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Does AskUbuntu encourage deleting old comments?

Anyone can delete their comments, and comments may be removed if flagged. The "why" is mostly a personal matter, although moderators should refrain from removing comments that provide some value to th …
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2013 Community Moderator Election Results

Ask Ubuntu's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the three new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volu …
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Summer cleanup, feedback wanted, etc

Crash is also done. Given the volume and current wiki excerpt for freeze, I'm gonna let y'all work that out; ping me when you're done cleaning it up.
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the sp …
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results

Ask Ubuntu's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteerin …
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Exchange votes or favours

I do object however strongly to a structural exchange of favours. Probably just inside the limits of what the system allows and detects. A big issue here is that the system for detecting this has …
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Desktop tag must go!

I could kinda see this working specifically for questions on "desktop environments" - but obviously those are the minority. I've removed the tag - if it re-appears, we can blacklist it.
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Applications, application and software tags must die!

These tags have been removed from all questions and blacklisted.
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2 votes
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Can we merge distro, distribution, distributions and linux-distro tags?

These tags have been destroyed. Please care for the widows and orphans.
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Quality blocks enabled for questions

Questions are the lifeblood of any Stack Exchange site. But asking good questions can be difficult, for some people entirely too difficult to bother with. When the Trilogy sites reached traffic levels …
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2019: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, …
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17 votes
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2018: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in …
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6 votes
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Could we get a better example question for the new /about?

There are certain requirements for the question there, due to the space available and the need for at least two answers that will fit (one which must have a comment on it). Here are some eligible qu …
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8 votes
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Can we *please* blacklist the error tag?

No tags ending in error or errors are allowed now. Those that existed have been removed.
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3 votes
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What to do with black-screen tag?

Burned and blacklisted - both black and black-screen. Please care for the widows and orphans.
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