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Is my question suitable for the site?

This site, like most every site in the Stack Exchange network, is intended for specific, answerable questions. That is, questions where one could reasonably expect that there is a "correct" answer (or,...
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How to reverse a suggested edit after mistakenly approving it

You can't undo a review approval, but there's something you can do instead. Every post has a revision history, which you can get at by clicking the "edited time ago" link below the post. On this page, ...
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Can I ask questions regarding suggesting Android phones with specifications that I mention?

Asking for software or hardware recommendations is off-topic here. For the former, we have a sister-site specialist on Software Recommendations – see Where to ask for app recommendations? For the ...
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How to mark a question as solved?

On SE sites, you don't mark the question as solved – but you mark the answer as solution, so it stands out and can easily be identified by other people with a similar problem. The exact details are ...
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Showing users even they not involved

"Community" is not a real user. Several actions that are taken automatically by the system are shown as being done by the "Community" user, including this action of occasionally touching old questions ...
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Can my question be protected? It's attracting too many low quality/comments as "answers"

Though the system does this automatically after a certain amount of deleted answers (IIRC it was 5, but yours currently only has 3), I've protected it now on your request.
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Turn off animations on the voting button

Actually, though the animation is done by an event listener (as Matthew pointed out), there's no userscript needed. You can easily fool the javascript part by setting the animation duration to 0s in ...
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Are Android TV questions considered off-topic for the site?

Questions about Android TV are certainly on-topic. There are some tags related to them already: android-tv smart-tv google-tv amazon-fire-tv
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Can answer lots of questions on here but seem to be not allowed to comment. I guess people don't want answers?

First of all, welcome to Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange. I'd assume the question in question is Accessibility menu keeps appearing. As mentioned on the banner, the question was protected because ...
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How to reverse a suggested edit after mistakenly approving it

Looks like someone came to the rescue. As said by @bmdixon in comments, the suggested edits require two reviewers approval. After going over links of suggested edits, I managed to grab the link of ...
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How to track an off-topic question that will soon be migrated to another (appropriate) SE network?

I don't think there's any way to get a notification, but after a question is migrated, the original question gets a banner to say what site it was migrated to, with a link to the question on the ...
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Question still not available after merging accounts

Update: the account has been merged successfully. As a moderator, I noticed the 2 attempts of account merging, but we don't really know what is wrong with it. Only Community Managers (Stack Exchange ...
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Can I ask about how to use an app in the main site?

If you are having a problem in performing a task with an app, you can seek help on our main site. It is within the scope of our main site. Per What topics can I ask about here? in Help Center: If ...
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What are Points and How do I get them?

You don't need reputation (that's how we call it) to ask questions (or answer them); you can already do that at 1 reputation. You do need 50 reputation to comment. You gain reputation by asking good ...
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How to add signature to StackExchange forum?

No, there is no way. Stack Exchange is all about the content, and signatures just distract from the content. The Help Center is clear about this and provides an alternative: your profile page. Do not ...
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CodePlex Archive will be shut down after July 1st, 2021

All posts have been taken action. Here is the list of non-deleted posts (previously) pointing to https://archive.codeplex.com for historical/audit purpose: Droid Explorer (migrated to GitHub) Control ...
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Unlock protection on protected question

Done. Please go ahead and post your comment as an answer now. Thank you for asking here instead of taking the easy option by not posting an answer at all. If you're interested, this particular ...
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Tag request: Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Thanks for the heads-up, galaxy-note-5 has been renamed and synonymized to samsung-galaxy-note-5. Master tag 'samsung-galaxy-note-5' doesn't exist, renaming to 'galaxy-note-5' rename result: 1 rows ...
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Can you earn a shorter posting interval?

Per The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide: Users with < 125 rep, 40 minutes since their last question anywhere on the network (This applies to the user's IP address, not their account. If the user ...
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Why is this spam flag declined?

That's some really thorough investigation, and it's good to see that you've put this much thought into the flags, even if they were declined in this case. I didn't see the flags when you raised them, ...
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Showing users even they not involved

Take a closer look:
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Android

The project is drawing to a close, and I am planning to take down the annotation interface this weekend. Thank you very much to everyone who helped out, and thank you for all the valuable feedback ...
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Create signal-messenger tag and edit incorrectly tagged questions

Created signal-private-messenger according to the app's official name and retagged the relevant questions. Also, renamed signal to network-signal to disambiguate the tag. (Any idea for a better tag ...
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How to properly resize images

Related discussions on Meta Stack Exchange: Resizing an image in a post?, Please do something to encourage people to scale down their giant heavyweight photos. To be fair, there's no "proper"...
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I cannot post answers

First of all, welcome to Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange! I'd assume the question in question is Accidentally turned on TalkBack, how do I turn it off?. As mentioned on the banner, the question was ...
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Meta tag merge request: [scope] & [allowed-topics]

Good point, Al – done. Remark: Some questions even carried both tags …
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A... Au... Audit?

We don't have review audits on this site. While the second one does look like the random garbage of an autogenerated edit for an audit, it's a real edit someone suggested. We do occasionally get ...
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Problem in creating preformatted text during editing

The post that you wanted to edit looked like this: This is what I got so far, it might not be the most efficient way to do it. I run the following command via Termux Task plugin. pm list ...
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Problem in creating preformatted text during editing

Oh my, I just found the solution: So the solution is indenting the target text by eight spaces It seems my issue was that I was trying to create preformatted block within a list. For related ...
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Revision of answers on locked questions

This appears in the main meta in relation to historical locked posts What to do when I want to improve a locked post? where the accepted answer says (in part) So that is it. A locked post is locked,...
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