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I think it's usually very bad to vote to undelete qns and answers that were deleted by the original poster. It can be some sort of attack on the dignity of participants. Jeff wrote, in a comment on …

To agree with Hendrik, it is good to see alternative ways of doing things and having Context/expl3 answers increases the reference value of the Q&A thread. But such answers should advertise that they …

This idea of having simple, moderately general questions to serve as a good question for several trivial questions to be marked duplicates of, is what I argued for in my answer to https://tex.meta.sta …

An answer along the lines of You need the techniques given in the answers to Change font in a single paragraph to restrict the font in the way you want. The font name you need for Chancery is pzc …

It's been a discussion with some useful content, but we aren't a discussion site and it's time to close it. …

I've looked a bit at the review queue: I note that Papiro, who is the most prolific "No Action Needed" reviewer, actually does go back and comment on quite a few of the reviewed posts, so "rubber stam …

Andrew is right, of course. A further point: the standing of Adam and Bill matters to the seriousness of the incident. Consider the following scenarios: Adam is high rep. (and for simplicity's sak …

I created this tag set, of Tex&friends qns outside this site, with exactly this purpose in mind.

It serves a purpose to keep closed, duplicate questions lying around: it makes the questions easier to find the next time a would-be duplicate question is being composed, with more good search fits, m …

Mindcorrosive asks, in response to Jukka's answer: But what happens when the the accepted answer is not relevant anymore (for example, package changes, fixed workarounds, obsoleted packages)? I've se …

On questions with multiple broad but distinct answers: These tend to be discussion questions. Write an essay, touch on both answers, detail your thought process. …

I'd like both troff/eqn and Postscript to be in a special category of questions that are narrowly speaking off-topic but welcome here because we are friendly. We might have a section in the FAQ along …

Your user pages shows total votes cast, while IIRC, it's the votes received on the reputation page.

Texnique.com: DIY Document Preparation for the Connoisseur This doesn't quite hit the sweet spot for me —words like connoisseur, discriminating, &c. have slight unwanted associations— but I'm keen o …

Texnique.com: Freedom from Adobe and Office Second try Inspired by Jeff's message, if you have an arch-enemy – the more ... larger-than-life the better – consider yourself lucky, from Coding Horror: …