Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Why do I need to deal with Captcha while logged in?
The Captcha feature is really freaking annoying. This is the only thing that is really making my experience in the site less than enjoyable. It fails most of the time.
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Merge two User Accounts
I have accidently created two user accounts but logging in with two different OpenID's, I foogot I already had an account. Is there a way to merge the two accounts into one as I have questions on one ...
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Where can I find interesting Ubuntu discussions?
Ask Ubuntu is a Q&A site rather than a discussion board, a bug tracker, or a poll/survey site, but I really love Ubuntu and want to discuss those things with other users!
Where can I discuss ...
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How can I open Ask Ubuntu chat directly?
How can I place an icon on my desktop to directly open Ask Ubuntu's chat?
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Remove [subjective] [duplicate]
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Please can we destroy the subjective tag?
The [subjective] tag should be removed and blacklisted from Ask Ubuntu for the same reasons it was removed from other sites.
For ...
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Missing badges in flair
I placed flair on my blog. It updates my reputation (Edit: Now that, it doesn't update anything) but my badges is one less than the actual. I have 3 badges but it displays 2; it doesn't take the ...
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Can we earn badges by sharing a link somewhere other than Twitter and Facebook?
As far as I understand from the related page, at the moment we can share a guestion on Twitter and Facebook and seems that there's a possibility to earn announcer, booster and publicist badges for ...
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Tag pages not rendering properly
The tag pages are not rendering the list of questions when using Firefox 4.0b8pre or Opera 11.00 alpha build 1029. It does render properly with Google Chrome 8.0.552.5 dev.
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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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How to run the chat on the browser sidebar?
It would be really nice if I could run the chat on the browser sidebar, but it doesn't shrink enough.
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Is there a way to get a feed of new questions and answers being posted to an SO site ?
The title says it all.
I would like to read questions and answers (for that matter, also responses) in the order they were posted and may be get notified when new ones arrive. This way for some (say ...
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Can someone whip up a quick script for UWN?
I would like to see the Ubuntu Weekly News add a section for SE questions. The thing is that it's run by non-technical people and since the data we need is already in SE I figured someone could whip ...
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Badges, Answers, Questions, everything disappeared
I don't know why but suddenly my badges, answers, questions etc. all disappeared :\
I had more than 8 answers, 3 badges and everything disappeared. One second I was watching my profile and everything ...
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Should redirections to other questions / answers be comments or answers ?
A part of the answer to this question is, in my opinion, answering another "new" question. I wanted to redirect the person asking the "new" question to the existing answer and posted it as an answer.
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Am I allowed to ask for a rep boost?
I asked a question with a bounty and didn't realize I would loose the ability to comment. Can I get a few up votes to get enough reputation back please? I've seen this done on other meta sites so I ...
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Retag request: 10.4 instead of 10.04
Would someone please retag this question with 10.04 instead of 10.4.
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Avoiding forum style usage and promoting SE style Q and A
There is a question on the parent site that has become like a forum (follow-up questions and responses posted as answers). The question is complicated because the person asking included several issues ...