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Do I delete an answer if I misinterpreted the question (maybe partially)?
I'd delete them.
When I use superuser I always start from searching questions and read the solutions for the question most close to my issue.
I will not read not relevant answers posted there. Also l …
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Tag for JavaScript exists but it is off-topic on Super User
In addition to Mokubai's answer:
Just because a tag doesn't exists here, it does not mean people will not ask questions related to it.
However to an existing tag we can add description showing the r …
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Accepted
Requests for hardware drivers
My biggest issue with those questions:
1. lack of effort
"How to ask a good question" is quite clear on it:
Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question? Sharing yo …
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Where's a good place to ask questions that are considered to broad in scope for SU?
"too broad", doesn't mean off-topic, so there could not be by-default suggestion for migration.
When a question is closed as too-broad, that generally means one, or combination of these reasons:
mu …
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Should I write detailed answers to trivial questions?
I've recently answered this question: Excel Formula Query - IF/OR/AND very shortly:
=IF(OR(I3="Won",I3="Placed"),(F3*(H3-1))*0.95,IF (I3="lost",-1,0))
And received the comment:
Can you a …
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Approving edit proposals - am I too strict?
I've recently rejected this edit proposal (2nd version) as I thought it's not adding to the value of the question, and anyway the question is off-topic.
Later I was surprised to see that the proposal …
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Should original files be uploaded and referred instead of screenshots / raw data?
My understanding here is that questions should be self explaining: contain screenshots or data instead of referring to files / documents uploaded somewhere. (I see many Excel questions where they link …
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Best practice to review questions already commented
I sometimes have a bit of time and review new users' posts / answers. Often I see some which is already commented how to be improved. If I agree with the comment I don't want to write similar comment, …
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Migration to Software recommendations as an option during flagging
When we flag a question, in the group - off topic - belongs to other stackexchange site there are a few options, but software recommendations isn't inlcuded, however there are a lot of questions shou …
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How to deal with questions about debugging?
I've met a question asking to debug an Excel formula without providing the necessary details: https://superuser.com/questions/1029939/excel-index-match-returning-value-that-doesnt-exist-in-the-table
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Best practice on first post review - should close immediately?
Reviewing first posts I often find ones not fitting to the site's rules.
I generally comment on them and ask for improvement, but I fear closing them as that could be considered as rude by the new us …
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Are edits from anonymous users worth the trouble?
Unfortunately most of the edits coming from anonymous users - as you wrote - are useless.
However sometimes I see the original author of a post coming back and editing anonymously (probably already f …
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Review Low Quality Posts - how to manage wrong answers?
Reviewing low quality posts I often find answers which are very poor quality and (probably) they're wrong (one example).
I'm really struggling what to do with them
Looks OK: NO, they are not ok.
E …
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Old questions - system discourages answering them?
What is written in BenN's answer is completely true, just an additional aspect:
Compared to the other SE sites, it seems that people are much less likely to upvote an answer they see and find usef …
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Lyse the [cells]
Similarly to my previous question: Tag cleanup: Delete tag [rows], I think we don't have experts on cells and adding this tag to questions doesn't increase their value , so we could get rid of it.