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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.
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Is superuser unfriendly to beginners? & How to help beginners understand
I couldn't resist to go through your questions on SO, and I fail to see the rudeness you're talking about. Do you have a particular example in mind?
Answering questions is hard. Perhaps you should tr …
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Would telling posters “Make Google your friend…” be a good idea?
If you feel that the question is basic and was certainly answered hundred times already, take your time to search for answers on the Stack Exchange site the question is asked, and if you find one, fla …
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Should answers encouraging to "restart" be flagged?
I can't imagine a situation where an answer suggesting to reboot might be useful to a reasonable user. In fact, the first thing reasonable people do before asking is making sure the issue is reproduci …
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Show your Excel results
Answers which present a valid approach to solve the OP's problem are good answers by my standards, even if they contain mistakes. While I certainly appreciate answers which are tested to perfection, I …
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Is popularity a criterion on which to decide whether or not to keep a question open?
Insufficient prior research is not really a reason to close. It may justify a downvote though.
Popularity should not be a reason to close either. If you find a similar question was already asked and …
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How to handle users appropriating other users' correct answers
If I were you, I'd ask @AngryCub why did they accept a wrong answer in the first place. Accepting normally means they have tried the answer and it helped, so they either didn't try it, or toasted thei …
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Why my flag "the answer has nothing to do with the question" was rejected?
I don't really agree with the argument that the answer might be helpful to someone, and thus should be preserved. By that reasoning, if I ask "what's two times two?", the answer "5 × 5=25" should be a …
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Is Spam Assasin configuration on-topic?
https://cpanel.com/support/ or your hosting provider support.
The point is, your provider has configured their servers in a way that's only known to them, and made a web interface that only they know …
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Correcting tags on a question (Rejected Edit - Why?)
To state the obvious, yes, your edit was OK in itself and normally shouldn't have been rejected.
However, there's one thing you should consider when editing - "is the question / answer worth the effo …
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Why isn't there a Close > Too specific option?
The problem with the question you cited isn't that the question is too specific. The OP just tries to install a driver on a not-supported OS version, so there is no proper solution, unless the company …
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Leaving a comment on non-answers
Once you flag an answer as NAA, it goes to the low-quality queue. Reviewers in this queue are able to leave canned comments about questions posted as answers, comments posted as answers and a few othe …
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Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?
When I come to SuperUser, I'm trying to solve a technical problem. Therefore, completely non-technical answers add nothing but noise to my search. Consider the following question:
How to disable in …
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This question was closed-as-dup but the accepted answer is out-of-date
If the new question showed a decent research effort, there would be no reason to close it as a duplicate. For example
I need an answer for a recent Firefox version (I have Firefox 42). I saw this …
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?
I for one don't think you deserved a suspension. Your only real mistake is the threat to flag someone else's comments instead of disengaging, which transforms an argument about the technical topic int …
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