Yes, moderators can see your real name and email, although this information isn't something we see on your profile by default, we have to click several buttons to see it. We also have to agree to ...

You've posted 5 answers. 3 have received 1 downvote. That's not all your answers. It also isn't enough data to bring anything to light. Seeing this the best I can suggest is, for now, ignoring the ...

Go to your profile and near the top there will be a link that says My logins. It will show you all the accounts associated with you Stack Exchange account, and let you add new ones and remove ...

As to what you should choose. Vandalism would be the correct choice here, per it's description: This edit introduces spam, defaces the post in some way, or is otherwise inappropriate. You can ...

Let's go over three of the main scenarios involving duplicate answers (these are the ones I see the most). User A posts an answer "You need to foo the bar". User B comes along and posts an answer "...

If user A comes along and answers your question, and you accept it, he gets 15 reputation. If user B then adds an answer and you accept his answer instead, user A will lose 15 reputation and user B ...

The best approach would be to flag it for moderator attention, asking them to migrate it to the site of your choice. Another thing you might consider is starting a bounty on your question to get it ...

Short answer: YES! Emails in questions/answers pose at least 2 problems: Spam: Spambots are very good at filtering plain text emails off websites. (This is why most people, when sharing emails, ...

The correct action to take is to flag it. Click flag and then select "it is a duplicate". Then you can enter the URL of the other post.

If you hover over the timestamp of a comment it becomes a link. Share that URL.

Asking here on meta is one way, asking in chat is another. But the best way to get your question reopened is to edit it with an explanation of why it isn't a duplicate. Comments are good but edits ...

Pretty sure this particular one has come up before, but maybe not since it still exists. Please report it using the contact us form at the bottom of every page.

You're right, the question isn't off-topic. It was as migrated to Unix and Linux only because the OP requested it in a flag. Usually if you ask for your question to be moved we are happy to oblige, ...

This is where the @ replies come in handy. Users become eligible for an @ reply on a post if they do one of the following things: Vote to close the post. Edit the post. Comment on the post. ...

I think your edit was awesome, turning a badly written question with bad grammar into a well written question with good grammar. However, what everyone has to learn to remember on SE, you're on the ...

We like to keep things helpful and clean, though that doesn't mean we don't have a sense of humour. (no offence to gentoo users)

It isn't handled. If the user leaves a comment saying Thanks so much! It works! Then you could leave a comment along the lines of If the answer solved your problem, please accept it ...

Yes. For the record, questions are only duplicates when the questions are the same. Answer overlap is a fact of life, let it happen. People are going to search for their problem, not someone else's ...

Flag the post, either as "Not an answer" or use a custom reason and explain why you think it is worth converting to a comment and a moderator will most likely oblige :)

April Fools! But in all seriousness* you couldn't possibly not want colored comments.. could you? *Not serious at all

Well, I wanted to put something catchy or funny here, but couldn't think of anything. So here I am. Not funny.

I see no need for any such rule. There are such things as badge hunters. There are such things as minor editors. There is nothing we can do about this. Now something to point out is that the second ...

I've looked over your question (I'm guessing it's this one). In general, if you are experiencing a problem and you suddenly stop having it or you switch to something else and can't test answers ...

In this case I have reopened the question. There has since been a feature put in place that prevents duplicate targets from being deleted so we shouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

Meme: Getting Eliah'd Originator: FEichinger (??) Background: Eliah Kagan is known (and loved) for posting long and well researched answers on both main and meta. His answers are so long and well ...

Following this longstanding request on Meta Stack Exchange you can now retract flags you have cast. Simply click the "flag" button again on the post you flagged and the "Flag Answer" (or "Flag ...

We don't usually like subjective questions that ask what the "best" x is, this generally results in lots of people expressing their personal opinion of "I think y!", "well, I think z!", "no, it's q!". ...