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Modify the 'has 1 or 0 comments' requirement for 'RemoveAbandonedQuestions' script

From the help center, auto-delete section (emphasis is mine): If the question is more than 365 days old, and ... has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 and a deleted owner has no answers is not ...
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Add help center guidance about saying thanks [duplicate]

Suggestion: In help/behavior, add guidance about not writing "Thanks", etc. Include a brief rationale, and mention that accepting an answer and upvoting are the preferred means of saying thanks. ...
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Should we have a badge for users pointing out relevant related questions

Since pointing out relevant related questions in comments seems to be positively seen by the community. I think it's a useful addition to the ones that are automatically linked. Would it be ...
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Scrutinising Answers - A Problem

I have been part of the Stack Exchange communities since 2011, and I see people commenting on questions, answers, and comments over minor spelling and grammar errors, and about knowledge about a given ...
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Can we have some option of convert a comment to a question

Sometimes we find that a comment in a question or answer is itself a question, which can be taken up separately. I was just thinking if we could have a button to convert a comment to a new question. ...
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Notification on questions on which a user comments [duplicate]

Whenever I comment on a question like to post a fiddle or give more explanation on the problem statement, unless the OP does not mention my name I do not receive the comment what the OP or others ...
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How about 'Request Clarification?' [duplicate]

TLDR: Let responders request clarification rather than comment, 3: Profit. Reading a short question just now, and my response is not an answer but a question asking for clarification. Usually people ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Reduce question duplication by awarding commenting privilege before asking privilege

There is a problem in the Stack Overflow system, and it has to do with the site's users. From what I understand, based on my experience and observations, newbies like me tend to get downvoted when a ...
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Can I give credit for answering question by posting answer and writing their username in the answer [duplicate]

Someone answered my question within a comment how can I give them credit? I went ahead and posted his answer, gave him credit it in the answer and selected it an the asnwer. is this considered ...
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How to increase responses to comments that request clarification information?

I've encountered lots of questions on SO which aren't very well phrased or don't contain enough information to exactly understand what is being asked. If the question is interesting it's followed by ...
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Put questions on StackOverflow [duplicate]

can you tell me how can I put questions and get more answers ! what I should do to get more interaction with my posts ! waiting for hours and days maybe months to get an answer or comment is not good ....
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Copy question / comment text including formatting

NOTE: I realise that there is other questions already out there that ask about copying data from other websites into this one. This is not what my "question" is about. Occasionally I have had need to ...
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Social media comments on answers

I think it would be nice if users from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ could comment to posts using their accounts.
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Discourage question askers from adding a question comment unless someone else has commented first

In Is there any good OpenDocument library in ruby? the question asker has said: I would like to generate a OpenDocument format in Ruby programming language. Is there any good library for this? ...
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Discussion/Talk page on Questions

I've been seeing a lot of comments, on a lot of questions and answers, and most of them, seem to be related, some are asking new questions themselves, some are talking to the poster, looking for more ...
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