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political downvoting unrelated to a question?

Is anything ever done when some people downvote things to make some kind of point that is unrelated to the question? I made a comment that a question "What is a hostname" doesn't deserve 7 votes, and ...

slhck

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Jun 7, 2011 at 8:24

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How do I make the distinction between editing an answer to add content (detail) vs. just answering that question?

I have a question that has the right answer, but it's not very detailed: How do Optical/Laser Mice work? I'm at a dilemma here, I want to give the answerer the rep that he deserves as he is correct, ...

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modified Jun 6, 2011 at 23:37

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Question incorrectly marked as a duplicate...

I just posted this question: How can I control my Mac remotely? It specifically asks how I can remotely control my Mac. It was subsequently closed and marked as an "exact duplicate" of this ...

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modified Jun 5, 2011 at 5:48

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How can I become "Fanatic" and earn gold medal on superuser.com cheating? [closed]

I would like to get a gold medal on superuser but I'm not very constant so I often forget to login and my day count goes again to zero. I have servers working 365 days so I look for a good idea to ...

Tog

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Jun 3, 2011 at 10:27

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'Lost' tag is meaningless

This is on 8 questions, and I just saw it used as recently as today. This seems like the definition of a meta tag to me and should probably go away, yes?

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modified Jun 2, 2011 at 3:10

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Should duplicate answers posted within a short time frame be flagged?

Lets say there are two answers with the same content on the same question. Should the second one get flagged? This has happened to me, and I sent a flag. Want to know if it was the right thing to do. ...

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modified Jun 1, 2011 at 10:16

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Should answers be posted as comments if we are not sure of the answer?

I notice that a lot of comments are really answers to questions - or at least could be considered answers to questions - should "one" submit a comment instead of a question when "one" is a little ...

Sathyajith BhatMod

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Jun 1, 2011 at 7:08

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What should Super User Blog put as a general bio for Lifehacker?

Lifehacker is interested in reposting some of our material on their site. They've asked what bio should we add to the posts? This is what I replied with but I wanted to get everyone's opinion/...

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modified May 28, 2011 at 0:14

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Is giving a shopping recommendation prohibited?

I understand that questions that ask for a shopping recommendation are off topic. However, after reading this answer, a question came up: is giving a shopping recommendation in response to such a ...

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modified May 21, 2011 at 6:22

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How do we want to test Hyperthreading performance boosts for the SuperUser Blog?

For the Super User Questions of the Week #15 the highest voted answer was How much speedup does a hyper thread give? (in theory). While we should be looking at what theoretical boost Hyperthreading ...

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modified May 21, 2011 at 6:19

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Can someone write a good Q/A on port-forwarding?

I think we need a question where we have gathered (router-agnostic) good advice on how to set up port-forwarding on a home network. Then we could close questions like this and point it to our port-...

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modified May 20, 2011 at 14:53

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Moderation of duplicates here vs SO

On Stack Overflow moderators tend to not close duplicates quite so brutally as they do on Super User. For reasons such as: The asker may pick a new answer. New answers may be better. Time affects ...

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modified May 20, 2011 at 14:47

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Time to delete the eBook reader questions?

We have a few questions about eBook readers that I think could be deleted. Most are OT and only invites things like this: Why was this question closed? kindle 33 15 questions nook 3 0 questions ...

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modified May 19, 2011 at 16:40

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Why am I having difficulty getting specific answers?

First off, I am wholly prepared to accept responsibility for vagueness in my questions. As such I want to clear any up. As yet, they are not apparent to me. As such, I'd like to request better ...

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modified May 17, 2011 at 17:33

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Should we have a Q/A on setting PATH and environment variables?

Questions about setting environment variables and/or the PATH are very common, I guess, and in most cases the answers are the same. There is a CW answer on how to set the PATH on Windows, but as far ...

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modified May 16, 2011 at 18:27

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Proposed tag wiki for Microsoft Excel

This is a suggested tag wiki entry for microsoft-excel, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more ...

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modified May 15, 2011 at 20:47

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Are user-level troubleshooting questions appropriate?

Questions like: When Abode Reader plugin attempts to open web documents in IE8, sometimes a blank dialog box appears and the document fails to open.

Jeff Atwood

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May 14, 2011 at 8:36

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My post was unfairly edited and locked

My previous post was getting edit and I think the edit was wrong. Look at the Revision 2, sblair completely changed my post, which include a line here: "I want one of my friends to buy a 1TB hard ...

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modified May 10, 2011 at 19:23

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Reputation needed to get SU in network profile

How much reputation is needed in Superuser to get it on the reputation chart in network profile? I had like 60 points before the linking bonus, and the reputation from stackoverflow starts from 11 in ...

DMA57361

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May 8, 2011 at 12:59

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Suggested tag synonym: blogs/blogging

blogs and blogging seem to be basically similar in content. In principle, the former could be about reading blogs and the latter writing them, but I doubt that distinction would survive. Also, blog is ...

Sathyajith BhatMod

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May 8, 2011 at 12:04

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Closed MSE question - What would be acceptable? How should I ask this one?

So ... usually when a question of mine gets closed, I don't open a new question about it. However, this got me thinking. I've been an Avast, BitDefender, AVG, ESET user through the years. I've seen ...

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modified May 7, 2011 at 0:16

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Why is my reputation on SU/meta.SU different from the one in SO/meta.SO?

I've been here for quite some time, but I haven't really yet understood the following situation: A few weeks ago, I had ~2000 rep on SU, maybe a bit more When I then visited meta.SU, I received ...

Sathyajith BhatMod

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May 3, 2011 at 7:24

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Are questions about Joomla considered off topic?

Currently I am fighting with Joomla and XAMPP installation and trying to make it to work so I would like to post a question on the main Superuser site but searching for Joomla on the Superuser I get ...

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modified May 3, 2011 at 4:30

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trigger happy moderators deleting answers for no reason

I know I can't expect quality of SO on SU, but moderators deleting answers for no reason at all? That's going too far. How to mess up a PC running Windows 7? It's not a duplicate, it's on-topic, it'...

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modified May 2, 2011 at 0:39

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Should we allow commercial products in the community promotion ads?

There are a few community promoted ads that have commercial purchase options. DAEMON Tools minitube The question open for discussion - should we allow ads to be posted for products that have free ...

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modified Apr 26, 2011 at 16:49

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Why don't people upvote when browsing the site?

I've been on the StackExchange boards for quite some time now and it seems that people don't upvote other's answers anymore when browsing the site. At least from my experience. Let's take this ...

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modified Apr 24, 2011 at 20:56

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Recommending own products

What's our stance on relevant product recommendations? The paragraph in the FAQ is clearly not enough in this case. As a recent example, a developer of an Outlook plug-in/addon started answering ...

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modified Apr 23, 2011 at 13:26

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Can a synonym be made for the [windows-phone] tag?

The tag windows-phone-7 should be retagged windows-phone. While there are a few more instances including the 7 bit, the questions listed all apply to every current version of Windows Phone, including ...

studiohack

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Apr 21, 2011 at 0:38

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Should shopping and/or hardware recommendation questions be allowed on SuperUser?

I've seen a recent surge in questions asking for recommendations on buying X type of hardware (replace X with mice, GPUs, CPUs, hard drives, flash drives, you name it). Looking at TheTXI's answer here,...

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modified Apr 19, 2011 at 18:25

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Official stance on asking questions (that you answer) that might apply to several people [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should I write question when I know answer? Scenario: You've struggled with a problem/issue for a while and didn't post it on Super User because you wanted to figure it out ...

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modified Apr 17, 2011 at 21:22

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Why was this question deleted?

Why was this deleted? Visible to 10k only: https://superuser.com/questions/74038/win7-wont-let-me-in-password-is-correct I don't think it should be. The accepted answer is something that has ...

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modified Apr 16, 2011 at 21:55

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Idle moderator position

quack quixote has left Super User for good (here is the related post), and he still seems to have the moderator position (obviously idle). I think this position should be granted (by election) to an ...

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modified Apr 14, 2011 at 5:32

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Inappropriate migration to SF?

This question was migrated to SF a bit ago: Suspicious redirection to russian pages. Is government spying us? After being received by us, it was quickly closed as being off-topic (I would have ...

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modified Apr 11, 2011 at 21:46

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Should posts containing personal information be deleted?

A user edited out an email address inside a post. I flagged the post so that a moderator could remove the revision with the email address, and my flag weight went down. ;( So I was wondering, what's ...

DMA57361

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Apr 6, 2011 at 10:01

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Should we strive for a general "template" for all blog posts, or allow full user control?

I as this because some users like to "quote" question title, while I personally use a large font bolded title for question titles: Mine: Tom's (not picking you out on purpose): What I'm wondering ...

James Mertz

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Apr 2, 2011 at 20:14

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3 answers

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Legal basis for restriction of discussions?

A recent discussion of policy here left me wondering about the legal reasoning behind it. On any computer-related forum, there will sometimes be questions related to usage that may violate the EULA. ...

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modified Apr 1, 2011 at 15:47

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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?

balphaStaffMod

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Mar 31, 2011 at 23:41

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Why was this question about computer hardware closed as off-topic?

Why was this question closed? I can't see how it does not relate to computer hardware.

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modified Mar 31, 2011 at 16:45

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Questions about IP Phones: Off-topic?

I'm trying to ascertain whether or not questions about IP phones (in my case, Cisco) are on-topic or off-topic for SuperUser. I read this question, which basically says: If its problems using ...

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modified Mar 30, 2011 at 23:25

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why was this question closed?

I asked a question about whether a certain type of computer hardware exists and it was closed. As this pertains directly to computer hardware and has an easily definable answer I do not see why the ...

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modified Mar 30, 2011 at 1:14

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Is the Super User Blog the new 'Generic Question Community Wiki'?

Here's my thought process on this: We've got some general questions out there that keep popping up. Like the, infamous PC freezing questions I brought up earlier in the year. At that time we ...

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modified Mar 29, 2011 at 18:29

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What Stack Exchange site would be best for someone who's thinking about building their first PC? [closed]

Please advise. PC Mag recommends a sister site called ExtremeTech.com, but I'm wondering if there's a member of the Stack Exchange family that would be appropriate. Thanks.

Hello71

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Mar 27, 2011 at 1:43

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The Super User Blog -- now officially blessed!

Great job on the blog! After a call today with Ivo, we decided that the Super User Blog is now sufficiently awesome to be highlighted in the footer! You'll note that the blog link in the Super User ...

Jeff Atwood

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Mar 26, 2011 at 0:09

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