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Why was my question - Why does downvoting mean 'no?' - downvoted? [duplicate]
I asked this question which ended up with a -7 score.
However, I am puzzled. It seems to be a legitimate question. While I understand that feature requests are downvoted to indicate disagreement, I ...
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Do users pay attention to account's age? [closed]
I am currently in the process of writing a paper about the discourse within Stack Overflow. I am focusing on the concept of seniority within the site.
My question for the site users is: Do you pay any ...
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Should "Why 'What Stack Overflow is Not' was deleted" be historically locked?
A long time ago, Shog9 deleted a popularly-linked question here. He then made another post, Why "What Stack Overflow is Not" was deleted, to explain his reasons for deleting the question ...
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Should this question, which reports a bug that has the same root cause as another bug but manifests in a different place, be closed as a duplicate?
This bug report, which reports that clicking the "Share" button before the page fully loads, causes the page to refresh because the button is a link is to a redirect to the same page, which ...
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Is this duplicate closure, of a question asking to discuss the content of an answer, correct?
I just asked What can I do if I have a feature idea that was already requested, but the author removed the suggestion in the meantime? here a few hours ago. That is a discussion regarding how to ...
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How is the Sandbox archive off-topic?
I was looking at the Sandbox archive here, and it says at the top, "This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently ...
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Why is this deleted meta question considered spam or abusive? (Why were my flags to remove the spam or rude/abusive flags declined?)
This question here on this site was deleted ten years ago, as it was a non-useful joke question. (It was posted during an era when joke questions were not necessarily considered bad or harmful ...
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How can I improve my question asking about when an answer to an announcement marked as planned will be implemented, and have it reopened? [duplicate]
Yesterday, I asked the question Will the pluralization issue in number of bookmarks on list of bountied questions in user profile page be fixed at some point?, which in its original revision reported ...
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How to clarify a question closed as site specific
My question How to handle an unnecessarily complex question was closed as site specific. I didn't intend it as such, as any Stack Exchange site can have the kind of overly complex question the meta ...
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Revision history shows all the text changed - post stored as one long line with 
 instead of line breaks
For example, look at this edit history:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/359735/revisions
It looks like every single revision replaced all the text in the post, even when the revision comment says ...
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What should I do with my post on logos?
I posted Logos and their representation and it seems like the community doesn't support it:
Now I read the downvote reason, and clearly they voted the question for it being useless. However, someone ...
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Does it make sense to offer a bounty "Thanking users who answered my question" as Current answers are outdated?
The accepted answer (+162 / -1) to Thanking users who answered my question was last edited on Dec, 2017. It's a community wiki and includes the following
First of all, anyone posting here with the ...
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Improving my question about the Teachers' Lounge so it can be reopened
I am trying to improve my Meta Stack Exchange question Rename the Teachers' Lounge in order to get it reopened. It was closed in October 2019 for the reason "This question does not appear to be ...
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Why is a bug report about Stack Overflow's search functionality considered "off-topic"?
A bug report I posted earlier today (Search fails to find matching issues) was just closed due to being "off-topic".
This is despite the fact that it is a very clear, easy to reproduce bug affecting ...
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Why was "Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio" historically locked?
The question Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio was given a historical lock yesterday.
According to the tag wiki for historical-lock,
A historical lock preserves older content that was very ...
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