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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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