users, and I agree we can vote down to an answer, but, at least, the user that downgrade the answer, have to answer the question correctly.
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