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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What to do with questions that are duplicate on other SE site?
So, this question got my attention, there's an exact duplicate on SF that has already been answered. Migrating it to SF would probably get it closed there as exact duplicate. Should we just close it ...
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Should duplicate answers be posted, just to include screen shots?
I stumbled upon this question which has an answer posted (and edited) months ago. Just today, a new answer was posted with the exact same steps as the old answer, but including screen shots of the ...
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Top Questions of the Week #4
Now we're into week 4 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and ...
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Top Questions of the Week #2
Now we're into week 2 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth and ...
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Why isn't superuser.stackexchange.com redirected to superuser.com?
Some of the SE sites I visit have domain names of the form [site].stackexchange.com and some [site].com. Since I hardly ever use links and type a few chars in the URL bar to get to a site this ...
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What is the correct procedure to mark as a possible duplicate?
Is there some other method to mark questions as possible duplicates than casting a close vote (requiring 3k rep)?
When I see some obvious duplicates, should I add a comment or flag for moderator ...
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Congratulations to the elected moderators of 2011!
According to the election page, the new moderators have been picked:
Congratulations!
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A bunch of tag rename/synonym requests
(See related chat discussion here)
NOTE: Most are small, so doesn't need special moderator attention, just update my post when you help.
Proposed tag renames/synonyms: (old tag --> new tag)
.net -->...
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[Aero-Peek], [Aero-Snap], and [Aero], one and the same?
Shouldn't the tags aero-peek, aero-snap, and aero just fall under aero..? Maybe we could combine them?
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Can [problem] be obliterated or merged to [troubleshooting]?
Most of the questions are using problem as a meta tag, can that tag perhaps be obliterated?
Update: I looked through all tags, re-tagged only one to troubleshooting because it was necessary...
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2011 Moderator Elections - Town Hall Chat: 3pm UTC on the 31st
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Proposed tag wiki for Google Chrome
This is a suggested tag wiki entry for google-chrome, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more ...
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Automatically protecting popular questions after a given amount of time
While discussing on chat that some popular questions get locked or protected to prevent unnecessary answers, I thought that it might be useful to automatically protect older questions which meet ...
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Can the hardware and software tags be obliterated?
Do we really need the hardware and software tags?
Looking at the tags into detail:
They don't group all the questions that should belong to them.
Their statistics don't make sense, they are both less ...
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Having to ask for the user's OS... [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Super User - Suggest adding an operating system tag
We frequently have to ask about the OS the user runs, the Ask Question page doesn't ask to include it.
Would it be a good ...
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Help me quantify too localized.
I'm not complaining like I would on programmers.SE about all the injustice in the world, but to me, this makes absolutely no sense.
Super user is the place to ask questions about hardware peripherals ...
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Voting as a proxy for moderator quality
Are there really only twothree candidates in the moderator elections who have made over 1000 votes? Not good, not good, but kudos to studiohack, DMA57361 and Sathya.
Opinion: voting activity shows ...
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I had two of my answers deleted and I don't understand why.
I had two of my answers deleted and I don't understand why. I left the second answer as deleted by the moderator as I am not going to go against the moderator, rather a reason why the answers were ...
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On file removal, deletion, erasing and friends thereof
delete ×196
remove ×47
rm ×19
secure-erase ×18
deleted ×3
secure-delete ×3
erase ×1
Surely we can give those poor tags some synonym love? I don't think they should all be merged into one master tag, ...
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show all comments to and from, in activity?
is it possible to see all comments i've made, to and from?
preferably in activity.
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Should we elect more than 3 additional moderators?
Looking at the current nominations, I am struggling to decide who to vote for, since at least 5 of the candidates in my honest opinion deserve to become moderators.
Considering that we have to ...
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community-awarded bounty?
In this post if you hover over the bounty (+50) it says "This answer has been awarded bounty of 50 Reputation by Community" Have I missed something where the community "bot" can mark an answer and ...
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What happens to bounties when a question is moved to another Stack Exchange site?
Just wondering what happens to the reputation.
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Why isn't reputation passed between Stack Exchange sites?
I don't understand it, why do we have to make our reputation separately on Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User even if the accounts are linked?
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Referral for new members
Like DropBox gives a space increase for the referrer and referee, is there any plans to add a referal link for a small rep boost? If someone signs up and gets at least 10 rep then the referrer gets 5 ...
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It’s annoying and hypocritical that reputation is split between StackExchange sites. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why reputation is not passed between superuser, stackoverflow and serverfault?
Why am I not permitted to downvote, comment, or use community wikis here on SU (yet) when over ...
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jZip possible malicious software.
jZip was mentioned a few times on SU, the problem is that it is possible malicious software.
The most prominent problems I've found are:
The website was registered via a proxy service, there's no ...
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Help create and maintain community FAQs!
Joel's recently blogged regarding wikifying question on several recurring topics where users keep asking new versions of the same problem.
Some of these are:
anti-virus software and cleaning them ...
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My bounty is about to end and I'm not sure I like the answers. What do I do?
Hello guys,
I've put a relatively large bounty (350) on a question I asked, and now the bounty's about to end. (Just to put you all in context, I was looking for a non-crappy way to use a physical ...
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Is it possible to control the scrollbox height for pre blocks?
Is there a way to control the height for <pre> blocks? (Edit: I have in mind further limiting beyond the default limit.) For superuser, I think this would be a useful feature (and possibly for ...
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Has a points deduction system to encourage original posters to 'close' their questions been considered?
I wondered if there was any merit in a system that encourages original posters to 'close' their questions by either selecting a 'correct' answer (as already done now) OR marking the original question ...
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The infamous "My PC is freezing" question...
We all know what they are:
My PC is freezing and I don't know
what to do? Please help me! Here's my
specs:
I think it's a windows 7
It has a power supply
There's some RAM ...
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Should potentially "Dangerous" answers be flagged/deleted?
Referring to this question: Restore MacBook Pro to factory settings without disc, I find it rather reckless to post an answer to an OP that obviously does not know what the effects will be.
Should ...
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Is it possible to have 0 rep?
Can you have 0 rep?
If not, what am I going to do with all these counting from 0 jokes I found under my bed?
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Moderators deleting comments?
Whenever a SO question is migrated, it has a few comments that say "Belongs on SU" or the like.
This confuses the heck out of me because when I read a question, I read the question, then the comments,...
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Multiple Part Questions
I see a lot of questions that are kind of interviewing questions with multiple parts. The answers get daunting when it gets beyond 2 parts.
What should we do with these questions? Answer them in parts?...
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Please don't migrate game recommendations to Gaming
Hi Super Users! I'm Grace Note from Gaming, here to make a polite request.
A finalized ruling has been made. While I don't know if you even got any during the decision period after my request, I ...
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Should I Accept this answer?
I got an excellent Answer, but considering that the suggestion given doesn't exactly match what I was asking for, should I accept it. I'm asking here because the main Question (Is there anything like ...
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what should you do when you realize you stupidly asked a question on the wrong site AND had a bounty?
This should've gone to ServerFault, I'm thinkin'. Maybe I could just delete it and re-ask over there. Will I lose the bounty? It is sort of a SuperUser question, but it dawned on me that it would have ...
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Why is stating a reason not required when closing a question?
A few of my questions are closed and no reason is ever provided.. this is incredibly annoying, why was closing questions like the following allowed?
Examples:
https://superuser.com/questions/209110/...
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How do I deal with "not an answer" type .. answers ?
So, what should be the protocol for posts in answers sections which are not answers (you know - OMGWTFBBQ I HAVE THIS PROBLEM type posts)
Flag for ♦ moderator attention ?
Flag as offensive ?
Flag ...
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WordPress software questions on SuperUser.
I have recently had a question regarding my WordPress based blog closed. The closing comment says, "Questions on Super User are expected to generally relate to computer software or computer hardware ...
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Posting Logs and Config Files: Helpful or too specific?
Let's say User X posts this question:
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 and whenever I go to google.com it goes to fleshbot instead. It's a fresh install and I'm using OpenDNS. My HOSTS file is as ...
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Why do my questions never get answered on SU?
Ok, so some of my questions get answered after a long time on SU, but many of my questions site idle for much longer than I'm used to on the SE network. I'm used to answer times of a day, not no ...
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How does one get 996 reputation points with no questions and no answers recorded?
Or, why is my Meta reputation being accounted for so ... weirdly? Did something break?
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I have received 205 reputation points today
I check my reputation received today. It says I have received 205 points. I thought the cap was at 200 per day. Will it go back down to the cap sometime later or is this intended?
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API option to retrieve a list of tags
Is there an API function to retrieve a list of all tags?
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When does the reputation cap timer reset?
When does reputation cap time reset? Does it reset at specific time of the day? Or is there no timer but instead, the 200 reputation cap with any give 24 hour period?
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Proper Stack Exchange site for hardware recommendations
As title says, is there a Stack Exchange site for hardware recommendations?
Mistakenly, I thought that general (non localized) question about hardware without specific prices and stores would be ok ...
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