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How to handle my cross-site duplicate?
"I don't feel confident asking a 32-voted question with a 40-voted answer to be migrated to another site." - The question you describe cannot be migrated. It's ineligible to be migrated. While I am NOT a SO moderator, the changes they would manually migrate that question, is essentially 0%. Your question on SU could be migrated but it would just be closed as a duplicate, which would then reject the migration, and we would be in the same exact position as we are now.
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Why ignore beginner questions about Kali Linux?
Edit your question to contain enough information to answer your question.
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Why ignore beginner questions about Kali Linux?
@joel - Those were critical details that were necessary to troubleshoot your question. You could edit your question and indicate the close reason has been addressed, and the community will vote to reopen if that is that the case. It sounds like you now know what the password is. "Ignoring people because they are inexperienced is elitist and rude. " - We did not ignore you. You failed to provide enough information to help you, so your question was closed, until the question was modified and reopened
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What's wrong with my edit?
@stickynotememo - The edit must be complete. If you are changing tags of a question, then one of the goals of doing so, is making the question more discoverable. I would even argue that modifying a 8 year old question, should only be done, so it can be answered. Why is how new you are relevant to the discussion? All edits are held to the same criteria. There is no "too late" reason to reject an edit. It sounds like you need more experience in the UI of the edit approval process.
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What's wrong with my edit?
I should have added that I wouldn’t have declined the edit, but improved it, since there are some minor formatting and extremely minor grammatical errors still. However, it is an abandoned question, and the edit definitely will not result in an answer to the question.
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What's wrong with my edit?
@Criggie - It's not eligible to be migrated. It's also within scope here; question (s) should only be migrated if they are out of scope here and within scope at the new community. The question is also abandoned.
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Why not allowing people to delete their own question?
@james—Even if you delete the question, it still counts against your ability to submit new questions. Deleting your question yourself is a significant decision and should be avoided whenever possible. "But since the post has got a lot of downvotes, that means it's not gonna be helpful for other people, right?" - If it received an answer, then that answer might be helpful to others. If you don't edit the question, those votes can never be reversed.
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Why not allowing people to delete their own question?
Deleting a question because you’re unhappy with the reception is very rarely the solution. It’s much easier to address the reason the question received downvotes. The reason question once they are answered cannot be deleted by the author is to prevent the author from asking questions and removing the question after they were helped.
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Why was my edit rejected if it improves the question's readability?
@Robotnik—Yes, I loaded the content into Grammarly, and it discovered five dozen issues. This does not even include how it would have rewritten some statements. The capitalization of the first word in every paragraph is weird. For instance, "Won't bother posting the manuals ...." isn't proper English.
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Why was my edit rejected if it improves the question's readability?
One reason I would have rejected that particular edit is due the fact none of the grammatical errors were fixed.
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What's the best way to ask a similar question, but targeting a new OS?
I am not going to submit an answer saying you shouldn’t ask a question you don’t know the answer to because it might be a duplicate. Furthermore, an answer saying “nothing as changed”, isn’t an acceptable answer here at Super User. The only correct action (IMO) would be a close vote as a duplicate or an answer to the question that is more than “nothing as changed”. Good thing it takes more than 1 person to close a question normally or even in the case of a good badge a single user with numerous answers to questions linked to that particular tag.
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What's the best way to ask a similar question, but targeting a new OS?
If you ask the same question, and the answer to the existing question applies to your question, it will be just closed as a duplicate. The answer to the question you linked to still applies to Windows 11
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Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?
@JoepvanSteen- Revision history on the question tells a different tale. Given you still have access to that information and you are an experienced community user I will let you verify that for yourself
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Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?
@JoepvanSteen - Edits being reversed by the community and author is allowed, if that is a sticking point, then you are on the wrong side of that particular fence. I have no opinion on anything that happened to be honest. Applying the same edit twice and having it rolled back, then automatically beings in a moderator, which is the reason Journeyman brought up the “rollback” situation. While it might have only been once it was enough for an automatic moderator flag to be thrown
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Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?
All edits except perhaps by moderators should be seen as proposed edits accepted by the community or the author, even by users, who don’t necessarily need their edits approved. If you treat even unilateral approval edits as proposed edits it works best that way. Only exceptions might be inline screenshots and removal of signatures and “thank yous”
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Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?
@JoepvanSteen - Ok? You then brought the discussion, here, to talk about your edit. You received some feedback. But you ended up requesting an account deletion.
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Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?
@JoepvanSteen - "I don't understand, how does one propose an edit?" - By hitting the edit button and modifying the contribution.
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Are these question edits okay or did I take it too far?
@JoepvanSteen - "I wonder if they took the time to look at the existing Q and answers or just blindly accept it's a duplicate because someone says it is." - I most certainly do that in every case, and while I might not have voted in this case, I conclude my own opinion on every community moderation vote I cast. The question you are talking about was never closed by the way. Since you have (had) enough reputation to propose your own edit proposals with community feedback the community never weighed in on your changes except one user. Question is still the queue to be closed.
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Where can I make requests to reopen questions on the Super User main Stack Exchange?
@GeorgeNtoulos - "Someone even said I engender prejudice." - Did you report this comment? The closure of your question has nothing to do with prejudice by the way, but if somebody were to suggest you "engender prejudice" then that would be considered an unfriendly comment.
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