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How to delete my questions asked on Ask Different
I know how to delete my account, but I haven't found a way to delete the questions I asked. Is there a way to do that?
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Where is it on topic for Xcode related questions?
When searching for the "xcode" tag on Ask Different, the following banner appears:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xcode
WARNING: Almost all questions about development or ...
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How to send a message to a moderator
I made a post but the post was deleted. I do not know why.
How do I send a message to a moderator to find out?
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Separate script-editor and AppleScript tags from each other
Before this recent question
Script Editor shows Error: No Error in JavaScript code for sending email
taught me that JavaScript can also be used in Script Editor app, I had added AppleScript tag into ...
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My suggested edit review didn't count as a review for me
I was going through the Suggested Edits review queue, and this suggested edit came up. I pressed Improve, edited the post and submitted it.
However, the suggested edit was only approved by Community♦…...
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What can be done to improve this question?
I've put a hold on this question:
Does anyone know any good Diagnostic tools?
It strikes me as something we want on the site, but as worded, it's far too vague to be searchable IMO.
We don't have ...
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Why we're not customer support for [company X or product Y]
Why do many questions asking for customer support get closed on Ask Different:
Help! My computer doesn't work
https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/276062/
How do I do X to my clash of clans village?
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Why was this question closed for being "Off topic"?
Yet another, "why was this question closed?" post. Sorry, but I genuinely don't understand this one.
I put posted a Q&A Format question (ie. I answered it myself to share research and ...
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Flagged post didn't get re-edited
While going through my usual reviews of posts, I will also check for accessibility, formatting, grammar, etc. I came across an answer that was quoting a link they provided but the quote was formatted ...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. Since none of ad proposals on this site made it past the score thresholds, none will be displayed — go to the main post on MSE for a list of ...
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How to make cookie setting permanent
Every time I log in I’m asked to confirm or choose cookie settings. How can I make the site remember my choices so I don’t have to choose every time I log in? Sorry if this is not the right site to ...
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Inconsistent thumbnail generation in Finder?
Ok, just saying, but this site seems a bit broken. The exact question I want to ask has been addressed, but I can't enter that conversation/thread because I don't have 50 reputation points. So ... I ...
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Where is the list of canonical questions stored for Ask Different?
Where can we store a list of questions that are considered canonical?
Canonical means that it's asked frequently enough to warrant an excellent clear and detailed answer that the site edits and ...
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HOWTO Convert video to animated GIF
Many times, OPs are good enough to link videos to their question(s) so that we can have a view of the problem they are experiencing. The only problem with this is that it links to a video off of Ask ...
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Should we be slower to close some questions?
"Welcome to Stack Exchange. Your question has been closed."
So goes the old joke. Here's a classic example of a post from someone who's clearly not very tech savvy, looking for help with a ...
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On Ask Different, freebsd is a synonym of unix
Context
The moderators of this site don't understand what synonym means ("exactly or nearly the same as another word") and put freebsd, bsd, linux, ubuntu into the synonyms of unix. The ...
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Why can't you re-upvote comments?
Pretty straightforward question:
Why can't we re-upvote comments?
For example, when I accidentally upvote a comment, almost instantly cancel my upvote because it was a mistake and realise after ...
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Edit an old post
While browsing the main site, I came upon some (very) old posts (questions and answers) that needed editing (formatting/capitalization/typos/etc.) but I was unsure whether to edit them or not ...
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Why did the voting buttons change to this horrible design?
I just noticed that in the past hour, some changes were made on voting buttons, it became:
Why were these changed? The previous ones were really good.
Those ones are unaesthetic and aren't even well-...
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Is it wrong to ask a question on Ask Different even if it's easily searchable on the web?
When googling apple-related queries, like "how do I do x", there's typically a lot of sites which are search engine optimised appearing toward the top of the results, and a lot of the time, ...
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What do we do with 'useless old questions'?
What do we do with 'useless old questions'? Ones that never really defined the problem, will never have an answer & no-one would care if they vanished off the face of the earth. They don't provide ...
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Cross-post to Apple Developers forums - what should I do?
I just found a person who posted the exact same question both on Ask Different and on Apple Developers forums. I just asked them if it was them and they said "yes".
What should I do about it?...
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Create a `sonoma` tag
As the new macOS version is announced (macOS 14 Sonoma), I suggest we create a tag for it.
Previous macOS versions have their own tags, Sonoma should have its own.
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How can I add a vertical bar | to a table on the site?
Earlier today, I posted an answer where I needed to add a table. But this table needed to have the vertical line character (|) in one of its cells. But I wasn't able to add it to the cell since it ...
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Comments on Review Actions
My edit was rejected and I posted a comment on the related question/answer.
I was then told I shouldn’t do this. I thought comments were for clarifications.
What’s the proper etiquette here?
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Retro Tag for Vintage/Obsolete Apple Tech?
Just putting this out there for opinions.
Would having a “Retro” tag be beneficial?
I am thinking this could cover everything older than, say 15 years old (i.e. White Unibody MacBook) and include all ...
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Edit suggestions ban threshold
I got blocked from editing again.
I wanted to know from when (ratio approve/reject?) I get blocked. For example, in my last 10 suggested edits, 7 were approved and 3 were rejected. Is this the ratio?
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April fools 2023?
I visited AD on April 1st this year (as well as every day in March and April) but I didn't see anything for April fools. I have seen other posts on AD Meta on April fools for other years but I'm not ...
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Are questions about the Apple website allowed?
I've got a quite unusual question here.
Would asking a question about the Apple website directly be on-topic?
If so, what are the specifications or the "checklist" I should follow when ...
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Mass edit reject - why?
I have proposed a few edits, and all of them, even the most worthy of being accepted got rejected for an ambiguous reason : "The edit does not improve the quality of the post. Changes to the ...
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Answer from someone's comment
This can be considered as an ethical question.
I was wondering if, when seeing someone's comment answering the question on which it was posted, I can add an answer based on that comment. Of course, ...
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Discussion requested on a tag synonym cleanup - sed and awk / unix
We have questions on the synonyms for unix
On Ask Different, freebsd is a synonym of unix
Separate Linux tag from Unix
One of the problems in doing anything is that there seems to be no agreement on ...
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Lock answer without deleting
When editing an answer, I sometimes want to lock the answer while I'm editing.
I'm proposing a new feature here : Make posts (answers or questions [without answers on it already]) lockable.
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Ho do I send a message to whomever closed my question?
I have a question on Ho do I add a new paragraph or new line in Dictation which asks about adding paragraphs to dictaion on macOS. It was closed because there is a different question regarding other ...
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Separate Linux tag from Unix
I just tried to retag a question as linux which was based on not finding a Ubuntu boot disk
However I see Linux is a synonym of Unix which surely is wrong for this group as the differences matter a ...
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“Urgent” edit due to new Imgur ToS and loss of images
I reviewed two “urgent” edits that were done because the editor referred to a Meta post Imgur TOS change on May 15th could cause the loss of thousands of StackExchange images!
The first answer and the ...
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Answer getting -10 for no reason
This answer got accepted 7 days ago but I received a reputation notification today saying that it got -10 reputation.
When I looked in the post's timeline, it says nothing about this (no noticed, no ...
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Where should I report? iOS Stack Exchange app not allowing Google login [duplicate]
The stack exchange ios app is failing in the google login flow after it returns from Google web flow.
Where’s the right place to report this?
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Retract a suggested edit
It already happened that I initially wanted to edit a post, posted my edit and noticed that it wasn't really useful after having posted. Is it possible to retract my edit somehow?
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Add Ask Different to MS Edge Sidebar
This is just a simple "Hey! Check out this new feature post..."
Microsoft added a sidebar and you can add in websites. StackOverflow is already on their list, but you can add in Ask ...
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Another very small question with same topic as another one
I have another question about the meaning of some very small parameter linked with MDM and this question, do I post another question, a comment or do I make it an edit to the question?
The parameter ...
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Can we have notifications for review queues?
I am looking for a way to get notifications in real time as when I earn reputation or have something in my inbox but for review queues.
I have seen in other Meta SE questions that it was the case ...
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Technically Inaccurate or Altogether Wrong Answers
I flagged this answer (note the link now goes nowhere, except maybe higher rep mods can see it?) twice. The answer essentially said "Apple wouldn't have a trash if they didn't intend you to use it, so ...
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How can you see the original post when editing?
When I edit some posts (most often questions) for the first time, it's alright because I can open the question in a separate tab and see the original question. But, when I have already submitted an ...
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How to format my post to reveal some text on clicking?
I have seen this in some help page of this site but haven't found it again.
What is the command (formatting) which makes some text reveal on click? (Isn't it something like >! text or something?)
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Map of related tags
I put together this mind map to represent approximate relationships I see between tags. Many tags do not fit well into a tree structure, so I've taken liberties in a few areas. Hopefully this is ...
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Force to save draft (answer and question)
I sometimes ask a/multiple question(s) as comment(s) to a question and at the same time, I prepare an answer if the OP answers in a certain way but without posting before they answer.
Each time I want ...
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Make [ios-16] and add it as synonym of [ios]
I suggest making ios-16 and adding it as a synonym of ios.
ios already contains recovery-mode, ios-beta, ios-12, ios13, ios-13, ios14 and ios-15.
Since iOS 16 got released in the end of 2022, I think ...
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How to propose tag synonyms?
I want to propose a synonym for a tag, how do I do? I have read that it is available to create tag synonyms for users that have 2.5k rep but I don't know from when it's possible to propose a tag ...
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