Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.
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How to deal with an incompetent moderator
Asked this question:
https://superuser.com/questions/1565766/difference-between-a-serial-and-a-usb-port
a few days back and it got closed because "Closed. This question needs details or clarity. ...
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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 ...
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Answers that are too long, drawn out and contain too much excess theory
Many answers I've seen are dauntingly written out like a college homework assignment when 2-3 sentences at the most would have sufficed. Shouldn't we aim for conciseness and develop skills to ...
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Can we be nicer to folks whose English isn't that great?
I've noticed over the past few days a handful of comments that have been a little too aggressive about poor English. I mod messaged someone who pretty much asked how someone was going to write his ...
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Continuous overuse of moderation rights
Occassionally I come upon a question which seems rather obvious to me, but was nevertheless closed as either "not focused enough" (example 1) or "unclear what's being asked" (example 2).
Well that's ...
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Troggy's beefy arm of moderation needs a break
The smell of smoldering thatched roof cottages lingers in the distance. A ♦ seems to be newly absent from those old dragon scales.
As part of the 2014 SuperUser moderator election coming to a close, ...
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Remove the [Glitch] tag
The glitch tag has no use. The top five questions don't relate at all. In order:
Glitch detection in MP3 files
Glitchy GPU output
Office 2013 drawing oddly
Mouse moving on its own
Sound card ...
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What will we do to promote Super User when Windows 8 is released?
Historically, new Windows OS releases result in a huge traffic increase for sites that have lots of Windows content. We saw it for Super User when Windows 7 was released, and Lowell at How-to-Geek ...
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2014 Community Moderator Election Results
Super User's 3rd moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Too many upvotes for poor quality answers
I recently complained over at Meta.Programmers that they were upvoting poor quality and often times very short answers. But I also keep an eye out for SU's hottest questions and I see exactly the same ...
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Let's get started with Windows 8!
The final build of Windows 8 is now available on MSDN/TechNet, and will be released to the public on October 26th. We want to hit the ground running when Windows 8 arrives, and already have some of ...
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Old posts and answers need protection?
As member of SU for more than 5 years, I have quite a number of old answers
lying around. Some of them are so old and outdated that today they are just
ridiculous, such as recommending the ...
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DROP [columns] FROM tags;
There are 103 questions tagged with columns, and they are all over the map: several Excel questions that involve a column of data somehow (i.e., Excel questions), some questions about manipulating ...
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Why has my post on SuperUser been copied to onooks.com?
I asked a question about an issue with Cisco Webex desktop application.
Issue with Cisco Webex
When I was doing further research I found that within a short amount of time the question had been ...
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Don't post "never happened to me" answers
I'm seeing these every now and then and I have some thoughts to share. As always, feel free to disagree. I feel pretty strongly about this, but I'm open to discussion.
If the answer you're going to ...
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The Windows 8 Challenge has ended, thank you for blogging!
Winners will be announced on the Super User Blog shortly.
Please read
So you've submitted your blog post... Now what?
for guidelines on how to bring your Windows 8 Challenge blog post to http://blog....
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Too many [options] to choose from
There are a lot of questions tagged with options. It's extremely meta, and there are no "options" experts that would benefit from a tag like this.
I suggest burninate, and black list.
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Looking for users to write about their (fun) experiences for the Super User Blog!
The Super User Blog is getting organized! Several weekly categories have been set up and we're looking for awesome things to write about! WTFriday is a brand new section that should produce an awesome ...
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Will iPad be acceptable subject matter for Super User? I guess not?
Will an Apple tablet device (iPad) be a "computery" enough subject for questions on Super User?
I plan to get one, and since I've never owned an iPhone or anything similar, I'm sure I'll have some ...
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Why did my edit that fixed several spelling errors get rejected as superfluous?
Here is the edit in question. It was rejected for the reason
This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either ...
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Should reviews limit be increased?
The number of posts to be reviewed does not stop growing.
Where once it was possible to clear these posts to zero, today that number has passed 700,
and it was lately standing even at more than 800.
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Girl, you're a mess: [images] needs a makeover
This is a plea to add images to the tag-cleanup agenda. It was discussed tangentially in the comments on this meta question from over two years ago, but no firm plans were made to attack this massive (...
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OP edited question substantially after answer(s) were posted
Yesterday, for the second time in the past three months, I answered a question,
only to get a response from the OP saying, in effect,
This answer was correct when you posted it.
I’ve changed the ...
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You like them hats? [closed]
Last year around Christmas time arQAde had a little promotion in which they awarded hats for gravatars for completing basic tasks around the site.
Here's a link to the promo from last year (and a ...
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Three free video cards for Valued Community Members(tm)
I've been doing some upgrading, so this means I have some extra PCI Express video cards. They are not too shabby, either.
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5770 1GB
Now, the two 5870 cards are still ...
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Are we [licensed] for all this?
I think license-key and product-key should be synonyms. There's also software-activation.
I also don't see why the 12 volume-license questions aren't just tagged with license given you can get volume ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Should we put a limit on [limit]?
limit is a meta-tag used for a bunch of totally different purposes. Scanning the first page of questions I find questions about limiting
screen resolution
number of files
downloaded amount
parallel ...
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Split up the [split] tag [duplicate]
split is all over - it's about splitting files, DVDs, splitting windows/screen into two, Excel formula to split contents - I propose that we kill split
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Site Design Updates
A major design update IS NOW LIVE!
Most of the changes are not visible; these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to Stack Overflow:
We are moving the site's CSS to a newly refactored ...
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Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?
I'm seeing a disturbing increase in spam posts promoting personal enhancement products such as male enhancement, hair care, dieting, brain enhancement, and other similar products. The following list (...
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Retagging [google] questions [duplicate]
Some of the questions tagged with google actually relate only to Google Chrome and not to Google products / Google company in general, for example:
How does Google Chrome installer work?
Google ...
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Send out [newsletters]
newsletters has no usage guidance, there are 14 questions tagged with it, mainly about format of newsletters, or sending newsletters in e-mail.
I see it from time to time as a favoured tag of spam ...
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Time to be LESS organised
organization is a pretty big meta-tag.
It's uses include,
Organisation charts
Sorting data
Windows Explorer functionality
Email organisation
and many more.
Should we burn it?
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Why are "why was ... implemented this way" questions closed as opinion based?
This question is closed because it's opinion based.
It basically asks why Ctrl + V paste is not implemented in PowerShell.
There's a comment below, "This can't really be answered by anyone except ...
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?
Discovered a few semi-related tags:
windows-server-2003
539 questions, 10 this year
this has a good excerpt, but no tag wiki
windows-2003-server
19 questions, 2 this year
this has nothing... no ...
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aria2 vs. aria2c?
A proposed tag wiki edit raised a question about two tags: aria2 and aria2c. The first has 5 questions, the second has 8, and a number of these questions have both.
I'm not familiar with the program,...
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Inappropriate opinion-based closings
Computer expertise is inter-disciplinary. Many questions relating to computer hardware can be answered by users with a little hard science or engineering background. There is basic theory and design ...
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How should we act upon "Install OS X as virtual machine" questions?
Bumped:
Only two people contributed to this Q/A, so maybe we could get some more opinions.
Background
Recently there seem to be a lot of questions on the topic of installing OS X as a virtualized ...
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Calling all bloggers!
Do you have any of the following qualities?
A love for writing long and details answers to common Super User problems
A desire to test, document, and share with fellow Super Users awesome products (...
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Usage of "external" tag - burninate?
I just removed the external tag from a question regarding viewing of source code for a browser, and it got me thinking that this is somewhat a meta-tag.
There exists tags such as external-hard-drive ...
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Why can people answer a question before being able to comment?
I am new here, so sorry if this has been addressed somewhere before.
I realized that with no reputation points, I still can answer but not comment (for example, ask for clarification) on a question. ...
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Are questions related to download YouTube content allowed?
There are many questions about how to download video or audio from YouTube.
Here are the two tags youtube-dl and youtube. But in the
YouTube Terms 5.B., here I quote a portion of it:
You shall not ...
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Don't give us static about deleting [dynamic]
dynamic is meaningless. Seems like it mostly attracts Excel-related question for some reason. There are also some questions on random topics, like folder binding, task scheduler, DDNS, dynamically ...
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Are Hackintosh questions off topic because of community consensus or just moderation policy?
I was having a discussion with @Gilles lately, whether to allow questions about OS X being virtualized. In essence, the Apple license forbids virtualizing certain products, but the majority of votes ...
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Should questions about using a gaming console as a PC be allowed?
As you all probably know, gaming questions have long been off-topic on SuperUser. This has included questions limited to consoles, even though they are technically "computers". I generally ...
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Tag cleanup weekend 1 - After action reports and impressions
We had about 4-5 users who were actively/obviously cleaning up, and at least one complaint of over efficiency.
How was tag cleanup weekend?
More specifically, if you were involved, what tags did ...
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The DOS tag is ambiguous
As it is, the dos tag is ambiguous. Even the tag wiki excerpt is split:
DOS is an acronym for "Disk Operating System." DoS is an acronym for "Denial of Service." Do not use this tag for questions ...
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Stupid changes to “close as duplicate”
What in blazes is going on here? Now one can only VTC as duplicate of questions that have accepted answers? What if there have been a rash of Qs that are duplicates, with people possibly being driven ...
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