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

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answered 23 hours ago slm♦ 241k

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need help improving a question

answered 2 days ago Kamil Maciorowski 1,091

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

discussion tags useless-tags

asked Oct 13 at 8:18 Tom Hale 6,120

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Tag-merge syscalls -> system-calls

discussion tags

modified Oct 11 at 7:08 Stephen Kitt 152k

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Need help narrowing a question

discussion

modified Oct 10 at 23:19 user2661923 177

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Attaching archive to post

discussion

answered Oct 9 at 17:35 Jeff Schaller 34.3k

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Wrong prompt when editing questions with disallowed tag

bug tags editing

modified Oct 8 at 9:16 terdon♦ 125k

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Is there a way to rescue this question?

discussion

modified Oct 5 at 22:17 sourcejedi 21k

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

bug status-completed design

modified Oct 4 at 21:51 Joe Friend 101

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Trivial answer converted to comment

support specific-question

answered Oct 4 at 14:34 terdon♦ 125k

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Missing help topic: color codes in questions list

feature-request questions help-center

asked Oct 4 at 13:16 Fiximan 3,003

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Why answer a question not worth your upvote?

discussion voting

answered Oct 4 at 13:08 sourcejedi 21k

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

feature-request

answered Oct 4 at 0:05 Michael Mrozek♦ 59.3k

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Let's compile a list of canonical Q&As

discussion canonical-questions

modified Oct 2 at 11:38 sebasth 7,653

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Broken CAPTCHA when posting question

bug

asked Oct 2 at 10:47 maxf130 108

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Is“How to stop running e4defrag without damage my data?” as unclear?

discussion specific-question question-quality

answered Sep 28 at 17:28 terdon♦ 125k

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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

modified Sep 28 at 9:50 Anthony Geoghegan 7,386

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Downvoting answers to questions asked like “do my homework”

discussion answers down-votes

modified Sep 27 at 13:52 Luciano Andress Martini 3,315

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Lots of surprising downvotes to new users

discussion

answered Sep 22 at 17:35 Anon 1,360

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How to create a side by side code box?

discussion feature-request

answered Sep 20 at 15:27 Michael Mrozek♦ 59.3k

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Could be useful that we develop some shell Taxonomy?

discussion

modified Sep 19 at 14:09 Jeff Schaller 34.3k

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Writing generic SELinux Q&A

discussion canonical-questions

modified Sep 18 at 21:20 sebasth 7,653

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Undoing an edit by someone else

support editing

answered Sep 17 at 12:31 user90255 146

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What's the attitude towards “Give me answer, I don't RTFD” questions?

discussion

answered Sep 16 at 13:49 sebasth 7,653

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Are we abusing “Request for learning materials” as a reason to close?

discussion close-reasons

modified Sep 12 at 12:35 JdeBP 30.5k

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Why downvotes on comments are not considered in U&L?

feature-request

answered Sep 10 at 22:57 Jeff Schaller 34.3k

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Rename adb to android-adb

discussion bug suggested-edits adb

modified Sep 10 at 14:43 Jeff Schaller 34.3k

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I got no Inbox notification for a comment, why?

bug status-bydesign

modified Sep 8 at 1:27 Michael Mrozek♦ 59.3k

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What should our site's header graphic be?

discussion design

answered Sep 7 at 16:34 Jeff Schaller 34.3k

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Hey you know what would be cool ? tooltips on text (or some way to hide/show portions of text?)

discussion

answered Sep 7 at 8:23 terdon♦ 125k

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How do we feel about copying answers from other SE sites?

discussion answers

modified Sep 4 at 10:11 terdon♦ 125k

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“Migration” question

discussion

answered Sep 3 at 19:36 slm♦ 241k

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Experimentation Sandbox

discussion support markdown formatting sandbox

modified Sep 2 at 2:51 John Militer 654

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I need help finding this question: How to simulate one large file out of many segments?

support search

answered Sep 1 at 12:24 terdon♦ 125k

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Unix & Linux new site theme is live

discussion design

modified Sep 1 at 2:30 curiousdannii 120

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cgroup versus cgroups in tagging

discussion tag-synonyms retag-request

asked Sep 1 at 2:01 Wildcard 22.3k

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Regarding links to U&L questions in answers, and the way they do/don't expand to the title of the question

bug hyperlinks formatting

modified Aug 28 at 21:12 Stephen Kitt 152k

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Popup magically appeared onscreen moments ago CentOS 7, GNOME?

discussion

modified Aug 25 at 12:02 terdon♦ 125k

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My signature, my style. How do I ask an advanced contributor to stop editing my question?

discussion support

answered Aug 25 at 11:57 terdon♦ 125k

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Is it possible to modify visual rendering of links locally?

support user-interface

modified Aug 18 at 11:52 Kusalananda 111k

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Imminent drive failure: OP in need of reopening question

discussion

answered Aug 17 at 21:58 Michael Mrozek♦ 59.3k

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Make “historical-unix” history!

discussion tags tag-synonyms

answered Aug 17 at 21:22 Gilles 516k

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Difference between “foo” and “foo”, 'foo' and ‘foo’ — and — as well

bug design title

asked Aug 17 at 20:39 Gilles 516k

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How to delete specific question version that included my privacy due my mistake?

discussion specific-question

answered Aug 17 at 16:57 Michael Mrozek♦ 59.3k

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New Design Launched

discussion design

answered Aug 13 at 0:11 Gilles 516k

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Could the link colours within post text be made to stand out more from regular text?

feature-request design user-interface

modified Aug 12 at 4:11 Michael Mrozek♦ 59.3k

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