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What suggestions does the community have toward helping reopen this question?
Here is the closed question:
I would like to have feed that is not automated/robotic from the website that I can use to help edit this question so it can get reopened.
Because this is the main ...
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How can software track [1] how many subscribers to subreddits, [2] if subreddit is private, [3] if submissions are restricted?
I have a question about my Super User post: How can software track [1] how many subscribers to subreddits, [2] if subreddit is private, [3] if submissions are restricted?
Update the question so it ...
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How can a question about a deleted question be a hot meta question?
This Is it even possible to reword my question to be relevant? has a link to the deleted question.
Why is it on Hot Meta Posts?
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What is the policy or best practice on posting the same question to multiple StackExchange sites?
I originally posted a question to Network Engineering and was informed that the community was only for professional engineering and that my question on open source was misplaced. They suggested Super ...
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What happend with "myopenid" login method?
I don't know if it's happening just to me, but since yesterday I'm not enabled o login with "myopenID"(from www.myopenid.com) method. It just desapeared from login options:
What happened to it?
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How about sharing reputation across merged accounts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why isn't reputation passed between Stack Exchange sites?
I have cross-linked accounts on several stack exchange sites (Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Super User, ...
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Synonym Request [stickies] to [sticky notes]
stickies has 3 questions and sticky-notes has 17. Sticky notes can be any operating system including OS X, while stickies seems to only be OS X.
stickies should be a synonym of sticky-notes
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Can I ask questions about software that is intended to be used online?
Can I ask questions about software that is intended to be used online? An example could be online virus scanning software.
In the FAQ, does it only refer to software that users install?
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The normal-appearing question closed with irrelevant reason
I'm asking about this queston: Is this UPS Product safe to be around?
I don't understand why the question was closed. The reason is about shopping recommendations, while the question is not. It asks ...
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Where's a good place to ask questions that are considered to broad in scope for SU?
Sometimes I need to ask questions that are broad in scope, which leads to them being rejected here.
Where's a good place which is more welcoming of such questions than SU?
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Flag declined but answer got deleted?
I just got a message that one of my flags got declined.
It was a spam flag for a post on an old question that had no purpose other than promoting an external service.
The answer got deleted, but my ...
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Why are old questions on top? [duplicate]
There are many old questions showing on the start page of superuser.com. If I open one of them, I see old dates both in answers, comments, and the editing time of the question.
How/why are these get ...
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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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Where to ask for wireless card recommendation?
I would like to ask for advice in choosing the best Mini PCI Express Wi-Fi card for use in a laptop and wireless router. Where would the question like this be appropriate? Is there a StackExchange ...
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Why has a question's post notice been added to an answer?
I just noticed that an answer has a post notice that says "we're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context...". Why would an answer have answers? It doesn't make sense to me. ...
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Is there a way to send a hint to someone who suggest lots of edits?
As you can see from my rep I'm rather new to the "review suggested edits" privilege, so I'm searching for some advice.
Currently there are a lot of edit suggestions from one user, which mainly ...
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New tags that come from migrated questions
Does it make sense for a tag that does not exist in one SE site to be migrated along with the question? For example, a new tag was created ifttt. I thought it was a goof, but when I looked at the only ...
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How to respond to spammy comments
Sometimes comments are very useless. For example on this question syneticon-dj comment on the original question is so incredibly useless I'm not sure if I should comment back or mark it for deletion ...
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Questions on Firefox OS to post here or in Firefox OS Enthusiasts?
I would like to know what type of questions with regards to Firefox OS is suitable to post in here?
This is because I have propose a Firefox OS Enthusiasts (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/...
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Spammers exploiting the URL in the user profile to bypass spam protection
It seems spammers have found a way to work around spam filters using the URL in the user profile. This can come from the Home Page field in the form that unregistered users must fill out (the ...
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Are there alternatives to "x" product? Shopping Question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is looking for alternative programs “not constructive”?
Are questions like Are there alternatives to some product?, considered a shopping question? If so, ...
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Software Solicitation and Web-based Answers?
Super User is about computer software, hardware, and personal networking per the FAQ:
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a
question about …
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Please help reopen "What was scientifically shown to support productivity when structural organizing/accessing file and folders?"
Consensus: I agree with: "Workflow involving computers would be less SU and more Productivity"
If that won't work I'll try CSTheory.SE and Skeptics.SE, if that won't work I'll complain at ...
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Why are some names not auto-completed when I try to reply to them?
I wanted to comment on something in this answer. But when I type
@si
no auto-completion kicks in.
If I type out the users name, the whole @name is removed from the posted comment.
Why is this ...
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How to handle my cross-site duplicate?
Today, I asked this question, which seems to be a cross-duplicate of another question.
The question itself is about usage of computer programs, so it does not belong on StackOverflow, but here on ...
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Why no way to object to deleted post by moderator?
Presently there is no way to question a moderator decision to delete a post. Not even a comment is possible.
I think this puts too much power in moderators and brings frustration to the post author.
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Wording a question about protocols for converting authentication without it being " product, service, or learning material recommendations"
I'm trying to ask a question about protocols for converting between user authentication types on an SMTP server, but whatever I do my questions keep being closed because various mods consider a ...
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How do I log out of superuser.com? [duplicate]
Seems like such a basic function, but I have searched (and searched!) superuser.com and cannot find any way to log out.
Or should I just close the browser and clear my cookies?
I am having trouble ...
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Perfect reason for ban to ask more query?
Yesterday, I have asked a question Difference between `Tracert` and `Traceroute` that was treading.
But, I am unable to ask more queries since "You have reached your question limit", before my above ...
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Why doesn't Superuser have superuser.stackexchange.com address unlike other stackexchange websites? [duplicate]
Similar to Stackoveflow, Superuser has independent domain. Is this because Superuser was older than most of the StackExchange sites before the StackExchange idea did come up?
What's the relation ...
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Is questioning the claims of not uncommon software like Spinrite, off topic?
Is questioning the claims of not uncommon software like Spinrite, off topic? If so, Why?
It's not uncommon, and proof of that is that immediately on asking it, a commenter that uses it replied. And ...
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Question about converting a multi-page PDF file to PNG files - can it be reopened?
This is about my question: How to convert a multi-page PDF file to PNG files, with one PNG file per page of the PDF document? - which has been recently closed as off-topic for "seeking product, ...
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Acceptance while in Hold/Closed status
New answers cannot be added to a question in hold or closed status. However, if there are existing answers at the time the question is put on hold, can one of those answers be accepted while the ...
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Performance tag requires eleboration
Not entirely certain from my observations of this tag but I seem to see that this tag is always linked to other tags such as hard drive or graphics card or seems to be relatively broad, I was thinking ...
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Removal of html tag because HTML questions are off-topic
I recently had a html question put on hold here and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say although the questions are seen to be put on hold, the fact that there is a tag for html suggests to ...
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At what point do regexes become programming questions?
This question is tagged "perl" as well as awk and sed and asks about a regular expression.
Find number in string and replace it
At what point do questions that are answered with programs move from ...
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Appeal of a closed question
This question was closed while I was working on an answer, and now I can't answer it.
The person who posted the question revised it, yet it remains closed.
This question is a perfectly valid question. ...
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Does this site allow requests of reviews for compatibility of hardware in building custom desktops?
My question is somewhat similar to this question, but not the same. I want to know if it is reasonable to ask things like "is motherboard X compatible with video card Y and hard drive Z?" I do not ...
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Question closed as dupe is not a dupe
The question Google Chrome pinned to Windows 7 taskbar not opening under pinned icon was closed on Sept 3 as being a duplicate of Some taskbar pinned icons are duplicated when an instance of the ...
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Request for help with a question closed as "not constructive"
Thanks for any assistance with this - I'm a pretty solid hardware and OS X / AIX person, but totally out of the loop on Windows and wanted an answer what I needed as a bare minimum to try Windows 8. I ...
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Advent of AV.SE, are questions about DAW related software issues welcomed?
Are questions surrounding ProTools, Abelton, Kommand 8, and like software relevant? I don't mean, "How do you EQ in PT", but more along the lines of, "I can do X with one user but not another on the ...
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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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Having fun the the post editor [closed]
I have created some interesting uses using the link syntax of [text](url). These are for fun, and should not be used in quality posts.
Comments:
Edit to see...
Whitespace:
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Asking about the popularity of a package manager
Is it on-topic for Super User to ask a question regarding the popularity/popular acceptance of a specific package manager (for Windows)?
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Why did I fail this review audit?
I was doing a Late Answers run when i came across this review which was an answer to this question
go to windows setting -language -add language look if the language is different than the keyboard ...
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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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How to get your question seen?
I posted a question 14 hours ago but it only got 6 views before being pushed out of visibility by newer questions.
I asked my question on the product's official community site a few weeks ago but I ...
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How do we identify and respond to "linkless spam"?
Recently, I've noticed a trend towards spam postings that are free of any external link but advertise a product without disclosure. These techniques evade normal spam detection mechanisms and ...
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Can a user be blocked by email address?
Can't provide refs, as the posts are being dealt with as they arrive, but how does admin deal with serial idiots, who just won't take 'go away' for an answer?
Can they be email address banned, IP ...
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Use of [startup] tag unclear
According to SU Retag Request: [startup] --> [boot], the [startup] tag could refer to starting either a computer or a program, but the tag wiki description of [startup] excludes it from being used ...
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