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Recommend Deletion option in Late Answers review queue does nothing - please flag posts that should be deleted
Just a quick PSA here - thanks to BeastOfCaerbannog I've realised that the new Recommend Deletion option in the Late Answers queue completes the review and gives you the option to leave the canned ...
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Please avoid lengthening existing duplicate chains
A recent example:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/433029/finding-my-ip-without-using-google
is tagged as a duplicate of
Command to know my external IP address?
which is itself a duplicate of How can ...
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Changes to user account deletion
As a lot of people post here about removing profiles, I thought this meta.se post from today, outlining a few changes to the system, was worth a repost here, just so everyone knows about it. Relevant ...
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Let's stop using "How do I resolve unmet dependencies?" for dpkg questions (and probably for most apt questions)
The most used close target for apt/dpkg questions is this. However, that does not help if the problem is not with apt but with the underlying dpkg.
I very often find things like these when I check ...
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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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Code fence formatting problems to watch out for and fix
Since the start of 2019, code fences have been fully supported on Stack Exchange sites. By code fences, I mean the use of opening and closing triple backticks to format a code block. The effect of ...
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Should these VMware questions be re-closed as duplicates?
This is a follow-up to Kulfy's question Can these VMWares be un-merged?
The requested unmerge was done, and questions closed against the former merge target were reopened. Attempts were made to close ...
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It asks something different, and it needs a different answer, so can we reopen it?
Edit: question reopened. Thanks :)
Can you have too much swap? is closed as a duplicate of I have 16GB RAM. Do I need 32GB swap?
But the first question is asking what problems might arise from ...
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Ask the duck - how to disable it?
Today a yellow duck started popping up in the bottom right corner of the browser window. I can hide it through an adblocker option, but is there an option to disable this feature in user/profile ...
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Is it a duplicate when the answer is given as background in another question?
After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X ...
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Why does the option to close question as off-topic as belonging to other SE site present only to some questions?
When a flag is raised for this question to be closed as off-topic, there is an option to choose whether it belongs to other Stack Exchange sites.
However, the same option is absent for this question:
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Some data lost after Stack Exchange server migration Feb. 9
As some of you have noticed, the SE admins were migrating the services to the NY data centre again yesterday.
Unfortunately, some data seems to have been lost in the minutes before the site became ...
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Why was my question closed? Please reopen
I posted this question How to map several folders to different drive?
It got closed as a duplicate of Move home folder to second drive, but the duplicate is certainly not the same. The dup is about ...
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Add a feature for similarity comparison
It'd be nice if answers which are an exact copy of an existing (possibly upvoted) answer or contain large substring of such an answer and few own text - which should be a comment on the copied answer -...
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User spoils his answers
I just noticed that a user Mudit Kapil is spoiling good answers. Just look at edit history.
https://askubuntu.com/a/576229/167850
and others. You can just search his last edits.
Not removing them, ...
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