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dealing with a drive-by downvote by flagging? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
political downvoting unrelated to a question?
I thought i was once advised that if I saw i'd been hit with what looks very much like a drive-by downvoter, like a few downvotes ...
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Require users that plan to edit flood over a certain rate / amount to get permission
TL;DR: Users shouldn't flood edits without a consensus. Read my post but skip the optional stuff... :)
Every now and then, we get an edit flood at our front page. This sometimes happens without any ...
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When should questions be moved to AskDifferent/AskUbuntu/...?
I read this question, which helped, but where is the line?
Just because a question is about an Apple product, doesn't mean it is off-topic (not at all actually) just because another (more specific) ...
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SuperUser tag for Adobe Photoshop [closed]
I am looking for a little guidance from the community.
Earlier today, I answered a question on SuperUser. After looking at the other Adobe-related tags already existing on SuperUser, I retagged the ...
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If I lose the privilege of voting up, will the votes I already cast be removed?
What if people vote down my question(s)/answer(s) and then I lose some rep points (below the level required to vote up), and the privilege of voting up goes down the toilet with it (until I regain the ...
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2011 Community Moderator Election
The 2011 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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Suggested tag wiki edit mostly fine, but with a portion that is bad/wrong
So I happened upon this suggested tag wiki edit (link to the revision)
PostgreSQL is the open source database started at UCB back in 1986 as Postgres project and evolved into one of the most powerful ...
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Make up-votes to questions worth 10 points again as they get so few votes?
I read that in the past the up-votes given to questions were worth 10 points just as the up-votes to answers are. However, after changing that moderators started encouraging users to vote more on ...
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Meta sites should count question scores toward tag scores
Questions don't count towards a user's badge score. This might make sense on the main sites, which thrive primarily through answers contributed by regular users.
But those same regular users post ...
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How much bytes a kilobyte?
Are we using binary or decimal units on Super User? I have seen questions using both „conventions”.
(Please don’t tell me we’re using decimal during leap years and binary otherwise.)
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Stewardship of the byobu tag
A friend of mine writes Byobu and prefers to use stackexchanges rather than the Launchpad Answers feature. However there are 77 questions worth of decent content there. He'd like to move over to using ...
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Are we supposed to flag community-faq-proposed questions?
I recently marked the popular question How should I choose my DNS? as community-faq-proposed. And according to the wiki
Community FAQ questions should be clear, concise, and understandable.
If a ...
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What's the rule on pastebin use?
If someone pastes something on pastebin or pastie or some similar site and links the result in their question, should I pull that data in?
I've seen people do that for images, so I adapted that ...
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Are you interested in writing blog posts?
After the blog became officially blessed by Jeff Atwood we've got some weekly posts and daily traffic on it, with an occasional spike on some of the most interesting blog posts. However, anyone with a ...
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download all questions asked and answers received from a website stackexchange account?
I've got a bunch of questions posted on a given stackexchange site, for example, superuser, and I would like to download/export them in a format that I can store locally in my computer. How can I ...
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Where can I find statistical information about the people who use Super User?
I want to know whether there is a way of getting information such as age, sex, country of origin, etc. about the users of Super User. It would be a great tool to know what type of people are affected ...
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Is "Y" really a valid answer to "I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work"?
A few flags of mine were declined when I flagged answers that suggest to do things the OP dismissed as not working right in his question. The reason for being declined is the following:
declined - ...
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Request to un-merge Question 386376
@Synetech has pointed out that Can't add a new search engine in Chrome is not a duplicate of Custom Chrome Search Engine for site with frames does not work. At the time of the merge, it may have ...
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Should answers to duplicate questions be deleted?
I made the mistake of answering a question before checking for duplicates.
Turns out there are a ton of duplicates.
Now, should I delete my answer (as it adds nothing that hasn't been mentioned in ...
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Superuser "Too Many Requests" shows Stackoverflow artifact
While opening all StackExchange sites at once (Opera -> Links), superuser gave me the page that told me there were too many requests.
The title of the page contained "StackOverflow", not superuser or ...
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Why doesn't my superuser account show up on the network-wide accounts list?
I am using the same Google account to register for Super User as I did for Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and IT security, but my Super User account doesn't show up on my network-wide profile accounts ...
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SU Retag Request: [external-harddrive] --> [external-hard-drive]
I asked a question about external HDDs recently, and noticed the hard-drive tag and the external-harddrive tag are totally inconsistent. Any chance of a retag?
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What should I look at for a comparison between Google and Microsoft?
I'm going to be putting together a blog post(s) comparing the Cloud computing powers of both Google and Microsoft. Here is a List of what I came up with to compare:
Email:
labels
folders
junk
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Make [standby] and [sleep] and [suspend] synonyms
I believe standby and sleep and suspend are three names for the same thing. Currently questions are split between the tags.
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Should I edit the accepted answer or add a new one?
I was just reading a question about color issues with Windows Image Viewer and felt like the accepted solution could profit from some visual guidance.
Should I edit the accepted answer or add a new ...
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Make reviewers explain why they accept a suggested edit
A few times already I've seen users in chat complain about the willingness of reviewers to approve very minor edits whose usefulness is questionable. Sometimes the edits were even counterproductive, ...
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Super User mug design
This week, slhck (pictured) and me received our SU anniversary contest prizes.
I really like most of the stuff I got. But the Super User mug design sucks.
It gets the Y U NO guy meme totally wrong.
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Can we please blacklist the computersight.com Spam (if possible)?
As most of you will have noticed, the last two days brought us enormous amounts of spam from computersight.com – more specifically the following link:
computersight.com / communication-networks / ...
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What's up with "Window XP" and "Window 7"?
Editing notice:
Please don't edit and bump posts that are old, have no answers, low views, and are generally of low quality. Vote to close or delete, and/or flag them for moderator attention to have ...
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Information on the moderator candidates
Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that use the Stack Overflow API to display information on the moderator candidates.
Click here to see all the information.
The information presented is:
The ...
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Stepping on someone elses work
I have been working on a question on SuperUser for a user who was having issues with VMWare images and player, but now I am very concerned.
All VMware software & their installers fail to start, ...
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
Please look at the 226 questions under failure.
We are a site for computer problems. Tags such as "error" often don't add any additional value. The same goes for "failure", and it's probably a bit ...
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What should we do with those ever-recurring "image entire hard drive" questions?
I think every week or so, we get the occasional "How do I copy my entire hard drive?" question. The answers are always the same, in the sense of suggesting software like Acronis TrueImage or ...
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Should questions about using a gaming console as a PC be allowed?
As you all probably know, gaming questions have long been off-topic on SuperUser. This has included questions limited to consoles, even though they are technically "computers". I generally ...
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Is the question's last activity relevant for editing, or accepting suggested edits?
Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit?
Are smaller, less important edits fine ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
24 questions are tagged technical-support. Should we get rid of it? Many questions on Super User (every question?) could be considered a form of "technical support". It's a vague term, and doesn't ...
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Can retag without retag questions privilege
I was looking at the privileges, and noticed a Retag Questions privilege. However, as long as you can edit posts, you can retag, as I have done it.
Bug because someone under 500 rep shouldn't be able ...
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I added a tag, `system-tweak`, but I think it should be `system-tweaks`?
I just was typing furiously fast and missed an s on my tag system-tweak, there. Now I can't change it! Does it bother you as much as it bothers me that it's singular and every other tag is plural?
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Open-ended questions... That old chestnut
I know there's plenty of hardcore users here who despise open-ended questions more than anything else on the planet, but aren't we going a little too far sometimes? There are times when asking the ...
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Posts that are just plagiarized
There are some posts that are literally just a copy and paste of some source (it could be from wikipedia, some other forum, whatever).
What should we do about that? (remove all, reword, leave alone, ...
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What are the rules for diagnosis logfiles - and is such a question even allowed?
I quickly wanted to ask if a hardware-problem related question that needs troubleshooting is even allowed here? Or does one have to ask in specialty forums?
If it is allowed here, what are the rules ...
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What aspect of Super User needs more attention?
There are a lot of things to do on Super User.
But I wonder what the most important things are we should be paying attention at...
Is there anything we are skipping out on that will hurt us in the ...
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How is reviewing supposed to be done?
I have just recently noticed review section by my username. "Ah, community chores", I thought. So I rolled my sleeves up and clicked the link, and indeed—the box on the right confirmed and ...
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Merge [video-conversion] → [video-converter]
video-conversion (x13) needs to be merged into → video-converter (x94), and a synonym needs to be created.
I would actually propose to do it the other way round, focusing on the "conversion" ...
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Re-open request for question 312922
What Can I do to Improve Cable Link/Signal Quality?
The author specifically mentions that he has internet connection problems due to this issue. Finally, I present this clause from the SuperUser FAQ ...
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Retagging questions with the answer
This is a bit related to this topic on MSO.
In a recently suggested and approved edit a tag was added to the topic, but it only became applicable through the answer. The user didn't know the tag was ...
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Questions about Small Business environments on topic?
Are small business environment questions on topic for SU, or should they be put onto SF (with a server)?
Just in case anyone is wondering, the question is https://serverfault.com/questions/352137/...
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Why was "SSD read/write usage & AntiVirus impact on SSD life" closed?
I made a question regarding SSDs and Antivirus here:
https://superuser.com/questions/379790/ssd-read-write-usage-antivirus-impact-on-ssd-life
Three users closed this question claiming that it was ...
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Similar Tor-related question for Linux and Mac OS X
I was going through tor to see what I could see, and I came across and answered this question which asks about Mac OS X:
How do I tell tor, from the command-line, to give me a new identity
Further ...
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