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Can we burninate [prompt]?
I don't see much point of the prompt tag, and it only has ~100 questions tagged with it.
Shall we burninate it?
P.S. Let's also nuke lag
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Can I redirect questions to Ubuntu forums when needed? [closed]
I understand that AU is for questions about how to use ubuntu software and that is conflicting me regarding questions that are about support or fixing something that the users can't solve and needing ...
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Time zone of user in profile as optional field
Some users put their timezone with location. For example India (GMT+5:30). It helps other to understand availability of an user.
Can it be an optional field in user profile?
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Discussion of new tag dual-drive-dual-boot
An increasing number of questions are appearing where the problem is a dual drive installation of Windows on one drive and Ubuntu on a different drive.
The solutions to dual-drive, dual-boot ...
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The "dependency" tag mess
I'm really tired of hunting down all the APT "dependency" problems... There are already 7 tags that are used for something that ultimately translates to apt/dpkg in the "dependency problem" context:
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Could unanswered questions regarding EOL releases be removed via script?
In my quest to clean up the 4000+ unanswered questions with the blacklisted installation tag, I'm constantly running across unanswered questions regarding EOL releases like these:
https://askubuntu....
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What are the job opportunities in askubuntu [closed]
I am extremely interested in this Q&A site and I would like to contribute seriously. But I also need to earn money to feed myself and the two cannot possibly go along.
So I would like to know if ...
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Why were my edit suggestions of fixing URL rejected?
I recently suggested a very small edit to a post fixing outdated URLs which were rejected 2 times with the same reason.
The rejection notice states:
Rejected 3 hours ago:
Kevin Bowen reviewed ...
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Discussion about voting system!
Is it possible (or should it be) to know who down/upvoted my post?
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What is this ridiculous "reputation" system? [duplicate]
I cannot upvote or comment, makes this entire site worthless...
What can I do to fix this?
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Collective "On Topic-ity"
It seems that recently on AskUbuntu, questions have been slipping through the Close-Wall (The wall that keeps a question from being seen by more than a few people). Until now this wall had redirected ...
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Why there are so few answers on askubuntu site? [duplicate]
Why are so few answers on askubuntu?
I don't get it, it's quite big when compared with another SE sites, but still very few answers.
Very many unanswered questions in my opinion, when compared with ...
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Why didn't I gain reputation when I edited a post?
Why don't I gain reputation when my edit is accepted?
I edited in here but I didn't gain any reputation.
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"Weighted" reputation gains
I have noticed that you can gain a lot of reputation if you are the first person to answer a quite simple question which concerns a large audience of mostly beginners. However on the other side a ...
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What is the point of voting in meta
The voting in Askubuntu works as following:
you ask a good question, it gets upvoted and you get reputation
you give a good answer and it gets upvoted, you receive reputation
you ask a bad ...
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Why are all the questions/answers on this site so old and out of date?
I have Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS and often have issues with it, but can never find a relevant answer here. 10 year old answers just don't work for newer versions of Ubuntu.
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Why was this very relevant link moderated?
GNOME Screenshot area selection causing freezes
I have this problem and needed the answer contained in the post and responses. I don't really care where it was posted, it was a good post, and if it ...
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Does user with more reputation get any profit?
What does reputation do except providing a different level of privilege?
What is it about? I find people competing for reputation in this askubuntu page.
Isn't this page about solving each others ...
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Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post
Responding to that invitation, I revised this question:
Hi I'm new to ubuntu world. I have few questions about the software
installation in ubuntu:
What's the difference between installing a ...
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Why is there no central resource for fixing installations [closed]
I have been trying to fix my Kubuntu 14.04 installation for the past two days now. I have found that there is generally very little self-contained help/guides/tutorials available. While there is an ...
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I know how everyone can be happy!
Unicorns for everybody!
.... not really.
I'm talking about our long trail of "list of X" that predate the site since immemorial times. As you can see in previous discussions people doesn't ...
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Force answers as accepted
Some users do not mark an answer as "solved my question", even though they leave a comment stating it solved the issue. For example this one.
What can be made about it? Can a flag be issued in order ...
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Reviewing tool should be less flexible by enforcing the Skip option rigourously
When you are reviewing posts, you are faced with three options: Skip, I'm done (after some change), Nothing to review.
Ideally, when you make a change like edit, flag, comment, or vote, the "I'm done"...
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Why most metas aren't colorful to the public, but every meta is colorful for mods?
On a conversation with ByteCommander [which I understood wrong and who I thought is *] a mod, he tells me that in every meta he sees colors. But it seems the rest of the public only see black and ...
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Close a highly upvoted question?
OK, so the How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? has collected a close vote (as it showed up in the close vote queue), so someone else feels like me but actually cast a close vote.
I have ...
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Ask* sites have a serious misconception in their basis. What happens with expert newcomers?
this is no thought exercise, this has happened to be more than once.
Q: What happens to expert users in a field , that just join an Ask* site?
A: They have very little chance of progressing in the ...
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Can a mod email a user to get to the bottom of something?
In a nutshell this Q&A https://askubuntu.com/a/1048488/307523 the commenter says:
@WinEunuuchs2Unix - you are not honest, when you disabled a bounty for
right answer of me over two weeks ago... ...
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Tag change: [cut-command] -> [cut]
The tag cut-command should be called cut. Many other commands, including cp, mv are not with the suffix -command.
Please could we have cut-command changed to cut.
Firstly, all the questions should ...
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I asked a question but now I can not find it
I asked a question:
Create Bash Alias That Accepts Commands
but now I can not find it.
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Links inside comments replacing current page rather than taking me to new tab url
It appears, adding comment with link to post at askubuntu.com loading new url to current page rather than new tab.
How about adding a target="_blank" with every link so I dont lose my ...
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Why posting meta requires only 5 reputation?
Why posting meta requires only 5 reputation? Why not something like 25 or more with the requirement of having some particular badges?
A new user automatically gets 1 reputation. So, to get privilege ...
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Month and Quarter reputation tab borked?
When I went to look at the Quarter reputation tab I noticed I'm number 1 in the stats and the same goes for the month but
as I know I'm vastly inferior to Rinzwind 0:-) I'm suspecting something is ...
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A "My Questions" button next to the "Ask Question" button
Many times I have tried to find the posts I have made and find myself having to go into my profile and look at the Questions section to find my questions.
It would be easier if Ask Ubuntu had a ...
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What are the basic principles for using the vote functions?
Have noticed in chat and meta all users are being encouraged to vote more.
Does this mean peoples attitude to voting might need adjusted?
Am trying to list some related questions and observations ...
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Highest voted answer auto-accepted after length of time
I have a suggestion: After a certain set amount of time automatically mark the question with the most upvotes as the accepted answer. Many of us have experienced this: You answer a question posted by ...
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Is there any sort of automated scripts for the answers?
Lot's of answers on Ask Ubuntu suggest to fix something manually e.g. via console etc. Is there any configuration management system available that can simply allow to write those scripts/recipes and ...
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Users shouldn't have to make new accounts because they can't ask new questions anymore because of downvotes [closed]
The lost ability to ask questions is very discouraging for new users and makes them think badly of this website.Often they get downvoted by misunderstanding.They also improve their questions and/or ...
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Socratic badge amount gone down unfairly with off-topic I cast on my own post
I feel that something rather unfair has just happened, so I would like to complain about it, my next gold badge that I will get is the Socratic, and just a few minutes ago it said:
Now however it has ...
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Why aren't all the [dependencies] tagged question tagged with dpkg/apt?
Supposedly, all dependencies question are about dependencies problems with apt or dpkg, yet, less than the 50% (460 out 735 doesn't have it) has either of the tags. Why if every question about ...
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Is python 3.5 an Ubuntu Third Party App?
Ref: how can I create a program with python 3.5
This is a question in Ask Ubuntu about creating a program with python3.5.
The Question was closed as being off-topic.
"Help Center > Asking, What ...
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Why do we used byte instead of octet as data size unit?
I would like to understand why we seem to prefer to use the byte unit instead of octet unit (because I used more commonly the octet unit at work, at home, ...).
What are the reasons for describing ...
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Proper use of Bold and Italic text in posts?
I would like to make this post to specify "proper" methods of bolding/italicizing text in questions and answers to keep the site clean and easy-to-read.
Partially based off of my other question on ...
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Splitting tag libreoffice into libreoffice-writer and others?
1,284 questions have been tagged with libreoffice which covers a range of different software.
Is it potentially beneficial to introduce the following tags to better filter answers for the respective ...
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Could we modify the pop-up of the downvote icon of questions?
Reading the answers and comments that I got on this question "Could we add a delay before being able to downvote a question?"
I changed my mind:
An answer needs to be upvoted or downvoted, it is ...
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Can we delete/migrate 425730 question that is about Mint?
Ok, is a good information, but it is off topic. The problem is that with the amount of votes that both Question and Answer have, we would need 4-5 10kers to delete it, but sadly we don't have that ...
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How do you ask OP to reconsider accepted answer and award yours?
I was a little late to the part posting an answer to this question: How to get a substring from bash command
We are all proud parents of our posted answers so I'm probably biased but I think my ...
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How often do questions get answered?
To all those newbies of Ubuntu, does your query get solved in most easy steps?
Most of the time, I have seen questions are either left unanswered or are linked to duplicate questions in comments. ...
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Why are the moderators closing posts?
It seems anything argumentative of Unity is being closed. Great work on community support!!! You all know Unity is trash. It was a bad Idea. Now you should let the community fix the problem and the ...
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A user only asks questions
I seem to remember reading this somewhere, but I can't find it on this meta at least...
A saw a user who has 530+ rep but has only asked questions - 53:9 q:a. So he has quite a lot of privileges, ...
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Editor Privilege?
Speaking from experience, waiting for a suggested edit to be approved (before 2000 rep.) can be tiring and annoying. So what I want to know is if you guys think the following is a good idea. For those ...
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