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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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Changing canonical questions

My personal take - I don't think it's the right way to go. That post has been worked on by many folks and has lots of votes and views and is going to be found by searches and so on. It seems to me tha …
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Since Ubuntu One files is discontinued, what should we do with ubuntu-one-windows tag?

many more questions tagged ubuntu-one that are similarly obsolete and begun closing the unanswered ones). jokerdino suggested we might consider deleting these questions and this provoked some thoughtful discussion
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Handling questions about the Bay Trail c-state bug

As many of you know, there is a long-standing problem with Intel Bay Trail processors. Since a particular patch was merged into the Linux kernel, low power states these CPUs attempt to enter are unsup …
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Should this question be massively edited and VTR'd?

Update: OP has commented to explain exactly what they wanted and I have edited accordingly and voted to reopen. Previous answer referring to revision 3 of the post: You have written an answer to this …
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The website seems to be less active than before

I feel sad to read your post. I am sorry that you did not get any response to your recent questions, and I am grateful to you for taking the time to post the solutions you found yourself. Yes, I think …
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Should I merge the comments with my answer to make a more useful answer?

In general I try to merge comments that suggest improvements to my answer into the answer. The idea is to get the post itself into the best possible state. It's also good to clean up comments that are …
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Am I a curmudgeon? Should I STFU?

Since new users don't have the privilege to comment anywhere except on their own questions, answers to their questions, and their own answers, suggesting that the system considers it important to allo …
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Protecting old questions to possibly mitigate low effort answers?

Regardless of the fact that I disagree with your proposal, I'm always grateful for ideas and willingness to improve the site, so thank you very much for posting, and thank you so much for the huge amo …
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Maintaining canonical posts - how can we improve our most popular questions?

How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? This question originally asked only how to install software on an unsupported release, and was subsequently generalised and had seve …
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Bad reputation of reputation

Sometimes, when I close my eyes in a daydream, I see a little green rectangle top left. The sign of joy! I'm not a mind reader, but I think it's probably hypocritical for people to mutter disapprovin …
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Necessity of suffrage and vox populi badges

When I noticed the vox populi badge, not long after after creating my account, I decided I would try to get it, since I had some free time. I took a sort of tour of Ask Ubuntu and found really great …
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Please don't flag old questions as EOL

Yes, it is the wrong close reason. However, if an old question is unanswered, and specific to an EOL version, then I believe it should be closed because the problem cannot be reproduced.
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updating an answer based on some information from another answer to same post

I think this kind of thing needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis. Of course, plagiarism is totally not OK and I think it's important to think carefully about how to be respectful and avoid tre …
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When should I alter a question rather than create a new one that's very similar?

In general, I would say, when your question has been answered and upvoted, especially if the answers have upvotes, please don't change it unless you strongly feel your question has been misunderstood. …
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Contributing as a new member in this mature StackExchange site

The bottom line here I think, is that if something is worth unicorn dollars1, it deserves to be an answer (or a question). We just don't expect much value from comments; in theory, they are just a w …
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