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What is better: Answering questions from OPs edit by a contributor or motivating OP to write his own answer?
Just a moment ago I came across this question Ubuntu 18.04, complex network configuration with Netplan. OP solved his problem on his own and added that in the question body. However, Thomas Ward added ...
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Me-too post? Or partial answer?
Where do we draw the line between "I'm having the same problem, too" posts and partial answers?
This answer and its comments are what have motivated me to ask this. But I'm hoping for a ...
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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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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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