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Should I Accept this answer?
The bottom line is:
Do you think it provides the answer you wanted?
I get the feeling the answer here is no, otherwise you wouldn't be here.
What to do
Assuming my last statement was correct
Don't acc …
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Can we do something about sites copying content from Super User?
Bear in mind that the content on the entire Stack Exchange network is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license, so others are allowed to copy and reuse the content as long …
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Is Super User dying?
Look at the discussion whether the Ubuntu and the Linux/Unix proposals should merge for a "live" example:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/unix-and-ubuntu-why-both/
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010 …
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Should posts containing personal information be deleted?
Moderators do not have the power to erase or modify revisions.
If someone places personal information on they site, they have done so willingly, and while the data is often edited out of the post as …
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Are names that can be confused with the site name allowed?
The Stack Exchange engine doesn't enforce unique names and this shouldn't extend to us having to "protect" arbitrary names from re-use except where impersonation is occurring.
"Impersonation" varies, …
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Is using British spelling discouraged?
In my opinion it doesn't really matter which version is used, but please don't change posts from one to the other unless there is good reason. Changing these when it isn't really necessary is more lik …
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Need help understanding edits to a post.
It's been changed from a manual list to a markdown list.
The first just becomes a set of paragraph tags.
The latter is converted in to proper html ol (ordered list) element.
If you've not already se …
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New Users—Cutting Slack?
Good question.
My answer in short - it depends entirely on what they've posted.
I remember starting on here and being very frustrated that I couldn't comment (I'd been a reader of SO for some time, so …
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How do I create the Super User Logo in text?
The horizontal spacing is off, and obviously the curly bracket doesn't have the vertical asymmetry of the real icon, but how about the following?
[•}
Here's a smaller version, which has better horizon …
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Tag sets and tag name consistency
I'm of the opinion we have whichever master tag works best for us / is used the most here / etc and just create synonyms for anything that falls in to the situation you are describing (only if a synon …
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Reputation needed to get SU in network profile
Accounts appear on your network profile accounts list as soon as you associate them, but you require at least 200 rep before they appear on your network profile reputation chart.
Once the account app …
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Is giving a shopping recommendation prohibited?
I don't believe it's prohibited, but if we (the community we) provide answers to those questions that aren't allowed (for whatever reason that may be) then this only encourages more of these invalid q …
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Migrating questions to the Ubuntu or Linux/Unix Stack Exchange sites
Questions are only migrated when there is a problem, specifically they need to be off-topic on the site on which they are posted, or if the user who asked the question specifically requests that it be …
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Are sock puppets an issue on Superuser?
As Sathya comments, it depends on in what way do you mean? So let's break it in to two questions that Sathya suggestions:
Is owning a sockpuppet an issue?
Generally, it is a bad thing and any us …
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How specific should tags get? e.g., [3tb-hard-drive] vs [hard-drive]
3tb-hard-drive seems unnecessarily precise to me, however I could see something like large-hard-drive being valid in its place if and only if the large size of the drive is a specific factor in the qu …