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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 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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Please provide guidance to new users seeking to elevate old, unanswered questions
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: Full Disk Encryption that is FIPS certified
I had the exact same question as the poster in the link above. Unfortunately, it does not have any answers. ...
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why I cannot post my question?
Today I try asking the question 'How to send a mail with two or three copies from Thunderbird?'; I have completed details 'I was used to click Enter after address for the copy; it resulted in showing ...
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Ask Ubuntu is scheduled for an election next week, 2022-03-14. In ...
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Is it OK to edit a question to replace the ubuntu spin off to its ubuntu equivalent?
For example, editing the question to change Linux Mint 19 to Ubuntu 18.04, or Zorin OS 16 to Ubuntu 20.04, etc.
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Checking version of Ubuntu before posting a question
At least 10 per cent of the questions asked on AskUbuntu are for an unsupported version of Ubuntu or Linux or even another OS. It would be nice to have an automatic check in AskUbuntu that will force ...
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Spontaneous Reputation Loss
I had a 308 reputation about thirty minutes ago, and someone has spontaneously down-voted at least four of my answers, and voted to delete them. I expect that this will happen more, and I would like ...
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incorrect (4) consecutive days count while I visit this page every day
I visit the AskUbuntu-page every day and browse trough the questions. I open questions and mostly browse till page 4. I don't really understand how my counter shows only 4 days. Please can anyone tell ...
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How is the Meta participation calculated?
Recently, while randomly browsing Meta Ask Ubuntu, I found the Participation tab in the Users section. To me, it is showing me on the top of the tab:
But I haven't posted any meta posts recently, so, ...
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Why is the pool of selectable known-bad first question audits so small?
Over on Meta Stack Exchange, someone's reported having received the same post as a review audit in the First questions review queue five times overall. Per this post from a then-employee, when the ...
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Is Extended Security Maintenance on-topic?
Is Extended Security Maintenance on-topic on AU even though the subject OS is EoSS?
Ubuntu Help states:
Questions that you may ask: include:
"Services provided by Ubuntu and Canonical".
ESM ...
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Can the [charset] and [character-set] tags be made synonyms?
The charset tag and the character-set refer to the same thing. One is simply the abbreviation. I don't see any reason for them to be seperate. Can they be made synonyms, please?
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Should we make an exception to our general end-of-life policy for the 18.04 release?
Per the general end-of-life policy, as the 18.04 LTS release of Ubuntu will go out of support five years later in April 2023, questions asked about it afterwards will be closed on sight as off-topic, ...
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) reached End of Life on January 20, 2022
This will be enforced starting from January 20, 2022 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their standard support period. ...
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How do I log out of Ask Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Sorry - I'm new here, but I couldn't find how to log out of askubuntu.com again. Did I just miss it? Is logging out of askubuntu.com the same as logging out of the Ubuntu Software Centre, which seems ...
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What does "Watched" mean on the new summary page?
So the new layout - don't know...
But what does the tag "Watched" mean? And why does one variant have an eye icon? Just curious - couldn't find solid info on this.
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Implementing three-vote-close on Ask Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Edit: I completely missed the Shouldn’t we lower the close/reopen vote threshold? post of which this could be considered a duplicate. Things have changed since then, since three-vote-close is now ...
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Should we vote to reopen duplicates that have lots of votes and good answers?
These two questions came up in the "reopen votes" review queue:
How to permanently uninstall Microsoft Teams?
How do I increase swapfile in Ubuntu 18.04?
Both of these questions were closed ...
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Answer removed without reason as if never was created. Need reason
I made answer, probably in october 2020 (guessing from my login data), which was about keyboard problem after boot.
According to it - keyboard stoped to work after some upgrades. I discovered, that ...
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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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Order of operations when editing/flagging
A bit of a question and a bit of a PSA for others to potentially avoid the problem I ran into.
This question was originally unclear. The title did not match the question body, and there was (...
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Is translating posts using Google Translate acceptable?
I've seen several questions in non-English, where a user (typically high-rep) puts it into Google Translate. Here's an example (Wayback Machine if it gets deleted). I do realize that post had other ...
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2021: a year in moderation - Handled Question Flags
A question (but first a comment) regarding 2021: a year in moderation:
First, that's 32,646 actions taken by our hard working Mod team in 2021. I know that there's even more that you do that isn't ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Is the <blockquote> tag working correctly on Ask Ubuntu?
I've been trying to use the <blockquote> tag to include literal output in this forum, but I cannot get it to work for me. My understanding is that if a chunk of text is surrounded by the <...
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Can chat get a redesign? Please?
I considered posting this on Meta SE instead of Ask Ubuntu Meta, but because several of these are Ask Ubuntu specific, I went with here. That said, I think the rest of SE chat should get an update, ...
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Should comments offering offline support be flagged?
Are comments like this permitted on AskUbuntu:
There is a flag for questions and answers to mark them as spam if they are promoting a product or service without clearly stating the author's ...
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Should [edits] and [editing] be tag synonyms on meta?
I think the edits and editing should be the same (on Meta). I guess there is a small difference (one being the action and one being the edit itself). But the tags are used interchangeably, so I think ...
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Are questions about configuring KDE On-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
Recently, I came across a post which went like:
How can I configure KDE to look like this:-
Although, the question was closed as Off-topic because the poster was on Manjaro, it strikes my mind that ...
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Missing comments. Who deleted them?
Ethernet is disabled after reboot - Ubuntu server 20.04.3
Question posted yesterday.
I left a comment requesting more info from the OP. OP responded with info, and then pinged me with a comment to let ...
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How to decide which flag is the correct one?
This days I found some questions about to install software in no longer supported releases (linke xenial)
I never know for sure flagging as EOL or flagging as a duplicate (like how to install or ...
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"How can I make ubuntu start faster" - close or not?
I recently edited the canonical Q&A post with the inclusion of a very popular topic: How do I improve boot speed?
Now, a new question about this pops up (there is at least 1 new post per week ...
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Does the [unreadable] tag make sense?
The unreadable tag makes very little sense in my opinion, as it encapsulates multiple, technically unrelated concepts. The usage guide reads as follows:
This can describe a file or any output that is ...
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ACTIVITY screen in my profile needs work
As usual, change provokes more change... the new ACTIVITY screen needs some tweaking...
BADGES shows up twice...
And REPUTATION should be moved up IN PLACE of the first BADGES image...
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All my ANSWERS have disappeared from my Activity screen
Happened just a few minutes ago...
Where did they go?
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Was it necessary to close "Is a clean install better than upgrading?" as opinion-based?
Was it necessary to close Is a clean install better than upgrading? as opinion-based? The phrase "clean install" should be enough to suggest to an informed reviewer that a clean install ...
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The in-review-queues edit layout is different from the normal (out-of-review-queues) edit layout on mobile. How can I always use the former?
I can't always be in front of a computer, so I sometimes use an Android/Apple phone (with Brave browser) to use Ask Ubuntu. There I have noticed that when I edit a post in the review queues by ...
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How do we change the policy of Ask Ubuntu if votes are low in Ask Ubuntu Meta?
Since important policy decisions regarding Ask Ubuntu's scope are taken using voting in Ask Ubuntu Meta, it's important that as many people as possible participate in the discussion related to ...
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Correct answer deleted?
https://askubuntu.com/a/1379258/1210606
The answer above was deleted by a mod with the justification:
The workaround is Windows only!
Either this person doesn't know Wine's folder structure (drive_c)...
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Were the "pre-canned" comments intended to be brusque and condescending? If so, why?
I posted this question recently, and after I answered a comment requesting information with something like "I'll try to do this when I'm home", the same user who had requested the ...
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Improving question closed banners for most users - short wording needed for site specific reasons
So, not very long ago a change was made to the format of the banner that appears at the top of closed questions. It no longer shows who closed the post (I disapprove of this change, but this post here ...
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How to add subname in profile?
The above is a user from Stack Overflow. How can I add a subname like Data Wrangler above? I don't see an option in my profile preferences to do this.
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Please consider not leaving feedback as Community♦
Thanks for reviewing. I really appreciate it.
Recently review got reformatted quite a lot. Personally, I don't like many of the changes. I guess I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. But about one feature in ...
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Bug: Moderator not getting the mod tag but being tagged as a bot in mod actions for comments
This happened on this post's deleted comment - visible to moderators and staff as it's a deleted comment:
This is a post done by a reviewer and masked by the Community bot.
Mitch is an actual diamond ...
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Why is Community Bot calling perfectly good answers unclear? [duplicate]
What triggers this message
As it’s currently written, your answer is unclear. Please edit to add additional details that will help others understand how this addresses the question asked. You can ...
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Why are other people able to determine what answered the posters question?
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: Deja Dup not backing up entire system
I apologize if this has been asked or commented on by another thread. I do not have the time to read 25 pages of ...
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Does this edit fail to improve the post?
Yet another question about edits as I work out the borders between an appropriate and inappropriate edit.
@Dan is one of the developers of OpenConnect, making him one of the better-suited people to ...
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Change the links in Ask Ubuntu Meta contact page
I recently noticed the Ask Ubuntu Meta contact page.
The Yahoo link redirects to https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account
The Google link is HTTP and redirects to https://about.google/contact-google/.
The ...
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Advice requested for a question closed as a duplicate
Earlier today I asked a question "How to find out what version of a package is in an apt repository?" which was closed as a duplicate of "How to install Google Chrome".
I feel like ...
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