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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 is the consensus on people who are not using Ubuntu asking General Questions on AU that...
What you said in the beginning:
There are a number of questions about Linux and applications that run
under Linux, that are asked by users that are not using Ubuntu.
There are many many Ubuntu-agnos …
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Should we not downvote if a question already has a bad score?
It's not a pity-upvote but...
If I see a question or answer has been down-voted and I don't see any egregious errors in it, I will up-vote to compensate for the unexplained down vote(s). I'll do this …
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Do we engage in too much `gksu` bashing?
I can't count the number of times I've seen bashing of answers which contain:
gksu gedit /rootpath/rootfile.conf
Yesterday (February 17, 2018) Live Wire updated an article on how to setup gksu. The a …
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When to change question to be on-topic
The people involved Muru, David and Zanna might all be considered Moderator Material so I'm feeling there is just something I'm not getting and would like to see a discussion outside the limited scope …
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What is it about some answers that attract upvotes?
I'm guilty of up-voting your Real Time Clock answer a week ago. I thought the picture of the RTC was hilarious. I could up-vote your USB problem because I suffered something similar using dd to create …
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ask ubuntu message management
When I'm on my phone I can't effectively answer messages because A) I'm all thumbs and B) there is no Ubuntu on my phone. So I put a star on the message hoping to come back to it later only I don't kn …
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Would you reject an edit to a question asked 2 1/2 years ago?
This queue review link: https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/627069 The proposed edit is simply taking comments made 2 1/2 years ago and changing the question to reflect them.
Should I reject …
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Is there a place for absolute new users to go for questions and not take time away from more...
I think there should be a section for new users to instruct on basics like:
What is dash?
What is the launcher?
How do I open the terminal?
What is a script?
How do I install Ubuntu?
What common a …
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Why would an answer posted by a 5 year user end up in the Late Answer New User queue?
I signed up here over two years ago and at the time made a few posts but knew very little of how the AU interface worked or what the "UbuntuQuette" was in AU.
It wasn't until four months ago (after I …
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Is it appropriate to ask not to downvote?
There was an incident in AU a few months ago with a poster frequently asking for upvotes. It was decided repeatedly doing so was inappropriate but the occasional time to instruct new users was ok. IIR …
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Want to participate, can't due to 0 reputation
The question you are trying to answer has been protected by Kaz Wolfe. When a question has been protected new users cannot post answers. You can post answers on 99% of the questions in Ask Ubuntu whic …
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Voting to close your own question instead of deleting
Tonight I voted to close my own question as a duplicate when I could have deleted both my zero voted question and self answer.
The reason I did this was because my question title: Why does `journalct …
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I want to close this as "too broad"
I want to VTC as "too broad" but remember Zanna's great advice a week or fortnight ago to bring issues up here when in doubt.
Here is the question: My average laptop temperature is 75C. Is it Normal? …
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Should this question be massively edited and VTR'd?
This question appears to be an XY problem: Find out which command runs when I call a particular function from shell
Would it be ok to delete the whole question body and replace it with the title? May …
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Purpose of protecting a closed question?
I just voted to reopen this question: EXT4-fs error after Ubuntu 17.04 upgrade. Then I noticed there was an option to protect it.
Why would I want to protect a closed question when I'm the first pers …
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