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Some issues with a recent action that was taken regarding the Root Access chat bot

I suspended the bot because of the greeting, and only because of that, which is also what I told you in my chat message. Root Access is the general chat room for users of Super User, and any new user …
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Please avoid extended discussions in comments...?!

We've been playing with the threshold numbers that qualify a comment thread as a discussion, and so far the current values seem to be quite good. … I'd take your particular case as a good example that they are – you and Mokubai clearly are having a back-and-forth discussion in the comments. …
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What's the point of vote animations?

We have a rendering bug on some of our sites (around the voting controls) that we can't fix (our designer has to do that, but he's on vacation, making a "bacon kinds of the world" hike), so we decided …
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7 votes

What should the users of Super User be called?

Ewoks.
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SU retag request: hdd, bluescreen, karmic, torrent, ...

I agree with most of them. However, it needs to be checked if [bluescreen] really always refers to a BSOD. It might as well be someone asking for a program to do video matting (bluescreen/greenscreen, …
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Is downvoting link only answers acceptable?

I sometimes leave a comment asking the poster for a little more, like at least summarizing what the linked-to site has to offer in respect to the specific question. Often, the link alone is posted jus …
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