Alaa Ali
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Member for 12 years, 8 months
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Lots of "unclear what you're asking" close votes
I'm thinking about it from the asker's perspective. There was some error at some point while installing Ubuntu. It was shown in an error message. I don't remember the details. How do I fix it? If you tell them Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking, ...
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Lots of "unclear what you're asking" close votes
...then closing it as "unclear what you're asking" is the right thing to do. I would disagree on that. If a person asks "I just installed Ubuntu and there is no icon to connect to WiFi!" (of which a lot of variations we see), the most logical thing to do is ask the user for some output. This is a question that is "very unlikely to be answerable by anyone, because it's missing details", but it should definitely not be closed. Yeah, you could say that it "involves technical knowledge on the part of the reviewer", but we don't even know what WiFi adaptor he has.
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Lots of "unclear what you're asking" close votes
"If more people commented, many of these questions could be resolved without closing them and then re-opening". Yes, this! If a simple comment was posted, asker updates question, someone posts an answer. Closing and re-opening is just useless.
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Lots of "unclear what you're asking" close votes
added a question in the end to make what I'm asking more clear, how ironic haha
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Lots of "unclear what you're asking" close votes
@JourneymanGeek what kind of information though? Lack of information on what the problem is = yeah, flag it. Lack of troubleshooting information, or information that will help us fix the problem that they clearly stated = shouldn't be flagged.
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I can't get questions answered half the time because people come along and flag as duplicate or otherwise edit my questions
It takes 5 people to close a question as duplicate. When one person flags it, users with (I believe) 2k+ reputation go to a review queue and vote on either closing it or leaving it open. And, in the event of your question being closed as a duplicate but it really isn't, edit the question and mention that you've tried the solutions in the linked question but it didn't help. Once you update your question, it'll go through another "Reopen" queue that users will vote to open. Usually, those queues don't take long.
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Delete tag 14.04.1
@NoTime Users over 2k rep can edit without going through an approval queue, and users over 10k can edit tags inline without clicking the
edit button in the question. More incentive for gaining rep, eh =)?
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How can I search my old (previous) answers?
added is:a
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Attaching [SOLVED] to title of questions with accepted answers
removed a duplicate related question; added a link to the help page for marking an answer as accepted; minor grammar corrections
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Implement uploading of screencast
@M.Tarun, I think this question should be deleted, because it's basically a duplicate of that "How to create screencast" question. At first, the question seemed to me about "integrating AskUbuntu with screencasts" somehow, as like, a "button" to capture a screencast. But the whole point of your question was to just take a screencast. So this question is like stranded in the middle, it's about AskUbuntu itself, but then the answer makes this question not belong here on meta =). It can either be moved to the main AskUbuntu site and marked as a duplicate, or just deleted. I hope you understand.