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Should I downvote a question because I think it is beckoning trouble?
Well, "OP has no idea what he's doing" isn't really something that I've seen in any guidelines.
I'd consider a few things.
Is this a XY problem? OP is clearly trying to solve an underlying 'issue' bas …
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How to recover account
Well, your account is working as designed - you, however have been question banned.
While link only answers are frowned on - there's a meta.se post explaining what to do
Using another account is proba …
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How to enter suggestions
With questions like this - the help and the tour are your starting points.
I don't have a question but actually some kind of advice for hopefully a number of superusers around there?
Er... depends. …
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Software recommendations - what software can do this
Focus on the problem and leave out the software and it ought to be fine.
"I'm trying to search for specific text fields in a directory, but only in .txt files - I've tried the following approaches (b …
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Do downvotes for new users have to be worked off?
If they post too many bad questions they get question banned (and this happens often enough on SO that I remember questions on it in MSO), and they need to work it off - there's no real reason to ban …
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What is the proper way to ask technical question about hardware compatibility before purchase
Its a bit tricky here. Logically, the best person to answer your question would be someone who has had the exact same hardware, at at least, a very similar setup. These incompatibilities might be fixe …
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User "Hennes" is editing a lot of really old posts
He's doing it as part of the planned, and gradual removal of the server tag. He's been also fixing other issues with the post as per protocol. In short, things are going on status-bydesign. He's not f …
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Is SU (or any other Stack Exchange site) an only English-speaking community?
Yes it is, unless the specific community explicitly isn't. See this and the official policy. Considering help is in English, it should also be implicit.
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The new help page - do we have link shortcuts?
While @dynamic's answer was correct at the time he answered (and I'll delete this if he updates), apparently some time in july, SE added magic links, including the old faq links. Seems to work for me …
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How do you show the left single quote in code?
(Admission, just wanted an excuse to do unspeakable things to markdown)
' OH HARK, A SINGLE QUOTE?
Like that
" DOUBLE QUOTES TOO!
` OR EVEN A BACKTICK!
You cannot however...
wrap pre ta …
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Why not use IP address for images?
I think part of the reason is 'security' and more importantly the prevention of link rot. What if you move servers? You can't point the ip address to your new server as easily as you could a domain na …
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Why was the site "read-only" for a while?
https://twitter.com/StackStatus would be the place to check. Assuming it was ~7 hours ago it looks like there was some testing going on
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Can we bump threads?
Yeah.If you want people to pay attention to it, bounty it.
If its your own question substancial edits with more information would be an acceptable way too. Flagging non answers is entirely fine.
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Appropriateness of a Question
If its on how to use, deploy or set up hardware, its on topic. If its on what hardware to buy to solve a problem, its probably off topic.
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How is "How to save an rTorrent session?" not a valid title?
ftfy. Question looks fine to me - though I had to undelete it to check. If you can't undelete it yourself, feel free to flag and I'll fix it.