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Two things - it's on the hot network question list, and it's on Hacker News. It's also the sort of thing that geeks find hilarious. I'd add it doesn't have one answer - we've occasionally had to shov …

Some things are simply impossible - however, it's useful to say why not (or better yet, how it could be done, but how incredibly difficult it is). If we had a question like I need to alter my …

Its an exact duplicate of our site and its something that you should report so that action can be taken. As per the official meta.se post on the topic The site is a proxy. Whatever the purpose o …

Its a little bit zen, but one dosen't get 'mad skills' by wanting 'mad skills'. One achieves a higher level of skills by actually making use of the skills you have. I started off with pretty pathetic …

I'd suggest a few things. Firstly, remember the question and answer format and don't make it like an ad. So, ask a question as a confused, lost user would, and answer it likewise Secondly, make it c …

Yup. Best answers change sometimes. Considering its not version specific, I'd add a note on the question and switch.

I've occasionally noticed, and commented on and downvoted lower quality, link-only answers, and you've definitely got a lot of rep - and well, if I thought one of your answers wasn't good, I'd conside …

Well, hats are opt out, and we didn't opt out. There'll be hats this hatmas.

This isn't actually an answer proper, but there's a few points where I suspect the process of well, all this could have run better. Hindsight is 20/20 , and this is not really a reflection on SE's mod …

Couple of points here - as a long time user of the site and a moderator. One of the 'issues' us smaller sites have is that sometimes there's a 'question' of the value we bring to the broader network. …

I can think of a few things. The question as is seemed rather silly at first, but resulted in awesome answers with lots of geeky technical things. The former got it eyeballs initially and the latter g …

There's a related post on MSE here, and I encourage people to weight in there - I'm probably a lot more annoyed when I wrote it, a little later, and I don't see the point repeating it here. As a lon …

Too many goodbyes this month. ❤ This was one of the folks I have to thank for me being who I am now - and I'd say as one of the mods before me, I learnt a lot from Nathan. And a few Hijinks. Good …

The community has built spam detection tools and many moderators and curators are on strike, but hopefully we can deal with this once the strike is over. One of the main spam filtering systems is comm …

I think, while some of the concerns are valid, that port identification questions are fundamentally different from the other sort of guessing game questions. Firstly, it's a practical, answerable pro …