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How can a question about personal computer hardware be closed as "off-topic" without explana...
What's a moderately inexpensive and competent way to upgrade his video adapter? Is there a video adapter that will run with 300W, but has basically the same characteristics as the nVidia or ATI ada …
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How wide can an image be before it's resized?
640px is the width of the images. So that's the size they get scaled down to.
As from this CSS rule:
.post-text img {
max-width : 640px;
}
Please note that this also illustrates that images are …
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Vote count on linked / related questions
I assumed it's a feature that is currently being rolled out.
I spotted it on MSO earlier, seems to creep all over the network slowly.
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Self answer incorrectly deleted?
It was auto-flagged for low quality. I guess it wasn't apparent that it's a self-answer.
I wouldn't want to go in and just reverse the deletion right now, in case I'm missing something.
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Approving edits for those with over 2k points
Once you reach 2000 reputation you can edit posts without having them peer reviewed.
From the Privileges page:
That means once you've generated enough reputation, we trust you to edit anything in …
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Shouldn't the same post posted twice be deleted?
Yes, they usually should be deleted. You can just flag the dupe and let us know :)
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Superuser says I raised two flags, but I only raised one
Both are reasons to put the question on hold, so they count as the same thing.
All other flag reasons just call moderators attention to it.
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What to do when an anonymous user inserts valuable information that should be a comment
Reject. An edit is never the right way to object an answer. The user could just as well posted their own answer instead of editing an existing one.
If you feel so inclined, you can copy the content t …
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Possible spammer
Thanks for bringing this up.
In the future, you may as well simply flag a post by the user and provide a custom flag reason, pointing out the problem.
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What can I do about my question when no one views my question?
If you can't further improve your question, and you can't afford to put a bounty on it, then you're really only left with one possible option:
Solve the problem yourself and then share what you've le …
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What to do with unanswered old questions?
As was pointed out in the comments, your options are:
earning reputation by helping others and then invest that reputation into bounties on the questions you care about.
discuss the question with ot …
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How do you thank someone?
If you want to thank someone, upvote their answer.
If you don't have enough reputation to upvote, help someone else with their question to earn the reputation, then upvote. By doing so, you will have …
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View topics I've flagged
In your profile, click on the helpful flags count to see all the flags you've raised.
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How can we bring a closed question to immediate moderator attention?
You can flag the question again and ask for it to be reopened.
You can open a question on Meta Super User about it (which you did).
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Can one offer a bounty for more rep than one has?
The rep is deducted as soon as you start the bounty. So he doesn't have it any more.