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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Protecting old questions to possibly mitigate low effort answers?
I am throwing out an idea here and looking for some feedback.
Lately, it seems, that older questions are getting some mostly (in my opinion), low effort, low quality answers.
Honestly, it's a subjecti …
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Contact Users seen on AskUbuntu
Not every user of Ask Ubuntu wants to be contacted directly.
If their email address is in their profile, then I would expect that this would be the user giving implicit permission to be contacted.
H …
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Rejected all of my edits, left the question un-modified and attached a bounty?
Just reworking the questions and adding comments to the answers indicating that some info is out of date can go a long way in keeping answer seekers informed. Occasionally, authors will happily update …
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Should I merge the comments with my answer to make a more useful answer?
I have a mildly popular answer that has generated a number of (IMHO) helpful comments over the years.
I am asking the community if you think that the answer might be cleaner/more helpful if I took the …
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What is the most appropriate way to bring an old/outdated question up to date?
How should one bring an older, but appropriate Q & A thread up to date?
Specifically, I am referring to this question. But, I would like to understand what position the community consensus is for upd …
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Crossposting to other Stack Exchange sites if question is unanswered on Ask Ubuntu
Cross-posting the same question across StackExchange sites, within a few minutes, definitely seems spammish, to me. If, however, your question hasn't got attention and you can't add more details or ra …
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So, what will be the Final Destiny (4?) of this licensing question?
I strongly agree with both @Eliah Kagan and @Oli on this issue. Their points are quite relevant and should be taken into account before voting some of these "non-configuration" questions as off-topic. …
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Why are there so many late answers in the queue? [duplicate]
Is there a reason for so many late answers popping up in the review queue? I think 2 days ago, there might have been 20. Now there are 2.5k.
What happened?
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Is it appropriate to contact users offsite to question their site actions on Ask Ubuntu?
I've looked at a couple of potential dupes and don't see any discussion/policy regarding this:
How can I contact a user from this site? …
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