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Reflection on the recent Site-Promotion

This answer is an extension of my thoughts on both of @stuffe's and @NathanGreestein's posts. Promotion vs Competition Given the ability to take influence on who gets votes or not, any method of achie …
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What is wrong with this hardware question for Ask Different and is there a better way to ask...

My biggest concern about your post is that this is very unspecific question and unlikely to be helpful to the community on the long run: It's not a real problem you face. Most answers will probably …
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Why this question was down-voted?

Like the FAQ says, If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ...."., then you should not be asking here. …
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Can we make the AskDifferent blog more easily accessible?

I just wanted to go to the blog in order to leave a comment. However, it really took me a while just to get there! I simply could not find a link. How come the blog is so hardly accessible? What ca …
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Our volume tag is a mess. Can we decide if it's sound related or filesystem related?

Since we cannot hinder people from trying to use a volume tag for either one of its meanings, I would propose that we block the tag and thus force the poster to use one the following tags instead: …
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Mountain Lion Challenge - ask, answer, blog and win Apple products!

I favor to exclude CW posts from the mountainlionchallengeTM as it distorts the results. On Ask Different posts are made community wikis mostly because: multiple people worked on an answer but only …
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