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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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How is this question "off-topic"?
Bugs are by their nature only temporary and as this discussion of 2012 points out, they need to be filed elsewhere. …
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Raise visibility of self-answer by awarding bounty to self
So I posted a brilliant Q and A on how to resize partitions when you don't have physical access to Ubuntu as I'm seeing this happen all the time and couldn't find any specific answers here on how to …
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Methods in our madness: Suggesting a consistent reply when HW info is useful but missing
The first bit is a really neat idea, but the only thing you can do is to lead by example and post it under all questions that need it and other people will pick it up because there is no way to force …
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Sad question reopen time?
OK, so this is a really sad question but not everyone is familiar with the architecture of GNU/Linux¹ nor do they know the history of GNU and Linux and the very big personalities of Linus and RMS.
So …
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Is it OK to mark a question as a dupe when the OP might require significant additional knowl...
I edited both the question and the answer to make it abundantly clear that no recursive option was used, left a link to the duplicate in your answer and voted to reopen.
But I'm just one of the origin …
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Is answering twice and closing good or bad behaviour?
So yet another "What backup tool should I use?" question came up earlier today, so I:
voted to close as a duplicate
answered the question Deleted as per answer below in the meantime,
answered the …
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Reopen a question closed as a duplicate of 3 different ones?
So this question has been closed as a duplicate of 3 different questions and their answers, but IMHO none of them really answer the original question: they're just related...
Is it appropriate to reo …
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What should we do with answers only saying what not to do and advising readers to follow ano...
In this answer the user is sharing his experience of what not to do and says to follow the existing accepted answer.
IMHO this is a partial answer at best and not an answer at worst, but the OP has a …
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Do we -always- close posts if they are not exclusively about Ubuntu?
Jacob, posting this as I know you're a bit miffed now. You're not a N00b here and you're a good guy. :-) Next time, drop by in chat, ping the regulars, ask for an opinion, and especially:
Breathe in; …
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Why is this not a good question?
You're just new here and this is not a forum which most users are familiar with: this is a Question & Answer site and as a picture says more than a 1000 words:
We're like the little asterisk in the m …
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How is it that an OP with a rep of 1 can edit and add text to my answer
Too bad you only found out now, but back when you were a rep 1 user, you could edit any post and that was then reviewed in the edit queue by users like David Foerster (I remember David leaving comment …
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Why am I able to flag my own questions?
Because flagging is better than deleting most of the time¹...
A duplicate is a placeholder for the next person googling an answer.
An off-topic question points to StackOverflow, Unix & Linux, ...
A …
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Should abbreviations and acronyms be discouraged?
One of the Universal Serial Bus ports on my Universal Serial Bus hub is not recognised. Is this due to the Peripheral Component Interconnect or the Central Processing Unit or the Universal Extensible …
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What is required to become a moderator?
What you're referring to is probably editors and it takes 2000 rep to become an editor.
On the main site, if the user is a few 100 rep, he's just a user that has to go through a review process befo …
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Reopen opinion-based question to close as a duplicate
I'd like to reopen this question to close it again afterwards as a duplicate of this question and would like to get some input from the community before I start the reopen process as I might be biased …
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