Unanswered Questions
122 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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 we have a "Culture Tour"?
The Welcome Tour takes new users through the mechanics of the SE sites.
Should we have an additional tour that explains key behaviours that are expected of the AskUbuntu community?
Things like:
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Rename the atom tag
The atom tag is currently being used for questions about GitHub's Atom editor and Intel's Atom CPU. I would favour a new tag for either.
Maybe the best practice is to follow Stack Overflow and ...
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Make 18.04 and bionic synonym
When I add tags to the question and type xenial, it suggests me to add 16.04 but when I type bionic, no suggestion is given.
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Preformatted text horizontal scrolling - bug or feature?
AskUbuntu help recommend to style pre-formatted text and console output with
#four spaces
But sometimes it results in scrolling text. See this question as an example. The problematic line (as ...
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Where is the any key. . .
... and other observations.
We, as a community, are asked to be nicer so how about the SE Employees help us become nicer by providing a question wizard for new users on the SE network???
No, not ...
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Questions about wireless that lack information are not necessarily duplicates
Recently I have noticed that a number of questions about wireless problems that lack the hardware information necessary to answer them are being closed as duplicates of this question:
My wireless/WiFi ...
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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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The wording of OT/bug in the Close Votes Review queue seems ambiguius
The close reason states
Bug reports and problems specific to development version of Ubuntu should be reported on Launchpad so that developers can see, track and fix these issues.
related: Let'...
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Should bounties expire? How can I promote my bountied question even more?
Why are bounties time bound? Clearly the site doesn't get enough traffic to ensure that in 7 days the appropriate users (who specialize in the domain of the question) would have stopped by Ask Ubuntu ...
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Stack Exchange special links in answers
I've noticed that such quick links as [unix.se] for example work beautifully when posted as comments and when posted in Ask Ubuntu General chat room, but as you can see they don't work in question ...
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Can I opt-out from receiving notifications from a particular post?
What are the default text editors in different flavours of Ubuntu?
I asked the above question today, received some great answers, accepted an answer. And it solved the initial problem that I had plus ...
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Can we have a feature to Invite to askubuntu?
I'm not sure how anyone else feels about it, but I do want to know: Do we want, and can we have a feature for officially sending invites to join the askubuntu community?
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Add a feature for similarity comparison
It'd be nice if answers which are an exact copy of an existing (possibly upvoted) answer or contain large substring of such an answer and few own text - which should be a comment on the copied answer -...
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Review audits should NOT include questions with bug reports
I just "failed" a review audit. I saw the question and read the comments. Comments directly under it included:
add yourself to the "affected" people :) (see the "reported" link in my answer)
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