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Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live
Suggestion to get rid of the huge but useless orange top bar (post 1, post 2) and to keep us informed we are on Ask Ubuntu and not on another site:
Move the Ask Ubuntu logo to the left side menu
Rem …
16
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1
answer
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Can we get a notice that questions we answered were merged?
Only by chance I came across a merged question I had answered twice:
What is a "bad quality" package?
This is not really what we want. One answer may be better than the other, or worse, both answe …
15
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Does this sound a bit condescending?
The question indicates that the OP may have not yet achieved in depth knowledge of Bash programming. The recommendation to read some Bash manual is therefore obvious. But I understand that the wording …
4
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Disagree with Low Quality review audit
I am not good at reviewing but if we look at this special case the other way round we have to admit that this question:
is resolved, i.e. has an accepted answer
has many upvotes not only to the ques …
5
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Suggestion for changing the vote/accept icons
I believe this is an issue that would affect all StackExchange sites and therefore is a much better fit for the general Meta StackExchange.
Still, I can not support this proposal (only this is the me …
14
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Accepted
Is it okay to both answer and mark a question as duplicate?
Provided a question is a clear duplicate to an existing question.
What is ok
vote to close as duplicate. This will immediately direct the OP to the solutions posted there.
add an own answer to the pr …
6
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Accepted
Embedded Video(& Youtube) on AskUbuntu Questions & Answers?
If an animated sequence was needed to show a procedure that answers the question we can convert any video to an animated GIF sequence. This can then be embedded in a question or an answer.
See How to …
5
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I need to change my bio
When logged in there will be an Edit Profile & Settings tab on your user page.
To access your user page just click on your avatar on the top bar or go to:
https://askubuntu.com/users/593587/nexog …
24
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Accepted
What is your consideration when downvoting, what are your criteria?
Yeah, we do care about our posts. We do not take it lightly when we receive a downvote. We try to make the post better.
In the best case we have an explanation in a comment to help us what could be d …
25
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How to deal with very very old answers?
Knowing that I also have quite a bunch of very old answers that dwell somewhere on this site let me suggest one thing we should always do in such a case:
Comment on the answer and tell us what was …
8
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Dealing with this user
In this case it is rather obvious. From what I could see on quickly checking their homepage their primary download directs to Windows and from my Windows office machine I could not find any downloads …
12
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Should I keep an eye on spam-like answers about free software? Or why do people spam-promote...
Yes, we should keep an eye on them
Spam is bad for the site, it does not help anybody and it clutters all those good questions and answers we have here.
No, we should not flag and delete them all
Thes …
18
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Accepted
Leaving easier questions for less experienced users
We "high rep" users very much love to see good answers coming from low rep users or users new to the site.
Consider this: all our rep comes from times we also were beginners to the site, and we tried …
18
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Old question with old answer. How can I request an update on the topic?
What some people do is they just leave a comment on an apparently good answer
Is your answer stll valid in 14.04?
Whenever I get such a message I will re-evaluate my answer to see if there was s …
8
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2
answers
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When is a bug a bug?
Inspired by this question
Would creating a Q&A question to cover specific 14.04 sound issues be okay here?
we may want to better define which bug reports merit being a close reason for a question …