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Where can I ask questions that aren't Super User questions?
Thank you for your confidence in our abilities!
But have you read our FAQ?
We get a lot of non computer related questions on here.
Yes, someone here might be able to help you, but you'll find that ...
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Where to ask for computer hardware suggestions?
If I have a question about computer hardware, on which SE site should I ask it? It will involve asking for opinions.
For example,
"I need to purchase a computer for a conference room that will sit ...
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How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?
My rep is going to reach 3,000 soon (2,987 at the time of this post), so I should be able to vote to close soon. How should my flagging habits change when I gain this ability? What should I do when ...
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How do I recommend software in my answers?
I have a piece of software that I would like to recommend as a solution to problems. I'm trying to avoid answering with "link only" answers, and so I need help on how I can answer valid questions ...
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How do I ask a question that may require recommending software?
Note: This is for reference to point users who ask questions that will incite recommending software. We generally do not advocate users asking for software recommendations, however there are times ...
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This is an OpenID we haven't seen before
My account works pretty well on the other three sites.
But when I log on to Super User, I get:
This is an OpenID we haven't seen before: [openid]
What gives?
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Official stance on Facebook questions on SU?
http://superuser.com/questions/73214/facebook-profiles-for-non-people-okay
Ok, there are many questions that reference Facebook, but this one seems to be directly about facebook. I need an official ...
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When is an answer eligible to be flagged as “not an answer”? What to do?
When I am flagging answers I read
This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.
This is ...
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What steps can I take to check and improve lower quality questions?
It is sometimes unclear in which way a question should be handled. What can I do to check why excactly it doesn't meet our standards? What could I do to inform the user and improve it to be of higher ...
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Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
A question about Markdown editors with live preview is specific to Mac OS X, but several other answers, including mine, discuss applications that run on other operating systems.
It is appropriate to ...
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Are iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch questions computer related (Super User)?
I would think these devices are computer related enough for inclusion on Super User (I'd even say they were computers). Why are there 50 questions tagged iPod on superuser.com but this one gets ...
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Are video game questions appropriate for superuser?
Or is it time to create another site?
questions could be general discussion or tips/tricks
