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Toast notifications overlap the Ubuntu top bar
Part of the Stack Exchange JS library includes functionality to create notification messages - the most common perhaps being "Thanks, we'll take a look at it" after casting a flag.
These ...
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Minor issue regarding reputation and badge
I should be on 123/150 for legendary.
Rep got to 200 and I saw the counter go to 123/150. Lost 15 due to pilot6 ( :-) ) removing an accepted answer and saw it go back to 122/150.
The 2 blank lines ...
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My badge count is probably wrong (too many gold)
I know it can sound like a stupid question but it seems that my badges count is wrong. I remember having 11 gold and today the total is 13. I've checked the badge page and counted them and... still 11....
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strange review - "skip" as only option
Has anyone been presented with such a review?
The review link: https://askubuntu.com/review/reopen/489387
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Section with reference to manpages, official documentation
I think there should a section above or below posts/answers with the option to add link(s) to (if any) manpages and/or official (or a similar) documentation to command used in the answer as this will ...
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How to embed an Askubuntu question or answer in a blog post?
I have a personal blog on the Blogspot platform where I often write about Linux. There are moments when I realise that my best texts are those I've wrote here, on askubuntu. So I want to embed my own ...
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isanswered:0 in searches returns both questions and answers, and answers include either wiki or non-wiki accepted or positively scored answers
From How do I search? - Help Center:
isanswered: yes/true/1 returns only questions that have at least one accepted or positively-scored answer; no/false/0 returns only questions with no accepted or ...
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Scrolling code blocks glitch
This is me trying to scroll left and right on this code block (animated):
Here are the still images:
This is a copy of the problematic code block, which I first found in this question
dpkg was ...
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Do answers, given during grace period, count for a bounty?
Just curious..
A while ago, I commented on this question, to see if I could find information to give an answer. Just after the bounty period, but within the grace period, the poster commented that ...
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Could be possible duplicates arranged by votes in addition to default order?
When I find duplicate question, for example Will not allow me to install playonlinux! Says I have 'held broken packages
and flag them, the system shows me the list of possible answers like this:
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Help Needed for Broadcom Testing
it's your crazy mod here. I am in need of Ubuntu users that have a BCM43XX Broadcom Wireless Card. For the Broadcom models you can go ahead and read
Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers
What we ...
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Why the limits on the number of users that can be notified in one comment?
Sometimes, it becomes necessary to notify more than one user (using the @) in the same comment. However, the current system allows notifying only one user in the same comment.
Why this limit?
Can we ...
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Should the bar be higher to create tags...?
This was discussed before but no action was taken. I think this is still needed, since we have 2772 2844 tags (9*4*77 79) and pretty much of them are kind of vague, doesn't define a particular topic, ...
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SPAM attacks again!
Today we found a clever way spammer are trying to prevent falling into the spam protection system... that is recommending software relevant to the question so people in their curiosity search what is ...
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I have registered but can't sign in
I have registered and logged in previously (a couple of days ago). My password no longer works, and the reset code that gets sent to me (I've tried three or four times) does not work. Any ideas?
user202620
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Descenders in comments chopped off in Windows Chrome
In my browser (Chrome 29 on Windows 7), descenders are chopped off in comments, which makes it fairly annoying to read, as g's look like q's (most other letters with descenders are fairly unambiguous, ...
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Anything new in the "low quality" algorithm?
I just got presented with a 2 years old answer, "flagged as low-quality because of its length and content." (Answered and edited by another user on Apr 14, 2011. No activity since.)
https://...
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This edit would have to be a suggested edit
I was reviewing a question which a new user had just posted on the site, by clicking on the Review link.
After editing the title (typos) and the main question body, with spelling, layout and English ...
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How to sign into Ask Ubuntu?
Trying to sign into Ask Ubuntu using a Launchpad account. It won't let me get that far once it got me to the authentication part but none the less it fails.
user84544
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Meta tag-synonym request: [tags]->[tagging]
While tag is synonymed to tagging, tags is not synonymed yet. Could tags be synonymed to tagging?
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Add a "Migrate to xx SE site" option in the Off-Topic section for flagging questions
When I see a question that is off topic, I'll flag it.
But, should we add an option like:
o belongs to (dropdown list of SE sites)
Questions about (bla bla bla) should be asked here instead ...
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Why can you still vote and accept answers on closed questions?
I was looking at my previous questions and noticed that I have a question Is there a simple GUI-based program available to join/combine mp3 files? that has (rightly) be closed, but I could mark the ...
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Some minor cleanup, with a focus on tags
Something that I've noticed lately is that we have some bad tags springing up (nothing "new" there), as well as some tags that are being abused/cluttered.
Do note that this isn't a witch hunt against ...
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Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012
We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, ...
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How do I move a Ask Ubuntu "list question" to the Ubuntu wiki?
I have some questions on Ask Ubuntu that is being closed for being lists (the FAQ doesn't allow it) and I want to move them to the Ubuntu wiki since I think they are good lists and still useful.
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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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We have a launchpad team?
I was looking through the google tubes and found this - it appears that there is a AskUbuntu launchpad.net team.
I just wanted to bring this up - is there anything we want to do with this? Note that ...
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Why I am asked if I am a human being each time to be told that it has not been 20 minutes yet?
Sometime, I would like to create questions for a few issues. Since I don't have enough reputation, when I submit the second question, I am told to wait 20 minutes. The page does not tell up when ...
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Initial votes to close a question (especially concerning bugs) - some need explanation
Recently in the Review queue for closures I found several seemingly perfectly on topic questions. Only when I opened them outside the queue I saw comments on answers that made clear that the question ...
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Double posting of comments (Not intended)
I was picked up yesterday because I appear to have double commented on some questions
This was not intentional and appears to be a result of my wifi disappearing momentarily due to local interference ...
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How to decide which question to close as duplicate?
I have two questions here:
How do I run executable scripts in Nautilus rather than open them in Gedit text editor?
How do I run executable scripts in Nautilus?
the later of which has been already ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Why does Ask Ubuntu subject users to tracking?
Ask Ubuntu quotes Alphabet's misleading ad blurb about ajax.googleapis.com, as if Ask Ubuntu doesn't know that ajax.googleapis.com is an open door to tracking. ajax.googleapis.com passes user data ...
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Is an Ubuntu installation with another Init system than `systemd` still an "official" Ubuntu flavor?
So I was trying to help a first time poster find out why docker wasn't started on his Ubuntu 18.04 - this is the thread.
In trying to help him, I was asking about the output of systemctl status docker,...
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I accidentally created two accounts; how do I merge them?
By using a further PC with a newly installed 16.04 Ubuntu, I accidentally created a new account - user:1029634 and I need to merge it into my previous account user:165175. I have tried the contact ...
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Prior red notification for low quality posts queue
When I finished to review the Low Quality Posts Queue, I noticed the Red notification that is displayed, as you can see below :
I tried to understand why it shows itself again, because I didn't do 20 ...
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Heads-up: Off-topic twice in filter menu
As I noticed on both Ask Ubuntu and Unix & Linux that the word "off-topic" was appearing twice in the filter when working the close queue:
I directly took it to meta.se as it wasn't ...
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Sum of "last period" reputation is wrong when a post I downvoted is deleted
When our reputation changes, the title of reputation tab in our profile includes how many internet points we received or lost since we last viewed the reputation page.
During that same period, I had ...
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Make 18.04 and bionic synonym
When I add tags to the question and type xenial, it suggests me to add 16.04 but when I type bionic, no suggestion is given.
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Ask Ubuntu mysterious/mispositioned "See votes, expandable usercard" overlay just started appearing on Dashboard page
This overlay just started appearing, and I can't seem to get rid of it.
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Mobile view adds linebreaks before and after images even if they are very small
If my answer uses a package one has to install first, I like to add an AptURL link with the small package symbol , e.g. for sl using this:
[`sl` ](http:...
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Possibly similar question (or even accounts)?
Either it's a coincidence or intentional, I saw two similar questions of LibreOffice right now:
Convert .ods document to .docx document
Converting .ods to .docx file
Apparently, both OPs have also ...
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Should I repost comment as answer or edit an existing answer?
I don't currently have enough on-site reputation to post a new answer to permission error when installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer, but due to the up-votes on my comment under https://askubuntu.com/a/...
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Mobile site UI buggy
Basically the text of top menu and tags is outside its supposed placement.
Browser: Chrome
Device: OnePlus Two
Issue seems specific to Chrome, as Firefox displays the site normally.
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Editing of closed posts
I recently reviewed an edit to a closed post. At first glance this seemed superfluous as it seemed pointless to edit a post that had already been closed as off-topic so I rejected the post and upon ...
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Ask Ubuntu logo is quite wobbly
Look:
Please fix. You could use this sprite file (all text is converted into paths).
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Get notified about AU Twitter bot tweeting my questions - feature request
I was recently reading this and I understand that the AU (I assume that there are either other Twitter bots on other SE sites or that this is not an AU Twitter bot, but rather just a general SE one?) ...
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What 's up with the Jobs section?
I just noticed a Jobs section:
As it says, I get a page not found. I'm reasonably certain I have a Stack Overflow Careers profile. So, what is Jobs for, and how can I access it?
The feature request ...
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Meta Review section should have link back to main Review section
In the main review section on the main site there is such a link:
But nothing of the sort to link back on the Meta site in the Review section, I think there should be.
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Navigation menu lacks a "Partners" link
The navigation menu at the top of http://www.ubuntu.com has items
Ubuntu
Community
Ask!
Developer
Design
Discourse
Hardware
Insights
Juju
Partners
Shop
More ›
However, since the "Partners" item is ...
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