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What are the rules when writing an article on Super User?

on Super User) make sure you do all of the following: Provide a link to the original page or answer Quote only the relevant portion Provide the name of the original author Related questions
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Why am I getting a question ban?

I have only asked 2 or 3 questions You have asked 10 questions. Is my status on other SE sites causing me to have a premature question ban here? No. … On SuperUser you have asked 10 questions. Those 10 questions have a total of 18 downvotes. Only 1 question has an upvote. 8 of those downvoted questions have been closed and deleted. …
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Are new questions regarding Windows XP on-topic?

Are new questions regarding Windows XP on-topic? Short answer: Yes they are on-topic. We allow all sorts of questions about old (outdated) operating systems. …
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Placing a user's comment in their own post

Sure, that is a good thing to do as comments are not meant to be permanent in the same way that questions or answers are. …
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How can a question about a deleted question be a hot meta question?

If there are still under 4 items, the rest of the space is filled with hot discussion questions not marked status-completed, scoring at least 3 and posted within the past two weeks. …
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Why are old questions on top?

Questions are picked randomly from the top-viewed questions with new activity more than 30 days ago. … The maximum number of unanswered questions bumped per hour depends on the site: 4 per hour on Stack Overflow, 2 per hour on Super User and Server Fault, and 1 per hour on Meta Stack Exchange and all …
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Wording a question about protocols for converting authentication without it being " product,...

You are disputing the close reason which is: Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic Asking us to "find" a protocol is a "learning material recommendation …
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Why was I forced to set the bounty to 50 reputation when I had 78?

I was forced to set the bounty to 50 when I had 78, Why? Bounties must be increments of 50: 50, 100, 150 etc so you cannot set a bounty of 78 and you don't have enough reputation to set a bounty of 10 …
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Question ban: Which questions to improve how

None of my questions have a score below zero. And I can't see my old deleted questions. You have asked 30 questions (15 are deleted). … Unfortunately I don't see any way to improve those deleted questions. To balance that you have 10 up votes on non-deleted questions. …
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