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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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Should We "Mind Our Language"?
Monica R Ayhens-Madon penned a blog post on the Ubuntu blog this month about Canonical's participation in the Inclusive Naming Initiative and how language in the code and documentation of Ubuntu will …
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Is This an Appropriate Edit?
This edit popped up in the review queue and I’m not quite sure if my initial thought is correct or not:
The answer was posted almost a decade ago and — as you can see — has a very respectable upvote …
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Should unclear questions with accepted (or plausible) answers be marked for closing?
When a question is unclear or missing key elements that might lead to an answer — such as versions, logs, and whatnot — it should be flagged for closure. To the best of my knowledge this is for two re …
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Is this question about long-running codes on remote servers on-topic?
In your question, you say:
The Docker container is based on an Ubuntu image
In this recent answer about whether something is on topic or not, Zanna (a moderator), said:
TL;DR: not everything about …
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how can I change the order of replies to "most recent first" or (even better) "most recent v...
The problem with suspicions is that it’s very hard to prove a negative.
Searching by version would be an interesting feature, but would also require a remarkable amount of consistency and historical k …
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What is a good way to encourage askers to accept an answer?
Every so often I stumble upon an excellent answer to a problem only to find that, while it may have a high score, the answer has yet to be accepted. Case in point:
This happens with many "drive-by qu …
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Does this edit fail to improve the post?
Yet another question about edits as I work out the borders between an appropriate and inappropriate edit.
@Dan is one of the developers of OpenConnect, making him one of the better-suited people to …
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Should comments offering offline support be flagged?
Are comments like this permitted on AskUbuntu:
There is a flag for questions and answers to mark them as spam if they are promoting a product or service without clearly stating the author's affiliati …
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An Unclaimable Bounty?
A bounty has gone up for this question and, given the number of upvotes, it's certainly something that a number of people would like to see an answer for:
However, the comment from Jalil has me wonde …
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Is a question about third party software on topic if there is no reference to Ubuntu?
Note: Opinions ahead ...
Q. In such cases should we assume that the OP is using a supported (not EOL) official flavor of Ubuntu and leave leave it as on-topic?
This is generally how I approach thing …
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How much can an answer be modified before it should be its own entity?
An edit was in the review queue for this answer and it’s clear that the author of the edit is doing everyone a favour with the additional details being added:
Given how drastic the “hijack” of the an …
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What is the policy for dealing with plagiarism?
Over the last couple of weeks there has been a growing number of answers that are unabashed copy/pastes of entire posts from sources around the web. These have generally been pointed out in the commen …
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What's your Ubuntu story?
My Ubuntu Story™ is probably one of the geekier examples that one might read about, as the Ubuntu aspect starts in 2004 with a conversation on Usenet1 that migrated over to Slashdot before becoming a …
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