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Who downvoted my question/answer on Ask Ubuntu?

Voting on StackExchange sites is anonymous - even the community moderators do not have access to that information. Try adding a comment to your question asking for feedback on how to improve the ques …
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Does it make sense to flag non-English questions?

mod roles. Mods are glorified janitors - we try to do our best to cleanup where things are drastically/dramatically need our intervention. Examples - spam, bad language, etc etc. However, we - like y …
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Why I am banned for reviewing?

That particular answer was an unfortunate review type - someone had edited out the spam and the answer was subsequently deleted. The review system is not as clever as maybe it should be - its automat …
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Can I post a duplicate answer on a duplicate question ....with a bounty?

Given the very close similarities between the two questions - the fact that it is similarly worded - together that the OP has themselves confirmed this means a return of the bounty is in order. To ti …
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Serial downvoting reversed

The Stack Exchange system is very good at recognizing people who (for whatever reason) decide to trawl through someones Question or Answer list and either upvote or downvote repeatedly. This is regar …
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What is the reason that I lost so much of the reputation?

history The 25 reps was originally given when the OP accepted your answer and you gained an upvote. i.e. 15 points for an answer, 10 points for an upvote = 25 rep. However - the community considered t …
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Acknowledge the editor of a post

Revision history All posts have a revision history that you can view - in this case: https://askubuntu.com/posts/445325/revisions You'll note that you made an edit and immediately afterwards Ward ma …
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Why can't I see my past questions?

unregistered vs registered Your original account was unregistered - this depends upon your Web-Browser remembering your login credentials via a cookie. If the cookie is lost, then your login credentia …
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Comment with one rep without participation in post

Yes there is a simple explanation... This was flagged because it was really a comment. Since its the Mods that can see flags, this answer was converted to a comment for the post in question. The an …
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merge tags: tab and tabs

Very recently a new tag "tabs" was created. From the one linked question, it looks like it could have been tagged "tab". Maybe "tabs" should be merged with "tab"?
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Restoring a Deleted Answer

OK, The answer wasnt really an answer. It was more of a comment sharing some further insight. Since the poster only had 1 rep, they didn't have the right to post comments. Thus, I've converted it …
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How to correctly handle Ubuntu One questions

I recently contacted Ubuntu One support re just this matter. … This is their email to me: Joshua Hoover <ubuntuone-support@canonical.com> 13 March 2012 14:41 Reply-To: ubuntuone-support@canonical.com Hi, The best place to direct people to for support is this …
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Request to Un-duplicate

This question was incorrectly duplicated. As @Oli has commented, we treat desktop-based applications on 10.04 as off-topic. The only questions for 10.04 that are on-topic are server-based questions. …
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Reputations went down

The reason for the fluctuation in your rep status was due to flagging and cleanup activities. Let me explain. Screenshots taken in ubuntu 14.04 LTS are not opening in windows 7 You had 20 rep on …
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Why did I lose 2 reputation points?

Looking at your profile to the following area: 2 points were removed. 10K rep users will be able to see that the question has been removed by the question owner. You had originally supplied an ed …
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