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Recently closed questions appear in the delete queue even though they had many upvotes and many views too. Some examples: What media (music and video) players are there? 52 upvotes 21k views 21 fav …

Knowing that I also have quite a bunch of very old answers that dwell somewhere on this site let me suggest one thing we should always do in such a case: Comment on the answer and tell us what was …

Yeah, we do care about our posts. We do not take it lightly when we receive a downvote. We try to make the post better. In the best case we have an explanation in a comment to help us what could be d …

Recently we see edit suggestions that mainly format text with a lot of markup that to my opinion do not always increase but sometimes reduce the clarity of a post. People do have a different view on …

Closing questions which are off topic is important for new questions to indicate they should not be answered, or should be edited. These reasons do not hold true for old, or very old answered questio …

What some people do is they just leave a comment on an apparently good answer Is your answer stll valid in 14.04? Whenever I get such a message I will re-evaluate my answer to see if there was s …

We "high rep" users very much love to see good answers coming from low rep users or users new to the site. Consider this: all our rep comes from times we also were beginners to the site, and we tried …

Sometimes we reject an edit for reasons not covered by the list given. Then I always give my reasons in the custom field. However ever since we need two approvals for an edit it happens that other use …

There is no ban for deleting a single post. In fact deleting your own question or answers when you realize they may not be helpful is encouraged. This will help to keep the site clear. There is also …

Only by chance I came across a merged question I had answered twice: What is a "bad quality" package? This is not really what we want. One answer may be better than the other, or worse, both answe …

You are perfectly right, it is the new unexperienced users that are a real challenge here. They come for help, because they feel we are the right place or - even better for us - they were told we are. …

The question indicates that the OP may have not yet achieved in depth knowledge of Bash programming. The recommendation to read some Bash manual is therefore obvious. But I understand that the wording …

This question was well written, upvoted, featured, and had 6 upvotes. Unfortunately the OP made a mistake to admit they are on Mint in a comment, and to add screenshots with a Mint theme. Does this …

Provided a question is a clear duplicate to an existing question. What is ok vote to close as duplicate. This will immediately direct the OP to the solutions posted there. add an own answer to the pr …

With increasing numbers of new users we are also faced with increasing numbers of non-voters and non-acceptors. This can e.g. be seen from only just about 800 users that have cast more than 10 votes. …