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Answers based on Ubuntu wiki
Quite often there are questions to which there is an answer on http://help.ubuntu.com.
What is the preferred approach to answer such a question? Should one answer the question based on the content of ...
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Why am I not getting email notification to new answers to my question?
I have checked "Notify" check box with my email id in my question but I don't get any notification even though I get answers to that question. Why is it so? Is there problem in "AskUbuntu"'s part?
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Should I ask for additional information in comments, or start an answer and ask questions there?
I noticed on another QA post here that someone mentioned that as a rule of thumb they keep comments short, and anything longer than short goes in an answer. A few times, I've asked for more ...
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Is it appropriate to Ask question and provide an Answer to topic which is not mentioned?
Hi,
My question is about when somebody have a solution (e.g., specific problem which affect a couple of people), but nobody ask for different reasons. This question is similar as Should we seed the ...
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Should redirections to other questions / answers be comments or answers ?
A part of the answer to this question is, in my opinion, answering another "new" question. I wanted to redirect the person asking the "new" question to the existing answer and posted it as an answer.
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Should one answer one's own question? [duplicate]
And if one does, is it bad form to then select one's own answer as the preferred one?
Here's the particular case I have in mind:
How do I add a program that must be run from within its own directory ...