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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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Why don't I get my reputation back if nobody answers my bounty question?
Otherwise you receive all the benefit of promoting the question, at no cost.
Thus, every question should be bountied, all the time, so the bounty concept would become meaningless.
https://askubuntu. …
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Is there a way to hyperlink within an answer?
No, there is no way to do footnoting or anchoring within a post at the moment.
We have a post size limit of 30,000 chars which is a lot, but not so much that IMHO you'd really need such things. And m …
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Is there a way to view or work with the revision history of answers?
Yes, the traditional way is to click the date and time on the edit -- which will appear any time a post has been edited. It behaves no differently on questions than answers, it is identical.
The actu …
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Why this question is locked?
I didn't lock it, but I suspect it is locked because it is an "infinite list of X", not really a question that can be answered in any meaningful sense.
I believe it is correctly locked for that reaso …
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Linking to a question worsening Google result
Seems OK if you put it in quotes
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22keyboard+shortcuts+in+unity%22
I think this got a lot of publicity which may have skewed the results
http://downloadsquad.sw …
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Reporting offensive usernames
Sure; flag one of their posts and indicate that you consider the username offensive. Unless it is obvious, indicate why as well.
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What can be done with inactive, unanswered questions from 1-rep users?
We already remove the following automatically with no intervention required:
remove zero score questions with no answers, low views, <=1 comments that are more than 365 days old
remove negatively vo …
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Low-hanging fruit for new editors
If there are 80 questions with tags that need to be renamed or merged, a diamond moderator should do it using the admin tools for merging and renaming tags.
Otherwise, you will be cluttering up the h …
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Some SE network ads are offtopic/inappropriate.
most of the skeptics ads
This is awfully vague; I don't find the skeptics ads that unrelated. And you're focusing on one example. I'd need to see at least 5 or 6 to be convinced. (I can point to …
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Is community locked in?
As Marco mentioned, the data is all cc-wiki (cc-by-sa-3.0) and freely available to anyone.
In times of trouble, you are completely free to switch to Shapado or OSQA which can import this data directl …
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What to do about old alpha/beta questions?
A good deal of these can be blown away and the internet would be a better place.
I think you have answered your own question, and it's certainly what I would advise... :)
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Ask Ubuntu goodies anyone?
We do have plans to print site-specific shirts and stickers in the works! Stay tuned to the Stack Exchange Blog for news on that.
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Which posts need screenshots?
Good idea! I recommend perhaps starting with those questions which have a lot of views:
https://askubuntu.com/search?q=views%3A7500
More advanced search options are at https://askubuntu.com/search
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Ask Ubuntu swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you are on page 1 or page 2 of …
https://askubuntu.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll be sending you a little care package shortly:
Ask Ubuntu t-shirt …
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Please disable displaying a tag at the start of page titles
This is by design, otherwise legal creative commons scrapers demolish us in search rankings. Your concerns are unfounded, in fact, it's quite the opposite.. Matt Cutts himself signed off on this appro …
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