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What to do with useless new tags?
Tags are quite helpful when searching for question on a specific topic, and they are also used for Google searches. Therefore a nice base of tags like we have is precious and should not be spoiled by ...
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Should tags without description be allowed?
I just earned the create new tag privilege and this made me curious to check out the current NEW tags created. For my surprise I noticed that there are quite a few tags without description.
I know ...
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Is there a place for keeping "problem solving hints"?
I've noticed that I often collect data to diagnose a problem by:
Causing the problem to happen, then
ls -lrt/var/log,
tail -n 25 on recently modified log files, and
dmesg.
Read, wonder, ...
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Adding a tag is a minor edit?
I edited (or rather, suggested an edit) on a question about Chuck montages on Planet Ubuntu, to add the tag 'planet-ubuntu'. It was rejected with the following reason:
This edit is too minor; ...
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A bunch of incoming Mythbuntu Questions
Over the next week we'll be importing a large amount of Mythbuntu questions from their FAQ. Due to this import we will have a lot of questions that require cleanup in both formatting and tagging.
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What about using a "poor-english" tag?
I'm not sure if the Meta is the right place for sharing ideas, but I couldn't find any better one (let me know if I should have proposed it somewhere else).
What I would like to suggest is to mark ...
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Can I suggest a Spanish askubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any plans for localized Ask Ubuntu instances?
Sometimes is easier to make a question or explain one in your own lenguage... It is possible to have an "Que Ubuntu?"
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Why do I need 20 reputation to chat even in the feedback channel?
I'm not sure how to answer to a previous answer so I joined the chat and I couldn't ask anyone as I'm lacking repuatation.
Come on guys, this side is supposed to be "easy" and enable an instant ...
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StackApplet - Monitor your reputation and get notified of comments. [v1.5 released]
StackApplet 1.5 released!
Be sure to visit the downloads page to give the latest version a try. If you are able to translate StackApplet to another language, that would be awesome! If not, you can ...
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I can't check an answer - what should I do?
I created a question a while back. The hard drive on that computer recently failed so I have no way of actually checking if the new solution that was proposed today would actually solve the problem. ...
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AutoSuspension from Chat for "Inappropriate Content"
Someone mind explaining what content was inappropriate, and why the system is automatically banning users now, and can perhaps undo the suspension?
edit:
yes i found what content was inappropriate, ...
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Notifications of flags
I want to get notifications of stuff that I flagged.
I would like to know:
What question/answer it's about
If it was declined or accepted
I want this notification on askubuntu.com
Possible ...
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Is it worth the effort of splitting up multiple questions that get posted as one post?
Sometimes people post multiple questions at once like so:
Customizing Gnome Shell in 11.10
This is unfortunate because each one of those would be great standalone questions that would show up in ...
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Why separate "torrent" and "bittorrent" tags?
Why do we have torrent and bittorrent as separate tags on main?
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Any Stack (ask Ubuntu) software [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for Ask Ubuntu
Is there Any new Stack software for Ubuntu 11.10
So i can manage from desktop
Stack Applet 1.4 is not Working (not finding my username)
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question about "download[ing] packages for offline installation" incorrectly closed as duplicate
This question has been closed as a duplicate of this question. But I do not believe they are really asking the same thing. I think that the recent question is asked in a way that is unfortunately not ...
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Why couldn't I edit question 79622?
I had wanted to edit this question to remove the signature in accordance with this policy (which has since been taken care of by zpletan). However, I was unable to do so. Since I only have 1,269 ...
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Askubuntu app for unity
Is there an app/software available which would integrate askubuntu.com into my unity desktop something like GMail notifier.
This would help me to see what all question are posted on the site without ...
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Create a new answer for release-specific solution or add to existing (and selected answer)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do we do about topics spanning multiple versions of Ubuntu?
For release-specific solutions two approaches are being taken: either edited into existing, and selected ...
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How do I add a photo to my Ask Ubuntu profile?
Could someone please help me with the steps to adding a personal picture to my Ask Ubuntu profile?
OliMod
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How to add my askubuntu points widgets to blogger?
I read somewhere (please don't ask me where as I have forgotten) that I could add my profile points to blogger so as to show that you are indeed a member of the community (ask Ubuntu ). Can someone ...
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Delete my Ask Ubuntu and Ask Ubuntu Meta account
I want to delete my Ask Ubuntu and Ask Ubuntu meta account, but there is a problem, in the section "Contact us", the following e-mail adress "team%[email protected]" and "team%...
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what to do with questions without an owner? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do with abandoned questions?
what is the guidlines for questions without an owner?
Should they be closed?
should they be maintained by anyone?
what's the deal?
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Software package installation Icon [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Change the software icon
In regards to The package installation problem. it's become clear we would like to add a custom launching icon that can be used to open the apt.ubuntu....
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How to answer a question calling for conversation?
What's the suggested way of handling a problem that devolves to a pursuit?
Me: Type these commands and let me know the result.
User: ....
Me: Type these commands2 and let me know the result.
User: ....
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What is the dual tag for?
Someone's comment in this question led me to realize there's a dual tag.
This tag is pretty silly. It looks like most of the questions are about dual booting, but some of them are about dual monitors....
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Images to apt links not appearing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Software centre image link is broken
I keep seeing the message 'the image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available', and I discovered this only happens with ...
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Why does Oli have his own search engine while the rest of us poor folk have to use the site's search box? [closed]
Anyone want to explain this?
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Where is the link back?
Where is the link back to ubuntu.stackexchange.com from meta.ubuntu.stackexchange.com?
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How should answers to questions that have since been split be dealt with?
I came across Ubuntu screenshot program, which started off as a couple questions mashed together. Although it has since been edited to only ask about screenshot programs, it originally asked for both ...
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Download links in answers - best way to handle this?
Related, but not really:
Use of download links in answers
Ok, now that I've got that out of the way, it was recently posted in the chatroom that folks have a tendency to post answers with links to ...
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Closing questions as instances or subsets of another question?
I see many AskUbuntu questions that are really too localized for the format. That's a recognized problem: we do
have a too localized flag, after all.
But I think many localized questions are worth ...
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Why the minimum 6 characters limit on edits
I have found an answer with a dangerous mistake in chmod parameters. I did an edit suggestion(since I'm not privileged enough) but I was forced to change at least 6 characters for the system to accept ...
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Is the 'edit' link prominent enough?
I keep seeing questioners answering their own questions with an update instead of editing the question. Is this maybe a problem of a not prominent enough edit link? Since this site heavily depends on ...
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Ask Ubuntu Sessions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
Here are the sessions for this UDS that are AU related, they are all in the Community track:
http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-p/track/community
More specifically:
Integrating with Ask Ubuntu, Tuesday, ...
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Community can translate questions?
I was looking at the editing history for this question which used to not be in English. I noticed that Community translated the question into English.
I thought this was pretty cool, since, as far as ...
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Under what specific conditions should a question be flagged as "very low quality"? [duplicate]
I was going along doing some editing and whatnot on the main site when I hit a question that just looked so ugly quality-wise that I could not think of how one might be able to edit it back into ...
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Can I associate my AskUbuntu account with my other Stack Exchange accounts, for migrated questions?
I answered a question on Server Fault, which was then migrated to AskUbuntu. Then, in agreement with a suggestion for improvement by another user posted in a comment, I decided to edit my post. I don'...
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If it's worth answering, it's worth upvoting
Yes or no? I would argue that most of the time, one should vote up the question if you're answering it. I'd like to see more people taking the half-a-second to upvote a question, after they've ...
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Are answers to a question marked as duplicate merged?
In this question :
What to use to connect to nomachine's server?
In the comments, someone said that the merge would be good. So, what exactly is the question merge?
What happens to the ...
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How to get same OpenID URL at Launchpad and StackExchange?
My usual nicks of don-quixote, quixote and donquixote were already in use at Launchpad when I registered there, so I registered as mdcrawford, my real name.
At all the StackExchange sites - which ...
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How to handle answer and bounty for initially incomplete question?
Can someone tell me what's the best way to handle the answer to this question considering that it wasn't accurate when I asked it?
Should I post my own answer and accept it? Should I award the ...
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Answer aglomerate, group of possible solutions for a frequent question
Is there a better way to answer the "upgraded and my 'random graphics maker string here' driver stopped working" (or any other derivatives of hardware category as long as its frequent)?
I have seen ...
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What is the Difference Ask Ubuntu and A.U. Meta?
What is the difference between this site, Ask Ubuntu, and Ask Ubuntu Meta?
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Found a bug /exploit in the data from askubuntu.com? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Jorge Castro a Robot?
The user page reports strange values that cannot be true for a normal human, I suspect a hacker or a bot. Beware :)!
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Why is it askubuntu.com instead of ask.ubuntu.com?
Out of curiosity, when it was decided to change the domain from ubuntu.stackexchange.com why was askubuntu.com instead of ask.ubuntu.com chosen? Since SE is an official support channel, wouldn't it be ...
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How do I add a comment to a wrongly closed question, or get it reopened?
(Yes, I know this is a meta question, but as a new user of askubuntu, I don't have the reputation to ask on meta (or, it appears, do anything but ask a new question here).)
I came here looking for ...
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Bounty for self answered question
I have this question from a user that I was trying to help.
It was taking a bit of time to troubleshot everything so I offered a bounty for it.
After that I could pin point the problem and answer it,...
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Tag Synonym Request: [keyboard-shortcut] -> [shortcut-keys]?
The tag keyboard-shortcut seems like it should just be part of the shortcut-keys tag.
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Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Proposal
UDS-P will be held in Orlando, FL from October 31st – November 4th. While there is a Summit every six months I feel UDS-P is a vital event for Ask Ubuntu to have representation in since it will be for ...
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