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Can we burninate [hardware-recommendation]?
The help center says:
Questions that you should avoid:
Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04), budgie-remix (16.04 and 16.10) and other Linux distributions (try our ...
ZannaMod
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Are social announcements not related to Ubuntu or the site on-topic on Meta?
It is defined here what is on-topic on the AU Meta site. That currently being:
Meta Ask Ubuntu is the part of the site where users discuss the
workings and policies of Ask Ubuntu rather than ...
user364819
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Proposal to edit the Close-Reason "Not about Ubuntu" to also include questions about other *mobile* OS
The reason why I am proposing this is that I saw this question which is about an android app that the user falsely expected to find in the Ubuntu-touch repository.
My reaction would have been to ...
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There are questions being closed as EOL when they are still supported
This question is because of some close votes due to EOL are wrong - I expect it is quite a lot.
This is a review of a question (admittedly too broad / unclear)- it was flagged as being EOL for being ...
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Would a off-topic tag warning be a good-idea? [duplicate]
Here on Ask Ubuntu we have quite a lot of tags for various Linux distributions/Operating Systems/things that could be off-topic if specific about them:
debian, mint, fedora, crunchbang, windows, ...
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Can we please ban unrelated programming questions?
This issue has been discussed in the past: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5695/why-was-a-purely-programming-related-question-not-moved-closed
But I disagree with Andrea Corbellini because I ...
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Closing the off-topic and duplicate questions with bounty
There are some questions which has bounty, but are clearly off-topic or are duplicates of another question.
e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/411887/unicode-fonts-are-not-displayed-correctly-in-...
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Suggestion: Add link to relevant page in "off-topic" notification
Pretty minor suggestion, but it could be of some use.
A question of mine, https://askubuntu.com/questions/295699/the-vpn-service-failed-to-start-under-ubuntu-13-04, was put on hold (at my request) ...
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Add Unix and Linux to the off topic menu
Sometimes I come across questions that I believe to be better suited on the Unix and Linux StackExchange site. E.g. How can I set up radius authentication properly? .
When using the flag as off ...
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More destinations for off-topic questions
Often, I see a question that is off-topic, but I only see options on the flagging interface to flag for a close or to flag to send it to meta, which is quite limited. Is this by design since other ...
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