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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Reopen this. It's not localized
How to install a program that self-downloads from the web, from behind a corporate firewall?
There are gazillions of people trying to make things work behind a corporate proxy. Why on earth is ...
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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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Do Mods get Rep for Deleting Downvoted Answers? [closed]
Second time I've seen the same moderator call an answer a "comment" (and delete it), when the real issue is (let's be generous to the moderator here) the quality or correctness of the answer. Why ...
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Why was my self-answer/post deleted?
Here is the question:
Can I use webex to show app from a remote desktop connection?
I followed up with an answer that was DELETED by a moderator. I can't figure out why a USEFUL post would be ...
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Why was my question put on hold as opinion-based?
The question in... question, is mine:
Is it sufficient to run MalwareBytes 3.0 as my sole antimalware/antivirus tool?
It was put on hold as primarily opinion-based. I don't believe this is the case,...
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Please undelete and preserve 'How do you edit the name of a bookmark? (MS Word 2013)'?
Would you please undelete this question, which constitutes a common problem? I would be grateful for two upvotes, simply to protect the question from automatic deletion. Thank you.
Here it is quoted—...
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Has a points deduction system to encourage original posters to 'close' their questions been considered?
I wondered if there was any merit in a system that encourages original posters to 'close' their questions by either selecting a 'correct' answer (as already done now) OR marking the original question ...
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Windows 8: Hints, Tips & Tricks?
Is it possible to have a Windows 8: Hints, Tips & Tricks question on SuperUser, which is kind of like a community wiki (if thats the correct term), where one hint tip or trick is given per answer. ...
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Why was my question on Itanium closed?
I asked a question about Why Intel dropped the Itanium and it was well received (IMO), but was closed as "Not Constructive". Is there any reason why it would be closed?
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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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Why my Questions closed is not opened after 2 times re-editing..why not admins re-edit themself?
I have edited two time and remove all questing leaving one and question still explained to make them understand what i am talking about still question is not opened and even banned to ask more ...
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I'm human, even when I'm incognito!
Whenever I'm visiting Super User in incognito mode, I have to verify that I'm a human (almost every time). I realize that this could be avoided by not being incognito, but for various reasons, I'm ...
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Why questions like "Developer laptop SSD and HDD setup" are closed?
I want to ask why this question is closed:
Where to put Visual Studio and SQL Server databases - SSD or HDD?
I would like to discuss about topic like this and share my experience related with using ...
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Why do I lose reputation for questions that I accept as duplicate?
I had a question and apparently it was a duplicate. So I decided to delete it but could not delete it since it had an answer. So I accepted it as duplicate. So now why do I lose rep for something I ...
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Motivation to answer low-trafic complicated questions?
I started to feel discouradged answering Excel questions here on SU because of my much diminished privileges than I have on SO:
I don't have enought rep to edit questions to make them more searchable ...
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Opinion about my question being opinion based
I have this question "https://superuser.com/questions/849352/is-it-worth-overclocking?noredirect=1#comment1120959_849352" where I base this question on a factional example. I am looking for facts that ...
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Can the old Firefox recommended extensions question be viewed by anybody in any way?
There was a question that I and many found useful though unfortunately it seems maybe it was deemed subjective and deleted. I had thought it'd be preserved in the database, but not being aware of all ...
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How do I properly "unaccept" an answer?
I answered my own question then found the solution was incomplete. I unchecked the box and put in a note that I was the author and had moved my comments to the original question. Somebody reviewed ...
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How should I try to improve a question that the user doesn't like my edits for?
Often, when I edit questions, it is because they need editing to be uncrap.
After putting some time into making the following question uncrap, one person approved the edit, but the user rejected it ...
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Server software or hardware question closed?
My question https://superuser.com/questions/327971/is-the-server-hardware-or-software
was close on the same day citing wikipedia quotes that Server can be both hardware and software hence this is not ...
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How do I get my question cross-posted to Stack Overflow?
How do I get my question cross-posted to Stack Overflow?
It has not been answered and I am in need of an answer.
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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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Why is this question being voted to be closed?
I think my question is well-framed, within subject, and systemic. Maybe it's not possible to do what I want to do, but I think the question is valid.
So, why is it being voted to be closed?
How to ...
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Why was my question put on hold?
I asked a question about whatsapp: Is there an option to remove the "administrative" messages from a whatsapp chat? and it wos put on hold because:
"This question is not about computer ...
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Basic shell question migrated to SuperUser?
So this question sudo command won't run from script was migrated to SuperUser.
The question is really basic: why isn't my command in my path when I run it with sudo?
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Add softwarerecs to vote to migrate option
We should include the Software Recommendations in the "Vote to migrate" menu. There are a lot of SuperUser questions about software recommendations and it'd be good to put an option.
Also, a lot of ...
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Obsolete page about Opera bookmarks
This question is obsolete (2009). There is a newer version of it.
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What can we do about users with a 0% accept rate? [closed]
Do we not answer their questions? Is a moderator able to step in and accept a clear, solid answer?
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Whether ask other website's content allowed in SuperUser?
I want to ask a question about another site's QnA path.
I want to know the below famous site whether is a forum for QA.
https://isocpp.org/
is this type question allowed to ask in superuser?
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InCopy tag creation request
My Super User question here involves Adobe InCopy. I would like to request the creation of a tag about Adobe InCopy. Could we please create such a tag? Thanks!
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Tag creation request
I have a question about my Super User post: vim | less breaks things
(autogenerated header)
May the community please create the following tags:
bug
less
Tag #discussion is included because it is ...
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Why are people voting to close my question?
How is CMD's convert command able to convert FAT to NTFS without data loss?
I've recently updated the question to directly respond to criticism that the question is off-topic based on the claims ...
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Burninate the [ssid] tag
All of the questions tagged with ssid are related to wireless-networking. There are only 4 followers of ssid. All experts on wireless-networking should be experts on ssid. I see no purpose of the ssid ...
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What can be done about false answers that suggest the asker to run malicious code? [duplicate]
What can be done about false answers that suggest the asker to run malicious code?
I mean, like an answer that says something along these lines:
If you have administrative privileges, the ...
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Overzealous duplicate marking
In my opinion, the mods on this site are way overzealous about marking things duplicate.
Quite often the first time someone asks a question the question and answer can be suboptimal. Maybe the first ...
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Remove [zip-drive] tag?
A single question (about how to recover data from the obsolete drive). Although, it's possible that a museum or archaeology team could post a question asking to identify a relic.
zip-drive
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Looking for a lighter editor, closed as not constructive, points on making it in scope?
I've found a closed question of particular interest to me. The reason was that it's "not constructive".
What lightweight editor has autosave per keystroke, similar to intelliJ idea?
Would ...
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Can I get this question question reopened?
This question Is there any way to check for badblocks that address the two issues? get flagged as opinion based. But it's not. Some guy posted an totally untrue opinion based answer, but I really want ...
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Asking which laptops have a particular keyboard design: on or off-topic?
The keyboard layout of the Lenovo S210 is easy and intuitive for me to use. The laptop is just a little underpowered for me. I asked Lenovo support if any of their other models have a similar keyboard ...
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Where should we ask non-desktop/laptop questions?
I notice that non destop/laptop questions appear off topic here...Kindles, iPads, etc. Is there a SE site dedicated to asking questions regarding those devices, their configurations, and software?
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kvm tag should be re-synonymized to linux-kvm
Way back in the early days of SU the tag kvm was synonymized to kvm-switch apparently without a whole lot of discussion. But this is resulting in a lot of confusion, as most people seem to expect the ...
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Quote markdown for the whole answer
I left two comments under both of Pimp Juice's answers on this question asking to consider editing out the quote markdown because both answers are >90% quoted and it doesn't look sensible to me to ...
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Procurement vs hardware compatibility
There is a problem specific to Canada that needs some consideration on SU.
Until relatively recently (2003), all Prime Ministers ("Presidents") had come from Quebec -- for 43 out of 50 years. As a ...
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How come you can ask an unqualified "how do I do $x?"
This is in response to this question
Why can't I ask if hardware exists that does something, or fits a need?
I'm going to try one more way to address this. How come you can't ask,
Does $x exist?...
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When and Why did this website almost completely die? Did I miss something? [closed]
I've been gone a while, but I've poked my head in a few times in the last 6 months and noticed the number of questions answered has dropped DRAMATICALLY. The number of questions that even get a ...
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Should old opinion-based questions be significantly edited?
This question What display size and resolution is good for reading PDF in double page view? is closed as primarily opinion-based. I attempt to edit it like this, but it says I'm editing too much. What ...
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Low liquidity on superuser?
I am new on super user,I asked a question a little while ago,and it feels like the website has much lower liquidity than stackoverflow! which am a little active on.Is it always like that?
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Why was this question of mine closed? [duplicate]
Question edited for clarifications.
I did not ask for a software license or license recommendation, I asked about the implications. I still haven't got the answer about why the two different close ...
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Question closed automatically; how to improve?
I asked a simple question (only visible to 10K+ rep users) about Facebook terminating my Internet connection, provided all the information I had available.
What am I doing wrong? How to reopen and ...
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Top Questions: superuser Alltime
How do I search and explore Top Questions: All Time on superuser?
I thought I could be sneaky, and try "copy link address" and replace keyword hot, week or month
https://superuser.com/?tab=alltime
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