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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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Low-hanging fruit for new editors
What to edit:
Edit question titles that start with a lower case letter, if appropriate
Edit out improper punctuation such as "?!!!", "!!", ".."
Improve punctuation, such as "logs : bla" → "logs: b …
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Is there a place for keeping "problem solving hints"?
If you can make them somewhat specific to a set of problems, you can ask a question and answer it yourself:
How do I debug hard drive mounting errors?
How can I find out what's causing X to crash?
. …
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Administrator, superuser or root privileges?
Superuser is the proper term.
When talking about Linux systems, Administrator often means a normal user that may gain superuser privileges via su or sudo (super user do). You can also call it root pr …
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What is the script that runs AskUbuntu questions, answers, rating, tagging, and search?
Ask Ubuntu runs on the Stack Exchange software. It's a bunch of proprietary software to run many Question and Answer sites, beginning with Stack Overflow. Users can create new sites at Area 51.
You c …
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How do I delete my Ask Ubuntu account?
That's very unfortunate. :\
I'll delete your account for you now.
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Does askubuntu give points by visiting the day of your birthday?
As of now, there is no such badge.
See also:
Display a "Happy Birthday" message when a user logs in on their birthday [closed]
Please award reputation equal to a user's age on their birthday as a …
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Is it worth the effort of splitting up multiple questions that get posted as one post?
It is a bit invasive, but that's not too bad if you wait for the original question to be answered first.
If you leave a comment explaining why it would be better, you can give the OP a chance to do i …
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Suggestion: Multiple reputation gain options to tag edits
I don't think we (the moderators) should ever have the power to award reputation.
Personally, I find a 20 character tag wiki much better than a 0 character one. :) Though I agree, they don't get as m …
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What is the definition of lists?
Even though it's the sort of question we would normally close, this one has proven to not lead to extended discussion, poll voting or anything like that. … I fundamentally disagree with the practice of having special cases, but there is no discussion about it at the moment, no argument to close it. So I guess I'll leave that for the future. …
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What is the difference between Ask Ubuntu and Super User?
Both Ask Ubuntu and Super User are part of the Stack Exchange Network:
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users.
Ask Ubuntu is a questions and answers site for Ubuntu-related question …
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Is Ask Ubuntu the place for tutorials?
Absolutely!
I do that all the time ;-) Somebody's bound to get some use out of it.
If you have a good question, ask it.
If you know an answer to a question, answer it.
Ergo: if you have a good que …
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What is the policy concerning external deb-packages?
Until then, I merely post this for the purpose of discussion.
But I'm championing this solution. …
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Where's the off-topic line?
We <3 application questions.
If you have a question about Firefox, it could be answered on AskSuSE or Ask Fedora, but you're not running Fedora or SuSE, you're running Ubuntu. :) So if we enforced ap …
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What timezone does Ask Ubuntu use?
The simple answer to that is UTC.
All of the daily events, such as the reset of your daily rep limit, occur at midnight universal time.
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Why downvote new user's questions that will be closed anyway?
To quote the help centre:
Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy,
no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps
dangerously incorrect.
You hav …
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