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Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?
I'm seeing a disturbing increase in spam posts promoting personal enhancement products such as male enhancement, hair care, dieting, brain enhancement, and other similar products. The following list (...
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Merge [EFI] and [UEFI] tags?
The tag description for EFI is :
EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface, and is an updated version of BIOS. It sits between firmware and the operating system in the software stack.
while ...
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Why was my question on compatibility flagged as a "Hardware Purchasing Question"?
I am new to this Stack Exchange site. I recently asked a question about whether certain connections were standardized, specifically laptop 4k non-touch screens. It quickly got flagged as an off-topic ...
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Reduce Tag Ambiguity by Requiring Objects for Transitive Verbs
It's all in the title I'd say...
In short, I'm suggesting that we add 'object' validation for single-transitive verb tags without object qualifiers... For instance ... 'split' would require the ...
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Retagging [google] questions [duplicate]
Some of the questions tagged with google actually relate only to Google Chrome and not to Google products / Google company in general, for example:
How does Google Chrome installer work?
Google ...
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User tries to do something forbidden by license. Is explaining why it's illegal an answer?
Specifically, I'm speaking about this question: Windows 10 License in UEFI.
Long story short, OP currently uses Windows with a license provided by his university through DreamSpark. He's going to move ...
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Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?
I edited this question yesterday as part of a cleanup spree. It had already gotten a fair bit of activity, but someone tweeted a link to it after I edited it, and things really took off.
The topic of ...
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What's the point of vote animations? [closed]
Exactly what it says on the tin.
I may be a bit out of date, but can someone explain to me the reasoning behind them?
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?
Discovered a few semi-related tags:
windows-server-2003
539 questions, 10 this year
this has a good excerpt, but no tag wiki
windows-2003-server
19 questions, 2 this year
this has nothing... no ...
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How can "Community" post a bounty?
The post
How to unhide 'Very Hidden' Worksheet
has a bounty posted by
Community, which says:
One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.
As Community is not a ...
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Why are "why was ... implemented this way" questions closed as opinion based?
This question is closed because it's opinion based.
It basically asks why Ctrl + V paste is not implemented in PowerShell.
There's a comment below, "This can't really be answered by anyone except ...
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Is this (clever) spam?
Looking at this question and the answer, it looks like spam to me:
Both users have 1 point only.
Both have women as avatars.
Both link to the same blogspot blog.
Both the question and answer lacks ...
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A better way to find duplicates?
This is something that has been bugging me for a while.
It is not uncommon for the same question to be asked repeatedly. Take this question that was asked today. This question, in one form or ...
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I want to ask a too broad question and answer it with a tutorial I wrote myself. What will the be the community's reaction?
We were asked to set up a LAMP server on an unused desktop PC a week ago. I am a complete newbie regarding this matter. The only experience I had was that I was slightly familiar with vi and the ...
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Help us clean up Super User
Waaaay back in the early days of Stack Overflow Jeff wrote a blog post about the Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle.
Who decides what questions don’t fit? Trusted members of the Stack
Overflow ...
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Super User Swag is still wanted
Looking through the sidebar, I found this old question about the Super User mug. I'm wondering if there's any update from the team about making swag available for purchase any time soon? Or what kind ...
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Let's bring [tables] to the table
tables is a very broad tag, which currently has no tag wiki and encompasses everything from questions about Excel, SQL tables, tables in Microsoft Word, and a whole host of other things. In other ...
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Journeyman Geek's Monthly Bounty Hunt: July/August
I'm ploughing back some of my rep into the community, and hopefully getting some good/better answers up for questions. I really wouldn't be able to chase down all the worthy candidates for such a ...
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Send out [newsletters]
newsletters has no usage guidance, there are 14 questions tagged with it, mainly about format of newsletters, or sending newsletters in e-mail.
I see it from time to time as a favoured tag of spam ...
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Reverse the [vlc] synonym direction?
Currently, vlc-media-player is synonymised to vlc. I think it would be better the other way around.
Doing so, we would:
Reduce the ambiguity of the tag. It would then be obvious, even to people who'...
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Are questions about Chrome OS on-topic?
The primary purpose of Chrome OS is to run applications that are off-topic on Super User (web apps, plus it can run Android apps, both off-topic).
The devices it runs on (Chromebooks), are designed ...
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Time to be LESS organised
organization is a pretty big meta-tag.
It's uses include,
Organisation charts
Sorting data
Windows Explorer functionality
Email organisation
and many more.
Should we burn it?
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Deletion of OP's (admittedly poor) self-answer
In this question: Bash: I want to type a tilde. Pressing F10 gives me '1~' instead of just '~', the OP eventually posted their own answer, describing how they solved the issue ...
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Reminder on voting to migrate
#1 rule to consider after determining a question may be a better fit
elsewhere:
Don't migrate crap.
meta discussion
In going through the close queue, I often see questions voted to migrate, but the ...
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Official stance on Facebook questions on SU?
https://superuser.com/questions/73214/facebook-profiles-for-non-people-okay
Ok, there are many questions that reference Facebook, but this one seems to be directly about facebook. I need an official ...
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How should we act upon "Install OS X as virtual machine" questions?
Bumped:
Only two people contributed to this Q/A, so maybe we could get some more opinions.
Background
Recently there seem to be a lot of questions on the topic of installing OS X as a virtualized ...
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Over 243,000 views in 3 days?
I can see some other websites linking to this, but is this >243k view count in just 3 days really correct...?
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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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What time of the day is Super User getting the least traffic?
Due to the recent discussion about edit flooding, and one possible counter measure mentioned by @Grace Note ...
You may consider that it is often wiser to perform massive edit jobs during low ...
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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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aria2 vs. aria2c?
A proposed tag wiki edit raised a question about two tags: aria2 and aria2c. The first has 5 questions, the second has 8, and a number of these questions have both.
I'm not familiar with the program,...
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What is the definition of "corporate IT support"?
I've run into a few questions like this one: Restricting certain printers to certain programs. The question was written by someone working in a company. I get the impression that it is a small ...
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Why can people answer a question before being able to comment?
I am new here, so sorry if this has been addressed somewhere before.
I realized that with no reputation points, I still can answer but not comment (for example, ask for clarification) on a question. ...
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Are batch script questions allowed on Super User?
Yes, it's nearly a dupe:
Is batch script help allowed on superuser?
Preferred location for "shell scripting" questions
I've also read Inconsistent Mod response to migrating Excel ...
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What should be featured in our list of off-topic close reasons?
Many people seem to think that question closure means that the question has come the end of its lifecycle here, while it's clearly not so. As part of making things more clear to the folks asking why ...
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The infamous "My PC is freezing" question...
We all know what they are:
My PC is freezing and I don't know
what to do? Please help me! Here's my
specs:
I think it's a windows 7
It has a power supply
There's some RAM ...
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Should I handle rude fragments myself? or is it better to get moderator involved?
I flagged a question as rude because of
Edit: whoever downvoted this question is a [rude part here].
Note: the question wasn't rude as a whole, only this one sentence was.
One of the moderators
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Should WSL be a synonym for Windows Subsystem for Linux?
I noticed today that we currently have two tags for the same Windows 10 feature.
WSL
Windows-Subsystem-For-Linux.
My suggestion is for WSL tag to become a synonym of the greater Windows Subsystem ...
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Vote to Close the Vote to Close chat room
With the new Review System, questions are getting closed/reopened/improved more rapidly then before. Looking at the room activity, it's been 43 days since something was asked in there, other then one ...
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How to Report Cyclic Flagging?
This question is flagged as a duplicate of this question. However, that 2nd question is also flagged as a duplicate of the first.
How do I bring this to the proper individuals' attention?
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Question in close queue is marked as duplicate, but the duplicate is terrible!
Recently I was looking through the close votes review queue when I came across this question, and it was flagged as a duplicate of this question. These two questions really are exact duplicates of ...
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What are some of the user-created april fools gags that we've had in the past?
Sure, we have unicorns. We've also has some of our own april fools jokes on site. Sadly, they are often a pain to find, since they're deleted. What are some of these gags? Can we see what they are ...
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Blogs.sun.com is dead
Oracle have killed off blogs.sun.com. You have a number of questions/answers that have links to blogs.sun.com that will need fixing.
Here's the list
In general you just need to change the http://...
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Inappropriate opinion-based closings
Computer expertise is inter-disciplinary. Many questions relating to computer hardware can be answered by users with a little hard science or engineering background. There is basic theory and design ...
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Terminology issue of computer related questions
This is a purely language issue, but IMHO, it deserves some thought.
I don't know how things currently stand on Stack Overflow and Server Fault, but on Super User questions often get closed as non ...
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Why was my flag on this link-only answer declined?
I flagged this answer as not an answer because it's a link-only answer:
My flag was declined as "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it".
According to Shog9's ...
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Unmerge [msi] from [windows-installer]
A recent edit to the Manufacturer Tags question spotlighted a problem with an old action. Five years ago, the post The msi tag is ambiguous identified that the msi tag was being used for both the ...
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Calling all bloggers!
Do you have any of the following qualities?
A love for writing long and details answers to common Super User problems
A desire to test, document, and share with fellow Super Users awesome products (...
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Tag Synonym request: [task-scheduler] vs. [windows-task-scheduler]
A pair of tags I came across on Super User - both task-scheduler and windows-task-scheduler exist, but as far I can see they're both the same thing:
task-scheduler: a component in Windows that, like ...
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