Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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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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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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Retag windows-7-x64 to windows-7 and 64-bit?
Probably, but since there are already 12 questions tagged windows-7-x64, I figure I should ask first.
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Should we add a "no shopping recommendation" clause to the Super User FAQ?
As discussed several times, shopping questions are off-topic on Super User.
They are too specific, related to a particular time, a particular place, and are also open to subjectivity (advising "which ...
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null tag bug on Super User?
This question, as of this moment, has a "null" tag. There are four tag "buttons": linux, tools, "null", and threads.
"Retag" simply shows two spaces between "tools" and "threads".
Didn't try to fix ...
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I found a 3-day-old spammer
He answered one of my questions and then I browsed his answers only to find out that he is a spammer. All answers are the same and are commending a shareware. I demand deletion of his account.
name: ...
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Today, again, for some reason I was logged out of Superuser and, Indeed Meta. I didn't log out! Why am I logged out?
Today, again, for some reason I was logged out of Superuser and, Indeed Meta. I didn't log out! Why am I logged out?
This has happened at least twice that I am aware of.
Regards,
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Webapps link missing in SU
I can't see webapps link in super user screen bottom section.
Same link is present SO, API/Apps. Even serverfault doesn't have this link?
I'm not sure about bug tag, still i'm making this question ...
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Migrated question missing its "source"
This question is being shown as migrated, but it doesn't display from where it was migrated.
KronoS and Me spotted this, and Diago♦ confirmed that it come from Server Fault.
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Call to vote: Synonyms
I have found synonyms to all these tags, please vote up or down if you are eligible on to do so (2000 rep), 4 votes creates the association -2 votes kills it.
bittorrent
colors
shell-script
virtual-...
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Will an option to migrate to Web Apps be added to Super User's Close dialog?
The title says it all really.
Now that Nothing To Install WebApps is live, will it be added to the close dialog?
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Sudden Loss of Reputation [closed]
A minute ago I reached 1,512 in 5 minutes from 1,474. Now i am back to 1,474 in just 5 minutes. How is this possible . Please any moderator tell me where I lost my rep. What is happening.
Ed:
I ...
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Different Reputation showed. Which one is correct?
I´ve got a strange thing going on here. My reputation showed in the bar on top of the site is 714.
I was happy with it until i looked at http://superuser.com/reputation yesterday.
The reputation ...
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Requesting rep recalc
Can any of the mods please do a rep recalc on my account ? There's a rep difference of about 500 points between the rep on my current profile and the /reputation report, and I'd rather get it down now ...
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Update the Super User FAQ
With the changes made to the policies recently, and the amount of hits Super User is taking at the moment, I would like to suggest that the current FAQ is updated as follows:
Super User is for ...
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Timeline broken
Trying to view the timeline for Thunderbird 3 "Reply to all", also replies to myself using the URI https://superuser.com/posts/120241/timeline fails with Oops! Something Bad Happened!. This ...
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Close as duplicate loop
usb write protected! is closed as a duplicate of
https://superuser.com/questions/112401/why-would-disks-mysteriously-become-write-protected which is closed as a duplicate of
Remove the write ...
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Can't see number of answers posted with current meta.superuser colour scheme [closed]
I mean look at it! n votes say how many answer(s) posted ?
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Why is Windows XP tag showing zero questions ?
I noticed this while retagging a question, a search for questions tagged [windows-xp] returns 12 questions, so why is the tagging area indicating that there are no questions tagged [windows-xp] ?
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SU retagging: [mail], [apple-mail], [mail.app]
The various email tags caught my attention and I started looking to see if the [mail] tag can be gotten rid of. It seems to have a few uses:
generic stand-in for [email] or [mail-server];
specific-...
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Super User times out
When will Super User be accessible again?
Super User is not accessible right now. The other three sites work (Server Fault, Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow). Browser error message:
The ...
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SU retag request: [wireless-network] --> [wireless-networking]
Retag wireless-network(28) to wireless-networking(349).
Also, there is also the more general wireless(222), but this one may not be an exact match on all questions.
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Retag request Xp -> Windows-XP on Super User
Over on Super User the grass keeps needing a trimming. Requesting a retag on
XP × 30 0
to
Windows-XP × 2027 2,189
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'google-chrome' and 'chrome'
On SuperUser I'm trying to clean up google tags, and I noticed that there are 266 tagged 'google-chrome' and 58 just 'chrome'.
Could some please do a batch retag of chrome to google-chrome?
Edit: ...
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Reopen request for SU?
Hello, I posted what I thought was a legitimate question on Super User at Why are brownouts so harmful?
It was closed almost immediately as not a real question with the explanation "This is not a ...
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Turn Markdown "code" blocks into plain "preformatted" blocks on Super User
On SU, can we remove the default syntax highlighting? It seems that most uses for the Markdown 4-space-indent-code-block on SU are not actual code, and the syntax highlighting is more of a hindrance ...
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SuperUser retag request: [macosx] -> [mac] + [osx] (diamond mods only!)
There are only three [macosx] questions on Super User at this moment. All of them are closed (migrated from SU to elsewhere), so I can't retag them, nominate them for deletion, or even flag them for ...
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Merging macbook* tags on SU
On Superuser, there are two tags for the same subject :
macbookpro, with 122 hits
macbook-pro, with 3 hits
That would be nice is someone could merge these two tags to macbook-pro (with a hyphen) I ...
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Retag request: torrent -> bittorrent
15 questions tagged 'torrent' on superuser
48 questions tagged 'bittorrent' on superuser
(Only 'bittorrent' is used on SO and SF.)
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Retag request: on SuperUser, rename external-harddrive to external-hard-drive
HDD-related tags on SuperUser:
hard-drive (291)
external-harddrive (91)
internal-harddrive (6)
network-hard-drive (1)
hard-drive-failure (28)
hard-drive-image (2)
I think the dash-enabled hard-drive ...
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Retag Request/Tag Merge Request for Super User: 'windows7' and 'windows-7'
The 'windows-7' tag has 1752 questions, while the 'windows7' tag has only 2.
Keep: 'windows-7'
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Unusual Google Sitelinks for "superuser"
If you google "superuser" one of the sitelink options is a user account. Is that suppose to happen?
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Merge tags on superuser [virtualmachine], [virtual-machine], and [virtualization]
I noticed a similar question here, but it seems nothing has been done... On superuser there are tags for virtualmachine and virtual-machine. I think these two at the least should be merged, if not ...
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Superuser: retag-request for 64-bit, 64bit and maybe x64
On superuser "64-bit" and" 64bit" tags should be aliased into one or the other.
"x64" is similar, but may be a slightly different animal for some people, being specific to the mainstream AMD ...
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Please merge the ms-access tag into microsoft-access on Super User
On Super User, microsoft-access has 13 questions while ms-access has 6. No questions have both tags.
Also, two questions are tagged 'access' when one of the above would be more appropriate (access is ...
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virtualpc --> virtual-pc
virtualpc: 1 question
virtual-pc: 31 questions
There is no reason to have two tags. They mean the same thing.
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Please retag multiple SU tags
There are currently quite a lot of tags that have alternatives on SU. Would it be possible to trim them down a bit? I'd do it manually, but there's way too many of them:
vista (37) -> windows-vista (...
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Does the Disciplined badge work on SuperUser?
Yesterday I deleted an answer that had 4 upvotes to this question (the answer was a bit misleading and the OP told me it was incorrect), yet I've yet to see a badge.
There has never been a ...
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retag-request: [videostreaming] -> [video-streaming]
Retag videostreaming to video-streaming. Same as https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18601/retag-streaming-to-streaming, but for Superuser.
Only 8 questions so far https://superuser.com/...
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Super User - Suggest adding an operating system tag
When asking a question on Super User, add a suggestion for users to include their "operating system" when adding tags.
It's such a common omission in questions on Super User, I think an extra ...
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Please change the commandline tag to command-line
There are 15 questions tagged command-line and 33 tagged commandline. I think command-line is clearer, but the two tags should be rolled up either way.
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Superuser's software says “'cores' are new tags” instead of “'cores' is a new tag” -- fixable?
Superuser says to me:
Oops! Your question couldn't be
submitted because:
* new users can't create tags; 'cores' are new tags
Shouldn't this say "'cores' is a new tag"?
Just a suggestion.
Christopher Done
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SuperUser tags: [nas] vs [network-attached-storage]
I've asked a couple questions on SuperUser that I originally tagged with [nas]. There were a few other questions out there with that tag already. After awhile, one of my questions got the [network-...
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Merge 'eee', 'eeepc' with the 'eee-pc' tag on Super User
The trademark is "Eee PC", so I assume the one with the hyphen is the best candidate to be the canonical tag. There are only three affected questions, so this one should be easy.
All glory to Joakim ...
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Duplicate results in SuperUser Search
I was doing a search over at SuperUser and had 6 / 50 duplicate results of What are the best Excel tips? appear on the first page of the following search:
https://superuser.com/search?q=excel+drop+...
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Will it be possible to vote for migrating a question from superuser.com to stackoverflow or servefault?
I know some questions are moved from SO to SU.
Will SU moderators be able to do a migration from SU to SO/SF ?
(I just dont have enough points to test how migration works myself :) )
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Increasing "show x items per page" does not working on SuperUser
I wanted to show 50 items per page in the Unanswered Questions page (default: 15).
After clicking the corresponding button, no questions are shown (blank left column). Same with the button for showing ...
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5 points on upvote?
I only got 5 points on superuser for an upvote. Any ideas? I haven't met my limit yet.
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superuser openid query text is misleading
Superuser gave me this error when I tried to login:
This is an OpenID we haven't seen before:
openid text here
Do you want to create a new Super User account with this OpenID?
(If you want to ...
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