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Why doesn't Super User get job postings?
I was just wondering why Super User does not have a job listing like some of the other sites (Stack Overflow and Server Fault for example):
Is there a particular reason this community does ...
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Retag [Windows-2012] into [Windows-Server-2012] or [Windows-Server-2012-R2]
windows-2012 contains 54 questions. All of them appear to actually be about Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
Shall we re-tag these questions?
What do to with the windows-2012 tag?
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Super User is scheduled for an election next week, March 13th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to ...
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Bilingual Q&As?
This page should be all English, I know. But if a Q&A is specifically about a language-specific thing (like a keyboard layout), can this Q&A be offered in two languages, English and the ...
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Can a Q&A be too minor?
I tried a bit and finally found out how to set the + and - key for zoom in Notepad++ with a German keyboard layout*. I thought about writing my first Q&A here, but it might be a too small question ...
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Advice for editing question so problem more clearly stated
I have a question about my Super User post: Convert Windows 10 OEM install from Legacy to UEFI?
My question was downvoted for allegedly being a duplicate. However, I had actually referenced the ...
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Drop dropdownlist?
dropdownlist:A drop down list is a list with predetermined options that expands when clicked to reveal the options available.
Do we have experts on drop-down lists?
Does this tag helps clarifying ...
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Should original files be uploaded and referred instead of screenshots / raw data?
My understanding here is that questions should be self explaining: contain screenshots or data instead of referring to files / documents uploaded somewhere. (I see many Excel questions where they link ...
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Is it proper (and userful for our users) to have deleted for plagiarism answer like this?
Limit and advisability to delete an answer
I recently incur in this question ("Can EXE always be replaced with COM?") and in the deleted answer that I report below for the users that have no access ...
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Negative up-vote/down-vote ratio: is it effective mentoring, or too harsh?
Voting on the questions and answers within the Super User community has often been a lively topic of discussion. Our voting tendencies are deemed important enough that during past Super User ...
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Super User not using my SE network profile
Normally when I sign up on a different SE site it uses my existing SE profile... however that doesn't seem to the be case here.
Is there any way I can set it to my network profile without having to ...
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Low quality posts: Notifying the author
I have recently started reviewing the Low Quality Posts queue, I recurrently get the feeling that sometimes, the most positive course of action is to notify the author.
Do authors get a notification ...
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Which answer to accept: best for me, or best in general?
I asked a question a few days ago which I subsequently found my own answer to. I gather that accepting your own answer is fine, however in this case I feel that whilst my answer solves it for me, in ...
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What is sufficient 'context' for an incidental/additional info link?
The answer in question which sparked this train of thought off.
Links in general
The guidelines on links in the help centre are pretty clear:
Provide context for links
Links to external resources ...
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The Suspended Account
I read over the Temporarily Suspended post to ensure I understand what can cause such punishment as I wasn't sure why his rep would be stripped while suspended; but now it makes better sense.
When ...
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New functionality: convert close votes
Close votes can be retracted from a question, but after that, no more close votes can be cast on that particular question.
I understand that voting and revoking several times would negatively impact ...
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Why was this question about File manager deleted?
I've replied to a topic and some minutes later I saw that the question was deleted as spam.
Why was this done? Closing as offtopic "asking for product recommendations" is understandable, but not as ...
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Change email address provided at registration on stackexchange.com
I have searched Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Super User, and didn't find anywhere an option to change my email address. Is there a way to do so? The email address I have provided at registration ...
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Is it considered bad form to make question titles more accurate?
I recently noticed a question I replied to some time ago had a very generic title, so I put in an edit to make it more specific to the problem described in the hope that it would lead more people to ...
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Should users suggest technical edits?
Recently, I received this answer and a comment asking me to run a particular command to get the precise Last Modified timestamp of a file:
wmic datafile where name="c:\\foo.txt" get lastmodified
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Why did these comments get deleted? Someone else wrote the same afterward and got over 20 upvotes
I asked this question: How can I check the version of Google Chrome without it upgrading itself without asking me?
Someone added a comment saying "why not unplug cable?" (perhaps worded differently, ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2017
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion ...
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Re-assign accepted answer years later?
A few years ago I asked Remove or prevent sidebar from opening by default on Adobe Reader and received a superb response.
A recent update to the software in question nullifies this accepted answer ...
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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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Are questions about use of mobile apps on topic here? [duplicate]
Are questions about use of mobile apps on topic here? Especially apps without readily available customer support? In particular I've got a non-platform-specific usage question about Uber.
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Someone revenge voting me?
I have lately noticed that as soon as I ask a question or post an answer, someone almost always downvotes it, and then often no one else ever does again. Sometimes, the downvotes go away after ...
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Revisit the Hackintosh policy
This answer from 2010 is oft-cited as reason for questions about "Hackintoshes" (fancy word for "Running macOS on non-Apple hardware") not being allowed. The reasoning is that we ...
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Is an edit with assumption what the original author is using fine?
I came across this posts review history.
If you look at it you will see that not the original author added the script but rather another user. Should something like this actually pass as a valid edit ...
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Downvotes with no comments
My understanding is that when a question is downvoted, the downvoter should provide a comment explaining why they downvoted and same with close votes (unless it is obvious). I follow this practice and ...
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What happens to my offered rep if no bounty is awarded because no answer exist?
I assigned a bounty to my question and I still have not get any answer while bounty-end approaches, so I wondered what will happen if nothing changes.
Having carefully read the involved help page, I ...
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Why is my account blocked again?
My account was freed from blocked , and I recently asked a question and got positive votes, but my account went blocked again.
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How to proceed when underlying problem solved, but does not match question?
I have asked this question: I/O Error on XSane frontend, but not on std out
By now I know what my underlying problem was, but the question was initially on how to get more debugging output.
Should I ...
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Rename macos tag?
We just did a tag synonym reversal for osx and macos. The move was technically correct, but it's creating an unanticipated problem (at least for me, I'm just assuming some others are similarly ...
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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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Tag Synonym Request: adobe-flash-player to flash-player
Or, you know, vice versa...
adobe-flash-player should be linked, somehow, with flash-player. My preference is to include the manufacturer's name in the product, but either way would work
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OS X / macOS tag synonyms should be reversed
It's been a few years since we synonymized macos to osx. At the time, we did this to distinguish incorrect uses of the tag from questions related to the old “Classic” Mac OS tagged under mac-os-...
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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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How to choose a community?
There are some communities with intersecting subjects with superuser.com. For example I could ask this question about volume control in linux at unix community, or this about hotkeys at software ...
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Sonicwall: Is it a manufacturer tag?
As part of the ongoing manufacturer tag clean up I came across this question:
L2PT VPN ports are not opening
Which is tagged with sonicwall, I was wondering if this is considered a manufacturer or ...
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Where do EC2 and AWS questions truly belong?
I am a moderator on Web Applications, and I would like to address the points of this Web Apps Meta question to a wider audience, because we get more than a handful of questions on these topics that ...
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Show your Excel results
I see a lot of Excel questions, but also ones involving command lines, batch files, and other similar scripts, that entail some mental challenge. I'm not referring to ones where a novice needs some ...
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Consolidate reverse-dns and dns.ptr?
We have 12 questions tagged reverse-dns (the tag, itself is undefined).
We have a new tag dns.ptr, with a wiki excerpt. This tag has only been applied to two questions so far. There are 132 ...
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How Could I Have Improved My Question To Avoid Getting Downvoted?
I have a question about my Super User post: Router Blocks Access To Single Site, Only On Selective Devices
I asked what I thought to be a detailed question but with no answers or comments -- only a ...
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Should adding a constructive comment fail an audit? [duplicate]
I have just failed this audit for adding a comment.
After having carefully read the question and the answer (which was in the first post review) I noticed that the answer ends with the following ...
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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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What is this traffsecurity.xyz site?
I was looking for a feature on whatsapp and came across this google result: http://traffsecurity.xyz/questions/tagged/whatsapp
On investigating, it seems to be a mirror of what's on superuser.com?
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Hats this year?
I loved the Hats from the past couple of years. I thought it would be happening by now, but I could be wrong. Is there a "Hats" season on SU this year? The earlier questions about participation ...
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Question Appropriate for Super User
Please let me know if this question is appropriate for this community.
Recommendation for Connecting Multiple Wireless Headphones to a Television to Play Audio through the Television and ...
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What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?
Answer: we don't yet have questions with the hack tag covering these, perhaps the only common uses of the term not included.
hack and its synonym hacking are undefined and have 44 questions. The ...
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What should happen to a question which the OP realised was not necessary?
I came across this question today, where the OP quickly realised their mistake and stated so in the comments, however they haven't deleted the question and no other action has been taken on it (...
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