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7 answers
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Does voting up have to be serious?

Sometimes when I come across a question I like, I usually upvote it. When I com across a bad question, I leave a comment or edit it. The thing is, do I really have to think before I upvote a questio …
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5 votes
1 answer
114 views

How are low-quality answers detected?

In the sidebar of the review page it said: These are automatically detected low quality posts on Ask Ubuntu. How are those detected?
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0 votes
1 answer
55 views

Tag for Macbook Pros with retina displays?

What is the tag for Macbook Pros with retina displays? In this case, I created retina-display. Any better ideas?
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1 vote
1 answer
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Please burninate the "untagged" tag

untagged does not mean anything. Any question should at least belong to one tag, so this is useless. It should be burninated. Note: I had retagged the questions that had untagged to their correspond …
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9 votes
1 answer
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What makes a tag wiki "good"?

I've been editing tag wikis for a while, and I always write tag wikis with this formatting: Excerpt: Questions about using/installing (tag) on Ubuntu Wiki: (tag) is a (blah blah blah). (extra …
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4 votes
1 answer
88 views

Should I feel bad about not giving a bounty to an answer on a bountied question?

I asked this question a while ago and gave a bounty of 50 rep to it. I received some good answers in no time and went through them. Although they didn't fix my problem. Next the bounty was over and …
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0 votes
3 answers
331 views

Use of the macbook-air tag and the macbook-pro tag instead of the macbook tag

I think that we should use the macbook-air tag and the macbook-pro tag instead of the macbook tag if the question is Macbook-Air or Macbook-pro specific, since Macbooks are discontinued. I spent some …
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3 votes
2 answers
73 views

Should we merge the mail tag with the email tag?

While both tags are popular, I think we should merge mail and email since you can't send a real mail in ubuntu and most questions using mail are often problems in sending or receiving email.
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8 votes
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Biased votes at answers

What I think (purely IMO) is that high-rep users (the ones with 10k+ rep) had helped many people before. These people know what kind of answers are considered as "good" and will both get upvotes and …
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What to do with plagiarized tag-wikis?

When I see those kind of tag wikis, I usually do 3 steps: Read the whole tag wiki Delete everything Retype everything in my own words
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