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Should the "certificates" and "trusted-root-certificates" tags be merged?
On SU there are these two tags dealing with certificates:
certificate
trusted-root-certificates
I'm wondering, are they too close to each other to have meaningful difference? I mean, should we just ...
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Is cross posting in Meta allowed
I have made a post on another stack exchange site in the Meta section.
The issue is, what idea could be good for one of the sites, may not be good for the other and as such the question will not get ...
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High Definition tags
I think we can merge / rename / remove some of the following HD tags:
hdtv x 93
high-definition (hd) x 57
hdvideo x 51
What do you think?
hd-dvd x 5
fullhd x 2
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Why was this non-programming question migrated from SU to SO?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11832505/simulating-a-bad-internet-connection
This guy was looking for a way to use a PC to simulate a bad network connection. I provided him with a way to use a ...
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A lot of "no such partition" questions, how do we clean them up?
See this Google Search for "no such partition" on Super User: 2700 (224 according to the last page).
Without tag pages: 556 (206 according to the last page)
Without tag pages and close votes: 551 (...
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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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Should my question be a duplicate?
I asked this question about network shares becoming inaccessible on my Windows computer. It was closed as a duplicate of this question.
I'm not convinced mine should be closed as a duplicate of the ...
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Question which should have the answer "it is impossible"
I asked that question: https://superuser.com/questions/1842310/collaborate-on-a-ms-word-document-while-prohibiting-word-online
It has been closed.
But it seems, by reading all the comments, that the ...
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Is a question about a Windows iPhone image type that turns out to be just about settings on the iPhone a better fit for Ask Different SE?
I asked How to browse the iPhone HEIC images on Windows without the automatic conversion to JPG?
and found out that the fix is on the side of the iPhone settings. Windows does not play a role for the ...
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Should we rename zoom tag to zoom-windows
There are so many posts in the suggested-edits review queue where users are constantly correcting these tags. Mainly removing zoom and adding zoom-meeting.
My suggestion is to rename zoom to zoom-...
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Looking for a canonical about troubleshooting issues about using web applications?
Tl;Dr: I'm looking for a canonical for
troubleshooting problems that might be caused by end-user computers
that occurs when using web applications.
This is a ...
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Why tag 'graalvm' not exist in superuser?
I have question regarding to install GraalVM but i could not find graalvm.
GraalVM includes a JDK based on the Java HotSpot VM.
source: https://www.graalvm.org/22.1/guides/
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Help needed for rephrasing closed question
I asked a question about differences between different FIDO2 USB dongles. Although it might sound like a product recommendation on the surface it's actually general security related question not ...
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A proper question got closed down
I posted a question with a lot of details
How do I prevent an exe and Powershell on Windows / PC to stop running altogether?
But it got closed with the reason "not enough details provided"....
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Reopen request: How to compare two word files?
Clicking on the linked question below leads to a "Page not found". Can this question be re-opened, because the duplicate got deleted?
This question already has answers here:
Closed 10 years ...
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Make question about Java MaxHeapSize more focused
This question about Java MaxHeapSize was closed because it needs to be more focused. How can it be made more focused?
"Needs more focus" is defined here as "has many valid answers (but no way to ...
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Cross-posting an answer between AskUbuntu and SuperUser
While looking for a way to activate an X window from the command line, I found two particularly relevant results. One on AskUbuntu and the other on SuperUser.
The answers given in both questions didn'...
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Why is this question about VMware Workstation's Record/Replay feature off-topic?
This is not my question, but it is a question that I possibly could answer: why is the question What versions of VMware Workstation has the “Recording/Replaying VM activity” feature marked off-topic?
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Why was my question about not being able to boot from USB poorly received?
PC does not start from Windows 10 USB
It got downvotes almost instantly. I would like to understand why? Maybe I can improve my question.
I asked it because I kind of feel stuck in my quest to make ...
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Why was this question about downloading / uploading put on hold as off-topic?
In this question, the asker seems to be asking about how bandwidth usage is counted. A possible misunderstanding of its accounting may have led the asker to believe that if bandwidth is "used" by the ...
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Fixing a question about finding specific hardware
My question replacement rgb led strips for asus aura sync? was closed as off topic:
"Questions seeking for hardware shopping recommendations are off-topic because they are often relevant only to the ...
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How to use redundant tags (eg microsoft-excel, excel-2007)
I think I'm not using tags correctly I was always going for the "how to ask" rule: "be as specific as possible". This edit here: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/775074 the rejection ...
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Is there a "vote history" that shows every single up- and downvote including the revokes of votes?
Is there a "vote history" that shows every single up- and downvote including the revokes of votes? Does it get recorded in the database at all? There is the time line for a post and my reputation ...
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Is this comment no longer needed?
When looking how to do something I came across this answer:
If you are trying to this on a Windows computer, unfortunately it is
not possible out of the box. You will need to install some ...
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It's not a shopping rec question
This question got closed as asking for shopping suggestions:
USB-Ethernet adapter for a laptop without Ethernet socket
Instead of asking what to buy, try asking how to find out what suits your ...
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TrickleEdit test question
This is a test question used while developing an extension.
Please do not upvote or downvote this question.
This question will be deleted when testing is complete.
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Rename [macos-sierra] to [osx-sierra]
According to some searching and this meta post, it seems that [macos-*] was changed to [osx-*]. However, it looks like macos-sierra didn't make it, or the rule was forgotten. I believe it should be [...
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Burninate [tiles]; Retag as [live-tiles]
A majority of the questions tagged with tiles (27 questions) appear to be about the live-tiles (42 questions) introduced in Windows 8.
I don't think the tag should be added as a synonym, since "Tiles"...
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Sad [Addons] ? Sad un's!
addons - even the description is terrible.
I propose it's nuked, because grouping questions by the fact they are about an add on for another program, is really not useful for any kind of searching at ...
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Any way to search comments for amazon.com links
Some one corrected my comment (I deleted my comment) with a comment showing me an Amazon.com link listing retail copies of Windows 7, my Amazonfu cannot find any, would like the link or what search ...
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Best practice to review questions already commented
I sometimes have a bit of time and review new users' posts / answers. Often I see some which is already commented how to be improved. If I agree with the comment I don't want to write similar comment, ...
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Clean off the [Dashboard] tag
dashboard looks pretty meta to me... It does not describe one single product, or even one company. Is there an expert on every dashboard available to answer all the questions?
I think we need to get ...
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New visitors can add images - should we review it
Is it worth having, within the Review/Tools section (https://superuser.com/tools), thumbnails of all images posted to be reviewed.
I'm not suggesting the image has to be approved first or not, that'...
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How does the review ban work?
When one makes too many incorrect reviews, one gets banned from reviewing for a period of time.
I believe that this is valid and correct action. However I am a curious person and I am interested to ...
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Unsatisfied with an answer
I asked a question a while ago, about performance problems, but the question I was given didn't solve my problem, (it didn't even try), and now the question is closed.
The same situation is causing ...
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Standard Question Guidance
We get a lot of questions that fall into some common themes, like BSOD, network issues, USB issues, flash drive issues, laptop battery/power pack issues, etc. Often, the person will be clueless about ...
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Synonymize ipkg and opkg, or not?
There's ipkg (where development has stalled) and its fork opkg (a package manager used by eg. OpenWRT, actively maintained). OpenWRT is used in home networking by enthusiasts, which is on-topic here.
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Should we plan a celebration?
SU is rapidly approaching 1/4 million questions. Shouldn't the person who asks the 250,000th question get some balloons or something?
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Time for [wake-up] to go back to [sleep]
The tag wake-up is used mainly to describe the process of waking up from sleep.
I think that the process of system sleep/wake-up are too similar, (and ultimately about the same process) to warrant ...
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Merge: [charging] into [battery]
I don't see why charging should be a seperate topic area from battery, any battery will need to deal with charging, and any 'battery expert' is also going to know how to troubleshoot charging issues ...
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Is there a retirement home for "closed" meta questions?
I'm thinking primarily of tag cleanup requests, but this might apply to certain other questions, also. The active questions list can fill up with things like tag cleanup requests. At some point, ...
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How should I ask reasonably similar questions with minor variations (or should I be going for a more general canonical question?)
I'm currently clearing out my cable drawer and finding all sorts of oddball things - I'm currently doing some simple functional tests on ethernet and USB cables and weeding out the infirm and weak.
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Receive notifications when one's own questions are linked to in another post?
Often in a question, answer, or comment, someone will post a link to another existing related superuser question.
For now let us refer only to the posts where this is done because the posts are ...
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How to ask more when a question already exists by other author?
I'd like to ask more in this question What is the "Automatic Maintenance"? in the way that I want to know what EXACTLY is done during maintenance (ie a command/script that shows a full list ...
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Editing "on hold" question
The question
https://superuser.com/questions/612281/reason-for-unexpectedly-shutdown-with-unexpected-symbols
by unregistered user was put on hold with "unclear what you are asking" as reason.
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Why is there no way to look at progress towards different badges?
Does anyone know why there is no ability to view progress/statistics towards particular badges or just have the overall ability to look at progress for accounts? I feel like this would be very ...
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Bad name for [modern-ui] tag
modern-ui was AFAIK never the official name from Microsoft. It was always either knows by the codename “Metro”, by the internally used name “Immersive” or by the moniker “Windows Store apps”
Request: ...
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Merge [laptop-repair] into [repair]
repair x 247
laptop-repair x 81
I think these laptop-repair should be merged into repair - just like battery and laptop-battery - (link).
Questions about laptop repair can be tagged with laptop and ...
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Retagging [find][replace] questions with [find-and-replace]
Please retag questions tagged with findreplacement with the
find-and-replace tag.
I know I could do it myself, manually, but I thought it would be better to post about it here on meta first.
I've ...
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How should be approach Windows 8 Store apps tags?
There are times where users have specific question about specific apps within Windows 8. How should we tag these specific questions?
I propose we do the following:
Have a general windows-8-store-...
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