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Normally, there are already comments on the post itself before a mod even has to take action and even if there isn't is just asking moderators that are usually busy explain one and each of their actio …

Supposedly, the low quality review queue allows you to vote to delete (a 20k privilege) 0 scored answers from the review, in hopes this speed up the deletion process. If 3 20ker users vote to delete a …

You should substantially answer the question, always. It's even on the Answering page of the help center: Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure you …

So now that I have reviewed my flags, why am I still getting this? The trigger of the message is simple: X% declined flags of the flags handled in the last Y days. It doesn't matter if you alread …

After several iterations the title now reads: Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed Windows (system) with UEFI I think the "system" part after Windows is implied... that covers any (UEFI ^ Window …

Lets put some stuff straight. The question has a fundamental problem, which is that that question doesn't have a single correct answer, but a long tail of "things that may or may not apply to you", wh …

Magic! ... not really. The system uses a Bayesian-like method to check the content and title of your question, looks at previously asked questions with similar word choices, then suggest the tags tha …

Am I correct that there is no way to either change the approval or improve the edit (until it's approved, at least)? Yes, the only thing you can do is wait until the edit is accepted/rejected and …

Should I give time to user to clear it's question by commenting on it? You should do both ASAP, without waiting. Comment and flag. That way if they don't improve their question it gets closed (si …

I have completely the opposite experience about using Meta.SE. My most upvoted question in the whole network is a MSE question. Half of my top 10 network wide questions are on MSE. Only 1 of my questi …

There's this thing called private session, or window... or whatever. This is how it looks: You can also query the database, but is not real time. I'm sure the API also has this information.

For starters: used this week (no. of questions tagged this week), for questions tagged [tag] created during the week from June 23 to 29 [tag] created:2014-06-23..2014-06-29 is:q used this month/ye …

Please, please, don't mindlessly replace the installation tag with system-installation or software-intallation, and review all the tags! The problem in that question is the setup tag which is synonymi …

The transactional database doesn't care about some arbitrary nickname but id's. As you have (I presume) noticed, everything has an ID in Stack Exchange, posts, tags, revisions, and users. So, your nic …

Earlier, Stack Exchange was moving all operations from New York to Oregon, which caused slowness in all HTTPS connections. This can be seen in the twitter account: Slow HTTP Connectivity - May 31, …