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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Windows 8 Challenge doesn't list users who've completed Tiles Challenge
Windows 8 challenge is here & live - and I can see level 1- 4 prizes have a listing for which users completed them. For tiles, however - it just mentions
Earned by n users
Can we please have ...
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'Preserve' State for keep real bad questions as reference
As this comment shows, even bad questions have some value in serving as a reference for, well, bad questions. However questions with a lot of downvotes tend to be deleted, so the system lacks a final ...
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Why we can't we show that chatting user is typing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could we show if someone is typing on chat?
Consider this scenario
A and B were chatting for an specific answer and why can't we show the specific user is typing when he ...
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1answer
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Why can't we allow one user one i.p?
Consider the following scenario:
Imagine that there were two people let us consider them as A and B. User A works at night and used to use superuser at night. User B works at day and used to use ...
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1answer
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Request for a markdown shortcut for XY
Perhaps it is my imagination but there seems to be an increase in XY problems on SU, to the point that I am linking to the MSO question regularly.
Questions are of the format "How can I realign the ...
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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How about sharing reputation across merged accounts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why isn't reputation passed between Stack Exchange sites?
I have cross-linked accounts on several stack exchange sites (Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Super User, ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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Inconsistent closing of questions
Last year I posted the question "How Often Should I Run ChkDsk?" and the question received a decent amount of views and a handful of answers. Today, I asked the question "Should I ever put my computer ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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Synonym Request [stickies] to [sticky notes]
stickies has 3 questions and sticky-notes has 17. Sticky notes can be any operating system including OS X, while stickies seems to only be OS X.
stickies should be a synonym of sticky-notes
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1answer
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Retags should not bump a post
I think (following the cd incident) that retags, as a maintenance operation, should not bump the question to the front page. What do you think?
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question is closed without proper reason
This was my question How can I benchmark Linux PC
I see its closed as not constructive. Which means,
This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve ...
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1answer
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Synonymous meta tags about tagging
There are some meta tags about tags that seems to be synonymous:
retagging is a synonym of retag-request.
tag-synonym-request is a synonym of tag-synonyms.
tag-wiki-suggestion is a synonym of tag-...
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2answers
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Undelete the List of free antivirus solutions for Windows
I went out to search for antivirus solutions, and quite a few questions are on super user for this. I believe a question like "what free antivirus solutions are there" is a valid question for this (...
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1answer
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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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0answers
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Tags are not appearing properly in Tags Field
Why this tags are not displaying properly on IE8?
Whether this is an known issue?
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1answer
66 views
Reopen request for question 384894
I asked this: Is a 'telecommuter' SLA a good idea? Does it even exist?
I don't know where else on StackExchange to ask other than SuperUser. This clearly falls under the general SuperUser ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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Possible to suggest tag(s) after scanning through the question?
Is it possible to add this feature - after user enter his/her question into the question text area, the website will auto insert some suggestive tags for the question and insert them automatically in ...
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votes
1answer
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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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1answer
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Unreview a post
Would it be possible to have a feature that allows reviewers to 'unreview' a post? That is, regardless of action taken, push a reviewed post to another user's review queue (or separate queue ...
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votes
1answer
654 views
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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3answers
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Make reviewers explain why they accept a suggested edit
A few times already I've seen users in chat complain about the willingness of reviewers to approve very minor edits whose usefulness is questionable. Sometimes the edits were even counterproductive, ...
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1answer
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Captcha doesn't work with IE
All I can see is "I am human being".
I don't know which version my IE is, I don't know where to check it, but it came with Windows 7, so it can't be that old.
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1answer
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Is it possible to paste an image from the clipboard into a question or an answer?
When asking a question involving system message boxes I try to insert an image of the message box in the body of the question, instead of just quoting a long message (example).
However, the process ...
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1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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vote
1answer
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Make [standby] and [sleep] and [suspend] synonyms
I believe standby and sleep and suspend are three names for the same thing. Currently questions are split between the tags.
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Synonym Breakage: Command Line vs. Command Prompt
I don't think those should by synonyms.
"Command line" is often contrasted with a GUI; it means that you're typing commands in a terminal-like Window. It's a platform-agnostic term, used in Unix-...
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votes
2answers
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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 ...
4
votes
1answer
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Favourite/ignored topics bubbles broken
It appears as though the bubbles containing the favourite/ignored topics are missing a side:
Is this a new bug in rev 2011.5.9.4?
Edit: I'm using Chrome 12.0.742.30 dev. Works in Safari.
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votes
1answer
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Could someone be nice enough to add windows-7-starter as a tag to superuser.com?
I would do it but I only have 150 rep.
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1answer
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Rename tag [tortoise-svn] to [tortoisesvn] to be consistent with other stack* sites
I world like to propose tha the tag tortoise-svn is renamed to tortoisesvn, because that is the tag that is used on stackowerflow.
That makes the cross site feature tagging better.
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SU Retag Request: [something-extension(s)] --> [extensions]
Search for extension on https://superuser.com/tags.
Can't these be retagged to extensions, to avoid having google-chrome and google-chrome-extensions as tags on a post? The search allows to search ...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
2answers
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Add a migration path to Pro Web Masters from Super User
As of now we have
39 questions tagged cms
14 questions tagged joomla
21 questions tagged drupal
22 questions tagged wordpress
And the questions on the above and other web master related keep ...
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votes
3answers
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Possible to “protest” the transfer of a question to another forum?
I just asked my first question on Super User, and found it to be the most appropriate category among the Stack Exchange sites.
However, it was immediately migrated to "Web Applications", an unrelated ...
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Do we want to have an option to migrate to AskUbuntu?
With 3341+ questions tagged ubuntu would this seem a good migration option?
The most recent ones are:
How can I change my uid without opening another user account?
vmware linux headers not found for ...
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vote
1answer
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You can select an answer prompt shown before you really can
Let the pictures do the talking
Not necessarily a bug, but could be fixed nevertheless.
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1answer
127 views
Remove MSU Beta badge
Meta Super User never went through a painful creation process. Like Athena, it just popped into the world fully formed and ready for business. (Yes, Jeff Atwood is basically Zeus in this analogy. No, ...
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3answers
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Please add a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut for the Keyboard style
Not sure if this should just be here or if I should post on Meta.Stackoverflow - please can a mod move if you think it should be there.
When writing answers, one of the items that takes me the ...
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Can I create a Facebook fan page for Super User?
I have created a Super User page on Facebook. I need information such as when Super User was founded, our mission, etc...check out the page and provide insights and suggestions...etc
I also need a ...
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1answer
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Private message feature
I would like to know if it's possible to have a Personal Message feature in SU. Sometimes I want to email a user or even a mod but I don't think it's possible. I think it could be usefull to share ...
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1answer
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Browers hangs for super user question
Just now , one user posted question : https://superuser.com/questions/68649/help-me-with-my-cisco-ios-config.
When ever i am clicking that question Browser hangs for some time and recovered and show ...
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3answers
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How to reopen this question? [closed]
I would like to just contact the moderator who closed this question but I don't know how, so I'm posting here.
The moderator is saying that this question is a duplicate, but I specifically am ...
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3answers
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Should the “monitor” and “display” tags on Super User be merged?
Monitor and display, for practical purposes, mean the same thing, right? I propose that these two tags be merged on Super User.
[monitor] × 85
[display] × 35
[monitor] & [display] 7
Probably go ...
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Please merge the excel and spreadsheet tags on SuperUser
As I just asked a question on Excel, I saw that the tag spreadsheet had 3 questions (which are also about excel) and that excel has 50 questions.
It feels redundant.
