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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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What should our .com domain name be?

Ask Ubuntu AskUbuntu.com Available.
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Why does a user start off with 1 rep, and not 0?

From day one, you can do a lot on Stack Exchange without any prior experience/reputation at all. Yet if new users see that they can gain additional abilities by increasing their "reputation", starting …
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Ask Ubuntu vs AskUbuntu

The proper way to write the name of the site is Ask Ubuntu. This is derived from our Trademark Guidance for all Stack Exchange sites: Legal > Trademark Guidance Stack Overflow is a programmer Q& …
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Discouraging "Ubuntu" tags

This is good advice for any site. No use in filling the site with redundant, implied tags. Ubuntu tags removed.
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100+ reputation when hitting 200

Reputation is a rough measurement of your experience using the system. So once you gain 200 points on any site, you will be given a 100-point head start on all sites in the network (past, present, and …
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Can moderators mark a question as answered?

Two different issues: Questions are considered "answered" (as in not listed under the unanswered tab) when they receive at least one answer with an up-vote. The original author has no control over th …
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Moderator Pro Tempore [closed]

This community needs to start contributing some names they would like to act as provisional Moderators. Please read this: Moderators Pro Tempore. Here are some basic guidelines: Each nomination sh …
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What to do if no one answers a Question?

This is taken from meta.stackexchange.com How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions? You can "bump" your thread by editing the question to provide status and progress updates resulting …
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What can we do if someone overdoes with gratitude?

Sometimes people simply do not realize they are indirectly hurting the system by voting for a user rather than rewarding good content. You can simply explain this to them. They should also know that …
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What copyright license are the Badge images under?

Please see our Trademark Guidance for a more thorough discussion about how to use elements of this site. …
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What to do when a user deletes a famous question?

Users cannot delete their own question once it receives an up-voted answer, so it is extremely unlikely a user will be able to delete their 'famous-questions' after the fact. Such questions are almo …
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Why do some questions have "community wiki" over the user's name?

This is the canonical source of what community wiki is about: What are Community Wiki Posts?
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8 votes

What should our .com domain name be?

Ubuntu Exchange UbuntuExchange.com Available.
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Hey admins/mods this is for you!

Why do I need reputation to comment/vote/edit/close/add tags/etc? I can appreciate that you have the exact need for which comments are designed. Asking questions and an answering take no reputation a …
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement [closed]

As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we s …
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