Newest 'discussion' Questions - Page 54

-2 votes

2 answers

146 views

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 ...

Shpigford

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asked Jun 4, 2011 at 17:24

-15 votes

3 answers

277 views

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 ...

Pitto

1,856

asked Jun 3, 2011 at 8:31

3 votes

1 answer

166 views

'Lost' tag is meaningless

This is on 8 questions, and I just saw it used as recently as today. This seems like the definition of a meta tag to me and should probably go away, yes?

Shinrai

18.7k

asked Jun 1, 2011 at 23:27

3 votes

1 answer

134 views

Do we need the "fastboot" tag?

The Super User homepage just turned light blue for me, due to lots of hard-drive tags (which I have marked as a favourite). The reason was that a user had added the fastboot tag to a bunch of posts. "...

sblair

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asked Jun 1, 2011 at 12:36

10 votes

2 answers

538 views

Migrating questions to the Ubuntu or Linux/Unix Stack Exchange sites

I just realised that there are Stack Exchange sites for Ubuntu and Linux/Unix. Why aren't all the Linux/Unix/Debian etc questions on Super User getting migrated there?

soandos

24.1k

asked Jun 1, 2011 at 7:34

1 vote

2 answers

121 views

Should duplicate answers posted within a short time frame be flagged?

Lets say there are two answers with the same content on the same question. Should the second one get flagged? This has happened to me, and I sent a flag. Want to know if it was the right thing to do. ...

soandos

24.1k

asked Jun 1, 2011 at 1:00

5 votes

1 answer

177 views

Should answers be posted as comments if we are not sure of the answer?

I notice that a lot of comments are really answers to questions - or at least could be considered answers to questions - should "one" submit a comment instead of a question when "one" is a little ...

slotishtype

3,015

asked May 31, 2011 at 20:57

18 votes

1 answer

448 views

Is using British spelling discouraged?

I wanted to fix a typo in the title of this question when I saw that in the question body behaviour had been edited to behavior by another user. Is this necessary? Should I (we) start to think about ...

Siim K

7,782

asked May 30, 2011 at 19:01

6 votes

1 answer

87 views

Related or synonymous tags: [monitor] and [screen] [duplicate]

The tag screen appears to be a mix of the same topics as monitor GNU Screen (which has its own tag gnu-screen) Should something be done about this? Perhaps separating the two into monitor and gnu-...

Kevin Reid

3,292

asked May 24, 2011 at 21:51

11 votes

3 answers

353 views

Why was the question "Why are there 8 bits per byte?" closed?

TL;DR: I'm looking for opinions on why this question should be open or closed. Answer: I now understand why it has been closed: It is not a real problem because it has no practical use. https://...

Tamara Wijsman

56.9k

asked May 23, 2011 at 22:57

5 votes

2 answers

191 views

Is giving a shopping recommendation prohibited?

I understand that questions that ask for a shopping recommendation are off topic. However, after reading this answer, a question came up: is giving a shopping recommendation in response to such a ...

bwDraco

45.6k

asked May 20, 2011 at 14:22

1 vote

1 answer

72 views

Moderation of duplicates here vs SO

On Stack Overflow moderators tend to not close duplicates quite so brutally as they do on Super User. For reasons such as: The asker may pick a new answer. New answers may be better. Time affects ...

P.Brian.Mackey

2,070

asked May 20, 2011 at 14:17

7 votes

2 answers

412 views

How do we want to test Hyperthreading performance boosts for the SuperUser Blog?

For the Super User Questions of the Week #15 the highest voted answer was How much speedup does a hyper thread give? (in theory). While we should be looking at what theoretical boost Hyperthreading ...

MokubaiMod

88k

asked May 20, 2011 at 11:19

10 votes

1 answer

189 views

What should Super User Blog put as a general bio for Lifehacker?

Lifehacker is interested in reposting some of our material on their site. They've asked what bio should we add to the posts? This is what I replied with but I wanted to get everyone's opinion/...

James Mertz

26.2k

asked May 18, 2011 at 0:46

8 votes

6 answers

561 views

What should be the mission statement for The Super User Blog and how to promote/explain Super User with it?

The Super User Blog Post Factory has been steadily running for a while now, producing awesome and interesting posts for all you Super Users out there! Now is the time for the mission statement ...

Pylsa

30.6k

asked May 17, 2011 at 18:07

4 votes

1 answer

237 views

Should we have a Q/A on setting PATH and environment variables?

Questions about setting environment variables and/or the PATH are very common, I guess, and in most cases the answers are the same. There is a CW answer on how to set the PATH on Windows, but as far ...

slhck

222k

asked May 16, 2011 at 17:33

6 votes

1 answer

98 views

Time to delete the eBook reader questions?

We have a few questions about eBook readers that I think could be deleted. Most are OT and only invites things like this: Why was this question closed? kindle 33 15 questions nook 3 0 questions ...

Nifle

34k

asked May 16, 2011 at 9:50

11 votes

2 answers

653 views

Can someone write a good Q/A on port-forwarding?

I think we need a question where we have gathered (router-agnostic) good advice on how to set up port-forwarding on a home network. Then we could close questions like this and point it to our port-...

Nifle

34k

asked May 15, 2011 at 19:33

2 votes

2 answers

115 views

Are user-level troubleshooting questions appropriate?

Questions like: When Abode Reader plugin attempts to open web documents in IE8, sometimes a blank dialog box appears and the document fails to open.

ThomasMcLeod

190

asked May 12, 2011 at 16:34

7 votes

3 answers

411 views

Looking for users to write about their (fun) experiences for the Super User Blog!

The Super User Blog is getting organized! Several weekly categories have been set up and we're looking for awesome things to write about! WTFriday is a brand new section that should produce an awesome ...

Pylsa

30.6k

asked May 10, 2011 at 20:02

-11 votes

4 answers

321 views

My post was unfairly edited and locked

My previous post was getting edit and I think the edit was wrong. Look at the Revision 2, sblair completely changed my post, which include a line here: "I want one of my friends to buy a 1TB hard ...

lamwaiman1988

2,671

asked May 10, 2011 at 17:39

4 votes

1 answer

126 views

Reputation needed to get SU in network profile

How much reputation is needed in Superuser to get it on the reputation chart in network profile? I had like 60 points before the linking bonus, and the reputation from stackoverflow starts from 11 in ...

Bakudan

1,323

asked May 8, 2011 at 12:16

3 votes

1 answer

227 views

Suggested tag synonym: blogs/blogging

blogs and blogging seem to be basically similar in content. In principle, the former could be about reading blogs and the latter writing them, but I doubt that distinction would survive. Also, blog is ...

Kevin Reid

3,292

asked May 8, 2011 at 11:09

-1 votes

3 answers

409 views

Closed MSE question - What would be acceptable? How should I ask this one?

So ... usually when a question of mine gets closed, I don't open a new question about it. However, this got me thinking. I've been an Avast, BitDefender, AVG, ESET user through the years. I've seen ...

Apache

16k

asked May 5, 2011 at 21:48

2 votes

1 answer

413 views

Best forum to ask ABBYY questions?

Maybe it's here? or elsewhere? I'm currently posting on mobileread.com, but thought there might be a better community for "power users" (ugh, i hate that term).

wnewport

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asked May 5, 2011 at 3:27

11 votes

1 answer

209 views

Reposting own content from or to the Super User Blog

Introduction / License Super User Blog (henceforth called SUB for conciseness) has CC BY-NC-SA logo at the bottom and text saying podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-...

przemoc

2,596

asked May 4, 2011 at 20:07

6 votes

1 answer

341 views

Why is my reputation on SU/meta.SU different from the one in SO/meta.SO?

I've been here for quite some time, but I haven't really yet understood the following situation: A few weeks ago, I had ~2000 rep on SU, maybe a bit more When I then visited meta.SU, I received ...

slhck

222k

asked May 3, 2011 at 7:13

8 votes

3 answers

202 views

Are questions about Joomla considered off topic?

Currently I am fighting with Joomla and XAMPP installation and trying to make it to work so I would like to post a question on the main Superuser site but searching for Joomla on the Superuser I get ...

Darius

2,156

asked May 3, 2011 at 0:02

-9 votes

2 answers

353 views

trigger happy moderators deleting answers for no reason

I know I can't expect quality of SO on SU, but moderators deleting answers for no reason at all? That's going too far. How to mess up a PC running Windows 7? It's not a duplicate, it's on-topic, it'...

anon

asked Apr 30, 2011 at 11:54

6 votes

1 answer

575 views

Why don't people upvote when browsing the site?

I've been on the StackExchange boards for quite some time now and it seems that people don't upvote other's answers anymore when browsing the site. At least from my experience. Let's take this ...

slhck

222k

asked Apr 24, 2011 at 11:00

9 votes

1 answer

171 views

Should we allow commercial products in the community promotion ads?

There are a few community promoted ads that have commercial purchase options. DAEMON Tools minitube The question open for discussion - should we allow ads to be posted for products that have free ...

Geoff Dalgas

363

asked Apr 24, 2011 at 7:18

7 votes

1 answer

383 views

Why isn't moderation more transparent?

I posted a question a while ago, and it suddenly disappeared. After finding a link to the page, I saw the following message: Your question was removed from Super User for reasons of moderation. ...

Peltier

6,034

asked Apr 21, 2011 at 18:18

10 votes

2 answers

129 views

Why am I having difficulty getting specific answers?

First off, I am wholly prepared to accept responsibility for vagueness in my questions. As such I want to clear any up. As yet, they are not apparent to me. As such, I'd like to request better ...

mfg

627

asked Apr 21, 2011 at 14:15

3 votes

1 answer

53 views

Can a synonym be made for the [windows-phone] tag?

The tag windows-phone-7 should be retagged windows-phone. While there are a few more instances including the 7 bit, the questions listed all apply to every current version of Windows Phone, including ...

Billy ONeal

8,081

asked Apr 20, 2011 at 22:37

3 votes

2 answers

428 views

Official stance on asking questions (that you answer) that might apply to several people [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should I write question when I know answer? Scenario: You've struggled with a problem/issue for a while and didn't post it on Super User because you wanted to figure it out ...

n0pe

16.4k

asked Apr 17, 2011 at 21:22

4 votes

1 answer

64 views

Why was this question deleted?

Why was this deleted? Visible to 10k only: https://superuser.com/questions/74038/win7-wont-let-me-in-password-is-correct I don't think it should be. The accepted answer is something that has ...

Nifle

34k

asked Apr 16, 2011 at 19:10

1 vote

2 answers

355 views

SuperUser RSS feed and Android 2.2 "news" app (RSS reader).

I can read https://superuser.com/feeds in Thunderbird but Android 2.2's "News" App says "Add channel error","This URL is not correct". 1) Is there some documentation about the URL for RSS on ...

RedGrittyBrick

81.4k

asked Apr 13, 2011 at 16:28

3 votes

1 answer

120 views

Did I ask about Adobe Acrobat here in error?

I am wondering if anyone can help me (perhaps by migration?) find an answer to the question I posed a little over a week ago? It involves changing an Adobe Acrobat pre-packaged template for PDF ...

mfg

627

asked Apr 12, 2011 at 14:43

16 votes

1 answer

460 views

Idle moderator position

quack quixote has left Super User for good (here is the related post), and he still seems to have the moderator position (obviously idle). I think this position should be granted (by election) to an ...

Mehper C. Palavuzlar

55k

asked Apr 12, 2011 at 7:09

3 votes

1 answer

78 views

Inappropriate migration to SF?

This question was migrated to SF a bit ago: Suspicious redirection to russian pages. Is government spying us? After being received by us, it was quickly closed as being off-topic (I would have ...

EEAA

1,903

asked Apr 11, 2011 at 20:18

7 votes

1 answer

389 views

'Best iPad stylus' question deleted as off topic

I had a question about the best iPad stylus that would meet general needs and outperform the others. However, it was closed. There's tons of "the best ...." questions; why was mine deleted? It's a ...

n0pe

16.4k

asked Apr 6, 2011 at 21:15

26 votes

4 answers

511 views

Recommending own products

What's our stance on relevant product recommendations? The paragraph in the FAQ is clearly not enough in this case. As a recent example, a developer of an Outlook plug-in/addon started answering ...

Daniel BeckMod

109k

asked Apr 6, 2011 at 20:57

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