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Why does the site attack people seeking help?
No, this site isn't here to help people with Ubuntu issues, that is a very common (and understandable) misunderstanding. The objective of this site is to collect a library of useful questions and ...
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I need guidance for downvoted question without feedback
First of all, remember that downvotes are personal. All it takes is for one user to have a bad day, or dislike your avatar, or hate people with an s in their usernames. Don't read too much into ...
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Can we limit searches by date?
Yes, there are ways to filter searches, but its limited.
Refer to https://askubuntu.com/help/searching for the large details.
Specifics include:
Dates
You can use specific dates or date ranges to ...
Thomas WardMod
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Has policy on downvotes changed?
It's OK to downvote a bad question, but it would also be a nice and recommended gesture to leave a comment explaining what could be improved.
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software-uninstall tag automatically becomes software-installation
My bad. I'm really sorry.
Recently, an attempt was made to improve the situation with the plethora of installation-related tags. I can admit to being guilty of excessive tag meddling throughout my ...
ZannaMod
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software-uninstall tag automatically becomes software-installation
It's defined as a tag synonym by Zanna: https://askubuntu.com/tags/synonyms
I think it was discussed at some point, and the consensus was to do these synonyms. Here is the discussion thread: Can we ...
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Can one use a passkey to log into Ask Ubuntu?
Slate from the CM team indicated this is a Support Request, less a Feature Request, and retagged your post, and gave us the general go-ahead to reply on their behalf.
The StackExchange network login ...
Thomas WardMod
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Possible undelete of answer?
I think that answers for other Linux distros should be kept if they seem likely to be relevant for Ubuntu.
ZannaMod
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible