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2020 Community Moderator Election Results

Congratulations to the new moderators. Hope the community will get benefited from their works.
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Ask Ubuntu isn't Code Golf. . . or is it?

In my opinion, brevity (or shortness of the answer) isn't an important thing for Ask Ubuntu, rather it's harmful for sites like this. Ask Ubuntu generally is a support site for users of Ubuntu, many o …
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How do we handle comment threads that are outside scope of original question?

In my opinion, this depends on how related the new questions in the comment section are. For example, if someone asked a question like how do they revert back the settings of say gnome-terminal and yo …
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Should we edit the answer we flag as NAA?

I always thought editing an NAA (Not an answer) may confuse the automated low quality answer detection. Also when I'm flagging an answer as "Not an answer", why would I edit it to improve? Recently …
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Messages to close voters in questions: are they OK?

Let's look into this from voter's perspective. Close voters don't edit a post explaining why it is a closeable question. I think, the voters against closing should also not used edit.
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Delete and repost or complete rewrite?

If you're re-writing an answer, you should do so literally. Deleting old answer and writing a new is not re-write. Also It's completely unnecessary to do so. It creates noise for 20k users. It coul …
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Downvotes for answering own questions?

I want to add a bit to the two already existing excellent answers. if you solved a problem by using some guaranteed-to-solve methods (such as re-installing Ubuntu, removing it etc), then my advice wou …
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Mint "tag warning" proposal

We are already doing very good at closing off-topic questions especially related to Mint. Mint-specific questions are being closed very quickly. So, these are not too much of a problem. Also prevent …
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What will happen when all questions are asked?

As long as Ubuntu keep evolving that won't happen. Because there will always be new features to ask questions about.
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How can i change my username?

Go to this link https://askubuntu.com/users/606065/user606065. You'll see Edit profile and Settings Tab there. On Edit profile page, You can change your name. Save button is at the bottom of the page. …
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You can vote - do it!

I agree with this post. Though from my inspection, number of bad questions has increased on the site as number of daily visits has. But It's also true that many good questions as well as answers are l …
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Policy on appropriating answer parts, and timing

I'm afraid, but You can't do anything in these situation. It's all OP author's discretion. I think what happened is, OP asked the question and left the site. Later when he visited again, found two ans …
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Why is the review time "come back" period variable?

Your counter resets at UTC 0:00. So, if you completed review at 22:00 UTC, you need to wait 2 hours. If you did at 1:00 UTC, you need to wait 23 hours.
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Why aren't most questions answered with references to documentation or mention to RTFM?

First, I encourage everybody to have good faith on your fellow AskUbuntian, unless you've seen something really unexplainable. That said, most questions asked here are from new users who just need a …
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More interesting name for our main chat room?

Talkbuntu Chatbuntu was suggested. But no one suggested Talkbuntu It reflects on multi-flavor of Ubuntu
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