Unanswered Questions
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Could the colour of questions be changed to reflect that they have no upvoted answers?
At the moment when you look at the main page of questions there are 3 different
categories of questions differentiated by colour:
Questions with no answers:
Questions with answers but none ...
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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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Can we add a screenshot of the "accepted answer" check mark to the help pages?
I usually like to link this help page: Some-one answers to new users that comment "Thanks, it worked!!" on an answer.
The reason I link them to Some-one answers instead of Accepted answer is ...
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Automatically displaying images on package links
The current package image system on links is very manual. Too manual. You have to remember or look up a URL, insert an image, blah blah blah. Not to forget we're currently having to go through a messy ...
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Who ever reads my custom message when rejecting an edit?
Sometimes we reject an edit for reasons not covered by the list given. Then I always give my reasons in the custom field. However ever since we need two approvals for an edit it happens that other ...
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Output of relevant commands
There are many instances when the community requests the asker to run certain commands and post the output. They usually ask them to edit their answer and just dump the output of the requested ...
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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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Let's stop using "How do I resolve unmet dependencies?" for dpkg questions (and probably for most apt questions)
The most used close target for apt/dpkg questions is this. However, that does not help if the problem is not with apt but with the underlying dpkg.
I very often find things like these when I check ...
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Add a copy of the question title above answers in the review screen?
I am reviewing first-posts and late-answers for a few weeks now and something is annoying me:
Always when there is an answer to be reviewed, I have to scroll down (if the answer is long enough) to see ...
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would be possible to change the layout of suggested questions?
I find the layout of the "Questions that may already have your answer" a bit confusing. I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to restyle it a bit.
This is the current layout with my notes:
This ...
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Feature improvement for flags history
This question is asked on MSE at the following link for more visibility: Make it easier to distinguish accepted and declined flags in addition to pending ones in flags history
In the flag summary ...
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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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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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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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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 ...