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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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The [format] tag has a broad scope. What should we do?

The tag wiki excerpt of format states that the tag has a broad scope: For questions regarding file formats, or formatting hard drives. We can ask questions about file formats or formatting hard driv …
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The 'Raiders of the Lost Downboat' chat room

Who created the 'Raiders of the Lost Downboat' chat room? What is the room currently used for? What was the room used for? Who came up with the name 'Raiders of the Lost Downboat'? Who were the room …
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Is the scope of [hard-drive] tag and [drive] tag similar?

While reviewing posts, I noticed these two tags: drive and hard-drive. I feel both these tags have similar scope. So should we merge these tags?
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We need to ensure that Ask Ubuntu's archive remains publically available

It would be great if the diamond moderators of our community can request Canonical to maintain copies of Ask Ubuntu's data dumps (Ask Ubuntu Meta's too). In the worst case scenario in future, it could …
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Ask Ubuntu is getting a logo update

I feel the moderators should have been informed about this prior to changing the logo (before official announcement in meta). I hope they were informed. With this update came a request from Canonical …
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13 votes
8 answers
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What does our community need? (Magic wand time in MSE)

Philippe, the Vice President of Community for the Stack Exchange Network, posted a question on Meta Stack Exchange seeking input from the community regarding "ONE thing" that would help one's communit …
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AWS will be sponsoring Ask Ubuntu

Were the moderators of Ask Ubuntu given a heads-up regarding this sponsorship? Also, on a general note, if moderators are given a heads-up regarding sponsorship and if moderators do not feel okay with …
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Let's talk about the Ubuntu Code of Conduct in Ask Ubuntu!

First things first, we all know that Ask Ubuntu is independent and does not follow orders from Canonical (related: Is Ask Ubuntu sponsored by Canonical?). But, the imposition of Ubuntu Code of Conduct …
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What's your Ubuntu story?

Ask Ubuntu is 10 years young now! And the community is always growing. It's time to celebrate, isn't it? We came to Ask Ubuntu to ask questions about Ubuntu because many of us were noobs at using it, …
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2 answers
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How do we change the policy of Ask Ubuntu if votes are low in Ask Ubuntu Meta?

Since important policy decisions regarding Ask Ubuntu's scope are taken using voting in Ask Ubuntu Meta, it's important that as many people as possible participate in the discussion related to changing …
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

There has been a long-standing debate about Ask Ubuntu making questions pertaining to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) releases on-topic. Users have had highly conflicting views about this and to b …
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

Will you be active in chatrooms after becoming a moderator? There have been various users who became inactive in chat after becoming moderators. In rooms like the Raiders of the Lost Downboat, a prese …
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-10 votes

2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

Are you comfortable with users contacting you (privately: through email or some other method which is outside the boundaries of Stack Exchange) regarding issues related to Ask Ubuntu (like abusive beh …
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection

How will you condemn inappropriate behaviour of high reputation users (including moderators)? There have been various instances when users spoke in a rude way in chat, or in comments of posts in meta …
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Is Ubuntu 14.04 off-topic on Ask Ubuntu?

My answer is kinda an update to Zanna's answer. The table in the mobile version of https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle has slightly changed. Here's how it looks now: Credits to BeastOfCaerbannog f …
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