Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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Reputation points and badges not incremented
My reputation points and badges suddenly stopped increasing on Ask Ubuntu...
I have done some reviews today and I was also supposed to be awarded a gold badge for editing 500 posts. This started ...
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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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Should the copy.com tag be removed?
It currently has no watchers. At this time, there are 13 questions tagged with copy.com.
copy.com has been discontinued.
I saw it in this recent question: compare and move a file from one directory ...
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Is there any mechanism to block trolls from harassing you?
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: Backup for Cloud Email
Is there any mechanism to block trolls from harassing you?
I asked my first question (linked above) and it's infested by someone ...
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Not getting some of the comment and badge notifications
Comments Notifications: I recently commented on this post. Earlier whenever I used to comment on a post and get a reply from OP just after my comment even without mentioning my name, I used to get ...
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Question put on hold as off-topic but maybe spam?
Can anyone provide me high PR rank guest posting sites for SEO activity? has been put on hold but I feel it's a form of spam via the user profile.
I clearly remember a previous post by the same user ...
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How can I report user profile as inappropriate?
Is there a way to report a user based on their profile? I found a user whose profile description is clearly promoting a strip club as is their profile pic.
I'm looking to report them based on their ...
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Can't log in to Ask Ubuntu from my new computer - works fine on the old one
I tried to connect to Ask Ubuntu on my new computer but my email and password in the Login Mask just "froze" and nothing happened, I then tried the forgotten password business and received an email ...
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Lost access to e-mail account used to register in askubuntu
I have four e-mails one each in google, microsoft, yahoo and yandex and all four have two step verification using mobile apps enabled. I have registered in my askubuntu account using my yandex e-mail.
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LQP queue recanting recommendations
I recommended deletion on this answer which the user then edited to improve his answer based on the review.
How can I recant that review and cancel the delete recommendation?
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How can I move my own question to another site?
I believe my question belongs on another Stack Exchange site, such as Super User. But, there isn't an option to do so, and it's not getting enough views for a moderator to move it. What can I do?
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Text distortion on askubuntu and seamonkey
I am still getting some text distortion.
Ubuntu Mate 18.04
Desktop site using Seamonkey.
Is there a fix?
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Can I get 5 rep change for an upvote on -an answer-?
Don't get me wrong, I always enjoy the rep, but today made me curious, I got five reps for an upvote on an answer, and ten on the same day:
Can't remember this ever happened to me before.
Tiny bug?
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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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When reviewing answers, how can I view other answers for the post?
I was clearing the late posts, and there was an answer that was a correct answer to the question, so I hit "no action needed".
Turns out it was one of the "test" reviews. This question was already ...
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How can I add videos to my questions?
How can I send a video to you to show what's going on when I'm logging on Ubuntu 18.04?
I have a problem that involves a sequence of events and I need to show a video to explain the problem.
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Possible bug: body area turns blank when editing question
When trying to edit a question, I noticed that I have to edit the body area firstly, and only secondly the title area. If I try to do otherwise, the body area turns blank and I can't see the words or ...
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Can't format question properly because of character limit
I have a problem with editing this question:
Upgrade to 18.04, now sudo apt-get upgrade produces loads of insserv errors
OP didn't format the terminal output (which as you can see, is really long), ...
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Why does an answer appear in "faded" text?
An accepted answer with three downvotes (now deleted) appeared "faded" but when my mouse pointer hovered over the answer, the text appeared normal.
What does the faded text signify?
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Last post not in recent inbox messages
My last post does not show up in my recent inbox messages.
But it does show up in a search.
Does it only show up if it has had replies?
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Can we please stop telling people to use "apt-get" when simply "apt" accomplishes the same thing? [closed]
It's just bad advice to give to tell people to type in longer codes than are necessary. Think of all the wasted seconds spent typing that extra -get that could be spent on other things. Yes, some apt ...
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Reputation requirement for a self answer?
I have a question on AskUbuntu which I managed to solve myself with some guidance from another user, He suggested that I self answer my question and provided this link as reference: https://askubuntu....
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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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Can not find Edit help
I looked in the help center but could find no listing for help in editing.
Can someone point me the way?
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Am I allowed to use a web crawler on Ask Ubuntu?
I have created a web crawler from a tutorial and the website in the video seems to be down.
Would I be allowed to test it here at Ask Ubuntu, just solely for educational purposes?
If not, does ...
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Finding relevant aswers
How does one go about finding questions and answers that are up to date, not 5 or more years old. I ask this so I can avoid the "THIS Question has been asked." that I see in every question.
This is ...
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last question auto populates into the question form
I am trying to post a new question. However, when I click on "ask question" I see the previous question that I posted auto populated into the title, text, and tag fields. I want to still keep that ...
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How to search AU for a string containing “$”?
Today I tried to search for this answer, but the only thing I could remember from it was $_, so I tried to search for this term:
https://askubuntu.com/search?q=%24_
To my surprise the result page ...
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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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What is Cleanup badge [duplicate]
I do not understand what the Cleanup Badge First rollback is?
I have checked recent achievement under badges.
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You have reached your question limit
I tried to post but got this. I could find nothing on it in the Help Center. What does it mean?
"You have reached your question limit"
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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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Help understanding why my question keeps getting deleted or put on hold
The question I reference below is here.
Twice now I have asked a question on Ask Ubuntu, sincerely looking for help with a problem, only to have the first one marked as a duplicate to an unrelated ...
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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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What is the score of a question?
Can you explain what is the score of a question and how can I understand what is the score of a question?
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Changing the language of Ask Ubuntu word processor
My PC's language is German and in this site the word processor is set to German. I can't change it to English so that my mistakes are automatically corrected.
Can I fix this somehow?
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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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Possibly similar question (or even accounts)?
Either it's a coincidence or intentional, I saw two similar questions of LibreOffice right now:
Convert .ods document to .docx document
Converting .ods to .docx file
Apparently, both OPs have also ...
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How can I filter discussions to newer instead of from years in the past?
Since I am the kind of person to find answers and share with others, how can I filter out discussions that are no longer relevant like from 2012, when it is 2018? I have found that the past versions ...
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Low Quality Review Queue - did I cause the "invalidate"?
Relevant post
getting error when typing string airmon-ng start then my wifi's ext video in comments
It came up in the LQ
I decided that some editing was necessary for me to decide - which I did ...
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Transcribing syslog and preserving the line breaks
I'm trying to copy a segment of my syslog to a question here.
The problem is that all the linefeeds are lost when I do the copy, so the transcription is very difficult to read. How can I avoid this?
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Improved edits by Community♦ bot
I was going through Suggested Edits and noticed Community♦ had reviewed the edit suggestion.
The bot has done a number of edits.
Community has approved 21419 edit suggestions and rejected 4859 ...
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What does it mean when my question is "edited" and how can I investigate?
My last question was "edited", can somebody explain:
What this means exactly.
How do I see what "edits" were made.
How do I contact the "editor" should I disagree with the "editing"
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Approved edits and reputation issue
I have faced an issue mentioned below.
The number of approved edits are getting reduced. I do not understand how that is happening.
My reputation is also getting reduced. However there are no down ...
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Printing Questions/Responses in READABLE scale [duplicate]
I've posted about this before. I have the Meltdown/Spectre cpu flaw. I'm trying to update the kernel to a patched version.
I found an AskUbuntu page I want to print. Printed at "200" the words scroll ...
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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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How did I get 35 reputation from 2 votes?
On https://askubuntu.com/a/1026404/711310, I got two upvotes and zero downvotes, but I gained 35 reputation from it. How did this happen?
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Where to use blockquotes, pre formatted text and bold
I have a issue on where to use block quotes and pre formatted text and bold.
Please explain in depth where these should be used.
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How do I use the grey formatting in a comment? [duplicate]
Someone showed me (by editing my question for me) how to make some of your
text show up grey to show it is code.
Now I need to know how to do it in a comment.
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Automatically wrapping lines in Ask Ubuntu
I'm new to forums and stuff like that. I need to post my wifi-info scripts output in Ask Ubuntu using Firefox and I need to keep it as it is without wrapping any lines. As soon as copy and paste it, ...
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