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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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Reviewers *need* to be mindful of their actions!

Perhaps adding a back button for review cues would reduce the possibility of reviewer error going uncorrected.
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Is there a question for 'I've wiped my hard-drive installing, what do I do?' with good answers?

What bothers me about that one is that you have to read through the comments before you see a warning about reducing your chances of recovery by using the drive you are attempting to recover. This one …
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How long is never?

I keep revisiting this question: Reminder: Unanswered + Time != Too Localised in which @Oli states "The idea of removing older questions is okay but only under certain conditions: The asker has be …
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Deleted answer to question 348196

I'm wondering why my answer to How do I enable Ubuntu (using full disk encryption) to call LUKSsupend before sleeping/suspending to RAM? was deleted and if it could be considered for restoration. I …
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Should there be more incentive for working the close queue?

After reading Why do you not review? and stumbling across Do we need a event to clear out the Close Queue?. It occurred to me that the problem might be a lack of incentive. After 1000 such reviews, …
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Should there be more incentive for working the close queue?

Yes I would work the close queue more regularly if there was at least some incentive for this exceedingly boring, difficult and thankless job.
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Edit appears to be from post owner but may not be. Attempt to hijack question?

While reviewing suggested edits I came across this one. https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/389330 At first glance it looks like an edit from the original poster, but the user numbers don't …
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Question starts out being about Ubuntu but ends up being about Debian

The following question starts out being about Ubuntu but ends with a solution about Debian. USB sticks not accessible & system hangs at shut-down: related to older hardware? My gut reaction is off-t …
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Is this the type of question we want to be answering here?

I stumbled across this question today and afterward noticed that the phrase "Be nice" no longer seems to appear in the code of conduct. This seems to be a rather mean and spiteful trick to play on som …
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How do you tell when a question is a bug?

Usually if it's a bug you can find it listed already on one of the bug reporting sites like bugzilla or launchpad. While not everyone knows how to report a bug, many do and if it is a bug it is likely …
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Is it OK to not accept an answer out of many equally good ones?

No, clearly you should accept one. If both answers are valid, upvote both answers and accept the one that seems best (most informative, clearest, or whatever quality metric you can think of that narro …
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Editing of closed posts

I recently reviewed an edit to a closed post. At first glance this seemed superfluous as it seemed pointless to edit a post that had already been closed as off-topic so I rejected the post and upon h …
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How can I give feedback on improving Ask Ubuntu?

Post it on Ask Ubuntu Meta and tag it with the feature-request tag and the devs will see it.
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When refering to the Apps subdomain (apps.ubuntu.com) with a button, should I add anything t...

I think the post you linked is a perfect example of a nice way to do it.
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Please don't flag old questions as EOL

I have nothing against closing those questions that were only valid for a specific period of time and can't be reproduced as such. That being said, I share the annoyance at finding old questions tha …
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