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Yes, Ask Ubuntu is meant to be an archive of information for future users (with some rules). From the tour itself: Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. It's b …

Let's talk for a minute about the recovery tag, again. There are many different kinds of recovery, including (but not limited to): data-recovery, for recovering lost data, password-recovery, for reco …

We should absolutely not be recommending the use of gedit as root (through gksu or worse, sudo) to any user, professional or otherwise. See my answer here for reasoning, as well as a similar thread re …

We do encourage users to read the manual and get information for the future. We shouldn't force users to actually just read the documentation, as this isn't a forum. People ask questions, people get …

No. Please, god, no. Closing is for questions with severe problems content-wise. If five people (or a single mod) decide that the question is not editable into something good, we have the option to c …

Moderator elections are not scheduled events. Instead, they are brought up as the need arises, namely when more moderators are considered "needed." As you can see from the elections list, there was no …

As of the time of writing, we have a rather large number of what can be considered "canonical posts", or posts that are basically frequent dupe-targets and answer very broad/general questions. Howeve …

shared is useless. Just completely and utterly useless. It doesn't refer to anything currently, is used all over the place (shared folders/shared libraries/shared memory), and has no definition for o …

glitch seems to be completely undescriptive as a tag. We're limited to five tags per post. We should make them useful and descriptive so that people with expertise can find and answer those tagged qu …

My own two cents is that support should never be pushed off-site by anyone, no matter if they're an official representative or a Canonical employee. Part of the function of Ask Ubuntu is to build a r …

Right now, I'm busy making a chatbot for AskUbuntu known as WolfBot (you can play with it over in the testing room). You may remember the bot from such hits as Where should WolfBot live?, and everyone …

I'm not pointing about any users, but there are a few I know that like bolding things in questions. Is there a specific reason to do this? Readability is the largest reason I have heard. However, I d …

I came across a good question the other day and I would like to answer it. However, somebody else already answered it (and has received upvotes). However, the answer is very general and does not give …

Meme: The Starboard Originator: Ask Ubuntu Chat Examples: "Lol" "Yeah, people here will star any old thing. Here, just watch." "test" "Star this, for no reason at all." "." (yes, that …

To expand on WE2U's answer, because I'm the one who protected it... Protection is a minor hurdle added to (usually popular) posts to prevent new users from answering questions with non-answers, like …