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What's wrong, Ask Ubuntu?: Closures
The system for closing questions on an SE site is rather simple. There are various types of close reasons and votes, that fit in roughly three categories:
Low Quality Posts
The close reaons "unclear ...
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What does our community need? (Magic wand time in MSE)
Philippe, the Vice President of Community for the Stack Exchange Network, posted a question on Meta Stack Exchange seeking input from the community regarding "ONE thing" that would help one'...
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How do I invite a low rep user into chat?
It comes up in chat sometimes, so I figured I'ld post a question and answer on the thing.
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How should I deal with old unanswered questions that are unlikely to be answered satisfactorily?
I'd like to have my accepted answer rate increase from 57%. What's dragging it down, though, is that I've posted a number of specific and/or difficult questions that haven't been answered, are ...
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Policy Clarifications In Place on "End of Standard Support" and "End of Life"
Per the discussions yielded in Policy Change Proposal: "End of Standard Support" for ESM releases is effectively the "Not Supported" date for a release on Ask Ubuntu and 30 days of ...
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100+ reputation when hitting 200
I just passed 200 reputation on AskUbuntu, and then I received another 100 reputation for Association Bonus.
The 100+ bonus because I reached 200 on AskUbuntu didn't push me past 200 on any other ...
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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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What does "-10 User was removed" mean?
I noticed this in my "activity drop down:"
I don't particular care about losing 10 points, but it piqued my interest. What does this mean? If someone's account is deleted for some reason, their up ...
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What is StackExchange? Is Ask Ubuntu officially related to Ubuntu or Canonical? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Ask Ubuntu “official” Ubuntu?
What is stackexchange? is Ask Ubuntu officially related to Ubuntu/canonical?
How do i subscribe for a question that I have not asked?
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The audit review system - dubious posts
This is the second time I got that unloved "Stop! Look and Listen" for a question I voted to close after reading it several times and trying to understand it.
The question really is not clear to me: ...
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What should we do about answers with Link Rot?
Many times users simply post an answer to a question which contains a link to an offsite page with little or no context. When that link breaks, what should the policy be to handle those?
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Make the on-topic section more explicit
Since there is often confusion on this site as to which Ubuntu derivatives are actually on topic, why not explicitly list them on the Help page? Instead of:
We welcome questions about:
Using and ...
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Should we downvote duplicate questions?
I have been around for a few months now. What I notice is that the same questions keep on being asked over and over again. For instance about what ubuntu version to use, problems to install, questions ...
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How can I increase my reputation on Ask Ubuntu?
I notice some users with very high reputation scores. What is their "trick", and how can I increase my reputation?
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Is Ubuntu 14.04 off-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
THREAD NOTICE: This issue has been raised to Mark Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu Community Council, and the Ubuntu Technical Board via this email message (TB is the only public archive version of the email)....
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How can a question be migrated and who can do this?
I am curious about migrated questions. Who can migrate questions? Normal users or only specific users or user who got the privilege with reputation. If normal users or privileged users can do it, how? ...
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Change the software icon
I've been working to resolve this software icon issue, this will likely require a large find/replace on the site. In 11.10 the software icon was revised, going forward should we use that icon for the ...
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Where is the link to the original question when a question is closed as a duplicate?
I've looked for how to remove the unity dock from my new installation and have found two answers that were closed as exact duplicates of previous questions.
What previous questions?
Please update ...
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Deprecate the ubuntu-desktop tag?
This first came up when SE introduced displaying the most common tag at the start page s for SEO reasons.
Commenting on the following two questions and their new titles
ubuntu desktop - What native ...
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Please can we destroy the subjective tag?
The subjective tag has 12 questions. Please can it be blacklisted per The Death of Meta Tags?
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When does the community user start bumping old questions?
According to this the community user bumps old unanswered questions so that they get another shot at getting answered.
I've seen it do it a couple times in the past but it doesn't seem like it's a ...
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What's up with the late answers queue?
It looks like we currently have 4400+ late answers awaiting review:
Obviously that's not possible, so what's up with that review queue?
Looks like a server-side issue, however using Google Chrome 45....
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Review Audits - room for improvement
First impressions from the review audit system: I am slightly amused but more annoyed.
The first two audits I got were ones that I had voted to close myself - so it was a mild form of deja vu
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Which answer should you accept when both answers are correct but use different techniques?
There can be many ways to solve a single problem, and many Ask Ubuntu questions accordingly receive multiple answers using different methods
In this case, which answer should I accept?
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Why do some questions have "community wiki" over the user's name?
All questions have the user's name at the bottom right. But some don't have the avatar and have the mysterious "community wiki" over the user's name. What exactly does that mean?
Here's an example: ...
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Is it allowed to have multiple AU accounts, intentionally, without having them merged?
Some users might want to have multiple AskUbuntu accounts. There are a number of legitimate reasons for wanting this. I won't try to list them all but here are a few:
Separate accounts for work-...
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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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Changing reputation; somtimes it goes up, then down again
Maybe related to the recent bug, mentioned here, but I noticed my reputation sometimes unexpectedly increases (you never know what you did :), but then goes back to what you actually should have at ...
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Is the "community help wiki" the same as "community wiki" on Ask Ubuntu?
I've heard of community wiki posts on Ask Ubuntu, but there seems to be something else called the community wiki, the community help wiki, or Ubuntu community wiki.
This is confusing. What's the ...
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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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Someone deleted my answer in a duplicate post, why?
I just found out that one of my answers has been deleted. I can't find a reason for that, there are no negative comments and my solution is (almost) identical to the one proposed in the duplicate ...
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How do I delete my account?
Answers, Questions, Comments, Everything....
I don't care about the points system, but when I get negative comments on the recommendations I make to help solve a problem, I'm done here.
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What does it mean when a post is bumped to homepage by the Community?
Today I noticed this on a post:
What exactly does this mean and what triggered it?
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Duplicate or other options?
Scenario:
We have an old question that is answered but is now outside our rules (eg off-topic)
Somebody posts a new question which is a duplicate of the older question.
What we do now ? We need to ...
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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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Happy 10th anniversary to Ask Ubuntu!
Ask Ubuntu was launched on 10/10/2010, so it's now just about 10 years old!
To celebrate we are running some workshops / lessons in chat. So far this is the schedule:
Introduction to software ...
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Please read -and think- before you mark as a dupe
I believe in the voting system, but not as a result of this:
A while ago, this question was asked. In short, in a multi- monitor setup, OP wants to have new windows appear on the screen he is ...
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Exchange votes or favours
Probably the most risky post I ever posted on AU, nevertheless need to get it of my chest...
Don't ask me how I got the impression, nor whom it involves, but there seems to be a tendency lately that ...
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Can we make the "ask question" button stand out more? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please make the “Ask Question” button on AskUbuntu more prominent
I'm new to askubuntu.com and when I first wanted to ask a question it took me a while to find ...
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Please can people format code properly
Recently I've seen a lot of code being formatted as quote. This is not how it should be done.
All code should be formatted with one of two styles.
If it is just 1 line, with other text around it, ...
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How should we celebrate 10 years of Ask Ubuntu?
It seems that Ask Ubuntu was launched on or around 10th October 2010. This means that our 10th birthday is coming up in about three months :)
This post is here to invite your ideas on how we can ...
ZannaMod
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Is it smart to use threats or insulting language when asking for help?
I've seen many questions where the person asking for help, uses insults as part of their question. As examples, look at these:
How can I get your (bad word here) software to do what I (bad word here)...
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Best way to end a question post
When I ask a question on Ask Ubuntu, I usually end it with some kind of request for knowledge, like "does anybody know the actual meaning of this message?". A lot of newer people end the question with ...
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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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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
We... may have left 1H 2011 running a whole half-year long extra. Whoops. Well, now we begin-anew the next round of Community Promotion Ads!
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What's wrong, Ask Ubuntu?: Low Voter Count
Let me preface this with a run-down of the reputation system:
Users on the site can cast up- and downvotes and accept answers on their questions, each giving or taking reputation to or from other ...
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Questions that refer to using or installing ripped/pirated software
I note in the comments to this Question, that the user is using ripped software.
umm, I just copied the folder of the game to my home folder.. thats
it.. should I download the installation and ...
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Need help! What problems would be best solved by a wizard?
I've talked about a wizard to help people find existing questions and improve the quality of the ones they post if they can't find one. I've talked about this for so long without doing anything so ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Migration Paths?
Migration paths allow for questions to be moved from Ask Ubuntu to other sites in the Stack Exchange network. The idea is that rather than simply closing questions as being "off-topic", then the ...
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