Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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Can Trogdor please burninate the [must-have] tag
Found another meta tag today must-have
I call upon the mighty and hope that he does what he does best.
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Create a synonym [osx-10.7] -> [osx-lion]
Our OS X tags usually use the version names instead of the numbers.
osx-10.7 should therefore be a synonym for → osx-lion, just like lion is.
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Request to reopen green question 298408
Now that I've found an answer I'd like to request that How can I determine the ecological impact of a computer? is reopened. I hope that my answer, in addition to the one already there, demonstrates ...
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kvm tag ambiguity
The kvm tag is used for both Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch and for Linux Kernel-Virtual-Machine infrastructure.
There are tags kvm-switch and linux-kvm
Is it worthwhile changing all 'kvm' tags to one ...
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Tooltip when pointing to question links ends with '…' [closed]
The tooltip that appears when I point to a question link on the front page always ends in … instead of a proper ellipsis:
I can reproduce this problem on both Firefox 6 and Internet ...
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Should we nuke the [calculations], [research] and [malfunction] tags?
These tags have about a dozen questions each.
calculations and research are too general and ambiguous. A few questions tagged research do relate to hardware and software for academia, but even then ...
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Merge [search-and-replace] and [find-and-replace]
There are:
find-and-replace (56 tagged)
search-and-replace (17 tagged).
I'd propose to merge them. There's no difference between these two. Then, create a synonym for search-and-replace → ...
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Reason for flags declined?
I had ~20 flags declined, and I do not know why. In addition, I posted to the "Ask a SU mod" chatroom why and did not hear back (hence me posting here).
Why were these flags declined?
EDIT: As a ...
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Putting heat on the cooling/heat/overheat/thermal tag synonyms
The tags cooling, heat, overheat, and thermal seem to be synonymous.
Personally, I would set cooling as the master tag, but I wanted to leave that up for discussion.
For all I know it would be ...
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Can we get rid of the company tags?
I don't think any of the following tags have questions that benefit them:
microsoft, apple, acer, samsung, sony, asus, ...
And thinking in the meta tag way, a question that's only about those tags ...
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Duplicate questions for merging/deleting
I have been working on completing a thorough examination of the query from Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate, and found many posts were duplicates from single users, that ...
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Request to reopen question 329904
I would like to request to reopen: What are threads, and what do they do in the processor?
This question is perfect for SuperUser SE. Computer hardware question that isn't related to buying ...
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request for burnination/synonyms
In reference to: Should we blacklist the [technical-support] tag?
Shouldn't we also do the same for customer-support and palm-support?
customer-support is general and also a large percentage of the ...
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How should one use the home tag?
Going through the home tag, it seems there are three primary uses:
The home folder,
computers that you leave at home, and
home networking
Which one should be used, if at all?
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superuser rss feed not displaying on Windows7 gadget [closed]
Hi,
I searched around superuser and could not find similar question. Many users have problem to "display the gadget", but my problem is that the gadget showed up properly, but only few of my feeds ...
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Burnination and Synonyms Part III (hopefully the last one)
For burnination:
sell
simple
solidworks (rare misspelling)
student
stuck (worthless as used now)
superuser
subjective
support
system (burned, but replaced with system.exe for those who need it)
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SU Review, how to stop "watching" a tag
On the review page, I selected a tag to see the questions needed review for that specific subject. But now, I can't find a way to go back and see all the tags combined.
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Please clean up the USB drive tags?
I'm currently updating the Tag wiki for usb and found some irregularities:
usb-drive x153 – the most commonly used one, also mentions in the excerpt: "especially devices known otherwise as ...
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Adding Media Library to Blog
The Gaming.StackExchange blog currently has a "Media Library", with an easy method for uploading multiple images to the blog. Currently we do not have this feature on Super User, and it is difficult ...
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Many questions tagged "ide" should be tagged "pata"
Many of the questions currently tagged "ide" should actually be tagged "pata". ide is for integrated development environments, rather than Integrated Drive Electronics.
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Make editing tag wikis more available to experienced users
Currently, tag wikis have very stringent requirements for editing:
Tag wikis can be edited by users with
more than 1500 reputation, provided:
They are in the top 20 answerers for
this ...
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Community ad rendering bug in Firefox
I'm having a problem rendering the community ads on Firefox 5.0.1, where they are displayed side-by-side instead of vertically:
This problem occurs often under Firefox, but not under Internet ...
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Why do I see my own suggested tag edits in the edit queue?
I've been creating some tag excerpts, but somehow they've made it into my review queue.
Of course, I can't accept or reject them, they're just there.
Is this a bug or by design?
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What does the [keys] tag mean?
Tag keys seems to be in use for various things. What should be retagged?
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Isn't the close reason "gaming" a dupe of "off-topic" on Super User?
Due to this question, the close reason on Super User not computer related has been replaced with off-topic now:
close reasons http://www.imageuploading.com/ims/pic.php?u=19720qFeUy&i=122378
This ...
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Make timetracking a synonym of the time-tracking tag
I think tags time-tracking and timetracking should be synonyms because their difference is only hyphen
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Top Questions of the Week #26
Now we're into week 26 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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How often do you get the robot prompt? I've gotten it every time for the past week now. . .
I've noticed that I get prompted and asked if I'm a robot every time recently. I'm curious if this was due to my machine or the site flagging me. And this has been on multiple machines, on different ...
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Top Questions of the Week #25
Now we're into week 25 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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My question was closed as exact duplicate, but instead was exactly the opposite
my question has been closed as exact duplicate of this - but has anyone bothered to read it? Or do you just blindly cast close votes? The "duplicate" is asking about exactly the opposite of what I ...
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Suspected spam on remote support software question
2 user accounts have been created and all they have done collectively is redundantly suggest TeamViewer here, which is only a half valid answer given the full scope of the question:
OS X: What remote ...
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SU Retag request: bootup & booting -> boot
It seems kinda redundant to have booting and boot separate; although one is a verb and one is a noun, it seems like it would be simpler to keep them under one tag (for organization's sake).
I'm ...
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SU Tag Merge Request: [monitors] to [monitor]
Really just a cosmetic thing, I think [monitors](19) should be merged into [monitor](290). It makes sense not to fragment the tags based on a plural. I guess, as well, this should be added to the list ...
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Reopen request for question 311304
How to find a given game room in all TS3 servers? is a question about a desktop software, how to operate it. It's not about gaming, and it's not about Google searches. Why was it closed?
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Top Questions of the Week #1
We are planning on featuring every week the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why. Try not to promote your own ...
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Top Questions of the Week #23
Now we're into week 23 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Convert to comment results in oops! something bad happened error.
Trying to convert this answer to comment results in oops! something bad happened error.
Actual error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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Top Questions of the Week #21
Now we're into post 21 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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SU About page has 4 mods elected in 2011, the Election page shows 3
At the bottom of the Super User About page, it shows that four moderators were elected in the 2011 Community Moderator Elections (Sathya, DMA57361, nhinkle, & studiohack). However, on the ...
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SU tag merge request: [install] related
Can the following tag groups on SuperUser be merged?
[install] (x239), [installation] (x393),
[installing] (x4), [installed] (x1).
[installer] (x48), [installers] (x2).
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Please align the Excel tags
We lost the battle on excel already, so now it's labeled microsoft-excel, but I see there is still confusion with the version specific tags.
microsoft-excel-2002
microsoft-excel-2003 excel-2003
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Top Questions of the Week #20
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Top Questions of the Week #19
Now we're into post 19 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Ambiguous Tag: "atom"
Current status:
The tag atom in its current form is used for both:
The Intel Atom CPU architecture
The Atom standard for XML-based web feeds
Resolution:
There already is an intel-atom tag. I've ...
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Top Questions of the Week #18
Now we're into post 18 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Content of low quality posts is shown as "1"
The content of several posts is shown as "1". These appear to all be candidate low quality posts with a negative score on the review page:
Opening the post and clicking edit reveals the proper ...
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Question migrated to Meta.SuperUser has incorrect URL in the Global Inbox permalink
Soon as a question is posted on meta, diamond mods get a notification of that in their inbox.
I just migrated a question from superuser.com to meta.superuser.com and found that the question ...
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'Lost' tag is meaningless
This is on 8 questions, and I just saw it used as recently as today. This seems like the definition of a meta tag to me and should probably go away, yes?
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Top Questions of the Week #17
Now we're into post 17 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
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Why is code highlighted in preview, but not in the actual post?
I'm editing my answer to this post and wonder why code blocks are highlighted in the editor's preview, but not in the answer itself. Is it a bug? I don't remember ever having seen code blocks ...
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