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Can we find a canonical QA to close 'will this charger work?' questions against?
We get so many of these, with only minor variations.
My google-fu is failing to find one single canonical QA we could use to close these against.
Can anyone find - or indeed write - one we can use as …
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Should we enable a banner to warn about our policy on AI-generated content?
Yes.
It can't hurt. It costs us nothing. People will either read it & pay attention or not, but if only 1% read it & then don't post the AI answer they were about to, then the banner has been successf …
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Why are review audits so bad and are there any plans to improve them?
The downvotes so far would seem to indicate people don't like to be told they have to try harder. If you can't get an audit right, you weren't paying enough attention.
Audits are a PITA, that's for su …
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Why was my question (1801790) closed?
Even now, after 8 revisions, it is still a tangled mess of meta-responses to things in comments.
The title is 'how to upgrade', halfway down the body you mention 'clean install' which is definitely no …
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
As discussion is ongoing in comments, it appears there is one more circumstance that these useless boiler-plates are rubber-stamped on questions - because the reviewer didn't know what else to do. …
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Close votes queue is half-dead, can anything be done about it?
Close Votes has always been problematic. It tends to sit around the 200 mark all the time. It's always been that only a few people ever seem to look at it - possibly because it's a daunting & thankles …
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Please be more careful with audit tests
The question states "Please be more careful with audit tests" but the question body appears to be accusing the audits of being "too hard".
Sorry, but the onus is on you to correctly review, not on the …
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Why try to solve someone's issue when you can just sweep it under the rug?
In anticipation of this being migrated to SU Meta…
The question* was auto-deleted by the system, according to this ruleset in main Meta - Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score quest …
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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
I think a great deal of this comes from inexperienced reviewers trying to get through their day's allocation of reviews as quickly as possible to bring in the rep points.
I don't understand it, there …
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ChatGPT - what do we flag as?
How do we best flag [fairly obvious] suspected ChatGPT answers? Do we need to flag for a mod every time, or spam… or…?
These are usually already attracting human attention - comments underneath, a dow …
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Software recs - better user guidance
There are many software rec questions on meta, involving correct tags, how to ask etc, but I can't find one that covers this aspect.
No matter how well a user follows the guidelines in How do I ask a …
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Bumping old questions happens too frequently (afaik)
Alternative solution - just for sake of completeness…
Bookmark to 'newest', rather than just the top level domain, e.g.
https://superuser.com/questions?tab=Newest rather than
https://superuser.com/
Th …
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New tag request - 'newbie-friendly'
I realise this is unlikely to be added by the newcomer themselves, but sometimes the simplest "LMGTFY" questions are from people new to a given platform/OS; they haven't yet really figured out where t …
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Is it time to update this close reason?
Image & text of the Software recs close reason (just so no-one thinks this was closed already ;)…
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because the …
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Flagging content that is later edited
I think you have to get a bit 'zen' about declined flags.
I still get them occasionally, and after about 5 seconds' swearing, "WTF, why me?!? What have I done to deserve this?? Why does everybody not …