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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.

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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear

All too often, I'm seeing close votes (or even closed questions) as "Unclear" on questions that are perfectly understandable to me. It seems to happen roughly once a week, and that's just in the limi …
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Why was this Nushell question closed?

Again, can we stop closing (especially Mod-closing) perfectly reasonable, understandable questions? (See my previous post on this topic) how to get a list of keys from a record? was closed about 5 se …
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Why was my query closed?

How on earth anyone came to that conclusion is beyond me I think this is a misunderstanding based on poor word choice in the question title. If people were to read it more closely and read the ques …
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Should we ban ChatGPT on Super User?

Certain uses of ChatGPT should not be allowed, but a "total ban" of all uses is a bit overboard. Straw-man proposal (reposted from my meta.askubuntu.com answer on the same topic - More info there; sho …
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Was this question closed because a new user made an (easily correctable) Markdown formatting...

WSL2 duplicated terminal was Mod-closed as "Needs clarity or details", but even as originally written it was (again) quite understandable to me. It definitely had two problems: The new user made a s …
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Place for holistic questions?

Your original SU question Let's start out with a big clarification. As far as I can tell, your question wasn't originally closed for being holistic, but primarily because it lacked one important deta …
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Is it okay to point readers to the edit history of an answer for old, (mostly) out-of-date i...

Background: For the last year or so, new features for Windows Subsystem for Linux (currently my primary area of expertise here) have been limited to Windows 11. With a recent release of WSL last week …
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Is it okay to point readers to the edit history of an answer for old, (mostly) out-of-date i...

Thanks to @DavidPostill and @KamilMaciorowski for the feedback in the comments. I've reverted from Option #3 to #2 based on their advice. For the particular answer I mentioned above, I've: Rolled-ba …
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Why was this Nushell question closed?

From the comments, @DavidPostill reopened the question. The reason given for it being "unclear" was that there was no information on where the "record" referenced in the question came from (e.g. a fl …
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How can I improve this question on how to see the commit size for each loaded DLL in Microso...

That's a bit of a weird one. I see @JourneymanGeek undeleted it, but then it was Roomba'd again. I'd be happy to upvote it, personally, if it got reopened (and you let me know before it gets undelet …
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Please review the deletion of my answer of the post mentioned here

Thanks for bringing this here to Meta. This is absolutely the right course of escalation. Sometimes the community is going to agree with you, and other times it won't, but you've made a good argumen …
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Why is this simple, straightforward question on a standard Windows feature closed as "Needs ...

Once again, I find myself confused on why a question was closed as "Unclear/Needs Details": Why are there empty files in %localappdata%\Microsoft\WindowsApps? What is unclear about that question? I …
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Why is this simple, straightforward question on a standard Windows feature closed as "Needs ...

The reason given in the comments for closing was that the OP didn't list any files in the directory, which I maintain was not necessary information for answering the question. Without examples of fil …
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Asking for 2nd opinion on moderator-closed question

I am not complaining. Moderator is entitled for this decision. Fair enough. You are "disagreeing" with the decision, but you are doing so in the proper manner. You've brought it here to Meta and m …
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Is the format bar code sample/block option inefficient

If anyone wants to cut down on SE storage, just edit a few of my posts to remove the wordiness ;-) ... the code sample/block option from the format bar using what was referred to as "antiquidated". …
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