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 ask a question which is similar to other questions but not exactly similar
I find many questions which are similar to my question but not exactly what i want to ask. Some people feel it duplicate so they vote down or sometimes it leads closing a question.
I can edit a ...
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How can we take care of our old duplicates?
What's going on …
There is a trend that is very easy to explain.
A question is asked.
It gets a few answers, and because it's the first of its kind (i.e. topic-wise), it receives a lot of popularity
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Since when are software recommendations off-topic?
I want to take discussion away from Daniel's previous post.
Here's my point: I've always been under the impression that software-recommendations were absolutely fine on Super User.* Now, obviously, ...
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Are names that can be confused with the site name allowed?
I'm thinking about names like super user, superuser and superuser.
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Recommendations for the BEST?
Going through @Gareth's list of candidates for closing, I find several topics that are asking about the best X, with X being software.
We're usually pretty liberal with product recommendations if it'...
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Three batches of questions to close or delete
In line with Help us clean up Super User, I've been closing a lot of questions recently, but some are fairly old and hard to get close votes on. Ideally I'd vote to delete but I don't have enough ...
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kvm tag ambiguity
The kvm tag is used for both Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch and for Linux Kernel-Virtual-Machine infrastructure.
There are tags kvm-switch and linux-kvm
Is it worthwhile changing all 'kvm' tags to one ...
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What do I do with useful information on a post unrelated to the question?
What do I do with useful information on a post unrelated to the question? This comes about sometimes from knowledgable users that give some background to bigger problem that solves the direct problem ...
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How do we handle tags with the same Acronym?
This question asks about the SAS statistics software as opposed to the more general usage - of the hard drive interface known as Serial Attached SCSI. I don't think the question-asker's at fault, ...
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Can I migrate a question from SuperUser to StackOverflow myself?
I asked a question on SU and it became obvious to me that it was a programming issue (of mine) and not a SuperUser issue. I added some more info, along with comments for the people who had responded -...
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Can we please blacklist the computersight.com Spam (if possible)?
As most of you will have noticed, the last two days brought us enormous amounts of spam from computersight.com – more specifically the following link:
computersight.com / communication-networks / ...
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Where is the definitive "attributes of a *decent* text editor" article?
Periodically I write docs for or emails to folks who just don't know yet what a decent text editor is. When I do so I want to link to the definitive article that gently introduces and describes the ...
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Can we do something about sites copying content from Super User?
I know this isn't ethical, but is there anything we can do about other sites copying from SU?
Any information about the AsyncMapLite Trojan?
http://answerleaks.com/any-information-asyncmaplite-...
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Question closed as dup but link to duplicate is a dead link
In such a case should the question be reopened? I am especially referring to this question here. You'll find that the question that's supposedly a duplication refers to a 404 page not found -- a dead ...
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Where does a question about deciding between two pieces of hardware go?
I'm deciding between two graphic cards to buy and I'd like to ask a question regarding this, so that experienced users can help me.
Where does such a question belong to? Here at super user? At any ...
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Should we have a sub-tag for beta/RC?
Something I was wondering about when coming across older win 7 RC and beta questions - In many cases bugs are specific to dev versions, or involve the newness of them. With the win8-dev-preview ...
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Super User Question of the Week #31
Now we're into week 31 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 ...
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Waiting period to start a bounty?
I posted a question early this morning. So far it has very few views and no answers or comments. It's a complicated topic and I want to add a bounty to attract more attention and hopefully get an ...
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How do I comment on a question on Super User? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I comment on a thread?
I need an author of a question to clarify his question, and I've seen people post comments on questions to do this, yet I can't find a way to. I'...
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What's the Super User community policy on duplicates
I have a similar freezing problem as described by Arthur Skirvin, though my hardware configuration is different and freezing symptoms vary slightly. Hence my post here on meta. I do not frequently ...
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Merge [search-and-replace] and [find-and-replace]
There are:
find-and-replace (56 tagged)
search-and-replace (17 tagged).
I'd propose to merge them. There's no difference between these two. Then, create a synonym for search-and-replace → ...
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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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Should we nuke the [calculations], [research] and [malfunction] tags?
These tags have about a dozen questions each.
calculations and research are too general and ambiguous. A few questions tagged research do relate to hardware and software for academia, but even then ...
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Can I ask a question about how to disconnect someone from linkedin?
I think it will be "out of scope"... But I don't know where to ask this question on SE...
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Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?
I edited this question yesterday as part of a cleanup spree. It had already gotten a fair bit of activity, but someone tweeted a link to it after I edited it, and things really took off.
The topic of ...
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Super User Question of the Week #30
Now we're into week 30 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 ...
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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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File Purpose and Usage Questions
I've often had to go search for files that I've found running on my computer, and I want to find out what they are, and if they're ok. I usually do a lot of googling to find the answer, but have ...
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Large number of small edits during birthday celebration
Has anybody else noticed a significant jump in the number of small or insignificant edits occuring since the kick-off of the birthday festivities?
I'm personally rolling back those that are truly ...
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Request to Re-Open Question #331125
The question:
https://superuser.com/questions/331125/why-would-moving-from-anything-microsoft-be-such-a-good-idea
According to @Random (who closed it) it was due to the likelyness of it 'solicit ...
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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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Was the canonical "which software to install on a new Windows box" question deleted?
I believe this question might have been the canonical "what should I install on a new Windows computer question". I always searched for that question when installing a new computer.
I won't argue ...
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Duplicate questions for merging/deleting
I have been working on completing a thorough examination of the query from Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate, and found many posts were duplicates from single users, that ...
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Move a question to another SE site
I recently flagged learn ActionScript or keep the html5 path for mod attention to be moved to programmers.se, as it was relevant for that site. The question was closed by a mod without any other votes....
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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on superuser, and found 103 pairs of questions with totally identical title, excluding those where one of them is ...
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What are the requirements and how to submit a SU blog?
What the requirements for submitting a Super User Community Blog post? After the post has been created, how is it submitted?
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What aspect of Super User needs more attention?
There are a lot of things to do on Super User.
But I wonder what the most important things are we should be paying attention at...
Is there anything we are skipping out on that will hurt us in the ...
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What can we do about questions remaining for days on the Unanswered tab?
It would be nice to process the Unanswered Tab on a daily basis...
However, it feels like I am the only one passing by there, which is why there is barely any progress there.
What can we do such ...
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How is the term "Computer" defined on Super User?
The arguments over whether a tablet counts as a computer this rather lovely Ars Technica article on why they think a tablet is a PC as well as a chat conversation over this question got me thinking ...
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I forgot my Super User email, how do I recover my account?
It seems to be a joke, but it isn't.
I had been using Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser until today. From now on, I'm planning to use Google Chrome as my default browser.
Weeks ago, I somehow ...
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What to do with questions where the user is clearly asking for a way to cheat the SE system?
I'm talking about the following question:
How can I run a web page in task scheduler every day?
The user is asking for a way to make its computer perform an action to "cheat" the SO system and ...
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Usage of the "Random" tag
The random tag seems to attract taggers of all kinds, from using random number generators (which I think is the right usage) to people complaining about their computers "randomly" shutting down.
How ...
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request for burnination/synonyms
In reference to: Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
Shouldn't we also do the same for customer-support and palm-support?
customer-support is general and also a large percentage of the ...
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Submit your Blog post for the Super User Contest here:
This is an area were users can submit their entries for 'best blog post' part of the Super User 2nd Anniversary Competition. Feel free to post your submission here in its entirety. Other user can ...
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How should one use the home tag?
Going through the home tag, it seems there are three primary uses:
The home folder,
computers that you leave at home, and
home networking
Which one should be used, if at all?
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Should Tablet Computer questions be allowed on Super User? [duplicate]
The current policy by community consensus is:
Allow appropriate tablet questions, but not actively encourage iOS and Android. Basically they will be treated like Ubuntu and OS X are treated right now.
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Please clean up the USB drive tags?
I'm currently updating the Tag wiki for usb and found some irregularities:
usb-drive x153 – the most commonly used one, also mentions in the excerpt: "especially devices known otherwise as ...
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Why should high rep users get privileges?
It seems to me (from reading this like this excellent post by random, and looking at the current high rep users for the quarter and the top editors for the quarter and seeing how little they overlap, ...
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Why can't a comment alert more than one user?
I do not understand this limitation. If there were 3 comments on my answer, and I want to respond, why should I not be able to alert all 3 to my response, and put the whole response in one comment? It ...
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Would a "personal feedback" question be appropriate on Meta.SU?
From the MVSU Meta question I liked getting feedback from my fellow users and so did Tom Wijsman as I understand from his comment to the question:
+1 We should have more of these MVSU threads, ...
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