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If someone's asked for the cheapest X then I can't see there being a serious problem if a vendor of X comes along and says get it here. There could be issues around the wording etc, but it would have …

This does happen on SO, so I can only assume it does on SF as well. I don't think it can ever be stopped, unless a ban is put on editing posts within a certain time period. However, that would (I fee …

The only danger with this is that it could look bad for a candidate if the timing meant they couldn't attend - if it was in the middle of their work day for example.

You need to consider several things - which you've already mentioned: Can it be edited into something more useful? Does it have low views? Does the user still exist? If, as you say, the question h …

People make mistakes and add the initial close vote. Other people see that mistake and think that the first people were right and add more close votes. If you get this situation there are several th …

Swag is no longer available for purchase. Swag is still given away - but as I'm not an employee (and probably even if I was) I can't tell you what criteria are used to decide who to give to and when. …

If it were reopened I'd vote to close it as a duplicate of either: How can I evaluate how much power (from power supply) is needed based on PC configuration? or What size power supply would I need …

Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that use the Stack Overflow API to display information on the moderator candidates. Click here to see all the information. The information presented is: The no …

The about page on SuperUser states (as it's very first line): Super User is a Q&A site for computer enthusiasts that's free So I'd assume that questions about games and games consoles are allowe …

Well, right at the beginning of the faq it states: Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about ... computer hardware computer software … …

But they are a good starting point for the discussion though. …

In this case it might be possible to restructure the question to minimise the subjectiveness, but ultimately it's going to be a list of anecdotes ranging from "don't buy I had 5 fail in 5 minutes" to …

It's because the users with close rights on the other sites haven't read the FAQ recently. Perhaps a link to the target site's FAQ should be included on the close dialog.

I'd vote to kill the tag - but I think we might need to come up with a tag that describes the stuff that gets loaded onto PCs (particularly laptops) by the big manufacturers. We could then make [crap …

No. Votes are always applied in order. So any down-vote after the user hits 1 has no effect on the users reputation. If a new user gets 5 down-votes followed by 1 up vote they'll have 11 points. Thi …