Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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“Modified by” listed but no edit visible by mentioned user?
It already happened a few times to me that I saw an answer pushed to the Home -> active page with the note "modified x minutes ago USER".
For example this question What is the meaning of "chmod ...
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My posts keep getting taken off the message boards
I've made considerable efforts to follow the rules laid out in the 'Help Center', however, my posts still regularly get put on-hold or taken off the boards' search index in some manner or other.
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Clarification about bounty award allocation for a community wiki post
I see this "How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?" and see it states that "One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty".
I look over some of the ...
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Is a question about chroma subsampling in a TV on topic?
I'd like to ask why my Samsung TV defaults to 4:2:0 for external HDMI inputs, and allows 4:4:4 ("UHD color") only after enabling a specific setting, one that even requires reboot.
The question is why ...
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This migration to Stack Overflow was erroneous
The question
Automatically add comma to end of JavaScript objects in VSCode
(see Revision History here)
was erroneously migrated to Stack Overflow.
This is clearly a software use question –
about ...
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Where should one ask and answer a question where the Q is more a Super User topic, and the A is more a Server Fault topic?
My answer involves networking-related infrastructure administration, specifically DNS. The question is more about being a power browser user.
I guess the particulars - that is, the Q and A belong in ...
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Can the webapp policy please be codified in the site rules?
I'm working the close vote queue. I'm seeing a fair amount of questions up for closing, and I realized they are webapps. Once I realized the situation I could lookup the policy in Help or the ...
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How can I undelete this to answers
I posted this two answers, although they work and I test the solution, it seems that there is not very obvious since they were deleted on sight with this comment:
Please read the question again ...
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What close reason to use for “Unable to Reproduce”?
Stack Overflow has a close reason used when a problem no longer exists. The reason is Unable to Reproduce. Unable to Reproduce covers things like fixing typos and minor mis-configurations.
I've ...
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Is there a way to contact person who commented my topic
I have a question about my Super User post: How to create inbound rule which only accept Local Lan in win7 firewall
One guy has commented on my topic to want me to clarify something, and I checked ...
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Followup on a closed question
Concerning this question by this user:
The author's intent, to ask in order to find a solution for his problem, was a good one/idea. Actually it was a very good one, since doing usability research in ...
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Question concerning the new code of conduct
I have read the new "be nice" code of conduct and would like to see whether
it applies to the behavior I have encountered in
this post.
This post has a bounty attached for 500 rep, which started a ...
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Is there any way to deter this determined guy?
This guy, https://superuser.com/users/937962/adam-c, has only been on SE for 11 days, and earning of 5 points, is already start poking at my well asked question.
It is understandable, for new people ...
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How to do better edits in the future?
When reading such answers, I find it useful to:
have the answer edited when an obsolete link is dead (the second link is dead)
have screenshots to quickly see how the GUI looks like (the question is ...
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Post Closed - Primarily Opinion Based - But it does not appear to be opinion based to me
Post: Shared data between multiple devices / Operating systems
I'm not asking for the best one, I'm not asking whether people like a solution or not. I'm asking "What solutions exist to address this ...
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What's the policy on a student systematically asking questions
The user billnyeguy
has today posted four questions taken from the
COMP Tia networking exam.
I have no idea if using our site to ask for explanation of study material
is allowed or not.
Personally, ...
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“Our system has identified this post as possible spam” - Audit
I'm a bit confused about what I just saw and would love to get some clearification.
I was just doing post reviews and came across an answer that had written above it:
Our system has identified ...
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Fair application of non-existent rules [closed]
Previously we had a discussion about ReactOS. Essentially there isn't a rule against asking about "pre-release" software, but those questions were closed because ReactOS is declared perpetually "alpha"...
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How to get actual image to post?
I have a question about my Super User post: How to get rid of white edges
When I first posted this question, the appended image didn't show up. Instead, there was just the word "graphics," ...
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Log in required when moving to SuperUser on iPad?
When moving around the sites on StackExchange using Safari on my iPad (not the StackExchange App), I am fine when moving to any site other than SuperUser. When logged in I can switch sites and stay ...
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A “not relevant” flag on a comment suggesting a question improvement where the improvement was rolled into the question was declined. Why?
First off, though my search-fu is strong, I haven't been able to discern if declined flag queries belong on child metas or the main meta. I'm trying here first.
I just had a "not relevant" flag ...
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Rename Tag: [attachments] into [email-attachments]
I would like to suggest to rename the attachments-tag into email-attachments, analogue to the email-signature-tag.
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Can you lose a badge if criteria is no longer met?
I was awarded the tumbleweed badge for the question linked below (thanks a bunch for all your help guys !)
PYTHON Set outline color for a barplot
My question is, if someone now comes along and ...
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Is the Commodore 64 Mini on topic?
The Commodore 64 Mini is a general-purpose computer that comes with Linux. It comes preinstalled with games, but it also comes preinstalled with BASIC that can load other programs. It is supposed to ...
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Can we get a Monarch tag?
I just created this question. I tagged it excel, because the formulas are roughly analogous.
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How to deal with censorship by a high rep user?
I've made a few comments on an old post, which was (unfortunately, IMHO) closed as OT.
Some appended to some answers, trying to contribute and provide more info and evidence on them, but another ...
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How to deal with spam+answer?
We have spammers on the site.
Normally, you vote them down + flag: spam.
However, if the spammer also self-answers their own post with an answer (that is also spam btw), what do we do to the answer?
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Why was this question about Alexa off-topic (and how can I write it better)?
I deleted this question, after it was downvoted and closed as off-topic***.
That's totally fine, I respect the wisdom of those who are smarter and more experienced with this SE site ( @keltari , @...
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Superuser logs me off automatically after few minutes
I logon to SU using my google Id and use Chrome browser to access it. However, It logs me off after every few minutes. Google keeps me logged on and i can access all my things there (emails and other ...
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My question already exists on here (without an answer, yet), so I improved that post instead of posting the question again but the edit was rejected
I have a question, which already exists as a question on here: xterm copy to PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD independently However, unfortunately, there is no answer, yet. So I tried to improve that existing ...
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Why are old questions on top? [duplicate]
There are many old questions showing on the start page of superuser.com. If I open one of them, I see old dates both in answers, comments, and the editing time of the question.
How/why are these get ...
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Received 38 downvotes on different posts in 4 minutes [duplicate]
This is my reputation history right now:
These are 38 of my highest-voted questions and answers. Looks like I made some enemies. Could moderators handle this, please?
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Im Losing a lot of rep to edits that are not really necessary
I'm getting a lot of edits that are personal opinion, like the order of words, where I put links (see THIS example). Is there any way I can not accept the edits? There was also some capitalization, ...
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What if I don't want a question migrated to stackoverflow?
There are times when questions migrate here from stackoverflow. But do they migrate from here to over there too? And if so, is it without my consent?
I don't want an account made automatically for ...
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Why is the header of this site not fixed?
If you go to https://www.stackoverflow.com then you will notice, that the header is fixed and always visible.
Why is this not the case at superuser?
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Questions with [tag:medical] tag
I found questions tagged as medical, some 12 questions with 1 follower.
This tag has no info as I was curious to find out what questions it would cover.
What is the justified use of this tag? I saw ...
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Why can't Superuser highlight Powershell syntax but SE Android App can?
In this answer I added a small Powershell script. In Firefox and Chromium, that code doesn't show syntax highlighting. I'm using latest Firefox and Chromium browsers and don't want to change it.
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My answer keeps getting suggested edits from spambots
I have been noticing a trend that my this answer, always gets edited by some spammer (may be a bot). It's only that answer and no other answer in any of the other SE network.
Finding subdirectories ...
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Why am I getting a question ban?
I have only asked 2 or 3 questions and got a ban without that warning. Is my status on other SE sites causing me to have a premature question ban here?
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Questions about Temple OS?
I don't exactly understand the topic here,
computer software
Is a bit vague. The "Help Center" goes on to say
programming and software development
is off topic. Let's say though there was an ...
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Why is my answer a 'bad answer' and being downvoted? [duplicate]
I supplied an answer in this question :-
Laptop charge 126W for a 120W laptop
and it is being downvoted without comment. Why?
The answer is factually correct, and consistent with what ...
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Why are tag suggestions and votes tied together?
I noticed that a new tag block-chain was created and wanted to add a synonym blockchain to it because I frequently encounter either writing. The latter seems to be the correct one so maybe another ...
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Help understand why question closed for being too broad and what to do about it
My Question was closed due to it allegedly being too broad.
Is it because my question can have multiple correct answers?
Is it because I did not specify which part NTLM I am interested in?
Please ...
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Can I add my GitHub repository link in answers?
I've recently posted an answer https://superuser.com/a/1313540/726810 and the procedure requires some programming knowledge. I've a open source GPL repository in GitHub where I provided the already ...
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Why can't I flag a particular question as off-topic?
This question about potential harm from an Ethernet port is understandably locked. However, even though it generated a couple of good answers, and I can see a potential link to home networking, I don'...
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OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.
First of all, I am not reaching out to the person who did this to disadvantage him.
Basically what happend is, the OP asked a question. I suggested some little edits to improve the formatting. ...
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Why is the top bar on Super User smaller than on other sites?
According to this post, the top bar's height has been changed to 50px on all Stack Exchange sites in order to have the same height on Stack Overflow and on other sites. However, on Super User, the top ...
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Why was this off-topic (resource recommendation) flag declined?
I flagged this question as off-topic, using the reason "Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-...
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New tag request: “elinks”
For questions about the elinks text-mode web browser. There are several elinks-specific questions in existence already.
[edit: ...and I'm about to post another.] I would like to tag this question.
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How to enter suggestions
What can I do when I don't have a question but actually some kind of advice for hopefully a number of superusers around there? Should I first ask the question, wait a bit and than answer my own ...
