Unanswered Questions
626 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is this answer an answer or comment?
I was just presented with this as a Late Answers review. Screenshot in case it is removed:
It this a valid answer, or is it someone commenting? They're offering a solution (format first) but seem to ...
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Can I get notifications in the Ubuntu app tray?
Basically I am a power user, and I want to help the Ubuntu community more quickly, while continuing to develop the parts of the platform that I find lacking. To do this with maximum efficiency I want ...
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Receiving a badge does not correspond to it's description
Today I answered a question for the first time (which made me very happy)
and received some badges.
One of them looks strange.
Teacher badge description says: "Answer a question with score of 1 or ...
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Minimum system requirements
Firstly, should these two be merged/duped/linked/somethinged:
How do I find out which version and derivative of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements? (I think this ...
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edit reviews: the suggestion comment is not highlighted any more
The comment from the suggesting person used to be immediately visible (different background IIRC)
Now it doesn't stand out from the rest, making it a bit harder to find the comment and compare it to ...
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How many questions are we answering?
recently I have been feeling that we are not answering a lot of question, firstly because there are lots of "close"-worthy questions and secondly because many questions can be solved by only a few ...
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How to access askubuntu meta data for programmatic statistical analysis?
I wanted to conduct some statistical analysis on certain dimensions relevant to the development of the site and was wondering how to access data in order to construct a data set for that. For example, ...
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Reviewer Consequences
Do reviewers suffer consequences if they exercise poor judgement in their task of reviewing posts?
I refer particularly to 'robot' style reviews where the reviewer appears to give little care to the ...
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Can we reopen this closed/deleted question?
How to set up gcalcli?
This one is quite easy, it's just an out of date package that can be updated: https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli/issues/132
I'd like to document this in this question.
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Is AU more a hotline or a knowledge base?
Trying to help a little and reading some meta (hot) posts, I went across this question.
It's a general way to convey some doubts like this one: replying to someone is often a dialectic process, not ...
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How to 'pause' a question?
I have posted a question on ask ubuntu. Now I'm on a trip and don't have access to my laptop (it is a desktop replacement and so I left it at home). Everyone's asking me to post info about the kernel ...
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What should I do if I find a closed question but I do not think the motivation is right?
This is an example: FTP gives me an error when uploading and deleting files where probably the problem is related to permissions and the server is an Ubuntu server.
What is the best-practice in this ...
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Tag synonym request: [window-placement] -> [window-managment]
The two tags window-placement and window-management are essentially synonyms. Since it has only been used 7 times, window-placement should probably be deleted, especially since the description for ...
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Review possible improvement
For reviewing I always try to leave a comment if there needs to be improvement, expansion, etc. I have been reviewing a lot of vague (new) posts recently. I do not want to downvote a potentially "good"...
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Unsynonimyze cups and printing
I can print without CUPS and I can ask a CUPS question without asking about printing. They are closely related tags but separated enough to be on their own. There are several CUPS related tags in the ...