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Use this tag for requests for assistance with tools and other features on the Stack Exchange Network. This includes understanding how features work and why they work that way, or how to better use them.

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Under new processes, Monica's removal should complete the Conduct Review, not request Reinst...

The reinstatement process is a red herring with regards to Monica's situation. SE did not follow their own removal process (It didn't exist then, granted, but still). This wasn't an emergency remo …
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Which sites are excluded or limited from Hot Network Questions?

I was curious but couldn't find any definitive listing on this. Is there an official list of sites excluded from Hot Network Questions somewhere? Additionally, which sites are penalized from Hot Netw …
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How to inform people to be considerate because OP has mental health disorders

First of all, I can understand your frustration. I suffer from a similar (albeit less intensive) situation (mild anxiety and ASD). The problem with your approach is that the Stack Exchange format is …
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Who approves feature requests?

There really isn't such a thing as approving one. It can get implemented. The SE team does this. One of the community managers or the implementing developer will then slap a status-completed onto …
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List of questions sorted based on their spoiler markdown percentage

I wrote something up that comes close to what you want: For every Question containing spoiler tags on Anime.SE, this query: Calculates the Post Length Calculates the Amount of Spoiler Chars in the Qu …
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Why Does "The Loop" Survey Have an Option for Under 18 in Question 6?

My guess is the 18+ requirement came down from on high (legal) late in the process and thus wasn't considered in the original design of the survey. Having been added at the end, the age category wasn' …
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Why do we have to 'suggest improvement' on the Workplace instead of just commenting?

It's an experiment conducted by SE staff to try and reduce the number of off topic comments. See the official announcement post for further details. This experiment has been run on IPS and other site …
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Do spammers actually increase their Google "page-rank" from posting links on SE?

No, if you're talking about page rank for their sites. All links linked in SO answers and questions get rel="nofollow" appended during posting. This causes the website to gain no discernible page ra …
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How does one join the new "working group"?

My guess is that they have a list of different backgrounds they want people from, e.g. something like: Users who are new programmers and use SO avidly Users who are new programmers, but don't use SO …
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Does Stack Exchange have an ethical responsibility to address global discrimination and marg...

Not an employee so everything I write will be so much irrelevant but here goes anyways: I think this ... won't work over here. You've seen what happened with your past posts on SO meta, even if they' …
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Suspended account for the first time... for too long time

I'd say you got off lightly in this case. Use this as a teachable moment that is is not ok (!) to insinuate other people have mental illnesses because they didn't give you exactly what you were looki …
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Request for a new post notice for The Workplace: "sensitive topic / be nice"

I would very much like something like that too. As an active user on the workplace, we often times get questions where a bit of sensitivity and more general niceness is needed. We don't usually shy a …
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