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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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What do we do with this question that is really an answer?
I agree that reformatting as suggested by Zanna and dessert should be preferred. However, OP (or the community) may fail to do that, so the current situation would persist.
After a reasonable amount …
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Always use full Ubuntu version numbers (if you want to specify the version)
More often than I wish I come across a post (mostly a question) which uses wrong version numbers of Ubuntu.
Examples:
Ubuntu 17 to 18 upgrade, wont log in
Ubuntu 17 and hibernate?
How to install US …
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Discussion of Closed Post
Your question has been reopened recently. Hope you’ll get an answer soon!
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Problem of vote restriction
In the real world where we live, this turns out to be an advantage rather than a problem as proven during the several-year-long existence of the Stack Exchange network.
If anyone (literally) could ca …
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Shouldn’t we lower the close/reopen vote threshold?
More than half a year ago, Stack Overflow lowered the close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3.
Ask Ubuntu has an order of magnitude smaller community than Stack Overflow1 but we still require 5 close/ …
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Ask Ubuntu new site theme is live
Today I noticed the color around OP’s profile changed to the red from the blue being used across all SE sites I can think about, regardless of what their main color is.
When I first saw it (with an …
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Why I cannot answer some questions in askubuntu.com/unanswered (no answer-field)?
As the page says in the bottom, you must earn 10 reputation points before you can answer such a question.
This measure is usually put on questions which got many answers in the past that were later …
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Migration Paths?
I definitely agree that more migration targets should be provided. There is only one path to Ask Ubuntu Meta currently and we can only ask for migration to different sites by raising a moderation flag …
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Failed first post audit by flagging as a duplicate. Is it correct?
While reviewing the first posts queue, I failed the following audit: https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/799873
After I looked at the question, I just thought: “That must have been answered alre …
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Please don't use underscores for formatting
Disagree.
If it is supported somewhere, it should be supported everywhere. (Or nowhere but I think no one is going to convert all existing posts.) So I would rather ask for adding the support to “SE …
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The [groovy] tag became ambiguous
Ask Ubuntu has a groovy tag that is dedicated to “a dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine”.
However, Groovy (Gorilla) is the name of Ubuntu 20.10 and users started to (mis)use the tag for Ubun …
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Community consensus regarding using backticks or 4 spaces for code
Just like Dan, I don’t think we need a consensus. In your posts, use whatever you want (but keep the difference of in-line vs. block code formatting as Mark Kirby noted).
However, if I edit someone el …
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Do we need the [bootup] tag?
Looking at the questions tagged with bootup, I concluded the tag is synonymous to boot. Unlike boot, it has no description and is much less used and mostly by low-rep (assuming: new) users. Is it poss …
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Broken links starting with http://%20https://
The problem seems to be caused by copying a link with a preceding space into the Insert Hyperlink dialog. The software adds http:// in front of it and a broken link starting with http://%20https:// is …
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