Questions tagged [reopen-closed]
Use this tag for asking for guidance to help reopening a closed question or requesting a question to be re-opened after a revision.
17 questions
-6 votes
1 answer
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so–called "duplicates" are effectively killed from view from initial link - why not make that clear?
After a post was declared a "duplicate" it is effectively killed, wasting the time of the original poster, if one uses only the initial link, which is being tacitly redirected. He is not made aware ...
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19 votes
1 answer
297 views
Should we improve posts that are common Google results?
It seems like fairly regularly I'll be running a Google search to assist with a minor problem and the result that I get from a stackexchange.com site is extremely high quality. It answers my question ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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How can I rephrase 461570 to avoid opinion?
My question (and answer) How can I run Firefox on an FSDG distribution? has been closed as "opinion based". I believe that the question is a technical one (how do I install program X on a distribution ...
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2 votes
2 answers
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Disable ssh remote login using tcp wrapper
I don't understand why this question was closed without answer, and getting 4 down voted? I want to use tcp wrapper to disable ssh remote login from a client on the server. How do I find out if ...
user264359
7 votes
1 answer
999 views
Systematically closing Kali questions
When I asked the reviewer who originally posted the duplicate link why he was duping this question, he referred me to this Meta post: What should we do about Kali Linux questions?. In the top-upvoted ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Almost impossible to get questions out of "on hold" state
I've seen this happen a couple of times: It's going very fast to put a message on hold, but taking very long (if at all) to revive it. As with this message, which needed some more seconds of thinking ...
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2 votes
0 answers
56 views
Reopen question on subshells closed as a duplicate
Why is subshell created by background control operator (&) not displayed under pstree was recently closed as a duplicate of Rule for invoking subshell in Bash?. I can see why people would think ...
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-3 votes
1 answer
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Virtual consoles (Linux–FreeBSD): possibly mistaken closure
When I was about to write a post about Linux–FreeBSD virtual consoles and their difference from virtual terminals, an anomaly surfaced. The question Computer terminal and virtual console asked namely ...
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