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Plea to reviewers of First Posts & Late Answers: consider Action. And, some Actions to consider

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“Marked as duplicate” should include a link to the duplicate(s) and not just “Ask a new question”

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Sum of “last period” reputation is wrong when a post I downvoted is deleted

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What's the least annoying for moderators: pinging or flagging?

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How can I be a voter

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Basic guide to deal with answers

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Is the Ask Ubuntu community generally more friendly than stack overflow - If so, why?

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How is it that an OP with a rep of 1 can edit and add text to my answer

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Remove the Reject mention

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Errors installing printer in Ubuntu [migrated]

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Why is Ask Ubuntu set up to discourage users from participating?

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What is better: Answering questions from OPs edit by a contributor or motivating OP to write his own answer?

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Why am I able to flag my own questions?

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Snap application Heroku dropping privs did not work [migrated]

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Will I still get +2 for editing questions and answers after I reach 2000 reputation?

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A chat room to help users improve posts?

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Why don't we allow shopping recommendations?

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What is required to become a moderator?

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What's my question doing in QueryXchanger? [duplicate]

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Is it OK if I call on a high reputation user on part of my answer if it seems difficult from that point?

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Are hardware support questions on topic?

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Are hardware support and specific hardware recommendation questions on topic? [duplicate]

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Should abbreviations and acronyms be discouraged?

discussion editing formatting faq-suggestion

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Delete your own question

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There is something wrong with backslash (“\”) behaviour in comments

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Is it correct that search on AskUbuntu ignores code blocks and inline codes?

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Make it possible to retract flags on comments

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2 year old user is a new contributor?

bug status-bydesign new-users meta

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What's the relationship between Ubuntu, Ask Ubuntu and Stack Exchange?

support scope

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Reputation points and badges not incremented

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Notify visitors that the question is old

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Is “any tool that runs on Ubuntu” on topic here? [duplicate]

discussion scope

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Useless tag of the day: local

discussion tags

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Style guide for questions and answers

discussion answer-format faq-suggestion

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Are any of these tags [remote]ly useful?

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Do we care about new duplicate (or wrong) answers to old questions?

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Should the copy.com tag be removed?

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Lots of Oops errors when clicking internal links

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Does the [remote-login] wiki need an update?

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answered Oct 23 at 8:07 Zanna 49.3k

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Question and Answer Plus Rant in question box. Best Practices?

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Not getting some of the comment and badge notifications

support bug notifications

answered Oct 19 at 8:46 Zanna 49.3k

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Did my answer get down-voted for being too flashy?

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Ubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish 18.10 is now released, and posts about it are (generally) No Longer Offtopic

discussion scope

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Feature request: retracting delete vote on answers

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Can we reopen the question about changing ownership of the /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /usr/share directories?

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Reject buttons looks too much like an ok button

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