Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 1067

The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

10 votes

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
18 votes

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.
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
16 votes
Accepted

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
4 votes

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
3 votes
Accepted

Rename "blogs" tag to "blog"

You're absolutely right. Done.
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
22 votes
Accepted

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
9 votes
Accepted

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.
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
1 vote

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
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.
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
29 votes
9 answers
1k views

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
9 votes

(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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
8 votes
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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
10 votes

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
10 votes
Accepted

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
15 votes
Accepted

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 …
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar

1
2 3 4 5 6
15 30 50 per page