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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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Standard Comments to Common Problematic Posts

This could be an appropriate post if we were a discussion forum, but we're a Q&A site; answers must provide an answer to the question. Please take a moment to read the [tour]. … [A] Not a discussion forum This does not provide an answer to the question and is therefore deleted; please take a moment to read the [tour] – we're a Q&A site and not a discussion forum. …
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Post ownership of an item appearing in Low Quality Posts Review queue

It's not possible to review your own Low Quality Posts, just like you can't review your own questions in the Close and Reopen Votes review queues. The latter two cases have I tested on Meta Stack Exch …
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Stating affiliation when recommending a 3rd party software/tool

The relevant Help Center article states: How not to be a spammer The community here tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) …
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What to do if your question is already old and ignored, but still unanswered?

From the FAQ on Meta Stack Exchange; Ask Different generally follows the guidelines set there: You can "bump" your question by editing it to provide status and progress updates resulting from your o …
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High Traffic question

The effect you see is (almost) entirely due to the question being on the Hot Network Question list. In the box on the top right, you see that it has been viewed over 10,000 times (as I write this). …
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Apple Developer Forum links broken after WWDC 2020 forum upgrade

Thanks for you concern! The example you reference is a relatively new scheme; there are only two hits, both on your question today. Stack Overflow has nine hits, and I've checked a few and they all wo …
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Here are my (Glorfindel's) answers to your questions: How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags …
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Removing tag synonym

We have a tag environmental which is a better match for waterproof, but it's already synonymized to temperature. Given that tag's excerpt: Using Apple products in wet, dry, hot, low- or high-press …
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How to thank an Ask Different user that saved my MacBook Pro, as well as my personal finance...

I've pinged the user in chat, so chances are they will now read your message. For the general case, I'll reiterate the advice by one of Stack Exchange's founders: If you really want to thank someone …
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Are questions related to issues with the user interface in Photoshop on-topic?

We have almost 100 questions about adobe-photoshop, so the program is definitely on-topic here (well, unless you'd ask about the Windows version of course). I'd say that our sister sites Photography …
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Why hasn't the Stack Exchange iOS app been updated for the iPhone Max display?

The app hasn't been updated since a while; users have been complaining about this since the iPhone X came out in 2017: Stack Exchange app iPhone X optimization However, this issue won't be addressed, …
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Can I ask questions about vintage Apple products?

All Apple products are on-topic here, but we also have a sister site in the network, Retrocomputing Stack Exchange, which specifically deals with questions about computer systems of yesteryear, includ …
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Do I have to edit all of my posts when I do an upgrade?

No, please don't. Those edits will bump all questions to the front page. Imagine if all question authors would do that as they upgrade their OS (iOS or macOS) or device ... we would have a hard time f …
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Can we have notifications for review queues?

The review icon may have a red dot under some circumstances, but on Ask Different we have many users helping out in the review queues (thanks a lot!) so that rarely happens. You'd have to keep in mind …
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April fools 2023?

There was no April fools this year. They planned something, see this bug report on Meta Stack Exchange: "//Todo: Remove after April Fools 2023 is done" but I've read somewhere that they cancelled it; …
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