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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 should I have made my answer more appealing?

Just to clarify the exact situation when I posted my answer: Yours did only use the -f operator and the answer lacked any explanation as well as did not have that link yet. In the bash shell on the c …
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Can I know the previous Elections for Moderators Nominated and Elected?

As we're on a tech site here, why not automate this task with a little script that scrapes the election pages you want and lists the candidates in your desired format, e.g. using my trusty friend Pyth …
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19 votes

How should I reward an answerer?

I would suggest you to just take the 2-minutes-tour on Ask Ubuntu. It describes the most important things on how the site works supported with some nice images and provides you all useful links you mi …
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Self fixed issue on own bounty question

Write how you did solve your problem as answer to your own question and accept it. You can not get the bounty back or award it to yourself, though. So if you think one of the other posts did help y …
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Does rarely being able to answer questions make me a "poor" user?

No, of course you are not a "poor" user! The fact that AU has helped you does not mean that you have to devote your life to us! ;D We appreciate if you help running the site by asking, answering, ed …
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Specify a menu in a answer

Cut it out from a screenshot and add that one to your answer.
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Should we link to explanations in answers or write the answers out from other sources?

Normally answers that only provide links are bad answers. Reasons for this: Links may go dead or the content may change, then the answer becomes useless. People have to jump from link to link and f …
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Is it acceptable to change the title and the actual meaning of a question's after having pos...

Maybe you should comment and ask the OP to rollback his question to the previous state, but ask the new question version (which has to have enough differences not to be duped on the first version) as …
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Spam becoming frequent?

Spam comes randomly. Sometimes nothing for a week, sometimes dozens within a single hour. Maybe somebody who really tries to get some people click their links thinks that their chances are higher if …
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Has Ask Ubuntu turned into Ask Linux?

It's meant to be specifically about Ubuntu and all of its official derivates. Of course many problems and questions about Ubuntu systems can also appear on similar distributions. Especially all the D …
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Thanks for everything you did, not only for the site but also for the community. You introduced many of us and helped us getting started here, me included. We'll surely miss you in the chat, but go …
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Why is a one line non-understandable answer used as review audit?

The system's decision to take this answer as reviewer test was correct, as it is an accepted and well upvoted answer. However, I agree that this answer as it currently stands should not have been acc …
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Why can't I flag rants as rude?

I say the rude/abusive flags are only for posts which are written with a bad intention of not asking/answering a question but plainly ranting or offending people. The post you linked shows at least t …
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What to do when the OP refuses to provide clarification?

If a question author does not cooperate and refuses to provide the necessary information you need to find an appropriate answer, just ignore their question and move on. They had their chance to get yo …
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What is it about some answers that attract upvotes?

It is mainly the question that matters here, as long as the answer is in good shape. General and simple (sometimes even stupidly simple) questions that don't focus on a technical detail or problem wh …
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