Also see this answer and answers to the linked original, including the most highly upvoted one here.

How to Ask not being shown definitely needs to be changed, and I agree about the pity voting as well. A short comment and even help with editing should be enough of a pointer to the new user, but sometimes a question just begs to be downvoted, with reasons that should be obvious. Also, not a justification for not leaving comments by any means, but just want to note that negative votes do not have any effect on a new user's rep (since rep can't fall below 1). Psychological effect is another thing altogether of course.

Having seen your deleted post, it was removed for good reason. You should read the Help pages and familiarise yourself with how this site works. It's mean to be strictly Q&A only. No lengthy back and forth discussions etc. since this is not a forum. If you had tested Photo Viewer more and confirmed it as the culprit, you could have focussed on that and it would have made for a valid answer.

Not so much a question as a lengthy commentary/anecdote about how it happened to him as well. No real answer as such.

First of all this belongs on Meta.SU, which needs a mere 5 rep to post in. Anyway, it'll be migrated there. Next, can you link to your previous question?

You can list below specific instances of abuse or flag for a mod to take a look. I haven't come across any such cases yet since this went live.

As part of a test run this close reason is live on the site. Let's see how the community uses it.

Adding to my previous comment: Quite a few times I've seen people getting irritated at the OP for supposedly posting unintelligible screenshots. I had to tell them how the site visually auto-resized large images and how opening an image by itself (right-click / View Image in FF) would solve the problem. Browsers like IE don't even have a View Image option, so one needs to go to the image's Properties, copy the URL and then open it. All this unnecessary aggravation can be easily avoided with an auto-generated "click to enlarge" link, so what is the problem with implementing this?

Unless you were kidding, no it's not. 100 rep is significantly easier to achieve than double that amount, and clubbing the association bonus along with it is not fair by any means. The bonus is obviously a sort of reward in itself.

@DaveRook: I agree. I think this sort of thing is just ridiculous unless it was a sock puppet that was deleted.

Edited the question as per your suggestion, hope it's fine.

Great, look forward to it! I'm sure you'll let the others mods know via chat.

Hope you don't mind, I just made a small edit and removed "on". Since the word "bugs" applies to both, "bugs in pre-release/beta software" sounds fine but "bugs on prototype hardware" doesn't. So... now do we wait for others to chime in or are you gonna just go ahead and implement this? (Or does it have to be done by the devs?)

What I was trying to say is that "pre-release" implies "pre (prior to) release to manufacturing", whereas "unreleased" to me means "never been released". That's why I felt that "unreleased" perhaps shouldn't be used.