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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New functionality: convert close votes
Close votes can be retracted from a question, but after that, no more close votes can be cast on that particular question.
I understand that voting and revoking several times would negatively impact ...
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Calling all bloggers.... Again
It's that time of the year again... Where I've completed my finals, my work tasks have slimmed a little and I think to myself I can get the blog back up and going again. So here we are! I'm calling ...
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General moderators' strike
Open letter here: https://openletter.mousetail.nl
I haven't decided what I think about this yet.
It seemed fairly apparent months ago that technical support was a prime target for ChatGPT et al., and ...
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Congratulations on 1 million users! 🎉🎉🎉
I just saw this a few minutes ago, saying you guys had 1,000,720 total users! I'm assuming this happened recently, so I though I'd bring it to attention!
This is a really good site that helps so many ...
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modprobe -r [modules]
60 questions tagged modules. Most of them are dealing with kernel-modules. Others talk about Apache2/Perl/Python/Puppet/Drupal/Slax modules. There's even one about memory modules.
The [modules] tag ...
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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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A new way to clean up tags
This is the proposal. Please see Help us clean up tags! for the result.
Let's face it, we have tons of horrible tags.
In the past, we used Old monthly tag cleanups to keep track of what needs to be ...
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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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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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Merge "jabber" and "xmpp"
jabber and xmpp are synonyms on Stack Overflow. They should be synonyms on Super User also.
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Choosing a canonical question for "Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?"
Super User has several questions asking how to check whether they have a 32-bit or 64-bit Operating System, and how to check if their CPU is 64-bit capable.
The majority combine both questions into ...
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Account copying question from another source
My concern is around this question: https://superuser.com/questions/1004955/break-in-operation-file-is-corrupt-what-to-do
The user posting the question has no other interaction on Super User, at ...
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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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Merge [EFI] and [UEFI] tags?
The tag description for EFI is :
EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface, and is an updated version of BIOS. It sits between firmware and the operating system in the software stack.
while ...
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Why was my question on compatibility flagged as a "Hardware Purchasing Question"?
I am new to this Stack Exchange site. I recently asked a question about whether certain connections were standardized, specifically laptop 4k non-touch screens. It quickly got flagged as an off-topic ...
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Reduce Tag Ambiguity by Requiring Objects for Transitive Verbs
It's all in the title I'd say...
In short, I'm suggesting that we add 'object' validation for single-transitive verb tags without object qualifiers... For instance ... 'split' would require the ...
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Deletion of OP's (admittedly poor) self-answer
In this question: Bash: I want to type a tilde. Pressing F10 gives me '1~' instead of just '~', the OP eventually posted their own answer, describing how they solved the issue ...
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Reminder on voting to migrate
#1 rule to consider after determining a question may be a better fit
elsewhere:
Don't migrate crap.
meta discussion
In going through the close queue, I often see questions voted to migrate, but the ...
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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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Tag Synonym request: [task-scheduler] vs. [windows-task-scheduler]
A pair of tags I came across on Super User - both task-scheduler and windows-task-scheduler exist, but as far I can see they're both the same thing:
task-scheduler: a component in Windows that, like ...
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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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Clean out our [container]
The container tag appears to be too broadly scoped to be useful in its current state. With its oldest question being from 2010, it is used for many different areas of expertise including but 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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Synonomize tags for new Firefox
Quantum is the release name for Firefox 57. It looks like people are referring to the new browser by either name, and we have tags for both. It is probably useful to have both tags, but they should ...
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Adding the notification icons to the blog
My home page is the Super User Community Blog
When I launch Chrome, I like to read the blog and to see if I have new notifications.
Unfortunately, the notification icon are not in the bar, so I must ...
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Sorting out Chrome-related tags
Someone's muddled the chrome-related tags!
Chromium is an open-source web browser. Chrome is a closed-source derivative of Chromium made by Google. Chrome OS is an operating system based on the ...
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Cue the removal of [queue]
I came across the queue tag and found that just about every use had a different definition. There's no tag wiki excerpt.
Proposal:
asterisk queue => asterisk asterisk-queue
printer queue => Is it ...
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Super User is trialling the new image hosting system
I was informed that we're testing the new image upload system. Practically, other than the URL changing, it appears to be identical.
If there's any issues with image uploads, feel free to post a new ...
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Question of the... Month!
Yeah, you heard right, it's coming back!
It's been almost three years since the last time time Question of the Week was featured on the blog (#46) and
it's about time that it came back!
We (the ...
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Let's do something about all the old link-only answers
We do a pretty good job removing or repairing link-only answers nowadays, but there are boatloads of old link-only answers sitting ignored or at a slight negative score, written largely by users that ...
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Merge or synonymize [indentation], [indent], [autoindent]
indentation exists with 60 questions. The content is pretty uniform; all about indentation issues in text editors, so I think it's a useful tag.
That said, there are a couple of variations of the ...
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Burninate or clean up the tag [dual]
We currently have 48 questions tagged dual.
There questions are on different subjects:
Dual ISPs
Dual dual mail accounts
Dual monitors
Dual graphics cards
Dual boot
Dual OS installations (...
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Including a link to Super User profile with résumé/cover letter... Thoughts? Experience?
I'm interested to hear what other people think about this. I do editing and production work for a publisher of medical journals with print, web, and iPad content. Though not in the tech industry, ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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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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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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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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Do we have a FAQ for why backups are desirable?
Every day (in the year 2024), about 385,000 people are born. At some point in their future, they will need to know that they need to make backups of their data.
Many of them may turn to Super User ...
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