Unanswered Questions
339 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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User spoils his answers
I just noticed that a user Mudit Kapil is spoiling good answers. Just look at edit history.
https://askubuntu.com/a/576229/167850
and others. You can just search his last edits.
Not removing them, ...
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I would like to bring some cloud docs to AU
I would like to break this up into "Ask Ubuntu-able" content:
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/05/21/ubuntu-cloud-documentation-14-04lts/
However the scope is rather large and I'll be doing this in ...
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Can the ubuntu-gnome-remix tag be renamed to ubuntu-gnome?
The ubuntu-gnome-remix tag is currently the official tag for questions relating to the GNOME flavor of Ubuntu. However, at the time this tag started being used, it was not yet an official flavor and "...
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A hint for editing posts in regard to Ubuntu documentation
I just found out that http://help.ubuntu.com provides a nice feature against link rot.
There exist two URLs:
Current Release
Current LTS Release
They are especially helpful when pointing to the ...
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Is it really useful to feed posts already edited into the review "first posts" queue?
I have been presented with posts in the first posts queue which have already been edited by high rep users (who should know what they are doing :-)).
That is no big problem but seeing that this queue ...
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A call to uphold accessibility by not shortening links to "here"
As far as I see there has been some discussion about the shortening of links. While keeping the complete URL visible in the post can clearly be distracting (especially when used inline), I want to ...
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PSA: 12.10 Release Day Today (aka: time to rock and roll!)
Some tips for helping when the site gets busy:
Lots of new attention and traffic means it's usually an influx of duplicate questions, especially the easy ones, so keep an eye out for dupes.
Some ...
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Synonimization of singular/plural tag pairs
There are a few [foo]/[foos] tag pairs on Ask Ubuntu. Such tag pairs are usually the singular and plural of the same word and should be synonyms. Occasionally.
Only moderators can create [foos] when [...
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Keyboard shortcut tags are messy
Completed:
keyboard-shortcuts which is weird, as we symlinked keyboard-shortcut to shortcut-keys a while back. This one not only is dupe but ended up with a tag wiki, woo!
key-bindings
keybindings
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Show asker AND editor
This is a suggestion: when we have the list of questions on screen, we can see below each of them the name of the asker, unless it has been editted by someone, situation in which we can read the name ...
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Tag 'source' seems to be pointless
I just asked a question and added the tag source-code but only typed source to get it. I then noticed that the tag source exists, it has 83 questions and no wiki - should it be deleted?
No questions ...
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) reached End of Life on July 14, 2022
This will be enforced starting from July 14, 2022 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their life cycle. These releases are ...
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Suggestion to change description of "End of Support" / "End of Life" in Help Center
I would suggest the following change to the Help Center page on "What topics to ask", under the last bullet in "Questions you should avoid":
Support for Ubuntu releases past their ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Posting extra answer to support existing answer
Here's the situation:
A question has answer A which explains something fairly well
I already have an answer there with alternative solution B
However, I see that A can be explained in more detail ...
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