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2016 Community Moderator Election
The 2016 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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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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Best way to notify the moderators?
So in the wake of the UFC-spam attack last night, I (like many of you) used-up all of my flags trying to fight the onslaught of crap being posted on our site. At one point, I noticed my flag amount ...
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Any plans for a dedicated Ask Ubuntu Android app?
I was wondering if there are any plans to release a dedicated Ask Ubuntu app on Android.
I know of a few stack exchange apps but with the upcoming Ubuntu for Android will a Ask Ubuntu app follow?
I ...
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Can the [charset] and [character-set] tags be made synonyms?
The charset tag and the character-set refer to the same thing. One is simply the abbreviation. I don't see any reason for them to be seperate. Can they be made synonyms, please?
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End of Support Notice: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) reached End of Standard Support on April 30, 2021
This will be enforced starting May 1, 2021.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their standard support period. These releases are no ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Thank you Stefano Palazzo!
I would like to thank Stefano Palazzo for their contribution to the Ask Ubuntu community and also for moderating Ask Ubuntu for 9 years.
Stefano was one of the longest-serving moderators in Ask Ubuntu ...
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Can [maintenance] be kept in good working order?*
*Credit to Eliah Kagan for the title
We have a tag maintenance which currently has 38 questions in it.
The questions relate to a miscellany of topics, since "maintenance" is a very broad category of ...
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Please read complaints of rep 1 users more carefully
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My apologies to Karl Richter and Waltinator!
This post was not meant as an attack on you personally at all but more of a "call to arms" to the community at large to try and understand ...
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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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How should I use the tags in Meta.AU?
I've found recently that people that ask questions in meta do not correctly tag their questions, and when the community reacts unexpectedly or their issues don't rise awareness to the developer team, ...
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Tests are now one third of review tasks
Yesterday I reviewed about ten posts, of which three where tests. Today in just three reviews I got a test. I find this an overkill, especially since I passed all the tests so far. Not very motivating ...
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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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Reviews for first time posters need to improve?
So I was wondering how all these first time posts are getting through but the number of First Posts in the review queue is always low or zero.
One reason might be that people are ignoring junk in the ...