Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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How is it decided which close reason is to be given?
I have recently been VTCing questions and noticing that even though I may VTC a question as off-topic, because there are a larger amount of people VTCing it for another reason, the other reason is ...
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What is the procedure for reporting a problem with the site?
To be more specific: I am trying to edit one of my old answer in order to update it --- this one --- and the site hangs everytime I press the "save edits" button (more specifically: it stops as if ...
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How can I view a comment for a deleted answer?
I had posted a comment to an answer to this question. From my inbox, I can see that there was a response but now that answer and all associated comments including the response to my comment aren't ...
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Why are certain questions grayed out on the main page?
Lately I've been noticing that certain questions are grayed out on the main page. I know that when an edit is in progress the edit button is grayed out on a question/answer, but I've never seen this ...
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What does this new icon tell me?
In my flags overview I found a new icon "active" - what should it tell me?
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Is it better to delete questions I've asked than to ask for them to be closed?
I've asked a couple of questions, here and here that haven't been answered after quite a while. I see no way to improve them. I have asked that they be closed. But, on reflection, would it be better ...
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quality standards
I have a question which I cannot submit because of "quality standards". I could add more text to try to get round this but that would be filler text.
What is the accepted way to handle this situation?...
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Account merged, now cannot login to SE chat
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this inquiry.
In AU, I have an old account with only 1 rep which I have used for about a week. I forgot the password for that account so I then created ...
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What to do with questions related to Gimp usage?
I created a question related to Gimp usage, because a few such questions were under the tag Gimp.
My question was closed.
I asked on askubuntu because I'm Ubuntu user. I know that Gimp is multi-...
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How to retag a question without making it go to the top of the question list?
I want to retag posts that have to do with dv6 laptops by HP with the new dv6 tag. I can do this by searching for "dv6" and going down the list and retagging each question with the dv6 tag. The ...
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Should redirections to other questions / answers be comments or answers ?
A part of the answer to this question is, in my opinion, answering another "new" question. I wanted to redirect the person asking the "new" question to the existing answer and posted it as an answer.
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Can a low rep user access a comment from their own deleted post?
This question was triggered by a review of this low-quality post. I dropped a comment explaining how to favorite the question in the sincere desire to help provide some clarity. I've reviewed http://...
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AskUbuntu pages are returning an error when connected to Opera's built in VPN
The issue is simple.
When I navigate to: Why do pages not load in any browser after updating Ubuntu 12.04?
I can load it as expected.
When I toggle on Opera's built in VPN I get:
Page Not Found
We'...
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Do flags of users with review privilege count as review?
I am currently at around 7.8k reputation points, which means I have access to all standard review queues, including the "Low Quality" queue.
Now when I see a post that does not meet the site's ...
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Downvote without consequences?
Just curious:
I checked my behaviour on upvoting / downvoting; the rate is almost 30:1, which means I am not much of a downvoter. A few days ago however one of these rare occasions took place, and I ...
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Can I sort (question accroding to ) recently answered &/or accepted question?
I want to sort question on the basis of recently answered question on askubuntu. Such as newest,frequent,unanswered, Can I sort by following?:
Recently Answered Questions
Recently Accepted Answers
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Request to reopen this interesting question
This following question was marked as duplicate by mistake(as it seems to me).
Move running program to background in bash
Marked Duplicate:
Running programs in the background from terminal
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why there is no keyboard <kbd> in the menu?
We have included options for bold, italics, links, CODE, etc., but there is no option for keyboard keys.
For example to get Alt as a key we have to place it in between <kbd> tags then it will ...
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Is it OK to post, and how should we deal with, non-English (or partly non-English) answers intended for translation? [duplicate]
Questions in languages other than English, or which contain non-English text and translated text, have been discussed before on meta.
But what about answers that are written in other languages? How ...
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Why am I not getting email notification to new answers to my question?
I have checked "Notify" check box with my email id in my question but I don't get any notification even though I get answers to that question. Why is it so? Is there problem in "AskUbuntu"'s part?
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Is there a way to generate an rss feed with all questions that get 10+ upvotes?
I know there is a way to get ALL questions through a feed, but what about great questions? Are they listed independently somewhere?
If not, can I do it with a yahoo pipe? Any cues as to how I should ...
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Found askubuntu copycat site, where do i report? [duplicate]
Here's the link:
http://askubuntu.com.80bola.com/questions/121373/etc-lightdm-unity-greeter-conf-file-missing
Been googling around for lightdm background image solutions, and found this. On google ...
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Is there a way to disable relative dates and times on posts and comments?
I often see fuzzy and relative times given for things around the site like "edited 1 hour ago".
This isn't a problem when you first load the screen but after a while, unless you refresh, those ...
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How do I close a question on Ask Ubuntu?
OK, I asked a question, and it gets answered. I don't want to bother anyone anymore, so I want to mark my question as answered and consequently closed. How do I do that?
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How to handle answer and bounty for initially incomplete question?
Can someone tell me what's the best way to handle the answer to this question considering that it wasn't accurate when I asked it?
Should I post my own answer and accept it? Should I award the ...
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Image uploader provides wrong image
I am trying to add a screenshot to a question of mine.
After I select the picture with the "browse" link, the small preview shows the correct image.
But when I click the "Add picture&...
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fake askubuntu. Beware [duplicate]
I found a fake askubuntu i.e. a website that looks exactly like askubuntu but URL is: http://viyals.com.
Beware, if you try to login on such website your username and password maybe stolen.
Anyway ...
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Do answers, given during grace period, count for a bounty?
Just curious..
A while ago, I commented on this question, to see if I could find information to give an answer. Just after the bounty period, but within the grace period, the poster commented that ...
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Help Needed for Broadcom Testing
it's your crazy mod here. I am in need of Ubuntu users that have a BCM43XX Broadcom Wireless Card. For the Broadcom models you can go ahead and read
Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers
What we ...
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Why the limits on the number of users that can be notified in one comment?
Sometimes, it becomes necessary to notify more than one user (using the @) in the same comment. However, the current system allows notifying only one user in the same comment.
Why this limit?
Can we ...
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'Log in with StackExchange' option in Firefox not working for me [closed]
I took a 2 week vacation, back now, and when I went to log in on the desktop it no longer works in Firefox. It was working fine before, so something changed in the last 14 days. As my desktop computer ...
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How to sign into Ask Ubuntu?
Trying to sign into Ask Ubuntu using a Launchpad account. It won't let me get that far once it got me to the authentication part but none the less it fails.
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Answer aglomerate, group of possible solutions for a frequent question
Is there a better way to answer the "upgraded and my 'random graphics maker string here' driver stopped working" (or any other derivatives of hardware category as long as its frequent)?
I have seen ...
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I disagree with the removal of a tag from my question.... now what?
I could of course just reapply the tag (at least I expect I can.. can I? Haven't tried.), just to have it removed again.
Usually I'm happy that people mess around with "my" tags, as it improves the ...
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Finding relevant aswers
How does one go about finding questions and answers that are up to date, not 5 or more years old. I ask this so I can avoid the "THIS Question has been asked." that I see in every question.
This is ...
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Checking Voter's identity
How to see the identity for the voters who voted for a specific question or answer? I have tried clicking on vote count indicator but nothing happens...please help
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"Answer your own question" = accepted answer?
If I use the "answer your own question" option, will my answer be marked as accepted?
If not, that seems rather useless...
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My question is marked as duplicate, what does this mean?
A user marked one of my questions as duplicate, I don't really understand if I have to do something about that or what ???
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I made an edit but didn't realise I was not logged in
I made an edit to a post but didn't realise I was not logged in until after I submitted the change. Is there any way to assign it to me?
This happened only a few moments ago, the edit number is ...
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I would like a moderator to remove the acceptance from one of my answers and give it to another one
Is that even possible?
Question here with my answer the accepted one and the one below that a better one!
Yeah, I've looked here already but I'm not going to plagiarise the better one; that would ...
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Links in reviews, good or bad?
First of all, Its is a good feature : fake posts to check whether the reviewer is paying attention or not.
But It seems to have a little problem. One could easily find out that its a test like : ( ...
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Did I respond appropriately to this answer?
I just came across a user posting a fairly bad, sarcastic answer to a 5 day old question with a number of answers (9 including his).
Here is a screenshot of the answer and the ensuing comment thread. ...
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Why are new users not allowed to post images below 10 reputation?
I am somewhat of an active user of Ask Ubuntu. As I've been editing other peoples' posts (to improve them or something else) I've noticed a pattern... Users with below a 100 reputation used links to ...
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I can't add an answer to indicate that I'm having the same problem as a previous poster
I can't seem to add an "answer" to indicate I'm having the same problem as a previous poster; e.g.:
to question---> External USB drive keeps unmounting and remounting using different UUID
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Why does my week rank show -483?
When I visit https://stackexchange.com/leagues/89/week/askubuntu I see this:
However, I don't see that rep loss in my Ask Ubuntu profile
(The recent rep loss was only ~65 and others were affected ...
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How to open a certain question in the Close Votes queue?
Unlike the edit-button which brings me to the Suggested Edits-queue when an edit is pending, the close-button always open the VTC-dialog.
I'd prefer to be brought to the Close Votes-queue if there ...
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How can I move my own question to another site?
I believe my question belongs on another Stack Exchange site, such as Super User. But, there isn't an option to do so, and it's not getting enough views for a moderator to move it. What can I do?
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Reputation points and badges not incremented
My reputation points and badges suddenly stopped increasing on Ask Ubuntu...
I have done some reviews today and I was also supposed to be awarded a gold badge for editing 500 posts. This started ...
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Am I allowed to use a web crawler on Ask Ubuntu?
I have created a web crawler from a tutorial and the website in the video seems to be down.
Would I be allowed to test it here at Ask Ubuntu, just solely for educational purposes?
If not, does ...
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