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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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Goodbye Mod team, I'm a mere mortal again

First, the tl;dr: Starting today, I am no longer a community moderator on Super User. Over the past weeks, I've made the decision to step down as a moderator. I was elected on July 24, 2012, and it's …
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How are we going to deal with Windows 8 on ARM?

Hmm. I still think this standpoint holds: If the tablet runs Linux/OS X/Windows 7 or 8/Unix, then it's fair game. We deal with these OSes all the time. It mostly shouldn't matter where it runs o …
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Can't we prevent some questions from being tweeted (at least until they're reviewed)?

I mean, I understand that our Twitter account is for publicity, but do we really want to tweet about certain questions automatically? why 1kb contain 1024 byte? 1kb = 1000 byte I tired But i don't g …
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Let's nuke the "error-message" tag

We have a tag named error-message, with now 220 95 49 questions tagged. This is quite the meta tag, because it doesn't mean anything and adds no value to a question. Most problems result in some kind …
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What happened to the accept rate?

It was removed from public display because to some extent it only encouraged comments nagging the OP to improve their accept rate while providing no other useful guidance. While in theory I agree that …
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Top Questions of the Week #19

Here's an interesting one, this time related to hardware. It's a very simple question (I don't really think it's stupid in any way), but once you think about it, it leaves room for a really detailed a …
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Why are late answers allowed?

I don't have the stats to support this, but I honestly don't know if I'd call late answers to old questions mostly not useful. Whenever I review late answers, there are maybe two or three out of twent …
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Did I do such low-quality questions? Please review my ban

You have two deleted questions, one heavily downvoted. From looking over your profile, this does seem like a borderline case. Meaning, you're not in too deep. If you read through What can I do when g …
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Is it okay to inform users to stop promoting Apple.SE when a question is fine to stay here?

Further discussion: I've added an answer to the above meta.Apple.SE question. Joel Spolsky then added a comment that I should bring it up here, so I did. So what do you think? …
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Why don't people upvote when browsing the site?

I've been on the StackExchange boards for quite some time now and it seems that people don't upvote other's answers anymore when browsing the site. At least from my experience. Let's take this exampl …
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Why can people answer a question before being able to comment?

What separates comments from regular posts is that they do not undergo review. Whenever someone posts an answer (or a question), it is shown on the front page. When you edit it, same thing. First post …
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Since when are software recommendations off-topic?

I want to take discussion away from Daniel's previous post. …
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Old "link-only answers" by a former moderator

Without context, you could interpret the response like you did. But let's be clear: moderators are not exempt from any rules we have here—whether it's about quality or behavior in general. Feel free t …
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Post was edited after I flagged for review

Maybe let the moderator know that the flag was for a previous version of the answer. That'd be a nice feature. Currently, what we see is this: It doesn't show whether a post has been edited, a …
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Where to ask for computer hardware suggestions?

So, can I ask this on any of the SE sites, or must I go elsewhere? You can't ask this question anywhere on the Stack Exchange network, as it's a shopping recommendation and even explicitly disall …
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