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Over 13,000 questions with no answers!
We have over 13,000 questions with no answers, this feels somewhat like a concern to me.
Some other ideas than just answering include:
Give bounties to the highest voted questions, helping them get ...
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Merge “jabber” and “xmpp”
jabber and xmpp are synonyms on Stack Overflow. They should be synonyms on Super User also.
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Retagging [google] questions
Some of the questions tagged with google actually relate only to Google Chrome and not to Google products / Google company in general, for example:
How does Google Chrome installer work?
Google ...
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Would you like to test some software?
This week, we are starting to roll out a preliminary version of the Stack Exchange Beta Tester Matchmaking Program. The gist of the idea is this: we have a community of talented developers over on ...
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Usage of “external” tag - burninate?
I just removed the external tag from a question regarding viewing of source code for a browser, and it got me thinking that this is somewhat a meta-tag.
There exists tags such as external-hard-drive ...
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So you've submitted your blog post… Now what?
Congratulations to those of you that submitted your blog posts! If you had a positive overall score on your post you've been entered into the Windows 8 Contest Blog Tile drawing.
But you may be ...
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Merge [browsing] and [multiple-browsers] into [browser]
I think these tags are too similar to be different tags. browsing and browser are basically the same, and if the purpose of multiple-browsers is to be more general (not browser-specific) then I think ...
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What would you like from MetroSE?
MetroSE is an application that I worked on for the Stack Overflow contest apptivate.ms. Now that it's been a few weeks, I'm looking to get feedback on the current version and any other features that ...
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Sorting out Chrome-related tags
Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!
Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the ...
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I have a suggestion on what to do with the Software Rec Tag
With the upcoming release of Windows 8 we expect an influx of users and questions. I feel that we need to prep for their coming. With that in mind, the software-rec is a nuisance in mine and others ...
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The blog editor room has been frozen – now what?
Our blog editor room has been frozen due to inactivity. It's now been more than two weeks that someone posted in it. Our last blog entry is almost two months old.
This is a bit sad.
We've had a ...
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Make syntax highlighting possible to enable with prettify language codes
On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable ...
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Question of the Week #42
Now we're into post #42 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog.
But WAIT! What happened to post 41!
I messed up and didn't get it up in time. So I selected my own question of ...
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Create a queue for posts that will have to be reviewed later
There are many posts that should be placed in a queue to be checked later. An example is this one, but there are comments like this scattered all over the place:
Having a queue like this would ...
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SSD recommendation closed as off topic, but subject is on topic, what edits can re-open it?
I was looking for backup/archival solutions and wondered about the possibility of using (one or more) SSDs. Before asking, I searched for duplicates and I found:
Would an SSD be a good option as a ...
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Can we merge the tags speech-to-text and voice command into “speech recognition”?
I've just created a tag wiki for speech-recognition (should be under review by now).
I propose that we merge speech-to-text and speech-recognition into speech-recognition because it is the most ...
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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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Please be sure of your migrations
This question was migrated to the wrong Stack Exchange site by the Super User community. This isn't the only community mis-migration I have encountered and tried to clean up.
I have flagged this for ...
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Linking to revision diffs
It's possible to link to certain revisions of a post. For example, here I can copy links to revision 1 and revision 2.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to link to the diff between two revisions, ...
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Ignore tags already added to the “Ignored Tags” list when adding new ones
When you add tags that should be ignored inside Prefs, the search results show all tags (up to six) that it can find. However, it also displays tags that are already on the ignore list:
For topics ...
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Edit history messed up when improving a suggested edit
I've noticed recently that about half the time when I improve a suggested edit and then check the post's edit history, the two edits (mine and the suggested one) have been swapped around, with my edit ...
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You must log in to answer this closed question
The Meta site tells visitors who aren't logged in that they need to log in to answer. Unfortunately, that won't help, since it's closed. So let's get rid of the message, as it doesn't apply.
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Allow low rep users (<20) to post in chat if given explicit write access
A few times I have found myself needing to chat with a low rep user in order to better understand their question without cluttering the comments section. Twice, this has been with very low rep users ...
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Poppin Tags - or an idea anyway
Why are new Tags not treated like first posts from a new user or suggested edits, but a bit more stringent?
My thought:
If a new tag is created, why does it not go to the review bin for voting by ...
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Tag for removal - for
Just came across this closed question: Windows 8 64 bit which itunes version which has the tags
itunes version for windows-8.
I checked the other instances of for and they seem to be related to the ...
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Should the StackAd WordPress plugin be used on the blog?
As requested by studiohack, I am opening this question to discuss the possibility of installing the StackAd Wordpress Plugin (which I am the author of) on the Super User Blog.
The ads shown would be ...
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Support Option-Return for inserting new lines in Super User chat
On Mac OS X, pressing Option-Return inserts newlines in text input fields instead of e.g. submitting a form. This is a system-wide convention (Cocoa's insertNewlineIgnoringFieldEditor:).
Very few ...
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editing-help / links
The editing-help page does not mention the simplest types of links:
Here's a really simple link to [Google].
[google]: http://www.google.com/
Are these types of links deliberately discouraged ...
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Reputation Leagues ignore daily reputation cap and reputation loss due to deletion
The reputation leagues seem to ignore reputation loss due to post deletion. The reputation earned for the same post is counted though, in fact, it seems to ignore reputation capping.
Oliver has an ...
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Request to merge or cleanup tags related to “system-monitoring”
I have recently added a tag wiki excerpt for system-monitoring and found out that there are several tags that might be related to it and therefore might be considered as tag synonyms.
Such tags ...
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Question of the Week #45
Note: From here on, until I'm done with school, I'll be posting QOTW every OTHER week (unless someone want to join up and help me out)
Now we're into post #45 of the "Top Question" of Super User in ...
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Question of the Week #40
Now we're into post #39 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any questions that you feel is of worth ...
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The “Possible Duplicate” link/auto-text should NOT be part of the question itself
When a question gets closed as a possible duplicate, Community ♦ edits the post to insert the "duplicate link":
That's great! We should be directing users to the "original" question. The ...
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99 questions on the wall
It continues, of course, until 1 question with new activity. Note that some are duplicate, probably because there was no new activity.
How it happened: I kept a background tab open for a while and ...
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Questions deleted by the OP mark answers as deleted by their owner
This topic was deleted by the user who posted the question.
The answer was deleted with the topic. But the page says that the answer was deleted by it's owner at the exact same time, which is ...
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Disputing others' flags appear as disputed own flags in flag history
When disputed flags were first implemented, it simply said something like "disputed" in the flagging summary (the flagging history page accessible via one's profile page), both when I disputed someone ...
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Long question titles not consistently shortened in user profile popup
Long question titles are usually shortened in the user profile popup. This is not applied consistently, as shown in the screenshot below.
The first question title is not shortened, but truncated by ...
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No “privileges” link on meta site user profile card
There's no privileges link on the user dropdown card on meta sites:
Main site:
Meta site:
/privileges on meta redirects to the main site's /privileges, so one could assume the ...
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What is the difference between [profile] and [user-profiles]? Which to keep?
There are some questions tagged with both [profile] and [user-profiles]. See also: profile & user-profiles
(Please note that I retagged some questions from user-profile to user-profiles as per ...
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What happened in June/July 2011?
Here are some tracking stats from the last year. What happened in July 2011? SO tracking looks regular, so it's at least not a network-wide glitch.
There's a page views peak on July 1st and 2nd.
...
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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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{merged} or {closed} markers for merged questions
I had to use {x} in the title, because I'm not allowed to use [x] (especially not [closed]):
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
title can't include the closed marker.
...
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Add “views” ordering to answer list again
There once was a views sort order for answers in a user's profile, but it apparently was removed. It is only available for questions.
While it might need to be made clear that it's not ...
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How to get the “Peer Pressure” badge
What reasonable ways are there to get the Peer Pressure badge on SU?
Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower.
I'm serious here: I don't particularly want to provide false information, write ...
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Review Test error
When going through the Review queue, I activated a "test review" (and passed, BTW). I thought it could have been improved with a comment, so I type out an explanation, hoping to help the user, click ...
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Tag for blacklisting - for
As a follow-up to Tag for removal - for and as suggested by slhck ♦, am requesting for the for tag to be blacklisted.
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Tag prefixes (like wireless-networking and networking)
I know that there are easy ways to deal with tags like windows and windows-7 (specifically, windows-7 includes windows). What happens with tags like wireless-networking and networking?
It seems like ...
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Honeypots in review queues are potentially unforgiving to misclicks?
I encountered my first honeypot review today. (Not linking to it here, but I can if it's needed.) I did take the correct action on it, which in this case (as in several possible situations) was a ...
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Are questions about the Windows 8 upgrade offer too localized?
There are quite a lot of questions about the Windows 8 upgrade. You could reason that (some) of these questions are too localized as the offer expires at the 31st of Januari 2013.
I just asked the ...
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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? ...
