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 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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Does the bonus rep for associating accounts across different SE sites go against daily rep cap?
Does the +100 bonus rep for associating accounts across different Stack Exchange sites go against the +200 daily rep count?
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Comanswer duplicates Superuser answers
I was just doing some Google searches to find out how to selectively always trust certain certificates on intranet pages using Google Chrome on a Mac. I came across this SuperUser answer. Another ...
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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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Questions with expired bounty
In case of questions where the bounty amount expires, I believe the bounty is supposed to be given to the highest voted answer after the bounty was announced, with atleast 2 upvotes.
However, how ...
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Is it all right to use the flag option to...? [duplicate]
Is it all right to use the flag option to bring to attention an question that may need to be voted to close because it is off-topic.
Example: What is the best stock market website ??
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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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Isn't it supposed to be a community managed site?
Today two of my questions were closed.
The first as subjective and the second as off-topic. First of all, in my humble opinion, there is nothing, what so ever, subjective or off topic in these ...
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What is the thinking behind the daily reputation cap?
What is the thinking behind the daily reputation cap? What harm is thus prevented?
If my answer gets 20 upvotes today and 20 tomorrow, why is that twice as good as getting 40 upvotes today?
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Tag sets and tag name consistency
Tag sets have introduced a way in which identical tag names are associated across SOFU & SX sites. We've got a few inconsistencies with SO, e.g., while excel and excel, are the user and ...
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What are the restrictions on closed questions?
Let's say A is somebody that asked a question.
B is somebody that gave an answer.
C is somebody that didn't.
The question gets closed.
Presumably, C cannot post an answer.
A can comment.
Can B or ...
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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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Browse unanswered within a tag?
It does not appear possible to AND two filters, like "Windows" and "Unanswered". Perhaps an advanced search||settings page I'm not seeing?
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Tagging hardware qn about Mac Mini Server
Asked on chat:
Tagging question: what are the right tags for qns about Mac Mini, Server edition? I've seen using mac-mini and server together, but there's also osx-server, and maybe a new tag, mac-...
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Why was this question about computer monitors closed?
Question:
What size HD widescreen monitor would I need to buy to match my 19" monitor?
I asked a question a few weeks ago to help me understand how to find a widescreen computer monitor to match ...
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Tags: google-desktop and google-desktop-search
I believe the two tags, google-desktop and google-desktop-search should be synonyms as they are one and the same product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop
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I can see answers from Deposit?
In the last days (and right now, too) I was able to see answers which got merged into my dear friend Deposit. Is that intentional? I always thought they would be hidden instantly?
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Answering a question you previously voted to close
This question was recently posted, asking very ambiguously about the Windows 7 SP1 RC. I voted to close it as "not a real question", since it was just asking for comments on whether anybody had tried ...
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Are "error" and "problem" meta-tags?
From http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/:
If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.
Clearly, error and problem fit this criterion.
If ...
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Why was this question closed ?
This is getting plain ridiculous:
https://superuser.com/questions/204710/what-happened-to-the-corel-forums-for-paintshop-pro-closed
If this isn't a question about computer software (support for it) ...
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Do [missing] and [disappeared] constitute as meta tags?
There are (currently) 18 questions tagged missing
And 13 questions tagged disappeared
Am I right in believing that these tags are meta-tags and need to be wiped off ?
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How do I create the Super User Logo in text?
The superuser logo has a square bracket and a curly bracket. is there a keyboard or ascii character for the "eye" dot?
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It annoys me that there's an Apple SE but so many Apple questions on SU
Stack Exchange management wrote a big post about why it makes sense to spin off some topics or areas into their own stack sites. If I have an Ubuntu question, it would make sense to ask it in the ...
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Exactly what does "ignored tags" do?
Maybe I stupidly missed the explanation somewhere... When I set some ignored tag (under "interesting tags") - just how does this affect my experience on SuperUser?
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Is it kosher to accept your answer on your own question?
I've on occasion come across the answer to my question, and feel that it's the best answer, but do not want to "rob" anyone of rightfully earned rep... What do I do? Also I'm assuming that I do NOT ...
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Following up using comments
I've been in the situation that I answered questions with more than one-liners, and the original poster didn't follow up at all (commenting what was wrong with the answers provided by me and others, ...
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"closed as exact duplicate by" - suggestion
When a question is closed by a moderator as a duplicate, I believe that a reference should be made within the area below that states where the original Q/A resides.
closed as exact duplicate by ...
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How to deal with an answer which suggest "Windows XP Ultimate"-Build from a Third-Party?
I just stumbled upon this answer which suggest to use "Windows XP Ultimate", which is in fact a Windows XP System modified by a Third-Party (read: Not Microsoft).
I'm not sure about possible ...
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What is the effect of down votes on a low-rep user?
If a user is new and receives down votes, they cannot get negative reputation (or even non-positive, i.e., 0) right? So if that user gets down votes, then earns reputation, does the loss of rep they ...
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Is superuser the proper channel to ask AutoCAD-related questions?
After checking out all the other StackExchange sites, CAD questions do not seem to fit into any category except maybe superuser. In the FAQ, superuser is described as encompassing general software or ...
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What to do about torrents?
With, what appears to me, an outbreak of questions regarding torrents, torrent downloads, and torrent download optimization I am wondering what we should do with these sort of questions. Most torrent ...
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Why was this question about computer hardware closed as off-topic?
Why was this question closed?
I can't see how it does not relate to computer hardware.
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My question was closed and I find it unfair.
I wasn't too sure if I was better to ask here or on the Stack Overflow meta (since it also serves as the Stack Exchange meta site), but after reading the accepted answer of this similar question on ...
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What does "too localized" really entail?
Having just received the ability to vote-to-close questions I have seen the option of "Too localized".
At what point is the question deemed to be too localized? I personally have asked questions ...
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Do we want to have an option to migrate to AskUbuntu?
With 3341+ questions tagged ubuntu would this seem a good migration option?
The most recent ones are:
How can I change my uid without opening another user account?
vmware linux headers not found for ...
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Too liberal use of the "off topic" button
I've seen a small handful of questions here marked as off topic that just baffle me. Here is the latest:
https://superuser.com/questions/197939/best-host-for-vmware-workstation/197942
How is that ...
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Are TeX/LaTeX questions off-topic?
This question was closed as off-topic. Yet it fits squarely within the topic of Super User as defined by the FAQ (it's a question about the beamer plug-in for the TeX program, to put it into general ...
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Is it ok to go back and "cleanup" questions and answers that I've asked/answered?
I've been looking though some of my questions and answers and realized that some of them are the highest quality that I want them to be at. Is it bad protocol to go back and cleanup questions and ...
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Will Meta Superuser consider adding a "# of views" sort function to the Superuser main page?
Will Meta Superuser consider adding a "# of views" sort function to the Superuser main page?
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Do we need the [crapware] tag?
This question brought to my attention the [crapware] tag, in this context being used to refer to IE9.
In fact there are 6 tagged questions this way, so it's hardly a widespread issue, but it's better ...
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Shouldn't 'mark favorite' give the same reputation as an up vote? Or even more?
I suggest that marking a question as favorite should give at least as much reputation to the writer than upvoting the question... After all, if the user intends to come back to the question later, it ...
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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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Call to vote: Synonyms
I have found synonyms to all these tags, please vote up or down if you are eligible on to do so (2000 rep), 4 votes creates the association -2 votes kills it.
bittorrent
colors
shell-script
virtual-...
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Should we bury the old tag?
My tag crusade continues
The next tag I want to banish becaus I think it is a meta-tag is old
Is this a good idea?
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Computer build question
A new question about computer building was recently closed with the "Off Topic" reason. But the close text is a bit misleading:
Questions on Super User are expected to generally relate to computer ...
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Is command-line a meta tag?
I noticed that command-line had no tag-wiki. So I thought I might try to add one. Unfortunately I wasn't among the top 20 answerers in that tag so I couldn't do it.
I then thought about the bash tag(*...
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Why are questions off-topic for Super User being migrated from other trilogy sites?
It's unbelievable that Super User is still being used as a dumping ground especially for questions not on-topic on Stack Overflow.
Latest example:
https://superuser.com/questions/194442/recommended-...
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