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Are questions starting with "How to..." okay?
I do get irked and usually edit those to "How do I ...", and would accept edits which do the same thing (assuming other changes, if any, are OK).
However: It's fairly common here, and people ...
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What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific
Reported on Meta.SE, it is a network wide bug... I found 10+ posts across the network with similar titles.
My pronouns are He / Him
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What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific
You underestimate the industriousness of our users. There is actually a warning shown:
I just got the popup shown above when trying to post a question with no title. I simply never clicked on the ...
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Are questions starting with "How to..." okay?
"How to" is a frequently-used phrase, to the extent that you'll find "howto" being used as a generic name. Many people Google "how to…", which means that these questions and their answers will be ...
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Why do certain tags also go in tab title?
From some quick observations, it seems to pick the first tag (ordered by populatiry, descending) that isn't already in the title. If all the tags are in the title, it won't prepend anything.
All the ...
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