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This is taken from meta.stackexchange.com How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions? You can "bump" your thread by editing the question to provide status and progress updates resulting …

Sometimes people simply do not realize they are indirectly hurting the system by voting for a user rather than rewarding good content. You can simply explain this to them. They should also know that …

In about two hours (as of this post). By time you read this, the public beta will have likely already started. Public beta starts 7 days after launch. For reference, you can always track a site's prog …

Why do I need reputation to comment/vote/edit/close/add tags/etc? I can appreciate that you have the exact need for which comments are designed. Asking questions and an answering take no reputation a …

Users cannot delete their own question once it receives an up-voted answer, so it is extremely unlikely a user will be able to delete their 'famous-questions' after the fact. Such questions are almo …

Accepting an answer is completely optional. It is simply a social convention to indicate which answer the author found helpful. If one answer isn't more notable than another, it is okay (and probably …

How about starting at the top? A well asked question is easy to find… The best answers rise to the top …while less useful answers… don't.

This community needs to start contributing some names they would like to act as provisional Moderators. Please read this: Moderators Pro Tempore. Here are some basic guidelines: Each nomination sh …

This is good advice for any site. No use in filling the site with redundant, implied tags. Ubuntu tags removed.

We used to have a close reason of "no longer relevant" which was useful when either the problem no longer existed (bug report) or the very premise of the question was wrong (your case). The closest e …

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The bounty system is only supposed to be used after you put in sufficient efforts to get the question answered through conventional means. If you don't get a answer, you are expected to improve, clari …

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