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Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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Top Questions of the Week #10
Now we're into post 10 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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Why does the Super User Blog have the same styles as the Server Fault Blog?
It seems that the Super User Blog is using the same stylesheet as the Server Fault Blog. Shouldn't we have our own colors? Maybe something like so:
instead of what we have now:
Edit: After further ...
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Why was this question closed?
Why was this question on Windows documentation closed? It is based on an actual problem I faced, it is answerable and it is about software. The reason given to close it, being outside the scope ...
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Reputation not being credited to SU account on some questions migrated from SF even though SF rep lost
I've noticed that some questions that have been answered on ServerFault that eventually get migrated to SuperUser are not crediting me with the reputation that I gained on ServerFault, even though I ...
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SU Retag Request: [tools] <--> [utilities]
tools and utilities are the same thing, right? I think they should be merged under tools.
What do you think?
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Top Questions of the Week #9
Now we're into post 9 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 and ...
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Review - First questions - mixed answers and questions
First questions review page lists both answers and questions, mixed. That's annoying, as it's tempting to flag answers as "not question" and vice versa, until realizing that it's actually answer.
Why ...
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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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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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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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Who broke chat?
Did someone unplug the chat server to plug the vacuum cleaner in to get the ants out of the keyboard?
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Retag request: rdp->remote desktop
I see a lot of questions which are tagged both rdp and remote-desktop. I have yet to see any where the question refers to the remote desktop protocol specifically; in every case, just remote-desktop ...
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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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Future of the "fun" tag
I suggest we get rid of the fun tag. The questions are mostly wikis, closed or both and I think it matches all criterion for a meta tag.
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Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?
Tags for Microsoft products are currently a mess.
Office:
office, microsoft-office
office-2007, office-2010, office-2010-beta, ms-office-2007, office-2008, microsoft-office-2010, office-2010, office-...
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Top Questions of the Week #6
Now we're into week 6 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 and ...
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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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Any chances to bring a "long-ago-deleted question" back?
A long time ago, I had a problem with writing DVD +R/-R DL discs on my desktop computer, and I asked a question on SU. Then I deleted that question after some time since I couldn't find a solution.
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Tag Info not showing
I added a note to Tag Info about 10 minutes ago that went to review because I have insufficient rep in SU. Since then, I earned the Tag Editor badge and got the edit points, however, the Tag Info is ...
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Top Questions of the Week #5
Now we're into week 5 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 and ...
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A bunch of tag rename/synonym requests
(See related chat discussion here)
NOTE: Most are small, so doesn't need special moderator attention, just update my post when you help.
Proposed tag renames/synonyms: (old tag --> new tag)
.net -->...
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Can [pc], [programs] be obliterated? And [hardware], [software] again?
Reference 1: SU Retag Request: [tag:applications] --> [tag:software]
Reference 2: Can [tag:hardware] and [tag:software] be obliterated?
Can we obliterate pc and programs as well?
On the same par: ...
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[Aero-Peek], [Aero-Snap], and [Aero], one and the same?
Shouldn't the tags aero-peek, aero-snap, and aero just fall under aero..? Maybe we could combine them?
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Can [problem] be obliterated or merged to [troubleshooting]?
Most of the questions are using problem as a meta tag, can that tag perhaps be obliterated?
Update: I looked through all tags, re-tagged only one to troubleshooting because it was necessary...
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Top Questions of the Week #4
Now we're into week 4 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 and ...
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Proposed tag wiki for Microsoft Excel
This is a suggested tag wiki entry for microsoft-excel, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more ...
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Proposed tag wiki for Google Chrome
This is a suggested tag wiki entry for google-chrome, a tag which very few users can edit and would benefit from having a more detailed tag wiki. Please see "make editing tag wikis more ...
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SU Retag Request: [computers] + [pc] --> [computer] or [pc]
Can a synonym be made for computers and can computer and pc be merged into a single tag?
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Can the hardware and software tags be obliterated?
Do we really need the hardware and software tags?
Looking at the tags into detail:
They don't group all the questions that should belong to them.
Their statistics don't make sense, they are both less ...
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Vote to close - off-topic descriptions are wrong
Clicking to close a question as 'off topic' gives a list of off-topic reasons but the 'belongs on...' descriptions all say "Q&A for professional and independent game developers" ...
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Moderator election vote counts aren't showing up for me
When I click a candidate's score in the moderator election primary, I see this:
This happens for every candidate on SU, but does not affect SO, regardless of whether or how I've voted on a particular ...
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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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Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes
@IvoFlipse was looking for a query to find old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes. Because those kind of questions clutter the site and keep the unanswered question ratio high, it is a ...
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Top Questions of the Week #3
Now we're into week 3 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 and ...
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SU Retag Request: [partition*] --> [partion(ing)]
Sorry to bother once again, but while evaluating the tags on this question I came up with another one:
partition
partitioning
partition-scheme (Doesn't need a separate tag imo)
disk-partition (...
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SU Retag Request: [applications] --> [software]
applications might benefit from being merged to software.
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SU Retag Request: [internet] <-> [networking] <-> [connection]
We might want to consider migrating between the similar and perhaps duplicate tags:
web
internet
networking (I proposed network -> networking here)
connection
All questions of internet could be ...
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SU Retag Request: [*filter(ing)] --> [filter(ing)]
filter
filtering
web-filtering
spam-filtering
traffic-fitering
The above listed questions may benefit from splitting the tags apart
and housing them under filter or filtering. What do you ...
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SU Retag Request: [cmd] --> [command-line]
All questions tagged cmd are also tagged windows or something similar,
given that there is already a more popular tag command-line shouldn't we just retag all questions?
cmd might be made a synonym ...
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SU Retag Request: [network] --> [networking]
Similar to SU Retag Request: wireless-network --> wireless-networking.
Can we retag network to networking?
Was doing this manually because I saw this first, until I saw it lists 400+ questions. :-(
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Enable Non-Mods to edit meta questions with "protected" tags:
I was updating the Top Question of the Week 1 question for the blog and wasn't able to make any changes due to the fact that some of the tags used were "protected". Is there a way that we can enable ...
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Top Questions of the Week #2
Now we're into week 2 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 and ...
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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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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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How can I get credit for answers I wrote in a sister site that were moved to superuser?
I answered these questions in SO before they were migrated to SU:
How can I concatenate two files in Unix?
How to find the largest file in a directory?
My accounts are (or should be) linked. Why ...
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Why is the revision list empty for 225512?
Why is the revision list for Super User question 225512 empty?
Platform: Firefox 3.6. Windows XP Professional 64-bit, SP 2.
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Text colour issue when searching
When searching for questions, the colour of the text which shows the number of votes for accepted answers appears to be wrong:
Presumably the text should be the same colour as the "votes" text. This ...
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Tag merge [freeze] - [freezing]
I'm guessing that there really is no difference between the two...
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