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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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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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Voting to close your own question instead of deleting

You did exactly the right thing The whole network follows Zanna's opinion by now, see Why are some questions marked as duplicate?: There are many ways to ask the same question, and a user might not b …
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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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Can I answer bash-tagged questions with Python one-liners?

Yes Often people use bash when they actually mean command-line – I bet that's what terdon had in mind when he asked about it. Unless OP explicitly states they need a pure bash solution, answers using …
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Purpose of the "split" tag

remove this tag I vote to delete this thing. One could think about making it solely about GNU coreutils' /usr/bin/split, but in my opinion this program does not really need a tag of its own.
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Basic questions closed as unclear?

As it currently stands, this question is totally unclear – the many comments show how many question are left open. To just list the most pressing ones: Does /home/thiru/Pictures exist? Is /home/thir …
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Should the keys be written in uppercase?

I propose to look at the archetype: Although there seem to be keyboards with lower-case ctrl, I think it’s save to say that most keyboards have Ctrl with initial capital letter. I never saw a key labe …
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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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Is it okay to rename questions when the title doesn't reflect what OP really wants to know?

Yes it is, and you should definitely do that. I do things like that all the time, it's common that OP doesn't know exactly what he's asking for when he phrases his question, even more when he writes …
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What is the preferred way to add a numbered list using markdown?

tl;dr: Output matters, the rest is up to you. You’re free to use whatever numbering scheme you want as long as it gives the correct output. There is no preferred way, and this is good – needlessly li …
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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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Why do question share links include my user id?

When I click share below a question I get a small box containing the share link to that question like that: Apart from the question number, this link also contains my user ID (last number). What a …
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How do I edit my post instead of adding comment

Clicking “edit” under your post leads you to https://askubuntu.com/posts/1103063/edit (if I guessed the question correctly), where you can edit your question and add information: Please remember to …
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Adding a comment = audit failed?

I just failed my first audit on this question. I got the question in first post review where it was displayed without any comment, I began writing a comment suggesting to add a screenshot to clearify …
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output tag needs some community input

Let’s burminate it! (but I need 30 chars here)
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