Unanswered Questions
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Reminder: Unanswered + Time != Too Localised
There's a slightly worrying trend since we started clean-up efforts: we are closing unanswered questions for being too old. I need to emphasise that this is not what clean-up is about.
The idea of ...
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I'm going on a general moderation strike due to the new AI-content policy forced upon us by SE
Note: This post is not on behalf of the moderators of Ask Ubuntu, although they are welcome to strike as well. I'm also not a diamond moderator.
Tl;dr I'm going on strike. Read the letter and ...
ZannaMod
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Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
As of about 23:00 UTC on April 26, 2018, Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS has been officially released. The corresponding release announcement email that went out to the ubuntu-announce mailing list is ...
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Ask Ubuntu's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Please consider not leaving feedback as Community♦
Thanks for reviewing. I really appreciate it.
Recently review got reformatted quite a lot. Personally, I don't like many of the changes. I guess I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. But about one feature in ...
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EOL Notice: Precise Pangolin (12.04) reached End of Life on April 28, 2017
This will be enforced starting on April 28, 2017.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of ...
Thomas WardMod
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Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
As of about 17:47 UTC on October 18, 2018, Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 has been officially released. The corresponding release announcement email that went out to the ubuntu-announce mailing list ...
Thomas WardMod
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Ubuntu is 12 (20/10/16)
Just thought I would post this I found on OMG Ubuntu, seems very appropriate here :)
Today is Ubuntu's 12th birthday, Happy Birthday Ubuntu!!!
The OMG Ubuntu link contains an Ubuntu quiz you can ...
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Serial downvote: how to make it stop? Tired of having my questions deleted
For the second time on askubuntu.com, I got serial downvoted.
The user who downvotes targets questions with no upvote and no answer so that after the downvote the question will automatically deleted....
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Tag Warning Is Now Live for "Wireless"
Following up in the discussion about http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14237/tag-warnings-on-ask-ubuntu, we have added a tag warning for wireless on Ask Ubuntu!
We've only added one for now because ...
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Call out to reviewers - you CAN "skip"
I remember some reviews of suggested edits where the reviewers clearly could not understand either the post or the edit.
One of these was https://askubuntu.com/a/476746/117103 , supposedly an answer, ...
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Could the colour of questions be changed to reflect that they have no upvoted answers?
At the moment when you look at the main page of questions there are 3 different
categories of questions differentiated by colour:
Questions with no answers:
Questions with answers but none ...
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Heads up: HWE changes for 16.04
See the announcement:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2016-November/000215.html
and subsequent pages:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/...
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EOL Notice: Yakkety Yak (16.10) reached End of Life on July 20, 2017
This will be enforced as of July 21, 2017.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that has reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of life as ...
Thomas WardMod
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Modify close reason banner and create an "Off-Topic Compass" site on Meta?
I have answered Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner with a proposal which got a positive feedback, so I'm now writing it as separate feature request here:
Make a more flexible and ...
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Can this tag be [repair]ed or should we throw it away...?
I came across the tag repair today:
112 questions tagged
Excerpt:
Questions about repairing Ubuntu can be tagged here (after a fatal error, looping kernel panics, etc.)
Wiki: none
Followers: 0
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If you want to edit an unsalvageable NAA post, please don't use the edit button in the LQP review queue to do so
This is somewhat related to this useful question:
Should we edit the answer we flag as NAA?
The answer said, in part:
If you're a 2k user, knock yourself out - after all, it's just your own time ...
ZannaMod
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Give [recovery] the [installation] treatment
Let's talk for a minute about the recovery tag, again.
There are many different kinds of recovery, including (but not limited to):
data-recovery, for recovering lost data,
password-recovery, for ...
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2013 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Non-EOL Notice: Quantal (12.10) remains supported through April 2014
Since 12.10 is non-LTS and 13.04 is non-LTS and 13.04 will be end-of-life in a week, it might seem like 12.10 must have been end-of-life a long time ago. But that is not the case. 12.10 is supported ...
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Can we add a screenshot of the "accepted answer" check mark to the help pages?
I usually like to link this help page: Some-one answers to new users that comment "Thanks, it worked!!" on an answer.
The reason I link them to Some-one answers instead of Accepted answer is ...
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Review audits heads up: upvote doesn't count for real
I just got a good question in a review audit, upvoted it, got congratulated - all well so far.
But my upvote didn't count - so I had to perform that extra step and upvote the question for real.
This ...
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Mod Meeting 2014-01-04: "On Meetings"
In the past few minutes we finished our first ever official moderator meeting. At the end of last year we decided to start holding meetings to discuss site business. Some topics have been getting away ...
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Automatically displaying images on package links
The current package image system on links is very manual. Too manual. You have to remember or look up a URL, insert an image, blah blah blah. Not to forget we're currently having to go through a messy ...
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Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla (20.10) is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
(I'm a day late, I got busy with work stuff and at-home stuff)
As of about 17:39:04 UTC on October 22, 2020, Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla 20.10 has been officially released. The corresponding release ...
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Election: minimum reputation/moderation requirements
Two years ago there were one or two nominations from users with low reputation and hardly any moderation track record. At the time this brought up a discussion on raising the minimum requirements for ...
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Spammers are being nastier withing the second!
To the reviewers that check First Time posts, please, be very alert about this new kind of attack:
Spammers are now posting seemly valid answers/questions ripping of other posts/answers inside/...
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I was on the SE podcast talking about Ask Ubuntu, check it out!
last week the StackExchange guys asked me to get on the podcast to talk about Ubuntu!
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/06/podcast-48-sponsored-by-powdermilk-biscuits/?cb=1
Skip to 30:53 if you ...
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Who ever reads my custom message when rejecting an edit?
Sometimes we reject an edit for reasons not covered by the list given. Then I always give my reasons in the custom field. However ever since we need two approvals for an edit it happens that other ...
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Ask Ubuntu session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
On Friday will be a session where Mr Robert from SE will talk about Ask Ubuntu called How to integrate with Ask Ubuntu , you can connect and chat directly and your questions will be answered, and ...
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