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What is Hat on Web Applications site?
It's a part of Winterbash 2015
Starting now and going until the end of the day on Jan. 3, 2016, you'll once again be able to earn and show off hats for all sorts of things you're already doing ...
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Is it OK to ask and answer my own question?
Yes!
Not only is it permitted, it is actively encouraged.
As the founder of Stack Exchange, Jeff Atwood, said long ago:
I do it all the time! For example, when I ran into a nasty issue with Java ...
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Where is the definition of in and out of scope?
Did you try the Help Center?
It's spelled out under: What topics can I ask about here?
You can also see previous discussions about the site scope here on Meta with the scope tag.
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Disappearing questions
Do (did) you have any closed questions with 0 or negative score and no answers? There is an automatic cleanup of such questions.
There's also the "roomba" which deletes low-scoring, unanswered, low ...
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Question protected by Community
Questions are protected when a question keeps attracting low quality "answers" from new users. The Community user will do it automatically after the third downvoted answer post from a user with low ...
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Why are there suddenly hundreds of posts in the "Late Answers" review queue?
It seems to be because this has been implemented:
Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to enter the review queue?
Essentially, the definition of "new user" for that queue has been ...
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Tag Excerpt (guidance) improvement project
These are some of our top tags which look like they need more/better guidance in the tag wiki excerpt:
blogger
dropbox
facebook-pages
github
gmail
google
google-apps
google-apps-script
google-...
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Where are my deleted questions?
Go to your profile.
Click the "questions" tab to see your list of questions.
Scroll to the bottom, and click "deleted recent questions".
There you should see the questions that have been deleted "...
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What is meant by 'bumped to the homepage'?
Every hour, the Community user finds a question with at least one answer, but none of the answers have a score greater than 0, and there's been no activity for 30 days or more. To gain exposure, it "...
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Why was my question about Wunderlist migrated to Super User?
I was the one that migrated the question. In retrospect, I probably should have left a comment as to why I made the decision, so for that, I apologize.
You asked two sub-questions, and I will ...
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Why am I not given the option to answer this question?
That question was autoprotected by the system for having 3 spam/non-answer posts added to it back in 2017. The reason the answer box wasn't available was that the system requires you to have 10 ...
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The Web Application 2019 Moderator Election page has obsolete links
We don't create these links until the election actually begins, which it did today. Part of the election process is updating them to the correct links, which has been done.
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Please make [google-inbox] a synonym of [inbox-by-gmail]
You'd suggested the synonym.. I've approved it.
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How was this edit approved?
Until yesterday, the Gravatar icons for both the original Asker and the editor were the same, indicating they were unregistered accounts with the same email address.
Since the author of a post can ...
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Merge [blogger] with [blogspot]
Merged all questions tagged blogspot to blogger and added a synonym for future questions.
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Break synonym between [account-management] and [account-recovery]
Agreed, I have removed this synonym
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Please Undelete my Question
Your question isn't about the web portion of Dropbox at all. It's about the file sync service. Only questions about the web interface of Dropbox are on-topic here.
That Super User's community thinks ...
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What kind of spammer/scammer operates by removing a tag from a question?
The edit summary (shown in the review page as a 'Comment:' above the title) contains an e-mail address - that's what's being spammed. The edit itself is irrelevant; apparently removing a tag is deemed ...
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Why we're not customer support for [your favorite company]
Why can't I ask customer service-related questions?
Because we don't know the answer.
Oh sure, there might be some intrepid soul who has sailed these waters before, and come out alive. They might ...
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Can you add “identify-this-video “?
No, we should not.
Some sites accept "identify this" questions, but I don't see how that would even be remotely within the scope of this site. This site isn't about videos; it's about web ...
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Comments are out of order
It's very likely that several previous and middle comments were deleted, so while based on the comment content they currently look to be in an incorrect order, comments are always shown on the order ...
RubénMod
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Is there any issue with Steward badge?
This is not a bug; it's part of an update to the review queues. You now get one Steward badge for every 1,000 reviews in a single queue. For more details, see Steward badge can now be awarded multiple ...
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Google Spreadsheet Questions Grayed out
You must have added one of the tags to your ignore list instead of your favourites list.
The easy way to check is to hover over the tag again. If the star is red then you've added it to your ignored ...
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