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Reward not solved question
I had a question, Connect two subnets on Linux, which is not solved yet. But user TomS has done many constructive attempts to solve it. Which does give me a direction where to search further. I would ...
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Get rid of Microsoft tag [duplicate]
microsoft shouldn't exist, as it does not help find pertinent questions. I vote to get rid of it
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Am I using the "obsolete" flag wrong?
I have noticed that often, when I flag a comment as obsolete, a moderator declines it, so I am wondering if I am using it wrong.
I usually flag a comment as obsolete when, for example, another ...
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Collect the multitude of "SMART - failure predicted" questions?
We have half a dozen questions asking about a boot-time SMART warning:
On booting my laptop warns me about failure of hard disk is imminent...can it be repaired or to be replaced..?
Is there a script ...
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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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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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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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Let's make [repair] disposable
repair is a meta tag that can be applied to anything and has been (370 questions). Since we have few experts in repairing everything, this should be cleaned up by re-tagging with existing (and new) ...
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Question of the week #36
Now we're into week 36 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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Close question for no reseach effort
Should we close questions where there appears to be no research effort? Whilst I'm aware people of all technical abilities come here, questions like https://superuser.com/questions/736302/i-need-help-...
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Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity?
Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity by your most active members?
I have enjoyed answering questions lately, and I would by lying if I did not say that I didn't have ...
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What should we do with flash/shockwave questions?
Flash is very much dead, to the point where existing installations are being tombstoned, and microsoft is releasing patches to uninstall it. Any new questions are likely to be about replacing or ...
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Do I delete an answer if I misinterpreted the question (maybe partially)?
I recently (more than once) misinterpreted a certain question (sometimes partially because the question itself was not so clear) and answered it in my way, only to later discover that the asker meant ...
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AWS will soon be sponsoring Super User
We're excited to announce that AWS will be sponsoring Super User beginning September 27, 2021 through December 31, 2022. We wanted to give you a heads up and walk you through what it will look like.
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Do questions about file format internals belong here?
Some time ago I posted a question about the internals of PDF to Stack Overflow, and someone moved it to Super User. Since then I've posted a couple more questions about file format internals here,...
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Is it sometimes too easy to identify a downvoter?
I once asked on meta stackoverflow - should downvoters be identified...
Should downvoters be identified?
An unpopular idea, understandably given the possibility of a petty downvoting war.
The thing ...
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What to do with answers to abandoned questions?
This problem has been discussed in several ways by now, but I did not find the problem I am facing with it.
I often face the problem that I answer a question and the user who made the question just ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2016
It's 2016 now, and we've made some changes to the sidebar size. As such, we can now restart the Community Promotion Ads for 2016!
Keep in mind, we have updated some of the guidelines compared to ...
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Should we have a sub-tag for beta/RC?
Something I was wondering about when coming across older win 7 RC and beta questions - In many cases bugs are specific to dev versions, or involve the newness of them. With the win8-dev-preview ...
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Are "explain the technology to me" questions on-topic?
The FAQ says (bold is mine):
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.
However, there are many questions where the user basically asks us to ...
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Is it better to ask FFMPEG questions in this section or on Stack Exchange video?
I've noticed only after I already made a post on the new videoproduction/ video.stackexchange site that the official site of FFmpeg's contact page actually points to HERE (Super User site, with ...
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Undelete an answer on a closed post that was deleted before it was closed
My Question
If you delete an answer on a question that is opened and then that question is closed, can you undelete that answer after the question is closed?
The Story
I noticed in some comments on ...
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Alpine and Alpine-Linux tag
People inadvertently choose the tag alpine (an email client) instead of alpine-linux. See the recent question How to create Alpine live-USB without using `dd`?.
I suggest to remove the tag alpine ...
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Leaving a comment on non-answers
I have recently seen a non-answer in the First posts review queue that got me thinking:
In addition to flagging as NAA, should I also leave the new user a comment, explaining that answer posts are ...
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Why does a design comparison question between win8 and win7 score 25 votes but get -1 votes with winxp and win7?
There is this interesting question Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? and currently it has 25 votes. It focuses on win7 to win8 differences from performance point of view.
I thought it would ...
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Is bumping a question OK?
Is it OK to bump a question that received not enough attention (tumbleweed candidate) to the top using an edit?
If so under which circumstances?
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Should Home Networking questions be considered on topic?
After seeing the question Is it possible to throw DD-WRT on a F5D8235-4 v2?, I found out that neither Super User nor Server Fault allows questions on home networking. Should we be opening the scope of ...
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Critique my [windows-7] tag wiki
I haven't seen any other tag wiki1 pages on Super User yet, so I didn't have anything to compare it to as I wrote up the new windows-7 tag wiki page. What do you think? If you can edit it, go right ...
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How is it possible to review 1000 "Close votes" within less than 10 minutes?
Just by accident I stumbled upon a user profile and instantly noticed the high number of gold badges. When looking at the list of badges I wondered how it is possible to review 1,000 close votes ...
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Repeated attempts at question vandalism, what's going on here, and what do we do?
I've personally rejected at least 3 attempts at vandalizing a specific question - "is there a plugin for photoshop that lets me write right to left text" , for example this.
What's the proper way to ...
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A canonical post on creating Windows To Go drives?
There are several ways to create Windows To Go drives.
There's the default tool that only ships with Enterprise editions of Windows, and only works on a few models of USB drives.
Then there's ...
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How to deal with out of date questions?
I was looking to import a VMware VM to Hyper-V. Most of the google searches linked to an old and deprecated tool (Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter). Lower down the list I saw a superuser question ...
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Questions about removing enrollment from Chromebooks
I can see that more and more questions about this topic are posted on Super User or Unix & Linux. It usually goes like this:
Someone bought a used Chromebook online (eBay, Amazon Marketplace, ...
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Should I approve edits that only add related links?
This suggested edit (on a highly-upvoted question) came up in the review queue. It linkifies the words "GNU Screen" and "tmux", pointing them to the respective sites. The question was already useful ...
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How do I post an image if I don't have enough reputation points to do so?
I am new in superuser. I knew this site from my friend and I wanted to post a question. My problem is related with Google Chrome display. However, I cannot post the image since I don't have any ...
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What should we do with those ever-recurring "image entire hard drive" questions?
I think every week or so, we get the occasional "How do I copy my entire hard drive?" question. The answers are always the same, in the sense of suggesting software like Acronis TrueImage or ...
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Why is this audit spam?
I just received this review audit in the Low Quality Posts queue. Here is a screenshot:
I passed the audit, but only because I noticed that the user who posted it was deleted, so I opened the post in ...
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Unsung hero badge
The Unsung Hero badge is described as "Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total".
Does that mean it is possible to lose the badge after it has been awarded, based upon future post ...
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2011 Moderator Elections - Town Hall Chat: 3pm UTC on the 31st
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Does a list of canonical questions for Super User exist?
When reviewing questions I often run across ones I think should already have a canonical answer, but I'm still new enough to the site that I don't know for sure. Not wanting to answer if the question ...
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Should potentially "Dangerous" answers be flagged/deleted?
Referring to this question: Restore MacBook Pro to factory settings without disc, I find it rather reckless to post an answer to an OP that obviously does not know what the effects will be.
Should ...
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Answer copied and filled up with spam
The content of one of my answers was copied and a new answer was created (with some spam added). This was then "corrected" by a user with a score over 2000. Since he was only shown the "...
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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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Link-only answer - but already self-explanatory
links to a zip containing drivers for Windows running in Bootcamp. I think the answer is pretty self-explanatory, but somehow I don't feel right to just leave them at is. I don't know what to comment ...
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HTTP>HTTPS image cleanup project - how to proceed when images are not available
For the last few days I've been involved with SU's image cleanup project. As part of this, I've come across many questions where the linked images are unavailable due to inevitable link rot. My usual ...
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Are risqué avatars allowed? Failure of the Gravatar rating system?
I stumbled upon this user who had this ¿pornographic? gravatar {link edited out}.
(Note that the Gravatar rating system seems to have failed in this case.)
While I, personally, think that such ...
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Is it appropriate to edit "very" old posts?
I ended up here because it was in the related links of a new question. The original version made be pull a face, so I've adjusted it. However, given it has been accepted and unedited for about 7 ...
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When is cost an on-topic question?
We sometimes get questions related to cost; some remain open and some are closed. But especially the ones that are closed lead to arguments in the comments because there is a gray area where cost isn'...
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The perils of unclear questions and users who answer first and comment later
I saw this question today and immediately thought to check for past posts on the same topic. I came across this old post from 2009. The old question has a clear title, but the question text is really ...
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Is there a valid Stackexchange for my home networking question, or should I just use the DD-WRT Forum?
I asked a question at serverfault, it was migrated to superuser, and promptly closed as off-topic.
Here is the question:
Is it possible to throw DD-WRT on a F5D8235-4 v2?
Now is there a valid ...
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