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Why is "posted on multiple sites" as a closing reason absent on Ask Ubuntu?
Each site can have 4 custom close reasons, as Thomas explained, and on Unix & Linux, we have added a reason for cross posting. So the strange thing isn't that AU doesn't have the reason, but that ...
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When do we say a problem can't be reproduced?
I think it's somewhat subjective... but I would like to share my perspective for discussion, even though I am pretty new to the site.
Along with some other folks, I do some cleanup, meaning I spend ...
ZannaMod
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"Can I run Ubuntu on my hardware?" questions: a discussion
IMO these should be closed for multiple reasons:
consumer hardware changes too quickly and has too many minor variations for the answers to have any lasting value. Same problem with shopping ...
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Correct action for questions in legal grey area
It's not illegal to run OS X in a VM. My government will not care.
It may be a breach of the license terms. But that's not our problem. The user should know the license agreement.
There is no way we ...
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Why is "posted on multiple sites" as a closing reason absent on Ask Ubuntu?
We can only have 4 custom close reasons, and to my knowledge, crossposting doesn't come up enough to make it worthy of a close reason for itself.
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When do we say a problem can't be reproduced?
I think if you just changed the title of the question to "Why does launching an application via gksu not work?" or similar and then keep the body as an example would make the question immediately more ...
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Should we reopen a post closed as off-topic after the version release?
IMHO such questions can be reopened if they are about something that is reproducible in the released version. I voted to reopen the question you linked to. The fact that you got upvotes for your ...
ZannaMod
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Close voters: we have a Reason for that (EoL posts are not necessarily duplicates)
Unless I am missing an essential part I have to disagree with @Zanna in this special case.
The "original" question is not only about upgrading but also about problems to install software within the ...
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How to deal with late answers for no longer supported releases in the review queue?
Do nothing. As long as it seems like a suitable answer we leave it alone.
This said, if the post is spammy, not related, or similar then we address it. Otherwise, we leave the questions be - no ...
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Can we do away with, "We don't support EOL distributions" when it is tangential and completely and utterly unrelated to the question?
It does occasionally matter though... Even if it doesn't in this case.
The people initially involved in the question might not know or appreciate the finer details of what's going on. Networking ...
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Should Elementary OS be added to the flag text "This is not about an official Ubuntu flavor."?
status-declined
We have a very limited amount of space for statements in close reasons - if we could fit other OSes there we probably would but we are out of space in that reason's length to do that ...
Thomas WardMod
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Close reason are using HTTP instead of HTTPS
Invoking the great powers of JNat, this issue has been resolved smoothly. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
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Please don't close questions that are for "developers"
You're misinterpreting the Help Center information.
Firstly, 18.04 is offtopic as it is in development and not yet 'stable'. That's the first and foremost issue with the question you've linked.
We ...
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Improving question closed banners for most users - short wording needed for site specific reasons
UPDATE:
I've updated the close blurbs for 1 and 4 below to match the text I've proposed. I haven't updated 2 because there was some ongoing discussion about site scope that seems to need to wrap up ...
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Please don't close questions that are for "developers"
I think you have misinterpreted the Help Center advice.
Questions about developing software for Ubuntu are on-topic. That's what it means by "Ubuntu developers".
Questions asking developers to fix ...
ZannaMod
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Question about Katoolin is being close voted as off-topic because it's "not about Ubuntu"
The question about Katoolin has not been closed, and now it shows that there aren't any close votes. I think the root of the problem is that new users who want ask a question about using Kali Linux ...
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Add option to close vote because it is an XY problem?
We're currently at our limit of "custom close reasons". Compared to the other close reasons we have, I don't see XY problem posts as frequently happening enough to warrant removing one of ...
Thomas WardMod
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About "not constructive" questions
I may partly agree with you, in that the not constructive close reason was confusing and we don't use it anymore. I'm sorry it ever did exist--or, really, mainly just that it was called that. It's not ...
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What happened to "blatantly off-topic"?
"Blatantly Off Topic" was created in a time when we envisioned folks becoming horribly lost and asking how to find their lost cat on a site about mathematics.
But as the size and experience-level of ...
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Do we actually close no-repro bugs reported on meta as no-repro?
Firstly, separate the closure from the tag. They aren't the same thing, they didn't happen at the same time. Again, tagging something as status-norepro does not close it. The closure came from other ...
OliMod
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Improving question closed banners for most users - short wording needed for site specific reasons
My brain wanted to keep poking at this so I wanted to do a non-Ubuntu user version of the five-field format as an example for one of the close reasons so that y'all can see what it could look like in ...
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Close votes etiquette
Good question, and I'll preface this by saying it's excellent that you care about responsibly casting close votes.
While we do have objective(ish) guidelines for close votes, it can be a judgement ...
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Mixed apostrophes in “unclear what you’re asking” description
I don't know why it's this way, but that’s how someone wrote them. I blame Google Docs.
Changing it now means forcing the International sites to re-translate the entire close reason, so... Doesn't ...
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Add option to close vote because it is an XY problem?
Even if we weren't at our limit as Thomas said, I don't think that XY questions that need to be closed occur frequently enough that they would need a new closure reason.
The best option would be, in ...
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Do we actually close no-repro bugs reported on meta as no-repro?
Normally, we don't close status-norepro items, because they're typically on topic.
However, that given case you've linked to was an "issue with Imgur" not the SE infrastructure, so it was offtopic - ...
Thomas WardMod
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Are questions about problems later revealed to be common hardware issues "too localized"?
I know this is an old question about a question that's since been deleted, but it's still a good question and deserves a good answer.
Personally I think that the arguments you make for leaving ...
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What happened to "blatantly off-topic"?
Robert Cartaino's answer, for why the "blatantly off-topic" sub-reason* of the off-topic close reason used to exist and why it doesn't anymore, can't be beat. But as for the specific question you had ...
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Abandoned close reason instead of no-repro?
There used to be an "Abandoned" close reason. That was ultimately switched out with a different close reason, and to my knowledge we'd need to remove an existing close reason to make room for the "...
Thomas WardMod
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About "not constructive" questions
The site is , as much as possible, community maintained. As a user gains more reputation they have more and more access to moderator tools including closing questions. This is important because you ...
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"Can I run Ubuntu on my hardware?" questions: a discussion
Sometimes, closing a question from a new user can be a bit heavy-handed, discouraging the user from joining our community, learning, and eventually contributing to help others.
I agree that vague or ...
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