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What to do if the good answer is in another question?

Ctrl+C Ctrl+V the big answer or it's relevant part -- feels both wrong and stupid. Not at all. You can reference other answers of other questions that are related but not quite the same. For exam …
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What do we do with (very) long answers, filled with off-topic story-telling?

Trim them down. Ask Ubuntu (and Stack Exchange) wants questions and answers without distractions. Like a FAQ. If you see too much noise unrelated to the solution of the question, just remove it.
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How to deal with higher quality duplicate questions?

There's a concept all users needs to be very clear of, and they usually get them wrong: Question A Question B Requeriment 1 Requeriment 1 Requeriment 2 Requeriment 3 Requeriment 4 Requerim …
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I know how everyone can be happy!

Unicorns for everybody! .... not really. I'm talking about our long trail of "list of X" that predate the site since immemorial times. As you can see in previous discussions people doesn't want them d …
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