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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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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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How can we help make developer.ubuntu.com better?

The Ubuntu App Developer website makes use of Ask Ubuntu questions for its "Cookbook" feature. The App Developer Cookbooks are: a collection of short examples, how to’s and answered questions fro …
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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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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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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?

The package and packages tags seem to be used in an identical matter. Should we merge them?
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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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How can we help make developer.ubuntu.com better?

In a lot of ways, to be more useful to developer.ubuntu.com, we just need to do the things that make this site better anyways. Better tagging Questions only show up in the script if they are tagged …
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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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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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2012 Community Moderator Election

(For closure, it seems like the winners should be announced in this thread.) Welcome our new AskUbuntu overlords! Stats: 2,226 voters were eligible 880 visited the site during the e …
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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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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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