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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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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Well... There is a time to come and a time to go and the time to go has come. ;-)
So I've landed a new job and my time is being taken up for more then 100% (>8 hours/day) during the first week on t …
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How to help a paranoid, delusional user?
Earlier today, this question was asked and contained a delusional rant about the KKK and the FBI and looked a bit like an episode of the X-files...
My question is simple: Should we help this user (b …
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Shouldn't Stack Exchange build a Question Wizard? (for beginning users)
Proposal to have all users under 30 reputation follow a question wizard.
Some people just don't use google and they ask questions that have been asked before or they ask unclear question, or off-topi …
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What to do with "half-hearted" edit suggestions?
I just click Improve edit, edit it to be what I want it to be and then leave the following canned comment:
@WhoeverMadeTheEdit Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! **;-)** Could you please review my [edits]() and …
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Get rid of Windows answers?
Isn't it time to get rid of this answer and enforce the policy of closing Windows questions, here, here, ... as off-topic?
I'd rather leave a comment "We're sorry, but this site is all about Ubuntu a …
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Accepted
Should I approve these small edits in the review queue?
Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so just sharing what I do:
If those edits are the only edits the post needs: Approve
If those are just some minor formatting and the post needs major rework: Reject
In-bet …
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editing user's posts
Here's a good example of a question that needed a lot of deleting to make it legible and on-topic.
Soifthereisalotofblabberinggoingonandremovingitservesapurpose: Remove the superfluous info!
:-)
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Is a user name advertising for a service allowed here?
I just ran across this user name which is a clear advertisement for a service...
Is this allowed here on AU?
Yes, I found this already...
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Dealing with this user
In my very annoyed opinion, ;-) product placement and spam are the same. Whether you just put a link to some product in the question (spam) or the answer (Product placement), the net result is the sa …
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Isn't it time to review the algorithm for letting good answers flow to the top?
I'm pretty sure that back in 2008 when Stack Overflow was created it made perfect sense to have an answer be "accepted" as that was the way forums were (and some still are) run: you ask the OP to chan …
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Decades-long temporary suspension?
Disclaimer: I'm not a moderator, just sharing some experience.
Your question just shows that you're a really nice person who doesn't understand how obnoxious some people can get. (Willingly or unwill …
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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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Thank You Everyone
From the comments in your original question, it looks like you didn't follow any of the answers in the duplicate question and its answers.
So the best thing to do right now is to follow the answers in …
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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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