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How to remove account from ask ubuntu?
The https://askubuntu.com/help/deleting-account shows wrong information. I am looking for a real way to remove my account from this site.
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Was I wrong to down vote this answer?
I down voted and answer on this question, you can read the comments as too why.
This user proceeded to trawl through my history and try to find ways to get me to change my vote based on another ...
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Is there something wrong with Ask Ubuntu?
I don't understand, why Ask Ubuntu is like this. out of every 10 to 20 questions only 1 is answered. And the Ubuntu website is advertising it as it's main Q&A web site! Don't you think something ...
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It feels like one of the moderators is being overly critical of my posts - what can I do?
A moderator seems to be shadowing me, down voting me within minutes of my posting an answer, and making inappropriate comments, and actions that are totally harassing me. Yeah, I'm pissed off.
I ...
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Add "I am command line literate" flag to Profile or Question
Questioners on AskUbuntu have a vast range of skill levels, ranging from barely being able to point-and-click to walk-on-water (thinks in programming languages, knows how most of Ubuntu/Linux works). ...
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Should Users with only 1 reputation (Or with only 1 question/answer) be deleted after 30 days without a login?
Should Users with only 1 reputation be deleted after 30 days without a login? Because It would keep the site cleaner and There must be hundreds - thousands Of dead users that did use their account ...
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Standard of expanding the abbreviations for questions [closed]
In a recent question of mine posted on the AskUbuntu site I was ordered that M$ has to be expanded to stand for Microsoft (probably to allow for indirect advertising of the company). Is indirect ...
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ordered list format feature request -- subtopic numbering
Introduction:
While writing a response to a question, I came to a situation where making a sublist improved readability of the post.
This works:
topic
subtopic
subsubtopic
subtopic
topic
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2k "Review" access lost when reputation has fallen below 2k because of bounties
I had access to 2k reviews (Low Quality Posts, Suggested Edits) for at least 4 months. Yet, I gave some bounties away which reduced my reputation below 2k, effectively barring me from such reviews. ...
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Why is Ask Ubuntu set up to discourage users from participating?
For a while now I have noticed Ask Ubuntu has a system of PFO in place. The system I have experienced does not allow me to post or answer questions unless I have 50 reputation points. The system ...
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Trademark infringement in display names of user accounts
I came across a user account bearing the name of one of the Ubuntu flavours. I was not aware of Xubuntu operating its own team account and this one uses the flavour's name. I've pinged the team in ...
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fitbit tag axe request
I would like to suggest removing the fitbit tag...
Reasons:
-It doesn't have any relation to Ubuntu,
-Fitbit is a company and should be kept off-topic here
Please remove it. feel free to leave ...
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How to clean up the site if 80% of the users don't follow the rules
In my country, the gov tried to make it illegal to drive without using the safety belt, they tried to fine everyone who doesn't follow the law. There's another law that forbids smoking in closed ...
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Are questions in other language other than English accepted in AU? (accepting other languages in AU) [duplicate]
So we know the term language barrier but.. Ubuntu lets anyone install the system in different languages.
So in the support channel Forum or AU we get problems maybe prolonged by Image based technical ...
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Allow for more than 2 links for <10 rep [closed]
Links are helpful, I can't be as helpful as I could if I were allowed to post more than 2 links.
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Proposed new tag: Atomic Pi
I just asked a question about an Atomic Pi, and thought I could create the tag for it, but I am lacking sufficient rep here to make it. Can someone make the tag on these questions? Please/thanks.
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I feel like I have NOT been well filtered :-(
I answered a question about a mouse scrolling problem.
mouse auto scrolling problem
The very first and most important part of my answer was :
"There seems to be an incompatibility that has been ...
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Making a 'master thread' for bugs and workarounds for Ubuntu 15.04 issues and bugs?
What does everyone think if we get a single thread going for bugs and workarounds for people with issues relating to 15.04 install. Maybe a wiki type thread. I'm sure a lot of people are coming here ...
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Conspiracies defense for AU
What if an X company set a team against Ubuntu in it's more simple form, a cozy Q&A site to spam it and attack members in the rise to become valuable members?
With a clones attack of "new" users ...
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How far an explanation should go / does it legitimate double posts / answers?
Often questions are very easy to answer if the asker would search a few minutes in the internet and has the right search terms handy.
The latter one is the key, the askers often didn't know what to ...
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Why does voting down decrement Reputation
if an answer is wrong , then we can vote it and the wrong answer goes down the list,but why decrementing the hard-earned reputation??
we need to bring a change to that policy.
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Tag change: [watch-command] -> [watch]
The tag watch-command should be called watch. Many other commands, including cp, mv are not with the suffix -command.
Please could we have watch-command changed to watch.
Firstly, all the questions ...
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Why are new users allowed to post links?
Although you may argue that they are limited to one link per post, they are actually able to post more than one link by enclosing it with ``s (and other ways), so making it so that they are not ...
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New tag proposal: meta tags "Concern" and "Quality"
I think that a concern tag and quality tag should be added. This question (Windows 8 and Ubuntu Dual-boot: Many duplicates) could use these tags as well as many other meta questions.
Tag uses and ...
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How does this works?
I have "earned " some popularity badge AND STILL GETTING this.
It is forum owner privilege to administer the forum to his / her liking. Somehow it seems very difficult for owners to realize that ...
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Marking outdated posts/info etc. to be archived
Old posts with outdated info, which are irrelevant to the currently supported versions, should be excluded by the search engine bots. Perhaps, they should be marked and archived (i.e.: Internet ...
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There isn't a more responsable moderator on AskUbuntu? Just Mitch?
Tried to solve a problem I had with my Ubuntu based OS and Wine, but Mitch pretending is some sort of god decided to put it on hold and close it after I hurt his feelings, maybe.
This problem is even ...
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Answer unfairly blocked
I have a question about my Ask Ubuntu post: ubuntu 22.04 app black screen and laggy
To start, this was my first answer on this site although I’ve used for years. I’ve posted answers on many sites for ...
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Why is it that perfectly good answers get deleted?
Why is it that certain perfectly good answers get deleted by a few, because they point out Ubuntu's problems? One answer that was deleted is even given in Ubuntu's manual. Another that was deleted was ...
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Extra reputation option
Why can't there be an option, where if you have enough reputation, you can give a small number of reputation. (If the question is really good) Lets say 225 reputation would be the goal for this option....
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Proposal to Change Procedure to Flag Duplicate Answers
This is a proposal on changing this procedure... We'll see where it gets. ;-)
Instead of adding a comment mentioning it's a duplicate, answer the question by referring the user to the duplicate ...
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feature request : Reasons for down-votes [duplicate]
I think it is really important to know the reasons for getting down-votes.
Feature Description:
The users must be asked for providing a valid reason for downvoting a post which already has 5 or more ...
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LMGTFY -is it allowed
If someone is asking a dumb question that could easily be figured out by googling it are we allow to send them a lmgtfy.com link? Assuming we provide an explination for why the question is not ...
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How do i restrict editing on my questions?
I just don't like people messing with my questions on askubuntu, and i don't get all the specifics I need.
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Should we make an IRC channel of this site?
As title says, should we make an IRC channel for this site, like #askubuntu , or what?
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What can I do after my account is gone?
I logged in this morning, and instead of logging in, it asked me to join the community through stack exchange again, and now I am at 101 reputation, instead of the 360 I was at yesterday. How can I ...
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Lets get rid of the localhost tag
The localhost has been on the burner for some time now. Users that know the term, will know that it is the name of the system itself, a network loopback. In the last 30 days, nobody answered any of ...
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Loyal ubuntu member
I have been using Ubuntu sense Ubuntu 6 .I was a helping member of the first Ubuntu.
com . I have been a member here sense day one and now i have to get 50 points before i can reply to help some one ....
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Suggestion for changing the vote/accept icons
I'm not sure that most (new) users know how to properly use the vote and accept icons that appear in answers. I know that I didn't for quite some time.
I'd like to propose a minor change in the vote ...
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Should there be more privileges for users who have more than 20,000 Reputation points
I was looking at https://askubuntu.com/help/privileges/set-bounties and https://askubuntu.com/help/privileges. I know some users on here have more than 20,000 bounties and any more than 20,000 ...
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Why the "Low Quality" answers reason looks like tyranny of the user? [closed]
If...
I am try to add my decisive solution to the existing answers without of any concurrency to differentiate answer set I mean.
Should to say it feels look alike some tyranny from the community and ...
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Flagging as off topic describes Super User as being about Windows
When flagging a question as off-topic: not about Ubuntu (through this path: should be closed ..., off-topic because ...), the following text is displayed as an option (emphasis added)
This is not ...
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How to deal with nonconstructive comments?
I read some kind of rule on SO or some sub site that were like this (very vague)
You should not question the purposes, the if's and how's of why a
particular person wan't to do a particular ...
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Bad admin choices regarding a compound question
There is a compound question asked; a question that solicits a CLI method, and a GUI method.
I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable ...
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What takes so long to respond?
On other sites on Stack Exchange, I have received quick responses for most of my questions - by quick, I mean within a 24-hour period. I have asked three questions in Ask Ubuntu, and each one of them ...
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Formal policy on duplicate/similar answers for similar questions on Ask Ubuntu?
I've been taking some flak recently for posting duplicate/similar answers to questions that are similar, rather than noting that a duplicate answer may exist, and vtc.
I've reviewed some of the 642 ...
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Some users downgrade votes and not give an answer
I think, if AskUbuntu born to help all users, and I agree we can vote down to an answer, but, at least, the user that downgrade the answer, have to answer the question correctly.
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remove one question every 20 minutes limit
Please remove the ridiculous 20 minute wait time for each additional question. I often have more than one question and do not see any reason to waste time. You are disrespecting the members of this ...
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Rejected all of my edits, left the question un-modified and attached a bounty?
I've been working with this question for a while. Ultimately, it's best for the community if the question is deleted. I've submitted fixes to the question, and all of the answers (including flags to ...
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