Unanswered Questions
433 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Reminder: Unanswered + Time != Too Localised
There's a slightly worrying trend since we started clean-up efforts: we are closing unanswered questions for being too old. I need to emphasise that this is not what clean-up is about.
The idea of ...
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I'm going on a general moderation strike due to the new AI-content policy forced upon us by SE
Note: This post is not on behalf of the moderators of Ask Ubuntu, although they are welcome to strike as well. I'm also not a diamond moderator.
Tl;dr I'm going on strike. Read the letter and ...
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Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
As of about 23:00 UTC on April 26, 2018, Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS has been officially released. The corresponding release announcement email that went out to the ubuntu-announce mailing list is ...
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Can we have highlighted code blocks in the chat rooms?
At the moment, code posted to the chat rooms only differs in the font that's used. It would be nice if, like in comments, the code was highlighted by a different background colour. The way it is now, ...
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Dark Theme Ask Ubuntu
Same title, different theme (heheh).
After asking my question Dark Theme for Ask Ubuntu, I realized that it is probably hard to make a new theme, and since no one else seemed interested, I was ...
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Ask Ubuntu's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Please consider not leaving feedback as Community♦
Thanks for reviewing. I really appreciate it.
Recently review got reformatted quite a lot. Personally, I don't like many of the changes. I guess I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. But about one feature in ...
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EOL Notice: Precise Pangolin (12.04) reached End of Life on April 28, 2017
This will be enforced starting on April 28, 2017.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of ...
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Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic
As of about 17:47 UTC on October 18, 2018, Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 has been officially released. The corresponding release announcement email that went out to the ubuntu-announce mailing list ...
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Ubuntu is 12 (20/10/16)
Just thought I would post this I found on OMG Ubuntu, seems very appropriate here :)
Today is Ubuntu's 12th birthday, Happy Birthday Ubuntu!!!
The OMG Ubuntu link contains an Ubuntu quiz you can ...
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Serial downvote: how to make it stop? Tired of having my questions deleted
For the second time on askubuntu.com, I got serial downvoted.
The user who downvotes targets questions with no upvote and no answer so that after the downvote the question will automatically deleted....
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Tag Warning Is Now Live for "Wireless"
Following up in the discussion about http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14237/tag-warnings-on-ask-ubuntu, we have added a tag warning for wireless on Ask Ubuntu!
We've only added one for now because ...
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Call out to reviewers - you CAN "skip"
I remember some reviews of suggested edits where the reviewers clearly could not understand either the post or the edit.
One of these was https://askubuntu.com/a/476746/117103 , supposedly an answer, ...
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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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Heads up: HWE changes for 16.04
See the announcement:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2016-November/000215.html
and subsequent pages:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/...