Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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Why are tags sometimes lost when quick-editing them?
I noticed the issue on this question:
Any game kills my sound
Before
After
The windows-xp is simply lost in the process.
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Merge [multi-user] into [multiple-users] [closed]
Merge the tag mutli-user into multiple-users. They refer to the same concept and the term multiple users is a little more clear than multi user.
And to convince you, I have dragged up the relic that ...
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Get rid of the [annoyances] tag
I was surprised to see that we have a tag called annoyances (99 questions). Really?
Burninate it, fast! Trogdor, I summon you!
It is obvious that this is a useless meta-tag, that adds no valuable ...
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Get rid of the "Broken" tag
Its basically the same as having a problem, issue, or other tag thats says they have a problem.
59 questions with it though, so its a little big for a manual de-tag (or not? not really sure).
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Combine [l2-cache] and [l3-cache] into [cpu-cache]?
l2-cache: 6 questions
l3-cache: 1 question
Is it really necessary to be so specific? We already have cache and cpu which together cover the CPU cache. cpu-cache could be created but having separate ...
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Rollbacks are not shown as revisions in a user profile's responses view
This post has been edited, and afterwards was rolled back:
Revision 3, the rollback of the previous edit, does not show up in my user profile's responses » revisions list:
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Suggested tag synonym: gnupg/gpg
The tags gnupg and gpg seem to be synonyms, its Wikipedia page also says that:
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a [...]
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Remove the forbidden "view more (votes)" link on user profiles
When you visit your profile, below the Votes Cast, there is a view more link which takes you to:
https://superuser.com/users/<id>/<username>?tab=votes
https://superuser.com/users/100787/...
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Please reopen this question about ripping DVDs
Ripping TV episodes from DVDs – how can I know which stream belongs to which episode?
I feel this question should be reopened. I can imagine it was closed in reaction to a flag by the first commenter, ...
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There ain't no such thing as a free tag
The free tag has 107 questions tagged to it - it dosen't have very much of a practical purpose (free what? Free as in beer? Free as in speech? Free hugs? Free space?), so, perhaps mercifully ...
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Info panel block tab header when view less info in StackOverflow profile
I was viewing StackOverflow profile page, then click less info next to the name.
When the info panel finish resizing, it block over half of the tab header below.
Here is a screenshot:
I also ...
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Tag synonyms for denial-of-service
Since the DOS tag is ambiguous, I've just created the denial-of-service tag. I already started retagging a few questions.
The problem is that denial-of-service won't appear as a possible choice when ...
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Feature Request: Downvotes not charged if item is deleted
Scenario: there was an incorrect answer to the question How to take the cube root of a negative number in VBA for Excel? (The answerer had not read the question carefully before replying.) I downvoted ...
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How do I log out of all Stack Exchange accounts at once?
So far I've started using Super User, Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu and Photography on the Stack Exchange network. Every time I log into one of them (with Google ID) and go to another one of these four ...
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Dark hacking? My account name got changed from "Randolf Richardson" to "Complicated see bio"
My account name is "Randolf Richardson" but somehow my account name was changed to "Complicated see bio." The description was also changed (it used to begin with "I am a spam-fighter ... I'm also ...
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Missing: List of questions with no accepted answer?
My user profile includes a list of my asked questions, and I can sort this by recent/views/newest/votes. One sorting option is missing: no accepted answer.
A few of my older questions don't have an ...
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Suggestion: Link to webapps.stackexchange.com to SuperUser FAQ
May I suggest that we link to webapps.stackexchange.com on the SuperUser FAQ? I asked a question there which was closed with the suggestion to ask there instead.
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Super User bio background
On SO, and MSO, on a user's profile, the section on the right used for the bio has a grey background.
On SU, it does not. The text is just on the same white background as the rest of the page.
Yet ...
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Top bar auto-update
Is it possible to get the top-bar of SU to auto-update it's values without having to refresh the page? The inbox new message count indicator is the one I want mainly, although rep would be nice too ;)...
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See possible duplicates in question
When one opens a question and starts typing a title, a list of possible duplicate questions is shown as illustrated below.
I assume that this isn't used often since some quite obvious duplicates are ...
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What happened with some users reputation today? [closed]
Today something weird happened to my account, I got 4 downvotes on questions in less than 2 minutes.
I thought it had just happened to me, but, when requesting for moderator help on chat, I saw that ...
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Make [arch] a synonym of [arch-linux]
The tag arch has 14 questions compared to arch-linux's 209 questions. We could manually retag those few questions.
But Arch is a popular shortcut for Arch Linux and it is possible that this would ...
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Inconsistent handling of downvotes for reputation cap between site and /reputation page [closed]
From my reputation development yesterday, I believe there is an inconsistency between how the site treats downvote reputation loss, and how it's treated in /reputation.
Because of migrated and ...
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Make [unity] a synonym of [ubuntu-unity]
unity (×21) refers both to:
ubuntu-unity (×21), Ubuntu's new default desktop
vmware-unity (×12), a special display mode in VMware
I've already mapped all "unity" questions that ...
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Edited my profile and system is refusing my email
So, today I tried to edit some settings(name, website and description) of my superuser profile(and consequently all another stackexchange accounts)...
Everything goes OK but when I tried to save, it ...
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Tag for NppExec as a support to Notepad++
How are new tags decided? Is this done if there are say 50 or so questions containing a particular topic? I obviously don't have the reputation to create new tags, but being a regular user of Notepad++...
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Tag merge/synonym request: [touchpad] and [trackpad]
These two tags mean the same thing: The pointing device usually built into laptop computers.
The tags for these should be merged.
touchpad x 177
trackpad x 52
Vote on the answers below for your ...
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Tag deletion request: unknown
It's unknown to me what this tag is supposed to mean.
Unrecognized hardware ("unknown device")?
Default file editor, or file type associations ("unknown file types")?
What is this file? ("unknown ...
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Can the spamming user Victor be dealt with?
Victor seems to keep posting links to Groupdocs.com on every question even remotely related to PDFs or document management. Some recent examples:
https://superuser.com/questions/43321/document-...
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Logging in at Ask Question page discards question
I painstakingly wrote a question up, not realizing I wasn't logged in. When I was done, I noticed that there was a log-in button below the question box, so I assumed that's what I needed to do to ...
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Does [windows-xp-sp3] need its own tag?
There are 73 questions tagged windows-xp-sp3.
Does this version really need its own tag? I'm sure that questions related to specific service packs can be tagged service-pack. Also we wouldn't create ...
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The [howto] tag seems barely useful, please burninate
I call the mighty Trogdor to burninate …
howto
… a tag with 49 questions. Why delete? Having the tag doesn't add any value to a question. People probably shouldn't specifically ask for how-tos, ...
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Tag [general] is so meta
Trogdor? Please burninate the tag general. No explanation necessary...
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Disk, disc, and hard
Right now, there seems to be one canonical hard-drive tag, with 901 questions. There are also questions tagged disk and shudder hard disk. Yes, that's hard and disk. Should they all be retagged into ...
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Merge firefox-related tags?
Now that Mozilla is rolling out Firefox releases so quickly, does it really pay to keep creating separate tags for each new version? We currently have tags for firefox 3-6 including several ...
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Firefox versions going to infinity – should we merge the tags?
This is an update to: Merge firefox-related tags?
We now have:
firefox-3.6 x33
firefox-4 x129
firefox-5 x33
firefox-6 x15
firefox-7 x8
(nothing in between)
firefox-10 x4
How is this going to end up?...
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Request to reopen 396626 (How do I stop this message?)
Could someone please reopen this question:
How do I stop this message?
These repeated launchd error messages being reported to Console.app in Mac OS X is a perfectly real question, which has an ...
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The [touch] tag is ambiguous
touch has 24 questions and no wiki. Some of these questions are obviously talking about touchpad (175 questions) or touchscreen (52 questions), but some are talking about a device with touch in the ...
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Kill the [software-tools] tag
The tag software-tools seems like a perfect meta-tag.
It could never be the only tag of a question.
What are "software tools", even?
People often abuse it for software-recs. Also, a common mistake ...
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Reopen and migrate question 396934
The following question was closed for being poorly written and off topic (strictly smart phone, iOS related):
https://superuser.com/questions/396934/how-can-i-paste-link-on-the-form-after-copying-a-...
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Tag merge: [powerline-networking] and [ethernet-over-power]
There are
16 questions tagged powerline-networking
7 with homeplug
6 with ethernet-over-power
powerline-networking and ethernet-over-power should be merged into powerline-networking, I believe – ...
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Remove the [tweaks] tag
The tag tweaks (x60) is very broad and does not really serve any good purpose.
It never adds value to any given tag combination, since you mostly want to "tweak" a certain thing – and we already ...
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Synonym Request
I was reviewing some questions and came across toc and wondered what it was, so I clicked on it. Mostly I'm writing this to meet quality standards
toc (6 questions) should be a synonym of table-of-...
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Ambiguous tag: [build]
The build (x31) tag seems ambiguous. It either relates to:
building a computer or accessories
building software (e.g. with make, etc.)
What should we do with these?
Note: I stick to answering my ...
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The 'Things' tag should be renamed
things refers to the program Things. Makes sense. There was no wiki on this, so I just stumbled on to it. Of the 6 questions tagged with things at least 4 of them give some specifics as to what "...
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New activity notification inserts new questions into currently focused tab
I don't know if this is by design, but when there is new activity in a question and this new notification appears:
The new questions will be inserted in the currently focused tab. Even if it isn't ...
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Blog mini graph for views is broken
When logged in to the Super User blog and viewing a post, I can see the following up at the top:
Before it used to show a little mini graph, but when we moved over to BlogOverflow (Super User was ...
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Oh noes... [pc] Trogdor? You there?
Hello citizens of the Super User Ville!
As our website is all about these beloved personal computers, it appears to me that pc can be applied to almost any question. As so, I don't think that it is ...
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