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Combatting Spam: Enhancing Keyword Approval and Filtering
That's what smoke detector essentially does. It is not running because of the ongoing moderator strike.
See also
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Acknowledging comments so that they can be removed
Just flag them as no longer needed.
Assuming the commenter dosen't catch on and delete it first, a mod will.
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Proposal: Merge SuperUser, Unix&Linux, ServerFault, AskUbuntu, AskDifferent
I feel (entirely biasedly) that this proposal seems to miss a lot of context and community culture.
First and formost, most of these sites are successful by Stack Exchange standards and have met all t …
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VOTE UP answers for own question even low reputation for new users
Let's see:
Ask a question
If it's good you get THREE upvotes... and you can upvote.
Post ONE good answer
Have it voted up, just TWICE, or get it right... and you're there.
Link an existing account
I …
9
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Remove upvoting on comments under a question, only allow downvoting
Comment upvotes are... special. They don't actually really mean anything (I seem to recall, at most a badge). On the other hand, comments are a useful way to extract and elicit more information from a …
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Suggestion for new Vote to Close Reason: Shopping recommendation
Now, a good number of questions I get around to closing are obvious shopping questions, and tend to be closed off topic when I do.
Considering shopping questions are a definite no-no, could we have …
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Please let me award a bounty to a qualified answer despite my tardiness?
There's literally nothing we can do.
There's even a grace period after the one week/168 hours, but no way to undo a 'lost' bounty or to do anything once the bounty period is over.
meta.se's got an …
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New tag request - 'newbie-friendly'
It is unlikely because its a meta tag.
The 'quality' of a question doesn't entirely rely on specific subject matter expertise. Its about showing your research or lack thereof and giving folks the info …
8
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Allow migration of suitable hardware questions to the Hardware Recommendations Stack site
Public beta's too early for migration anyway, and considering the two recommendations sites are unique in their scope and previous experience as a moderator on software recommendations I'm not sure th …
8
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Please don't turn new user's questions into audit tests
It is a terrible question - it isn't ok. The course of action preferred would have been to comment asking for extra information
I was using after effects and my pc suddenly turned off it's a brand ne …
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Suggest another stack exchange site while closing
You can always use a custom flag to request a mod move a post. You may not get it, but thats the right way to. As always, make sure the question is worth saving, and is on topic before requesting migr …
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Edits required for on-topic help page
It comes under product recommendation. It's actually been disallowed longer than software recommendations.
A software recommendation is a software recommendation, free, paid, or if you get paid to us …
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Retags should not bump a post
There's a proper way to do retags - make a proposal, wait for community consensus, create a list of questions that should be edited, and look at editing the questions gradually. I've done this a few t …
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Can we allow both back-slashes and forward-slashes in Stack Exchange mark-down language tags?
Stack Exchange primarily uses CommonMark - and there's a specification for the use of raw html within it
While a subset is supported - its supported within the specification. I currently Stack Exchang …
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Exception to the minimum answer character count
I tend to disagree - its often useful to talk a little bit more about why the command works, than what the command is. Decomposing and explaining the command adds a lot.