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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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What to do with answer that should be comment from user with 1 rep [duplicate]
A user with 1 rep posts an answer that should actually be just a comment. It might be a useful comment, but it is clearly not an answer. The user cannot post this as a comment, because he doesn't have …
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What to do with boatload of screen-resolution related questions?
I was browsing Ask Ubuntu for a bit and I found that there are a lot of screen-resolution related questions who are badly asked/answered or not answered at all.
A lot of the questions are very specif …
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"This is commentary on another post, not an answer" used for low quality answers
I think the "This is commentary on another post, not an answer" comment is used too much on close votes. I'm talking about the following one:
This does not provide an answer to the question. To cr …
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Ask Ubuntu is on Linux Unplugged
What?
This is an answer to "why the duplicate questions are bad".
Example
I have been using askubuntu for a long time, but only recently, I began to answer questions. The first question I answered …
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Retagging untagged questions "too minor"?
Since when is retagging an untagged question "too minor"?
The community clearly thinks that retagging untagged questions is good (see links below), but still, half of my retags get rejected by being …
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Why is this question off-topic?
This question is from a user who is struggling using the android debugger tools on Ubuntu.
Why is this off-topic? This isn't an android problem, this is a "how to do x on Ubuntu" problem where "x" ju …
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Is there an official point of view towards leading people away from the site into "private" ...
This is more a comment, but it is too long so I put it as an answer:
The question itself is good, but why are you elaborating so much on that specific answer? It seems really passive-aggressive to me. …
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The flood of "nvidia drivers + 16.04" questions
There is already a bunch of "I installed Nvidia drivers and now Ubuntu is borked" questions. What do we do with this?
I've only found two useful answers;
Disable secure boot; this seems to enable s …
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Bounty on adobe AIR Ubuntu 10.10 question
I see that there is a bounty on a question about installing adobe AIR on Ubuntu 10.10
The description reads: "The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision given recent changes."
I don' …
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Why is this edit rejected?
I'm new to answering and editing questions. My edit on how to install the ia32-libs in ubuntu 13.10 has been rejected. I do not know why. The reasons given were
This edit introduces spam, defaces th …
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Skype in Wine duplicate questions
The delete part I can answer myself: I was posting duplicate answers, I should've just answered one and mark the others as duplicate.
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Skype in Wine duplicate questions
I recently found a way to run Skype in Wine. I searched askubuntu, and found a bunch of duplicate questions. I answered the question with the most upvotes and flagged the others as duplicate, but they …
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