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It's important to realize that Ask Ubuntu is not a "discussion site" or forum. It's a question-and-answer site, with a specific set of guidelines in place to help it succeed in that purpose. … Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.” …

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 …

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 …

The mods then discuss and reach agreement based on the community discussion? …

First pass at a proposed update: Change the title and first bullet in ... Questions you may ask: Using and administering currently supported, official Ubuntu flavors: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu M …

For the types of "Discussion" questions that you seem to be asking about, perhaps something like: Hello and Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. … If they don't like the response, point them here for discussion/escalation. E.g.: I understand your frustration. …

According to the posts by @Catija: If your site thinks this might help because, have a discussion on your meta - this isn't a one-time event. …

My proposal is to change the on-topic wording to: Questions you may ask: ... Writing software for Ubuntu or setting up a software development environment on Ubuntu. Note that general-programming que …

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 …

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 …

A question (but first a comment) regarding 2021: a year in moderation: First, that's 32,646 actions taken by our hard working Mod team in 2021. I know that there's even more that you do that isn't ev …

It's probably obvious from my edits and comments to your question, but I think you have a valid point here. I think there should probably be a "litmus test" on questions that ask for the "best way" to …

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 …

@BeastOfCaerbannog and I were having a chat discussion today debating the role of "general" programming questions here on Ask Ubuntu. …

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. …