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Are we supposed to flag community-faq-proposed questions?
I recently marked the popular question How should I choose my DNS? as community-faq-proposed. And according to the wiki
Community FAQ questions should be clear, concise, and understandable.
If ...
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Allow “private” messages between users? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Private message feature
It would be a useful feature to have a button sitting on every user page that would allow one user to contact another in a private way, without ...
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What's the rule on pastebin use?
If someone pastes something on pastebin or pastie or some similar site and links the result in their question, should I pull that data in?
I've seen people do that for images, so I adapted that ...
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Problems with Problem in title
I was trying to edit this question. I just wanted to add a tag and add a link to CamStudio, but I can't save it. I'm being told
please do not use these words in titles: 'Problem'.
Well, I wish I ...
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Are we not allowed to link to time limited shareware?
Section 3. Subscriber Content of the SE Terms of Service states:
Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that [...] (e) contains a virus, ...
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download all questions asked and answers received from a website stackexchange account?
I've got a bunch of questions posted on a given stackexchange site, for example, superuser, and I would like to download/export them in a format that I can store locally in my computer. How can I ...
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Tags are not appearing properly in Tags Field
Why this tags are not displaying properly on IE8?
Whether this is an known issue?
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Link seems fixed in edit preview, but still broken in actual answer [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts
The second link in this answer ends with a closing parenthesis, which seems to be an issue. So I edited it ...
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Where can I find statistical information about the people who use Super User?
I want to know whether there is a way of getting information such as age, sex, country of origin, etc. about the users of Super User. It would be a great tool to know what type of people are affected ...
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Why do I get 50 rep points for validating my e-mail address on Area 51 but not on other sites? [migrated]
It would be useful for users in other sites who are struggling to get past new-user restrictions...
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If I lose the privilege of voting up, will the votes I already cast be removed?
What if people vote down my question(s)/answer(s) and then I lose some rep points (below the level required to vote up), and the privilege of voting up goes down the toilet with it (until I regain the ...
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Support Option-Return for inserting new lines in Super User chat
On Mac OS X, pressing Option-Return inserts newlines in text input fields instead of e.g. submitting a form. This is a system-wide convention (Cocoa's insertNewlineIgnoringFieldEditor:).
Very few ...
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Why aren't reputation points the same for Super User and Super User Meta?
Why aren't reputation points the same for Super User and Super User Meta?
What is the reason for this difference?
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How do I log out of all Stack Exchange accounts at once?
So far I've started using Super User, Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu and Photography on the Stack Exchange network. Every time I log into one of them (with Google ID) and go to another one of these four ...
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Who gets to post to the blog? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the requirements and how to submit a SU blog?
What is required for a person to be permitted to post to the blog?
Do they have to be a Moderator?
Do they have ...
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Why are some names not auto-completed when I try to reply to them?
I wanted to comment on something in this answer. But when I type
@si
no auto-completion kicks in.
If I type out the users name, the whole @name is removed from the posted comment.
Why is this ...
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What should be do about old, abandoned questions?
Whenever a retag request comes about - or when I'm wading through /review I often come across old questions which haven't been answered, with low views & most of the times the questions are by ...
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The silent tag… dismember and burninate?
The silent tag is used in at least two different contexts , to do with silent-installs and silent-cooling - could we get rid of the silent tag, and replace them with seperate, more accurate tags?
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Stewardship of the byobu tag
A friend of mine writes Byobu and prefers to use stackexchanges rather than the Launchpad Answers feature. However there are 77 questions worth of decent content there. He'd like to move over to using ...
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I made us some Trogdor graphics! [migrated]
We seem to have a tradition of using the Homestar Runner character 'Trogdor the Burninator' to request tag deletion. I thought we could use crisper images, so I made my own:
Request:
Burninated:
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Is “Y” really a valid answer to “I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work”?
A few flags of mine were declined when I flagged answers that suggest to do things the OP dismissed as not working right in his question. The reason for being declined is the following:
declined - ...
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When are posts “deleted or otherwise unavailable”?
Several posts for which the Great Answer badge was awarded were erased (for lack of a better term).
(post deleted or otherwise unavailable)
I didn't think it was possible to completely remove ...
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Get rid of the [annoyances] tag
I was surprised to see that we have a tag called annoyances (97 questions). Really?
Burninate it, fast! Trogdor, I summon you!
It should be obvious that this is a useless meta-tag, that adds no ...
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Request to un-merge Question 386376
@Synetech has pointed out that can't add a new search engine in chrome is not a duplicate of Custom Chrome Search Engine for site with frames does not work. At the time of the merge, it may have ...
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Should answers to duplicate questions be deleted?
I made the mistake of answering a question before checking for duplicates.
Turns out there are a ton of duplicates.
Now, should I delete my answer (as it adds nothing that hasn't been mentioned in ...
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How much bytes a kilobyte?
Are we using binary or decimal units on Super User? I have seen questions using both "conventions".
(Please don’t tell me we’re using decimal during leap years and binary otherwise.)
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Retag request X and x11
Please merge tags x, x11 and xorg See Daniel Beck’s comment. They seem to refer to the same thing.
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Clearing an edit sets the wrong active date on the topic [migrated]
This bug allows users to circumvent community review of edits by effectively allowing users to prevent edits from appearing on the front page. I just made this topic disappear from the front page. ...
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Why is a suggested edit not available?
Opening http://superuser.com/suggested-edits/8465 results in a 404 message.
8464 and 8466 can be viewed.
What are possible causes for the unavailability of suggested edits (for 10k+ users)?
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Recent diamond activity on MSU
For the past 3 weeks or so, diamond activity on Meta has been on a long time high. Even team members partipate. And it's not just recent topics, but also older ones being replied to and statuses ...
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The 'Precognitive' badge should be removed
No one has earned the Precognitive badge and no one can ever earn it.
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Should I edit the accepted answer or add a new one?
I was just reading a question about color issues with Windows Image Viewer and felt like the accepted solution could profit from some visual guidance.
Should I edit the accepted answer or add a new ...
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Make syntax highlighting possible to enable with prettify language codes
On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable ...
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Reputation related badges exist and are attainable on MSU
There is reputation on Meta Super User, after all.
Three badges are awarded for reaching the daily reputation cap:
Mortarboard
Epic
Legendary
Mortarboard has been awarded repeatedly, the last ...
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How do I associate an earlier username (not OpenID) with my current OpenID login?
I added an answer to a superuser question some time ago using a name entry rather than an OpenID. (Actually, I think the original question was moved from Stack Overflow to superuser.)
Since then, I ...
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Request to reopen question 385613
The question Do consumer routers with deep packet inspection for HTTP traffic exist? has been updated to no longer be a shopping question. I have a solution to his issue using a replacement firmware.
...
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Missing Upvotes
I went through several of KCotreau's answers yesterday upvoting, showing my appreciation using the upvotes I had left near the end of the day.
This morning, I found none of my votes for him from ...
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Check Edit Differences
I edited a rather long question in SuperUser, and while I was given the +2 reputation, my name was not listed as the one who edited it; someone else was. I'm just curious as to what I edited ...
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Is it possible to give reputation points to another user?
I was in the process of editing what was a good and eventually accepted suggestion when it was deleted for being just a link. That was why I was editing it, because it was the right link it just ...
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Bounties for Meta topics
On MSO, bounties are used extensively to raise awareness about specific issues.
Child Meta sites don't have bounty support.
The reason is stated in this related MSO topic: Child Metas don't have ...
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If there is no tag wiki for a tag yet, is it okay to copy the introduction from Wikipedia?
I had just noticed that the utorrent tag has no description or excerpt. So I was wondering if I could/should just copy the introduction text from Wikipedia. I don't see how I could give a better ...
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Questions deleted by the OP mark answers as deleted by their owner
This topic was deleted by the user who posted the question.
The answer was deleted with the topic. But the page says that the answer was deleted by it's owner at the exact same time, which is ...
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Stepping on someone elses work
I have been working on a question on SuperUser for a user who was having issues with VMWare images and player, but now I am very concerned.
All VMware softwares & their installers fail to ...
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Inconsistent handling of downvotes for reputation cap between site and /reputation page
From my reputation development yesterday, I believe there is an inconsistency between how the site treats downvote reputation loss, and how it's treated in /reputation.
Because of migrated and ...
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Reopen request for question 384894
I asked this: Is a 'telecommuter' SLA a good idea? Does it even exist?
I don't know where else on StackExchange to ask other than SuperUser. This clearly falls under the general SuperUser ...
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Should I delete my own question if no new answer can be validated?
A while ago, I asked this question for which no solution was found. I have since re-installed the host in question and gave it to a family member.
So now I will be unable to validate any answers given ...
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Rollbacks are not shown as revisions in a user profile's responses view
This post has been edited, and afterwards was rolled back:
Revision 3, the rollback of the previous edit, does not show up in my user profile's responses » revisions list:
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LaTeX snippets from Math.SE look like gibberish in the Stack Exchange hot questions list
This is what it looks like on Math.SE:
This is what it looks like in the SE hot topics list:
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“You've earned a badge” does not set appropriate activity filter in user profile
When you click on the profile link in the message bar notifying about a new badge, you are taken to the activity section of your profile.
The last selected filter (e.g. comments) is still ...
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Is the question's last activity relevant for editing, or accepting suggested edits?
Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit?
Are smaller, less important edits fine ...
