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How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?
My rep is going to reach 3,000 soon (2,987 at the time of this post), so I should be able to vote to close soon. How should my flagging habits change when I gain this ability? What should I do when …
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The monster that can't be killed
It may be a good idea to have the tag blacklisted.
I've reached out to Community Managers at the Tavern on the Meta as this can only be done by Stack Exchange employees.
SE developers can blacklist …
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Please don't vote to close Excel questions as off-topic
During routine review queue patrols, I noticed that several microsoft-excel questions were being voted to close as off-topic:
https://superuser.com/review/close/335558
https://superuser.com/review/c …
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Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers
Over the last several days, we've been seeing a novel trolling attack on Super User: a flood of answers containing plagiarized content posted by a user called "Marlin Woods":
The user creates a new …
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The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses
This is a list of known spammers, spam domains, and IP addresses to which these domains point.
This list is derived from spam patterns observed on Super User as well as information from DNS and rever …
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Is "It's impossible" a valid answer, or is it a comment?
If what the OP asked for is clearly impossible, it is acceptable to state so in a full answer, as long as a reasonable explanation is provided.
If you just want to say that it's impossible, it's not w …
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Accepted
The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses
Tenorshare and affiliates
Data recovery, password recovery, video conversion, and PDF conversion spam. Has various other names such as SmartKey. The scale of the spam and the fact that multiple malwar …
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations, Journeyman Geek and Mokubai. I'm happy we have two new moderators ready to make Super User better for all.
As the third-place candidate in this election, I have to say that it was tr …
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Should we edit out spam from spam posts?
An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:
UTTER SPAM
Please delete me.
I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content …
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Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?
I'm seeing a disturbing increase in spam posts promoting personal enhancement products such as male enhancement, hair care, dieting, brain enhancement, and other similar products. The following list ( …
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Merge [bugcheck] into [bsod]
bugcheck contains 16 questions, practically all of which are about bsod. "Bugcheck" is the technical term for a BSOD and so the tags should be merged.
Your thoughts?
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What should we do with answers that are low quality but otherwise legitimate attempts to ans...
In my extensive time on the review queues and 10k tools, there's one thing that's always been bothering me: low-quality answers that consist of no more than a few sentences and often a link to externa …
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No excuse for [odd-behavior]
odd-behavior doesn't seem to be very meaningful. It's very vague as it just means something is acting oddly, failing to denote any cohesive topic. I suggest that this tag be deleted.
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