Tagged [support], these questions are generally when you would like to know how to better squeeze the experience juice out of Super User. Be it questions about reputation, closed questions, the bounty system or things that scratch your head and poise to pose.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Need help with “need help” questions
Plz help!
I really need help with all those "need help" posts!1 (x86 36)
It's really urgent.
No, seriously. The words "need help" in a title are a good sign of low quality posts. In most cases, ...
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Gaming question - Is this question acceptable on SuperUser?
I posted the following question on the Gaming site:
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48467/stuttering-audio-and-graphics-in-pc-games
Topic was closed and I guess deemed off topic, even ...
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Information in Community Promotion Ads statistics
This page contains statistics for the current community promotion ads. Unfortunately, it does not contain enough data for users to judge the numbers that are shown.
Are all ads shown equally often? ...
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How are suggested edit results displayed to low rep users?
When suggested edits were introduced, I had more rep than required to edit on my own.
Since I'm now approving and rejecting suggested edits, I'd like to know how approval and rejection are presented ...
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How can I change the email address associated with my Stack Exchange OpenID?
Any way of doing this, as I no longer use my Gmail account, and can't seem to change the login address to my new one?
How can I change the email address associated with my Stack Exchange OpenID?
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Flagging statistics omissions
The picture below shows my question.
426 = 417 + 8 + 1
3 != 2
7 != 3 + 1
As far as I know, there are a few things that can happen to flags.
They are marked helpful
They are marked disputed
They are ...
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Conditional search
Is there a way to search for posts containing (text1 OR text2) AND text3?
Edit for clarity: It would be the same as a join of the searches text1 AND text3 and text2 AND text3
There probably is, just ...
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OMGWTFBBQ?!! Where's my flag weight?
I worked sooo hard on the flag weight & it's no longer there!!1 Where is it!? Is this a temp glitch?
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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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Retrieving saved draft of question
I spent a fair amount of time putting in a question. As I did, I noticed a message saying a draft was saved. When I tried to post my question, it was unsuccessful - probably because I clicked on the ...
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Question Migrated but my flag was declined [closed]
Today I saw this question and flagged it as Very low quality because as far I know, it doesn't belong here and should be closed or should me migrated.
I usually flag a lot of questions as Very low ...
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Display questions which have not chosen an answer on user profile
How to see all questions which have not chosen an answer on user profile ?
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Community user voting
Under what circumstances does the community user upvote answers?
As a side note, why does it not have the civic duty badge?
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Merge questions
Mea culpa. I posted a question here a while ago, didn't get any responses, so I posted again over at stackoverflow. However, that post was migrated back here, so now I have two pretty-much identical ...
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How to remove a “frequented” tag?
Edit: Found a exact duplicate over on meta.StackOverflow: How do I remove a frequented tag?
In the upper right corner of the main page (below Ask Question) it says:
Frequented Tags
[firefox]
This ...
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Unable to talk in chat despite enough reputation
I am no longer able to participate on chat. Starting today (between 2AM and 1PM CET), something got broken.
It clearly recognizes me, as clicking the avatar produces:
But the chat user profile ...
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What is a grace period for a bounty?
And why is it not described here?
Also, just out of curiosity, when did this come into effect?
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How do I make the question community wiki?
How do I make the question community wiki? I don't see such a button
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Can accepted answers be changed now?
My reputation just went down by 15 points for some reason. I think my answer was accepted at one point for PSU power cable length, and will my graphics card fit in my case?, but now the other answer ...
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Request to reopen question 372953
I mistakenly flagged Why is my IP displayed in nslookup and netstat different? as a duplicate (false-positive on my part), and it was closed as such. The user then reposted the question, so we should ...
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Why can't I award the bounty to my own answer
I answered my own question, why can’t I award the bounty to my answer or do something to prevent it from being half-awarded to the top-voted answer?
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Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!
Just when we though we finally got rid of them all they appear to have been resurrected.
adobe x 200
alienware x 9
amd x 136
apple x 29
asrock x 8
asus x 28
ati x 170
belkin x 39
brother x 15
buffalo ...
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Burninate error, errors, fatal error [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What could we do with the [error] tag?
I know this has been brought up already (the error tag anyway), but it has still not been acted on, so I thought I would bring it ...
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Merge the tag “test” with the tag “testing”
It seems that test and testing should be set as synonyms.
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Merge superuser and stackoverflow accounts
I've just created an account here, but I see my reputation is 1 even though on stackoverflow it's about 175. In my user panel there are both accounts listed.
So my question is: Can I merge these ...
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Where can I ask about “Google Reader”?
Is this the right place to ask a question about RSS feed items in Google Reader?
If not, on which Stack Exchange site can I ask such a question?
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Why don't I get notications for favorited questions?
According to this question on Meta.StackOverflow:
Changes to the question will now notify users who have favorited the
question. Notifications include comments to the question, edits, new
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Is there a way to subscribe to a question?
And thus be notified in my SE global inbox (not email) of any edits, comments, new answers, etc?
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Merge tags “tab” and “tabs”
Both tab and tabs refer to the exact same thing and thus should be merged.
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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Meta participation
I was looking at the Moderator Election page for the last election, and I noticed that each candidate has a Meta participation section, showing how many times their question or answer has be up/down ...
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Top user record keeping
I plan to apply to college soon and might want to mention that I got to be in the top .59% of all users on superuser for this quarter.
Is there any way for them to verify, or for me to prove it to ...
