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Ping people via email to get their attention

Abandoned threads are toxic. They take up space, people's time and they hurt our answer ratio. As a moderator now, I have the power to directly email somebody about their conduct on the site but not ...
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What is the appropriate way to deal with "Can I do X" questions?

I don't know how better to phrase this, so here are a few examples: Ubuntu Derivate with Rolling Release? Possible? Kiosk that is able to transfer videos to a thumb drive Is there any way a can buy ...
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What to do with abandoned questions?

It's inevitable that people will come to this site, ask a low quality question, and not return to follow up on comments requesting additional information. What should be done with these examples? ...
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Why are most questions in unanswered answered?

I just had a look at https://askubuntu.com/unanswered and I saw that most of the questions were answered. Not recently either. Some of them were answered two months ago. Why is this?
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link up unanswered questions from a launchpad mailing list to askubuntu?

Is there a way to hook up unanswered questions from a launchpad mailing list to askubuntu? I thought the poor man's solution would be to just copy+paste the mailing list question to askubuntu and ...
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When to submit a question as an Ubuntu bug?

I have a problem with my computer (a reproducible crash), and posted a question here on AskUbuntu. I hoped that this is a known situation with a known workaround, or that somebody can spot what I did ...
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1 answer
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What am i supposed to do with a question of mine if it's no longer valid?

I asked this question some time ago . After today's reinstallation of ubuntu I no longer face this problem. What am i supposed to do with the question now?
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How to find out newest set of (25 or 50) questions with no answers

As on date there is 420+ questions with no-answers and I am unable to find a way to see answers with no questions for the past one month or newest set of 25 or 50 questions with no answers. Is ...

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