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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.

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Has a points deduction system to encourage original posters to 'close' their questions been ...

I wondered if there was any merit in a system that encourages original posters to 'close' their questions by either selecting a 'correct' answer (as already done now) OR marking the original question …
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What to do with questions where the user is clearly asking for a way to cheat the SE system?

In general I think this falls into the realms of should the question be entertained for ethical reasons, and the Community will be the judge of that by choosing whether to answer it or flag it for clo …
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Q&A with the candidates in 2011 moderator election

Is there anything you would want to change on the site? And how would you plan on achieving this? On a technical and functional basis I think the site works very well and I am especially impressed …
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Request to Re-Open Question #331125

It isn't constructive - period. That's the main reason, but to elaborate... the only valid answers is A reason against any products with Microsoft-branding, or Multiple reasons against an …
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Congratulations to the elected moderators of 2011!

Well done to the new mods. Now get back to work.
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Three free video cards for Valued Community Members(tm)

Well, I'm throwing my hat into the ring a bit late, but here goes: My son (11) has a home-brew PC that once had an NVidia-8600 graphics card running the show, and this worked fine for quite some time …
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Why was the question "Why are there 8 bits per byte?" closed?

I think the issue hinges on the FAQ and also Tom's statement that It's a practical, answerable question based on actual problems he faces: He doesn't understand why it stopped at 8. Where the …
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