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Should Windows have a Stack Exchange site?

Windows 8 is new and, naturally, there are quite a few problems with and questions about it. But that will only last a few weeks or months! We didn't have a dedicated Windows 7 SE site, and we don't …
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Are questions about TVs off topic?

About 2 hours ago, the question Why do enormous TVs take longer to turn on than smaller TVs? got closed for being off topic. The question also has a comment that reads TVs are not computer softwa …
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Question got copied to SO and answered there. What now?

Somebody copied the question How to remove watermark from pdf using pdftk? and reposted it on Stack Overflow (link). I think that this was not a traditional crosspost, as the posters of both question …
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When to self-answer, when to blog?

TL;DR What is the difference between the criteria for self-answered questions and blog post? I have a number of topics I'd like to write about, but I'm having a hard time deciding whether I should …
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Why was 523119 closed?

I voted to close that question because of the following: A question is considered to be a duplicate of another question if it has the same answer. The accepted answer to Does Microsoft Security Essen …
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How should trusted users deal with non-answers?

Shortly after earning 20k reputation, I've encountered a couple of non-answers and – out of habit – flagged both posts as not an answer. Then, I've remembered my newly gained super powers, downvoted …
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The DOS tag is ambiguous

As it is, the dos tag is ambiguous. Even the tag wiki excerpt is split: DOS is an acronym for "Disk Operating System." DoS is an acronym for "Denial of Service." Do not use this tag for questions …
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