Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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How can I correct the reason for a close vote?
I cast a close vote but selected the wrong reason by mistake. Now the only option I am offered is to retract the close vote, and the system tells me that if I do that I won't be allowed to vote for ...
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Duplicate or other options?
Scenario:
We have an old question that is answered but is now outside our rules (eg off-topic)
Somebody posts a new question which is a duplicate of the older question.
What we do now ? We need to ...
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108 Rep, but only earned 8
I'm not sure if this is simple for the SO/SE dev team, or if you moderators can do something about it.
I've got plenty of rep on SO, but don't know too much about Linux. (Surely my 100 points should ...
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How to force new users to a FAQ that includes how to make a question, comment and answer
There is an increased in the amount of new users that confuse askubuntu.com to a forum, engaging even the answers as thought to be similar to the way we use a forum. For example, making comments, ...
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How can I open Ask Ubuntu chat directly?
How can I place an icon on my desktop to directly open Ask Ubuntu's chat?
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Why did a moderator decline a bunch of flags on link only answers?
A moderator recently declined 12 of my flags on link-only answers. Many of these answers literally had no text other than a link (1 of those had just a broken and nothing else, now a mod note was ...
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How can I read answers to the related questions that appear when I'm drafting a question?
I wanted to ask a question. While I was drafting it, Ask Ubuntu listed some closely related questions that had been answered. I thought those answers might answer the question I was going to ask but ...
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Is there any advantage or downside to using "Clear all filters" in one's flagging history?
I recently noticed this "Clear all filters" in my flagging history option.
I'm guessing it should be fine clearing all filters once in a while?
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When exactly does a downvote cost 1 reputaion?
I was trying to find the correlation between downvoting and losing 1 rep for the downvote.
If I understood correctly downvoting a post with a score ≥ 0 always takes away 1 reputation from me.
But ...
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Who peer-reviews suggested edits?
Do peer reviews go to just anyone, or do you need a certain amount of reputation to review suggested edits?
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Why does SE mess with the spacing in code blocks?
Why do code blocks delete double-spaces? Double-spaces are required in some code. Code blocks should not alter the text in them at all, because code sometimes has weird formatting.
Example: compare ...
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how are tags ordered and why only the first one is included in the question title?
I'm supposing that tags specified are reordered by occurrences (the most used fo first). The first tag goes directly in title of the question, not the others, even if they could be better related and ...
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How to contact a moderator?
Seeing this question I wanted to contact a moderator for changing all sudo gedit to gksu gedit.
how do I do this?
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Why do some questions show with a yellow background?
I suspect I'm missing something really obvious (and might have to delete this question in embarrassment!).
I can't see the reason why some questions have a yellow background (e.g. see below from ...
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Since a few days, no rep changes occur "in green", not getting pinged
Feels like a silly question, but someone please shine a brilliant light on this: Since a few days, none of the rep changes occurred "in green" on any of my devices, (so not) like this:
just ...
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How to see election stats and who you voted for?
I want to see what percentage of votes each of candidates (for moderator) got and who was my 1st,2nd and 3rd choices. Is there way to do it?
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How to find the question or answer relating to this revision?
I used Google to search for wmctrl -a and window id.
The first hit was a link to a revision at Ask Ubuntu:
And clicking it gave me this link in the address bar:
https://askubuntu.com/revisions/...
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About how best to question an edit
Some time ago, I asked a question... no answers were forthcoming... I continued to research. After a while, I found the exact solution to the question I had asked. I edited the question and provided ...
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User removed versus reputation cap
Dutch people are known to be always calculating....
Yesterday, two things happened to me at the same time:
I hit the daily quote, actually passed it, which "zeroed" the effect of a number ...
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Harmfull suggested edit got approved
I just re-edited an approved suggested edit, which made my answer wrong. Is there a better way to undo these things?
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/338370
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How does this user has only 100 rep after association bonus without any posts?
The user I am talking about: balpha ♦
He has neither ever asked any question nor has he ever provided any answer on Ask Ubuntu. So, how does he have 100 rep. After association bonus, the rep count ...
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flagging a question that is taking lots of "thanks" comments
I know that questions taking comments as "thanks" and "me too" should be "protected" from that, right?
Well how do I do that?
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Fake reputation scores
If there is any security measures are in Ask Ubuntu in case of fake reputation increase.
For example if a user has five google accounts,and login with each account and made upvotes for all the posts ...
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Where did my Reputation go?
I had over 200 reputation and now (next to my username) it says I have only around 170!?
Is this a bug, cause it has happened before to me. I have received no warnings about anything going weird, so ...
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Is there some congestion in the flag review queue?
I see 12 Flags "awaiting review", all 22 hours old.
I am in no hurry - I am concerned by the possibility that something might be broken.
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What does "Community♦ reviewed this 3 mins ago: Approve" mean?
The complete question is in the title this time (well, I do know what "Approve" means :-), I am interested in how community can review something)
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How do I escape backticks in a backticks command?
I found: "How do I escape backticks in a comment?", but I want to escape backticks, if I use backticks to format code in an answer.
The following doesn't work:
`sudo update-initramfs -v -u -k \`...
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What is peer review?
What is peer review? I always see this quote on a statement after edit a post.
And how much reputation user can do the peer review?
This is the example:
Thanks for your edit!
This edit will be ...
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My question and answers are being changed without explanation by another user
I asked a question, and it got a lot of answers. Two of which were better than the others. Now, I believe both the question and the best answers are being stripped of essential details. I rolled back ...
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How do I create a new tag?
From time to time, I notice some missing tags that would be useful. How do I add one?
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Merge my accounts
Sorry guys, but I completly forgot that I already had created this account (using facebook) and I created a new one (using lauchpad), if there is some way to merge the accounts I would enjoy it, but ...
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What are the criteria for receiving a bounty if it is not manually awarded?
Realizing that I'm running the risk of sounding extremely petty, I'm confused and curious enough that I have to ask. :) There was a question with a bounty of 50. I answered this question after the ...
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How to properly add code in comment
How can I properly add a line of code in a comment like this
test test
I like it more grey than test test if that is possible.
Or if there is another way to define code in a comment to make it ...
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What if the bounty was started by the question owner and did not accept any answer?
Following text within quotes was copied from this page
"If the bounty was started by the question owner, and the question owner accepts an answer posted during the bounty period, and the bounty ...
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How to deal with super-unspecific questions?
I was about to ask for clarification to this question (like someone else already did), but the answering advice that pops up when you click the text field for the answer says to avoid that:
So if ...
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How to request for merging my 2 askubuntu accounts?
I accidentally created a second account because I had forgotten about my first account, but now I want to merge them and keep single account.
I want this account to be merged into https://askubuntu....
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Can a badge be revoked?
Say you get a badge that requires you to get 10 votes. You get the badge but then someone down votes you so you no longer have the 10 votes.
Does the badge get pulled?
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Will winter hats disappear after December
I am starting to like the whole winter hats thingy (trophy system), will this disappear after December or will it change into other trophy systems giving digital achievements according to day, season, ...
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Why does meta complain when you downvote a post without commenting first?
If I downvote a post (say I didn't hated hats!) without commenting first, it gives the same old reminder:
This doesn't reflect Meta - here, you can downvote to disagree. This might be misleading to ...
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Why is edit question feature unavailable?
I wanted to edit this question for giving some sanity to it, but saw that the Edit feature is seen disabled. Why is it so?
N.B: I can edit other questions.
Image: Edit feature is shown disabled (...
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How to separate two adjacent code blocks
How can I separate two following codeblocks.
I mean something like this:
First command + output
sudo apt-cache policy
[sudo] Passwort für alex:
Paketdateien:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release ...
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I accidentally down-voted an answer that I meant to up-vote, and now I can't change it
Last month, I accidentally clicked down-vote on a very useful answer that I had meant to up-vote.
I didn't realize my error until today.
Now, when I try to correct the mistake, I get the message, &...
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Where can I see a summary of the comments I have made, like the question and answer summaries on my profile?
I tried searching many times in my profile, help center, here and Google, but I seem to be missing something.
Is there a way to see a Comments summary of my comments just like 'Answers' and '...
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Reputation requirement for a self answer?
I have a question on AskUbuntu which I managed to solve myself with some guidance from another user, He suggested that I self answer my question and provided this link as reference: https://askubuntu....
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Where would I ask a question about port forwarding?
I have set up Ubuntu Server 16.04 on my home network and want to access it from my browser at... school, for example. I asked a question about port forwarding to my Ubuntu Server on Ask Ubuntu and it ...
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What does it mean when a post is bumped to homepage by the Community?
Today I noticed this on a post:
What exactly does this mean and what triggered it?
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Help needed from mod
This may not be the right place to contact a mod, but I can explain why I am doing so.
So yesterday(3 mar IST) my PSU blew up with cracking sound and smoke.luckily no other hardware was damaged.
I ...
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Why are there no hats for Ask Ubuntu meta?
Why can't I wear a hat on my Ask Ubuntu Meta Account?
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I have got an answer to two-three questions on ask-ubuntu, should I answer all of them?
I have got a same answer to three similar questions on ask ubuntu. Should I answer all three of them (answer is the same) or should I answer one and give a link of the first answer to the other two ...
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