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This post on Meta Stack Exchange (found by Mark Kirby) discusses this type of event. You flagged one post as a duplicate of another - it was actually a question re-posted by the OP. Before the questio …

When you contribute a post on a Stack Exchange site, you grant the company a license to use your content. Under that license, you have a right to have that content disassociated from your identity, so …

According to this question your identicon is based on a hash of your last known IP address if you didn't enter your email address on your profile. So, if you haven't put your email address on y …

Folks here take pride in answering questions well, and that's why we close questions where we can't do that. I think Android Dev answered your question with a comment "You could always audit the sou …

This is not a new feature but a new privilege for you since you have earned 250 reputation. See the Help Centre Page You can close vote your own questions (on any site), but the vote is no more pow …

Since the post has been closed for more than five days, editing will not automatically send it to the reopen queue. If you don't have the privilege to vote to reopen, the best thing to do in my opinio …

I'm not a mod, but my comment was too long for the box. Flagging seems to me much more appropriate. If you're pinging a mod, that means you're pressing that person to deal with it. Flags can be hand …

What you are seeing there is syntax highlighting. This can be formatted explicitly in a post, for example, you can turn on Bash syntax highlighting for a code snippet by adding a tag before it: <!-- …

There are several options. Perhaps the easiest is to use separate code fences like this: ``` code ``` ``` separate code ``` Which produces this: code separate code Another way is to insert a line …

See the revision history or the first version of the post, which has Linux Distro: Elementary OS Loki That's not an official flavor. Here is the close reason text which, due to a terrible bug, is cu …

It is by design that one loses 1 reputation when downvoting an answer. I believe this is to discourage competitive (and perhaps frivolous) downvoting. While I would very much like to encourage you to …

I rejected your edit suggestion (hope it was the one you meant - the comment was a good clue), so the edit won't be applied :) But in general, you've hit on a small problem - there's no way to retract …

Apparently, Watched means the question has a tag you are watching. In the past, such questions showed up with a faint highlighting effect, which was not particularly informative either. Some users pre …

As of today I am allowed to review suggested edits ^_^ I'm reading lots of posts here to help me do a good job. I can be absent-minded and I'm certainly not immune to typos, bad formatting decisions …

I think that answers for other Linux distros should be kept if they seem likely to be relevant for Ubuntu.