Discussion questions are the heart of your community For example: Should a certain question be allowed on the site? For what reason did a moderator lock a certain question? Are said actions setting a precedent? Be sure to present your entire case and background information/data so the subject can ...
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Meta sites should count question scores toward tag scores
Questions don't count towards a user's badge score. This might make sense on the main sites, which thrive primarily through answers contributed by regular users.
But those same regular users post ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Merge tags [802.11] and [wireless-networking]
Merge tags 802.11 and wireless-networking.
Considering wireless-networking has wifi as a synonym …
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Can retag without retag questions privilege
I was looking at the privileges, and noticed a Retag Questions privilege. However, as long as you can edit posts, you can retag, as I have done it.
Bug because someone under 500 rep shouldn't be able ...
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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I added a tag, `system-tweak`, but I think it should be `system-tweaks`?
I just was typing furiously fast and missed an s on my tag system-tweak, there. Now I can't change it! Does it bother you as much as it bothers me that it's singular and every other tag is plural?
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Super User mug design
This week, slhck (pictured) and me received our SU anniversary contest prizes.
I really like most of the stuff I got. But the Super User mug design sucks.
It gets the Y U NO guy meme totally ...
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Posts that are just plagiarized
There are some posts that are literally just a copy and paste of some source (it could be from wikipedia, some other forum, whatever).
What should we do about that? (remove all, reword, leave alone, ...
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What are the rules for diagnosis logfiles - and is such a question even allowed?
I quickly wanted to ask if a hardware-problem related question that needs troubleshooting is even allowed here? Or does one have to ask in specialty forums?
If it is allowed here, what are the rules ...
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The purpose of voting: Teaching users the basics
It's come to my attention that users, even established users, aren't actually aware of many of the basic tenants of this website. For example, Voting. I was recently informed by a 2K+ user that "down ...
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Open-ended questions… That old chestnut
I know there's plenty of hardcore users here who despise open-ended questions more than anything else on the planet, but aren't we going a little too far sometimes? There are times when asking the ...
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How is reviewing supposed to be done?
I have just recently noticed review section by my username. "Ah, community chores", I thought. So I rolled my sleeves up and clicked the link, and indeed—the box on the right confirmed and ...
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Merge [video-conversion] → [video-converter]
video-conversion (x13) needs to be merged into → video-converter (x94), and a synonym needs to be created.
I would actually propose to do it the other way round, focusing on the "conversion" ...
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Questions about Small Business environments on topic?
Are small business environment questions on topic for SU, or should they be put onto SF (with a server)?
Just in case anyone is wondering, the question is ...
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Retagging questions with the answer
This is a bit related to this topic on MSO.
In a recently suggested and approved edit a tag was added to the topic, but it only became applicable through the answer. The user didn't know the tag was ...
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Similar Tor-related question for Linux and Mac OS X
I was going through tor to see what I could see, and I came across and answered this question which asks about Mac OS X:
How do I tell tor, from the command-line, to give me a new identity
Further ...
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Why was “SSD read/write usage & AntiVirus impact on SSD life” closed?
I made a question regarding SSDs and Antivirus here:
SSD read/write usage & AntiVirus impact on SSD life
Three users closed this question claiming that it was answered via this question:
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I can't mark two answers correct, so how should I curate this nugget of knowledge?
I have collated both answers into a new answer, but don't want to give myself the points or kudos for getting a correct answer when I'm just clarifying two answers?
Hope this makes sense: see here:
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Merge the various retrocomputing tags
retro 8 questions
legacy 25 questions
vintage 24 questions
I would suggest for these a common tag retrocomputing.
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Burninate or disambiguiate the [data] tag
Looking through data (x70), there's a lot of ambiguity:
data transmission
data encryption
data recovery
data saving
data in Excel
data editing
So, unless somebody wants to retag these manually, ...
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Change FAQ for explanation questions
Since the consensus on this question seems to be that at least under some circumstances "how does this work" questions are allowed, I propose that instead of burying this fact under what types of ...
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Are “explain the technology to me” questions on-topic?
The FAQ says (bold is mine):
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.
However, there are many questions where the user basically asks us to ...
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Should I make my answer a community wiki post?
I think this is an incredibly handy usage of Notepad++'s macro function. Is that criteria for making it a community wiki post?
How do I add "input" to my macro, to replace text in ...
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Nicer <kbd> style
Apple.SE has a much nicer design for kbd tags:
It works much better for embedding it in other text (e.g. an explanation) as it contains a sans-serif font and a more subtle border. The style ...
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Proposed change to the Services tag wiki
The services tag wiki excerpt states:
Services are processes running regardless of users logging in. They provide access and features to different programs or processes
The terminology is ...
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How can I delete my accounts and posts? [closed]
I would like to delete all my Stack Exchange accounts. How can I do this?
Is it also possible to remove all my questions associated with those accounts (three accounts in total)?
I'm not sure where ...
