Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Moderator Support: Merge launchpad and askubuntu account
I would like to merge my launchpad and my askubuntu accounts. Can I receive some assistance from a moderator? Thank you
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When does the community user edit questions/answers?
At first I thought it was an automated thing until I got this suggested edit in the review queue.
Clearly this edit isn't any good and in fact it wasn't posted if you check the actual question.
But ...
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Avatar image transparency?
I have tried to upload a variety of images with transparency in gif and png format. I have saved them in 32x32 size and larger, but every time I upload them the transparency is black. I even copied an ...
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List of most recent questions
Is there a way to browse the list of questions asked, in reverse chronological order? The complete list of questions seems to sort it on number of votes and views. Wouldn't it be a nice option to have,...
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Are user-contributed hyperlinks always nofollow?
I learned (from Jorge Castro) that links on Ask Ubuntu are nofollow. Thus linking to some page (say, spam) in a post here doesn't increase that page's rank in search engines.
Is this the case for ...
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Is there a queue of flagged questions?
I often find questions which I flag as dup, to close or other. However I have the impression that not many other had a look at them. So my question is: Is there some queue or list for non-moderations ...
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Has rep required to edit questions been increased?
The other night I suggested several edits to remove the word "Ubuntu" from titles as was suggested in a tip here (editing-tips-and-tricks). Now, edit is faded out under questions for me and tells me "...
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Why my `edit` facilities blocked? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Edit link Missing
I can't edit some of posts. The edit is blocked.
What cause i can't edit the posts?
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Can I add picture to my profile if I am using OpenID?
I logged in to askubuntu.com using my Launchpad OpenID, but, afaik Gravatar uses email address to identify the account.
How will be linked to this profile in this case?
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How do i move my question to a different SE?
I've asked a question and after a couple of days thinking on it (and seeing low viewing) I suspect I might get better/faster results by moving it to Unix SE.
So how do I do this or request this?
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Favorites Question Are Not Been Added To My List?
I am adding Favorites Question & its not adding in my Favorites list
Using Chromium , i think its latest Version
UPDATED
i have checked lots of people Favorites & find that they got 15 to 20
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Why I can't initiate a bounty
I want to initiate a bounty for one of my question Link here and as per FAQ the question should be atleast 2 days old. Now the question is more than 2 days old and I still cannot initiate a bounty. ...
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Why can't I change check marks and up/down arrows?
I am new to Ask Ubuntu. I asked a question and got a prompt and useful answer. I wanted to thank the responder and click his up arrow, but discovered I had to be registered to do it, and that it ...
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Comment re-edit time-out is too short.. and Is there a limit on deleting my comments?
I'd like to know how long a comment I've written is "available" to be re-edited...
Either I'm too slow, or its too fast...
Also, what limits are there on deleting a comment? ...(which I couldn't re-...
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Missing badges in flair
I placed flair on my blog. It updates my reputation (Edit: Now that, it doesn't update anything) but my badges is one less than the actual. I have 3 badges but it displays 2; it doesn't take the ...
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Badges, Answers, Questions, everything disappeared
I don't know why but suddenly my badges, answers, questions etc. all disappeared :\
I had more than 8 answers, 3 badges and everything disappeared. One second I was watching my profile and everything ...
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How can I log out from my account on askubuntu? [duplicate]
How can I log out from my account on this forum? Maybe I am just missing something obvious, but so far I haven't found out how to log out. I have tried everything I can think of …
I also couldn't find ...
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Why is the Ask-Ubuntu login independent from other StackExchange sites?
Other Stack Exchange sites have a common login. Once logged into one site, one is also logged into the other sites that one has activated.
Ask-Ubuntu shares user profiles with these other Stack ...
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Lost access to e-mail account used to register in askubuntu
I have four e-mails one each in google, microsoft, yahoo and yandex and all four have two step verification using mobile apps enabled. I have registered in my askubuntu account using my yandex e-mail.
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Changing the language of Ask Ubuntu word processor
My PC's language is German and in this site the word processor is set to German. I can't change it to English so that my mistakes are automatically corrected.
Can I fix this somehow?
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Syntax highlighting in <pre> block?
So I've discovered that I can make code blocks with <pre> tag. Great ! Now I can write markup in vim and copy the resulting text into answer text box (instead of pasting answer and script ...
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Confused with a review entry
I'm confused with this review entry
I remebered this question because I actually saw it like one month ago.
So I want to the question to review the answer but it isn't asked "2 hours ago" but is ...
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Offering a human translation for cryptic google-translated questions
If there is a question where the text was clearly google translated with a cryptic result, is it OK to ask the author to provide the text in the original language so that I can edit his/her question ...
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marking answers as favorite
Instead of marking Questions as favorite, can I mark specific answers as favorite?
This would help me to keep all my favorite tweaks/tricks/solutions at one place (favorite tab)
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Does a 10k+ user get notified of a flag on their post in chat?
Let's say that I notice a really inappropriate message in chat from a 10k+ (this will usually mean that they have been hacked or something - not that I'm asking about a real situation that has ...
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When will I be able to ask about systemd questions with ubuntu?
This one was deleted:
Increase Trackpoint Sensititvity with SystemD (Ubuntu 15.04 or later)
because SystemD is a feature in the next version of Ubuntu. Having reinstalled, I searched for the ...
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Automatic flag(s) on large number of edit rejections
There is a particular user submitting a large number of edits, half of which at least are invalid. Is the large number of rejected edits raising any automatic flags to the moderators? Or should these ...
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What does Copy-edited. mean?
In the Comment Summary box, recently I have been seeing (example) "Copy-edited.".
What does this phrase mean? Or is it just people not bothering to write anything?
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delete my duplicate?
My question https://askubuntu.com/questions/148114/easy-terminal-controllable-media-player is receiving hate after years after it was marked a duplicate. Its close to being deleted. Should it be ...
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How can I view the actual amount of close votes
I recently thought that I would have a look at the Close vote queue (since I usually never bother - I have been trying to have a go at the moment). When I was finished it looked like this:
So I ...
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what is the number shown under one's name during chat?
During chat, if someone posts comments multiple times, we see an expanded info of the user containing his/her name and a value beneath.
At first I thought it must be reputation.But during an ...
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uploading screenshots [duplicate]
Is it possible to uploads screen-shots from my laptop to this AskUbuntu forum? I need to do it in order to link my answer to it. I searched for the process in formatting help, but found none.
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Clarification requested about nominees' "statistics" posted on the 2013 Moderator Election page
On the Nominations page, why is it "meta participation" that is used to describe nominees' participation and not just "site participation" or "Ask Ubuntu participation" or "Stack Exchange ...
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Will an edit to an answer I made be known to the person who asked the question?
Or do I have to add a comment so that the questioner is notified?
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Can I ask using my first/native language?
Can I use my native language (Malay) to ask or answer a question at Ask Ubuntu?
Is there any volunteer to translate my answer/question?
Bahasa Malaysia
Adakah boleh saya menggunakan bahasa ...
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What Super-powers does a Moderator have?
Just out of curiosity, what powers does a moderator have?
Before I asked this question, I think of moderators as people who have super powers – who can change this site to whatever they want, like ...
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How to back up and restore customized pro-forma userscript comments?
I have extensively customized my pro-forma userscript comments (with new comments and new wordings/linkifications for default ones). I use Chromium as my browser most of the time, and Firefox ...
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In review, why are some question summaries different than others
Some summaries are large, many are small, some are in orange.
I'm going to slap my head when I get the answer, I just know it.
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What happens to bounty points that are not awarded?
If a bounty is set and only one answer is given: when the bounty is not awarded what happens to the bounty? Does the only answer get the bounty despite it not being accepted assuming the answer is ...
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How do I get my question reopened as I would really like a resolution?
I asked a question which was closed as a "Duplicate Question":
How do I add customized wallpapers so they appear in the dynamic unity greeter?
I even acknowledged this by linking the potential ...
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Notifying posters of comments restricted?
I've noticed that comments I make are being stripped of the "@name" part. For example, my comment here, "@yossile, the OP has mentioned Google Chrome beta and there is (or was) a problem regarding it ...
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How do I add a photo to my Ask Ubuntu profile?
Could someone please help me with the steps to adding a personal picture to my Ask Ubuntu profile?
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Ask Ubuntu and file attachments
I need to attach a log file to a question I'm going to ask on Ask Ubuntu. Is this allowed by the site rules and if yes, how to do it?
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How to decide which flag is the correct one?
This days I found some questions about to install software in no longer supported releases (linke xenial)
I never know for sure flagging as EOL or flagging as a duplicate (like how to install or ...
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How do I add images in questions? [duplicate]
How do I add JPEG images in Ask Ubuntu questions?
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What determines which comments are displayed initially?
There are times when some questions or answers have many comments. In such cases, there's a "show n more comments" link. On clicking the link, I find, quite often, that the comments that were not ...
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pasting into stack exchange editor
I want to add the contents of an rc file to my question.when I paste it it looks fine in the editor but appears in my post with the formatting all wrong. on my end Ive used gedit and gvim and the ...
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Low Quality Review Queue - did I cause the "invalidate"?
Relevant post
getting error when typing string airmon-ng start then my wifi's ext video in comments
It came up in the LQ
I decided that some editing was necessary for me to decide - which I did ...
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Suggested edits: is this spam?
I'm sure it is, but just checking that this indeed happens to the system. Anyway, who would waste time in such ridiculous and useless thing?
PS: linked question is about blocking spam, not about ID. ...
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"User cannot suggest edits to this question"
Lately, I've been into edits using my new self phone, and all went smoothly.
But today, when I tried to suggest an edit to a new question, I simply couldn't.
Instead, I got this message:
"User ...
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