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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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How can we handle users that continually copy paste answers without citing a source?

I do that sometime. Reason, I don't know much about Ubuntu, and Linux fro that matter, and I know that is not an excuse. The first rule of copying information from a location to another is to identi …
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Reputation and Reputation loss [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: I observed that my reputation decreases when I downvote answers, why? Do you loose reputation if you downvote an answer? Is there a document that shows you the differen …
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How to add comments to a question in Askubuntu?

You have to have 50 reputation points to be able to leave comments. See the FAQ.
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What does PSA stand for?

It also could be: Please See Attached Personal Service Assistant Proxy Signalling Agent
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My answer was deleted for no reason!

Answers are suppose to be descriptive, and give detailed information of how to solve the issue. Try to add more information that can be helpful to the OP and other users who may have the same issue. …
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what is active on the question pages?

Active gives the date/time of last activity that happened on the question/answer. Whether a new answer was added, existing answer/question was modified. Active lists that last date/time any of the …
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What to do with answer that should be comment from user with 1 rep

Go ahead and flag the answer, and maybe leave a comment to the OP letting know that if he invest some time in the site that he will gain sufficient rights to up-vote answers, add actual comments or se …
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Why was the answer deleted?

You have used the same answer repeatedly. This is regarded as "noise" on Ask Ubuntu. You've posted the same answer to 2 different questions, is the reason for deletion. How to transfer files betwe …
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Different views when viewing newest unanswered questions

I'm running Ubuntu as host and as guest, using VMWare. I can see some questions in the host, but not in the guest, and sometimes vice-versa. Shouldn't the views be the same regardless?
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Answering a question by using information from the Web

I had answered a question by using information from the web, and citing the source. But then I modified the answer, and put it in my own words, and direct it specifically to Ubuntu, and the user who …
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What should I do If a bountied question is a duplicate of another

I came across a question that has a bounty on it. After reading the question, I felt that it might be 85-90% similar to an answer to another question that I answered. I also know that we are not sup …
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Questions that refer to using or installing ripped/pirated software

I think that this question and similar questions should closed automatically as off-topic. Questions that ask about how to use pirated or illegitimate software, to me should be considered un-ethical …
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What is an Ask Ubuntu Meta User?

The short answer: Meta-discussion site (Ask Ubuntu Meta), is where you can talk about things like what questions are appropriate, what tags should be used, suggest a feature, point out a bug, or generally …
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

I think that talking about something, and doing it can be a lot different. So I will try to be as best as I can as a Moderator, but at the end of that day, we're all humans. Feel free to comment, cr …
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Is Ask Ubuntu a social network?

Ask Ubuntu is a community driven question and answer website for the Ubuntu operating system, for Ubuntu users and developers. Members gain reputation based on the community's response (through votin …
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