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What is the proper forum for a question about connecting to Wifi on Solaris 11.4?
What's the invocation to connect to WiFi as specified in question body on Solaris 11.4? was posted on unix.SE, migrated to ServerFault, and then migrated back to unix.SE and closed as off-topic.
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How to suggest a similar question
How to suggest a similar question when we find a possible duplicate, or when it is answered in another thread, as show in the following dialog?
Is there a privilege associated with this action?
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Editing questions recently put on hold (don't do trivial edits on recently closed questions)
I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.
Please don't make trivial edits to questions that were ...
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Should we improve posts that are common Google results?
It seems like fairly regularly I'll be running a Google search to assist with a minor problem and the result that I get from a stackexchange.com site is extremely high quality. It answers my question ...
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How/where do I ask how to maintain a package with separate patches?
I have a question about maintaining a external software package with custom patches. Similar questions have been asked before, but mine is a bit more specific since it focuses on maintaining packages ...
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Disable ssh remote login using tcp wrapper
I don't understand why this question was closed without answer, and getting 4 down voted?
I want to use tcp wrapper to disable ssh remote login from a client on
the server. How do I find out if ...
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How was this answer posted ten minutes after its question was closed?
The question Why is bash history substitution still enabled by default? was closed at 2018-04-09-21:59:11Z. Ten minutes later, at 22:09:25Z a (perfectly reasonable) answer was posted by Jason Goemaat.
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Question closed without any explanation (and I'm always searching for an answer)
Some days ago, I wrote this question: Screenshot takes a long time.
The post was closed as
closed as unclear what you're asking by [5 different users] Aug 14 at 13:36
Please clarify your ...
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Do closed questions go to a virtual land-fill and can they be seen?
I ask questions now and then, and sometimes they are closed. At times I wanna re-visit my closed questions but don't know where to look at those. This is to improve the closed question and well, to ...
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Is the "On hold" message sometimes wrong?
Looking at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307879/does-linux-operating-systems-not-run-as-hot-as-windows-10 I see the question has been marked as "put on hold as unclear what you're asking by ...
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Posted to multiple Stack* sites, put on hold here for being off-topic
I was desperate for an answer and asked the same question here and on StackOverflow and it's been put on-hold here as being off-topic.
However, given the nature of the question, I feel it's more ...
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Is there any way to close your own question
I have asked a question and satisfied with the answers. I have ticked one of them. Is there any way in which i can "close" the question to further answering or is there any convention on what i should ...
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Question closed for wrong reason, seems like it needs to be migrated?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199017/how-to-artificially-cause-a-page-fault-in-linux-kernel Was closed as unclear (which it was, but the comments fixed that), but it is realy off topic as ...
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improving closed questions without reopening
I edited this post, which had been put on hold as primary opinion based.
Although I did not get to review it in the Close Review queue, I would have voted to close it myself as well. I did not want ...
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What is that "on-hold" state?
I see the "on hold" state on some questions that would have been closed in the past.
What is this (new?) state, why was it introduced?
Can I vote to close in that state?
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