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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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What the heck happened that made the question I answered so popular (and my answer along wit...

I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because …
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1 vote
1 answer
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Is approving a edit for 2k users a bug or feature?

A low rep user edited a question I was looking at, I thought the changes he made where good and I clicked to approve it. Now it is sitting waiting for a approval of a 2nd user. If I had clicked "impr …
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4 votes
1 answer
162 views

6242 people view a question and I am the first to upvote an answer?

I am not sure if this is a glitch or just a really weird coincidence. I was looking at the question Can a Windows XP desktop be made into a WiFi hotspot? and out of the 6242 people who have viewed thi …
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5 votes

How does one become a top contributor and solves computer problems independenly?

If you are truly looking for the "manual" for windows that would be the book Windows Internals. They are currently on 6th edition (Windows 7/Server 2008 R2), and they release a new edition with each O …
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1 vote
1 answer
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Why did slhck close this question?

I was going over the main page and found the question Free batch image watermarking software from 09'. The question is well formed and is on topic from what I can tell. What was wrong with this quest …
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1 vote
1 answer
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Are we supposed to flag community-faq-proposed questions?

It is very general, has good answers, and Max's answer has good a discussion about the potential drawbacks of using a alternative DNS provider. – 11 hours ago declined - flags should only …
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11 votes

Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?

Quite frequently the best answer to a problem is user education. Are 1 or 2 employees giving out the password to other people, do you spend spend several 1000's of dollars on a Secure ID system so pas …
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9 votes

Looking for Super User's favourite webcomics!

I had this one hung up on my cubical wall when I was doing phone tech support a few years ago Tech Support Cheat Sheet EDIT: Now that I was promoted to the dev team I have this one on my wall
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-5 votes
2 answers
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Random is closing questions as duplicates that should not be closed.

I have run in to this twice today. As I was typing a answer Random closed this and this question. For the first one, I understand that that one is truly a duplicate (even the poster said so in the po …
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