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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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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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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 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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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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What the heck happened that made the question I answered so popular (and my answer along wit...
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). …
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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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Top Questions of the Week #22
My computer freezes irregularly is a good candidate because the OP has, with remarkable detail, documented all of the steps taken in trying to diagnose and fix the problem. Indeed, it is one of the b …
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The [filter] tag is ambiguous
Split the tag to:
for various media: audio-filter, image-filter, video-filter
ffmpeg-filter (make synonym of video-filter)
email-filter
internet-filter
file-filter (can also be used for some questio …
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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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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 …