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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Is it okay to inform users to stop promoting Apple.SE when a question is fine to stay here?
Now that we see a quite large amount of OS X Lion questions here on Super User, I've seen people telling the OP to go to ask on Ask Different.
Of course, the folks at Ask Different want their site ...
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Should I flag comments left over after migration? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I request for comment cleanup on migrated questions?
When a question is migrated from another site, I often see comments left over like "this site is for ...
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Do we need both [website] and [webpage]?
Seems like one would be plenty:
website (376)
webpage (61)
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So this is not a (real) question? But.. what is it?
https://superuser.com/questions/400724/a-small-open-source-firewall-for-windows-xp#comment455486_400724
May be someone is shooting too fast?
(not every short question lacks a point, I mean)
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The [howto] tag seems barely useful, please burninate
I call the mighty Trogdor to burninate …
howto
… a tag with 49 questions. Why delete? Having the tag doesn't add any value to a question. People probably shouldn't specifically ask for how-tos, ...
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How is a question about increasing performance of programs in Windows-7 too localized?
I asked a question, How to most efficiently utilize CPU resources in windows 7?, that was closed as too localized.
It is not clear to me why this is too localized. I did mention specific programs ...
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CD-related tags
Why do we have both compact-disc and cd-rom?
UPDATE: Please vote on options below.
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Managing Management
file-management has 438 questions
power-management has 326 questions
password-management has 106 questions
memory-management has 51 questions
project-management has 45 questions
time-management has ...
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Disk, disc, and hard
Right now, there seems to be one canonical hard-drive tag, with 901 questions. There are also questions tagged disk and shudder hard disk. Yes, that's hard and disk. Should they all be retagged into ...
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What is the difference between [profile] and [user-profiles]? Which to keep?
There are some questions tagged with both [profile] and [user-profiles]. See also: profile & user-profiles
(Please note that I retagged some questions from user-profile to user-profiles as per ...
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What should we do with [diy]?
The diy (do it yourself, x22) tag covers
computer-building in the sense of assembling your own machine
repair in the sense of doing the repair yourself
"DIY" alone doesn't really have a purpose. ...
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Explain why this was closed
This question asked a specific, meaningful question that presumably has a specific answer. Why was everyone so quick to pounce on it?
Granted, the question was asked out of academic curiosity rather ...
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Are file extension tags welcome? Make them consistent/grouped?
There appear to be quite some tags that represent a file extension:
Some have a dot (.cfm, .mov), while others don't (bin, bkf).
A lot of these don't seem to have much questions in them.
There might ...
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How should I handle ranting in answers?
I removed a rant from this answer. Is this the right thing to do or should I take some other action?
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Disassembling the "assembly" and "disassembly" tags
Here's a very tricky ambiguous tag. We have assembly (x16) and disassembly (x8). Both are a perfect mix between:
Assembler code, architectures and whatnot
Computer building
Proposal:
I suggest we ...
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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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Firefox versions going to infinity – should we merge the tags?
This is an update to: Merge firefox-related tags?
We now have:
firefox-3.6 x33
firefox-4 x129
firefox-5 x33
firefox-6 x15
firefox-7 x8
(nothing in between)
firefox-10 x4
How is this going to end up?...
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Synchronization of Profiles Between Stack Exchange Webistes
Is there a way that I can easily synchronize my profiles between the Stack Exchange websites? It would be even better if I could just use the same profile across their websites.
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The tag [media] is used for both music / video as well as mediums?
It seems that the media tag is ambiguously used. Sometimes it applies to music/video, and sometimes it applies to physical media like CDs.
What should we do with it?
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The [touch] tag is ambiguous
touch has 24 questions and no wiki. Some of these questions are obviously talking about touchpad (175 questions) or touchscreen (52 questions), but some are talking about a device with touch in the ...
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Kill the [software-tools] tag
The tag software-tools seems like a perfect meta-tag.
It could never be the only tag of a question.
What are "software tools", even?
People often abuse it for software-recs. Also, a common mistake ...
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What time of the day is Super User getting the least traffic?
Due to the recent discussion about edit flooding, and one possible counter measure mentioned by @Grace Note ...
You may consider that it is often wiser to perform massive edit jobs during low ...
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What to do about torrents?
With, what appears to me, an outbreak of questions regarding torrents, torrent downloads, and torrent download optimization I am wondering what we should do with these sort of questions. Most torrent ...
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What is the best way to suggest that questions be migrated to other sites?
For example this question, macbook pro late 2011, mac os x lion 10.7.3, beach ball freezing, could benefit by being migrated to the Apple - Stack Exchange What is the suggested way to do so on ...
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Fixing the [run] tag
run
It's often about the Windows run dialog, and often it isn't. Therefore it's pretty useless.
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Tag merge: [powerline-networking] and [ethernet-over-power]
There are
16 questions tagged powerline-networking
7 with homeplug
6 with ethernet-over-power
powerline-networking and ethernet-over-power should be merged into powerline-networking, I believe – ...
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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Synonym Request
I was reviewing some questions and came across toc and wondered what it was, so I clicked on it. Mostly I'm writing this to meet quality standards
toc (6 questions) should be a synonym of table-of-...
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Ambiguous tag: [build]
The build (x31) tag seems ambiguous. It either relates to:
building a computer or accessories
building software (e.g. with make, etc.)
What should we do with these?
Note: I stick to answering my ...
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Should not the "low quality posts" calibrated about answers containing just code?
I saw that part of the answers reported in the "low quality posts" are answers that report a command line code, or snippets for a bash script, and some of those answers are up-voted from more than two ...
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Synonym: [comparison] and [file-comparison]
The comparison (162 questions) and file-comparison (9 questions) tags seem to be synonymous.
The tag wiki for comparison specifically mentions file comparisons, so since it has more questions, I ...
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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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The 'Things' tag should be renamed
things refers to the program Things. Makes sense. There was no wiki on this, so I just stumbled on to it. Of the 6 questions tagged with things at least 4 of them give some specifics as to what "...
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question is closed without proper reason
This was my question How can I benchmark Linux PC
I see its closed as not constructive. Which means,
This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve ...
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Difference between 'range' tags; discussion about wireless range/signal tags
We have a total of 27 range questions on SU. Of these, 15 refer to wireless-range and 12 to data-range.
My thought is to split these up into wireless-range and data-range and have the range be a ...
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What do we think of "Alternative to" answers?
I recently saw this answer, where the user simply did this:
http://alternativeto.net/software/games-for-windows---live/
Most of them integrate in games explorer anyway.
Are we against just ...
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Over 243,000 views in 3 days?
I can see some other websites linking to this, but is this >243k view count in just 3 days really correct...?
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Why call It Super User?
Stack Overflow and Server Fault are both clearly for problems in their respective fields. As such, why is Super User to be called Super User? Is it because it too begins with an S? What were other ...
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Can't new users edit their own questions without approval?
Found this question with a suggested edit pending edit. But it looks like it's the OP that has done the edit. Shouldn't this be approved automatically?
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Retags should not bump a post
I think (following the cd incident) that retags, as a maintenance operation, should not bump the question to the front page. What do you think?
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What should be done about old, abandoned questions?
Whenever a retag request comes about - or when I'm wading through /review I often come across old questions which haven't been answered, with low views & most of the times the questions are by ...
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How to decide whether to post on OS X related question on SU or on Apple.SE? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When should questions be moved to AskDifferent/AskUbuntu/…?
On one hand, my question is only applicable on an Apple device. On the other hand, many such questions seem ...
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Synonymous meta tags about tagging
There are some meta tags about tags that seems to be synonymous:
retagging is a synonym of retag-request.
tag-synonym-request is a synonym of tag-synonyms.
tag-wiki-suggestion is a synonym of tag-...
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Tag Merge Requests
bootable - 29 questions tagged
bootable-media - 84 questions tagged
disk-utility - 82 questions tagged
diskutility - (2) 0 questions tagged - retagged with above.
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Should something be done about the anonymity and anonymous tags?
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Feels like anonymous & anonymity could be folded to privacy. I can't propose it as I lack the rep.
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Difference between CD tags
There are currently 239 questions tagged with cd and no distinction between Compact Disc and Change Directory. Additionally, there is no [chdir] tag. My thoughts are that there should be a chdir tag ...
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Merge [encoder] → [video-encoding]
Questions currently tagged under encoder (x8) all are about video-encoding, and therefore should be merged.
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dealing with a drive-by downvote by flagging? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
political downvoting unrelated to a question?
I thought i was once advised that if I saw i'd been hit with what looks very much like a drive-by downvoter, like a few downvotes ...
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Require users that plan to edit flood over a certain rate / amount to get permission
TL;DR: Users shouldn't flood edits without a consensus. Read my post but skip the optional stuff... :)
Every now and then, we get an edit flood at our front page. This sometimes happens without any ...
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