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Why does Ask Ubuntu need a Captcha even from mobile users?

I am using my mobile phone to access Ask Ubuntu with Opera mini and it works with Ask Ubuntu mobile version but while posting answers it redirects me to the full website to enter a Captcha. Why is ...
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PHP, PHP5 tags merge

I know PHP5 is very different from previous versions and that all (its a new version!) but do we need a split between the tags php and php5? Are not talking about the same thing in the end? Can you ...
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Add Linked In share button to askubuntu

Would not it be nice if we could add LinkedIn between social networks to share links Askubuntu? Especially focus on the labor side that this network continues to provide.
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(How) can we encourage question askers to do some research of their own?

Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you will feed him and his family for a lifetime. When I first started using Ask Ubuntu, I was all over the easy questions, ...
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Can we link to OpenSTV in the Ubuntu repos on the election page?

The election results tell you that you can use OpenSTV to audit the results and provide links to windows and mac installers. This is Ask Ubuntu. We don't need to download random installers from the ...
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How can I convert my Ask Ubuntu account?

I'm quitting with Google mail, but I cannot edit my address to my new one (first time I logged in with Google-login). Just says "oops, there was an error".
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Can we get an inbox message when a question we ask is marked as a duplicate?

I posted a question on askubuntu, unfortunately it was a duplicate of a previous question (I did search, sorry!). However, I came back a few times over the next few days to check the homepage to see ...
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Did you have both Unity and classic Gnome in 11.04?

in 11.04 I remember that we had both the classic desktop and Unity as a pre-installed option of desktop. But in all questions I find there's the Unity ones from 11.04 and the old ones until 10.10. ...
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Kill the grub-error tag

Why do we need a grub-error tag? It will not fit both grub and grub2 at the same time and its a useless tag to follow. Normally if someone is good at solving grub and grub2 issues he will also know ...
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Do we want to burninate the move tag?

I noticed that the move is rather useless, do we want to destroy it? We need to reach a community consensus before Stack Exchange can do it.
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What is the purpose of the ability to bounty a meta question?

I have recently decided to bounty a meta question of mine. This got me thinking about bounties on meta questions. What is the purpose of them? In my case, only the moderators and high rep'd users ...
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Favorites Question Are Not Been Added To My List?

I am adding Favorites Question & its not adding in my Favorites list Using Chromium , i think its latest Version UPDATED i have checked lots of people Favorites & find that they got 15 to 20 ...
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108 Rep, but only earned 8

I'm not sure if this is simple for the SO/SE dev team, or if you moderators can do something about it. I've got plenty of rep on SO, but don't know too much about Linux. (Surely my 100 points should ...
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Request Time-out 408 error

I have posted this question before, but because I was using my local DNS, I thought it might be an error in my DNS. Now I'm using OpenDNS and Google's DNS with the same error:
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How can we participate in the Ubuntu Global Jam?

Welcome Ubuntu Global Jammers! Thanks for taking the time to check out tasks for Ask Ubuntu. We've put together a list of things that should help you get started. and then submit an edit, then it ...
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Should we have an Ask Ubuntu Beginners event?

Problem In a chat discussion about the moderator elections on different Stack Exchange sites I've seen a couple of numbers that make me think. Apparently we have a pretty low reputation per user ...
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Time to merge the GNOME tags?

I don't know how we ended up with version specific gnome tags but we should probably merge gnome-shell and gnome3 into gnome now. It's been long enough and all it does is cause confusion, perhaps ...
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Should we have have IF or ELSE type statements in tags?

In this tag wiki, we have the following: Refers either to Microsoft's Windows operating system(s), or application windows. emphasis mine Is that kind of thing "allowed" or not? Or should we have ...
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Regarding "Low Quality" flag

I had a flag declined as: "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention". The flag that was used was "Low Quality". If these are going to be ...
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Request: Burnination and Blacklisting of [error] tag

One of the most overly used tags in the site is error. In almost every case, there are many other tags which are far more descriptive. All 303 questions using that tag aside, I believe the tag ...
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Highest voted answer auto-accepted after length of time

I have a suggestion: After a certain set amount of time automatically mark the question with the most upvotes as the accepted answer. Many of us have experienced this: You answer a question posted by ...
William's user avatar
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest

The following is a "digest" version of the 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town ...
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How should we deal with question 76997?

I'm not sure how to deal with this question: https://askubuntu.com/questions/76997/which-is-better-staying-with-10-04-lts-until-12-04-comes-out-or-upgrading-to-11 I could categorize it as not ...
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Is [date] a tag that needs some fixing?

I've noticed something about the date tag. It has questions regarding the date/time indicator, getting date/revision info from a file/folder metadata, and has been included on questions regarding "...
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Should the [background] tag be burninated?

Apparently people are using the background tag for two totally different topics. Some refer to their desktop background and others refer to running a process in the background. It seems rather ...
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Tag synonym request: [asterix] -> [asterisk]

The tag asterix should really be a tag synonym of asterisk. Just so you understand why. This guy, is Asterix: Asterisk on the other hand is an open source PBX software.
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The election banner is not shown on the main site close to the beginning of the election

It is 8 hours until the election begins. Currently no election banner is shown on the main site but the election banner is showing on the meta site. The main site: The meta site: Is this a bug?
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Please burninate speed tag

speed has the perfect quality of a meta tag can’t work as the only tag on a question (I see speed on network, bootup, video playback & so on) means different things to different people (is it ...
Sathyajith Bhat's user avatar
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How to deal with "How to fix everything?" questions?

Today I have spotted this question. It lists a bunch of completely unrelated problems with a huge variety of programs, and asks how to revert everything to default. Is that a case of 'too-localized'? ...
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How should we handle wifi and other connection type questions?

Just doing a quick scan and seemingly we have hundreds of "cannot connect" wifi and other type connection questions. My question is simple... Should be be treating these as bug-reports and hence ...
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What abilities does a high rep'd user doesn't have that a mod has?

What abilities do a moderator have more than, lets say a 10k or 20k rep'd user?
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How to treat a poor question with a good answer?

Regarding I done what the web said to do and still get this error msg the question is poor enough that it is at -2 (though good enough I found it by searching for my error message). But the one non-up ...
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Should I close or give my own answer on questions that have become moot?

Over time as I've become more familiar with the Stack Exchange way of doing things, I see the value of making sure my questions see resolution. Either that an answer gets accepted, or that the ...
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Social Networks: Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked?

Is there a way to be informed about questions as soon they're asked? For instance: gwibber (notifications) facebook, google+ (as new on my wall) twitter (as tweets) email (ugh.. all that spam) rss......
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How should we define "Abandoned" as a close reason?

Assume a question is clear, fully fleshed-out in details, compliant with question policy, and relevant to a large audience... but unanswered. At what point (if ever) does this question because ...
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What is the purpose of bookmarking questions?

It shows no increase in the reputation points of the asker, then what is the purpose of being able to bookmark questions by clicking on bookmark icon with a star?
William's user avatar
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Has there been any suggestion to encourage AU members to become Ubuntu Members?

I noticed there are a number of dedicated and helpful members on Ask Ubuntu. Has there been any suggestion to encourage such members to become Ubuntu Members as a recognition of their contributions ...
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Delete Accepted Answer

delete my accepted Answer as it is not the right answer
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Are bugs necessarily off-topic?

Jorge Castro recently commented on one of my questions that it should be filed as a bug instead. And I've seen here that the general view is that questions about bugs should be considered off-topic ...
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"Another user Is editing this post" warning

Sometimes, I find that before I post my edit, someone already has edited the post. Can't we make a system like this: Without the Feature So, lets say User A started editing X post, and User B ...
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Edit link Missing

I was going to edit a post and I just found out that "edit" Is missing from all questions Although the edit link works
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2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat - Tuesday 7 Feb 21:00 UTC / 4pm EST [closed]

In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Multiple/multiline commands (terminal command formatting) in chat don't work?

If I use (for example): Run grun fishsticks and then sudo breadcrumbs in a terminal. The system fails to render this correctly. Instead it renders: Run `grun fishsticks` and then `sudo ...
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How can we refocus on being a Q+A, not a support forum or bug tracker? [closed]

After doing some investigation on issues brought up doing these questions I've found something that I'm embarrassed that we have let get out of control, see these questions for some background. What ...
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Do we need a linked report to close bug questions?

In a recent question about problems with Ask Ubuntu, the topic of low-quality, incomplete, pseudo-bug-report questions came up. From What to do with questions that describe known bugs?, I was under ...
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How should we handle support requests in the Ask Ubuntu General Room?

In the past few weeks, I've noticed some newish users coming to the general room looking for IRC-style technical support or (perhaps more objectionably) using it as advertising space for their ...
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Where's the off-topic line?

I've seen quite a few questions that ask how to do something with some software that happens to be able to run on Ubuntu, but could equally be answered on any Linux related stackoverflow site. They ...
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What are Ask Ubuntu's current problems, if any, as of early 2012?

The following question was posed to me on my moderator nomination Is there any concrete issues you would like to focus on as a moderator? My answer is what amounts to janitorial work, but I'd like ...
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Why is hiding GRUB menu too localized?

As per my brother's request, I want to hide the GRUB menu, on his dual-boot machine, only to have it appear when he presses some key. I Googled and found this question, and a few days later I noticed ...
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By experience, what characteristics should a moderator have?

I have seen the community 2012 moderator opened and I was thinking that maybe I would run for office.. I mean moderator but like anybody that is scared to jump into something bigger than himself I ask,...
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