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If you look at our stats on Area 51, you will see that one of the areas where we are falling behind is in the number of users with a good reputation. This is sad, because we do have quite a good ...

I use a multitude of OSes, so I'm quite familiar with the CLI. I got berated for using the CLI to give an answer My question: Is there an official stance here on elementary.stackexchange.com on ...

Something important to elementary and for elementary OS is our branding. For a quick reference: "elementary" is the name of the company. It is never capitalized. Refer to "elementary" when you're ...

Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...

Posting screenshots with tweaked out desktops in our answers is just unnecessary extra thinking/confusion for the target audience of a support site. Screenshots should feature a more-or-less stock ...

Our beta site has just reached the minimum time for proving its eligibility to become an official Stack Exchange site, so I think it's a good time to discuss how things are going. These are the ...

Tags are important They are used for people trying to find questions, calculating badges, user activity, recommendations for users and suggesting duplicates. We need to make sure that new tags added ...

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 ...

Recently I've seen a lot of code being formatted as inline style. This is not how it should be done. All code should be formatted with one of two styles. If it is just 1 line, with other text around ...

This community needs to start contributing some names they would like to act as provisional Moderators. Please read this: Moderators Pro Tempore. Here are some basic guidelines: Each nomination ...

Is installing and working with the elementary Suite (Gala, Files, Image Viewer, Cerbere, etc.) on another OS (e.g. Arch Linux) on-topic here? Can I ask a question about using elementary packages not ...

Is this site for anyone using elementary or is it aimed at more non-technical users? Or another demographic?

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 ...

There are currently three questions tagged elementary-os. This tag covers all questions, so it should be blacklisted as an intrinsic tag.

Now that the beta is public, should all those questions made in Google+, that are suitable for SE, be actively redirected here?

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 ...

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 ...

It may happen that I ask a question and the problem shows to be a bug. Should I just delete it? Should I flag it to be closed and thus stay visible? Should I post an answer linking to a bug report ...

A lot of Questions and answers in elementary require the use of keyboard shortcuts, but there is no GUI option in the markdown editor to make selected text a Keyboard shortcut. This makes new users ...

For a number of reasons: We should never recommend extra steps that aren't necessary to solve the problem. Concision is important. There is a finite number of PPAs that a user can add (more ...

Just saw this question and Daniel's comment about voting for closing. That seemed like an on-topic question to me, since we can't be sure it's really a VLC bug without a little more information. And ...

As some of us are now Moderators Pro Tempore, we should talk about how to handle certain questions - Questions about how to fix a bug or about a feature the inquirer is missing. There is no clear ...

"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?

The tag pantheon-files has been made a synonym of files, and the tag wiki for files describes it as being about Pantheon Files. The thing is, many questions have been tagged files but were actually ...

I think plural works better, and matches existing tags (applications, graphic-drivers, etc.)

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'...

The link to the question So, as you can see from the URL, I was originally asking for an IRC client. Then, it was edited to change the word IRC to Internet Chat in the text of the question. Then it ...

Forgive me if I missed the question but I did poke around. What questions are off-topic here? Obviously questions about Elementary's DM/WM (desktop-manager/Window Manager) and general desktop support ...

The title says it all, will programming questions that apply to elementary OS be allowed? On Ask Ubuntu, they allow Bash, Python - any programming language if you're on Ubuntu. This has benefits - ...

If you think your questions has been answered entirely, please don't forget to mark an answer as accepted so people can focus on unsolved issues.

I feel like we should discourage group questions somehow. We typically mark them invalid in the tracker and make people break them up. The reasoning is: It requires vague or long titles. If your ...

I was wondering what questions are on-topic here, so I went to the "What topics can I ask about here?" help page. However, that page is extremely sparse. It says only: What topics can I ask about ...

I've only seen one such flag in recent times but it reminded me to remind those unfamiliar with the Stack Exchange model - to be careful with your flags! Spam/Offensive flags will obviously be ...

I just found out a post that contains an answer and the answerer comments Either you provide us with a screenshot/photo of the "MINUS SIGN" you're talking about, or I'm done helping you. I do get ...

As questions continue to come in every day, a 'burning issue' becomes more and more urgent to tackle. When it comes to modify some system settings not modifiable from Switchboard, several users here ...

I have seen many questions like https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/3361/anyone-successfully-activated-overgrive and GIMP crashes on launch or both not about elementary and about software ...

Most of the private betas decide on a name for the main chat room. Currently, its name is quite boring - elementary OS. How would you name it? Post an answer and others can vote on it.

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 Did I do anything wrong to the ...

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 ...

In my opinion, elementary OS __ participate in Community promotion ad and publish its ad at https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/12379/community-promotion-ads-2015. Also after reading a post in ...

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 ...

If a question asking help to remove elementary and getting (Microsoft) Windows back on, then is it on-topic or off-topic?

The elementary OS StackExchange is not meant for feature requests or reports on bugs. I know where to report bugs. What about feature requests?

There seems to be quite a lot of questions that follow the same pattern: Can I run elementary OS without any issues on XXX? where XXX is a specific hardware configuration or laptop model. Should ...

Summary: elementary OS Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 8 to bring in two more moderators. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta ...

I just answered my own question incorrectly. Why did I answer it incorrectly? Because I assumed this answer would work on elementary OS. But it doesn't. My answer works fine on Ubuntu, but it ...

Questions about pre-releases, especially testing/debugging, that have since been released. Questions specifically about releases that are no longer supported (now Luna)

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 ...

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 ...

Once I posted a close vote to a question relate to bash script in other SE site.But later came to know that bash is on-topic. Now I got a doubt that on elementary OS site bash/shell script is on-...