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Not getting reply to questions as earlier
I'm in a doubt as I'm not getting replies to my questions.
I would request the moderators to cross check that everything
is fine at your end & there is no issue like blockage of sorts on my
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What should I do with minor edits made, where I must put much effort into getting it into *usable* state
This is not a duplicate of this question, I believe.
I must put much effort into getting it into his pretty useless edits to be in usable state.
Should I Reject and edit, or Improve an edit, thus ...
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What should I do about highly opinionated answers?
Recently I came across an answer that I believed to be unnecessarily preachy and opinionated. Specifically, I felt this answer rubbed up against the guidelines (as enumerated in the help center) ...
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Should the help center encourage people to “give it a try” for possibly off-topic posts?
Most of my SE experience comes from Stack Overflow, which is... somewhat unforgiving of off-topic posts. I took a look at U&L's help center before referring someone here from Super User, and was ...
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What should I do about duplicate answers?
While browsing the review queues, I'll occasionally come across an answer by a new user to an old, highly-trafficked question. The new user's answer ostensibly answers the question, but is short and ...
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Are hats in fashion this year?
Last year, Stack Exchange ran Winter Bash 2015, in which users earned hats which they proudly displayed upon their gravatar. There was a leaderboard of hatters, mad or not:
It's that time of the year ...
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Dirty politics of some high-rep user
There was a question, that recently closed as too broad.
So far, so good — but there's more to it! I've had an answer, now surrounded by red square with a title deleted. It's the only deleted answer —...
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1answer
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Why don't Stack Exchange sites use HTTPS redirection?
Shouldn't there be a HTTP -> HTTPS redirect on all Stack Exchange sites?
I am using the HTTPS Everywhere add-on in Chromium, so I am unaffected, but I don't get it.
I see we have a certificate ...
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2answers
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Why strdup question was closed?
Even I've answered this question, which is closed now because off-topic:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/325428/make-all-error-2-while-make
OP was asking about missing strdup(3p) which is ...
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2answers
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Quote the source of sources?
In this answer I was asked to quote Wikipedia as the source for the source that I used in the answer.
I responded:
I did find one of the links via Wikipedia, but I'm quoting the source directly ...
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Migration to Stack Overflow locked but not actually migrated
There's something wrong with the migration of Seperating GLX from X11 to had 4 votes to migrate to Stack Overflow. It looks like the migration is in limbo: it's started (the question has been locked), ...
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4answers
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“This question already has a lousy answer here”
There is an aspect of duplicate questions I have long wondered about: I often see questions that are similar or identical to an existing question, but the answers to the older question are poor or ...
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3answers
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The tag 'windows-subsystem-for-linux' is too long; the maximum length is 25 characters
What tag name should we use for Windows Subsystem for Linux?
The right answer is of course windows-subsystem-for-linux, except that it's too long: tags are limited to 25 characters.
WSL is an ...
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1answer
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Should questions about improving the performance of scripts be on topic?
I was looking at this question in particular and wondering whether it would be better suited to Code Review SE than here. It's about shell scripting, which is on topic here and so I don't have a big ...
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1answer
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Problem with downvotes for legitimate question seemingly because it self-resolved
I have a question about my Unix & Linux Stack Exchange post: Wget isn't downloading files
It appears that in some instances people down-vote questions simply because they self-resolve, which ...
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1answer
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Unix & Linux
Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.
More information on the project and ...
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1answer
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Make Link Colors Brighter and/or add Dotted Underline
I think links are a pretty important aspect of many answers. However, while reading an answer (and I was rereading it for about 30 minutes), I never noticed that there was actually a link in the ...
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“/ask question” in the site header should be changed to “/ ask question”
All the links in the navigation bar have a space in-between the / and the text except for "ask question." This happens both on main and on meta, and should probably be fixed at some point.
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1answer
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Do closed questions go to a virtual land-fill and can they be seen?
I ask questions now and then, and sometimes they are closed. At times I wanna re-visit my closed questions but don't know where to look at those. This is to improve the closed question and well, to ...
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1answer
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Closing unanswered questions for (now) outdated software
Once in a while I come across an old (> 2 yrs, say) unanswered question of the type I cannot build XYZ version u.v.w. where u.v.w. is outdated by today. I guess, chances that someone bothers to answer ...
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Linux questions down-voting or up-voting?
Why does LQ permit down-voting and up-voting with neither reason no identification?
It seems to me that IF a person were able to identify whom or WHY they down-voted, one could LEARN from that ...
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Should commonly posted duplicate homework questions be flagged (or filtered) as spam?
I speak in particular reference to this question from today:
Removing directory using relative pathnames
Which is an exact duplicate (in different words) of the same homework question from a ...
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1answer
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Flood of off-topic flags, is this the norm here?
I just reached the rep to get into the close votes review queue. What I see there are a lot of off-topic flags with which I often do not agree. That's sketchy so I'll add two examples:
Midnight ...
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1answer
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Asking support status of Node.js for UNIX
Is it okay to ask the following on the main site?:
I know the Node.js is available via freeBSD pkg or probably with ports. I have actually had an installation from the pkg recently.
However, on ...
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1answer
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Is this a FreeBSD Handbook deficiency?
I find the FreeBSD Handbook approach very effective. IMO it is comprehensive, seems to be exhaustive, and yet brief.
However, I found that when I last night tried to install a desktop environment; ...
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1answer
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Are step by step instructions about cross compiling to a linux distro on topic?
I'm wondering if a question (I'm thinking of answering my own question) on how to cross compile to a specific Linux distro on topic?
From the help center
Please note that requests for learning ...
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But Linux is a Kernel!
TL;DR: The use of the word "Linux" on this site is unclear.
See the answers for what to do about it.
Introduction
The GNU/Linux naming controversy is an issue that has surprisingly not been brought ...
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1answer
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Flagging questions that are “Very Low Quality”?
I currently encountered this question: Unix Script to pass variables
It made me wonder how questions that are "very low quality" should be handled.
Currently there is a flag for "very low quality" ...
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1answer
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How to search for a post of mine answered by a particular user with some word in his reply?
I want to find a post of mine, answered by a user e.g. Gilles, with "encoding" in his reply. Can I do that either on the main site or on data.SE site?
Thanks.
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1answer
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The uphill battle for /alpine
On this site, Alpine can refer to Alpine Linux, a Linux distribution, or to Alpine, an email client (an open source rewrite of Pine). Until a few minutes ago, both used the tag alpine. Out of 26 ...
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Merge Ask Ubuntu into Unix & Linux [duplicate]
I think Ask Ubuntu does exist only for the shake of canonical (the company behind ubuntu). It is definately under the scope of (and hence the duplicate of) Unix & Linux. Unix & Linux misses ...
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Unplug the /wireless tag from /wifi
I've been working recently with content falling under the heading Radio Frequency. I've noticed the tag wireless is synonymous with wifi. In fact, it defaults to wifi, and this is reasonable ...
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Is it possible to have the <kbd> for the comma enlarged?
I was answering a post that involved the key combos ctrl+, and ctrl+,. I was going to use the <kbd> tags, but they look the same for . and , - or at least too close for me to tell the difference ...
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1answer
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Reviewing Low Quality Posts that are Code Only
Following up on this question (and its answers), I was recently confronted with one of Stephane's answers in the LQPRQ. I commented that he should know better, he responded that awk code is self-...
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Can I ask hardware specific questions here?
I'd like to ask why we need cpu modes, and also if being in one cpu mode applies to the entire IC or the cores. (not sure if this behaviour is ISA related. But if so, then in context of the x86 ...
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Delete, wait and see or leave?
Wanting to undo tmux breakout pane I've searched for answer, found it, but as it seemingly addressed a similar problem and didn't work for me I asked my own question. Turns out, I should've read ...
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Closing votes on a historic question about Plan 9
I just scored 4 close votes on my question regarding the reason behind using the "snarf" word instead of "copy" in Plan 9 applications (link).
I thought that questions about history (there are 234 ...
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What to do about dangerous or malicious advice in an answer?
I recently flagged an answer because I (erroneously, as it turned out) believed it to cause harm. The flag was declined on the ground that the purpose of a flag is not to judge technical content. ...
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1answer
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Can't show appreciation?
Here is the question I want to discuss about:
Delayed Expansion
I just want to know why the "Any help is appreciated!" message was removed
I have put such a message in AU questions too, but I don't ...
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Is the “On hold” message sometimes wrong?
Looking at Does Linux operating systems not run as hot as Windows 10? I see the question has been marked as "put on hold as unclear what you're asking by Thomas Dickey, jasonwryan, Stephen Harris, ...
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1answer
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What to do about poor quality answers?
I recently asked a question and spent a long time wordsmithing it before submitting. The entire idea was to demonstrate that there were many things I had checked and save time from people suggesting ...
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1answer
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How should we deal with question answered in the comments?
I recently found this: Is it possible to convert audio to midi with the shell?
As you can see, the person actually leading to the answer, used the comments section to provide his answer, instead of ...
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Why are there tags for “jobs” and “job-control”?
This seems redundant to me.
The tag wiki excerpt for jobs just says "Job control in a shell," but the full wiki is more useful and says:
A job is a process or group of processes which is managed ...
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Avoid being put [on-hold/close]: What are the required question elements in order to be evidently clear?
Have posted a question on Unix&Linux in which I described what the inconsistent symptoms of a critical Debian-Linux behavior is here: "How to alter Memory/RAM errors on Linux Debian 8 Jessie [...
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1answer
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Should a person who asks the 100k-th question get a special badge?
And 5 respect points?
Do you think this is a good idea?
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Deleting a tag (/sys)
I created a question (now deleted), and I created a tag for it, sys. I looked for it before and didn't know it was the same as sysfs. I figured out from a comment to my question. The question was ...
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Marking “old post reviews” with a banner
Today I got this review, and read through it. The already marked reason for closing, was to close it based on the "problem went away because of a typo", which—looking at the comments—seemed reasonable....
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Where should I ask a question involving rsync, Mac, and NTFS?
rsync is more of a Linux thing, but I'm using it to update NTFS from a Mac. I went through the list and didn't see a Windows community (but could have missed it).
In case it matters, here's the ...
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No longer Earning Rep for Edits
I am no longer earning reputation for approved edits.
What is happening?
Has the rules changed?
I have had a few edits approved, but my rep has still stayed the same.
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Adding a disclaimer to some answers?
This is a thought that has occurred a number of times for me, especially when concerning questions that asks for help deleting files. Most recently with question 299793 today, which asks with help to ...
