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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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Close reason for questions asking for code
"Needs more focus" seems right to me. A question that amounts to "give me teh codez" is not "a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer" - as opposed to "here is the macro I' …
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Accepted
Edit the question or ask a new one?
This question already has a couple of answers, and is closed as "too broad". If you later understood that the issue is different enough to invalidate the current answers, I'd post a new question. Addi …
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Should I have flagged this question?
Earlier today, I came across a question asking for recommendations for software for an automotive repair shop. This question is clearly off-topic, and I voted to close it as "Questions seeking product …
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Accepted
Is this refusal to accept an answer aligned with community standards?
To quote the help center (bolding added for emphasis):
Accepting an answer is not meant to be a definitive and final statement indicating that the question has now been answered perfectly. It simply …
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Why was my edit, correcting a fact, rejected?
As a general concept, editing other people's posts is meant as a tool to help improve them without significantly changing their content - e.g., fixing typos, improving grammar, improving markdown form …
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Do Mods get Rep for Deleting Downvoted Answers?
To add to @Mokubai's answer - it's not only mods who don't get rep for this. High rep users can also cast delete votes (through the VLQ review queue at 2K reputation and directly at 20K), and do not g …
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Is it appropriate for me to ask questions about using Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows 7 here?
To quote the Help Center:
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about …
computer hardware,
computer software, or
personal and home computer networking
Mozi …
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I have a question very similar to an existing question, but different environments (Linux vs...
If an integral parameter of the question is different - in your case, different operating systems - it's a different question.
I ask a new question, and add a clarifying sentence down the lines of "I …
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Asking question about Outlook.com
The What topics can I ask about here? help page explicitly states that questions about "websites or web services like Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress" are offtopic. Moreover, the tag description expl …
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Automatic change of formatting while we answer
Post texts are rendered in markdown. By default, whitespaces will be stripped (as happens in HTML, e.g.). You can explicitly format your answer with markdown tags, as well as a limited subset of HTML …
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Accepted
Where should I ask this question?
The boundaries between the various SE sites aren't always cut and dry, and this question could easily be on-topic on several sites, including Super User, Unix and Linux, Ask Different, and potentially …
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Asking about the popularity of a package manager
Probably not - Super User is for technical questions. Asking about package manager's popularity is something between being opinion-based and a software recommendation, both of which are explicitly off …
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Is this answer spam?
I came across this answer in the First Answers review queue which I wasn't sure about, so I was hoping to get some insight from other members of the community.
On the one hand, it does kinda-sorta add …
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Is this the right place for Ubuntu using WSL questions?
Ubuntu using WSL would definitely be on-topic here at Super User. This doesn't mean it would be off-topic in the other sites you mentioned, though - both have tags for windows-subsystem-for-linux. The …
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Is Spam Assasin configuration on-topic?
According to the Asking page, you shouldn't ask questions about "issues specific to corporate IT support and networks".
From this, I assume that Server Fault would be a better place for such a questi …
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