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What's the worst question you've ever seen on SF.com?
The worst? Not sure I've seen it yet. The questions I consider most poor are any of the step-by-step/spoon-feed-me/SendTehCodezPlz type questions. Especially when followed-up with combative commenting …
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Bounties: users with reputation lower than bounty offer
Do you have a link to the question? Bounty is taken away from the user's rep when the bounty is offered. This could reduce the user's rep below the bounty amount.
See also: How does the bounty sys …
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How to proceed if you don't have enough reputation for placing a comment
I think the only answer is: You earn the requisite reputation, then post the comment.
Users who flout this convention (by posting a comment as an answer or editing existing posts) will usually hav …
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How to proceed if you don't have enough reputation for placing a comment
Alternate answer: Post to meta. Wait for others to lurk your profile on the main site. Garner up votes, thus enabling you to comment site-wide.
Well played sir. :)
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Class-based IP routing and other obsolete questions
Per Zoredache's answer:
Most new subnetting questions I just link to Evan's post
Is there a tag/list/something to denote the collection of question-answers that are the authoritative examples on …
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Is it enough to just vote an answer up?
"Or is the fact I voted it up enough?"
In a word: Yes.
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Where do suggested edits go?
If you're 10K+ you'll see a counter notification in the top menu. Jeff covered this in a blog post -- See item #2. Else, you'll just have to "luck out" and browse to a post containing awaiting edits. …
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Is this query really "crap"?
Within the defined scope of SF questions your's is, at least, off-topic. As written the question indicates a home user having issue with their laptop -- this could be within the scope of Super User. …
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How to offer a bounty
You click on "start a bounty" on an eligible question. From the bounty FAQ on MSO: "A bounty can be started on a question two days after the question was asked."
As of this posting, your only unan …
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Why is reputation for bounty taken away even if nothing is awarded?
This is covered on the SO blog, in detail. Note the reference to non-refundable rep.
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What is "Do you haz teh codez"?
"Do you haz teh codez?" is an intentionally misspelled, poor grammar, version of the question: "Do you have the [source] code?". It is written in the style of an Internet meme called lolcatz. In thi …
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It's Santa Time!
My father is Santa. No joke.
Three-minutes in paint.net:
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Was anyone else's security appliance blocking SF today?
I was seeing this earlier:
But only for the bare domain http://serverfault.com, everything else was working, including https://serverfault.com/questions, https://serverfault.com/users, etc. The "F …
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what's the point in unformatted comments?
You can find discussion of this on MSO. For starters, right from the FAQ. Additional searches will reveal other related discussion.
Actually, comments do support formatting. … Discussion at MSO has repeatedly clarified this. …