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Why was my edit rejected if it improves the question's readability?
So... here's what happened. OP rejected and edited, and that overrode the one accept. Since OP dosen't need their edit reviewed, your edit was declined in favour of OP's edit. This triggered a bit rej …
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Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?
Get the discussion going on meta, Make a case for why they're different and get people involved. Its a much more pleasant way of doing things …
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I'd like to dispute a closure "How do you figure out what CPUs are compatible with a Desktop?"
Question in question here
While I've got the power to reopen it unilaterally, I've answered the question, and I think I'd like to take the opportunity to bring this up on meta.
While in general shoppi …
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Knowledge Repository
I note you posted an almost identical question, complete with the same typos on Parenting.
So, we have a fairly comprehensive set of help pages which cover many of these issues, and quite a lot of it …
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The monster that can't be killed
The tag was blocklisted by a community manager and can no longer be used.
It was subsequently burninated, obliterated, and otherwise disintegrated.
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Is software-rec an unwanted tag, yes or no?
sigh In general the convention is to ask first before doing a mass tag. As a moderator even, when I do bulk retag or
Its a meta tag anyway and doesn't belong. I'll see about trickle in editing these o …
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1
answer
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Pondering mod status tags
We've been using the status tags - things like status-review were used for 'internal' SU moderation tasks. At some point, review tags on per site meta get fed into tickets internally.
I feel like a se …
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What suggestions does the community have toward helping reopen this question?
Its too broad - even if its not a whole book's worth, its at least a research paper or thesis worth.
Topicality aside
As per our help pages
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based o …
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Requesting clarity on edits that update redirecting URLs
Pointing out that the links are redirected and you're editing them specifically so they don't go stale would likely ensure they're accepted.
Coulda done worse, I once had a valid edit rejected elsewhe …
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User vandalized own question - roll back?
Flag the questions with a custom flag. We get automatic notifications on excessive vandalism but this is probably something we want to keep an eye on.
As for what's happening...
Stack Exchange/Stack O …
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Edit that updates obsolete command-line parameters gets rejected?
I overuled the edit rejection. I get that that's a major change but there's no information loss from your edit.
I can't/won't really speculate on the rejection reasons, but I think that's a perfectly …
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How do we improve those banners you see when a question is closed?
We don't do 1 because the bar for migrations should be fairly high. If a question is of high quality, and the wrong site, we migrate it. As a former software recommendations mod, I'd probably be deepl …
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0
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Super User is trialling the new image hosting system
While generally moderator coverage on meta is sufficient, and we're told community team members are monitoring the status of the trial
We're keeping this post open for meta discussion - issues like If …
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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
I'm half certain at least some of these is some poor person in a sweatshop rather than something more sophisticated. It would be nice to have better tools - and we've requested for it
In this case I s …
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Is this harddisk question on-topic in SU?
I think the core of the question is "can I keep using this drive?", and the rest of the question is really background information. While it could use some polish, or even be replaced by a canonical qu …