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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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Which is better: editing someone's old but outdated answer to keep it up to date or making a...

Substantial edits that change the intent or meaning of a post should be avoided. In this case, I would write a new answer, explain it is from this year and the top answer is old, something like The a …
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I think [trackpad] and [touchpad] should be tag synonyms

They already are synonyms Technically trackpads and touchpads are two different things that serve a similar function. https://anydifferencebetween.com/difference-between-touchpad-and-trackpad/ I thin …
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Is there any official "Ask Ubuntu" color defined?

As far as I am aware there is no official "Ask Ubuntu" colours, however, before the change to responsive design, this site did use the official Ubuntu colour scheme. Rather than be concerned about the …
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Community consensus regarding using backticks or 4 spaces for code

I actually know of five ways to format code on SE, not including the editor button (click edit to see): back ticks html four spaces blocks using back ticks blocks using tilde I know, that is even m …
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How should we celebrate 10 years of Ask Ubuntu?

Some sites previously had competitions where unique prizes were handed out to the winners. Perhaps we could adapt the cheese idea to be relevant to this site "Show us your best Ubuntu memes and win a …
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Why posting meta requires only 5 reputation?

I think you may have a bit of a misunderstanding about what Meta is for, it is not a special place for advanced users to discuss but a help site (just like main) for Ask Ubuntu. "new users can eas …
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Seeking support/feedback about closure flags not resulting in a page closure

I am not debating the validity of your individual flags. The validity of each flag can be debated for a lot of flags. I think this question is based on a lack of information and feedback due to your l …
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Use of new screening tool from SE

Regarding "The full contents of the "Draft your question" sidebar." It would make sense for this to contain links to help/on-topic, the tour, how to ask and perhaps even some helpful meta posts like t …
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Why do valid questions get closed without providing any help?

The reason for the close is given in the blue box above the question body "Bug reports and problems specific to development version of Ubuntu should be reported on Launchpad so that developers c …
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Suggestions to limit the large amount of unanswered questions?

You have some good points here but also a couple of misunderstandings on how the site works. With regards to the 15 questions per page, at the bottom of every page you can select if you want 15, 30 o …
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How to earn points as an Ubuntu noob?

I am going to try to give you some advice based on my experience earning rep, as a non-professional end user. First, you can earn a thousand rep (while under two thousand total) just for suggesting e …
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Why was this encryption question closed as off-topic as a bug even though it isn't a bug?

Yes it was off topic when it was written, no it is not a bug but the other reason given is "problems specific to development version of Ubuntu" and, when it was posted, Apr 14th, 18.04 was not release …
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I feel like I have NOT been well filtered :-(

First, your post was removed by a moderator, not the user you suggest. This is not a filter, it is community quality control, a very important part of how Ask Ubuntu works. Your "answer" is full of …
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How to get a user to use the Q&A format?

I hope a discussion here will show them the error of their ways because the denial is driving me mad :) Ubuntu 17.10 x86_64 on LLVM/clang-built kernel with LLVM/clang-built Nvidia 390.25 x86_64 driver …
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Is it OK to ask question about etymology of command names?

Good question and I do think people would like your question, however, the issue would be that the history of commands goes back way further than Ubuntu and as the question is not Ubuntu-centric it wo …
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