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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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Question is on hold

I suspect the question was put on hold by the community due to the scarcity of information that the initial post had. You have correctly now added much more info to it - so thanks! Keep on editing a …
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Can I post a duplicate answer on a duplicate question ....with a bounty?

Given the very close similarities between the two questions - the fact that it is similarly worded - together that the OP has themselves confirmed this means a return of the bounty is in order. To ti …
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Bounty on a low-quality answer when there is an own high-quality answer

It is great that you found your own answer and posted a good step-by-step guide. You are under no obligation to award the bounty that was placed. You can just let it lapse. The auto-emails and prom …
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Where have my 8 rep points gone on AU? It was 900 , now it is only 892?

You are probably referring to this Q&A which has now been removed: maths To understand the 8 point issue - you had been upvoted once on your answer hence gained 10 rep points. You have also been downv …
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Useless question?

The question is perfectly valid - at least from the point of view of asking. There isn't a clear and valid reason why it should be deleted. You obviously thought at the time there was a question abo …
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Can we have a canonical post about Ubuntu Phone hardware?

Can I humbly suggest the following for the canonical (no pun intended) Q&A: Where can I get a device with 'Ubuntu for phones' pre-installed? I've made the answer a community wiki - so lets all add …
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Question "Does HUION K58 work with Ubuntu?" incorrectly marked as duplicate

Yes, its OK to raise the matter here on Meta. Those members who have sufficient privilege would then have visibility of your question and can cast a reopen vote. Additionally/alternatively you coul …
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Declined flag for new answer duplicating existing ones

Yes we do - and should - delete answers that are a mirror of existing ones. In this case, the answer is actually an answer. Its a step-by-step guide. Important for a new person to understand. Agre …
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Why deleting a question (and related answers) with a lot of votes

For the moment, I have gone ahead and undeleted the question. This is so that those AU members who are under 10K can have visibility. Their views are equally valid as those 10K+ members. That's sai …
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Was I wrong improving the tag wiki for drivers?

My take on this was that the previous tag wiki which has been reinstated was a clear concise wiki that explained concepts in a very user friendly way. Terminology was precisely defined in a layman wa …
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Please do not delete closed questions with many views and many upvotes

Do we all like commercials... Rhetorical maybe - if you took a straw poll, the answer will almost always be no. We as a community need to understand that at the end-of-the-day, Stack Exchange is a bus …
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Moderators, users wants to delete some question, leave them!

When you've been around the site for a while, you'll find that links to questions in Meta tend to garner many more views than normal. Please do not delete closed questions with many views and many u …
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Unicorn tag - potential conflict

No questions are linked to "unicorn". So we can delete the tag wiki if required and then make it a synonym. Seems like a perfect synonym for 14.10 - unlike "trusty" questions I would expect both "u …
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Why my answer is deleted?

From my part (since it was I who did this), you had answered the question already on the duplicate. Since you effectively had recognised that the question was a duplicate and had correctly answered …
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13 votes
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I am being downvoted for no reason

I've looked into this and have determined the culprits. This will be dealt with overnight by the serial voting reversal mechanism - so just hang-on tight. As to the culprits - they will be suitably …
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