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Thanks for reviewing. I really appreciate it.
Recently review got reformatted quite a lot. Personally, I don't like many of the changes. I guess I'm an old stick-in-the-mud. But about one feature in ...
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Recommend Deletion option in Late Answers review queue does nothing - please flag posts that should be deleted
Just a quick PSA here - thanks to BeastOfCaerbannog I've realised that the new Recommend Deletion option in the Late Answers queue completes the review and gives you the option to leave the canned ...
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Please avoid lengthening existing duplicate chains
A recent example:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/433029/finding-my-ip-without-using-google
is tagged as a duplicate of
Command to know my external IP address?
which is itself a duplicate of How can ...
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Let's stop using "How do I resolve unmet dependencies?" for dpkg questions (and probably for most apt questions)
The most used close target for apt/dpkg questions is this. However, that does not help if the problem is not with apt but with the underlying dpkg.
I very often find things like these when I check ...
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Bug: Moderator not getting the mod tag but being tagged as a bot in mod actions for comments
This happened on this post's deleted comment - visible to moderators and staff as it's a deleted comment:
This is a post done by a reviewer and masked by the Community bot.
Mitch is an actual diamond ...
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Best way to notify the moderators?
So in the wake of the UFC-spam attack last night, I (like many of you) used-up all of my flags trying to fight the onslaught of crap being posted on our site. At one point, I noticed my flag amount ...
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Feature improvement for flags history
This question is asked on MSE at the following link for more visibility: Make it easier to distinguish accepted and declined flags in addition to pending ones in flags history
In the flag summary ...
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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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Should these VMware questions be re-closed as duplicates?
This is a follow-up to Kulfy's question Can these VMWares be un-merged?
The requested unmerge was done, and questions closed against the former merge target were reopened. Attempts were made to close ...
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It asks something different, and it needs a different answer, so can we reopen it?
Edit: question reopened. Thanks :)
Can you have too much swap? is closed as a duplicate of I have 16GB RAM. Do I need 32GB swap?
But the first question is asking what problems might arise from ...
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Can I opt-out from receiving notifications from a particular post?
What are the default text editors in different flavours of Ubuntu?
I asked the above question today, received some great answers, accepted an answer. And it solved the initial problem that I had plus ...
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Is it a duplicate when the answer is given as background in another question?
After asking Question X (listing commands a package provides), the OP explicitly states he's not looking for ~X (the opposite of Question X), and by way of background provides what the answer for ~X ...
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Could we add on the 'about' page that questions should be edited to provide more information?
On both the about page it is explained how the site works. To my eyes, this should include that a user asking question should edit his post to improve it if some other users are asking clarification ...
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Why user is able to edit comments in multiple textareas in the same time?
By accident I have clicked edit link on comment twice.
After first click I have textarea for editing it (it is normal and expected behavior).
But on second and third click on edit I get garbage:
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Add a feature for similarity comparison
It'd be nice if answers which are an exact copy of an existing (possibly upvoted) answer or contain large substring of such an answer and few own text - which should be a comment on the copied answer -...
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