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Should I approve suggested edits on EOL questions?

In my opinion, yes, you should approve/improve a suggested edit on EOL questions, or "questions that you know will be closed", but I wouldn't really put much effort like you did in that suggested edit …
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I can't get questions answered half the time because people come along and flag as duplicate...

It takes 5 people to close a question as duplicate. When one person flags it, users with 3,000+ reputation go to a review queue and vote on either closing it or leaving it open. And, in the event of y …
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I'm giving a talk on askubuntu.com; show me your favorite things!

I'm bored, so here's what I got: At Ask Ubuntu, we help new users in understanding how the site works: At Ask Ubuntu, we try to avoid broken links in answers: At Ask Ubuntu, we ask that people p …
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Need help! What problems would be best solved by a wizard?

I think this is an awesome idea! I love this kind of stuff! But why stop at "the biggest, most recurrent and most consistently poor quality problems we see on the main site"? On the contrary, you can …
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Lots of "unclear what you're asking" close votes

A lot of the close votes are "unclear what you're asking". Just a refresher, here's an explanation of what this option means and tells the asker: Please clarify your specific problem or add additi …
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Can we synonymize clone and cloning?

Can we synonymize clone and cloning? They are basically the same thing. Both are being used for questions about cloning machines (desktops and servers), or cloning hard drives. clone is the one being …
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