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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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Suitable disclaimers?

Prompted by a discussion in the Ask Ubuntu general chat room I have started using a 'disclaimer' on questions that I pose to do with abcde. … My purpose with this question is also to promote discussion of the various affiliations that people will have that may or may not influence both questions and answers on Ask Ubuntu and to seek a guide …
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A user doesn't ask or answer, but only adds tags

My own view of an Ask Ubuntu user whose participation is mostly in making minor changes (in this case tag edits) is that we already have mechanisms in place to deal with such occurrences. I borrow hea …
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Ban ChatGPT and AI-generated answers on Ask Ubuntu?

There is room on AU Meta for varied opinions and vigorous discussion. Your thoughts? …
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PSA: Stack Exchange Inc. has announced a network-wide policy for AI content

It is a good time to be completely candid: We worked hard to get a solid policy in place for the torrent of AI/LLM material that was appearing on Ask Ubuntu. And by 'we' I mean the elected and communi …
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Are we there yet? 8 weeks on strike

Improved Communication: There has been a commitment to better communication between Community Managers and Moderators regarding binding policy changes as well in the open discussion of Moderator decisions …
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Dialling down the boilerplate

Can I say at the outset that I am not a big fan of the semi-automated addition of text as comments driven by some sort of user script, the so-called 'boilerplate' text. Just to quote a little from the …
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Do 'Read the man pages...' type comments and answers have a place on Ask Ubuntu?

In consultation with the Ask Ubuntu Community I would like to have some discussion and ideally a firm policy on how we should deal with Answers or Comments that invite people to find their own answers …
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Is it safe to download links from Ask Ubuntu?

All of this after the lock on the answer has expired, this will allow time for any further discussion on issues raised by the question or answers on this Meta thread. …
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Are we supposed to ask Linux Mint questions here?

As Artur, guiverc, mook765 and Rinzwind have all pointed out the official place to ask questions related to Linux Mint is not here. There are however a few other good choices: Linux Mint Forums: You …
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AI-generated content is not permitted on Ask Ubuntu

Timeline: Community Consultation: On December 19th 2022, Community discussion commenced on AU Meta concerning our position on AI-generated content. … This discussion attracted considerable Community interest and involvement. …
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Andrew Strong (andrew.46) What timezone are you in and when will you be most active? The moderators we have now cover quite a broad range of times throughout the day, but there are a handful of …
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Duplicate questions about Slack v4.27.154

Some great detective work! I have closed 2-4 as duplicates of your number 1 question as there is a basic premise of: Slack currently is broken, revert to an older version. Doubtless there will be more …
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Copy a screenshot of an area to clipboard

There has not been huge discussion of this issue but it has been a good time to visit the idea of merging. …
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"Errors on boot" duplicate questions

On my look through Ask Ubuntu the question and answer that I found that seemed to address the safest course was this: ACPI error on every boot And after the required discussion on this Meta thread I …
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Let's improve the "How do I ask a good question?" wiki page?

I fully support the idea of improvements to this page and it would be a simple world if the Moderator Team could directly edit the page. However for a variety of network reasons this is currently not …
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