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How are comments handled for re-opened questions?

For this particular question, a senior member of the community had made a subtle but important change to the question that made the question distinctly answerable and no longer about "copyright". …
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Request to Un-duplicate

This question was incorrectly duplicated. As @Oli has commented, we treat desktop-based applications on 10.04 as off-topic. The only questions for 10.04 that are on-topic are server-based questions. …
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Why I am banned for reviewing?

That particular answer was an unfortunate review type - someone had edited out the spam and the answer was subsequently deleted. The review system is not as clever as maybe it should be - its automat …
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Seemingly "unregistered" reputation change?

Looking at your reputation tab, Community has been tidying up - 4 old questions that you have edited in the past (back in April/May '14) have been removed. This period was when you were officially a …
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Why can't I see my past questions?

unregistered vs registered Your original account was unregistered - this depends upon your Web-Browser remembering your login credentials via a cookie. If the cookie is lost, then your login credentia …
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What is the reason that I lost so much of the reputation?

history The 25 reps was originally given when the OP accepted your answer and you gained an upvote. i.e. 15 points for an answer, 10 points for an upvote = 25 rep. However - the community considered t …
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Acknowledge the editor of a post

Revision history All posts have a revision history that you can view - in this case: https://askubuntu.com/posts/445325/revisions You'll note that you made an edit and immediately afterwards Ward ma …
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4 votes

Question wrongly closed as duplicate

The senior signatories of the flag and closure considered this carefully - in that this question covered the same ground as the linked question and as such should either be closed or merged with the q …
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Who downvoted my question/answer on Ask Ubuntu?

Voting on StackExchange sites is anonymous - even the community moderators do not have access to that information. Try adding a comment to your question asking for feedback on how to improve the ques …
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What happens to bounty points that are not awarded?

If your answer was given in the bounty period and it has earned 2 upvotes but it was not accepted, then after the bounty period has ended + 24 hours, you will receive half of the bounty. This automa …
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Serial downvoting reversed

The Stack Exchange system is very good at recognizing people who (for whatever reason) decide to trawl through someones Question or Answer list and either upvote or downvote repeatedly. This is regar …
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Help with newbie rogue user

rogue is quite a subjective term - correct, that the user is a newbie. As regular members - we should all point the way with appropriate constructive comments as to how to improve. If in doubt - one …
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Please reopen YaCy service question not solved by generic answer

Done... You have correctly done the right thing - editing your question with details of what you have tried and what has not worked. As an alternative in the future - you could use a custom flag and …
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Restoring a Deleted Answer

OK, The answer wasnt really an answer. It was more of a comment sharing some further insight. Since the poster only had 1 rep, they didn't have the right to post comments. Thus, I've converted it …
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Can I post a duplicate answer on a duplicate question ....with a bounty?

Given the very close similarities between the two questions - the fact that it is similarly worded - together that the OP has themselves confirmed this means a return of the bounty is in order. To ti …
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