Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
I keep seeing users like this, the quality of their posts is abysmal:
Can we get a captcha or something? Would that help? What else can be done? One of those things where you have to solve a little ...
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Please, delete my question regarding svchost.exe
I have a question about my Super User post: How to force svchost.exe to run as a single process (Windows 10)
I want to delete my question, but I'm unable to delete it because someone wrote an "...
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I flagged an answer as spam, where the user profile contained spam. Why was my flag declined?
My "spam" flag on https://superuser.com/a/1834925/1482432 was declined. Did the moderator not see the username and the profile of the spambot?
"Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag,...
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A weird Web 1.0 nazi site wants help. How to handle?
https://superuser.com/users/1005157/mehdi-saada wants help with his nazi site national-naturalism [dot] org
https://superuser.com/questions/1738894/how-to-get-a-base-font-size-on-my-screen-for-my-...
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“Please do not vote to close spam.” Why?
On a recent piece of spam, a user (Ramhound) stated:
“Please do not vote to close spam.“
Why? Should we just downvote and close as spam? What is the harm in voting to close as off topic? Wouldn’t ...
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Where should I ask questions about setting up phone systems on Stack Exchange?
If I can’t ask this on Network Engineering or Super User because it’s getting downvoted, where in the world am I supposed to ask this?
Please explain how this is off topic. There have been questions ...
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What's the difference between [windows-defender] and [microsoft-defender]?
There are two tags on the main site which seem to be synonymous:
windows-defender (367 Q&As)
microsoft-defender (8 Q&As)
The latter has no tag wiki or any info attached (not even a brief ...
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Since when are users required to be logged in to ask questions?
A few months ago I asked an anonymous question using an unregistered account on Super User. However I now see a message that you must be logged in to ask a question on Super User.
When and why did ...
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I have a question ban and I have no idea how to fix it [duplicate]
I'm unable to post questions, but stack exchange does not point out what is wrong with my posts, nor give me good direction beyond "edit your questions". So it expects me to blindly edit my ...
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Rename microsoft-one-outlook to outlook-for-windows
microsoft-one-outlook seems to refer to outlook-for-windows, see Wikipedia.
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Being a scriptkiddy is OK but piracy is not?
I raised a flag on the following question, because the OP wanted regex for credential stuffing purposes:
How to mark/delete lines that contain anything that is not letters or numbers after a specific ...
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Delete Accepted answer, where the consensus is that the answer is wrong
https://superuser.com/a/1685364/603073
The consensus is that the answer I provided is wrong, which on reflection I now agree with. However, I can't delete my answer as it has been accepted.
Is there a ...
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What devices can I ask questions about on superuser?
The superuser site topic definition says we can ask about computer software, so long as it doesn't run on electronic devices. Can anyone provide an example of a non-electronic device that runs "...
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I think we should remove the [windows-10-final] tag synonym
Previously, [windows-10-final] referred to non-preview Windows 10 builds (i.e. "final" meaning Windows 10 after its official release, when the preview period was over), and served as a tag ...
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Reopen request 1803702
The question is closed as a duplicate of another question. I have highlighted the difference between the associated question and my question. I have now significantly edited the question to ask how ...
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superuser inbox not posting new messages
Since yesterday, my superuser inbox is no longer receiving updates to questions where I contributed. That is, if I am to leave a comment and then another user were to leave a subsequent comment, I am ...
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Can I find out why this question was deleted?
Can I find out why this question was deleted and whether there are changes that could allow it to be undeleted? I have found an answer and would like to post that.
https://superuser.com/questions/...
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Why was my “written by AI” flag declined?
I flagged this answer as AI-written (using a custom flag). The flag was rejected. I firmly believe this is not correct and that this answer (and maybe others) should be removed.
The author of this ...
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I was serial downvoted, please reverse them
Today I asked a question, it received two downvotes and was closed. Fine, I deleted it.
But right after that, my five most recent posts were downvoted within one minute, for no reason at all. The ...
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How to dispute a rejected edit?
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/1185211
My edit got rejected with “This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to ...
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We'll may need to fix up some images due to changes in imgur policies
As per the main meta post - there's a risk of images hosted on the 'main' imgur instance (as opposed to the stack exchange one) being deleted due to changes in their TOS. Images uploaded anonymously ...
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Have answers been removed from this question?
If I remember correctly, there used to be three answers to my question, Do I need a special cable for this SSD?. One answer was bad and was downvoted. The other two were similar to each other and both ...
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Account locked after I deleted questions that attacked griefer?
Several of my questions attracted griefer who bombarded the comments with nit picks, so I deleted them, now my account is locked from making new posts because the question that are left are boring and ...
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How do I start from Super User, and zero in on a particular Super User user?
There is a user in Superuser named "Rounit". This link shows a contribution of his in Superuser:
Indirect Function in Excel
Now if I try to find him in Superuser site, I first go to:
https://...
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How do I get my question reopened?
My question was closed because it was not worded properly.
The helper box prompted me to edit my question but it is still closed.
I'm unable to find instructions on what to do next to get it reopened.
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Viewing change history to questions on superuser.com
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As a regular user (i.e. not the OP or subsequent editor), is it possible to see what changes were made to a question (or one of its answers) on https://superuser.com?
Example
In a search for ...
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Chrome flagged superuser.com as "dangerous"
I don't know if this is from some global blacklist or if it's unique to my machine, but Chrome just popped up this annoying warning when attempting to visit superuser.com:
Not sure if it matters to ...
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How to verify my email address on Stack Exchange sites (e,g. Super User) or check its verification status?
On Super User I changed my email address under Email Settings. It sent me a verification link:
"Confirm your email address - Super User".
When I click the button [Confirm your email ...
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What do the different colours of the comment flag mean?
Why do the comment flags have different colours in the screenshot below? what do they mean/indicate? and why do they change colours when the page is reloaded?
The answer is not obvious to me, because ...
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How can I improve my first question?
I have a question about my Super User post: How to create a PXEboot for tails OS?
I'm new to this site I find very helpful and of very good quality.
How can I improve my first posted question?
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Are “evolving answers” supported on Super User?
Preface: I believe that this question is somewhat in line with this other Meta question about troubleshooting questions in 2023.
While calling out another user who chronically posts “answers” (such ...
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My post was unfairly closed
I asked a question about my internet abnormality.
Bad internet connections running my program but most speed test results are normal except for one
I explained
How I discovered the problem.
How I ...
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Could someone review my post regarding product data?
I have a question about my Super User post: How does the WD_BLACK SN770 2TB connected to PCI 3.0 NVMe 1.3 compare to the Samsung EVO 970 Plus 2TB SSD? Heat, power at idle, speed at 80% full?
I'm not ...
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2023 stand about "troubleshooting"
Tl;Dr What is the current SU stand about troubleshooting questions?
I'm a long time computer user used to do my best to solve "simple" problems, long time lurker on multiple forums ...
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Why does community bot keep reviving over decade old topics?
Example: Folders visible on flash drive, but no files
Over decade old. I'm sure OP doesn't care anymore, will not answer anymore etc.. what's the use of the community bot 'modifying' the topic?
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VBA syntax highlighting
I recently posted two answers that contained VBA code. In one of them, the syntax is highlighted and in the other one, it isn't.
Can anybody tell me why that is? I'd like it to be highlighted in both.
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Question about "discharging" yourself before building a PC
I have a question about pc build and avoiding any damage to components while I build it. We don't have any earthing/grounding in our home (so does many others here). So basically whether you have 2 ...
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Why is a question about AWS Slow Query logs offtopic on Super User? Where would it be on topic?
I posted a question about a problem with AWS logs.
The close reason was:
This question does not appear to be about computer software or
computer hardware within the scope defined in the help center.
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I'd like to know whether my post is well written or not
I have a question about my Super User post: I can't map a network share from PXE - WinPE
I have written a question yesterday and I'd like, if someone can help, to know whether my question is well-...
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Please revert migration
Regarding my question:
How to download all videos with yt-dlp from a youtube channel after the redesign?
To summarize, I think it was a erroneous migration. I flagged it to try to get it back and it ...
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Answer for a closed question; how?
I think the question https://superuser.com/q/1750696/964771 should not be closed. After some investigation I found the solution (cause of the problem). However with the question being closed I cannot ...
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help with "opinion based" closing
My question, "SSL error 14090086 "certificate verify failed" in browser and in curl: how to troubleshoot? [closed]" was closed as "opinion based".
Would anyone be ...
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Make less visible or completely hide ignore tagged questions [closed]
It seems a new change was made to SuperUser, where questions with tags on my ignore list are now almost as visible as regular questions. Only the title has a slightly different color.
This completely ...
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The Responses tab is not working
Since the last big user-interface overhaul of all Stack Overflow sites a few months ago,
the Responses tab stopped working.
The Responses tab can be reached directly through the URL of
https://...
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Please clean up diskpart.com spam by user Metaphor
User Metaphor (1692216) is spamming diskpart ads. Can someone clean that up please?
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Why did my flag get revised?
My flag got revised; not declined just revised meaning I got 11 flags instead of 10 today.
It was on this question for it being about software recommendations; I reflagged it.
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How come you can ask an unqualified "how do I do $x?"
This is in response to this question
Why can't I ask if hardware exists that does something, or fits a need?
I'm going to try one more way to address this. How come you can't ask,
Does $x exist?...
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Question about spam site incorrectly deleted as spam
This question (deleted: link requires 10k+ reputation) was deleted as spam.
However, it's a question about spam. It contains some unfortunate language around this, but could surely be edited into ...
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How to look at deleted answers on my question?
I would like to know how to view the deleted answers on my question. How do I do that?
I don't need to view deleted answers on other peoples' questions—just my own.
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Why was my question marked as offtopic?
I have a question about my Super User post: DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, DR DOS) equivalent to UNIX "time" command?
I wonder why my question was marked as offtopic.
I followed these rules:
https://...