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My question "Making title attribute of HTML elements display as text instead of as tooltips" was removed as off-topic; where can I ask it?
My question "Making title attribute of HTML elements display as text instead of as tooltips" was removed as off-topic with the explanation that "This question is not about computer ...
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How do we improve those banners you see when a question is closed?
For example, this question was closed (and rightly so) for asking for software recommendations.
Couple of problems:
The fact that the question was closed makes little sense, because why ask OP to ask ...
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Why questions are closed and why asking new questions are banned?
Its good to organize and maintain the forum and make it look good and have question or research or knowledge sharing. As in stack exchange specially super user i have faced strict rules of closing ...
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Why are there only few choices for flagging inappriopriate site of the network?
Only these 5 are available. I feel like some common options are missing, such as https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com, which gets confused a lot because there are a lot of older recommendation ...
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What details do you need? Or please stop voting to close as “Needs details or clarity”!
Not only the flag but also the close reason is utterly useless by itself. If you cannot be bothered to leave a comment explaining why you think the question is unclear or which further details are ...
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Was this question closed because a new user made an (easily correctable) Markdown formatting mistake and (correctable, ESL) grammar?
WSL2 duplicated terminal was Mod-closed as "Needs clarity or details", but even as originally written it was (again) quite understandable to me. It definitely had two problems:
The new ...
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Why is this whatsapp question off-topic?
Delete messages after hours WhatsApp
why is this off topic?
question text is
How can I delete messages for everyone after several hours in WhatsApp?
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Wording a question about protocols for converting authentication without it being " product, service, or learning material recommendations"
I'm trying to ask a question about protocols for converting between user authentication types on an SMTP server, but whatever I do my questions keep being closed because various mods consider a ...
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Improvements in the reopening system needed? [closed]
When a question gets closed, it can be asked for reopening, but in my experience that is very hard to happen.
Even if after editing it shows again in the main page, the tag "[closed]" acts ...
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Is it time to update this close reason?
Image & text of the Software recs close reason (just so no-one thinks this was closed already ;)…
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because ...
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This question was closed on both hardware sites?
I am really confused why.... this happened.
There, the information for the close of the question on hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com was:
Technical support request — Questions asking about ...
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Should we have programming added to no-no's in the Tour?
I've just realized that the SuperUser Tour doesn't list programming in the Don't ask about... list. I think we should consider adding it.
We have four migration targets for closed questions:
Stack ...
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Question about hardware is closed as off topic
I asked a question about computer hardware. I looked through the section about what is considered on topic on this site and I didn't see any problems with my question. However my question was closed ...
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Should a question be closed if the asker mentions they might end up using other software? [closed]
I posted a question about a particular piece of software, and a user voted to close it, with the reasoning that I intend on trying other software. This is the question in question:
Does the free ...
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Why is this question best suited for Superuser instead of Sharepoint SE?
When I saw this question, I flagged it the moderator(s) because I thought (and still think) that it is best suited for Sharepoint SE. However, the flag was denied.
My question is simple: why is the ...
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Is it possible that some questions can be considered suitable only AFTER posting?
This is longer on my mind but now I experienced it also with my question.
Imagine there is a question which has real answer which can be found after investigation (whether it is more or less ...
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What close reason to use for "Unable to Reproduce"?
Stack Overflow has a close reason used when a problem no longer exists. The reason is Unable to Reproduce. Unable to Reproduce covers things like fixing typos and minor mis-configurations.
I've ...
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Why is the question about knowing which window manager too broad?
How to know the window manager a specific program uses?
Why is this question too broad? I only ask one question at a time, which is specific and answerable. I think this kind of question is very good ...
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Closure of questions regarding pre-release/beta software
Five years ago, the issue was raised as to whether questions related to problems with beta software are on-topic. The gist of the logic for why they are not is in suggested wording for a custom close ...
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Why was this off-topic (resource recommendation) flag declined?
I flagged this question as off-topic, using the reason "Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract ...
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Change the close question text
Would it be possible to get the text in yellow box on questions closed for requesting hardware and software recommendations to contain a link to those respective sites?
Below is a recent example.
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Question in close queue is marked as duplicate, but the duplicate is terrible!
Recently I was looking through the close votes review queue when I came across this question, and it was flagged as a duplicate of this question. These two questions really are exact duplicates of ...
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Super User not using my SE network profile
Normally when I sign up on a different SE site it uses my existing SE profile... however that doesn't seem to the be case here.
Is there any way I can set it to my network profile without having to ...
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What should happen to a question which the OP realised was not necessary?
I came across this question today, where the OP quickly realised their mistake and stated so in the comments, however they haven't deleted the question and no other action has been taken on it (...
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Why was my network synchronization question closed as offtopic?
I have a question about my Super User post: Real-Time Sync Utility
My question got recently closed as off-topic. While my actual question (what I wanted to know) was on topic in the first place, I ...
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Quit bein' so blockin' [closed]
I think Stack Exchange is too strict on closing and deleting questions. Perfectly feasible questions are marked as low-quality, too broad, or "unclear what you're asking." Are we really going too far ...
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Why doesn't Superuser have superuser.stackexchange.com address unlike other stackexchange websites? [duplicate]
Similar to Stackoveflow, Superuser has independent domain. Is this because Superuser was older than most of the StackExchange sites before the StackExchange idea did come up?
What's the relation ...
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Does Super User have a "could not be reproduced" vote reason?
My primary hunting grounds Ask Ubuntu, Unix & Linux and Vi and Vim have a "could not reproduced" close reason (or something close enough). Does Super User have something similar? I know I can only ...
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Allow migration of suitable hardware questions to the Hardware Recommendations Stack site
There was a site proposed in Area 51 called Hardware Recommendations. It is now in public beta and I think it would be helpful to migrate and redirect users with hardware questions to this site ...
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How do I sign up to Superuser with my Stack Exchange OpenID?
It sounds like a simple question, right? If you have an existing StackExchage user, you'll want to sign up to SuperUser with it. But there isn't an option to do that in the sign up page:
I found a ...
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Why isn't there a Close > Too specific option?
We have a Close > Too broad reason, but why not a Close > Too specific? Or as I learned researching this, a Too localized reason?
It's quite often that I see users are asking why their specific ...
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Are questions on the form "will hardware component X work in my system?" really seeking "hardware shopping recommendations"?
I came across the question Will my PSU 450w be able to handle?, but I have seen this in many other cases as well. The basic form is that someone comes along, lists their system specs, and asks about ...
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Super User in Portuguese
As you may know, Stack Overflow in Portuguese is a huge success. Now, it is time to expand the idea and get our hands at the Super User in Portuguese, right now on Area 51.
Stack Exchange team has a ...
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Please don't vote to close Excel questions as off-topic
During routine review queue patrols, I noticed that several microsoft-excel questions were being voted to close as off-topic:
https://superuser.com/review/close/335558
https://superuser.com/review/...
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Add a new off-topic close reason for questions asking for scripts
Recently, I've seen several questions in the close queue that simply ask for a script to be written to perform or automate a particular task. These questions are currently closed as too broad with ...
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Why was my 'statistics' based question closed?
One of my questions:
How is UEFI pronounced? was closed because it apparently was primarily opinion based. Know that it had the potential to flagged as such, I specifically worded it to ask for 'most ...
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Why my question was closed?
I'm referring to this one.
The reason was "Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on ...
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How to check what the close reason is?
Situation
I just asked a question and someone voted to close it.
Question
How do I find out what the reason was?
Research
I saw somewhere (see screenshot in this question) that when voting to ...
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What's wrong with this question?
I received down-votes for this question:
https://superuser.com/questions/753966/looking-for-a-forum-with-anonymity-support
Now my understanding is that it is not a question which has readily ...
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Looking for a lighter editor, closed as not constructive, points on making it in scope?
I've found a closed question of particular interest to me. The reason was that it's "not constructive".
What lightweight editor has autosave per keystroke, similar to intelliJ idea?
Would ...
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Is "noise or pointless" coming back?
I noticed that many questions closed as noise or pointless were later changed to not constructive; however, today I saw a question with this old status again:
Is this intended, or is it a bug?
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Then why are we closing "is possible to uninstall an operating system?"?
I really hate that first close reason. It doesn't tell me anything and too much. Doesn't tell me what is wrong, nor it tells me exactly what is wrong. Can somebody explain to me what part of the help ...
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How do you delete your accounts on stack exchange websites?
...and are your questions/answers deleted along with that or are they still findable via search engines or with a URL?
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Help center doesn't explain that question about bugs in pre-release software are off-topic
I just used the "Questions about bugs in pre-release/beta software or prototype hardware are off-topic" close reason to vote to close a question. I was looking for somewhere in the Help Center where ...
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What is the proper way to cite an answer from another StackExchange site?
What is the proper way to cite an answer from another StackExchange site? It is not uncommon to find an answer to a question for SuperUser on ServerFault or StackOverflow. But there doesnt seem to ...
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What happened to the “too old” message?
I just voted to close this two-year-old question
because I believed that it was off-topic for Super User,
and that it belonged on another site in the Stack Exchange network.
However, I was not given ...
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What makes a history-tagged question closed?
I love to read about computer history. There are many questions regarding history on SU and a history tag. Some of the questions are closed:
https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/history?sort=votes&...
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Is Super User connected to askquestions.in?
I posted a question on Super User yesterday. Today, when I google the problem I had, I find my question on askquestions.in.
I have never created a user at askquestions. Is there an official ...
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Should the tag wiki for [security] direct people to Information Security Stack Exchange?
Would it be ok to edit the tag wiki of the [security] tag (on the main Super User) to ask people to consider asking the question on our sister site the Information Security Stack Exchange? It appears ...
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Question is getting downvotes and a close request
https://superuser.com/questions/655201/how-to-mobilize-all-links-with-http-www-google-com-gwt-xu
Why is that happening? And what can I do to it to ask it again in a more acceptable way?
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