Unanswered Questions
48 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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I think my question got mistakenly marked as a duplicate, help?
In order to help explain the difference between Ubuntu, its flavors, unofficial remixes, and unofficial derivatives, I created a self answered question called "Ubuntu, Ubuntu Flavors, Ubuntu ...
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Would it be useful to allow Meta duplicates after a certain amount of time?
Regarding the main Ask Ubuntu site, there are two Meta questions here that I found that mention "time" and "duplicates":
Primarily: Would it be useful to allow duplicates after x ...
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Code fence formatting problems to watch out for and fix
Since the start of 2019, code fences have been fully supported on Stack Exchange sites. By code fences, I mean the use of opening and closing triple backticks to format a code block. The effect of ...
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Should these VMware questions be re-closed as duplicates?
This is a follow-up to Kulfy's question Can these VMWares be un-merged?
The requested unmerge was done, and questions closed against the former merge target were reopened. Attempts were made to close ...
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Shortcut for adding quotes causes program to quit
While editing a long answer with a large block of text to quote, I held my mouse over the button for quoting, and noted that the shortcut to add quotes is Ctrl+Q.
The use of 'Q' makes sense, but it ...
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Editing race condition?
OP and I both edited this question at the exact same second. My revision is shown, but the revision history says OP's is the most recent.
I think this is a bug, since the most recent revision should ...
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Feature request: retracting delete vote on answers
When I vote to close a question it's possible to retract close vote. When I press delete(1) to remove my vote on an answer, it only asks for confirmation if I want to vote to delete, not retract. Can ...
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Should I edit or re-ask my question?
If I edit my question after attempting to fix a problem and the problem still exists does my question still get answered or do I have to re-ask the question?
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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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Possibly similar question (or even accounts)?
Either it's a coincidence or intentional, I saw two similar questions of LibreOffice right now:
Convert .ods document to .docx document
Converting .ods to .docx file
Apparently, both OPs have also ...
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It asks something different, and it needs a different answer, so can we reopen it?
Edit: question reopened. Thanks :)
Can you have too much swap? is closed as a duplicate of I have 16GB RAM. Do I need 32GB swap?
But the first question is asking what problems might arise from ...
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Changing "yesterday", "today", etc in Title to actual date
I was recently inconvenienced by Titles or Question bodies that say "a couple of days ago", "Yesterday" or "Today" because I was forced to scroll down to see question asked date and do some mental ...
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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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About retracted flags and the comment persisting
Case in point: How do I convert my usb installation from legacy boot to uefi?
By mistake I flagged as duplicate but later on noticed it was about Elementary OS. Retracted but the comment persists?
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Can we fix these posts with missing images essential to the answer?
I've had a really long https image cleanup hangover, but today I am finally closing this tab.
However, there were two things that nobody managed to fix - highly upvoted answers with missing images ...
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