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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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Is popularity a criterion on which to decide whether or not to keep a question open?

I recently find this question "How to create a table with all the combinations of 0 and 1". The statement is clear. It's popular, many visits, many answers. But... The effort shown to find a so …
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Tags about nothing

In few words: less work, doubts and backward compatibility. Personally I strongly support the proposal to write a description for each tag: it will avoid loss of time later when it will be needed to …
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Question about Linux/Android coexistence on a device are on topic?

I just find a closed question that asks about "Security Issues using Android/Debian Systems at the same time on a single device". Originally was titled "Use MaruOS or wait for Ubuntu Phone with Unity …
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Is it proper (and userful for our users) to have deleted for plagiarism answer like this?

Limit and advisability to delete an answer I recently incur in this question ("Can EXE always be replaced with COM?") and in the deleted answer that I report below for the users that have no access t …
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The problem of the no longer working links

After some time it is physiological that answers may contain outdated links. And it is a pity. I see a couple of identification strategies: A script that actively runs across the entire database to …
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Reopen a question edited by me... is that normal?

Whenever I can, I welcome new users to correct (edit) their questions, write comments and so on, as I believe it is easier for them to learn from a ready-made example. I recently edited this question, …
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Proper behaviour: to rollback or to re-edit a not working accepted edit?

There is this answer [1] to the question How do I figure out which /dev is a USB flash drive?[2] that contains an outdated answer maybe still useful for old systems. It was proposed an edit that I …
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Why this question is still open and not migrated?

Why this question "Windows utility to render which key I am pressing on-screen" is still open and not tagged as "software recommendations" and migrated to softwarerecs.stackexchange.com ?
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I created a resource for an answer. Are there specifications/rules to include it as picture ...

I answered to this question "Looking up gnuplot abbreviations", in the beginning giving only the method to find the meaning of the abbreviations used or usable. After I've created a a resource (a do …
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Is [GNU] a manufacturer meta tag?

GNU is not a manufacturer tag. It is an operating system (or better an operating system family and a wide collection of programs too). Indeed the name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix …
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Is it proper to invite directly in the tag excerpt users to post elsewhere?

Is it proper to invite directly in the tag excerpt the users to consider to post elsewhere? For what I read [1,2,3,4...] it seems we should not. In the Ubuntu tag one on SU, in this moment, is report …
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Is it impolite to give an answer as comment when a question is (getting) closed?

I just see the case of a new guy that posts 2 questions https://superuser.com/questions/1000071/tool-for-making-beautify https://superuser.com/questions/1000070/advanced-code-compare-multiple-line-r …
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Compare [comparison] and [file-comparison]

Let's we make them synonym [1]. Why not to delete This is a general point of view about the tags change/renaming: there is people that distinguishes among similar answers through the tags (Similar, …
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