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A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features

7 votes
1 answer
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Why was my request for merging split answers declined?

This is with reference to the following question: Adding 'Licenced To' name to pdf file at time of download At present it has two separate answers posted by the same user. The first one discusses how …
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6 votes
1 answer
86 views

Comment notifications if @ is added later

This is a niggling doubt I've had for some time now, so thought might as well get it cleared up. I often add comments and forget to @ notify someone. If I edit the comment and add the @username later, …
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2 votes
2 answers
77 views

Do downvotes for new users have to be worked off?

When new users receive multiple downvotes for questions/answers, their rep obviously doesn't fall below the minimum i.e. 1. Are all those accumulated downvotes taken into account (without a manual rec …
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3 votes
1 answer
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Self answer incorrectly deleted?

I've looked at it a few times now and not sure what I'm missing - why was this user's self answer deleted?
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7 votes
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Bypassing new user restrictions?

Look at revision 4 of this question. How was the user (with only 1 rep) able to insert images? (He claims a mod has granted him image posting privileges.) Looks like he copied over the stack.imgur.co …
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1 vote
1 answer
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Are those with access to moderator tools allowed to moderate their own posts?

As per the title, are mods (and non-mods with semi-mod powers due to high privileges) notified and/or allowed to moderate their own posts which others have flagged?
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4 votes
1 answer
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When people select different close reasons, what will the final reason displayed be?

Just wanted to know, when different people select different reasons to close a question, what's the reason finally displayed? Is it the one that received the first close vote? What happens for questio …
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1 vote
1 answer
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How best to handle an answer added to the question?

The poster of this question subsequently edited it and added a solution he had found. I left a comment asking him to post his edit as an answer instead (and self-accept if he feels like it), but he ha …
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0 votes
0 answers
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Get rid of product-rec tag

product-rec looks to be a good candidate for deletion, or do we keep it around as a match for software-rec and hardware-rec?
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1 vote
0 answers
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Search for answers to questions by specific user, or vice versa

I know of the user:<user_number> and user:me search operators. However, I'm trying to locate something that I'm pretty sure I had included in an answer to a question posted by a certain user. Is ther …
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1 vote
2 answers
115 views

What is "not an answer" supposed to mean?

I wish there was some way to directly respond to mod comments on a flag... Anyway... I was under the impression that "not an answer" encompasses "answers" that merely link to existing ones without ad …
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0 votes
0 answers
45 views

Make [blue-ray] a synonym of [blu-ray] and [bluray]

bluray is already a synonym of blu-ray, so why not make blue-ray a synonym as well? (Hope no-one creates blueray!)
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1 vote
1 answer
31 views

Tag for removal - heater

heater - Stupid tag used by a single closed question. I think we can safely get rid of it.
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5 votes
1 answer
32 views

Tag for cleanup - finger

finger - Usage seems to roughly equally divided between the *nix command and the digit of one's hand. Perhaps we can break this up into 2 separate tags? Or even remove the references to physical limb …
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2 votes
1 answer
48 views

Flagging answers on closed questions?

Just came across this question: Scheduled Tasks - Display the script. The OP might have accepted that "answer" since it pointed him to the proper solution, but clearly a link to a previous SU post isn …
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