Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Is 20K reputation required for wiki tag approvals for new sites
I am one of the zeitgeist developers and I spend a lot of time helping people with problems and misconceptions.
I had an idea of creating a wiki on askubuntu for the zeitgeist tag. When I opened the ...
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Blacklist the linux tag?
I don't see any use for the linux tag.
It would seem to me that the only valid uses are when it is used instead of the kernel tag.
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cannot add email on my profile
whenever i try to add my email address to my profile I get an error saying email address already registered! why is that?
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why captchas + login?
Do you get Spam from people, who do a regular login?
Why do I have to solve a captcha, after going through a login?
Why do I sometimes get an captcha and sometimes not? Can't the system see, that ...
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Why am I not getting email notification to new answers to my question?
I have checked "Notify" check box with my email id in my question but I don't get any notification even though I get answers to that question. Why is it so? Is there problem in "AskUbuntu"'s part?
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What's going on with this revision count?
On this question page it is said there have been three revisions. If you look at the history it is clear there have only been two. What's going on?
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Where is the Bounty?
From this question I started a bounty that ended recently. After the bounty started user luri edited his answer to give a most useful additional information that made me award the bounty. However ...
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Is there a way to see how many votes I have left for the day?
Is there a way to see how many votes I have left for the day (prior to the 5 votes left warning)?
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Unfair Bounty System?
Recently I've started a Bounty, which is about to end very soon (in less than 23 hours, to be precise). And just a few minutes ago, I received this E-Mail:
Reminder: Your Bounty Is Ending Soon!
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Searching for "help ubuntu" or "ubuntu+help" in Google search should list Ask Ubuntu in results
I think the two search strings help ubuntu or ubuntu+help should bring up Ask Ubuntu website in the search results. It does not feature in the first three pages of Google search.
What do you think?
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Is Ask Ubuntu linked in the ubuntu.com website?
I found a lot of peoples that does not know Ask Ubuntu yet, so I start looking if this important resource is linked in the main ubuntu.com web site and I was unable to find it.
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How does @username commenting work?
I read in a comment that users can notify each other by starting the comment with @username.
Assume I want to notify Marco Ceppi. Do I write @Marco Ceppi or @marco-ceppi?
What does that user see? ...
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Can I cancel a vote for a comment?
I voted up for a comment and realized that it wasn't in fact such a great comment. I am not able to cancel my vote as I can do for questions or answers : "click again to undo" don't work.
Is it just ...
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The future of the applications/software tag(s) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Applications, application and software tags must die!
To my mind applications, application and software is useless - there is no clear meaning to them. Some questions should ...
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Launchpad OpenID not working for login on Ask Ubuntu
I can't log in here using my Launchpad ID.
I get Canceled on the identification page of AskUbuntu.
On the Launchpad, I get an Oops page with an message saying that the error was logged.
Sorry, ...
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How can I add a link within an answer on AskUbuntu.com to download a package? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to post links that install software via apt?
I want to create a link in my answers that automatically open the Ubuntu Software Store with that package pulled up. I've gone ...
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Is is possible to cancel a bounty?
Is it possible to cancel a bounty if I found the answer to my question?
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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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How can I create a new tag for an existing question?
Having gained "create tag" privilege I noticed tags are created when asking a new question. I can't seem to find how to add a new tag to an existing question. Is this possible ?
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When we see a potential duplicate, how should we handle it when we don't have proper privileges?
When we spot a duplicate question, what is the best way to handle it?
Of course if we have a huge reputation, we can just do it, but when we don't have enough reputation we should have ways to notify ...
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How to use keyboard 'icon' in markdown?
Guys, I was looking in a question when I found a different way to markup keyboard (combination of keys) to express commands. I cant found a previously answer about Markdown (except this, but not ...
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Is there a way to generate an rss feed with all questions that get 10+ upvotes?
I know there is a way to get ALL questions through a feed, but what about great questions? Are they listed independently somewhere?
If not, can I do it with a yahoo pipe? Any cues as to how I should ...
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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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When does the community user start bumping old questions?
According to this the community user bumps old unanswered questions so that they get another shot at getting answered.
I've seen it do it a couple times in the past but it doesn't seem like it's a ...
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Comment re-edit time-out is too short.. and Is there a limit on deleting my comments?
I'd like to know how long a comment I've written is "available" to be re-edited...
Either I'm too slow, or its too fast...
Also, what limits are there on deleting a comment? ...(which I couldn't re-...
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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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Remove [subjective] [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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Are the questions with the mark (closed) erased?
I've seen many questions with the mark [closed] in the title.
Does it mean that they will be erased later? Or just remains as closed?
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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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Is there a way for StackExchange to accept Launchpad IDs to login systemwide?
In the original, pre-shortened form of the question I was complaining that I can't login some other StackExchange site with my Launchpad ID, providing the screenshot:
Rest was almost like this:
I ...
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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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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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Reopen request for my question
Someone closed my question as a duplicate of another question, but mine is more specific. I cannot understand the reasons behind this.
Which are the proprietary and paid games for linux do you know - ...
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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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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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How to post links that integrate with the Software Center?
There are some posts with nice Software Center icons and links to software installation via apt. How to do that?
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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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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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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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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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What is StackExchange? Is Ask Ubuntu officially related to Ubuntu or Canonical? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Ask Ubuntu “official” Ubuntu?
What is stackexchange? is Ask Ubuntu officially related to Ubuntu/canonical?
How do i subscribe for a question that I have not asked?
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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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How do I comment on a post?
I see a bunch of comments on someone else's answer to several questions and I'd like to add one but I don't see how. I can provide my own answer, but all I really want to do is add a little bit to ...
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What is "Accept Rate" and why is it important?
What does this notification mean above my questions in my Stack Exchange profile?
Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?
What do I need to do?
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What HTML and/or Markdown code is allowed in comments?
What HTML and/or Markdown code is allowed in comments?
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How do I bookmark a Question/Answer?
I've found a question I'm interested in - how can I receive updates of when it gets answers or updates?
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Why did my reputation change to 914?
When I saw today it was 12xx something but now it has gone back to 914,2 days ago it was 989.
Is there is bug in the system? If so,how do I get my reputation back?
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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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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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