Unanswered Questions
126 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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If you want to edit an unsalvageable NAA post, please don't use the edit button in the LQP review queue to do so
This is somewhat related to this useful question:
Should we edit the answer we flag as NAA?
The answer said, in part:
If you're a 2k user, knock yourself out - after all, it's just your own time ...
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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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Shortcut for adding quotes causes program to quit
While editing a long answer with a large block of text to quote, I held my mouse over the button for quoting, and noted that the shortcut to add quotes is Ctrl+Q.
The use of 'Q' makes sense, but it ...
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Changes to user account deletion
As a lot of people post here about removing profiles, I thought this meta.se post from today, outlining a few changes to the system, was worth a repost here, just so everyone knows about it. Relevant ...
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Don't say someone who rejected an edit approved it
On this page, it says "approved by Community, David Foerster 20 hours ago".
When you follow the link, it takes you to the review page, but David Foerster actually rejected it:
Please don't say it ...
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When suggesting edits, don't write something you are not doing like "improving formatting"
Apparently some users have abused the "improving formatting" comment for their suggested edits and use them for anything... ANYTHING, even if it's not improving formatting. I remember that when ...
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Code fence formatting problems to watch out for and fix
Since the start of 2019, code fences have been fully supported on Stack Exchange sites. By code fences, I mean the use of opening and closing triple backticks to format a code block. The effect of ...
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Ask the duck - how to disable it?
Today a yellow duck started popping up in the bottom right corner of the browser window. I can hide it through an adblocker option, but is there an option to disable this feature in user/profile ...
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Why does the option to close question as off-topic as belonging to other SE site present only to some questions?
When a flag is raised for this question to be closed as off-topic, there is an option to choose whether it belongs to other Stack Exchange sites.
However, the same option is absent for this question:
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Could we add on the 'about' page that questions should be edited to provide more information?
On both the about page it is explained how the site works. To my eyes, this should include that a user asking question should edit his post to improve it if some other users are asking clarification ...
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Some data lost after Stack Exchange server migration Feb. 9
As some of you have noticed, the SE admins were migrating the services to the NY data centre again yesterday.
Unfortunately, some data seems to have been lost in the minutes before the site became ...
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Why was my question closed? Please reopen
I posted this question How to map several folders to different drive?
It got closed as a duplicate of Move home folder to second drive, but the duplicate is certainly not the same. The dup is about ...
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Low quality edits are being robo-reviewed on Ask Ubuntu
I had an edit proposed on one of my questions, and since it did not offer much in the way of improvement, I rejected it. It encouraged me to explore the editor's edit history, where I found a mix of ...
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User spoils his answers
I just noticed that a user Mudit Kapil is spoiling good answers. Just look at edit history.
https://askubuntu.com/a/576229/167850
and others. You can just search his last edits.
Not removing them, ...
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A call to uphold accessibility by not shortening links to "here"
As far as I see there has been some discussion about the shortening of links. While keeping the complete URL visible in the post can clearly be distracting (especially when used inline), I want to ...
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