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Why did my answer to this question get deleted?
Why did my answer to this question get deleted? I think I was misunderstood in my intention to clarify the problem and to help with a program I've written myself.
I posted a link to my website and I ...
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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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Burn [computer-buying] tag
computer-buying has about 24 questions, almost all of which are closed for shopping recommendations. Can this tag be burned since questions about shopping are clearly off-topic?
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can I promise a bounty, but only put it in place once there is an acceptable answer?
I have a question that will require extensive work, and is unlikely to be solvable within the bounty period. I'd like to offer the maximum possible bounty for it, but I absolutely want that bounty ...
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Why was my solution converted to a comment?
Solution link:
https://superuser.com/q/359995/74026
For sub-10k users:
If by converter you mean a cable adapter that converts between SATA and PATA, those are probably hit-or-miss as the two ...
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Merge [external-display] and [external-monitor]
There's
external-display, 121 questions
external-monitor, 13 questions
As the two are obviously synonyms, and the first one is much more widely used, I suggest to:
Merge external-display and ...
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Windows-7 -tagged questions are highlighted light blue
Today I noticed several questions in the SU main feed were highlighted light blue. This afternoon I had a moment to compare them and found they were all the questions tagged Windows-7.
Is this ...
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Apple questions: To iMigrate, or not to iMigrate?
Lately I've noticed that some questions about Apple's products have been migrated to the https://apple.stackexchange.com/ web site.
Should all Apple questions be migrated to that site? Or is there a ...
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Request to reopen (or properly close) question 358637 (Hardware for a gaming PC)
I'd like to request to reopen this question:
How do I choose hardware for a gaming machine, and which components are the most important ones?
[…]
What I know is that I need a powerful graphics card ...
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Can `ui` tag be merged with `user-interface`?
There are two tags which have the same meaning:
ui (15 questions),
user-interface (89 questions).
I imagine that ui may be removed, and the 15 questions retagged with user-interface.
What do you ...
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Missing and Disappeared tags
It looks like meta-tags missing and disappeared are still hanging around, if they were ever removed (see the earlier discussion on this).
I'm happy to go through and remove the tags, unless we want ...
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Reopen How to share a usb drive between laptops without a physical tether?
Can you re-open Can I share a USB drive between laptops without a physical tether?
I have referenced the model question in the blog and revised my question to the standard.
I revised due to concerns ...
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Why was this question (356778) closed?
Can data tapes be recorded/played on a standard cassette recorder? was closed as off-topic.
I can see why someone would think that this is about a tape recorder ("electronic devices") but in the FAQ ...
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What is the proper way to change your own answer completely?
I answered a question, and since the question was of a real interest to me (I noticed the same thing on my own system and thought it might be malware), researched it further. It turned out my answer ...
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How can we take care of our old duplicates?
What's going on …
There is a trend that is very easy to explain.
A question is asked.
It gets a few answers, and because it's the first of its kind (i.e. topic-wise), it receives a lot of popularity
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Consolidating & adding synonyms for cron, crontab & cronjob tags
There are 145 questions tagged with cron, 61 with crontab & 17 with cronjob.
Should these be consolidated into a single tag with appropriate synonyms? If so, would:
cron ← crontab
cron ← ...
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Why was my "not an answer" flag marked helpful, but the post not deleted?
I flagged this post as "not an answer":
I had the same problem as Dan Dyer. I followed slesker's instructions and now my problem is solved.
Now, to the openoffice developpers: I really ...
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Questions asking for manual identification of fonts?
I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify ...
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Why was Straighten Microphone Cables closed?
Why was my question Straighten microphone cables closed?
It is a practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that I currently face. It is not chatty or open-ended.
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Do questions on software's "terms of use" belong on SU?
Do questions on software's "terms of use" (what you need to click agree and accept... to install software), belong on SU?
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Questions with expired bounty
In case of questions where the bounty amount expires, I believe the bounty is supposed to be given to the highest voted answer after the bounty was announced, with atleast 2 upvotes.
However, how ...
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Will awarding bounties remove privileges?
If I award a bounty, and my rep therefore goes lower, do I lose the privileges I've earned? For example, if I was just at 1001 Rep, and put up a bounty for 50 Rep and awarded it, do I lose my ...
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Question of the Week #32
It's been a while since we posted a QOTW. In large part this is because I (the editor of the QOTW section of the blog) have been extremely busy with school, and haven't had much time for writing. I'd ...
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Why was my question closed (351486)?
My question was closed due to it being "Not constructive".
Now, I hate to be the one whining and stuff, but I really think the reason for closing the question is kinda.. odd.
As far as I can tell, ...
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Not a duplicate of what was pointed and closed for
My question at https://superuser.com/questions/351055/test-for-protection-softwares was closed and said to be a duplicated. I have checked the given links, they were not only superficial to the matter ...
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Can I get a few Office for Mac synonyms?
I finally fixed our Office for Mac tags, and I managed to do it without a posse!
Now, the office-for-mac tag has 44 questions, and there are several subtags for the individual programs and Office ...
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Migrating questions to the Ubuntu or Linux/Unix Stack Exchange sites
I just realised that there are Stack Exchange sites for Ubuntu and Linux/Unix.
Why aren't all the Linux/Unix/Debian etc questions on Super User getting migrated there?
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How should I request for comment cleanup on migrated questions?
Going through the list of recently migrated questions (10k), some of these really need some editing or other moderation.
What you see quite often on those questions are comments like:
not ...
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Can Trogdor please burninate the [must-have] tag
Found another meta tag today must-have
I call upon the mighty and hope that he does what he does best.
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Are questions about Bluetooth enabled devices allowed on SU?
If I'm trying to connect my Wii remote to my computer via Bluetooth, would a question on that be allowed? I ask, because you might be creating an accessory for your PC...
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Editing others' questions: etiquette issue with partially off-topic questions?
The quidelines for editing say don't change the meaning. And it's reasonable and just. But what about questions like this one: "Should I buy webcam of 720p or VGA quality?"
The first part, where the ...
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Are software-specific questions okay?
I checked out the FAQ and searched Meta. Couldn't figure it out.
I'm wondering how to change the default save format in Notepad++. It's not in the docs. What I typically get when I ask Q&A ...
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Is there a valid Stackexchange for my home networking question, or should I just use the DD-WRT Forum?
I asked a question at serverfault, it was migrated to superuser, and promptly closed as off-topic.
Here is the question:
Is it possible to throw DD-WRT on a F5D8235-4 v2?
Now is there a valid ...
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Why was my self-answer/post deleted?
Here is the question:
Can I use webex to show app from a remote desktop connection?
I followed up with an answer that was DELETED by a moderator. I can't figure out why a USEFUL post would be ...
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What is the proper resolution for tags hijacking?
What to do when some tag was created with an obvious meaning, but later on took a different meaning entirely? For example, .cdr tag. It was created as "CorelDraw file extension", but later on used as "...
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Should Home Networking questions be considered on topic?
After seeing the question Is it possible to throw DD-WRT on a F5D8235-4 v2?, I found out that neither Super User nor Server Fault allows questions on home networking. Should we be opening the scope of ...
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Reuploading non-broken images from imgur to stack.imgur
Gareth has been editing many of my posts recently to upload images that were already at Imgur to stack.imgur.com. Many posts were submitted after the whole let's just replace i.imgur with i.stack....
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"iBooks vs. Kindle in terms of number of textbooks for students" -- appropriate question?
Is Superuser the appropriate site to ask about whether the Kindle or iBooks platform has more textbooks available and which platform offers a better experience (i.e., I've seen the Apple ads with the ...
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How to ask a question which is similar to other questions but not exactly similar
I find many questions which are similar to my question but not exactly what i want to ask. Some people feel it duplicate so they vote down or sometimes it leads closing a question.
I can edit a ...
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Recommendations for the BEST?
Going through @Gareth's list of candidates for closing, I find several topics that are asking about the best X, with X being software.
We're usually pretty liberal with product recommendations if it'...
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Three batches of questions to close or delete
In line with Help us clean up Super User, I've been closing a lot of questions recently, but some are fairly old and hard to get close votes on. Ideally I'd vote to delete but I don't have enough ...
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Since when are software recommendations off-topic?
I want to take discussion away from Daniel's previous post.
Here's my point: I've always been under the impression that software-recommendations were absolutely fine on Super User.* Now, obviously, ...
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Are names that can be confused with the site name allowed?
I'm thinking about names like super user, superuser and superuser.
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kvm tag ambiguity
The kvm tag is used for both Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch and for Linux Kernel-Virtual-Machine infrastructure.
There are tags kvm-switch and linux-kvm
Is it worthwhile changing all 'kvm' tags to one ...
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Where is the definitive "attributes of a *decent* text editor" article?
Periodically I write docs for or emails to folks who just don't know yet what a decent text editor is. When I do so I want to link to the definitive article that gently introduces and describes the ...
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Browse unanswered within a tag?
It does not appear possible to AND two filters, like "Windows" and "Unanswered". Perhaps an advanced search||settings page I'm not seeing?
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What do I do with useful information on a post unrelated to the question?
What do I do with useful information on a post unrelated to the question? This comes about sometimes from knowledgable users that give some background to bigger problem that solves the direct problem ...
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How do we handle tags with the same Acronym?
This question asks about the SAS statistics software as opposed to the more general usage - of the hard drive interface known as Serial Attached SCSI. I don't think the question-asker's at fault, ...
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Can I migrate a question from SuperUser to StackOverflow myself?
I asked a question on SU and it became obvious to me that it was a programming issue (of mine) and not a SuperUser issue. I added some more info, along with comments for the people who had responded -...
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Super User Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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