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Do we really need multiple [ubuntu]s?
As of now we have:
ubuntu-8.04× 23
ubuntu-8.10× 8
ubuntu-9.04× 104
ubuntu-9.10× 433
ubuntu-10.04× 904
ubuntu-10.10× 252
ubuntu-11.04× 206
ubuntu-11.10× 131
ubuntu-12.04× 798
ubuntu-12.10× 94
ubuntu-...
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Should I write detailed answers to trivial questions?
I've recently answered this question: Excel Formula Query - IF/OR/AND very shortly:
=IF(OR(I3="Won",I3="Placed"),(F3*(H3-1))*0.95,IF (I3="lost",-1,0))
And received the comment:
Can you add ...
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Should there be a limit to the % change to an original post by anonymous edits?
Although I think there have been many good contributions by anonymous users, would it make sense that a near 100% change not be allowed?
We have the review process, but it just seems that it ...
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Reduce community wiki force threshold to <= 15 answers on superuser?
We are picking up tons of subjective posts on superuser.com so far.
One way to mitigate this is to reduce the community wiki force threshold from 30 answers (as it is on SO, SF, and here) to 15 ...
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When is it appropriate to participate in moderator-type functions?
The quick back story is that I answered a couple of bounty questions and suddenly found myself with enough points to participate in activities like first-post reviews. Now I want to contribute to ...
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Are questions about wallpaper images on topic here?
Over at photo.SE we rarely get questions related to wallpapers of operating systems. As long as they are about how to take the image, we try to answer them.
But some are about meta information like ...
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Old "link-only answers" by a former moderator
When I report answers (new or old) that point to a link instead of answering the question on Super User, they get deleted or edited to reflect our policies.
However, I've tried to report this answer, ...
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Why is the closed queue so large?
I have noticed that the close queue is now over 1000 in length. Is this simply caused by the lack of reviewers or is it caused by something else?
BTW, I have seen the automatic increase in the ...
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What is the purpose of downvoting community wikis?
I was browsing for a solution to download files from a link into Google Drive and came across this answer, which is a community wiki, and has at the bottom of it the text
EDIT: Please note that ...
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Clear question with examples closed as unclear
I’ve come across this question Non-intersecting values in columns in Excel which was put on hold as unclear what you're asking.
What is not clear with this question? It is well explained and even ...
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Closure of questions regarding pre-release/beta software
Five years ago, the issue was raised as to whether questions related to problems with beta software are on-topic. The gist of the logic for why they are not is in suggested wording for a custom close ...
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Define Scope of Community Promotion Ads?
I'm looking at the Community Promotion Ads submitted, and am wondering if they are being used in the best interest of the community.
I envisioned that these ads would be used to promote products and ...
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Should we be having periodic, full throttle cleanups?
Right now, we have a whole load of tags we need to kill off, but it's an uphill struggle.
We try not to flood the front page (and with awesome moderator powers, we could actually do that), but ...
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Should you answer a question that you know will get closed?
There are questions on SU that are sure to be closed for a variety of reasons. Should you post an answer if you have one? I would think so its OK if you know it will get migrated to another SE site. ...
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Synergy specific entry page [closed]
We are linked from the Synergy support pages ( http://synergy-foss.org/support ) as the first port of call for support requests about Synergy. They currently link to https://superuser.com/questions/...
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Why doesn't Super User get job postings?
I was just wondering why Super User does not have a job listing like some of the other sites (Stack Overflow and Server Fault for example):
Is there a particular reason this community does ...
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How to use rm in an answer
Some answers on superuser, such as this one - https://superuser.com/a/1136881/7561 - include using the unix command of sudo rm /something - which could be extremely dangerous - as if a user didn't ...
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Should this be considered spam?
Reviewing the first posts queue, I run into this question. The last answer seems to have a link for the Firewall keyword, which leads to a commercial firewall (and doesn't have much to do with the ...
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Should I have flagged this question?
Earlier today, I came across a question asking for recommendations for software for an automotive repair shop. This question is clearly off-topic, and I voted to close it as "Questions seeking ...
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Why my flag "the answer has nothing to do with the question" was rejected?
The question: "Is there a way to not select whitespace after a word when double-clicking?
I flagged this answer with "the answer has nothing to do with the question".
I think that is true. The OP ...
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Is answering to a software recommendation request considered spam?
I gave an answer today, being just a software recommendation, to a question, asking for a recommendation. It's now deleted, so here are the contents:
It exists and is called muCommander
brew ...
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Is it ok to go back and "cleanup" questions and answers that I've asked/answered?
I've been looking though some of my questions and answers and realized that some of them are the highest quality that I want them to be at. Is it bad protocol to go back and cleanup questions and ...
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What should we do if the question is duplicate (is already answered) in other site?
Specifically, I'm talking about this question. But if possible, I want a more general guideline on questions that already has answers on other site.
What should we do about these questions?
Right ...
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Hide anniversary notice bar
Is there a way to hide the anniversary celebratory notice? I'm super excited for SuperUser's birthday, and was really happy to see that, but now that I know, it's a little bit distracting having it up ...
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Batch and batch-file tags
There are batch and batch-file tags. Their description is pretty much the same:
batch
the execution of a set of commands or software programs without user intervention. A batch file is a text file
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How do we keep dead tags dead?
We killed off this tag some time ago - I noticed it in use during the current cleanup, and it has been used 360 times since then (at least). I suppose that there's a perfectly good reason, other than ...
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Time up on the [trial]?
I have recently discovered the trial tag. The questions in it all appear to low quality. Is it worth retiring this tag?
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Let's fix all the broken images
One of the steps on Stack Exchange's road to HTTPS is the replacing of embedded http:// images with secure ones. This has been done automatically for a lot of images, but there are some that can't be ...
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Edit new info into outdated answer or let new answer rise to the top
The current highest-voted answer in Scroll shell output with mouse in tmux is outdated and no longer works. The same is true of the 2nd and 3rd answers. For the current version of the software, the ...
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Inconsistency in handling link-only answers
When one tries to flag a link-only answer, one's flag will [usually] get rejected with the following message:
"flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that
requires their ...
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What could we do with the [error] tag?
Well, we have a tag called error. Its description says:
Please use a more specific tag instead.
Awesome. So what do all these 547 questions have in common? A non-descriptive tag. On Oct. 10, @...
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Can we get [mac] and cheese without the cheese?
Almost since Super User was created, there has been Meta discussion about misuse of the mac tag:
Mac and osx tag usage on SU
mac, osx, and osx-lion tags
Should we do something about the [osx] / [mac] ...
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Merge [sound] and [audio] tags
audio - 1338 questions tagged.
sound - 692 questions tagged.
Both audio & sound - 107 questions tagged.
What is the difference between those tags?
I think that most of the users (including me) ...
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Size doesn't matter
It's not the size that matters; it's how you use it. That being said, I have no use for these size-related tags:
size (155)
resize (207) (merged into size)
filesize (96) (merged into size)
folder-...
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Folks, we need a decent canonical Windows recovery question
It seems that we have hundreds of questions about recovering deleted files or partitions under Windows, but none of them in a really good format for Super User. Most of them degraded into the typical ...
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Dump the [dump] tag off
dump is useless. Most questions are about memory dumps, and are tagged memory already
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Kill the [identification] tag
A very typical meta tag: identification for all kinds of "identify this for me" questions.
Most of these are barely useful and can probably be closed and deleted while cleaning up the tag.
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What if a community wiki grows into a monster?
Disclosure: I am knowledgeable about data recovery, I do data recovery for a living, I am part of a group of 20 or so data recovery professionals with who I share tips, knowledge etc..
Please keep in ...
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My question was closed as "opinion-based" despite not being opinion-based
My question Why do SSDs tend to fail much more suddenly than HDDs? was closed by a mod as "opinion-based", despite being in no way opinion-based. It asks for factual reasons why SSDs tend ...
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Let's put [preview] in the rear-view
The tag preview has an ambiguity problem. It has no tag wiki and is often misapplied in place of better, more specific tags.
For example, about half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, ...
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Skip the [skipping] tag?
skipping has no wiki definition and is used in various ways:
failing to process fragments of audio or video
intentionally ignoring items when processing a list like a playlist
searching for the ...
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Meat tag needs killing: [Devices]
devices does not seem to help a question. Although already proposed last year, it still is running rampant with over 290 questions!
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Disable virtual menus
Please help clean up the tags:
disable now removed
virtual now removed
menus now removed
I've already been working on these for some time.
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Question of the Week #42
Now we're into post #42 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog.
But WAIT! What happened to post 41!
I messed up and didn't get it up in time. So I selected my own ...
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Time to downgrade [upgrade]
I propose we clean up upgrade. It is a meta tag that is bloated and all over the place content-wise. There are questions about upgrading operating systems, RAM, software, etc. Furthermore, some are ...
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Why "Please only post one answer to a question"?
What should I do when I know multiple different ways of doing something asked in question? Should I add them as separate answers or as one comprehensive answer? I think they should be separated, but ...
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Do "unrar" and "unzip" deserve their own tags?
Do we really need rar and unrar, zip and unzip?
Please note that unrar, unzip and gunzip are command line utilities.
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Should I accept a "thank you" edit?
An anonymous user made the following edit to the answer I gave to this question
The edit is merely a "thank you" note. So it doesn't seem to be a "valid" edit and more something that should have ...
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Negative up-vote/down-vote ratio: is it effective mentoring, or too harsh?
Voting on the questions and answers within the Super User community has often been a lively topic of discussion. Our voting tendencies are deemed important enough that during past Super User ...
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Asking about specific software on SuperUser?
How open should SuperUser be to questions that are very specific to a particular piece of software?
Example: Lately I've become somewhat of a 'power user' of Paint.NET. It's a fantastic piece of ...
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