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Give AskUbuntu its own "magic link": [AU] instead of [ubuntu.SE]
You know those "magic links" you can use in comments or chat? You type [se] and get Stack Exchange or [so] for Stack Overflow. In comments, there is also e.g. [edit] which links to the current ...
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I would like to offer an apology here
I posted a question yesterday here, complaining about how unusually buggy the 16.04 LTS release seems to me.
Well, today I have thought about it better. Ubuntu is free, and after some days of some ...
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Thank you to whoever removes spam from Ask Ubuntu
... whoever manages / monitors this forum and removes the annoying spam health / medical rubbish which appears is doing a fantastic job.
This is for Ubuntu questions, not 411 spam.
Keep up the good ...
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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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EOL Notice: Vivid Vervet (15.04) is now EOL as of February 4, 2016
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of life as of February 4, 2016:
Vivid Vervet (15.04)...
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Reject buttons looks too much like an ok button
I got the following notification inside my inbox:
Edit suggested
I clicked on the notification and got to the following page:
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/880858
Because it ...
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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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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Ask Ubuntu's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Tips for users to write better questions and avoid negative feedback
This is for all more or less new users that posted questions here and searched for help, but got much negative feedback from the community in form of downvotes and closing their questions.
I want to ...
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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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Tools for Ask Ubuntu
As some of you know, I have created some tools for Stack Exchange sites (like Ask Ubuntu) on Stack Apps.
What tools have been developed for Ask Ubuntu, or are especially useful to Ask Ubuntu users?
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Is it possible to ask a Question you already know and answer it
After reading this question: Ought one to answer one's own question? what happens in the case that you know several questions that will further help the community but you want to make the question ...
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What are common canonical questions for our site?
So according to the Gospel of Spolsky 13:4, a core mission of Stack Exchange communities is to stop re-answering the same questions, and instead build a library of canonical answers. When general ...
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Please stop voting to close 13.04 questions for no reason
There were a bunch of great questions this morning in the close queue because they were about 13.04. It doesn't make sense to close them just because 13.04 is a few days away. We're supposed to be ...
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EOL Notice: Precise Pangolin (12.04) reached End of Life on April 28, 2017
This will be enforced starting on April 28, 2017.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of ...
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$ (prompt) in command line instructions
I noticed a minor 'edit war' in an answer (NB: broken link, I'm guessing the answer was deleted) regarding whether or not we should promote $ at the front of command line instructions.
Is one of ...
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How to help a paranoid, delusional user?
Earlier today, this question was asked and contained a delusional rant about the KKK and the FBI and looked a bit like an episode of the X-files...
My question is simple: Should we help this user (...
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Moderators are *not* the Software Police! (Read for details!)
TL;DR because I know there's people who don't want to read all this.
If a user is simply referencing that they are having an issue with a piece of software and that it is cracked (like a ...
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Please make the "Ask Question" button on AskUbuntu more prominent
I'm a user familiar with StackOverflow websites but it took me a while to locate the Ask Question button on Ask Ubuntu.
Reason: Insufficient contrast (as can be seen below). A single grey / ...
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Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
As of about 17:47 UTC on October 18, 2018, Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 has been officially released. The corresponding release announcement email that went out to the ubuntu-announce mailing list ...
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Should we allow questions that are about releases which are considered End of Life?
I'd like to rehash this topic as I was under the impression that EOL releases of Ubuntu are off-topic. The site has grown a lot since it was original discussed so I'd like to see if this is something ...
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Ban ChatGPT and AI-generated answers on Ask Ubuntu?
ChatGPT generated answers have been found across the Stack Exchange network and some examples have also been recently seen and removed from Ask Ubuntu. Our colleagues on Stack Overflow have put a ...
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Summer cleanup, feedback wanted, etc
Basically, what I'd like to do is get community 'permission' to do the following over the next few weeks (for whats left of June, and then thereafter whenever I have time):
Completely destroy and ...
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PSA: gksu is no longer installed by default
Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
Ask Ubuntu's sixth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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How do I flag correctly?
As there are many complaints about uncertainty of which flag to use for what post and even conflicting feedbacks from different moderators or established users, I would like to see some kind of ...
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Are we truly "Eager to help"
This question was prompted by this one.
At first glance I agreed that this looked like a horrible question with a lack of detail, then I recalled the initial slideshow when a new user installs ...
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Why are you only allowed to comment with 50 rep?
Why are you only allowed to comment on other people's posts when you reached 50 reputation? In my opinion comments are a good way to ask people to clarify their questions or add additional information ...
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EOL Notice: Wily Werewolf (15.10) is now End of Life (as of July 28, 2016) (Enforcement starts July 29)
This will be enforced starting on July 29, 2016.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of ...
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Don't be too eager to answer a question you know the answer of
Readme
This question is not a personal complaint towards anyone. That's the reason I'd rather not give examples and I don't think I need to. The question is a call to be a bit more aware of what we ...
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PSA: 11.10 Release today! (aka. let's get rockin')
I know, I know, I always put out a warning, but release time is usually when more users start using Ubuntu and as a bonus this time Ask Ubuntu is featured in the Ubuntu installer slider show:
Some ...
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Does rarely being able to answer questions make me a "poor" user?
I am aware that I can rarely ever offer anything of value in terms of answer to questions. I feel bad about this because I should be giving back for the free help that I receive. Does not answering ...
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Should we be encouraging people to vote more?
I wanted to blog/tweet our list of unanswered questions, which appear to be sorted by vote. However I noticed that given the amount of users on this site that the amount of voting on the questions isn'...
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Are bash/shell scripting questions on topic?
I have seen a number of users voting to close scripting questions as off topic. Is this the community consensus? Are bash questions not welcome here? How about other shell programming questions?
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Regarding the recent wave of spam - what are we doing about it?
There's been a lot of spam and nonsense posted lately, everything from love connections to kids struggling through puberty demanding to be made moderators.
What is being done about this, and what ...
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How do we tell if a question belongs here, or rather at stackoverflow/superuser?
I asked a question about vim in the ubuntu stackexchange, and someone suggested it should be taken to stack overflow or superuser.
Would this be relevant, or should general Linux/UNIX software stuff ...
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McAfee Site Advisor indicates that this site is risky to visit?
Are you aware that McAfee Site Advisor is indicating that www.askubuntu.com is a risky site to visit?
I'm wondering what they saw that caused this risk rating.
Also, it might have implications into ...
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Can we improve the path from ubuntu.com to here?
In the time I've spent here, I've noticed a clear difference between AU and the other SE sites I frequent. There seem to be far more bad questions (that show no research effort, don't explain anything ...
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Ubuntu is 12 (20/10/16)
Just thought I would post this I found on OMG Ubuntu, seems very appropriate here :)
Today is Ubuntu's 12th birthday, Happy Birthday Ubuntu!!!
The OMG Ubuntu link contains an Ubuntu quiz you can ...
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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 ...
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Obscure links to promote service
There's an interesting question (link for 10k'rs only) that was posted recently. On face value, it looks like a valid post. It asks a valid ubuntu question, but if you look a bit closer, it has a ...
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Scammers try to push Windows App to Ubuntu & Sock puppets on askubuntu.com
Had posted (now gone) a question on how to install a franchise
fraud application on Ubuntu, as he seemingly can't get it to work. Researching what this application is, I couldn't help myself but ...
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Ask Ubuntu Birthday Celebration?
Did you know Ask Ubuntu's anniversary of its graduation is coming up on 10 October? Congratulations!
How about a fun activity to stir things up a little? After a year of great Q&A, we'd like the ...
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Serial downvote: how to make it stop? Tired of having my questions deleted
For the second time on askubuntu.com, I got serial downvoted.
The user who downvotes targets questions with no upvote and no answer so that after the downvote the question will automatically deleted....
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What to do with abandoned questions?
It's inevitable that people will come to this site, ask a low quality question, and not return to follow up on comments requesting additional information.
What should be done with these examples? ...
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Is the Ask Ubuntu community generally more friendly than stack overflow - If so, why?
This is not a rant! These are my initial thoughts in a discussion which I'm hoping other people will want to engage with. I want to hear your opinions on the following questions which I put to you.
I ...
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Please don't flag old questions as EOL
This discussion recently popped up on Active Questions because of a new answer.
Ever since then, there have been EOL flags in the Close Vote queue for questions that were not EOL when asked; there ...
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How to use keyboard 'icon' in markdown?
Guys, I was looking in a question when I found a different way to markup keyboard (combination of keys) to express commands. I cant found a previously answer about Markdown (except this, but not ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Ask Ubuntu's seventh moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for ...
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