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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 Windows 8 Challenge has ended, thank you for blogging!
Is Windows 8 more than just shiny?
We all know by now that Windows 8 comes with a new Modern UI which gives you a very good live overview of your new Modern UI applications and feels very welcoming; a …
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Isn't it better to remove Linux and Windows tags?
Does it matter if I use Ubuntu or Debian when I want to use Linux shells to achieve something?
Depends, I can give you an answer that fits all the distributions out there, because it does things …
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Answers that are too long, drawn out and contain too much excess theory
Short is not always helpful...
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Answers that are too long, drawn out and contain too much excess theory
Many answers I've seen are dauntingly written out like a college homework assignment when 2-3 sentences at the most would have sufficed.
They would have sufficed to solve the problem. However, th …
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Target Audience
But I see a lot of questions where upvotes all go to a technical explanation/solution that is more 'SuperUsery' but less in line with the question, like a command-line solution for a non-power-user …
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System tag looks suspiciously like a meta tag
Checking a few yields a few occurences of system:
System Volume Information, might use a specific tag, but tag name would then be too long...
System Clock, use system-clock?
System File / Folder, u …
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Why was 523119 closed?
attempts to install MSE fail
Clarify your question with details on those failures and make it more generic.
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Formatting Goodies
The trick lies not in how you use your formatting, but what you write.
If you're going to write a whole story, your question or answer won't please me as I'll get bored soon enough. If you get straig …
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Do not take away earned privileges
Why do we lose our privileges?
I don't particularly like the top answer on the most famous question:
What's the point of putting your reputation on the line for a bounty if there is no consequence of …
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Questions closed as duplicates of questions that are different
People make mistakes.
In the former, it immediately strikes the moderator's attention that this has been asked earlier. This probably caused the moderator to defer from reading the question further a …
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Folks, we need a decent canonical Windows recovery question
We already have such question...
How do I recover lost/inaccessible data from my storage device?
It could still use some extra love though.
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Why do questions get closed?
Pros and cons are somewhat subjective, this invites discussion of how much something is a pro or a con and doesn't give a definitive answer. … Stack Exchange is no place for discussion, apart from the meta sites where we can discuss about the parent sites.
Do we not want closed questions here? …
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Why is it not allowed to recomend a specific product?
You have self-answered your question:
There is no best.
The focus here lies on best. What does this adjective mean?
best /best/
Of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality: "the …
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