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“Super-Meta” Call for requests for U&L site customizations

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Are WSL related questions off-topic?

discussion scope

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Merge or synonymize tags 'mate' and 'mate-desktop'

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Why answer a question not worth your upvote?

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Improving “answerer” experience

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Should questions on Vagrant, Ansible, Docker and any other virtualization tools migrated to DevOPs SE?

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Flagging as SPAM too harsh?

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Why is the site's domain unix.SE?

discussion domain

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Experimentation Sandbox

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What to do if OP deletes their own question after being flagged as a duplicate?

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How can I find a list of my posts that are candidates of automatic removal?

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Should extensive question editing be ruled out?

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answered Dec 4 at 18:58 Jeff Schaller 37.9k

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Can automatic deletion of “low-quality” posts be turned off?

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Asking for Operating System Recommendations

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Unauthorised web scraping of Unix & Linux?

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Why is there a reputation requirement for comments, but not for answers?

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Delete link-only answers

discussion flagging deleted-answers

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Why am I able to flag my own questions?

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Reconsider the “buffer” tag?

discussion tags

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What else can I do to make my question well-received and improve my chances of getting answers?

discussion question-quality asking-questions

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What to do with a poor question that I already know the answer to

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+8 -5 answer: how to improve?

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What's bad with this short, direct question?

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Is an answer including commercial software on topic on U&L?

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answered Nov 8 at 16:59 derobert 71.6k

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What is the definition of a “high-reputation user”?

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Absurdist humour in comments

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Question title font renders 0 (number zero) much like o (lower-case letter)

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I am frustrated that this question was putted on hold

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answered Nov 4 at 20:57 Jeff Schaller 37.9k

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How do I handle my posted XY question?

discussion specific-question

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error submitting an answer [closed]

bug

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need help improving a question

discussion question-quality down-votes

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Im trying to answer a question and having difficulty myself?

discussion comments

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How to fix my erroneously entered new account name

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Why the wrong and incomplete answer get many votes and the right one not so much?

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Voting on questions. When should you give a upvote

discussion support questions voting

modified Oct 17 at 12:57 Jeff Schaller 37.9k

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Tag to use for `/usr/bin/install`

discussion tags useless-tags

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Tag-merge syscalls -> system-calls

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Need help narrowing a question

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Attaching archive to post

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answered Oct 9 at 17:35 Jeff Schaller 37.9k

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Wrong prompt when editing questions with disallowed tag

bug tags editing

modified Oct 8 at 9:16 terdon♦ 127k

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Is there a way to rescue this question?

discussion

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The “Unix & Linux” logo is using faked small caps, which looks bad

bug status-completed design

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Trivial answer converted to comment

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Missing help topic: color codes in questions list

feature-request questions help-center

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Redirect chat.unix.stackexchange.com to a more useful URL

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