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Get to the core of [dual-core], [quad-core], and [multi-core]
I suggest merging dual-core, quad-core into multi-core. I propose this because there is no reason to have multiple tags on one topic.
Uses for multi-core
Virtualbox
Some OS have problems with multi ...
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Please make [amazon] stop hurting my brain
I started to write a tag cleanup request for amazon, listing the different ways in which the tag is used. I got writer's cramp. Basically, if you can create an anagram that spells "amazon" from ...
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Should the [signature] tag be removed?
There are two tags on my radar today: signature and digital-signature
digital-signature is obvious and clearly defined (though, it still needs a description).
It's signature that is ambiguous. ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Super User is scheduled for an election next week, March 13th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to ...
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Should Tablet Computer questions be allowed on Super User? [duplicate]
The current policy by community consensus is:
Allow appropriate tablet questions, but not actively encourage iOS and Android. Basically they will be treated like Ubuntu and OS X are treated right now.
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How do I create the Super User Logo in text?
The superuser logo has a square bracket and a curly bracket. is there a keyboard or ascii character for the "eye" dot?
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Ideas for celebrating Super User's 2nd anniversary
Super User's 2nd birthday is coming up in about a week, on August 18th (next Thursday). It has been discussed among community coordinators and other moderators, and we'd like to do something similar ...
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What to do about such activity?
I found a user who has asked 3 distinct questions on different days and seemed irrelevant to the site.
Note that the questions asked apparently could not be deemed as questions. Should anything be ...
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Why are there multiple versions of windows-10 tags?
I see 13 different windows-10 tags. Some of them appear to be for specific applications such as windows-10-calendar-app, but that leaves many such as windows-10-v1511, windows-10-v1709, and windows-...
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Did I do such low-quality questions? Please review my ban
Now I want to ask about a connection problem and I find my account banned from asking questions.
What did I do to get this? Were my questions out of scope? If so, why no one says which site is the ...
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Are some questions too easy for Super User?
To put it another way: Can we assume that someone who asks a question on Super User has tried to find the answer elsewhere first? For many (most?) people, the first step in finding an answer to ...
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Close not computer related questions on StackOverflow instead of migrating them to SuperUser
Recently the SuperUser FAQ has been updated to be a little more strict on what questions should be asked
Super User is for computer enthusiasts
and power users. If you have a
question about …
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Cleanup Week? When and How?
We have nearly a thousand posts with potentially orphaned images with the HTTPS move - folks are trickling these in. We also have had an ongoing project to fix tags that could use some love, or at ...
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Is a suggested edit that completely rewrites an answer appropriate?
I asked a question a few months ago that was answered very succinctly. I thought the answer fit perfectly; it had the exact amount of information that someone with the same problem would need to ...
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What to do about the Windows Insider Program?
There have been a few questions about the tags for windows-10 and windows-10-preview, and whether such things are even on topic, similar to the same issue last time with Windows 8. I have noticed a ...
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(Accepted) answer to a spam question - bot account?
I noticed a question which was apparently spam but was answered by a high profile user (and accepted as the answer). I was wondering what's going on? My first guess would be that the user in question (...
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Tags about nothing
This question was triggered by this edit but has been bothering me for a long time.
We have many tags without or with a very poor description. We had retag weekends. I think it is also useful to ...
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What is the policy on duplicate answers?
In the question
how do I echo $something >> file.txt without carriage return?
which was asked and answered about a month ago, a new answer has been submitted which is essentially a duplicate (...
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Pick an easter egg for chat.superuser!
On chat.meta.stackoverflow, there's a little easter egg where text entered as
[status-blah]
will be rendered as a moderator only tag.
We'd like to do something similar, but specific to superuser -...
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On pro forma comments... Can we put some common sense into using them?
As a mod you sometimes notice things getting somewhat abused.
Here's an example
Names blurred out since its about the action, not the people.
I see, 3 instances of the right thing.
I see a flag (...
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What are the rules when writing an article on Super User?
I have been working on a topic for quite some time, and now I was wondering is there a problem to share my knowledge via a Super User question? What I mean is, I do a question and answer it myself ...
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Best way for new users with low reputation to clarify unclear question
I joined Super User today after being redirected here from SO. I saw a question that was unclear and thought I could answer it with a little clarification from the poster, but wasn't able to comment ...
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Surge of one-point-profiles
Recently I've found that there are many questions asked by new users (most of them with 1 point reputations) and most of them ignore the basics of StackExchange mechanics.
This kind of accounts ask a ...
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Unattended first posts
I am fairly new in the Super User community, and I am still trying to understand how things work. So forgive me for asking this question which may seem a bit silly to some members.
This is ...
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Merge [dual-monitor] and [triple-monitor] into [multiple-monitors]
I don't really know a lot about dual-monitor, triple-monitor or multiple-monitors setups, but it seems logical to move dual-monitor and triple-monitor into multiple-monitors since "multiple" refers to ...
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Is Hide X a real product?
There are three questions on SE sites about "Hide X":
Is there any advantage to using only part of a file in Hide X's library?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/522656/how-do-i-save-a-file-with-...
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On the 1st anniversary of Superuser, I just want to say "Thanks".
I have had an abundance of useful help and direction from users. Thanks.
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"One question to rule them all" questions on SuperUser
SuperUser is haunted by repeated questions on topics as:
Antivirus suggestions
Virus/Spyware removing
Best practices for troubleshooting common problems
Best buy guides for hardware and software
In ...
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Migration of votes
When a question is migrated to another site, any upvotes are transferred with it and are credited on the target site.
Questions that are off-topic here often receive downvotes simply because they're ...
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OS X / macOS tag synonyms should be reversed
It's been a few years since we synonymized macos to osx. At the time, we did this to distinguish incorrect uses of the tag from questions related to the old “Classic” Mac OS tagged under mac-os-...
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Merge firefox-related tags?
Now that Mozilla is rolling out Firefox releases so quickly, does it really pay to keep creating separate tags for each new version? We currently have tags for firefox 3-6 including several ...
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A frame challege answer was deleted — "does not answer the question"
I posted an answer to a question. I felt that my answer was an appropriate frame challenge, based on other frame challenges I’ve seen, and on the answers to this Meta question.
My answer was then ...
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Logistics for tag cleanup weekend 1
Tag cleanup weekend 1 is now complete! For afterthoughts, see here: Tag cleanup weekend 1 - After action reports and impressions
Considering that we're attempting to short circuit some of the usual ...
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Should we do something about the high number of Jenkins questions with no votes and no answers?
I follow the jenkins tag on all SE sites. I've noticed that SU attracts an oddly large amount of Jenkins questions that receive basically no attention. These questions have some problems:
These ...
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Is anonymous & low rep vote information accessible?
Low rep and anonymous visitors who vote on posts see a message that their vote was recorded, but the information isn't visible anywhere. There is some reporting of this available to a limited number ...
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Is application-error an error?
We have a tag, application-error, with 79 questions. Since a good percentage of software questions could be labeled "application error", it is not only meta, but does nothing to differentiate ...
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Mechanism for scrapping bad audit questions?
I occasionally see recommendations here to scrap specific review audit questions. It isn't clear whether there is actually a mechanism to do that.
I assume the system uses the audit examples over ...
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Are the "all EXE files open with <program>" questions duplicates of each other?
One semi-common way to bork Windows is to make all .exe files (i.e. programs) open with some program instead of launching as programs in their own right. People apparently do this with several ...
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Aren't [wireless-access-point] and [access-point] the same?
Is there a non wireless access point? If yes, why does the access-point tag has the following description:
Wireless access point (WAP) is a device that allows wireless devices to connect to a wired ...
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Easy way to take a comment thread to chat sooner?
If I expect a comment thread to require several back-and-forths, is there an easy way to take it to chat sooner than the 8th reply (or whenever it is that the site automatically suggests you take it ...
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Images that are wider than 640px
To handle overflow, Super User uses the following CSS for images:
img {
max-width: 640px;
}
For example, look at the following images with widths of 640px and 800px, respectively:
The second ...
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Is the [multitouch] tag needed?
Tag multi-touch is useless because these years almost all devices support multi touch, and we have other tags such as touchpad or touchscreen that is used for every question with the multi-touch tag. ...
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Ship [shipping] to /dev/null
We have six questions tagged shipping. The tag has no description and there seems to be no clear usage for it.
I would like to remove it completely.
Opinions please.
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r e n a m e spaces
We have two tags which seem to be text based: tabs & spaces.
However, tabs is defined for the graphical user interface feature that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single ...
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Nuke the [damage] tag
The tag damage is too vague, and people use it for very different things. Please block it.
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Rejection of suggested edit that fixes multiple issues
I suggested this edit that was rejected with the reason it didn't improve the quality of the post.
The suggested edit improved 3 problems with the post following consensus about editing guidelines:
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Close down the [small-business] here!
The small-business tag seems quite meta, and I don't see how an "expert" in small business would profit from using this tag.
Thoughts? Should we keep it or get rid of it?
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The [corruption] tag is corrupted
I've checked out some of the questions with corruption, and the more I read the more I'm convinced it's unhelpful as it is.
Corruption of files, of streams, of download, upload, screen, filesystem, ...
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Merge [browsing] and [multiple-browsers] into [browser]
I think these tags are too similar to be different tags. browsing and browser are basically the same, and if the purpose of multiple-browsers is to be more general (not browser-specific) then I think ...
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Is Super User always this slow to respond or am I doing it wrong? Can I do anything to fix it?
Early this year, I asked about a Windows 7 upgrade from Vista which made my computer unbootable, on an older account (which I can't find any longer). I followed it for a few months; it got ~50+ views ...
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