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Two long answers disagreeing with each other - how to canonicalize?
Optimally, voting is how the correct answer is recognized. In practice, though, sometimes people vote up answers that are long just because they look thorough.
I notice that, in this case, neither ...
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Clear question with examples closed as unclear
I've nominated the question to be reopened.
The request is clear enough to me and is likely to be useful to other users as well. I believe the only issue is that there is no indication of what the ...
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Why might 50% of reviewers consider this as content that should be deleted?
The automatic comment used indicates that the reviewers thought you were asking a question to get clarification. I can understand why they would think that - if it's unclear what a question is asking, ...
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Should I have flagged this question?
Yes, you should - Its definitely spam, and you should flag it.
Well, if I hadn't deleted the user anyway.
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What should we do if the question is duplicate (is already answered) in other site?
What should we do about these questions?
Answer them. Don't delete questions just because they have an answer somewhere else.
Some advice:
We don't generally migrate questions to other sites if ...
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Why my "too broad" flag was declined in this question?
It was declined automatically by the system after 3 users reviewed it stating that it should be left open.
While there are indeed two problems listed in the question they appear, at a glance, to be ...
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Why was my question about attempting to stop USB viruses downvoted?
Before I start, let's get something out of the way:
So long as they have the appropriate privilege, a user can downvote a post for whatever reason.1
Though you haven't explicitly stated all of them, ...
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Why was my question about attempting to stop USB viruses downvoted?
To answer the implied question of "why?" when you say:
And now I cant ask a serious question!
You have what is known colloquially as "history". Specifically you have a history of ...
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Is compiler bootstrapping on-topic?
Well, I disagree it's off-topic for Super User. Per our Help Center
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a
question about …
computer software
And ...
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Should we edit out potentially inappropriate content if they might be an important part of a question?
Tbh, in this case I don't think the domain is particularly critical to a more general answer.
Practically - the question involves
Having an MX record. Any domain can have an MX record.
The ...
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Why is this simple, straightforward question on a standard Windows feature closed as "Needs details"?
The reason given in the comments for closing was that the OP didn't list any files in the directory, which I maintain was not necessary information for answering the question. Without examples of ...
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What should I do about a question I posted that is not answered?
Wait. Eventually someone will answer the question. There is also a system that automatically 'bumps' questions without answers to the front page after a certain amount of time.
We also have a section ...
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Is it even possible to reword my question to be relevant?
Though I would like to point out that I am not asking for a product recommendation, service or learning material, though I can see why it seems like I am. (Although granted, learning material may/does ...
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How do you deal with edits that strip personal details of the author from a question, ultimately graveyarding the question?
Since I wrote the original question very badly, contextually and structurally, of course, everybody assumed I am not very sophisticated with technology or put zero to no effort into researching the ...
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Question in close queue is marked as duplicate, but the duplicate is terrible!
As comments have noted, the criteria I would use when judging which of two otherwise duplicate questions to be marked duplicate is based on quality, not time.
If one of the questions is very recent ...
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My answer keeps getting suggested edits from spambots
Spammers work in mysterious ways - I guess your answer has certain keywords their bots love and it keeps attempting to edit. Frustratingly enough - there's not much to do - just let our lovely ...
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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
Some thoughts/recommendations on voting-to-close for "Needs details or clarity":
Does the perceived lack of clarity in the question lower Super User's quality as a question-and-answer site ...
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Please undelete this answer that was converted to a comment
What is the "this tool" that they should run?
From the visible on-site content there is no mention of even the name of the tool, the app, or even any steps or where to look on their system to follow ...
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Why was “How do you configure a Windows machine for a Linux user?” closed as too broad?
This is a question of being too broad in the sense of what defines getting the most of the system, as well as how many apps and tweaks are necessary to say that the experiences between the operating ...
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Why has this question been downvoted?
Someone felt it lacked research. A few folks apparently get annoyed by quick self answers (which I would add, is silly! Its an excellent way to document odd things). A few folks go "Why is he ...
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Should this question be closed as unclear for not having a question sentence?
If it were an active question I would request clarification, but the question has been abandoned by the author, so there really isn't a point in doing so now.
However, I want to know if other users ...
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Why is the question about knowing which window manager too broad?
It is not something that you, as a user, can do anything about, nor should you need to care. There are too many window frameworks with too many styles that all can look very different or very similar ...
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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
I don't have much to add, but I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Questions (not spam/obvious duplicates/completely incomprehensible walls of copy/pasted
text) should not be closable unless it ...
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Why was this Nushell question closed?
From the comments, @DavidPostill reopened the question. The reason given for it being "unclear" was that there was no information on where the "record" referenced in the question ...
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Would this question be on-topic for this site?
It's definitely off-topic here. But there is an Android.SE site that would happily take it.
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*One* answer gets incomplete "flag" menu — cannot flag as VLQ
As noted in comments and on this Meta answer, VLQ is no longer shown for post having a positive score.
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How is this question off topic?
What topics can I ask about here?
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about …
computer hardware,
computer software, or
personal and home computer ...
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How to improve my tumbleweeded question
You're asking us to pick a hypothetical folder structure for you. This is not really a computer problem, it's simply a matter of choice (hence why you're getting votes to close as "Opinion-Based").
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How do you lose -5 rep?
Looking at the "time" view of your reputation tab, I see that this happened yesterday:
The question owner removed the accept mark on your answer (removing 15 reputation points from you), but a few ...
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Is popularity a criterion on which to decide whether or not to keep a question open?
In general, the Stack Exchange communities (including SU) try to avoid making sweeping generalizations about topicality or acceptable questions.
The rule goes something like: in general popularity ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible