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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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Is it permissible/ethical to post same answer to multiple questions with a future plan to de...
It's a bit convoluted, please bear with me.
Recently I was going through a bunch of old questions seemingly asking the same thing:
Dell Vostro 3568 model ubuntu 17.04 touch-pad left and right click …
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How to deal with an old question with two separate queries
The disputed question is this one:
Any way to use Maximus-two (or similar extension) on Gnome 3.24 in 17.04?
Notice that in the last paragraph ("PS: Not really related, but my other issue...") the as …
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Do we -always- close posts if they are not exclusively about Ubuntu?
I don't see a reason to override Ask Ubuntu (AU)'s policy of supporting only official Ubuntu flavours (OUF) by not closing a question in which OP clearly mentions that they're using a non-OUF distro, …
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Do we still really need to ask people to accept answers?
I advocate the practice of accepting answers (mainly by new users) for two reasons:
It shows that the answer worked for at least OP.
It is the only way for a new user to explicitly show that they fo …
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What are the consequences of being a (wrongly detected) beneficiary of sockpuppeting?
How do the beneficiaries of sockpuppeting get punished?
It seems to me that whereas it's relatively easy and uncontroversial to penalise the sockpuppets (temporary banning/deletion of account etc. …
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Is the score breakdown feature employed only in Ask Ubuntu?
I just found out this groovy feature in Ask Ubuntu, if I click on the score of a question or answer it shows the score breakdown (the number of upvotes and downvotes). For example, for this question t …
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You are currently banned from flagging - view flags declined in the last 7 days
As Thomas Ward puts it
We are a bit harsh when it comes to the use of the VLQ flag. We reserve the VLQ flag for totally, completely, unsalvageable crap, not for unclear questions.
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VLQ has some …
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Are questions starting with "How to..." okay?
I noticed there are many questions with titles of the form:
How to "do something"?
For example, How to upgrade a single package using apt-get?
I reckon grammatically these are invariably state …
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What to do when someone's posting answers which suggest upgrading to an EoL release
A new user just posted the (almost) same answer, viz.
Update to Ubuntu 16.10 That should solve this (issue).
to the following two different questions where OP is/was using 16.04
I am not able t …
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What is the right thing to do with an old cross-posted question?
I just found this question: How to remove the thumbnail frame in Nautilus? posted almost a year ago. Then noticed OP has posted an identical question at U&L which got an answer with a positive score. …
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Purpose of the "split" tag
I noticed there is a tag called split without any description. The list of 49 questions tagged right now includes all sorts of questions: splitting text files, splitting large archives, splitting scre …
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What if someone just thanked answerer instead of accepting that answer?
For the general case, accepting an answer is a privilege that is enjoyed only by the OP (original poster) of the question. If OP is a new user and presumably unaware of how accepting works, you may as …
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When to add another answer instead of updating my current one?
If I click on the Add Another Answer button, a warning pops up:
Are you sure you want to add another answer?
You could use the edit link to refine and improve your existing answer, instead.
When sho …
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What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?
Downvoting questions is an important moderation task which helps to filter out low quality posts from the site.
Case in point: A question which is closed (except when closed as a duplicate) and has n …
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Should an answer be downvoted if it is outdated and at the top of the page
No, that's very rude in my opinion. I think there are better alternatives.
The answer needs additional details
If the original answer is correct as it is at the time of posting, but now requires addit …
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