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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 …

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 …

Retracting Flags As Zanna says, the appropriate action when you have raised a flag that you have then realized is wrong or unhelpful is to retract the flag. Most (but not all) types of flags can be re …

It's not just your questions that would be useful to have fast access to. It's also your answers, and your favorites (i.e., questions you have starred), and the list of all actions that you have done …

I'd go for the option of having a banner that reminds the user. By "banner" I mean a bar at the top like that one that appears to tell people that the site is about to go into read only mode for maint …

I agree with this. Besides correcting mistakes, there are some other situations where retracting reopen votes would be useful: The OP rolls back an edit that changes the question or provides more in …

If any action is taken, .bashrc should be made a synonym of bashrc, not of bash. It's true that we don't need a separate tag .bashrc. That tag is hardly used (surely some question has at some point i …

I agree with Bruno Pereira that we should not make reputation on our site work like karma on Launchpad. Of course, you'd expect me to say that (I have over 60k rep, after all). What I want to add is …

As the tour says: With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about Ubuntu. This shows why closing a question is no substitute for answering …

You are correct that this comment is often used wrong. Our policy is that answers that are low quality, incomplete, or too short should not be posted as comments. It is sometimes appropriate to delete …

Only the very most valuable comments, when posted as answers, should be converted to comments rather than simply deleted. In particular, the threshold for converting an answer to a comment should not …

This is a good idea. Since Ask Ubuntu's relationship to the Ubuntu project is far tighter than the relationship between SE/SO and any sponsoring company, it stands to reason that at least the officia …

TL;DR Wubi was only "discontinued" by a very strange sense of that term, as it continues shipping on official Ubuntu ISOs and working. Furthermore, even if we were to consider Wubi unsupported start …

I agree; the list of example off-topic distros should be updated from time to time to reflect those that are most commonly asked about. This is beneficial not merely because it helps people using thos …

I think that if there are people who work for System76 (to use that brand as an example) who intend to provide support on Ask Ubuntu in that official capacity, and they know how Ask Ubuntu works and w …