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Upvoting questions (and then answers)

I am quite an old guy here on askubuntu.com, and I think that most of us have a problem with upvoting questions. If you see other communities, like tex.sx or photography.sx, you can see a quite differ …
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Require/Suggest "Informed" badge for asking questions?

I was thinking about it after having had some harsh answer to some comment or edit of a question. There are a lot of questions from new users (and some answer) that shows that the user has not really …
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Can I use my AU flair for emails?

(Moved here from comment) Most MUAs (mail reading programs) do not allow by default (for good reasons) the fetching of external images --- it would be a big privacy problem otherwise. The normal beha …
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How do you find an old post?

I concur that the search engine of askubuntu is a bit strange (or I am not able to use it appropriately). I normally use google directly: googling for site:askubuntu.com CTH 480 will probably dr …
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What is this "clone" site doing? And why? [duplicate]

In a google search, I stumbled upon this site: http://askubuntu.com.80bola.com/ Which seems to clone the askubuntu.com site. Apart the fact that I do not know if this is legal --- surely not reall …
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Should site search be automatically switched to google?

Disclaimer: I have seen Best way to search AskUbuntu, and even upvoted it, but still... I find that the search box on the main page (and live duplicate search) is quite sloppy by default. I can expl …
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