Unanswered Questions
30 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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Recommend Deletion option in Late Answers review queue does nothing - please flag posts that should be deleted
Just a quick PSA here - thanks to BeastOfCaerbannog I've realised that the new Recommend Deletion option in the Late Answers queue completes the review and gives you the option to leave the canned ...
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Could the non-official flavour flag have an automatic comment like duplicate has?
When you flag a question with a duplicate flag, it automatically sends a comment like
Does this answer your question? How to run Visual Studio Code as root
But for the Needs improvement - A ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Are you tested with Duplicates in the review queues?
In the review queues I have never once been tested with a question that has been flagged as duplicate. Does SE not test you on those? And if so, why not? Or have I just not had any?
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Top answers are still sub-optimal on questions about MTP devices
I already noticed that Luis alone marked the following question as a duplicate some time ago: My MTP capable device is not detected? What can I do about that?
Here is my observation on the topic:
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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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Why are we marking these UEFI questions as duplicates of the wrong question?
I see many, many questions written by users having trouble installing Ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration on their UEFI-enabled PC, that are being marked as duplicates of Installing Ubuntu Alongside a ...
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