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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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Are answers specific to Debian on-topic?

help/on-topic provides a clear definition which distros are on- and which are off-topic: Questions that you may ask: Using and administering official Ubuntu flavors: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu MA …
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I don't understand the downvoting and criticism of this new user question

As it stands, the question does qualify for both “unclear” and “too broad”: There is not even a clear question, see the extended comment discussion resulting from this fact. …
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Feature request: canned answers

This is not answering the question for canned answers because I don’t see a valid usecase for them. Unlike a comment, an answer is as unique as a question, and if it’s not unique then it’s a duplicate …
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Answer edit as long and detailed comment from OP - how to proceed?

As this edit is OP’s reaction and feedback to your answer, it should be an edit to the question. There are three steps to take: Reject the edit as “Attempt to reply” Write a comment to OP asking the …
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How long should I wait for an answer on here?

We get a lot of questions on Askubuntu, so aside from giving as much information as you can which is nicely covered by the help page How do I ask a good question? it’s also very important to prese …
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output tag needs some community input

Let’s burminate it! (but I need 30 chars here)
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Reopen a question closed as a duplicate of 3 different ones?

Five users voted and the question was reopened. I think you should vote to reopen even when you’re biased. It’s a good idea to add a comment for reviewers explaining why you think the question should …
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What should we do with answers only saying what not to do and advising readers to follow ano...

No, we should not allow this as an answer. If the information is important enough to keep it, it should be added to the solution answer as either a comment or – much better! – an edit. This should of …
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What is considered a community consensus on Meta?

It’s obviously complicated, so let’s just imagine a discussion with only two literal answers “Yes” and “No”. … A Meta discussion about Meta discussions – Inception …
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PROPOSAL: Checklist for addressing questions mentioning non-Ubuntu distributions

No version number confusion, no code diffs, no uncertainty, no need for discussion. It’s a clear rule defining what we do here. …
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Can software recommendation still be used?

This tag is in use and fully on topic, but remember your question should be specific and clear, see the software-recommendation tag info: Questions asking for specific applications that perform a …
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