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How to format release versions?
When making other edits to a question that mentions a release/number (e.g, Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS), my natural instinct is to bold it as it is usually the first thing I look for in a question and I have ...
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edit count difference
There is a difference in approved edits and actual edits in my profile
Editor Stats shows
Mudit Kapil had 503 edit suggestions approved, and 67 edit suggestions rejected
But Badge progress shows ...
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Should re-tagging really be considered as edit?
I have seen recently that, When I re-tag a question, It is considered as edit. Then I can even reverse my vote on that question. I have a feeling that, It should not be considered as edit since, The ...
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How do we handle edits that seem to intentionally add inflammatory language?
The question in question is: What is zeitgeist used for?
Check the edit history for details, but essentially:
Question asked likening Ubuntu using Zeitgeist to God-lessness.
Attempt to ...
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Should I edit or re-ask my question?
If I edit my question after attempting to fix a problem and the problem still exists does my question still get answered or do I have to re-ask the question?
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Changing "yesterday", "today", etc in Title to actual date
I was recently inconvenienced by Titles or Question bodies that say "a couple of days ago", "Yesterday" or "Today" because I was forced to scroll down to see question asked date and do some mental ...
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Duplicates Policy Incentivizes Clutter Rather Than Canonical
Disadvantages of Current Duplicates Policy
Stated briefly, the current policy encourages proliferation over pruning.
The disadvantages of the current duplicates policy stem from the fact that it is ...
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What Is Considered "Extra Noise?"
So what I see a lot of is people who will format a question as follows
Hello i am having an issue with question/problem
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Insert question/issue here
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PLEASE HELP I CANT USE MY COMPUTER....
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How important is accuracy?
With regard to making small edits would an inaccuracy justify a minor edit?.
The question I refer to is found here and the suggested edit I made can be found Review/Suggested Edits.
A new user who can ...
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"You have too many pending edits"
I know what this means, but it has been like that for about 24 hours. Only once one of my edits was acknowledged, and then this message again. Are there so many pending edits that people are not being ...
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Why did this edit get rejected?
My edit. Note that hg8 said
This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what should have been changed.
So he edits it himself. He did the same as I ...
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Senseless revision?
This question was edited but I do not understand why. This shows the revisions. I found revision 2, the removal of the 14.04 tag, to be rather subjective but acceptable. However, revision 3 doesn't ...
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Why comment "This is an English only site"? [duplicate]
On occasion people post questions in a language other than English and within 5 minutes there are multiple comments informing them that this is an English only site.
Any user on the site is allowed ...
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Should this question be split into 5 separate questions?
I found What are the steps to deploy OpenStack in a VM using juju?.
I saw comments on the question earlier that look like the person asking this is really trying to find the answer. It appears he ...
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Editing: leave OP's original language [duplicate]
I was going to edit this post. My first thought was to delete the portion with the native language that OP posted. Googling it, it seems to be Norwegian. He provided a translation, that I was going to ...
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Bug in the audit system?
I believe I've discovered a bug in the audit system.
I was reviewing this answer, which obviously needed some serious work:
So I clicked on the edit link, and it showed me this:
Which immediately ...
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Someone is editing my question's tags and I disagree with their edit
As is suggested by Eliah Kagan;
In general, if you believe your question is de-tagged wrongly, here are some options at your disposal:
Read the tag's tag wiki and see what other questions ...
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Error submitting answer? [closed]
Trying to upload a picture in an answer to this question, I cannot upload images
but I can add links to images.
The answer looks fine (although not yet finished) - here is a screenshot of how I see ...
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Why limit edits?
When I get bored at school literally all I have is coming here and editing questions (hehe), but usually there aren't 3K+ rep users on the review queue when I'm on, and so I'm limited to 5 edits to ...
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Editing an answer (or question) can make it get more upvotes. Shouldn't the editor also get credit for these later upvotes?
Editing can substantially change an answer or question. These changes, if accepted, may increase the value of the answer/question and the number the up-votes it gets. These should be reflected in the ...
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Is it possible to edit Question without notify owner?
My question was edited by other person who have high reputation. But I didn't get ant notification regarding to this change. Before days the edit will be shows to me and after I accepted only the edit ...
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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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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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When correcting a vital typo via edit, how to bypass 6-character limit on edits [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make small but important edits?
Say that you have the prototype scenario in Why the minimum 6 characters limit on edits: someone has written rm -rf / foo instead of rm -...
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When is "improving / accepting" an edit considered too much?
I've come across a couple items in the review queue that were good edits, but they needed more.
Should I accept the edit using the Accept button, and then go and edit? Or should I use the Accept and ...
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Why is this edit rejected?
I'm new to answering and editing questions. My edit on how to install the ia32-libs in ubuntu 13.10 has been rejected. I do not know why. The reasons given were
This edit introduces spam, defaces the ...
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Warnings and meta information in question
Referring to this question: How to enable root login? (and this edit of that question).
There is an added remark in this question which doesn't seem to belong in the the body of a question:
Mod ...
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Other users can edit my questions?
I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, and to these forums and one thing that I have found to be a bit disturbing is that other people (including myself which is more oddness) can edit other peoples questions.
Is ...
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What to do when posts are voted down for no reason?
It's really annoying, a user asked this question:
I am wondering what the point of sh being symbolic linked to dash is? I understand that dash is supposed to be faster than bash, but I am uncertain ...
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Why were my edit suggestions of fixing URL rejected?
I recently suggested a very small edit to a post fixing outdated URLs which were rejected 2 times with the same reason.
The rejection notice states:
Rejected 3 hours ago:
Kevin Bowen reviewed ...
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Reviewing tool should be less flexible by enforcing the Skip option rigourously
When you are reviewing posts, you are faced with three options: Skip, I'm done (after some change), Nothing to review.
Ideally, when you make a change like edit, flag, comment, or vote, the "I'm done"...
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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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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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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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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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Should edits get some rep for upvotes?
I was wondering, why shouldn't edits get a small bit of rep for an upvote? (Like 1 rep for upvoted question 2 for upvoted answer) Because I answered pretty badly, but someone (fabby) edited it and it ...
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A critical note (alternative title: where is my speech freedom?)
The censorship sucks on this site. It feels very NAZI / NSB / Stasi like. Is that how you welcome a new guest? I do understand some moderation, but this is over-polished. What happened to freedom of ...
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