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Parsing out what you do versus what you say you do

I wasn't involved in reviewing the question, but I think the issue is right here: It's copyright law, straight up, no chaser While the question is indeed about law related to computer software, …
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How to improve this answer?

I wasn't the downvoter, but it seems like the key combination you suggest might not produce the correct character. When I tried it in the Windows 10 password prompt (which has a button to show the pas …
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Best strategy to analyze and judge a question be closed or not

The relevant question to ask yourself is "will I know if something I wrote solves the problem?" If it's not possible to determine whether an answer is actually doing what the question author wanted, t …
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Undelete an answer on a closed post that was deleted before it was closed

I'm fairly confident that the ability to delete and undelete answers is independent of the question's closure status, so the strategy you describe could work. But doing this knowingly (i.e. with inten …
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Is my question about Netbeans more suitable for Stack Overflow or SuperUser?

While there might not strictly be any programming happening in the question, it is definitely about a software tool used primarily by programmers. Stack Overflow's on-topic page includes this guidance …
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Account deletion cancelled

You've cast a fairly significant number (879) of votes. According to this MSE, accounts with lots of votes are held up for manual review by Stack Exchange staff. This is done to preserve legitimate vo …
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Did I create, then fail my own review audit?

Questions can be pushed into the Reopen Votes queue either by an edit or a reopen vote. As you said, the only revisions were made by you after you saw the review item, so that couldn't have created th …
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A removed user and their correlated Q&A Votes

Yes, when a user is removed without their votes being retained, the votes are nullified, hence your rep change. (If the votes were to be kept, the Community user would take ownership of them.) Therefo …
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Protect anonymity of 'no comment' down voters - while allowing other users to down vote them

I am concerned primarily about this part: Question down voters can still remain anonymous and safe from retaliation voting if they want to... but their reputation can now be made to suffer, just a …
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Should a short error message be formatted as inline code, bold or simply with double quotes?

If the error is mostly human-readable text, I would suggest double quotes. "Error: file not found" looks natural because it's laid out more or less like a standard human sentence. Code formatting shou …
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Excel questions should not be on SuperUser, another StackExchange should exist for it

While it's true that Super User hosts questions about operating systems, operating systems aren't the only kinds of software handled. The help center says: If you have a question about … c …
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Is this a review bug to the dreaded test questions

This is intended. Posts used as known-bad audits frequently have a handful of comments from people explaining why the post is poor. Showing these would remove the necessity of thinking about the post …
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What can one do when a poster accepts a ridiculous answer?

Sorry, the only person who can affect the accepted state of the answer is the question author. If you believe an answer to be incorrect, you should downvote; that signals to other users (including the …
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Is this answer with 140 up votes really an answer?

This list is the key: Here are a few things it might or not be capable of—but only one at a time: charging the device itself with 20V / 3A. charging a connected device with 20V / 3A. …
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High threshold for "well-asked" questions

I ran some numbers on questions specifically. This query (based on some of the work I did on a very similar question) counts the questions with negative, zero, and positive scores asked by users with …
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