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What is the script that runs AskUbuntu questions, answers, rating, tagging, and search?
It's closed-source. The company behind is is StackExchange, see the bottom of this page.
The software runs on a MS server.
The idea is not unique though, there are other Q&A sites like this one, som …
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Ask Ubuntu swag for top users
You guys are so generous! I was already happy with the swag I received about a month ago, but now I've got more post addressed at me containing an Ask Ubuntu swag.
I guess it's a mistake, but I'm sti …
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What can be done with inactive, unanswered questions from 1-rep users?
I have regularly seen inactive questions like OpenVPN fails to start automatically, asked by new users. There are no answers, neither does the author reply.
What should be done with that kind of ques …
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What to do with non-English questions or answers?
What should we do with questions (or answers) that are written in a non-English language?
I'm now talking about:
Problem using any docks (Cairo, AWN, Docky)
These can be downvoted, but what if th …
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Too many images!
Both image and images are ambiguous, the tag description is neither helpful. There are at least two meanings that I can think of:
image in the meaning of "picture" or "photo"
image in the meaning of …
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Are questions about legislation welcome to AU?
The question Is it legal to install msttcorefonts package? Is Wine legal? has just caught my attention. I'm tempted to vote it as "Off-topic - too localized", but also see that the question may be edi …
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[screen] vs [monitor]
What should we do with the screen and monitor tags? Currently, there are 15 questions tagged screen and 39 questions tagged monitor.
If these tags need to be distinct, I would add the next wiki excer …
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Blacklist the "command" tag?
command is not a helpful tag. Currently, 3 questions are tagged command.
The subject of these questions looks like "What is the command for ...?". These questions will be fine with the tag shell-scri …
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How can this duplicate attract much more traffic than the linked question?
I just received a badge for a trivial answer to Unable to resolve host. This question was asked on 7 April 2012, has about 15.3k views and 15 upvotes. Shortly after posting my answer, I noticed the du …
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When should we use the versions tags?
If I see any mention of version (either software version which I lookup on http://packages.ubuntu.com/ or Ubuntu version) I tag it accordingly.
It could be used for determining the age and relevancy …
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Alert sound for new messages
If you are using Chromium or Firefox, try the Desktop Notifications for Stack Exchange extension, written by Rob Wu. A picture says more than a hundred words, so here is a screenshot (taken from the S …
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imgur.com is deleting images
I've seen a few questions and answers with images like:
The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available.
Obviously, that's not good for the use of this website.
What's wr …
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Is my approach to fixing plagiarized tag wikis a good one?
Your work is appreciated, most of the suggested changes make sense. Though I rejected one yesterday because the change is not helpful.
"Network" is a very important part of the text which was not vis …
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