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What Went Wrong Here I think the problem here was not that you didn't explicitly state you were running Ubuntu, but that people assumed you weren't running Ubuntu. That was an unreasonable assumption …

There are two cases. If it would have been better somewhere else but is acceptable here, don't close it at all. If it's off-topic here because it's really not about Ubuntu, then use the "not about U …

There is something to this idea...maybe. There are links to meta in many posts on main...even in the FAQ. I don't think most people get to meta the first time by clicking the meta link, or that we sh …

If someone searches Ask Ubuntu Meta and they get posts that were not created by anyone in the Ask Ubuntu community, that would be at least as unintuitive. If anyone attempts to implement a feature li …

Closing a question doesn't keep comments from being posted. Both the OP and others can post comments on closed questions. Closing a question prevents answers from being posted. A question that is clo …

This is a real issue which deserves to be remedied. I think we (by which I actually mean: Stack Exchange developers, which I'm not) can fix this in a way that does not significantly decrease overall q …

How often do we really link to PPA's using their fully-qualified PPA name? The system doesn't provide a built-in facility for: surrounding text with <kbd> tags, creating package installation links, …

While I'm not sure if there's any Stack App that does this, I'm not sure why this task would need to be tied specifically to the Stack Exchange platform. Presumably, any web annotation software would …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I don't agree (with what I admit appears to be the general consensus so far) that we should increase the amount of reputation needed to create new tags. Most of the time, these new, bad tags should …

Some of the badge progress tracking functionality you're looking for is provided by this third-party stack app. (That can only track progress based on accessible information, though, and some informa …

A better solution would be for the user's profile to have a field listing the older name, for some number of days. (30 would be reasonable.) When referring to a post rather than a person, it's usuall …

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 …