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"Blatantly Off Topic" was created in a time when we envisioned folks becoming horribly lost and asking how to find their lost cat on a site about mathematics. But as the size and experience-level of …

From day one, you can do a lot on Stack Exchange without any prior experience/reputation at all. Yet if new users see that they can gain additional abilities by increasing their "reputation", starting …

If it's really early in the vetting process (not a lot of activity/voting around your post), it may be acceptable to retract and "fix" your original answer. But long after the fact (after the original …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Reputation is a rough measurement of your experience using the system. So once you gain 200 points on any site, you will be given a 100-point head start on all sites in the network (past, present, and …

There are several other ways to log into your account without using the SE OpenID service. We support Google (including Google's two-factor authentication), Facebook, Yahoo, and any other site that ac …

Cross-posting to multiple sites is not permitted by network policy. This is to keep people from using an arbitrary shotgun approach in hopes of getting their question seen somewhere. You might contact …

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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 …

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 …