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AskUbuntu does already facilitate direct communication between users, through chat. Users can create chat rooms to carry on one-to-one conversations. These rooms are not private, but private communica …

March 2018 Update: Even though this had been requested on Meta Stack Exchange five years before it was posted here (thanks to Zanna for finding that), in the intervening 8+ years it has never gotte …

It could also have bits like 'you may want to post the question here' as well, where here is a relevant SE site Yes, this. Or something like it. An off-topic warning that includes actual hyperli …

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 …

If Some People Really Can't See It, It Needs To Be More Visible If 1 in 20 people coming to the site to get help can't see the button they have to click to get help, that would make this an extremely …

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 feature would lead to comments being used incorrectly (even more often). Comments are a lightweight, secondary part of the Stack Exchange system. It is intentional that they: do not have a viewa …

Yes, paragraph breaks should be included. And they should appear first (or right before line breaks, wherever line breaks appears). That way, anyone who considers adding a line break and checks the h …

To address the feature request itself: This feature should not be implemented. Unlimited spam flags would be bad, because spam flags are extremely powerful. A spam flag carries an automatic downvot …

I'm not sure there's a problem. The message is "please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved". What's the circumstance under which it's inappropriate to comment if you think …

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 …

Users install Ubuntu, have a problem, and are directed to Ask Ubuntu. It is a boon to Ubuntu users that they do not then have to go through a registration process to get help. It's a strong message th …

Besides the problem with notifications that Mateo raises, there are a few problems with preventing users from commenting on their own questions, which could not be easily fixed: Sometimes, a user ma …

We have separate resolution and screen-resolution tags. resolution is almost always used, and screen-resolution almost never. Theoretically these are different, as resolution applies to things besides …

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 …