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Q&A style within answer
I've seen several answers lately that are using an FAQ-style Q&A-format within the answer. The answer ends up as a set of Q&A's within a Q&A.
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Thinking of switching to Ubuntu!
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Is there a way to deal with people who repost other people's comments as answers?
When users see a question, they often write comments like “did you try x?” to clarify if a novice user has already tried some trivial steps before posting the question. Now there's almost always some (...
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When is a possible answer a comment?
Most probably this is a duplicate but I looked for some guidance on this in both help and meta and I was not able to find.
When someone is asking a question on which the answer is not directly clear, ...
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Is there any waiting time for getting answer?
I am just wondering for answer for my question.
Is there any waiting time average for a question to be answered in this forum?
It would be helpful because we can make a decision to ask to another ...
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Is boot-repair becoming our jQuery?
For those that do not know the jQuery meme, please read it or you will not be able to know what I'm going to talk about.
Well, as all of you know, boot-repair do wonders in modern days helping users ...
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Are we making overly extensive answers, that could somehow make afraid the users?
I've seen questions lately that only ask about how to upgrade from one version to the next (not LTS, not skipping releases) that are even getting upvoted (for godness sake). I don't see where is the ...
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Is it good style to downvote developers who announce their projects?
Sometimes we see developers who use Ask Ubuntu as a platform to annouce their projects. I feel this is a good idea, especially when a project does address an unsolved issue many people have. For ...
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Should we answer more than is asked?
Sometimes, in a question, the OP asks about a specific problem they face in a larger attempt to do something (this explanation is probably not very clear, see this question and karel's answer for an ...
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I'm not experienced enough to know if an answer is correct or not. Should I accept it?
The following question illustrates my point very well: Can going into “suspend” have negative effects on applications?
I'm not familiar enough with the CPU and how the kernel works under the hood to ...
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Are answers about beta versions of Ubuntu accepted?
I know what to do about questions with problems in beta/alpha/development Ubuntu versions, but I'd never though about answers.
I came across this though while reviewing this answer.
What do you ...
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Nautilus answers need to be moved
I think I perhaps hit the bounty trigger too early but ...
How to add "Refresh" option to right click menu in Lubuntu?
How to get a "refresh" right click action?
The Lubuntu one ...
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Are people getting "rep shy"? || About "commentswers"
I keep bumping into questions with perfectly good answers that are not marked as accepted or can't even be marked nor voted because they're in comments. Even if you politely ask the "commentswerer" to ...
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Why there are so few answers on askubuntu site? [duplicate]
Why are so few answers on askubuntu?
I don't get it, it's quite big when compared with another SE sites, but still very few answers.
Very many unanswered questions in my opinion, when compared with ...
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Help or advice on how to manage misleading/inappropriate answers to an asked question [duplicate]
Have just updated How to EFI install Ubuntu? with what I am sure concludes the answers that have been given are misleading and inappropriate to the specific question being asked.
Had previously ...
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PSA: gksu is no longer installed by default
Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: ...
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Mentioning sources in answers
Sometimes it happens that while writing an answer, we get some help from other answers posted on AskUbuntu.
In such cases, should we cite the sources?
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Does receiving no reputation for good comments pollute the Answer?
As you get no reputation for good comments it makes more sense to add your comment as a answer so you might get some reputation. I have seen that done quite often. Answers given that should really be ...
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Why does Recommend Deletion have an option for link-only answers?
I have recently joined the 2000+ Club and was awarded the privilege of reviewing Low Quality Posts.
If you have not yet seen the following question and its answers, you are urged to go through them (...
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What to do if several answers to a question are edited, making them all very similar?
In one particular case I answered a question, which already had an accepted answer because I felt my answer more exactly addressed the OP's question. After a while, my answer was voted second highest. ...
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Does answering your own question constitute abuse on Ask Ubuntu?
This is my answer to multi-postings of the same or mostly same question. https://askubuntu.com/a/235007/46312 <--since deleted as not to offend
Are we allowed to ask-answer our own questions and ...
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What is the most appropriate way to bring an old/outdated question up to date?
How should one bring an older, but appropriate Q & A thread up to date?
Specifically, I am referring to this question. But, I would like to understand what position the community consensus is for ...
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Are bug complaints with addressable non-bug causes on-topic?
Sometimes a user asks a question and shows the error message, and the error message clearly indicates that there is a bug in the application. If it weren't for the bug, that message wouldn't be shown. ...
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Are there some decisive ways of signaling an answer to somebody else's question as definitive?
Beside commenting and voting are there some other means to signal an answer as definitive when the author did not mark it so?
There are some older questions like this that are useful and actual, and ...
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What is the KP+ key?
I don't know how to reply directly to the answer..
https://askubuntu.com/a/7186
What is this person talking about? When I press Ctrl + Alt + K + P + '+'(Shift + '=') nothing happens. It's all in one ...
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If the answerer answers the question in the comments of their answer, should the OP accept that answer?
Let's say the question is:
How do I open Terminal Quickly?
I have been looking for an easy way or short-cut to open the Terminal quickly, so I don't have to find it in the Dash.
And the answerer ...
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How should we handle plagiarized answers?
I see an increasing number of answers that are plagiarized. And, I have mentioned it a couple of times in chat as it seems to bother me quite a bit. I am posting this in meta in order to get a wider ...
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What to do with answers that are just a link to a page that requires registration/login to view?
This answer is an example of an answer that is just a link, and to a page that requires a user account just to view.
Creating an account on that external site is free. You can even log in with a ...
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When are "you can do this different thing instead" answers considered good?
Sometimes someone asks how to do something that is very hard, unlikely to have the intended effects, or fundamentally impossible or meaningless due to an insufficient understanding of what it would ...
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Is it acceptable to make small edits?
If a user edits an answer to make a small edit that increases the aesthetic value of it. Should it be acceptable?
NOTE: this is not a duplicate of: How to make small but important edits?
That ...
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Should one edit answer to own question?
Is it good practice to edit answer to ones own question?
Suppose some one gives a good answer to an OP's question and the OP edits that answer. Is it considered a good practice?
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Biased votes at answers
That's something I have noticed at many questions in this site.
A user with a reputation of 20 has posted a great answer but has not received any up votes.
On the other hand, a user with 5k ...
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Should I answer a question which already has an accepted answer?
The title pretty much sums up the question.
If a question has already an accepted answer, should I still try to answer it?
Provided that the answer is not similar to the accepted answer, but an ...
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Is it considered proper conduct creating a question just for the purpose of providing an answer that I consider very useful? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ought one to answer one's own question?
Asking certain questions, I found answers to other questions that I have not yet posted and that I consider very important. Now, I ...
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Hyperlinked answers with no content
I've noticed a lot of questions where an individual has linked to external content to answer a question without bringing in the actual information. Some of these questions, the links are dead (even ...
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Should humorously bad answers by known trolls be flagged?
When a user has only ever previously used the site for trolling, and then they post an answer that looks like it might be a genuine attempt to answer the question, except:
The answer is not likely to ...
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Should bad answers be deleted
If I post an answer that gets downvoted for unknown reasons so that I cannot improve it, would it be considered bad form to delete the answer completely? What if the answer gets downvotes, but ...
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Should I edit a Question once the Answer has been accepted?
My answer to this question was accepted. However I don't believe the question itself will be useful to others in its current state. Is it appropriate to edit a question to be more meaningful to others ...
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How to handle duplicate answers that add nothing?
I'm not talking about exact copying, failure to give credit, or one person passing off another person's answer as their own.
Rather, I'd like to know what the best practice is when one user answers a ...
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Is it OK to post, and how should we deal with, non-English (or partly non-English) answers intended for translation? [duplicate]
Questions in languages other than English, or which contain non-English text and translated text, have been discussed before on meta.
But what about answers that are written in other languages? How ...
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Should really good/detailed "me too" answers have their content merged into the question?
Usually "me too" answers don't contribute much to working on the problem, but sometimes they do, as when they present details that are subtly different than (or more detailed than) what is provided by ...
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Should I flag answers which only suggest "install a different OS"?
I've seen a few answers which are essentially saying "install a different Linux distro, and you won't have this problem". Even if the answerer is acting in good faith, trying to be helpful, but the ...
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Deleting Older Posts
I tried deleting some of the older answers which I had posted but could not delete more than five. These were the ones which were wrong or out of context or had something wrong with them. Why is this ...
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Should comments that answer a question be marked obsolete after full answers are posted?
Sometimes a comment is posted that answers a question. This is not even always wrong--sometimes the comment is insufficiently detailed to constitute a good answer.
Then, sometime later, a good, ...
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Should I edit my Answer to this question?
Yesterday I answered this question.
Today I noticed the question has been edited and now my answer only makes partial sense.
Should I edit it accordingly?
Secondly, if it was a decision by a ...
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Should I flag "me too" answers?
I am seeing a small issue with "me too"s on a few questions, especially common hardware that often has driver issues, like this question. Should this be flagged, commented, or something else?
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Should the question on Application Indicators be updated to include whether they work with 12.04?
I request that What Application Indicators are available? be "refreshed" to show which indicators are still being maintained and usable in 12.04.
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I am concerned an answer I gave will mislead others?
A senior community member left a comment stating my answer was incomplete, even though it worked for me when I tested on my machine. The components he stated were missing were actually installed ...
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How do I give credit for someone elses answer to a question?
I have just a answered a question because I knew where the information was (it was part of a response to another question authored by someone else). I gave the credit to that user by creating a link....
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Is creating a community wiki answer with summary of all posted tiny answers welcome?
At times I see questions with single-line answers, that are perhaps more useful as an aggregate. Can I combine all such answers into one, and mark the answer community wiki?
The particular question ...
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Handling questions when the answer is no
Some questions from a literal perspective only have a no answer. I've answered some of these by explaining how one can create a compromise solution that brings them closer to what the OP wants. These ...
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