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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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Question marked as off-topic

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 …
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Super User Swag is still wanted

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. …
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Close votes on a question that isn't off topic?

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 …
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Asking about a specific virus when others are closed

The process for removing any virus is largely the same regardless of the virus, so the general question: How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans or rootkits from my PC? …
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Should the Vote to Close option be altered?

I understand your point, but you would still have to provide a list of questions with close votes for people to browse. Why? When a site gets to the size of Super User it's not possible for everyone …
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What should be done about old, abandoned questions?

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 …
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Move a question to another SE site

There are two things you need to bear in mind. Moderators are volunteers who give their free time to ensure that these sites run smoothly. There are lot of bad questions posted on the sites. We do …
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Why are there large number of high-view questions on the front page?

The user - Tom - appears to have gone on an editing spree which has flooded the home page with old questions. Ideally edits should be done one or two at a time to avoid this, but (and I haven't check …
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Information on the moderator candidates

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 …
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2011 Moderator Elections - Town Hall Chat: 3pm UTC on the 31st

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.
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I have received 205 reputation points today

Reputation is capped at 200 points from votes. If you have an answer accepted, you accept an answer or you are awarded a bounty these points are immune from the cap and can take your daily reputation …
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What is the effect of down votes on a low-rep user?

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 …
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What to do about torrents?

Torrents are a grey area. They have legitimate uses as well as the more common illegitimate ones so we have to treat each question on its own merits.
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Do we want to have an option to migrate to AskUbuntu?

With 3341+ questions tagged ubuntu would this seem a good migration option? The most recent ones are: How can I change my uid without opening another user account? vmware linux headers not found for …
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Do we need the [crapware] tag?

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 …
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