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interface change - envelope gone

the envelope that went colored when I had replies, is now a down arrow. what would indicate when/if I have new replies? I suppose i'll find out..
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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Community Promotion Ads - 2012 What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here? TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they will ...
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Should I write question when I know answer?

I had a problem for which I couldn't find solution on the Internet. I found a solution and I think that the solution for the problem is useful and somebody could have the same problem. Is it OK to ...
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Frustration with superuser.com user interface

Can someone please migrate this question to "meta" for me? I'm unable to post there while I wait for OpenID to fix my password problems. Thanks. I'm having problems with superuser.com's interface --...
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Top Questions of the Week #8

Now we're into week 8 post 8 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 ...
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The Super User Blog -- now officially blessed!

Great job on the blog! After a call today with Ivo, we decided that the Super User Blog is now sufficiently awesome to be highlighted in the footer! You'll note that the blog link in the Super User ...
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Retag request: rdp->remote desktop

I see a lot of questions which are tagged both rdp and remote-desktop. I have yet to see any where the question refers to the remote desktop protocol specifically; in every case, just remote-desktop ...
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Why is superuser moderated so strictly?

Had this already yesterday with two questions which were "pulled". For one I could even understand it. Today (just now) the question here https://superuser.com/questions/252728/library-loading-order ...
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Migrating Android questions

Thank you for migrating questions about Android devices to Android Enthusiasts. I know they're off-topic here and we're happy to help folks at the site dedicated to the devices. However... Please be ...
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What to do if I ask a question but discover the solution myself before anyone else? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it kosher to accept your answer on your own question? Recently I asked a question about Outlook Express crashing. Someone left an answer with a possible reason and a list ...
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Future of the "fun" tag

I suggest we get rid of the fun tag. The questions are mostly wikis, closed or both and I think it matches all criterion for a meta tag.
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Top Questions of the Week #7

Now we're into week 7 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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I Need to Ask a Poll-Type Question

I am trying to find out the pronunciation of a computer term, but since it is (mostly) a poll-type question, I figured I would ask for advice first in order to avoid getting raped by the seemingly ...
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Incorporating more information from comments while editing

Editing guidelines (for example this meta question) do not give any information about incorporating additional information from comments. For example, while editing this, there is additional rather ...
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how do I view revisions to a question?

how do I view revisions to a question (presumably including tag changes)? do I need a certain rep amount, if so how much?
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Top Questions of the Week #6

Now we're into week 6 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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How literally does SU take "not about a shopping or buying recommendation"?

I fully support the clause of the SU FAQ that states that shopping/buying recommendations are off-topic. I'm a little confused about its scope, though. Does it apply to questions that ask people to ...
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What is the etiquette regarding asking a question again on another Stack Exchange site?

I've asked a question on SuperUser before I realised that Ask Different existed. I feel that my question would be better served on the the Ask Different Stack Exchange site. How should I go about ...
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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 #5

Now we're into week 5 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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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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Can [pc], [programs] be obliterated? And [hardware], [software] again?

Reference 1: SU Retag Request: [tag:applications] --> [tag:software] Reference 2: Can [tag:hardware] and [tag:software] be obliterated? Can we obliterate pc and programs as well? On the same par: ...
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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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[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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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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Proposed tag wiki for Microsoft Excel

This is a suggested tag wiki entry for microsoft-excel, 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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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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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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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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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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Why was my question deleted?

This question that I asked several months ago appears to have been recently deleted: https://superuser.com/questions/4143/what-interesting-types-of-things-can-dropbox-be-used-for It had a large ...
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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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What do you want Super User Blog to test with SSD technology?

In conjunction with the Super User blog, we will be getting three SSD's from Kingston. We want to perform tests on these drives and blog about the results, and need your help. What testing, ...
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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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Top Questions of the Week #3

Now we're into week 3 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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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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Information on the moderator candidates

Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that use the Stack Overflow API to display information on the moderator candidates. Click here to see all the information. The information presented is: The ...
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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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Q&A with the candidates in 2011 moderator election

After the example of the Math.SE site I have some questions that I would love to see each nominee respond to in their nomination (if they choose to do so): Is there anything you would want to change ...
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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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2011 Community Moderator Election

The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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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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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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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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