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2023 Community Moderator Election Results
elementary OS's 3rd moderator election has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates for a competitive election, we simply appointed the candidates who nominated themselves:
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2023
Summary: elementary OS Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on March 7 to bring in 2 more moderators.
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Is there somewhere else that might provide support of EOS
This place is deader than dead.
Any other venues for getting help?
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2022: 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 preceding calendar year.
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2023 Pro-Tem Moderator Election: Community Interest Check [duplicate]
elementary OS Stack Exchange last had moderators elected around a year ago. After discussing it with the current moderator team, we're looking at scheduling an election to start sometime in January ...
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2021: a year in moderation
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Is There Another Place to Ask/Answer Support Questions?
Over the last couple of months I've tried to invest a little bit of time every day to help answer people's questions about Elementary OS and Linux in general. However, it feels at times that I'm the ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Elementary OS's second moderator election has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates, we simply appointed the sole candidate:
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Should We Ask Questions We Can Answer to Build Content?
Two years ago Hasan listed some ways to build the elementary OS SE site and shared some of the numbers from Area51 that outlined what was working and what needed attention. In the 822 days since his ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
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Rename `layout` tag to `keyboard-layout`
Pretty much all of the questions tagged "layout" are about keyboard layouts. I just cleaned up a couple questions that were tagged layout but were about the layout of the desktop environment,...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2021
Summary: elementary OS Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on July 19 to bring in one more moderator.
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How can I set the newsletter to send me more current topics?
As it is now, my weekly elementaryos stackexchange newsletter sends me old, even ancient, questions/topics. For example, yesterday's n-letter (May 11, 2021) included "When will elementary OS Loki ...
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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.
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
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Things to work on for the betterment of elementary OS SE
elementary OS Stack Exchange site have been in beta for around 1400 days. If we look at the facts and figures at the Area 51 you will see that we need to work on answered question percentage and we ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
elementary OS's first moderator election has come to a close and the two new moderators are:
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: elementary OS Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 8 to bring in two more moderators.
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
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Is this the future of Elementary OS support beyond Loki?
There are a few main concerns I have:
The answer rate is still low
It feels like the community is less responsive these days
There are lots of long-term unanswered questions (and loads of people don'...
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Is bumping old freya-related questions an intended behavior?
We know that the system bumps questions as active so that unanswered questions might get attention again. But questions like this might not deserve the bump as it is for Freya, an older version we ...
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Possible bug in anonymous editing
I've used elementary OS before, but I wasn't really interested in creating an account here.
I was browsing the new questions out of curiosity, and tried to edit typos out of the title of a question, ...
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What is needed for this site to go out out of (public) beta?
"Public Beta does not have a fixed duration"
But what are the specific requirements for this site to be out of "beta" stage?
A number of users maybe?
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Proposal: let's not close questions concerning bugs/feature requests as off-topic
As far as I can tell, most close votes in the elementaryOS SE are for questions describing issues or missing features, which are voted for closure as off-topic.
I think it's telling and concerning ...
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I am unable to access /admin/dashboard on the main site
For some time now, accessing /admin/dashboard on the main site has resulted in an "oops" error. Moderation requests are piling up...
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Merge "networking" into "network"
This is a simple duplicate—overlaps in description and scope. (networking → network)
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Do we support questions about virtual machines?
I've done a fair amount of research trying to help users with questions about VirtualBox but the vast majority of what I've found instructs simply to install guest additions and pray. Other commenters ...
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How we handle questions about feature requests and bugs
I was surprised to find a custom off-topic choice (when filing to close a question) for bugs and feature requests
Questions about bugs and feature requests are off-topic because they cannot be ...
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Menu bars and docks
While I imagine some might find it useful for users to know the technical name of the pieces of their operating system, most will only know wingpanel as the menu-bar, plank as the dock, and slingshot ...
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Do not take no for an unanswer
We currently have one of the lowest unanswered question rates across all Stack Exchange sites (69%). There are a number of reasons this might be so—particularly, I look to the design of the accepted ...
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Configuration tags, [tag:customise], and related
We have several tags that are variants on customise and configure. I don't see these categories being useful, as the questions are already grouped by their subject (the program being customized/...
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Should [tag:systray] and [tag:indicators] merge into [tag:wingpanel]?
The current questions in systray and indicators have a complete overlap with wingpanel. The only reason why the finer categories may be necessary is if enough questions specifically pertain to ...
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Design of accepted answer toggle
In conjunction with the elementary OS defaults, which are very light atop white backgrounds, many of the website elements on this Stack exchange kind of get lost. For example, the horizontal rule is ...
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Merge [tag:trackpad] into [tag:touchpad]
The former (trackpad) is currently a duplicate of the latter (touchpad) when it should really be an alias.
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Repurpose [tag:shortcut] into [tag:app-shortcut]
keyboard-shortcut already exists and shortcut is collecting all sorts of cruft. I would propose that the latter becomes about app shortcuts in specific so we can remove the keyboard duplicates. If ...
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Merge [tag:geary] into [tag:pantheon-mail]
geary is now pantheon-mail so the two should be combined into one tag to preempt any confusion.
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Delete [tag:trash]
All relevant questions about trash appear to really be about pantheon-files and its operation. The Trash tag is better either as a synonym or just deleted altogether.
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Is [tag:help] helpful?
help has collected a lot of junk. I think it would be assumed that (all?) questions are about help/support. Perhaps it's being used when a tag is required and there is no general OS help tab?
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Should [tag:sleep] and [tag:suspend] combine?
sleep and suspend appear to cover identical scope. The former might sometimes include hibernate, but that is currently handled by a separate tag. Would it make sense to combine the first two? All ...
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Are questions on beta releses accepted on elementaryos.stackexchange?
With Loki, like with Freya, I was pleasingly surprised to find the beta better in some respects than the previous version, so I want to use it.
But are questions on the beta release off-topic? And if ...
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Why do I see this icon when I do not have any reviews
I see this
When clicking the 5 icon it goes to the suggested edits page and shows no reviews.
What is happening here
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Please tell users not to use the elementary.io tag when not abput the website
A week's ago (or a month) I removed questions not about the website from the elementary.io tag.
Now again the tag is filled with questions not about the website.I can't be cleaning it all the time.
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Multiple questions regarding not working internet connection
I am not quite sure how the moderators can do that, but lots of users (including me) had problems with internet connection
There is existing solution on AskUbuntu but I honestly do not know if it is ...
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Did I just edit waaay too many posts?
I was correcting formatting, spelling, grammar, etc. on a lot of old posts (and new ones too) so the question would be clearer. Now the site's front page looks like this:
Did I do anything wrong to ...
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What should we do with users that never reply
I have answered many questions and the question asker does not reply or mark as answered. These questions are bad for the site and will make it have more unanswered questions.
Is there anything we ...
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What will happen if cast a high number of votes for about 10 days
I am trying to get some badges so I am up voting answers that previously helped me and down voting answers that are not very good.
I have been casting about 40 votes for 3 days now and I am wondering ...
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Why does my profile 301 votes cast when I do not have the civic duty badge
My profile is showing 301 votes but I do not have civic duty
EDIT : Now it is saying
But I still do not have the badge
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