Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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How to get to meta's question feed in the android app?
I got a notification of a comment on a question in meta, so I have opened the question in the android app. My problem is I now want to take a look at meta's question feed, but I can't find a button to ...
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Unable to upvote or comment on answer
I was able to accept this answer, but I am unable to up vote or comment on it. When I click the Add comment button I get the following message:
User does not have permission to comment on this post
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Is there a tag for "single user mode"?
Just created a tag for a question that was specifically about single user mode, and searched for a tag about it, but didn't see one. Just want to correct my mistake if it already exists.
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Can we get a better quality question for grub-rescue-error-unknown-filesystem
In doing some reviews, I came across a user who had this error issue, and was asking about a grub-rescue-error-unknown-filesystem issue.
I figured I would mark it as a duplicate, being a common issue, ...
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Recent Achievement Indicator [duplicate]
The Recent Achievement Indicator on both the main site and the meta site, aren't showing up to the minute info. For example in my case, I got 2 upvotes yesterday, and 1 about 3 hours ago, and all ...
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Potential bug in rep change badge? [duplicate]
Okay, so this may just be a bug or some issue with my cache, but I noticed some errant behavior of the rep change indicator in the top bar. And it happens both here in meta and on Ask Ubuntu.
This ...
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Help with formatting text in question and answer
We can easily well format text in question/answer like Bold, Italic, Hyperlink, Block-quote, code, Image, List, Heading and Horizontal rule.
Now, I want to know various tags like <kbd>, etc. ...
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How to list questions closed for particular reason?
I saw there is data.stackexchange.com on which we can query questions, for example, protected questions. Is there any queries to list questions closed for particular reason? I need to list off-topic ...
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Can I search for my draft answers?
I googled to know how to get my draft answers.
But I couldn't find a way. I know I can find my draft if I know the question.
In my case I don't remember the question.
Any idea?
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This question is not duplicate so consider re-opening it
I asked this question "The software on this computer is up to date" while upgrading 12.10 to 13.04 I have this unique error "The software on this computer is up to date" I couldn't find its ...
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Pic Won't Show Up on My AskUbuntu Profile After Uploading JPG File to My Profile
I took the option to change picture on my Profile, and uploaded a 9KB JPG pic; but it's just showing a white screen where my pic should be. What am I doing wrong?
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When commenting on a "moderator" flag, how can I finish just with the keyboard?
When I flag a post "for moderator attention/other" I want to just type my comment and then commit the flag using only the keyboard. As I see it now I have to use the mouse to click on "flag question" ...
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Why was my question closed?
Can somebody please explain why my question was closed?
How to disable PIN on SIM card
At first I've thought that it might be because asking for workarounds may not be allowed on askubuntu as ...
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Can I sort my "favourites" questions based on tags?
Is there a possible way of sorting my favorite questions by name or tags? As I have too many favorite questions in my account. So sorting them would make it easier to find the needed question.
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Why does the community bot upvote some things?
I have a question about the Community moderator bot. I have seen and understood what its mission is. I also noticed something that was weird, at least for me. The bot votes several questions. And ...
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My favorite tags are empty [closed]
I am searching for unanswered questions on my favorite tags (mysql, lubuntu, virtualbox, and etc.)
But all of them are empty (zero unanswered) is this right? Or I'm having some kind of trouble?
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How to set bounty? sufficient rep but no link [closed]
At the time I asked this question (Is an ACPI GPE storm normal in an Ubuntu session?) I didn't have enough rep. Now I do and I want to set a bounty, but there's no link.
The link states "question ...
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Is it OK to send a message to a spammer to not advertise?
I recently saw a spam question, which i then flagged as spam and posted this an answer (and deleted it very quickly after, but you could still see the post):
ADVERTISING IS NOT ALLOWED HERE, GET OUT
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How can I reply to a user?
I want to ask a question to a user on Ask Ubuntu, but I don't understand how to do it. There is no email, no nothing.
Can you tell me how to do it?
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Why are some questions displayed in red?
Right now I am looking at the "highest voted" questions. Some of them are displayed in red - some of which I have recently visited - but not all. What does "red" mean?
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Reputation with editing "to be closed" questions
As an avid editor for the main site, I have taken quite a liking to the 2 rep I get for passing my time, however when I see a question that is off topic, and yet messy, like this one, I still feel the ...
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When I try to review First Posts, why does it say "No Action Needed"?
Whenever I try to review a 1st post, it says no action required. Is it possible to have it show only posts that I can review?
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Why are unanswered questions always getting upvotes but no answers?
My question has only upvotes but no answers, yet no comments. It's just a distant dessert I guess.
Why is it so inactive?
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Meta SE - there be Dragons [closed]
A word of warning for all who have to venture into the realms of Meta Stack Exchange: That site does not resemble the friendly, relaxed environment you experience here.
The site is (despite the name) ...
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Account Still getting merged
My account is still getting merged with my brother's account even though my suspension period is over.
This happens even if I try using a different system with different IP address.
I cleared all ...
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"Boosting" with reputation?
I noticed earlier that after you post a question, the up/down vote button is still there. Can you "boost" or give yourself reputation because this button is still here?
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Why was this flag declined?
My very low quality flag was declined by a moderator on this answer.
Why? It is just a link and the OP won't make any effort to improve it.
IMO this is about as low as the quality comes, is it not?
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Posting An Answer
I been trying to answer this question discrete GPU not working after update, But when i press Post your Answer, Its posting as an comment, I have tried several times but still the same
Please have ...
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Spontaneous Reputation Loss
I had a 308 reputation about thirty minutes ago, and someone has spontaneously down-voted at least four of my answers, and voted to delete them. I expect that this will happen more, and I would like ...
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Flag got declined but then reconsidered?
I flagged this question and it got declined.
Later on I checked and saw the question was put on hold as I had requested, so this means the mod did not review my flag properly (?) and then maybe ...
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Can I use URL shortening (in comments)?
Would be a OK(™) to use shortened URLs in comments? If i try posting a link (or two) in a comment, with a explanation about it, I often run out of characters as the links take up half the length of ...
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Consecutive days counter not working as expected
Although I made a comment yesterday, it didn't register my visit.
I had 69 days and today it shows 1. Clicking on Consecutive days shows I missed yesterday. I was really on my way to 100. Very ...
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How can I comment on a protected question if I don't have enough reputation?
How can questions and comments be asked or made about the following if I have too few reputation points?
How to install Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 64-bit with a dual-boot RAID 1 partition on an UEFI/GPT ...
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Tagged for a Rude comment, but I can't see where I commented
My Rude/Abusive page shows two AskUbuntu questions that I can't see (or remember) my comments on. How can I verify that they're rude, and learn from them?
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I'm not gaining more reputation
Anybody can explain what is going here?!
Eventhough my answers is going upvoted but I'm not gaining any more reputation.
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Can I get a badge more than once?
If I get a badge once, can I get another if I do the same thing again?
Say for example the "Stellar Question" badge:
If I have 2 questions favorited by 100 or more users, do I get the badge twice?
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The annual Stack Overflow survey
I am trying to earn badges. How do I complete the stack Overflow survey?
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My question seemes to be frozen
I had a question that was doing very well & the number of views as well as likes was increasing fast, but I don't know why suddenly everything stopped & now it behaves as if it's a duplicate ...
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Review (LQ): whats up with "New Contributor"?
While reviewing the LQ queue I was presented with something new:
What is the purpose of the "New contributor" accompanied by a waving hand?
Why is it shown with someone who has already 99 points? ...
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How can I log out from Ask Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I logged into Ask Ubuntu on a public computer.
I want to log out after use.
What should I do?
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Can reviewers review suggested edits more than 20 times?
I thought you aren't able to perform more than 20 reviews of one sort per day. But in https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/stats, it looks like Videonauth has reviewed 21. Is that possible?
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Asking for tutorial
Is it forbidden to ask for tutorial? or only bugs and problems?
I didn't try to ask about tutorial before but in stackoverflow it is not allowed so i want to make sure
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How to make Key Images in questions? [duplicate]
I've been trying to answer questions but I want to add The little keys in there, and I don't know how. How do I do it?
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How does SE generate profile pictures for new users?
When a new user joins the site a profile picture is automatically generated for them, how is this image generated? And does SE do it, or a third-party application?
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Why does my question have 2(Now Three) close vote? (What does “TTY” stand for?)
On my question What does “TTY” stand for? It two (Now Three) close votes even worse than a down vote! As you can see here:
I am very sad! Why whould anyone that is nice close it? There are samlier ...
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Why is there a limit to how many of my own answers I can delete?
I went through my 0-vote answers - clearly they were of a quality not worthy of the site, since they didn't attract up or down votes, so I didn't want to leave them.
Before I finished, I hit a 5/day ...
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why the color different?
We have closed a question but the names are shown in different colors. May I know the reason?
Why does Seth have a different color?
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Whats the idea behind that "new" review UI?
I just got a big surprise :-((
This looks like someone is trying very hard to drive reviewers away
difficult to identify the post in question (is it the Q or the A?)
"link" to see post in ...
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Can I ask for programming advice on this site?
The question is in the title.
This is the most direct question ever.
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Coloured Text to highlight emphasis
In this post, the op has used colour to highlight aspects of his question to very good effect.
How is that achieved? I can't seem to find a reference as to how it is done and the menu bar at the head ...
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