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Karl Knechtel
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94 votes
8 answers
3k views

Why should I help close "bad" questions that I think are valid, instead of helping the OP with an answer?

72 votes
4 answers
1k views

Dealing with the influx of "help me tweak my AI model" questions

68 votes
2 answers
3k views

What should I do about an experienced user with a history of asking bad questions?

59 votes
1 answer
2k views

How should we respond in the Staging Ground when OP ignores feedback, makes a trivial edit and submits for re-evaluation?

48 votes
0 answers
1k views

It appears that reports about plagiarized content cannot contain the word "duplicate"

38 votes
0 answers
204 views

Posting properly formatted code is poorly explained and harder than it needs to be

37 votes
0 answers
561 views

RFC: Doing something about Python import canonicals before I lose my mind

36 votes
1 answer
736 views

Why are questions on Meta about improving questions on the main site, themselves usually poorly received?

33 votes
1 answer
648 views

Disambiguate [abc]

32 votes
2 answers
659 views

Questions about [cytoscape] seem mostly off topic and the surrounding community doesn't seem to understand the site

32 votes
1 answer
595 views

How can/should we broaden questions where the same problem can manifest in multiple related ways, to make the most useful canonicals?

28 votes
0 answers
152 views

For certain extremely common duplicates, it should be possible to put prominent warnings up front

27 votes
1 answer
686 views

Can we improve support for questions about visual languages?

25 votes
1 answer
643 views

What should I do if there are two duplicate close votes that I think are wrong, and the question is not clear?

25 votes
1 answer
890 views

An old question is closed as unclear. It gets used as a dupe target. There is a much better target available. What should I do?

24 votes
0 answers
109 views

Guidance on the posting form is actively counterproductive vs how-to-ask guidelines

24 votes
1 answer
811 views

What is a beginner-oriented canonical Q&A and how can it help me curate my watched tags?

24 votes
2 answers
1k views

Are low-quality / low-effort questions more likely to be judged as spam or abusive if they are also not in English? Is that a problem?

24 votes
0 answers
175 views

Make it clearer that Discussions is not for meta about Discussions

22 votes
0 answers
328 views

Establishing a canonical for shadowing builtins (especially causing TypeError) in Python

22 votes
1 answer
522 views

What should I do when external search results for a missing canonical are full of misleading junk?

20 votes
0 answers
235 views

This question appears to have an unremovable tag

20 votes
0 answers
200 views

Strange deletion warning trying to clean up old questions (that aren't mine)

18 votes
7 answers
1k views

What should I do when the question is fine, but existing answers "need more focus" or are off topic?

16 votes
2 answers
562 views

I think the question I closed as a duplicate shouldn't have been reopened

14 votes
1 answer
382 views

Is this tag de[composable]?

13 votes
3 answers
595 views

Should I really not try to make artificial "signpost duplicates"?

10 votes
0 answers
215 views

What should I do with old questions where the problem was mis-identified?

10 votes
1 answer
88 views

How might old answers be moved to a more suitable (also old) question?

9 votes
0 answers
234 views

Should questions in the [faq] tag on Meta have "canonical links"?