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What should our .com domain name be?
Ask Ubuntu
AskUbuntu.com
Available.
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Why does a user start off with 1 rep, and not 0?
From day one, you can do a lot on Stack Exchange without any prior experience/reputation at all. Yet if new users see that they can gain additional abilities by increasing their "reputation", starting …
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Ask Ubuntu vs AskUbuntu
The proper way to write the name of the site is Ask Ubuntu.
This is derived from our Trademark Guidance for all Stack Exchange sites:
Legal > Trademark Guidance
Stack Overflow is a programmer Q& …
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Discouraging "Ubuntu" tags
This is good advice for any site. No use in filling the site with redundant, implied tags. Ubuntu tags removed.
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100+ reputation when hitting 200
Reputation is a rough measurement of your experience using the system. So once you gain 200 points on any site, you will be given a 100-point head start on all sites in the network (past, present, and …
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Can moderators mark a question as answered?
Two different issues:
Questions are considered "answered" (as in not listed under the unanswered tab) when they receive at least one answer with an up-vote. The original author has no control over th …
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Moderator Pro Tempore [closed]
This community needs to start contributing some names they would like to act as provisional Moderators. Please read this: Moderators Pro Tempore.
Here are some basic guidelines:
Each nomination sh …
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What to do if no one answers a Question?
This is taken from meta.stackexchange.com
How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions?
You can "bump" your thread by editing the question to provide status and progress updates resulting …
11
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What can we do if someone overdoes with gratitude?
Sometimes people simply do not realize they are indirectly hurting the system by voting for a user rather than rewarding good content. You can simply explain this to them. They should also know that …
10
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What copyright license are the Badge images under?
Please see our Trademark Guidance for a more thorough discussion about how to use elements of this site. …
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What to do when a user deletes a famous question?
Users cannot delete their own question once it receives an up-voted answer, so it is extremely unlikely a user will be able to delete their 'famous-questions' after the fact.
Such questions are almo …
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Why do some questions have "community wiki" over the user's name?
This is the canonical source of what community wiki is about:
What are Community Wiki Posts?
8
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What should our .com domain name be?
Ubuntu Exchange
UbuntuExchange.com
Available.
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Hey admins/mods this is for you!
Why do I need reputation to comment/vote/edit/close/add tags/etc?
I can appreciate that you have the exact need for which comments are designed. Asking questions and an answering take no reputation a …
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement [closed]
As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we s …