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I'll just add some rules I'm trying to follow. I've been guilty of all these things (and sometimes still am, probably), but at some point I've recognized them as harmful for the community. When downvo …

Here's data from actual posts on the site: Style Post count Alt+F4 15,264 AltF4 2,425 Alt-F4 1,195 Posts that contain multiple uses of adjacent keys were counted only once, unless they …

I feel pretty strongly about this, but I'm open to discussion. …

I'd like to know what edits should be rejected as too minor, and which ones should be accepted? I'm thinking about things like: Changing just the misleading title Editing formatting of menu options …

For example, How to access the system tray using the keyboard? has been flagged as a duplicate of How to access (or switch between) tray icons with shortcut in windows?. The former one has been asked …

IRC channel for computer network related queries seems to be opinion-based and should be closed. When someone answers the question like this one and I stumble on such answer when reviewing low-quality …

I think software-rec is a perfect candidate for Tag Cleanup. Quoting @LanceRoberts: […] the site doesn't want or encourage software-rec questions, [and] there are older, historical ones that need …

If somebody asks what are the differences between two editions of the same application, how should the question be tagged? For example Difference between resin and resin pro is currently untagged and …

All hardware-selection questions are actually hardware-rec. It's only 6 questions, but hardware-rec has just 192, so hardware-selection makes 3% of the total - I think it's popular enough to be synony …

Neither of these styles is incorrect, old, deprecated etc. Stack Exchange is using Commonmark which allows both styles: indented, fenced. Actually, if anything, it's the fenced style that is controver …

I see something like this very often: This question is in the review queue, but it shows as already closed. Still, I can leave it open or close it. At first this is confusing, after two or three of …

I know that this has been covered before (for example here), but communities evolve constantly and our current view on this matter can be different. In my humble opinion, software-rec should be burni …

This is not a reopen request, I want to discuss my view on those duplicates. Why does an exe file not appear as ones and zeros in a text editor such as Notepad? is a theoretical question. OP doesn't a …

I've just realized that the SuperUser Tour doesn't list programming in the Don't ask about... list. I think we should consider adding it. We have four migration targets for closed questions: Stack Ov …

Let's say someone asks a question: How do I upgrade a widget for defrobulator?. There are many possible answers, each one correct and the question isn't too broad. (And defrobulator in this case is a …