Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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Add Android Enthusiasts to the default migration targets, drop Gaming
As Android devices become more popular, Super User gets more and more off-topic Android questions. To quote our FAQ (emphasis mine):
If your question is not about...
videogames or consoles
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Can we block [bigasoft.com] from spamming our site?
I'm sure I've flagged at least five answers from spam users trying to promote bigasoft.com. They post nothing useful per se, but include links that look like tutorials, but in the end they always tell ...
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Tag Merge Requests
bootable - 29 questions tagged
bootable-media - 84 questions tagged
disk-utility - 82 questions tagged
diskutility - (2) 0 questions tagged - retagged with above.
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Should something be done about the anonymity and anonymous tags?
anonymity
anonymous
Feels like anonymous & anonymity could be folded to privacy. I can't propose it as I lack the rep.
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Difference between CD tags
There are currently 239 questions tagged with cd and no distinction between Compact Disc and Change Directory. Additionally, there is no [chdir] tag. My thoughts are that there should be a chdir tag ...
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Merge [encoder] → [video-encoding]
Questions currently tagged under encoder (x8) all are about video-encoding, and therefore should be merged.
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PDF tag wiki uneditable
There is no link/button that will allow editing of the pdf tag wiki. Improve this tag wiki pink just redirects back to the tag wiki page.
What is going on?
(Note DanielBeck also has this problem, so ...
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Migrated questions are shown as {closed} on user profile pages
Migrated questions are shown as closed on a user's profile.
In the question list:
On the user profile:
This affects both meta and main sites and is inconsistent and confusing.
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The silent tag... dismember and burninate?
The silent tag is used in at least two different contexts , to do with silent-installs and silent-cooling - could we get rid of the silent tag, and replace them with seperate, more accurate tags?
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Request to un-merge Question 386376
@Synetech has pointed out that Can't add a new search engine in Chrome is not a duplicate of Custom Chrome Search Engine for site with frames does not work. At the time of the merge, it may have ...
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Superuser "Too Many Requests" shows Stackoverflow artifact
While opening all StackExchange sites at once (Opera -> Links), superuser gave me the page that told me there were too many requests.
The title of the page contained "StackOverflow", not superuser or ...
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Super User does not detect links which use internationalized domain names
In my answer here, I was explaining about Internationalized country code top-level domains. Unfortunately, standard links for some reason do not allow users to click on such links.
Such addresses are ...
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SU Retag Request: [external-harddrive] --> [external-hard-drive]
I asked a question about external HDDs recently, and noticed the hard-drive tag and the external-harddrive tag are totally inconsistent. Any chance of a retag?
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What should I look at for a comparison between Google and Microsoft?
I'm going to be putting together a blog post(s) comparing the Cloud computing powers of both Google and Microsoft. Here is a List of what I came up with to compare:
Email:
labels
folders
junk
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Can we please blacklist the computersight.com Spam (if possible)?
As most of you will have noticed, the last two days brought us enormous amounts of spam from computersight.com – more specifically the following link:
computersight.com / communication-networks / ...
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
Please look at the 226 questions under failure.
We are a site for computer problems. Tags such as "error" often don't add any additional value. The same goes for "failure", and it's probably a bit ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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Where'd my 'Similar Questions' title go?
When I logged into SuperUser today, I noticed that I had a new badge. Rather than Xing it out, I just let it be. And so it stayed there when I went to ask a question.
But before I asked my question, ...
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<!--Oops--> Less-than and greater-than characters are not being handled properly in Stack Exchange inbox email notifications
Less-than and greater-than characters are not being handled properly in Stack Exchange inbox email notifications.
This is troublesome when a post title contains HTML tags, as they will be sent as HTML ...
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Make "code / command"-background more visible
I write code or commands using "backticks". But on SuperUser, the background doesn't have much visual contrast, so if I write multiple commands separated with comma or a single word, it's hard to ...
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Is Superuser's <code> CSS light-blue highlight near invisible on anyone else's laptop LCD?
I have a 15" laptop with a quality built-in LCD, but still, some very light colors wash out to where they're barely noticeable. For example the light blue background color used for the <code> ...
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Please burninate multiple tag
multiple does no good and brings in multiple! problems.
Please burninate it.
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Merge [video-conversion] → [video-converter]
video-conversion (x13) needs to be merged into → video-converter (x94), and a synonym needs to be created.
I would actually propose to do it the other way round, focusing on the "conversion" ...
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Why is the "noise or pointless" close option still enabled here?
So why do we still have "noise or pointless" as a close option on Meta Super User (and Meta Server Fault) and nowhere else? I've just noticed that the "not a real question" option is missing.
They ...
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Re-open request for question 312922
What Can I do to Improve Cable Link/Signal Quality?
The author specifically mentions that he has internet connection problems due to this issue. Finally, I present this clause from the SuperUser FAQ ...
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Merge questions
Mea culpa. I posted a question here a while ago, didn't get any responses, so I posted again over at stackoverflow. However, that post was migrated back here, so now I have two pretty-much identical ...
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Merge [radeon] into [ati-radeon]
radeon (x13) should be merged into ati-radeon (x94). It should also be a synonym of the latter.
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What could we do with the [error] tag?
Well, we have a tag called error. Its description says:
Please use a more specific tag instead.
Awesome. So what do all these 547 questions have in common? A non-descriptive tag. On Oct. 10, @...
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Windows 7 Edition-Specific Tags
There's a couple tags currently out there with <10 posts each, and I'm wondering if they're actually necessary:
windows-7-home-premium and windows-7-professional
While I'm aware that there are ...
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Tag Nuke Requests [comcast] and [verizon-wireless]
The comcast and verizon-wireless tags are on 16 and 24 questions respectively. As they are typical US-only ISP's could the tags be removed?
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Please burninate the [problem] tag
We've had it before and way before that, and also on SO, but the "problem" (which is problem) seems to be reappearing.
Can we please get rid of this meta-tag again?
By the way: There are a few ...
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Help clean up the Mac Office tags
Office for Mac uses versions like 2008 and 2011, which makes it different from Office for Windows (2003, 2007, 2010).
The word tag wiki suggests that for Mac there should be:
word-2004
word-2008
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Merge the tag "test" with the tag "testing"
It seems that test and testing should be set as synonyms.
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Merge [vaio] into [sony-vaio]
vaio (x11) should be merged into sony-vaio (x93) and be made a synonym thereof.
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SU Tag merge request [wi-fi] to [wireless-networking]
wi-fi (60) --> wireless-networking (2507)
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Question of the Week #33
Now we're into week 33 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Merge [benchmarks] into [benchmarking]
benchmarks (x6) should be merged into benchmarking (x73).
Additionally, there should be a new synonym benchmarking ← benchmarks.
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Markdown formatting of tag wiki excerpts in /review
Tag wiki excerpts are plain text. The description when editing tag wikis states:
The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the top ...
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Update the FAQ to specifically allow home networking questions
Update at 20/0 — Hm, any chance of updating the FAQ? If this isn't community consensus, I don't know what else is.
Brought up by the overwhelming consensus in:
Is there a valid Stackexchange for my ...
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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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Page Not Found when clicking on non-existant tag in chat room
In the Ask a Super User Moderator chat room, when someone clicks on tag:moderator*, a page not found error is reached.
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Merge [external-display] and [external-monitor]
There's
external-display, 121 questions
external-monitor, 13 questions
As the two are obviously synonyms, and the first one is much more widely used, I suggest to:
Merge external-display and ...
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Can `ui` tag be merged with `user-interface`?
There are two tags which have the same meaning:
ui (15 questions),
user-interface (89 questions).
I imagine that ui may be removed, and the 15 questions retagged with user-interface.
What do you ...
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Unable to edit the body of a particular answer
I make a large number of edits across Super User every week, but I've not seen this issue before.
If I try to make any edits to this answer, the text available for me to edit is trimmed short - only ...
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Empty editing description of post's first revision
When viewing a specific revision, the description entered by the user is displayed. Even if it's revision 1, the original post, with no editing description.
Depending on the site style used, this ...
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Question of the Week #32
It's been a while since we posted a QOTW. In large part this is because I (the editor of the QOTW section of the blog) have been extremely busy with school, and haven't had much time for writing. I'd ...
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Can I get a few Office for Mac synonyms?
I finally fixed our Office for Mac tags, and I managed to do it without a posse!
Now, the office-for-mac tag has 44 questions, and there are several subtags for the individual programs and Office ...
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Strange behavior on the FAQ... (hidden link?)
I was at the superuser.stackexchange faq using the most recent stable version of Chrome on my Pentium 3POS, and I ran into some interesting behavior.
Some of the divs that are direct descendents of ...
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