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The "favourite questions" thing had, for a brief period, notifications on changes. It was shortly removed, and has shown no signs of coming back in the four years since. See Jeff Atwood's post.

Does it matter? Ultimately, only the question's state when you review it should be the only thing that counts. In the case of duplicates, there are three tabs over the question: Question (revised), …

It's called a "feature request": Where can I send feature requests? Note that Ubuntu is moving to GNOME Shell, so feature requests for Unity won't be of much priority. And they probably won't be back …

We already implemented tag warnings to make people provide that information: Tag Warning Is Now Live for "Wireless". If people still don't provide it, then I'm OK with using duplicate close votes as a …

Why? This is a standard bounty reason: If the post means so much, offer a bounty.

Con: answers that don't contribute anything to Ask Ubuntu, or to Stack Exchange in general. This site is not a forum. If a question is a possible duplicate, you have two options: flag it as a dupli …

You'll see on many posts that are applicable across releases that answers have headers that say, for example: For 13.04 and later Until 12.04 And so on. If you're sure that the post is no l …

I assume it's for the same reason why there's no notification on closure. Jeff Atwood had once posted an answer for a similar feature request on Meta Stack Exchange, since deleted. The answer was full …

At present, the Ask Ubuntu questions page changes the title to add a count of questions with new activity since the page was loaded. I think it'd be a lot more, if not just as much, useful to show a c …

We could do with a triage queue like Stack Overflow: Triage is a question review queue intended to split questions into three categories: "Looks OK", "Requires Editing", and "Unsalvageable". N …

In the general case, this is to prevent a user from posting a bunch of questions about some topic without doing enough research on it. You can see this happen even with experienced users. I know of a …

This is a status-deferred request on Meta SE.

This seems to be running Ubuntu in a container of some sort. The parts inside the container would be on-topic, just like, say, a Ubuntu Docker or LXC container would be, and to some extend the parts i …

I don't really mind if a visiting user creates a bounty, gets their answer and leaves. IMHO that's one of the most useful benefits of the free rep (the other being the ability to comment1). If I'm n …

This is the story of a time long ago, a time of myth and legend, when Jeff Atwood ruled Stack Exchange. He status-declined Add "Reply" link to comment that pre-populates comment box with @username. B …