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Somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 questions disappeared from the Close queue today. Was there some kind of executive action to clear out certain patterns of questions (like anything older than X d …

What is the Close Votes queue mechanism?: Two counters, a Close count and a Leave Open count; the first count to reach 5 determines the outcome? (A definitive resolution with a maximum of 9 votes.) …

A more general response than to that specific referenced post. "Take no prisoners" approach (not recommended) The key word in "duplicate question" is "question", not "answer". Ideally, it would be …

The search function seems to have a limit of one specified user. Say that I want to find a question where I recall that two particular users were posters (say one posted the question, the other was a …

Every once in awhile, we get a post where the author decided to delete it. But instead of actually deleting, they just write "Deleted" in the body. Another one showed up today (Backup new Windows 8. …

Asking about an unwise action isn't one of the things downvotes are intended for. If a Google search would show dozens of explanations on the first page that you would have to be nuts to do it, a down …

To answer your question, no, the web app policy cannot be codified in the site rules beyond the extent that has been done. And that's by design. You linked to one of the central discussions on the s …

That's by design. The left and right columns are fixed width. The main column in the middle has a maximum width and two minimum widths. If the window is wider than the maximum for the three columns …

I'm not sure whether this is a question for Meta (site operation), or the main site (technical issue). But I've noticed it only on this website, so it seems related to how the site is rendered. It's …

It is clear how a question or answer can become community wiki, but I can't find any documentation for how to find these questions to participate in answering them. I came across a few questions in a …

The idea of some form of "matrix" posting is attractive until you get into the implementation details, as allquixotic discusses. But there are some things that could be done to provide some of the be …

I created the tag and tagged your question. I also created a barebones wiki entry since I'm not familiar with it. You might want to propose an edit to it once mine goes through the review process.

Is there any way to appeal the decision? As gparyani commented, there was already an automatic "appeal". Your edit bumped the question into a review queue where the community looked at the revised q …

I'll structure this as a question. You have probably seen closed questions that you thought should be reopened, but it didn't happen. You may have chalked it up to community decision. But if you th …

My understanding of how block quote formatting works is that a > at the start of a paragraph quotes the whole paragraph but allows the paragraph text to wrap to fit the available space. A > on each l …