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You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.

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Tag Deletion Request

If it has no questions, it will be deleted by the community bot in due time. Just have to wait. Not a big deal.
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Can we just get rid of vgv8?

No. vgv8 is a conundrum to me. I'm honestly not convinced that they're a troll - primarily because I've seen them make valid contributions in the past. Sure, they don't understand how the system wor …
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what is the status of my ban?

You are currently not blocked from participating in the site in any way. You were last blocked in December 2013; it would have to have been a very very serious, moderator implemented incident for it …
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Proposals regarding the Amazon and related tags

Consider most of these done. ec2 aws ebs s3 cloudfront ami elb Like you, I'm not sure what to do with the RDS tag, because RDS is as you mentioned a very commonly used Windows tag. Especially now that …
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What happened to flag weight?

I refer you to waffles answer over here: Flag weight is now dead, you should decline flags that are not helpful and teach people how to flag in a helpful way. Basically, people were not learning …
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6 votes

Mechanics of fanatic badge

You must access the site via either the full web experience, or the mobile site. But: the front page is not enough. What is enough? Who knows (see the Fanatic badge. This is to avoid gaming via script …
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Hotel's IP blocked - should I be worried?

That message usually only shows up from Amazon instances; someone must have been really bad. I can really only answer number one I'm afraid, based on similar answers I've seen on meta.so over the yea …
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6 votes

All my activity has been deleted

I see that your account as it is now, has done question on it which you deleted yourself on the 11th of May 2011. Apart from that, I see no activity from your account at all. Which means one of the f …
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6 votes
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Is it OK to ask FTP connection questions here

Kudos for asking, but unless you also run the FTP infrastructure you're trying to upload to then Server Fault is not for that question. What I'd suggest you do is collect your FTP log and try over on …
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Questions belonging to intersection of webmasters.stackexchange and ServerFault

Sorry I missed this one - I'm the webmasters mod that sysadmin1138 referred to in their answer. They are absolutally correct that we define a webmaster in a fairly narrow scope, but there's a very go …
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How can I delete my own question?

Users with enough rep can delete their own questions, but lower rep users can't, because it's often abused by deleting questions that others have put input into. So, if you really want your question …
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5 votes
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Request for Tag Merge: pcie and pci-express

All done
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4 votes

What, in summary, are we supposed to do to clean up tags?

was it worth doing this or if it would've been better to just post here and let a mod do it in bulk? Yes, it was worth doing, but only if there are a few of them. If there are lots (I'd say, …
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4 votes

Clearing out the crap. We need some people with diamonds next to their name to help out!

I'm not going to be deleting a lot of those, for one good reason: viewed: 6,811 times viewed: 4,614 times viewed: 2,757 times Anything that has views > 1.5*(days old) is going to stay (or roughly …
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4 votes

Question closed as not constructive / locked

I'm inclined to agree with you, but also the question itself isn't a great fit for this site. In this situation it's attracted a very good answer, but normally hit-and-run questions like that attract …
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