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Why was my VLQ flag rejected?
I have flagged this answer as very low quality and my flag was rejected.
VLQ's description is:
This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable ...
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How do you thank someone?
How do I thank someone for giving the right answer. I tried to make a comment but I was told I needed a reputation.
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Why was this First Post deleted even if it does not deserve deletion?
I was reviewing First Posts today and stumbled on this answer as a review audit. To me, it seems like such an answer would be allowed as:
it isn't spam or offensive,
it is an answer, as it eventually ...
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Why are generic flags not available for low score answers?
I've just tried to flag a low score answer as "Not an answer" and the only option available was "Needs ♦ moderator attention".
Why are generic flags not available for low-quality answers?
What'...
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Better about page example questions/answers/comments
I recently posted on Meta.SO about the example questions, answers, and comments found on various site's about pages, and was told that although some sites have auto-system-picked examples, the mods of ...
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The example question on the tour is about unicorns
The current example question on the about page is the Stack Exchange default example: "How to prevent unicorns from eating daisies". This is quite unhelpful and makes the site look less professional.
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Better understanding "not an answer" flags
I have flagged this post for not being an answer: Checking NVRAM on BootUp
The flag was declined, as "flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer". I am ...
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Deletion of microsost-word-2011
Typo in name. Currently with one question.
https://superuser.com/tags/microsost-word-2011/info
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Badges are removed or missing from account profile
Of the seven badges I've earned with my time on the site I've noticed that the count is now dropped down to two.
Can anyone tell me the specific reason behind this?
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Help us clean up tags!
Tags on Super User are meant to categorize posts to help people with specific expertise or interests to quickly discover posts that are relevant to them.
Over time we've collected quite a few ...
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Questions from new user / non serious users
I have been actively answering "simple" questions on Excel with examples by uploading possible answers to file sharing sites (google drive).
I somehow feel that there are too many non-serious new ...
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Flag "options" disappear?
Not that I'm a "flag happy" person but if somethings only been flagged once, why are the flagging "options" a lot of times cut in half. I've noticed there's normally only 3 of the 6 flags "options" ...
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Why don't I get notications for favorited questions?
According to this question on Meta.StackOverflow:
Changes to the question will now notify users who have favorited the
question. Notifications include comments to the question, edits, new
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Suggested Edit 'This item is not reviewable'
I was in the Suggested Edits Review Queue, completed one review and clicked 'Next'. It took a bit of time to get to the next one and this is what it was:
This is obviously supposed to be an audit (I ...
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How do I bypass the automatic affiliate linking on Amazon links? [closed]
Is there a way to bypass the automatic Stack Exchange affiliate linking when I post an Amazon link?
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How to check what the close reason is?
Situation
I just asked a question and someone voted to close it.
Question
How do I find out what the reason was?
Research
I saw somewhere (see screenshot in this question) that when voting to ...
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Is it bad to delete the question?
Is it bad to delete a question when it is not answered to a no. of days or the answered suggested are not working and no more answers are coming.
In short I want to say that I have asked some ...
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Are you allowed to ask follow-up questions or duplicate questions if there were no satisfactory answers?
Are things like follow-up questions or duplicate questions if there were no satisfactory answers, permissible on this site?
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Appeal regarding the closure of a question
I asked a question and it was closed as being primarily opinion based. I frankly don't see how and am willing to listen to anyone who is willing to explain how a question about latency in RAM is ...
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Is the ban warning too strict?
I want to ask a new question and get the warning
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.
But I asked 9 questions ...
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Downvoting questions and answers
It appears that some are upset about the reputation people earn. I have received several downvotes without any feedback, so I don't think there is a problem with my answer. This answer has received 2 ...
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Do mods still merge spam users into the deposit user?
I know that a while ago, instead of outright deleting/destroying newly created users who post spam, they would be suspended and then merged into a single user (https://superuser.com/users/43131/...
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Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes
@IvoFlipse was looking for a query to find old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes. Because those kind of questions clutter the site and keep the unanswered question ratio high, it is a ...
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Did I ask about Adobe Acrobat here in error?
I am wondering if anyone can help me (perhaps by migration?) find an answer to the question I posed a little over a week ago? It involves changing an Adobe Acrobat pre-packaged template for PDF ...
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Using the unanswered button
It seems odd, but that button (the one next to the badges button) does not really return a list of unanswered questions. While on the default subview, that is in fact the case, when I switch to the ...
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Why does the Stack Exchange user profile say that this user has a different number of answers from what it says on this site's user profile?
I'm looking at the user profile page of this user (https://superuser.com/users/43131/) and it says that that user hasn't posted any answers. However, when I look at the same user's profile on Stack ...
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Is Super User connected to askquestions.in?
I posted a question on Super User yesterday. Today, when I google the problem I had, I find my question on askquestions.in.
I have never created a user at askquestions. Is there an official ...
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Old monthly tag cleanups [closed]
This post is no longer active. It is preserved for historical reasons only. For more info on our new tag cleanup procedure, see:
Help us clean up tags!
A new way to clean up tags
The following tags ...
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Did I just close a question as a duplicate all by myself? I'm not a mod
Regarding this question: Wifi Speed for WRT54G Wireless Router
I thought I was just voting to close it as a dup, and I probably wasn't paying close attention to the UI strings, but it seemed to close ...
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Banned for 3 days because of wiki tags - explain please
As I have access to moderator tools, I have tried today, as I do for several years now,
to access the "review" section of the moderator tools to which I have access because
of my reputation.
To my ...
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What could be the reason for downvote on a question without any clarifications?
Two folders with weird names with huge size. What are those? What should I do with them?
I just want to know the reason of downvote. I really do not feel that the question is technically wrong or ...
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What is the mystery text appearing in the search box
What does the mystery text like user:328460 appearing in the search box mean ?
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What to do with unanswered old questions?
If there is an unanswered old question, how I can make it reviewing by people? My reputation is low, so I can't put bounty on it! Can I ask it again?
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Find out, why a question was deleted
Why was this question deleted? https://superuser.com/questions/603373/how-do-i-reverse-proxy-etherpad-lite-with-nginx-to-a-subdirectory And can you please undelete it? It sais there:
deleted by ...
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Why deleted Questions are permanently deleted while answers are not?
Deleted questions are permanently deleted when we go to that page it says 'Page not found'. while in case of deleted answer it shows that answer deleted but that is still available there. they should ...
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How is this question classed as 'an answer'?
I recently flagged this question as 'not an answer', but it has been disputed.
I understand that this is a user who wants to help (as said in their last line), but I don't understand the reason it ...
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Too sneaky review audits
I was reviewing a first post, and it showed a post by user....... The answer looked OK, but I clicked the link to the question to see the other answers, and there was the exact same post by LPChip. So ...
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Reputation audit does not match reputation on site
My current reputation audit at Super User (/reputation) displays, as of this writing, a reputation of 10825, but the reputation shown on the site is 10775, a discrepancy of 50 points.
Can someone ...
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What's the deal with the "blatantly off-topic" close flag?
I don't remember there being a flag like this for some time (but then again, I haven't flagged a question as being off-topic for some time also). Searching MSE, MSO and here didn't turn up any ...
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Why am I being warned about being blocked from asking questions?
I just went to post a new question, and at the top of the form I see a message saying:
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and
you're in danger of being blocked from ...
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Request: Make "fireworks" and "adobe-fireworks" synonyms
Please make fireworks and adobe-fireworks synonyms.
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How to correct some spelling mistakes while there's a limitation: said edits must be at least 6 characters
How to correct some spelling mistakes while there's a limitation that said
Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?
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Is there any way to provide feedback to proposers and reviewers of editors?
A user kindly proposed this edit, and two other users approved it:
https://superuser.com/revisions/308130/5
Despite the facts that it contains erroneous formatting (it puts the code backticks around ...
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What's wrong with this question?
I received down-votes for this question:
https://superuser.com/questions/753966/looking-for-a-forum-with-anonymity-support
Now my understanding is that it is not a question which has readily ...
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What’s with all the colorful avatars?
I noticed that several moderators have just changed their avatars in a similar style:
Is there any backstory behind this?
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Where in the world is my SuperUser t-shirt?
I filled in the form to receive my SuperUser t-shirt on April 8th, but I haven't received it yet. It's been more than a month. Is there any way to learn if it's on its way to Istanbul?
EDIT:
Today is ...
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all of my low quality review posts comes blank
Look over the above picture, while reviewing I found an empty post but while clicked on edit I was able to get this answer.
Am I the only one who's getting this type of errors? What would be the ...
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Where do I see my rejected suggested edits?
According to my suggested-edit stats, I have had one suggestion rejected.
Where can I see that rejected edit?
I looked in my user "Activity" tab and didn't see it. I can filter by "suggestions" but ...
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When posting on super user keep getting "An error occured submiting the question" [duplicate]
I'm trying to post a question on superuser.com but keep getting the message "An error occurred submitting the question" when I click Post Your Question.
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What is the order of candidates in 2014 moderator election?
Within the election process a set of candidates is presented to vote for:
SuperUser candidates tab.
What is the order choosen to present all the candidates?
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