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How to ask a question with a template already created for answers?
This question has a template already created for answering it. That is, instead of the answer textbox starting out empty, it starts out with this text in it:
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Are questions about legislation welcome to AU?
Brazil is a big place. A question is too localized if it's unlikely it will help any other users. Clearly there are at least thousands of users who stand to benefit from such a question being answered …
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My question has 10 pictures, but I can't add them beacuse I don't have 10 reputation. What s...
Your question seems answered, so I'm not sure if it's important for you to add more images at this time. I'm answering this meta question for the general issue, not specifically for your question on m …
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Create sub sections/categories to accommodate specialities?
Tags do everything subsections would do, and can also overlap each other (in that a question may have more than one tag). You can simply browse the questions in a particular tag. It's unclear to me wh …
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I'd like to know how to replicate the process of building Ubuntu. How do I tag such a question?
I think this depends on what you mean by "building."
Currently you've tagged the question compiling. If you actually want to build your system from source packages (i.e., compiling everything from so …
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What do you do when all answers to your question brings you back to where you first started?
This meta question seems somewhat ambiguous to me and does not link to the question it's asking about, so it's possible I'm making a mistake in understanding it. This answer of mine likely only applie …
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Shouldn't the system prevent accidental verbatim duplicates?
This question is a verbatim duplicate of that question. They had the same title and body (until one of them was edited), are by the same author, and appear to have been posted within the same second, …
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Can I ask a question on Ask Ubuntu about all the old distros?
If it's not a question at all...
If what you are contemplating posting is not an actual question at all, then it's unlikely that it would be reasonable to "ask" it on Ask Ubuntu. At least not on the m …
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Commenting questions
This is not a bug; this is the intended behavior of AskUbuntu.
You can always comment on your own question or answer (that way, you can always reply to comments directed at you).
To be able to comme …
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Can I accept two answers on a question?
You cannot accept more than one answer at a time. That is, a question can have at most one accepted answer.
Assuming the accepted answer is by someone other than yourself, its author will get 15 repu …
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How to ask a following question?
In this case, you're really asking a different question.
"What is X for?" exists.
Your question is, "Does X achieve A?"
If that's not answered in the more general question, then you usually have a …
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Why separate "torrent" and "bittorrent" tags?
Why do we have torrent and bittorrent as separate tags on main?
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Is it OK to post a link to my question in the general chat room, to publicize it?
If I ask a question and want to draw attention to it, is it OK to post links to it in the general chat room? Or is this considered bad, since there is already a questions feed and if lots of people ma …