Questions tagged [status-completed]
Bug reports marked resolved or feature requests filed as done and live.
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The Great [tag-cleanup-request] status-tag cleanup of 2024
Following on from the Great CM status tag cleanup of 2024, we lost our "status-planned" tracking of ongoing cleanup tasks. That's because the planned tag is now considered a process tag, ...
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Consider blocklisting the [microsoft] tag?
As per Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again, microsoft as a tag is not wanted: we have more specific tags to use for microsoft products (microsoft-excel, windows-10, etc).
It has been ...
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User SS64 updating URLs, but old URLs still work
A user named SS64 is editing several links to the (really good resource) site ss64.com on various posts, changing the path from https://ss64.com/osx/... to https://ss64.com/mac/...
The old ../osx/... ...
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Let's deal with the [if] tag, else it'll become a problem
The if tag exists, most notably on questions about the IF functionality in Microsoft Excel, but it has been used for all sorts of conditional and branching questions.
Is it worth keeping separate? ...
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Should we enable a banner to warn about our policy on AI-generated content?
As you may have heard, Stack Exchange has announced a new feature: Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content.
This feature could be useful for Super ...
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What the heck does this mean: “Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.”
I just got this message when trying to leave a fairly innocuous comment for an edit on a question:
“Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.”
The only way I could submit ...
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Is there an easy way to find out what this site's on-topic and off-topic questions are?
There is no quick and easy way to find what are the topics of Super User, nor what is off-topic
The superuser.com/tour: Gives a very (and too) brief information in its first paragraph as to what is ...
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Possible bug with the new image hosting system: PNG images are declared “Too small…” if both dimensions are not equal to or larger than 160 pixels
Preface: While I saw this similar question on Meta Stack Exchange, and the original poster there is complaining about the 160 limit in general. My issue is with the restriction being applied to both ...
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The monster that can't be killed
The microsoft tag is like something from a sci-fi horror movie. This manufacturer meta tag was cleaned out in March of this year, but people keep using it. I just fixed the third question in the ...
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Is there any difference between the tags "windows-server-2003" and "windows-2003-server"?
Discovered a few semi-related tags:
windows-server-2003
539 questions, 10 this year
this has a good excerpt, but no tag wiki
windows-2003-server
19 questions, 2 this year
this has nothing... no ...
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aria2 vs. aria2c?
A proposed tag wiki edit raised a question about two tags: aria2 and aria2c. The first has 5 questions, the second has 8, and a number of these questions have both.
I'm not familiar with the program,...
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Are we [licensed] for all this?
I think license-key and product-key should be synonyms. There's also software-activation.
I also don't see why the 12 volume-license questions aren't just tagged with license given you can get volume ...
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Drop kick [dropout]
Is dropout useful?
A long time ago it was identified as a tag that should never be the only tag on a question...a good sign it's a meta tag.
There are only 4 questions tagged as such so I get it's ...
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Time up on the [trial]?
I have recently discovered the trial tag. The questions in it all appear to low quality. Is it worth retiring this tag?
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Time to change [pop] flavor(s)
I see 12 questions using this tag.
25% of the questions are related to pop-ups.
75% are related to the Post Office Protocol.
So (at the time I'm making this question) we really have two separate ...
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Blocklist Google?
google (the manufacturer meta tag, see Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again), was cleaned up a little over a year ago. It stayed dead for almost a year, but starting in July of this year, ...
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Pew Pew the Laser Tag
While working my way through the manufacturer tag clean up list I came across the tag laser.
It has no description and the questions listed all appear to refer to laser-printer. Am I ok to remove ...
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Unsynonomize [synaptic] and [synaptics]
Synaptics is a company that makes human interface devices like touchpads. Synaptic is a Linux package manager that works with Apt. At some point in the past, these two tags were incorrectly ...
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HTML Formatting Error
I tried to downvote a question. However, I don't have enough rep to do this, and I got the following message:
I'm no expert on HTML, pretty sure the <a href="/help/whats-reputation">...
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Should we keep stretching the meaning of [stretch]?
This is about stretch. It's the code name of the current stable Debian release, and it's also a tag on the main site.
Most of the usage seems to be about debian-stretch -- there are 19 questions ...
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Should Random be elected a moderator on Super User?
Random is very, very helpful on Super User (and of course Meta Stack Overflow).
Not that other users aren't, but Random goes the extra mile, and then some. He is often so far in the distance that I ...
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Is this text on a help article a bug (or something else)?
In the editing help article it says:
if(thisSite.Settings.Site.StyleCodeByDefault) { Code blocks will be
highlighted using highlight.js. In many cases, the syntax highlighting
language will be ...
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What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?
Answer: we don't yet have questions with the hack tag covering these, perhaps the only common uses of the term not included.
hack and its synonym hacking are undefined and have 44 questions. The ...
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Don't give us static about deleting [dynamic]
dynamic is meaningless. Seems like it mostly attracts Excel-related question for some reason. There are also some questions on random topics, like folder binding, task scheduler, DDNS, dynamically ...
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Send out [newsletters]
newsletters has no usage guidance, there are 14 questions tagged with it, mainly about format of newsletters, or sending newsletters in e-mail.
I see it from time to time as a favoured tag of spam ...
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HTTP status 404 for image on Meta's 404 page
Stack Exchange 404 error pages ('page not found') usually have site-specific images, like this one from the main site:
However, the image on the equivalent page on the meta site 404s itself; it leads ...
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We're not a bank, get rid of [audit] (or replace it with less ambiguous tags)
audit isn't useful as it refers to a whole bunch of different topics, including license auditing, security auditing, and software auditing.
Can we get rid of it, or perhaps retag questions with less ...
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Korean characters not allowed
For some reason posts or comments with some Korean characters inside aren't allowed. For example in this question it must be worked around using images How to search a Korean word made up of two or ...
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Pummel [panel]?
panel is an undefined tag with 42 questions. Even if it was defined, it begs misuse because it can apply to so many different kinds of things, and people don't read the wiki excerpts. Should we beat ...
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Sonicwall: Is it a manufacturer tag?
As part of the ongoing manufacturer tag clean up I came across this question:
L2PT VPN ports are not opening
Which is tagged with sonicwall, I was wondering if this is considered a manufacturer or ...
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Tag rename request for spelling of TrueType
There is a standard for fonts named TrueType. There is no space, no hyphen, the same as with, say, JavaScript.
However, there is a tag true-type-fonts instead of truetype-fonts.
Please could the tag ...
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Let's part ways with [computer-parts]
computer-parts appears to be a useless meta tag. Nobody is an expert on all computer parts and there is no reason to search for questions using that tag that I can think of.
Should we remove this tag?...
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Do we have any experts on "applications"?
The applications tag has suddenly been added to a lot of posts by an enthusiastic tagger. There are now over 400 questions. I didn't do an exhaustive review of these, but for the ones I looked at, ...
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Let's expel [native]
native is undefined and has 12 questions, pretty much each about something different. Does anyone object to nuking this tag?
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The next [selection] for burnination
The selection tag has 131 questions and 0 followers. Questions with this tag cover the entire scope of the site. The tag serves absolutely zero purpose and should be wiped from the face of Super User ...
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Top bar is visible through 'welcome back' message
.top-bar { z-index: 5050; } versus #overlay-header { z-index: 5052; } so the overlay should win. Strangely enough disabling the top bar z-index fixes the issue. Another fix is to set the overlay ...
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Can we [design] a better tag?
design: "Questions relating to software used for graphic design, web design, computer-aided design, et cetera." It appears to have been intended as a catch-all tag for software that didn't have a ...
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Alignment issue in the CAPTCHA window
There is an alignment issue in the CAPTCHA window.
Some time the I'm not a robot checkbox went out of the modal window.
Some time the modal window occupying the full width of the page, it expected ...
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We should cleanup/remove the [combine] tag
There are around 100 questions with the tag combine. Some of them are related to combining or merging items, and for others, I don't know why they're tagged with it at all.
I don't think this tag adds ...
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Archive the outlook-archive
We have 23 questions tagged outlook-archive and 113 questions tagged pst.
Both are about .pst files used by Outlook.
We do not have any special -archive tags for other programs. E.g. no thunderbird-...
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Question of the week #36
Now we're into week 36 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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Glitch tag cleanup now completed
Similar to yesterday's question: Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, the tag glitch has now been cleared. No questions remain.
So, can the question: Remove the [Glitch] tag now be set to ...
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Let's dellete [dell] [duplicate]
There are currently 1002 questions tagged dell.
According to Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again:
We don't like company-only tags, and there's been various crusades in the past to ...
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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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Is there a reason why the tag "slackware" cannot be edited?
Normally, when looking at tag information, at the bottom of the screen, there is a button labeled "Edit Tag Info".
However, when looking at slackware today, there is no way to suggest edits.
Problem ...
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag
The player tag feels like a classic meta tag, and one likely to be misused. I saw it in use for a question what seems to be a glorified cd player but could refer to audio, video or other software that ...
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Options tag cleanup now completed
Looking at the planned tag cleanup requests, there is one, options, that now has no tagged questions.
So, shouldn't the question: Too many [options] to choose from now be set to status-completed?
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I am getting a “You are currently banned from flagging…” message but no clear end for this ban is given
Title says it all. I went to flag something as SPAM on the main Super User site recently and got a message (see screenshot below) that states, “You are currently banned from flagging…”
Okay, fair ...
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Get rid of Microsoft tag [duplicate]
microsoft shouldn't exist, as it does not help find pertinent questions. I vote to get rid of it
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