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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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What to do with moderators who act based on personal tastes?

Eh. Don't just see that he's a mod, check out his overall reputation too. That said, as a long time user of the site, I agree. That said, "How to hide/mask visited url/ip from monitoring software in …
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Should I edit my old unanswered question or start a new one?

Editing it with new information will bump it up. Also consider adding a bounty if necessary. Editing is preferable to asking a new, identical question
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10 votes

Why the hostility?

The question itself probably needed more details and that kinda didn't reflect what the OP had done (which was bad). I might not asking questions on SF as much as I wish I could (or answering), but if …
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10 votes

Mod hammering - to do or not to do

I do realise that moderation styles differ between sites, but I tend to consider closing clearly off topic questions to be a moderator task of sorts (though it still feels odd for me to do it). A goo …
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There is a new navigation topbar on the SO

SE will be doing this on the smaller sites eventually. And well, some of the issues people have with it feel feels a bit like source:xkcd It also actually takes up less vertical space and uses hor …
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9 votes

Why images/screenshots wasn't embedded in most questions/answers? Is it a bad practice?

Simply cause its often not needed. In some cases, it makes things more difficult. image files (and I suppose animated gifs) have their place in gui based environments that are reasonably standard. Y …
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8 votes

Why are moderators/high rep users focused on narrowing the scope of SF?

Firstly, a lot of us use the front page first. If the front page is full of broken window type questions, we'll end up attracting more of those. If the answer is obviously in the manual, and the perso …
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7 votes

Question migration

Hypothetically speaking, there's no way this is an actual question, and if someone asked a question like this, with the current level of context on SU it would be closed. Such a question wouldn't be m …
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Where did I go wrong here? Answer to question migrated into SF deleted by community

One of my answers to this question got deleted by community. Now, as I understand it, community handles automatic tasks, and so this might have not been done by an admin. Now, it isn't about the rep, …
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6 votes

question downvoting

Downvotes happen. Its a fact of life, and the least one can do is try to get used to it. Complaining about it can be counterproductive at times. Its not personal You might want to reconsider what you …
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My reputation is 666; how do I change it?

Someone downvoted you. Now your reputation is 664. Now make sure you do not get exactly 2 reputation points more.
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5 votes

Is useful 'spam', really spam?

I think there's a right way to answer a question like that Make sure you're representing yourself correctly - A lot of these spammers tend to use fake identities and countries to make themselves see …
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5 votes

How does the community feel about deleting the April Fools' question?

On superuser we tended to delete April fools day questions right after april fools day. We did it for two years (we forgot this year :/). Last year we decided the questions had historic value, if not …
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4 votes

Should <2k rep users avoid making small-character edits?

In this situation - the edit was sufficient. I do admit to sometimes asking a higher rep user to fix things like this when they bother me. In practice, you can always find more to edit. In this case …
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4 votes

Christmas Hats 2013 Edition!

He does know in fact, if you've been naughty or nice (or a cat.)

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