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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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If Ask Ubuntu is the place I'm supposed to go to get help, why is every hit related to my an...
This is due to a bug in the bug reporting tool sending you to Ask Ubuntu when it should have reported the bug to the bug tracker instead. This has been reported, and fix was committed. Soon, you shoul …
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Accepted
Am I out of line in giving a generic answer to this question?
Negative.
I find nothing offensive about that comment of yours.
P.S : Avoid 'answering' when you do not have an 'answer'. Please post a comment instead. You have the required reputation, so it shouldn …
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Why does askubuntufeed on twitter post links to closed questions?
I assume the question is self explanatory.
I click on a link, may be with the intention of gaining rep, and I get, question closed by bla blah. (if we have a user bla or blah, note that I'm not refer …
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Accepted
How should I understand the comment on a declined flag?
That question can be edited to make it sane. Probably that was the intent. Just guessing.
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How to handle edits that add their own info
If the information added is the same as what was suggested in the link, the edit is almost acceptable.
Almost, since it totally removed the link to the source.
Attribution matters, and at Ask Ubuntu …
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Ask a question and told it's answered when it's not
Give us a link, and we will re-open the question if it really doesn't answer yours.
A bunch of people deciding it is a duplicate closes a question. Another bunch can come in and say it is not, and re …
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what to do with questions that are not useful to users anymore?
The question is clear i guess, and i am particularly referring to this
Such questions may be of importance for purely historical reasons, but does that mean we live with them around forever?
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Should questions asked long ago when the release was still supported be closed as off-topic ... [duplicate]
I see a lot of questions in the review queue that meet the following criteria.
They have one or more close votes/flags with reason off-topic EOL.
They have been asked long ago, and at the time of as …
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Chat bot to annoy us with questions from SU
YESSS! We cant live without it!!
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Chat bot to annoy us with questions from SU
NO!! It wont be any useful, anyway.
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Does voting up have to be serious?
All other answers say one common thing. up voting is not dangerous. If you feel that a question is useful, upvote it.
BUT:
B for but, B for bounty!! When a question is under bounty, think a bit more b …
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Desktop tag must go!
Let's Do It.
echo desktop|sudo tee -a /etc/stackexchange/askubuntu/config/tags/blacklist
It appears that it is too meta and adds not much information, if at all any, to the question. There should be …
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Chat bot to annoy us with questions from SU
This is a proposal. We have chat bots that annoy us in feed AUGR with new questions tagged ubuntu from U&L. Why not have one that feeds from SU.
I noticed some useful questions on SU tagged Ubuntu, r …
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Accepted
What to do about good suggested edits with very bad summaries?
When the edit in itself is good, summaries shouldn't matter.
What about those super bot type editors whose edits always carry summaries like added xxx chars in body??
That said, while good summari …
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Name change history
Display changes are recorded, but your history is shown only to you, as of now. I see no harm in giving a user the option to make his username history publicly visible, but maybe thats just me. (PS: I …
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