Unanswered Questions
150 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 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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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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Low Quality Posts review chokes when I run out of delete votes
Most days I run out of delete votes somewhere in the middle of the Low Quality Posts queue.
I have noticed what seems to me to be a (minor) bug here.
When I get to my last delete vote, if I click ...
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Bug: Moderator not getting the mod tag but being tagged as a bot in mod actions for comments
This happened on this post's deleted comment - visible to moderators and staff as it's a deleted comment:
This is a post done by a reviewer and masked by the Community bot.
Mitch is an actual diamond ...
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Don't say someone who rejected an edit approved it
On this page, it says "approved by Community, David Foerster 20 hours ago".
When you follow the link, it takes you to the review page, but David Foerster actually rejected it:
Please don't say it ...
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Official Ubuntu derivatives link at FAQ is broken
The link pointing to Ubuntu about derivatives page is broken.
Located at https://askubuntu.com/faq page
Paragraph:
We welcome questions about:
Using and administering Ubuntu, including official ...
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Need a canonical answer for repository versions
We need a canonical answer for "Why do the repositories not have the latest versions of software".
Anyone who can write one (if one does not already exist) will be rewarded with a +100 Rep bonus ...
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Can the [charset] and [character-set] tags be made synonyms?
The charset tag and the character-set refer to the same thing. One is simply the abbreviation. I don't see any reason for them to be seperate. Can they be made synonyms, please?
ZannaMod
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The pictures on Privileges help page are outdated
There are plenty of pictures showing how to use the privilege tools, here. They seem to be outdated. For example, the picture about offering a bounty, shown below, compared with the actual one, also ...
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When suggesting edits, don't write something you are not doing like "improving formatting"
Apparently some users have abused the "improving formatting" comment for their suggested edits and use them for anything... ANYTHING, even if it's not improving formatting. I remember that when ...
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Ubuntu bold font not imported
The Issue
Recently I noticed something odd: when booting into OS X and visiting Ask Ubuntu, bold fonts render oddly. I've only noticed this in Chrome; in Firefox and Safari, the bold font renders ...
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Mention official Ubuntu flavors in the off-topic close reason
Currently, one of the off-topic close reason's text is the following:
This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on ...
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Glitch on profile page with dropdowns
The next privilege button on the profile page shows through the three drop-downs on the top.
I tend to start my browsing at this page then check my inbox so I see it every visit.
Chrome&Firefox
OliMod
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Some data lost after Stack Exchange server migration Feb. 9
As some of you have noticed, the SE admins were migrating the services to the NY data centre again yesterday.
Unfortunately, some data seems to have been lost in the minutes before the site became ...
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Why was my question closed? Please reopen
I posted this question How to map several folders to different drive?
It got closed as a duplicate of Move home folder to second drive, but the duplicate is certainly not the same. The dup is about ...
Thomas WardMod
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