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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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Why is my only option for posting here titled "ask a question"?
Often, you may find that asking people things fosters discussion, but it is not the only way to foster discussion and posts on meta are not required to be "real questions." …
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What do I need to do to be able to answer questions again?
You've been answer-banned.
Fortunately, it is usually possible to get un-banned. The main thing to do is improve your answers. This is sometimes possible even after they have been deleted. I've looked …
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Is Ask Ubuntu an archive?
In addition to everything Kaz Wolfe has said about this, I want to point out three more things about Ask Ubuntu that make it useful as a lasting resource.
Being Closed and Being Answered are Separate …
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Use of Mediafire or Anonymous Hosting links in Answers
I think we should allow these links, because I don't think links to file-sharing sites that don't require account creation actually pose a risk greater than other kinds of download links.
There is no …
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Some users downgrade votes and not give an answer
I think, if AskUbuntu born to help all users, and I agree we can vote
down to an answer, but, at least, the user that downgrade the answer,
must give the correct answer.
This is the famous no …
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How should I deal with my own, now slightly outdated, question?
Even after the bug fix is released, the question may be useful to someone who has not applied the fix (so they know they should apply the fix). It may also be useful to someone who experienced the pro …
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Answering a question by using information from the Web
If you reproduce copyrighted material in a way that requires permission from the author, it is best to include a statement that it is reproduced with permission, so that people do not think you have i …
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How to answer "is it safe to install...... questions?
I don't think we should be closing these questions.
Many if not most of them have perfectly good objective answers. If answers are coming off as people's opinions, without any real weight behind them …
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Dealing with an un-fixable/un-answerable question
If you can provide detailed information, or information with a reliable source, to indicate that the card is unlikely to work, I'd say you should post your own answer containing that information. That …
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Ubuntu with multiple desktop sessions
It would be rather silly for us to support universe, multiverse, third-party repo, and PPA packages in general, plus binary-only proprietary apps (both native and in Wine) ...except when it's a deskto …
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Can/shall I delete my "answer" after it has been converted to a comment?
This lists several things not to use comments for (and explains what to do instead): corrections, answers, praise that doesn't add information, criticism that doesn't add information, discussion about …
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What to do about answers that offer suggestions without emphasizing that the answer is merel...
The good thing about this is that they are posted as answers, and not comments. Therefore, they can be voted on, edited, and commented on specifically without creating comment noise elsewhere.
If the …
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How do you tell when a question is a bug?
Like Jorge Castro says here, we usually don't know for sure.
Investigating bugs is what we're poorly equipped to do here. So, if the problem has to be investigated as a bug, it can usually be conside …
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Should people be advised to check if a question has already been asked and answered before a...
We can close questions as duplicates. So if a question is a duplicate, vote to close (or, if you have less than 3k reputation, flag to close and consider commenting).
Often, answers are valuable, but …
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Remove 'don't add these answers' from community wiki question
The point of Stack Exchange is to create reusable questions and answers that benefit many people (or at least as many as are interested in the topic they cover).
Therefore, and without intending any …
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