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Knowledge Repository
The rule across the SE network is General Questions General Answers.
The sites are a repository of knowledge.
Mokubai said that it is not a place to collate encyclopedic information that Super User is ...
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Proposed resolution : Quoting cannot be called plagiarism
Proposed resolution : A quote which is fully accredited and formatted as a quote, is not plagiarism.
This definition is in line with all the world's dictionaries and all the world's legal sources.
Why ...
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Why is a specific question with a certain answer marked as opinion-based?
Can someone explain to me why the question Can the use of OPKG on ZyXEL Keenetic Ultra II cause damage to the firmware or its incorrect operation? is opinion-based?
I really don't understand people ...
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Why was my comment explaining reason for a downvote deleted?
Earlier today I have downvoted this answer and left a comment explaining my action. It was something like this:
-1 because this is an unreadable 5 lines long run of words with no formatting or ...
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How to do better edits in the future?
When reading such answers, I find it useful to:
have the answer edited when an obsolete link is dead (the second link is dead)
have screenshots to quickly see how the GUI looks like (the question is ...
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Post Closed - Primarily Opinion Based - But it does not appear to be opinion based to me
Post: Shared data between multiple devices / Operating systems
I'm not asking for the best one, I'm not asking whether people like a solution or not. I'm asking "What solutions exist to address this ...
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Moderator abuse
Assist me in creating ics-events with complicated repeat patterns? is closed because the moderator doesn't understand what ICS are (They are just text strings in a .ics-file and I was looking for ...
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Flag was declined but the question was deleted all the same
I flagged this question about DD-WRT SysLog timestamps for moderation intervention as a cross-posted question.
But the flag was declined by a moderator. Then the question was deleted "for reasons of ...
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support
Scenario
I was banned the past year in 2014. I have a post-ban in which I can't ask any question in superuser.com.
Here are two discussions about my problem:
Am I a victim of any sort of ...
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Please allow me to ask questions again, after a year of being blocked
I added a bounty to a question, lost 50 reputation points and found out I was no longer able to add comments under the question I placed a bounty on. Because of that I was not able to reply in ...
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Is there something off with how reputation is built on Stack Exchange?
Is reputation only built or assessed by tenure and quantity and not by fewer but well researched, studied and articulated questions and relevant answers?
Original title started as this:
Why does ...
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Thanking, and criticizing, moderators for their actions
How can I thank a moderator for their help, and how can I air a criticism of a moderator's actions or behaviour?
I had posts wherein two different moderators intervened.
The first one was very ...
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What are some common "gotchas" associated with moderation activities?
Over the past few years, I've run into several little "gotchas" when it comes to common moderation tasks such as migrating questions, reviewing posts, or evaluating suggested edits. These mistakes ...
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When I flag a post, where does it get sent?
I'm a little confused as to what happens to a post when I flag it. Recently I flagged a question as "low quality". It was declined, and the reason that was given was that "flags should only be used to ...
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Fixing misclick in "Suggested edit" queue
When reviewing the queue of suggested edits, I did the inevitable and thought to myself: "Improve!", but accidentally clicked "Approve" (perhaps related to not being a native English speaker).
As I ...
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How can we bring a closed question to immediate moderator attention?
How can I bring the question for reopening to moderators attention?
As if my question is to be closed we used to flag a question and it gets immediate moderator attention, how can a user whom got ...
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Offensive user names
What to do with offensive user names? Offensive posts can be flagged. I don't see any way to flag offensive names. I feel it should be reported somehow, but I don't know where.
In my opinion user ...
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Why was the question about the future of laptops closed?
I suggest you to go through these questions first:
Why are we still using CPUs instead of GPUs?
Desktops turned into Laptops and these laptops turn into..!!?
In the first question some one asked ...
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Why was this question closed?
https://superuser.com/questions/284021/remove-documents-from-main-library-on-kindle
I think this is a legitimate question about a piece of software (the Kindle's OS) which was abruptly closed by a ...
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Idle moderator position
quack quixote has left Super User for good (here is the related post), and he still seems to have the moderator position (obviously idle). I think this position should be granted (by election) to an ...
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