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Is “We don't put + between key commands.” some official Stack Exchange policy?
While reviewing a suggested edit to an answer I posted, the person suggesting the edit stated “We don't put + between key commands.” and referred to this comment made by another user’s (Tetsujin) ...
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Top Questions of the Week #27
Now we're into week 27 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 question that you feel is of worth ...
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Why won't moderator let me delete my question?
I posted this question which was narrowly focused problem of a larger task. After a few days I had <15 views so I added bounty. Now I've had a couple of people chime in with helpful comments and it'...
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Firefox versions going to infinity – should we merge the tags?
This is an update to: Merge firefox-related tags?
We now have:
firefox-3.6 x33
firefox-4 x129
firefox-5 x33
firefox-6 x15
firefox-7 x8
(nothing in between)
firefox-10 x4
How is this going to end up?...
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Suggested edits - adding additional solutions
I have recently been able to start reviewing suggested edits for posts. Most are not an issue to process.
One type I have come to simply skipping at this point is an edit which seeks to add ...
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Multiple Part Questions
I see a lot of questions that are kind of interviewing questions with multiple parts. The answers get daunting when it gets beyond 2 parts.
What should we do with these questions? Answer them in parts?...
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Question of the Week #35
Now we're into week 35 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 question that you feel is of worth ...
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Possible false positive spam detection. Support and tips solicited
I have a question about my Super User post: My TV is not detected when I connect to my laptop through Thunderbolt/HDMI cable
My original answer to this question was http://pastebin.com/WGJbmwhQ.
I ...
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Poke a hole in "Pinning"
My apologies for not moving on this in some direction. I don't know what that direction should be, so I think I should defer to users who are more regular on the site.
The pinning tag does not have a ...
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Are diagnostics/troubleshooting issues on-topic and not too localized?
Following on from this question. I made a comment there:
By the same token, we shouldn't automatically close any question that says "virus" anywhere in the subject or body, because it may be that ...
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Edit the question or ask a new one?
I have a question about memory usage that was a little ill-informed on my part, and it turns out the issue is being caused by something else entirely. Before I add any more information I'm inclined to ...
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Acknowledging comments so that they can be removed
"Comments are not for extended discussion" is in my opinion a very valuable thing to imbue in the community.
Occasionally I've been on one end or another of the following situation:
Person A makes a ...
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What to do with same answers to different questions by the same user?
Not sure if this has already been discussed here, so here it goes. Often, when reviewing the Late Answers queue, I run into some answers that seem to be posted many times by the same user
I ...
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How to handle "Try my application" answer
I run into this answer while doing first posts review.
The question is "How to force a Google Drive sync from windows 7 command prompt".
Provided answer is basically "I wrote application to address ...
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What is the general philosophy with images on the tag info page?
New to reviewing tag edits so looking for some guidance. Noticed some edits inserting rather large images to tag info pages. The google-chrome was not one I reviewed but an example of a really large ...
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Get rid of the [hack] tag
The hack seems barely useful, more like a meta tag. It's used for hacking, but not strictly in the sense of security threats, but also "hacking" something together.
Should we remove the "hack" tag ...
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Users with less than 50 reputation and "answers"
Here's the deal-io: users under 50 reputation cannot comment everywhere, they can only comment on their own answers and questions.
If you are one of these users and you really need to say something on ...
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Super User logo meaning
There is always a meaning to the logos of certain brands.
Does Super User have a meaning to its logo? Take consideration of the look of it.
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Announcement: New Functionality
I'll structure this as a question.
You have probably seen closed questions that you thought should be reopened, but it didn't happen. You may have chalked it up to community decision. But if you ...
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Tags beyond saving
save (merged into saving)
save-as (merged into saving)
saving
These tags need to die.
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Editing privileges suspended - reactivated at 2k rep
My account had editing privileges suspended for 7 days for rejected edits. I hit 2,000 reputation and I gain the privileged to edit questions and answers without another user's review AND the ...
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Merge tags windows-10 and win10
I have recently noticed that, there is a tag named win10 which has a few questions on Windows 10. But there is already the major tag windows-10 and questions should use the major tag. I personally ...
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Should swearing/profanity etc be accepted or removed from posts?
I'm a person who finds posts with bad language/profanity unprofessional and offensive. When I see a post on SU with the f word or similar (better/worse) I feel the site is let down for allowing it.
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Close votes on a question that isn't off topic?
I recently posted this question: Disable advertisements on Skype?
Since then, it's received four off topic close votes. Why are they voting this as off topic? It's within the scope of the site as ...
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How do I deal with "not an answer" type .. answers ?
So, what should be the protocol for posts in answers sections which are not answers (you know - OMGWTFBBQ I HAVE THIS PROBLEM type posts)
Flag for ♦ moderator attention ?
Flag as offensive ?
Flag ...
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What sort of ewok questions are allowed on SuperUser?
I thought SuperUser was intended to be very generalised, where almost anything goes. From the blog:
If your question has to do with computers, it will be allowed there.
But then again, so are ...
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Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
24 questions are tagged technical-support. Should we get rid of it? Many questions on Super User (every question?) could be considered a form of "technical support". It's a vague term, and doesn't ...
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Clarification of "PC with mobile data" questions
So there is currently an argument about whether a question that involves mobile data usage on a computer is off-topic or not. I don't quite understand why that makes it a "mobile device" question (...
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Drop kick [dropout]
Is dropout useful?
A long time ago it was identified as a tag that should never be the only tag on a question...a good sign it's a meta tag.
There are only 4 questions tagged as such so I get it's ...
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Serial keys hidden in HTML comments - what to do?
Today, these two posts were 'vandalized' by their author. This got picked up by the SmokeDetector bot, and as I attempted to roll them back to their original state, I noticed they both had (probably ...
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Take away the chinese tag
While working on Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again I have come across the tag chinese. There are quite a few questions on there of varying quality.
What is it for, why do we have tags ...
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Gaming the review queue audits
I just wanted to point out a pattern/bias I've been seeing regarding reviews that may be harming, if not defeating the purpose of the audit system.
Many audits exist that require a downvote/flag for ...
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The MetroSE Sandboxing Question/Answer
This question is mainly for testing the MetroSE application, specifically comments, and answers. However, if you've ever wanted to test out your markup skillz this is a great place to do this. Feel ...
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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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Tag cleanup suggestion: [copy]
Description of copy is "Questions about copying in the context of file managemenent and backing up."
Okay we have another tag file-copying which serve more or less the same purpose; we have xcopy ...
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Three batches of questions to close or delete
In line with Help us clean up Super User, I've been closing a lot of questions recently, but some are fairly old and hard to get close votes on. Ideally I'd vote to delete but I don't have enough ...
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Should we delete the [homework] tag?
The homework tag is a meta-tag, which is explicitly discouraged. Should we delete the homework tag from all questions? Although a question may be about homework, there's nothing useful gained by ...
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When is a duplicate question not a duplicate?
Awhile back someone asked this question about losing properties when copying files. User Diamond made a guess at what the issue was and his answer was accepted. I recently ran into what looked a ...
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Burninate the [tools] tag
Similar to Kill the [software-tools] tag, I don't see the point in keeping tools around.
Typical meta tag. It doesn't explain what the question is about. If you're looking for a tool to do something, ...
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How to handle acronym tags, especially if not unique?
This question uses the adb tag as an example, but it applies to any acronym tag that doesn't have a universal and common usage (like, say, pdf).
adb is a new tag. I drafted a wiki and excerpt for ...
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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Location of the "( visit meta )" link
Can we please move that link to top right? Like this "log out | about | meta | faq" ? Please?
Update: Here is a screenshot
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Are there optimal days/hours to post questions in order to get visibility and answers?
I know that maybe that's a a silly and weird question, if it's not appropriate please forgive me and feel free to close it.
Given the large amount of questions that the site gets daily, it may happen ...
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Remove "binary"
I heard computers use binary. My question is about computers, so I tagged it "binary".
binary
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Beating the beta tag
Considering we already recommend having a sub-tag for betas and RCs, beta is redundant. Can we get rid of it?
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Do we have a FAQ for why backups are desirable?
Every day (in the year 2024), about 385,000 people are born. At some point in their future, they will need to know that they need to make backups of their data.
Many of them may turn to Super User ...
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Inconsistent tags: .bash-profile (with dot) vs bashrc (no dot)
Problem
There is the tag .bash-profile, note the leading dot. Currently it has no synonyms, so the "canonical" tag is naturally with the dot. And there is also bashrc with .bashrc as its ...
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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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Vampyric tags: [design] won't die
design didn't die like we wanted it to.
The answer to life, the universe, and everything may be among the questions tagged with it, but these still cover such a broad swath of computery experience ...
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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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