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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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Do we want heavily-downvoted questions to appear on the Meta AU homepage?
Keep in mind that even though the question is downvoted, there may be a great (perhaps even canonical) answer in there that should be (a) at least seen by folks so that they can reference it in the fu …
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
Adding as a separate answer since it's a bit orthogonal to the points in my other answer.
@terdon mentions:
Do the answers of the proposed duplicate answer the question?
And I'd take that a step fur …
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How do we handle questions that are different but could be solved by the same answer?
tl;dr: Tailor your answer to each question.
I have answered the first question and was about to answer the second but caught myself on the thought that I was basically saying the same thing as in th …
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content
In my understanding, the reason we don't want AI-generated content is that it's garbage - the bot doesn't know the answer to the question, it only knows how to produce answerlike text.
We can delete …
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A bit confused about the responses to answers to this question
This is a bit of a weird one (or I'm missing something obvious).
This quite-old (and reasonably upvoted) question asks:
Is there a web based terminal/ssh client?
Today, a new answer appeared from a …
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Suggestions for revising the "on-topic" policy for programming questions
@BeastOfCaerbannog and I were having a chat discussion today debating the role of "general" programming questions here on Ask Ubuntu. …
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Suggestions for revising the "on-topic" policy for programming questions
My proposal is to change the on-topic wording to:
Questions you may ask:
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Writing software for Ubuntu or setting up a software development environment on Ubuntu. Note that general-programming que …
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How to detect AI-generated answers?
There's a very common "style" to ChatGPT responses1. If you start to use ChatGPT yourself, you'll quickly become familiar with it. And ChatGPT can be a useful tool, if you keep in mind its limitatio …
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Why was my question about Ubuntu desktop shortcuts deleted?
As mentioned in the comments, it sounds like you are referring to your question ...
What do I need to change to get my program icon image to appear in my deasktop shortcut?.
If so, then it has never …
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What's the proper process for "fixing" a Mod-or-community-deleted answer?
I've been pretty active in community-moderation/curation here for a bit, but I'm honestly still confused about one part of the process.
Let's say that someone, for example, posts a link-only answer. …
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Are AI Correction apps (like Grammarly) allowed to be used on the platform?
tl;dr Consider ChatGPT for some assistance as well, perhaps in combination with Grammarly. Many grammar tools are becoming AI-assisted, including Grammarly and even the Microsoft Office grammar-tool, …
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Ban ChatGPT and AI-generated answers on Ask Ubuntu?
As is commonly the case, I probably got carried away in my other answer. Let's see if I can propose a simple policy for ChatGPT usage on Ask Ubuntu that could be expressed in the Help:
ChatGPT (and g …
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Ban ChatGPT and AI-generated answers on Ask Ubuntu?
My straw-man position:
I am opposed to a flat-out ban on ChatGPT, because I do believe it can be a useful aid for improving answers (see below), but there do need to be rules (and common sense) aroun …
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Why are all the questions/answers on this site so old and out of date?
Just for reference, there are currently:
3,464 open questions tagged 22.04
1,616 of those have answers
Another 3,458 that mention 22.04 but are missing that tag.
1,445 of those have answers
And …
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What's the "expected" audit response to spam in the LQ posts review queue?
I ran across a clear "spam" question in the low-quality posts review queue today. Link in case it works, but I hate promoting it by even linking it here :-/.
The correct response to spam is to flag it …
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