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Impact dropped to almost half, without post being deleted

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Should we add a [trackpad] tag?

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How to tackle the gray area in reviewing low-quality answers?

discussion review answer-quality low-quality-posts

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The [X] tag should be aliased to [X11]. (Agree / disagree?)

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Jul 5 at 18:15 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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Users deleting their questions after receiving answer as comment (stop answering in comments)

discussion comments deleted-questions

modified Jun 29 at 17:52 Astara 199

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Where should this go, assuming it is right format for stackexchange sites

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PSA: Please don't post images of text

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Post new question cooldown timer is showing wrong warning

support bug

answered Jun 28 at 9:30 Secespitus 148

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Merge libvirt and libvirtd tags

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Jun 24 at 1:28 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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What is the [history-expansion] tag for, and does it add any value?

discussion tags

modified Jun 22 at 2:00 Community♦ 1

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Synonym for /synchronization and /sync?

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Jun 18 at 18:48 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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Are /virtualization and /virtual-machine synonyms?

feature-request status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Jun 18 at 18:47 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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Are polkit and policykit tags not the same?

discussion support status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Jun 18 at 18:47 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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Do we need /efi or just /uefi?

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Jun 18 at 18:43 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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Alias macOS to OS X?

discussion status-completed tag-synonyms

modified Jun 18 at 18:41 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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Why shouldn't [sunos] be a synonym of [solaris]?

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms

modified Jun 18 at 18:29 Jeff Schaller♦ 48.2k

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I tried to sign up for this site but

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Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?

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What's the best site to post a question about weird bash prompt behavior when using ANSI colors?

discussion scope

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What do moderators wish the users of Unix & Linux (.SE) knew?

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My question wasn't specific enough, but got I got the right answer anyway. How should I proceed?

discussion questions editing duplicate

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Should I write a new answer for p7zip to open RAR file?

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When to “Comment”, and when to “Answer”?

discussion answers comments

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“That is not possible” is a valid answer

discussion specific-question

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What has triggered the massive number of user removals?

discussion support

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Editing questions recently put on hold (don't do trivial edits)

discussion editing closed-questions

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Order users by country? Feature Request

feature-request

modified May 11 at 4:53 slm♦ 264k

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How do we stand on allowing opinions in answers?

support

answered May 9 at 18:07 terdon♦ 139k

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Since when are questions about dual-booting off-topic?

discussion scope

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Editing other people's posts to remove “thanks”

discussion questions editing new-users

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Why are Kali questions hated so much?

discussion kali

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Should I stop referring Kali users to U&L from AU?

discussion kali

modified May 3 at 19:29 Fabby 4,522

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Why I closed the “Why is Kali so hard” question

discussion kali

modified Apr 30 at 15:26 terdon♦ 139k

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What can the Kali-Linux tag excerpt say to help those askers?

discussion tags kali

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2019 Community Moderator Election Results

discussion election

modified Apr 26 at 10:28 terdon♦ 139k

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How do we deal with Unix hair dryer questions when we encounter them?

discussion fun

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Suggested change of tag definition for Anaconda

discussion tags

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Getting to know you: who are you and why do spend time on unix.se?

discussion fun

modified Apr 14 at 17:08 Community♦ 1

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proper way to format a terminal command and its output for posting on the site

support formatting

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Should software-rec tag be migrated to softwarerecs.SE?

discussion scope

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Let's compile a list of canonical Q&As

discussion canonical-questions

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tutorials/guidelines on posting

support editing formatting

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How can I list all my posts both deleted and nondeleted?

support search

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Is promoting another Stack Exchange site OK?

discussion comments stackexchange

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I have screwed up a question

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Lots of ancient questions being VTCd

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