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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Top Questions of the Week #25
Now we're into week 25 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Why was question 311149 marked off-topic and closed?
This question was marked as off-topic. This of course includes a link to the FAQ which actually I had read before asking my question. None of the other Stack Exchange sites seemed to apply.
The part ...
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Reopen request for question 311304
How to find a given game room in all TS3 servers? is a question about a desktop software, how to operate it. It's not about gaming, and it's not about Google searches. Why was it closed?
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Community ad was locked/deleted
Just out of curiosity:
I put a link to a free-for-non-commerical-use web application I am affiliated with in the community ads section.
Now a moderator locked and deleted it telling me rules I did ...
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Help needed to reword a question so it can be re-opened
Yesterday I posted this question:
https://superuser.com/q/310549/86676
There were a couple of comments... one of them suggested I should try asking the question on Server Fault, but I don't ...
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Should I edit those pesky empty tag wikis?
Every day I plan to grab a couple of empty tag wikis and edit them to provide at least a reasonable popup information to users of Super User.
Where possible, I plan to write an extended full wiki ...
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Is it possible to ask this question in a "constructive" way?
My recent question Which keyboard layout(s) is/are objectively better?, was closed as "Not constructive" by a moderator.
My intention with this question was not to solicit debate, but rather to learn ...
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Should non-substantial edits be approved or rejected?
Should we accept/improve edit suggestions where the editors could obviously have done more?
Example 1: Fixing only one letter
Take this edit suggestion as an example. The only difference between the ...
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Top Questions of the Week #24
Now we're into week 24 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Tag Nuke Requests [comcast] and [verizon-wireless]
The comcast and verizon-wireless tags are on 16 and 24 questions respectively. As they are typical US-only ISP's could the tags be removed?
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How can I move my Super User account associated with one Google to another Google account?
I switched my Google account which I used to log me into superuser.com
This currently is my only way to access superuser (old google account). My question is: how can I associate my new account with ...
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Is it wrong to ask people to accept an answer to their question?
I was looking through some of the questions I've answered, and an unsettling amount have:
Not accepted an answer
Not given extra details to help people answer
In essence, these questions are now ...
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Is a modern phone not a computer?
Re the FAQ:
If you have a question about...
computer hardware computer software
and it is not about...
electronic devices, media players,
cell phones or smart phones, except
insofar ...
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I'd like to ask a question to which there is no right answer
I'd like to solicit feedback regarding utilities people use at work and at home to keep their systems running, to resolve issues, to perform IT magic. And not just any utilities, but those most ...
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Does having edit privileges allow me to approve edits from others?
Pre-2000 reputation - Every time I edited a post I needed to await attention before it could be approved. I 100% agree with this rule.
Post-2000 reputation - I can edit any post without waiting for ...
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Top Questions of the Week #23
Now we're into week 23 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Why the differing statements when dealing with duplicates?
When closing a duplicate, a message pops up above the question saying
Possible duplicate: < link >
but underneath the post, it will say:
Closed as exact duplicate by: < list of users >
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Request for reopening question 305862
I don't understand how my question is off-topic.
It talks about a desktop app, called Steam browser.
https://superuser.com/questions/305862/is-it-safe-to-pay-for-games-through-steam-app-browser-...
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How should we treat questions that break NDA?
How should we treat questions that break NDA? For instance: questions about Mac OS X Lion. Should we close them? Or just leave them be?
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Tablet Computer compatibility
It'd be nice if the SE sites were more tablet computer accessible.
easier use with large and imprecise pointing devices - I have some difficulty e.g. selecting one of my favourite tags instead of ...
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Define Scope of Community Promotion Ads?
I'm looking at the Community Promotion Ads submitted, and am wondering if they are being used in the best interest of the community.
I envisioned that these ads would be used to promote products and ...
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Invalid flag but question is closed?
I flagged a question as an exact duplicate, but it was marked invalid and then the question was closed? Was my flag valid or not?
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Simultaneous online users
Its only a suggestion, on another forums that I have account, I usually see the number of online users seeing the same forum. On my opinion it would be good for users that make questions to see the ...
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Top Questions of the Week #22
Now we're into post 22 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Please avoid extended discussions in comments...?!
What's with the new
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?
message?
There were literally 6 comments on a post, and this ...
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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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Should we be getting rid of unversioned tags where there clearly is a version?
I don't really see a point in questions being double tagged as brand-product product-version, can we please change these to brand-product-version as this would cover both tags? What do you think?
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Why are changes applied without any reasoning or community agreement?
Please align the Excel tags isn't agreed upon, while Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags? has been there for ages and has been a consensus which we pretty much agreed up.
Why does a ...
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SU Tag merge request
I propose that we merge regex & regexp with regular-expressions
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Apple.SE as off-topic migration path
Update (2013-09)
Given that this seems to come up every other month or so, here's an update. Current migration stats (2013-09-08), not counting rejected migrations, are as follows:
Web Apps (68) *
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Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity?
Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity by your most active members?
I have enjoyed answering questions lately, and I would by lying if I did not say that I didn't have ...
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Top Questions of the Week #21
Now we're into post 21 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Is this Really a Bad Question?
I'm getting slightly annoyed at people's continued comments on my question, and I'm wondering if I really should be, or if I need to actually fix something.
I've asked what I believe to be a very ...
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Random is closing questions as duplicates that should not be closed.
I have run in to this twice today. As I was typing a answer Random closed this and this question.
For the first one, I understand that that one is truly a duplicate (even the poster said so in the ...
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Are questions related to repairing a console on-topic?
According to this questions that are only about consoles are off-topic. However I was wondering if this is the same for questions that aren't about gaming, but rather repairing a console.
For ...
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Top Questions of the Week #20
Now we're into post 20 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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How specific should tags get? e.g., [3tb-hard-drive] vs [hard-drive]
Been doing some tag cleanup recently and noticed this oddity:
Boot utilities for 3 TB hard drives
Now, in this case it almost makes sense since this is very specific to the potential problems that a ...
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Are sock puppets an issue on Superuser?
Is sock puppeting (whereby people hold multiple personalities) an issue on Super user? OR, do people think, is this an issue on the Stack Exchange Network?
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Can we help users get around potentially contractual limitations from their ISP, such a data caps?
This question was just asked about circumventing data usage caps. Where does this fall on the legality issue? Should we promote this kind of behavior, or discourage it? I'm all against data usage caps,...
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More badges or even reputation for encourage votes.
I would like to suggest to moderators to create or improve achievements or badges to encourage users that dont usually use the up/down vote system. I noticed that there are a lot of good or bad ...
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Looking for Super User's favourite webcomics! [closed]
What are your favourite computer related comics? And I don't mean "Webcomic A" or "Webcomic B", but which specific comic episode of Webcomic A? I'm trying to wrap up a blog post that would involve ...
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Ambiguous Tag: "atom"
Current status:
The tag atom in its current form is used for both:
The Intel Atom CPU architecture
The Atom standard for XML-based web feeds
Resolution:
There already is an intel-atom tag. I've ...
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Super User Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Why are late answers allowed?
Why are new users allowed to post late answers to questions from so long ago? Most of the times it's not even useful and it clutters up the Top Questions page.
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Is it sometimes too easy to identify a downvoter?
I once asked on meta stackoverflow - should downvoters be identified...
Should downvoters be identified?
An unpopular idea, understandably given the possibility of a petty downvoting war.
The thing ...
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political downvoting unrelated to a question?
Is anything ever done when some people downvote things to make some kind of point that is unrelated to the question?
I made a comment that a question "What is a hostname" doesn't deserve 7 votes, and ...
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How do I make the distinction between editing an answer to add content (detail) vs. just answering that question?
I have a question that has the right answer, but it's not very detailed:
How do Optical/Laser Mice work?
I'm at a dilemma here, I want to give the answerer the rep that he deserves as he is correct, ...
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Top Questions of the Week #19
Now we're into post 19 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Question incorrectly marked as a duplicate...
I just posted this question:
How can I control my Mac remotely?
It specifically asks how I can remotely control my Mac.
It was subsequently closed and marked as an "exact duplicate" of this ...
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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 ...