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Is StackExchange supposed to be so hostile?
I would say, yes - if hostile means that soft or vague or undocumented posts are challenged politely and constructively. If posts are edited or closed or voted down, also then yes. This is such a ...
bmikeMod
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Community♦ decisions - sometimes remarkably rapid
In the case of closing duplicates, Community acts on behalf of the author of the question.
When a question receives a vote to close as duplicate, the author of the question is prompted that it is ...
grgMod
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What do we do with 'useless old questions'?
Some thoughts on this (and I need more time to think about it, just wanted to get this out of my head and a comment didn't have enough room):
What's the downside of having these questions on the site ...
nohillsideMod
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Why a comment could be deleted?
In general comments are considered to be temporary information which can (and sometimes will) get deleted once the objective/purposed of it is reached.
The purpose of comments as such is documented in ...
nohillsideMod
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Does this post's status suffer from wrong close reason and is indicative of robo reviewing?
I've had a look at your original question (including the full timeline) and thought I'd share my thoughts even though I wasn't one of the close voters.
Is it on topic?
I recall reading your question ...
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Does this post's status suffer from wrong close reason and is indicative of robo reviewing?
The following will now indeed read as quite broad. It lists the most probable of the possible angles to approach the problem I can think of at the moment. If the question can be edited into form again,...
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