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You could run it through cat -n (see man cat for more info) on your computer to automatically add numbers to each line, but to my knowledge there is no way to make Stack Exchange add them automaticall …

This feature request on Meta Stack Exchange is open and neither resolved nor marked as by-design/won't-fix since 2013. I therefore think it's unlikely that anything will happen to it in the near futu …

By definiton, "unanswered" questions are questions that have no accepted answer or not any answer with a score of at least +1. So if the answer is good enough, a simple upvote also marks the question …

I think running an automated script over each new question to look out for keywords like windows, mint, kali, etc. is a bad idea and would result in far too many false positives. Reviewing all of them …

We already have an unofficial spam detection system. There's a bot called SmokeDetector which is maintained by some users that checks every new post on all sites using a great load of filters and if …

We also have various windows tags as well as e.g. macosx, kali or debian although we do not support questions that are specific to those foreign operating systems. Their main purpose are dual-boot que …

Within the last weeks, I reviewed a growing number of answers from the Low Quality queue (or spotted them directly on the main site) that basically looked like this: Follow the answers at askubunt …

I have answered Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner with a proposal which got a positive feedback, so I'm now writing it as separate feature request here: Make a more flexible and …

Note: This answer now also exists as separate feature request here on meta.askubuntu.com. Further updates and discussion should take place over there. If you like this answer, please make sure you als …

You can star a question to mark it as favourite. You'll see them in your profile at the tab "Favourites". If anything changes, the question in the list will get highlighted and a bubble with the num …

You know those "magic links" you can use in comments or chat? You type [se] and get Stack Exchange or [so] for Stack Overflow. In comments, there is also e.g. [edit] which links to the current questio …

I know cross-posting (writing the same question on more than one SE site) is discouraged and should not be done. I also see the reason for this and agree, but sometimes it is indeed not clear where a …

You ever had a post in front of you where the OP did mix up blockquote and code formatting? Not those easy cases where he/she wrote a > character before the paragraph himself, but those cases when you …

The reason why I am proposing this is that I saw this question which is about an android app that the user falsely expected to find in the Ubuntu-touch repository. My reaction would have been to clos …

No - we do not need any changes! Just go on and delete them. I totally disagree with the questioner's view and see no need to change anything. Answers that should have been comments should get delete …