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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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Why was this edit rejected?
The edit didn't faithfully preserve the author's intent.
First, let me say that there's nothing wrong with making significant edits to posts. New users are especially prone to writing posts that inclu …
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Why is this question too broad?
Your question is closed because its answer(s) would include a substantial opinion-based element.
Your question is well researched and well written, so if there's a reason it's closed I think it's beca …
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Should Windows have a Stack Exchange site?
As other posters have noted, creating a separate site for Windows questions would draw away many users from SU. For those who have experience in Windows and other non-Windows platforms, this would req …
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Clarification for Reviewing Short Posts
I need some clarification on reviewing First/Low Quality Posts.
I encountered (and failed) this audit which is basically the answer "Use a physical keyboard" to the question "How do I boot a laptop w …
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What happens if an answer has a statement that is false but does not invalidate the answer e...
Since you're already aware of the accurate and inaccurate parts of the post, I trust you want to take action to help improve the answer and assist others who might rely on it to solve a similar situat …
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Editing the original post to include questions
Editing an already-answered question in a way that significantly expands it is not good practice on Stack Exchange sites.
We're not a forum, but instead a Q&A site, meaning you want to post question …
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Why does the number of votes to complete a review vary?
Why do some posts require only one vote to handle:
link to review
link to review
While others require multiple votes?
link to review
link to review
(All of these examples are from th …
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answer
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Have I forfeit some of my comment flags?
I've had the maximum of 100 available comment flags for some time. It's been my observation that the number of available flags is decreased by one for each outstanding flag; however as flags are handl …
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Question closed automatically; how to improve?
Thank you for trying to improve your question. We want to help you with that.
As currently written, your question does not include enough information for anyone to provide a definitive answer. Theref …
4
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Accepted
What is the difference: [flag] and [flagging]
Make flag a synonym of flagging
I've reviewed the questions asked in these two tags (including four that used both tags) and see no material difference between them. The end objective is the same: To …
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Are we/you strongly opposed to using **bold**?
How a post is formatted is more a question of preference than procedure. While there are bounds most people agree are in the extreme (walls of text lacking any formatting versus bold/italic/* bullet …
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2
answers
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Why was this question about recovering metadata from an image file closed?
The question Recover metadata information from photo was closed as off-topic.
IMO the question is asking how to recover (meta)data from an image file, not about the camera used to capture the image. …
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Answers as comments - please resist the urge
I was going to post this as a comment...but...
If someone's too lazy to post an answer as an answer, that's their business. Maybe they don't realize it's a good solution? Maybe they've had too many a …
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Question about printer interpretation of colors
Your question is on topic because it has to do with computer software and hardware. That said, I do think the issue is specialized enough that you may have trouble getting an answer from this communit …
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answer
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Too broad: Should we consider potential answers when deciding?
Once in a while I find a question that asks how accomplish a single task, but in several different contexts. For example, this question asks, "How do I prevent web browsers A, B, and C from automati …