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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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An appeal to low rep users!
Please don't just delete your answers because you got negative feedback, improve them.
This has happened to me a few times recently, I have left a comment on an answer asking the OP to improve the an …
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Ubuntu is 12 (20/10/16)
Just thought I would post this I found on OMG Ubuntu, seems very appropriate here :)
Today is Ubuntu's 12th birthday, Happy Birthday Ubuntu!!!
The OMG Ubuntu link contains an Ubuntu quiz you can t …
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Dealing with a user who just won't follow the rules
I would like to open by stating this user is not abusive or rude and I am not looking to get him banned or anything like that, I write this because he could be a good contributor.
The user has provid …
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A note on flagging end of life questions
Recently in review, there seems to be a lot of questions flagged for end of life, the issue with these flags is that when the questions were written they were ON TOPIC, this is important, old question …
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Please don't just vote posts up because you feel sorry for them getting voted down
Please don't just vote bad posts up because you feel sorry for people who got voted down, it completely undermines the point of voting and wastes other peoples votes.
Today I voted this post down, it …
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Should I answer my own question when the solution is too simple?
Yes, answer the question, you are encouraged to answer your own question, how simple it is, is irrelevant, you can even accept your own answer (though you don't get the +15 or +2 rep).
Many people ov …
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Only 30 days and -1 to remove a question?
This was just brought to my attention by this question.
From meta.se a question can be removed
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...
has −1 or lower score
has no answers
i …
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Accepted
The question is the same as mine, the accepted answer does not apply to me, how can I raise ...
If the answers there do not meet your needs, asking a new question is fine but it is on YOU to explain why the existing question does not meet your needs.
Include this information in your new questio …
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Suggestions for questions that need a bounty
When I started here, I would have never believed I could reach 10k but I did and am more than happy with that level of reputation.
So, I decided I would offer any excess rep I made, as a bounty on wo …
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Downvotes for answering own questions?
What Zanna said is 100% correct and self answers are encouraged but the down votes have nothing to do with self answers, as the questions were voted up.
Let's look at your answers
Dell Inspiron does …
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Off Topic Questions: Comment Etiquette
Lately I see a lot of comments from less experienced users (and some more experienced ones too) pointing out that questions about other OS etc are off topic and rightly so, they are.
However, we shou …
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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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Useless edits in the review queue
I know this comes up all the time but I just want to bring it back one more time.
When low rep users edit questions and answers can they please make sure they actually contribute to the post with th …
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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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Comments in the answer section from new users
This addresses all the new users out there:
Every day here I see new users commenting in the answer section and saying things like
I don't have the rep to comment but....
It seems redundant tha …
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