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Maintaining canonical posts - how can we improve our most popular questions?
Right now I owe myself quite some sleep, so this likely ends up as an incomplete answer; nevertheless I wanted to put down the thoughts that I had about it.
Our premise
StackExchage sites are nativel …
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Flagging Old Questions as End of Standard Support or End of Life,
I think there may be something else at play here.
First things first, in the spirit of @Oli's answer to the question @muru linked in his comment, I agree that these old questions should not be "closed …
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How can DuckDuckGo list my question as a search result only after 7 minutes I have submitted...
I assumed "indexing" without any special treatment would take longer.
Is there any story behind this, or are they just being extra useful? :)
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Ban ChatGPT and AI-generated answers on Ask Ubuntu?
NOTE: find updates at the bottom of the post.
Having learned the views of others, I'd like to offer some degree of summary in response, and to deliver some new suggestions.
How to answer to the futur …
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Why are all the questions/answers on this site so old and out of date?
I have registered on this site in December 2020, and the focus of my interest was 20.04.
My main motivation in registering was to share solutions to stumbling blocks that I encountered, and to thus gi …
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content
overapplication of suspensions for AI-generated content may be turning away a large number of legitimate contributors to the site
The new owner does not seem to understand that the value of the thes …
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We may need to migrate away from the StackExchange platform. If you know how, please start s...
I caught wind of a new insight (credit: @leanne), that enables some foreshight into aspects of the possible future.
The following quote is to be found as the update section at the bottom of this post: …
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Decline in AU quality
I sense that a lot of people who ensured the quality of the site are now staying away. I suspect because it's hard to take this platform seriously any more, and staying here is a frustrating experienc …
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Do 'Read the man pages...' type comments and answers have a place on Ask Ubuntu?
I would like to make a case that points out that a generalized, "blanket" approach (rule(s)) might be less constructive than hoped.
Recently I have contributed an answer that later had proved to be u …
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Does changing my display name have any unexpected side-effects?
I have seen that changing our display name is very easy.
I just wanted to ask, how will it look like, and whether this change comes with any unexpected side-effects.
Does it update the displayed name …
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Should the help-center's question-related guidance promote including Ubuntu flavor and versi...
I seem to observe that messages alike this one:
Please [ edit your question and ] provide the Ubuntu flavor you are using, its version, [and maybe your desktop environment (if you are using a non-def …
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Notifying users about the policy on AU concerning AI-generated content
I agree with the direction, as I had proposed something in this regard in my post in January 2023:
Additionally, we could consider putting up small, unobtrusive banners where relevant (maybe accompan …
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Why don't I see a device to flag a question as "off-topic"?
When I click the Flag link under a question, the options offered to me are:
spam
rude or abusive
needs improvement
a duplicate
very low quality
in need of moderator intervention
No "off-topic" among …
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Accepted
Wonder why I got downvoted?
The post currently shows -1 vote. From Thomas' answer, you see how that -1 is actually a sum of 5 votes.
Here we are talking about votes.
In your reputation history, on your profile page, it shows -2 …
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"itectec.com" website links — could they be stripped from questions/answers? [duplicate]
The website at the itectec.com domain is stealing content from StackExchange sites (including this one) and other forums and shows it as their own content.
They are pretty good with search engines, th …