Questions tagged [discussion]
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Merge Request: [visual-studio-code] and [vscode]
I would like to propose making vscode a synonym of visual-studio-code.
Questions regarding Visual Studio Code are actively posted under both the visual-studio-code and vscode tags. There is no ...
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Merge "jabber" and "xmpp"
jabber and xmpp are synonyms on Stack Overflow. They should be synonyms on Super User also.
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Are iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch questions computer related (Super User)?
I would think these devices are computer related enough for inclusion on Super User (I'd even say they were computers). Why are there 50 questions tagged iPod on superuser.com but this one gets ...
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You like them hats? [closed]
Last year around Christmas time arQAde had a little promotion in which they awarded hats for gravatars for completing basic tasks around the site.
Here's a link to the promo from last year (and a ...
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Three free video cards for Valued Community Members(tm)
I've been doing some upgrading, so this means I have some extra PCI Express video cards. They are not too shabby, either.
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5770 1GB
Now, the two 5870 cards are still ...
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Should users suggest technical edits?
Recently, I received this answer and a comment asking me to run a particular command to get the precise Last Modified timestamp of a file:
wmic datafile where name="c:\\foo.txt" get lastmodified
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Are we [licensed] for all this?
I think license-key and product-key should be synonyms. There's also software-activation.
I also don't see why the 12 volume-license questions aren't just tagged with license given you can get volume ...
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Please stop migrating crap
Please only migrate good, but otherwise wayward questions. Latest exhibit is this question:
Facebook open graph html5 audio
I have a system that share on facebook a flash audio player, but the flash ...
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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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What to do with "Which Linux Distro for my Old PC" questions of super-user
We have a number of questions on SuperUser, asking which Linux distribution to use on the poster's old PC, and giving specs of said old PC.
A number of these questions have been closed as Duplicate. ...
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Superuser vs Unix/Linux vs Ubuntu
If I have a question about Ubuntu, I now have 3 places I could take it to:
https://superuser.com/
https://unix.stackexchange.com/
https://askubuntu.com/
It seems to me that Ubuntu is a subset of ...
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag
The player tag feels like a classic meta tag, and one likely to be misused. I saw it in use for a question what seems to be a glorified cd player but could refer to audio, video or other software that ...
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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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Re-assign accepted answer years later?
A few years ago I asked Remove or prevent sidebar from opening by default on Adobe Reader and received a superb response.
A recent update to the software in question nullifies this accepted answer ...
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Are hardware (port, cable, etc.) visual identification questions allowed or not?
Are hardware (port, cable, etc.) visual identification questions allowed or not? Specifically when it's basically just "What's this port?" and a picture.
Examples:
What is a name of this port? And ...
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Which proper action should be taken to handle this suspicious post?
Recently I see through this question:
How to paste text into input fields that block it?
There is a late answer includes a link which it looks to be suspicious:
From what I read in other site meta ...
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OP edited question substantially after answer(s) were posted
Yesterday, for the second time in the past three months, I answered a question,
only to get a response from the OP saying, in effect,
This answer was correct when you posted it.
I’ve changed the ...
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What steps can I take to check and improve lower quality questions?
It is sometimes unclear in which way a question should be handled. What can I do to check why excactly it doesn't meet our standards? What could I do to inform the user and improve it to be of higher ...
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Super User in Portuguese
As you may know, Stack Overflow in Portuguese is a huge success. Now, it is time to expand the idea and get our hands at the Super User in Portuguese, right now on Area 51.
Stack Exchange team has a ...
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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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You're fired: Burn the [position] tag
position seems quite meta - no useful description, and no consistency, and it will not help experts in "positioning" find questions, in my opinion. I vote to fire it
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Why are safety and security synonyms?
In the first lesson in my information security class I learned how bad the German term "Sicherheit" is, which can be translated to either security or safety, which makes it hard to distinguish between ...
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Should we keep stretching the meaning of [stretch]?
This is about stretch. It's the code name of the current stable Debian release, and it's also a tag on the main site.
Most of the usage seems to be about debian-stretch -- there are 19 questions ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Is Tumbleweed badge an achievement or otherwise?
Lately two of my questions earned me a tumbleweed badge?
Does this mean my questions don't make sense and I need to improve them to attract more attention?
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Should we edit out spam from spam posts?
An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:
UTTER SPAM
Please delete me.
I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content,...
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Should you ask/answer your own questions to make a public KB?
I wonder if it's in the spirit of the site, or if my questions will get down-voted to oblivion, were I to answer my own question as I post it. My intent is to build some sort of public KB; stuff which ...
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Site Design Updates
A major design update IS NOW LIVE!
Most of the changes are not visible; these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to Stack Overflow:
We are moving the site's CSS to a newly refactored ...
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A useful question was put on hold after six years due to software recommentation, how to respond?
I've been pondering this for the last couple of days. I was researching ways to verifiy ripped audio files and found this question which I found very useful. I thought it was a good sensible question....
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 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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Recovery tag needs to stop recovering
I think that the recovery Tag is far too broad as there are so many different types of recovery (which also have tags for them) such as data-recovery, password-recovery, partition-recovery and so on. ...
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Please migrate Google Analytics questions to Webmasters
Hello from Web Apps!
We've been seeing an awful lot of questions about Google Analytics migrated from Super User over to Web Apps lately.
The thing is, questions about Google Analytics will be much ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election Results
Well, Super User's epic second moderator election has come to an end. Our winners are:
Please give them a warm welcome, and hearty thanks and congratulations for volunteering!
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Split up the [split] tag [duplicate]
split is all over - it's about splitting files, DVDs, splitting windows/screen into two, Excel formula to split contents - I propose that we kill split
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Choosing a canonical question for "Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?"
Super User has several questions asking how to check whether they have a 32-bit or 64-bit Operating System, and how to check if their CPU is 64-bit capable.
The majority combine both questions into ...
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Account copying question from another source
My concern is around this question: https://superuser.com/questions/1004955/break-in-operation-file-is-corrupt-what-to-do
The user posting the question has no other interaction on Super User, at ...
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Should we put a limit on [limit]?
limit is a meta-tag used for a bunch of totally different purposes. Scanning the first page of questions I find questions about limiting
screen resolution
number of files
downloaded amount
parallel ...
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Very suspicious question
This question has accumulated 689 upvotes since yesterday, and the single answer has accumulated 708 upvotes. Now, there may be questions that merit such adulation, and this one is kind of ...
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Let's bring back to life the now (somewhat) dead Super User Blog
Your crazy mad scientist of a Blog Editor is back and wants to keep this blog going:
First off, I need to apologize. Like a terrible parent, I have abandoned my child. But no more! I have a little ...
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Two long answers disagreeing with each other - how to canonicalize?
Someone posted a new answer to a rather old question of mine, Disadvantages of partitioning an SSD?.
The answer I accepted has 13 upvotes at this time, and I have accepted the information therein as ...
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Problem solved by customer support with a premade executable
I recently asked Open a cash drawer using a RJ11 DIO 12/24V port in Windows 7, and while looking for an answer I contacted the customer support of Shuttle.
They replied with a message which was a bit ...
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Should WSL be a synonym for Windows Subsystem for Linux?
I noticed today that we currently have two tags for the same Windows 10 feature.
WSL
Windows-Subsystem-For-Linux.
My suggestion is for WSL tag to become a synonym of the greater Windows Subsystem ...
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Did I create, then fail my own review audit?
I encountered this question in the Reopen queue. At the time, it looked like this. I suspected it might not be worthy of re-opening, so instead of using Edit and Reopen I opened the question in a ...
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Rename macos tag?
We just did a tag synonym reversal for osx and macos. The move was technically correct, but it's creating an unanticipated problem (at least for me, I'm just assuming some others are similarly ...
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Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?
I'm seeing a disturbing increase in spam posts promoting personal enhancement products such as male enhancement, hair care, dieting, brain enhancement, and other similar products. The following list (...
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Merge [EFI] and [UEFI] tags?
The tag description for EFI is :
EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface, and is an updated version of BIOS. It sits between firmware and the operating system in the software stack.
while ...
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Why was my question on compatibility flagged as a "Hardware Purchasing Question"?
I am new to this Stack Exchange site. I recently asked a question about whether certain connections were standardized, specifically laptop 4k non-touch screens. It quickly got flagged as an off-topic ...
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Reduce Tag Ambiguity by Requiring Objects for Transitive Verbs
It's all in the title I'd say...
In short, I'm suggesting that we add 'object' validation for single-transitive verb tags without object qualifiers... For instance ... 'split' would require the ...
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