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SU Retag Request: [tools] <--> [utilities]
tools and utilities are the same thing, right? I think they should be merged under tools.
What do you think?
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Is Super User aimed at Microsoft users?
A couple of days ago, I've asked a question and it was closed so quick I couldn't even react.
As the question was somewhat pointed and concerned working with Windows I was asking myself if I may ...
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Is it OK to ask questions about a certain product on Super User?
I am looking for a webcam and I wanted to know if I can ask for recommendations on superuser. Is this kind of thing allowed?
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Add 'Fault' to the Meta required tag list
Is it possible to add something like 'Fault' or 'Failure' or 'Crash' to the list of tags that you have to pick one of in order to post to Meta? For example, with yesterday's data centre down-ness ("...
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Off-topic : network discussions
The following question : https://superuser.com/questions/257073/good-book-for-networks has been closed as off-topic.
The question I'm asking: if network discussion are not meant to be on super-user, ...
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Should I write question when I know answer?
I had a problem for which I couldn't find solution on the Internet. I found a solution and I think that the solution for the problem is useful and somebody could have the same problem. Is it OK to ...
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Can [pc], [programs] be obliterated? And [hardware], [software] again?
Reference 1: SU Retag Request: [tag:applications] --> [tag:software]
Reference 2: Can [tag:hardware] and [tag:software] be obliterated?
Can we obliterate pc and programs as well?
On the same par: ...
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Why isn't SuperUser on twitter?
I have one habit. Every time I stumble upon a good site, I bookmark it and search it on the Twitter. As I joined SuperUser. I searched for "superuser" on Twitter to follow it. But the search yielded ...
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Why is superuser moderated so strictly?
Had this already yesterday with two questions which were "pulled". For one I could even understand it.
Today (just now) the question here
https://superuser.com/questions/252728/library-loading-order
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Retag request: rdp->remote desktop
I see a lot of questions which are tagged both rdp and remote-desktop. I have yet to see any where the question refers to the remote desktop protocol specifically; in every case, just remote-desktop ...
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My question was closed and I find it unfair.
I wasn't too sure if I was better to ask here or on the Stack Overflow meta (since it also serves as the Stack Exchange meta site), but after reading the accepted answer of this similar question on ...
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What to do if I ask a question but discover the solution myself before anyone else? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it kosher to accept your answer on your own question?
Recently I asked a question about Outlook Express crashing. Someone left an answer with a possible reason and a list ...
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What do you want Super User Blog to test with SSD technology?
In conjunction with the Super User blog, we will be getting three SSD's from Kingston. We want to perform tests on these drives and blog about the results, and need your help. What testing, ...
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Future of the "fun" tag
I suggest we get rid of the fun tag. The questions are mostly wikis, closed or both and I think it matches all criterion for a meta tag.
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Top Questions of the Week #6
Now we're into week 6 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and ...
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Incorporating more information from comments while editing
Editing guidelines (for example this meta question) do not give any information about incorporating additional information from comments.
For example, while editing this, there is additional rather ...
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Top Questions of the Week #5
Now we're into week 5 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and ...
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how do I view revisions to a question?
how do I view revisions to a question (presumably including tag changes)?
do I need a certain rep amount, if so how much?
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What to do with questions that are duplicate on other SE site?
So, this question got my attention, there's an exact duplicate on SF that has already been answered. Migrating it to SF would probably get it closed there as exact duplicate. Should we just close it ...
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Should duplicate answers be posted, just to include screen shots?
I stumbled upon this question which has an answer posted (and edited) months ago. Just today, a new answer was posted with the exact same steps as the old answer, but including screen shots of the ...
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Top Questions of the Week #4
Now we're into week 4 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and ...
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Top Questions of the Week #2
Now we're into week 2 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and ...
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Why isn't superuser.stackexchange.com redirected to superuser.com?
Some of the SE sites I visit have domain names of the form [site].stackexchange.com and some [site].com. Since I hardly ever use links and type a few chars in the URL bar to get to a site this ...
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What is the correct procedure to mark as a possible duplicate?
Is there some other method to mark questions as possible duplicates than casting a close vote (requiring 3k rep)?
When I see some obvious duplicates, should I add a comment or flag for moderator ...
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Congratulations to the elected moderators of 2011!
According to the election page, the new moderators have been picked:
Congratulations!
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A bunch of tag rename/synonym requests
(See related chat discussion here)
NOTE: Most are small, so doesn't need special moderator attention, just update my post when you help.
Proposed tag renames/synonyms: (old tag --> new tag)
.net -->...
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[Aero-Peek], [Aero-Snap], and [Aero], one and the same?
Shouldn't the tags aero-peek, aero-snap, and aero just fall under aero..? Maybe we could combine them?
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Can [problem] be obliterated or merged to [troubleshooting]?
Most of the questions are using problem as a meta tag, can that tag perhaps be obliterated?
Update: I looked through all tags, re-tagged only one to troubleshooting because it was necessary...
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2011 Moderator Elections - Town Hall Chat: 3pm UTC on the 31st
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Proposed tag wiki for Google Chrome
This is a suggested tag wiki entry for google-chrome, 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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Automatically protecting popular questions after a given amount of time
While discussing on chat that some popular questions get locked or protected to prevent unnecessary answers, I thought that it might be useful to automatically protect older questions which meet ...
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Can the hardware and software tags be obliterated?
Do we really need the hardware and software tags?
Looking at the tags into detail:
They don't group all the questions that should belong to them.
Their statistics don't make sense, they are both less ...
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Having to ask for the user's OS... [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Super User - Suggest adding an operating system tag
We frequently have to ask about the OS the user runs, the Ask Question page doesn't ask to include it.
Would it be a good ...
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Help me quantify too localized.
I'm not complaining like I would on programmers.SE about all the injustice in the world, but to me, this makes absolutely no sense.
Super user is the place to ask questions about hardware peripherals ...
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Voting as a proxy for moderator quality
Are there really only twothree candidates in the moderator elections who have made over 1000 votes? Not good, not good, but kudos to studiohack, DMA57361 and Sathya.
Opinion: voting activity shows ...
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I had two of my answers deleted and I don't understand why.
I had two of my answers deleted and I don't understand why. I left the second answer as deleted by the moderator as I am not going to go against the moderator, rather a reason why the answers were ...
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On file removal, deletion, erasing and friends thereof
delete ×196
remove ×47
rm ×19
secure-erase ×18
deleted ×3
secure-delete ×3
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Surely we can give those poor tags some synonym love? I don't think they should all be merged into one master tag, ...
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show all comments to and from, in activity?
is it possible to see all comments i've made, to and from?
preferably in activity.
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Should we elect more than 3 additional moderators?
Looking at the current nominations, I am struggling to decide who to vote for, since at least 5 of the candidates in my honest opinion deserve to become moderators.
Considering that we have to ...
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community-awarded bounty?
In this post if you hover over the bounty (+50) it says "This answer has been awarded bounty of 50 Reputation by Community" Have I missed something where the community "bot" can mark an answer and ...
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What happens to bounties when a question is moved to another Stack Exchange site?
Just wondering what happens to the reputation.
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Why isn't reputation passed between Stack Exchange sites?
I don't understand it, why do we have to make our reputation separately on Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User even if the accounts are linked?
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Referral for new members
Like DropBox gives a space increase for the referrer and referee, is there any plans to add a referal link for a small rep boost? If someone signs up and gets at least 10 rep then the referrer gets 5 ...
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It’s annoying and hypocritical that reputation is split between StackExchange sites. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why reputation is not passed between superuser, stackoverflow and serverfault?
Why am I not permitted to downvote, comment, or use community wikis here on SU (yet) when over ...
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jZip possible malicious software.
jZip was mentioned a few times on SU, the problem is that it is possible malicious software.
The most prominent problems I've found are:
The website was registered via a proxy service, there's no ...
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Help create and maintain community FAQs!
Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.
Some of these are:
anti-virus software and cleaning them ...
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My bounty is about to end and I'm not sure I like the answers. What do I do?
Hello guys,
I've put a relatively large bounty (350) on a question I asked, and now the bounty's about to end. (Just to put you all in context, I was looking for a non-crappy way to use a physical ...
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Is it possible to control the scrollbox height for pre blocks?
Is there a way to control the height for <pre> blocks? (Edit: I have in mind further limiting beyond the default limit.) For superuser, I think this would be a useful feature (and possibly for ...
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Has a points deduction system to encourage original posters to 'close' their questions been considered?
I wondered if there was any merit in a system that encourages original posters to 'close' their questions by either selecting a 'correct' answer (as already done now) OR marking the original question ...
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The infamous "My PC is freezing" question...
We all know what they are:
My PC is freezing and I don't know
what to do? Please help me! Here's my
specs:
I think it's a windows 7
It has a power supply
There's some RAM ...
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