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I'm not gaining more reputation

That is because you have reached the daily cap from up-votes of 200. Bounties and accepted answers are excluded from this calculation. https://askubuntu.com/help/whats-reputation You can earn a …
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Is Ask Ubuntu vulnerable to Heartbleed OpenSSL problem?

Ask Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Single Sign On and two different things. Ask Ubuntu is owned and hosted by Stack Exchange. While the Single Sign On(SSO), is owned by Canonical. Being the creators of Ubunt …
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What is the difference between Ask ubuntu button vs. Questions button?

Other than the layout change, the difference is the default filter/sort. If you click on the logo of Ask Ubuntu, it will open the homepage which shows, by default, the questions by whichever was last …
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What are the job opportunities in askubuntu

What Rinzwind says is true. Though I'd just like to add that SE do have job openings which you can apply for. You check them out by clicking the work here link in the footer of any of the Stack Excha …
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Should I be able to access a deleted question?

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or recent change to SE, but I am able to view a deleted question (my rep is only 4.7k): https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14971/feature-request-video-upload Disclaim …
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Mini-Markdown is not working in comments

As muru says in their comment, the problem is that your Markdown code has some issues. [EndOfLife] (ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life) In this part, there's a space between ] and ( which breaks t …
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Possible bug: body area turns blank when editing question

This is a bug with the Grammarly extension. It's not a problem with the Stack Exchange editor. I've notified Grammarly about this issue some time ago, and they seem to be aware of it. For now, as a q …
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When does the community user edit questions/answers?

At first I thought it was an automated thing until I got this suggested edit in the review queue. Clearly this edit isn't any good and in fact it wasn't posted if you check the actual question. But …
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How does a newbie reply to their own post?

You only need 15 rep to be able to answer your own questions. You are 2 rep away from your goal. All you need is one edit suggestion that gets validated by reviewers in order to get them. BUT You shou …
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Is there a way to disable relative dates and times on posts and comments?

I have created a user-script and added a post for it on stackapps Replace all relative times with local times For info on how to install user-scripts in different browsers, check the info of the scri …
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How to find duplicates of my own or arbitrary question

Yes. You can create a query, or try to see if there is an already existing one, in the SE Data Explorer A less technical one would be to go into each question of yours, and check the linked question …
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How to delete my favorites?

There is no "bulk" way of removing favorites, but there is a way which is somewhat easy. Go to your favorites page, and click on the favorite icon of each question one by one. At least you won't have …
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What does the number next to the review button signify?

It is the number of available Suggested Edits to review. But keep in mind that it doesn't refresh automatically. It reloads when you refresh or you go another page. So if there was a 1 next to the re …
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Can I use URL shortening (in comments)?

Basically, people don't like to be tracked, and we have no right to track them. Using URL shorteners would allow you to get loads of user details (depending on the service you are using, they can even …
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How to favorite a user?

You can only subscribe to their RSS feed. http://meta.askubuntu.com/feeds/user/<user_id> The link can be found at the bottom right under their activity tab. The RSS link is called "user feed". Fea …
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marking answers as favorite

No it is not possible to favorite an answer in SE. You can only favorite a question. Maybe you can change this to a feature request, though I doubt it'll be accepted or implemented in the near future. …
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Why is my answer deleted?

I don't have enough rep to see your deleted answer. But based on your description in this meta post, it seems your answer wasn't an answer at all. But it's a follow-up question. If that was the case, …
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How to see list of votes I made?

In your profile page, you can find a summary of your votes at the bottom. But to see the detailed history of your votes, click on the votes tab in the your profile. In your case, the page for your p …
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Is it possible to rename oneself on Ask Ubuntu?

With the new design of SE, the previous answer isn't valid anymore, though the steps are almost the same. Click your name at the top Click on "Edit Profile & Settings" Change your display name and S …
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When I try to review First Posts, why does it say "No Action Needed"?

The No Action Needed button means that the post is good in your opinion. However, it doesn't mean you have to press it. A post may need improvement, it may need to be flagged, it may need you to ask t …
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What does a gray title mean?

It just means that you have visited the question's page previously. When you visit a link in Ask Ubuntu and that link is part of your browser's history. Any link that is part of your browser's histor …
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How can I make more than edits show in my review notification?

Once you pass the 10k reputation mark and unlock the moderator tools privilege, the number will stop showing only the suggested edits, but instead show the - almost - total number of all available po …
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Unable to upload gif image in question

The problem is that the image is too large. When you are adding an image to your post, even if you choose a link, images are always uploaded to stack.imgur.com. SE and Imgur have some form of friendl …
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What is our stance on pad.lv URLs?

Other than what dessert mentions in their comment Let's see how a link like yours looks like (assuming it's the output you're worried about): pad.lv/1532508 vs. bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/g …
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Will I still get +2 for editing questions and answers after I reach 2000 reputation?

You actually get +2 reputation points from suggested edits, and not from edits. And once you hit 2k, you will not be able to suggest edits but you will be doing direct edits. Simply put, once you hit …
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Why is it still possible to log in to Ask Ubuntu with my old email address after I added a n...

The email preference that you edited is not the login information that is being used to log in, but the main contact email that Stack Exchange would use to contact you (newsletters, notification diges …
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Is there any ability to count edits?

Another way to check those stats, is to re-visit a suggested edit you already posted. For example, you suggested this edit. In the top, click on (more), and you will be able to see stats about you a …
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Can I sort (question accroding to ) recently answered &/or accepted question?

It is almost possible to have what you need, using the search functionality. Recently Answered Questions The following query would search for all answers and sort them by the newest answer. https:// …
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How to open a certain question in the Close Votes queue?

To add to Zanna's answer, since we are <10k rep users, what I usually do is filter the Close Votes queue to certain criteria of a question I want to vote on. If I take this question as an example: co …
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Expand button isn't shown in the reputation tab after multiple events on a post

When you open your reputation page, make sure you have Post as the selected sorting in the top right.
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