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What's the reasoning behind not allowing questions with active bounties to be closed?
Looking at the list of questions with active bounties I found this one, which in my opinion is off-topic because the OP is seeking advice/third party software. I was about to flag it for closing, but …
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What should we do with broken links?
Reviewing the suggested edit queue, I bumped into a question where a user replaced one of the links because the former one was broken. However, as it already was broken (and out of Google's cache), I …
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Should answers encouraging to "restart" be flagged?
Lately, reviewing the queues, I'm seeing a lot of answers encouraging the OPs to simply restart the service that isn't working or even their computer/server to see if that solves the issue.
It's quit …
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Editing "nonexistent" answer resulting in test shows "Answer didn't exist" message
I was reviewing the First Posts queue, when I hit this test. I usually edit answers/questions with explicit links and embed them to some relevant term (like "This tool...", "This answer...", etc.), so …
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Reputation decreased but not shown in history
I'm pretty sure yesterday I had rep. 1,597. Today, I have 2 points less, 1,595. I wanted to make sure that I didn't mess up with some answer and see which one was it, so I went to my profile and click …
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Was I wrong answering an off-topic question?
It's quite clear to me the reason for establishing rules on any Stack Exchange site. Yesterday, I found this question, which I answered, and once sent, I read JakeGould's comment and realized that ind …
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Should this be considered spam?
Reviewing the first posts queue, I run into this question. The last answer seems to have a link for the Firewall keyword, which leads to a commercial firewall (and doesn't have much to do with the ans …
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Same answer from different users on different questions
As far as I know, excerpts of already posted answers are ok as long as they respect original authorship, e.g. including a link to the original answer.
If the newer answers are blatant copies (which i …
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Edit to correct a basic path syntax error in an answer rejected - why?
In my opinion, these rejects are correct. Even if you are 10000% sure that the path is wrong, you shouldn't use the Edit button for that.
Answers and questions themselves are each author's "property" …
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What to do with same answers to different questions by the same user?
Not sure if this has already been discussed here, so here it goes. Often, when reviewing the Late Answers queue, I run into some answers that seem to be posted many times by the same user
I understan …
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