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There is only a very small number of users who actual actively look at the review queues. What I see happening is this: User posts question User does not read the notice about how there is a wait b …

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Well, in case nobody from Stack Exchange staff sees this for a while, I suggest you send an email to [email protected] with a copy of the CloudShark developers email and a link to this thread. T …

You can't. You just wait patiently and it will expire in a few days.

I've had to lecture my opinion on this many, many times and I believe my opinion is also SE's official opinion (I'm short on time so the link will have to wait). I don't mind homework questions on a …

I would be lying if I said popularity had nothing to do with closing a question. If it's borderline but has thousands of views, that might be its saving grace. But popularity really is quite low on t …

I can add a post notice just to meta, like the election one, but that's all we can do I think.

The banner is generic site-wide, so unfortunately it can't be different for different people. As for the notice on the voting page, that's a good idea. I'll re-tag your question so that the people in …

This is called "The Fastest Gun In The West" and was discussed on meta.stackoverflow about 2 years ago I think. Answers used to default by sorting by votes > age. Now they sort by votes > random. Th …

These icons are paid for by companies wanting to sponsor as another way of generating revenue for the Stack Exchange company. Personally, I hate the icons and wouldn't complain if I never saw another …

Iain is correct, but on the topic of outdated links - that is perhaps the BEST reason for editing. We can interpret poor english and suffer through unformatted answers, but answers with broken links …

As far as I'm aware, there's no way of clearing a flag, but I also wouldn't be too worried about it. 99.9% of the flags that come through are valid (even though I would say maybe 75% actually require …

I believe that the powers that be at Stack Exchange have said that they will only add a vote-to-migrate option if there is substantial evidence in favour of it. So what I suggest, is that if possible …

This used to be the behaviour of the migrated questions on the stack exchange sites. However, there was nothing for you to do on a migrated question except view the question. All the answers were made …

This is because they didn't mark their code as "code", and a # at the beginning of the line is a markup for Inappropriately large headings I don't think most people use the # functionality, because 1) …