Unanswered Questions
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How should we handle questions from users asking how to brute force passwords or break encryption?
In my opinion questions that ask how to hack or bypass encryption should be closed as off-topic.
Here are some examples of some recent questions:
I don't have the LUKs password for my HP notebook
I ...
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installing software leads to "unmet dependencies" so question is closed...why?
I'd like some elaboration as to why this question on unmet dependencies was closed.
It's not an obscure package, although it's also not in the default repos.
Broadly, just asking how to install, and, ...
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Reopen question after release of 20.04
my question has been closed as addressing a not released version, but now it's released.
Please reopen.
How to install Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa remotely with virt-instlall?
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Editing race condition?
OP and I both edited this question at the exact same second. My revision is shown, but the revision history says OP's is the most recent.
I think this is a bug, since the most recent revision should ...
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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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Should I edit or re-ask my question?
If I edit my question after attempting to fix a problem and the problem still exists does my question still get answered or do I have to re-ask the question?
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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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Is this question appropriate here?
I asked the following question:
Cannot assign address inside a Docker container
do you think it would be more appropriate for Stack Overflow, or SuperUser? Or is this the right site?
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How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection (offline?)
Despite the teaser in this Meta question's title, the title of the question that was closed is How to install a downloaded .deb file along with its dependencies in a system with an internet connection,...
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Changing "yesterday", "today", etc in Title to actual date
I was recently inconvenienced by Titles or Question bodies that say "a couple of days ago", "Yesterday" or "Today" because I was forced to scroll down to see question asked date and do some mental ...
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Reviewing - how much you do
This is not a complaint, but a suggestion...
As I now have access to statistics of the review queues, I find that users are commonly only reviewing e.g. 5 posts when there are 90 posts to review. So ...
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Is this question off-topic?
I came across this question, asking how to install Landscape on CentOS/RHEL.
I think it's off-topic, as, even though Landscape is a product from Canonical, it's asking how to install it on a ...
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I'm really not very pleased with the audit system
So I was reviewing this answer:
Install this:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal
I failed the audit because that answer turned out to be plagiarism.
Well O.K.... fine, it deserves to be ...
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Close Perpetually Unanswered Questions?
I've noticed that a lot of simpler questions on AskUbuntu are answered in the comments rather than an actual answer, which leads to the question never being marked as answered. Should these be closed ...
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Where is the "Log in with Stack Exchange" option?
How to login for AskUbuntu, there is a new login-screen.
But the Log in with Stack Exchange disappeared, that's the way I always did it. I don't have a seperate AskUbunut account.
I don't see it.
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