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Disconnect the [intermittent] tag
The intermittent tag has 7 questions. It seems too meta to be useful.
Should we keep it around? Or is it time to end the connection?
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When is it appropriate to decide for a questioner whether or not an answer answers their post?
When is deleting an answer an appropriate response because it 'might not' (in the opinion of someone who displays a basic lack of understanding of the differences between how the windows console and ...
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What can one do when a poster accepts a ridiculous answer?
It sometimes happens that I come upon a post where a completely ridiculous
answer is accepted by a clueless poster.
The immediate gut-response is to do something, since leaving the situation as-is
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Proposed resolution for [ide]
Every few years, we do a cleanup of ide tags, for example:
Many questions tagged "ide" should be tagged "pata"
Old monthly tag cleanups
Someone just anonymously cleaned up ...
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Bronze badges are getting repeated
I don't know is it supposed to be like this or it is a bug but the badges that I've earned before are showing again for me to earn. Total number of badges that I've earned before was 6 now it is ...
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Is this answer with 140 up votes really an answer?
I ran across this answer posted on a question so simple and direct the title says it all:
What is the D-shaped icon next to my USB-C port?
I've tried to capture the essence of the answer in the ...
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Make [flux] a synonym for [f.lux]
For those who haven't never heard of f.lux before, here's a brief description via Wikipedia.
f.lux is a cross-platform computer program that adjusts a display's
color temperature according to ...
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Why was this edit rejected?
I made an edit to a badly asked question yesterday, but it was rejected saying
This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to ...
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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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What is wrong with me?
I am a relatively new user to Super User, but quite experienced in the SE network of sites (about 95K on SO, 70K on MSE). I guess I know quite some of you from either of those sites.
I add great ...
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High threshold for "well-asked" questions
Various posters have previously complained about the voting patterns on SuperUser and the standard response is that down votes are accorded to "poorly asked questions". Well, it would seem that "well-...
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How to deal with suspicious 'legitimate' link?
So I tried to help clear the "First Post" review today, and stumbled into an answer referring to a site, that seems legit, but in my experience may be malware site that looks like official site. I'm ...
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Are these two questions about viewing ZIP file contents actually duplicates?
I ran across two questions which are marked as duplicates, but which appear to be asking slightly different questions (I say "appear" since the wording is ambiguous), and whose answers are answering ...
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Why are questions which are on hold, never deleted?
So today while working on bad tags (Looking at you delete!) I found two questions on hold
https://superuser.com/questions/1201542/how-to-password-protect-file-on-delete
which I believe add nothing ...
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Why was my post about Windows 3.1 icons found in Windows 7 placed on hold?
I have a question about my Super User post: Why are there Windows 3.1 icons in Windows 7?
I recently posted a question about icons I had located in C:\Windows\System32\MorIcons.Dll. Almost as soon as ...
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Add synonym "windows-10-creators-update" -> "windows-10-v1703"
The various updates for Windows 10 should have tag synonyms for their official titles. This would include the following:
windows-10-creators-update -> windows-10-v1703
windows-10-anniversary-update ->...
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Please stop migrating crap
Please only migrate good, but otherwise wayward questions. Latest exhibit is this question:
Facebook open graph html5 audio
I have a system that share on facebook a flash audio player, but the flash ...
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Why was this question about recovering metadata from an image file closed?
The question Recover metadata information from photo was closed as off-topic.
IMO the question is asking how to recover (meta)data from an image file, not about the camera used to capture the image.
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Closed question, but still want to continue discussion
Prevent excel from considering date based on system's date format
Based on the question I flagged this as duplicate and it got closed. However, it seems it is not exact duplicate as I thought.
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Is “You have reached your question limit” the same as being banned?
I saw Question ban without any reason (after long awaited ban lift...), and the issue he went through is similar to mine.
I posted a total of seven questions in superuser.com: Two of these have one ...
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Why is my question about accessing network shares off topic?
My question:
How to browse a shared network drive as if it were read only
It's a question about software, and I hoped there would be answers like: "You can mount a read-only drive in explorer by ...
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When closing how to specify a new SE site?
When closing a question because it belongs on another site, the dialog box (at least on some sites) provide just two or three default SE sites where the problem might be migrated. How do I add a new ...
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Burninate the [ssid] tag
All of the questions tagged with ssid are related to wireless-networking. There are only 4 followers of ssid. All experts on wireless-networking should be experts on ssid. I see no purpose of the ssid ...
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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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The scope of the [windows] tag
[windows] tag currently applies to all versions of Windows:
For questions not specific to a single version of Microsoft Windows.
Otherwise, use a more specific tag such as [windows-7] or
[...
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Improve "What topics can I ask about here?"
Just by chance I've read askubuntu's What topics can I ask about here? site and found some good ideas there.
Can we also improve our What topics can I ask about here?
They've a "Information needed ...
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Why did my comment get removed?
I left a comment answering another comment on
Eraser: "Warning: This computer has had System Restore or Volume Shadow Copies enabled.". Does my USB flash drive contain any copies of files stored?. I ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election Results
Super User's fourth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for volunteering, and ...
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Proposal: [parental-controls] tag wiki excerpt should be edited, so that it's not Windows-specific
Situation
The tag wiki excerpt of the parental-controls tag makes it clear that the tag is Windows-specific.
Problem
But Mac- and Linux-using parents, too, might want to impose parental controls ...
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What is our stance on questions on Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems?
What is our stance on questions on Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems? Are they on-topic or off-topic?
https://superuser.com/help/on-topic (mirror) says:
issues specific to corporate IT ...
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Why was this question closed as "Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations"?
I asked the following question:
Is there a list of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems that
Dragon Professional Individual intentionally do not
support?
http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/...
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Is a preview of [preview-pane] enough?
We have a new tag preview-pane on a question about the Windows Explorer preview pane, and would like to get community input on the tag. I thought we had either this tag or preview-panel previously ...
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Remove [micro-sd-card] tag
This tag is redundant, as [sd-card] exists. There aren't many things specific to micro SD cards that aren't shared traits with SD cards.
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Where did I go wrong commenting on this post?
https://superuser.com/questions/1192219/graphics-requirement-for-adobe-premier-pro
The user asked for Adobe Premiere' graphics requirements, to which I supplied a link. Adobe product users know that ...
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Would this question about correct usage of MS Word styles be on-topic
I'd like to ask this question about microsoft word styles, and I am not sure whether it is ontopic here:
When is it advisable to modify the standard style in a word document?
I would like to ...
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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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What's our threshold for profanity in comments?
I just handled a bunch of flags on older comments, flagging the use of the word "bitch" as "complain" or "is a pain".
Now certain words (mostly ones with 4 letters for some reason), I can get - but ...
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How do I reward an instructive answer over a good answer?
I asked a question on superuser that led to two answers.
Kamil Maciorowski's seems to be a good practical answer to my question.
However dirkt's answer gave me a lot of context, interesting links and ...
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Editing an Answer & Private Messaging
I'm mainly post to the Stack Overflow meta. As a result, I don't have enough rep to actually post a comment in this meta and I am not a new user.
There was a post I added a significant improvement ...
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When I'll be able to ask question? [duplicate]
I see this message You have reached your question limit
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See the Help Center to learn more.
When this will resolve.
Even though my ...
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Not entirely sure on voting protocol/preferred question types
I have a question about my Super User post: Windows 10 will not install update
Hi ya'll. Hate to be a pest and I'm sure "why was my question downvoted? RAGE FACE" queries are hideously frowned upon, ...
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Specific policy on AWS & EC2?
This is a follow-up to a recent Meta question: Where do EC2 and AWS questions truly belong? That question was posted by a WebApps moderator, calling attention to inappropriate migrations to WebApps. ...
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Placing a user's comment in their own post [duplicate]
I can't really think of a specific title for this since it's only just grown on me and I can't find anywhere else so rename if needed, and sorry in advance.
So I was on this post I messed up my PC, ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election
The 2017 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Over 110,000 questions unananswered as of 2017. Is this a matter of concern? [duplicate]
SuperUser currently has 110,000 unanswered questions. This means the number of unanswered Qs has doubled over 5 years.
Should something be done about this issue? If so, what?
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Cleanup Week? When and How?
We have nearly a thousand posts with potentially orphaned images with the HTTPS move - folks are trickling these in. We also have had an ongoing project to fix tags that could use some love, or at ...
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Let's fix all the broken images
One of the steps on Stack Exchange's road to HTTPS is the replacing of embedded http:// images with secure ones. This has been done automatically for a lot of images, but there are some that can't be ...
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I'm a bit confused about votes
I know y'all are going to downvote this post just like that guy 2 posts below this one... idc because this is meta, but... just whatever.
I've been asking lots of questions in the past, and I.. I don'...
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One of those "trick" questions [duplicate]
Just chillin'
I was in Review and the below question popped up but in a different view not showing the votes as one of those "test" reviewer questions that grade you based on whether or not it feels ...
