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Tag synonym suggestions

For future suggestions, make a separate post so we can keep track of how well we are doing with tags, as well as facilitating discussion on a specific tag. Thanks I don't have enough reputation to ...
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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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How to improve a question that isn't being answered?

I asked this question (How to reformat/reindent all the source files in a given directory?) which – I admit – at the beginning was not very well defined, but, with the help of the comments left by ...
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What are all the keyboard shortcuts for this site?

What are the list of keyboard shortcuts you can use on this site? I know I can get each shortcut by hovering my mouse over the buttons above the answer text area but I was wondering if there's a list ...
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What to do when the OP answers their own question in comments/edits to the question?

With the clean-up in progress, I've come across quite a few questions which have a comment by the OP on how they solved their question or they answer their question in an edit to the question. How do ...
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Small bug in cleanup user scripts [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Another small bug in the oli's cleanup user script I may have run across a small bug in the user script. These six have been given to me to review, and remain on my list ...
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Another small bug in the oli's cleanup user script

The user Alvar deleted the question https://askubuntu.com/questions/46280/ It remains on "My Open Allocations" I can "give up" and remove it, but will leave it for the moment, not sure if you wish ...
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What should we do if an answer contains link rot and there is no other appropriate answer?

I was looking through some questions today and stumbled upon this one: https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1109/what-is-flag-weight The answer contains link rot so I searched for what to do in that ...
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Question for moderators (Ask Ubuntu Clean UP)

During the Ask Ubuntu Clean UP campaign I have run out of my allotment of flags. Must I wait 24 hrs to receive more? Moderators?
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How can we improve the 'greatest hits' of our site?

I was reading the Stack Overflow blog earlier today regarding the greatest hits of the Stack Exchange sites. I realize that these posts are what make our site popular across the Internetz and hence, ...
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How to suggest a FAQ?

As a part of the cleanup week I see a FAQ - "How to completely remove a program and it's configuration files?" As a part of clean up, this question How to fully remove the eclipse package? could ...
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Clean-Up Week - Event planning

We (your moderators) have been mulling over an idea for a good way to deal with old, unanswered and unanswerable posts. We've been in discussion with the StackExchange team and while we're a long way ...
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Notifying posters of comments restricted?

I've noticed that comments I make are being stripped of the "@name" part. For example, my comment here, "@yossile, the OP has mentioned Google Chrome beta and there is (or was) a problem regarding it ...
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What is the next step with this user who continues to post biased off-topic comments?

I caught this question which was highlighted on the SE network: So, what is the advantage of using the terminal? There's a user Mehrdad who has been posting comments attacking the CLI-oriented linux ...
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Where can I get the Ask Ubuntu speech bubble logo?

Where can I get that speech bubble from Ask Ubuntu in SVG version? I need it for my presentation.
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Can we have a feature where downvoting is only possible if the user has left a comment or filled out a form? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Down voting consequences Sometimes down-voting is done without leaving proper comments or reason. The person next-in-line commenting on the post telling them what's wrong ...
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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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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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Add a Close > Bug category? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Ability to close a question as a bug report. There are many questions that should really be filed as bug reports instead. Currently, these are closed as "off topic". Wouldn't ...
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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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Bounty transfer in exact dupe?

What If a Bounty'd question is duped? Like if X question has a bounty of, lets say +100. And Y question does not have a bounty. X is a exact dupe of Y. A mod closes it as a dupe, what happens to the ...
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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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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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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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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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Help create a great Wikipedia entry for Ask Ubuntu

Please help by making http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AskUbuntu , the Wikipedia entry about AskUbuntu better. You may want to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StackOverflow as a reference on how our page ...
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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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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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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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1 answer
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Rep change bug in new user overlay

The user overlay shows more rep points gained in the current week than in the current month: Given that we are in the middle of a month, I'd say that's a bug.
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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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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement [closed]

As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we ...
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Is the ubuntu-desktop tag immortal ?

As of 2011-01-18, Jeff Atwood deleted the ubuntu-desktop tag. One day later there are already new ubuntu-desktop questions. Considering all askers are relatively new to askubuntu, I suppose they were ...
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Typo in welcome banner

The welcome banner says Welcome to Q&A site for Ubuntu users and developers image: It should probably say Welcome to the Q&A site for Ubuntu users and developers or, Welcome to Q&...
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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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Lack of revision note and cc-wiki graphic in Ubuntu footer

I noticed today that the Ubuntu site doesn't appear to have the cc-wiki graphic and "revision" note that usually appears in the Stack Exchange footer. I don't want to tag this as a bug, but I was ...
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Information on the moderator candidates

This has been posted by ChrisF on the meta of all the other sites undergoing elections, so just in case you've missed it I'm adding it here. Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that use the Stack ...
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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 ...
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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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1 answer
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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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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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1 answer
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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 ...
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Should we recommend inexperienced users to refrain from using advanced tools?

After a disagreement I had with another user in the comments to their answer recommending that the poster of the question uninstall ccsm after breaking Unity with it (after, of course, running an ...
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Ask Ubuntu goodies anyone?

Here at UDS a lot of people of course wear Ubuntu T-Shirts, for very obvious reasons. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could have some nice Ask Ubuntu T-Shirts to give away as there are a large number of ...
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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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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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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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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 "...
10 votes
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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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