Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Misclassified audit question?
I received "This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass," after voting to close https://askubuntu.com/review/close/261614 .
On one of the proposed answers, the ...
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Here on askubuntu.com is there a way to communicate with another editor or answerer
On askubuntu.com is there a way to communicate with another editor or answerer without cluttering up the questions and answers with info unrelated to the specific post? As an example I posted an ...
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What defines profile views
I wish I can know how profile views are incrementing.
Is it about Me logging in and out?
Or it's about somebody else visiting my profile?
And if so, assuming that he refreshed the page, does it ...
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Earned Announcer badge - Dont understand how
I recently received a notification that I had earned an Announcer badge
But why? I understand the badge I earned on April 25 but I don't remember answering the question Webcam doesn't work in browser…...
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Is it possible to review on the mobile site?
I have free time while I am about. I could review questions with my phone. Is it possible on the mobile site? I can't find a link to the review part.
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Why is this question, Wired Connection Problem, protected?
I'm not sure I should be asking this, but why is this question, Wired Connection Problem, protected? While it has had 3451 views, as of now, there's very little there today that points to why it ...
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Does this question fits in on AskUbuntu?
The question - How to automatically restart Tomcat7 on Ubuntu on system reboots [closed] was closed as off-topic by community on SO. I flagged the question for moderator attention requesting it to be ...
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Do I get a notification when my edit is not accepted?
I've made an edit to (the title of) a question, but the 'your edit has been saved for review'-notification doesn't show anymore. Does that mean my edit has been rejected? And: do I get a notification ...
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How can get past 5 edits
Sometimes, I need to edit multiple answers, (updates, changes, new ways, etc.). But I found out that I could only do 5 edits per day.
How can get past this:
You have already edited 5 of your own ...
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How do I merge my 2 Ask Ubuntu Accounts?
I have just realized I have 2 AU accounts, I cant recall how this happened but I did change my e-mail address recently. How do i go about merging them, is this something you can help me with?
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My account reps from yesterday is counted today
My account shows 95 reps today, but 85 of those are from yesterday. There was a similar bug a while back.
It doesn't bother me, but I thought I'd report it.
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Cannot offer bounty
It's been more than five days since I posted this question, yet I cannot see the option to offer bounty. I think someone also requested the question be closed (there's 1 mentioned in parenthesis ...
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What do I need for being able to migrate questions to other Stackexchange sites?
I've registered an account on Unix.SE but the website does not appear in the website selection for Close as Offtopic.
I doubt if it's a reputation issue, on http://Stackoverflow.com/ (8595 reputation)...
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Why was my answer deleted
I don't know if y'all can see the deleted item:
Keyboard command/shortcut to resize window
But I can.
No comment left to indicate why. So I'm wondering what line I crossed...
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How to find out newest set of (25 or 50) questions with no answers
As on date there is 420+ questions with no-answers and I am unable to find a way to see answers with no questions for the past one month or newest set of 25 or 50 questions with no answers.
Is ...
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Getting “Please see the error above” when trying to post an Answer
I had a problem, so I have asked a Question here.
Then later on I have found out how to solve it, so I was going to post an Answer.
I was prevented to post the answer with a message: Please see the ...
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Unable to add my answer link to the 2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
I am unable to edit the 2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire in order to add the link to my answer below the said question. I think it is due to the fact that;
"Suggested edits are not ...
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Lots of Oops errors when clicking internal links
I'm getting lots of oops errors when clicking internal links (link from one question to another on AU)
E.G. in this question clicking the link for the duplicate here gives me an Oops reliably...
Is ...
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Not receiving notifications
I am not receiving notifications for people commenting or responding to my questions. Under Edit Profile and Settings > Preferences > Q&A Emails I have checked the box "Email me my unread inbox ...
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Should a question be closed as duplicate of another when it is asking for the same goal but via a different route?
I recently closed a question as a duplicate of another, however I am starting to think that I may have made a mistake here along with the other close voters...
So just to make it easier, let's refer ...
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Is “You can only post once every 20 minutes.” applied for multiple site?
There is a strange problem happening to me. When I want to ask a question, a message saying “You can only post once every 20 minutes.” shows up. As far as I remember, what I did in the last 20 minutes ...
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How do I merge two similar tags as tag synonyms? (or suggest them for merging)
I noticed two similar tags and I know about the tag-synonym thing but I can't figure out how to do it.
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Is something wrong with the way the ads are being chosen? All I see are hot questions
In the Community ad section on the homepage there is a section for Community ads, hot questions and a few SE ads:
However I noticed that pretty much all I see are hot questions. While I am ...
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How can it be possible to have answers older than the question?
Does StackExchange have a time machine, or is this just from when questions have been merged?
Nice set of results on these precognitive questions here - Worst one is this one.
Source: This answer, ...
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If the comment appears to be an answer how should I behave?
I need a bit more extended information on how should I behave in these situations to reduce unanswered amount of questions like:
if the comment appears to be an answer provided by me and the user ...
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Why do edits to old questions bump them to the top? / Should there be a time limit for this?
This is quite possibly re-iterating something that's been said before, but it is confusing me slightly.
The home page for me at the moment is currently a stream of edited posts (at my last count, 35 ...
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Very low quality flag on a closed question, can't do anything but invalidate the flag?
I got two VLQ flags in my queue... actually the question is impossible to understand by normal humans, but I can't handle the flag if I don't either, invalidate (which I will not), or add a spam/...
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What do we use for "not a question" posts?
So, since the changes to the close and flag reasons we lost the ability to mark "not a question" as a reason.
We can still use that reason, for posts that are simply guides to fix something but aren'...
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I am not able to see the user's profile
From this comment:
The link to Roger Pate's profile page was absent. Why is the link for that user not shown?
Was his account deleted?
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Should gaining 200+ reputation, on one site (askubuntu) give me +100 associated site reputation bonus, on the same site. [duplicate]
Today I passed 200 reputation on this site, only to then in quick succession, without doing anything, pass 300. I looked at my reputation log and it looks like I gained 100 for "passing 200 on an ...
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Old Ask Ubuntu account
I used to participate on AskUbuntu.com as the user:3419. Unforunately, the domain in which I have had previously used for that account is no longer in existence. I am not sure how to recover it or ...
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Why is year reputation more than total reputation?
I just visited link from my profile
http://stackexchange.com/leagues/31/year/askubuntu/2012-01-01/40166#40166
it says,
How my year reputation can be more than total reputation?
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how to add a link that will open the software center
I have added link to apps.ubuntu.com by providing a button to click on till now...
But neither by the method -
"[package name] (link)" and nor by assign a url to the button image,i could give a ...
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Get notifications for how I lost reputation
I recently lost some reputation points (about 30. I know it shows 20 but during the same period I got an answer upvoted as well.) I do not know how but it may be because of a removed upvote, ...
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Code tag/code highlight problem in sub-comment on askUbuntu mainpage
I am wondering, why code tag and bold text option which both work perfectly fine in full comments doesn't work in sub-comments, like shown in the screenshot below, using the same syntax?!
Sometimes, ...
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Tag synonyms: startup and boot
Whilst I suppose a distinction could be drawn between startup and boot (boot = grup, startup = everything later), I don't think there is any difference in the way they are being used.
I prefer the ...
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What's this question duped to?
This question is closed as a duplicate, but as a duplicate of what?
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Goofy search results
why does a search for "indicators" return the #1 hit as a closed thread with one upvote that was closed because it was an exact duplicate of the thread "List of application indicators" that has been ...
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incorrect (4) consecutive days count while I visit this page every day
I visit the AskUbuntu-page every day and browse trough the questions. I open questions and mostly browse till page 4. I don't really understand how my counter shows only 4 days. Please can anyone tell ...
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Reopen question after release of 20.04
my question has been closed as addressing a not released version, but now it's released.
Please reopen.
How to install Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa remotely with virt-instlall?
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Can't find link to logout from the forum? [duplicate]
Just signed up for Ask Ubuntu. Looks like a great community.
I am signed in. Closed all the windows, and the browser. When I open the site again, still signed in. I cannot locate a link to sign out ...
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What should I do about edit suggestions being rejected?
One of the members who has a higher reputation than me rejects my edits on the wrong basis. I know that on this site, we write Ubuntu and not ubuntu. Even when I write ubuntu, other members correct it....
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Tell this guy to "Duck Off" for all Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
This annoying guy appeared today first on Ask Ubuntu and then on Unix and Linux. I had to tell him on both sites to "Go away". Is there a setting to make him go away on ALL Stack Exchange sites or do ...
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Any ideas on why this question didn't get any responses
I asked this 17 days ago (although I revised the title later).
I don't expect miracles (although sometimes I get them ;) ), but I am surprised at getting nothing.
Is there something I can do/...
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Is there a way to remove a "wrong" duplicate flag from a question? [duplicate]
Recently I have found a question which I believe is wrongly marked as a duplicate of another one.
The other question looks very similar and partially addresses the issues raised by the current ...
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Mystery missing 10 reputation [duplicate]
As you can all see in the screen shot below I apparently had 400 rep
However when I went to the reputation tab on my profile page it says i have 390 rep nor is there any entry to show the reputatuon ...
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How can I shorten the Long Code output in questions and answers and display scrollbars?
There are some questions and answers that have very log output that is condensed with scrollbars.
Is there a formatting method to control how much is displayed between the scrolling. I believe some ...
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Why can't we upvote comments on this years mod elections?
I was reading a post from the 2014 elections and it has many upvoted comments.
Why can't we do it this year? it would save a lot of "me too" comments.
I wonder if this is a bug, as you can highlight ...
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Possible spam page pointing cloning or pointing to askubuntu.com, how can I report it? [duplicate]
I recently noticed on my google webmaster account that a link was pointing to my website - which I did not recognise, so I thought I would visit it (in an incognito window) to see what it was and it ...
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AskUbuntu tells me I'm in danger of being blocked
When I wanted to ask a question on AskUbuntu, I got a warning that states "Some of your past questions have not been well-received".
Here I interpret "some" as "at least one", but I cannot really ...
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