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I certainly would not accept such an edit. If we're supposed to remove this sort of content from posts, why should we approve edits that add such meaningless content?

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On the issue of the security of TrueCrypt, an announcement stating that the software is not secure does not itself make the software insecure. While I certainly can't be 100% sure, I don't presently s …

The nature of these sorts of posts is not much different than pointing users to LMGTFY. It's rude and unacceptable for Stack Exchange. Remember that answer posts must represent a meaningful attempt t …

This is spam. The text of the post in question (minus the link) is as follows: Some Firewall software may affect the speed of the internet because these software filter the incoming and outgoing conn …

I ran into a question involving Mac OS 9: How do I find the MAC address in Mac OS 9? How should questions involving legacy versions of Mac OS be tagged? I'm not sure if Tom Wijsman's tagging is corr …

Similar to How should we treat questions involving mobile computers like barcode scanners that use Windows Mobile?, how should we handle questions involving Windows Embedded 7 or other non-Windows CE- …

I'd want to say that these questions are on topic as long as they involve hardware that is reasonably similar to typical consumer PC hardware or is applicable to consumer PC hardware or software. For …

The troubleshooting tag serves a valid purpose and should be kept. We need to make it clear that this tag be used for questions in which the OP is trying to diagnose a problem, rather than solve a kn …

As you've pointed out, "restart" by itself can refer to a lot of different things. As the restart tag doesn't refer to any particular topic, it doesn't convey much useful information. I'd definitely …

I cannot agree with this feature request. There are many valid questions regarding computer hardware and software and home networking that are truly OS-independent. Imposing this restriction would b …

What is the advantage of doing this? The fact that windows and windows-8/windows-7/windows-vista/windows-xp exist separately already indicates that the former is intended for Windows questions that a …

The question is off-topic as a product recommendation question. See the FAQ for details. For the rationale behind this, see this Stack Exchange Blog post: Q&A is Hard, Let's Go Shopping!

port and ports are similar enough to merge. I don't see any obvious differences. report and reporting are similar enough to merge as well, but bug-report doesn't necessarily mean the same as report. …

In general, an interesting question that inspires curiosity among readers is going to be a hit. My question, "Why do computers count from zero?", proved to be a success as well (to a lesser extent). …