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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 should we do if an answer contains link rot and there is no other appropriate answer?
Wow. I up-voted that for some reason, and apparently you can't take back a vote after a certain length of time. Even if the link still worked, it wouldn't be a good answer as it doesn't contain any in …
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Why Does Askubuntu Have It's Own Domain Name?
At one point, all Stack Exchange sites were going to have their own domain names. This was then rolled back. There has been some debate on the topic over on Meta Stack Exchange. Ask Ubuntu was both gr …
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Should the "package" and "packages" tags be merged?
The package and packages tags seem to be used in an identical matter. Should we merge them?
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How to link to manpages?
I've been using man hello
This provides the link, but also shows that it is a command.
[`man hello`](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man1/hello.1.html)
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Should the "package" and "packages" tags be merged?
I don't perceive any difference in how they are being used. There are currently 31 questions tagged package and 116 questions tagged packages. packages has a tag wiki (however brief) while package doe …
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Better Understanding Badges
In a recent blog post on badges, Jeff wrote:
Badges are supposed to be a little mysterious; you should view them as minor puzzles with obvious hints.
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List of questions with votes to close?
There are a number of old buried questions which I have voted to close as duplicates, too localized, etc... Most of them, I'm the only vote so far. I imagine that there are many other open questions t …
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List of questions with votes to close?
We also now have: https://askubuntu.com/review-beta/close
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Moving from packaging to platform-development tags
I'm not sure about this. I'm subscribed to and I am the top answerer in the packaging tag. The majority of questions I see there are not actually related to Ubuntu platform development. They are app …
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Software package installation Icon
I personally prefer the standard "package with arrow pointing down icon." I think it is much more relevant to the action that the user will be doing. The software center icon conveys the idea of a pla …
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Tools for Ask Ubuntu
Droidstack
"An Android app that allows you to browse StackExchange websites in a very cool, native kind of way, while keeping a stackoverflow-like look & feel."
Links:
On StackApps...
More scree …
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Tools for Ask Ubuntu
StackBrowser for Ubuntu Touch
(StackApps post: https://stackapps.com/questions/4324/stackbrowser-for-ubuntu-touch)
About
StackBrowser allows you to explore the StackExchange network natively on Ubu …
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How many moderators should we have?
While looking at the election page, I noticed that it states:
moderator positions available 3
We currently have four moderators. So we will lose one moderator spot. How many is right for this co …
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2011 Community Moderator Election
Congratulations to our new Ask Ubuntu overlords!
Many thanks to our Moderators Pro Temp who are stepping down!
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Is it acceptable for users to only gain reputation through a plethora of tiny edits?
I think this question is phrased wrong. I don't think the user is trying to game the system to collect rep through making small edits. It seems like a good faith effort to improve the site. As Seth me …
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