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Upvoting questions (and then answers)
Obviously we are not very generous voters, but in my opinion that is not so much a problem.
Voting on questions
To decide to vote up a question or not, you need to know more than just the content of t …
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Is it acceptable to change the title and the actual meaning of a question's after having pos...
The occasion
Luckily not often, but I do remember a few occasions that I answered a question, and the poster decided afterwards he or she actually meant to ask another question.
While the posted answe …
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Is it ok to mark a question a duplicate of a duplicate?
That the OP now has to go to the duplicate of the duplicate to get his answer I do not mind, if he would have looked he would have found
it himself and saved us the trouble.
is not necessarily true. …
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The ongoing here confuses me finaly
Let's look from a distance
Let's zoom out a bit, and not go into all the details too much. Most of your annoyances are the result of the (mis-)conception that AU is some kind of a private help desk.
N …
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How should I have made my answer more appealing?
Just a few notes on "marketing" your answer
Both answers are fine, but:
...the decision to look into an answer is often done in a split second, and on a sub conscious level. Assume we are lazy readers …
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What is the connection between an answer and its poster, none?
The full discussion is to be found here
In my defense, I was extremely tired and had a few bad days behind me. … For the record, Re-reading the story, I can perfectly understand his point of view, and don't have an issue with Raphael whatsoever, but:
Back to the subject of the question
In the discussion that followed …
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Where do we exactly draw the line on a question, being off-topic?
This morning, I ran into this question on code-sharing options. Reading through the answers, I very much liked the (at this moment highest voted) very nice overview by Serg.
The question mentioned OP …
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Is it fine to comment to an answerer or asker to remove his/her answer or question?
If I remember well, my very first answer on Askubuntu was removed, and it is not too long ago. I didn't like it, but it drew my attention and made me curious to the general idea of the site.
Although …
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Would it be useful to allow duplicates after x time?
It is clear that having the same question answered on a daily base is harmful. Discouraging to create good answers that take time to create, and making appropriate answers hard to find in a jungle of …
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Should I go over every post to cast my vote?
I think there is another, much more important limitation than time. To up- or downvote, you have to be able to recognize the quality of a question or an answer.
In the ideal situation, people would o …
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Why this strange editing of my reply?
Well, I am not muru, but I can imagine why the line was removed. I could have done it as well. Since this is a question / answer site, questions should be questions and answers should be answers, and …
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Why are people voting down my good posts?
Some people think answering questions is more difficult than asking. I think it is the other way around. Looking into the example in your post:
The worst thing you can do is to give a lot of informat …
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Please settle or at least discuss this impression I have that command line answers are prefe...
I checked your latest 30 answers on downvotes. I found 1 downvote on this answer. Looking at the argumentation (assuming it is corresponding to the downvote), it has nothing to do with (not) using cli …
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Gratitude for everything you all do here
We love to hear that of course!
I should mention that we need you at least as much as you need us, because we simply love to do what we do here; make things work.
At the same time: WATCH OUT!...
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There isn't a more responsable moderator on AskUbuntu? Just Mitch?
Let's Look at your post from a wider perspective:
This site is run by volunteers, spending their time to ask and answer questions. The ones who are no doubt the most committed are the moderators. The …