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How can I add an image to the comment section?
Yesterday, I asked this question on AskUbuntu.
Couple of people replied to me. But with the last answer, I need to post an image of terminal screenshot in add comment section to get more information. ...
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Add feature request to Off-topic list
I usually close feature requests pointing to this item in the Off-topic list:
Bug reports and problems specific to development version of Ubuntu
should be reported on Launchpad so that developers ...
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Question deleted as abandoned although I didn't abandon it
I asked this question
a while ago. It didn't receive any helpful attention, not even a comment asking for output of some command or something, or suggesting what I could look at. Since I still have ...
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All in one 'alternatives Q' are acceptable?
Why was the following Q/A closed: What default Windows Software Alternatives does Ubuntu have!?
I get that it is a "big list" and that they are generally not allowed. But, there are way to many "...
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Correct term for 'LiveCD'?
Which way of referring to Ubuntu bootable media (i.e. written from the .iso to a device) is best?
Live CD
The traditional (generally used), but users have asked whether a 'CD' is required.
Live ...
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Is it okay to ask for confirmation of a suspected bug?
The bug is on the phone. Yes I know there are many. I won't go into the nature of the bug, but I am pretty sure it is one. It is however not registered on lauchpad (yet).I Also checked with ppl on the ...
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Should a question be closed as duplicate of another when it is asking for the same goal but via a different route?
I recently closed a question as a duplicate of another, however I am starting to think that I may have made a mistake here along with the other close voters...
So just to make it easier, let's refer ...
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What can be done to remove obsolete answers?
I have seen many times a new question being marked as a "Duplicate".
When going to the page with the "duplicated" question, (which often has little to do with the duplicate question), I sometimes see ...
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Should "try this" or "x doesn't work, use y" type answers be flagged?
From a discussion in chat, opening to a wider audience:
I tend to flag answers with "Try this" or "Use Y because X doesn't work" as "Not an answer" to avoid having to downvote and lose precious ...
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What exactly is considered "spam" in Ask Ubuntu?
Now I know that there have been questions that have already been asked related to this topic, But they don't answer my question.
My question is this: what is actually considered as spam over here?
I ...
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How to find out newest set of (25 or 50) questions with no answers
As on date there is 420+ questions with no-answers and I am unable to find a way to see answers with no questions for the past one month or newest set of 25 or 50 questions with no answers.
Is ...
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Do we really need a tag for each file format extension out there?
We have a tag for avi, mp3 (we also have a mp3-tag :/ ), mp4, mkv, jpg, png, doc, xls, ppt, odf, large etc. Are all of them really necessary?
I mean, take avi most upvoted question, what is the ...
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How can I request for a question to be reopened which was incorrectly closed as a duplicate?
I once answered a question Too many images in one directory. I suggested Shotwell to create sub-folders.
And later on, I flagged Is there a terminal command to split a folder in two? as a possible ...
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Should a valid question be edited to be off-topic because the OP indicated it as such in a non-answer?
This question was asked and there was nothing in the Original post that indicates that the post was off-topic. Some hours after I answered The OP came back and provided a not an answer which indicated ...
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Is it good to flag old questions?
I've bumped into a question that is 2 years old, has 0 score and is off-topic (question about 9.10 asked 1 year after EOL).
I flagged it off-topic by instinct, but it is a good practice to do this?
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How do I include a screenshot to illustrate a question in AskUbuntu?
The title is the question. I have screenshots that make a question easier to understand than anything I can write.
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Can someone accept other user old question?
Can someone accept other user old question? Example:
If "A" have a question posted. Then "B" answered the question (and it is good and acceptable). But "A" didn't open his/her account for 1,5 years. ...
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Do we really need EOL related announcements hanging about in the unanswered meta questions queue?
I've noticed a couple of these: For example,
EOL Notice: Precise Pangolin (12.04) will be End of Life starting April 28, 2017
Non-EOL Notice: Quantal (12.10) remains supported through April 2014
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What is wrong with migrating a question to another site?
I understand that a lot of moderators on this site are against migrating questions to other SE sites (except for AU Meta, but that is part of AU, so don't really count), and I was just wondering why ...
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What's good practice when given too many good answers?
I'm often presented with a list of answers where one just barely is the best answer, so I give it a checkmark. Is there anything to do with the two other good and useful answers besides voting them ...
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What is preferable: specific/limited or general/inclusive questions?
I have created a general question (Synonyms for different languages in LibreOffice Writer?) that was closed as a duplicate of a very specific one (How do I add English-UK thesaurus in LibreOffice?).
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Methods for combating EOL questions
I see an awful lot of questions on EOL releases, and I think that this site should have some automatic features to help combat it, as it is really quite a major thing with the quantity of them.
So I ...
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Should invalid answers be deleted?
I found this answer, which is about a discontinued Chrome extension. Should such answers be deleted, since they don't help anyone anymore?
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Why is my badge count different in different places?
Let me show you two screen shots:-
(From the top bar that also has the icons - 'Recent inbox messages' and 'Recent achievements')
(From the badges section of mu AU profile)
Clearly the badge count ...
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Insert picture in Ask Ubuntu
How can I insert image from picture folder of Ubuntu while asking question or answering to question in Ask Ubuntu?
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What is the meaning of an accept (of an answer)?
Does it mean the answer is "completely satisfactory", and the question can be considered finished ? Or just that a given answer was "the most helpful" ?
for example, in why do youtube videos stop ...
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Image uploads broken [closed]
Title says it all. When I try to upload an image in a post, it just says that, "An error occurred at imgur"
Funny thing is, I can't even provide a screenshot of the error because I can't upload ...
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Is there a way to send PM via Askubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why doesn't AU allow users to privately communicate?
Sometimes I would like to contact one Askubuntu user directly (for example to talk about a subject which is not ...
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Are there other ways to increase the chances of getting questions answered besides bounties?
Are there other ways to increase the chances of getting questions answered besides bounties?
For example, I would love to see an answer for this question --What are the steps to modify a filesystem (...
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Editing a post when there is already an edit waiting for review
I was just attempting to edit a post where there was already an edit waiting to be reviewed.
When I clicked on the edit button, it asked me to review the edit.
Is it not possible to edit a post when ...
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Allow to "Add a comment" for users that opened a bounty on a question
Why -50 rep users no have permission to add a comment under answers after opening bounty by himself/herself? For example a user with 50 rep opened a 50 Bounty for a question and in 99.99% reasons ...
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Are tag synonyms even benefitting StackExchange?
Why do we have tag synonyms? Do they really help? If I search for imaginary "Tag1", would its imaginary synonym "Tag2" also be searched?
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Is it bad practice to ask for an improved answer by asking a new question?
How to set folder icons of multiple folders automatically?
In the question above I asked for a little improvement to the answer on an existing question:
How to set the first picture of every folder ...
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Is it reasonable to warn people about a bug and provide a workaround? [duplicate]
The title is about it. But, specifically there is a bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1227365)
which causes no grub menu to appear on loading (even holding down shift). I ...
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Is this OP running Ubuntu or not?
Evasive comments
On this question the OP is evading answering if he's using Ubuntu or not. The question's comments illustrate this:
You should include the "#some gksudo related output" because on my ...
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What hardware recommendations are okay to ask?
I've looked at the original question from a while back. But that is too early to give a definitive answer. I want to know when it's OK to ask about hardware recommendations if it's OK at all.
For ...
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Why did you close this question instead of migrating it?
This guy asked about elementary OS. I voted to notify the moderators, I commented letting him know it's off topic. But why didn't you migrate it to superuser or unix.se?
I'm not trying to defend him. ...
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Bug in the audit system?
I believe I've discovered a bug in the audit system.
I was reviewing this answer, which obviously needed some serious work:
So I clicked on the edit link, and it showed me this:
Which immediately ...
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Could comments be allowed from 20+ [duplicate]
My opinion is that comment privileges are allowed until 50 reputation for what purpose" The Askubuntu Help Page says:
Privileges control what you can do on Ask Ubuntu. Gain more privileges
by ...
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is penalty-system not old-fashioned?
Sometimes little failures can happen, e.g. in my recent (myself deleted) thread about
virus-scanner and something related to 3.5er Kernel - have simply overseen, that 3.5er Kernels are not on the list ...
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Lots of "Closed as off-topic because it seemingly went away" close votes
I have seen quite a lot of questions (this (1 vote) and this (2 votes) for example) being closed as "off-topic because it seemingly went away" - is this the right thing to do for any questions?
More ...
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Do we actually close no-repro bugs reported on meta as no-repro?
Recently, this question was closed as being status-norepro. However, this closure seems odd to me.
Of the 20 questions tagged accordingly, there is only one that was actually closed, which is the one ...
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What's the Best Practice for Questions with obsolete versions?
How does one request tag cleanup for Questions like: I'm stuck at Firefox 20.0?
I'm asking this because karel's answer is correct. Version 10.04 is way out of the supported life-cycle, and according ...
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To work with older account
I have a account already on Ubuntu 12.04.Now I shifted to Ubuntu 15.10.That's why I had to create this account.Can't I work with my older account.I know I should ask it on meta but with this new ...
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What can I do about unwelcome edits?
Another user is repeatedly making edits to some of my posts.
The edits are not outright vandalism or spam, it is more about changing the style of writing to suit a better fit with their own ...
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When the question is about an application & its configuration and in no way related to ubuntu
Consider a very realistic situation:
The poster (who runs Ubuntu) asks a question about configuring an application running on Ubuntu. This application has detailed configuration procedures not ...
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Odd tags... well, rather keyboard keys tags
I've found a couple of odd tags, starting with alt which I believe would have more sense if used keyboard instead (yeah, 101 tags for each key in the keyboard is overkill) but the funny thing is that ...
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Why comment "This is an English only site"? [duplicate]
On occasion people post questions in a language other than English and within 5 minutes there are multiple comments informing them that this is an English only site.
Any user on the site is allowed ...
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Please burninate the "untagged" tag
untagged does not mean anything. Any question should at least belong to one tag, so this is useless. It should be burninated.
Note: I had retagged the questions that had untagged to their ...
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"Can I run X game that is Only-Windows game in Ubuntu?" we need a canonical question?
Latelly I got the felling that we are now the WineHQ site, where people can ask "will X game run in Ubuntu?". I would love make them check the WineHQ, or ask the makers if they have a Linux version ...