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What is Suse studio? [on hold]

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Custom off-topic reasons are sometimes disparaging

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Adding a tag which refers to the best answer in the case of /sed and /awk when there is also /text-processing?

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How does the Research Assistant badge work?

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Self-promotion inside of comments, sometimes OK?

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Preference to show x number of questions when looking at own profile

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Edits must be at least 6 characters

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Should we be redirecting users who need general Unix/Linux help to a different site?

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aws-cli usage questions go…?

discussion tags scope migration stackexchange

modified Jan 12 at 13:34 Thufir 390

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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Unix & Linux

discussion support duplicate exact-duplicates

answered Jan 11 at 23:58 Monozygotic 101

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extremely similar questions - Is it normal/allowed

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modified Jan 11 at 19:57 Kusalananda 15.4k

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Are questions about Linux/Unix system calls or APIs suitable here?

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why can't I close my own questions?

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answered Jan 2 at 1:35 Scott 3,935

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How can I improve a question on history?

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answered Jan 1 at 23:12 G-Man 7,222

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To what extent are changes to posts of others OK? When does the meaning change?

discussion editing

modified Dec 31 '16 at 19:22 mattdm 20.8k

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User wants me to upvote their question

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answered Dec 28 '16 at 12:45 terdon♦ 93.5k

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Question marked as duplicate but is a specific subcase of the duplicate

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asked Dec 27 '16 at 19:03 cherdt 160

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What to do with mediocre edits with “blah blah” edit message?

discussion suggested-edits review

modified Dec 26 '16 at 15:27 grochmal 3,589

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Referenced posts redirect back to the referencing question #241173 in its answers #241190 & #241180

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answered Dec 26 '16 at 15:04 muru 20.3k

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What is the [cpu] tag intended use?

discussion tags tag-wiki

modified Dec 23 '16 at 17:20 Community♦ 1

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Where to ask questions with a historical element

discussion support migration

answered Dec 22 '16 at 10:21 terdon♦ 93.5k

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I need help on a Dovecot Virtual Mailboxes setup, should I be posting here on unix SE?

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answered Dec 22 '16 at 4:33 Michael Mrozek♦ 47.4k

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What should I do with minor edits made, where I must put much effort into getting it into usable state

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modified Dec 21 '16 at 1:26 Jeff Schaller 12k

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What should I do about duplicate answers?

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answered Dec 20 '16 at 13:13 Giacomo Catenazzi 1,507

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c++ and Linux go together - why are there no questions in this section?

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answered Dec 19 '16 at 19:00 terdon♦ 93.5k

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Double notfication on Yearling Badge. Is this a bug or am I missing something?

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What to do with answers to off-topic questions?

discussion close-reasons vote-to-close

answered Dec 15 '16 at 10:59 terdon♦ 93.5k

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Are hats in fashion this year?

discussion winterbash-2016

modified Dec 13 '16 at 13:57 terdon♦ 93.5k

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Not getting reply to questions as earlier

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answered Dec 10 '16 at 19:04 Michael Mrozek♦ 47.4k

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What should I do about highly opinionated answers?

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answered Dec 8 '16 at 23:22 terdon♦ 93.5k

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Should the help center encourage people to “give it a try” for possibly off-topic posts?

discussion support

answered Dec 8 '16 at 9:01 terdon♦ 93.5k

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Migration to Stack Overflow locked but not actually migrated

bug specific-question migration

modified Dec 5 '16 at 1:14 Gilles 392k

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Quote the source of sources?

discussion attribution

answered Dec 5 '16 at 0:53 Gilles 392k

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Why strdup question was closed?

discussion specific-question

answered Dec 5 '16 at 0:40 Gilles 392k

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Why don't Stack Exchange sites use HTTPS redirection?

discussion ssl

answered Nov 28 '16 at 7:30 strugee 6,599

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“This question already has a lousy answer here”

discussion duplicate

modified Nov 22 '16 at 17:25 Dmitry Grigoryev 3,813

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Is this a FreeBSD Handbook deficiency?

discussion support

modified Nov 22 '16 at 3:47 Jeff Schaller 12k

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The tag 'windows-subsystem-for-linux' is too long; the maximum length is 25 characters

discussion tags

answered Nov 16 '16 at 8:47 JdeBP 12.8k

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Should questions about improving the performance of scripts be on topic?

discussion scope

answered Nov 15 '16 at 0:22 Jeff Schaller 12k

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Cygwin on-topic?

discussion scope

modified Nov 14 '16 at 22:20 Gilles 392k

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Problem with downvotes for legitimate question seemingly because it self-resolved

discussion support

answered Nov 12 '16 at 12:01 terdon♦ 93.5k

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Asking support status of Node.js for UNIX

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modified Nov 11 '16 at 14:48 Community♦ 1

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Make Link Colors Brighter and/or add Dotted Underline

feature-request

answered Nov 8 '16 at 1:49 Govind Rai 101

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“/ask question” in the site header should be changed to “/ ask question”

bug design

answered Nov 4 '16 at 15:46 Jeff Schaller 12k

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Why was this question closed?

discussion support

modified Nov 3 '16 at 0:06 Jeff Schaller 12k

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Linux questions down-voting or up-voting?

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modified Nov 1 '16 at 2:47 Braiam 17.8k

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

discussion fun

answered Oct 31 '16 at 12:18 Bahamut 840

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