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Although there is a new site that exclusively handles software recommendations, we have been hosting good software recommendation questions since the beginning of Ask Different in August 2010.
Here is an adaptation of an excellent thread from the Software Recommendation site on how to ask a high-quality question here.
Great software recommendation questions ...
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I have had a look at your links and you clearly flagged that post correctly. I handled the flag incorrectly - for that I apologize.
Worse, I had dismissed some other similar flags to yours - I'm not sure when/how I got the idea that rude and abusive needed a personal aspect, but it's pretty clear that gibberish should be flagged as abuse.
Thanks for ...
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Use img tags with a custom width attribute. In the example you linked to, I've edited it to do just that. Check the revision history to see what I've done.
<img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/1vIgO.png" width="375">
iPhone 4–5s: 320
iPhone 6–6s: 375
iPhone 6+–6s+: 540
If you resize an image and re-upload it as a suggested edit, I'm likely to ‘reject ...
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Questions shouldn't be deleted just because they haven't received an answer. Despite everything, an answer may still be found in the future and deleting the question doesn't help anyone as the original research is lost. Moving the research to a new question defeats the purpose and the original question may as well remain if this occurs.
Bounties are the ...
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You should never bump. Community (the Stack Exchange bot) automatically and randomly (fairly) bumps older unanswered questions (questions with zero answers or questions with no answers with a score >1).
If you haven't received an answer you think is suitable, you can refine your question by editing it. Everyone is encouraged to make substantial edits to ...
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We got hit by a massive flood of spam posts. The automated spam detector and the moderators are working on removing them, but they still bump up every question to the front page. To see new questions only, use the "week" view.
Also, if you still see answers looking like
my name is NAME My private video, see URL
please flag them as spam so we can remove ...
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Is it just me or is there a sudden uptick in Clash of Clans questions with tons of “me too” answers?
This kind of thing is very common on Ask Different when a change occurs with something within the scope of the site. It begins with a reasonable question on the subject, and thanks to SE's very high SERP rank, is the #1 result for many search queries.
People then post 'me too' answers, either because they want to participate in the question so that they ...
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Mass deletion of posts is something that will generally get you suspended.
That being said, the SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer) is the place to go if you want assistance in crafting such a query so you can study your acceptance rate and your scoring / ability to get the "check" which are all excellent and fine goals to have.
http://data.stackexchange....
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Late Note:
This was broken for several months, but is now working again.
I Like grg's method, & in fact use it myself quite a lot for quick edits to posts.
There is another method, slightly more work, but this not only reduces the apparent size on screen, but also the actual image size - useful for if you're on the phone, etc.
Assuming it's your own ...
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There's two things here:
If you look at the transport logs (and not the "from") you can see in fact the email is from Stack Overflow
The email itself matches what others receive
On both fronts I can confirm this email looks like an legitimate email from the Stack Exchange network. That being said, it's always possible for a spammer to take that mail ...
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Because - believe it or not - you still earn reputation on Meta; it is just not shown and the main site's reputation is shown instead. Each upvote on an answer counts as +10 towards these badges, and each upvote on a question as +5, just like they would do on the main site.
If you track the Epic or Legendary badge in your (Meta) profile and click on the ...
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Welcome to the site! I'll try to answer your questions.
OK, you have a little misunderstanding about the nature of Stack Exchange sites. Stack Overflow was the first and original site, and then Stack Exchange was setup to create further sites along different topics. These days there are SE sites for everything from coding to parenting via philosophy and ...
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That was my fault. I removed an if check that was very important. It has been reverted.
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You'll need to earn reputation by having your questions, answers and edits up voted. (Like I just did gratuitously to your question.)
You get:
+5 when your questions are up voted.
+10 when your answers are up voted.
+15 when your answers are accepted.
+2 when your edit to other questions are approved.
Have a look at the Welcome to Ask Different Tour, and ...
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See https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/13/were-rewarding-the-question-askers:
We’re changing the reputation earned from getting a question upvote to ten points, making it equal to the reputation earned from an upvote to an answer.
We’re recalculating reputation for every Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange individual based on this change. Every question ...
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We removed the "Other" option for users who don't yet have the cast close votes privilege. Trusting folks who haven't yet gained the system's trust to even know what's on- and off-topic, much less write helpful comments to this end, is pretty risky.
Removing the option to flag blatantly off-topic stuff isn't great either though. I tend to think the best ...
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"Accepted" basically means that the asker was happy with the answer (which doesn't necessarily mean it's correct). Usually votes are a better indicator on answer quality/correctness because more eyeballs are involved. So if you run into such a situation you can
downvote wrong answers (even if they are accepted)
upvote correct answers (or provide the correct ...
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Ask Different doesn't seem to migrate many questions anywhere very often; in the last 90 days, 7 questions were migrated to SO and 1 to SU (and 6 to the child meta).
Migration paths are only created when there is a history of many good migrations having happened between site A and site B.
Source: Can we have StackOverflow added as a site we can migrate ...
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You do not have to award the bounty to anyone. You cannot award the bounty to yourself.
The point of the bounty is to "buy" exposure and attention for the question. That's what you paid for; that's what you got. If it results in a great answer, awesome. In this case, you determine that it did not generate a sufficient answer from someone other than you (and ...
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Is it just me or is there a sudden uptick in Clash of Clans questions with tons of “me too” answers?
I've cleaned up most of them now. If you run into more, just flag them as usual.
As for the reason, I can only guess. Maybe there was a change of rules on CoC server side which triggered some changes in the app.
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No certainly don't ask that here as meta is for discussing the site. Asking why you might or might not ask something on main is exactly the point here.
For opinion and discussion on the main site - we have the blog (where someone needs to write an opinion piece and then the discussion happens in the comments) and the [chat] rooms.
Now, if you can distill ...
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Yes, moderators can change an answer into a comment and attach it to the question (or any other answer) within the same question thread. Usually we use this exactly in the situation you mention (low rep user asking a clarification question).
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It's a perfectly fine question in my opinion. It's definitely on-topic and you've covered all the points necessary for a question, even including screenshots to help understand what you're explaining.
The only reason I can think for an explanation for the downvote is that some users regard questions asking why Apple has done what they have done can only be ...
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The total votes cast count shown on your profile's activity page takes a good few minutes to update with votes cast.
The votes tab on the activity page is updated almost instantly upon voting as this page is private to you and therefore has much less traffic.
If you want an accurate, immediately-updated count of your votes cast today, like the old top bar ...
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The star indicates things that are called favourites ("or favorites") in the documentation and interface.
The help guide explains how to search within your favorites: https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/searching
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You seem to be mixing up comments and answers. If you look at the comment everywhere privilege page:
Comments are temporary "Post-It" notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.
They are supposed to ...
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As you've mentioned in the question, the automated suggested edit bans are just that: automatic. I don't know the specific details of why the system chooses a specific amount of time, but this was indeed a 7 day ban.
It's probably an appropriate time to mention that as this is basically your third suggested edits ban, 7 days is to allow the reviewers to ...
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This is not possible; not even ♦ moderators can see this. (We can remove stars if a message is no longer important, or somebody is blatantly abusing stars; room owners can also do this.) To see who starred a chat message you will need to have developer-level access to the Stack Exchange chat database.
Here is an explanation by a former Stack Exchange ...
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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 suspected their question is a duplicate. The author then has the ability to agree with the duplicate and have their question marked as such, or to disagree and ...
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You're doing nothing wrong; comments only support a very specific subset of Markdown formatting and this is by design. Which commands are supported is revealed when you click the 'help' link when posting a comment:
There's also a nice list of shorthand links you can exclusively use in comments (they won't work in posts).
Only top voted, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible