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What are the new user restrictions? … New users cannot:
post more than eight hyperlinks at a time, either in a post or their user profile
contribute answers to protected questions
ask or answer questions too rapidly
make edits that don't …
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What are trusted users?
Trusted users are allowed to perform trusted actions, including:
Voting to delete answers with score of -1 or lower
Voting to undelete answers except those deleted by a modera …
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What are Established Users?
Established users are those who have been participating on the site for a fair amount of time. They may view the vote counts on posts.
How do I view vote counts?
Voting sco …
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For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned/dead questions in the following circumstances:
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... …
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When anyone is viewing your user card below a question or answer, or on the Users page, they may hover over your profile image to produce an expanded user card that contains extra information. … What information is shown in the expanded user card? …
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If the user has cast a large number of votes, deletion will be held up so staff may consider preserving the votes prior to the deletion. … If you are seeing a "User was removed" event in your reputation history, it implies that the user either hadn't cast enough votes to be reviewed, or staff made the explicit decision not to preserve the …
To create an account on Ask Ubuntu, please sign up through Google, Facebook, or create a new Stack Exchange account using an email address and password. … Once you’ve earned 200 reputation on at least one Stack Exchange site, you will receive a starting +100 reputation bonus to get you past basic new user restrictions. …
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A statement that User consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or New York County, New York if your address is outside of the United … States), and that User will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person. …
We hold regular elections to determine who these community moderators will be (except in the case of new beta sites, which have moderators pro tempore, who are appointed by Stack Exchange staff in the … Site moderators are distinguished from normal users by the diamond (♦) displayed beside their user names. …
One review from a user is enough to dismiss the task, so review carefully to ensure that this answer meets site expectations. … Here are some guidelines when reviewing and deciding which actions to take on new posts:
Check that the post author attempts to provide a focused answer, and not a simple comment or a new question. …
In one queue, you may be looking at the first posts by new users. … This queue specifically handles the first few questions submitted by a user.
Late answers – 500 reputation. …
Questions should be unprotected when they are no longer attracting large amounts of traffic or would benefit from new answers. … Any question at least a day old can be protected and unprotected by users that have the privilege, provided the question has received at least one answer from a user with less than 10 reputation. …
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You can also create a new Stack Exchange OpenID by providing your email address and creating a password. … Visit your user profile page (if you can't remember how to log in, go here and enter your email) and click the "Edit profile" button at the top right of the page. …
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Users who are banned from asking questions see the following error message when trying to post a new question:
You can't post new questions right now
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from … Question bans do not affect other privileges, such as commenting or voting, and there is no indication to the rest of the community that a particular user has been question-banned. …
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Answer bans do not affect other privileges, such as commenting or voting, and there is no indication to the rest of the community that a particular user has been banned from posting. … Ask a new question instead.
Use correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar to the best of your ability.
Provide context for links. Link-only answers are not good answers. …
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If you are an experienced Stack Exchange network user with 200 or more reputation on at least one site, you will receive a starting +100 reputation bonus to get you past basic new user restrictions. … If a user reverses a vote, the corresponding reputation loss or gain will be reversed as well. Vote reversal as a result of voting fraud will also return lost or gained reputation. …
Moderators are bound to an agreement that states that they will
(...) abide by all other officially announced moderator and user policies made available to [them]. … When and how are new policies introduced by Stack Exchange, Inc.?
If the need for a new policy arises, it will be written and shared with the Moderator Council first. …
To search only within code blocks: code:"new" to search code within posts for the word "new".
To search just your posts: user:me training searches all of your posts for the word "training". … User Operators
You can also limit searches to a specific user's content (your own or someone else's). You will need the user id to search another user's posts. …
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(A question can also be closed as duplicate with a single vote from a moderator or from a user who has earned a gold tag badge in one of that question's current tags, unless that user participated in editing … The user who cast that vote is the owner of the comment, and can edit or delete it like any other comment. …
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Every post you make is already “signed” with your standard user card, which links directly back to your user page. … Your user page belongs to you, so fill it with information about your interests, links to stuff you’ve worked on, or whatever else you like! …
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Any user can propose edits, but not all edits are publicly visible immediately. If a user has less than 2,000 reputation, the suggested edit is placed in a review queue. … Additionally, any user who submits many rejected edits will be banned from suggesting further edits for 7 days.
What is a rollback? …
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One review from a user is enough to dismiss the task, so please review carefully to ensure that this question meets site expectations. … Here are some guidelines when reviewing and deciding which actions to take on new posts:
Check that the main part of the question is in the post itself and not hosted off-site. …
If you're new to Markdown, you may want to visit the official Markdown syntax reference page. … Let me count the ways
New paragraphs only occur when there is a blank line. A single carriage does not create a new paragraph.
Italics and Bold
*This is italicized*, and so is _this_. …
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The badge system exists for two reasons:
to teach new users how Stack Exchange works
to encourage activities that are positive to the community
Stack Exchange badges fall into three broad categories: … basic use of the site; they encourage people to use all the typical, routine functions of the site: posting questions, answering questions, voting up or down, tagging posts, editing, filling out your user …
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The exception to this is duplicate questions, which can be marked as a duplicate with a single vote from a user who has earned a gold tag badge in one of that question's current tags (unless that user … Each new close vote resets the timer, so all close votes must be at least 4 or 14 days old respectively before aging occurs. …
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Addressing the concerns often means editing the post, which any user may do. … If a moderator (a user with a ♦ symbol after their name) closed the question, then you may flag it for moderator attention. …
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Any closed question that receives one reopen vote by a user with sufficient reputation is automatically added to a reopen queue for community review. … In that case, a user can vote for the question to be migrated to another site.
If this option is selected, the user is then shown a list of sites that the question can be migrated to. …
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Registration is not required to participate on most Stack Exchange sites; you can read, answer, and suggest edits as an anonymous user, much like on Wikipedia. …
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This could happen for a variety of reasons, such as when a user finds another user’s answer great, and visits their profile to upvote many of their posts, or when a user gets into an argument with another … user and downvotes their posts indiscriminately in revenge. …
When a user receives a good answer to their question, that user has the option to "accept" an answer. … Not every user comes back to accept an answer, and of those who do, they might not change the accepted answer even if a newer, better answer comes along later. …
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The following community members will be automatically notified of your comment:
the owner of the post you're commenting on
one additional user when your comment contains a @username1 reply
1 You can … make or suggest an edit;
Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one);
Compliments which do not add new …
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As noted in the Stack Exchange Terms of Service and in the footer of every page, all publicly accessible user contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license as follows …
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User deletion is irreversible! By sending this request, your votes will be revoked, and all of your content will be made anonymous. … To delete your profile on Ask Ubuntu, navigate to your user profile, then click the Settings link at the top of your profile page:
Then, in the the column below that on the left side of the page, click …
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Following a user or a group of users, online or offline, to the point where they start feeling that it is not safe to post online or are in fear of their safety is harassment. … Per our Privacy Policy, we do not give out user information except as required by valid legal process. …
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It takes 3 votes, minimum, for a user to delete a closed question in this way (with more delete votes required for popular posts, based on the score of the question and its highest-scoring answer). … To find questions you posted that are deleted, see the Deleted questions page (which is linked at the bottom of the Questions page of your user profile). …
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If you have two accounts that you would like to join together, please sign into either account, visit the Contact form, select "Account Issue", and then select "I need to merge user profiles". …
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It is funded by the personal reputation of the user who offers it, and is non-refundable. … If your new reputation brings you below the requirement for any privileges, you will lose access to those privileges.
Users may only have three active bounties at any given time. …
To find answers you posted that are deleted, see the Deleted answers page (which is linked at the bottom of the Answers page of your user profile). … In addition, users with the moderator tools privilege can search among their own deleted posts by using the search operator deleted:1 (site moderators can use this to find deleted posts by any user on …
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What happens when another user enters the room? …
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How do I create a new tag?
Simply enter a new tag with your question and it will be created. When creating your new tag, bear in mind that tags ... … What happens when a new tag is created?
The new tag will now be available for all other community members to use, without needing the new tag privilege. …
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When should I create a new chat room? … Click one of those links, and then click the "create a new room" button at the bottom of the Rooms page.
What happens when I create a new room? …
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Every user with sufficient reputation can exercise their right to vote, every day that they visit the site. …
When you post a new question, other users will almost immediately see it and try to provide good answers. … As you see new answers to your question, vote up the helpful ones by clicking the upward pointing arrow to the left of the answer. …
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If the content or behavior is not in a place where you can conveniently flag it directly, please flag any post by the user in question and provide a custom reason explaining what you think should be investigated …
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You can make a new list by clicking the "+" icon to the right of "My Lists." … You can also create a new list by clicking the blue "Create new list" button (upper right corner) in the All saves and For later lists.
How do I search my saves? …
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If you feel a post should be deleted despite having lots of votes or for being new, please flag it for community moderator attention. … Sanity-check the stuff that other people are doing, and offer guidance and correction where necessary: new tags, new answers, suggested edits, questions being migrated or closed, posts being deleted... …
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If you'd like to be notified of new activity within a certain tag, you can subscribe via RSS by hovering over the tag, then clicking the orange RSS feed icon in the top-right of the popover that appears … Finally, you can also manage your watched and ignored tags by going to the "Tag watching and ignoring" page under the "Settings" tab of your user profile:
You can also use asterisks as wildcards when …
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For “email” on Super User, mention desktop email clients and explicitly exclude webmail, as that would be more appropriate for the Web Applications Stack Exchange. …
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As a general rule, you should avoid creating new tags if possible, and new users are not allowed to create new tags. … Even if you have sufficient reputation, you should only create new tags when you feel you can make a strong case that your question covers a new topic that nobody else has asked about before on this site …
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Ask Ubuntu users to communicate with Stack Overflow, the company (posting bugs, suggesting improvements, or proposing new features), and
...Stack Overflow, the company, to communicate with the community … (soliciting feedback on new ideas or features, or discussing policies that affect the whole network)
Please look around to see if your question has been asked before, and avoid asking questions that …
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Closed questions do not allow new answers and can be identified by the [closed] title suffix. … Some off-topic questions may be migrated to a different site right after closing (we keep the question page with a link to the new location). …
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Targeting a specific user with votes for any other reason. …
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You can view the outcome of your past flags at any time by clicking on "helpful flags" in the Activity tab of your user profile.
How many flags do I have? …
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Access earned at 500 reputation
The Late answers queue contains answers that were posted by new users much later than when the question was asked. … Non-answers
Answers thanking the author of the question or one of its answers, asking a new question, stating that they have the same problem, or asking for clarification from the author. …
If no site currently exists that will accept your question, you may commit to or propose a new site at Area 51, the place where new Stack Exchange communities are democratically created. …
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All new questions are subjected to a "minimum quality" filter that checks for some basic indicators of a good, complete question. …
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If your new reputation brings you below the requirement for any privileges, you will lose access to those privileges. … If no new answer matches this requirement, no reputation will be awarded at all, and the reputation used on the bounty will be lost forever. …
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Importantly, if we add a new cookie, or if the way we use a current cookie changes significantly, we will ask you to consent again. …
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While our systems are still learning to trust new users, additional positing limits might be imposed if the system detects that a large amount of spam or abusive content has been posted from others utilizing …
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This may include:
questions or answers that are very short, in the wrong language or gibberish
new or follow-up questions written as answers
answers that do not attempt to answer the question asked, or …
Please be mindful of this and make your edits count, so that the new attention is brought to something substantial. …
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In fact, unless your product is brand-new, we may already have some questions about it, and possibly even a tag. In addition, search the site for your product name or other key words. …
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of moderator intervention" flags are still allowed, except in the case of "Historical significance" locks – see below)
The primary exception to this is the "Comments only" lock, which only prevents new …
None of this can be used to lift a posting block by the system — if you are blocked from posting new questions or answers, please refer to Why are questions no longer being accepted from my account? …
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If at least a quarter of 10 or more flags were declined during the past 7 days, you will be temporarily banned from raising new flags. …