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I noticed that the logos and fav icons from sites like askubuntu.com and omgubuntu.co.uk are almost the same. Are they connected in any ways? Is there a specific reason they would look so similar?

Ask Ubuntu, as any other site in the Stack Exchange sites network, works with the help of a rating system. Sometimes it's hard for people to understand the importance of a single vote but votes are th …

Why prefer a new question just because its new? To my view you are confusing things, there are 2 points there that should not be mixed and considered the same: Is there something offered via offici …

Broad general sound issues Q&A? Don't see it as a good thing. Normally attempts for that just result in big fails that are not maintained or do not reflect current status of the situation when evalua …

We closed this as per parent site guidance and previous Ask Ubuntu meta discussion over the same issue https://askubuntu.com/questions/115237/music-players-in-ubuntu-linux Was it fair? … This created some discussion since the question already has a lot of answers in it and has thousands of views (107k views to be more exact). …

Lets say a user created an answer to a question and because he is nice enough and he knows people can concentrate on his answer as a base and add more information to it he marked the answer as communi …

Currently (from what I can see) the rules for ordering the answers in a question is: Accepted answer (no matter what votes it has) Answer with most votes numbers below the accepted answer Answers wi …

I have seen some community wiki answers laying around the site, I am wondering when should one use it and the main reason for them to exist. Can moderators convert a user answer to community wiki? i …

P.S. keep in mind this is marked as a discussion, I know that probably there is no valid answer to this (at least not 1 that would satisfy all). …

I will give the example of this answer. It was a bad answer, not much information in it, not really a good work around. A bad answer is a bad answer, we all understand that. Now, I look at the user …

I agree, it seems that the hordes of fans that Ask Ubuntu has sometimes make use of their close votes in a unfair way. The help section of the site clearly states: Using and administering Ubuntu, i …

However, I had a discussion with one of our fellow users, minerz029, that in this case the question asked later has better answers, more views and more upvotes than the question as earlier. …

You can't, flags are not reversible and you will have to trust the moderators and other more privileged users good judgement.

Flags are used for issues that need specific moderator attention. They are used sometimes to flag posts that should be handled by users with more reputation and privileges, in this case the privilege …

This annoys me a little bit. We understand that, does not make it off-topic for the site. Not sure if I'm creating even more unnecessary drama by posting this here, hopefully not, I just wanted to g …