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Let us (continue to) close old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels
If you're gonna do this, let's do it right:
Define a custom off-topic reason. Doesn't have to be a permanent addition, but for the purpose of this cleanup swapping one in means less tedious clicking ...
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Let us (continue to) close old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels
I'm a little confused as to why we need to spend time retroactively closing these questions. I agree that they are now OT in most cases (not all- but certainly most), and new questions should be ...
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How should we deal with old link-only answers?
That's probably not the best example as it does at least say what the technology is that the OP should be using. You would hope that any reasonable sysadmin would at least be able to research the ...
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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?
Nope! The SE robot does a few things with these.
Questions with no upvoted answers are bumped to the front page in pairs at random. I believe two questions are picked every four hours. This is ...
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How should we deal with old link-only answers?
We're dealing with a similar problem on Super User.
When I started a clean-up, I reserved destruction only for answers that were
scored at zero or below,
not the accepted answer,
written by users ...
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Old and useless questions bumped to home page by "Community"
And then it’s hilarious when specifically this post gets bumped to the front page by ♦️ Community...
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What to do about new users posting useless answers only to make themselves known?
You have all the tools you need to deal with this on a case by case basis yourself.
If an answer is useless then simply downvote it.
You could also consider protecting the question to stop it from ...
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Accepted
How to flag/close questions about old/irrelevant versions
No specific action is required. Old questions don't need closing simply because they are old and/or outdated.
All posts are dated and people sufficiently literate to use a search engine to find an ...
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How to flag/close questions about old/irrelevant versions
I don't believe that we must do anything about such a question if it is on topic for ServerFault. Someone could still answer this (even if it is unlikely) and someone found it worthwile enough to ...
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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?
Per the link meta.so Journeyman Geek mentioned, the easiest way to get these removed is to vote the question below 0. It'll get reaped within a week. No need to vote-to-close them and wait for a ...
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