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6 votes

Why can one continue to downvote a closed question?

I thought I'd recently seen the auto-delete criteria posted here, but I can't find it now... I fairly frequently downvote closed, downvoted questions just to be sure they get auto-deleted. Since I c …
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3 votes

I don't understand why a question is not a REAL question?

If you are unable to post questions and get the message: Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account Then you should look at this meta.SF answer and follow the link to …
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3 votes

Deleted post: why mine, and not many others on the same question?

I didn't see your answer before it got deleted, but as other have said, giving a clever answer by posting a picture is always likely to get deleted here. A few smart-aleck-y answers slip through, but …
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Why was my question closed on Server Fault?

I'm not sure about the others who voted to close, but for me it sounds like you're trying to get your iPhone to connect to your wireless router at home. As per the first section of the FAQ, ServerF …
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5 votes

VirtualBox question

I'm sympathetic to VBox questions - we use it in a production environment. There have been multiple discussions here about whether VBox should be used in production and although I think the many comm …
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2 votes

Question is off topic, where to put it or how to improve?

If I had seen it, I probably would have closed it as being primarily opinion-based: how to explain something in a non-technical way is heavily dependent on the person you're explaining it to. The reas …
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2 votes

I asked a question for my work. Is this not 'managing information technology systems in a bu...

Further to the other answer, when multiple close reasons are selected by close-voters, only one (whatever gets the most votes) is shown. There was a close-vote for the reason mentioned in the other a …
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3 votes

Is nginx off-topic?

I usually pick "Not constructive" for shopping questions, because I think it's a better fit than "off-topic." It's worth keeping in mind that only one close reason is shown, but the 5 people who vo …
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2 votes

Why were my questions deleted and account suspended?

There've been a bunch of discussion lately on meta.SO about this type of situation: someone posts that they think their downvoted/closed/deleted questions were ok, and they think it's mean/unfriendly/ …
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Review bug: I pick "leave closed" and it pops up "Nominate for re-opening?" [duplicate]

I don't have screen shots, but it's happened twice now, so there must be a bug related to the new close reasons being activated on SF... When reviewing re-opens, after reading the question and decidi …
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2 votes

If this question is off-topic, where is it on-topic?

It was closed as being a "shopping question": Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they attract low quality, opinionated and spam answers, and the …
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