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Retract a reopen vote
It's very simple to retract a close vote (although doing so means you can't vote again on that post) but unless I'm missing something it's not possible to retract a re-open vote. Mistakes occur regard …
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Can we require that questions contain a question mark to nudge users to ask explicit questions?
A strict mandate would not be effective and would possibly be harmful for the reasons pointed out by @ByteCommander in this comment.
My gut reaction is that I could certainly get behind the idea of …
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Can we merge many meta Q&As about "abandoned questions"?
I wasted some time in the past, cruising meta for old unanswered questions resulting in my asking Do we really need EOL related announcements hanging about in the unanswered meta questions queue? A co …
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Give AskUbuntu its own "magic link": [AU] instead of [ubuntu.SE]
I like this idea and it seems to me to a be reasonable request and quite likely a far from onerous task. [au] seems a reasonable choice to replace [ubuntu.se] and I think we could all appreciate savin …
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Can we expand the migration request options to include softwarerecs
I recently noticed the option to migrate a question to Meta in the close reasons. I'm wondering if this could be expanded to include https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
I've seen http://meta.asku …
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Can we expand the migration request options to include softwarerecs
This would seem to be a bad idea due to the likelihood of misuse. The question linked as an example would NOT be welcome at http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com due to it's vagueness. It seems to me …
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Closing the off-topic and duplicate questions with bounty
Perhaps this should be a feature-request. My best guess is that the question is locked open once a bounty has been offered and removed from the offerers rep. In a perfect world this would be fine. I a …
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Dark Theme for Ask Ubuntu
I personally would not use this if it was available. My solution to avoiding eyestrain was to use redshift. This put me in control of what I was subjecting my eyes to and had the added benefits of
A …
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Are people getting "rep shy"? || About "commentswers"
I respectfully disagree with your position. I'd hate to see any of my "bread crumb" comments converted to an answer. Ideally, following Jorge Castro advice makes the most sense to me. Convert these ti …
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Documentation on Ask Ubuntu
From a logical standpoint I would have to say that this sounds somewhat like reinventing the wheel. There is already a documentation project in existence why not expend effort to improve an existing s …
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Regarding the influx of 16.04 questions
Many questions (even though tagged with a version number) are not version specific and should be answered if possible.
I don't think the idea of a banner (or better yet a support schedule) is a bad …
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Would it be possible to see all the answers when you review in "low quality posts"
What you suggest is already possible. Open the question in a new tab and you can see all the answers given. I often do this to gain a fuller understanding of what I'm looking at.
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Shouldn't Stack Exchange build a Question Wizard? (for beginning users)
Great proposal in my humble opinion. At the very least adopting @Oli Alpha-testing a wizard would be a huge step in the right direction and would cover the vast majority of the questions I've seen whe …
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Questions with too little information
Educating the user is part of the battle.
It's been my experience that people seldom know how to frame their questions effectively (If they could, they would usually find their answers on google.com) …