Unanswered Questions
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New Design Launched
Hi All,
Unix and Linux site has been officially launched!. Thank you for your design feedback and congrats!
I ended up taking the mascots off the header. I agree with you that they made the site a ...
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The suggested edit queue needs to be clearer if it's a question or answer
Both @slm and I managed to vote to approve this suggested edit, not realizing it was fixing broken code in the question as opposed to an answer. (Faheem Mitha rejected, after I admitted my mistake in ...
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Why are edits for new tag entries getting rejected for changing too much of the original content?
Recently I have been trying to edit/add tag wiki information. Most of my suggested edits are getting approved, but I do notice with the ones rejected (and some reject votes on the accepted ones), they ...
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Should there be a moderator flag for cross-posting?
When a question is cross-posted from another StackExchange site, such as Superuser, I assume that we do not want the question duplicated on Unix and Linux. It is bad etiquette for someone to do so, ...
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Give me an EASY way to see my daily vote count
I vote a lot on Unix & Linux. I often run into the measly limit of 40 votes per day.
In order to ration my votes and not overly favor questions posted early morning, I frequently check how many ...
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HTTPS links not recognized as valid URLS
When trying to vote to close a question as a duplicate, I copied the link to the duplicate question and, as I use HTTPS by default, the link was rejected with an error message along the lines of "not ...
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What qualifies as “serial *voting”?
I just got a really good answer to a question of mine. Since the author was so knowledgeable (about vim in this case) and gave such a careful answer, I went to read other things he wrote. There was ...
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Our stats so far, compared to the other SE betas
When I posted How should we promote the site? a couple weeks ago I included some charts comparing all the different SE betas. There was a request for updated information, so I figured I would just ...
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Code inside spoiler markup is not hidden
Inline code inside spoiler markup is never hidden.
>! Text is hidden but `code` is not.
(Used in the wild here.)
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question closed for offtopic, even though some answers here suggest it is not
I have a sad record. First question asked in this site and it's been voted and closed for offtopic:
Wrong timezone offset. How do I correct it?
A user, @Gilles, kindly enough pointed this thread out ...
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inform about edits after downvotes
You can change your vote for a question (or answer) after it has been edited. Quite often at least questions improve soon (because the questioner is told that the question is bad and what information ...
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Why am I regularly asked to prove that I am human?
This StackExchange site is the only one that consistently asks me to prove that I am human, giving me some hard to read CAPTCHA to fill out. Usually I need to cycle through a few until I can decipher ...
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recovering from error
I just visited the question-section, and opened some of them in - da-da-da-dam - 4 or 5 tabs.
Unfortunately, there was a server side error, and I got 4 or 5 tabs with the message:
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Possible Conference Speaking Sponsorships — 2011
We're evaluating the feasibility of sponsoring a member of the Unix & Linux community to speak at a conference in 2011.
Speaking is a relatively big "ask", so this needs to be planned many months ...
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Killing a few meta-tags (and please write tag wikis)
I just killed best-practises (a misspelling of a meta-tag). I'm not fond of tips-and-tricks, troubleshooting, homework (homework discussion) or unix (unix tag discussion) either. Will anyone speak up ...
