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Question closed as dup but link to duplicate is a dead link
In such a case should the question be reopened? I am especially referring to this question here. You'll find that the question that's supposedly a duplication refers to a 404 page not found -- a dead ...
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Does having edit privileges allow me to approve edits from others?
Pre-2000 reputation - Every time I edited a post I needed to await attention before it could be approved. I 100% agree with this rule.
Post-2000 reputation - I can edit any post without waiting for ...
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'Best iPad stylus' question deleted as off topic
I had a question about the best iPad stylus that would meet general needs and outperform the others. However, it was closed.
There's tons of "the best ...." questions; why was mine deleted? It's a ...
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Where does a question about deciding between two pieces of hardware go?
I'm deciding between two graphic cards to buy and I'd like to ask a question regarding this, so that experienced users can help me.
Where does such a question belong to? Here at super user? At any ...
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Should we have a sub-tag for beta/RC?
Something I was wondering about when coming across older win 7 RC and beta questions - In many cases bugs are specific to dev versions, or involve the newness of them. With the win8-dev-preview ...
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Waiting period to start a bounty?
I posted a question early this morning. So far it has very few views and no answers or comments. It's a complicated topic and I want to add a bounty to attract more attention and hopefully get an ...
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Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity?
Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity by your most active members?
I have enjoyed answering questions lately, and I would by lying if I did not say that I didn't have ...
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How do I comment on a question on Super User? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I comment on a thread?
I need an author of a question to clarify his question, and I've seen people post comments on questions to do this, yet I can't find a way to. I'...
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What's the Super User community policy on duplicates
I have a similar freezing problem as described by Arthur Skirvin, though my hardware configuration is different and freezing symptoms vary slightly. Hence my post here on meta. I do not frequently ...
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Should we nuke the [calculations], [research] and [malfunction] tags?
These tags have about a dozen questions each.
calculations and research are too general and ambiguous. A few questions tagged research do relate to hardware and software for academia, but even then ...
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Merge [search-and-replace] and [find-and-replace]
There are:
find-and-replace (56 tagged)
search-and-replace (17 tagged).
I'd propose to merge them. There's no difference between these two. Then, create a synonym for search-and-replace → ...
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Can I ask a question about how to disconnect someone from linkedin?
I think it will be "out of scope"... But I don't know where to ask this question on SE...
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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on superuser, and found 103 pairs of questions with totally identical title, excluding those where one of them is ...
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File Purpose and Usage Questions
I've often had to go search for files that I've found running on my computer, and I want to find out what they are, and if they're ok. I usually do a lot of googling to find the answer, but have ...
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Large number of small edits during birthday celebration
Has anybody else noticed a significant jump in the number of small or insignificant edits occuring since the kick-off of the birthday festivities?
I'm personally rolling back those that are truly ...
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Request to Re-Open Question #331125
The question:
https://superuser.com/questions/331125/why-would-moving-from-anything-microsoft-be-such-a-good-idea
According to @Random (who closed it) it was due to the likelyness of it 'solicit ...
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Was the canonical "which software to install on a new Windows box" question deleted?
I believe this question might have been the canonical "what should I install on a new Windows computer question". I always searched for that question when installing a new computer.
I won't argue ...
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Duplicate questions for merging/deleting
I have been working on completing a thorough examination of the query from Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate, and found many posts were duplicates from single users, that ...
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Move a question to another SE site
I recently flagged learn ActionScript or keep the html5 path for mod attention to be moved to programmers.se, as it was relevant for that site. The question was closed by a mod without any other votes....
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What are the requirements and how to submit a SU blog?
What the requirements for submitting a Super User Community Blog post? After the post has been created, how is it submitted?
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What can we do about questions remaining for days on the Unanswered tab?
It would be nice to process the Unanswered Tab on a daily basis...
However, it feels like I am the only one passing by there, which is why there is barely any progress there.
What can we do such ...
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What sort of ewok questions are allowed on SuperUser?
I thought SuperUser was intended to be very generalised, where almost anything goes. From the blog:
If your question has to do with computers, it will be allowed there.
But then again, so are ...
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What to do with questions where the user is clearly asking for a way to cheat the SE system?
I'm talking about the following question:
How can I run a web page in task scheduler every day?
The user is asking for a way to make its computer perform an action to "cheat" the SO system and ...
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I forgot my Super User email, how do I recover my account?
It seems to be a joke, but it isn't.
I had been using Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser until today. From now on, I'm planning to use Google Chrome as my default browser.
Weeks ago, I somehow ...
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request for burnination/synonyms
In reference to: Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
Shouldn't we also do the same for customer-support and palm-support?
customer-support is general and also a large percentage of the ...
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How should one use the home tag?
Going through the home tag, it seems there are three primary uses:
The home folder,
computers that you leave at home, and
home networking
Which one should be used, if at all?
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Would a "personal feedback" question be appropriate on Meta.SU?
From the MVSU Meta question I liked getting feedback from my fellow users and so did Tom Wijsman as I understand from his comment to the question:
+1 We should have more of these MVSU threads, ...
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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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Please clean up the USB drive tags?
I'm currently updating the Tag wiki for usb and found some irregularities:
usb-drive x153 – the most commonly used one, also mentions in the excerpt: "especially devices known otherwise as ...
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Why should high rep users get privileges?
It seems to me (from reading this like this excellent post by random, and looking at the current high rep users for the quarter and the top editors for the quarter and seeing how little they overlap, ...
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Doesn't the "untagged" tag defeat the purpose?
Today, I noticed a new tag called "untagged." Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the tagging system? How do you flag a tag for removal?
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Should I delete my answer when it gets outdated due to version changes?
I have an answer with 13 upvotes on this question Can you disable VLC's font cache?. It was never accepted as correct and now it seems VLC has changed so it is less useful than ever.
My first ...
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Tags that should never be the only ones on a question
It seems to me that there are some tags that if they are the only ones on a post (or even if they are mentioned at all) pretty much make the question off topic. Perhaps these tags should have a ...
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My software rec question got closed as a duplicate, while it is not
My question got closed. As a duplicate.
However, I asked if there is an equivalent to "Proccess Explorer". Not a CPU monitor. Proccesss Explorer does MUCH more. Memory usage, network usage, commit ...
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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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Should I delete answers with no votes?
Assuming that I had answered a question and didn't get any votes(up or down) for a month or some weeks, should I worry about delete it? I mean, should I assume that it is a bad answer as well if it ...
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Can the old Firefox recommended extensions question be viewed by anybody in any way?
There was a question that I and many found useful though unfortunately it seems maybe it was deemed subjective and deleted. I had thought it'd be preserved in the database, but not being aware of all ...
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Target audience of answer on SU
You have to remember this site is called "superuser" not "idiotuser". You said "it's useful to have such a warning". I don't think it's useful to you at all. It's useful to somebody that perhaps doesn'...
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Super Contest Winners: Week 4
This post is to document the week 4 winners of the Super User Super Contest, for the week ending Monday, September 13.
Congratulations to our winners this week!
Best rookie performance by Linker3000
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Super Contest Winners: Week 3
This post is to document the week 3 winners of the Super User Super Contest, for the week ending Monday, September 13.
Congratulations to our winners this week!
Best rookie performance by Brad
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Why are there large number of high-view questions on the front page? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do we care about edit flooding? Should we be doing anything?
I refreshed my SU page and it went PINK.
As I count, there are 15 questions on the main SU view with nK views. ...
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Are ampersands (&s) inappropriate in questions?
I'm somewhat puzzled by these edits:
https://superuser.com/posts/320217/revisions
Let's break them down:
Changing "w/" to "with"
Capitalizing "Medialink"
Changing "&" to "and"
Changing "E.g." ...
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What does the [keys] tag mean?
Tag keys seems to be in use for various things. What should be retagged?
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SuperUser TOS and site content for informative talks
The Terms of Service has two clauses about site content. The first expressly prohibits any and all use of site content. And, the second states portions of site content are made available as archives ...
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Should we create a Community FAQ about diagnosing internet connection issues?
Internet connectivity issues are very common. Fixing them mostly involves several steps that should be taken in order to make sure where the problem lies, beginning from checking network settings, ...
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SuperUser RSS feed and Android 2.2 "news" app (RSS reader).
I can read https://superuser.com/feeds in Thunderbird but Android 2.2's "News" App says "Add channel error","This URL is not correct".
1) Is there some documentation about the URL for RSS on ...
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Request for new Dynamics CRM specific tags
Is it possible to create the tag dynamics-crm? There are questions tagged with crm that are specific to Dynamics CRM.
Maybe it's possible to create version specific tags in addition, like on SO: ...
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Tag wikis accepted, but excerpts rejected
I thought I could help by suggesting a few new tag wikis. Most were accepted, but in 3 of them, the tag wiki body was accepted but the excerpt was rejected, leaving them with no summary.
The edits ...
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What should we do with outdated, but highly-popular questions?
Example: We have a question about SSDs, which is now two years old.
Are SSDs worth the money?
I've been hearing a lot of hype about the SSDs recently. I'm planning
to buy a new machine as ...
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Flagging Questions as off-topic
When flagging questions as off-topic, and we are given options to choose a site it should go to... What determines that list? For example, if I see a question on SU that I think should belong on the ...
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