Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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Eliminate [temporary] permanently?
Many of the questions with the temporary tag deal with temp variables, folders or files, but otherwise, this is a motley collection of stuff. Does this tag add value for any use?
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The tag [windows-virtual-pc] should be merged with [virtual-pc]
I noticed that there are two tags for Microsoft Virtual PC, of which one is virtual-pc (327 questions) and the other is windows-virtual-pc (7 questions). Windows Virtual PC is referring to a specific ...
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Why are different colours used for the homepage tab borders?
The main tabs on the Super User homepage use two different colours for the borders:
On Stack Overflow, a single border colour is used:
Similarly, on Meta Super User it looks like:
Is the different ...
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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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Stop mis[behavior]
behavior is a meta tag that does not appear to add value. A few of the 8 questions with this tag could benefit from the addition of an existing specific tag (unrelated to "behavior"). Recommend ...
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Reversal badge not available on Super User
I've just noticed that the Reversal badge isn't available on Super User.
Is this an oversight or by design?
It's available on both Stack Overflow and Server Fault
7th November 2009
Still not ...
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Can the 'logo' tag be killed?
The logo tag is currently used by a grand total of three questions:
A no-background favicon for my website?
Windows 8.1 start-up logo replaced with ASUS logo after BIOS update
How to change the BIOS ...
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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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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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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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Inconsistent information regarding amount of answers for a question to become Community Wiki [closed]
The amount of answers to turn a question into a community wiki is listed differently in two places:
https://superuser.com/help/privileges/community-wiki mentions "30 answers".
What are "...
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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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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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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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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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Reopen request 855983
I've now fixed the title of my question so it is in line with the topic of home networking:
Can a home PPPoE connection access all websites, regardless of the site infrastructure's MTU settings?
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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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Burninate the [raw] meta-tag
Prior to an intervention, the raw tag was used for two different things:
Questions involving the camera RAW format. All of these questions that weren't closed were retagged with the camera-raw tag.
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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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Rename the [usergroups] tag to [user-groups]
The convention with tags here is to replace spaces with hyphens: windows-7, wireless-networking, graphics-card.
By convention, then, the usergroups tag really ought to be user-groups, as user is an ...
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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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Let's remove the "change" tag
change is an absolutely meaningless tag.
With 43 questions tagged, it should be easy to get rid of. All that's needed is a handful of users who want to go through these questions and remove the tag, ...
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Tag merging suggestion: [joystick] [joypad] [gamepad]
I propose to merge joystick joypad and gamepad (with a total of 25 questions) into game-controller; as we do not get many questions targeting one specific type of game controller, instead, having one ...
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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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Is [data] an useful tag? Do we need it? What should we do?
How to cancel hard disk from wanting to format and how to get my files back?
This question is tagged data but you know it's about data from hard-drive-recovery.
Best Light Software to Manage Large ...
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We need to modify [mod]
mod has no definition, but 19 questions where the tag has varying meanings:
modification of various and sundry things
what appears to be a reference to MOD format recording
the Excel function
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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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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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Do we need the "fastboot" tag?
The Super User homepage just turned light blue for me, due to lots of hard-drive tags (which I have marked as a favourite). The reason was that a user had added the fastboot tag to a bunch of posts.
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Merge [spoof] and [spoofing]
spoofing - 21 questions tagged.
spoof - 6 questions tagged.
They're obviously identical. Can we merge them (I guess spoof into spoofing?) and synonymize?
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Newest questions with YOUR TAGS only
Not sure if this should be here or meta.SO, but...
A really handy feature for me, and I assume others, would be the option to see ONLY questions tagged with your tags, but in chronological order.
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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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Remove [os-rot] tag?
os-rot contains two questions. One was a duplicate (of a question that didn't need the tag). The other asked, "What is OS rot?" in response to the duplicate. It appears to be unnecessary and not ...
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Tag synonym request: [mac-os] to [osx]
The mac-os tag has four questions, all relating to OS X (one is even tagged with both).
Following the lead of Apple.SE, I suggest that the tag (and its synonym macos) be merged into osx.
An ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Possible bug in "Low Quality Posts"
I'm going through Low Quality Posts for the month at the following link:
https://superuser.com/review/low-quality-posts?s=1&pagesize=15&filter=month
I scroll to the bottom of the page, and ...
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Tag "lock" is a mess
The tag lock seems to be a mess.
It's used for among other things:
file locks
lock screen
keyboard lock
locking of preferences
excel
We should do something about it.
We should probably ...
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$RECYCLE.BIN question that is not a duplicate marked as a duplicate
Oliver Salzburg♦ marked my question...
How to delete $RECYCLE.BIN folder on external hard disk?
...as a duplicate of...
There is a “$REYCLE.BIN” folder in my external hard drive; can I delete ...
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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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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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Can we add a little more to the close option Off-Topic --> Recommendation?
I created a meta post that shows how to ask questions that may involve recommendations. I think that it would be good to add this to the closing option of Off-Topic --> recommendations. This is ...
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Burninate or disambiguiate the [data] tag [duplicate]
Looking through data (x70), there's a lot of ambiguity:
data transmission
data encryption
data recovery
data saving
data in Excel
data editing
So, unless somebody wants to retag these manually, I'd ...
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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