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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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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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Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers

There's a chatbot called SmokeDetector which detects spam and offensive content and reports it to a special chatroom. I've submitted some code to the bot so that it reports content posted by the troll …
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Canonical question on USB flash drives becoming write-protected

Since I've actually posted the question and answer, I'd like to encourage users with sufficient reputation: Please vote to close (or flag) the duplicates, most of which are in this list. Be sure to …
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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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Dealing with low-quality questions that end up on Hot Network Questions

My position—and I'm adamant about this—is that useful, high-quality answers should never be deleted even if the question is closed. The question got to the point where a truly great answer was posted …
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What can be done about false answers that suggest the asker to run malicious code?

I'd actually flag as very low quality here. Such answers have no salvageable content and should be removed. I would also leave a comment explaining why the answer is unusable and dangerous and should …
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Are flags raised for custom reasons handled differently?

Yes. Custom flags for moderator attention are seen only by moderators. The rest, while visible to moderators, do touch the wider community in some fashion, such as by placing the post into a review qu …
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What should I have done with this spammy answer?

I took a closer look at the deleted answer and it doesn't really appear to be spam. Belarc Advisor, the utility linked in the answer, is in fact a legitimate program. The post was nonetheless deleted …
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Would telling posters “Make Google your friend…” be a good idea?

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 …
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Should this be considered spam?

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 …
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Do we flag answers which offer nothing new

Yes, we do. Flag for moderator attention with a free-text flag as "duplicate answer" or similiar. For more information, see What is the policy on duplicate answers?
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Goodbye Mod team, I'm a mere mortal again

I remember you were one of our more active mods, but your activity has been down recently and it's sad to see you give up the diamond. You've been very helpful to the community as well as to me person …
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Site Design Updates

status-completed When hovering over a tag, the text inside becomes unreadable because the text and background color are too similar: Edit: Looks like this has been fixed. Edit 2: The problem is i …
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You're fired: Burn the [position] tag

Done Tag removed from all questions. Several questions asked about window positions. For these questions, I used window in place of position, which isn't very meaningful as it fails to specify any p …
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