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A new way to clean up tags
This is the proposal. Please see Help us clean up tags! for the result.
Let's face it, we have tons of horrible tags.
In the past, we used Old monthly tag cleanups to keep track of what needs to be ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
We're opening up the new Community Promotion Ads for Super User, in time for the upcoming year! As well, we're also changing the cycle system - ...
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VOTE for the Most Valued Super User
Voting is over!
Congratulations to Slhck, the 2011 MVSU! Full contest results are posted on the Super User Blog.
In celebration of Super User's 2nd Anniversary, we are holding a Super User Contest to ...
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Super User's 3rd moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Why are there no notifications for edits after I cast a downvote on it?
The whole Stack Exchange concept is great. But there is one thing I do not understand.
A small logic chain would be:
A new user creates a poorly written question. Very specific. About ~100 ...
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Editing of recently closed questions
This post is basically to share something I came across on Meta Unix & Linux. Kusalananda♦, a moderator there, posted Editing questions recently put on hold (don't). The gist is something that I ...
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Is "It's impossible" a valid answer, or is it a comment?
Sometimes you can see a question like How to do <something> in <some program>, asking for advice how to replicate a feature of competitive program or how to do something that OP expects to ...
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We have bad question closing habits
Not all of us and not all the time, of course, and I'm sometimes guilty of this too. I don't want to point the finger at anyone - just discuss what I think is a problem and how we can improve. The ...
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Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers
Over the last several days, we've been seeing a novel trolling attack on Super User: a flood of answers containing plagiarized content posted by a user called "Marlin Woods":
The user creates a new ...
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Can't we prevent some questions from being tweeted (at least until they're reviewed)?
I mean, I understand that our Twitter account is for publicity, but do we really want to tweet about certain questions automatically?
why 1kb contain 1024 byte? 1kb = 1000 byte
I tired But i don't ...
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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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Old questions - system discourages answering them?
I've been a member on other SE sites for a while now, but only recently joined SU. I found a few things a bit different here, and there are a couple of things I think could use some discussion.
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The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses
This is a list of known spammers, spam domains, and IP addresses to which these domains point.
This list is derived from spam patterns observed on Super User as well as information from DNS and ...
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What is the correct way to deal with obsolete answers?
Sometimes old answers were correct at the time they were written, but the march of technology has made them obsolete.
For example, the command-line video encoding tool ffmpeg used to have a 'vhooks'...
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Is this acceptable by the CoC?
There's this bit listed in the Code of Conduct as the first example of "unfriendly behavior":
Then there's this comment:
Now, I've written my fair share of rude comments, but I do believe that ...
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How to deal with an answer that is popular but wrong?
This answer is a load of rubbish. Not only is it technically incorrect but there are no sources and yet it has a lot of upvotes. It is very difficult to disprove something that is so vague, the ...
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Too many upvotes for poor quality answers
I recently complained over at Meta.Programmers that they were upvoting poor quality and often times very short answers. But I also keep an eye out for SU's hottest questions and I see exactly the same ...
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Let's get started with Windows 8!
The final build of Windows 8 is now available on MSDN/TechNet, and will be released to the public on October 26th. We want to hit the ground running when Windows 8 arrives, and already have some of ...
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Old posts and answers need protection?
As member of SU for more than 5 years, I have quite a number of old answers
lying around. Some of them are so old and outdated that today they are just
ridiculous, such as recommending the ...
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Correct way to handle users requesting scripts/formulae?
I'm still trying to work out the best way to handle questions where a user is requesting an Excel formula, VBA, a batch file etc. It seems the general consensus is to request the user to include what ...
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I'm unable to report a potentially malicious comment on Super User
I stumbled across a comment on Super User with a bit.ly link to a Google drive containing exe files:
It actually looks fairly innocuous in its context, but VirusTotal gives a detection result of ...
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DROP [columns] FROM tags;
There are 103 questions tagged with columns, and they are all over the map: several Excel questions that involve a column of data somehow (i.e., Excel questions), some questions about manipulating ...
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Some issues with a recent action that was taken regarding the Root Access chat bot
I would like to discuss with some civility a recent action that has occurred in the Root Access chatroom. First, allow me to catch everyone up on the facts of the situation:
Overview
Q: What ...
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Do we have any experts on "applications"?
The applications tag has suddenly been added to a lot of posts by an enthusiastic tagger. There are now over 400 questions. I didn't do an exhaustive review of these, but for the ones I looked at, ...
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Why has my post on SuperUser been copied to onooks.com?
I asked a question about an issue with Cisco Webex desktop application.
Issue with Cisco Webex
When I was doing further research I found that within a short amount of time the question had been ...
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What is the best way to contribute to the site?
I couldn't find anything in the search so I thought a meta post was a good place to post.
I was just wondering what are some options to help contribute to the site. I have really started getting ...
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Let's nuke the "error-message" tag
We have a tag named error-message, with now 220 95 49 questions tagged.
This is quite the meta tag, because it doesn't mean anything and adds no value to a question. Most problems result in some kind ...
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Show the [guest] the door
The guest is unwelcome and would benefit from clarification. As it stands "guest" is simply too vague to be useful.
We have guest-additions, but this tag might do with being split into guest-...
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Don't post "never happened to me" answers
I'm seeing these every now and then and I have some thoughts to share. As always, feel free to disagree. I feel pretty strongly about this, but I'm open to discussion.
If the answer you're going to ...
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Are video game questions appropriate for superuser?
Or is it time to create another site?
questions could be general discussion or tips/tricks
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Is it wrong to ask people to accept an answer to their question?
I was looking through some of the questions I've answered, and an unsettling amount have:
Not accepted an answer
Not given extra details to help people answer
In essence, these questions are now ...
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The Windows 8 Challenge has ended, thank you for blogging!
Winners will be announced on the Super User Blog shortly.
Please read
So you've submitted your blog post... Now what?
for guidelines on how to bring your Windows 8 Challenge blog post to http://blog....
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Can I post a question about circumventing a registration code check?
I am a legitimate user of a piece of software called Creative Element Power Tools. It requires regular updating of the registration code but since Creative have withdrawn support, this is no longer ...
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Looking for users to write about their (fun) experiences for the Super User Blog!
The Super User Blog is getting organized! Several weekly categories have been set up and we're looking for awesome things to write about! WTFriday is a brand new section that should produce an awesome ...
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Strange audit result
In the Close Votes review queue, I got Graphics Card Adapter Is Facing Backwards as an audit question.
The question had a colorful history: closed by a moderator as unclear, subsequently edited a ...
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This audit is ridiculous! [duplicate]
I just hit this audit in the First Posts review queue,
which points to this question,
which I’ll quote here in case it gets deleted:
Why is “No scripts” not activated by default in Tor Browser?
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Too many [options] to choose from
There are a lot of questions tagged with options. It's extremely meta, and there are no "options" experts that would benefit from a tag like this.
I suggest burninate, and black list.
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How does one become a top contributor and solves computer problems independenly?
Superuser is a great site, there are lots of kind, enthusiastic people here willing to help others who are in need. But I wonder how do I go about solving computer problems on my own and become a ...
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Why don't people upvote when browsing the site?
I've been on the StackExchange boards for quite some time now and it seems that people don't upvote other's answers anymore when browsing the site. At least from my experience.
Let's take this ...
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Will iPad be acceptable subject matter for Super User? I guess not?
Will an Apple tablet device (iPad) be a "computery" enough subject for questions on Super User?
I plan to get one, and since I've never owned an iPhone or anything similar, I'm sure I'll have some ...
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Recommending own products
What's our stance on relevant product recommendations? The paragraph in the FAQ is clearly not enough in this case.
As a recent example, a developer of an Outlook plug-in/addon started answering ...
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Are iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch questions computer related (Super User)?
I would think these devices are computer related enough for inclusion on Super User (I'd even say they were computers). Why are there 50 questions tagged iPod on superuser.com but this one gets ...
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Is it okay to inform users to stop promoting Apple.SE when a question is fine to stay here?
Now that we see a quite large amount of OS X Lion questions here on Super User, I've seen people telling the OP to go to ask on Ask Different.
Of course, the folks at Ask Different want their site ...
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Why did my edit that fixed several spelling errors get rejected as superfluous?
Here is the edit in question. It was rejected for the reason
This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either ...
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Post was edited after I flagged for review
Yesterday, I came across an "answer" that was not an answer, so I flagged it as such. Shortly after, it was edited into an actual answer. The flag was declined with the reason "a moderator reviewed ...
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Using superuser.com to warn my own users
In 2 days from now, users of legacy versions of our client-side software will no longer be able to login due to forced SSL setup update server-side. the error message will be cryptic. Also, we don't ...
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Are hypothetical questions okay, or do I need to have an actual problem?
I want to be able to contribute to the site, but a lot of the time I'm not sure how to communicate on the right level, and I don't want to cause problems just so I can fix them and have dialogue on ...
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Rat's nest of tags
Raystafarian recently posted a number of tag cleanup requests:
Be done with [gtd]
What to do with [to-do]
It's time we managed [time-management]
and a tag synonym request: Tag Synonym request: [tag:...
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Should answers suggesting a tool that is no longer available be flagged?
While reviewing a different answer to the same question, I noticed this answer:
The answerer is providing a solution using a software they wrote themselves, but the link to that software has gone ...
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