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A canonical question for installing Nvidia GPU drivers?
This is what I use:
How do I install the Nvidia drivers?
It's currently losing the google juice to this question though: How do I install the Nvidia driver for a GeForce GT 630
Maybe we should co …
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Is there a limit on how much rep I can give away?
I do this all the time, mostly to help out people who might have been buried in the noise.
You can only do three bounties at a time, and due to the time restrictions it makes it tough to do bulk bou …
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What to do with stolen answers?
I have a fundamentally different thought to the accepted answer so I will leave this here as a counter-idea to each of those points:
One of the greatest features of SE is the ability for anybody to …
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Starting bounty on others question
In this case only if you have the exact model of camera that they have then I would edit/bounty one of them, if not, start a new question to the specific model.
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Should people with more than 2000 rep write an edit summary?
I almost never put in an edit summary.
This is probably a bad thing, but to be honest, the system makes it so easy to see the history of an entire post and the diffs look so good I usually just let …
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Question about off-topic flagging
I would fix the question to be correct for the next person.
Edit out the SOLVED cruft, and then post a proper answer so people can vote on it. Or tell the OP to post it as an answer if they can.
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Is there any ability to count edits?
I look for Revisions in my Activity/Revisions page under my profile, oddly enough it's a different number from the data.se query Oli just posted.
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Is there any way to backup our Ask Ubuntu profile?
An option would be for you to download the Ask Ubuntu data dump and serve it back to yourself offline:
https://stackapps.com/questions/3610/stackdump-an-offline-browser-for-stackexchange-sites
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How to make questions noticeable without bounty?
Your title is half the battle!
"Workaround for installing the AMD propritary driver" doesn't really explain anything to me, it's not even a question! I would not want to click through.
I changed i …
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If 2 questions are same, then which one should be merged?
I believe that a question which gets more up-votes is probably where the audience landed first because of more relevant title, and the understandable language and relatable content lead to it's upv …
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Am I just asking wrong?
I just gave a once over to all your questions. 3 of them seem to be basically bug reports where the software isn't just working how it's supposed to, there's not much we can generally do with those as …
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How can I add an image to the comment section?
The way Ask Ubuntu works is by editing your question, not doing a back and forth in the comments. That way it's easier for the next person to understand what the problem is without having to dig throu …
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Why where 2 of my questions deleted?
You need to update/improve your questions occasionally with your progress in order to avoid deletion:
Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?
Neither one of …
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Can I get banned for deleting my question?
A duplicate contributes to the master question's links on the site (and FAQ-ability), and it also acts as an automatic redirect page to the master question when a user comes in from a search engine.
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How to search FAQ?
Searching within the FAQ is currently not possible:
How can we search inside the "faq tab"?
It appears to be based on links:
How are the FAQ questions chosen?