Over the last 2.5 years, we’ve identified a few problematic classes of questions that tend to get asked on our sites. Many of these are documented in our standard set of close reasons: exact duplicate, off-topic, subjective and argumentative, not a real question, and too localized.
However, as we launched the great Super User experiment, a new, previously unknown class of problematic questions emerged — the shopping recommendation.
That is, on Super User we began encountering questions like: …
Given a user's name and password, is there a way to check if the name is a valid user account on the system and if the supplied password matches the password for that user's account?
edit: this is now implemented.
We do a simple reverse chronological walk of the latest "action" by any user with a valid displayname in the post -- where "action" is defined by any sort of edit or comment.
So you can now @reply to editors of a post even if they haven't commented.
(and just as ...
