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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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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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Is it okay to ask the OP inside your answer to accept and upvote it?
It's not the end of the world, but it's definitely noise, so you can edit it out.
Thank you for reading my answer. Please like, rate, share, and subscribe.
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Is it acceptable to delete a question if the answer was trivial?
If the question is on topic and generally fits the site, it should stay.
A question with a trivial answer can always be put on hold. For example:
This describes a problem that can't be reproduced …
4
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Offering a human translation for cryptic google-translated questions
Of course; asking the author to clarify the question (in a way that is helpful) is always fine.
You can also post a comment in their native language. If you want to be extra nice, post the comment in …
3
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Rename "blogs" tag to "blog"
You're absolutely right. Done.
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Isn't posting the same questions & answers without referral on a different website, illegal?
Absolutely.
It seems that the people at ubuntuask.com have a different (meaning "wrong") interpretation of the license.
It actually says not only that attribution is required, but that attribution i …
9
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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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What is the etiquette for posting the same answer to multiple Stack Exchange sites?
If it's the same question, you should ask for it to be migrated to the appropriate site. For instance, an Ubuntu question may well be on topic at SuperUser, but it should ideally be on AU.
Google is …
5
votes
Accepted
Why can't we re-upvote comments?
Waffles explained why on MSO.
We do not want flip flopping, nor do we want people to un-upvote stuff
from the past. The only use case is undoing a mis-click.
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Google+ Fan Page Logo Competition
Because our current Google+ logo doesn't exactly fit the trademark guidelines we need a new one!
The good news is, SE have offered to give away one amazing swag package full of Stack Exchange and Ask …
9
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(How) can we encourage question askers to do some research of their own?
We can learn a lot, as I keep mentioning, from our friends at Wikipedia here. In particular, I urge you to read the these:
Assume good faith
For instance, and this is just an example, if a new user …
8
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Accepted
Tag synonym request: [asterix] -> [asterisk]
Done an done.
Here's a poem by Omar Khayyam to get the minimum character count.
Dreaming when dawn's left Hand was in the sky
I heard a voice within the tavern cry,
"Awake, my little ones, a …
10
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How should we define "Abandoned" as a close reason?
If "Abandoned" doesn't become a separate close-reason, we don't have to define it at all:
This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area …
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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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Should comments be flagged for "light" rudeness?
Comments are very clearly second-class citizens in the system, and we delete them much more briskly than questions or answers. So I'd say it's okay to flag (and subsequently delete) them for mild rude …