Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Reopening of a closed question?
Hi. Recently a question of mine was closed due to being an exact duplicate of this one. While I always skim-through the questions with similar titles, I hadn't thought to search under "microblogging" ...
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What's going on with this revision count?
On this question page it is said there have been three revisions. If you look at the history it is clear there have only been two. What's going on?
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Possibly similar question (or even accounts)?
Either it's a coincidence or intentional, I saw two similar questions of LibreOffice right now:
Convert .ods document to .docx document
Converting .ods to .docx file
Apparently, both OPs have also ...
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Why am I not mentioned in the “marked as duplicate” label? [duplicate]
Yesterday I flagged number of loopback addresses as a duplicate of How to add a loopback interface?, and as far as I can tell from the automatic comment I was the first and only one to do so. Now that ...
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Mobile site UI buggy
Basically the text of top menu and tags is outside its supposed placement.
Browser: Chrome
Device: OnePlus Two
Issue seems specific to Chrome, as Firefox displays the site normally.
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Can we have some click through stats for Community Bulletin?
We have a section called "Community Bulletin" on the landing page of Ask Ubuntu which contains links to events (like Moderator elections), featured meta posts, recently held meta discussions along ...
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How accurate are times given for when questions/answers are posted?
In https://askubuntu.com/questions/431194/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-12-04-to-ubuntu-13-04, the question is at 2014-03-08 06:44:30Z and the answer is at 2014-03-08 06:46:25Z.
My question: how reliable ...
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Forgotten questions due to spam waves
A while ago, we were having some spam waves, do to the distraction, we didn't answer the question, that were getting spam A's. I checked my flags, and saw some of them are completely forgotten, I ...
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Could we get rid of all unuseful tags? (Tags that alone can't be)
Lets check this:
http://data.stackexchange.com/ubuntu/query/146225/what-tag-is-most-common-for-first-posts
Well, someone see the problem? I do. The version specific tags and a bunch of overly general ...
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How can I delete my account? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I delete my account?
Is it possible for a user to delete his account? If yes, how it could be done?
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Why no tool buttons above answer field while logged in
Today I faced this strange issue.
There are no quick buttons (linking/image insert) in answer field. The preview field is neither updating. please see the screen shot,
But I can see the icons when I ...
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Launchpad OpenID not working for login on Ask Ubuntu
I can't log in here using my Launchpad ID.
I get Canceled on the identification page of AskUbuntu.
On the Launchpad, I get an Oops page with an message saying that the error was logged.
Sorry, ...
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Ask Ubuntu says the body of my question does not meet the quality standards - why?
When I tried to post a question just now, the system just says:
This question body does not meet our quality standards. Please make
sure that it completely describes your problem - including what ...
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Who gets reputation at the end of a bounty?
I can not find a clear answer to this anywhere. I have a question with a bounty. At the end of the 7-day period I set for the bounty, if there's no answers I've accepted and no answers have 2 or ...
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What does it mean when my question is "edited" and how can I investigate?
My last question was "edited", can somebody explain:
What this means exactly.
How do I see what "edits" were made.
How do I contact the "editor" should I disagree with the "editing"
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What is the fastest way to earn the bounty privilege?
I have numerous questions I need answered, and it doesn't look like they will be unless I unlock the ability to have bounties. On the particular stack exchange site, I'm not very knowledgeable about ...
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How do I include a screenshot to illustrate a question in AskUbuntu?
The title is the question. I have screenshots that make a question easier to understand than anything I can write.
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Will removing my account remove all the posts I created while using the site?
Is it possible to delete your account and automatically remove all your posts, or when you remove your account do your questions/answers remain on the site?
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Does the word "best" automatically make a question "Opinion based"?
I recently posted a question, and it was closed as "opinion based", presumably (and from a comment here) because of the word "best" in the title. I don't quite see where the ...
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Approved edits and reputation issue
I have faced an issue mentioned below.
The number of approved edits are getting reduced. I do not understand how that is happening.
My reputation is also getting reduced. However there are no down ...
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Should I edit a question or ask a new one?
I Want to know the difference between display managers and found this question, but it does not include SDDM. Should I edit that question to include SDDM or ask as a separate one?
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How different is the answer's OS allowed to be?
I sometimes see Windows answers which are removed because they are not helpful to Ubuntu users, even Mac answers, but what about answers that explain how to do something on Mint (and it is clear that ...
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If I bounty a question, but then I write a good answer, can I award myself the bounty and get my bountied reputation back?
Say I start a bounty on a question. What happens if I figure out a solution for my bounty on my own and write a good answer. Can I award the bounty to myself? Do my reputation points belong to me ...
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Links without http don't get linked
Just came across this, don't know if its a feature or a bug. Basically if you don't type out http on a link in the markdown, it does not get converted to the link.
[Link](google.com) => Link
does ...
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How to deal with late answers for no longer supported releases in the review queue?
Example: Very late answer to a question regarding 18.10
Yes, it isn't really an answer, but I wished to know, how it is generally regulated? Whatever the quality of the answer is.
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"You have made too many incorrect reviews" What?
I have been banned from reviewing for having too many incorrect reviews. What? Most of my "attention" reviews I passed, and I was about to edit an answer. It said the question didn't exist? I just go ...
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Can someone accept other user old question?
Can someone accept other user old question? Example:
If "A" have a question posted. Then "B" answered the question (and it is good and acceptable). But "A" didn't open his/her account for 1,5 years. ...
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I'm not able to flag after using all my close votes
I've used up my close votes for the day, so I am trying to flag duplicates instead. I can no longer flag a duplicate for moderator attention. I have 39 flags remaining, this should work. (I'm ...
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How to undo an edit to a question?
I recently asked a question at Ask Ubuntu. Two days later, after checking up on it I find that somebody has edited my question. I disagree with the edits made and want to have those edits undone. How ...
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When should I answer and when should I comment?
I enjoy helping out on this forum. Recently I have become more active in that.
Can someone tell me when I should comment and when I should answer? How do you know which one to use? In the answer ...
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Why did I lose 2 points?
I lost 2 points for this:
Script to change volume
I could not find out why I lost 2 reputation points.
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Where to direct Windows 10 users
A lot of people dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows, and many have problems that have more to do with Windows than Ubuntu. Is there an AskWindows site or something similar to that where I can direct such ...
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any way to search a user answers by tag
I want to search in the specific user profile in his/her answers parts by clarify a tag ? Is there any way? Like search for all answers which have a network tag from specific user.So is there any way?...
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How to edit to look like code?
How can I make it so this,
The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
looks the same as it appears on the monitor, like this:
# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface ...
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cannot find duplicate article
I am trying to mark this article: Evince 3.10 on Ubuntu 12.04
as a duplicate of this article: How can I install the latest version of Evince?
but I cannot find it in the list of duplicates.
does ...
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Should we add ephemeral security alerts on high priority vulnerabilities?
I came across an answer which suggest installing x tool which have a recently found a high priority security risk, so I edit it to add:
Update x ASAP: CVE-2021-nnnnn: High priority security ...
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This is my impression of askubuntu
My last Q was about odd behaviour during intramfs.
The Q is GRUB starts but init cant read any media
I find the comments asking for clarification unreasonable.
initramfs doesn't change between 20.04.x ...
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Is there any change in reputation points to upvote a post after the "Question askers were awarded"?
When I started participating in Ask Ubuntu, the reputation required to upvote a post was 15.
With the recent change in reputation earned from an upvote on question after the question askers were ...
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Are questions asked 'n' plus years ago, still relevant?
I am new to Ubuntu and have been researching varies methods to accomplish certain tasks that I want done. Some of my research has led me to questions asked in 2012. And I am hesitate in trying the ...
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How do I change my StackExchange password?
How do I change my Stack Exchange password, without removing the Google acount?
Only option is remove the Google account!
The reason I ask this is that Google Chrome & Chromium are disreguarding ...
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You can now close-vote your own questions?
I noticed a few days ago that you can CV one of your questions. Is this for all stack exchange websites or just for us? I would love that if you CV'ed your own questions, (like a moderator) you can ...
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How can I fix being banned if I don't know why?
I am apparently banned from posting any kind of answer. I only know of one instance I was told it was not a good answer. Even though it added to the previous answer. If you don't tell me what the ...
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How to deal with potentioaly illigal / hacking software reccomendations?
I was checking out this answer today, when I clicked the link given, Firefox reported an untrusted site, so I left the OP a comment "Firefox says the link you provided is untrusted" and the OP replied ...
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How to flag a double post?
If a user post the same question multiple times in quick succession, words them differently, but ultimately asks the same thing, what should I do ?
Sound not working at all
Alsa not working at all
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How do I unflag something?
I flagged this post as off-topic as it was about some obscure distro, but it has since been edited into a general Linux question.
How do I remove the flag I raised? There doesn't seem to be any ...
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Mark questions for easy access in future [duplicate]
I want to mark some questions so that they are collected somewhere in my profile, so that I can view them easily later.
Also I don't want to favorite the question as not every question that I want to ...
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When do we not gain any reputation from edits?
I think there are various rules about when a user gains and when he/she doesn't gain reputation for edits.
One of them is when he/she has already gained 1000 rep from suggested edits, another when he/...
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How did a <3k user vote to close a question?
From this LQP review item:
but the user 'Olli' has only 2,804 rep (at time of writing), how did he 'Close' it?
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AutoSuspension from Chat for "Inappropriate Content"
Someone mind explaining what content was inappropriate, and why the system is automatically banning users now, and can perhaps undo the suspension?
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yes i found what content was inappropriate, ...
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Why separate "torrent" and "bittorrent" tags?
Why do we have torrent and bittorrent as separate tags on main?
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