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Duplicate Question, versus Updated Answers, regarding Certification
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 …
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Would creating a Q&A question to cover specific 14.04 sound issues be okay here?
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 …
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It is not necessary for questions to contain the word "Ubuntu" for it to be on-topic on Ask ...
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 …
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How to decide which question to close as duplicate?
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. …
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How to remove a wrong flag?
You can't, flags are not reversible and you will have to trust the moderators and other more privileged users good judgement.
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How to flag Hardware recommendations questions?
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 …
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My question was closed by what I consider over-zealous moderation
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 …
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Is it possible to restore my deleted account
Short answer is no, there is no method to recover your account.
According to the stack exchange team there is no "recovery" method available and everything would need to be rebuilt by hand, and that …
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How do I delete/abandon my question when it has answers?
Ask a mod ™
Flag, explain yourself, wait.
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Can windows application be used as an answer in main?
I would say it is acceptable, as long as the software is know to work using WINE and there is no other obvious solution.
Not in that specific case though...
That answer was just deleted by je because …
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Does anyone know what's up with this question?
The whole thing is trash. There is a lot of immaturity and noise on the whole thing, both the question and the answer.
Users of Ask Ubuntu need to focus a bit more on the quality of their posts and …
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Many users just voting down, even when answerers follow up?
From what I see your answers are downvoted because you do not supply information enough to actually fix the issue, you link to other sites without explaining why it would be a solution for the problem …
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Should reputation be reduced over time, when a user is inactive?
What? No! Why? Nooooooo, no no no no...
Motivation? What? It's not that you are payed to contribute on the site... It's about helping others, why should you "reward" for being a good contributor decr …
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Duplicate questions by same user
Yes, just copy the link from the first one and paste it in to the search box in the duplicate form that shows when you press to close to vote it as a duplicate.
You can search parameters, enter the …
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What about EasyBCD?
If its about using or repairing a Ubuntu system, or fixing the issues caused by a broken boot loader while trying to install Ubuntu, why not?
Does not matter if the software you are using is Windows …