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Yes, they are considered off-topic. See https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic where it states quite plainly that Shopping or Hardware Recommendations should be avoided.

You can get details regarding the support status of yoru version of Ubuntu with the command ubuntu-support-status which provides detailed output similar to thison my 14.04.5 system: Support status summary …

This question was prompted in part by the content of this one which got me to wondering if the system allows this type of reassessment, either manually or automatically. And if so, what level of reput …

Yes. A comment replying to a deleted comment is obsolete as the context is lost. There are many cases where this occurs during normal operations. For instance "Please [edit] whatever into your post" …

I was reviewing some of my answers yesterday in an effort to earn the Sportsmanship badge, cleaning up some of my obsolete comments along the way on the main site and flagged a couple comments for del …

On askubuntu.com is there a way to communicate with another editor or answerer without cluttering up the questions and answers with info unrelated to the specific post? As an example I posted an answe …

Yes. You can drop them a line in the AskUbuntu General Chat Room and if they aren't present and they've been in recently, they get a message in their inbox.

This question was triggered by a review of this low-quality post. I dropped a comment explaining how to favorite the question in the sincere desire to help provide some clarity. I've reviewed http://m …

This question was prompted by the results of a normal dupe search on this question. I discovered 2 possible duplicates as listed below and my first thought was that they should be merged. Duplicate …

Age Of the Answers: If the questions are substantially the same, on-topic and cover currently supported versions/or apparently timeless issues and there are answers of current value in both questions, …

I was reviewing this question in the Close votes queue and upvoted the comment that mentioned the correct duplicate. I received a message regarding hitting the vote limit. I proceeded to VTC the as th …

Looking at the edit, I see all the individual changes made so I don't see how the OP could have simply copied and pasted your edit. If that is indeed your work, it would seem to be a bug....

I worked on both of these questions: Unable to connect to the internet via ethernet (using a pppoe) , though it works via wi-fi Connecting cable/fibre internet using PPPoE in Ubuntu It's become cle …

After reviewing 20 close vote duplicates I got the "Thank you, come back in X hours" message. I'm curious as to why the number of hours varies. Yesterday I got one that said 6 hours and today it says …

Looks like vandalism to me. But as suggested it's an audit to determine if you are paying attention.