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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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Should the development and programming tags be merged?
Yes. Nothing to add to Michael rational, he is just right, both tags have a very similar scope.
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Is it acceptable to replace linux with GNU/Linux ?
IMHO No.
It's not about what name is right, or what is wrong. The problem is that this kind of edits are (likely) going to ignite a flame war that will do no good to our users or community.
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What can users do about clear spam attempts?
This user is clearly spaming the site.
He has his company link twice in his profile (hint 1).
Then he asked this when it's offtopic and he identifies himself as a vpn company. Another link to himse …
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Fun-thread-friday!
Why not move the humour to meta?. I hope that way, we can enjoy here the community building side of it, while at the same time we keep the main site clean.
While forums are a nice option they are not …
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What is the best way to update a question when something changes?
I'm leaning to add another answer and edit the most voted one to reflect that there is now a new solution.
But there are some problems:
I fear that is rude to the author of the original answer to …
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Ask Ubuntu Clean Up
Removing or improving the unanswerable
This is not really an answer, but a question, but... keeping all info in the same place will be a great idea, and this is going to be too long for a comment. Fe …
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What is the best way to update a question when something changes?
Ok, maybe it's not the best title...
There is a question that was really about a bug. Some person answered with a good work-around that solved the problem, it gets up-voted to the top spot, it could …
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Is it possible to "over edit"?
No. I'm a believer in the religion of editing, overediting and superediting.
Quality content usually comes from work, overwork and superwork ;).
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Plea to the decentralized sense of opinion - use your vote!
This is a great post, but I'd like to add a point:
Please, add a comment telling why you downvoted a question, specially if the asker is low-rep, newbie.
I feel that there is nothing more discouragi …
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Should we allow questions that are about releases which are considered End of Life?
I'm going to revive this horse as I have hit his carcass today.
Closing such a question as Off-Topic is rude and it's not helpful at all to a new user. It took a while for me to found in the FAQ tha …
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Why was question 4389 closed?
This question.
As I understand it, it's just a fun question, quite like the apt-get-from-2020 one. I really can't understand why we accept and upvote one, but not the other. Sure it should be a commu …
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