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Help center suggests requesting disassociation of content prior to deleting your account
I was perusing the help center articles and found How do I delete all my contributions?
I found this line:
However, we can offer one option instead: you may contact us and request that we ...
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What is the purpose of limiting access to edit help center pages?
As far as I know the number of help center pages available to edit by moderators is very limited: What parts of the help center can site moderators edit?
Moreover, I (as a moderator of ruSO) can't ...
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Why are Stack Exchange sites too complicated to understand? [closed]
There isn't any way I can get around in any of the Stack Exchange site. Do sites demand technical background and more professionalism?
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What does this mean? "If you attempt to circumvent these restrictions, you...put the use of the site by your co-workers in serious jeopardy. "
In the Help Center, under 'Why have I been limited to one question per week?', there's a section: 'Can I request that this block be lifted, or to allow more questions per week?'. The second half of it ...
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Help center page on what questions are on-topic here still says to ask Teams questions on Meta Stack Overflow
In response to the 2022 dissociation of Teams from the main Stack Overflow site, in February 2023, the community there moved to change the scope of their meta to no longer allow Teams questions. All ...
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Is there a general recommendation regarding the extent of quoted text in an answer?
Is there a help article, FAQ or previous posts having a general recommendation regarding the proportional length of quoted content in an answer?
This is not about tags wikis having copy/pasted content ...
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What license do the help center articles that are editable by moderators fall under?
I was looking at the text of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which is the license used by posts on the SE network. Specifically, I noted the phrase that...
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link ...
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Is paraphrasing someone else's ideas and not crediting them considered plagiarism? [closed]
A certain SE site has a new policy to blindly delete all answers that cite scholars, papers and journals without looking at the merits of the arguments and if the citation addresses the question or ...
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How can I find the revisions history for the help center?
Some parts of the help center can be edited by the moderators and, of course, any part can be edited by a Stack Exchange employees. According to this post, the link to revisions is accessible to ...
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How to edit or comment on Editing help
What is the possible place to comment on or edit the page Markdown Editing Help? I understand from Editing comment help page that edits are not possible, but I find something missing from the editing ...
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Is it Help Center, Help center, or help center?
What is the correct casing for help center? If we look at the help center we find the heading in sentence casing with only the first word capitalized (Help center) but if we look further down we see ...
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Does the Help Center wording for Illuminator badge need adjusting?
From the FAQ here:
Illuminator
gold; awarded once
Edit 500 questions each within 12 hours of answering it (score>0).
But from the go-to help center:
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions ...
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Getting information on why I was suspended after asking a question
I've been suspended on Super User after asking a question and also answering one.
I'm wondering whether there is another way to find out why I was suspended and why my question and answers were ...
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The Help Center implies that it's OK to answer duplicate questions if there aren't many duplicates; is this correct?
The Help Center article on how to write a good answer contains the following section:
Not all questions can or should be answered here. Save yourself some
frustration and avoid trying to answer ...
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How Can One Report A Moderator? [duplicate]
About a year ago, in a distressed state, I posted a question on Interpersonal Stack Exchange which I would rather delete. (I know that was a while ago, but I want to remove all traces of the situation ...
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