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Is it acceptable to delete a question if the answer was trivial?

If the question is on topic and generally fits the site, it should stay. A question with a trivial answer can always be put on hold. For example: This describes a problem that can't be reproduced ...
Stefano Palazzo's user avatar
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Is it acceptable to delete a question if the answer was trivial?

I'm not an Ask Ubuntu user, but network-wide policy is that only substantial and re-usable Q&A is on-topic at Stack Exchange. A question that may be entirely answered by pointing out a typo is ...
Lightness Races in Orbit's user avatar
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Question got closed as an off topic question that can't be reproduced due to silly typo errors

I'm not certain I'm really qualified to talk about this, but I will. Interestingly, it appears that the problems with the commands in that question were not only typos, but a combination of typos and ...
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3 votes
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Question got closed as an off topic question that can't be reproduced due to silly typo errors

This isn't really an answer but you've given me a sort-of-opportunity to voice this particular opinion. At Unix and Linux closing questions as no-repro when the problem is caused by a typo error in ...
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