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New functionality: convert close votes
Close votes can be retracted from a question, but after that, no more close votes can be cast on that particular question.
I understand that voting and revoking several times would negatively impact q …
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Send out [newsletters]
newsletters has no usage guidance, there are 14 questions tagged with it, mainly about format of newsletters, or sending newsletters in e-mail.
I see it from time to time as a favoured tag of spam qu …
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Why was my "not an answer" flag rejected?
I've flagged this answer as not an answer and my flag was rejected. Why?
I think that answer was posted as a joke, and it did not attempt to answer the question.
Update for those who can't see del …
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Tag cleanup: Delete tag [rows]
rows
A row is a horizontal line of something within a program. It can be a row of cells in excel, or a row of text in a text document. Rows are horizontally positioned and are generally read left- …
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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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We should cleanup/remove the [combine] tag
There are around 100 questions with the tag combine. Some of them are related to combining or merging items, and for others, I don't know why they're tagged with it at all.
I don't think this tag adds …
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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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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 I flag questions as off-topic if they are already upvoted and answered?
I've just now found this question: Note taking softwares with fast searching?, which is already upvoted and answered. For me it's off topic as looking for software recommendation, should I flag it, or …
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Drop dropdownlist?
dropdownlist:A drop down list is a list with predetermined options that expands when clicked to reveal the options available.
Do we have experts on drop-down lists?
Does this tag helps clarifying …
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions
In the recent few days I've reviewed dozens of tag edit proposals made by a single user.
Some of his edits really improves the quality of the question. Although majority of them, despite adding relev …
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Close reason for questions asking for code
Wording of close reasons has changed recently.
For questions asking code (e.g. VBA macro) without demonstrating self effort I've voted as "too broad" in the past, however with the new wording I'm no …
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Restrict tag creation?
I feel we have more tag-cleanup-request question here than what would be good (at least it's my personal idea).
Is it possible to make creation of tags more controlled (/ difficult,) by...
increasi …
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Purpose of "very low quality" flag of questions
I've recently flagged this question as very low quality. The question for those can't see deleted posts:
WHis has a to be
My media monkey broke and said “WHis has a to be”. I
tried destroyin …
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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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