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Either here or on any site's meta search for questions tagged faq or faq-proposed. Stack Overflow's can be found here and here. These will give you most of the information you need. As you've alread …

This notice has been eliminated entirely as part of another (related) feature request. Clarify the "8 hour delay" self-answer message to discourage self-answering with edits or comments

If they deserve the bounty you should award it to them. If the answer was good they'd probably already have 50 points or more from the up-votes so adding a bounty probably won't give them any more pri …

The amount of effort required to create and maintain a dictionary of globally "safe" words would be prohibitive. Then you've got the problem (as others have mentioned) that you'll run out of words. W …

Further to this question: Should we really be suggesting that people put the answer in the question? I originally proposed the following solution: Rather than blocking new users from self answering i …

If you want to have two sets of accounts that are linked across sites, then you will need two OpenIDs. So you will need to create an OpenID for the "humanist" account on Christianity and then log into …

I've just noticed that the full text you get on the First Posts review queue includes: When in doubt, upvote the question and leave a comment to help the user out, or click Skip if you are not sur …

There is nothing intrinsically wrong in creating a 2nd account - especially if you want to keep "work" questions separate from "personal" questions. The problems start if you then use those accounts …

Use the edit link to improve the title - and anything else that's wrong with the post. Even if the post is closed - or perhaps I should say, especially if the post is closed - you should edit the pos …

This article on the Public Library of Science Computation Biology blog was recently brought up as a good resource for people new to any online community. It's aimed at scientists, but what it says ca …

There's nothing moderators can do about down-votes, but they could decline flags that simply indicate that it's low quality, but probably won't. There are a lot of flags being raised - particularly o …

I can see where you are coming from on this, but I'm not sure it would be useful enough to warrant implementation. The fact that you still want the reputation bonus from account association is the pr …

This was originally reported back in September 2010 but despite being tagged status-completed is still a problem: It states: Welcome to Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers Surely …

Why not just wait until the time limit expires? Someone might come up with a better answer. If you really want to let people know you've found a solution adding a comment rather than editing the ques …

Once you have 200+ points on one site you can clear the associations and then regenerate them. This will give you the 100 point bonus across all sites. NOTE Since I wrote this answer the situation ha …