Unanswered Questions
26 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Modify close reason banner and create an "Off-Topic Compass" site on Meta?
I have answered Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner with a proposal which got a positive feedback, so I'm now writing it as separate feature request here:
Make a more flexible and ...
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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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Please avoid lengthening existing duplicate chains
A recent example:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/433029/finding-my-ip-without-using-google
is tagged as a duplicate of
Command to know my external IP address?
which is itself a duplicate of How can ...
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Why the author of a post is not notified when a question is about to close?
Why is the author of a post not notified when a question is about to close? Many times I have found the question closed only when I visit the question for a probable answer barring the author to ...
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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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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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I get a post which I flagged before in review audit
I faced this already a couple of times.
In Late Answers or First Posts appears some stupid post that is not an answer.
I try to flag it, but it does not let me, because it seems that some time ago ...
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WAT! Failed review audit but the question is closed
This question is closed as too broad, rightly so despite the upvotes (if you only take into account the last question "Won't a recent Ubuntu version affect my software in any way ?" you will need more ...
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Don't include self answered or questions where the OP commented in the review audits
There is a mayor problem with one of our close reasons and the audits. We close stuff based in "no reproducible" basis, when OP can't figure out what was wrong nor how the issue was solved nor there's ...
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Noticed something about audits
I noticed something about review audits:
When it's going to give me an audit, the page says, "Loading next item" for a long time (>4 seconds).
Otherwise, the wait time is <1 second.
UPDATE: This ...
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Should voting to close a correctly closed question for the right reason really be considered failure?
I encountered this review audit. To test me, the review item told me the question had received close votes as primarily opinion-based. This was obviously wrong, which I recognized quickly, but I saw a ...
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Inconsistent date in close description
I am talking about this question: Software Updater is saying "You stopped the check for updates". What should I do?
The question was asked 11 months ago and the question was closed 12 ...
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Very confusing audit (maybe a bug?)
I just came across this review audit which really confused me a lot. My first urge was to flag it and this confronted me with the following dialog (see screen-shot):
I finally simply down-voted this ...
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Review audit bug
When reviewing in the close vote queue I almost always start by clicking on the close button and then canceling that window, to see how the votes are standing on the question.
Because if I'm in the ...
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Do we need a new close reason of "Abandoned"?
This is basically a resurrection of How should we define "Abandoned" as a close reason?, but given Reminder: Unanswered + Time != Too Localised, I think we need to actually revisit this.
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