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Vanishing Comments

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What does the site gain from 'identify this game I vaguely remember' questions?

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Typing ALGOL code correctly – how to?

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Do we want Discussions functionality on Retrocomputing?

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Should we avoid the low rep voting experiment?

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Is asking for the existence of a device equal to a buying recommendation?

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Let's rename [design-choices]

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Don't answer a question you want to close

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Introducing a new retrocomputing YouTube channel: Electronica Sovietica

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What should we do with invalidated answers to a reopened question

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One step from being closed but nothing wrong with the question

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Are maintenance/technical manual requests OK?

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Massive (Belated) Congratulations to Stephen Kitt!

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Congratulations Raffzahn!

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Is the [ussr] tag useful?

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Can we do something to discourage ‘armchair history’ answers?

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Is computing history inherently on-topic?

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Computing History SE

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Why restrict history questions? (Or: Can we not restrict history questions?)

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Is XP considered retrocomputing yet?

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The Stack Exchange data dump has been turned back on (yay!)

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Middle Sidebar Advertising

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What are the rules about self promo on Meta?

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How many game identification questions would constitute a problem?

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Nearly 6 years from: 'Is XP retro'. Are we there yet?

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Trivia question about snack shipped with computer products

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What is a computer? [duplicate]

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ChatGPT - Yes or no?

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Question about MS DOS

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More specific close reasons needed badly

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2022: a year in moderation

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What's up with the emulation questions lately?

7 votes
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Should we allow questions about where to buy parts?

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Would this site be open to adopting WindowsPhone in 5 years?

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Are questions about curating and preserving resources on-topic?

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Should we add a favicon to the main site?

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What constitutes "retro"?

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Abuse of moderator fiat vote

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Why has nobody ever been awarded the Generalist badge?

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A number of seemingly duplicate tags

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Unpinning accepted answers

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Why doesn't stackexchange have a dedicated appeal system?

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Are Reddit links inappropriate?

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Was my comment on my answer on this post removed, and why?

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Is the RC2014 on topic or not?

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Should questions about connecting older hardware to modern networks be in scope?

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What's the difference between [cassette-tape] and [magnetic-tape]?

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Changing the close reason of a question


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