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Which other site should “unprofessional” people fly away?
When a question is closed, it's important to act on it right away. A closed question with a score of zero or lower can be automatically deleted after nine full days if it is not reopened. And the best …
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Why was my question on high-performance-networking put on hold?
I didn't touch your question, and didn't even read it until now, but I do want to make the following observations:
First, the question says nothing about bandwidth delay product, TCP slow start, or …
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Where should I ask this question
I deleted your question, for these reasons:
It's not really on topic.
is not about:
consumer workstations or networking (which belong on our sister site, Super User)
The tour also m …
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What is a proper question that is on topic?
I closed the question, so it's only fair that I weigh in.
The distinction here is not that cPanel is off-topic per se; good questions involving cPanel are certainly possible. The distinction we make …
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What do I do with this [x-post] question
Cross-posting is generally frowned upon when your question is open on one site, since the community there sometimes will migrate it to another site. In this case cross-posting just creates duplicates …
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"On Hold" question presented for Editing Review
Closing a question is not necessarily forever. If it can be improved, it should be.
5
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Why were my questions deleted and account suspended?
Since I was (somehow) involved in closing every single one of these questions, it seems appropriate to say a few words.
In addition to voretaq7's excellent answer, I'll make the following observations …
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Question quickly downvoted and closed. Can someone explain why?
I can't speak for others, but I voted too localized.
This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraor …
5
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What makes this question “not real”?
I downvoted and voted to close this question because, in its original form, it was asking a question which was best directed to the author of the tutorial. The heart of the issue, of course, being the …
5
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Can you help me formulate a better question (re: server security)
Actually the primary problem here is that the question is overly broad.
From the FAQ:
Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you …
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I don't understand why a question is not a REAL question?
I didn't vote to close this question, but I probably would have, if I had seen it.
Here's why:
The essential answer to this question is:
Move MySQL to a new server. Tell your application to conn …
4
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Why was my post closed by a moderator?
Everyone makes mistakes, myself included.
This does indeed appear to be a business printer, and so I've reopened the question (and removed an inappropriate tag).
You may still want to improve the qu …
3
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Why was this question closed as off topic?
I won't speak for any of the five people who voted to hold the question, but...
My primary problem with this is that, by your own admission, it's a purely hypothetical question. You aren't actually t …
3
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Accepted
Reopen locked question
I can't even tell why that question was locked to begin with. So I've unlocked it. Have a ball.
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The reason for closing my question about a VNC server problem is false
I saw this, didn't vote to close this, and I disagree with the close reason. So I voted to reopen it.
That said...
It apparently wasn't clear to several people from reading just the question itself …