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A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features

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What are some common "gotchas" associated with moderation activities?

Flagging Don't flag answers as "not an answer" unless they don't attempt to answer the question at all. If an answer post at least tries to answer the question, don't flag it, even if it is factuall …
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What are some common "gotchas" associated with moderation activities?

Over the past few years, I've run into several little "gotchas" when it comes to common moderation tasks such as migrating questions, reviewing posts, or evaluating suggested edits. These mistakes are …
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Why I'm not able to comment for this question when other user with 1 rep can comment

The comment you see was actually an answer post converted to a comment by a moderator. ♦Moderators can convert answers to comments provided they are no more than 600 characters long. (Perks of being a …
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Reopen question 439470: "What is the difference between Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT?"

What is the difference between Windows 8 and Windows RT? How is this question not constructive? I mean, I don't see how this would be a subjective question, let alone "bad subjective"! This que …
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What should I do if I find my own solution to my problem?

Click on the Answer Your Question button at the bottom and post an answer to your own question. Note that you generally cannot accept your own answer immediately; you can accept your own answers after …
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Accessing superuser.com/users/flag-weight/<username> results in error

When I try to access https://superuser.com/users/flag-weight/dragonlord I get a 500 eror. However, accessing https://superuser.com/users/flag-weight/73918 does not. Can this be handled more gracef …
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Why was question 690388 (workstation video card pricing) closed as "too broad", and how can ...

Question 690388, "Why do workstation graphics cards cost far more than equivalent consumer graphics cards?", was closed by a moderator as too broad. I can't quite see how the scope of this question i …
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Possible spam user "myopic.bones"

A large number of posts from myopic.bones seem to be spam. They include answers to the following questions: Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work? Limit Chrome's bandwidth how to limit my b …
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How should we handle spammers who recreate accounts after deletion?

I've got a spammer by the name of Jesse who just keeps coming, even after several account deletions: https://superuser.com/users/162151/jesse https://superuser.com/users/162150/jesse https://superus …
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Merge [office-2013] into [microsoft-office-2013]

Currently, office-2013 and microsoft-office-2013 are separate tags. Can someone merge the former into the latter? microsoft-office-2013 should be the canonical tag, given that: microsoft-office-20 …
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Comment notifications if @ is added later

As noted in the comments to this question, editing @ into a comment does notify the target user. (status-norepro would seem to make sense here, but this isn't a bug report :).).
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What is the proper way to ask technical question about hardware compatibility before purchase

These questions, if asked on the main site, are either off topic as product recommendation questions or too localized as they are too specific to the products in question. If you have a question that …
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Make [segfault] a synonym of [segmentation-fault]

I can't propose this tag synonym directly, but I've noticed that segfault should be a synonym of segmentation-fault. Can someone make this change?
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Please reopen DLNA networking question

The question was closed, then reopened by a moderator. This happened because you made a series of edits so that your question stated that you were playing on a computer, and not an unknown gaming dev …
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Merge [advanced-format] and [4k-sectors]

Advanced Format, at least in its current state, specifies sectors of 4096 bytes in size, but questions involving 4K AF drives have been tagged as both advanced-format and 4k-sectors. Can someone merg …
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