Unanswered Questions
339 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why can't you vote on a question once you have retracted your vote?
Once you have voted on a question, and then retracted your vote, you are unable to cast another vote, why is this? Because for instance I could VTC something as unclear, but then when they update it I ...
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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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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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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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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This one is quite easy, it's just an out of date package that can be updated: https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli/issues/132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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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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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 ...
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What to do if a problem returns back?
The first few weeks after installing Ubuntu 14.04 I struggled with abnormally high battery discharge rates. I set up a question on the issue, and although good answers poped up, this abnormal ...
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Reverse the synonym of indicator-power tag to indicator and rename it to power-indicator
Today I killed the battery-indicator tag. Why, well, because I know there's a tag that already covers that topic, [indicator-power] but checking out several questions I knew why the user that created ...
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"Put On Hold As Unclear What You're Asking" How Can I Help Get This Question Unheld?
So yesterday I stumbled upon a question on Askubuntu; MATE menu is missing. It's a troubleshooting question about Mate Desktop and while not ideally worded I found it easy enough to understand what ...
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Review "test question" is loaded
Recently during processing the review queue for "first posts" I was presented an answer for this question for review
The answer was obviously poorly formed, at least in the explanation sense, however ...
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Rename unity [component] tags to [unity-component] to prevent confusion with gnome components
Well, now GNOME and Unity has some shared names with certain parts of the UI, namely the "launcher" and the "dash". There is already a tag for the unity dash and the unity launcher that are being ...