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Why is Ask Ubuntu not using elasticsearch for searching its content?

Stack Exchange network of sites, which includes Ask Ubuntu, are actually using elasticsearch search engine. You can read some more about it: A new search engine for Stack Exchange There is also …
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What happens when I vote to delete an answer?

When you vote to delete a post, it gets added to this queue that I am sure no one uses anymore.
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Again three VLQ flags have been declined. Can anyone explain?

Here's what the description for VLQ reads (with added emphasis): This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need …
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What should I (or we) do about answers that obviously miss the point of the question entirely?

Yes, that post should have been deleted and has been deleted now. No matter what we claim, mods are humans too and sometimes, we overlook posts (just like that answerer) and mistakenly act on flags. T …
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Unable to suggest edit

Several of the edits that you suggested were rejected which lead to your account temporary barred from suggesting any more edits. This suspension would last for a week and is automatic. See Why is t …
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Adding comments to a bounty

From the help page on bounty: How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty? A bounty can be started on a question two days after the question was asked. To start a bounty, click …
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Reputation decreasing automatically

Some posts you suggested edits on and gained +2 rep on them were deleted. This results in those edit reps getting reverted upon deletion of the post. These kinds of reps are hidden by default on your …
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Earned Announcer badge - Dont understand how

You shared a link to an answer in that question on Launchpad Answers.
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When does the AskUbuntu Twitter account automatically tweet a question?

Documenting whatever I could find about the workings of the Twitter bot: Tweets a link to a question every 3 hours. Tweets a link to a newly bountied question. Any question that is considered "hot" …
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What makes a question show up on the homepage?

You have the right idea that if someone answers or edits a post, the question gets bumped to the front page. And that's exactly what had happened. Someone added an "answer" and I then deleted it on th …
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List of most recent questions

I think this is what you want -- https://askubuntu.com/questions?sort=newest. The questions in the list are sorted with the latest question on the top.
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Are user-contributed hyperlinks always nofollow?

The links in content generated by users are by default nofollow. This, however, changes once the post exceeds a predetermined vote and age threshold. The exact number of votes and the age has not been …
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Why is this question, Wired Connection Problem, protected?

That question was protected automatically by Community user because three "answers" were flagged as non-answers and subsequently deleted by one of the community moderators. Automatically protect q …
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Why is edit question feature unavailable?

If you did read the tooltip over the disabled edit button, it would have told you there is a pending suggested edit waiting to be reviewed. Anyway, I have reviewed the suggested edit and you should …
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Has rep required to edit questions been increased?

What happened was you suggested quite a number of minuscule edits that only edited out "Ubuntu" from the question title and ignored / overlooked the question body that did need quite some improvements …
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