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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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Is Ask Ubuntu about solving actual problems?

I think I can answer this one, because I'm an extensive user of the questions you're talking about. Point by point: [...] AU is flooded with programming- related questions with a seemingly realistic …
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Canonical post about "Wi-Fi not working"

It's just unbelievable how many questions are constantly posted about "Wi-Fi not working" issues, due to modules missing after an installation/kernel upgrade or due to faulty configurations in general …
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Is it possible to regenerate / generate a new identicon?

I like the identicon, but sometimes I'm getting tired of the same old shapes / colour. Is there any way to regenerate / generate a new one with different shapes / colour?
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Is it possible to regenerate / generate a new identicon?

This site generates SE style identicons using Gravatar; it won't match your own identicon if you are a user recent enough and you are trying to pass your email address because during its creation for …
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Should the default answers sorting be changed?

I'm sure this has been proposed already, but sorting the answers by votes count has the side effect of bringing the first answers to the top (FGITW problem), with them not always being the best (this …
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It would be nice to post multi-line shell commands along with an editable one-line version o...

Maybe it's not that important, but I think it's worth a quick mention here on meta. Multi-line shell commands are annoying to deal with. Here's a blatant example: find . -type f | \ while read -r fil …
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Please stop downvoting "easy" questions, if you are doing so

Just a reminder: "easy" questions are not to be downvoted. I know that as it stands this is just a claim about "easy" questions currently being downvoted, but I think (and I'm pretty sure) I've notice …
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How can bash question is on-topic and C programming off-topic?

Before starting to argue about a formal definition of what is on-topic and what is not: there's no formal definition of what is on-topic and what is not: the definition is arbitrary. X is on-topic and …
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Migration of Question on stackexchange

I think you're referring to this one: To work with older account. In general a question is migrated if: A moderator / Stack Exchange employee migrates it; Five users vote to migrate it using the "c …
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Answer deleted for no real reason

You've got a point there: I too think the answer shouldn't have been deleted, as it kinda answers the question (meaning: the first method is theoretically a perfect method to accomplish what OP is cle …
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Questions suddenly active

The first thing I'd do would be to try to find an answered duplicate and flag it for closure / vote to close it against it. If there's no duplicate to close it against and you're sure the question is …
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My answer was deleted but at the same time other similar answers were not, why?

Your answer was deleted because it didn't answer the question. In the question you posted your answer to the problem is that OP is not able to download the client they paid for. They're asking how th …
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Audits while reviewing - High quality post?

I decided to flag it for closure because the problem had "gone away". Not quite. The problem still exists. What fooled you is the fact that the question also contained the answer. You interpreted …
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ETA on new User Activity page for non-Meta.SE sites?

The new User Activity page looks great, but there's no ETA specified as of now. Perhaps some moderator can leak some informations about ETA for non-Meta.SE sites?
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Are "not only Ubuntu-specific" questions on-topic?

However this topic came up recently again in a discussion in the comments of a question about sudo, where an user claimed the question be off-topic because of its "not only Ubuntu-specific"ness being sudo …
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