Unanswered Questions
16 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Vote Early, Vote Often!
Note: This post is (nearly) identical to this one on Mythology Stack Exchange
I would like to echo a post that Scott Morrison made on Meta.Tex.SE:
I'm a moderator from MathOverflow, and this "...
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Be Nice. People are coming here for help, don't insult them or their hardware
When a user with old hardware comes here to ask a question, it isn't appropriate to insult their old hardware. Comments like this are off putting:
Your PC is a dinosaur, and your graphics card is ...
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Let's clean up some broken windows - A proposal for dealing with tech support questions
We've had previous discussions about technical support questions we recieve. Repeatedly. There have been concerns about how many [on hold] or [closed] questions that this places on the main page.
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Clarification on a closed question
This question was closed as off-topic as "Technical Support." Could someone explain why?
The OP isn't asking for technical support on fixing hardware.
He is looking for hardware to use with a mobile ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Advertising Hardware Recommendations - Community Ads for 2016
It's 2016, and the new 300px-wide sidebar has just rolled out network wide. When that's complete, graduated sites around the network will start to run new community ad cycles.
To be ready for them, ...
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1answer
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Why was the question about vending machines closed?
While using technical terms and poorly written, the question about vending machines actually asks for a device recommendation (although OP couldn't find it). Or at least can be solved using a device ...
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Why are the post history events on this answer incorrect?
This answer (currently deleted, requires 2k+ to view) has a revision history and timeline that both say I undeleted it Jul 25 at 19:11.
Given that the post is currently deleted, there is no ...
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I updated this question. Is this good enough to be undeleted?
https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/13388/need-laptop-tablet
The original question didn't have enough detail. What about now?
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False positive, Review Queue indicator
Multiple times daily, I check in at Hardware Recommendations, and see there's an indicator telling me something is in the Review Queue for me.
Yet, when I click on it, there's nothing there.
It ...
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The new ask page is now live on the SE network!
The new ask page is now live on the network!
links to Meta StackExchange and discusses an 'ask' page which is configurable for each site in the SE universe.
Specific bits that can be modified and the ...
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What do I need to be able to propose multiple tag wiki edits?
I recently proposed a tag usage guidance edit, and it's sitting in the queue; however, when I wanted to propose another one, I instead get redirected to the page that tells me that All registered ...
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Should a tag be added?
I recently came across This Question.
The only tag that the user could put this under and the only one that I could find was "usb".
After a search of all available tags the only other one I found ...
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Is asking to compare two products and recommend which to buy on topic here or they will be regarded as opinion-based?
For example I have a question like the following:
Which of these external hard drives will you choose to buy if you want a 1 TB memory regarding the fact that the price and the appearance (beauty) ...
