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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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Formerly known as bodhi.zazen

Just a heads up here on meta ... Time for a name change , just letting you all know, and yes it has been a long strange trip .... Web site is still bodhizazen.com / blog.bodhizazen.com
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editing user's posts

When editing posts I try to do as little as possible to clarify the question. Grammar spelling - go ahead and fix. Fix quotes or more often code blocks - go for it. I will delete inappropriate lang …
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Comments in the answer section from new users

Another solution - If you see an new user with a good question, upvote it. We, the community, can solve the problem very easily, no need to force users to read FAQ or change the way the site works, we …
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Using abbreviations and a `threatsome` advice from a community member

"Free" as in freedom comes in shades of gray. If you want a completely free, opensource OS, use linux-libre There are versions based on both Arch and Ubuntu. There is a bit of a lag in their releases …
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Has there been any suggestion to encourage AU members to become Ubuntu Members?

I noticed there are a number of dedicated and helpful members on Ask Ubuntu. Has there been any suggestion to encourage such members to become Ubuntu Members as a recognition of their contributions he …
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Wrong duplicate

There are many questions regarding a buggy kernel being mis marked This is another duplicate of Kernel panic after update to 4.4.0-108-generic being mis marked as My computer boots to a black screen, …
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Minor site design updates

Posting a screenshot as an "anwser" as an example of the blue hightlight. I would consider changing the color to match the rest of the site. Feel free to delete this "answer" after you have considere …
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The ongoing here confuses me finaly

For the most part your question and many of the answers are frankly tl:dr If my answer is tl;dr - check your attitude both with new users and high reputation users here at the door and learn from you …
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When are questions about "ubuntu+1" appropriate?

In addition to the above considerations, I would suggest allowing ubutnu +1 as on topic with some concrete milestone, with the release of the RC or beta 2 ? Sort of depends on when, in general, ubunt …
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Are bugs necessarily off-topic?

Bug reports are critical. What the more experienced members of the community need to do (perhaps in chat, irc, or elsewhere) is to guide users to be able to file a bug report. With Ubuntu much of th …
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Do custom kernels constitute off-topicness?

As someone who has some experience compiling kernels, I think in general supporting custom kernels is beyond the scope of Ask Ubuntu. Perhaps on other stack exchange sites, I am not sure. The reason …
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Is there a limit on how much reputation one can earn in 24 hours?

OK, I found the answer in the FAQ (had to hit the expand button , thought I saw that before). Can we consider increasing the daily limit of extra good helpers =)
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Ask Ubuntu Clean Up

It is not clear how this works. I registered on http://cleanup.thepcspy.com , was assigned 10 questions. This was my first: How to troubleshoot apt-get connection problems? I marked it as a duplic …
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How much rep does a veteran have?

My guess is that "veteran" has to be taken in context of the conversation. For example, in this conversation "verteran" presumedy would refer to users with both 3K + reputation and experience in revi …
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Suggestion - Add a request for additional hardware information to close votes

Currently when using close votes there are a number of suggestions (as you know). I would like to suggest a close vote to request hardware information. For example, Microphone Volume changing random …
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