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what system is using on askubuntu.com website

There is a list answer on SO Meta that describes the benefits and disadvantages to many of the SO clones. Here is the specific question for which you are looking on SO Meta
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Is there something wrong with Ask Ubuntu?

The site, at the time this answer was written, has 90,000 questions give or take. The answered rate is 75%. So the inverse is actually true. 1 in 4 questions is unanswered or abandoned. That's quite t …
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How is askubuntu policy on what is offtopic correlated with the general SE policy on creatin...

There was some level of controversy over AU even being a thing in the beginning. The "one big site" side of the argument: It's all unix/linux anyway, so why does any given thing need it's own site? T …
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Use of Mediafire or Anonymous Hosting links in Answers

It does raise some concern for me, but I definitely don't think PPA and github should be forbidden. There's also pastebin for source/file/document type of posts. is the user generally established …
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When is "forking" a version-specific canonical question for the latest release acceptable?

I think the opposite is the preferred case (no fork). Solve the ranking with votes.
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Answering a question by using information from the Web

If you cite a source, I see no problem with googling. If google returns man-pages that explain it adequately, I see no problem citing the man pages. I have done both of those things. The best …
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Tracking out of date tutorials on Ubuntu developer portal

I think it should be a list on meta with "up to date" or "out of date" because it's not actually a question
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Tracking out of date tutorials on Ubuntu developer portal

I think it should be a list on the main site with "up to date" or "out of date" so we could dupe tutorial questions to it
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Tracking out of date tutorials on Ubuntu developer portal

I think it should be a wiki page
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Why is there a different Questions menu on AskUbuntu main menu SIte

It's a way to get high activity questions to the top of the thread, but for people answering questions to disregard question bumping via edit if they want to do so.
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What is AU's stance on profanity?

Just my thoughts: I occasionally curse, but I wouldn't start dropping F-Bombs or include profanity in a expletive type of phrasing. Some may disagree, but I may occasionally say something like: …
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Should questions about Nexus 7 be off-topic?

Mixed opinion there...here's where I see it falling: General Ubuntu - on-topic Future target platform - it's an alpha feature - off-topic So the real question is "Do we consider an alpha feat …
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Are questions like "asking for tips" right on AskUbuntu?

It's not "wrong" to want tips. It is wrong to ask unanswerable questions.
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How can I bump a question if I already have all the information and can't bounty?

Answer other questions so you can bounty. Bumping is generally frowned upon. Or pop in to chat and see if someone else is willing to bounty it for you. I think nobody is touching that question be …
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How do we handle users that drag a meta discussion on to main?

It's a great idea, I don't know why we have meta anyway.
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