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Revert the temporary blockade on unregistered participation

Back in May, I asked the CMs to require registration to participate on U&L, due to a rash of low-quality posts from unregistered accounts. The moderation strike is over, and Charcoal has resumed ...
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Bug report : Invalid "You've earned a bonus of 100 because we trust you on other sites of the network" notification

Having, a long time ago, registered under Stack Overflow using some_email_address, Then, under some site of the SE network using the same identity, SE site under which I earned some credit. I then ...
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Why is a http version of stack exchange websites appearing in my browser search results? [closed]

I've taken a screenshot of what I am referring to, but this occurs on both the machines I have installed Debian Bullseye on, so I'm naturally curious as to why this would occur. I have guessed it ...
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Can users hide their activities on StackExchange under their network profile?

Is there a way to protect users' privacy by not showing their activities on all the StackExchange sites under their network profiles? Can users hide their network profiles, or links to them? Thanks.
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Make Users "display name" changes less confusing

I find radical changes in users' "display name" (because of user's own will or accounts merging or else) rather confusing. Particularly when reading comments because when the link to the ...
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Will something happen when reputation reaches 100k?

What will happen when reputation reaches 100k? Nothing or something?
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Stack Web scraping from AI [closed]

What do you think about the possibility of an AI doing web scraping of the contents of Stack Overflow, of Unix stackexchange for example and after understanding the questions applying the best answers?...
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Example: The number of lines matching the pattern G in file and Example: The number of matches in the same file, but counting each match individually

I am currently on a crusade regarding this question. The edits that I made were reverted with a comment saying: Please don't change your question after receiving answers. You can clarify, but not ...
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How do I search for a question I posted?

I asked about something on U&L some time ago. How do I search for my own question, based on a word in the subject line? For the search - I only want results with questions from me. Can that be ...
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Older style code language declarations no longer work

Today I discovered that the HTML markup language declarations for code blocks no longer work. They are still described in the advanced markup help, though. Is this a bug in the documentation or the ...
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Are NixOS questions more suitable at SO or Unix StackExchange?

https://nixos.org/community/ says the NixOS community is active on StackOverflow. Are NixOS questions about programming? Are they more suitable at SO or Unix StackExchange? If latter, How can those ...
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so, any grumpy person rising in the ranks is free whatever they want?

There is this question that was closed for not being clear: Use grep to find files containing regex patterns I have found it while searching for a similar issue. It is not given what is needed to make ...
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Can moderated comments be recovered?

I remember some of the comments following post How can I sort the lines in this text file? seem helpful about usage of sort and about sorting algorithm. Now they are gone. Can they be recovered? ...
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Are all the mods on Unix&Linux such dictators?

I've had a question shut down because someone doesn't like people to have a discussion. Anyone else encounter such a poor attitude here ? Is this indicative of the atmosphere one might expect here ?
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Should U&L participate in the "1 reputation voting" change?

Some of you may have seen the Meta feed message in /dev/chat, but for those who haven't: If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites. I am not in a ...
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Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it?

Is casting a vote to not close a post harder than to close it? The options under a post are all various reasons to close a post. Is there no option to not close a post? Is the review queue the only ...
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Voting button contrast

I'm finding it pretty hard to see at a glance, whether I've voted here or not. On other sites, it's not so bad, but the dark blue theme color for https://unix.stackexchange.com is especially close to ...
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Should we close questions because they only MIGHT be caused by MS Windows?

I've been reviewing more close votes recently. There's been certain trend of a few questions being impossible to review correctly to my mind, and I wanted to ask if there's a community view on how to ...
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Does anyone know a good OCR tool online that we can use for screenshots?

I'm rather tired of barking at users not to post text as images. We all know the reasons why not to do this. In the community minded spirit, I wonder if anyone knows a reliable OCR tool that could be ...
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Harmonizing use of locking-related tags

I was about to start writing a tag wiki for the lock tag in the sense of a mechanism to prevent concurrent access to resources or to synchronize threads when I realized that the tag usage has now ...
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Is it possible to post in chatroom without entering?

Is it possible to post in chatroom without entering? For example, by sending some requests using web api? Some javascript library required for logging into the chatroom has not been loadable.
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Low contrast between voted-on and not-voted-on buttons

I think the usability on the voting buttons has gone down since the new round buttons were put in place. I went to upvote a question today and was told I'd already done so. Looking again it's clear ...
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How to stop being notified by my un-deletable question

I'll try to omit venting my frustration with the entire SE-verse here and just ask the question. I asked a question. The only responses to it were from people that had not read the question. Decided ...
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Kind &Humble request to all : Please don't forget reviewing "First questions"

In the early times I had not enough reputation to have my questions going through directly, I remember having been very grateful to those who had took time to review them, this enabling my questions ...
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Permanent and SE-wide solutions to "Retry Using Another Source"?

I often encounter the following problem The link under "Retry Using Another Source" is https://unix.stackexchange.com/home/get-jquery-fallback-cookie. That solves the problem. But after a ...
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Why was the "Middle Sidebar Advertising" page removed? Please undelete it

Why was the "Middle Sidebar Advertising" page removed? Please undelete it. I don't see any valid reason to delete it, but if there is one please enlighten me. https://unix.meta.stackexchange....
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why can't I include a picture, why do I an error occurred. forbidden?

I would upload a pic showing the problem. But I can't. Seems like I have never been able to. When I try to, I get An error occurred when uploading the image: Forbidden. What's the deal, is it ...
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Does the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange have a search feature to look for previous questions on a subject

Just registered and tried to find a search feature so I would not ask a duplicate question but did not find such a feature. I went to the help feature but it only searched in help and the create ...
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To what extent the badges or reputation are transmitted from one SE site to another?

I found out that there are badges, e. g. the Autobiographer which can be awarded for a site if the condition for it was fulfilled on another SE site. Every time I join a new SE site, I directly get ...
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Where to find the user's statistics of one's own?

I'd like to find out why I don't get the Curious badge on U&L with asking a question on 13 of 5 days needed (according to the text in the "badge text field"). It seems to depend on the &...
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Is it noise to ask "Could anybody help me?"

I proposed this edit suggestion (link to Q/A) and removed the trailing question "Could anybody help me?" as I thought it improved the quality of the question a bit. I did find this guidance ...
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Applications are off topic for MacOS but ontopic for UNIX

Considering the What topics can I ask about here? page. If I'm using MacOS I cannot ask about front-end applications ("The Unix foundation underlying MacOS (but generally not frontend ...
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. have announced a network-wide policy for AI content

A couple of days ago, Stack Exchange Inc., the company running these sites, announced a new policy for handling AI content. This policy goes against our own, local policy on how to deal with AI ...
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General moderators' strike

Open letter here: https://openletter.mousetail.nl I haven't decided what I think about this yet. It seemed fairly apparent months ago that technical support was a prime target for ChatGPT et al., and ...
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Is there a summary of Code of Conduct changes?

When a company (e.g. a bank) changes their Terms and Conditions then they typically provide a high level summary of the changes, and then link to the complete T&C. This is because it's not ...
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Temporary blockade on unregistered participation

Due to the recent low-quality posts on U&L, I've asked the Community Managers to disable unregistered participation on our site. They have recently enacted that change. Hopefully this encourages ...
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Why is it if anyone asks a question, no one can ever just give the answer for the question?

If someone asks a question why do people have a hard time just giving the simple answer? There is always some alternative answer that sometimes has nothing to do with the sought after information. ...
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Are ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex questions on-topic?

ChromeOS is the Linux-based operating system that is found on Chromebooks, made by Google. It uses the Google Chrome browser as the main interface. ChromeOS Flex is the same operating system meant for ...
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Do we have a go-to reference Q&A for "I want to do {grep,sed,awk} on {xml,json,yaml,csv with text}, how do I shoot myself in the foot?" questions?

This still seems to be a very common topic. Over time, and I guess that's a sign of how the tools matured, our answers and comments to all of these end up being: It's very nice that you want to use ${...
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Filters for finding useful answers

Background I was looking at a recently asked question, where the asker was clearly out of their depth with an issue. The gist was essentially "I've got this problem, help please, because I've no ...
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Potential U&L impact from TOS change on Imgur

I've just become aware of Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!, which quotes: We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content ...
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After earned "close and reopen votes" i can't do a normal flag?

After i earned the "close and reopen votes" i can't do a normal flag only close flag is this normal? I select flag for a question and than select Needs improvement This question needs ...
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Should we flag comments after making an edit?

I asked my first question over on a different SE site recently. After an initial false start I was advised by a mod that when I edit my question to deal with comments, I can / should flag the comments ...
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can't publish a question "This looks like spam."

I'm trying to publish this question but I can't as the body is marked with "This looks like spam.". Any idea how I can fix my post? Thanks
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What is the link to the android site?

URL link needed for the Android site for these questions same as Linux. Thank you.
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Add one additional reason for closing or reword the "opinion based" reason

Facts : There are a couple of posts, here (on meta), from contributors wording their misunderstanding about the reasons that motivated the closure of their question for the reason that : This ...
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The comment with a link to an example removed (by the moderator, I assume)

I commented on I can run playbook on user but not on crontab My comment: "See Run Ansible playbooks in cron The potential answer to the question is very complex and is out of scope here. I was ...
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When does the "It's no longer needed" flag become an immediate action?

I have noticed that under certain circumstances the "It's no longer needed" flag acts immediately on comments and they are straightaway deleted. Yet at other times this is recorded as having ...
Chris Davies's user avatar
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Tag synonym rsyslogd -> rsyslog

Just wanted to propose a tag synonym from rsyslogd to rsyslog.
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Proper tag for discussing tun interfaces

I've noticed that many questions about tun network interfaces are tagged with the [tunneling] tag. This doesn't seem appropriate since, as I understand things, such an interface doesn't provide ...
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