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Questions which have been closed for any of the usual reasons.
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Should questions seeking workarounds for bugs be allowed?
Workarounds, additional details, patches, and all things bugs belong on Launchpad per the Ask Ubuntu bug policy. If we allow posting workarounds on the site they may never make it to the bug report an …
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How to handle chains of "duplicate of..."?
Follow the rabbit hole, find the canonical question, comment on each question that is improperly commented, flag each wrong comment for removal, vote to close if you can.
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Should recent controversial question about Zeitgeist and pop culture be reopened?
Why re-open the question? It was a borderline question to begin with and has an answer now. Just because a question is closed doesn't make it's answers any less valid.
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Can older questions be closed as duplicates of newer questions in special circumstances on m...
I actually prefer this method of closing old question, it's been a policy between moderators for sometime. Ideally it's not the age of the question that matters, it's the quality. The higher quality q …
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I asked a specific question - it was marked as closed due to "exact duplicate." It's NOT a d...
The question was closed as a duplicate of another question asking for virtually the same information:
How do I find which graphic cards work with Ubuntu
The answer to that question points you to …
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Reopening of a closed question?
If you narrow or change the scope of your question simply flag it for moderator attention (once edited) requesting it be reopened.
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Are we too harsh on this one ?
Ultimately that wasn't a question - and what the title was extremely subjective considering the wide range of games out there. If the poster has limited the scope of the question to native games, game …
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Why was question 4389 closed?
The question was closed because it was in the opinion of the content being a "baiting-like" nature. Ultimately the Fun-Friday threads on StackOverflow were started because there really is no "Discussi …
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