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Is cross posting in Meta allowed
I have made a post on another stack exchange site in the Meta section.
The issue is, what idea could be good for one of the sites, may not be good for the other and as such the question will not get ...
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How are page views on user profiles or questions tabulated?
Is there a different means by which page views on questions and those on user profiles are tabulated? As in, can a user view their own profile or own question and that count as "1" view ? Or are page ...
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Should my answer contain many possible solutions, or should I post multiple answers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why “Please only post one answer to a question”?
Some times, a question is a good question but maybe some what broad but not broad enough for it to close.
In these ...
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Merge password tags
These are the password tags:
passwords x 730
password-management x 127
password-recovery x 90
password-protection x 52
password-generation x 11
password-prompts x 4
Do we really need all of them? ...
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Does this site allow requests of reviews for compatibility of hardware in building custom desktops?
My question is somewhat similar to this question, but not the same. I want to know if it is reasonable to ask things like "is motherboard X compatible with video card Y and hard drive Z?" I do not ...
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Merge [mic] into [microphone]
mic obviously refers to microphone. Can we merge mic into microphone and synonymize?
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What does too localized really mean
Can some one please explain, further than this post What does "too localized" really entail? why too localized mean a post needs to close. My understanding of it is that the question ...
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Answers that are too long, drawn out and contain too much excess theory
Many answers I've seen are dauntingly written out like a college homework assignment when 2-3 sentences at the most would have sufficed. Shouldn't we aim for conciseness and develop skills to ...
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If I don't mention any brand, am I allowed to contrast two laptops with just specs?
Basically, I want to ask whether it's worth it to get 200MHz less lock speed and 1MB less cache and 180 pixels less vertical resolution if it means to get the most reliable SSD in the market instead ...
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Why were my suggested edits rejected?
I have recently tried to engage a high rep superuser user in an attempt to clarify some shortcomings in his/her answer. After there was no attempt to make the answer complete by adding the information ...
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Merge [screen] [display] [monitor] and [resolution] [screen-resolution]
I really think we should merge 2 tags out of these 3:
screen x 544
display x 564
monitor x 1032
because they're too similar. There are even 11 questions tagged with all of them.
I also think we ...
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High Definition tags
I think we can merge / rename / remove some of the following HD tags:
hdtv x 93
high-definition (hd) x 57
hdvideo x 51
What do you think?
hd-dvd x 5
fullhd x 2
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“Answers” that are better off as comments
Kindly see certain answers (there may be more than this search string returns) of the following format:
We need a dump to see more. please download this reg file from my
SkyDrive:
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I believe my question was unfairly closed as off-topic
I cannot understand my mistake, and now feel discouraged to try solving my issue with the help of community.
The question is this: Monitor specific program network activity
I'm ready to agree that ...
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Should a question on installation of the Delphi IDE have been migrated from SO to Super User?
This question was just migrated from Stack Overflow to Super User: How do I fix a Delphi installation when "repair" doesn't work?
I know that it concerns installation, but it seems to ...
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Design, cleanup, recycling tags
There are 3 "design" tags:
design x 75
web-design x 26
graphic-design x 20
The problem is that according to the design tag wiki, it already covers web-design and graphic-design:
Questions ...
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Merge [laptop-battery] into [battery]
battery x 373
laptop-battery x 69
I think that instead of having 2 separate tags, questions about laptop batteries should be tagged with laptopbattery instead of having a special laptop-battery ...
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Merge [xbox] and [xbox360]
Can we merge xbox and xbox360? I think all of the questions tagged with xbox refer to Xbox 360.
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Difference between [recording] [record] and [copy] [file-copying]
Since these don't have tag wiki's, what is the difference between recording and record?
It looks like they overlap.
It also looks like both copy (from tag wiki: "copying in the context of file ...
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Vote to Close the Vote to Close chat room
With the new Review System, questions are getting closed/reopened/improved more rapidly then before. Looking at the room activity, it's been 43 days since something was asked in there, other then one ...
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Why was 523119 closed?
This question of mine:
How do I install Windows Defender/MSE on Server 2012?
was closed as a duplicate of Does Microsoft Security Essentials work with Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2?. However, the ...
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Appropriate site for question regarding my findings?
I did some research about solving a problem and have couple of possible solutions. One of them seems most appropriate according to my requirements. I would like to share my findings and confirm if my ...
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Are “Guessing Game” type questions allowed on SU?
First, a little background: Windows 3 Animated Background/Desktop/Wallpaper was a question I had myself tried hard to answer, back when it was posted. Recently however I came across Jeff Atwood's ...
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Asking questions that are clearly answered elsewhere
Recently, I turned to "the internet" looking to answer an Excel question. Over the past year, I have found myself gravitating directly to SE/SO to answer many of my technical questions (much like I ...
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Formatting Goodies
Recently I read this meta question, which explains how to embed a in your text.
What tips and tricks do you use to make your questions and answers pleasing to the eye?
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“Key-combination” synonym for “keyboard-shortcuts” tag
I think there should be key-combination synonym for keyboard-shortcuts tag.
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Do we really need the [recursive] tag?
I recently found a question tagged with recursive, and my first immediate thought went to recursive function calls in programming. Then my thoughts went to the -r option you can specify with most ...
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Scan related tags
I think we need to sort out the following scan-related tags:
scanner x 155
scanning x 87
printer-scanner x 9
document-scanning x 5
scan x 1
The rest are barcode-scanner, scan-disk and overscan ...
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Merge [web-crawler] [webcrawling] [crawler] [spider] tags
web-crawler x 20
spider x 12
webcrawling x 6
crawler x 5
They're all identical and refer to Web crawler:
Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots,
Web spiders, Web ...
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Merge [hard-disk-space] and [storage-spaces] into [disk-space]
disk-space:
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive,
floppy or USB flash drive.
I think we can merge hard-disk-space & storage-spaces into disk-space
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flash, adobe-flash and flash-player
flash:
Adobe Flash is a cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages. According to Adobe, Flash delivers over 75% of online video ...
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Why does this site have comparatively lots of posts for me to review?
Why do I find my review section to have comparatively lots of "Late review" and "First Answers" posts? On stackoverflow (which I believe is much popular than superuser) and android.stackexchange, I ...
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Question closed as dupe is not a dupe
The question Google Chrome pinned to Windows 7 taskbar not opening under pinned icon was closed on Sept 3 as being a duplicate of Some taskbar pinned icons are duplicated when an instance of the ...
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Merge [dual-monitor] and [triple-monitor] into [multiple-monitors]
I don't really know a lot about dual-monitor, triple-monitor or multiple-monitors setups, but it seems logical to move dual-monitor and triple-monitor into multiple-monitors since "multiple" refers to ...
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[internet], [connection] and [internet-connection]
First of all, there are 91 questions tagged with internetconnection (both) that should be retagged with internet-connection.
Second, what's the difference between internet and internet-connection? ...
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Why can we only edit our comments for the first five minutes after posting?
I sometimes come across comments that I have typed quickly or on a mobile device or simply without paying enough attention and they have spelling mistakes or typos. Since I can only edit my comments ...
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Merge [packet-sniffers] and [sniffer]
Can we merge and synonymize packet-sniffers and sniffer (probably sniffer into packet-sniffers)?
It's not like there are non-packet sniffers; "sniffer" refers only to a packet-sniffer.
Also, should ...
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Difference between tags virus, malware, trojan, infection,worm
From most used to least used (including related tags):
virus x 501
anti-virus x 453
virus-removal x 56
malware x 256
malware-removal x 37
malware-detection x 13
anti-malware x 11
trojan x 70
...
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Merge [tips] into [tips-and-tricks]
Can we merge tips into tips-and-tricks (and maybe even synonymize)? They're identical.
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Merge [spoof] and [spoofing]
spoofing - 21 questions tagged.
spoof - 6 questions tagged.
They're obviously identical. Can we merge them (I guess spoof into spoofing?) and synonymize?
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that ...
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Fixing a question for reopening
I recently asked How do I calculate the cost of printing a given page? and it was closed as NARQ.
The question might have flaws, but I don't really agree it's NARQ. What had it closed is probably ...
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Merge [process] and [processes]
I guess processes refers to multiple process, but I don't see why process can't refer to both single / multiple processes so I don't think we really need processes.
I think processes should be merged ...
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Should I add “Possible duplicate” text to a question which is not closed as duplicate (yet)?
Can I add "Possible duplicate" text to a question which is not closed as duplicate (yet), or should I wait until it's closed and then edit it?
Also, what happens if I add links to possible duplicates ...
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Difference between [shutdown] and [system-shutdown]
What's the difference between shutdown and system-shutdown?
1/3 (16/43) of the questions that are tagged with system-shutdown are also tagged with shutdown, so I don't think the difference between ...
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Can we make Raspberry Pi questions off-topic and avoid hurting Raspberry Pi.SE?
If we were to accept Raspberry Pi questions as on-topic, we would be taking a huge amount of traffic away from the Raspberry Pi.SE community. People will find our community instead of theirs, our ...
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Retagging [microsoft] questions
Same as the 2 previous questions I've posted:
Retagging [google] questions
Retagging [firefox] [mozilla] questions?
Most of the questions tagged with microsoft (180 questions) relate to Microsoft ...
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Where can I ask Linux kernel questions?
I asked this question yesterday on superuser but got no answer so I figured I'd try the kernel mailing list next. Unfortunately, the FAQ mentions that it's for development only and they don't appear ...
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Why was question about the space required for installing Raspbian closed as off-topic?
Question: How much space does Raspbian use?
Why was this closed? The Raspberry Pi is a real computer and couldn't find the information elsewhere?
If this actually should be closed, is there any ...
