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Admin keeps deleting my comment on why I voted to close
If the project in question was not an anti-adblocker, the question would be fine on its own. That you do not like the project is moot. Expressing yourself that you do not like the project is fine, if ...
schroederMod
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What did happen to my suggested edit?
The suggested edit gave a 404 because the post itself was deleted.
In following the link to the answer (10k or mod visibility only) it is obvious it was offensive and not a real question and was ...
Rory AlsopMod
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1 point deducted when I down voted an answer
You loose rep for down-voting answers. It is used as a deterrent; it discourages unnecessary down-votes, or down-votes that are in your own self-interest rather than the interest of the community.
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Are questions about metrics on topic?
It sounds very open-ended, the way you've described the question. It sounds like a request for metrics that might apply.
Questions here have to have a hope of having a single acceptable answer. If you ...
schroederMod
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What is up with these answers? Are these all the same people?
As I have researched and answered the mentioned question, I believe this is a legit question that affected some AT&T customers, probably at the same time.
This is not the first time this kind of ...
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Can I ask for help with identifying malware?
This type of question could be on-topic, but I have yet to see one that actually is. The problem is that without the binaries, we would never have enough data to say much. With the binaries, you can ...
schroederMod
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Question deleted because of "product recommendations". But this was the only way to answer the question
If a product/service is the only way to answer the question, then the question is not a good fit here.
Your question was
"Where can I get such a certificate?"
And your answer was a list of CAs. ...
schroederMod
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How can be this question about VPN design either security architecture improved?
One of the canned reasons for downvotes is "does not show any research effort". That applies here, along with your confusion of OpenVPN and the protocol it uses.
When I googled "Openvpn ipsec", the ...
schroederMod
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Admin keeps deleting my comment on why I voted to close
deleted the automatically-added comment that came with my close vote explaining why I voted.
I'm not sure if the moderator should have done that. Moderators don't have the ability to retract other ...
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What rep is required to edit / propose an edit on a question?
Editing is a basic feature that anyone can do. I just rejected an edit from a 1 rep person today.
schroederMod
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How do I self close vote on my own question?
Once you have 250 rep you will be able to do this. From the privileges page:
View Close Votes
Privilege Type: Moderation Privilege
Awarded At: 250 Reputation
This privilege allows you to view and ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Why is my edit attributed to another user?
The following happend:
We both were editing at the same time, but you submitted your edit first. So when I submitted mine it overwrote yours.
I saw what had happend, and thought your edit was much ...
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Serial voting was reversed? Static or relative threshold?
When the serial voting detection mechanisms see something that identifies as serial voting (up or down) the votes will be reversed. The reversal is done as part of an automated process and data is not ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Why does the Community user on Meta has 3 reputation?
This usually happens when posts and suggested edits are attributed to the Community user (as part of the procedure followed when deleting a user). This will eventually be fixed by a scheduled task and ...
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How did I manage to flag this question twice?
It isn't showing that you flagged as a duplicate. It's showing that you flagged for recommended closure, and this disables both flagging as “should be closed” and flagging as a duplicate. “Duplicate” ...
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When will my BoA expire?
Read this. In short:
The ban will be lifted automatically by the system when it determines that your positive contributions outweigh those answers which were poorly received.
There's no set time ...
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Why are there so many already answered 3-10year old posts in the active feed?
There are 2 main reasons:
questions that have no votes on the answers are bumped to the main page for activity
recent edits act as "recent activity" that brings the posts to the main page
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schroederMod
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Why is the accepted answer only sometimes at the top?
As Avid confirmed in comments, self answers does not get bumped to the top when they are accepted. While there is nothing wrong with self answers - on the conrary, they are encouraged - this sort of ...
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What caused this post to bump to the front page?
Yes, that user made an edit to his answer on that question. This is how StackExchange works.
schroederMod
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How to migrate to Ask Ubuntu?
A moderator has to be involved in migrating questions to a site that isn't one of the five listed. Flagging the question for mods with a note saying which site is the best way to handle that.
Jeff FerlandMod
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Is my question better for Unix or this place?
This question would be more suited on Unix.SE. Don't forget to add the distribution-choice tag to your question, as this tag is specifically made to gather such kind of questions.
At the opposite, ...
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Banned from flagging with only 8 declined out of 227
These sorts of things are automated so I can't give you any useful info beyond the guidance to wait.
Of those though, I'd have to say neither flag should have been raised. Yes, they seem like low ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Community user spam detection failure
If you cannot edit your post, make a new one. That post received -3 downvotes and no upvotes, so there are no points to recover.
Most "is X secure?" questions get closed as too broad. The mods, who ...
schroederMod
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Can you help me rephrase my question?
This is your question, you need to define the problem that the question is addressing. All I have asked is that you connect the dots. If I didn't want to help you, I would have just closed the ...
schroederMod
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It is possible to create an MQTT tag?
Yes it is. Tags for specific technologies, like a protocol, is almost always a good idea. (When it comes to more vague concepts, more care might be needed in tag creation, but that is not the case ...
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Is there an "analog" type of tag?
That would be far too broad a tag - there are many topics not involving computers here - so it is unlikely to ever be created. For your specific point re handwriting, analog would not be a good ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Which question guidelines exist on security stackexchange?
You only got one down vote on your sqlmap question, and two upvotes, so I would not use that as an example of "downvotes"
There is a lot of guidance written - it's actually pretty extensive. We haven'...
Rory AlsopMod
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Serial downvoter on security SE?
If there is a serial downvoter, then the automatic systems in StackExchange will deal with it.
schroederMod
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible