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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Should comments be flagged for "light" rudeness?
I will give the example of this answer.
It was a bad answer, not much information in it, not really a good work around. A bad answer is a bad answer, we all understand that.
Now, I look at the user ...
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Google Code Prettify support for Ask Ubuntu?
Reading this answer I've realized that we don't have Google Code Prettify support on Ask Ubuntu like we have on Stack Overflow.
Since we agreed that we welcome Ubuntu development questions I think we ...
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New starters to Ask Ubuntu
As a new user to Ask Ubuntu, or for that matter any other forum based site, upon registering, it would be very useful to have some kind of basic introduction on how to ask questions. Not the process ...
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Is it okay to suggest that my own question be closed since it's related to a confirmed bug?
The question is this one and the bug seems to be here. None of the "close" options seem appropriate. Perhaps, exact duplicate could be extended to exact duplicate or existing bug?
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How can I see old versions of a question or answer?
My question was just edited. It seems I had used wildly differing tags. Happy that someone helped me, it also made me a little bit curious what I had done. So, how can I see the older versions of my ...
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How can I see per-badge completion-status?
Is there some way I can see what my per-badge completion status is? For example, to view the completion status for the Electorate or Copy-Editor badge I can go to the review page and take a look at ...
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Questions about the future is off-topic?
As Ubuntu gets more attention in the general media (which is a very good thing), people get more questions they'd like to get answers to. For instance, HUD is going to attract a lot of curiosity.
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There's no way to mark a question solved when you figure it out yourself.
If I ask a question that nobody else is able to answer, and I later figure it out, then there is no way for me to mark the question as answered. It will be marked unaccepted forever. I consider this ...
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I observed that my reputation decreases when I downvote answers, why?
Why does my reputation decrease when I down-vote answers? Isn't down-voting bad answers a good thing?
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Suggestion for daily-weekly-whatever cleanup sprints
tl;dr: Read the whole thing guys. Please.
As part of an effort to clean up the site (with a focus on closing abandoned questions), jokerdino, Bruno and I have done a few cleanup sprints - wherein we ...
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How should answers which basically equate to "give up and use x instead" be handled?
Let's say we have a question of the form "How can I make X do Y?" and it is a perfectly valid, on-topic question. Now suppose someone then posts an answer which basically says "Forget X and just ...
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How should we tag Dash (the shell)
I went to ask a question about Dash (/bin/sh) in Ubuntu to find that "dash" is being used to describe problems with Unity's Dash interface.
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When does a component of a larger project require its own tag?
When does a component of a larger project require its own tag? Example:
We have unity, dash launcher - dash and launcher are components of Unity, as well as separate packages.
So the question is, do ...
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What is the appropriate way to deal with "Can I do X" questions?
I don't know how better to phrase this, so here are a few examples:
Ubuntu Derivate with Rolling Release? Possible?
Kiosk that is able to transfer videos to a thumb drive
Is there any way a can buy ...
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What is the policy concerning external deb-packages?
In this question a deb-package was linked without any hint to the potential danger of bypassing Ubuntu's package management. I know that in the Window's world setup.exe are quite common, but common ...
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Why do we have an "error" tag?
I note that we have a error tag in the main site and it doesn't mean anything on its own. When last checked, it has over 280+ questions tagged as such. Manually editing them out of all of those ...
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Migrated posts can be voted twice
I remember to have upvoted the question and answer https://askubuntu.com/q/97569/6969 and after migration to meta I thought, good question and answer, let's upvote it.
After that, I realized that I'...
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Can I use my Canonical/Ubuntu.com or Launchpad account to post and / or answer questions here as well?
Can I use my Canonical/Ubuntu.com or Launchpad account to post and / or answer questions here as well?
I use the same name on Launchpad.
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What happened to flag weight
Just now I observed that my profile is no longer showing "flag weight" instead it is showing "helpful flags". Where did flag weight go? Is it being replaced with helpful flags count?
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Can I always see my inbox first?
I would like to see my inbox first instead of the hot questions. Is there a way I can fix this?
It's really annoying. Really!
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Is Ask Ubuntu the place for tutorials?
Let's say I managed to realize something interesting, tricky and not foundable with a simple web search.
Should I post it on Ask Ubuntu, with me asking a question and answering it myself right after?
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How often is the information in the "Users" list updated?
How often is the information at https://askubuntu.com/users updated? Is this something that happens instantaneously, or hourly like the main reputation synching with the meta, or something entirely ...
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What to do with questions that use rude words or expressions?
Not sure about how often it happens but this question started out with a bit rude tone and words. You can also see the same with some answers given on the website.
If I am talking among people that I ...
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Closing abandoned questions is harder than it should be.
I've been doing a bunch of digging around to help solve our accept rate problem. It's probably a multifaceted problem so I thought I'd tackle this one for now. According to meta, our policy is to vote ...
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Use of the tag "Always-Friday-In -Iceland
I came across this question and noticed that it was tagged with 'always-friday-in-iceland, I couldnt catch the reason behind creating that tag and also its Usage/meaning, kindly elucidate.
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Why are the accepted answers always on the top of the answer list?
Currently (from what I can see) the rules for ordering the answers in a question is:
Accepted answer (no matter what votes it has)
Answer with most votes numbers below the accepted answer
Answers ...
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What can we do about high traffic duplicates?
Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04 is a duplicate question, merged with the more general How to Upgrade from a very old release to the latest.
The problem? How to Upgrade has about nine thousand views. ...
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Could somebody please create the [router] tag?
I just submitted a question with regards to networking. A router is involved. Unfortunately, there is no router tag, only a route tag.
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downvoting random comments in answers?
I saw some answers where the user just puts in random comment. I like what I read from this link "
http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1305/flag-answers-that-should-be-comments " but is downvoting ...
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How can I give rep to a wiki answer?
Lets say a user created an answer to a question and because he is nice enough and he knows people can concentrate on his answer as a base and add more information to it he marked the answer as ...
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Could we migrate outdated answers to community wiki mode?
One trait that makes AskUbuntu different from many SE communities is that our subject matter changes at a six-month clip. The answer for new versions is often very different from the answers for older ...
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Why haven't I received my Electorate badge yet?
The Electorate badge is given when a user votes 600 times and 25% of the votes are on questions if I understand correctly.
I reached that couple of months back and while looking at my profile now, I ...
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"Peer pressure" badge doesn't appear in my profile page
I was notified that I had gotten the "peer pressure" badge, and was told to see my profile. I did and that badge doesn't appear there. I think maybe I've experienced that before with another badge.
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How can I answer a question or post a comment when I first get on this site?
I'm a quite old user of linux in general and ubuntu in particular and find it quite frustrating not to be able to answer a question.
Since I just register it appears that I only have one reputation ...
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How to get notified about questions in specific language on askubuntu.com?
Currently, Our LoCo is receiving all questions from Ubuntu users on FB group, this has many disadvantages as it wasn't made for it mainly. We need to move it to Ask Ubuntu, but How can an individual/...
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Cannot use prewritten comments [closed]
I installed the script extension in Chrome 16.0.912.63 on Windows 7, but I can't insert prewritten comments. I click on Auto and it shows me the default comments, but when I select one of them, the ...
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What does the site look like to a moderator?
The site has special features for moderators.
Can I see how the site looks like to the average moderator(tools and stuff)
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New users should be able to upload images
This is hard to believe, I want to ask for some help, but doing it just by text is really annoying. I have to wait for some reputation to do that, how do you want me to get fast help then?
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How about adding a "Check List" for Every New AU User who asks a Question?
One of the common thing in new AU Users is that they tend to post a question without doing a bit of research, How about adding a Checklist for new users with Reputation less than 'xy' like....
{X} ...
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Could a suggestion appear when users type a non-question title?
A problem
Looking at titles on the Newest Questions page today, I'm not seeing many questions:
"I have two top panels in Ubuntu for some reason"
"Performance Test Software"
"Feedback for 11.10"
"...
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Please stop posting half answers and bad advice as comments
Ok so I've spent a few days doing hardcore cleaning and we have a problem with comments and people misusing them.
People who are too lazy to write a real answer so they write a half finished one ...
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what the difference between system-tray and panel?
the tag system-tray refers to the upper panel, and the panel refers to the upper panel.
So why do they both exist?
like this question: it has system-tray listed and not upper panel?!
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Retag page needs more left padding?
It looks like the content area of the question retag page needs more padding-left. I'm using Firefox 8.0 on Oneiric.
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When does askubuntu.com celebrate new years eve? [duplicate]
By my calendar, it's not January 2. 2012. When I look at the stats for this week, month, quarter and year, it seems we're still in December. When does this change? :)
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manager tag is horrible, I have killed it
I ran into manager and realized that people weren't really using it properly, instead it was people doing things like network and manager instead of just network-manager.
Ditto for file-manager, ...
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What to do if no one answers a Question?
What should be done if a question goes unanswered for a long time? (as an example, one of my questions about MouseHover is still unanswered.)
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Hi, how can i remove this account?
This particular site of stack exchange is not amusing me, has no function and has over zealous moderators who deleted every single one of my posts, two of which because i mentioned that unity is a bug ...
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How do I increase my rep as a Linux newbie?
I'm new to Linux so I can't answer most questions here. Are there any good ways, other than surfing the site and answering, to increase my reputation?
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Is there a way to merge my previous questions on askubuntu.com with my registered account ( i use the same email address )
Is there a way to merge my previous questions on askubuntu.com with my later registered account ( i use the same email address )?