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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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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011

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Why and how/by whom my profile name was changed?

The only name history I can see for your account is on the 15th of February. It looks like you changed your name and then 4 minutes later reset it. The events below are in reverse chronological order …
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Ending my tenure as a superuser moderator

We apparently found this home away from home one single day apart some 10 years ago. Those were heady days of answering, chatting and working to make the site a better place for users old and new. It …
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What is the definition of "corporate IT support"?

I have always tried to be inclusive of people who are in a corporate environment and help them as best we can, but there are some situations where we cannot or should not help them. My domain admin …
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Tag for JavaScript exists but it is off-topic on Super User

Programming in JavaScript may be off-topic but if your browser is having trouble running JavaScript, perhaps due to it having been disabled, then that would be on-topic here. Programming languages ar …
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?

Agreed. Windows Server 2003 appears to be the main tag and lines up with the actual product name. Merged and synonymised. updating post history, 22 rows affected (pipe delimited) updating posts, 19 …
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Promotional text in answer

Some spammers are getting into the habit of posting almost useful answers in order to disguise their spam. This is a difficult call though. 99% of the time these types of answer are spam but occasion …
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Poke a hole in "Pinning"

As it stands I'd say this is a meta tag and deserves absolute burnination. In order for this tag to be useful it must be used with another tag, it is almost never useful on its own. I'd say you prob …
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Should I handle rude fragments myself? or is it better to get moderator involved?

If it is a one-off then feel free to do the needful yourself, but flagging it is not necessarily a bad thing for moderators. In this case there was not much to see, but sometimes there are a lot of a …
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What should I have done with this spammy answer?

For the interested, the entire body of the answer: Below is the best free download for full system information. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html I have to agree that the post was low q …
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Should WSL be a synonym for Windows Subsystem for Linux?

Seems a good call and no reason to have two nearly identical tags. I've gone ahead and merged them. I've also copied the excerpt from wsl to windows-subsystem-for-linux updating post history, 12 ro …
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How to Report Cyclic Flagging?

Someone went and edited the duplicate close banner, which normally shouldn't be able to happen. The problem in this case is that the question was closed before the current system was put in place and …
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Acknowledging "thank you"s

While giving and receiving a "thank you" is fine as far as comments go they are, in the long term, little more than noise. In the long term the best "this helped"/"thank you" is an accepted tick or …
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Can an answer be backed up only by personal experience?

It depends. If the answer is nothing but personal experience, but results in it completely solving the original problem then it is definitely an answer. I've seen this before. When I last used F …
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I've been question banned - how do I ask better questions?

Your questions appear to be "Why/how do I do X" as opposed to "How do I make X work" Some SE sites are ambiguous and allow vague discussion type questions SU and SO do not. …
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