Questions tagged [status-declined]
Indicates that the feature request will not be implemented, or that a bug will not be fixed at present time.
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Burninate the [ssid] tag
All of the questions tagged with ssid are related to wireless-networking. There are only 4 followers of ssid. All experts on wireless-networking should be experts on ssid. I see no purpose of the ssid ...
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Remove [zip-drive] tag?
A single question (about how to recover data from the obsolete drive). Although, it's possible that a museum or archaeology team could post a question asking to identify a relic.
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Deprecate product version preview tags - just use new version tag straight away
(Related to What will happen to the Windows-8-Preview tag once Windows 8 goes live?)
I notice windows-10 is synonymous with windows-10-preview. What's the rationale here?
In theory having the two ...
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I speak [spanish], and [english] too… [duplicate]
The tags spanish and english seem to not have a very clear purpose. Looking through those questions, it seems like most of them could be retagged to translation or localization.
They also don't have ...
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Take away the chinese tag
While working on Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again I have come across the tag chinese. There are quite a few questions on there of varying quality.
What is it for, why do we have tags ...
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“computer enthusiasts” is not a technical or administrative term and should be rewritten or dropped [closed]
This site claims to be “for computer enthusiasts and power users” as of 2024-02-22.
A power user can be roughly associated with a user performing system-related tasks, including tasks for many users ...
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Syntax highlighting for PowerShell is unavailable / inconsistent
On this question: Can LastAccessTime be set to an old timestamp using PowerShell? I have a code block in the question and in the answer. Both code blocks are defined by having their lines start with 4 ...
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Could we show if someone is typing on chat?
When @ at someone, it would be good to know when he/she types an answer. Just like in popular IMs like Facebook, Gmail etc.
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InCopy tag creation request
My Super User question here involves Adobe InCopy. I would like to request the creation of a tag about Adobe InCopy. Could we please create such a tag? Thanks!
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Should we remove the [android] tag?
Recently there's been some contention regarding whether or not android questions are on-topic. Actually, It seems this topic has come up a lot in the past.
As we're on a bit of a tag-cleaning bender, ...
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Stack Exchange App For iPhone X And Above
Although I am new to the forum, I have also been reading articles without an account for months.
Today, I signed up for an account. I have downloaded the stack exchange app and have noticed that it ...
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Suggested edit about Windows XP and Vista laptops' first and "second" warnings about low battery power has been rejected
Link to suggested edit: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/964770
I tried to change:
In Windows, you can change that in the settings, there are two thresholds - one to give you a warning, ...
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Tag creation request
I have a question about my Super User post: vim | less breaks things
(autogenerated header)
May the community please create the following tags:
bug
less
Tag #discussion is included because it is ...
MokubaiMod
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Please let me award a bounty to a qualified answer despite my tardiness?
My bounty expired because I didn’t log in for a few days, but someone answered during the eligible period and I wish to award them the bounty.
I noticed this just now — 5 hours too late.
If you look ...
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Make [flux] a synonym for [f.lux]
For those who haven't never heard of f.lux before, here's a brief description via Wikipedia.
f.lux is a cross-platform computer program that adjusts a display's
color temperature according to ...
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RFE: hide vote counts for an initial 2 weeks
I would like to see up/down vote tallies not released until the question has had a chance to be viewed. It's fairly well established that seeing results of votes before you have had a chance to ...
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Merge tags [802.11] and [wireless-networking]
Merge tags 802.11 and wireless-networking.
Considering wireless-networking has wifi as a synonym …
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SuperUser tag image truncated
I just got done posting an answer (to this question) in SuperUser and noticed that one of the tags seems to have lost its edge in the image:
missing image removed
I'm not sure if that is related to ...
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Proposal: Merge SuperUser, Unix&Linux, ServerFault, AskUbuntu, AskDifferent
Most of the questions are the same (configurations, non-programming) and it would benefit from having more people looking at questions. Some of those sites don't get a lot of traffic, the response ...
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Make badges be worth reputation
I don't know if this has ever been part of the site and then deleted or what, but I think that badges should be worth something, preferrably reputation or maybe something new. I know that some new ...
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should questions about [ffmpeg] be moved to Audio-Video production
FMPEG is a command-line tool for working with audio and video, do questions relating to it belong more on Audio-Video production?
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Merge the various retrocomputing tags
retro 8 questions
legacy 25 questions
vintage 24 questions
I would suggest for these a common tag retrocomputing.
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Protecting or marking self answered questions to avoid "lack of research" downvotes
I recently had a small problem to solve, googled and found a solution. Since the question was out of Stack websites, I thought I would post it already with an answer, and so I did it:
Replace any ...
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Limit time for downvotes
Can we put a limit on the downvote system please (I'm talking years)?
The reason is the SU rules change in regards to what is on and off topic. So current queue (at time of writing) is filled with ...
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Please undelete Automatic Wallpaper Manager?
I ask NOT for a reopen here, but would you please undelete [this question](https://superuser.com/q/679640/269574, so that at least, it can be shared, viewed, and benefit those who can't seek or see ...
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Penalty for unexplained down-votes [duplicate]
Often I come across perfectly valid questions which have been down-voted for no apparent reason, sometimes with no comments or answers at all.
I don't think a down-vote should ever be made without ...
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Performance tag requires eleboration
Not entirely certain from my observations of this tag but I seem to see that this tag is always linked to other tags such as hard drive or graphics card or seems to be relatively broad, I was thinking ...
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Flag as off topic - move to linux/unix community is missing
I have tried to flag ALSA stopped working with default device as off-topic, to move it into Unix & Linux community.
However there is no option for that (or I don't see it?):
Is this missing on ...
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New badge for answering N questions
This has nothing to do with the fact I've attempted to answer nearly 1000 questions, but based purely on that fact ( :) ), should there be a badge for answering certain thresholds?
Joking aside, ...
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Add a domain to the spam blacklist
Recently, I've flagged as spam six answers coming from two new users containing a spam link that promise to earn clickers money. They all go to the same link, and I'm sure that there may be other ones ...
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New style for part of super user
The logo for Super user, I interpret as a [ square bracket and a } curly bracket, with a · middle dot in between. [·}.
To keep that style, I noticed a place it could be added. When there is a new ...
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Merge the tags [windows-live-movie-maker] and [windows-movie-maker]
windows-live-movie-maker and windows-movie-maker are the same thing, at least according to the questions.
Shouldn't these two be merged (if possible) / made synonyms?
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Destroy the [send-to] tag!
send-to seems very meta, or very specific. A majority of the questions use it in a sentence of tags, or are closed. The few that are still open, I don't feel the tag improved the question. I suggest ...
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Add "windows" to super user description?
I had a tough time looking for the stack exchange Q&A for windows issues in order to post this question: windows issue . Finally someone directed me to this Q&A. The current description for ...
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Close question after some days of acceptance (if user accept the answer)
I get disturbed by an answer for a question posted by me, if I did accept and confirm an answer a couple of months ago. I better suggest you to close/mark the question as "no more answers needed".
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A picture is a thousand words. Let's make use of that more. Promote Pictures in SuperUser
I've been to so many forums on computers over the years an one thing always stands out.
The Lack of information.
Take this recent question for example:
https://superuser.com/questions/750311/how-can-...
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Add softwarerecs to vote to migrate option
We should include the Software Recommendations in the "Vote to migrate" menu. There are a lot of SuperUser questions about software recommendations and it'd be good to put an option.
Also, a lot of ...
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Downvoting a question should require a comment/upvote of a comment
Downvoting questions
As you've seen in the title, In my opinion, a downvote at least requires a short explanation in the comments or an upvote of a comment if the comment already explains the problem....
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Ability to follow users or add friends?
I am sure this question has been asked several times, but when I search for "favorite user" or "add user to favorites" all I seem to get is posts for favorite question of the week. Please respond ...
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Has the possibility of having a "Vote to Answer" been discussed?
I've run across a number of different questions that may have entirely acceptable answers yet an answer is not selected either due to a user not returning to complete it, forgetting, or not thinking ...
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Would it be possible to have comments that are flagged as offensive, immediately not viewable until they are moderated?
Example:
I'm relatively secure in my sexuality, and laughed more than anything. But, maybe it would be a good idea to have anyone with a reputation of over 1K be able to flag offensive content (...
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Migrate question from SO?
I think this question should be migrated from SO. They've closed it and it has a TON of exp that could benefit this community.
I flagged it and RichB responded,
This should not be closed, it ...
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Bounty system : case of bounty awarded but no acceptance
I have lately encountered several cases where a poster has awarded the bounty, but has not marked that answer as accepted (or any other answer).
This is the symmetric case to the grace period ...
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Can we support internal "chrome://" URLs?
Is it possible that we could support the internal chrome:// URLs used by Google Chrome and Chromium? There are many questions where one has to access an internal page used by Chrome to solve the ...
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A flag to inform moderators of questions answered, but not accepted for a long time
For example
Why doesn't the Windows command prompt window maximize to the full screen size?
Its more than 2 years old
It has been answered as well
Perhaps there should be a flag to inform ...
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Allow "private" messages between users? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Private message feature
It would be a useful feature to have a button sitting on every user page that would allow one user to contact another in a private way, without having ...
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Differences between plain-text diff and formatted diff
Plain-text diff and formatted diff produce different results in what they consider was added.
I wondered about the following editing diff in a recent post of mine:
I clearly added a sentence to ...
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In comment @replies, can the user shown link to their profile or the comment being replied to?
Reading this: How do comment @replies work?
It describes how this mechanism works, but in using it (and seeing it used throughout the sites), it doesn't turn the name into a link to either the ...
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Comment vote equilibrium: Ability to vote down
We can vote up and down for Questions and for Answers, but we can only vote up for comments. As some comments are worthy of down votes, this is a feature suggestion to add the ability to vote down on ...
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Allowing new users to have limited commenting abilities
There have been a few occasions where new users have had the same problem as others, but the issue hasn't been resolved. For example Ben in this Super User question. Unfortunately he has asked if ...
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