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Should shopping and/or hardware recommendation questions be allowed on SuperUser?
I've seen a recent surge in questions asking for recommendations on buying X type of hardware (replace X with mice, GPUs, CPUs, hard drives, flash drives, you name it). Looking at TheTXI's answer here,...
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Should a question about a bug in software be answered or closed when the bug is fixed?
To give you a specific example, I have asked this question, but then realized it must be a bug in the software and created this bug report. The bug was quickly fixed, but the question itself remains ...
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Reopening good question closed by OP
What does the "when i snap a window..." option do?
This is a good question. Admittedly, I didn't read carefully enough when I answered it, but in subsequent conversation we were able to ...
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What do you want Super User Blog to test with SSD technology?
In conjunction with the Super User blog, we will be getting three SSD's from Kingston. We want to perform tests on these drives and blog about the results, and need your help. What testing, ...
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Why do people attempt to discourage long well-written answers by instant AI accusations?
I remember a discussion where people were so sure in their ability to detect AI, when SE decided to not allow dealing with potential ChatGPT answers.
What I see in reality, occassionally, is that most ...
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Top Questions of the Week #17
Now we're into post 17 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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Are spammers' public IP addresses blocked for login or account creation?
I've noticed more spam-type questions (and absurd profanity) here lately on Super User (this may be normal though I'm kind of new still), but I was curious if there is any type of public IP address ...
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HTTP Downloader Spam Answers
Just a heads up to reviewers tonight: there’s a newbie who has been posting answers to questions about large downloads. He has answered at least 5 other questions the same way: promoting his app. Here’...
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Editing others' posts - guidelines / etiquette?
I've just hit the 2000rep mark, and can now edit questions (hurrah! woot! etc, etc...).
But, I'm a little uneasy about editing other people's posts, as it's not something I've really experienced ...
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Is editing being abused?
I never noticed this practice on stackoverflow or serverfault, but I noticed on superuser that some users will answer a question if a placeholder that either barely or does not answer the question it ...
David Ma
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Should we split up the off-topic "shopping" closing reason?
One of our current off-topic reasons reads like this:
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead, ...
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Formatting Goodies
Recently I read this meta question, which explains how to embed a in your text.
What tips and tricks do you use to make your questions and answers pleasing to the eye?
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Question of the Week #38
Now we're into post #38 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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Should we close old questions with no more feedback as "no longer relevant", on SuperUser?
SuperUser has a much higher ratio of "personal" question. I mean that many questions are linked to one user only, with his particular configuration. Of course his question can be of help to other ...
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How is my edit not considered an improvement?
Consider:
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/728281
I made an edit to this question, which I personally considered to be a huge improvement in readability, but to my surprise it not only ...
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Acknowledging "thank you"s
On my answer here, the OP posted a comment saying something like, "sigh...that was simple, thanks!". To which I replied my usual response: "Happy to help."
I see now those comments were removed. ...
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What to do if I want to answer my own "non-constructive" closed question?
My question was closed as "non-constructive", so I asked it in other place (Freenode) where I got the answer which I want to add to superuser.com.
What should I do?
Edit the question, including the ...
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Should we edit link only answers?
There's lots of them around, and most times I comment asking the OP to edit the answer and add more detail. However there are some cases where the OP isn't around, but the answer is still valid (...
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Does having edit privileges allow me to approve edits from others?
Pre-2000 reputation - Every time I edited a post I needed to await attention before it could be approved. I 100% agree with this rule.
Post-2000 reputation - I can edit any post without waiting for ...
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Are smartphone questions permitted on Super User?
The Super User FAQ states that superuser.com is for asking questions related to computer hardware and software.
Is asking iPhone or android questions allowed?
EDIT: Maybe the real question is: do we ...
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merge [shortcut], [shortcuts] and [keyboard-shortcuts] on superuser
On superuser we have
[keyboard-shortcuts] x 34
[shortcuts] x 4
[shortcut] x 2
I was thinking of changing the 6 ones labeled shortcuts and shortcut to keyboard-shortcuts as this would be the least ...
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Can an answer be backed up only by personal experience?
https://superuser.com/a/1275976/456385
This answer is only backed up by the answerer personal experience, with no explanation provided.
if it was my customer i would dismantle the screen on the ...
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Moderators deleting comments?
Whenever a SO question is migrated, it has a few comments that say "Belongs on SU" or the like.
This confuses the heck out of me because when I read a question, I read the question, then the comments,...
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Questions asking for manual identification of fonts?
I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify ...
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Have I forfeit some of my comment flags?
I've had the maximum of 100 available comment flags for some time. It's been my observation that the number of available flags is decreased by one for each outstanding flag; however as flags are ...
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A clarification request for declined spam flag
I flagged this post for obvious spam link inserted in the end when posted in Charcoal HQ. Check the first version here.
After looking at the user's profile and the link in the end, I flagged it as ...
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Should I answer my own question? Was I wrong to post it?
Here's my question (oh boy, the meta effect is about to descend upon it):
Suppress Google Chrome's "Your Connection is Not Private" for specific Address?
Am I wrong to be asking the ...
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Questions about bypassing or circumventing network security
I have seen a number of questions on how to bypass network security. I was wondering if superuser (or stackexchange) had a policy or stock answer about this?
As a regular kind of user, I can ...
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Approving edit proposals - am I too strict?
I've recently rejected this edit proposal (2nd version) as I thought it's not adding to the value of the question, and anyway the question is off-topic.
Later I was surprised to see that the proposal ...
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Should we retag questions where the new tag is the answer to the question?
I'm referring to questions in the format of "What is...?", "What's the name of...?" or "Which application can...?" where only after the question has been answered you can tag it with the relevant tag, ...
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What's in a good question? (A Super User Blog Entry)
I'm looking to put together a blog post that people can reference on how to ask, and the right way to ask question here at Super User. What are some suggestions that you would have for new users ...
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"mono" tag as in "vs .net" and as in "vs. stereo"
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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Top Questions of the Week #22
Now we're into post 22 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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Question about Microsoft Outlook behaviour closed on assumption that I should contact Microsoft
I asked this question about an issue I am experiencing with software (Microsoft Outlook). The question was mod-closed under the assumption/reason that I should report the issue to Microsoft or more ...
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Why did my answer get deleted?
https://superuser.com/a/1403718/465645
Remove BIOS password
I posted an answer to this question which I felt was pretty good. The answer received one upvote then the next time I view the answer it ...
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Further peer review required for edit
A week ago, I came across this question, and the answer by Steven Stevenson:
Windows 7 desktop icons are blank
When I first noticed the answer, it was just a wall of text. So I decided to make the ...
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Can I ask historical questions?
I want to ask about the origins of the paradigm "unused RAM is wasted RAM". Can it be asked here?
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New menu for comments with "common phrases or questions"
We get lots of questions which are either not filled in correctly, not formatted correctly, off topic, not enough detail etc
I try to be useful and write something like "there is a problem with your ...
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What's the right flag if a link has malware
I flagged an obvious spammer whose site was blacklisted by google for malware. Its straightforward since it is spam on the other hand What would be the proper action if a legitimate user posts a link, ...
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Reposting own content from or to the Super User Blog
Introduction / License
Super User Blog (henceforth called SUB for conciseness) has CC BY-NC-SA logo at the bottom and text saying
podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-...
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Is it even possible to reword my question to be relevant?
So this is my question. Now I get why it was put on hold and I am not going to dispute that.
Though I would like to point out that I am not asking for a product recomendation, service or learning ...
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Burninate "knowledge-base"
The knowledge-base tag seems useless, for lack of a better word. Five questions, different topics (mostly not related to Microsoft's "Knowledge Base"), no tag description or wiki, ...
Let's get rid ...
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How to ask answerers to answer anew at another Stack Exchange site?
Pursuant to Please undelete Automatic Wallpaper Manager?, I questioned anew at https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/13458/7064, but how can I inform the original answerers here about this so that ...
user269574
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Should we add information from comments to questions if it invalidates existing answers?
Based on this question: How to get system uptime in milliseconds in command line?
At first, the question did not specify an operating system, but through later comments, it became apparent the OP was ...
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Disk, disc, and hard
Right now, there seems to be one canonical hard-drive tag, with 901 questions. There are also questions tagged disk and shudder hard disk. Yes, that's hard and disk. Should they all be retagged into ...
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System tag looks suspiciously like a meta tag
What exactly is the system tag? It doesn't even have a wiki. Looks like a meta-tag to me.
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Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
A question about Markdown editors with live preview is specific to Mac OS X, but several other answers, including mine, discuss applications that run on other operating systems.
Is it appropriate to ...
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Superuser FAQ note about "websites and web services" is unclear?
Possible Duplicate:
Superuser website applications policy
I recently had a question on Superuser closed:
https://superuser.com/questions/104025/is-there-any-free-forum-software-that-supports-...
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Clean it up, and [diy]
diy has many, many questions, that could be closed. This tag is also EXTREMELY meta. I propose we get rid of it, quickly... And with a can-do attitude
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Please burninate the [loading] tag
loading doesn't sound like a very useful tag to me.
16 questions are tagged with it and I request that it is burninated!
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