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Sometimes a question asks for what is considered bad practice. Giving a direct answer to the question might be a clear description on how to achieve what's considered bad. In writing such an answer I …

This relates to the fact that Stack Exchange is hosted on a Windows platform. It is indeed worrying that a communication platform of a community focused on free software relies on proprietary software …

If not deemed helpful flags can be declined or disputed. What flags should be declined and what flags should be disputed?

I don't know if there's some automated way but the task seems to need interaction anyway. The best might be to write a comment to each answer and write that the question has been reduced to one questi …

I'm afraid you currently don't have any answer that would qualify for any of the badges. The good answer badge is given to answers with 25 upvotes. The great answer badge is given to answers with 100 …

As far as I know Stack Exchange sites are meant to be based primarily on up-voting. If a post deserves a down-vote it should be so bad that the voter is prepared to lose 1 reputation. Thus, I think th …

The last comment for that question reads This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, could you perhaps add more detail to your question? If you are experiencing a similar issue pleas …

I do not mean that Ask Ubuntu is doomed or anything. But there are things we can work with to make it a better site. One problem is that Ask Ubuntu has a relatively high influx of new content. More c …

The information http://se.awio.com/election.html gives on nominees is valuable for the current (2012) election too.

There is now a creative commons graphic in the footer of both the main site and meta.

Can this system be gamed by moderators? As far as I understand the workings of the site when moderators vote for closing their vote is a final ruling compared to normal users who either have to flag f …

In comments to How can one-handed work in Ubuntu be eased? it is argued that it is subjective in that there is no correct answer to it per se. What is your thoughts?

I think that it is not too subjective, at least not compared to other questions. Seeing that the question already has useful answers it is possible to answer. Any question where it is hard to tell wha …

The release is past and we are looking forward to the next release which is preceeded by a beta release, see PSA: 12.04 Beta Has Landed.

The best thing might be to first comment on the answer and ask for what you feel is missing in hope that the answer will be changed by editing. Make sure to be specific in your comments, e.g. Have …