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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Difference between tags virus, malware, trojan, infection,worm
From most used to least used (including related tags):
virus x 501
anti-virus x 453
virus-removal x 56
malware x 256
malware-removal x 37
malware-detection x 13
anti-malware x 11
trojan x 70
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Can I ask what the definition of "enterprise services" is?
Can I ask this here? If not, what other stack exchange site would best?
Apple’s New Era Has Begun
Now Apple has set its sights on a much larger bite of the apple: enterprise services. It’s such a ...
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Why was my question about attempting to stop USB viruses downvoted?
I made a question about something I didn't know a lot about: Are dummy autoruns enough for virus prevention?
I asked if something was possible and my question got downvoted for kingdom come. Isn't ...
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Move a question to another SE site
I recently flagged learn ActionScript or keep the html5 path for mod attention to be moved to programmers.se, as it was relevant for that site. The question was closed by a mod without any other votes....
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Unable to clear my REPUTATION - deadly embrace
My reputation got hammered by an Admin, as I:
1) Answered my own question
2) and placed it in the wrong "forum" - ServerFault instead of SuperUser.
So I deleted it. BAD IDEA.
I am now locked out of ...
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Different between Superuser and superuser meta
What is different between Super user and super user meta?
I know that I shouldn’t ask this question in this site.But I was forced.
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Is explaining the existence or construction of Easter eggs in scope?
I posted a question about an Easter egg where a moderator almost immediately closed it as off-topic.
I've been around on here long enough to know that my question isn't a lone exception, and that ...
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How do I contribute my knowledge to StackExchange?
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My initial impression was flawed. I had apparently not tried to submit NEW answers, and only was trying to rate and/or comment on old answers that I thought were good or mostly good to help ...
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Can you break this down Barney Style for me? [closed]
I occasionally come across SuperUser content. This most recent question was a link from another Stack Exchange, and sounded interesting, so I thought I would check it out.
I'm not very active here, ...
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Please undelete Automatic Wallpaper Manager?
I ask NOT for a reopen here, but would you please undelete [this question](https://superuser.com/q/679640/269574, so that at least, it can be shared, viewed, and benefit those who can't seek or see ...
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Does nobody answer questions on this site?
My last question got nothing at all. Not even a comment or anything.
I'm not sure if my most recent question will get anything either. I looked at the most recent pages of questions (about 12 hours ...
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Including a reference to the proposed "Software Recommendations" site
There is a plethora of questions here (in meta) that involve what to do about questions involving "Software recommendations". None of them seem to mention the proposal for the Software Recommendations ...
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Where is Hall of Fame of this site?
Where is Hall of Fame of this site and of the entire group of 174 sites?
Hall of Fame, showing things like who are top 10 or 100 highest rep members, who all have most badges, who all crossed rep or ...
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Tags Taking out the trash Or Creating a bigger mess?
There are hundreds of tags that do not even need discussion, and
never should have been created. They are at the Far end of the tags,
and they are not magically dissapearing. And many of them do not
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Unreasonable closure of question
Q: TERM value for Windows 10 terminal
Who closed this question? How is this question not clear? It looks to me whoever closed this should not have the power to close questions because he is ...
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How is it helping Superuser to prevent me from being able to vote up / down comments?
Genuine question.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who's been using this forum for several years, and constructively contributing every time.
Do Superuser maybe need to employ some better UX staff to ...
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"Please stop berating the mods" -- should we start doing this or what?
https://superuser.com/users/707676/attie said "please stop berating the mods" to me in setting up external 1TB SSD . I made no single comment about the mods (at least, in their function as the mods; I ...
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Why was my edit, correcting a fact, rejected?
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/756623 refers to 'Accent colors', but this ought be 'Theme colors'.
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The comments should not be deleted [closed]
Every time that someone don't like a someone else comment , they are deleted.
This should not going to happen in a free and open forum.
Of course , if comments contains insults , denigration , racism ,...
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Where would a question about a Firefox extension be on topic?
Web Applications do not take questions about Firefox extensions, for the obvious reason that they're not about applications related to the web. It's about Web Applications, i.e. server-side.
Firefox ...
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How can I use email receipt to trigger Windows 10 processes
My question was closed - not before I had some useful advice from some users - and been arrogantly dismissed. I cannot see the benefit of this site when it allows behaviour that discourages people ...
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Question limit?
Is it my mistake that people were not able to answer questions that I ask, or they do not bother to answer some petty questions?
I sent a request to enable my question limit, according to the admins, ...
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Anyone in for improving / reopening the "Why is boot time still relevant?" question?
Why do people care so much about boot time of an operating system?
This question can certainly be scientifically approached. Let's attempt to improve and reopen it...
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A hidden passive-aggressive attitude toward questions
Some moderations to close a question do not make sense here. The reason stated for the closing of question the at the top of the page, for example, says this question needs clarity. The OP has asked ...
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(Robo-review) Can my edit please be approved?
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/962137
The question is quite old and it has been closed a long time ago. Therefore, the edits will NOT push the post into the queue. The OP rejected it ...
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Should there be a tag for MSRPC?
Should there be a tag for Microsoft Remote Procedure Call or does the DCE tag suffice for people? I was running a search and can find nothing on Stack Overflow or Super User Stack Exchange sites. What ...
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How do I disply a list of all Super Users who have not been active here for more than a certain length of time?
I had seen a clever solution to an excel problem online which brought me to Stack Exchange's "Super Users" service. But I have forgotten the user's name as well as the excel problem that I ...
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How do we clean this up?
What Why can't I find a USB-C hub with multiple USB-C ports? was looking for did not exist at all previously (except for one Dell hub). Yet, people posted many answers because USB C is confusing ...
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Since when were command-line tools off-topic?
I previously asked this question on Meta to query the overzealous closing of this SU question as a duplicate. The moderator who initially closed it, without justification or explanation of the ...
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Rename Tag: [attachments] into [email-attachments]
I would like to suggest to rename the attachments-tag into email-attachments, analogue to the email-signature-tag.
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Reputation doesn't increase
Please help. I don't know if I'm exactly correct. I've used StackExchange with a Google account previously. I earned good reputation. But for some reasons I don't wanna use it now. I created another ...
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retaliatory down votes
At various times, my questions have received answers not properly addressing the original question, but instead targeted at a different question. Often, the user posting the answer will decline ...
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How is this question opinion based?
Does GTX 1650 encode/render videos at better speed/performance than RX 6500 XT?
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Why this question didn't get any attention even after my edit?
I asked very much beautiful question: https://superuser.com/questions/1050126/how-to-remote-upload-the-torx-download-links
First moderators complained about unclear, so I edited it. still no reply or ...
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How can I convert SEC EDGAR Form 13F into Excel?
Why was How can I convert SEC EDGAR Form 13F into Excel? unilaterally closed? Prof David Postill wrote
Update the question so it focuses on one problem only. This will help others answer the ...
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Add tag for drive-file-stream and for google-backup-and-sync
As the old Google Drive application is being depreciated on all platforms, I vote that we need new tags for its successors Drive File Stream and Google Backup and Sync in order to distinguish between ...
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Why do people can downvote a question without justification? [duplicate]
I have a huge problem with my pc Cannot restore Windows 8 from Windows 10 because of local administrator account
I am desperate and asking for help. To my surprise someone downvoted my question ...
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Rep-mining / Using the site as a blog
I’ve noticed recently that numerous users (including high-rep users and even moderators) have been posting generic, hypothetical questions, followed immediately by an answer and accepting it.
I don’t ...
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Why does StackExchange not fix the login account system?
I love the question/answer nature of this community but it's frustrating to do a Google search and find a question/answer on here that I'd like to contribute to, but then be presented with login phase,...
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Random is closing questions as duplicates that should not be closed.
I have run in to this twice today. As I was typing a answer Random closed this and this question.
For the first one, I understand that that one is truly a duplicate (even the poster said so in the ...
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Can I ask questions related to my assignments here?
I have been asked to design a network topology as per the given requirements in my assignment. I've already created the network topology using visio, but I am not sure if its correct. So I need ...
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Why aren't driveby downvoters themselves detected and penalised?
There are obvious cases of driveby downvoters. Why aren't the driveby downvoters penalised?
It may even often be the same person as when it happens it's often three posts at a time that are downvoted....
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Why is stating a reason not required when closing a question?
A few of my questions are closed and no reason is ever provided.. this is incredibly annoying, why was closing questions like the following allowed?
Examples:
https://superuser.com/questions/209110/...
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"We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See the Help Center to learn more."
Why did I get a ban for providing an answer to a question which was helpful.
Firstly I am a new user to superuser.
I did a question a few years ago.
I came back and thought I would answer a question ...
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What is the purpose of these items
What do I do with these ridiculous hats. And my grammar may be wrong because I am a foreigner. Posting here is not easy - too many stupid rules.
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The process of closing a question is arguably rather hostile. Can we please find a better way?
Yes, I understand why questions are closed. I don't agree with many of the reasons for closing, but that's another issue. In any case, despite the somewhat-helpful information provided to the asker, ...
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Ban Criteria - What are the exact business rules?
I have a reputation of more than 10K on some forums but banned from SuperUser! Where can I see the reason for the ban?
There are some initial information on that but it did not help.
I can see that ...
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Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more
I'm not good at being synthetic.
This tool for checking the low quality is indeed really a great tool. When it went out there was no notice of a possible ban. I was critic about that and I'm happy ...
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Wrongly Closing/on Hold'ing questions?
If a question that can be seen by some as a somewhat broad question (and others not that broad), but can be (and gets) answered as if it is a direct question (Q&A), is it wrong or ok for a ...
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Should we limit mass cleanup of tags on old questions?
After suggesting numerous tag cleanups on Meta, I'm wondering if for some of these, the current cleanup process might actually be a bad idea. I'm not referring to the collection of tags, themselves, ...
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