Questions tagged [support]
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Why was my question put on-hold by me?
My question was put on-hold recently with a banner:
put on hold as off-topic by R S, Melebius, Pilot6, user68186, vidarlo - 9 mins ago
But R S is me and I don't remember I did that to myself.
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Not getting some of the comment and badge notifications
Comments Notifications: I recently commented on this post. Earlier whenever I used to comment on a post and get a reply from OP just after my comment even without mentioning my name, I used to get ...
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What is the score of a question?
Can you explain what is the score of a question and how can I understand what is the score of a question?
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Question body bug
I thought this was just a fluke, but it's happened about 10 times in the last few months, so I thought I'd report it as a bug.
Sometimes, the body of a question gets a grey background type thing, see ...
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Does loss of reputation revoke previleges also?
What if someone suddenly loss lot number of reputation, which was enough for him to get new privileges before.
Does this will effect his privileges? Please explain both the cases.
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What exactly is considered "spam" in Ask Ubuntu?
Now I know that there have been questions that have already been asked related to this topic, But they don't answer my question.
My question is this: what is actually considered as spam over here?
I ...
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Can we connect Askubuntu with a ubuntu based custom distro?
We have made some custom distro. We want to connect that custom distro with askubuntu.com . Our distro is the same Ubuntu, with some preinstalled apps and customized so that people can use Linux more ...
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@ replies do not auto-complete (or even show up) on comments
I cannot seem to get the "auto-complete" pop-up to appear. If I manually write out the entire name when replying, the @Pedro bit simply disappears once the comment is posted.
Tested on several ...
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What to do when reviewing a good Q/A?
Most of the Questions or Answers (Q/A) on the review queue have something to improve (title, tags, poor content formatting, etc.), but sometimes are Q/A that are, not just well written and I don't see ...
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Insert picture in Ask Ubuntu
How can I insert image from picture folder of Ubuntu while asking question or answering to question in Ask Ubuntu?
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Will deleting question affect my account?
I want to know if I delete my own question will affect the reputation system or trigger any question asking ban?
I am asking this before deleting because I have already been banned on other ...
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How do we create letters with dash over them? (strikethrough or strikeout)
a) With GNU/Linux OS & Ubuntu in general in text editors
b) Specifically for askubuntu.com as to imply that the text is deleted (edited later)
c) or as an html formatting in a broader sense.
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My recent unanswered question needs a rewrite - should I leave old one, edit old one, or something else?
Re. Surprisingly massive slowdown with CLI PHP(8.0/8.1/8.2) over NFS on 22.04.2
This has no answers. Over the last week, our team has actually eliminated several false positives - mainly that this has ...
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can I give bounty after time?
I offer a bounty for this question
But I have not always the time to test the solutions at once. To trigger my error I have always to make a cold boot.
So my question is, can I give the bounty after ...
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Can I merge my LaunchPad login to this account?
I've seen this question multiple times, but they're all dated, so I don't feel appropriate to resurrect any of those ancient threads. Can a mod help me merge my StackExchange account (which is linked ...
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Printing Ask Ubuntu pages
I read How do I recover my data from an encrypted home directory? and upon printing hardcopy of this, the font size is under 10 points. That is way too small to read easily. When I tried copy & ...
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How do I put scrollable preformatted / code blocks in my question?
This may seem like a simple question, but how do I put a box of scrollable code or preformatted text in my question or comment on AskUbuntu?
It would be great if this question and the answer ...
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Why can't I VTC a question with a bounty?
I wanted to VTC this as the issue is they are trying to use an unsupported version and that is likely why they are having issues.
However, I can't
I am not looking for a big debate on the validity ...
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Track pundit progress
Is there a way to figure out how close I am to getting the Pundit badge? Even a way to sort my comments by score would be plenty, but I don't find any way whatsoever to do it, and I don't feel like ...
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What is the best way to gain back my question privileges
For reasons I will not say (let's just say that I made some mistakes), the askubuntu system took away my right to ask questions on the website. I have read that once I have a positive effect on the ...
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Why are really old posts showing up? Is this normal?
I've been noticing some posts floating up to the top that don't appear to have had any activity in years. For example, here's one, whose latest activity was an edit in 2014 (yes, before you ask, all ...
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How to search for protected questions
I would like to know is there any way to search for protected questions like duplicate etc.
From advanced search:
status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
I have ...
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What to do with potentially dangerous answers?
I was just wondering, what should one do with potentially dangerous answers? I mean I have read before on Meta that I should just flag them up, however when I did so for this one I just got this:
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Is there any feature to notify moderators in chat?
The question is simple:
Is there any feature to notify moderators in chat without using their name?
For example @mod instead of @Seth.
Here my intention is to send message to moderators in chat (So ...
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How can I see I've already cast a delete vote / How can I retract a delete vote?
So I've just been told someone edited their answer and I've come back and upvoted...
However, I noticed a delete flag and when pushing it, it shows me a dialog box with my remaining votes and I'm too ...
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how do you flag a user instead of a Q or an A?
This user has been posting nonsense answers on the site for the last couple of days... How he got that many reputation points is beyond me; it just looks like he wants to get banned.
How do we flag ...
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When was Ask Ubuntu founded?
I'm sure that this question must have been asked before, but I just can't find it anywhere, so I guess that I'm just searching for the wrong keywords. So I thought I'd ask, when was Ask Ubuntu founded?...
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Reputations went down
Last evening i was answering so many questions. Most of my answers got up voted. I got around 91 in my reputations. But when i checked in the morning reputation was 46. It seemed so strange for me. ...
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On my question (with bounty) mine is the only answer. Should I just accept my own answer or let the bounty continue to expire?
I asked a question. After further searching and no answers I set a bounty.
Only after that did I happen upon information I needed by a total fluke. As a result I have posted an answer that addresses ...
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Title cannot contain "../.."
I wrote the question alias for cd ../.. and it doesn't accept the title: the .. at the end always disappears.
Bug or feature?
FYI: also applies to this Meta question.
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How to suscribe for Hot command-line questions?
I want to subscribe (email) notification/newsletter for ony Hot questions that tagged with command-line. How to get such type of facility?
Note: I don't want to get notify on every new question ...
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Does Question Unabanning process take forever?
Here's My Profile, I can't post any question and I’m banned because I had some downvotes. Yes I had some downvotes, but I have earned around 50 Reputation since the last downvote.
I know the process ...
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Refer to a comment
I need to refer to a previous comment in a question/answer/comment. How can I link to this comment?
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Merge php and php-5.4 tags into just php?
We have a php tag, and we also have a php-5.4 tag.
Ultimately, they're both PHP, and I see no reason to have separate PHP tags for each version (the same reasoning was the primary drive, as far as I ...
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How can I add an image to the comment section?
Yesterday, I asked this question on AskUbuntu.
Couple of people replied to me. But with the last answer, I need to post an image of terminal screenshot in add comment section to get more information. ...
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Why did I lose 2 reputation points?
I can't see why I was at 71 points reputation a few hours ago, and am now at 69. I take my reputation seriously, and try to abide by the Stack Exchange rules. So I'm just curious as to why I lost 2 ...
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How to mark question as duplicate? What happens when I click on flag?
I was hesitant to rampantly flag a question (which I considered a duplicate), because I feared this would automatically disrepute the question and/or - even worse - the question-asker. So,
How to ...
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How to address a question to a particular user?
Suppose I ask a question..I know that some user might be knowing its answer..
For eg,its a question related to a script.and i know that user xyz is good in scripts.I want him to notice my question.....
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When is the 'Reviews' tab under 'Activity' in a user's profile updated? What activity does it track?
What information is tracked under the Reviews tab in the Activity section of a user's profile?
I assume this section is related in some way to actions which are performed on posts listed for review. ...
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AskUbuntu bug: I renamed my Launchpad account from andy80 to andreagrandi and I cannot access my old data nor use my email account here
I created an AskUbuntu account here, months ago, using my Launchpad account that was named "andy80". In the mean time I renamed my LP account from "andy80" to "andreagrandi".
When I tried to access ...
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I asked a question and got a great answer -- but I can't seem to mark it as answered
I asked a question, Grub forcing me to boot from flash drive and rapidly got a great answer that solved the problem. I upvoted the answer, but there's no check mark for me to mark that I accepted the ...
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Why "Your question could not be submitted."
I am trying to submit a question. I have spent a lot of effort trying to be clear.
I like to make icons containing text. They are 240x240 pixels.
However, when I put them on my desktop, the icons are ...
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Link to Comments and Review Queue
How to get links to comments and to the review of a post to be added as "By Review"?
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Question put on hold as off-topic but maybe spam?
Can anyone provide me high PR rank guest posting sites for SEO activity? has been put on hold but I feel it's a form of spam via the user profile.
I clearly remember a previous post by the same user ...
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How can I add videos to my questions?
How can I send a video to you to show what's going on when I'm logging on Ubuntu 18.04?
I have a problem that involves a sequence of events and I need to show a video to explain the problem.
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links to Logout page [duplicate]
I found a page (Log out of the site) that answers the question on how to logout of Ask Ubuntu, so I have the link (https://askubuntu.com/users/logout) which I can bookmark and use that every time I ...
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Is there a way to undo my review?
I mistakenly clicked on Looks OK instead of Recommend Deletion while reviewing a post. Now this post will most probably be deleted anyway as it's of very low quality. But I would like to make sure in ...
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Edit rejected as conflicted with a subsequent edit
As a beginner I usually answer questions very rarely as I think my knowledge not sufficient yet. So I read questions and answers as much as I can and edit questions to correct spelling and formatting ...
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User potentionaly selling their profile page as an advert?
I came across this today and it very much gives the impression the user wants to sell their profile page as an advertising space.
As I have never come across this before, though I am sure it happens,...
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When are questions about in-development releases on-topic? [duplicate]
I remember speaking to a moderator in chat once where they told me that a question about a future release which is currently in-development is actually on-topic here as long as what is posted is not a ...
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