Questions tagged [support]
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Where can I find the questions I have starred?
Above the vote-up and vote-down arrows, we can use the star icon to favorite a question. However, where can I access the list of my starred topics?
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Should questions closed here and then posted in another SE site be flagged for deletion?
For example, Errors where encountered while processing and mint is weird - Linux mint [on hold] has been put on hold as off-topic. The poster then posted here.
Should such questions be flagged for ...
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What effect does voting to Leave Open have?
In the close votes queue I can do four things
Leave Open
Close
Edit
Skip
I think I understand quite well what happens if I select Close, and I think if I Skip or Edit, I believe I might get ...
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How can I search my old (previous) answers?
I sometimes see questions that I know are duplicates because I've answered another question that asked the same thing. Unfortunately, I don't know the name of the exact question I answered before so ...
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Ask Ubuntu tested me
Why Ask Ubuntu tested me while reviewing close votes?What was the purpose of this kind of tests?
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Is there an option to remove the bar above the status bar?
There is a new bar above the "status bar" with Ubuntu/Community/Development/Ask.
This is new and I feel it is taking up valuable screen space, since I do not plan on regularly using the new links.
I ...
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Is there some pull medium for my favorite feeds
I'm using mytags when looking for questions (as suggested by Jorge Castro). This list is sorted by votes. So new questions are hard to find. I'd like to have some RSS feed which contains new questions ...
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How to enable e-mail notifications?
I'd like to receive e-mail notifications for answers to my questions on askubuntu. I've seen in other questions that there should be a box to tick in the preferences of my account to enable that, but ...
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Should questions describing problems that mysteriously went away be closed?
If a question describes a problem that the OP once had, but which then goes away, and the OP has no idea how and didn't do anything to precipitate a solution, should the question be closed?
It seems ...
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Searchbox during flagging inept results
I often have the problem when I flag something as duplicate and try to search in this searchbox I get no hits. But when I use the same keywords in my google search I find what I'm after.
With search ...
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If you sign up to Ask Ubuntu via Launchpad, would a profile get created on the wider SE network?
Launchpad authentication is only available on AU. If you use that to create an AU profile, would doing so create a profile for you on the rest of the network?
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Who is able to see deleted questions?
I've deleted a question,but the number of views is still changing. Who can see my deleted question? Aren't they permanently deleted?
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Reputation reduced without any reason
Why has my reputation been reduced by 10 without any visible reason?
I didn't post any answer or question that could have been downvoted. The reputation suddenly decreased from 643 to 633.
I didn't ...
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A user wrongly accepted my answer, what can I do?
On this question today I was helping a user and after multiple attempts they fixed it there self and my answers did not work, however the user (I guess just to say thanks for helping me) accepted a ...
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If a user leaves, are votes reversed?
Really just curious, but if a user is removed "forcefully", his or her votes are undone. That is completely understandable.
What however if a user closes his or her account deliberately, are his or ...
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Serial upvoting reversal fail
I got serially upvoted acouple of hours ago and the system (correctly) reversed this a few minutes ago...
However I also got a silver badge for this question but that was not reversed. Should I ...
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Accidentally approved an edit that I meant to improve
I was given an edit to review that, although it was a slight improvement over the original, had a lot of bad grammar and generally was not very good quality (probably suggested by someone whose first ...
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How should we flag link-only answers? [duplicate]
It is not clear what we should do about link-only answers. (In my eyes, anything like this would definitely be a link-only answer.)
We have the option to flag it as "Not an Answer", or "Very Low ...
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Can questions closed but not as duplicates have their answers merged?
It is possible for a moderator to merge a question that's closed, but not as a duplicate?
For example, this too localized question doesn't seem like a candidate for reopening, except that it seems to ...
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How do I (and should I) move a question to SuperUser?
First I asked this question at superuser which required me to upgrade away from Ubuntu's ancient ffmpeg. Then I asked this question at Ask Ubuntu whose answer requires Ubuntu's ancient version of ...
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Unable to put a bounty of only 50 on my question
I wanted to put a bounty on an old question, but am only able to put up 100, 150, 200, 250 or 300 (no option of 50). Any ideas why?
FAQs says I should be able to do just 50. Is this something to do ...
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Can I associate my AskUbuntu account with my other Stack Exchange accounts, for migrated questions?
I answered a question on Server Fault, which was then migrated to AskUbuntu. Then, in agreement with a suggestion for improvement by another user posted in a comment, I decided to edit my post. I don'...
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What should we do when a question would make a perfect wiki, but...
What should we do when a question would make a perfect wiki, but the author has a criteria too strict for one? Please forgive me if this question sounds stupid, I'm not quite sure how the community ...
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How to find out my user id?
Ok so I got the Stack Overflow addon for Firefox (and the Gnome Panel Applet) and I just realised my UserID is not the same as Username, its a numerical value. How can I find this to make sure I have ...
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What to do about highly rated and accepted answers that are wrong?
This question:
New alert keeps showing up: Server returned error NXDOMAIN, mitigating potential DNS violation DVE-2018-0001 - Ask Ubuntu
reports an annoying syslog message.
The selected answer (...
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Reopen this question
I installed kali linux with the dual boot on ubuntu 16.04
It is not a question about Kail linux, it is a question about recovering Ubuntu
I agree we do not support Kali
I agree the op should have ...
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What does the feedback link do?
I recently happened to be on the site while I wasn't logged in, and I noticed that on each post, where the comment link normally is, is a feedback link. When you run your mouse over it, it changes to ...
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How can I see the diff for an edit I have made before it is approved?
When I edit someone's question, I have to wait for the edit to be approved before the link that says when the question was edited and links to the changes appears if I want to see the changes I have ...
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Discussion of Closed Post
This post was closed as off-topic. If possible I'd like to discuss it being reopened or at least have a better understanding of its closure so I can rework it or avoid future mis-postings.
Ubuntu ...
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Should I elaborate a low quality answer or should I post a new one?
This question is wired to the topic: When to add another answer instead of updating my current one? - but is slightly different. Here is the story:
A few days ago I created an answer that provides a ...
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How long will I be flag banned for?
I'm flag banned at the moment (I had 4 declined in the last 7 days. That seems a little harsh, but that's not the topic of this discussion).
There is no indication of any way to get out of this ban, ...
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How do tag subscriptions work?
I know I can hover over a tag and click on subscribe. It then says I get an email. In the email it says I should confirm. When I click the link (https://stackexchange.com/filters/email-confirm/<...
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"itectec.com" website links — could they be stripped from questions/answers? [duplicate]
The website at the itectec.com domain is stealing content from StackExchange sites (including this one) and other forums and shows it as their own content.
They are pretty good with search engines, ...
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Flagged a question before I saw it in First Posts review queue. I cannot click "I'm Done"
The question which I'm referring to in the title is this: Error : If you do not go back to the partitioning menu and correct these errors, the partition will be used as is
I flagged this question 2 ...
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Achievements rep indicator glitching
The rep indicator lit up saying I gained 141 points, but I only gained 4. This has happened twice in the past 10 minutes.
See the below screenshot...
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Unreadable captcha
I wanted to add my answer to this post but I keep on being told to enter the text on a captcha. The problem is that the captcha text is bearly readable and no success after about five tries.
I tried ...
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What is the site self-evaluation?
Today I encountered the site self-evaluation evenmt. When I clicked on it the review site opened and I had to evaluate several questions. However this thing lacked some explanation. So what is the ...
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What to do if your question on AskUbuntu does not get answered?
I really need the answer, can I post my question again?
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What do you mean by "The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed?"
I was asking following question on Ask Ubuntu:
Best possible VLC settings to play 1080p mkv and mp4 formats?
But the same time I was getting notification that:
"The question you're asking ...
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Unable to suggest edit
I'm having a problem that from now on I'm not able to suggest edits to the Ask Ubuntu site. I'm pretty sure that the edits I have been made were relevant and I want to know whether some user is able ...
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Noticing "score" and "answers" bars after unlocking "access to site analytics"
I just passed 25,000 rep, and now have access to site analytics.
On my profile summary tab, I see the following...
What does the new score and answers numbers mean?
This "new" score/answers bars ...
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Can I mention SteamOS in Ask Ubuntu?
I use SteamOS and am having a problem with it, but I don't know whether or not to mention it in Ask Ubuntu.
It uses the .deb files, so it is quite similar. Should I bring it up, or not?
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Has <key> been disabled?
I've noticed I'm not able to use key button formatting like <key>ESC</key>.
Has it been disabled? And if yes, why?
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Am I the first person to be privileged with 100 flags for the day?
I have been on and off the Stack Exchange network for the last couple of days and hence have not been able to raise the usual number of flags that I often raise. With last flagged post on 17th June; I ...
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I am not able to ask questions on Ask Ubuntu
I am a new ask ubuntu user and recently I just asked only 1 question on it about my computer being stuck. I was flagged for duplicate / off-topic questions. My question was deleted.
It was actually on ...
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Is there a mechanism to disown my own answer?
A hypothetical scenario:
Another person has edited an answer of mine.
I don't deeply agree with how it looks now, and collaboration through comments and edits did not bring such a state that I would ...
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Why did I get this hat today?
Today I was given the O Tannenbaum hat, but the description says ask, answer, or vote on December 25th, I thought we were using UTC time here?
If so why did I get this today?
It is only the 24th of ...
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-1 from my points after downvoting another person's answer
Good day , community !
First of, I love askubuntu and the community here seems to be so much more friendlier than on other sites ! good job, admins ! As for meta , it's my first time asking a ...
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How do you upload a screenshot?
I just installed Kazam, and it looks very simple to use. I want to use it here on askubuntu. I figured out how to take a screenshot, I just don't know how to upload it. Does anyone know how to do this?...
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