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Unwanted edits to my question in ask Ubuntu You have to ask yourself: why unwanted? Reading the question, it is clear that neither of you should have done what you did in the edit war. The simple an …

Looking around on the site, I found a post with my name I didn't remember having posted. Although I should have known my first name is not that unique, I never realized there could be 31 of me around …

Feels like a silly question, but someone please shine a brilliant light on this: Since a few days, none of the rep changes occurred "in green" on any of my devices, (so not) like this: just the numbe …

You will most certainly know a few of the keywords from your question. To find all questions I ever asked, containing the word python, I type in the search bar (showing "Search on Ask Ubuntu): pyth …

A non-answer? You could argue it is a valid answer, since it attempts to point OP in the right direction, although it is in the negative sense. I'd leave it where it is. Just like a question like: "Ho …

Don't get me wrong, I always enjoy the rep, but today made me curious, I got five reps for an upvote on an answer, and ten on the same day: Can't remember this ever happened to me before. Tiny bug …

General answer If your question seems to be a dupe, but the existing question/answer gives you no solution, the question is if it really is a dupe. What I would suggest is to ask a new question, be ve …

Must be a blind spot in my mind, but looking through the list of earned bounties, I could not see who has offered it. Why? I am about to start a new project on Launchpad, which was initiated by a ques …

It is because the system detects the post was marked as dupe of a post by the same poster. He simply posted the same post again, in other wording. In such a case the post is a dupe, without a reason …

Short answer Voting for questions and answering are two (completely) different things: I vote for a question if the issue is well explained, well documented and the question shows some effort to find …

To generalize: If the question has a bad title, edit it if a question's title is an obstacle to find the real content of it, I edit it into a more appropriate title. You can think of the following …

Vanity is the background of this question, but here we go... To prevent misunderstandings: this is not about the ask ubuntu newsletter, but the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (sent by Elizabeth K. Joseph). …

Dutch people are known to be always calculating.... Yesterday, two things happened to me at the same time: I hit the daily quote, actually passed it, which "zeroed" the effect of a number of votes. ( …

Just curious to the method, used to calculate the figure below (well, the top 0.16%; the reputation I kind of understand): If I look at the pages (36 users per page), I count 7625 and something pag …

What I ran into Strolling through the keys in dconf-editor, looking for something else, I ran into the screen's information in /org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/core/outputs which showed the values: …