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My hope is that this can be a discussion that can help ourselves and new users produce better answers and improve flow of information. Share your tricks, tips, methods. …

It works and answers the question, but it's buggy, the approach used isn't optimal, or messes up user configurations, and I suspect I could probably fix it. What are the options in such case ? …

New post by user dessert to which answers were migrated did not in any way make it any more about Ubuntu than before - same utility, same answers. … And things will remain the same: answers are required to be only done with tools that work on Ubuntu, and just so happen to work elsewhere. …

"There's often no way to know at the outset if a question's answers will be Ubuntu-specific, Mint-specific, or otherwise." …

Users with 20,000 rep can cast delete votes on negatively voted answers. As you can see at 500 and 2000 users already can review or edit posts. … and many answers which were written on my distribution. …

Over time I've accumulated large amounts of answers, some of which could be combined into chapters/blog posts of their own. … Now, I know the reuse of other people's answers has to come with attribution, and in fact a lot of my answers do rely on research from other sources. But what about my own answers? …

When I vote to close a question it's possible to retract close vote. When I press delete(1) to remove my vote on an answer, it only asks for confirmation if I want to vote to delete, not retract. Can …

Here's the situation: A question has answer A which explains something fairly well I already have an answer there with alternative solution B However, I see that A can be explained in more detail a …

What are the limits to which answers and questions can be pushed ? … I am more interested in answers, but let's include question limits for completeness. …

I stumbled on this answer just now. It's an accepted answer, but contains a link from googleusercontent.com type of domain, which doesn't say much of itself in URL and I've never heard of it myself, b …

I know it might seem a bit frustrating and you're going into answering with good intentions, but look at it from this perspective: if your answers receive negative feedback, try to learn what exactly is … wrong with your answers and listen to the comments. …

Just now I've opened the main page of the site, and see that a new user has copy-pasted effectively the same text to 3 posts (last two of which are apparently duplicates of each other, since the answers …

Answers that are harmful should be downvoted, and commented on to mention what's wrong. …

There's something that has been bothering me for some time about the response to some answers here on Ask Ubuntu, and came to my attention again on this post. … What is the limit to which we define "cryptic" answers? I don't necessarily seek a "solution" but I do want to see what the community thinks on this matter. …

an answer that partially answers that the question asks an answer which already answers the question, but the author is seeking improved approach or refining their existing answer to make the answer more … In fact, some of the highly-voted answers on this site have evolved overtime and that can be seen in the edit history. At one point they've also been work-in-progress answers. …