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16 votes
3 answers
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Me-too post? Or partial answer?

Where do we draw the line between "I'm having the same problem, too" posts and partial answers? This answer and its comments are what have motivated me to ask this. But I'm hoping for a general answer …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
13 votes
2 answers
236 views

Do we need a canonical partition recovery question? How shall we make it?

We have many questions about how to recover a whole partition. Typically it's an NTFS partition, destroyed by telling Ubiquity to install Ubuntu using the entire disk instead of alongside other operat …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
11 votes
Accepted

What to do if your question on AskUbuntu does not get answered?

In addition to what Takkat and skunkfrkut have said, I want clarify a common point of confusion: Many new users of Ask Ubuntu and other Stack Exchange sites assume their question will not be answered …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
10 votes
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What to do with questions whose OP hasn't visited the site for a long time?

Is it a duplicate? If the question is a duplicate of another question, vote/flag it for closure as a duplicate. The master question doesn't necessarily have to be older. If there's a more helpful ques …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
6 votes

New battle plan for the questions that require god-like powers to figure out user problem: C...

Questions that are not clear enough to plausibly be answered should be closed. And there is no reason to wait to close them. After all, closed questions that are edited are automatically added to the …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar
5 votes

What to do with answers posted as comments?

Part of my answer to What to do with questions whose OP hasn't visited the site for a long time? addresses the core question here. Is it answered in comments? If there are comments that effectively a …
Eliah Kagan's user avatar