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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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User asks for answer that won't solve their problem

In this question, the asker is asking how to assign 2 IP addresses to their computer using DHCP. However, they clarified their question, and the reason they want to do this is to bypass an IP-based do …
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Make the use of an OS tag compulsory for all questions

No, this is not a good idea. Lots of things are within the scope of this site, but aren't operating system-dependent. For example: all the hardware questions, router setup (many concepts aren't firmw …
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Let's nuke the "error-message" tag

All questions that had the tag have been retagged to get rid of it.
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What is the dividing line between a question here and Ask Different?

There is no specific "line". Just because a question is on-topic on Ask Different, doesn't mean it's off-topic here. There are some lines: pure iOS questions (i.e. not questions about connecting iOS …
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Tag prefixes (like wireless-networking and networking)

I know that there are easy ways to deal with tags like windows and windows-7 (specifically, windows-7 includes windows). What happens with tags like wireless-networking and networking? It seems like …
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I think my question have been wrongly closed

"Small geographic area" is only one way a question can be "too localized". The core of that close reason is really that the question is unlikely to help other people -- it's specific to your individua …
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Highlights and contrast

On highlighted questions, usernames (the asker's name), and codeblocks on main, the background is very low-contrast. This is an issue on my laptop screen, which, if it's at the wrong angle, makes the …
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