@muru indeed but I would use the VTC more often (to get the "desired" on hold effect) if the motivation for which I am closing were actually available as a choice. 70% of the time when I VTC as unclear the question itself is pretty clear, it's just that the hold status comes handy in case OP does not provide the required information. But this is hardly good. Compare for instance with the similar, but better worded, "unclear" reason on ServerFault.

@Zanna, yes currently it's meant to cover it because we don't have a better reason. If a question lacks information the motivation itself is currently unclear. Very meta I would say. :)

I think OP has troubles with the answer example of your Situation 1. Those are quite useless and similar to the "just use Mint" attitude.

@WinEunuuchs2Unix LOL for "most people are human".

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy it's System 76. :)

Nobody is forcing you guys to upgrade. Just refrain from posting OT questions here, please. Just that.

(Actually, I'm wondering if I should turn my comment into an answer... but you know, it's quite brief... :P)

Brevity is good. If you can answer in two paragraphs, don't write 15 paragraphs. If you can write good code in 10 Python lines, don't write 40 C++ classes just because you like seeing the STD lib slow down all the things. But legibility is extremely important. If your code of 10 lines is readable to people other than yourself then it's great. If you cut it down to 7 lines of write-only code then it's bad.

@Anwar I agree with you but the edit was done to also fix some typos and punctuation (which the OP reverted as well). Also the "please don't downvote" had a completely useless picture just to "prove" that OP searched (actually that he read the list of suggested questions when typing it). The picture consumes space and bandwidth.

Yes, I basically agree with that. Especially the third point is not "don't downvote", it's a "I don't think this is a dupe because" which is of course fine. :) Regarding the last part, I edited also to fix some puctuation and upper case stuff... then I removed the plea. I just noticed the OP reverted my punctuaction fixes as well. :\

@Gewure, you might have confused this site with Stack Overflow.

Please do not upvote this comment. :P

Let's try again... I will redo the edit and see what happens.

I have no reason to doubt you have read the TOS. However, given the fact that you found them immoral (and it's your right to think so), I am wondering why you accepted them and decided to subscribe. You could've used the website by reading questions and answers without an account.

@Seth guess what? The stickers arrived on Monday, the day after I gave my talk. Gosh, what a bad timing! I am saving them for future Ubuntu related events nearby so I can spread them to the public.

Thanks, I actually used a comparison to the relevant Italian Ubuntu Facebook Group and the Ubuntu Forums website to explain issues with those methods, so that worked quite well. :) I do not fully agree with your first paragraph, even though I kind of see where you could come from. When I studied books about presentation methods (especially those of Steve Jobs) there was a focus on what was being promoted but the suggestion was not to describe technical merits, but what problems were solved instead. I honestly don't believe AU would end up on people's resumes but I agree with the rest. :)