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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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How to handle Comments as Answers
It seems to me that your solutions are reasonable. From what I've seen leaving comments to encouraging users to fix the problem themselves seem like the preferred solution.
It's also good to remember …
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Best way to search AskUbuntu
The search page lists all of the available options (including searching with tags) for use with the internal search tool (the box at the top right). The search page is also linked from the right side …
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Why is this site better than the Ubuntu Forums?
As I understand the setup, the Stack Exchange engine tries to merge some additional concepts with the discussion part. …
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Should there be a standard for application install instructions?
I've been looking at some answers and comments and I see several different ways of writing an instruction to install a particular application.
There is of course command line apt which is somewhat st …
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How should we deal with support requests?
I think that generally speaking support requests could be on topic here. However, to be most useful it may require some extra attention. That is, in a scenario where a support question is asked that n …
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Tag synonym suggestions
Another group which might have some overlaps:
package-management
package-manager
installer
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What is the proper usage of the windows tag?
All the other questions so tagged refer to the operating system but the question in discussion does not. …
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Rhythmbox tags: retag or synonym?
On the parent site there are currently 3 questions tagged with rythmbox and 3 questions tagged with rhythmbox. In general, I would say that the former questions should be retagged in favour of the cor …
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How do I demote my own answer and encourage people to see the more detailed one?
The Stack Exchange engine is designed to be editable so that questions and answers can be improved over time. I think the most useful solution depends on whether a later answer contains both better in …
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What is the difference between the 'sound' and 'audio' tags?
Looking through the questions tagged with either sound or audio it appears there are being used to indicate an identical concept.
The sound tag is used almost twice as often as audio (32 vs 17; 28 vs …
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Lack of revision note and cc-wiki graphic in Ubuntu footer
I noticed today that the Ubuntu site doesn't appear to have the cc-wiki graphic and "revision" note that usually appears in the Stack Exchange footer. I don't want to tag this as a bug, but I was wond …
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Tools for Ask Ubuntu
Ask Ubuntu is now available in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.
http://data.stackexchange.com/ubuntu/queries
The meta site is also available:
http://data.stackexchange.com/ubuntumeta/queries
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Tag synonym suggestions
Everyone please feel free to add tag synonyms here if you're having a hard time getting a synonym pushed through:
Tag Synonyms
package-management <- packages
networking <- connectivity <- connectio …
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Is it appropriate to suggest tag synonyms on Meta?
There are currently no tag synonyms on the Ubuntu StackExchange site, and only a few users with the required reputation. It seems unlikely that I will have enough reputation to suggest synonyms anytim …
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Tag synonym suggestions
For future suggestions, make a separate post so we can keep track of how well we are doing with tags, as well as facilitating discussion on a specific tag. …