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How to deal with users that won't mark duplicate but instead copy-paste their answers agan and again
I have found some users are just copy-pasting same answers again and again instead of marking them duplicates.
Is this allowed on Ask Ubuntu?
If not, how to deal with such users?
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What to do with potentially dangerous answers?
I was just wondering, what should one do with potentially dangerous answers? I mean I have read before on Meta that I should just flag them up, however when I did so for this one I just got this:
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Should an answer which no longer answers the question, but may help others, be kept or deleted?
I recently asked this question Why is my system suddenly not allowing upper case letters?, but I changed a lot when I figured out part of the problem, however someone had already given an answer which ...
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A user wrongly accepted my answer, what can I do?
On this question today I was helping a user and after multiple attempts they fixed it there self and my answers did not work, however the user (I guess just to say thanks for helping me) accepted a ...
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Is there a rule which states that all questions and answers have to be in English on this site? [duplicate]
I know that people often tell others that it is a rule here, but I am have never actually seen it written anywhere, so is it a rule that all questions and answers on this site have to be written in ...
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How to deal with potentioaly illigal / hacking software reccomendations?
I was checking out this answer today, when I clicked the link given, Firefox reported an untrusted site, so I left the OP a comment "Firefox says the link you provided is untrusted" and the OP replied ...
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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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Is this answer an answer or comment?
I was just presented with this as a Late Answers review. Screenshot in case it is removed:
It this a valid answer, or is it someone commenting? They're offering a solution (format first) but seem to ...
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User spoils his answers
I just noticed that a user Mudit Kapil is spoiling good answers. Just look at edit history.
https://askubuntu.com/a/576229/167850
and others. You can just search his last edits.
Not removing them, ...
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Sorting out SOLVED for good
I came across this question whilst rapidly browsing earlier - the OP added "SOLVED: " to the title, but did add vaguely how they got the answer but did not accept it.
Searching for other people doing ...
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What happens if I think that my answer is more valid than the accepted one?
What happens if I think that my answer is more valid than the accepted one? I don't know if this is my perception, or, effectively, my answer is better. What should I do?
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Why is my answer being downvoted?
I've posted an answer that I think that is as valid (or more) than it's companions. It was downvoted 2 times and up voted zero times. Why is happening this?
Link: https://askubuntu.com/a/609136/...
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Can I ask a for a "technical quality control" on answers of mine? Where do I ask for that?
I've received 2 downvotes on this answer of mine. None of the two users who casted the downvote bothered to explain why they downvoted it.
You can judge this better than me, but the answer is in my ...
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Leaving easier questions for less experienced users
I'm still fairly new to Ask Ubuntu, and trying to build my rep steadily.
I have a bit of solid knowledge in some areas, and try to apply that to answering questions (only if I know what I'm talking ...
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Is there an accepted definition of "future proof"?
I was reviewing a question where I noticed that it was recommended to "future proof" older answers. I must admit that even after searching https://meta.askubuntu.com/search?q=future+proof I'm baffled ...
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If my answer does not solve the OP's question, should I delete it?
I have posted an answer to a question and linked to my own method for solving it on Ubuntu Forums. The OP has subsequently commented that it does not work for his laptop.
Should I delete my answer or ...
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Is it okay to ask a user to accept an answer for his/her question?
Recently I have seen questions where few good answers were given but no answer was accepted and no comment was left on any answer i.e no activity from the user who asked the question. Is it okay to ...
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Moderators should be able to mark questions as answered
I know about similar requests, but after stumbling over this question (just an example; question poster answered himself using edits instead of an answer) I thought you should at least add an option ...
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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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Restoring a Deleted Answer
A new user responded to my question on installing Ubuntu on an Asus X205 with an answer about installing on a very similar, closely related, machine. This info is very useful and I did give him/her ...
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What should I do when answering a question that has already been answered correctly?
I came across a good question the other day and I would like to answer it.
However, somebody else already answered it (and has received upvotes). However, the answer is very general and does not give ...
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What do we do about answers which propose to introduce a blatant security risk?
So, scanning recently edited things, I found an answer to this question here which is accepted but introduces a massive security risk of storing a keyring with no password.
To that end, I have a ...
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What can be done with duplication of answer
Sometimes I found out on single question One answered and after some time another answer which is very similar to 1st (may with negligible too-minor edit), say duplication of 1st answer!
Which seems ...
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Why was my "not an answer" flag denied?
A little while ago I flagged this answer as "Not an answer", as it is just a bunch of seemingly random screenshots posted by someone who was neither the OP nor the author of the other answer to the ...
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Should I consider the timeline while accepting an answer?
Assume that, I get an answer to my question that is OK, and i accept it. After a while I get another answer that is seemed to be more OK.
Now what should I do? Should I accept the new answer? If I ...
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Short, pragmatic answer deleted?
Why was this answer deleted on this question? It was a bit short, but remember that some (think SO) of the best answers are short ones. It does answer the OP's question,
How can I make suspend work?...
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I asked a question, and would like to give an answer that which advocates against a possible solution
Here is the question:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/504413/what-is-the-fastest-two-way-sync-framework-available-on-ubuntu
I would like to post as an answer, WHY rsync should NOT be considered. The ...
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From when it is possible to answer to a closed question?
As far as I know if a question will be closed and in the same time someone write an answer, then a message will appear to that person telling him that he can't answer anymore and everything what he ...
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Why nobody answers my latest questions?
It's obviously that my latest questions received low views, no votes and nobody answered.
I use to mark the correct answers, so if you find good answers for these questions, post them.
Here you ...
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What should I do for comment answer
I asked a question: Error libx264 not found.
And I got a comment which is good answer.
After I got the correct answer, I want to see what community thinks I should do:
Vote up the comment only.
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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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What should I do with some answers I provided that probably are irrelevant to the questions asked?
I was going through the list of answers I provided and some of them are not at all what the questioners were expecting; I'm making this assumption based on the accepted answers. Is it okay to flag ...
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Why can't I answer this question that I originally asked?
I asked this question a long time ago. It got closed because it seemed as though the problem had gone away. However, the problem resurfaced so I requested that it be opened again. And it was - the [...
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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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Why are the accepted answers always on the top of the answer list?
Currently (from what I can see) the rules for ordering the answers in a question is:
Accepted answer (no matter what votes it has)
Answer with most votes numbers below the accepted answer
Answers ...
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Should I flag answers with just a link to another site?
I've been going through review lately and flagging answers. I come across a lot of answers like this one that just have a link with no explanation.
Personally, I really dislike these types of answers....
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How can we improve the site's answered rate?
According to this our answered rate (percentage of questions with an upvoted answer) is now 76%. We took a big hit with the number of new questions for 12.04/12.10 and the difficulty of being able to ...
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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.
Examples:
Thinking of switching to Ubuntu!
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Can I search for my draft answers?
I googled to know how to get my draft answers.
But I couldn't find a way. I know I can find my draft if I know the question.
In my case I don't remember the question.
Any idea?
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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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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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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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how to add code with comments in it? Such as "#some comment"?
I am trying to add code to an answer and have tried using the < code> tag. But every line that has a # becomes bold. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
Example:
a line of commenting with a #...
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What should be done to useful posts posted by new users as answer but should be comments?
I am refering to this post, which was posted as an answer, but should have been a comment to the accepted answer. The user did not have enough rep(50) to post a comment, so he posted it as comment, ...
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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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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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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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Why am I unable to answer a protected question with 101 rep?
I have more than 10 rep, but I am unable to answer Nvidia driver activated but currently not in use, which is "protected":
protected by Community♦ May 23 '11 at 1:32
This question is ...
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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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