@ubunShitu The question is closed as a duplicate of another - how to add aliases. Aliases accept arguments the same as the program that the alias would be calling. That's why it's closed as a duplicate - have you checked that the duplicate that your question is closed as doesn't, in fact, help you?

@RandomPerson your POC for any questions about the message I got from Monica is to be taken up with her - I have no insight into the inner workings of Canonical and a who's who. I also don't trust LinkedIn to not have fake accounts so I can't help you. POC will be: Monica Ayhens-Madon <[email protected]>

Which affirms an informal sponsorship, and no actual money or corporate sponsorship is in place.

@Random via the Canonical Community Team and Monica who I've referenced numerous times. legal@ is also NOT the proper medium for requesting 'sponsorship' information as that's not a legal matter. None of what I said in my comment is quoting Canonical. I also COULD contact Katherine, head of Legal, but Legal doesn't handle the question of 'sponsoring'. Unless you're claiming there's a legal issue at hand here, which I don't really think there is (and I have a good understanding of corporate law myself)

For the record: I sent this up to Canonical, and am awaiting their response. However, personally, I would interpret the "informal sponsorship" components would mean non-monetary sponsorship. Therefore Canonical is an indirect sponsor of the site, but provides no actual sponsoring of StackExchange or its parent companies. A long time ago, Ask Ubuntu was created as a community effort, so there is an informal sponsorship, but no commercial or financial sponsorship to StackExchange or its new parent company by Canonical.

@EvanCarroll as you well know already, there is a lot of overlap between different sites. DBA as a site is more focused on DB administration and admin of the DB system, but not necessarily the pure installation or setup (or debugging of an upgrade that went awry) support. The use of DB systems on Ubuntu is also on topic if you ]read the help center](askubuntu.com/help/on-topic). To quote from the list of what's on topic: "Using and administering official Ubuntu flavors" and "Running third-party applications on Ubuntu.

Define "archive" here Zanna. There is no "archive" function on Ask Ubuntu, you would need such an item developed first.

This was already decided MONTHS ago - meta.askubuntu.com/questions/19543/… - and stated as such by the Canonical Community Team at wiki.ubuntu.com/supportperiod in response to your initial statements of confusion as to whether we should or shouldn't support it. The ESM/EOSS/EOL/LTS discussion is done now, you want to bring it up, you bring it up as a new policy issue, and a discussion with Rhys and Monica at Canonical, not Ask Ubuntu, as this is a long-decided now-beat-to-death discussion.

@BullShit This has nothing to do with you. Your posts are not necessarily 'bad questions' you just need to go through and provide details when requested in comments. However, the deletion of your own posts is likely also related to the trigger, if it's downvoted and then deleted, this tends to be an extra negative mark. Contribute other ways, per the Meta.SE post, and EVENTUALLY restrictions may be lifted. Don't assume this has to do with you though.

@Kulfy he's hard blocked from question posting - its a Question Ban, not a ratelimit or how he's reaching viewers. My answer is the best on this.

No, he's question blocked, not ratelimited. Completely different system in place. (cc @Kulfy for reasons)

Likely because the question is unclear and closed as such. It is less concerning about 'negative votes' and more important that the question was closed. I assume you've read through the comments on the question? The 'terms' of upgrades and updates come from Debian and are legacy terminology - the area to address this is Debian, not Ask Ubuntu.