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Notice against Vandalism
There is a notice in the sidebar:
How to Edit
fix grammatical or spelling errors
clarify meaning without changing it
correct minor mistakes
add related resources or links
always respect the original …
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hide old / answered questions I've asked
There's no convenient button in the UI, and 10 questions isn't that much to go through. Still, you can use the hasaccepted:0 search option to search for your questions where you haven't marked an answ …
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How can I find out if my question has been asked before?
The same related questions now appear when you're composing a question (in fact, this was done only a few hours after you posted this question).
The “questions with similar titles” shown under the t …
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2
answers
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The site FAQ should indicate where Ubuntu stops
The description of this site's topic in the FAQ is not very informative:
Ask Ubuntu is a Q&A site designed to make it easy for users to get answers to Ubuntu-related questions. It's also a place f …
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The site FAQ should indicate where Ubuntu stops
Here's my stab at an improved version of the moderator-editable part of the FAQ (between “What kind of questions can I ask here?” and “Please look around …”). I don't follow AU very closely so I hope …
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Could a suggestion appear when users type a non-question title?
No, question titles do not have to be worded as questions. In many cases, wording a title as a question is inferior because it adds unnecessary words in a very short space. Also note that the title en …
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I should be able to upvote answers to my question
You need 15 reputation points to upvote, even for answers on your own question. It isn't that hard to get 15 points: 3 upvotes on one or more question will do it, or 2 upvotes plus 2 questions where y …
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Clean-Up Week - Event planning
Unix & Linux has a few unanswered Ubuntu-tagged questions that you might be be able to answer (and you can probably claim them if the asker doesn't object).
Conversely, if you have unanswered questio …
4
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Can we synonymize clone and cloning?
clone and cloning are used interchangeably, and largely in accordance with the description in the cloning tag wiki.
I only spotted a handful of questions that didn't fit, and I retagged them:
Distr …
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1
answer
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Use different colors for the flag indicator and the suggested edit indicator
The flag indicator and the suggested edit indicator look exactly alike, they can only be distinguished by their position (from left to right: flags, “review”, suggested edits).
Most other sites use …
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moving question-related discussions from comments to chat seems pointless, destroys clarifyi...
All relevant information should be moved into the question. If there's information that the asker initially provided in comments, chat or anywhere else and that was instrumental in answering the quest …
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Add Unix and Linux to the off topic menu
Migration statistics are available to users with 10k reputation. In the past 3 months, there have been 4 migrations from AU to U&L. None were rejected.
The numbers do not justify creating a migration …