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Someone made a meta tag [review-audits] - is that a better name than [audits]?
I believe review-audits is a better tag name than audits. The main reason is what you say: it is less ambiguous. But there is another, minor reason.
review-audits will be easier to find and, for users …
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Answers that aren't about Ubuntu (explicitly about another distro)
TL;DR
As Ravexina says, I think this is about that answer, which appears intended to work on Ubuntu, but which discloses that it was tested on Fedora. Considering that it would not be considered a mod …
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Add a reply option for comments
The only real disadvantage I can think of to a properly designed reply button is that it might lead to more replying, encouraging protracted conversations in comments.
The original arguments against a …
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Accepted
Requesting some eyes on this Closed thread
It was closed as off-topic. The specific reason selected was:
Bug reports and problems specific to development version of Ubuntu should be reported on Launchpad so that developers can see, track and …
10
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What should we do with new answers to old questions of EOL versions, with an already accepte...
There is nothing special about newly posted answers to questions about releases that have reached end of life (or end of standard support).
The goal of the site is to build a library of answers to que …
5
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Did I find a loop hole?
Comments on deleted posts support flagging, as pomsky says.
There are a variety of situations where it makes sense to flag a comment on a deleted post. Of the flagging reasons currently available for …
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Why were my edit suggestions of fixing URL rejected?
As you know, I am one of the reviewers who rejected (both of) your attempts to apply this edit.
I think it is far from obvious that the specific change made here is correct or even safe. There are tw …
11
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Standards for editing
I want to focus first on one of your questions that I consider very important:
Links: should they be shown like "I followed this link" or like "I followed https://foo".
It is true that li …
17
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Accepted
Question about Windows gets highly voted and has good Linux answers
The OP seems to be using Windows. But besides that, the question itself is not related to Windows in any way (I explain exactly why this is below). I think the good options, at this point, are (a) to …
17
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Forum etiquette (edited question)
It is as you say: your post has been edited.
Every question and answer on the site has a revision history, which shows each version of the post and provides comparisons between them. This is the revi …
20
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It's time for me to go
I'm sorry to see you step down as a moderator, though (like terdon) I understand the reason.
You've made Ask Ubuntu and numerous people's lives better through your contributions and interactions on A …
7
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Accepted
Editing posts: number of edits vs reputation
I don't think the specific change proposed here would be an improvement, but this is a good question.
In the hypothetical situation you described--which is a perfectly plausible situation, considerin …
17
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Accepted
Proposed edit rejected - new edition is almost the same and didn't solve some problems
I clicked Reject and Edit while reviewing the post. Although the rejection is shown as being done by the Community bot, I'm the one who's responsible for your edit being rejected (whether or not that …
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How often is [frequency] useful?
We have 51 questions tagged frequency. This seems like an extremely general, cross-cutting concept that isn't useful as a tag. However, most questions tagged frequency are questions about CPU frequenc …
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Please un-mark my question a duplicate
Yes, you're right that your question wasn't a duplicate of the linked question, because you already enabled the repositories that provide "ddeb" debug symbol packages (the -dbgsym packages), and both …