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Silently deleting comments: Not Cool Super User!
So, someone deleted a couple comments I made in response to someone else's comments. There was no messaging to me about when or why. That is totally uncool. This is cencorship, pure and simple.
Yes ...
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How can I most productively check for overlaps between ETF holdings?
Why was How can I most productively check for overlaps between ETF holdings? closed? I explained my attempt in point 1. How can I explain more if I don't know what to do?
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How can I convert SEC EDGAR Form 13F into Excel?
Why was How can I convert SEC EDGAR Form 13F into Excel? unilaterally closed? Prof David Postill wrote
Update the question so it focuses on one problem only. This will help others answer the ...
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Why was this access question closed as off topic, and what community would be better suited for it?
I posted this here earlier, but it was closed as off-topic. I figured since it was access related, which is software related, this was the best fit community. If that is not the case, could someone ...
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When should additional information be an edit vs a comment vs a separate answer?
Should links and excerpts from relevant documentation be an edit or should they be a comment or should they be an separate answer?
Sometimes I find a helpful answer with a great example of the use of ...
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I'm unable to report a potentially malicious comment on Super User
I stumbled across a comment on Super User with a bit.ly link to a Google drive containing exe files:
It actually looks fairly innocuous in its context, but VirusTotal gives a detection result of ...
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Make question about Java MaxHeapSize more focused
This question about Java MaxHeapSize was closed because it needs to be more focused. How can it be made more focused?
"Needs more focus" is defined here as "has many valid answers (but no way to ...
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Ending my tenure as a superuser moderator
To the superuser community,
I have officially submitted my resignation as a superuser moderator to the community team. I would like to thank everyone who I have collaborated with over the years &...
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Basic questions being used to garner disproportionate amount of upvotes
I've recently noticed a trend of users asking the most basic, low-effort questions only to be met with a ton of upvotes, often along with the subsequent answers. This question and subsequent answer ...
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Seriously consider removing the "no software recommendations" rule, or stop moderators from abusing it
You encounter a specific computing problem. You search for a solution everywhere and don't find one. You spend a considerable length of time writing a well-thought-out, researched, eloquent and ...
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Please offer guidance as to why this edit was rejected
My purpose in asking this is to better understand what is wrong so I don't repeat the mistake.
I came across the following question, in which the author crafted an extremely complex, in-depth ...
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shouldn't a spam post not bump a post up after the spam post is removed?
I notice this old thread How can I migrate mails from Yahoo! Mail to Google Apps? got bumped up
it got bumped up because a spam post was made. the spam post was removed but it remained bumped up.
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How do I get feedback as to why my question was flagged and closed?
I posted a question which was flagged as off topic and then closed.
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and ...
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Unanswered DevOps questions
currently this site has 58 unanswered questions mentioning DevOps.
Is there any sense to move them to DevOps SE to increase the chance for an answer?
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It happened again: My question has been closed inadvertently
So it happened again. One of my questions has been closed inadvertently. The folks who have closed it claimed that it is not about hardware as outlined in the help center.
However:
1) I have read ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Cross-posting an answer between AskUbuntu and SuperUser
While looking for a way to activate an X window from the command line, I found two particularly relevant results. One on AskUbuntu and the other on SuperUser.
The answers given in both questions didn'...
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What to do when a question is a duplicate of a question from another stack site
Specifically, Can't login on server using ssh [Too many authentication failures] is a duplicate of https://serverfault.com/questions/580753/ssh-aborts-with-too-many-authentication-failures#580864.
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How do I log out of superuser.com? [duplicate]
Seems like such a basic function, but I have searched (and searched!) superuser.com and cannot find any way to log out.
Or should I just close the browser and clear my cookies?
I am having trouble ...
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Automatic change of formatting while we answer [closed]
Whenever I give answers to the questions, my original format of the answer is not maintained. It is changed to all continuous statements all line by lines. So it becomes very clumsy for the reader, ...
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Accused of "targeted voting" (upvoting certain users) - Is the system broken (beyond what we already know it is)?
Today I received a "moderator message" with what seems to be a serious accusation. Quoted in full:
Hello,
We're writing in reference to your Super User account:
https://superuser.com/...
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Close reason for questions asking for code
Wording of close reasons has changed recently.
For questions asking code (e.g. VBA macro) without demonstrating self effort I've voted as "too broad" in the past, however with the new wording I'm ...
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Alias nvidia to nvidia-graphics-card
There is no Nvidia tag. Confer, https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/nvidia.
It may be a good idea to make nvidia an alias for nvidia-graphics-card.
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Logistics for Cleanup Weekend 2
We are having another cleanup weekend.
This time we will focus on:
fixing the rest of the broken images (most of this work has been completed)
cleaning up some more tags
The cleanup will last for ...
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Question marked as off-topic
This question marked as off topic because it's "seeking for hardware shopping recommendations".
The question title itself makes clear this is an incorrect reading ("Calculating an appropriate wattage ...
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Strange, garbled formatting on question #154133 'Boot from ISO'
I just encountered the answer to this question and curiously enough my browser, for the first time, shows comments entangled with the bottom of the response paragraphs, like this:
I even can't access ...
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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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Trying to log off StackExchange [duplicate]
I was told this is a duplicate and I know people don't like duplicates but I don't know what else but to ask again. I checked the StackExchange icon and there is no log off there. PLEASE I'm so tired ...
DavidPostillMod
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Why am I getting a question ban?
I have only asked 2 or 3 questions and got a ban without that warning. Is my status on other SE sites causing me to have a premature question ban here?
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Why is the header of this site not fixed?
If you go to https://www.stackoverflow.com then you will notice, that the header is fixed and always visible.
Why is this not the case at superuser?
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Im Losing a lot of rep to edits that are not really necessary
I'm getting a lot of edits that are personal opinion, like the order of words, where I put links (see THIS example). Is there any way I can not accept the edits? There was also some capitalization, ...
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Why are old questions on top? [duplicate]
There are many old questions showing on the start page of superuser.com. If I open one of them, I see old dates both in answers, comments, and the editing time of the question.
How/why are these get ...
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Please be mindful of non-programming and development question migrations
Stack Overflow is a site for programming and development questions. This question was recently migrated to Stack Overflow even though it has nothing to do with programming and development: Create ...
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Reputation is not updated
I have some daily records of approved edits, which should continuously increase the reputation.
Suggestions as of 18th January:
However, the last successful reputation update was 3 days back:
I ...
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What should I do when I think my comment should be undeleted?
I've left a comment on this answer explaining why I have downvoted it and how it could be improved. Other user replied, I replied and the comments section eventually got too chatty, so all comments ...
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I am not seeing where to mark a response as the answer - it's not visible on my page
I have a question about my Super User post: Is there a secure way to provide outside access to a computer inside a cablemodem LAN?
One of the comments says
"As the problem seems to be solved, you ...
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Who can technically view saved drafts for questions and answers
As the post When I go to "Ask Question" here at superuser, how do I get an empty form? My previous question keeps showing up. states. . .
Stack Exchange sites will save a question or ...
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Questions are no longer being accepted
Right now Super User is no longer accepting questions from my account. Is there a way to override this?
DavidPostillMod
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A suspended account and its days visited counter/records
When an account is suspended, does the suspended account have the ability to keep their days "visited" or "consecutive" days visited streak alive, and increment the number up still during the ...
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Why was question about Windows 7 install downvoted?
Downvotes are for questions from one of the following categories:
zero research effort,
unclear,
not useful.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 and explain the problems I encounter here. I explain ...
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Let's part ways with [computer-parts]
computer-parts appears to be a useless meta tag. Nobody is an expert on all computer parts and there is no reason to search for questions using that tag that I can think of.
Should we remove this tag?...
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possible spam account (marlin putnam)
This user (marlin putnam) produces very low quality "answers". In almost all cases the answer doesn't really address the question at all, in addition, the posts have a very bad quality meaning they ...
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Microsoft Office desktop/app version
Despite the confusion with the payment model between Microsoft Office (one time payment) and Microsoft Office 365 (subscription). There is the issue between the different installation versions. You ...
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Why is this question about VMware Workstation's Record/Replay feature off-topic?
This is not my question, but it is a question that I possibly could answer: why is the question What versions of VMware Workstation has the “Recording/Replaying VM activity” feature marked off-topic?
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Help understanding "on-topic" re: networking content
Relevant question: Has TCP/IP ever "officially" had a fifth layer?
This is my first post on SuperUser, so I want to make sure I'm respecting the community standards, but I'm struggling to ...
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Suggestion to rename Tag [office365] to [microsoft-office-365]
Since the current notation for MS Office tags is microsoft-office-VERSION e.g. microsoft-office-2019, I would suggest to apply that notation to MS Office 365 as well.
Currently the tag is named ...
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Closing a question as a duplicate (followup)
This is a followup on my previous meta question.
This (my) question has been marked as a duplicate and closed: "This question has been asked before and already has an answer." And of course, a ...
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Do we need a canonical question for creating bootable Windows 10 installation media?
To this date, community-faq has only one canonical post for creating bootable installation media for Windows 7 which dates back to 2009. The answers are mostly "use this tool and it works" that are ...
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Are questions related to download YouTube content allowed?
There are many questions about how to download video or audio from YouTube.
Here are the two tags youtube-dl and youtube. But in the
YouTube Terms 5.B., here I quote a portion of it:
You shall not ...
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High Reputation on SuperUser without any posts? [duplicate]
A user 'DAMAN' has 101 reputation on superuser without any answer and a single question with 0 score. Where has his reputation come from? He is just member since 5 days?
Link To DAMAN'S Page.
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