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You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.

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Why do question share links include my user id?

User ID in the sharing link is useful in at least one situation. There are some badges: Announcer Share a link to a question later visited by 25 unique IP addresses. This badge can be awarded m …
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Trying to find my posts

User nickname is changeable and not necessarily unique, you need to use the unique numerical code associated to a user. So try user:573838. Alternatively, for self-posts, you can also use user:me. Al …
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What is the right thing to do with an old cross-posted question?

I just found this question: How to remove the thumbnail frame in Nautilus? posted almost a year ago. Then noticed OP has posted an identical question at U&L which got an answer with a positive score. …
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How can I add a screenshot directly from my clipboard to the body of a post?

Yes, you can. Either click the 'enter image' button or press Ctrl+G. Then it should get expanded as below: Make sure you have an image in your clipboard and then simply press the universal paste sh …
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What is our stance on pad.lv URLs?

It seems the Stack Exchange community as a whole "really, really hate" URL shorteners (source). But what's our (Ask Ubuntu community) stance on pad.lv, the "site-specific redirection service for Laun …
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Is there an easy way to include images from https://imgur.com?

Instead of downloading and re-uploading you can just copy the image URL and paste it in the image upload tool: (click 'paste')
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I made an edit but didn't realise I was not logged in

I believe the best possible outcome for you is to hope for the anonymous edit suggestion to get rejected so that you can suggest from your account once more (I have rejected it). That said, in my hon …
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Review queue audit: what to do with obvious spam?

Once you're sure it's an audit, anything would be fine.
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When exactly does a downvote cost 1 reputaion?

I was trying to find the correlation between downvoting and losing 1 rep for the downvote. If I understood correctly downvoting a post with a score ≥ 0 always takes away 1 reputation from me. But …
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Changing the language of Ask Ubuntu word processor

In Firefox you can add dictionaries from here and change the spell-checking language by right-clicking in a text field and selecting another language.
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Noticing "score" and "answers" bars after unlocking "access to site analytics"

The following question is raised in a comment by OP: This "new" score/answers bars have never appeared on my summary page before... so I thought it was related to site analytics. How does one chan …
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Why does my week rank show -483?

Not a bug, that's the 'change' in rank (with respect to last week's rank).
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Is there a way to undo my review?

I mistakenly clicked on Looks OK instead of Recommend Deletion while reviewing a post. Now this post will most probably be deleted anyway as it's of very low quality. But I would like to make sure in …
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Is there a way to remove a "wrong" duplicate flag from a question? [duplicate]

Recently I have found a question which I believe is wrongly marked as a duplicate of another one. The other question looks very similar and partially addresses the issues raised by the current questio …
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