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“ELU updated site theme is ready for testing” is ready for voting

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What about my question deserves a negative score?

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Did Dictionary.com get rid of its difficulty index?

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Jaded user meets new contributor…

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Are the downvotes against my answers fair?

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Please help me improve my babel answer?

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I want to share a very basic and somewhat troubling observation

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Are there any proper guidelines to write an answer?

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How can we do a better job of having users not write answers to blatantly off-topic/not well-written questions?

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Can somebody please stop the harassing commenters!

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Why was this flag disputed?

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Can this stale comment thread be cleaned up?

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Undo removal of comments to chat

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Speaking of comments

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Why was my comment containing JHC deleted?

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Deleting redundant comments - when does it all end?

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Why are comments deleted seemingly randomly? [duplicate]

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Can a mod send me a screenshot of the comments which were under this question?

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Is this a valid question under computer tag?

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Posting a verbal analogy

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On Answering Word Requests

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List of common abbreviations and acronyms (NOAD, ESL, PIE…)

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Have there been any CSS changes in the last week?

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Counting up to 100,000 questions

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