Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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superuser - 1 quest… with new activity
Why does superuser display "1 question with new activity" , why not simply 1 new question.
What is the significance of "activity" here ?
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Announcement: New Functionality
I'll structure this as a question.
You have probably seen closed questions that you thought should be reopened, but it didn't happen. You may have chalked it up to community decision. But if you ...
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My question has been put on hold citing a rule that I think I haven't broken. Is there any way to appeal the decision?
I have asked a question on Super User a few days ago. As it is common on the StackExchange family, it's quite an obscure, but very specific scenario, and I think unopinionated, objective answers exist ...
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How do I ask questions about visual studio?
Since apparently they're not allowed on StackOverflow, and this: How to determine when code was removed using Visual Studio annotate? is wrong.
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How is this question off-topic?
I posted this question yesterday:
Native (non-electron) git clients for Windows
I know about the off-topic clause and avoiding discussions or seeking recommendations. So I specifically worded it as a ...
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Would this be an appropriate space to ask about the use limits of a software license?
I was wondering about the prevalence of "for business" and "for personal" use software licenses and how enforcible they are (specifically in the UK and EU but in other English speaking jurisdictions ...
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Whats the Context on questions about HTML/JS/CSS
I have a question about my Super User post: How do I use .htaccess with offline html?
I'd like to ask why a lot of HTML/JS/CSS based questions are either Denied or Accepted here. Some do have reasons ...
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How do you deal with edits that strip personal details of the author from a question, ultimately graveyarding the question?
I posted on Super User about a rather particular issue about Windows 10 behaving very awkwardly to the point where I'd call the issue a bug, since traditional methods of how you would normally fix ...
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How do you get an uploaded image removed/deleted?
I uploaded a file before I properly cleaned off the content and what to have that file removed from the image repository.
How do I get it deleted from the image repository? Note the relevant ...
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I do not understand why my question is unclear
I have a question about my Super User post: Need to mass download by clicking browser buttons which use SQL
I made this question
It was put on hold because "is unclear what you're asking". But that'...
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Why all the Downvote of this question ? Is talking about cheating closed source games off-topic?
Dowvoted until deleted by Community but without any explaination even if it’s well written.
Does making things like E.A sports games easier of topic or what’s else if not ?
The relevant question:
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A moderator is stalking me, downvoting and deleting my tried answer in seconds
I read this question.
I went to do research on it. tried myself, searched on net, made changes and eventually I could find the answer of this question. I even tried 2-3 variations to find what is ...
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When does “You can only post once every 40 minutes.” restriction gets waived? [duplicate]
When I try to post a second question soon after having posted a previous one, I get the message "You can only post once every 40 minutes."
When does this restriction gets waived, if ever?
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Where to post my question about AWS use
I posted a question Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools - A JNI error has occurred on SuperUser based on this StackExchange Meta question Best Stack Exchange site for asking about Amazon AWS ...
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Question put on hold as too broad
I don't want to be that guy who complains about a rightful disciplinary action against him. But I really don't know what I did wrong here. I asked a question about a problem I'm currently encountering ...
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What happens when we see “Votes cast by those with less than 125 reputation are recorded, but…”
When casting a down-vote with less than 125 rep you will get the message
Votes cast by those with less than 125 reputation are recorded, but do
not change the publicly displayed post score.
I am ...
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Failing Review Audit because I added a comment that it was a duplicate post
I originally posted this to Meta Stack Exchange and was told that it should be here instead.
I reviewed a post in the Super User First Post queue and thought it sounded familiar. I searched for the ...
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Reputation is not updated
I have some daily records of approved edits, which should continuously increase the reputation.
Suggestions as of 18th January:
However, the last successful reputation update was 3 days back:
I ...
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How long does it take to delete questions on Superuser/Stackexchange?
I have a question about my Super User post: Extend video without re-encoding/encoding/re-compressing/transcoding
I was told on my previous post to Is it better to ask FFMPEG questions in this section ...
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Is it not OK to ask if there is an API/command to do something?
My question looking for an API/command to manage the Windows Explorer "Quick Access" list was put on hold as too broad. I don't know how I can be more specific than this, but moderator's comment says (...
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Question on hold not notified
One of my questions was put on-hold, yet I wasn't notified. Is this the expected behavior?
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Bounty award allocation while suspended
I noticed the How can I remove DRM from my Kindle books? featured-bounty question but I also noticed that the user account only has 1 rep so I looked at the account and saw it was suspended network ...
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Full Screen Width not used [closed]
Superuser does not use full width of my screen in browser.
My questions are small in the middle, need to be scrolled while there is much border left and right.
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suggestion for admin [duplicate]
There should be a way the person who asks the question can send $10 by Paypal to the person who answers the question without disclosing email. The site has the email, so just enable a button to send ...
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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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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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